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-- A JOY OF THE PAST.
Hun ng the Buffalo In Days That Save
Gone By.
" A buffalo is more timid than those calves
browsing there, and more powerful than a
lion. A trifle will scare the wits out of
him ; but unless you hit him in a vital part
you can almost put a whole cartridge box
into him before you will bring him down."
The speaker was a raw-boned frontiers-
man, who for more than thirty years had
lived in the West. He had takenGreeley's
sdviest and grown up with the country.
He it el swung through a wide range, and
had lived among the mountains, but now
owned a large ranch on the plains. Though
engaged extensively in the cattle business
there was a time when he was well nigh es
largely engaged in the buffalo business.
" Yea," he resumed, "you can send them
flying as easily as you can a brood
of chickens, but it will require the wi d of
a thoroughbred horse to catch up with them.
And when a buffalo runs he is the most
ungainly, lumbering creature going. -
" Just about twenty years age I was
Leong here when down from the northeast
r ,Led a big herd of them, containing fully
3 ),0:;0 buffalo. It had been a dry season.
I ems among the hills yonder when I heard
he thauder of their heavy gallop. The
earth fairly simple beneath their tremendous
m tvement. Great clouds of dust rose above
teen, as though a cyclone was tearing up
the earth and tilling the air. That small
somsin w3 crossed a short distance back
w is not near so full of water as it is
now. But the buffalo had scented it, and
had come from miles away for it with a
read rush.
" It seemed as they approached that their
speed quickened. The herd was led by a
number of great, powerful hulls. Their
eyes rolled while their tongues hung from
their open mouths. I had watched herds
approach and pass me before. But, hidden
hehind=a rock so as not to disturb them, I
watched with an entirely new interest the
sweep of this hey d, impelled by the fiery
torments of a consuming thirst. I quickly
I' received its object, and, as the channel of
the stream is a trifle deep, I judged that
there wonid be a sudden increase of speed
for a brief moment when tate banks were
reached.
" I had witnessed a comparatively dry
river -bed quickly covered by a foaming tor-
;ent, whose rising tides soon swirled and
boiled up to the very top of the shores—a
result of heavy storms nearer their source.
I concluded from the impetuous rush of
this turbulent stream of buffalo that the
channels of this river would soon be covered
and quite filled. But a moment later my
conclusions were more than realized. For
when the leaders reached the very brink
they plunged down the steep bank, and
themselves would have suffered no particu-
lar injury from the sudden and swift des-
cent. Because a buffalo, though awkward
and weighing a ton, when he goes down al-
most a precipitous decline will so combine
a tumble with a slide and roll and leap that,
much like a cat, he will soon be right side
ap at the bottom. It was what came after
them that prevented the leaders from get-
ting the best of the bargain in reaching the
water first.
" For this great herd was almost a solid,
compact mass, and it had acquired such a
momentum in its headlong career that con-
siderations for the fate of the leaders were
not of sufficient force, if even they had been
entertained soon enough, to perceptibly
check its movement. So down the banks
they tumbled on top of the leaders, rank
after rank, until the channel for a quarter
of a mile was full and overflowing with
them.
" Yes, the momentum was so great and
the stop so sudden that from nay point of
observation it seemed like an enormous
black wave whose edge had suddenly swol-
len higher than the succeeding nody, and it
was rolling over and over because of the
undertow. Pushed on by the great mass
behind, the buffaloes which reached the
bank had to leap upon the backs of those
ahead for their lives, and so that great mass
tolled over and over, throwing many on the
opposite bank. You would have supposed
that fatal consequences would have resulted
to great numbers.
" The rush was soon stopped. Then the
herd widened out, those in the rear hurry-
ing up and down the stream ; and those
tumbled into a heap into the bed of the
stream rapidly extricated themselves until,
in an almost incredible short space of time
every buffalo was comparatively free, I do
not suppose there were more than a dozen
that were seriously injured. It is simply
rerr arkable, the toughness of the buffaloes
which used to roam n this great West.
" Hunting the buffalo is exciting sport.
'1'o an old -hunter, though, it is usually a
imple affair. For a long period during my
fife the cornmoness of the hunt rubbed off
about all the novelty there was in it and it
came to be regarded as quite an ordinary
event.
" I want to say, too, that the wholesale
way in which these huge animals were
slaughtered by speculators is something
which always riles the blood of a Westerner
when it is referred to. And I cannot recall
these grand old beasts without being remind-
ed of the brutality and unpardonable bloody
work of many a white man from the East.
"I remember a chase which took place
down near the Arkansaw River along in the
early spring of the year '60, I think. Our
camp was begining to suffer for provisions.
One afternoon I mounted my pony, intend
ing to wing some duck in a distant bend of
the river, where there were sedgy- marshes,
and where they found a favorite resort. But
I was unable to discover the faintest sign
of their presence, and, after exhausting both
myself and my pony in a long search beyond,
I concluded to stop where I was for the
night. The next morning my hunt for
ducks was made to appear a small and in-
significant pursuit, unworthy of astrong
man ; for their in the distance was a great
herd of buffalo feeding. It was to the
windward, and consequently I ran no risk
of being scented.
" Hastily eating what little hunch I had -
remaining from the previous night I started.
Luck favored me. 1 discoverd the serpen
tine line -of anarrow hollow formed. by the
waters when great rains fell, moving to the
river. Thisa wound around in a long
and circuitons fashion until it came near the
herd. I was soon into this hollow, and my
pony picked his way down it on a fast walk.
As I came near I could hear distinctly the
rippling sound which innumerable months_
made as they tore the green -grass from the
sod.
I had not reached quite the 'mint where
I determined to mount the bank- and make
acharge upon the herd when I came un-
expectedly into an opening where the bank'
lowered away, exposing -me to the hill vies
of the cows tnat happened to be browsing
in that direction. They instantly - tossei
their heads and started. The attention o
others was drawn and then some bulls gave
a sharp snort, which was the signal for a
--general stampede.- Away the whole hemm
plunged. It was then or never. Sospuriint
tuy pony up-" the grade I - tore after the n
hey psi in:go*A i tradition for leading ne
a long race and swept away like the wind.
But my pony possessed unusual qualities of
speed and I gained on them gradually. I
came close to the stragglers, but, as I was
after some tempting steak, I had no disposi-
tion to shoot down anything that I could
reach. So pressing on I saw some fine cows
ahead, and reathing them I put a couple of
bails in the first and and three in the others,
which brought them down. Then a couple
of rods or so farther in advance I saw a
magnificent bull. He was the biggest
fellow I had yet seen, with tremendous
shoulders and a mane which was immense.
I urged on my pony as the enormous fellow,
then on the edge of the herd, a stalwart
protector, lumbered swiftly along. As I
drew nearer, hie greatproportionsexcited
my keenest admiration, and I at once re-
solved that if I got nothing else I must cer-
tainly secure him. His magnificent head and
bis huge hide would be trophies that any
hunter might well be proud of.
" It was a nip and tuck - race, I tell you.
The big fellow seemed to catch on to my
purpose, for he stretched himself out and
tore up the earth as his gait increased, mak-
ing a spurt of speed which lengthened the
distance between us.
" But my pony caught the full excitement
of the race and bent himself with new
energy to his work, and it was but a few
minutes when we came up close to the big
fellow's side. I took careful aim and blazed
away. Instinctively my horse swerved
away just in time to escape the outward
lunge of the beast, who tossed his head to- ting short your holiday by a week,
wards us and came charging after. console you I make this offer : To the one
But he made only several leaps, when he who gets most game in the next seven days
resumed his place and went tearing ahead l I'll give my light fowling piece.
with still greater speed. Evidently my " I need a heavier gun ; but this one is
ball had only grazed him, stimulating him about right for a boy, and you know what a
rather than damaging him. My horse was beauty it is. So that Arthur may have e
at bis best and rapidly came up, so that we fair chance to win I'll leave the gun here
soon were tearing along neck and neck for hili to use."
again. On the afternoon of the following Mon-
fromday the animal, when on a line with him, cousins' skill in wing -shooting had .made it-
the
shot again. He turned quick as a flash self felt, and Arthur was behind in the race.
toward me instantly. My pony, attempt- Joe led him by a dozen birds and Hal by
ing to leap aside struck a number of prairie nearly as many.
dog holes and lost his footing. Before he' Just before dusk of that day, Arthur de-
upon
himself the enraged bull was
tided to row across the lake and look at
upon us. His head was down and he caught some traps he had set along the opposite
the horse beneath..His rush was 80 great shore. The evening was damp, and, as he
that bis head was prevented from being; didn't want the prize gun to get rusty he
thrown up as highly as he might have done. i left it at the camp.
As it was my pony was lifted from hie feet, I After visiting the traps he started home -
gored and thrown to one side in a heap. I ward. His boat was moving quietly along
was jerked from my seat and went sprawl- when he noticed, through the twilight some-
ing over the beast. In the intense excite- thiny swimming in the water.
went of a, chase like that, one does not stop It was too large for a loon or a deer's
to calculate the risks he runs. head. His curiosity was excited, and he
" In my condition any one of a dozen in -.rowed rapidly towards the moving object.
cidents would seem to be the occasion of in I Now he had no difficulty in recogizing
stant death. Behind me comes a score of it. It was a moose. He had once seen one
these huge fellows right on a line of my fall. `of these animals stuffed, and there was no
It seemed that I would be trampled to' mistaking the over -hanging upper lip and
pieces. But I landed on all fours and was broad antlers.
at once on my feet, shouting and brandish- I He had no weapon, and ho w should he
ing my arms. The mass parted, and h ran capture it? This part of the lake was nar-
row ; before long the animal would reaoh
ing sight of me cane charging upon me with land.
a furious bellow. My bad luck was bound He rowed along side, and snatching up an
to continue, for I stumbled and fell. l oar tried to strike its head ; but with one
"Down in tremendous plunges at me came powerful plung the moose was out of reach.
the monster. I could not rise quick enough, There seemed no other way of killing it,
and, falling at the side of an old buffalo and they were approaching ominously near
trail—a narrow path worn into the ground, the bank.
by the marching of countless buffaloes mov- 1 Arthur decided to make another attempt
ing in single file —I rolled into this. The to stun the !noose, and this time he rowed
beast tore up the ground with its hoofs in around it, getting between it and the shore.
trying to stop and looked ferociously at me. As he poised an oar for the blow, the great
His savage eye burned like a coal of fire, and animal glaring at him with menacing eyes'
froth, stained with blood, dripped from his instead of jumping away, threw its weight
mouth. When in the saddle I had noticed against the side of the boat.
the great size of the head ' but lying there; The frail craft careened and filling with
with that tossing and dashing head above water went down.
me, it seemed to be three times as large and' When the boat sank Arthur was sucked
ugly and terrible in the extreme. I expect- beneath the surface, and came up coughing
ed every instant to feel the awful thrust of and chocking. He was not a good swimmer
his horns. His head bumped against me. and realized his danger.
His enormous mane brushed me. The froth; As he rose abov the water he saw right
from his mouth spattered me. His tremen- in front of him the antlers of the moose.
does breathing puffed like a steam engine Leaping forward he grasped these, and
again and again into my face. But his drew himself onto the creatures shoulders.
horns were too short to catch on readily. II The moose had been surprised at the dis-
knew that my only safety was telie low and appearance of the boat ; now, feeling the
say nothing. Just as I was about to con- boy astride its neck, it grew frantic, and
gratulate myself that the fellow could not kicked worse than any mustang.
get at me his horn tore a rent in my j But Arthur clinched his teeth and hung
breeches. The ripping noise maddened him' on. It was his one hope ; as long as he sat
if possible still more. He made a- deeper firmly on the swimming animal, holding its
scoop for me and caught my buckskin coat antlers, he was safe from hoofs, teeth and
in the shoulder, jerked me up from the horns.
ground, and threw me to the right. I fell Morever, he was sure to drown if the
sideways, but mostly on my feet, and start -moose could not be made to tow him ashore.
ed on a run in a direction opposite to where Exhausted by its efforts to unseat the
boy, the animal swam quietly for a few
HO if HE WON THE SHOTI�UN.
Being out of breath, it rested for a -moment.
Phis breathing space gave Arthur time to
open his hunting -knife.
BY F. S. PALMER As the animal again came on, he moved
Two years ago Mr. Lindsay took his two aside, and as the broad neck passed struck
sons annephew to Lake Molaka for the several rapid blows with his knife. The
in the last two weeks of moose turned, but this time Arthur con -
trout fishing fronted it,and, though feelinga blow from
August. The boys so enjoyed the place
that he promised them to stay through its fore foot, thrust forward the blade again
September. and again.
It is contrary to law to catch trout dur- The boy managed to pull himself to.the
ing that month ; however, Joe and -Hal other side of the log, and the. moose had no
Lindsay had good sport gunning for grouse strength to follow. The great animal
and ducks. floundered about fora few minutes; and then -
But Arthur Blake, not havingso wealthy lay quietly.
a father as his cousins, owned no shotgun ; Soon after, when Mr. Lindsay was being
and when he wished to join in their shoot- rowed across the lake on his return to the
ingexpeditions he had to borrow an old camp, he heard a faint"shout coming from
muzzle -loading musket belonging to one of out the mist. He turned to one side and
the guides. - found his nephew, as yet too exhausted to
W hile the other boys were off hunting, attempt swimming ashore, clinging to the
Arthur tried to amuse himself catching log ; in the water near him was a great,
mink in- deadfalls'—rude traps which the shaggy moose was taken in tow, and, with
guides taught him to make. out waitingfor explanations, Mr. Lindsay
But as he was an inexperienced trapper P Y
and the mink were scarce, not many were hurried the chilled boy to the campfire.
captured ; so one evening about the middle After supper Arthur told his story.
of September, when his uncle announced " A plucky fight," commented his uncle.
that he was called back to the city, Arthur "And now boys." turning to his sons, "I
was not sorry to leave. Trapping mink was suppose there's no doubt who gets the shot -
ver poor sport. gun ; you haven't been killing moose, too
Onseeing his sons' disappointed faces, have you?"
Mr. Lindsay made a proposal. The next autumn, when the three boys
" Boys," he said " if you three promise to were again at lake Molaka, Arthur could
be careful, I might leave you here a week hold his own at shooting ; he had made use
longer with the guides. Even then I'm cut of the prize gun and was now as skillful a
and to wing shot as either of his cousins.
his head pointed.
"He swung around and was after me in moments. Then it stopped moving, began
a trice. Of course I could not hope to out- pawing the water and violently shaking
run him. He gained en me. I stopped, itself.
faced him, and had by this time drawn my j Finding that these tactics did not rid it
revolver. On he came like a hurricane . of its burden, the moose threw itself back -
His grizzly and awful front, his fiery eyes, !ward, tossing and rolling about in the
his mighty, headlong, plunging gait, which water.
seemed the very embodiment of an over- I This performance put the boy's head . be -
whelming force—all this has been indelibly' neath the surface, and between shaking and
photographed on my brain, though the pro- exertions to retain his hold, he was fast
cess was about as instantaneous- as they growing weak. -
make them. When within about four or i However, his pluck held out, sustaining
five feet cf me I leaped to one side and his' him until the moose once more began swim•
impetuous rush swung him straight along. i ming quietly towards shore.
Hut as he tore by me, the very ground' Now they were not more than 30 rods
shaking with his jumps, for he weighed over from the bank, and the fierce animal doabt-
a ton, I sent a bullet into his side. It pane- I less felt that, once on dry land, its revenge
teamed his lungs. The others had been' would be certain.
effective. I could see him reel. The boy believed his strength would not
" He stopped, turned, was about to make last during another such struggle, and if he
another charge, staggered, sank on his knees lost his hold he would be drowned or stamp -
his fierce eyes rolling in mad fury at me. I ed to death.
moved around to his side and put another
ball into him, when he went clean down and
stretched himself into the last struggle."
"Come down and visit me, and as you
step across my threshold there in the vesti-
bule confronting you, will be his enormous
head, -as life -Like as the art of taxidermy
can present. Look at that grand head and
you will be compelled to give credence to a
part of my story, at least, and your regrets
will join mine that no more of the noblest
As he was dragged along something felt
heavy in his jacket ; he remembered his
large huntingtnife.
Here was a possible means of escape. If
the moose seemed likely to succeed in
throwing him off, he would try to kill it
He saw with joy that they were now so near
the shore that he might reach there without
the animal's assistance.
All this had passed quickly through his
maid, and they were yet 10 rods from the
American game is to be found on these land when the boy saw, right in their way;
great plains." the end of a log rising from the water. -
Perhaps it would not be necessary to re-
sort to the knife, for now he had a new
Elea. As they passed the log he would
spring to this new support and cling there
until the angry moose was out of the way.
Probably the animal would seek safety in
the woods and pay no further attention to
him.
In a moment more they- were beside the
log. Arthur let go of the antlers and flung
himself through the water. A stroke or
two carried him to the log. Putting one
arm over it, he was held atove the surface.
From here,. when the moose -had- disappear-
ed, he would swim ashore.
He was congratulating himself on hie
escape, when he heard an angry snort be-
hind him, and, glancing over his shoulder,
saw the moose, with flashing eyes advancing.
He bad over -rated the animal's hurry to
get ashore. It was thinking less of escape
than of revenge for the ignominy of being
made a beast of burden.
Arthur had just time to. spring to the op-
posite side of the log as the angry creature
plunged at him. Re now saw its full face
and realized its ugliness. Small, wicker;
eyes, long, drooping upper lip, white tuck
and sharp Horns, made up a picture fat
from pleasing to the frightened boy.
Only one man in 203 is over six feet in
height.
Great truths are portions of the soul of
man.
Doing is the great thing. For if, resolute-
ly, people do what is right, . in- time they
come to like doing it.
" Bitten by an alleged mad dog" is the
mild way in which it is put in some papers,
to avoid hurting the dog's feelings should he
merely be° labor 9g under a temporary aber-
ration.
One of the smallest coins in size is the
new cnatroreal gold piece of Guatemala.
On February 2, 1641, Sir Edward Jering
was put out of the House and committed
to the Tower for his strange, unadvised,
and sudden differing from himself."
At a Catholic convent in Fort Berthold,
N. D., all the sisters, including the mother
superior, are Indians, " and the spiritual
director is a priest of Mohawk descent,
The people of Rome get their supply of
water, which is said -to be remarkably /Aim,
ruin the Apenninesthrough an ancient
gaeduot That was- constructed by theirAgain :the: moose sprang through tie
orefathera. ' water, and again he- dodged the onslaught.
Animal and Plant Life.
BY GRANT ALLEN.
It is a marked characteristic of the cactus
tribe to be very tenacious of life, when
hacked to pieces, to spring a fresh in full
vigour from every scrap or fragment. True
vegetable hydras, when you cut down one,
ten spring in its place ; every separate mor-
sel of the thick and sentient stem has the
power of growing anew into a separate
cactus. Surprising as this peculiarity seems
at first sight, it is only a special desert mo-
dification of a faculty possessed in a leas de-
gree by almost all plants and by many ani-
mals. If you cut off the end of a rose -branch
and stick it in the ground under suitable
conditions, it grows into a rose -tree. if you
take cuttings of scarlet geraniums or com-
mon verbenas, and pot them in moist soil,
they bud out apace into new plants like
their parents. Certain special, types can
even be propagated from fragments of the
leaf ; for example there is a particularly viv-
acious begonia off which you may snap a cor-
ner of one blade, and hang it up by a string
from a peg ot the ceiling, when, hi presto !
little begonia plants begin to bud ont incon-
tinently on every side from its edges. A
certain German professor went even further
than that; he chopped up a liver -wort very
fine into vegetable mincemeat, which he
then spread thin over a saucerful of moist
sand, and to ! in a few days the whole sur-
face of the mess was covered with a perfect
forest of sprouting little liver -worts.
Roughly speaking, one may say that every
fragment of every organism has in it the
power to rebuild in its entirety another
organism like the one of which it was once
formed a compound element. Similarly
with animals. Cut off a lizard's tail, and
straightaway a new tail grows in its place
-with surprising promptitude. Cut off a
lobster's claw, and in a very few weeks that
lobster is walking about airily on his native
rocks, with two claws as usual. True, in
these cases the tail and the claw don't
bud out in turn into a new lizard or
a new lobster. But that is a penalty the
higher organisms have to pay for
their extreme complexity. They have
lost that plasticity, that freedom of
growth, which characterizes the simpler
and more primitive forms of life ; in their
case the power of producing fresh organisms
entire from a single fragment, once diffused
equally over the w'Gole body, is now confin-
ed to certain specialized cells which, in their
developed form, wt. know as seeds or eggs.
Yet, even among animals, at a low stage of
development, this original power of repro-
ducing the whole from a singlepart remains
inherent in the organism, for you may chop
up a fresh -water hydra into a hundred little
bits, and every bit will be capable of grow-
ing afresh into a complete hydra. Now,
desert plants would naturally retain this
primitive tendency in a very high degree ;
for they are especially organized to resist
drought—being the survivors of generations
of drought -proof ancestors and, like the
camel, they have often to struggle on though
long periods of time without a drop of water.
That is why the prickly pear is so
common in all countries where the climate
suits it, and where it has once
managed to gain a foothold. The
more you cut it down the thicker it springs
each murdered bit becomes the parent in
clue time of a numerous offspring. Man,
however, with his usual ingenuity, has man-
aged to best the plant on its own ground,
and turn it into a useful fodder for his
beasts of burden. The prickly pear is
planted abundantly on bear rocks in Alger-
ia, where nothing else would grow, and is
cut down when adult, divested of its
thorns by a rough process of . hack-
ing, and used as food for camels and cattle.
It thus provides fresh moist fodder in the
African summer when the grass is dried up
and all other pasture crops have failed en-
tirely. The flowers of the prickly pear, as
of many other cactuses, grow apparently on
the edge of the leaves, which alone might
give the observant mind a hint as to the true
nature of those thick and flattened expan-
sions. For whenever what look like leaves
beat flower, or fruit on their edge or mid -
ib, as in the familiar instance of butcher's
broom, you may he sure at a glance they
are really branches in disguise masquerad-
ing as foliage.
The Sowing of Clover.
If clover seed is to be sown with spring
grain, barley is much preferable to oats. It
does not exhaust the soil as oats does, and
though its leaf -is much broader than the oat
leaf the crop is cut and out of the way a
week or more before oats can be harvested.
If the barley ground is fall -plowed and the
grain sown or drilled in without plowing in
spring, the clover seed will catch better and
make a. better stand. The a'iperiority of
winter grain for a spring catch of either
clover or grass seed is due to the tart that
the seed falls on a surface mellowed and pee -
pared by repeated free and thawia.a
through the winter.
Irascible Diner—" See here, sir, don't
you see I am waiting here." Complaisant
Waiter—" Very well, sir, very well, sir,
then I will go and wait>somewhere else."
Mastiff is derived from the Italian mas•
tino, or the French martin, both of which
signify large -limbed.
The terrier takes its name from its habit
•f following game into burrows in the earth.
rhich tatter in Latin is termed terra.
Swiss authorities are arranging for ex-
teriments with carrier pigeons in connectioi
with the postal service.
CROMWELL'S OHARMOTER.
BY CHARLES S. MAY,
Never was the government of the great
protector so strong—perhaps England her-
self was never really so great and command-
ing among the nations as on the day of his
death. And this in spite of all the enemies
he had made, in spite of the malice of fac-
tions which he had crushed and silenced, of
the vengeful hate of the caviler and royalist
whose cause he had overthrown in battle,
and of a standing offer of £500 and the hon-
ors of perpetual knighthood to his assassin
from the young exiled king across the chan-
nel. Ten conspiracies to take his life were
unearthed in his short reign. All this and
these, and yet he could hold on firmly and
grandly to the end. What vigilance ! What
power ! Never was he to feel the assassin's
dagger or be brought to the scaffold or the
block, or sent to breathe his last, a hope-
less exile, on some barren rock in the sea.
No, he was to die at last at the very height
of his power, on this fortunate day—the
day of Dunbar and Worcester—in the royal
palace of England, and to be buried among
her kings with a vast funeral pomp and a
wide -wailing grief such as never followed a
hereditary king of England to his tomb.
And Nature, herself, as she had seeme3 at
Dunbar to light up with glory his greatest
victory, now clothed herself on the day of
his death in robes of terror and black de-
spair as the awful tempest swept over the
quaking island and the seas, and toppled
down the houses of the affrighted and grief-
stricken city.
What a coincidence that in latter times
another here and conqueror, Cromwell's
superior intellect but his inferior in moral
greatness, should pass out of the world in
the midst of a like temptest which shook
and roared around that desolate island in
the Southern Ocean 1 Does inanimate na-
ture, indeed, know and feel when mighty
heroes expire ?
Cromwell died at the comparatively early
age of 59, of his old enemy, the tertain
ague, the only enemy that ever conquered
him. He was worn down with public
cares, with watching and with domestic
griefs. In his last moments as he lay
dying, he murmured : " My work is done."
And what work it had been ! Compara-
tively short, but great among the greatest
in all the wide sweep of history.
As a soldier in battle and a commander
of armies, Cromwell ranks among the half-
dozen great generals of the world. If we
consider simply the disparity of numbers,
the uniform and unbroken success, the
smallness of his own losses and the terrible
losses and overthrows inflicted upon his
enemies, be stands at the head of all com-
manders, ancient or modern. Hannibal,
Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick and Napoleon
each lost great battles, disastrously, and
Caesar received checks, but Cromwell never
lost a battle, or skirmish, even—be was
never beaten. Ho may not have been
equal to Napoleon, or some of the other
goat captains as a strategist, a planner
of campaigns—it is certain that he never
had the same oportunities—but as a tacti-
cian, a commander on the battlefield,
in the immediate presence of the enemy, he
ranks with Hannibal and Frederick, and I
k now of no other great soldier in history en-
titled,in this respect, to bear them company.
The enemy that met him on the field of
battle was never left to renew the contest.
He won no barren victories, and his compara-
tively few great battles brought campaigns
and wars to en end.
As a statesman ane ruler ne seems greater
even than as warrior and commander: espe-
cially when we consider the difficulty and
greatness of his task. He did not usurp
authority. Ile was no usurper as that term
is understood in history. He took no man's
rightful place. The king was dead, the na-
tion in the throes of chaos and anarchy—
there was no other leader. Cromwell never
had any rivals. He took the helm in the
storm from duty and necessity. To use his
own homely but expressive illustration, he
was "the constable, set to keep the peace
in the parish." He never wanted to rule
alone. He appointed councils and summon-
ed parliaments and only dissolved them for
good cause. He wanted a written con-
stitution, like, ours of this day with
a strong executive and a legislative de-
partment, representing the people, and
he gave England the best constitution she
ever had in bis " Instrument of Govern-
ment," as it was called, under which he
took power after the expulsion of the rem-
nant of the Long Parliament. He was con-
stantly anxious to govern according to law,
if law could be had. But when there was
no law, or law was made a pretense for in-
justice, then he could take power into his
own hands, but only for the safety and wel-
fare of the nation. Without the strong
arm of Oliver Cromwell England might have
lapsed into something like the anarchy and
chaos of the French Revolution. It did,
indeed, begin to do so after his death, and
it was this that reconciled thoughtfui men
in England to the restoration of the
monarchy. Had Cromwell lived he could
have held power no matter how long his
life. It was only after he was gone that
the state fell to pieces, and king and cavalier
came back to insult the dead lion from they
had kept at a safe distance while he lived.
He was a just as well as a practical states-
man, and in all his rule worthy of his great
title of " Lord High Protector of England"
—with all his austerity and imperious will
he was ever the champion of toleration. He
protected the Quakers, and defended all
sects in their rights of conscience. This
was a good deal in that day and from the
greatest of the Puritans. He even admitt
ed Jews into England after three centuries
of expulsion. How grandly does this ex-
ample of the man whom history has brand-
ed as a " tyrant" compare with the conduct
of a powerful and so-called Christian nation
of our day, which is now outraging the
sympathies of the world in expelling this
long -persecuted and unhappy people from
its borders?
What shall I say of Cromwell's foreign
policy—his magnificent rule and manage-
ment of the foreign relations of England ?
There is no grander chapter in the history
of that great nation than this. Think of it
—he had come to power, himself an untitled
commoner, in that age of kings and king-
eraft, by the execution of a legitimate king
upon the block ; and he was the. chief of
the despised Pnritans while nearly every
other ruler in Christendom was a Catholic;
and yet he brought nations to his feet—was
addressed by kings as "the mostinvineibie
of sovereigns," " the greatest and happiest
of princes'—and he exalted the power and
majesty of England to their loftiest point.
As the great Protestant ruler he demand-
ed and enforced justice for Protestants
everywhere in the world, stretching forth
his imperial hand to rescue them from op-
pression in distant foreign lands. He made
France, England's old traditional enemy,
;is tributary and ally, and sentBlake, with
tis rehabilitated navy, to humble Spain and
holland and thunder in power and victory
.round the Mediterranean. This was really
•.lie beginning of England's naval suprem-
cy, never since lost, for in like manner
we have seen, almost at the treshold of
our times, the daring ambition of Napoleon
pause on the shore where - England's navies
still ruled the seas, and Nelson uttered her
voice of command from the smoke- and
thunder of her floating citadels.
But with all this, with all that he did for
liberty and for England, men say_yet that
he was a despot."- Grant it, if you please,
but let me say here a bold " thing, perhaps,
but one which I believe. The best kind of
ruler in the world is a despot, if you only
have a iaood one. The best kind of gemern-
ment in the world would be a despotism if
you could only be sure of your despot. But
the trouble is that brains and conscieece
and will cannot be transmitted. The world
never saw better or greater rulers than
Cromwell and Frederick, and they were -
botb men of despotic will.
I do not believe in the old vox populi, vox
dei doctrine, nor in the cheaper modern
maxim—certainly as applied to government
everybody is wiser than anybody."
For it is not true. Our great ignorant,
sluggish, perverse humanity has ever to be
lifted up and held up by great men and
God-given leaders who stand out and to wer
above the mass.
I know the gibes and sneers and prejudice
which for 200 years were poured upon the
head of Cromwell. But I would take the
word of John Milton against that of all the
lying sycophants of royalty from the restor-
ation to this day who have attempted to
blacken and defame his character. It took
the Ithureal spear of the genius of Carlyle
to slay these lies. That great hater of lies
and puneturer of frauds and shams has
brought out the grand character of the man
from his letters and speeches, and hence-
forth Cromwell takes his rigitful place in
the pantheon of the world's greatest men—
the avenger of outraged liberty and justice
in war, their great protector in peace.
No, Cromwell was no mountebank, or har-
Iequin, or hypocrite or dissembler who by
fanaticism or hypocrisy, or juggling good
fortune had mounted to the place - ot kings.
He was a real king of men. And he wises no
monster of cruelty, as he has been painted.
He was always tender when duty,as he saw
it, did not make him stern.
Indeed, it is not Richard the First who
deserves to be called Cceur de Lion—"the
lion-hearted"—Richard, the unfilial son; the
cruel enemy; the hero of savage single com-
bat; the half -barbarian warrior—but Crom-
well, the dutiful boy who honored his father
and took his place when he died; who kept
his old mother in her last days with all ten-
derness and respect, like a queen dowager
in the royal palace of England; who, from
the awful carnage of victorious battlefields,
where in his terrible might he had c: ushed
and trodden under foot the enemies of Eng-
land, could send loving messages to wife
and children, and whose great soul moved to
sympathy and totears by the sight of hu-
man suffering, ever protected the poor, the
weak and the defenseless, while with his
stern, high sense of impartial justice he
couldbrinx to the block a king who had op-
pressed the people and trampled on the
laws—Cromwell is the ideal, the true lion-
hearted hero of England.
Dive Stook Notes.
Good care of live. stock is now an impera-
tive duty, as both March and April are usu-
ally severe, trying months for all farm ani-
mals. They require extra care and liberal
feeding until the pastures produce sufficient
herbage. Don't stint stock at the critical
season between hay and grass, but keep
them in a thrifty, healthy condition. Guard
your flocks and herds well against the
storms, mud, and mire so prevalent in April.
Farmers who allow their animals to suffer
at this season will ere long be financial suf-
ferers in consequence. Warm stables, well -
drained stock yards, with dry sheds . and
feeding rooms, pay large dividends.
Horses will soon he required to do heavy
work, and should be generously fel and car-
ed for to put them in proper condition. Do
not fail to blanket horses when necessary,
nor fail to feed, water, and groom them reg-
ularly. Give brood mares roomy stalls and
extra care.
Milch cows are are always the most pro-
fitable when they recieve the best attention,
but they reed extra care through the present
season. They should be kept clean and
comfortable, with no lack of wholesomefood.
Incoming cows need good quarters and kind
treatment. Milk fever may be prevented
by keeping the bowels of the cow in proper
condition, which may be done by occasion-
ally feeding them carrots or other roots, or
a quart of oil -cake meal.
Sheep require special care this stormy
month. Be sure that ewes have comfortable
quarters during the lambing season. Nurse
the weak infant lambs and keep them from
becoming chilled. As the weather gets
warmer look out for ticks, and, when they
appear, dip the infested sheep in one of the
decoctions sold for the purpose.
Swine will pay for looking after sharply
now that France and Germany are taking
American pork more freely. Pigs that coxae
in a cold snap should be warmed and n irsed.
Arrange now for June pigs. For lice on
pigs, calves, and fowls use grease and kero-`
sena.
TWO GIBLS GO MAD.
Bitten By a Dog Which Develops Hydro
phobia—A. Terrible Atttic tion.
A despatch from Coe Hill, Ont., says :—
Not often is a family called upon to suffer a
more severe affliction than that of Charles
B. Hawley of the Township of Chandos
in the County of Peterborough, not
often have children been doomed to a
more melancholy fate than are his two
daughters, aged respectively 15 and 17.
Last fall the two girls were bitten by a
dog, but as the injuries were but slight and
the wounds soon healed up no attention was
paid to them, and the matter soon passed
out of mind.
Friday the eldest girl began to show
symptoms of hydrophobia, and she soon be-
came so violent that she had to be strapped
down.
The terrible grief the family felt was
further intensified on Sunday when the
younger girl also began to nianitest similar
symptoms, though of not so violent a char-
acter.
The sufferings of the two afflicted girls,
especially of the eldest, are horrible.
Dr. Grant Apsley, and Dr. Harding
Coe Hill, have charge of the case. They
say the youngest girl may recover, but have
no hopes for the eldest.
•
Spaniels, of which there are many breeds,
are supposed to have first come from Spain
Negotiations between Spain and the
United States regarding copyright have -
been satisfactoi ily concluded.
A large Paris bank failed. Saturday. Ons°
of the directors committed suicide, two b
sconded and one was placed under arrest.
Eight persons who took part in the re-
cent
ecent Berlin riots were on Saturday sea-
teemed to terms of imprisonment 'ranging -
from fifteen months to three years.
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