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.
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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,