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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 P Y 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. -- 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 „ 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 The importance of keeping the blood i - a •e nl condition 1 r 1 l a universally known, and yet there aro very few people who have perfectly Imre blood. The tela of scrofula, salt rheum, o' other foul limner is horodltee ntul transmitted 100 generations, musing untold suffering, anti We also nominal t0 poison and germs of d1s- eaee from the air we breathe, thefood we eat, or the water wed'lnk, There Is nothing more conclusively proven than the positive power' of Iieocl'sSer- a. sapaeilla eases of the medicine, tried clues s trace of sal o tri tu n the talar over 1 Is - blood. This when fairly expel every 80r'OIn110 Or r00100t'es whioltcauses ottarrh, neutralizes the acidity alum cures rheumatism, drives out the germs of malaria, blood poisoning, ate, it also vital- izes and enriches the blood, thusovercoming that tired feeling, and building up the whole system. In Its preparation, its medicinal merit, and the wonderful euros 1t accom- pllshes II God's Sarsn- pnrilla Is Peculiar to Ylsel0. Tlnotl- enols testify 10 Ire j.i and Be 't ecce s . d t best s s, advertisingI'In0 a 10 od Snrsnpartlltt receives is rho hearty endorsement of its army of friends. Every testimonial the publish, and every statement we make on behalf of hood's Sarsaparilla may be relied upon as atrietly true 111 every respect. If you need a good blood purifier or building up medicine, be sure to take Hooch's Sarsapa- rilla. Further Information and statements of cures sent free to all who address us as below. Hood's Sarsaparilla Soldbyelldrugglete. St; staler $5. Prepared only bye. I. I1OOD C Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, 01080. 100 Doses One Dollar 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 6` S c, ti e:a •i wR. n. � . �{�■l/At.■1 9 l 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. CURES PERMANENTLY hcumtL. , CAUCA Cik'3, v bas freiIT HAs NO k n `4 ticAL T TAI, 13 n: 0