The Brussels Post, 1891-7-10, Page 6THE 'WEEK'S NEWS,
l'aNentax.
II. NI. S. Nymph 11,01 been ordered 10 pro.
'Sated from Victoria, C., to Ilehring sea,
Sand u, M. S., PorpoiSe expseted also to
ordered thither.
Nittyce ki,)Slititio, of - Montreal, who it) a
in;
The Anglican synod of the Diaeese of
Montreal. lees preseeil a wsolution allewing
\Voltam to vote at vestry nteetinga.
It is announced t hat the Empire Loan owl
! 4.13Veettnent Company, of Louden, Get., has
teensfeered ite business to the Dominion
`eitasnige and Loan Cotnpany.
It fa reported that the wholesale millinery
Vera of John Me Lean C.:. , of Mentreal, has
sledded to go into liqublat ion. IL is expect.
ter that the -firm will pay ilellar for dollar.
Ithe stook is valued at $200,000,
The Toronto Methodist Conference ap.
*pointed. a committee le eitusidee the prop°.
tition ot Rev. Iiugh Johnston, D. D., to
'establish a,/1 °oiler of Deaconesses in ittinnee•
Ision. with the Church.
Me. Michael 1 swat, who was interviewed
Vietert a, 13 C., expt.essed the
that: eohen will be the next
'Goa e0000.(1. a et:. nt Cana Ia.
The holy s..taients and ex•students of the
1.'hriversity of Toronto have petitioned the
testate and trastees of that institution as
reolt (I.8 the GOVernOr in Council asking for
tea increase in the rights allowed them.
*Alger 'McShane presided on Saturday at
the Opening of the new Baron de Hirsch In-
t:Waste in Montreal. The institute arose out
of a gift of 20,000 made by the famous He•
brew philanthropist to the Young Men's
:Hebrew Society of the city.
The Gloucester Mass., mackerel Fishermen
have had. a catch this season, even
'alter than last year. They say there are
enty of fish off Nova Scotia, but they keep
,lece to shore.
4trosteil Roman rat Italie, wiii 01,, eere
'50100e of Ge. 1.10W A10010(ii0t clawoh at st
.;St.. Charles.
The, City Clerk of Hamilton has received
Venal from the Ontario Governineut that the
14etitiou of the corporation to annes Barton
bealbe.en granted. Hamilton will in cense-
'tnencsa have to ereate an eighth ward.
Notwithstanding the care of the D
ton police entreated with the watch neer the
wrave of the late Premier, relic-Mute:is .110-
esdready, Mallen most of the flowers and flew'
'designs aud committed other acts of vandal.
ism.
Rev. S. H. Kellogg, D.D.. iv a lecture the
'other night in 'reroute on "Th leghts s. g.
sleeted by the Presen. Perareatiou of the
•jetts 111,58.a." said that no tnater into
'What mounter, the Jews might go they would
persecmed uutil thee repented.
There or . rumours fine tu the effect that
MamIntiald wIll be raised to ibe peer.
eige et a reenenition of Sir .1 01,11 Macdonald':
terviees 1.. the umpire, end that Me Hugh
John, when he goes to Englatel at the close
of elle seeeinn to return his fathea's insignia
of the Beth, will be knigIrted.
1Kilburn J. Brown, a sleeping car cou•
filuctor on the Canadian Paerfie railway
lraturing between Montreal and Boston, has
;been arrested by the United States authori•
ties on a eltaraue of smuggling. It is stated
'that during the past ten years Brown has.
:defrauded -the United States Treasury Do
la:ma:twat cut of one hundred thousand dol.
Sir John Macdonald national memo -
Vied committee met at Kingston on Friday
tad decided to invite contributions to the
teed from Canadiars tlroughout the British
Brapitv, and in the Un 1e/1St:rtes. CO/11111 It tees
'will be formed in the large cities in Europe
eisad .kanerica to undertake the work of re -
voicing subscriptions.
At the general assembly meeting of the
Presbyterian Church, the. cptestion of estal
Iisiting a summer collegiate oeurse for tin;
lonarefit of workers in the mission field was
,woxeraly debated, the assetnbly being about
"neatly divided as to the feasibility of the
eathente. By a, close vote the question was
keret:red to the different presbyteries for an
opinion. The report of the sabbeth Schools
of the chard. was of a very encouraging
nature. A resolution in favor of prohibition
'Vas carried. Rev. Ephraim Scott of New
Y:31...ragow was appointed editor of the The
Prexiayterian Record, to fill the vacancy
created by the resignatton of Mr. Omit
IN/entreat was decided upon. as the next place
• amethag.
rsiesto sma.sfEs.
',,""liglitning followed a line of gilt down the
iarat.it paper m a Methodist church at Belpre,
IRa., and. burned off only the flashy figures.
"-Mr. Samuel Mather ef Cleveland, 0., has
•ceeeert $7.5,000 to the Western Reserve Chi.
szorsity for Its college for women.
'Contracts have been mwarded for the exec.
tion of the World's Fair horticultural build.
...ree fit Chicago at a cost of $201,209.
Au Meade car in St. Paul, Minn., while
passing the end of 0 bridge in a heavy rain
attend -5,, was struck by lightning. The car
was set on 6re and the machinery rendered
useless. Not one of the passengers was
intared.
the international postal congress will next
tueet, in Washington in 18117,
The heaviest rainfalls in 00 pars are being
txperioneed in Nebraska.
The wheat harvest in Oklahoma is all in
*lea is considered good.
The estimated da,nage by the late storms
in Kansas is $500,000.
There ia a clergyman in New Mexico who
nom by the name of Rev. Lamont Wolf,
The College of New Jersey has received m
tides during the par more than $400,000.
Hog cholera, has broken ont with great
neterity in the neighborhood of Waterloo,
kewa.
Herr Mest, the marchtst, hos been tak en
leo penitentiary, where he will serve ono par
• tathewful talc.
The Republican Convention at Columbus,
'Ohio nominated McKinely for Governor by
tistelaanatien,
Remy business house in Seabright,
fiats been destroyed by fire and 1110 families
are homeleat
Up to the 1001 inst. $53,596,50 had been
atabeetibed to the fund for e monmnent to
tholate Gen, Sherman.
T"Ire next mooting of the Grand Di visimi of
Railway Telegraphers will be held at Chat.
Mona, Tau., in June, 1 802.
The famous Anaconda minc, Cal., hos
sten sOld to an Euglieb syndicete for $25,a
Hs.3,1/00.
Tweety•five deaths occurred in New Volk
Ad. fouriaten in Boston, 10010 aunstroko, lust
kick.
The United Shame Government 18 said to
e endeavoring Lost:cure Somme Bay, West,
4*Letteal eta 5, Mond waling station.
THE BRUSSELS POST
jrix 111) :1891
A cyclone in the neighborheod Kansati
City did terrible damage un Friday and
many lives were lost.
Largo settlement+, Minneseta are re.
ported to be doing a thrielog bushiest, in
amuggling farm prod nets front Canada.
Such apricot, i.1,4000 have Leen made
against the ni tut/gement of the New York
late Insuraime Coapany that an invest igii-
ieri by the State s at (writhe; ia eousidered
inevitable.
I,ast wear iti Now 'York
thealtdo, the reed.known ittithori.ss, was
married to 1 10. timely.. 4100011-1vr 50st 01.111,
iii11,1": 11111100.
'rho rutted !-411tes Tioasitrer'i etetement
'Mows t I,Lsh halanee le $41,4 15,000.
The net eash 1. dame: is S1,235,010. whi.eh is
the lewes1 figure vet rear:heti.
11, Vietor Neweombe, a New York mil.
liottaire, tuned far his boldite4e in 1Vall
streetsperulat tons, has beeu emanated to
a lunette :Ley hoe.
There 11 immense suffering ainongst the
miaguided people who docked in ...restate to
Father Mollioger', chepel iu Pittsburg, Pa.,
in the hope of being mirtieulously eure.l.
A Now York deal-att.:It says Ole board of
walking delegates and the Lumber Trade
Aseouiation !viva etfeetert, it ie hoped, a last-
ing pertee, and all •• pool- lumber will he
handled by union roan,
Henry C. F81111 ing. the engineer who ss•as
found guilty of the murder of his mistress
T1,01nr, eutting bee thiamt in! the
st recta of New York, has (wen sentenced to.
be electrooured r:aring the week of July 27
It has been rie.i,led by. the railway com-
panies ill the Ur ited States to charge full
freight rides go-eis for the Chieago World
Fair, but the preperty will be returned free
after the expesitien.
As the result of a sermon preached by
Rev. Dr. Orradine• of the Centenary Nietho.
dist Episeepal ehurch in St. Leak, Mo.,
against the wearing of jewellery his congre-
gation, a very wealthy one, surrendered
trinkets to the N'alue of one thonsand
tars.
Telegraph Wires and Drought.
To the objections that telephone wire::
disfigure the streets and 000811111w a seriorte
abet/motion in case of tire, thereby endanger.
ing prnperty mei life, this further fault must
be added 11101 they tend to produce drought.
At least so says Ifrof. Wiggins. In a recent
letter to We Ottawa ioneeet this high
tuttiority &large; " telegrap '1 wirer. tete.
phone retina, 81111 Wire fences " with beim:
the cause of the tin ouzel drnught whieh thiS
province is experienced chia springandeum
met. He argues that thunderam ms bent:
cense)! by eleetrieity isolated in a elottil.
end the Wir84 ill llile.g.i011 cendeetore
.9 the .311;nle fleid the elinels rerier 0 1)100
over them without being ribbed. ef their
uleetrIcity whiuri nieens that they =dual.
eithee entlape or disperse. says lie, " ete
tome es the Mewl is permit. to retain its
electrie eteregy, se long 80,11 it rim on rhe
ett• curemit o0er tire dry uolilltry. 0011 10,1101
tho parched ground beneath. rwo agents
miy, wilt deplete it of its force lightning
which eauses the electrieity to escape, end,
condnetnr. Tee former will set nuly when
it is a po wee. 11 t but let the cloud pass over
a single eleetrie 15.1re and in a few minutes
it will either collapse or diverse it." Prof.
Wiggins does nr t explain, however, how h.
hap -paned that about forty years ree,o, before
the country 11114 netted over with " tele.
graph wires, telephone wires, and Wire
fences," the month of Mity was quite its dry
as the one through which we have
just passed.: nor does be explain why
it is that a thunderstorm coming
from the east, and passing over the city ot
Toronto with its thousands of wires, should
be less heevy in the city than•severill miles
to the west. If " a stngle electric wire "
can do thu Mischief lie claims how is it pos-
sible the strewn succeeded in gettilig beyond
the limits of the city aVall? Until a few
facts of this kind are eatiafactorily are:punted
for Prof, Wiggius will 110ve to excuse 00111.
mon pe iple if they refuse to accept his nove
theory for the existence of droughts,
Progress of Railway lilectrics.
While electricity may not. yet be able to
take the place ot steam as tin eennomical
motive power for railway trains, it le dem n.
Arming its abilita , when properly man-
aged, ot cutting into tha buainess °resisting
steam railways. The latest illustration of
this is to be found in the passenger trove'
bete•een ;St. Paul and Minneapolis, Until
recently the steam railreads have controlled
this business, and, with the exception 01 the
faros uharged, have given a fairly satisfact.
trey serviee, but an eleetrie road is 110W
running between the ttvo cities, connecting
with the 810001 lines of both, and 111 the half
year which it lute so far served the publie it
has taken such a large portion of the
patronage front the sweet railways that the
latter will probably withdraw fro, oompeti-
uon for the loeal pessenger Gatlin: between
the two ei dee, '1 he steam railroads charged
30 cents for a single trip of ten miles and 30
cents for a round trip, while the electric+
road has been pia on a paymg bents while
charging but 20 cents a round trip. In
additton to this difference in fares, the elec-
tric road rens its ears more frequently and
gives W01181800 to other street railways in
either city,
. The eleetric cempany: is making prepare.
ILions to 1100111e a very extensive traffic, and
will soon be able to run trellis muter one
i minute headway, The 30 [levee power
d •'ll 1 5 nee a
ones or 00 horse power, and the cars will be 10
run at higher speed than at then. Similar C
conditions of travel in other places will :01
doebtleas be met in the same way, and be- I
fore railroad men realize it, electric rail.: 1,1
waym will he running, the character of whose 10
traffic will bear a very strong resemblence cc
to that of steam railways, thia growth ;
the feet may (redeveloped that a uomparison '
between steam 0.1:1(1 eleCtriOity Will mot al.
ways lead to the results obtained iu ths ex.
peritnenta thus far made,
OUR INDIAN POPULATION,
Some let I, resting Pe (dire 10 1.4 A11111111 Their
inli Ors 31 1111 1.'11'01 1010
The confederation of the provinees itt 1867
am t le au iseiment a mot pain( ol Brandt( u-
lumbia and intervening iturison'e Bey soan,
try into the Dominion brought under one
eentral mituvemen I, the affli l'a 11, large In
iliau population iu various stages of savagery
and etvilisat Me. abuts, of the Indians of the
oldet ;nor itwea were tepidly reaching the
point where the line divided them emir other
eitizene becomes itulietinet and gradually
vanishes while in the newly at:arrived terri.
ter/ were tribes es ignorant of um way, 04
the oatives whom tau:tier found in the lodges
of Hoeheing a, 111 the 01,10r SO t Llement parts
of the country there had been coesiderable
intermiugling of the exotic and holigenoue
race% allt1 11 vr011 ity was helpthgenviranineet
in the work of assimilation, ledeed,
great differenee between the Indians of the
provinces and the other dwellers therein
may la, said to consist in that a, greeter pro.
port.ion of the former a a, on the prineiple of
letting the morvow always eare for itself.
The repert of the Indian Deparment for 1800
deseribes them as "being, tura rule, self -sup.
portmg." The pike: of the depaettnent,
we are told, is based on the theory that " if
a man seal not Work norther. shall he eet."
What a pity the vele could not be made ab-
solute end gerieral
These Lel ians have at their ovedit in the
hands of the Goverment funds derived from i
the sale of surplus land, thnber, and
vent of laud leased, antounting to very near- I
ly three millions and half. Tile mil/zoos be. 0
long to the Ontario bands. Few of those in
Quebec had much laird or valuables to die, s
pose of, and in the provinces further east t
care was taken not to overburden the natives f
with estates. The inteeeet ini the trust fund, 0
Which is at form, five, and six per cent.,
amounted last year to $162,257.70 and the a
collections on the &Me account to$1 10,7 10.-
44. No appropriations are made from the
capital sum except for works of permanent p
character, The interest charged with the a
cost of local management, medical attend: b
ance, works of a temporary nature', and a s
share of the educational ea penses ; but it ia b
supplemented by an annual vote front the s
public uhest of upward of 300,000, about r
6'24,000 of %Odell goes to edueation, $10,000 d
to pay annuities ttuiler treaty in Ontario, i
and over $4,000 to the relief of Indians s
without ferule in Qtrebec. Only $3000 of it '
is required for a similar purpose in Ontario. a
Phis parliamentary, appropriation, with p
their share of the cost of i•unning the Indian t
bureau at Ottawa, marks the extent to whieh
the same thirty thousand Indians in Ontario
and Quebec are a drain on the Federal ex•
chequer. The interest monee, reread:1h D
of ter eercain memo; dens Inwe been set asik 3
for the fixed chrirges just specified is malty oe
divided among the metnbers of the direrent,
hands in the ratio in which tho bands share 11
ill the eapital.
The Indite' pepulatioe of Ontario 18 C.
retuened at 17,7711 13ut they are not all
the deseendente of native Indians, for Cana.
ila had an Milne of red as well as white li
loy 'ree fain nts Six Nations of the LI
Mohawk milley, who fought on the side of
King George, thought it best to go tiorth c
with the 11 eg of Britain ; and under the groat 11
seal they were given a tract of excellent 1.)
land, six milea la depth on each side of the g
Grand River, extending from. the head of
that stream to its entrance into Lotto &lee' t,c
SO
mri. comprising 004,920 acres. They bay
in reseed and multiplied. and are now a d
teosperous con»minity of 3,120 souls, owing
about one-third of the total trust fund. But "
though they have lived for generations in the a'
centre of a ehriatian community that appears
to be constantly moved by a great desire to b
rend the veil of Papal derkness whicashroude
,/,tiebec, 030 of Unite Indians are ntli,thaly .111
classed as pagans. They have still their
harvest festivals and their fantastic rites :
and with the sohools and chttruhes stands
the " Long •House," where once a year ta
offered the sacrifice of a snow.white dog.
The other paincipal tribes in this province 01
are the Ojibbewas, Ottawas, Oneidas, .AI-
gonquins, Mohawks, Missiseagas, and Dela- 1:..0
wares. The Oneidas and Mohawks aro akin re
to the Six Nations, and the Delawares are 111'
the descendants of a colony of Inclian een• Pr
vests to Moravianism, who migrated from "d1
the United States 1108,r the close or the ne
eighteenth century and took up their abode
on lands set apart for them by. the Canadian ce
Government. A. few hundreds of the On- bo
taxi° Indians are still nomadic, The some lee
1 7,001.1 who enjoy fixed habitations had
about65,000 11,CreS of land undo:: oelti. ef
vation in 1889, In that year, though the tiv
harvest was light, they raised 277,095 bush- mi
els of grain, 89,06 1 bushels of potatoes, and
7,028 tons of hay, Their other industriea Pr
tic
wei.0 valued at $182,52 L. Comfortable ,
houses, substantial oradmildings, improved re'
tuachinevy, and wellemeditionedetoule ere no
and they have their quota of prudent hes- 8e
longer unusual with the Indians of Ontario ;
freedmen, the fruits or whose labors have '01
W011 prizes at provincial. fairs. The nomadic
Lekes Huron and Superior, in a country W8
Indians are mainly Ojibbewas living north ,aifis
which is still largeiy a primeval wild. Here
they lead their old time life, finding in forest
atel stream sitilleient for the day. Over w"
9,000 of the Ontario Indians aro Protestants, ,t41,0
about 6,500 are Catholics, 800 are classed as
pagans, and the religion or upward 01.1,300 ""°
is marked " unknown." There wereser'en.
ty-four schools in operation last year, With ,r,",
1,824 children on the rolls and an average ",'
attendance of I:000. Twenty these 50'
90hools are Catholic, thirty-two Protesant,
and twenty.two undenominational. Several
the teachers are Indians. There are four
clustrial schnole-three Proteetant undone
atholic -with an tit:Lenge at:mid/taw of
el.
In the Province of Quebec chore are 13,600
Mians, hearly enehalf of whom still live
e life of 1101110.18 tho 11.11/1081 unentrottah•
impen country to the north of -the settled
le along the Ottawa. and St. Lawrenee,
patrittiouy of 1110 Qiiebec Indians is not
nearly: so extensive as 18 that of their Ontario
kinsmen, and Inuelt of the land la far from
being as fertile ; but from tins. 0,000 awes
which those who had permanent dwelling
lielitins of Quotas.. Very fajta indee
the 1110'01014 thou from ot
eitizene. Many of them evin•s. a
Item. r hitorlierafter, ai.d. their waif
horn the Inauttfael tire all I 8:Is of nicht!
fiviwy W31410 are co.141.1010111t.. 1 is
t.0expeet every India!, to itei,olue (rood il
They have then peottbar home lien
other 1.001,158, The small bawl of Qin
Ant nlitel t et, 1010 ilispoeed of s,
peeve ego and live partly as' Inuit"rs
partly es itrtitkers, beret probably ne 11
aptitude for ogrieulture than thole of
oWil N1,0 11'11.1 pl'efer the factory to the fa
Not Mug has been d.nte toward the trail)
of the Quebee 1 ndiani in manual a
though the rpiestion of r‘itablishing (0,1
trial sehools in their midst tem boen
pumas, broaeleel. There ere, aceording
the official rt,terna, only LiimLte,t Ind
ClILS StA10013 r,eieleet, nye protestant, )
fourtem, Cathelie, They hart 51 6 pu
enrolled and an everage atteudance of 2
1: our luttelrit.1 and thu•ty.seven is 910011 118
1.110 11111111,er Protestante, and ever 11,000
at'e pleated under the heading 1111 -
lumen," but it nuty be safely said diet,
with the exeeption ef very few more than
the lei, the Indians of Qtrebee cling to the
faith delivered to their ate:esters by the
Catholle 1111saionariee of France.
The native race is Wilily ecattered over
the eastern maritime provinees, Thet•e are:
2,42S Micmaes in Nova Scotia mid Prince Ell.
ward 10 land, and 1,090 3.1100m00 and
Ainalecites in N OW Leans wick. These tribes
tre branches of the Algenquin family. The
Froneh brought them Christianity, and they
lave kept the faith. Aftet• the fluid ceesion
Lilo country to England, seteletneet went
on without any atteution being given to the
Wriggling Indians : but in time smell (plan.
ities of land were hew and them set apart
or them. They have about 4,000acrea under
ultivatiou and in 1880 they raised 0,714
bushels of grain, 18,880 bushels of potatoes,
ncl 2,09 1 tons of bay. Their other hulas -
ries were valued. at $52,250. Like other
dewn by the sea, Rome of the Indians
refer fishing to farming, while others roam
bout in gypsy fashion, earning their bread
y the canning of theie hands. The Micmac
oems to be by nature an expert cooper tied
asket maker. They have twelve day
°hoots -ell Catholie-yat which 24 1 pupils
eerie entered last year. The tiverage atten-
anue was 1 1 0. The es hi b lish men of an
mlustria 1 school has been suggested but no
tep has as yet been takee in that direction.
rhos° Indians are an mkt:trustee people,
nd they are as industrious as can be ex.
ected m view of the circumstances to whieh
bey have bele8181.9%Irjsecilt512.5.3'1'41iey cost the
°entry in
'Phe entry of 13ritich Columbia into the
ominion added to Canada's population some
5,500 Indians, ranging rev to:social ail votive.
1. nt all the way from. the "superior race.
f Siatswheps to the Alas, whom De. via"
his report of 1873, describes as " a, nation
f savages." Catholic, klethoilist,
!lurch of Rngland missionaries Wert. wii•k-
ameng them, and churches and :Ms:ions
nd convents and sulmols had beau este!,
shed long before tile eivil author:tie gave
nought te the natives. Dr. Posvell spoke
ery highly of the character and genere'
ondition of the 'maims of the in terior, 10111
lose of the vast he cleseribee aa having
een cc rrupted and depraved by ••the lower
miles of the white race " with whom they
mule in contact. Nolte of them, however,
ein to have been, even when left 1) Wein.
lees, very high-toned wa' isle. They
eveloped a more elastic Sy.itelll Of changing
pouses than is afforded by the Chicago
rats ; and they 110,ve us (It eider! a pencil.
it fol. gambline es the inein bees of select
accarat club, -But they appear' to have
een atm.:vs very good wor.kare, not Earned
labor in any form, aryl able to take a.
ind at whatever offered, Twenty years
gn they were Spoken Cif 00 "large contri-
aors to the general revenue," and the ex-
orts of fires and tisli oils were credited
nearlyr if not all," to the Indiana The
epartmental report for 1390 tells us . that
ett, course is still marked by " manly inde•
ncience, intelligent enterprise, and tutting -
ng it cl ustry." They engage in farming and
Leul ture,fishingand fish canning, limiting
cl trappings, and -general work. They are
odueers ancl consumers on a large scale,
d their personal property is valued at,
avly a million dollars. The honaes of
ose of them who live on the noeth west
sat are doseelbed as "superior to the habi•
tions of fairly well-to-do white people,"
" flower gardens, houae plants. and in
me etta09 ItlX.OriOU8 011(1 ornamental articles
furniture inake their homes very attract.
e." Good work 1101 been done by the
ssionaries in elevating the moral tone of
a natives, and the labors of the Catholic
iosts have been especially fee WM in bene•
ial results. tipeaktng of a 111001 impressive
igions celebt•ation held by Bishop Dirricii.
whieh over: a Weasel:it Indians of dd.
eta tribes were esseinbled." the Indian
perintenrient for British Colembia, in his
met foe 1300, states that "It would have
n impossible to find any auch concourse
people more orderly aid devotional than
re these Indians, gathered together froin
tau t Ames, who doubtless.years ago mune
contact but to: (178.1. W1111 one n nether, and
o, not so long 'since, were imbued with
mosturnel and heathenish superstitions."
the nearly 24,000Indians who,' ive with in
nine agencies of 13rittisli Columbia,.5.242
Protestants, 6,264 are heathen, and the
mindel. are Qatholies. The °there inhab.
legions which have not yet been tvespass.
upon by eensus entunotators.
The Goveriment has iistabilsioel rted
mitintaine four industrial boarding sohool
in this province, Slane of which are nude
the auspiees or the Catholio C13110611. L le
are twelve ordinarrsohools-eight of whieli
aro Protestant -supported lay the Tmitan
Department, The total cost to the FE:demi
6:toilet-met, of the laitish Columbie Indians
d is merle s 110 !'40.1 111 04110 (akin to the BLEW GREAT GUNS.
bor Di ilthowts of 41 ilia Plegatt,4, the
telt Creee, the Bloods and dui Blauk feet A '
ugs erwps ef mortiarel pollee 11,110 fOr10011,
01111 0901118 Were ill/1/01111 Ocl, ma 1w0/1..11 111110
111'11 011100 W0S 0,41046110d 111 110 emit,0,_. ,,f th
hes 110W 0001111T. ' Br' the treaties the Intim
like relinitnieleal thole right anti title to th
bee territory le eoneirieration of tle. perpeteu
11111+ payment of et.4 'Wad 10 QVcry 111,W, wommi
mil and eltild ; the payment of 3.25 a year t
iere moth eldef and $1.) a you. to eileth deputy o
om. cottiteill,,r, together with ()Iodine
rin. flags, •Itte,laia, .N 0. 1 he allotment (>1 rel.a.rt.i.
ing tioto. of land in the proportion gerierelly
11:11,35., 001140,1a, ui.,1114.0 1,1,1ri I et if.tinvi lithe.„11111e1
fee. rtettle, rev., to .meble 1110 t
to make a beginning of farming, Thr: levern
hie meld, al the earnest riemest of 1i11;i:i..fixeiljnaiiirts
tea covet:lulled to proem:L. the eide of
pilg (111 l'OSCI'Viti 10110 and 1-0 0401111811 eaul main
01, Witt schools. Me Indians eelected Wei
lauds, and reeervations were made fot•
aiavreet Intial lit tile lovalit.108 ill W1110
they hail been in the habit of living. Aloe
of them eeemed to underetand that th
pi•eesure of event.. made a change in tied
mode of Me a neeressity. Soma of them
11 And SbOilk up Creal steolttAilpx 1.11‘e
ti 1 V00110 vitir3ls.
i, Two eecan eirrenships which arrived the
aa to het. «lay IVIIIII 5111'0110 --Alm Fulda and the
a hist Ilismar.,1; - -me•otitit.,red a severe hurri,
a cane ell' the Gattel lienka. The eons 1V010 0,1
, 1 high 1 1,111 the oilierns, or the 1,511.1a, were cotin
0 imam 1 to tuake 1.15o of bags Moil, whielt Woe
r , hung ever the lame mei :dive of tee :drip.
e iThe oil SerVel 1 10 1,11.101i 111[. roughnesa of the
- ! woves, with+ ft me the time the loirri..itile
f i sot ill rau very high mid swept the (lecke of
e , the Fulda, front stein to stern, 'filo vessel
, i sustained no damage.
171 The Furat Diatuarek oucounterail the hur•
, rieane jitst oast of the built:, and for t wen 1 y•
. shell. Her engines hail to be slowed down.
, :fix lames, beginuing only in the morning of
4 1110 1 Oth, She W118 tOved 'deed like au egg
r end it was hard 3vorls to keep her head to
I% the wind, which blew with toreilie force,
11 I he !Gast Ihemarelt del not uae ally oil as
1 did the Fulda, but eseapell any meterial.
,, damage beyond a general washing of the
1 r decks and the 0.00$0:11101g, away of all loose
, artieles,
, l'APTAI 0 AT.111:111,1, 1,1, 1.11F, FURST 111411.1 11/ lc,
,t that on Ulu morning of the et.11 between lath
1 tude 49.1 7 and latigitude 20.'2 they 011001111.
• toreil it storm which in soine raspeets was
g unlike anything lie ever WNW in all his ex.
e perience, He staid : '• To describe it would
0 be impossible. %Viten we first sow the storm
8 tipproulting it was a grand sight. ll'here
1 W/18 0 spray above the weter's surface that
` was fully fifty feet in height.
, " l'he storm came front west northwest
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The effort being made in certain quar-
tors to have all vessels interdicted from to
engaging in the cattle export trade which ' in
are not properly provided with the latest pr
sei front aimilaa enlaces by the Indians of
Ontario. Many of the Indians permanently
Merited depend largely on (milting and
ees tat tir Med ni 1889 they garnered 50,•
5 bushels of grain, 21,357 beetle's of pate,
es, and 2, 150 tons of bay. Their other
(battles Isere valued at 6183, 105-a anra
oportionataly much in excess of that de.
approve( means for We eotntort and safety
of the annuals while on board ship, is one
that deserves the hearty support of every
Canadian who desirce to see our cattle trade
placed upon a stenire bode. Only the other
daysorne 111110 110011 -one report says fuer. ' in
teen!-Imeentnlied to the heat, while on the by
tower between Malayan,/ and Quebec. On, ty
baldly the day WM \YAM and the cattle very to
fat, being " dietillers," but harl the ship ro
spent}, or ti tvolihood, and farm on a. very
tall scale, That they are not, however,
trinsically 101 fitted foe dull labor is proved
the fact that the Algonquins of the coutro
of Ottawii, who etill give a deal of time
the chase, did much work last year at
ad and bridge making on their reserve,
tartlets wore given to certain of the
been provided with steam fans which aro Co
found ott all vessels engaging hi the regular
trade, end which are now tagarded RH emote:
Oat to epropor equipment, tne lees wouldno
doubt have boon greatly reduced 1.1 not al.
(Nether avoided. Meantime until govern.
meta action shall have boon 011{011 1110011
could be accomplished by the underwritere
if they would egrets together to refuse in..
suranee to all matte shipped on vessois not
properly fitted up for the trade,
Ina 18 1101V the province of 11 Latutobri
hail mode beginnings, lived in honees em
planted garden pima ; but us you went lees
the attempts lit ageleel tat geese reeler eni
rarer, though there Wart evidence every
whore that the red man Ness beeontin
gradually sei,oil of the conviction that h
would have to look more and mot•e t
mother earth for subsistence. In 1 878 tit
Hon. David Laird. then tit the head of th
Territoeial ttelian 011ice, repotaed thee "
it WOPO p0101.1)18 tO employ tt few gpoil
practieal men Wald aml instruct tile Indian
at seed time," he W118 " of the opinion the
most of tho bands 011 1110 Sas15atchewar
would soon be able to raise salliment ovops
to meet their most pressing wants." In th
following year ageieulturiste were sent into
the country to Lennie:it. farms \Anil word(
serve as modele for the Indians but thi
system was not pr. duotive of very beneficia
reetilts, and, Mite. el of eondricting model
farms, the farming insIt'netors now devote
theie time to snpor nte tiling and directing
Ole work of the Ind 0,115 The latter has prey
ed to be tho better system. A religious
s stem of education was adopted and luts
been adhered to with good reattite.
The first break in the =oath flow o
Indian affairs in the Canadian Norbliwest
100.5 occasioned by Riel's seuomi, and to lil in
fatal, rebellion, It was not, it must be
borne in minel, strictly speaking an Indian
uprising. The lutlf breeds end their leadere
tried tn rouse the whole Indian population
of the Territories to arms ; bet though the
two peoples are bound by nuuty ties, they
were only in part succasaful. Soveral of
bands preferred quiet to war, and above
were kept 111 the paths of peace by, the mis•
.ien tries. two of whom -Father Lecombe
ot 1 &ellen-were speoially mentioned in
+las regard in the equal; of the Lotion De -
(lament for 1885. Without passing in
vview the details of departmental 11/01106,0-
'11011 1, It is clear that the participation of
the Indians in the rebellion wee 0,11100.1 by
haltionces working from without rather tha
front within the bands. The trouble Wil.%
but of short duration, and 01/ trade8 of it
were quickly wiped out. The leaders in the
perpetration of savage murders were exe-
ented, and others n• the Indians whose
blood -guiltiness W11,0 1088 111 degree were
purrished, Afiliirs took agrin there normal
eourse.
In .Manitoba and tho Teri itories there are
shout 52,000 Indians. Neerly half of these
live in the far myth ; no trinities have yet
been made with them, and they are outside
the jurisdictino of the departnient. 'The of.
lioial report deals only with the other half,
and it divides them, ea to religion thus
3,459 Catholics, 8,080 Protestants, 1 ,500
pagans, and 2,602 of unknown faith. A
careful enumeration woeld probably some-
what change these figures, but they are suf.
niently accurate to convey a general idea
of the religious condition of the Ind ians.
There were ninetyanino day schoola (veva-
Lion last yeae. seventy-two of which were
Protestant and twenty•seven Catholic. The
Government paid the salariee of the teach-
ers, in W11018 Or in part, end contributed
pee capita allowance:: to six Catholic and
ren Protestant heard schnols. Two in-
dustrial schools have bon es &Wished and
are whelly main tame, by 1110 1.0roillett
eerier tho dace:Lion of a Catholie and a Pro-
teetant ulergvnuin respectively. Tsvo Catho-
lic. and one Protestant schoel mashie treety
veceiec aid from the Government.
There were 2.000 children enrolled at the
different schools last year, and the average
atterelance W00 1, 1012. The day schoole cost
the Goeernment last year $00,03 1.70,sanil
the industrial and boarding selmols $1 90,•
347,30. The total expenditure in 00111100i:ion
with the 1.11C119.118 of Manitoba and the
Territories in 1889-90 was $040,201,72, Of
this 011101101 8306,38 1.7 1 weut for rations an d
elothing, $129,627 tu pay annuities, $79, 14:1.-
10 for agricultural implements, seed, cattle,
and the running of farms, $0,71 0.23 for grist
mills, $3,009,08 to the Sioux -about 1,000
who came &ernes thu border some years ago
-and $1 87.975.55 to payespenses of manage.
meet, am. These Indians hod 1 1,050 maimed
land under cultivation, and broke up 1,1 74
neves of new land in 1880. They raised,
thongh the year was 1101 lb fat one, 43,051
bushels of grain, 68,621 bushels of potittoes
awl ether vegelatbles,.and I 7,886 tons of hay.
Their earnings from other sources a.
aggeogated nearly a quarter of a dol. '
Iles, The radian Supeeintendent for Mani. ,
toba, in his roport far last year, felt called '
s nett " to congratulate the department npon
r the general proeperily OM 1 eon tenlenont pre -
veiling ameng the different bands," and in
',deem% to halloo Oates iu the Territories,
the Superintendent -General tells us in his re.
port foe 1 880-99 that the eventual trans -
a and continued from the sante direction fo
t two days, Lbt the 10th and 1 1 th it change
to woot sonthwest. On the morning of th
1 1 111 at three a.m. we sighted two lerge ice
bergs and later on sighted a Bremen Lloy
steamship, We lost fully fifteen hours, Th
average distanee was 17.5 miles per hoot
making the voyage In &wen days and tie
hears, There were no accidents .aboard."
L'Arr.1 IS R. fIEN'ali. 00 T118: PUI.DA.
00111 11111 " ou the 8111 forty.loue degrees
- and 6 ty.eight north latitude at ten o'clock
in the evening we had an overcast, gloomy
sky, with terrible wind blowing from the
east. The sea was rolling very high. In
f the morning there was it dead ealin and the
weather was delightful. l'hen again at
night the storm arose. This continued for
foui• deys, On the Oth, at live olelock in the
ramming, there was a dead calm and 111011
suddenly tate storm sprang up trout the
south, going to the smith awn; turd west
southwest, The what Wits blowing (11
terri fie rate arid the eee. was a boiling mme
of foam and spray. It was eo dense that 11;
prevented us front peeing ahead. The Yee -
sol labored very heevily and took itti emir -
mous unionnt of water on board. At oik
o'eloek on the flame moaning
31 l'0011 erna ou. pans
with great succees. At tioon the storm sub•
sided very rapidly. We had oue life•boat
d eau oyeil and emire of the veeselle it W11 ing4
Mown awey. Shertly after Boon we eighted
a wreck, which we 01.p:rased to he it bark of
about 060 tons. She W118 fully M., 111111
from me Ina owing to the heavy sees it wars
impoesible to retiedi her. The mainmast,
fore.gal must 111111 the mizzerilant mast were
badly wrecked and the saile WON) lly lug away.
Our signal nage, asking 111001 if they minted
help, were hoisted but we rue ieved n anewee.
'Vile storm lasted. for four days, In all my
experience, with one or two exceptions,
was the roughest storm I evee encounter-
ed."
There is no doubt but the atnrin is the same
W111011 W00 encountered by the Furst Bis•
inarek. Both %eseels /oat about fifteen hou r.t
on the trip.
What Tears are Made Of.
The pt.incipe.1 eleme n 1 ri thecompoeitiono
a tear, as may readily be aupposed, wawa,
The other elemental are salt, soda, phosphate
of lime, phosphate of eutla and mucus, each
in smell proportions, A dried teat. seen
through a. mict•oscope of good average power
repreeents a peculiar appearance. The water,
after evaporation, leaves behind a the saline
ingeedients, which amalgamate and form
themselves into lengthened 00000 lines, and
look like number oi minute fish bonee, The
reake•no ie just the same whether the teara
are for jay 00 grief. The discharge of tears
from the lecheymal glands le 1101 occasional
end aecidental, as is commonly suppotted,
but continuous. It game 011 both day and
night -though less abundantly at night,-
th rough the " conduita," spreuals equally
o •er the stuface o f the 'lids. Aftee serving
Its perpose the tlow (tarried away by two
derdne, Called the " lachrymal points,"
eituated in that comer of earth eye neareet
the nose, into which they run.
•
An enterprise 10 which our neighbors are
leeply interested lets just been started in
Russia. Acoorrling to the Washington oot,
respondent of the New York TribunP the
authorities at the capital have been officially
informed hone Berlin Garton organisation
known as'the Russian 13econ Company has ao
spired val noble concession hoer the Ilussioat
government whereby it is enahled to operate
011 particularly otivanbageous terms the
shbugli ter house and curing feetory at Oriaxa
The factory which was erected by the Rus.
ian government is savable I of handling
3,000 hogs a week. 13y providing the Com.
patty with a quiek transit from 01.1410a to the
3altio sea the baeon ean be -delivered at
English and Scot oh ports in ,ton days from
the factory and at an expense lose than the
cost of ti•atisit from Chien° Lo Liverpeol.
The feature which gives the Russien otim-
sany theadvantageoraetheAmerivati oven
s that owing to the time of tranait being so
much allot ter the 'noon can be mild oared
ditch 11 is said secures for It the British
was $102,0,4.44 last year, $34,943.21 o
whiell was expended in the tionstruetiou
end maintenanoe of industrial schools.
.1 revious to the puroliase of its numopoty
, and the awession of the reountry to Canada,
i the limlson's Bay Company wore t'le netual
rulers of the teraitory steetching from L
Superior te the Rocky Mountains, What-
ever bricks or trade were indulged by indi-
viduals at the expense nf the unsophistiota-
ed nativem-ond tradition says they were
many and very fraudulent -the anmpany
succeeded in securing We geod will of the
Indians. But with the paseIng away of the
dominion of the Gliders many events occur-
red to disturb the mind of the red man.
Louis rtiel inade his fast ateempt e.,t rebel.
lion by feeding an armerresistance to the
establishment of a provisional government
on the banks of the Red River ; the small
white populatimi was andtlenly augmented
from the east ; ham the south aamo a, flow
of flre water, which in the words or old
rvfoot, was las people fast and
tho plains the bnfralo was disappearing
1 0, rapidity which pointed to speedy
nation. I to flovernment lost no time
tappling with the Indian problem th.ls
ermine of the wanderers of the plains into .4
f solf-eupporting nterubere of the coin num.
veal eh luta been " removed from the pale of
I t‘niceetainty." The puttee of the Terra ."
la ant:Wally guardell by emirs of 1,0.0
ounted police and the Commisetonor of that, w
ore: states in his repeat for .1887 theta with)
the exoeplion of the Bloods, the Indians bo• 0
have " remarkably well."
4.. le
I The Indians of Canada aro not dying on., 1-1
If statisties can be raliecl upon they ttro!'.1
increasing. Theie nitmlan is now pee h
122.580. In 1889.90 they eon; this country 1
$1,1 78,440, 16, upward of 370,000 of whieb f
)W to required to meet the expellees of the d
general manegemant of Weir affairs at "1.1;
Ottawa, In addition to the Parliamentary tl
'appropriation 0181,1 74.81 of the trust fund 0
WLIS xpentlocl.
J. A, .3, d
Leo
Indtane, who undertook to omploy only In. on
fan a mt. he work Wag dorm (mac sat- witl
isfactortly and paid for from the funds of eat'
the band held in trust by the Government ie g
timed. upon tt. The labors or the
missimlarics did much in smooth the
way
litheithees rapt:alum of wore met
t in negotiating with 010 flla10111. 41111
40011 1870 8,1111 1877 808'011 treaties were
rhe Iroquois of firtuglinawriga,and St, Regis
-somewhat Gallieized evritoants of the old
Six Nation confederacy, (bibbed Itnqunis
1. 10 terteh--the 1100ons of Lorre:In, mid the o
AbOnakiq of llocaturour end 81, rraneois will
du Lan are the moat advanced of the ' bat
for Om tanning in of the civil poWer,
iarket 0 much higher value. It will thus
ie seen that our enesius have reason to feel
lartned over the prospect, especially they of
incinnati and 0111eage,
An inoident that may load to unpleasant
onaoquenees so far at the chief actor ta coo.
loaned is reported from Porl am Prince,
aytL President Hippnlyte who has Gs
ontly instituted a perfoot reign of terror
twing been vonintrei retort wieli by the
angliah, rfr011011 01111 German conenls for
oreibly ordering the M.08108.0 consulate and
ragging therefrom certain mill Meal enendee
hem he executed, angrily demanded, 1, .43
118 the way you talk to nie, the Preeidene
the country ?" bald then turning on his
eel left the reom, This disrespectful con.
not the consuls have interpreted as an ht.
tit to their govern/noels and though the
res,icient has apologized the German and
nglish rat:resent:Wives denier° their inten.
on to report the affair to LI • • LI
asters, t may be urged in extenuation of
ippolyte's offeeee that his mind ie at pre.
et elightly indialeheed doebtful 1
st
_-
1 When amen deapaira of strings, the devi
will lie an hand with Worde of encourage ti
,inen
The highest volocify that hne been ims
parted to shot 10 given as 1,020 feet p 0 ac
eecouri, being equal to a mile in 3.2 seconds. ai
Itt 0110 thitt it none the 1098 )10008,
es, Gina he heel I I 1 I 1 f.• "'
The velocity or the (meth ta the e niter 80,
10W 100111110n ill continuo smell whole:ride
dm: to rotation on lie 110.18, 1.1 1,000 miles n1
am:titer Hippolyto luta hem (tarrying on
score:: of men bein ri L ti
per loons or a mile in 31.11 seeonils t and thee el
if a cm 0011.10111 wort) fired flue west and -
could melanin 116 imtial velocity it would th
beet din "an in US 0/1110.1 ont journey around 110
tho earth, rut
e wormers and newts` ef 0;e city --would
it disgrace tc the whole family of civilised