The Brussels Post, 1891-8-14, Page 7Auurn 14, 1891
THE BRUSSELS POST.
A Trip to the Rookies, !moment of inadvertence, had walked river
!bin only ineerechailin early that inorning and
ny 1,4ey »Artie's:dal, (le zattrIeel•IFFIii. wee horribly ,116o (313310(31 in consegneime.
In the August number of Tho Never shall I forget the look with which
(thine Journel the Baroness alneetoneld ho. I the solitary shop boy in the single shop at
gins e settles of 1ope14 deseri VIA 01 1103' trip White River regerded me, "the lady travel.
to the pacific, oast lost anamg.r. Algol iggig ing in her private when 1 denutrudid
the interest, atteching to the widow of clay pipe. He changed countenonee earthly,
Clanatleal greatoet, newsman, the cherteing handed over the article, put on hia billyeoek
way in which her Ladyship writoa is exceed. and walked out to call his friends. Then
ingly riltraotive,
It all cesne f rein an atteck of neuralgia
The winter had been ehengenble, feeder' and
busy ; the summer given up to sonelde and
social cares ; August divided between ef.
forts at eheerf al conversation and sitting in
the 004)011 1(10 with fingerer praised to an Rah.
Mg eyebrow. So 1(1)0(10 up my mind early in
September to take n regular holidey and
9013 3,131 of that pain—as wall 08 EN few others
—at once, if possible.
lily plan was not easily carried out, The
cloak, when consulted, said it wits frivolous
end enneceseery, adding that his grand-
mother htlways described es the 1110013 11801311
and importer of women, but who fortunately
departed this life before I sulibre(1 in con.
trast), had never complained of neurelgitt or
asked for change and rest. I explained that
O man's grandmother never was like any
other woman, and that on 1.11 la occasion, like
the flowed; in spring, she lied "nothing to
do with the case." Still the chief insisted
on the advantage of met andseelusion sought
for at home—hinted at the pigeon -day of
even recovering from a neuralgic eyebrow
while engaged in a round of dornestio duties,
and egam alluded in what I consider
rather unfeeling manner, to his departed
nocestorei stay. at-home habits and excellent
health. I retorted that routine 01 3611 things
was most distressing to my particular brand
of neuralgia, while household accounta
brought on severe spasms, and the sight of a
butcher's boy was fatal. Then the chief,
taking up an mwful-looking pile of blue.ruled
paper, ostentetiously labelled "Behring Sea
Matters." pointed to the library door, and
with a polite smile, asked HI would be good
enough to leave the. room ? Seeing . atfairs
were growing desperate, and its time pressed,
I abandoned the standpoint of argument,
and began to plead elcemently. The chief
bending over Lord—'s last despatch, laid
one hand on .a heap of flattering public
addresses and the other on an opposition
newspaper'e last and most violent attack—
for on his writing -table lies always n, large
ancl varied assortment of interesting there.
tem. " Yon may go if you like," said he
with gentle resignation, born of 50 years rif
parliamentary practice ; and as I began to
develop into gratitrole, he tank up a new
article on the McKinley bill, and, with
decision, ordered me out 01 13110 room.
" Dearest friend :" I wrote five minutes
afterwards, " lam going to Manitoba ;Ind
the Northwest. Do be my traveling com•
panion, and perhaps nurse. I have been, and
am still, very Iona out of sorts, and my
husband is most aexions that I should
—but this last sentence VMS 1300 much, so I
erased the fib toul 001113 13118 invitation, -which
was duly accepted by return of post.
A few days afterwards found us a party
of four, steaming out of the Canadian Paci-
de Railway station at Ottatve in a private
car ettached to .the rear of the Pacific ex.
press bound for Vaecouver, nenrly three
thousand miles off.
Let me introduce my friends : Firet the
dear companion of a far -away girlhood, to
whom the above.mentioned -letter had
been addressed 1(10,1313, a tall young man to
whom thirty years before I had promised to
teach his catechism ; and thirdly n rosy
little maiden of 10 yore, whom I selected
for this trip from a charming circle of young
acquaintances in Ottawa, as one specially
calculated to be delightful on all occasions.
aVe had no very definite plan of travel and
I eschewed dates. In a vague, pleasant
sort of way, we were bound for Winnipeg
oil the prairies, Calgery, in the ranch conntry,
13an if, in the Rooky alooutains, Cinder in
the Selkirk Range, and Vanconver on the
Pacific Coast, in British Columbie. A. new
railway lino was just being completed from
Regina., the 0111@11 capital of our Western
territory, to Priece Albert, nearly 300 miles
from thence, on the North Saskatchewan,
The Cotinclian Pacific Company were to
" take it over " in rs few days. "Margaret,"
I said to my bosom 11100(1 00 that first oven.
ing of departure, as we settled our respect.
tive cabins on the car " Esonsoliffe," tire
will go and ace Prince Albert, too 3"
Away on the smith bank of the Ottawa
River sped our train in the darkness. In
an hour we had arranged everything, un•
packed and shelved the contents of our peat.
manteans, slung up our baskets, put out the
books, opened the folding table, looked over
the grocery an(1 provision list and then
everybody went to bed.
"Chalk River," said an answering voice
next morning. at my window. It was a,
pleasant morning and soon we were all astir.
During the 12 hours cf daylight that follow-
ed, before we celled for lamps and bezique,
oor way lay through now and varied scenes.
Passing at night the limy pretty and flour-
ishing little towns and villager; neetled in the
wide valley of the Ottawa River, we were
now in the new country, that, comparative-
ly unknown entil the Canadian Pectfic was
built, is still destined to be of importance.
At alettawa, once a Hudson Bay trading -
post, 300 61330 the centre of a great lombering
district on the banks of a wide, rapid river,
increaaing settlement, bosy people and
the tented camps of sportstnen.
Bot we eared for none of these things.
Not matt, I fear, did we nodes the up.
epringing herniate, clearances, changes and
improvements, which, breeking into those
tracts of rooky,. 3000(10(1 country, so delight
the eye of the intelligent pioneer. Rather
the sunshine and slutdow did we look upou
us they olutsed alternately over long, deep
valleys and forest uplands, oir lit the blue
wateee of Lake Nipissing, and touched the
solemn distance with a light like a smile.
Beyond North Bag, for two Mulched miles,
wo seemed entangled in a network of lakes,
streams, rivers, 'rocky bends, gravelly polo ts
—a broken coontry, which alargaret, who
knows everything, told us was very rieh in
mineral wealth, 041(1 full of big game ; but I
do not know if she wee speaking from ex.
perionce or was quoting from a guide.book.
Any one could see that it wee the paradise
of lumborers.
At Missahabie came bad news I "(11(30011-
0(1313, ladiee," announced our porter 106 300
sat in the observation room pleying en idle
garno, "13 .pretty bad washout, and the
vein ie to be transhipped." Of course he
mertnt tho passengers, bat I was too sad to
smile. Trenehipment, Would not, of mien,
suit es. Whore should we bo indeed with
-
mit our thfas and games, books, knitting,
wrIting-cases end spoiel "'corneae" in otrr
private car. How oommoupleee a Pullman,
be it ever coo gorgeous, after our pleasant
independent seclusion I
"3,lr. Conductor," I said emphatically,
whon that official ewe to knotg what my
ladyship would bo plensed to do, " I shall
ttwait the s fixing' of that trestle oti tho
siding at Whito River," So we tarried a.
long dey &White, Riverand wont ehopping,
and I bonght a tobiteco pipe. Not for (03'-
061?) or for my own use, hut to ('0340130 ,1311(3
loot equrtnimity of my godson, who, in a
were not numerous or distinguished looking,
but they gaped et me In silence until I 10(
leken refuge behind the " Eartieolifro's "
sheltering eurtains, feeling with a sinking
heart, ea a did 00, that the esteem and re.
spot of the nine "nlmbitante of White River
wee lost to me forever,
By dusk that afternoon, the ravages of
the washout—which two days before hacl
destroyed bundreda of yards of road bed,
swept away a hundred and twelve foot
trestle and made a fearful gap—were repair,
ed and the track was ready for use. First
the Atlantic express steamed eautienaly
over on its eastern way to Mcntreal ; then
we followed suit, going westward, traveling
ell night long, below rocky frowning proci,
pima, under thundering tunnels, over lofty
skeleton trestle and through those mighty
rook cuttings which for a hundred miles go
to make up the stern, strange beauty of
Lake Superior's desolate northern shore,
Most solemn in the still night under the
clear stars, in the faint moonlight, was the
echoing solitude 013hat distant sweep. :Far
below slept the etrethhing waters of an in
land sea ; far above, high ranges of darkly.
wooded Miffs, broken Into rock ravines'
torn into trackless valleys, reared into grim
precipices, rose sheer from the railway',
narrow ledge as if frowning in their grim
majesty on the pigmy traveler in his
shrieking conveyance, winding into distance,
wrapped in smoke and steam,
Beyond Port Arthur, whioh lies on the
great lake's then low shore, Fort William,
an important railway point, stands on the
site of an old Reason Bay fort, where more
than a hundred years ago the astute traders
ef that. mighty corporation took rare and
priceless furs from half savage Indian hunt-
ers in exchange for blankets, beads and
flour. It NVWS hard to get up any enthusi-
asm for this improving spot on the Kamin-
istiquia River. The " two largest grain
elevators in the world," though suggestive
of fruitful prnirie land beyond, were not
beautiful, nor were the ecol.dusted steamers
and their piles of freight.
We had ildmired 011 route the beautiful.
Nepigon River, where the "01(1 Red" fort
stood long ego on a fine plateau close to the
lake shore, and I, for one who loves fishing
of all kinds, had heaved a sigh as I thought
of the scaree•fished trout.
From Fort William, where the train tar-
ried half an hour, WO despatched letters and
telegrams for our respective families. Then
040 put back our watches, for at Port Arthur
we had lost an hour, so fast had we been
travelling.westward. This led to a slight
complicatton about dinner which had sod-
denly jumped to near luncheon. Rain mane
on, tee ; a cold, misty rein which became
snow by-and-by, as we steamed toward
Winnipeg, causing that very unlovely sec-
tion of country to look disinal, and delve04
sing all our high spirits. But We com-
forted ourselves with lamplight, bezique,
shawls and hot tee, and next morning as we
steamed out of Winnipeg ( which NVO had
decided to visit only on the return journey),
the richly -colored prairles glowed warm in
bright sunshine under e perfect doom of
soft blue sky.
Just here, more then 1406 miles from
Montreal, the Red River of the North di.
vides abruptly rugged scrubby country on
its eastern banks from those beautiful
stretching prairies on the western side,
which in long graceful undulations or green
flat plain, lie side by side touching each
horizon until ono thousand tulles further on
they break into the beautiful Foot Hills
which closely skirt the Rooky Mountains'
mighty range.
Very pleasant 1130130 the bright hours NVO
happy hearth in the " Earnseliffe " spent
passing over them, in thet soft, still delici-
ous weather. How charming the oubreath-
ed fragrant air as we glided ever forward
between those stretching acres of high stack-
ed grain representing many million bushels
of finest wheat, near rising hamlets, pass
growing villages, through prospering little
towns. Then for a space 03013 alkal1 plains,
where duck wheeled low as we passed and
a mirage with blue water seemed close at
hancl ; rich farm land next succeeding and
the pale.green quiet loveliness of the more
distant ranching country.
Bright, in deed, was the Sunday after-
noon when, me 013) 11131310 maiden stood gazing
on the rear platform of the " Earnsilifre,°
her big blue eyes discovered the first dis-
tant tips of the Rooky 'Mountains outlined,
shelblike pearly white, on the prairie for-
ward limit.
More than a hundred miles distant then,
their dainty, delicious beauty grew with
every mile of space. Nearer yet nearer
their growing tips seemed to come—rising,
widening, doubling, changing, advancing ;
they were peaks now, until In a glorious
semicircle they stretched forth, unspeak-
!hie, an ideal of beauty. Tints dawned and
faded over them, soft as those on a dove's
neck, color-glowed—blue, purple, emerald,
rose, opal—as the sun's last rays kissed them
goodmight, 741111 evening shadows closed over
the quiet phtin.
Time fails me to tell of our happy day in
Calgary, when a hot, bright sun, poured into
that wide, delightfulvalley, °haled byswell-
ing slopes of gross inaid, 011131 1113, as if with
another sunshine, by low fringes of yellow
trees.
This young Calgary, hardly 15 years old
yot, but " hasulaome " now with churches,
villas, shops, streets and new railway lines
projected and commenced—one already tear-
ing no the prairie for 20 miles, destined to
mach distant Rod Deco: and Edmonton before
another year has passed, Space 10 1301(10(1 me
to toll you of our long walks there and of
that pleasant drive in 0 high polies wagon
uncle): the oar° of the nieeet and kindest of
till posaible mounted police inspectors. How
we clashed up o, hill in that big vehicle on no
road at all to see view, cereeecd over the
soft -hood, gunny prairie land within sight
of the Bow River's peecook.bltre weters,
in one piano, round tho narroweSt, stonierit
path praoticeble for the 10 big hoofs of our
mothering animals.
How we heard all about Calgmty's birtli.
dig only &few years ago, when mounted
police prise WINO placed there, end the
Inspectot in change had called it after his
own name. How 1110 superior officer, the
mighty commissioner, had frowned on tho
ehoiee and reeelitistened it Calgary, alter a
place in his beloved Scottish home. How,
by and by, tradieg reinforcements' had founa
their way thither, and ranolittunt and stock-
men, (lowboys, cattle tout smell wares.
Then, how settlette began to twriVO, followed
by a railway, waterworks, politace and very
soon most of the 'modern improvements,'
1 -low execlient is the soil et Calgary'r; neigh.
borhond, ton, Iva aro told 1 how pleasant the
elimato when the winter'a cold is tempered
by !softly blowing Chinook during
Whieh Some of the male inhalants, gang.
ing everything by the requirements of e
frontier tewn, exultingly armistice that
they can "90 (1130(113 in their DOA sleeves."
All these 90011 131(11198 'lid we hear of young
Calgary us we tithed looking down her wide,
new streets and watched the handsome,
wellonounted English whim's gallop off to
their rauchea and big farms lying rtway
there in the line of blue haze below the Foot
Mlle. 111 131)0130 was a shadow on the pi0.
thre for me, it carno alone from twinges In
that iteuralglo eyebrow, and the grief of a
aad farewell. It would be difficult, I think,
to find cm @ 01011(11M 8017i01111/0V afternoon
in the territories any miles of travel more
pleasant anywhere than the 80 which lie be-
tween Calgary in the moll country and
Banff in the mountains.
It was almost evening when we started
once more in the "Earnsoliffe," On a green
heigh13 above the Bow River the railway
passes slowly, winding among the innooth,
rounded, treeless Foot Hills 01 0.01(150 lightly.
wooded levels. Fair and still the tender
sunset light lay on the petteeful country,
while we watched great gold stars shine out
In the distance and the color fades from the
wide rippling water. Cahn, soothing and
beautiful as might be the gate of an ideal
Paradise, it seemed to me, with nothing
living in sight but a swif t flying bird and
the grazing animals dotted on distant
elopes. Later, as night drew on we found
ourselves nearing great peeks Lind mountain
ahoulders, then steamed close to the rugged
portals of the now frowning mountain range
roared noieily throogh the Kanariaskis Pass
and presently found ourselves rdationary near
the pretty 'little rustic station of Banff,
while our train with a parting ahriek. echo-
ing a hundred times among the dimly seen
mountain peaks around ue, sped onwards
towards the Selkirks, the river canyons, and
the distant coast of the Pea° Ocean.
I took connsel with Margaret, before we
slept, as to our next proceedings. She, as
well as my two younger companions„ Was
travelling west for the first time; but I had
been several times across the mountains to
Vansouver, and knew well the grandeur and
beauty of much that lies between Banff and
the sea. I had seen the sunset in the Ille-
eilletveet Valley from it thousand feet sheer
above the river, looked down on the flood
of red light which filled those green* soli-
tudes and up at erimsoned snow peaks which
lay against the sky.
I knew how sunrise, too, blushed over
the glacier, and high noon warmed into
brightneas the Fraser River'e park canyons,
and how grand were storm-clonds, mist and
lightning the summit, as I recalled a wild
October afternoon two years before, when
my private car on the rear of a heavy freight
train toiled slowly over the drenched and
slippery road bed, while I sat on the plat-
form in uncertainty, not altogether plea.
aant, ari 130 110310 the "couplings" would work
up the heavy grade 1
But in those happy days I had nothing
the matter with an eyebrow. Now, it
behooved me to remember the ehief's injunc-
tion "to get quite well very soon," and (0 006
what BrInfrs air, waters ancl scenery would
do towards restoring my threatened health.
So it came to pass early next morning
thet (304310 transferred bag and baggage from
the " Earnscliffe" (which, with my three
friends, departed shortly for Vancouver) to
the Ban fr springs Rotel, o large comfortable
chalet -like hostelry, about two miles from
the station, and charmingly situated in the
heart of the mountains.
As is well known to Canediens—especi.
ally to those of Canada's more worthy sons
and daughters, 113110 0130 interested in her
progress and development—fifty thousand
acres of this partiottlar part of the oountry
has been appropriate(1 by the government
and set 3581318 00 &National Park, in worthy
imitetion, no doubt, of you, our American
brothers, and your magnificent 'Yellow.
st°nelO
Ilpe the rtrea, will be doubled, ere fire,
Baleen, prospectors ttncl other horrible pio-
neers of civilization have done their best,
as they always do, to destroy seine of na-
ture's grandest work. Manyhappy drtys and
restfnl I spent at Banff Springs Rotel.
From 00033) 11310(1004 of the hotel, without
goini
g further n search of scenery, charming
views aro to be enjoyed. Turn Peek ana
Sulphur, Squaw and Tnnnel Mountains close
in with shining sides of rock and forest the
wide and lovely valley of the Bow. 'This
river, peacock -blue, now rapid, new rippl.
ing, wmels gaily beneath the lofty crests of
its superb protectors. The distance every-
where is lit with gray peaks, 1110433) 0131)11(18(1
with perpetual snow. At such an elevatio
the atmosphere is wonderfully clear ancl in.
spiriting, and, though some of the hotel
guests complained that "there wase't much
to do," end others wrapped in red break.
fast shawls, wearing diamonds on their fore.
fingers, said it wasn't so nine as somewhere
else in the White Mountains, on the whole
everyone seemed in excellent humor and
ready to enjoy everything.
Among the email erowd were some plea-
sant Americans end a few charming yonng
Englishmen, always good company when
well away from home conventionalities.
Then there wee 10(113030(1101 old women whom
everybody evoicled, and who horrified us all
by saying, whenever she wanted to be em-
phatic, " 3)031 1)01)." 01 131110 remarkable old
person, I regret to confess, we made great
fun. She was connected in some way with
another old 'women, who wa.s the wife et
grandmother, or mother-in-law of some
mighty dignity residing in Ottawa, and for
this reason the 0011(11 1033(1001) population at
Banff Rotel seemed to think it necessary to
bo very good to hor. She Iwo, however,
generally pretty amiable; did not mind a
joke, and, in spite of years end weight, had
a turn for moontain climbing, fast driving,
long walks end 040)11135101(0 905001113).
Personally I owe her a hurting debt, of
gretitude for 111140(11119 1110 invariably in her
four -in -band chives, and viaits 130 31311013 guide
books o11 "all points of interest" about
Benff and its vicinity.
Ono charming morning before 7 o'clock
we had breakfasted and were 011 our way,
by ',Mimed, to Laugan, 80 miles from
131,1511 101(1101 in the inounteins. A party
of rox, this time in search of tt °earth' lake
called " Louise," and other lakes ahs[dcyleelta
(111,111431031 and only jest discovered,
in remote monntitins 00100 W110130 111 her
direction. Now, of this Lelto Louise we
had hearcl, from tho very few who had
behold it, mooll 011 1130 geent beitety. Bier.
stadt, in scetrch of subjects, is eeporittl 10
hoe said of Lake Louise that the scenery
thereeboute was some of tho loveliest ho
had ever loolted upon. Indeed, it WOO
confidentially asseeted at Banff that Bior.
stitch hart vowed that this should bo his
vary next pieture ; so our old friend would
take no rest until she lied visited tide spot
and knew all about; it.
In chaege al the peaty was otut friend
the Mounted Pollee Inspector, who at Cal-
gary had boon responsible 1 to Engliehmen,
a dweller othr Banff, hunter, carver, bird.
stellar and fisherman combined, sa wo
women.kind had men enough to take care
of us.
Arrived at TAggan we found a tank, 0
section house, six feet nf telegraph oflice, no
end nf mounteine au (1 en upwind ing, nerrow,
irregular rortd, The inspector took (110 100(1
as he poieted forward : This way," ho
said, II 01>01113 1(31(3' miles ;" end off started
our goy little party up the track that from
Fenn to finieli, under different aspects, 04300
fairly difficult and hard to go. It lay at
Mat along of notely woothel 11(10113 0131 spurs
and Orel' IOW ranges, Front time to time,
through vistas of tall tree gems, we had
glimpses of different poke and mountain
shoulders. Much fun and laughter enliven.
ed our way, end as NVO role higher by cle•
grees, the air seemed full of(1 fresh sweet
life, Penetrating further into the inountein
W0 entered a forestepritneval, ono as Imagin-
ed in early dreams before the actual half•
chopped, half -burnt, wholly disfigured
woods of oivilization have dimpolle'l the i I-
lusion. A still dewy, shaded wilderness,
interlaced and pathless ; the tall, ehining
everygreens making a rich network against
the blue sky an31 sending low dow.laden
branches stretching over a eoft, thick carpet
of moss and form Going forward a mile or
more in the green solitude, through which
the aun's rays fell in shafts of softened
light, a mall cleared plateau suddenly ap-
peared rather below us, and imtneclintely
beyond, folded in teetering mountains lay
the exquisitely tinted waters of Lake Louise.
We stepped out into bright sunlight and
looked about us. On the left, two thousand
feet of cold, gray cliff, scarred and seamed,
yettinted and softened from base to summit
with the wonderful autumn -coloring of moss,
lichen, and Tiny shrub.
How to Paok Butter To Keep.
The following communioation to Hoard's
Dairyman from a well-known dairyman
may prove of interest to some of the readers
of the Agricultural Department:
I have received numerous letters from
different sections of the country asking me
for my method, in detail, of preserv-
ing butter in brine. Take new pork
barrels ; fill them with clean water ;
let the water stand in them, say
four days, then empty out the water ;
rinse clean mid refill the barrel, and let
stand another two or three days, then
empty and rinse clean again. This method
serves two purposes ; it removes the Nrood
taste from the barrel, and the staves of the
bared are soaked full of.water, preventing
the brine from soaking into the barrel and
leaving the top of the butter bare to the
action of the air. Herein lies the success
of the prooess.
Those who wish to put butter down in
granular form should line the barrel with
Elliott's parchment peper. Fill the barrel
within—say four inches of the top ; put on
a cover that 113111 slip inside the barrel,
Every churning of butter that is put iuto
the barrel should be covered with brine,
and a weight placed on the cover'inside, to
keep the butter down under the brine.
Granular butter need not be salted before
going into the brine, aa the brine will keep
it perfectly for any length of time desired.
We handled three barrels last season ; in
the winter, when sve sold the butter, we
handled it in this way 008133) 131010 we churn-
ed. After removing the butter from the
barrels we put about thirty or forty pounds
of the granular butter, from the barrels into
the churn ; turned the churn gently for one
minute or so, drew off the buttermilk,
washed the butter clean, and, as for as taste
or smell WM concerned it could not be told
from freshgnade butter. The butter was
than salted, one ounce to the pound, worked
in the usual way ancl.pecked in one micl two
gallon jars. Some ought think the granules
would get quite salt enough—in fact too
much from the brine. Not a bit of
it, brine will not penetrate fats
of any kind, Salt merely crystalizes upon
the outside surface of the butter and is
easiltr washed off,
Thoae who wish to pack in rolls can put
the rolls up in two or four pounds, or hew.
ier if desired. Wrap with ltiliot's parch.
ment paper; wet the paper in water before
1101091 tie the paper on with a cotton threed
ancl sul»nerge in it the brine as soon as
made ; but butter has to be salted in the
usual wey, when p111011110 rolls. Before going
into the brine be sure that the buttermilk
is thoroughly washed out of the butter be-
fore putting it into rolls. Soft " salvy"
butter,' partially washed ham buttermilk,
will not keep under itny process. Butter-
milk left in the butter, is one of the most
prolific causes of rancid butter.
We make the brine this way I Take good
common barrel salt; fill the kettle or pot
with clean water; bring it to a boil, then
put in salt enough so that the brine will
float an egg, ancl boil it well, Let the brine
stand over night to settle. When pouring
the brine out of the pot, don't allow any
settlings to escapo ; the brine can be made
the day before it is wanted.
Brine does not have to be taken out of
the barrel and reboiled—the same as of ten
has to be done with brine on beef or pork.
The barrels of packed butter can be kept
either in the collar or any moderately cool
place.
THESE MBN HAD TAILS,
reeldsterle edreletone with candid Awn.
dages round
A discovery which will undoubtedly prove
of 111111101100 Interest lo etnnologiata 1(340 130011
made at, the little hamlet of Sinaloa, Mexico,
within the past few dap, while breaking
ground for it large toffee plantation, which
ie being tedablishell by all NlIgliSh
T110 find conelets of thousands of Hkeletons,
either of large epee or of prehistoric human
beinge of a very low order.
11 13110 remains ere of apes, they were of
gigantic size, and ole, Val lety no longer ex•
tent, 11311110, if they are of men, the men
were provided with distinct caudal append.
agete very thick and short, and curled ep
like a squirrel's. That they are the akele.
ton's of (5900 .0011 hardly be doubted, judging
from the arms which reach nearly half a
foot below the' knee, and the thumbs, sybich
are also abnormally long and curved, with
exceedingly sharp tool powerful nails.
The feet, too, show that they were intend,
ed for elimbleg, rather than walking, and
are also provided with claws and prehensile
toes of unusual length. It ie probable that
the large number of skeletons found ace due
to a battle between two bands of the anixnale
having taken place at this spot, which is
further evidenced by the number of broken
sculls and other bones among there, and the
fact that several skeletons were found
clinched in a deadly embrace. No weapons
however, were discovered, butes these were
probably of wood, they have perished in the
course of time.
The work of eearching for other remains
still goes on, every hour seeing hundreds of
more detached fragments or occasionally
whole skeletons unearthed. It is calculated
that over four hundred entire ones have
already been disinterred. A. few of the most
perfect have been sent to the British Mus -
BUM, and others will be presented to the
Smithsonian Institute by the owners of the
land.
AMONG VIE FORTIES..
ennasy-seheet 0005011 111 Which the
Answers Ar0 Nearly Alla°.
How long at the deluge, children, did it
rain 3 Forty days, .
How long till the ark was opened after
then? Forty daye.
How long upon the mount did Moses
fast? Forty days.
How long did the embalming of a body
loot? Forty cleys.
How long in tbe wilderness was Elijah
sent? Forty clays.
How long geve joneh Nineveh to repent?
Forty days,
Row long did Jesus in the desert, fast
Forty days.
Row long did the wandering of the child-
ren uf Israel last? Forty years.
How long was it said Israel should live in
sin ? Forty years.
How long did Saul as King of Israel
reign? Forty years.
How long did David for his people grieve,
Forty years.
How old WU Moses leaving Egypt's land ?
Forty years.
How long did 000011 keep his Lord's
command ? Forty year
How long In bondage was Judea held ?
Forty years.
Row old NVElS that lame man whom Peter
healed ? Forty years.
How long dicl Egypt's desolation last?
Forty years.
Extraordinary Career of Orime,
A. Paris telegram says :—Two hardened
criminals named &billet ancl D1113l111100b, who
on their release from prison last year, livetl
by murdering end robbing priests in the Nord
department, were brought up befoi e the
Assizes of Douai on five charges of murder
and robbery. These effairs are devoid of
the molodrernatio intevest whith Innkes
COMM celebre the horrible sido of the case
consisting in the numbers, their rapid sue.
cession, and the peculiarly sacred character
of the vietims. The prisoners made melt
other's aequaintance in prison, ancl while
still (hero planned together severn1 of their
mimes. The following is a list of them
On July 141011, 1890 Baillot atone murdered
Mlle, Copin, e midwife, itt Berek-Sur.Mer,
stealing 0 quantity of her jewelry ; on Aug.
ust 2c1 he murdered with a sickle the peiest
of Jonquieres, on August 22(1 the Abbe
Willy at Bethune, end on September 23
Mlle, Delleoaye 0,1 Ronchon, .All these
vietims wore robbod. 011 November 1 Ith
Beillet. and Duthilloul murdered the Addle
Dillies priest of Asq and his servant, and
tansacked the presbytery ; on December 28
they entered the house of the Abbe Ceuvet,
prieet at 111 orimont. He wash= bemoan('
they murdered hts mother, an old 000111011 of
87, ttnd them her body into the fire -place,
whore it WaS 1001111 charred. The crime
brought the polio() an the freak of the two
ruffians whose 01)0701104(110 00135513 has come to
an. end, The priaoners pleaded guilty to all
the charges but olio ot two, the blame of
which they throw open +moll other. They
wore examined end described how the
different crimes were oommited, There are
thirlgodelit, witnesses to be heard.
How long did Israel keep her idols fast ?
Forty years.
How long were the spies in searching
Canaan's land? Forty days.
Row old wag Caleb when he joined theie
band? Forty years.
7
FIGHTING A MAD war,
A Dangerous Driest Madden 111 11 slew telex,
lean Douse.
My rooin was 013 (110 end of a long hall. I
Wes Werner with every crook and turn
about the house and didn't need a, light, so
I passed into my room and closed the door.
14 occurred to 1110 1011311) to lake a woke, so I
felt mound in the dark and found m cigar,
toal atruck a match to light it. The next
minute I think you could have knocked mo
down with 0 feather. Away down in the
datetnes0 ezeler the bed two fiery eyes shone
03310 )11(0 burning coals just for that brief
momeut that the match woe burning and
then it went. out. Before I had time to
think the creature wars uton rne, and was
springing at my throat, the most savage
animal I had over met. I felt rather thais
saw whet it was. The creature was a wolf,
and it was mad.
Several animals afflicted with hydropho-
bia had been seen in the neighborhood dur.
Ing the port few months. There is no rod.
mal more formidable than a wolf when ie
has rabies, and 1 knew with what I had to
contend. I had to struggle with a large
wolf shut up in a dark room, and that when
the slighteest wound from its sharp teeth
meant certain and horrible death to me, As
113 3)0010 to me first I threw colt my hands and
by some good fortune happened to atrike ita
neck. I got both my hands about its throat
and managed to hold it awey from my face,
but it was all that I could do.
I was nervous, I suppose, and the wolf
W08 far stronger than it would have been
under ordinery circumstances. The froth
was dripping from its mouth and flew into '
my face as it struggled, It was the most
desperate struggle nf my Ilfe, just to hold
that wolf and keep it from my face and
throat, at which it constantly leaped in the
most furious manner. All the time, from
the moment it sprang at me first, I had
been shouting and calling at the top of my
voice. There was very little hope of doing
any good with it, as the servents were too far
away, and my 130004 1008 on the opposite side
of the house from their quarters ; but that
was the only chance.
It was very evident that I couldn't let go
my hold for an instant. It was just as eve.
dent that I couldn't hold out this way long,
mid that unless help came miter ewbile my
strength would eventually, give way, and the
113013 000131 tear my throat, as it, was strugg-
ling then to do. And bow long do you
think this kept op? For two hours, for two
mortal hours by the clock. I stood there,
fighting for my life with that savage wolf,
and shouting for help every morneet of the
time. A !Inched times I thought my
strength was gone, and that my arm
would surely sink 1101011 powerless the next
moment, and yet I always managed to hold
him off e little longer.
at last, just as [1008 almost in complete
despair, one of the ger ants wee aroused by
my continued shouting, and came ronning
with hia gon in Ids hand, I managed to
hold the wolf until he made a light, and
then I helrl him while the men put the
muzzle of his gun against the wolf's head
and killed hon as dead as Hector. And then
I went to my sister's room and had it
spell of something that would hey° been
hysterics if I had been a woman. Being a
man, it 11110 nothing but a case of nervous
prostration.
The Old Sod Shack.
Tread lightly—we are on hallowed ground!
It is a, faohless dig. The sun's heat ie
tempered by a moist breeze : fleecy clouds go
straggliug across the sky and the prairie all
around us is fragrant with flowers and
grasses. To our left is is lake with ripples
that dance in quivering Sill er lines, and, to
our right, WO see four broken and falling
walls—the ruins of "tho old sod slittek."
Hark !
I never come to this spot but I seem to
hear a soft music floating earthward. Ah,
many (611(1 1110113' a time Dove fancied I hoard
the aouncl of Lonesome Will'a fiddle, misty,
sail, and coming—I know not whence.
But you do not know the story. It is
abort and I will tell it.
These walls beside us, that are 71010 a mere
heap of debri,s once sheltered a sad and sole
itary man. His name 041/0 Will—" Lone-
some Will," he was called—and never a
whisper of another title pass,ed his lips. He
had no Companions ; he shunned the society
of his fellow men and lived out a life that
was beautiful in its vary sadness.
I said he had 110 companions—but yet he
cltd have one—a companton that spoke to
and comforted his grieving heart—a fiddle.
And the tune thet old instrument knew best
was "The Rose of Allendale."
Once Lonesome Will had loved a fair.
haired, faithful girl whose name VMS Rose.
A love, strong as fetters of iron, yet soft as
a gossamer web, had sprung up between
them. In life they lived for earth other and
svhen, by God's Inscrutable decree, the
earthly Rose WA@ taken to blossom in
Heaven, that lover continued to live for his
deinw long and dreary must have been the
yeasts that slowlst passed over the head of
Lonesome Will I With only his fiddle to
solace him and distract Ma mind from his
loss, whet wonder that lie poured forth his
soul ill 11 hermony that grew divine beneath
his inspired fingers ?
The Psalmist says that "Weeping may
endure for a night, but joy aometh in the
morning." And so it was with Lonesome
Will, He 1033.0 fotnol dead ono day, with his
fiddle in one hancl and his bow in the other.
No one doubted that "Tho Iloso of Allen-
dale " had been the last tune upon that faith-
ful old iestrumeet.
Sce—yonder by the lake is Lonesome
3)1 ill'a grave—is it not a beautiful place?
And that fiddle was buried with him, upon
his breast.
Boot -Buttons
Why will not some of the numerous
inventive geniuses in the world, with the
good of the public, especially the feminine
public, at heart, invent somethieg to banish
bantbuttons from the face of the earth.
Somebody says there are elastic gore
boots, and laced boots, and suggests that
there is 'no lew to compel us to wear but-
toned boots.
'Very true bet congress boots are an abom-
ination in the sight of man ; and as for
laced ones, why, who can wear a, peir of
them 010001) before the eyelets will come out
and the ragged edges make their appear-
ance, and the lacings 0)81613 rough and
"froggy," and then they are continuelly
untying, and streaming out their dirty tin.
tipped length from under our ruffles and
flutings and makieg us e spectacle.
Poets and novelists have said so much
about our feet that 0'O MUSS be dunces if we
did not know that our feet are very 1111.portent item hi 0013 9000130.1 make-up.
Shoemakers, urged on by the dictates of
fashion, have given 00 1101310113 soles, which
pinch us almost beyond endurance, and
high heels which make us walk upon our
toes like a bern-yard fowl on an icy morn-
ing, and we subtnit gracefully ; but boot -
buttons are to us a 8001300 of never -ceasing
annoyance.
Whenever anybody goes to dress in a
hurry, then the boot.buttons fly. Who me
dress without losing one or more of these
necessary little pests ? It is impossible to
be calm, and use tho button hook properly,
when one expects every moment to hoer
the whistle of the approeching train which
is to take her to town after fresh ribbona
and things.
Wile tom button her boots with a heir.
pin, on a, cold 010131111(9, with the mercury
below Kern and her button hook 'mislaid,
as it has the happy habit of being on 311010such a morning
Hell the ladiea whose foot we 11000inspected have buttons missing from their
boots, and one-third of the others have their
boots buttoned wrong, and the button•holes
fringed and ragged.
Gentlemen of inventive talents, to you we
appeal. Give ns something pretty, and dine
able, and convenient in the 1003' of boot
fastenings, and 040 30111 support you for
Perliament or at lenst hold yon forever in
grateful remembrance.
The Voioe.
X won't' say to all Ono your gentlest
voice at home, Watch it day by day as a
pearl of groat price, for it, will bo worth more
to you in days 3.0 1131(00 than tho beet pearl
111,1 in the sea. A 1)111,?Von° is joy, like a
(0101 00114,, tO hearth at home, It Is a
light that mugs as well as 01111,1,0. Train it
to sweet tones now, and it will keep io tune
through lifo.--(Elihu 11u1131131 -,
Mr. Labouchere, W11000 extreme radical.
ism prevents Mtn front seeing 0113) good in
anything 0101 Lord Salisbury orhis govern.
moot (09913000 of, appears to be greatly
troubled in spirit et the attitude of the
British Prondoe towards the Dreibund.
Replying to the assertion that Lord Slain-
hury wa$ doing his best to envenom
relations with 1F114110ey Sir &MAO% Forgusson
said that the government wits no party to
the droibund and was 11111104010 of the terms
of Out alliance. Ho (leaved, however,
that the sympathy mud influence of England
would lie with the p0513000 113(0911(9 the
mace and 11;011131 thoso breaking the peace ;
and that Itinglieh interests would be chiefly
13(01101111303?in any concerted (0,1(110(1 04111011
might:be necessary to meet unforeseen oven te,
In thus deciding to need by 111(,80 101(0 aro
for peace the government hes but echoed the
eentiment of the °Mire people, W111,00 love
01 90106 one of theiron
strgertpassione.
You are a stranger to those perts and,
ineyhap, will not lock at this poor narrative
with my sentiment ; but yet love is that
grand thmg (grander than the philosopher's
stone) that refines the baseness of every
Immo heart tuut puts it in touch with its
fellows.
And now come witls me to that sod. wan.
It Wns in this little area that Lonesome Will
battled so heroicelly with his fate, and ie
WINS them in that corner, just after I had
heard the story of his life, that I foend a
full blown rose Was it not type ancl em-
blem of that supernal blossom which he had
gained, nfter many years, in Paradise?
Ah, those old 00135 11103' not be as 1(800 00
once they were, bat, stronger, when I found
that rose, (3(101(1)1 a, Must of music. Ibwas
that old violin playing "The Rose of Allan.
chile,"
The list of metropolitan nationalities does
not close hare, Front every clime they como,,
• --the Turk, the 1',10't114'(3' 1', the Spaniard, ,
the Nor wogian, the tilViSS, 14110 13oiotio,j
tho dusky Afrblan. 1.,notn, ro..oiven (1110(13
nu, and, nInA for the rlitilonity c,f 04100Mins.
OVAVVell 3114110. Many 0 foreigner
seeks (tint tintle but a grave on Thanne.
side. There is a profound valuta, as well
OS a came for marvel pride in the
thought of the far ends of the coati's gather -
al into Our City of Nations,