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The Brussels Post, 1891-1-30, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST, JAN. 30, 1801, HALF -BRED HISTORY. White Men Who Marry lied Women, nY 0, 0. 1OOWA11D. Au old friend of the writer of bilis paper often remarks that the 13ible history of the ehildron of Israel and their IleetllOn neigh. bora always remind one of tho presentI11dnm eustemms. Probably the converse is the mora exact statement, viz„ that the cuatoms of our Indican tribes and their rough neighbors often remind us of the ancient Israelites and ;their strange neighbors. In the tribe of 1)a11, Samson, the son of Manoah, was been about the year 1156 before Christ. He became a. giant in strength, and a half employed ohmmeter seams to have beau sot apart for the punishment of the wicked Pialistines, who oera the eneont- foetabho neighbors of the Danites. On one ocoasio» he went down toTinnalh, saw 0 Philtatine woman that delighted his vise ; so Samson said to his father : " Get her for one for she pleaseth me well." He married her, and the resultof uniting Hebrew toed heathen was 0 most unhappy life for both, 13yr the threat of " burning her and her fathers house with fire," the enemies of Israel succeeded in making her entice and betray her husband, and so there was through this treachery a tonic over brought on. The story is familiar to every child. A like tale, thoroughly true, repeats itself in the neighborhood of hundreds of our In- dian tribes. 011 the frontiers, the white lean, whether Spaniard, Mexican, French- man, English or American, who married an Indian woman, was called a " squaw man," and in a few instances the "squaw man" has been made to suffer betrayal like Samson of old ; and thee have resulted some of the most relentless wars of our times accompan- ied with outrage, burnings and slaughter. But yet the results hove not, in the main, been bad. It is thought that the putting of a man upon a horse adds to the picture of the man and the horse, but while it does this, it always takessomething from the dignity of the man to be so mounted. We have hardly visited a tribe of Indians without finding at least one white man mar- ried to an Indian girl or woman. The wife soon learns from him to live in a house and to do the work, in arongh way, that women did in the house of his youth. She is raised to a higher mode of living, learns to dress fairly well and is a true frnend and compan- ion to her husband, but he himself usually has shrunk away into a lower life. His personal cleanliness suffers, 1118 clothing is shabby and his self-respect is lowered. So in such a pair the man hes less dignity in 'carriage while the woman bee more than the queen of the proudest Indian ehieftian, but cannot well stand up and compete with her worthy white sisters nu the essentials of a prosperous home life. It may be well to particularize. Near Fort Stevens, Oregon, a strong young man many years ago settled upon a farm. It was before the old governor of Washington territory carried a ship load of marriageable teachers around Cape Horn and white women were few and far between. He marled a woman of a neighboring Indian tribe. He carried 011 a good trade with the garrison at the fort ; was enterprising and often obtained fat contracts, and so acoumu lated a comfortable fortune. His squaw made him a good faithhtl wife. Her love for him caused ber to study to make his home more and more tidy as the years weft on but she mostly kept apart from white women. Her children learned to dress bet- ter than their mother and gathered in the useful knowledge, social and practical, of other American youth. The oldest son has already replaced his father in honest and profitable business and the daughters are 'res ectably married. In eastern Oregon there was a few years ago a superb family. The )husband was a tall dark-eyecl Frenchman. At one time for " uite a period he was the trusted agent of the government. There were three beauti- f ul daughters. Tn grace of figure and move. smut, in elegance of attire and in the vari- ous accomplishments of gifted women, few could surpass them. The wife and mother, however, always kept in the background. She was really a servant in the household. She talked little English and shrank from every social attention, She had advanced far beyond the women of her tribe, but never forgot for one moment that she was an Indian, so even hero h the most success- ful instance of white and Indian marriage it was next to impossible for the polished French gentleman, in the estimation of his white neighbors, to rise above the recogniz. od condition of a "squaw man." The old " voyageurs," French emigrants to the west from Canada, who screed the north-western fur companies, and traveled •throngh the wilds of Oregon, were 500001 -- aged to settle hereand there among the In. than tribes. They were naturally led to marry Indian woolen. The Hudson bay company, it is said, made it a policy to favor such marriages. Therefore you find half- breeds and French descendants of these en- terprising "voyageurs " wherever you travel in that dark region. They are not generally on a par with our best business people of the west, though some are on the front lino of progress, yet, for the meet part, they are a kind, steady, self.supporting race. Their sires or their grandsires were the husbands of Iodine women, Many of their descendants to -day aro in the west, as they vsuelly are in Texas, proud of their Indian blood. The first time the writer visited the Spokanes he came with a military escort to the crossing of the Spokane river, many miles below the fells. It was the bridge you cross to go from Walla Walla to Fort Col. ville. Here wore the boll shaped tepees of the Indians pitched in irregular groups, per- haps twenty of them altogether. The skele- ton )tole protruded beyond the old canvas ontstdes mod smoke ill small pia 1008 gently ascending above them. At the bridge was the white man who took the mettgar loll, liv- ing in a wretched apology of a 1ons5, Tho tepees in cleanliness and order were prefer- able, He had a poor hopeless looking squaw wife end munevoes little halflireed children, who gazed curiously upon strangers and ran to covet' hero end there upon approach. Soon a white man, a lame minister, made his ap. pe.aranee, having come hither from to distant mission. Ho had boon invited to officiate at 8 wedding. A white mat, rather of the old " Georgia Cracker " order, pocrly dressed in old gray clothing, perhaps 30 or 35 year's of age, was tine bridegroom, The bride had tomo with her Indian parents. She was 16 or 17 years old, had a healthful handsome countenance, but a very sulky, downbeat look. We who looked on mould but feel that somehow she had been sold to this man. Tho ceremony began by the singing o1 Christian airs, like the "Old, Old Story," in the Spokane language, fleet in the several tepees end then at the gather- ing et the toll koaper'e )house. The core- mony was very brief, it beingthat of the ordinary Presbyterian marriage. The t1Vo White men, the gta0m mod the toll mam-wero A.n 1'n manc�ans, " In all that topper ao nt1'y t were aallad squaw men, They wSoon o0 perfect 'themselves in the bullion loupe,' Tho entire Who henceforth will look to theft for asplanations of the conduct of other white mon, and as soon Os possible make I A RBVO13D110 TRT MOTIVE POWER, them and their wives their interpreters and their mediators. Again, referring to anoient loreol, we T1re iiage 1'roJeel 114 wllleh .4 Canadian is notice that a certain Levine married a lnlerasloct woman of Bethlehem, .1 attain aft that not- lrurtlterpartioulars ofthe patent in wow withstanding she was his wife and iso httu• neotion with which Air, Mackintosh, Al, 1'., sslf monied int the records distinctly as her is in England show that the tests of the husband, still our translation calla her his storage battery, ill which he is intcreeted, concubine, bare been most satisfactory. In the past There aro several similar intermarriages fully 501100 cent, of energy nae boon lost in between whites and Indians, For example i 1 s traits i sion of a eh r'es80 the motor. N 1'l t s the ab to no An old and distingelehcd front.iers•man, It is now 0luin18d that by the improved whose name, should 1 repeat it would atonue lq oodward ,'h '.Pherson batter Detroit), be !recognized, was married after the indiau the Canadian rights of which have been taw icleue of fashion. The pale 11101 a child, a 1 attired by Alt', Aleckinttosh, 25 per vont of little girl, born to them. But for Boone rea- 500 tine distiuguiahed ratan left his Indian wife, probably divorcing herafterthe Indian ideae and fashion. He then married to lady of his own people and has had since then a to largo and beautiful family, The squaw wife, after the separation from her lhusbaud, went beets to her tribe in Washington terri- tory, keeping tlechild with her. The child at about 14 years of age was discovered ab Father Chiresse's school at Tulalip, Puget sound, by an enterprising Frenchman. He offered his hand and was accepted, and the writer was privileged to be present at the wedding. So the little 1ulfbreed with afair bit of education started in after as a house- keeper in a neat little aorto a which her lively husband maintained bylow work at a neighboring mill. Before our lPatherabove " the squaw" was doubtless, like the 001100 - bine of the atclout Levin), a bona fide wife. Men, however, who get so high up in the world as her husband did were never called " squaw men," and often the fact of the In- dian wife in later years has been most care- fnllysupprossed. The son of one of our loading citizens, in the wild days of his youth, thought it would be surprising to his friends and gratifying to himself to become the husband of an In- dian girl. The maiden he selected' was bright and handsome, could read and write a little, and having seen only the camp life of frontier parties of white mem Was flatter- ed and delighted and full of hate that she could perform all the social conditions of the young men's wife. After marriage, like some other white !nen, he drank rather freely of whisky, his favorite beverage, but unlike white grooms generally he induced his bride to drink freely with him. The pair visited the nearest city and soon over- turned all the ordinary staid customs of that city. It took much ready money and all of its abundant infiuenoe to keep them out of the clutches of the Iaw. For awhile he lived the life of a veritable "sgtaw man" and doubtless might have been so adopted in the tribe as to have become it chief and have led thousands; of them in their subsequent wars with the white Americans, but his parents old friends in- terposed and forced him to send the woman back to the tribe. He, too, has since mar - vied a white lady and raieed a family. His first bride, after that one spree, into 3.1){011 he led ]ler has not ceased to respect herself, and she has Managed to live and work in good homes ever since. Though circum- stances made this a mesalliance yet in our judgement the first marriage ens the valid one of which the heavenly father )Mows, and the squaw woman, for a few days led astray by a dissipated plan, was superior to the " squaw mato." A very able gentleman from an eastern city leas attacked wibh a terrible disease which disfigured his face. He may or may not have been at fault, But at any nate 11 sense of deep shame came over hila at the sight end cousciouaness of his misfortnne. He soon abandoned civilized life and began to wander about among the Indian tribes ; he brought up at last near the Mojave mountains of Arizotna. He attached )lith. self to a email band that had a sensible, good hearted chief. He married, it ie un- derstood, into the royal family of the tribe and has a goodly family of boys and girls living just as tine Indians live. They aro nomadic. They live under the boughs of trees. They plant little valleys in the spring time with corn and potatoes. They watch and herd hands of ponies. They are with the wildest when on the war path. Our poor friend, though of high mature, elan• ages to be an Indian with the Indians end nothing more. He advises the chief, is often his chief of staff. He takes the Indians' part in all quarrels with Clete white neigh- bors ; but manages quite of ton to settle difid- oulties amicably and so prevent outrages and bloodshed. Just as soon as this wild tribe is forced to take up land and have apernlan. ent reserve, our poor friend will doubtless arrange, as 80 many others have done, to get 160 acres at least three times repeated, as- signed to his wife and himself. A good house will arise in one corner and near by a large barn, Oats and barley will grow upon a part of his well ch MCI) acres, corn anti bops np011 another pant, Fences will time and orchards will bo inclosed. Artesian wells, pressed bytheneighboringridges intointenso activity, will afford his homily water to irri- gate and plenty of water to drink for his householdand the animals which rum more at large with the common herd. This is a type of the usual "squaw man" to bemet In Arizona, New Mexico and the lndiane of the interior. III loving the Indian women well enough to expatriato themselves, they man- age to attaitl unto the eompensatione. this loss no saved, and that folly 75 per cent. of 50(3151' 15 t18118nlittel to the motor. This le a result which, if really attained, would at onoe render storage leatteries practical for the everyday business of railroading, not only for lighting and propulsion of light cars, steamer's, etc„ but for heavy railway trains. Already the storage batteries in use in Europe ere employed negultrly and with economy, success and profit on light railways, with a loss of 00 per cont. of the stored power. The storage batteries of the W. 101. pattern, improved us above stated, were seat to England to be subjected to severe tests. The results aro reported to bo highly satisfactory. It is said Mr. bfaok- intosh will endeavor to disposo of the Enro• poen patent, and on his return, if every. thing is as represented, will proceed with the formation of tate Canadian concave that is to manufacture the batteries for home et 0. Our Resources. Tho area of the Dominion of Canada is estimated at 3,370,000 square miles, or, fuel totting its water surface, 3,- 510,000 square milds. It ie the larg- est of all the British possessions, oou- etituting 40 per cent, of the empire, the total area of which is over 8,000,000 square miles. Canada lacks only 237,002 sneer° miles of being as large as the whole cortin ent of Europe ;it ie nearly 00 times as large as Great Britain and Ireland, and is 000.000 square miles Iarger then the United States, exclusive of Alaska. Canada covers rather more than one -fourteenth part of the earth's surface, but containe only ono -two hundred and eighty-sixth part of the popn- lation of the world. Canada extends from the Atlantio to the Pacific ocean, a distance of 3500 inilee, and from the United States boundary to the !arctic ocean, a distance of 1400 miles, and comprises all the British possessions in North America, excepting Newfoundland, Labrador and the West India islands. Some idea of this immense country and of its great water-ways—the most extensive 111 the world—may he had when We state that its coast line on the Atlantic measures 10,000 miles, and over 7000 miles on the Peoific; that 2000 miles from the ocean, the Cavelier may lose sight of land and bo pros. trated by seasickness ; and that, with one transshipment at Montreal, goods can be landed at the bead of Lake Superior, iu:the contra of the continent, 4000 miles roe Liverpo3l, Entering Canada from the north by Hud- son's bay, the ocean ship reaches, at Port Nelson, the outlet of a river system stretch. ing, with few interruptions, to rho very backbone of the continent, and draining an interior basin, more remote than that of the St, Lawrenee, of over 2,000,000 square miles in extent. In the prairie region the Sas- katchewan aSords 1500 miles of steamboat navigation. Close upon the north of it com- mences the Mackenzie river buein, extend. ing over 550,000 square miles. This great stream, with its tributary lakes and ri'm's, abide, with trifling obstacles, up - watch of 2000 miles of waterway navigable for steamboats. From Port Nelson to Liverpool the dis- tance is 20006 miles ; from New 1: ork to Liv- erpool, 3040 miles ; and from Halifax to Liverpool, 2403 miles. Didu'tlntirely Satisfy thoLong-Nosed Men " fur, mister ?" The question was asked by a long -nosed, thin.lipped man with pointed aloin whiskers, a slouch hat and a hungry expression of coustonance. He was resting his elbows on the seat in front of luta, which seat was occupied by a passenger ill a gray cheek suit. The passenger addressed turned pertly around, took a look at his questioner and sized him up at once. " Yes I am going to Nashville," he re- plied, " down in Tennessee. My business there is to Niihau. shares of bank stock, dis- pose of my interest in a fain of eighty acres ten miles from the city and invest the pro. ceeds in a clothing establishment on North Cherry street. Iam from Beardstown ,Cass County, I11, I got on the train there at 0:35 this horning, It was forty-five Initiates behind time. My ticket cost me $11.66, I shall take the sleeper when the stn goes down. Had my dinner about an hour ago. Paid seventy-five cents for it. This cigar cost lee ten cents, 1 have been a smoker for about thirteen years. My nano 15 Chauncey McConnell. I am thirty-nine years old, have a wife and four children, came originally from Harrodsburg, Ky. , and are a member of the Congregational Church. I was formerly a druggist, but eold out to it Mr. Treadway and I ant not in any business now. I am worth petrheps $10,000, My father was a cooper and my grandfather was a sea oaptoiu. My wife's none was Otter before I married her, Her father was a surveyor. That's alt I know about her fainily. We live in a two-story frame house and the children have all had the mumps, chicken -pox and measles. When I reach Nashville I expect to stop at the Maxwell House," He slopped. The long -nosed man regarded hint a moment with interest and tilos asked in auerulous, dissatisfied way : ''What di I yor groat -grandfather do for a livin' ?"--Chuago Herald, The writer does not like the oogn0men " squaw men," for if we define the term 115 wo have used it, to mean the husband of an Indian woman, it has in our American his- tory touched the highest in the land, judges of the United States courts, members of eon• gross, generals in the army, officers of the general staff, most promiuentmerclants and hundreds of citizens of the firer, standing in the community where they live, Two things are usuallyasserted and bellow- ed in common frontier society. One is that the man who marries to squaw has degraders himself, and the other is that the issue demob a marriage is bac) ; that is, that lialfbreods ere bright and shrewd enough but deficient in moral character. This can hardly be true as a general statement. Nearly all of our Interpreters for the Indians at one time were "squaw men," or halfbroeds, and their mor- al character has not been of the bust repute, Set they compare well with our own citi- zens huhu have olnatered around the many Indian reservations simply for greed. There is ocrtaiuly no indigenous taunt—nothing that orlucatiou and trite religion will not overcome, as it does in Dither white man or Iuciian, ttnnlixod. A Mysterious Visitor. New Scwant—Please, mum, there's a strange lady down stairs and she didn't have uo carr). She took off her things as if she intended to stay, and she looked around the room with her nese in the air, as if things wasn't good enough for her, an' etre rubbed the winder to see if it was eleeu, an' shapeeked in the dark corners, al' then looked at the dust on her fingers, an' sniffed. Mistress—I can't imagine who the oroa- turo can be My husband's mother and Meters aro in Europe. Cotton soaped in olive' oil and turpentine and put in the ear often stops earache of the mast painful kind. The )lndlan 45110X1 Dance, As a matter of feet, says a recent visitor to Dakota, the Indians for month past Move bean holding 0 genuine, old-fashioned camp -meeting like thlose 1451(1 in the South by the colored brothers) and the roaalt Bits hose that they gotexohtad, indulged 111 lona (elk and fa(t)e (n 1111)1).110) amount of noise. The settlers got frightened and fled and the close contact of armed soldiorx Added to 1115 excitement of the rod teen land h)tensified tbo aegry feeling width is alwnye smoulder ing in the brcaste of t110 congtlered against the eomluerur, The trouble was augmented by the appearance of a fanatic named John- sen, who Is supposed to be the Messiah, but is more probably a Mormon agent. 1ltie non told the rcdskius that when the geese has eight inches above the ground he would appear again ; that then the warriors should have their brads once more ; tial all the cattle would become buffaloes, end that a great wave ofmud would arise and sweep the palefaces off the earth.. Hint amity old mediuiue man, Sitting 131111, fostered this superstition, and he in- augurated the ghost dance, which, as taught by Sitting Bit!!, was about as follows : The warriors or braves who aro selected to take port in the dance must all fast for twenty- four hours, Then at sunrise each brave goes through the rite of " purification." Tins is done by the fanatic going in what is called. a " sweat lodge," a sort of willow tent cover- ed with blankets and having hot Tooke for the floor. The warrior enters and peeve water oe the hot stones and the steam gives Hint an exaggerated Russian bath. Ho stays in the " sweatdodge " for an hour, until ire is perfootly clean andpure. "Then he paints his face adark blue, with a red cross on. each cheek, and goes to Sitting Bell or one of the other chiefs, who paints on his forehead two light blue ores cents and robes the dancer in a holy shirt made of white muslin and suppose'' to be bullet proof. No one but a great medicine man could perform this ceremony. " At high noon the braves all form a circle, ing hands, By the bye, this is bile only dance where the redskin holds hands, At a signal every brave looks down on the ground and they begin to circle around singing a wierd and mournful dirge which, trans- lated, is r Father, father, we want to see you. Falter, father, we want outride. Father, father, we scant our lands," They go round like this for an hoar when the medicine man emerges from tepee. They then break the circle, throw up their heads anti look at the sun, whirling (wound all the time singly The result is they 80011 get dizzy and, aided by lounger, swaating and the quick change from darkness to light, become eestatic and faint, and are then caw sidere(1 fit to receive the Holy Spielt. The right name of the dance is really the " Holy Ghost dance." An Ardent Love Leiter One of the most, delicious love letters that the listener has ever road was intercepted by a teacher in one of the San Praecisoo pub - Iia schools recently. The boy who wrote it was 10 years old and tie girl presumably of the same age. Herne is the charming mos sive : " Dear Emma : I love you and I wish you would writs to me. I love you and 1 wish I could kiss yom hluuna, you look so rosy. I love you, don't you love me? 1 wish you world write to me. I guess you love rte. I don't care if you dou'b. I will write to you anyway. I want you to write to me and if you have no lead pencil I will give you one and some paper. " I am so glad that you love use, Emma, did you tell that boy that lives beside your Mese that you 3005 going to slap my nose ? Emma, I could not het but cry when that bay told me. himma Ithought yea thought more of me. I have given yon 81)00820001as worth of Dandy, and you don't treat me well, besides I give you some gush." There 15 110 doubt about the condition of that boy. He is in love. He may be only 10 years old, but if he lives to be 100 ho will never be any more in love than he was when he penciled that letter, .1 Case of Ingratitude. More sublimely ridiculous conduct has never been witnessed than that of the Turk- ish officers who, the other day, refused a passge through the Dardanelles to the Japanese gunboat which had brought honkie the survivors of the ill-fated Ertogronl, the Turkish ironclad which foundered in the China seas September 18. The oircum- stanees as reported aro substantially those: Moved by feelings of friendlinesstho Japan- ese government sent one of its ironclad 16 - ,gates to convey to their hometheshipwrecked :1.'nt•its. Brit notwithstanding tiro nature of their mission --which one would have thought would have been considered excuse sulk• oient for relaxing any regulation however severe—the officers et the batteries guard. ing the Dardanelles, even after being noti- fied of the vessel's peaceful as -nand, refused to admit of her passage through the straits. Instead they suggested that the survivors be landed in the boats of the Turkish ofli- oials. Enraged by oondnot so destitute of gratitude and of reason, the oonmander of the Jape/woe frigate headed his vessel seaward again, and led not the Turks harried after Wm with ono of their fastest frigates, whose oftioers made the moat profuse apologies for the manner in which ho had been treated, the Jap would have taken back hie human freight to the place whence they name. 11 ever absurdity reached a point beyond which t cannot go it was at the entra00 of the Martnora Sea. TERRIBLE SUPPBRING OF SAILORS, faints no" .3ehered and her Crew die from Exposure, 11Ai,11•,tx, Jan, 22114,---1)0uails of the wreak of the hrigentille Lantana, 1ront'New Yell( with to cargo of hard coal for St, John's, 1311d., show that every one of the e05w perished f10111 0811081100, It appears that the vessel was driven ;Whore at Shag rook in St, Mary's bay, Nfld. &ring the terrible storm which swept that coast an NuwVear's eve, but the fact was not Icemen till foul ilayslater, 1'hem:oneof the diameter is near St. Short's, and one of the most (langerone Islam along this ironbound eaast. It has been the scone of many ills. asters, allot there le scarooly au 111ata1100 111 which any of the crews have camped to tell the story of the burro'. The Lantana npinions to Move dished ashore ltbot(t mid. night, noel was driven right under is cli0'350 feet High. From the position of the wreck and some of rho bodies when found, few' clays later, it is believed that souse of the crew got on the rocks ami died from expos. urn ami starvatik n, while others were fright- fully mtulggled and presented a siokeniug sight. The Lantana was commanded by Capt. Ainrchiuson, whose brother was also ono of the crew. The three bodies recover- ed were enppoeod to be those of the captain, 0 passenger aucl a sailor. The letters "J. T." wore on the wrist of the latter. One of the boddee was naked. The passers et' wee dressed in oil clothes and in Ills podkob was found a letter dated New York asd address- ed to Mos. Mary Byrne, St. John's. The bodice were dragged rap the cliff with ropes and burled at Holyrood. The vessel has broken up, The wreck of the Lantana is the worst disaster that has occurred on the Newfoundland coast bilis winter. She was owned by Malcolm McDonald, of George- town, P. E. I. • A Girl's Skating Costume, First of all a skating costume needs to be short; and next itshotld be simple, says the fashion editor of rhe Ladies' Home Journal, These requirements reached) it may bo as pretty as is desired. A very stylish Orb 15 undo of Scotch homespun, in warn browns, end is really whet nlfg1t be called a polo. ne455 00stu1110, as it is all in one place. Wrinkled across the front sufficiently to be graceful, it is yet quite plain about the lower portion of the skirt, and 1s arranged in 11ox- plait5 in the book 50 that sufficient fullness ns given to allow absolute freedom of the boclY , It is double-breasted and closed with large brown buttons, witdle a high cellar and single revers, that extends well a0ros5 one tide, of Alaska sable aro its only trimming. Tho sleeves are moderately high and easy to their fit, and the gloves worn are gauntlets of heavy kid that button far up over the sleeve, The tat is a Tam of the salvo ma - 1 trorial as the brass, with n they fluffy poo' poo, like a Panjandrnm'a button, just on top of it. The muff is of Alaska sable to I match the oiler, The whole effect is so , good that one fools quite certain that the girl wino is going to skate herself into the goodgraoos of somebody, will )want one just like it, Gives Black Milk, Rupert Hansborou'h, of the farm of Crowley, Hanshorougl L Co, leather deal. ars, 01 Chillicothe, is it possessor of a natural curiosity in the shape of a cow which gives black milk. She is on Mr. Hanabrrough's model farm, situated a tow miles out of town, and can. be soon at any time grazing in his pasbtu•e, and at milking time her sin- gular yield will be shown any one desiring to behold it, Of mixed breed, Jersey and Durham, with a strain of Ayrshire, sbe was calved an the farm and was the second born to her :pother, whose milk presented no pe- culiarity, and whose first calf, a heifer, too, still gives an abundance of natural tinted milk. Modic, as she is palled, is a pretty tittle cow, with nothing miasmal n her appearance, and has borneetreacly five young ones, which Ilene thriven well on hsrblack milk, It pro• duces to .fair amount of cream, which be a trifle lighter in color, and which when churned, makes butter resembling coal tar, but as palhtbable as though of golden. yellow, Mr. Hansborough says that at first they were afraid to drink or use the milk in any way, but overcoming their prejudice, now 511307 it as any other. Ito has received numbers of offers for her, bout from the proprietors of museums Cud stockmen, but aecihted thorn from hopes that sloe will yet transmit her peouliarity to some of her progeny. Chemists in Richmond have analyzed the milk, both fresh and when made into butte', but (15018re that they detect noth- ing to account for its sable color, but attri• bute to it some volume coloring pigment in the corpuscles of her blood. Tho Longest Dor. It is quite important, when speaking of the longest clay rat the year, to say what mart of the world you are talking about, The latitude of a piece obanges the length of the day to a reme rkable extent, At Stockholm, Sweden, it is eighteen end one half hours it: length, A1Spitzborgehl the longest day is three and one half months. Al London, England, and Bromon, Prus- sia, the longest clay has sixteen and one-half hours. At Hamburg, in Germany, and Dantzig, in Prussia, the longest day has 5oventeen hours. At Warcloe, Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 without interrup. At St. Petersburg, Russia, and Tnbosk, Siberia, the longest day is nineteen hours and the shortest five hours, At 1.'o'noa, Finland, June 21 brings a day nearly twenty-two ]tours long, and Cht'istr mots one less than throe hours in length. At New York the longest day is about fifteen )lours, atttl at Montreal, It is about sixteen hours. The hottest clay of the year fn New Zealand usually cones at Christmas, The day 18 a great occasion for pieni55 in the coolest uoolta of the woods, Tho only in - collection of the Christmas dinner ofWoetnrn 110110110 is the plum pudding, which is religiously eaten, bub to the a0oonnpanirneut of cold lomorade, instead of coffee and wino, The Modest Maid. "Ire told me," said the modest Ila d, "I was the pearl of pearls r My cha•n%s displayed would overshado Ten thousand other girls. Ile vowed I was his cherished prize. His goddess, his delight ; Iie praised my eyes more blue than skies, Their glance than gems Moro bright. He swore gold glittered in my hair, No words could tell my worth ; He called me fair beyond compare With anything on earth." " And trust you," asked the matron wise " what he says to you ?" From the maid's eyes shone sweet surprise " Of course 1 I know it's truer" 8011088 OP TOE FO#RniT. A'Rra 8100811, Thou molnnrcll of the northern forest tit op, Whose dread embattled antlers rise and agreed A (rmo, maleate ore,• their lefty hon. (71,, howlhy subtle 80)004 vigil keep, ):est ensu -he 1 the silent ton might troop Upon thy path. Yo. let him 01101, but tread The nisi ling leaf •-t'rtisi 1 crash 1 and thou art hod, A vi 1'y lculrast up chn mountain steel 1 'lite frozen audioee of the alittMtn; tonne11 jIl, eigelnsi, bum' thy meeting 143VO4' 1 Ind, broken bough and brute n 1 n 110 oflishow Th iulm•rbnghunter with 1eararay A.11 he saw ;Iwo, whi5,,'l ther thou dMA go, Then, turd the silent woods for many a Clay And league on longue, with dogged stops and slow, II0'lt ohm lh-illco trnek thee. Il,t, brought to bay, the foe thou, too const dare, And Cling thy tient) eballnngo on the air — Thine nye can kindle with a lurid hale As if a spark front Sol wore burning there— n0)1001'04 Wel, 1.11011, 10 1111150 a marksman's elm. Or, 0,Itlog that, bo ready for dispnlr 1 A Morning Message. Listen, my soul, to the morning 01580ag0 Borne from afar on the suclllt,'ltr:wings,— Shiuunering Coeds are its bright eobassege, Laugbing woodland to greet 1t swings; All the world with Its gladness rings, Listen, my soul, in the hush, to hear it Whispering softly In wisdoms ways ; 16very soil, with a heart, is near it, Hoaretlt its holy roundelays, Jolns its Jubilant hymn of praise. "411 t )blips etre quire and are planned for plea. RUM Pero ns the light free the ss to golden Ong : pureLirapurelife, is the wondrous treasure Each altar betroth, arch the least -- Every man is a eoilseed priest. " All things are true by their °racfons mak- }Jeer the ine—ln ny th0 gng roes, abroad! choirs—divine—in tea groves, awaking, .Blond their voices to praise end land ; A11 thbigs are true by the love of God. "All things a7'c right ": 0, my son!, repining At lowly lot, caret thou weigh or trace By the beams from the halls of the morning shining Ater or universe out of plaoo 1 1115 (hull who lacked the Buildor'e gram. "41! things are good." It was thus Ifs made tltom, Forn'd and fashoned at love's boheet t When tui Lord of lite in His robes erray'd h'inf shod; complete, (lin knowetb best) " l"ery good," was the final tort. LL,lIwsonXnr A., MORRISON. " Tho Turns," Toronto. The Sisk Girl's Prayer, The darkest hour is just before the dawn the saw; Alt me 1 how long the weary night, Dear Lord in atom usher 111 the glorious de, Awl sitcom the valo of darkness with Th kindly .Light. Long have I fought with Criof and hitter pain My stop is growing feebler, lord 1 tall Prayers seem,unensworod, yet I pre again, And wait mut hope for health and brighto days. Ye who can fool the tide of youthful strength Flowing It 1loalttful (wren tstlme'the Veins Count not by hours the night's dark wear length, Nor trot beneath the load of earthly cares, 'Dench Ino Oh Lord, gems simple rale of faith, By which to boar my lot in simple lova, To naso ray fretful heart of iIse t t And bring mo safeiy. to Thy Homo a {ovo. And when rimy pilgrimage on earth is sheet Woe, And earthly 000n0s are fading from re sight 1 Telnniplant then on wings of 10100 11 sons And sing forever in '.CltyPresono0 bright: rTcrontO, 13. Xgr,r,Y, A Modern Instance, • She (ab the ball) t I don't know that hese ever met y081 in the evening befor0 and I hardly knew you in a dross suit. Ism the gentleman here Who oe0apfos the aeon apartments With yon?• He 1 No, Ile stayed home, 50318 11 111111 SWUM., "There are few more thrilling sights," said one of the veteran sportsnleil at the oamp.fire, '"than at elephant fight, I dont mean a fight with en olophoont, though that may be pretty thrilling to you, if you would the Irate without disabling him. and he gets after you in the op5u. But I mean n h'11t between elephants." " I didn'b ):now they over fought," inter- rupted tine novice in the jungle. You would know it it yes ever save two ' buskers' fairly at it," was 1110 reply. "They don't often do it ; but when they do it is a bane to the death. One day, a5p fn the hill country, I saw anoh a combat.. They were hard at it when I came in sight. They were on the hillside. One of then), a burly, stout built boast, with short, powerful tusks, was evidently getting much bho worse of the serimage, and the white and red furrows in his aides plainly indicated seams nada by his an- tagnmst's tusks. Blood was trickling down his head and shoulders. On the rise of the hill was his enemy, a spill larger ani- mal, possessing the advantage oflonger tasks. It was n lost fight. In to few Minutes the victor, with a quick rush) at the other, made a good thrust at the side. There was a severe struggle, but tho tusk went its full length into the now beaten brute, and using all hiswsight the victor pressed him down the hill, where they disengaged themselves andprepaxedfor another bout. Tho wound- ed busker's roars of pain were pitiful to hear. Ho turned tail and sought safety in Hight. But tins other kept close behind hint and gave him thrust after thrust, but not in any vital part. Pretty soots they wheeled around, raced, and came together with a mighty mesh. This was about the only stand made, and the beaten brute was quick- ly overpowered b11' the more powerful and frostier victor. The thrusts now put behind the sh udder and into the body quickly dis- abled the boor brute, and in feet in a fow minutes the combat was over. The con- queror with one nosh completely rolled his enemy over, and by repeated thrusts into the prostate form finished the fight amidan meanings and trumpetings. I got some men and wen tout next morh- iug to look for the body and get the tusks. We found a big hard of elephants in an 0x• cited state almost on the spot where the fin- ish had occurred. In it were several small Welters, besides the big conqueror of the evening before, who seamed to instil a great deal of Mr into the youngsters. He calve out into the open glade with a fine young female, alt) lis 110 approached there was a general stampede out of his way. We on the dead beast, which had been butted and rolled after it was killed into is clump of bamboos. It had been a fine, burly animal, but was (narxcut [roan forehead to rear and top to foot by rips and cuts. He 1(:eusu ted nine feet six hulloes at the shoulder, and the tusks proved slightly over 100 pounds the pair. The victor, which in the fight appear- ed bo tower over his foe, must have been quite 10 feet high, and had the longest tusks I,have over seen clear of their sockets, 1 tried to get him, but what with his harm: abort him and the difficelty of getting a cleat' view in the long grass I failed to get: a shot," "I dei t know, though," said an old Monter, win had been in Africa, "but that I would Tether take my chances with an eke )flint than with a real mad buffalo. There Is no more savage 11r111b, and none hose in- domitable and persistent in his wrath. Itis not that they are swifter or stronger or that their horns aro a more deadly weapon. But they display pertivaei tyof spite wh telt makes, then exceedingly formidable, Loa a lion miss his first spring end he will turn away —1111086 ravenously hungry—in disnppaint- mono and disgust from his intended victim. Leet a rhinoceros be wounded, and, unless hemmed ill by foes, he will "oke for the water. 13nt the wounded buffalo sticks to his enemy, and has been known to watch under a tree for days in the hope of securing Ms revenge upon the hunter who hood climb- ed up it to escape his feta,. The natives have especial plan of their own for capturing tie. They used to select the special hull they wanted to kill alt) entice, or drive it from its ootnpenions. Two or three of them would engage the animal's attention in front, leaping numbly to one side to avoid his fur- ious charges, while another hunter under- took the risky job of (moping up behind and hamstringing the beast. They wore general. ly successful, but many lives wore lostovery year in buffalo hurting, and the natives themselves consider it the most. dangerous quadruped in the Brest." NOW Two PAWNS -WHIM FED, Amos Patterson, of East Valley, Wash„ has two flue young deer that he has raised on his place. Ho was out hunting one day and )tilled a doe with two young fawns. Tito creatures were very small and ran away in terror at the death of their nether. 111 to few days Mr. Patterson caught thein an(1 brought dram home. They steadily refused to imbibe the lacteal fluid. through a regula- tion nipple attached to a nursing bottle, and other artifices triad were in van, What was to be done 3 If they were Hitch longer without food they would parish. A bright idea struck Mr. Patterson, Taking the 11150 of the another that had been butchered pre- viously he inserted the nipples through the skin, When the fawns felt the warm coat of the anppaesd mother, they aonnmonocd to drink at once, and for a good while after no trouble was experienced In gluing them their regular rations, One day a wonai wont to Brigham Young for counsel touching some alleged opposition by an officer of the church. Brigham, like a tract politician, °seamed to know her, but when it became necessary to record her case, hesitated) and said : Let me see, sister, I have forgotten your nano." "Tvfy name 1" wao the indignant reilly, "why, 1 aril ,our wife," "Whets did I marry you 1" queried wily old Brigham. The woman informed flim, end after eon - suiting a mornorantluu hoop the old follow cafe) : nod "t Well, 7 believe you are right, my, g woman, I thought your face was familiar,"