The Brussels Post, 1891-10-30, Page 2TEE BRUSSELS POST.
A SILVER ROUBLE,
It was in November, 187e, that I succeeded
ri gaining an appointmout that took me far
cut of the beaten te,ck of the general tree
eller. Owing to the influence of an oldfrien
in St, Petersburg, I was appointed to th
post of sutpeeintencling engineer to one o
the steamboat companies trading on th
.A.moor River, in pastern Siberia; and th
same letter which roadbed me in Londo
1'
t fuer n
notifying to 1 co a
m motion also n
YP
sbrnotions for m inuue,bat0 de nuture t
1
take up my d oras rat ll:adnen+manor, the co•u
pany's headquarter.= no the Nettie mast,
hart been expecting this journey fur sum
pays, and coneequethtly rho preparatiere
had to make before starling were scum eons
plated. Within a week from the receipt 0
the letter I was in S. Petersburg ; thence
travelled to Moscow and Nijni, and at thi
latter place commenced the long sleigh
journey down the Volga river to Perm ;Niel
on by a single live of rail to Ekaterinburg,
fielding myself at last within Siberia and se
the beginningo t tr e ' journey across
t he strange o
g 1 Y
ticeiv
the lops ofmiles s rad d
11 thousands l 1 es of now a
!din me from n do t' na i n
Ming ray su to.
After waiting at Ekaterinburg for a few
days, spent in purchasing a suitable sleigh
and laying in a stock of comforts to
be used on the read, I eventually
started, This was on the 19th Dece.nber,
1874. The first few days were a great
hardship to me, as I was unaccustomed to
the cramped position necessitated by the
size of my sleigh, and the bumping and
swinging motion, as we trotted at a good
pace over the frozen meow road, kept the
sleep I so badly needed from my eyes. On
Christmas Eve we had left tate last posting -
house at whioh we had changed horses some
utiles behind us and I was setting myself
into fur rugs preparatory for a long nights
journey, in fact 1 was just dropping off into
a restless sleep, when—crash ! went some-
thing:under Hie, and in a moment found my-
self half buried head downwards, in the
scow. With some difficulty I sacceeded in
extricating myself, end on rising to my
feet, surveyed the scene with anything but
pleasurable feelings. There, a few yards
off, sat my droskyman ruefully rubbing
himself, apparently with a view of finding
out if and where he was hurt. Close beside
him lay the sleigh, bottom up, with my
clothing, rugs, and paraphernalia strewn
around. The two horses stood quietly
looking on, only too glad I suspect, of any
excuse for a rest. I could hardly help
laughing, although our position Was any-
thing but enviable. Frere we were sumo
miles from the nearest post house, the uiaht
ootning on rapidly, and the thermometer
any number of degrees below zero.
Knowing ft was useless standing there
thinking, I soon had my driver on his legs
again, and found, greatly to my relief, that
he was none the worse for his shaking. We
then set about righting the sleigh, and I
was able to see the cause of our mishap.
The iron tire of one of the runners had be-
come unfastened at the front end, and falling
to the ground, had ploughed its way along,
until, meeting a harder frozen part of the
track, it had stopped us altogether, with the
result I have described. Hating found the
cause, it did not take us long to put matters
to rights ; but considering it unwise to push
on with the runner unprotected. I decided
to retrace the road to our last stopping
station, get things put right, and start fairly
again in the morning.
After two hours' walking, we reached the
entail wooden house, and with some trouble
eneceeded in waking the owner ; and wo
soon had the horses comfortably stabled in
the outhouse, and ourselves supplied with
beds for the nicht. In the morning, after
breakfasting early, the horses were harness.
ecl, and I proceeded to settle our bill of
.one rouble. Amongst the chaug° for the
note I had given him, the landlord gate me
a silver rouble piece, which I noticed had
:apparently been roughly engraved ; and on
examining it closer, I fount! that trot only
was it pierced near the rim for a cord to
pass through, but that on the reverse, some
former owner had out as if with a knife, a
rough outline of a Greek cross, I did not
pay much attention to this at the time ; but
thinking it curious, I placed it apart from
the rust of my money, intending to keep
et as a memento of our over-niglit adven-
ture.
When, after many weeks and sundry
adventures and hardships, I reached Blade
restock, I came upon this rouble in empty-
ing
mpty
ing the pockets of any olothes, and beim
again struck by its peculiar appearance, I
decide to keep it as a curiosity ; and often
would I look at it, and wonder what mat.
ner of man it was, and the reasons he
could have had for treating a rouble in that
manner.
IL
Again it was Christmas Eve ; but time
had gone by, and the Christmae of 1877
found me with the army of Suleiman Pasha,
then fighting in the Schipke Pass against
the Russians.
I hal spent two long weary years in Si-
beria, anti had succeeded in putting the af-
fairsofmy employers into better order;
but finding the dishonesty of the under
otfdoials too much to contend against, I,
with some degree of satisfaction, Welled
my bank on things Russian and returned to
London. I had been well paid for my work
and determined to enjoy myself in town, as
one can after such prolonged absenoo in a
country like Siberia. Bet the old longing
for adventure and change soon took hold of
me again, cul when the Russian•Turkheh
war broke out. I wee one of the first to offer
myself as 0orreepondeeb at the seat of war
for a loading Lady paper, My knowledge
of the laugnage and country procured me
the post without difitonity, and I was soon
on my way to Constantinople, fully bent on
pushing to the front as quickly as poseible.
Once there, I had some difficulty in getting
my pepers signed ; but at last all was in
order, and on that Christmas Eve,1877,Iwas
snugly enseonoed in a wooden hut, with my
feet to a blazing fire of pinedoge, smoking,
and wondering what the good folks were
doing in England. I was not alone, for
amongst other Engliehmen then with tho
army were Dr. W— and Mr. 8--, both
Volunteers in the Stafford House' employ,
and both were doing their !peat to establish
a service for the transport of the Wounded
o the reat. Theywere with mo thatnight ;
t
and es the eat smoking round the fire we did
nob forgot to pledge a health to frien'a and
relatives at haute.
That night we had scarcely settled ourselves
to sleep, when we wore awoke by the roar of
Out n o more 1
know tl a o u mo t to
arutllor and we
Russians were endeavouring to force the
passage of the Schipke Nee. Wo Worn 000n
outside, and the sharp whlisbio of bullets
through the air told us only too plainly that
On other 1110
business was meant, s
0evero p
of wheee eve stood Were the .turkieh forte
Mations ; and high up in the centre, right
under the Ruseien lines, were the Turkish
rifle -pits, which they had. OonsLr00ted with
a vi. w to advatloiog to the attack. Never
shall I forgot that Chritttnas Day. , The
fighting at the front was fierce, rani eaolt
tyeed of ground was etnbbor fly contested.
the w•oundad ware coming back down 1110
valley in a continuous steam, and n more
e ghastly eight than some of 1110111 presented
0 may I never see. Their transport front
f the upper time of the defile, where the fight.
e i hog was taking place, was very bad, owing
o I to want of appliances ; and It wee a sad and
n dreadful sight to see the poor fellows eons•
i ing down eorsly wounded, leaning on their
rifles an • '
or tit 1 theyI � •
icoal ick mat
d t
n J g p P. )
ire>
pn• byth way o f n
o e t die, some owing Il b Y , w g to
e want of atteution, others perhaps for n
,1 drink of water, Wherever one looked, the
I dead wore lying thickly in every imaginable
position, many with their poor white faces
f turned to the eky, their !rands crossed in a
last prayer for release from their suffer-
s ing;.
s 'Iow•arde evening the fighting died clown,
n and at last, as the mu was sinking blood -red
behind the onow-covered horizon, is ceased
altogether, and I knew that for another
night at least wt might expeot quit. I
returned to the little village of Shokirly, in
a belt of forest within h Llf little of the
battlefield, and my thoughts rested sadly
enough on the events of the day, and the
hosts of dead and dying who only that
morning were strong moa, but were now
lying uneared for, and half•buried in the
fast and silently falling snow,
It was whilst plodding slowly on my way
to the village where I hoped to fled shelter
for the night that I heard steps overtaking
me, and turtling round, saw two soldiers
hallo/saying, half dragging between them
the senseless body of a wounded Russian.
They had made a rade stretcher with their
rifles, upon which Mr was lying. Ono gleno;
at the pale face lying there at my feet was
enough to tell me the man was slowly
bleeding to death, and on opening his coat
I found him badly wounded by a bullet fn
the left forearm. It had evideutlystruok hila
just below the elbow, and tearing its way
downwards, had passed out at inch or so
above the wrist, The main artery of the arm
was completely severed. and be was even
then bleeding profusely. Isaw 11016 moment
was to be lost if his life was to be saved,
and tearing the woolen scarf from my neck,
I proceeded to tie it tightly around his arm
above the wound; but tins failed to atop
the flow of blood, and I was beginning
to despair of being tibia to save
his life, when I remembered, that by plac-
ing some hard subetnnce on the artery and
afterwards tightly binding over it I could
probablysucceed in closing the passage. In
a second my hand wont to my pocket in
search of some article that could be made to ,
cyte this purpose, and, strange to say, t j
orouglnt out the silver rouble I had kept so
long as a curiosity. There was no lime to
lose if I would 0650 inm, so in a few mo-
ments I had it hound securely over the art-
ery, and had the satisfaction of seeing the
bleeding decrease, and Boon afterwards cease
altogether. I then poured a few drops into
his 1190 from my spirit flask, and telling the
men to lift him carefully, I preceded them
into the village, luckily close at hand. With-
out much difficulty we found a suitable
lodging, and I left him to the tender mer-
cies of the ambulance doctor'whom
whom I met
in the street,and promised to do
his best for the poor fellow. On leaving, I
promised to return in the morning to see
how he wee going on, That night passed
quietly, and in the m0rnnng I went round to
see my patient. I was met at the door by
Dr. R--, who told the that the Russian
was still unc000cioue, but that he had great
hopes of pulling bio round, std added, that
he had no doubt my promptness in tying up
his arm had actually sated his life, and that,
had I not fortunately met thein, he would
have died before they could have reached
the village,
For come days I was not allowed to see
the intalid; but at last Dr, R— 01011001 and
told me that he was 001100ions, and had
asked to see me ; and, added the doctor, the
strangest thing of all is that on regaining
his senses the first thing he noticed was your
silver rouble lying on the shelf by his bed-
side, He asked to stave it shown to him ;
and on seeing it, appeared very overcome
with emotion and not until 111ad told him
the manner in which it had come there did
he seem satisfied, and only then, on my
promising to bring you to him as soon as
possible. Greatly wondering at this desire
on the part of an utter stranger to see me, I
went to the houme, and without knocking,
entered the room in which he was lying.
As I walked to the side of the bed, his eyes
followed ate, with an effort, speaking in
Russian, ho asked me if I was the gentleman
who had saved this life. I said I was, and
then asked him to toll me the reason he had
been so moved at the eight of the coin. The
following is his story in his own words as
nearly as I can recollect thein.
(mo alt coxn'wrcD)
MONSTERS OF TRE FOREST,
San)ething ,ingat the Big Trees in British
eotenthhs.
To former dwellers in the eastern parts
of Ole great Dominion mid the Mother
Conutry, who exutrulge their share in the
national heritage, to fall into lice with their
more western lain in the youngest- province
in the confederation, the average growth of
timber of the heavier orders which clothe
the mountain slopee of the Patella coast his -
pole itself upon them with no scant force.
In Britain there is history, and standing
out prominently from
P
a 0 aren nt
laee
• in which royal hands have planted shoots
from trees whioh ulitmtttely under oarefltl
tending, attained to giant dimensions. OE
those evidences of the reign of monarchs ca
lligle appreciation is felt, as well for signi-
ficant events projected at the period of their
planting as ti1o1 the oast is emblematic of
great null gallant deeds performed on ships.
of war, manned by hearts no loss inrpervl-
on8 to fear then were the planks on which
the eons of insular Britain trod to the
arquebuses and other engines of doetrnetion
in use in the early period of her history.
Groups of well tended tress of differentnt
genus, of immense spread of bough,stand
immovable sentinels through the ages, over
some grand historic mansion, while
of
whose patrimony they form part Live and
die, passing away while the space of their
lives seems but to add strength and respect.
ed beauty to the noble emblems of heroic
deeds, Forest of fir add beauty to the
romatio landscapes of Scotland, as they
burst upon the 510W in varyiog tints of
green, as the sun oosrs0s his way through
the zenith, mating light and shade as the
reflection sweeps strongest from oast to west,
at one time on a shoulder, later on over the
whole front when the foliage is ono mass of
bright green, the trees in echelon scaling
the mountain side and only lost to %law
across the summit.
But reflection to boyhood's days in the
older countries also tends to conjure up less
) significant phases of tree growth. There is
the Fiji band with its tinkling tintbrols, its
German concertinas and piccolos, its squad
of happy faces, and a fading day ; cool and
still cooler as the troop of merry young
musicians wend their way into 0 beautiful
glen, the road through which they pass
fringed with hazel trees loaded with nuts, in
the bed below a trout stocked stream mean-
dering its way to the sea. Farther oil is the
roaring mill ; the boom of the falling waters
striking upon the ear in deep harmony with
the surroundings. There is a grassy plot—a
plateau, resting on the edge of the abyss into
which the waters tumble and are crested
with foain—whipped into anger by the rooks
underneath. Spruce beerbottlosare unpack-
ed from a basket, the corks popping no less
lively during lunch, accompanied with more
natural laughter than does the product of the
cork tree from the afore elegant necks of
champagne bottles ab a bangnottiog table.
Exiretordinary eases of growth or spread
of bough are well attested, those instances
where vast extent has been arrived et by
any species of timber occupying a moue -
mental celebrity in the minds of those who
have viewed them. The votaries of " fade"
have for their most recent diversion turned
their worship to a tree god. Thin contri-
vance for making life stilt worth the living
was not sprung on
the world unexpectedly ;
old Chappy's welting stick was a sign before
of the way the fad hunting mold was
tending. Big pieces of toeee, and big trees
rage, int how long their me wroth transceud-
eney will last is likely to be mete exactly
arrived at after the world's fair in Chicago
in 1803. A section of the famous Tulare
county, Cal., cedar whioh measured three
hundred and twelve feet in height, and
ninety-nine feet in circumference at the
base, taking ten experienced woodsmen five
mouths and twelve days in the operation of
outt1n9 it down is not likely to be the least
interesting of the exhibits at the great fair
'which our oughts shall shortly foist upon
the world, the magnetic powers of attrac-
tion of which shall be felt by most people of
the earth. Our cousin is blamed for a little
imaginative propensity in his nature, when
diasertingonthe big things done,andtobeseen
in the States ; but when he can show such a
product as will accommodate over ahundred
guests at lunch, the interior of the uuootn-
mou restaurant lighted throughout with
electricity—he is to be forgiven. Still big.
ger trees aro said to exist in their territories
—a cedar at Gray's harbour being credited
with a girth of one hundred and throe feet.
When a world's fair or an Anglo -Colonial
fair shall bo inaugurated at Montreal, or
Toronto there is a likelihood of its being
adornedwith equally vast proportioned trees,'
the product of the Pacific portion of the Con.
federation.
Origin of the Word "Turncoat,"
Emmanuel, ono of the earliest of the
Dukes of Savoy, 18 known to fame as a
Turncoat. He obtained this nickname for a
curious reason, leis territories were incon-
veniently near to the forces of both Spain
and France, with whioh Powers he found i 1
necessary to be on friendly terms as they
were often in the habit of invading itis duke.
dom. However, he had to side sometimes
with the one, sometimes with the other, ac-
cording to which was stronger at the mom-
ent, Se ho had a coat made that was blue
on one side and white on the other. When
he took part with Spain he wore the blue
side—tole Spanish color—out; when he
wanted to stand well with the French he
turned the white elle out. There wee semi -
thing to be said for the poor man in such a
fix, but history, that lice no moray, only
knows him as the Turncoat, A favoriteen-
stance in Lngland of a man who always took
care to be on the right side was the fatuous
Vicar of Bray.
r
Suffering on a Paoiflo Island,
A sealing schooner that stopped at one of
the villages of Attu Island, the most wester.
ly of the Aleutian group in thenorth Paoilo
ocean, was able recently to give a little re-
lief to the euifering natives, numbering
about one hundred and fifty, Several yeas
ago it was a great place for sea otters, and
when a fur company established a traclin
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g
post there tram Aleuts were attracted to
the island, but when the o0mpany moved
its store the natives were left there. The
island i0 barren, and the natives must live
on fish and millions, but as they have neith-
ernor hunting outfits thesupply'
er boats p is
small, They )hake elothin from anhng
gg
they can got,being lhankfulfor gunny bag
s
that may be left by vessels that pass o00t.
signally. One womnan• was fnnnd who had
been at her back for three years on a000nnt
theIo i favi 1
of n broken leg, bone not having been
0
t v, t and sl t, 'I'ha Indians cannot rat 111 awe a e Host
00015 pt•tiei unless relief he ecul,.yJ
Captain Ilawley Smart, h be English spore,
fn novelist, is au old soldier and fou lit in
the Crime g
It is recorded of the aneionts that they
understood the preservative qualities of the
cedar, using its oil in the embalming pro.
Dees, also planing their documents in recept-
acles made from that geuue of the conifers.
The wise Solomon was indebted to the
cedars of Lebanon for the wood work of his
famous temple, the scant grove remaining of
the forest from which the timber had bean
culled standing to -clay as evidence of the
Va,dalistic nature of Hiram, King of Tyre.
Remarkable as the Lebanon cedars may be
in spread of bough and histo'ic interest,
those ancient trees, seine of whose coats
have goon concentrically mad, defying rho
botanist in his investigations—of age—they
would stand as pigmies alongside of their
immensely tall prototypes which stud the
mountainous province of 13ritish Columbia,
There is not of the pacific slope a Niphon
Dai Ivlatsu smolt as the Japanese can boast
of, with its extraordinary width over all of
two hundred and forty-two feet, and its
three hundred and twentysieprops; but a
large member of the family of conifers
afforded space oufoient in its hollow trunk
to may on a real estate business. On the
peninsula bounded by the Canal de Sessamet
now known as Burrard Inlet on the north,.
and of the other impinged on by the waters
of False Creek, the inception of a bown was
marked by such an incident, and although
the exceptional hollowness of this porticu•
lar tree was caro, numerous others in the
immediate neighborhood would hare served
as hotels, restaurants and general business
houses 111 reated similarly with the mouarolt
of 'Tulare,
One of the attractions of the same oity is
an immense cedar, fifty-four feat in 01000 0•
forenooSlootn'm
g up glen!: propo
rtions
ortinnb
amidst t0
follows, adorningthe soma ark
It to arrived at un
der thebest of 5i Olin'
stances in toads and bridges, while tine eye
is charmed with theaweepof headlands shoot.
ing away on either side to the Gulf of
Georgia, the line of the horizon broken by a
timber clad i
t la d eslan t
t.
Another genus of the order treasuring
forIyfour feet—a fir --also stands serenely
tali, gazed down upon by the two lions whish
Nature had formed when in a freakish mood,
on the mountain top, r•enarltably co -incident
tvitlt the fate of the getaway which they
soon to pate!, alae inlet mo511y meantime
of the goads produced in the orient and
Southern Arnorioae, through time the inlet
and the outlet of an ;Marcelo/del commerce,
carrion. on under the watchful eye 1511,1
powerful paw of the British lien.
If age 11008 not always accomplish the
deet m
t f the the i n • 11'1 cat • •o with
y f le iron ttbi e s
of tree life, the destructive agency of firo
ab work and the Douglas 11rs, riolr in rosin
catch fire aticl hold it until but a Shell o
their tnnjestic solves rslnains, o• go crnshhtg
to the earth, shaking with ml nnunous force
that o bio t bore them in their stately up-
rightness for hundreds of years before, The
Iaodsoapes which might bo thenover ending
thence of the pool, and find there reflections
on the easels of hundreds of painters, are
rendered dialignred by the marches of this
enemy of beauty. Wherever the eyes ore
east, rise from the younger growth and
brush the baro rigid tr I
t t tote of martyrs
1 I the mfr ra
g J
to th f r
0 oft recurring awes of the Piro fiend,
p
Valuable timber a -roil ruined when 1 f•
i to v 1 too forests
are attacked by the all devouring element
which finds increased held in the matter
that, extraetod, would form important
Marketable commodities. The bark also of
the hemlook(apruce, which is most used here,
is lost to the tanning industry which is yet
but in its nnoipient state on the coast. Not
so long ago a lire raged in the Surrey woods
near the month of the Fraser river, which
viewed from the opposite spank looked
awesome. The douse smoke along the ridge
oftil timber visible, L I
n c is o capped on stretches of
1P
gra tont d h b
spread !tit rapidity, one
P P
Y,
swiftlyaeon bythe rich in rodients
compsing the rees whioh lay in ifs
path. The atmosphere all about, lurid
as when charged with electrical currents,
would brighten here .and there ; show-
ers . of sparks shot into the low lying
aloud banks of smoke, prescient of the than.
tiering fall of the giants whose proud plumed
heads swayed and came tumbling to the
earth. In thopath of lire have been left tree
stumps which force their large size upon one,
from the novel uses to which they have been
put. One of the most remarkable in title
wise is that in which a bushranaher ab
Mount Lehman, about forty milds inland
from the coast, formed a comfortable home
by dividing rho interior of the of those relies
of majesty and beauty into apartments, iu
which ho lived, feeling no doubt more salt
from the impending timber in the vicinity
than if sheltered by a commodious house
tweeted with mechanical skill, Some )riles
inland 15150, ata place called Langley, on the
Fraser, it may be worth noting that a num-
ber of trees were discovered in which were
chambers attributed to the aboriginal inhale
itants of the country, but further than the
mere findiu • of the interesting phenomena
elucidation has not gone.
In height the Douglas firs and cedars es.
pecially attain striking altitudes, trees of
two hundred to three hundred feet not be-
ing uncommon ; in circumference, too, show•
ing a remarkable extent. A tree, tho hol-
low remains of which oan conveniently hold
a team of heavy draught horses with driver
standing between, would cause some com-
ment in countries less fortunate iu the ex-
tent of timber, but the camera loaB depicted
Sieh a scene in immediate contiguity to. one
of the rising coast towns. Sections of trees
measuring seven to fifteen feet in diameter
are often found bolstered up and conspicu.
ously placed in the thoroughfa•os of young
cities, where they act as the bill poster's
friend and bulletin board.
jonrn in the more crowded 'ammo;
of men where the temptatiai to buy
era enhe0-ed through the 18011tted mono-
tonyof life •11 the ill
t t sh. A number
I
of milling concerns of minor importance In
point of capacity aro natural otljoeots of
I the industry ; sash and door fttatorice carry-
ing their own stearal power for the redue.
ti011 of loge ; /shingle mills tolso obtruding
their meagre fronts on epuca, employing
thein' quote of 1111011 10111 im the works and
in the woods. 'through those Influences/
the largest, tree 1 wi11 be milled to supply the
never fairing denma sl ; hub 11 le to be tenet -
ed that here and there in the path of the
tourist and the go/torte:ion/I of Canadians to
wino there will bo left ue as they were
comeupole'•
1 in their vh'eiralh ov' I
omo 11111 cos
,
1n ,
of wilitt ;n
o th has beenattained by s
oto
big trees In 13, C.
It is natural ander such circumstances
that lumber should form ono of the most
important industries of the province. Skid
and railways mark a course in the thickest
part of the forests, sts from which the timber
is
teausported to the
nearest water for convey-
ance in booms to the mills, which occupy
suitable sites in different ports of the coun-
try. Arrived at the place of eonsigmment
the large logs, secured conveniently to the
shute up whioh they glide, such laid their
length to the large saws, go shrieking and
groaning through the process which turns
them out in lumber at the opposite one of
the mill—the firs for house building and
ether purposes -1 he bosutifnl cedar
fur doors and sashes and shingles
—real the white aprtico for stepping,
and boxes for nse in the transport
of canoed salmon, a slightly less important
industry than that of lumber itself. This,
the principal industry, spurred on by thu
convenient and inexhaustible supply of
suitable timber for milling proposes, has
developed in a nleaan00 commensurate with
the demand for lumber in the Antipodean
and Oriental countries. Tine mania of
insurgism which snakes the southern
republics such a hot bed of strife and rebell-
ion, augumented by the prolonged trouble
in Chih, has had a fluctuating effect; on the
export timber trade of the province. Not.
withstanding, the more passive nations to
the east and far south have a constant fleet
of vessels in communication with the
oompauiea doing business in this line. The
Chinese, m imposing duty, levy the tax on
the stick irrespective of size, so that a China
bound ship may be determined at her berth
by the almost uniform dimensions of the
timber beingstowed ; whore as in the case of
consignments to countries whose tariff de-
mentia a scale of duty per foot measurement,
the lumber is sawn and shipped in the requisite
sizes for immediate use in building. With
the impetus given the industry through its
foreign agencies, the facilities in oouveyfng
the tunber, frond 4s n art vi ng at the trill until
it emerg85 in it8 different proportions suited
to building, have been improving so that at
the present time the aid of mechanism has
made it possible on the Fraser river to raise
a log from the water and pass it through all
the processes, almost without a hand being
placed to the lumber unless to merit on the
different lengths. No loos striking than
Sono of the immense trees, in their virgin
glory, clothed with a swayingl, foliage still
verdant and untouched by the destroying
agency of men, or the more relentless fury of
bre, are come of the timbers which have
been shipped from the coast mills. Two
sticks whose dimensions registered three
fact broad, by the same Ineesurenlent in
depth and sixty feet long, were shipped by
a ieur•rard Inlet milling con1pany to the
ardor of net eastern firm—the combined
weight reaching twenty-five totes. Each
stink comprised six thousand four handred
and eighty feet of lumber, it being allowed
that they formed the two largest timbers
ever art by any milling concern in the pro-
vince. Timber scaling ninety feat long
with a measurement otherwise of about
thirty inches have boon produced in
the Fraser river saw mills, being
forwarded east, whore they ntneb have
formed a striking object lesson of the
possibilities in the future of a territory
which produces them, The history of
lumbering in B. 0, embraceset but slightly
over two dowels*, hewing its origin in the
ereotfon of mills in the old Camel do Sass/00ot
by an English syndicate; from whioh firm it
has assumed tloleadis the industries carried
on in the province. Seventy million font of
lumber ws exported from that;
point in one
year, and shloe then other aawmille have
been Greeted and gone ilito operation, The
benefits to tine town do tot l,ty, Ibmay bo
emiceivsd, directly with the mills, as at
army of tog+ers 6011 in the woods continual-
ly droppinginnow ail again to enjoy the
comfort„ of civilization. Those periodical
visits Wen/mice trade in no small degree, as
the man in r011tting leave a eons/idol able
ltillnt101, of money in ciraulatien after a so.
SAVED NO LIVES AFTER ALL.
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Volunteers tui. to Sea In 11 Sterns flint a
Li re•san•I ng Pro Dae NOIFlleo.
Loanov, 00t.—Despatches received here
from St. Ives, Cornwall, toll of the bravery
of volunteer lifeboat men, chiefly eeaaldo
visitors, and of the cowardice of eight pro-
fessionallifeelevera. A storm yesterday
swept over Land's End. A shall schooner,
apparently at English coaster, was descried
elf So Sonnet,. at. She s I
w o pounded
as )Ol al and over.
1
swept by the seas that she was evidently
doomed to destruction. Her skipper than -
aged to fasten in the rigging the ensigr of
England with the jack downward, the sea.
man's signal of distress.
The lifeboat Wren refused to launch their
boat. They said no lifeboat could live In
such a sea and it was useless to launch ono.
The seaside visitors who had (looked to the
spot were bond in their donuneiatione cf
the eight monyand insisted that they should
at least make an attempt to rescue tho
endangered crew. The eight men positively
refused again and again to launch their
boat.
This enranged the visitors, and they de.
eland that they would man the lifeboat
themselves. All the ablo;bodied visitors de.
sired to volunteer, and the planet/ of the
eight regular lifeboat !ren were soon filled,
chiefly by visitors from London—lawyers,
lawyers' clerks, a Welsh artist, and a stock.
broker. They ran rho boat into the surf,
having huge life bolts around their waists,
which greatly hampered their movements,
and finally, at 8:30 P. M., they managed to
get away from the shore, drenched to the
skin, and their boat half full of water.
Pluckily they tupced at their oars, and soon
dissappeared ie the darkness on their way
to the point where the schooner was beet
seen.
Hours passed, the men did not retern,
and the people on shore began to despair of
ever 0801119 them again. renally morning
broke, there was still no sign of the missing
lifeboat. Then the news was flashed from
St. Ives that the lost lifeboat, its crew all
safe, had managed to reach that harbor after
a most dreadtal experience, paasiog the
whole night at sea, their boat tossed abort
like a cork by tate huge waves. lir spite of
their gallant efforts they were unable to
rescue the schooner's crew, and all tree° of
the latter has been lost, and is is supposed
that tbo schooner foundered during rho
night.
An Athole Brose Story
A Scotohntan in London was treating some
of ifs Cockney friends to to Caledonian ban•
queton the eve of fit. Andl'ow's Day. Among
the national compounds lie was particularly
melons that lois friends should taste was
Athole blase, and every conetituent element
for this genuine Sec/Wall brew was discover-
ed, except honey. After a careful search
in the pantry he carte nito the ro0nt 812111111g,
with a pot of honey, which he declared was
clotted by the frost, but otherwise nu prime
condition. After careful nvtuipnlatinn of
the fluids a gl tss of stoteniug brume Was set
before oath ef the party. A toast was cal-
led for. Tee health of "cur gae51" was
proposed, livery man took a big drink,
and immediately rushed to the window and
threw it open, putting their heads out
frant;eally. lyhen harmony had been in
some way restored, the host called for his
wife for an explanation. "My dear," be
said, piteously, " what have you been doing
to the honey?" "What honey?" retorted his
sponse. "We lied ho ]coney." The host
turned pale. " Then what is this, Mary?"
he said, holding up the pot from which the
extract had been made, " Why, my dear,"
returned Hoary, with the sweetest 0mile
imaginable, " thatis my Vaseline ointment.
And then there was an mpreseive Ereelean.
The Most Notable Fasts,
There are many Oases quoted of long fasts
but they are mostly of a very apoorp
pled character, The following oases,
however, are hell autloentieated. Iu 1831, a
murderer imprisoned at Toulouse committed
suicide, in eerier to escape execution, by
abstaining from food for sixty-three days,
his only sustenance during thatperiod being
between eight and ten pinta of water. Dr,
Sloan has given an account of a man, aged
sixty-five, who was shut up in a coal -moo
for twenty-three days, and though he was
able to get a little water only ,louring the
first ten clays, lived for some time after
being rescued. A still more remarkable
instance of tenacity of life ceder the most
-adverse circumstances is that recorded by
De. Willan of a young ratan, who, under the
influence of religions mania, starved bine
self for sixty days, duringthe whole of
which time the took noting but a littlo
mange juice. Referring to the recent: fast-
ing ordeals in L'ugland and America the
tlxrlepiad is of opinion that we may now es-
thete that a forty or a forty-two days' fast
with continuance of life is well within
natural phenomena, and that the human
body has a poesiblepower• of endurance from
ten to eleven clays beyond what has been
recently attempted—the extreme limit fifty-
three to fifty-five days.
No Hesitation.
Mr, William Pagan, Liverpool, England,
Harriers, writes 1 " I believe St. Jacobs
Oil to be the best tiring ever used for curing
and preventing ewelllttge anti soreness of the
eord5 end onusoles after sovoo exercise,
Heaving used the Oil myself, and knowing
other members of this club Who use 110 other
remedy after their exercises/ and moos, 1
haveo
n hesitancyin recommending
it to
aI
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athletes, It is the boat,
The longest terse oar line in the world is
thatonneobi n tl
c t g to oiby of Mexico with
(Jalapa -72 miles- The trip is made in eight
hours.
still cling to the simple fable bloat the
aouc of human wisdom is to know when to
lay down a poltor haul,
As a rule there is no error way to the
dislike of men than to behave well where
they have behave badly. -.-Lev 1•Vaiinoa
Charity, in whatever guise she appears,
IS the best natured mill the best oemulexion•
, tl thing in the world,--t1Predoriok Senn.
dors,
0c1, 30, 1891,
uric
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r 1 l a
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100 generations, musing untold suffering, anti
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LIONS IN ITIS PATE..
Bow the Driver Cleared the \Tory with Ills
5\'htp.
A eo'responeent of the Loolon Graphic,
who has had coosidel'able experieuoe in
South Africa, narrates en Maiden 1 which
occurred on the Limpopo river, the northern
boenlary of the Transvaal. One of his
drivers was a Hottentot named Cigar, and
though the totals were heavy he had to hur-
ry on, time bring au object, net eye,. halting
for the usual siesta in the iniddle oftheday.
13111 Line day the Lnllothe stopped sudden-
ly and refused to advance further. Tho
Hottentot's experience told hint that there
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J. C. Davis, Rector of St. James'
Episcopal Church, Eufaula, Ala.:
` My son has been badly afflicted
with a fearful and threatening cough
for several months, and after trying
several prescriptions from physicians
which failed to relieve him, he has
been perfectly restored by the use of
two bottles of Bo -
An Episcopal schee's German Syr-
up. I can reconi-
Rector. mend it without
hesitation." Chronic
severe, deep-seated coughs like this
are as severe tests as a remedy can
be subjected to. It is for these long-
standing cases that Boschee's Ger-
man Syrup is made a specialty.
Many others afflicted as this lad
was, will do well to make a note of
this.
J. F. Arnold, Montevideo, Minn.,
writes: I always use German Syrup
for a Cold on the Lungs. I have
never found an equal to it—far less
a superior. 's 0
G. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr,Woodbury,NJ
was something ahead that frightened the
oxen, ee, seizing 111e whip, he went forward
eo reconnoitre.
He ',vas not long in discovering the cause
of the trouble, namely, a splendid ooaple of
Mous with their outs, enjoying a midday
snooze. Without hesitation he measured
with his eye the distmeee, then raising his
giant ox -whip brought it dawn among them
with a ayecasslou of oracles that rivaled the
report of a gun,
Titus ebrnptl ' awakener!, neither of the
parents stopped to learn who had disturbed
them, but bounded off into the adjoining
jungle, obesely followed by !bele progeny.
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