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 .;. i IN A GAHOE. S' 5^ m «3 In the Bumtner cf 1869, 1 left Ttuader B*y with a partv ot engineers cooamisaioned by the Candian Government to examine a chain of lakes lying between L*ke Superior and L»ke Winnipeg. Cartt, blanche as to cquioment had been given to our chief engineer, Mr. Lydgely, and, perhaps, no surveying outfit was ever much more luxurious th-ui ours. Not to mention tents of all sorta and sizes; blankets in great plenty, and the ordinary rations of pork, fl jur and tea, we nad kegs of syrup, barrels of sugar, firkins of .butter, and no less than one hundred and forty-four dozen of canned stuff, mainly salmon, lobsters and sardines. -, " For lunch," explained Lydgely, when old Peli, the weather-beaten second in com- mand, inquired, " What's this here tin-ware for " " Lunch " roared Pell, " Lnnch I Well, I am done " Then with a fine aflfectation of sorrow, he went on, " By gracious, m in a fix, â€" didn't bring a dreas suit for dinner! And I've forgot my napkin-ring Bays,' looking round on us chain bearers, ' I hope you've got hair oil and blackin' in plenty for three months." Notwithstandint; which sarcasms, I never observed that Pell shrank from the contents of the "tin-ware" or from the'sweet^. ' It's a man's duty to get such disagreeable stuff out of the way, scmehow," he used to say, I have mentioned the extravtigance of our equipment, because it directly caused the adventure I am about! to relate. The party was an unusually large one, consiating of four engineers, fifteen rod men and chain bearers, and about fifty Ojibway Indians, from the Kaministiquia River. Our travel- ling was done in great "Northwest Canoes" of bark, each from forty to fifty teet long, which carried our enormous supplies easily in addition to their crews. Large the supplies needed to be, for the apperite of our Ojibway s was almost incre- dible. Three pounds of pork a day to each man were but grease for his consunption of flour and hardtack. They hankered after the special flesh pots of the whites, also. A favorite amusement of Lydgely's was to bestow a pound or so of butter, a box of sardines, or a pint pannikin of syrup on each of the nearest Indiana, when he eatered the commissary's tent for "refreshments" as he too often did. To bolt the butter au naturel, to take down the sardines with their oil at a few gulps, to drink off the syrup like water, divertc'i the Ojibways not leas than the per- formance did Lydgely. Hence a consider- able group usually managed to be near the cirnmissary's teat when the chief engineer thirsted. One consequence of his habits was that, within a month, the good things provided for the Whites hid largely gone to comfort the Reds, who engaged to live on pork, fljur, tea, and what fish they could catch. At the same time their gorginga h*d so re- duced the staple supplies, that it became necessary to put them oa stated rations or send a hundred milea down rushing rivers F.-jrt William for more food. " We're not very far from the f»lla," said Pell, pointing to a whits cloud that hung in the blue spreading from a slowly rising, misty pillar off to the east. At that mo- ment we were running almost due north, and to suppose that the cloud was froa a in our river, implied a sharp turn to Xot to delay opsratious, Lydgely yielded to Pell's advice, and put the Indians on an sllrwance of two pnunds of poik, and as much flour per day to each miin. Pampered as thty had been this ration seemed to them sadly meagre, and, on the second morning ef its issue, there was trouble in camp. Hamel, our Canadian commissariat officer, gave out the food at daylight. At half past sis, when Lydgfly called "canoes, ' as was usual at the beginning of the day's work, the Indians did not budge. The chief en- gineer roared at tham again, but still they made no move. Pell went to discover the reason vrhy they were disobedient. '• Nossiji ;or eat," said their spokesman, c.'iltid by us " Kamiciotiquia Jim." They had dsvuurtd th« whole ration fr,r breakfast, au'i wer?, thc.rtfore, doomed to go without nif ro frr twenty four hours, which were to begin with a hard day's paddJiog. ' "They've eaten all their grub," cried Peil. " The beasts " roared Lydgely, whose temper was veiy reprehensible, and strode ;oward the Ojibways in a rage. They bunched up together. " Kaminis- tiquia" or " Big Jim ' stood out before the oxners. He was a very bad Indiain, " having associated too much with civilized people," Pell used to say. " Come along," yelled Lvdgely, and reach- ed out as though to grasp Big Jim. There was the fl.sh of a knife,â€" Jim djew back his hand with the gleaming weapon as though to plunge it iuto the chief. We chain-bear- ers hurried forward. But Lydgely in an in- stant let out with his left, and sent the noble red-man sprawling. That put an end to the discussion. The fifty Ojibways etilked obediently to the boats, and Big Jim brought up the rear with a cheek that looked distinctly the worse for wtar. ^^1 was one of Pell's assistants. In the ca- /noe which he captained. Big Jim always took \. the bow-steering paddle, â€" these great crafts ^f bark are always guided by steersmen in Both bow and stern. Lydgely went with us that day to explore part of an unknown river which we intended to traverse. It flows, winding, out of Lake Kaskabeesis to- ward Hudson's Bay, and we had heard that its course was broken by great falls. Early in the forenoon we entered the stream, and went hurrying along with a brown current occasionally broken by short chopping rapids. Our do::en Indians had been sullen all the morning. " W'e're going to have trouble with these chaps, said Pell, "they'll upset us, maybe, or play some confounded trick, you'll see. Instead of exchangixg short, plaintive-sounding sentences and various grunts, as was their custom, they were ab solutely silent. We watched them furtively but closely, fearing that their intentions might be perilous to us. But not an indica- tion of bad meaning did they give. Big Jim, standing In the bow, piloted to a marvel, distinguishing in time many sub- merged bomders which we could not see till, flashing past, we made oat their dim forma beneau the water that lapped shallow over their dangerous noaea. With hia frequent motiona o? head, and inter jeotiona of warn- ing for the atom ateeraman with adroit movementa of hia paddle forcing the oanoe to glance aside from all dangera. Big Jim aeemed to be concerned aolely with hia duty. Along we flew, the little wavea â- UTOtng on our aidea, the motion insplringly awut, a sunny, blue September aky overmad, the banka, all red with pembina berrieii t«o«d- ins like long ribbouk No traveibig la aoexUlantfng am ti» nu- niag down a Tory awift and wMBiwhKt ImSmi oomnt hk » light, â- ^paaokjai^l ippet We looked onoe nerer a word, into each Then I oloaed mine for very jump Boon. iu The canoe had been approachmg the shore as though the Indians meant to land not far away. But as Pell spoke. Big Jim turned round, threw up hia paddle and spoke to the crew. Hia eye waa fairly blazing, and hia face, I thought, wore a malign joy aa if he had been anddenly in- spired with a acheme for revenge. The Indiana answered him with a. surprised shot, stopped paddling, looked into each other's faces with some alarm. They were curiously excited, seeming at once elated, defiant, and yet somewhat daunted. " Wagh " cried Big Jim, with a com- manding gesture, and straightway dug his big paddle in. Next instant all the blades grasped the water together the bow turned toward the farther shore the stroke was now much faster, and the Indians chattered unceasingly. Questioning each other, we three whites could see nothing to fear, nor anticipate any danger for ourae .vea for which our Ojibway a could eacaoe. Qaarter of a m'le ahead, our further paasaoe seemed burred by the ahore, but that indicated merely a turn to the east Suddenly we rounded it, and there, aheer before na, atretched for half a mile or more, an aatounding slope of water, amooth mostly, aa if rnning over glass. Apparently term- inating thealope waa that pillar of mist painting from Delow,then amokily rising and spreading wide on high. Scarcely had we comprehended the aituation when the canoe waa fairly on the slope, and racing to what seemed inevi- table death. Lydgely sprang to his feet, and made a step toward the stern, intending, probably, to wrest the steering paddle from the man there. Pell seized him. " No use," he said, " too late Sit down " Ledgely obeyed. We were too far in for retreat. To turn and struggle against the current waa clearly impossible. It swept ua on with astonishing speed. A large stream at once so swift and so smooth, I have never seen before nor since Have you ever observed shallow water running down a plac ed slide some feet wide with quick incline It seems to shoot along in parallel streaks, it hurries millions of minute bubbles in its volume, ita surface is broken only above splinters in the boards beneath. Such was the current down which we flew, only this was deep and irreiistible. Little waves no longer slapped against the canoe, it kept an even keel, it was quite un- tossed, tbe wat«r was noiseless about us, we might have heard our hearts beating, but for the quick stroke of the paddles, and ttie ever- increasing roar from beneath the white cloud toward which we rushed. The Indians had now become still as death their bronzed faces had a tinge of pallor, I thought each mm strained forward, peering intently at Th m'"*- f'"*ture8 rigid, eyes ab'.aze. Bij. .I'm in the bow, stood motionless, padoie iiii :-il from the water in an attitude of intense attention. We white men looked at each other helplessly â€" there was nothing to say, nothing to do, â€" blank with the sense of our utter powerlesmess, we could only wait to see what would be the result of a situation so amszlng. Peli spoke but onoe "It aint suicide they're meaning," said he, " for they aint singing their death-song. ' We were moving at far greater speed than the river, for the India's kept up a spurting stroke, giving the. canoe steering way, which enabled the man astern to edge her slightly towarfis the north shore. Yet she left no wake. five feet from the canoe it was confused with the stream. I had a f Aint ideci that the Indians meant to land on the shore we were nearing, but this waa dispelled with close approach. â€" the bank was of smoth-faced rock, stratified so evenly that it looked like a board fence going backward, and, level on top, rising in height. with every moment of our progress. Right to its edge the current ran swift and smooth I Once more I looked toward the mist in despair. What was beneath it We bad- heard that the river's leap was somewhere very great, That the dreadful jump was close before us seemed certain, from the cloud that overhung, taxd the roar that swelled upward. Gazing, I became aware that the smooth slope on which we slid did not last to the brink of the fall, but ended in, at least, one vast roller, as wide as the river itself, â€" a huge bank of water that surged, round- ing on high, with appalling massiveness. It was already near enough to form the down-river horizon. What was beyond Short was the doubt, â€" in another icstant the great canoe sprang to the curving front of the billow, and went climbing giddily aloft. Poised on the crest, for an instant, I saw nothing but another immense, smooth wave and the pillar of mist still farther beyond. Down we plunged into the vale of waters, and swung on high again as steadily 8is be- fore, â€" to see, in front, a short, ragged rapid ending in a few yards of smooth water close to the most astonishing plimge that mind can conceive. In ' that one look from the summit, I could see past both sides of the mistpiller, how a lengthy chasm stretched far away be- neath the fall, the width of the gorge dwarf- ed by the height of its perpendicular walls, at the feet of which, on either side, a long ribbon of emerald green sod waa laved by the stream till lost in' the distance. Such an overpowering impression of being at a dizzy height was gained by that instant's view, that I scarcely noticed the stTange chant into which the Indians had suddenly broken. Next moment we thrashed tlirough a cur- ling, breaking wave that drenched na to the akin, and went acurrying into the alapping wavea of an ordinary rapid. With the fam- Iiliar motion I looked aahoie. ^id there, close by na, waa a apeotaole aoarcely leaa awful than the plunge we were neariiig I The rook wall cloae td^ na waa cl^ clean down, and in the wide cleft waa a whirlpool that abaolntely ahrieked as we flew along ita extreme edge. Lookins aoroaa ita fumel I ooald see twkt, from ita lar Aer lip, the river aent a narrow bnmoh roaring thrangh a long, StiU we kept straight on. We wera now ao oloee to the fall, that I ooidd aee tiie kng imwald ribbona at tii* foot of tiie d]££ •Imokt beneatii 'oa. Big Jim, :sl»tMaq«c in the bow, aeemed oft the brink of the •bfHl Hooked at Pell,-he throat hiaWgleft hand into mine and gripped it hard,â€" Lydgely held hia right, more, with other'a eyea. That instant I expected the headlong ahoot of the canoe. But there waa a atrong jerk and swerve instead. I looked Mfajp* In that ins'tant, almost on the fall a crown, we had awept into the eddy that ran back- ward toward the whirlpool with ractng spaed, and, aooiier than I oaa write it, we had akimmed along the northern edge of the dreadful funnel, shaken free of ita " draw, and were alashing down the easy rapid twelve milea long, by which the narrow north branch makes the same descent aa the falla before rejoining the river. Free of the whirlpool the Indiana fairly howled with laughter «^d pride at the auo cess of their rash exploit. We learned afterward that the feat had b^en accomplished bat thrice before within the memory of the oldest Indian, on the last of which occasions Big Jim had been in the canoe. He had long been ambitious to repeat the performance, and sncoeeded, to our sorrow, in indnclng his companions to make the attempt by way of practical joke on Lydgely. Tha Indian sense of humor ia very peculiar.â€" [E. W. Thomson. STATISTICS. that there are in Tezaa, 3 0dl.000aheep. I It ia estimated 9,000.000 cattle, 6 0*,000 sheep, 1.250.000 hogs, and 1,500.000 horses and males. Englaed had in 1882 5,500 stadents in her aniversities, out of a population o! 23.000,- 000, and Germany, with a population of 45,- 250.000, had 24 000 students. In that same yei^, with a population of 60,000,000, the United States had 66,437 stndentain oolleges, 4 921 in theological aeminaries, 3,079 in law schools and 15,151 in medical schools total, 89 588. President Cleveland is still m the prime of life. He will leave the White House at least $75,000 richer than when he entered it. This, added to bis other investments, ought to give him a comfortable fortune of upward of $200,000 Mrs. Cleveland, through the division oi the Folsom estate in Omaha, is heiress in her own right and ia probably worth not less than $500,000. It has been estimated that an average of five fee*-' of water falls annually over the whole earth. Supposing that condensation takes place at an average height of 3.00 feet, remarks General Strachey, the force of evaporation to supply such a rainfall must equal the lifting 333,000,000 pounds of water 3,000 feet in every minute, or about 300,000.000 horse-power constantly exerted. The Canadian Pacifis Railway Company's earnings and expenses for October were â€" Gross earnings. $1,348,700 working ex- penses, $768 757 net profits, J579 963. In October, 1887, there was a net profit of $532 410, and for the ten months ended Oct. 31, 1888, the figures are as follows â€" Gross earnings' $10,720,130 working expenses, $7,847,289 net profirs $3 872 841. For the ten months ended Oot. 31, 1887, there was a net prtfi' of $2 629.312 The earnings and expenses on tho South-Eastern and Inter- national railways are hot included. The orange crop ot Florida, according to the Florida Dispatch, is estimated at 3,000,- 000 boxes this year. A box of oranges weighs eighty pounds, making the weight of the crop 240,000,000 pounds. This would load 12,000 cars, or 1,000 a month during the yearâ€" 333 for eveiy day in the year. As there are really but four orange shipping months, it will require 3,000 cars a month to move the crop. This will be 180 cars a day, or nine trains a day, of 20 cars each. For moving this crop, the roads will get about 50 c.nta a box, $1,800,000. Ttie orange corp of Florida is no little thing for the r.\ilroads. There aie in England 347 female black- smiths who actually swing heavy hammers, and 9,1.39 women emTiloyed. in nail-making, who make nails for htr-rse shoes, 10,522 women bind books nnd 2,302 assist in print- ing them. lu intellectual occupations wo- men also fill an important place, the number of teachers being 123,995 of missionaries and preachers, 7,162; of clerks in civil service, 2,260 of painters, 1,180 of "stu- dents," 1,000 and of engravers, fifty-four. There are 37.910 women engaged in medical and surgical work, nursing, ete. 452 bu^y 1 themselves in edi citing, compiling and writ- ing books and 1,499 are employed in the various deparcmente of photography. POLITICAL PfiOSPECTS OF CANADA. BT MB. B. w. rains, tobonto. Tbe following article sketches three or four possible futures of Canada. We are sure our readers will be glad to see what a well known writer like Zir, Phipps has to aay on a aabject ao important. To remain as we are, and trust to our gradual advance in national position. This would sound fai*ly, were ^. no*; that our advance aeems of tiie nature of the snail in the pit â€" which every d)y climbed np eight inchea and each night fell down aixteen. For instance, we have annexed oar fishery- possessing Provinces, and have manifested such remarkable powers of diplomacy in Imperial and American affairs that it ia extremely doubtfal whether we will long have any fisheries at all. We have built â€" amid tumultuous and, of course, disinter- ested applause â€" a railway to the Pacific, and have contrived in. connection ao to play into the hands of speculators as to knock on the head any chance of rapid settlement of the country the main object of the rail way was rapidly to settl?. We have adopt- ed a policy warranted to keep oar yoang men at home but unless they can be, like Sir Boyle's bird, in two plaoea at the aame time, how are all these aasociatioia of British Americans flourishing in the States Then, we are immediately about â€" and have been immediately aboat, any time theae twenty yeara â€" to reap aome ex- traordinary benefit from aome treatiea which are immediately about to be conclud- ed with foreign nationa, and they may ar- rive A. D. 2.000. Friendly relationa with the Scatea are certainly desirable all con- cede the point and therefore we endeavor to produce cordiality by a system of aoold- ing, knowing that fire and gunpowder form an excellent combination. Oar gigantic neighbor perpetually muttera about Invaaion, and conaidering that ahe haa in her day captured, either by force or money, from half-a-dczen nationalitiea, all her territory, perhaps it may not be ao impossible as some wise people think (who are morally, legally, clerically, physically and most de- clamatorlally certain that what has happen- ed half a-dozen times cannot happen at all), that the operation may be repeated in our direction. Our excellent Mother Country, no doubt, informs us that in snch a cohtin- gency she will PROTECT US WITH HBB WHOLE POWEE, which may mean much or little, as she has any power to spare at the time. Not along our frontier,' however, (that her military) commissions practically a band on thi idea of), but at sea, whence she will damage the American coasts â€" a pleasant prospect for us, since, practically, every -shell fired into New York would explode again in Canada. But, sanguine militarians tells us, enorm- ous forces from our immense Enpireâ€" Ea:^ India Sepoys,' that is, who 1 trust wou'id survive one January â€" would cross the multitudinous seas (probably in shoals) to our defence. 'Well, suppose they did, and two vast armies macttavred and fought, say two or three years, along our lengthy, narrow territory, how many villages, barns, farm houses would be left unburned, how many towns not a .wilderness of blackened rafters, how many Canadians uudratted, how many women and children unstarved and unfrozen It is a glimpse of a darken- ed vista, but the picture is not one-half as dark as the reality. Military Canadians, who should know, ssy it may come; the States, they have long foreseen, are planning It then they sniff the battle from a distance and cry, " Ha I ha " and we hear the thunder of the captains and the shouting at the dinner parties â€" but they propose no way of aroidicg it. Thc^e gentlemen posses? much loyalty but it appears rn tis thit he who sees and adv( cates any honourable way oi avoiding such a future for Canada possP33 more, and of a more genuine flbud more valuable kind. As to the pre sent 8ta;u3, too, granting thit we caa re- main so, shall we always be sati»fi;d witn our connection with the Empire? No Ca- nadian has any vote in that Empire no Canadian Parliament has a right, as we were lately informed, to venture to trans- mit an opinion on its affairs, even when they directly concern Canadians. People talk of the Empire and our honourable position therein. Are they in their senses? Our position Is, In Imperial matters, to acquiesce in silence â€" a condition hardly permanent. What is the next course taut aud bcongruous m^teiTT^ yet proved possible, no/cS^ "»' pire, nine- tenths of it sneat^*"" of Em Who can prophesy X\Z '" "Which is Worse." A little girl came In her night- clothes very early one morning to her mother, say- ing " Which is worse, mamma, to tell a lie or 1 3 steal " The mother, taken by surprise, replied that both were so bad that ahe couldn't tell which was the worse. " Well," said the little one, "I've. been thinking a good deal abontlt, and I think that it is worse to lie than to steal. If yon steal a thing, you can take it back, r.nleas you've eaten it and if you have eaten it you can pay for it. But "â€"and there was a look of awa in the little face â€" " a lie is forever." The Mistake he Made. La Fiancee Do you know, Claracce dear, that when yon gave me your first kiss I was so astonished that 1 nearly wf nt crazy I Clarence Ah, yes, darling I should have known better than to give you only one. â€" [Life. foreseen. At ^presenri^'^JJl "^CfJ movements "which mav'gno^""««« " of these bound aud vie:»!'«,relS THE THIRD COUBSE IS l.-^f,^'*; and here again we meet the n„ .. "' pense, fljets, armies, foreign ?.!'" •' ex- forth. As In federation,"" »'"'«d « must be met. Nor is it il^fP"^sSW for countries poorer than wef"'"' '« S establishments. One point k n?"" ««* ten, namely, that very many S^^W aonie idle feUow dependen?^on '"^»« useless at home, would yet miL *• ^K dier or saUor, so that we mwU ^^ »l' tually support such forces now n »«• edly, if possible, independence "woSl"'" promismg course, stcured. sav II • ful separation from Britain and a »! ^^ from the SUtes, both of whlh ^*'*^** would find the pUn er=itlvT»u ^^^ tage-Britain. ?hat l^^l^t^^^' power of trading with her several f^!? •"" remove from her care that continnli !. " our indefensible frontier • the St t"" all North America would be better l^^u**^' Mentally Ezhaosted. "What's the mattah, Clawence 7" was tho question which a very exquisite specimen of humanity addressed to another. " I'm not at all wellâ€" not at all well. 1 feel as If I were prostrated with mental exhaustion or something of that aoht, you know." " Why, have you been doine much mind work of late, deah boy T" " Tf aaa, quite a t(ood dealâ€" quite » good deah I'vewead two theatre pwogwanunea deah thwough thia week, and thb ia only Wedneaday.^'â€" [Merohaat Traveler. Now tiiat the Preaidentlal fever haa abated Ame ric an politidans are givina Can- ada a well-deaerved rest. It wW be aatit- factoi7 if. m both jridM ol A« Ibe, fri«d- Alp isatead of hoatOity be onltivated. Should one of the Ananoan paxtiae make antagoninn to Canada m plank la H* pkt- form tlMre ta ao knbwias what attbeaeztPrealdeiitiaMMiioa. mayavaa so ae lar«ii to adrooaAa tta • of the oaaSdiila fli «• dbm^ShuT Mrto vet VS CONSIDER IMPERIAL FEDERATION. Granting that the Coloniea were allowed several hundred members in a London Par liament (for less would be but a nominal representation), the whole framework of the federation would depend on the advantages and privileges enjoyed by the federating communities and the amount contributed by each towards defence and maintenance. No such federation would be possible on the present vague system of unreliable generali- ties matters would require to be made plain. Britain and the Colonies, in the first place, must certainly discriminate In favor of each other's trade. Canadian produce must en- ter British ports free as now, but that from the States and all other foreign natiots must not. No question of enhancing the price of food to Britain Is here involved, lor her Colonies could easily send her twenty loaves where now they send her one. Ais for expenses, Canada could not expect to contribute less towards Imperial purposes than thirty millions of dollars per annum â€" more, observe, than our whole present In- come, much of which would be In some manner returned to her by expenditure wikhm her borders. As to how we would procure double our piesent income why. If we go Into European methods and combina- tions we must pay for them, and be taxed for them, and live cheaper, aa other folka do. What we could not get ao, we muat get aa we do much of our preaent income, borrow it, and leave it aa a charge to our great grandaon, who, judging bj the OBUOATIONS WK MEAN TO BEQITEATH him will feel, I think, very much obliged indeed. The oentralGtovemment would prob- ably aaaume the whole Colonial debt; the' Coloniea ia future payina thdr ahare of that of Britain, while futare debta would rank aa Boiaral or local and be paid aoooidlngW. With anoh a nnioa, it must be remembmd, theColoniaa mnat krak to be lugAy *gd- oahural, the central oonatry, m al presea^ umely maaufiMtuiag. llMy of our oity iBdoBtrifia mdat bTabaadoaed. the otiiar haadt fai aU farm prodooti #hioh bear taravel we aboold hay* a mMwaoty «»e chief maiket of the world, modffied, ^â- ~â€" .-bar th* ocmifatlthm ef the ithw » oftH a^pMMtly.a iglMbtt BatnAa mwf eilMriiwt nf lift CtHoiOm, Ltfve power of trading with her Vc~d^P'°!? "W remove from her care that cc our indefensible frontier all North America would be „vv nations than one, both as pnonllT' "' ^^^ ladon and affording ^iSf^^ and America would be wUe to prono-.^ a course not that either will Tf •Jf any lucky chance they will, and it wL" J lowed, Canada could for m^ny v*rk great opportunities of advancement In it*! position we would make commercikl be«E now unpossible. and open many mwketa^ clos^ especially, in all probabilirtte the Statea. Much would depend on tK titude that this power assumed towardini THE FOURTH IS AXXEXATIOS a oourae which offers many mone'irv »i vantages snd some others. W^ should W the hope of some day ruling the half of North America, but we should have tbe owtwnto of an Influential and immediate voice in t^ management of the whole. We shonld sun (what we have not now) the poasession of » free voice in the national assembly on mat- ters affecting our own destinies. We should find many productions of Cinads much more valuable when assisted oy the free bter change of those of the States. As for their factories crushing ours, those who think m are not aware of certain adyantaj;ea onr iand possesses. In some most important articlee American capital would far more likely start factories here which would mere than hold their own. On the other hand, we must admit an overpowering Amsrican inflwnoe in the management of our common afiairs and we must put up as best ws may wit^ what we are apt to consider their "national weaknesses in such matters aa divorce laws, sharp bargainiDg and ao on. Who can tdl the extent of our infiaence Oar association might reform our friend. We are moral, are we not Any one who reads oor psp^n knows that very nearly half of ua are very nearly angels, though they slightly disagree as to which half it is. The chief American deviation, caus«- of ir,3r:y lesser ones, is her neglect by a proper coDyright law to tstab- lish a national literature. Di^erent here, of course. We never st-.^' bsoks, do we? Let us glance at the p jssibility of THESE DIFF!:RENT FUTCRES.' Our present position is not over-respect able, is fruitful of menace and insult to Brit- ain and is in constant langer of a violent termination. As for Imperial Federation, it is now too late, America has grown beyond the point at which she would have peaceably permitted a ereat European prwer to grow to strength on her northern border and Fed- eral discriminatory triflfd wouli add com mercial to political causes of quarrel. As for Independence, it ia now impossib'e withoac tiie aid of the State,, vhioa will hardly as- sist another commuu'ty to prevent them- selves gaining half a continent. Individuals amoag them say thty do no; want more ter- ritory, bat what they say aiff^rs from what their nation has doae, ;ind men will be as men have been. As for Aunexition, there seems iiKle prospect of ultimately averting it. Different measures I hnve attempted to advocate-- the Nationl aPjliay (not in its present shape), the canal imprcvenunts, the rapid settle- ment of the Northwest and others-all were inteniad to do thsir shu-J in averting this, and all have been so mismanaged or delayea as to be ineffective. It is unfair to blame in- dividuils; our institutions, apparenUJ, either fail in bringing men cf euffioient capa- city to the front, or surround them mw impassable obstacles. Of diplomacy, either in Britain or the States, we mamfest.none. Of what use to suggest further «pedien«. " they must travel in the s\r ""1!5 grooves? Meanwhile, e^^r higher wo ttronger, and soon likely to break aUbu riers,*the great waves of the R^fWij^JJ against. our weak formation, and tmsev iK spite of the pains so ue of us take to smM them in editorial articles worthy of a thi« class Thersitfls nor is there «iyth' the whole state of the co«°i'^y,rw7th'!w- ous than these utterances, sjckly witn p tended belief in a state «[ "**'" -S^" passed by. To secure the ff^^^^J^ two distinct nationalities and Govemmen^ in North America, the only course now^, maining is a treaty by T^«=^,uf "ateri»l have the opportunity of u"?g J^.^^for resources of the otherV territory, such instance, as nnrestricted traffic an^recp^ cal right to fisheries, waterways, ^^^ would give. Having all """.Jj^^Sion. rehtions could give, closer P^^'J ',„id be flight p?rhaps be avoided, ana i better for North America tf*/ J^^Vtbe But this is o-^y^XfX:SJy "• cooperations of the h-a.e8, w fuse all union tx.-ep: a pohtical one. Wfceie The MiiacJe Came ID"^^^ A Spanish priest who b" J^^Jll. the small school "a?."'**"'^,!" iSnde," but by miracle of "feeding the multituo^ j^„^ Si unlucky chance he reversed th^^d ,^,. and told the class that n^ """ ea had been eaten by ^^^ flj^ f X' «• And did the men burst, P*" ,3 jelight- ly a^S a abarp ""If^^KSSugW e^ at the idea of having for one teacher in a mistake. ready**'*^ "No. my son," wp "" ,?^^i «»• ' priori recInec^g^-^e^Sia." that waa where the muracie "D.-.tit-"",?-'"" Imtml" "ROUGHING^I CHAPTER XVI- (Continued.) I«« fhen we went, with the" ould K AiSpingand bounding on te'or: faU^ fee" »»* mossy rc.s; Jb under the low, tarfi'e br.rcn ^ite cedar, then careiuly i-uo in *iJtten logs, covered vi.h gcr-n Xe^ from the discomfort ui we: SL time he kept one of hia eet en rtheboot, whUethe other seen d unDhibious In hia nature. If. soon reached the beaver mea It extended two or three miles 1 contracting into a narrow gorge Jtiie wooded heights, then spre Z»L into an ample field of verdure J^tins everywhere the same unva "f!arfije, surrounded with rising gro W with the dtnse unbroken fore ta surface had formerly been covere waters of a lake, which in aU proba I Ibecn the case at some not very r riod In niany places the meadow wet that it required a very large sh ith to support us in pa^smg ever itf ' bat our friend, ihe dragoon, Ufl • Dub ""' ii..v.»." -- o LMht US through all dangers to a tcb^ which he had du? to carry o fP*I Eifluous water from the part «dow which he .owned. \\ hen w toined firm footing on the oi.posite sat down to rest ourselves before icing the operation of " blazmj â- kinff the trees with our axes, aloi rc-linlofmy lot. Here the myst ,e boot wa- explained. Simpson ,Uy took it off from the hitherto fa^ ot. and drew it on the other. He was not a bit ashamed of his po candidly owned chat this was th. ,t he possessed, and he was desir ivinjt each of his feet fair play. Nearly the whole aay was occup Bpleting cur job. in which the "dhr •gied us, with the most hearty goo ivening us with his iuf xnaustible I id-humor and drclery. It was rk when we got back to his ah mere the kind-hearted Judy was pre Suge pot of potatoes and other " co le^" M Simpson called the other ea r our entertainment. Previous to stariine on our survey edition, we had observed Judy verj lily giving some important instnicti le of her little boys, on whom she- be most seriously impressing the n« using the utmost diligence. Ihe itentment which now beamed 1 's still comely cDuntenance besp r^ss of the messenger. She coi caUup spirits from the vasty d te cellar, but she had procur'd som ly from her next-door neighl orâ€" soi â- six miles c«F; and there it stood 'hat ostentatiously on ♦he table m i ieard," with a " com-ccb," or ear of »m stripped of its grain, for a cork, ost benevolently on the family circl ©king a bundrcd welcomes to the An indescribable enlivening ii emed to exude from every pore (inely earthein vessel, diffusmg mu od-hnmor in all directions. The c mped and danced about on the rou the " shanty " and the children 1 ing and nudging each other in a ating a timid look, from time to t leir mother, for fear she might chsc r being " over bould." " Is it crazy ye are intirely, ye oul awn 1" said Judy whose notions of p ere somewhat shocked with the 1 Id levity of her partner " The lik« never seed; ye are too foolidge (me now wid your diviltriea, and oolaforthe gintlemens, while I ipper for yeea." ' plentiful though homely in « discosaed, for hunger like a g lience, can laugh at luxury 1 greybeard" made Its appearance, v ml aocompaniments of hot ws Lple sugar, which Judy had scrap cake, and placed in a saucer on 1 tiare us. „ • 1 The " ould dhragoon," despising I Imonitions, gave way freely to his id knew no bounds to his hilar bughed and joked, and san? snatch ings picked up in the course of hii home and abroad. At length Ju okedon himasa'raaljanius,' begc ring the gintlemens the song he hi *en he first came to tbe counthr nrae we ardently seconded the id nothing loth, ihe eld man iself back on his stool, and stret long neck, poured forth the 1 .jy, with which I shall conclude wtoh of the " ould dhrasoon. r-al it's here I m mtirely continte In the wild woods of swate Men iod's bleaaing on him that invintec Big ahipa for our crossing the saj Efere praties grow bigger nor turn And though cruel and hard is ou a ould Ireland wp'd nothing but Bat here we have praties and po t Uve on die banli^ of a meadow. Now see that my maning you ta t bates all the bogs of ould Irclani Sx months In the year its a lake 'adluck to the beavers that damr L I wish them all kilt for their pa for shure though the craters are c Tie aartin they've drown'd my built a log hut of the tiinber That growB on my charnun' estf ^ad an ulegant root-house erecte( Just facing the front of my gat( ^M I've made me an illegant pig Well litter'd with straw and wi Aud if a there, free from noi ohilther, I aleep in the heat of the day. 'a thH« I'm intirely at aiae, Su -And enjoy all the oomforta of fa latretoh on€ my lega aa I pl*ae. And dhrame of the pleaanrea to ^hnre, if a pleaaani to hear tbe £ WhoD the ann'a going down in Judy aita quietly amokt tiie pratiea are boil d If yon love Inde^de yonrpaaaage V- r^* :ilJ M â- * .-.'VJi;-- 'â-