The Brussels Post, 1891-12-11, Page 71)l,c, 11, 1891. THE BRUSSELS POST,
.(q•g-j IOU T1 J A L, aitlnuth a sod 11,11 nonan NO Wed wlthont
1;. )0001 bIt ii tlio 111)01031)03011111011)310dadouble
benefit, Gradually deeaying they lightened
the .WIT soil lull made It friable, keeping it
Feeding Lambs for Export. more open to ]'Inns and dove, at the same
The Ontario Agriedtfral College and
Experimental Ferro people tried 1011. "Mater
Homo experiments in feeding iamb), both for
the home market told for export to England
The results have just been publisha,1 hi 1311•
boon sent to Cana -
thanlOtua 06 and 00 mud have
farmers who asked for them, As most
people know, Canadian teethe en i4 rule are
rrior0 or loss of long: wooled breed, like the
(Leicester, Coto wold, Lincoln, or of the long.
wooled rep10se0 ta1iveo of the middle -wooled
breeds. One of the experiments wee 11m110
with rho view of learning Ns halter the carry-
ing of suoh Heavy a o
Ileo`o ,all winter
nn rhinder
ed fattening or not,
purchased with some 101) others of the far'
hors of the neighborhood, were put into a
shod by themselves and half of them were
sheared the last of November and then 4411
worn fed together until January lith, when
the 10 shorn lambs were put in another pen
and tihereafter both lots wore fed separately
until sold. alio pens were alike in sire,
ventilation and light. Both grasps were
given the same kinds of food and in the
same quantiess except of hay, which was
given in as large quantity as they would
eat. Tho hay was weighed, and both lot
ate the same amount, Each lot was weigh-
ed together and separately one° a month.
The bay was mixedgrassos, mostly red clove',
fed uncut. The grain ration was made up of
three parts of oats, two of pons and one of
bran, by weight, the oats and peas not being
ground. They also had turnips or maugalds,
sliced before feeding. They hod water at
will. The amount of food eaten by oaoh
lamb during the experiment was 1.0 pounds
of grain and bran, 1.01 pounds of hay and
five potmds of roots, a total of 8.81 pounds
per day. The average daily increase each in
weight was 0.377 pounds of unshorn lambs
and 0.375 pounds of shorn lambs. This is 0
little over six ounces each per day for the
whole time. Each Amen lamb gained 42,73
pounds during the time of the experiment,
and each unshorn lamb gained 42.1415
time I•ortdiziut; i1 to a eoesblera11lo extent
by furnishing food to the growing geese, 1
know meadow); thus formed which 110;00
prod 00011 14 ton of first -roto hey on tile
average per aero each, year for half a con.
Wry without application of stable manure
or fertilizer of any kind. The stumps hero
were also loft till so totted they eotlld be
ovally palled by a yoke or two of cattle,
piled nil and then burned ; those, ton, addocl
something to the fertility of Lilo soil—(A.
13. Allen.
The Bomantio Adventure of Old 1Sam's
Wire.
01d Sun's wife sits in the connoil of hoe
nation—tit°only woman, w•hite,red, or black,
of whom 1 have over heard who enjoys each
a prerogative on this continent, She earned
her peculiar privileges, if nay one ever earn•
ed anything. forty or More years ago she
was at Megan maiden kiloton only in her
tribe, and therefore nothing more than her
good origin, her cenloliuess, and her (1011s0-
gh001 value in horses. She clot with out-
rageous fortune, but she turned it to such
good account that she was speedily ennobl-
ed. She was at home in 31 little camp on
tho plains one day, and had wandered away
from the tents, when she woe kidnapped. It
was in this 3wi00 3 Other 0100100 wore scat-
tered neat; there. On the night before the
day of her adventure a band of Crows stole
a nun)11e0 of horses frons a camp on the (lees
Ventres, and very artfully trailed their
plunder toward and close to the Piegan camp
before they turned and made theirway to their
own lodges. \\hat the Gros Ventres (litcov
ei•od their loss, and followed the trail that
seemed to lead to the I'iegan camp, the girl
tend her fatll0n, an aged chief, were ata dia.
twice from thole tepees, 111m0nletl and un.
suspoeting. Down swooped the Gros \'en
terra. They killed and scalped the old ratan,
and then their chief swung the young girl
upon his horse behind hint, and binding her
to hint with lh0000 of buu:kskin, dashed off
QN HISTORIU ENGAGEMENT,
on island whe11co 1 hey wore ;toadied by 11
V01117 of musketry from an ambush. They
llotr n WOW 1711llalat Brio wares Defeated
delnrulined to laud, 1)111 loot so heavily
1 in the at.ou1)11. that they retired to their
sho Americana In lower I boats. A( all (00)110, old Rough and Beady T
\'uy few 1 'auadiene have 11)17' 1,1 lla that . was so much llialllayetl by his reception
111 the stirring limos of 11)0 early part of the' that lie ovaouutrd and 1,111111 1 0)1) 111,1)1011
century, the British fnrees pushed the trod Johnson, lila most udvauo"d posts on
triumph of their loons far into the region Chu dfiseiea)ppi, on his way down the rivet,
now known 0s the SLato .1 1nwe. 'I'll" fol- anal00tveated 1. St, Louie 00mpletelybattled
lowing interesting letter has been published 111 1110 design of taking Prairie du Chien.
by 1411. Ernest Cruikshank, of Fort Erie t— Captain andersoo'snlauu0oriptjournal, dur-
•o 4•
" Tho reference made ul the lett tu• fa in mg the perinea 1)0 was sW0lannd n1, Fort
Captain T. G. Anderson to Lieut..Col. 111feKay, with the muster, 00110 of bis volun-
MoUouall, dated September 14th, 1814, and tents and theori 'duet eorrespoudence, is still
recently printed, has reminded me of 14 very d1) uxlnonlw, awl( it is to be hoped will wino
interesting deocription 0113110 engagement at day find an appropriate testing place in the
the mouth of the ltoolt River (tow Devon- Oatalian Archives. LilcoAnde'son, Duncan
port, Iowa,) written by Lieutenant Duncan Graham w00 a fur trader, residing before the
Greliant, who commanded the small detach- war at Prairie du chien, a111 118 name
molt from the garrison of Prairie du Ohlea appears in a list of residents of the North -
on that 00ca0io0. The original letter was west who had joined the British, published
found among the collection known as the
Freer Papers, and is now deposited in Lhe
Archives department in Ottawa, It has
never been printed. The following is an
abetted of its contents 3—From Ifunoan
Graham, Lieutenant, Indilnt Department, to
Capt. Thee, 0. Anderson, commanding at
Fort IlloKay. Itook 'River, September 7111,
181+1, Sir —L mentioned in my letter of the
'1711 that, by information I had of the
Indians, the enemy was within thirty
leagues on their way up. 10onelutled their
destination must he Prairie du Chien. 'Cha
rapids were the only place where we could
pounds. The Jambe cost five cents per pound ! triumphantly for his own village. 'flint Inas
at the start and sold at seven cents. On i happened 1,,1 (many allnthe0 Indian maiden,
putting thorn lute market the buyers made most of whom have behaved as would ti
no difference between LhgHO shorn and plaster image, saving few days of weeping,
those unshorn, so that 010 30001 Out MT was , Not such was Old Sur's wife. When sho
and her captor were 131 0i 'ht of the tiros
lot was worth x..8.48, and adding thus 1.0 the stole the chief's scalping.knife out of its
returns of sctle,4 of lambs and wool, and then 5110)011 at 111with 11 still wet with
0 aide.
deducting the most of animals at commence. her father's blood, she cut him in the backmein, "1141 1,1 fond, attendance and shear- 1 through to the heart. Then she freed his
tug, he finds that the ten shorn lambs gave a body from hers, and tossed him from the
net ldr0fit of $30. 14, and tate unshorn a profit I )10rsu's book. Leaping to the ground bo-
cf 1t' d -1.1., Part of the lanlbe were shipped
to England, and netted more than the seven
cents per pound for wh1011 the rest were
sold, but this gain wan not added to the not
figures given by Prof. Shaw. The total net
train in Oda experiment was 3:3.07 per cent.
'rho lambs gained six ounces each per day
on food which cost at market places in
Guelph 2.78 cents per day. The lambs cost
$3.70 per load at the start, and sold at
$10.80 per head. The experiment showed
that there was no diff'ereuce of consequence
in gain whether shorn or not, but that the
wool shorn off was a gain of 50 cents per
hood, after paying for shearing. The wool
was sold at 13 cents per pound. In shipping
to England it was found that the shorn
lambs did better on the 3,000.mile trip, and
looked better on arrival Sum those not
shorn, and oleo occupied less space on
shipboard, which is amaterial item in ex-
porting sheep. On the whole Prof. Shaw
10 satisfied that there is a lino gain in
shearing when the lambs are to bo sold at
honk, and considerable gain when they aro
to be shipped long distances,
clear gain after paying for shearing. Prof.
Shaw- allows that the 0101mre made by each
Ventre village, she roan Had forward and
side his body, she not only scalped 111m,but
out off his right arm and picked up his gun,
and rode madly back to her people, 0hased
most of the way, but bringing safely with
iter the three greatest trophies a warrior can
wrest froln a vanquished enemy. Two of
thein would have distinguished any brave,
but this more village maiden came with all
three. From that day she has boasted the
right to wear three eagle feathers.
0111 Sun Wee young man than, and when
he h' and of this feat he came and hitched
the requisite number of horses toiler mother's
travois Soles beside her tent, I do not
recall how many steeds she was valued at,
butt have heard of vary high•prieed Indian
girls who imd nothing except their feniniue
qualities to recommend them. In ono ease
I know that a young man, who had been
casting what are called " sheep's eyes" at a
maiden, wont ono day and tied f0 r horses
to her father's tont. Then he stood around
and waited, but thorn was no sign from tho
tont. Kest day he took four more, and so
he went on until he had tied sixteen horses
to the tepee. At the least they W000 worth
twee 1y dollars, perhaps thirty dollars, 0pieee.
At that the maiden and her people came out,
and reoeivod the young mal o graciously
that he knew 110 was " the young woman's
choice," 03 WO 010y in civilized eir0le0, sonde•
times antler very anodal olrcumatenoos.
Drying off Oows.
On this subject a writer in the FEL? 111
Joul'nnl 1.011:8 as follows.
Should rows bo regularly end forcibly
dried ort', and, if an, how long before caly-
ing? There is a good deal of loose theory 00
this subject floating about, but rho prat:See
of the best dairymen is a bettor gnido. Wo
all know duet there are cows which will not
dry off, do what you will with them, while
the majority of cows aro on1y too ready to
go dry, and this time they aro willing to
lengthen every succeeding year. They are
altogether too accommodating. Theuniversal
talk of old wen in favor of two mouths for
the oow'e rest, but the summer dairymen
usually have their cows come in early in the
spring and milk through while grass lasts,
say to the first of November, and then let
the cows go dry as fast as they please. That
would generally give thong three months of
idleness, except that they had to Iteep on
the move around the hay stacks to keep
them from freezing to death. If they did
not earn anything the farmers concluded
they should not coot anything, and so each
gets its revenge on the other. •
When the system of dairying began to
ohange, and cows were milked and fed
further into the winter, the period of going
dry was very materially shortened, without
any apparent injury to the cow. So, too,
when the oow was put into the city dairy,
where the milk was Bold all the year round,
the dairyman forgot all about making or
letting her go dry. She was simply milked
right along, and unless she insisted upon
going dry, nobody else would do it for her.
:nue we find that practices radically differ-
ed. While all aro In theory willing to give
the cow a rest during the year, yet few eon
agree upon the reasons for this kindness,
Does the cow really need a east? She
docs not work like the mare or the German
cow, that helps to do the plowing ; the
human mother also doing her share. While
itis evident from the usual thin condition
of flesh of the cow do milk that the milking
is a drain upon her system, yet if she is
properly foci and nourished she is about
certain to keep in comfortable flesh and
show no signs of needing a rest. 1110110,011
to see hots the .froths of 111e calf is a drain
upon her, as such a condition has a tendency
to melte the' female put on 11osi1 while the
froths simply grows and has no waste.
Probably tho best plan is to have no re-
g�+olnr rule about drying off rho cows, but
let them milk of until you find the incliyi-
dnal oow falling off too much or showing
0oltle sign of distre00, and Shell out off the
fend and dry her up, but so long as 0110
appears to do well, then keep Ines at work.
A'rTAmt Tot km 'r0 At)VANTAOS.
On the 5th we moved to the west side of the
river and took up a position at the narrow-
est part of the channel, at the only place
Where they could pass, and determined to
dispnto the road 111017 by inch. They ap-
peared in sight at 4 p. m., with a fair,
strong winch, having eight largo boats, four
of which were equal 1n size t0 the one that
escaped from La Prairie 31u Chien. The
largest had a white flag flying at her mast-
head. When they came to tho head of
Credit Island, about two miles from us, a
storm of rain, thunder and lightning came
of and the wind shifted to the opposite
point of the compass, which compelled them
tepees the remainder of the day and night
there. We sent all the 0001(100 and children
to the island. I took all the Sioux with me
to cover the gun in case of a retreat, as they
promised that they would rather be killed
to the last man than give up the gun. I
told the Saults in case they attempted to
land at their village to retreat to the
island, and then w0 01100141 return all to-
gether to KCtack t hem, The nth at break of
day, some of ahc Saults came to us and re-
quested that we should attack them im-
mediately, as the wind was against them
and some of their boats aground. We cross-
ed to the mainland at the Fox Village.
There we left our boats and went on as
quick as possible
At, all events, Old San watg rieh 01141
powerful, cul easily got the savage heroine
for his wife, She was admitted to the
Blackfoot Council wl Smut a )100te81 anti Inas
since proven that her valor was not epooatlie,
1.,' oho has taken the war -path upon occa-
sion, and other scalps have gone to her
ovedit.—Front " Chas:eying a ration," in
!loaner's .111 auaainc.
Permanent Grass Without Ploughing,
My own long experience, and that of
bailees, rotes that some
many my amt of nam , p
mg
lands w1, assess
either for
of the boat grass 11,1 dam
nn obtained oUt
pasture or hay have boon
loans without ploughing. After the forest
was out oil' and the ground cleared it was
000/13 With grass -seed oarly in spring and
then simply harrtl'Ived and brushed. So
Many stumps stood on the lend and le was
so full of largo roots that ploughing if at-
tempted would have boon 1.0ry hard work,
requiring powerful tea0,.oxtra strong heavy
ilnplomcnt0 ; and oven with these it could
only be partially done, leaving the surface
in a very rough state. On snob, the seed
did not tanto so woll nor make so good and
at the time ill Mtll'sb'rgfatere 11, lo 1)011101(3110
babin that sane of h la innnedh1t0deseendants
may be living in Canada at the present time,
and may po0000a documents of value, for
many of these old fin -trad010 had a penchant
for keeping journals 01141 often mat with
adventures woll worth recording."
OUTWITTED BY ANTS.
A llenuirlcable 11111R1 11 nee+ of Animn1 Intel
lfgeure
Tho following remarkable story, told by
an eye -witness, 1s entitled to a place an00g
the instances of intelligence among the low.
or animals. A cook was much annoyed to
find his pastry -shelves attacked by ants. By
careful watching 11. was diseovoredthat they
came twice a day in search of food—at abort
7 in the Morning and 4 in the afternoon.
Now were the plea to be protected against
the invaders? The cools decides to make a
oirole around the pie with molasses and
await the result. He did not have long to
wait, for at 0:30 he noticed that off in the
left corner of the pantry was a line of ants
slowly making their way 111 the direction of
the pies,
They seemed like a vast eerily coming
forth to attach the enemy. In front was a
leagle1', who always (rept 0 little ahead of his
troops. They were of the sort known as
the medium-sized red ant, w11id11 is regarded
as the most intelligent of its kind, whose
scientific name is formica rubra, About
forty ants out of 500 stepped out and joined
the loader. The general and his aides held
a council and then proceeded to examine the
circle of molasses, Certain portions seemed
1.c be assigned to the different ants, and each
selected unerringly the point in the section
under his charge whore the stream of molas-
ses was narrowest. Then the leader made
Ills tour of inspection. Tho order to march
was given, and the ants all made their way
to a holo in the wall atwhio10 the plastering
was loose. Here they broke rank and set
about caihying pieces of plaster to the place
in the =laces which had been agreed upon
as the narrowest. To and fro they went
from the nail holo to the molasses, until at
11:20 o'clock, they had thrown a bridge
across. Then they formed themselves in
line again and marched over, and by 11:45
every ant was eating pier—Toledo Blade.
01(10011000 T11E PRAIRIE,
unperceived by the enemy till on the bank
opposite them. Hero we had a close view
of then. I lied no idea of the enormous size
of their boats before. They lay with their
broadsides close to 0 sandy beach. The
largest had six portholes open to the side
next us. The channel was about six hundred
yards wide. We were on an elevated spot,
but had no covering. I told the Indians not
to waste their ammunition in firing at the
boats, which they did. Finding that they
could not make up matters with the Souks,
as they killed one of their sentinels during
the night, they hauled down the white flag
and hoisted a bloody Hag, which, I believe,
is a signal of no quarter. It was then about
7 a.m. Wo then opened Sre with a three -
pounder and two swivels, and in about
three-quarters of at hour thelargest of their
boats, which was ahead of the others,
having 0130311 fif teen shots throogh tor, be-
gan to push off and drop clown the current.
The others s0011 followed. We kept firing
at them along the bank as far as the ground.
would permit 00 to drag the gnus, but they
soon got out of our reach and went on abort
a league and put iu to shore. I soot immo-
diatcly for boats to follow then. By the
time they vere ready, some of the Indians,
who had followed thein, informed us that it
appeared they had 00nuni(t0(1 some of the
bodies of their men to
The Proper Way to Plough.
The following from 1110 pen of Henry
Stewart in Practical Farmer 1s right : No
country in the world has better plows than
Colada but in none is less attention given
to the use of thein. Plowing is the basis of
the culture of crops. Its purpose is not
only to. broak up the soil and maks a cover-
ing for the soots, but to prepare a feeding
ground for the root which may explore
every part of it, reaching every particle and
getting from each whatever food it may bo
able to furnish. Unless the soil is well
plowed, this purpose of it is not effected, a
Cargo part of it is not broken up at all ; the
clods aro hard and impenetrable, and
the roots meeting them turn aside,
and thus a larger part of the soil, In
some oases the largest of it, affords no
nutriment to the crops. Thorough plowing
consists in breaking up and turning every
part of the soil and preparing it for the final
working by the harrow. This can only be
thoroughly done by malting the furrows per-
fectly straight and all of 011 oven depth and
width, and the result is that rho ground is
out up. Lot us compare this with the eil'ect
on the land of crooked furrows made of Ir-
regular depths. In the first case there is m
layer of soil turned on edge all broken, crack-
ed and pulverized, waiting only for the har-
row teeth to work through it, which they
will do easily, completely -breaking it clown
and malting it fine and mellow. 'P10011, 3011011
one goes over the hand and tries the plowing
with a stick stump in it, ho will find
the whole of it soft and of 011 oven depth
all over. But in the second ease when
the plow is run crooked, 001110 of the
farrows aro narrow and some wide, and in
many planes there will bo banes Where the
ground has not been turned at all. In plans
there is no covering of mellow earth, and
consequently, as w0 are told by the highest
authority, where there is no depth of soil
the plants \0111100 away. I have known and
0cen instances w11000 for yards in length the
aced could not possibly be covered, and the
harrow tenth could not touch the soil, but
rodo over the hollows. The drill oven 00n -
not cover the Hood in such places. No doubt
bile low average products of grain are groat-
1ofbail plowing,
primary fault
P
1' duo to this
0 wovit which 0huuhl bo studied most care-
fully by every young farmer, and which
should be praotisecl ns0iduon0ly until 1100(00.
tion 10 reached
A reel.hoodedgirl does 110b (10011010 0a000 t.
all how much fun is made of her,
A poor Irishman, who hod a groat bulls.
position 'for labour, was told he eo1i111 have
hole 110 Tenger, but must wont or starve.
"Sore, 11'e heart broken I am, and if the
weather was warm onoegh I'd drown my
self.,,
PEARLS OR TRUTH,
(:.Hari t may puff m 1n4n up hot never pe( p
111111 11p,
If ,von want llapphlese don't try to find it
iu somebody cls, g.trden.
Ile that will tollew gond advice ie 11g1v at.
el' man than he that gives it.
The biggest Howard you can find alywhere
is the mew who is afraid to do right.
•f + 1
14 is well to 1)n dethroned before one o has
dune anything to deserve dethronement.
There le a brand of humility a:fire 1,11.,11.
give Star the arrogalleo f6 usually ae0ompun-
1 ea,
Avoid circumlocution in language. Words,
like cannon balls, should go straight, to
their murk.
Tears alleged to flow from material causes
occasion no d10eoulfartable surprise among
the materialists.
Every mall has a weak side, livery wise
Mall knewa where it and will be 0ure to
keep a double guard there.
Never argue, In society nothing must be;
give only results. If any person din'e's from
you, bow, and turn the conversation.
When you knew a thing, to hold that you
know it ; 4111(1 when you do not know a thing,
to allow that you do not know it, this is
knowledge.
There is nothi:,g which helps us to feel
that our lives have. been worth living an
much as the humble but grateful 00110010115.
11000 that we have helped some other soul
to fulfil its destiny.
There aro two things which wi11 make us
happy in tide life if we attend to them.
The first is, never to vex ourselves about
what we canon) help ; and the second never
to vex ourselves about what we eau help.
An author is in the condition of a culprit
the puddle are his judges ; by allowing too
much, and condescending too far, the may
i11j111•e his 01011 01411,40 ; and by pleading and
asserting too boldly, ho may displease the
court.
How wonderful that this one narrow foot-
hold of the present 0110,11(1 hold its own so
coaster] fly, and, while every moment, ;Mang-
ing, should still be a rock betwixt the
encountering tides of the long Past a01 the
infinite To -come l
'The hest things are nearest—breath in
your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at
your feet, duties at your 1101111. 'I'llerl do
not grasp at the stars, but ,lo life's plain,
common work as it comes, certain that daily
duties and daily broad are the sweetest
things of life.
The sky is for all of us. Bright es it is,
it is not "too bright nor good for human
nature's daily food." Sometimes gentle,
sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, it is
clever quite the sane for two moments to-
gether ; almost hum0n in its passions, almost
spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in
its infinity, its appeal to what i0 immortal
in us is as distinct as its ministry of chas-
tisement or of blessing to what is mortal is
essential.
To make a statement, to prove a point, to
picture a scene, t0raise one man and cen-
sure another, wherfetruth is deemed of par-
amount importance and where the claims of
justice are sacred, it is often difficult to
avoid tho charge of being dull and 001111110n -
place and the consciousness of failing to cap-
tivate the attention. Moderate people, those
who ponder carefully, who see many sides
of a subjeot, who aro able to appreciate tho
good points of their enemies and the failings
of their friends, who strive to be aeenroto
and just more than to bo effective and strik-
ing—are seldom so popular or so attractive
as those who put fore° and brilliance and
sparkle into the foreground.
A w'AT111. 01041011,
knowing that 1t they buried then they
would be torn to pieces, They then got up
soil and 111000(1 oil. As they lauded at that
plane, the Indians say there were about, ono
thousand men. They were completely re-
pulsed with considerable loss, as out of
lifty.four shots fired only three 00 four did
not hit. The action lasted about an lour.
One swivel was served by Lieutenant Bris-
bois, the other by Corporal Campbell. \Ve
had not a 01001 hart. It is to the .lull and
courage of Sergeant Keating, who managed
the throe •ponndor, that w0 owe our emcees.
As the Indians had no communication with
the enemy, 1 camlot make out who corn -
mantled this expedition. Abstract of letter
from Capt. T. G. Anderson to Lieut. Col.
IvfoDouall :—Fort McKay, 14tH September,
1814, Lieutenant Graham arrived last
evening with the detachment from Rook
Rive•. Ho left hereon the 27tH August and
arrived there on the 20th. The Indians
shot two sentries off the boats in the night,
0ontrary to Lieutenant Graham's orders.
The Indians finally became ungovernable,
and he had to open fire. Sor cart Colin
Campbell commanded ono of the swivels.
The 0uemy were
1110100300 INT0 SUM 00011110I00
Out Off From Sooiety.
Travelling by rail in the wild region
north of Lake superior, one sees at Inter
vans of several miles rude log cabins or huts
Here live the track walkers, whose duty it
is to carefully inspect the bridges and rails
after a train has passed. Often the walker
has a family, who lives with him fn this
almost uninhabited country, practically
cut off from lnunan society. The log cabins
are only one story high, and very low at
that. There is no sign of a garden near
them, and all supplies aro brought by the
trains. Sometimes it is necessary for the
mien to travel twenty or thirty miles to per-
form n tusk assigned them, and for these
journeys they use the railroad bicycle, a
contrivance with two wheels to fit the rails.
A seat is rtgged between then and 0 lever
imparts motion to the small cogwheels,
\v hielh rapidly turns the wheels on the
track. The mon eau easily travel twelve to
fifteen .miles an hour o1 these little ma-
chines. When they hear a train coming, off
they jump, take their bicycles off the track,
and no sooner has the train' passed than
they resunetheir journey, One oat readily
imagine 'how lonely and unenviable such a
life must bo. The women who share the
solitary lot of the track walkers must find
life very dull, if they care anything for the
eompanionahlp of their own sex. Probably
many of thein do not see another woman
for six months at a time, except through the
windows as the trains whiz past.
on seohlg afew redcoats that they could do
nothing with their guns, and did not fire
more than about fifteen shots. Although
about twelve hundred Indians worepresonb,
and a detachment from dere, the battle was
fought by about twenty men who manned
tiro guns. Thor/animas are supposed to
have had about eight hundred mon on board,
and some of them wore pierced for twelve
guns. T110 shouts of the Indians drowned
the report of the cannon. The Americana
were Oelnnlatd00i by Capt. Zachary Taylor,
in after years President of the United
States. Smith, in his history of Wisconsin,
0tat00 that them:pet/Rion oeiginally consist-
ed of iwonty.two boats, 1100)ng a e0ew of
013011t eighty mon in ea013, It loft St. Louis
of the 33rd of August, and established garri'
00110 fu various posts along the river. 11.1
Rock River the :British had construoted a
battery of two six-peundot's and six painted
woodenons. The first shot passed quite
through -Taylor's boat, which led the way,
and he at oleo Ordered it to bo put about.
The next ball hit the steering oat' of the
second boat, and It drifted helplessly on
shore, Hoar the present site of Davenport,
Nearly a thousand lntliand had assembled,
1
Maly of thorn w1,rc mounted,and fid endo clown
• die
ting noir wea-
pons
is edge
brandishing 1 \vaa
tanto g g
pons furiously, Others approached the
grounded voase1121 0111)000, Neil (history
of 1\Iinuosota)also re fere 10 the wooden gulls,
and states that one of the booto was disabled
and eleven mon badly wounded. Wflkie,iu
"Davenport, Past and Present," says that
Taylor. had two companies of regulars and
1.1.00 01' three 001npa11100 of rangers under a
Captainl}.00tor.
(1A3,3,111) 11V 'refs 1,11(1'0
of the artillery, the Americans stood over to
The Indian -Bunter's Gait.
Tho Indian hunter has a distinctive gait.
His toes, either straight before him or
pointing inward, mover the centre of gravity,
his hips sway slightly to the stepping side,
and his rear toot is not exactly lifted, but
rather peeled off the ground just high
enough to dear the surface and settled 111
its new place before the weight cones on it.
He does not -awing his shoulders, nor walk
with a spring, nor plant his foot with a
shock as the white man cloes. If the Indian
wore turned to stole while in rho act of
stepping, the statue would probably eland
balanced o1 one foot. This gait giv's tho
limbs great control over his movements. Ho
is always poised. If a stick cracks under
him, it is because of his weight, and not by
reason of the impact. bio goes silently and
with great economy of forco. Tho muscles
have loss strain on then 0n(i do not tiro so
00011. Sometimes it 0001110 as if they never
tired, 33Ie treads through woods and swamps
and down timber with no noise except the
rustling of the grass and loaves disturbed
by his passage. His steady balance enables
him to put, his moving foot down as p01111y
as you could lay an egg on the table. You
could not hear the thud of a footfall, if you
listened a week. The gait is not elastin nor
springy nor handsome, and it even makes
the man seem bowlegged. Put the same
person in leather boots on 0 floor, and you
would truly say that he stumped along, but
in mo0casiu0 on a hunt, he sloes nob walk,
lie glides.
7
akos the
Weak Stron
The marked lament u'hloh people in rtlf
down or weakened state of health dorj,ye
from IAand's Sarsaparilla, conclusively
hu p
row
the Nunn that medicine "makes the Welt
800111]," IL docs not act like 1l stimulant,.
Imparthlg 001111mis Ht0rength from which there
must fellow a reaction of greater weakness
than before, but in the most natural way
hood's Sarsaparilla evere.otles
That Tired Feeling
creates mu appetite, purines the blood, and,
111 short, gives great bodily, nerve, mental
and digestive strength.
"I derived very much 'benefit from Hood's
Sarsaparilla, which I toolt for general dolil1Cy.
It built me right up, and gave me an excel-
lent appetite." En, JE000L'es,Mt.Savogo,MOL
Fagged Out
"Last spring I was completely fagged out.
Idy strength left m0 and I felt sick and mis-
erable all tho time, so that I could hardly
attend to my business. I took one bottle of
Hood's Sarsaparilla, and it cured me. There
isnothing like it." R. C. /3.8001,11, Editor
Enterprise, Belleville, Mich.
Worn Out
"Hood's Sarsaparilla restored me to good
health. Dideed, I might say truthfully 1t
Saved my lite. To one feeling tired and worn
out 2 would earnestly recommend a trial of
Hood'sSarsaparllla." MRS. PmIBEMO88En,
DO Brooks Street, East Boston, Mass.
N. 13. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsa-
parilla do not he Induced to buy anything else
instead. Insist upon having
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Sarsaparilla
Sold by all drugglets. 131; sixfor es. Preparedonly-
by. 0. I.11000 Sc CO., Apothooarles, Lowell, Mass,
100 Doses One Dollar
Sun and Shadow.
As I look from the talo, ()Wits billows of green,
To the (,tunas of foam-000st011 bane,
Ion hark, that afar lo the distance is seen,
Hall dream log my eyes will pnrs11e 1
Now dark In the shadow -.he scatters the spray
As the chop' In the sleek,, of the flail;
Now white as a son -gull. she flies on her way
The sought ring bright on her sail.
Yet her pilot is thinking of dangers to shun—
Of bre,tke i Unit whiled and roar;
I3ow lit 11 lie moos if in shadow or IM
They son him, .rho goes front the shore!
He looks to the beacon that 100010 front thereof
To the rook that is under his ler,
Ash0loaf,driftson the blast, like a wind-waf ted.
0'or the gulf 01 1.h a desolate sed.
Thus drifting afar to the dim -vaulted caves,
lvhoo lif0 and its ventures are laid,
The dronmorswrho gaze while w0 battle the
wove"
Tlal•see ns10 cause,
orshade.
1011 ('110 to our 110000, though 1110 shadowsgrow
dark,
We'll trim our broad sail na before,
And stand by the rudder that governs thebark,
Nor ask how w1, look from thehe shore 1
—Wirer Wendell Ilolmeo.
Maternal Affection of Seals.
The effort of the United States and Eng.
land to stop the indiscriminate slaughter of
seals in Behring Sea has led to some inter-
esting discoveries relative to the habits of
the valuable animal. It was s11ew11 in the
course of the investigation that the breed-
ing places selected by the seals aro often
fifty milds from their feeding grounds. This
fact lad Mr. Blaine to infer thatmanyyonng
seals must perish as a, consequence of the
mothers being killed wnile in quest of their
daily food. Bot Sir Charles Tupper seemed
to excel the distinguished Secretary in the
domain of natural history, for ho insisted
that the mothers never for au instant leave
their little ones during the suckling period,
Sir Charles was right. The mother sudklos
the youngster only 1300100 days, and eats
nothing fn the meantime, except some bits
of seaweed that may mine within reach.
This fact has lately been demonstrated by
the commissioners, who killedseveral female
seals during the suckling time and found in
Heir stomachs nothing but a little seaweed
and some pebbles,
Marohioness'e Narrow Escape.
xi.1'ari0 telegram Days..—Sonloclays ago the
Margnise de la Valetta, daughter of Napo
loon's 141ir11010r Rouhor, tree stayinget Ito'
country seat with the Ma•guie. While In
her bedroom she streak a m0t0h, and with.
oubnoticing whether it wa0 alight or not,
her, here 11
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throb it behind carelessly v
happened )o
n 1,d l a fall onlong
mus
the lin train at
her dross She immediately ran into the
next room, where tho marquis was at the
time. The latter, with great presence of
mind, at o3n00 torp t10wn the curtains acid
enveloped his wife in then, fin1lIly succeed-
ing in extinguishing to hates. In spito
of this the poor lady suffered the most tor'
• rible burns on her arms and shoulders, and
for 58 hours her agonies were very great.
Doctors were of course, immediately 011m•
moiled, and the (1auloly this morning leans
that tho Marquise is doing well.
A Viotim to an infernal Machine.
Infernal machines, which fulfil their
dastardly object by exploding and injuring
the person to "horn they are addressed,
fortunately have been somewhat rare of late,
some accident having in the moat recent
oases supervened to avert the catastrophe.
An exception to this, however, is reported
from Langres, whore a 11. Jelorend, dealer
in cement, Was on Friday night the vietinl
of an abominable outrage. On reaching his
door ho noticed on the ground a small box
tied with string. Ho picked it up, and Used
to open it in lits own room, As soon as he
had 11fto3 the lid a tremendous explosion
ensued, throwing Min senseless to the floor
breaking all the furniture, anti bringing
down the nailing and some of the partition
walls, 341. Mosta, who was burned severe-
ly about the face, was able to give such in-
formation to the police as led to an arrest
being matte ; but no further particulars
have yet transpired, and the nature of the
explosive used has not been discovered.
Robert Gen, Welts, M. A., M. D., 141. R.
C. 8., of Albion Mouse, Quadrant Road,
Canonbnry. N., London, hong., writes: "I
carrot refrain from testifying un the °Money
of St. Jacobs 011111 oases of 0(1000ic rhou-
na1ismg sciatica and neuralgia,.
" No, Harry, I am sorry 1 but 1 ant sure
that w1, could not be happy together. You
know I always want my own way in every-
thing." " l3ut, my dear girl, you could go
on wanting it, you know, aftor too were yourselves over to one day's complete rest
married." very week or 1,00 days.
Those who have nal
A Throat used Boschee's Ger
and Lung plan Syrup for soml
severe and chronic
Specialty. trouble of the Throal
and Luugs can hard'
ly appreciate what a truly wonder,
ful medicine it is. The delicioul
sensations of healing, easing, clear,
Mg, strength -gathering and recover*
ing are unknown joys.- For Ger,
man Syrup we do not ask easy cases.
Sugar and water may smooth a
throat or stop a tickling—for a while.
This is as far as the ordinary cougb
medicine goes,•• Boschee's German
Syrup is a discovery, a great Throat
and Lung Specialty. Where for
years there have been sensitiveness,
pain, coughing, spitting, hemorr•
hage, voice failure, weakness, slip,
ping down hill, where doctors'and
medicine and advice have been swat,
lowed and followed to the gulf of
despair, where there is the sickening
conviction that all is over and 110
end is inevitable, there we piaci
German Syrup. It cures. eYou art
a live man yet if you take it. ' 41
A Fronoh Belle's Rale.
An elderly French NV0111011, Who bad boon
a belle for seventy years aid is still fair to
look upon, has written a book of couneelsto
the young, which all Paris is reading' just,
now.
Do not sleep too long or too little,'
writes this oracle. " When you ore going to be
up late ata ball try to sleep for an hour or so
during the afternoon. On returning from
the ball jump into a really 1101 bath and
remain just a moment ; immediately, get
into a hot sheet and bo rubbed clown with a
bath towel, Drink a cop of bouillon, a small
glass of strengthening wine and sleep mail
10 the next morning. Immediately on welting
be sponged with cold water and have a cup
of hot coffee and a slice of unbatterod toast
for breakfast., Wear a narrow piece of flan-
nel from the nap of the neck down the
length of the spine, tied in front with
ribbons, to ward off colds and phthisis, Give
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