The Brussels Post, 1891-10-30, Page 3yyl
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OCT, 30, 7.P011.,
THE BRUSSELS POST.
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OABLid FORTD'NE,
111' 1':11"111.
Curl, It poor little hnmpb1Ol:, and his
widowed looting' lived in it cottage. 011 the
shorn of a )ru'go river, :\l1hough they were
not pool', the widow am) low son w011 oblig
ed to work fur their1 vtn'r, and could 4(e
ulli,rrlto 8pom11.)44.11'(ieu.'i411,11eno1s. (til
w114 au llal nisi rams lad, and Londe wu•ing for
11,' garden, he naught fish:end sold ;hell for
a good price in the ilei-,hbnring unvm, ', na1'
1110 widow's cottage stood it largo ('404)41
where lived Cont Cur:11 sod his only child,
the beautiful ill nano' F 4
,l 1, 'flit. Count WW1 l4
great lravele.r, (1(11) was seldom at home,
Huts his daugh'.er led a very lonely life,
One clay as Carl, with lite basket of fish, W11s
on hie way to market he passed by the castle
and the Count's daughter, who 0too11 at the
gate, cried ;
" Coale here, boy, and lot m0 see what
31012 1111140 1n your basket,"
Carl at once obeyed, and taking off the
41014014 showed the beautiful, fresh 111y11 which
had been caught that morning.
" If I had any money," 8+1111 Eleanor, "I
would buy 11hem, for I ant very fond of fish,
and w1, Beldon have them on our table."
"You are welcome to them," said Carl,
who was so charmed by the girl's beauty
that he forgot his mother needed the money
he was to tante hone. Tho little girl gladly
took the basket and ran into the house. As
Carl walked slowly homeward, wondering
what excuse he should offer for returning
without: either moneyy or basket, he heard a
light knocking sound, which seemed to 001110
fro0 among the bushes. Pushing aside the
branches he SAW, sitting on a toad stool, each
snrro2arlerl by a curious crowd of squirrels,
bnuter1lie0 and beetles, a little anon only
about at foot high, with a yollon', wrinkled
face 11(1,1 sones. 4•ilite hair and heard, busily
)(unsling h`s shoes. Carl at once know that
this !nu,t be one of the dwarfs, a'ltnittesaid
to possess creat wealth, and ho determined
to seize hint. Taking hint by the shoulder,
Carl said :
" Good day, little 111011 ; fine weather for
yea' work."
"Yes, it is 6 beautiful day," replied. the
dwarf, who, though s'roatly frightened,
smiled 011,1 wont nn 1~111)4 his work.
" 1 8011 you are quite a shoemaker," said
Carl."
"Yes," answered the dwarf," I have
learned the trade, but who is that crossing
the river?"
Carl was not so stupid as to look toward
rho river, for he renew the moment ho
turned his eyes away the little fellow would
vanish.
"Yon know, you rascal, that no 000 is
crossing the rive'," said the boy, " and if
yon do not tell 1110 where Ican find a chest
of gold I shall pierce you with my knife."
With nese words Carl drew his knife
from his peokot, and, opening the sharpest
blade placed it close to the little man's
breast,
" Oh, for Heaven's sake take away that;
horrid thing," cried the dwarf, " and I shall
tell you where you can find more gold than
you can use,!"
Carl drew back the Icnifo, ant the dwarf
0001 1(1 awl :
"Ort the voy top of yonder 111011016111,
which you can see in the distance, grows a
solitary pine tree. If you will dig &boot
its toots you wi11 find more gold than you
can carry away. And now I must go
honk."
' You shall not get away so cosily," said
Card. "Pott must tell of gold that i811811rer,
for I have no wish to climb that steep
(14 111 ahll." And again lie placed his 1(0118
1)0(41' the dwarf.
" Go not hurt me," begged the little 11111,
" and I shall tell you where there is yet
other gold. But w0 meat run, for there
comes a raging lion, w11ie11 will devour ns
)40111."
'('('here?" asked Carl, as he turned to
look in the dire0tiol in which the old man
pointed. At that moment a low, mocking
laugh sounded, and the little 1111111 cheap•
pommel, and Cart know that he had been
deceived. 1W'hon he remelted home he talk.
ed so much about his adventure with the
dwarf that his lnothot' forgot to ask him
about his money and basket. She told him
that the next time he mot with the Dwarf
he must threaten to (till him it he did not
show him the treasure before ho could
count 20. Carl determined to follow his
mother's advice, and the next cloy on 1110
WThy to and from market .he watched eager-
ly for the Dwarf. But the little follow did
not allow himself to bo seen for two clays.
On the third day, however, Carl regain
10111111 Minn mending shoos, and seizing hint
by the aril, ire eriod
"Now I have you."
" Is that you, Carl ?" said the dwarf inhis
usual smiling manner. "It has 1)0011 s0111e
time since 11100'0 seen you."
You cannot get away fro) me this
time," Bahl Carl " I am let s0 stupid 08
I calls the other clay."
" I suppose yon want gold," said the
dwarf. ' Why don't you ash me to straight.
en your back ?"
" Because I don't believe that you could
do that," was the reply, " and I know that
you have gold at your command, and I
mean to have some, or your blood shall
flow."
14. You are very wiokerl to -clay," said the
dwarf," and look e0 savage that I am
Aimee; afraid of you."
For some time the little 10011 paid no
heed to Card'a request, until at Iasi; losing
all patiene0, the boy said ;
" I shall haste no more time with you.
If you do not show me the izoltl before I
count 20,1 shall run lay knife right through
your heart." And Oar! drew out his knife
and placed the bright, sharp blade near the
little man's breast.
" Yon surely would not be so cruel as to
kill ills," cried the dwarf, But Carl paid
110 attention to him and began to 0011144, " 1
2, 3." 1]'e ootlntec115, before the dwarf
stirred, and Alan said
" Stop, Carl, you area clover boy. You
have conquered me, ancl you shall have all
the gold you desire."
The dwarf then stomped of the ground,
and instantly the earth opened, disclosing
to C,trl's eyes an im114811014 oaken o,e0t filled
With gold and silver coins.
" Is it Peal gold ?" asked Carl, " or will it
veni01 ate I turn away,"
" It is genuine gold," ens the reply
"which will remain hero until you carry it
away. I give you my word for that, and when
anelf oleo gives his word be always keeps
it,y
With a quick movement, the dwerf sprang
upon a pine tree near by,and oriod :
Yon shall be happy, arl, andhandsome,
too."
Hu then gave the boy 011011 a blow in the
fano with a pine brauoh that for a moment
Carl Was almost blinded, When 110 looked
around again, 11e dwarf had <liseppearecl :
but the ellest of gold was sell there. After
filling all his p0eket0 with the precious gold,
the boy fastened down the lid and covered
the altos; with earth, Ho then hastened
110Mo and 0010(11
"Seo, mother, wheel have brought you,
I caught the 'dwarf, and ho 1160 gluon Ino
more gold than we 0141 ever be able to
use."
But 1netea1 of replying to her son's eager
v14ard0 the mother gave a ury of astonish.
linen; and said :
"Is it yen, my clear Carl? The, vof0o and
Mee are the slum, but When you went away
tide morning you were 11 empbaclkoel, stoop•
ed and small. Now you are su'aig111, tall
- and handsome. What has hi -night about
this change?
1 n life excitement over the gold (11111 had
net 4(1,11.',',) tint 110 bock ruin boonmo
oLrahoht, and that 110 could run without bo.
1118 1)1'011, Ile now knew what the dwarf
11,0,4,1)1 when he said " Yon shall be hand..
some, too," and he was sure that the little
elf Ila,) by 001110 of ilia 111410 arts given 11110
n
straight back, and he 1,011 back to the pine
tree in hoz 0 of seeing the dwarf and thank.
ing 111(41 for this great kindness, but the
little fellow could not be found, and he was
never again 00011 i11 0104 country.
The widow and her son were now so rich
that they did not 1(100\14 what to do with
their money, and they spent many hours
planning wheat use they would melte of their
great wealth. Carl, who had seen many
poor children in 11e oity whore he tarried
his fish, wished to build comfortable homes
for all those who were in need, and. his moth,
01', who was a good woman, favored the plan.
Before the winter came scores of beautiful
homes were built, and in the whole of that
great pity not a poor family was to be
found.
Carl then had a most magnificent palace
built, whin] was muo11 grander than Count
0,4,11'x, and a few years later he merried
the betanif1i1Eleanor, an a lived a long happy
life. Although Carl used groat 10an11it100
of gold, the chest never became empty, incl
always seemed to contain as much as when
the dwarf first gave it,
Mon -of -War on the Lakes,
In 1 81 7 an arrangement was entered into
i>etweel t1 react Britain and the United Sthutes
as to the naval force to bo respectively main-
tained by each en the Anlerioan lakes. It
wag not a n1L4tteL' of formal treaty, but the
result of It correspondence between rho then
British minister, Charles Begot, and the
acting Secretary of State, Richard Rust. In
terms, the agreement was that each govern.
%omit might moth tain on fake Ontario one
vessel not exceeding 1110 tons bnrthen, and
veined with one eighteen -pound o6nn0n 1 on
the upper lakes two ve00110 not exceeding
like bnrtllen, each armed witih like force ;
and on the water's of Lake Channplain one
vessol not exceeding like bnrtllen and tlrma-
ment. This agreement to he abrogated at
six months' notice. From that clay to this,
now something like threo•quttrte's of a cen-
tury, a few small tubs, like the famous war
vessel Miohigen, have prowled abont Uni ted
States coasts, not pretending to dofond
them, but, like bantam roosters, putting on
much style and ever ready to vindicate their
right to belong to tee United Status navy.
This of itself was sufficient to contribute to
the gayety of nations, but now comes James
G. Blaine, Secretary of State, and gives
notice that the Washington government will
no longer hold to the agreement, but will at
the proper time proceed to set afloat on the
lakes a navalhlrnlament commensurate with
the protection of the groat cities that lie
along their shores, Thio Is a most propos.
terous and absurd piece of jingoism, for why
should the United Stator fear anything that
this country or oven Great Britain, with her
magnificent fleet, alight do on the lakes ?
No English ironclad could ever roach the
lakes from the sea, and even if there were
clanger of it the Welland Conal Gould be
blown into smithereens before any vessel
could got through it. It looks as if lir.
Blaine, by at ex0000ive, drought harmless,
piece of jingoism, were trying to overawe us
to annexation,
Some of the World's Fair.
There are seine very interesting women
00 the hoard of Lady managers of the world's
fair. Itis rather remarkable that a large
proportion of them are unmarried. Tho
youngest of them all is 1\1100 Laurette
Lowell, aprotty little brunette from Arizona.
The two representatives from Louisiana are
spinsters, and one of them, Miss Kate Minor,
the fourth vine -president of the board, is a
snceo00fu1 sugar planter, assisting her
brother in the management of a plantation
embracing 5,000 001'00. She expects to
exhibit at the fair a creole kitchen and an
Arcadian settlement. The member from
Oklahoma, Mrs, Beeson, is a dainty little
blonde•hairod creature, who makes tip in
enthusiasm whet she lacks in stature. She
says that Oklahoma is a paradise for pro-
gressiva femininity, for there woolen are
engaged in every occupation from raising
cern and cobbling shoes to 0tlieing 1)0100•
.papers. The undies aro ate eviden fly working
hard for the success of the fair, and their
exhibit is 111(01y, from appuarancee, to sur-
prise the country.
Blue Monday In Scotland,
A pretty description of " blue Ixlonday'
occurrences in Scotland is given by an Eng'
list paper : As we neared the little croft
some women were washing in the stream.
They had brought their tubs and 01011110» to
the river's hank to wash. They were bronz-
ed, ileaithy-lookingScotch lassies, and wore
pretty red or pink bodioos, the sleeeee of
which were well tucked op. They filled
their tube with water, and in w•one the
clothes ; but the women did not kneel down
to wash them; they first made a good lather
of soap, ancl, gathering up tteirs1ore skirts
between their legs, they stepped into the
tubs,' In the usual Highland fashion, they
were shoeless, and there they stood in the
tubs and danced on the clothe,' until they
were clean. It was a quaint 000110—the
pretty ooloring� of the women, the rooky
and green background, with the doop blue
Suthorlandohire hills beyond.
Living Upon Leonetti,
A correspondent of the London Daily
Graphic, writing upon the looil0t plague in
north Africa, says : '" In reference to the
diet of St. John the Baptist, who lived on
locusts and wild honey in the wilderness,
there aroSenlay-school teaohors who oar
not believe that any ono would voluntarily
live 011 such food, and, therefore, say that
rho'1000041,05(1,' tho fruilof the 0arab tree,
is meant by the writers of tho new testa -
monk I can only reply Hutt the locust
cricket, the 60rid0ln, polerinum, melee Or-
thoptera, variety Saltatoria—the flying emit.
.'retie of Afrioa—i1, sold at 1101f penny
per pound in the market place of Biskra.
(which is rho e00on1 oasis from the north in
the Sahara), and that Hero itis cooked by
boilhl with tale and water, as shrimps aro
boiled 1>oro, 1 myself Have little doubt that;
it 10 morenetritoht0than the latter) bemuse
in March, when the insoct is gathered and
dried, 1). 15 118 full of albumen as tat egg,"
Opportunity, is un respect to time 111 800041
001100, 110 time 18 111 respect to eternity 1 it is
the small moment, the exact point, the
0ritd0al nllnuto, o1 w1(1011 every .good WorkWor
so nttlell (10pel1le.
T1±R017G11 ALBERT (JAB YON.
F1'o111 1110 801k10101 lo the 'l'1leeupselr Valley
--The Routs to II11n11o1>110.
i11t0\1 a CO("U(SPONDIcsv,1
Nerern 131:Nn, 13. (1., Sept. 2e, 1801,--•1.110
elgh>f Objection diet the t'10ellel'1 lied to
tills country is the difficulty they experionee
in kuuw•ing whittle n'elork, 11, i0 all very
1ve11 up to noon, 1,4(' when it, valises that
110111' he Limo passed in mathematical elm.
potation to fink out what time you are due
no, any given point, the teal time when din-
not- is to 10 served, and, above all, at what
hour you must go to bed, 111 order to bo con-
sidered perfectly reputable, until you have
tried 11, you have no Idea what a drain it is
011 the mental faoultie0. And what le the
13e080 111 it. It Is muo11 0140101• to arrive at
North Bend, for instance, ai 7 :45 (11 the
evening than to got thereat the ontland1ah
hour of 10:45. You take your dinner with
more mental satisfaction at 3:110 than
you d0 at 18:30, while as for going to bed at
22:27 is a state of affairs too humble to con-
template. If British Columbia calls Gus tam•
poring with tune reformation, she had much
bettor go back to the old state of things and
stay unreformed, if she doesn't wish to drive
all the strangers within her gates perfectly
mad in that 01111oet futile ltttempt to keep
up with the Limes.
The party began on this now method at
'Winnipeg. and 6hont a week of 111hat; &dean
nearly every member to the verge of idiocy,
If it wasn't for this, one would almost wish
the journey might lever bo done, so full of
grandeur and beauty and onjoymeet has
every lutist of it been. It was wall real re-
gret that good byes wore raid to the glacier
and the waterfalls, and the pretty station
nestling under the shadow of Donald : brit
the Pacific: was luring us on, and there
must bo speedy parting. Bat before the
start was made, the conductor of the tram
pointed out the series of loops over which
the train was to pass on ins way down the
valley of the Thompson River, and the
brakeman fixed safeguards on the platform,
so that those who lilted might ride outside
over this wonderful piece of railroad en-
gineering. And just here re word must be
stud about the pleasure which was maim to
the travellers by the officials of the train.
Conductors and 1ralte00100 all seemed to
vie with each other to point out the places
of interest and to see that every one was
nolifiod of all the remarkable points. Such
attention and courtesy is rarely seen, anc1
it (1110 most thoroughly appreciated. And
so, when this "drop 10140 to bo made from
the mountains to the valley, it was no mat-
ter of surprise to any of the travellers to
find everything prepa•ed for them, so that
they might have the full benefit of the view.
It was a lovely morning ; the rain. had
ceased, but bits of mist clung to the cedes of
Donald and the glacier. Somewhere the sun
was shining for the tops of the hills were
touched with rosy light, while the sides lay
in shadow. .From behind the veil of mist
the waterfalls come leaping, and the great
glacier lay, cold and white, under the blue
of the morning shy. Tho train backed from
the siding on to the main Creek, then, with
a shrill whistle, started on its series of wind-
ings, First the groups in the platforms
looked clown to see where they were going ;
a sudden tarn, and they lookecl up to see
where Choy lad been ; there wore throe of
these double loops before the mountain des-
cent was made and then Albert canyon was
reached. And then whet a turmoil of rush-
ing waters : the whole of the 'Kicking Horse
river, which afterward, and very soon, too,
Widened out into a lake nearly GO miles long,
was imprisoned between two walls of root
but a few feet across. The gorge 1~00 more
than 200 foot deep, and the maddened waters
roared and plunged and beat with vain fury
against the solid mass of rock which held
thorn in. Such .t roaring as that w08 ; the
river fairly thfnulwed in its rage, and shook
the little wnocden platform which was built
out over the gorge, and onto which the
visitors bravely ventured, only to give one
look into tho seething, boiling mass of water,
and to torn back with a shudder. This
canyon, although not so long as some of tho
others, is altogether the grandest, and it
makes a fitting close to the Selkirk 800017,
which has been one uninterrupted stretch of
magnificence from the very entrance to the
final exit into the Thompson river valley.
No one h(4cl thought of breakfast until
the train had moved away from the Albert
gorge, anti even then it was found a diffi-
cult matter to think of eating with the
magnifhoent scene through which the train
was moving. If the 84411) 11 of the Bow hal
seemed steep and the roadbed na'row, what
was it hero, whore you looped straight
down from the track into the rushing water,
100 feet below, You almost wondered
what held you; tllore seemed no reason why
you did name entailing clown though spans
into the river, And yet, in spite of all the
terror, we could but regret \vhen,the canyon
widened and the train glided out from its
shadow into the valley flooded with sun.
light.
And now the 11oiny river was wideniug
into et quiet, placid lake, and on ire borders
were set snug frame houses, not the log
online of the pioneer, but• farm houses,
looking not unlike the New England farm
house with barns and outbuildings, generous
in proportion, and telling of fine crops and
abundant harvests to come. Anti all these
houses were set in groves of trees; a narked
contrast to the general lan1soepe in which
trees were almost as few as they had been
on the prairie. It is quite evident that the
first thing that, the settler here diel when
ho made his home, w08 to plant trees to
give shelter, and make the home -like Bottled
loop that nothing gives as trees do. They
somehow take away from the "new," look,
and give the sense of comfort that 0061>1ng
else dons.
3.11 along the way morose the continent, ex.
oopt among the Rockies and the Selkirks
the travellers have been followed by fright
red flower that strongly resembled 11e gar.
den phlox, both in color and in 'manner of
growth. 1t covered all the places that bad
boon desolated by forest or prairie fires, and
sometimes for mike the ground would be
fairly crimson with its native blossom. The
shores of Superior were made bright and:
beautiful by its presence 1 it grow all along
tho prairie, bording time roadway like a
ribbon of decoration ; it crept along rho
foot 111110 of the Rookies, and only stayed its
blossoming when nature became too stinted
in her resources to give it tho nourishment
it needed. And More it was again smiling
and nodding its cheery Welcome as though
W0 worn old friends whoa it wits glad to
greet, as we Came from the canyon into the
valley. How everybody oxelantod, when
its rosy glean first 0011910 the eye, 011111;
ing up from the becalm of the burnt
August glass. We had the thought it
was lost, but, starting with 118 in the groom
valley of the Ottawa, it was evtdoity
boat eh att0o(lfng 01114 way t1I1 eve reach-
ed time once of the journey,' and said
good -by to the train while w0 gave greeting
to 1110 boat; that was to tanto 00 norms
rept 8om(1. It was a 011000y,
sturdy friend, and stood for the symbol of
Loyalty. 1Vo lied grown to love it, and to
lave 6 01rt of feeling of personal tend0101080
to it, In no way 4180 11)410 so 0111111111 than h
tin caro with which every ono 1403,1inu
from puking it. When the train steppe"
et any point the young men would Pimp
mitt, um, 8(101' a few anilines, would 101(11,
Link bringing handfuls of gay posies to
those who ata elt 011 rho train, but no one
picked the phlox 1 it had too much the re
lutiok of a friend to Inane kt unhappy by
separating it frcln 1)s kindred. Gurill4 the
rice through the valley the decorative maze
tank p000ussion of the yomng people, and
they tied garlands to the platfol'nl of the
cars, 011 11,1004 butches of flowers and
gl'110008 into every available spot. Jost
a workWWI .1011[ a train rail into
ivas h
'when tl L
the funny town of 1{aIl0nps, and slopped,
greatly to alto edilleation of the populace,
who were gathered to see the "extra 0001'
fn.
It is a great thing to bo +"1 "extra" on a
tran0o0utu10ntel road. The only exolte.
anent of the clay 10 the arrival of the milder
train, and when to that is added the frost
cocone1410111 of an "extra" train then fueling
rims high and enthusiasm is unrestrained,
If one has been a 01111d in a country 10W0
W1040 the one excitement of the whole
country side was the annual visit of the oir-
cue, one 01111 gain something of an idea of
the interest whioh attaches to an extra train
in one of these villages. And when that
"extra" conies in docked liken May queen
with posy garlands and nodding plumes of
grasses, it is small wonder the oomments of
the community are diotinetly audible, and
that the whole party is made to feel as
though it were a sectio] 0f Barnum &
Bailey's " grand aggregation." At least
that Is the way some of the party confessed
to feeling as they entered Kamloops.
But if the travellers delighted the dwel-
lers in the faeming divisional railroad town,
how much more did Kamloops itself delight
and manse the travellers. It was a busy,
busting,assertive plaoe, and evidently con.
Minna. " ail sorts and onndhtion0 of lieu."
There wore the sante phases of humanity
that have been seen at all the other towns,
developed in all moll ways, and added to
that a largo Chinese c0ntmgent. It had
quite the air of a metropolis,had Kamloops,
and ono finds one's self speaking of it with a
certain respect. Al! the houses seemed
open,witb the people living on sidewalks or
balconies e1Oept one; that was the residence
of the member' of Parliament, and it was
fenced about in a fa8hion quite proper, giv-
ing the air of exch1siveuess,mld withdrawal
that should oharacterizo so 1ug11 a1 official,
As in all those towns along its lines—with
the one 0x00pt1On of Benin, the railroad ran
through the main street, and really there
seamed to be no other. It was one of the
largest towns along the way, certainly the
very largest since Calgary, and it must have
extended quite a mile, the houses being set
very closely together. The upper end was
given Ove: to the Chinese, and here was the
joss house and the restaurants on a smaller
scale, as they exist in the larger cities.
Kamloops is at the western side of the largo
lake, and it is but a little below this point
where it enters the F1'azer river.
At North Bend the train was again stop-
ped for a night. This is a mining town at
the entrance of true celebrated Frazer canyon
a queer little place, with no roadway, but
with pony trails in every direction. When
some of the travellers commented on this
peunliarityto the Scotch lassie, who is the
efficient manager of the hotel et this point,
sho said :
"And why would one be wasting words?
There's no where to go except where ponies
are better and safer than carriages. The
travellers found out a good bit about this
youthful landlady before they want away in
the morning. '.Clhe college president was
mooaing around, looking to see what there
was thin W(4a worth while, and presently he
came along with a handsome book in his
hand and auothor under his arm. Ile open-
ed to the fly loaf of the one he Ilelcl in his
hand, and here was what the persene to
whom he showed it real: " Inverness
College, to Miss Jeanie --for excellence in
oylato composition, first prize." Tho next
one was also a prize from the sante college
to " Miss Jeanie--"
That was enough to interest the women,
and they began making acquaintance 1vit11
the prize girl, who, from winning books for
excellence in composition writing, had 0om0
to bo managing a hotel out on the Canadian
t'aoifio road. She told her story simply
enough. There were four sisters in a well
to do family in Scotland, reverses cane, and
the father started for the new world to re.
trieve his fortune, and the daughters and
the mother mole too.
"I) wasn't altogether what w0 would
have 01100011," 0a1d the young Iranian, "but
we were good business manager0. We got an
opportunity to work for the react, and we
were speedily promoted, Do you remember
the hotel at Stephens?"
Everybody remembered the quaint little
place, that 40140 so picturesque in situation,
and so exquisitely dainty and heat.
" Well, two of us girls are there, and
two are hare. We stay the year round, for
this is the place where the people front the
regular house dine, and w0 are busy all the
time, and see a good (teal of the world as it
000108. tO ns. In the summer people often
atop off and stay a week or two, for the
smeltery is find about here, and there is good
hunting and fishing, I melte good friends,
who do not forget me, and many a book and
magazine and paper finds its way loco un
the woods, The people about here are kind,
and oven the rough moi among the, miners
are good t0 us, and never molost ns. But it
is mince when ladies come, anti I oan talk
to them about things that are going on in
the world, and feel that I ant not falling
behind everybody."
The claim of that little hotel at North
Bend will not soon be forgotten. Even the
office was a feminine work, its Davenport
desk, Me draped table with papers and
books, its easel with pictures, its flowers
and birds. Tho boxes that held the mason-
]fno oigar0 wore hidden by flowers, and (Ip
against the wall hung a shade hat and a
jau1ty reefer jacket. It's no wonder people
often "stop off." How can they resist tho
temptation of North Bend, its shooting, its'.
fishing, its noted scenery and—its hotel
keeper?
d D VARFS AND DWARF WOl1,SHTP,
1' l queer 070104/1 or 1doIoiry7:I' rarlloed by
1 } the .l300ro.
In the Lnndml %101,1 of a recent date 111r.
i R. 11. Ifeliberten, who lately read a 401y
' interceding paper on the dw&rfs of 3loro,vo
before the (Meows of Orfontaleas, hu; a
letter upon the snhj1at, in width he dm
0111,0 in detail the "entero of this race
j whom he knew 1e, :Morocco, 1,1 the Benno
number of the filo..~ there 10 a letter from
;mother Orientalist, 2,1r. Walter 13. 1Ia'rie,
,111 strongly supports Mr. IIaliblu'tntis
statements as to 110 exietence of (hie race,
bl a far : Matt/ n
It dill l0 nu hint in life evpl u,utl m f
11e serreey 10111011 the Moore have always
� preserved about them, 16 is, 10deed, a
0inguler thing that the Moors should have
91.0000410,1 for 3,1100 years fn malting a 0ecret
of the existence of a moo of dwarfs f,ntr
feet high in the Atlas Mountains but a few
hundred miles from the Mediterranean.
This 000rot, however appears to have been
01100010fully kept till two or three years
ago, Mr, Hallburton's expl4aatiou of
the secrecy of the Moors Is that the
dwarfs have been regarded by the
Moors as holy mon. A dwarf is
called " our blessed Lord," and is looked
upon as a great suint. One Moor said to
Mr. Haliburton 1 " It is a sin to speak
about them to you. I shall any nothing."
Another said : " God has sent thele to us,
\Ve most not talk about them." They are
believed to bring good leek, and ora the
guardians andprotectors, like the Palladium
of the Trojans, of the towns in which they
lire. Mr, Harris's inquiries, however, led
him to believe that the dwarfs were not
worshipped by rho 3foors, but that the
'Moorish reticence regarding Brom (0100 the
remains of a superstition far older than any
Hutt would exist in Mohammedan tinges.
He differs also with Mr. Haliburton as to
the religion of the Ilwalfs, ho1,1141g 011001 10
ho 'Mohammedans, and believing that they
could not Iot(0 existed 110 infidels, surround.
ed as they hese been by tho most fanatical I!
3iollameieden tribes,
air. Haliburton describes the dwarf I.e
know in Tangier its very brosd•sl,"ublered,
with a peculiar reddish complexi,), —a com-
plexioir, we beldel•e, mach like that of an
Anlerioan Indian. This dwarf had good
features and almond -shaped eyes, slightly
olanlhng up at the side like a Chinese oyo.
His oxpreooiol was honest, intelligent, and
good•huniorell. I3e let 4jr. Haliburton
mark his height on the wall, although in a
tremor, fearing the "evil eye." He 100,1111
not remove his fez, and raised This heels Some
two inches from the floor, allowing for wlrioh
his height was about four feet six inches.
The dwarf described by 3Ir. Harris world
not allow himself to bephotograpled of mea-
sured, There is nothing remarkable in this,
however. Savages, and even the lower
orders among civilized nations, show an un-
willingness to be drawn or photographed ;
artists tall us that the same unwillingness is
0)10('10 by the animals. The reason, upper.
ently, is not so much an unwillingness to be
" taken" as a dislike of being looked at.
These dwarfs were, however, rattler com-
municative as to the peculiarities of their
race. They describe the dwarfs as very
brave and so active as to be able to jump
over three calneleplaced side by side. They
are great hunters of ostriches, and have
small, swift horses, palled by a name signi-
fying "those that clrink the wind "—this
expression, no doubt., referring to their abi-
lity to go long without water. Tho horses
are fed on (laths and camel's milk, and are
very lean. It is curious that both in com-
plexion and activity of body these Moorish
dwarfs should resemble the dwarf Akkas
near the Albert Nyanza, who are also about
our feet high, but are savages.
Upon the subject of the worship of the
dwarfs in .Morocco, a young Jew, now living
in Manchester, but a native of Morocco,
says that he has often seen a dwarf who
lived in his native village, 611') who was
looked on as a groat saint and kissed on
the shoulders by the Moors as he passed
through the streets, a salutation which is
an net of reverence. It would appear that
the dwarfs are not only regarded as saints
but as devils also. The chief of a company
of dwarf ttorobats tools his troupe to par.
form in a 011100e near Timbnctoo. The per.
fornlanoe wa0 not 6 profitable one. No-
body came to it, and not only was this the
ease, but the performers discovered that
the entire village had run away, believing
the acrobats to be imps at play. But what-
ever may be the fact as to the existence of
dwarf worship at the present time, there is
no doubt that the superstition has ox.
fated from the most remote ages, Their
pictures are found upon Egyptian monu-
ments of a date loltg antecedent toany civil.
teethe in Greece. It is the belief of Mr,
Haliburton that these dwarfs brought with
L110/11 into Oreese the origin of much of Greek
mythology. Ho found 111011y Greek super-
stitions among them, such 08 the stories
of the Styx and of Cadmus. The dwarfs
have always been famous its smiths End arti-
fiuers, Their occupation has also to a con-
siderable extent boon subterranean. They
have been devoted to the sinking of wells,
and they aro, no doubt, the builders of 1.18
cave dwellings found in the Atlas Moen Mine,
which from their height must have been
inhabited by a race low in stature.
A Valuable Oow'n Butter Yield,
The test of Bisson's Bello 3114, who pro-
duced in the year ending July 15, 1801,
8,412 pounds and 7 0111(0es of milk, from
which was made 1,082 lbs. in azo. of butter,
whioh is published in full in tho Jersey ]3u1-
leein of last week, is an intereeting study.
In the s000nd wooh of her test, sho gave
257 lbs. 12 ozs, of milk, from which w69
11311(10 38 lbs, 10 000. of butter, • showing 0
porloltago of 11.10 of butte', while for 0
similar period ht Slay of this year she gave
only 132 lbs. 10 ors. of mills which peon u1,.
ed 181)10, 4 ons. 0014.23 per cent, of butter,
I3or food was of 000180 leber61, and while it
must have cost up,verd0 of 5100 during tie
year, the 11/1110/0 produced, at 25e. per
pouted, foots up to ; about 3,257, Besides
this, elle dropped a 11110 b1111 calf that, will
be worth fully as much more keying a not
profit of not less that 3300. A herd of such
cows would Boot malt0 their 0W1101' as rich
to pooleot as tlhoy wore in butter,
If .Horses Oeuld Talk,
Don't hitch me to an iron post or railing
when the mercury is below freezing.
Don't compel>ne to eat more salt than I
want by mixing it in my oats. I know
bettor than any Ott or animal how much I
need,
Don't think because I go free under the
whip thlut I don't got tired.
]Don't think because I am a horse, that
iron weeds and briars won't hurt my flay.
Don't wrap ale when I get frightened
along the road or I will expect it next tine
and maybe make trouble,
Don't trot me up hill, for I have to carry
you and tho buggy and myself too.
Don't keep my stable very dark, for when
I go out into the light my eyes are injured,
especiO I3 of there is snow on the ground.
Dort'; say " Whoa" unless you moan it.
Teach 1110 to stop at that word.
Don't make me drink foe oold watt. nor
put a frosty bit, in my mouth, Warm tho
lift by holding it a half a minute against
mybody.
Don't forgot to file my teeth when they
getjagged and 100111011 ellen my food, When
ii get loan it is a sign my teeth want
filng, .
Don't ask mo to " belt" with blinds on ;
I mil afraid to,
Don't runt me down a steep hill, for if any.
thing 01on)ct give way I might break. your
neck,
Don't put et the blind bridle to that it
irritates my eye, or so leave my forelock
that it will he in my .eyes. .
Don't bozo careless of 4(;y harness 118 ,7(4
lied a groat 0or0 on me before you attend
to 11,
Dont leave me to soneeblockitiatl ti(0.))
has less sons0 than I have. al1
"Alt," said a kind.lroarted ole; lady who
Was -passing an asylum for the blind, "If
all the world were blind, what a mela11-
elholy sight it would be 1"
A WONDERFUL DIAMOND
Ito Owner the Here in a Brilliant 11oyel,
$2,080,000 ASKED FOR 'ewe 1'Itli(110E8
MONS.
A lawsuit is now pending in Calcutta be.
0w0a41 two 1000018 1 0,1i11.11 etlara1tat's, 41110 0110
10 11 ;1 ( l11l1elt 10 t:1i of Hyderabad,
and the other great diamond, the merchant;
Alexander 31 Myelin Geary Subo'tjeo, hotter
known :s Alexander Malcolm Jambe, he
being the hero of Mariou Crawford.); navel,
,r
M. r Mattes,"
is 111 serious trouble, Mt:
Jacobs orale al agreement with the Nizam
to sell 11in1 11e Imperial diamond, the large
est in the world, for a trifle over $2,000,000.
He asked however, for lug'Avarice of $1,000,-
000, and the demand VMS conceded. Mr,
Jacobs knight the (tame from some London
dealers, agreeing to pay 41750,000 for it, and
to forfeit te10,04,0 if the sale was not eono17id-
ed. He would have made a clear profit of a
million dollars.
The diamond eves a right royal stone.
It weighs 180 wu'ate, while the famed
Kollinoor, the " Moalitain of Light," which
the English took from Dhuloep Singh,
weighs only 100 carats, The latteris in the
possession of the Queen of England, and
the was some talk el presenting her with
the Imperial dianlold on 1110 occasion of her
jubilee. But the Nizanm was not satisfied
with the Impe1iel. He is supposed to have
t1Oughl it but a shabby kind of thing, not
at all good enough for his Nizaniship.
Perhaps a fit of persitnouy may have seiz-
ed him, and no wonder even for a man of
his vast wealth, who ,peudsunheard of sums.
en Guillotines, miserable daubs of pictures
and such useless brie -a -brae. He flatly
refused to have anything to do with the.
bauble, and cunoeled his negotiations like an
arbitrary ltospot as 1e is.
1110. JACOB IN A 1>A11 PIX.
This placed 31r. Jacobs in an awful fix.
He could not chancel his agreement with the
Loudon dealer as somtinarily as did the fickle
Indian potentate. So he had to pay up the
510,001) forfeit money as per agreement.
And to make /its position worse tho royal
bargainer asked nim to ' divvy up " the
15.1
,o",000
" 10'h,is ". Mr, I8aa00" could not do, as,
relying on the Nizam's word, he bad invest-
ed a large pert ert of the money in jewels. So
he refused point blank to be made a fool of,
and, as the .Nizam had broken his agree-
ment, " lilt'. Jacobs" wouldn't return the
cash, And there the matter stands, pend-
ing the decision of the High Court at Oat.
gutta.
A S"{ET01I OF 510. I0,41CS.
The following sketch of the life of " Mr.
Isaacs" is taken from the ;'all Mall Bsrlget:
" Mr. Isaacs" was the son of an Italian resi-
dent in Constantinople, who made a compe-
tency by menufacluriug soap for the Ilse of
the " true believer" out of the refuse of olive
oil, and who, in consequence, was known by
the name of " Saboonlee." When scarcely
in his teens yotmg Barre—for that is " Mr.
Isaac a" real cognomen—entered the service
of an engineer employed in laying the tele-
graph lino frotn Scutari via Diarbokr to the
Persian (.ill f : thence, after many wanderings
in Armenia and Persia he shipped 014 an
Arab bug;alow for Bombay, and worked his
way to 24 j•dorabad in company with a hoer --
chant who (0410 convoying a shipment or
ladies for the Nizanl's'/'.mann. Young 13arre,
who was an 6clep11 at Oriental languages, re-
eeivad employment with the lata Nizam,
passing under the name Of Suliman Roomani
and, outwardly at any rate, profesecells10m.
On the death of his master, palace intrigues
arose, SUMO of the elder members of the
family refuseing to recognise the legi_
tlulaey of the child now reigning over
the ten millions who people 111e Setat
of Hyclerebad. In truth, those who remem-
ber the stalwart proportions of the giants:
who have heretofore ruled in the Doreen
am scarcely credit the fact that the dlminu
tivo specimen of humanity now sitting one
the Musnud can be a child of the Turki
warrior who conquered Southern India for
the Great :Mogul.
HS FLED FOR 1719 LIFE.
There are princes in Hyderabad still liv-
ing who openly boast their claim to the
throne, and one of these intrusted young
Stillman Roomani with a letter to the 33rd-
tish Resident, contesting the legitimacy o3
the boy Nizaln. Barre learned the contents,
of the letter, and, feelingthat, wilt:me :won,
in tho promised strugglhis life at any rate
would bo forfeited (for in the year 1870 hn.
man life was not estimated at any high value
in Hyderabad), he determined to try fresh
woods and pastures naw. In disguise he
escaped to Poona, thence to Madras, where
for some time he posed as an Armenian,
alelcone, Hagopian, and then he entered the
service of the Maharajah of Ulwar. here
again he became involved in palace intrigues,
and {vas deported from the State by the
political agent, Col. Cadet'. From Ulwar
Mr. Isaacs " passed into the so•vieo of the
Maharajah of Dholopore ; and, after a few
years, having amassed some capital andl
leased more about precious stones than
most living experts, he proceeded to Simnla,
and commenced business on his own aoeonnt.
For more than tel years his shop has been
the resort of all curiosity hunters in Indiry
his 0011eetiens of oofns, jade and oldhiohein-
medan books being alnlo0t' unique. Mindfnl
of his Hyderabad experience, " Mr. Isaacs"'
religiously kept away from Deccan, but at
last his anxiety to share in the immense
01110 which the Nizam was squandering in.
jewelry led him in 181)0 to put his hood
within the lion's jaws, He need have no
fear•
000E A LITTLE SLAVE 001.
Few would recognize in the wealthy
Simla jeweler her. Jacobs, the little slave
boy, Soliman Romani. After several
interviews with theNizan, onlyeneompassed
after the payment of large sums 111 baoksheesh
to palace underlings, "14Ir, Isaaos" deter-
mined to avow his former connection with
Efydorabad, thinking it might aid ilim in
his business, and, availing himself of an
opportunity when he was alone with Hie
Highness, he related 121e ~~hole story of his •
life in the late Nizanl's household. That is
an incident quite in the style of the "Thous-
and and Ono Nights"—of which, indeed, the
chequered career of our hero 1s in other
ways rein1)11500116.
Two Men.
Two mel tolled side by Dido from son tOestm,
e
And oth tvere poor;
Both sat with children when the tiny was done!
About their door.
Ono saw tae$ en 4(t fultant 1eri1110041 cloud
Tho other, with ht011ead in sadnos8 bowed,
Mule night of noon.
Ono loved each. ;roe, .and flower, and ;Angina
1>It'd
On 100110t or plain:
No music 111 rho soul of one ~vas stirred
rte leaf of rain,
Ono sale Ilio g10,11 ever 10110w 1110.11,
And horsed the best;
The other marvelled aphis ahestor•s'lilan
d.itd'doubt conf(0001.
Ono, 1avin�gheaven above and heaven boloty,
Was satisfied.
'rho other, d1ise011tontecl, lived in woo,
A.nd hopeless died.