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The Brussels Post, 1891-3-6, Page 6YOUNG FOLKS_ • Be -Tin e Flanelee, Out from the corners oil over the floor V0111 0 limiting and tionklug the shadow band; leevill get in nay little W11 1 to oath tine drive , Through tha Valley et Dreams Into Slumber•. ; land. 1' have four bleak horses that Night hne lent I oil the mune of my emehmen Sleep, -And the Mlle white eattoli ie ooze and soft, 'As I nestle down In its =Woe doe, Teeigho t we araofe. The honest go slow At Lira, are feet and faster One 'With snot toof.beets speeding 011, Down to ttieldot of the Drowsy 11111. his twiliget place ts the Valley of Dreams, 'Where alt the wonderful dream thine are, And the Worn groves and poppy nettle ,That stretch on ever and ever go far. 'The dream forests Tuttle their secrets out. The lights of the down town twink 0 and And the white doom -ship from the heel:tor • sail •Away ro the dim horizen line. Ah the sounds of the Valley ere growing faine ,Its sights are faffieg on either hane, I cross the louder stile and dark And enter the real Slumberland. BEFORE BALAICLAVA, BY CAPTAIN CHAS. X1:101. Aroused before sun -up one morning in October, IRK by the bang of fieldpieces end rattle of musketry far out on the Causeway Heights both brigades had delightedly sprung to work, saddled their excited charg- ers anti donned their own uniforms and equipments. It Was the fashion in those clays for everybody to wear what we would -call full dress in going into battle. And here at the nearest camp—that of the " Heavies" —the men were now " standing to horse" in their scarlet coats, white leather belts, and heavy, glistening brass belmets—all except one famous corps, the " Scots' (frays," a dragoon guard regiment that had long been permitted to weer the bearskin shako ns 13 distinctive headgear. Indeed, there were three famous tegunents in the heavy brigade, " The Royals, all Englishmen 11110 Ihnis- killings, all Ititsh ; and the Scots' Grays, all " braw lads" from north of the Clyde. It was the famous " Uffion Brigade" that fought under Ponsonby at Waterloo, but. strengtheeed now by the addition of the Fourth and Fifth Dragoon Guards. There were only ten small squedrons in 00, for many gallon t fellows had succumbed to chol- era and dysentery and tho regiments were greatly reduced in strength, but there wasn't a man in the compact little fame that did not long for thesignal to 11(013131 131311 away, when the news came that the Turks had been driven and only Campbell's " Ninety- third" stood firm between Balaklava and the Russian Bear, 13y 6 o'clock the high crest behind the OEM. alry camp was covered by French and Eng- lish zeal officers and generals who bad hoed the needs of battle over in the Balaklava Val/ay and had mounted in hot haste to see what WAS going on. And presently Lord Raglan himself appeared, and then it was that Lucan got his orders to the support of the HigManders. The Heavies were nearest, so, leaving Lord Cardigan with the Light Brigade sitting in eaddle front of their camp, Lord Loan trotted over to General Searlett and bade him move by his right in the direction of the distant battle. Away they went, the bearskin shakos nf the Grays (" those terrible gray horses 1" said Napalece at Waterloo, lookingat diet same regiment) and the brass helmets of the InniskilIens well to the front, the Royals and the Fourth and Fifth jogged along in rear. They opened out to pass a little Nene. yard and then, heading for Balaleleset, rode jingling out on the rolling open prairie and evere presently well over in whet was called the South Valley, with a, low ridge—that of the Causeway Heights—separating. then; from the North Valley where at this very moment their comrades of the Light Brigade were placed in position at its western end and in full ViOW of what they, the Henries, could not see at all—e; dense mass of Rus- sian horsemen, 3,000 of them at least count, in their fiat caps end heavy gray coats rid - hag westward up the valley. An English light battery had trotted out to the crest of the Chersonese, unlimbered there, and the moment it ought sight of these gray mass- es let drive a few shells right over the heads of Cardigan's troopers, and no sooner had. the Russian leader found himself under fire of the guns then he sounded "By the left fink " on his bugles, and away swung the whole mass directly in front of the Light Brigade—moved steadily up the Causeway slope beyond which Yorke Scarlett was trot. ting townward with the reel...coated dragoons, and: the next thing he and Lieutenant Eliot knew the whole ridge to their left was alive with the " banneroles " of Russian lancers; and then in magnificent order'solid, mats. sive, sixteen deep, those great battalions of Muscovite horse came surging over the crest and down the gentle slope directly &this slender column. Why 111 the Russians had suddenly emanded the gallop and charged they would have come thundering down that broad, open tract an avalanche of resistless force, and by sheer weight andinertia, with- out striking a blow, could have swept the brave British from the field. They were just about ten to his one ot the instant Searlett caught sight of them, and how many more there might be behind that low ledge a quarter of a mile away, he never stopped to ask. Seeing the preponderance of inetal against him ally eavalrymae would have been justified in wheeling to the right and scampering under the shelter of the guns on the Chersonesel where at this moment Raglan and all his dicers sat, mad with anxiety as to the probable fate of the little brigade of red cleats. Everybody expetted to see him scurry off to the right, but Yorke &meat WO8 Et glorious fellow. Like 13131111' dog he whirled to the left and flew Oritight at the throat of his foe, Franco and England looking on from the crest behind. Think of it 1 "Left wheel into line 1" was his order, and the instant the Russian leader saw it, he proved his inoompetence by sounding "111111," mid then, asthough uttee- ly aglutet et the nerve 18114 311101< of those brilliant ranks, there he sat in saddle, amaz. 011, irresolute, wandering what to do next. Searlett settled all that for him. The Rua. elan horse batteries, with more (*why, were popping up on that Causeway oresb, lanb if there had been a million there inside • of a minute 11 evoulelreb Mem checked him none " Gallop." " Charge 1" he ordered the instant the troop leaders had aligned their rank ,s and never waiting for the Boy. els or the,Fourth and Fifth to come up, or the leading squadron of the Inniskillings to get beek, in he Went, 11110t and a big trumpeter at his heels, the Smote' Grays thundering behind them, all riding straight as a dart for the center 03 1110 Russian divi- sion, Up on the heights men held their breath and retailed in amaze yet thrilled with admiration and delight. In front of them sat the tthasians, stolid, almost stape. lied, as with the savage, Celtic, yell of the Inniskillitigs, the deep guttural roar of the Scots, and later the ringing cheer of the Saxon Royals the four nearest squadrons canto dashing up the slope, Ho time to think now 1 A eplendid looking officer—the ealonel probably—sat in nubile in trent of the Boehm center. Searlett's brims helmet and red 003(1 013401 the light surtout demved him. He took Eliot in chapeau and WOO frock, for a general, and his last ma in life was ufsrious cut, at the eide•de-cemp which did no harm fee lellot's blade trensfixed him and whirle31 him dead under the horse's' hoofs nearly wreuchhig the sword from even Eliot'e grasp. The next instant &meat end hie etaff officers had Beet deep into the Runium mass, and now, wedged in solidly on every side, were battling for their lives. The two light ranks of British troo3. ars had hashed upon the solid phalanx of Muscovite horse and could not budge it. And thou arose et din over which no ordere could be heard. The clang of steel, the rate tle of fierce blows, the wild shouts of the cons. 1)131111110, the neigh and scream of terrified horses many of whom bowed theiv heads to escape the rain of blows, while others, furious with the crush, bit and kicked with savage strength. Lance and saber, pistol and Ilse. Never had the mildanannered Muscovites known Buell assailauts as the wild Irishmen or brawny Scots who lashed about like madmen and drew blood with every blow. Dozeue of these docile rider's terrified at the vim mid ivy of the islander's gipped from their saddles end took refuge under their horses' bellies. Others fought and prodded the best they kuew how, but such savage fightiug they had never dream- ed of —swab mad audacity. Three hundred dragoons charging 13,000 solid humors up hill 11418 something never before heard of, Tlie foremost horses of the Russian ranks backed against those 111 rear. The SOO red coats were swallowed up among the 1,000 gray. Searlett and Eliot were by this time eo far in the heaving 111058 05 to be beyond help of any hand, and there Ives no telling how things might have ended when with resound- ing sheers the belated squadrons of the Fourth and Fifth COMO &Shin ill 011 the Russian right. The mimics 04 115 Inniskil- lings came tearing back to the scene and charged home on the opposite flank, and then—then—to the enthusiaatio delight of spectators on the heights—after seven min. lithe of the most =lauding liehtiug over known the whole Russian mass began hoe- ing backward up hill, and then dribbled, frittered, and clattered away in squads fte4 bevies until preeently feyjon's guns and luxe - ors made a disorderly melt for the other end of the valley, whither their handfu1 of mu. titterers were too breathlees and exhausted 10 pursue. Ohrstening Gifts - For christening gifts silrer is the usual of- fering, In lieu of the 111(1410 103, which was Ile invariable present from the god -parent, fashion has decreed the presentation of ailver spoons ; on each anniversary another spoil is sent, so that when the recipieut has at. tained around dozen of 30(810 110 or she 18 111 possession of just as many spoons. After the teaspoons have been exhausted, tablespoons and forks may be given; if the girl remains unniarried beyond the usual marriageable period anch eestom might beccnne quite a tax upon the god -papa and godemennia. As ahoy is not 'supposed to have 0117 use for 00011 things it is usual to present him with a gold coin on each anuiversary with which to conunence a banle accoent The fashion is an excellent one and will commen4 itself to common sense people. E{ow To Spoil Ohildren An infallible way to spoil children is to MVO them as much as you can from doing anything for themeelves or others, and the people who do it are the mothers who say, "0 1 poor Jeanie hes her lessons to mind, and she =et not be bothered with house- work. It will corne uo her soon enough," And so she toile on encl goes her 01(111 errands, and does not only the inevitable housework, but the oflices which the child. ren ought to de for themselves and fer each other, and account it a labour of love so to do. She clone away the dirty boots, and sorts up the litter of the table, end brushes the skirts and lenge them up, and puts away the brush and comb which careless Sasie has thrown down on a chair when she has finished with them ; and these extra unnec- essary tasks take up her time and worry her, and spoil Jeanie and Susie. AN WHAM nett:MUTE% tr. S. cavalry Marbarenaty Aeenge General custerte Death. A. party of Sioux Indians hada conference last week at Washington, 1). C., with United Stittes officials. The feature of the meeting wee the story of the fight at Wound. ed Knee, which was told by Turning Hawk and American Horse. After clocribing the events that followed the, Messiah agitation, and how the chiefs and elders endeavored to suppress it, Turning Hawk narrated how, frightened at the approach of the soldiers, and hearing all manner of sinners as to what the soldiers were going to do with them, they fled into the Bad Lands. Their friends and relatives, left behind at the agency, be. came very anxious about them and sent parties to them to try and induce them to return. Finally they sue:weeded. Turning Hawk continuing said "When °lir people, 8(110 11184 been frightened away, werereturn- ing to Pine Ridge, mid when they had al. most reached the agency, they were met by the soldiers and surrounded wad finally taken to the Wounded Knee creek, and there at a given time, their guns were demanefeel, and when they had delivered them up the men were separated froin their families, from their tepees and taken to a certain spot, their guns 1104411V been given up. When the guns were thus taken and the men separated there was a crazy mom, a. young man of bad influence, and, in feet, a nobody among that buneh of Indians, fired ins gun, and, of uourse, the firing of a gun mob heve been the breaking 04 0. military rule of some sort, because immediately the soldiers returned the fire and the indiscriminate killing fol- lowed." The Commissioner here interrupted to ask, "Did this men fire at the soldiers or did he eimedy shoot in the air " =Spotted Horse—He shot an officer in the army ; the first 81101 killed this officer. WOO a voluntary scout at that 0010(111101 1304. had just asserted that I saw exactly what was done, and 11101 33111.8 what I notieed,that the first shot killed an officer. Commissioner— Did the soldiers return the firs immediately, or did the Indians keep up their firing? Spotted Horse—As soon es the firot shot WOO fired the Indians iinmediately began drawing their knives, end they were ex- horted iron all sides to desist, but this was not obeyed, consequently the tieing began immediately on the part of 1110 301141010, Turning Hawk—All the men who 1(513 101 the buneli were killed right there, and those who escaped the first fire got in the ravine, and as they wont along up the ravine for a long clistmme they were pursued on both sidee by the soldiers and shot down. Commissioner—In this fight did the wo- men take any part 9 Turning Hawk—They hod no arms to fi . • Connnissioner•—The statement has been T fl 13RUSSELF1 POST, MAIN:1i 6, made in the pre•ts that the wnmen knight with butcher knives, and this has been g vim as 11 11086011 why the women wore shot. Turning Hawk—When the men were operated end were Mulched together at a given plane, of course mily the 11100 were there. The women were et a different place entirely, some distance inf. Commissioner—Was it impossible for a soldier to tell the difference between 000 411. diem and an indiau woman 1 T110 statement has been made in the public, press that the soldiers shot the women Oconee they dress. ed in soh a way that they coald 1101 tell they were women. Turning Hawk—I think 0 man would he very blind if he could not tell the difference, I told yon thee the women were standing off at a different place from that where the inee were stationed, and when the firing began those of the men who escaped the first onsitteght. went in one direction up the ravine, and thou the women, who were bunched together at another place, went entirely 111 a diflbrent direction through an open field, mid the women shared the same fate 135 1110 men who went up the deep ea- yine. Commissioner (to the interpreter)—Tell those that are present. I would like, if he (Turning Hawk) makes any statement which they do not accept, that they will earned it, I want to get at the tenth. American Horse—The men were separat, ed, as hos already been said, from the wo- men, and they were surrounded by the soldiers, 111,1 (11011 came next the village of the Indians, and that was entirely serround- ed by the soldiers also. When the firing be- gan, of course the people who were etanding immediately around the yonng man who fired the firse shot were killed right to. gallon and then they turned their Hotch- kiss guns, etc., upon the women, wile were in the lodges standing there, (13140( 13 flag of truce, tune of 00111100, 18 1300/1 as they were hred upon they fled, the men fleeing la one direction end the women running in two differeet directione, so that there were three general directions iu which they took flight. Commiseioner—Do you MORD to say that there 1(011 a white flag in sight oven the women when they were fired upon? American Horse—Yes, sir, they were fired upon, and there was a woman with her in- fant in 11,11 1811110, 131110 Wall killed as she al• most touched the a fig of truce, and the women and children, of ammo, ;vela strewn all along the eirolar village until they were despatched. Right near the flag of truce an- other was shot down with her infant. The child, not knoteingthatite mother 1(00(11304, was still nursing, and that was especially a very sad sight. The women, as they were Boeing whit their babeson theirbaoks, were killed together, shot right through, and the women who were very heavy with child were also killed. All the Indians fled in these three directions. After most of them had been killed, a ery was made that those who were not killed or wounded should come forth and they would be safe, and little boys who were 1301wounded came out of their nloes of refuge, and as soon as theyeame in sight a number of soldiers sue - rounded them and butcheredthem thole. Commissioner (to the interpreter)—I wish you would say to him that these are very serious charges to make against the United States army. I do not 19-011( 011) stelements 3(30(10 5101. are not absolutely true, and I want any one here thee feels Mutt the statements are too strong to correct them. American -Horee continued—Of course, we all feel very sad about this affair. I stood very loyal to the Government all through those troublesome clays. mid, believ- ing so much in the Governmeit1 and being so loyal to it, my diseppoint mot was very strong, and I have come to Washington with a very great blame teedust the Uov- eminent on my heart, Ui course it would have been all right if only the men were killed ; Nen would feel almost grateful for it, But the fact of the killing of the wo- men, and more especially the killing of the young boys and girls who aro to go to make up the future strength of the Indian people —those being killed is the saddest pant of the whole allele, and we feel ib very sorely. Rev. 131r. Cook, a Sioux helf breeO,Pastor of an Episcopal Church at Pine Ridge, who at times acted as interpreter during. the conference, rose, and, among other things, said ; "Much hag been said about the good spirit with which the nienabera of the Sev• enth Cavalry went to that scene of notion. It has been said that the desire to avenge Custer's death was entirely absent hon.) their minds. In coming towards Chicago 111 0058301(7 of General Miles I talked with one of his scouts, who told ma Una after the aoldiers got in from killing the Irelians, an officer of high rank, he did not !mow who, came to him and said, with much glut- tonous %might in his voiee 1 "P0331 we have avenged Ouster's death," and this scout said to him : 'Yes, but you had every chance to fight for your lives that day ; these poor Indians people did not have that opporbunity to protect and fight for them- !Wyo." If that is an indication of thespirit of 0 number of the men in that company, I am ore the Seventh Cavalry eannot be free from the charge that they acted brutally hnd cruelly." iiat-r—e"of11"7"iii""---ein not . After going over the history of farming during the past twenty yearn the Albany Geteavater, in 01101103 up. says that the past few years have not been favomble for farmers 111 11105! sections of 1118 1101104 ited States, Low prices hove ,provailed, and hut year when prices pronnsed to be higher, there wore crop failures that more than offset them, It is likely that this era of unprofitable farm- ing is timely et en end, Even during the era of lowest prices, however, farmers who kept their busineas 131011 111 hand, and who kept up with the thnes in 'netters pertain- ing bo improved Etgricultuno, have made money. Vite do not say that those whe read end profit by agricultuted pitmen have been the only ones who succeeded. Observanb meill by watalthig the methods of those who attained success, have been able to imitate them, and in proportion as they need good judgment they have been sueeessful, It is possible that ff farming is, as we be. liere, about to enter on a new era of pros- perity, that those who merely keep in the mite 1(111 1)0 able to make some money, as their predecessors did in Nino pot. But no energetic farmer w111 be satisfied with anything less them the best returns possible in his line of business. If ha gate higher prices for his produce, he will have more money for the farm improveineets that ex,. perienee has shown to pay the best in his neighborhood. Al not farmers of late years 1101'0 (10110 1008 ill farm improvement than they wished, became 01 5018(0117 of money, Ibis comparatively easy with money inhand to do many things which will secure larger crops at less 13001 1.1,3131 the 0101107 0133011404. Money makes money in no business more surely than in farming, and it may often in the beginning 04 031 era of farm prosperity pay to borrow money for the purpose of in- suring a bettor and more thorough cultiva- tion of the farm. 73ut, if money is borrowed 11 ahindil never be in excess of what (8011(310 good crop en pay, nor be diverted to any other purpose than that of producing the app. 40.acttometaastaFteta, tatartat,sareitttetintattentaaimaaatimittatuteva=tmenmemite=seemegre,,,,,..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,aleamesease, 111101'10 11,11rEal 8LED10111G. LOST 11T THE WOODS. • HEALTH, neederlen Setawntiea's liepemenees en 0 Meet De(epti le) menway. At first 1.110113111 (1(0 novice MO 8./3' thzt beyond having a good, 10(01suefe cce 810,13. Mg there might vo be no essentin, difference; betweett travelling in thee m mum! on an Arctic river and any other pnyt of the polar regions 3310 difference, for helium% between an Arctic river and an Arctic lake when both are tolidly frozen oval!. But there is a wide divergence betwern the two, or at least we fennel it so in the winter of 1875-80, when travelling aloog Beck's Great Fieli River, of the British North Amadei". 11104 sought the level bed of this great stream for the adventages 4 lind hoped it would possess iu giving me as flat a way as poesible on my return trip from the Arotlo 0i:e1(1110 Hodson's 13ay, and espeoially where It cut through a range of mountains that had caused me considerable trouble in my sprieg 'sledging to the Artie Sea In 1879, The Eequimarix, those fat &cod, good nature(1 and careless, indifferent people, in- terposed no objections to this route, so I fell into the trap easily, The first obstacle we eimountered was in 0 aeries of opiate called the Dangeronaltiapids by Lieutenant Back, the first explorer of this &at stream, and which ere located near the month of the river, although as an obstacle Vine axe likely to incur on 1157 11101 flowing shallow stream. .At the swiftest rapids the water ia open the year round, and even where 11 15 not ao fast the ice is very thin and inuolamore dangerous than where it is not closed, for in the latter pieces at least there is some warning in the dense gemlike vapor which arises from ellese open plaos on an intensely cold clay. This vapor makes oue of the most interesting winter eights 011 as Amble river. It ie oftentimes as Week and dense no the smoke from a steamer burnin3 soft coal, and can be seen for miles up or down the ilver. FGEHIDADLE TGE crt,icRs. There wae no joke ahoet getting around them when they extended font one bank to the other, or which was more often the 003(0, 10 wi tit tn a few yards of the banks, which were ivinged with clangorously thin ice. Such rapids are nearly always bet wean precipitous banks, and it is no small job to take & heavi- ly laden sledge with about a ton of nutterial nn it and ascend the sides to get around the rapids. Tivo or three 11(000 1(0 had to re- trace our steps quite a distance to got good mederate declivities. More often we tested the thin ice by 013. 31113 holes at intervals, and if at all thick enough posed over; but in the dangerous places the clogs had a long rope oohing beak to the sledge forty or fifty feet, 50 1)101 all the load was not thrown on the thin places at 01100, while in the rope WO had a means of moue for the sledge if it broke througe. Bat even this, the greatest diastole eve found nenr the rapids, teas not the worst the river afforded by any means, end I will now refer to the 000 1(111011 prompted me to 1(1 inc this cuticle and the one which forced us to leave the river as soon as we had taken full advantage of it and broken through the mountain chain and got to where we could sledge on the level and rolling coun- try beyond. It depended on the apparent- ly very simple and unimportant fob of the disposition of the creeks in the riverice—cracks that probably did tiot (mote breaks or ridges in the ice over a tenth of an inch in height, if that. These cracks were inveriebly perpendicu. lar cm at righb angles to the coarse of the stream 1 thet is, they reached acmes the river from bank to bank, and were horn twenty to thirty feet apart on an average. Along these cracks low (40 ts of snow had accemulated that were from ten to fifteen feet in width, thus leaving strips of bare ice between them of about thei same width, or making a sorb of striped suit for the river of alternate blue and white. Thus every mond or two we would pass from te mom ribbon of snow to one of ice, and 5118 was inost destructive to =thine any progrees. Whenever the ice of in sledge runners struck that of the river the former was stripped from the sledge elioe as if it had been so many egg shells stuck on with gum, and then when the snow was reached the halos sledge shoe 01.11015 130 firm- ly into it as 11 11 were dry, yielding sand a yard in depth. ICING SLEDGE Et/ESEES, I 00111(1 1100/ fully appreciate the dismal accounts of polar sledge parties of white men, who never ice their sledge runners and who struggle pitifully along with a, few leen- dred pounds on their vehicle where oar Esquimaux sledge men oould eail along with five and sue thnee the load and hardly eon - eider auy extra effort, Had there been snow or ice alone we would have had no trouble, for then we could have made twenty-five miles a day with or with- out iced runners aoaordingly ; but it was the alternating condition that puzzled and delayed us. 170000.7, if the Esquimaux 'strip the ioe from them sledges, and 11 10 not likely to ocenr agai11 during the dee', they will hall at the first lalce dig through six or oven feet of ice to get, tit the water below, end then replace upon the sledge runner its crystal shoe. Btst just imagine our stopping to dig through six or seven feet of, lee every ten or twelve yards? it took Toolooah, our bed Etsquimaux digger of ice wells, twenty minute') on an average to go through this thickness, and it required at least forty minute's to ice the :tanners if both were strpiped, or an hour altogether. While we were in the mountains we had 1)1(1 000 thing to do and that was stick to the river. 13ortunlltoly in this rough 003113. try the stream twisted considerably, find this gave us a slight advantage. On the poiets projeeting into the bends the creeks converged until tho 8110W cover- ing them often met in a continuous belt fringing the banks, so if we wanted to go from " A " to "B ," for instance, we rounded these capes, closely hugging the bank, anal We came to where the etaelts no longer con- verged and iee was encouttered, whoa we alb directly across to the opposiLe ellove, or ferry ourselves over, ae ono 11101111/Cr of the party p01111, and then romul the, point of the other bank as before. With this advantage it often happened that the igloos or mow houses in whieli we had slept the night he - fore were yet in sight from near elevations wile» wo selected cur evening camp, or at the furthest only just behind the first friend- ly hand to therm. As soon as the 00111117 became at all level or evailable for sledging we left tho river behind, and the way We stretthe4 oat the dietitnees between camps after that thowed 13(5 plandy limy much we had been deceived in thinking that a wide, level Arctic riveris o good place for Win tor sledging, He Showod His Eand, Ho -11911 you be my partner in a 300010 01 whist ? She (arehly)—Why should you ehoose me lIs (gallantIy)—Ifectume you have snob winning ways, Even the iceicireittedr Seem0 s 1 IL 10 lb 01114008 foot, written', correspond. ent, hat u moll lost 111 the woods will refuse 10 1(501 11 is meepaee if it pole is trary to hie notion, Not many winters ngo a man wee found frozen Oil, sitting on a lag tont hold. In" in his hand the remains of Ina compass, whieli 1(0 1131(1 plotted to pieces 1 He thoeght something 1113)01 1)0 1)10013 1(11.13 it and had endeavoured to 051 11 right. Another curious hallucination whion besets those lost in the emods ie that of water apparently running up hill. Streams persist in seeming to flow eontrary to the litwe of gravitation and the onsation ie 1 most depressing one, Aproproe of this, an old traveller in the wood)) told me of an experience he once heel. As nearly as I eau remember his evords it ran as follows : " While on my way from one mountain to another I became lost in the wooda at night with a coupleof geides, 0)1(1 111 order to fine( my way out decided to head for a cer- tain stream whose whereabouts I knew ; so I got 001 1113' map and by the dim light of the lanterns, with whiell each man was pro- vided, ascerteined the direetion white' it was necessary to take. Then, lining up the two guidee with the lanterns and falling in be- hind, I kept the right direction bymeans of the compass and the line of lights, Over rotting logs and through moss knee-deep we wont, never swerving from our course, never changing our 311 10001013 fcr au instant, bet scrambling over obstacles of all kinds, and were finally rewarded by the soend of run. Sling water, and soon came out upon the bank, Then came out the strange part of the experience. In order to :mete assurance doubly sure, I waded 0111 101.0 the stream to 800 Whiell way it flowed. Holding my lan • tern close down to the black water, I exam iued it closely. Fos. a moment wee unable to tell which wey it flowed, and then in a Harsh I saw it was running the wrong way I kuew there wae 110 01)101 brook round about and I knew perfectly well which way this one shosild flow, and I returned to the bank feeling decidedly uncomfortable. I said nothing to the guides and we turned in for the night, In the morning there it was in the plain daylight still 11113 303 the wrong way. I got 0111 1113' map again and studied about. By some means or other we had gotten on the opposite side of the stream to the one we thought we were 011, and had come upon it right below a bend which brought it amend and teamed its course in another direction." HE CRIED P011107. A Me Den co ninitit—t Murderer, a tire Fr Is euer. Reel:Ives a Foil Pardon, Six years ago British Columbia was start. leci by news of a horrible 111130110( 111 Kam- loops, among the mountains of the upper country. A poorpeddler had been set upon and butchered. Severai men were eppre- heruled. and brought 1.0 New Westminister for trial. Among them was a young Scotch - mem named 111o:well, of good ed ucation, and now 99 years of age, to whorn the Oov. Gement offered liberty 11 110 would turn Queen's evidence. This, Maxwell said, he meld not do, as be knew itothingebbout the affeir, Ho was dnly arraigned, tried, found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged. Biehop Sililtos strongly believed Maxwell to be innocent of the crime, and exerted himself in his behalf. 1T11 hee. Minis ter of Justice finally commuted Maxwell's sentence to penal servitude for Simla that time the unfortunate man lute been in the penitentiary. Bishop .Sillitoe still maintained his generous efforts in Max- well's behalf, allowed no opportunity to slip which might be used to his advantage. When Lord Stanley visited British Cohnnbia last year and was to guest of the:Bishop the latter pressed the subject upon his Excell- eney's oleo, The Governor-General prom- ised to give the inatter hie earnest consider. ation when he returned to Ottawa, On Fri- day afternoon 13ishop Sillitoe received the glad tidings that the Department of austice had granted a full pardon to the convict. The pardon Was sent .f rote Ottawa'and the good news was made known to Maxwell. The poor man was so transported with joy at the TICWS that he broke down, and cried as if his heart would break. He will be re- leased as soon as his civilian clothing is ready, Maxwell and the others sentenced with him for the crime have always stoutly maintained their innocence, Magtvell was formerly a member of the Northwest Mount. ed Police, A Black Female Samson, Freedman's Town, a suburb of Houston, Tex., boasts of a female Simeon who has re- peatedly proved herself a match for any three men that have pitted their united strength against hers, and who a few nights ago success/It Ily routed Officer John Barker and three of Ins assistants, all men oi fine Ph`lilev icituer:man is a negress, 00 black as night and of tt statute slightly above average, but magnificentlybuilt and extraordinarily ac- tive. Her grip ie nab that she was able to break two of the bones of the hand of a women with whom she hada fracas recently, end lb was on the police atiempbing to arresb her that she not only was able to prevent them from putting the handcuffs on her, but, taking the ofhcer and his posse one by one, thing them out of the house anh dossed and locked the door, Baxter, 111 particular, is accounted a man of unusual strength, and is of large build, but he says his inuseles were as a child's when compared with those of the black tunazon, The woman whose name 10 001011110 Jenkins, is aboat 80 years old, and is the mother of EIOVOn children, She has been seen to pick up a barrel of flour and earryIt a distance ot some yards without appearing to overexert herself, and when tested was found to be able to break with ease is 110W 0.11aSS rope fill mall in diam- eter, Since her exploit with the police it is said that a party of gentlemen propose travelling with her if she will 30 11110 give exhibitions of her atrength, which is to be ascribed to no electrical or magnetieprociess, bat to muscular development alone. , Peculiar (instals Case, Aio.'amitir.,,Mardi h.—Detectives Grose and darpenter have unravelled a pecilliar Customs ease, A few WeeltS ago a ease of dry goods, invoiced at $250, came to the Custom house, addressed to L. IL BoiSSeaU, St, Lawrence etreet One morning a man maned Win. Taylor appeared with Order the box hearing the signature of Bois., seau, He got the box. Next day a clerk from I3o1sseau came with another order for the ease. ISO Was tokl that the atm had already been delivered o01 an ordor from Meissen, It was then found that the order given by Taylor was a forgery, The do. twins filially found that the box had been sold to a saloon -keeper, he in turn selling it to a dry goodo nun, 011(1 1)1000 persons, with Taylor, were brought to the Police Court to• day, the ease being in engttete, Other ermine aro 10 1305 made, Nature As Our Great Helper, Nathre ie always on the side of the righ1 and the good, whether In morals or in phy- eh% 11071l health and physical health are, in the higher and the lower uphore respective- ly, perfect welt wing, and whore there ie an abtlesilep of inure or physical health, nature ovides for its restoration. A laid man, not utterly had, may become good. A dis- eased rnan,noe too far gone, may become sound agalu, The simplest form of physical reouperation is the healing of a wound. Bring the part together and keep them so (Mason the die - levered =males and nerves arid blood vessels wine again etteh to his fellow and all the life 310015800 30 on ati before. If it is ins. poemble to unite the pane nature, taking 1110081 th110 for it, fille up the gap with new ficeli and leavesnothing but a HMV. Even parts of internal organs, brain, stomach, liver, intestines, etc., may be cut 1139(07, 8011 percept healleg take. place. In the cloth of wounds or ulcers too large to be otherwise healed, bits of skin may be transfert cal to them from other parte of the body, or from the body of some other per- son, or even from dome young animal, and each bit will become the center of 0 new growth, and with little or no disfigurement. And this power of recuperation ill not confined to the flesh. Not only do broken bones readily grow together, but even if large portions ate removed, 11099 bone may fill up the space between the severed parts and thoroughly reunite them. If one kidney loos its functional power the other will enlarge and do the work of both. If both are more or less affected the vessels of the skin may coine to their aid, and pour out on the surface what would otherwise cense fatal blood poisoning, On the other hand, when the pores OM stopped by a shill, the kidneys come to the rescue, and clo n. large part of the skin's work. This explains why it is so dangerous for the sufferer from diseased kidneys to take 00111t. 0tr 011111)031)53 01310110 are incessantly ab work earrying away from the system waste matter, whielt would otherwisu fatally p01- 4011 it, What renders some diseases of the kidneys so fatal is the fact of their lost abil iv to eliminate this effete matter, which thus accumulates 10 3010011 and paralyze some of the great nerve centers of the brain. No oity in the world has a sewage system so elaborate end oomplete as that of the human body. The Rage for Hot Milk, By the by, there has never been so much S'031113 &en to 111111( 00 there is just now. In fact, there aro hundreds of clubmen mho have never seen as much since they went from one bottle to another. You are asked to have a, glass of hot milk, or a glass of hot vichy, just as you are asked to have it cap of tea, or some creme de menthe. In a Out - glass goblet, standing on a bright -hued plate, the milk and vichy is particularly appetizing, end it is marvellous how much of it the men drink. Now, this isn't the re- sult of preaching a temperance sermon. In is the result of °Kering a simple drink in an attractive manner. Service in this world inenns so myth, and really it seems to be more appreciated by men than by women. A boiled potato and a piece of beefeteak on a hot plate, with a ghttering silver fork and a bright steel knite, with the butter in a dainty little pat, and the bread ina smooth - cut piece, with tee whitest of napery, is more appetizing than a dinner of twenty courses served in a careless fashion. Discomforts of Mattern Olothinz. The best tests of the discomforts and in. conveniences 04 051' attire 8(00111. be to take an untamed Indian of the plains end object bin; to the adjustment upon his own person of the various artielee worn by civilized men and women. In kniekerbockers, a flannel shirt, soft hat, long stockings and easy shoes, or a looth tennis or gymnastic dress, he would probably find. that existence still had charms ior him. The conventional business suit of marewith its herd hat,stiffeol- lar, and unyielding shoo would probably ex- tort a few yellsof agony. The suspenders would hurt, the coat would perhaps cramp and an- noy, but life would be endurable to him, Then put him into the garb of woman— feeble, delicate, gossamer woman—into the tight corsets, which wouldjam hiselasticribs into his pendulous liver, his writhing atomach up against his wobbling heart an(1 gasping lungs, his whole nutritive apparatus, up, clown backward, sidewise, anywhere, so that 19 inches of steel and whalebone should compass his 211 -inch middle; add the dozen or more articles, with their aggregations of bands, strings, buttons, hooks, loopo, clasps and pins ; place about hint zone after zone of tight bandages, from which are suspended dozens and dozens of yards of gathered, puok-ered, pleated and festooned material; tilt his body all out of plmnb by fastening under his heels a wooden peg two inches high, and crush his toes into the space of a good-sized thimble ; weigh hint down with a long, heavy outside 1(1115 1; peroh a bonnet upon his head, and stretoli &clotted veil over Ms eyes ; put his hand into tight kid gloves, and into these &pocketbook andan umbrella.; then send him Deafer business or for pleasure on a moderately wet morning or afternoon ; let, him keep his long, flapping skirts, his shoes and his ankles dry and clean, his feathers and bangs in ourl and his temper unruffled. Then ask him 191100 he gots book to you, if ho lives to 40 80, which he would rather bo—a lovely civilized woman or a howling savage.and see whet he will say. Luey NI. Hall.] WIR_ELETS, Serious labor troubles have arisen at Rio Ianoiro. Tho new German loan was subscribed for .15 times over, Bismerok has declined a nomination for the Reichstag. Men employed in the shipping trade at Aberdeen have gone on strike, The flag of the 17. 5, oonsulate at St 711001310 1(0,0 stelae on Sunday. The Portuguele Government; has lemma a decree suppressing all Republicen ebbs. The inundation in the Ohio valley haf4 caused the destruction of property to the amount of 94,000,000. The coroner's jury in the case of Robt, 0. Wilson of South Dumfries returned a vox, did 01 10011(1 drowned. The hernial of 1110 late CI. J, Hunter, M.P. P. for South Grey, takes place at Dur. ham et 4 3.111, on Wednesday. Wear Kansas City a house was under, mined by the waters of the l'Aissouri and fell into the river, o family of five persons being drowned. The body of Prot Bancroft, professor of rhetoric and lInglish literature in Brown 17niversity, who mysteriously disappeared Deo. Sth, was found yesterday in T)yer's /Jowl in Cranston, R. /. The professor had been ha poor health lei, 001110 time,