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 .r^' Vi?^ H ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH. n .i a CHAPIER I. A VISIT to GROSSE ISLB. AIu that man's btem spirit e'er'Bhould mar A scene so pureâ€" so exqui ite as this. Tne dreadful cholera was depopulating Quebec and Montreal, when our ship cast anchor off Grosae Isle, on the 30ch of August, 1832, and we were boarded a few minutes after by the health-cffioers. One of these gentlemenâ€" a little, shrivelled up French manâ€" from his SDlemn aspect and attenuated figure, would have mde no bad representa- tive of him who sat upon the pale horse. He was the only grave Frenchman I had ever seen, and I naturally enough regarded him as a phenomenon. Hb companion â€" a fine-looking fair haired Scotchmanâ€" though a little consequential in his manners, looked like one who in his own person "could com- bat and vanquish all the evils which flesh is heir to. Such waa the contrast between these doctor?, that they would iave formed very good emblems, cne, of vigorous health the other, of hopeless decay. Oar ciptain, a rude, blunt north-country sailor, possessing certainly not more polite- ness than might be expected in a bear, per- ceived his sprucely dressed visitors on the deck, and with very little courtesy, abrupt- ly bade them follow him down to the cabin. The official was no sooner seated than, glancing hastily round the plac6, they com- menced the following dialogue " From what port, captain " Now, the captain had a peculiar language of hu own, from which he commonly ex- punged all the connecting links. Small words, such as «' and" and "the," he con- trived to dispense with altogether. *« Scotlandâ€" sailed from port o'Leith, bound for Qaebec, Montrealâ€" general cargo â€" seventy-two steerage, four cabin passen- gers â€" brig Anne, one hundred and ninety- two tons burden, crew eight hand." Here he produced his credentials, and handed them to the strangers. The Scotchman just glanced over the documents, and laid them on|thc table. " Had you a good passage out " "Tedious, baffling winds, heavy fogs, de- tained three weeks on Banksâ€" foul weather making Gulfâ€" short of water, people^ out of provisions, steerage passengers starviug. " Any case of sickness or rteath on board " " All sound as crickets." "Any births?" lisped the little French- man. The captain screwed up his mouth, and after a moment's reflsctlon he replied, " Births Why, yes now I think on't, gentlemen, we had one female on board, who produced three at a birth." " That's uncommon," said the Scotch doc- tor, with an air of lively curiosity. "Are the children alive and well 1 I should like much to see them." He started up, and knocked his head, for he was very tall, against the celling. "Confound your low cribs 1 I have nearly dashed out my brains." " A hard task, that," looked the captain to me. He did not speak, but I knew by his sarcastic grin what was uppermost in his thoughts. "The young ones all males â€" fine thriving fellows. Seep upon deck, Sam Frajser," turning to his steward " bring ttaem down for doctors to see." Sam van ished, with a knowing wink to his superior, and quickly returned, bearing in his arms three fat, chuckle- headed bull terriers the sagacious mother following close at his heels, and looked ready to give and take offence on the alightest provocation. "Here, gentlemen, are the babiea," said Frazer, depositing his burden on the floor. "They de credit to the nursing of the brindled slut." Th»old tar laughed, chuckled, and rub- bed his hands in an eostacy of delight at the indignation and disappointment visible in the countenance of the Scotch Esculapius, who, angry as he was, wisely held his tongue. Not so the Frenchman hia rage scarcely knew bounds, â€" he danced ina atate of most ludicrous excitement, â€" he shook hia fist at our rough captain, and .screamed at the top of hi» voice, â€" "Sacre, 'you bete! Yoa tink na dog, when you try to paaa your pnppiea on tu for babiea?" " Hout, man, don't be angry," aaid the Scotchman, atifling a lau^h "yon aee 'tia only a joke 1" "Joke I me no understand auch joke. Bete " returned the angry Frenchman, be- atowing a aa^age kick on one of the unof- fending pupa which was frisking about hia feet. The pup yelped the slut barked and leaped furiously at the offender, and was only kept from biting him by Sam, who could scarcely hold her back for laughing; the captain waa uproarious the ofrendml Frenchman alone maintained a severe and dignified aspect. The dogs were at length dismissed, and peace restored. After some further questioning from the officials 1 bible was required for the captain to take an oath. Mme was mislaid, and there was none at hand. " Confound it 1" muttered the old sailor, tossing over the papers in hia desk " that aooundml, Sam, alwaya stows my traps out of the way." Then taking up from the table a {book which I had been reading, which hanpened to be Voltaire'8 History of ChurUi XII., he presented it, with as grave an air as fas could assume, to the French- man. Taking for granted that it was the volume required, the little doctor was too polite to open the book, the captain waa duly aworn, and the party returned to the deck. Here a new difficulty occurred, which nearly ended in a aerioua quarrel. The gentlemen requested the old sailor to give them a few feet of old planking, to repair some damaeo which their boat had austained the day before. This the captain could not do. They aeemed to think hia refusal in- tentionaJ, and took it aa a personal aA-ont. In no very gentle tonea, they crdereH him inatantly to prepare hia boats, and put hia passengers on shore. "Stiff breeza â€" short aea," returned the bluff old seaman " great risk in making land â€" boats heavily laden with women and children will be swamped. Not a aool goes on ahore this night." " If yon refuse to comply with our orders, we will rrport yon to the aattiorities," "I know my dutyâ€" yoa stick to yours. When the wind falls oflf. III ste to it. Not » life shall be ri Aed to jdease yoa or year aathoritiesL" He toived opon ids faed* end Urn medfoel MB left «lw vaiNl in gteet iUidain. We to be theiddol tu tbe drowned, from another vessel close beside na, while attempting to make the shore. By daybreak all was hurry and con- fusion on board the Anne. I watched boat after boat depart for the island, full of peo- ple and goods, and envied them the glorious privilege of once more standing firmly on the earth, after two long montha of rocking and rolling at sea. How ardently we anticipate pleasure, whicb often ends in positive pain Such was my case when at last indulged in the gratification so eagerly desired. As Qabin passengers, we were not included in the general order of purification, but were onlv obliged to send our servant, with the clothes and bedding we had used during the voyage, on shore, to be washed. Xhe ship wa» soon emptied of all her live cargo. My husb 3md went off with the boats, to reconnoitre the island, and I was left alone with my baby, in the otherwise empty vessel. Even Oacar, the Captain's Scotch terrier, who had formed a devoted attach- ment to me during the voyage, forgot his allegiance, became possessed of the land mania, and waa away with the reat. With the most intense desire to go on shore, I waa doomed to look and long and envy every boatfull of emigrants that glided pa it. Nor was this all the ship was out of provisions, and I was condemned to undergo a rigid fast until the return of the boat, when the cap- tain had promised a supply of fresh butter and bread. The vessel had beer nine weeks as sea the poor steerage passengers for the two last weeks had been out of food, and the captain had been obliged to feed them from the ship's stores. The promised bread was to be obtained from a small stoam-boat which plied daily between Quebec and the island, tranportiag convalescent emigrants and their goods in her upward trip, and pra- visions for the sick on her return. How I reckoned on once more tasting bread and butter. The very thought of the treat in store served to sharpen my appetite, and render the long fast more irksome. I could now fully realize all Mrs. Bowdich's longings for English bread apd butter, after her three years' travel through the burning African deserts, with her talented husband. " V\ hen we arrived at the hotel at Ply- mouth," said she, " and were asked what refreshment we chose â€" ' Tea, and home- made bread and butter, ' was my,inatant reply. ' Brown bread, if you please, and pleuty of it.' I never enjoyed any luxury like it. I was positively ashamed of asking the waiter to refill the plate. After the execrable messes, and the hard' ship bisouit, imagine the luxury of a good slice of English bread and butter 1" At home, I laughed heartily at the lively energy with which that charming woman of genius related this little incident in her eventful history, â€" but off Grosse Isle, I realised it all. As the sun rose above the horizon, all these matter-of-fact circumstances were gradually forgotten, and merged in the sur- passing grandeur of the scene that rose majestically before me. The previous day had been da|k and stormy and a heavy fog had concealed the mountain chain, which forms the stupendous background to this sublime view, entirely from our sight. As the clouds rolled away from their grey, bald brows, and cast into denaer ahadow the vaat forest belt that girdled them round, they loomed out like mighty glanta â€" Titana of the earth, in all their rugged and awfal beauty â€" a thrill of wonder and delight per- vaded my mind. The apectacle floated dim- ly on my aightâ€" my eyea were blinded with tearsâ€" blinded with the excess of beauty. I turned to the right and to the left, I looked up and down the glorious river never had I beheld ao many atriking objects blended, into one mighty whole I Nature had lavish- ed all her noblest f eatares in producing that enchanting scene. The rocky isle in front,'with its neat farm- housea at the eastern point, and ita high bluff at the weatom extremity, crowned with the telegraph â€" the middle apace occu- pied by tents and aheds for the cholera pa- tients, and ita wooded shores dotted over with motley groups â€" added greatly to the pictureaque effect of the land acene. Then the broad glittering river, covered with boats darting to and fro, conveying paaaen- gera from twenty-five veaaela, of various size and tonnage, which rode at anchor, with their flags flying from the mast head, gave an air of life and interest to the whole. Tam- ing to the aouth side of the St Lawrence, 1 was not less struck with its low fertile shores, white houaes, and neat chnrohea, whose slender spires and bright tin roofs ahone like ailver as they caught the first rays of the sun. Aa far aa the eye could reach, a line of white buildings extended along the bank, their background formed by a purple hue of the dense interminable forest. It was a scene unlike any I had ever beheld, and to which Britain contains no parallel. Mackenzie, an old Scoteh dragoon, who waa one of our paasengera, when he roae in the morning and saw the ^parish of St. Thomai for the first time exclaimed " Weel, it beats a' 1 Can thae white clouta be a' houses Thae look like claea hung'joQt todrie I".There waa aome truth in thia «Mld comparision, and for aome minutea I could acarcely convince myaelf that the white patehea scattered so thickly over the opposite shore coidd be the dwellings of a busy, lively population. " What sublime views of the nortJi side of the rivet those Aaitane of St. Thomaa muat enjoy," thought L Perhapa familiar- ity with the acene hu rendered them in- different to ita aatoniahing beauty. Eastward, the view down the St. Law- rence towarda the Gulf, is the finest of all, acarcely anrpaaaed by anything in the world. Your eye followa the loss range of lofty mountuna nntil their bine summits are blended and lost in .he bine of the sky. Some of these, partially dewed round the bsae, are sprinkled over with neat cottages and the green slopes aronnd them are cover- ed with flocks and herds. The surface of the splendid river is diversified with isluids of every s'zs and shape, some in wood, otliers partially cleared, and adorned wilji orchards and white farm-honses. As the early snn streamed npon the moat prominent of theee, leaving the others in deep shade, the effisct waa atraogely novel and Impneing. In more remote rcffiiona, where the forest hM never yet echoed totitewoodmaa'seze, or received the impress of oivillzftttoai the fink«mrawdi to the shore iamlres » lueleiw^wly ewe* which beoraaes peitfal in tte JHtiptfty. And •OaBM-Wwtol aOiMetafods PratoonOy tfer ttcas taBtodas: " ' tilitttslitibiciXIfeelliedle Of cheeitol pniae round Nstua's thrsae. Has teds hsdf with Go4-alasi«k • My day-dreams wore dialed by the re- turn of the boat, which brought my husband and the captain from the island. " Xo bread," said the latter, shaking bis head; "you muat be content to starve a little longer. Provision-ship not in tall four o'clock." My husband smiled at the look of blank disappointment with which I re- ceived these unwelcome tidinga, " Never mind, I have newa which will comfort yon. The officer who commands the stetion sent a note to me by an orderly, inviting us to spend the afternoon with him. He promiaea to show us everything worthy of notice on the island Captainâ€" olaiimBacquaintance with me; but I have not the least recollection of him. Would you like to go?" ' " Oh by all means. I long to see the love- ly bland. It looks a perfect paradise at thia diatance." â- , v- The rough aailor-captain acrewed hia mouth on one side, and gave me one of hia comical looka, but he said nothing uutilbe assisted in placing me and the baby in the boat. " Don't be too sanguine, Mrs. Moodie many things look well at a distance which are bad enough when near." I scarcely regarded the old sailor's warn- ing. So eager was I to go on shore â€" to put my foot upon the new world for the first timeâ€" I was in no humour to listen to any depreciation of what seemed so beautiful. It waa f ur o'clock when we landed on the rocks wnich the rays of an intenaely scorch- ing sun had rendered so hot that I could acarcely place my foot upon them. How the people without shoes bore it, I cannot imi^- ine. Never shall I forget the extraordinary spectacle that met our sight the moment we paased the low range of buahea which form- ed a screen in front of the river. A crowd of many hundred Iriah emigrants had been landed during the preaent and former day and all this motley crew â€" men, women, and children, who were not confined by sickness to the sheds (which greatly resembled cat- tle-pens) â€" were employed in washing clothes, or spreading them on the rocka and buahea to dry. The men and boys were in the water, while the women, with their acantv garments tucked above' ^heir knees, were Itramping their bedding in tubs, or in holes in the rocks, which the retiring tide had left half full of water. Those who did not possess washing tubs, paila, or iron pots, or could not obtain access to a hole in the rocks, were running too and fro, screaming and scolding in no measured terms. The confusion of Babel was among them. All talkers and no hearers â€" each shouting and yelling in his or her uncouth dialect, and all accompanying their vociferations with violent and extra- ordinary gestures, quite incompirehenaible to the uninitiated. W e were literally stunned by the strife of tonguea. I ahrank with feelirga almost akin to fear, from the hard- featured, sunburnt women, as they elbowed rudely past me. I had heard and read much of savages, and have since seen, during my long resi- dence }n the bush, somewhat of uncivilized life but the Indian is one of Nature's gentle- men â€" he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, tmeducated baibarians, who form the surplus of over-populous Euro- pean countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy. The people who covered the island appeared perfectly destitute of shame, or even a sense of common decency. Many were almost naked, still more bat partially clothed. We tamed in diujast from the revolting scene, but were unable to leave the spot until the captain |had satisfied a noisy jpronp of hia own people, who were demanding a supply of stores. And here I must observe that oar passen- gers, who were chiefly honest Scotoh labor- ers and nieohanics from the vioinityof i!din- burgh, and who while on board ship had conducted themselves with the greatest propriety, and appeared the most quiet, orderly set of people in the world, no sooner set foot upon the island, than they became infected by the same spirit of insubordina- tion and miirule, uid were just as insolent and noisy as the rest. While our captain was vainly endeavor- ing to satufy the unreasonable demands of his rebellious people, Moodie had discovered a woodland path that led to the back of the island. Sheltered by some hazel-bashes from the intense heat of the sun, we sat down by the cool, fnuhingrirer, oat of sight bat, alas not out of hearing of the noin^, riotous crowd. Coald we have shut out the profane sounds which came to us on every breeze, how deeply should we have enjoyed an hoar amid the tranquil beauties of that retired and lovely spot 1 The rocky banks of the island were adorned with beautiful evergreens, which sprang up spontoneonaly in every nook and crevice. I remarked many of our favourite garden ahrabs among these wildings of nature. The fiUagree, with its narrow, dark glossy-green leaves; the privet, with ite modest white blossoms and purple berries the lignum- vitse, with ite strong resinous odor; the buraet rose, and a great variety of elegant unknowns. Here, the shores of the island and main- land, receding from each other, formed a small cove, overhang with lofty treet, cloth- ed from the base to the summit idth wild vines, that hung in graceful festoons from the topmost branches to the water's edge. The dark shadows of the mountains, thrown upon the water, as they towered to the height of some thousand feet above as, gave to the surface of the river an ebon hue. The sunbeams, dancing through the thick, quiv- ering foliage, feU in stors at gold, or long lines of dazzdng brightness, upon the deep black waters, prodnoing tiie most novel and beautiful effects. It was a scene over which the ipirit of peace might brood in silent adoration but how spoiled by the discord- ant yells of the filthy beings who weie suUy- ing the purity of theiair and wacer with con taminating sights and sounds I We wwe now joined by the sergeant, who very kindly brpnght as his capfal of ripe plums and hazel-nnts, the growth of the is-^ had a joj^ oreaent, but marred by a note nrom Ci^tain â€" â€" who liad found that he h^been miatakon in his tuppoaed know- ledge of us, aad poUtely i^olocised tn not b^ng allowed by the beaith-cffioera to le- oeive any eniignut beyond the bmOidi »». pointed fw tlwperfomnnca trf oiianaliM. _.*:??!L-?'.^*i dnsing, drinking, danoing, shontinff and cnt^ aatibrtlHit worid snrprise^Hitt lead- er of acixcoa. They have no shameâ€" are nnder no restraintâ€" nobody knows them here, and they think they can speak and act as they please and they mo such theives that they roboneanother of the 'ittie they possess. The healthy actually ran the risk of- taking the cholera by robbing the sick. If you have not hired one or two stout, honest fel- lows from among your fellow-pasaengera te guard your clothes while they are drying, you will never see half of them again. They are a sad set, sir, a sad set. W e could, per- haps, manage the men but the women, sir â€" the women Oh, sir 1" Anxious as we were to return to the ship, we were obliged to remain nntil sundown in our retired nook. We were hungry, tired, and out of spirite the mosquitoes swarmed in myriads aronnd us, tormenting the poor baby, who, not at all pleased with her visit to the new world, filled the air with cries when the captain came to tell us that the boat was ready. It was a welcome sound. Forcing omjway once more through the still squabbling "crowd, we gained the landing place. Here we encountered a boat, just landing a freah cargo of emigrtmta from the Emerald Island. One fellow, of gigantic proportions, whose long tattered great- coat just reached below the middle of his bare red legs, and, like charity, hid the dfeesta of his other garmente, or perhaps concealed hia want of them, leaped upon the rocka, and flouriahing aloft hia ahilelagh, bounded and capered liVe a wild goat from his native mountains. " Whurrah my boys " he cried " Shure we'll all be jintlemen " " Pull away, my lads 1" said the captain. Then turning to me, " Well, Mrs. Moodie, I hope that you have had enough of Grosse Isle. But could you have witnessed the scenes that I did this morning â€" " Here he was interrupted by the wife of the old Scoteh Dragoon, [Mackenzie, running down to the boat, and laying her band familiarly upon his shoulder, " Captain, dinna forget." " Forgot what?' She whispered something confidentially in his ear. " Oh, ho the brandy " he responded aloud. "I should have thought, Mra. Mackenzie, that you had had enough of that same, on yon island " " Aye, sic a place for decent folk," re- turned the drunken body, shaking her head. " One needs a drap o' comfort, captain, to keep up one's heart ava." The captain aet up one of his beisteroua laugha, as he pushed the boat from the shore. "Hollo 1 Sam Frazer I steer in, we have forgotten the stores." "I hope not, captain," said I; "I have been starving since daybreak." " The bread 1 the butter, the beef, the onions and potatoes are here, air," aaid honeat Sam particularising each article. " All right, pull for the ship. Mrs. Moodie, we will have a glorious supper, and mind you don't dream of Groase Isle." In a few minutea we were again on board. Thua ended my firat day'a experience of the land of all our hopea. (to BE CONTINUED.) Uncle Nate's Funeral. BT WILL CABUSTOH. 'Twas not at all like those you see of ordlnarj- men 'Tnras such as never could occur, excsptlfl$p now and then For Uncle Nate had studied hard upon it, night and day. And planned it allâ€" while yet aliveâ€" in hia peculiar way. "I've managed other men's remains," he raid with quiet tone, " And now I'll make a firat-class try to rejrulate my own." And so a month before his death, he wrote the de- tails down. For friends to print when he was dead, and mall throughout the town, The paper said " I've figured dose, and done the best I knew, TohareaKood large funeral, when this short life was through I're thought about it night and day, I've brooded o'er the same, Until it seemed almost a task to wait nntil it came. Especially as my good wife ha« wandeied on ahead, And all the children we possessed have many years been dead And now I'll tell you what I want my friends and foes to do â€" I'm sorry that I can't be here to push th' arrange- ment through " I do not want to hire a hearse, with crape around it thrown I'm social like and am not used to riding round alone. Bring my old wagon, into which the children used to cUmb, Until I've taken on a drive full twenty at a time We've loafed along the country roads for many plea- sant hour*, And they have scampered far and near and picked the freshest flowers And I would like to have Uiem come, upon my burial dav. And ride with m?, and talk to me, and mng along the way. " I want my friend the ministerâ€" the test of preach- er-folks. With whom I've argued, prayed and wept, and swap- ?ed a thousand Jokesâ€" a sermon to the friends, and make it sweet but strong And recollect. I don't believe in speeches overlong. ' ABd tell him, notwithstanding w his eloquence and worth, 'Twon't be the first time thave slept when he was holding forth. ' I'd like two texti; and one shall be by Bible cover j pressed. And one from outside, that shall read, "He did his level best." " And any one I've given helpâ€" to comfort or to to save- Just bring a flower or sprig of green, and throw it in the grave. Pleaaa have a pleaaant social time round the sub- scriber's bier. And no one but my enemies must shed a single tear. You simply say, "Old Uncle Nate, whatever may befall. Is having probably to-day the best time of us all 1 He'sshakinghands. twoatatime, with several hun- dred friends. And giving us who stay behind good gilt-edged re- commends '" ^^y*.'*,'^.**' "'" *•! the. rules that Uncle Nate iaid down When he was dead, they came to him from «verv house in town The chUdren did their best ibosicg, but could not qmtebeheard; The parson had a sermon there, but did not speak a word. Of course they buried him in flowers, and kissed him as he lay, Fornotaaoul inaUthat toitn but he had helped aome way " Bat when they tried to monld hia mound without the __ tearaaweetlaaven; Then iroae loud aobi that Uncle Nate oouid almost near in heaven. Birture'BChfltL 'Ansa B. KSSIOS. ^cSJS^^^ O H^tnw, take thy ohiM tboofralana-wtads lend and wOd. rMftabo pOed, 'wrtlittsqaiotFlaee Sate I Wluit Became .ftfc,,,^^ The city fades away in tK/r" then we settie down oncSâ„¢'^;^j rouime of a man-of-war. w.*» *« {} fair winds and weather, »J««W uncouple the propeller andS.^ "«»«7i alone. **Pniidtt|S Now comes the ideal tin," j sailor's heart, when seated I ^*' t, 4, nook he can smoke hU BinT "»« Z spin yarns without end a,," P^ i2 worth recording? Yes; if y^n*^ «f t^ old quartermaster to talk " 8« tt wUl often hear of stranee J° ' n wonderful as any CUrk RaaseU f* •« "lamnot abelievi -.« uuu a oeiieverin elin.t» natural appearaeces," says he " ""?«• than you maybe"â€" this tc me " strange thmg happened in, sailed in. ship I which he did well and if a fid, P^and came martmgale he rarely, i{ One day we had a «9, under the miued him. porpoises come snorting round TkT" tearing about bolder than ^Zu^^ and seemed to look up at thp „ 3'*. muchastosay .CatchVj;t;2';j? he was » «P^cyJJttle_fellow and didn't^^ of them- about the biggest I ever pushed hU nose above the water and .«!" sort ot sputtering snort, just aa U he'lTj laughmp to himself, but couldn't hold! 'â- "I wX.r' was obliged to bursS "Well, the captain couldn't stand W Til â„¢* l"" " ^^ t P""" ' « ke S 1 11 make you langh on the other 5id7rf your pig a face before I've done with 01 my boy.' And then he caUed to the wSd I inate, ana says he, ' Just bend on the linet. the harpoon and I'll strike that fellow if I cornea within reach again, if he is t^e detil himself ' ' " Well, there waa no poop in that veuel I so the captain took his stand on the quartet- boat, and had his harpoon all ready, and tie line coiled free and all clear for the first pot. poise that came near-but especially the lij black oneif possible. There he was-tle mate looking at him, the man at the wW looking at him as well as he conld while minding his course, and two men lookirgit him who_ were mending sails, and another man looking at him as ht rigged a SeotdunanoL to the backstay, I was on deck, too, but not looking at him constantly, because I was tt- tending the ship's course and looking up at tbe ship's sails. " All of a sudden somebody sung oit, ' Where's the captain V and we all looked about and nobody could see him so I jump- 1 ed into the boaii, thinking he might begot down in her for something, bnt sure enough, he wasn't there, nor the harpoon, nor the line, but only about a fathom of the endo! the line that was bent on to the standing rigging. And nobody heard any sphuhii the water, nor aaw him strike at tiie fiih, nor fall overboard, but overboard he cet' tainly was. " Well, we couldn't be convinced that he I waa out of the ahip, so we searched the cabin, and the 'tween decks, and even t' hold, but we never aaw him again. " Well, we were very down hearted it 1 this, and the men thought it a bad sign IhI that, of coarse, I knew was all nonieaa However, the mate took command of the ship, and brought her into Bombay, m there most of the handa left her they nen were reconciled to the ahip after the c^ tain disappeared, because they said erarr night, as sure as dght bells stmsk, they wr the captain standing up in the boat with v» harpoon in hb hand, and heard him W; • I'll strike him if he's the devil hinujffl, and then there waa a anortug andabitt- choked laughing noise m tbe water u around the ahip, but especially under the starboard quarter, where the captain ding peared and this I could have sworn I ««» often enough myself. Left a Substitute. Who has not felt a sort of p^fofj dog which always getsiti runs at the !««â-  of a leading atring? Every one whoM sympathized with the poor dog' ««^ condition wUl appreciate the elever n» » the dog in the foUowing anecdote, wwb. we find in a Western exchange Captain Williams of the ship «. ftjJJ Ing at Green Street Wharf. \^,V^ oTa valuable setter Thedcg has Urjd ij the captain's famUy for some l^^'T^^ most inteUigent animaL Bemg det«w some sheep worrying at hon«i.**^,S into disgrace, and aa a punishment wi«"" to sea on the St. Paul. ... t/g The captain had a nice hou* hnfltw him on the deck abaft the '^^ arriving in port, every "!«" ""^.t- been fastened in his kennel with ^«»*^j^ tachedtoachain. Every eveiungong;;^ on board, it has been C»P J« \K habit to go to the kennel and p*" before gomg to his berth. ^^ A fewnighta ago, on goi?*.*" ,Li* as naual, tS» captain. io^^^^S there as usual, but it d«i no* Jg^cJ. touch like the f«»ay"*frt5 tW • lar. On procuring a light he J^g, irft strange dog occupied the home. the dog there and "ti^^f^ 5,.m,dog'«*' Next morning he found ^.^J\jM kennel, as usnS with it. """"^.J'jl nigi* as iuu^nt as if it had been ff^^d In the evening the captain wp' ^^ SolSy after 5ght fall thesttw^JS *. on boid agin and went to»«j{*S ooB* setter withTiis paws »hppej^ ,„ » f* and scooted over the gang-P»»*^j, pjna ashore, the strange dog »*7, d»yl**S He returned next ""'""jli-iy slipped on his collar, and w-tfof*" be «Sed when the skipper c«n« early coffee. «nnched«' Captain Williams th«P««W^ hole b the collar and »*«7^. oa bjj At nIghtfaU the *^^^^^ifZi agalnVid, goin« to the k«g^r .f* tekehii place as »"•••. vtd to reij»*^ not get lOs collar off "jj Wh^d**** ita way on shore, P»d«*f «• ?5, gOWffBLE KITES IH DIDU. ^y HU Wife's Ej ea aa a Sa« ' *^^ to a Pemon. iMdioS Bombay newspaper S*V'!Tol^o recent revolting inc ^*fljosively moving the imperiov '^«f^ social reform and enlightei ^^ it would be possible to cc \^ privileges. In the one ci ?rf«°»"' " *® .5'^°*" ° Uad villM!«»» »°"d the amg ^^A beating of drums, delibe i-d OTit the eyoi of his young wif « *Stakmed for the purpose by the •PjSSihehad\een told by a 7t£« wonld be replaced by gold MMrstition was shared by the •11^ imd neighborhood, mcludinj "ft5r who aUeged that the unfor *«^i had perished by cholera. TAe second case, the scene was a t JUv between Chuddergaut and hid. Three buffaloes were hacke *iinto piecee, which were stre L-r the road, and the people int T!Siate vicinity of the lacerated ai â- f^« dabbling and dancing about m iMMd while others, holding the yet bl l«. aid joints, were whirling them Extent their heads, and gesticulatin, JIdv A fourth animal which was bei ^r wounded, was still alive, and l"L painful bellowing to the horrib â-  Alittlefurther on some two or threi lith bodies naked and painted, h mat by the legs, while from the still id quivering body they were tearms ^th their teetii mouthful by mouthful â- Meeding flesh, tquirting and sprinkl |«T« the adjacent crowd. Other goal IhnfWoes were close at hand, waitini MB to supply the horrid sacrifice. _^ complete the Bicchanalian r IfTOWd of women apparently intox l^h drugs, with hair disheveled, llien and besmeared with blood, perf la kind of eatanic dance, accompi â- - ,,1, movement with violent shrieks, nect of all these loathsome orgies, ^re witoessed and participated i Cudreds of persons, was, we are tc ease the Hindu goddess, who hi hand the scourge of smallpox. â€" • â€" ,^- fame and Famed Men. A " society" woman, at whose table bellow was dining, asked him, " 01 ogfellow, have you ever publisl ok " This was after two-thirds of h rk was done. Hawthorne says th 1 later years he met many people ^w him well as the ex- surveyor ort of Salem, but who never knew tl •d written anything, and had not hmd that there was such a book as Icarlet Letter." Even the genial Au not appreciated by everybody in hi |town. One day an American gent nt into a barber's shop as Dc. h going out. " Do -you know whi I that just went out " asked the b ng curious to see what aocount o lolmes the barber would give, the diook his head. " Why," said the b "that's old Dr. Holmes." "And %v *. Holmes?" "Oh, he's been a here a great many years. I believe h cticin' any more, but he's thought lof!" A crashing remark was once ma Ivwouid be flatterer to Mr. W. D. He Ithe American novelist. Shortly aft Ipablication of " The Lady of the Aroos r A Foregone Conclusion" and "Ve Ufe"a lady asked that gentleman for hi graph, whereupon he wrote some impr Itctks in her album. She read tben ad then, gave an encouraging smile. iMr. Howells," she exclaimed, " J Itkmk you might do Eometbing fo â- papers and magazines I have s^een Iwme things than t'lat in print I" I Greatness is paid homage to by â- people in very peculiar ways. Ever Imiut remember the story told in com I with Victor Hugo. The great poe Ittartled one morning by the intru I three Englishiren. " Victor Hugo, lose, consulting a pocket book. Th I Wed, thinking that he should be I for his autograph next. After the jbad stared a few seconds the pocke jwtt again consulted. " Eleven o'clo 1^ '" '"^^ the spokesman. Then the I bowed and walked out of the room. ♦ â€" THE THIKST FOR GOLD. â- uunltj'g Peculiar Passion f» Valnes lifealth Above Happlnes lean aee a lovely valley where I'M gathered into her lap all her we 1^*7 M»d soil all her rivers of jew. jS^P^-clad mountains, where the cat |***"hlea above and the homesteads |J"*otB below and abroad presided â- ?•« aiid plenty amid eternal Spring IkM whne digging a ditch a h 1^* "• turned up purauing the ssi â- â- ^ was revealed. The news of tl Ijjiir/ overran the valley like an epii !«««. P**°' ^«re soon employed d ISl i!**^" "« °°^^e allowed his ca I^M^ rain and his park to run ISfcf^* ^*^« peasant left his fal ISraL mountain side. Rivers ra IZj" **ters were diverted into flui I toZiSfil^^^*" "^*- Woods were cui l,,J^*â„¢.«hed8 to support the undei liSini^ fields were mottled with |lg^*Pd holes, and the speckled ISiSL!*Z**'*^ where the goldpox h iflJ^ t»*oe. The rich became poi |^^**»Teled in their halls. Vul i,|J|'W'ee ruled in the castle, wh |S?2S* •* his own gate. The id ^^P«terial chair and the vile w I^W the buffoon, mounted the t Koeived the homage due to g .^ioftok Advertisements â- V becoming a nuisance, a; â- ^oVes publishers to ex ••'Its rf many articles pufi iyptenous remedies are prop* «der this heading. Tal thousands relieved hj the use of Pc 'OBld it not be unreasons 'i^_^ condemn that far-: 'We know for a fact la without exceptai it and certain n It cannot fai bottom of pain, â- QOtlieB them mpt and pe »ld by all ita. Try it