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are vou going to do? Yon do not think of
pushing on any further, I hope."
"Ho, I think that -would be useless,"
Ronald said. "The massacre is apparently
universal, and evidently began at the same
time all along the line. We should be too
late to warn anyone now. Still," he said,
rising suddenly from his seat, "we might
not be too late to rescue tlum. There may
be other parties holding out I hadn't
thought of that, and we had better push on
further."
"I doubt if our horses can go anv fur
ther," one of the men said. "Mine could
scarcely carry me the last fire miles."
"Xe, that is so," Roland agreed. I think
my horse is good for another 20 miles, and
the horses of our friends the burghers are
quite fresh, so I will leave you here and
ride on with them. You will, of course,
keep a sharp lookout; but I do not think it
likely that they will renew the attack.
They must have lost between SO and 60 men.
I will ride on with the burghers to the last
settlement along this line. It is not. I
think, more than 20 miles further. "We
will sleep there and return the first thing
in the morning. By that time, -Mr. Arm
strong, you will, I suppose, be ready to
move into town.
"Yes, I shall be ready by that time," the
farmer said. "I sent oaf four loads of wheat
yesterday morning, and the wagons will be
Lack to-night. I will pack everything I
want to take, and we shall be ready to start
by the time you return. Of course, I sball
drive the cattle with us tbat is if there are
anv cattle left to drive."
"I saw them in the kraal behind the
house as we rode up," Ronald said. "I
suppose the Kaffirs thought they might as
welt finish with you first, and they could
then divide the cattle among them at their
leisure."
"Well, that's good news," the settler
said. "I made sure they were all gone.
But den't you think you nave done enough
for to-day?"
"Yes; don't go any further," Mary Arm
strong added.
"I ieel that it is my duty to go, Miss
Armstrong. I would much rather stay, I
can assure you, but it's possible some of
the garrisons may be still holding out."
"Yes, we are wrong to ask you to stay."
Mr. Armstrong said; "but just wait a min
ute, my horses are kraaled with the cattle.
I m ill bring one round and change the
saddles; it would be a pityjto founder that
splendid horse of yours. You see he has
got a lot of "English blood in him, and can't
go on forever like our Cape horses."
Five minutes later, mounted on a fresh
horse, Bonald started with the burghers.
Every firm they visited exhibited a specta
cle of desolation; many had been forsaken
some time previously, but they had been
broken into, and, in many cases, fired. In
tthers, the bodies of the occupants were be
neath the embers of their homes; in a few
the settlers had not been taken unawares,
and stains of blood round the buildings
showed tbat they had sold their lives
dearlv, and inflicted considerable loss on
the Kaffirs before they had succeeded in
bursting open the door. In one little clus
ter of three or four houses, the bodies of
men, women and children lay scattered
about; but one stoutly-built farmhouse, in
habited bv a Boer farmer and six sons, had
resisted all the attacks of the Kaffirs. The
natives had drawn off before tbe arrival of
the troops. The Boer stated that he in
tended to see it out.
"Two of my sons," he said, "have already
driven off the cattle and horses. I have got
a couple of cows in milk in the shed adjoin
ing the house, and I shall bring them inside
at night. The Kaffirs will never beat down
my shutters or door, and one of us will
watch by turns, so tbat we will give it
them hot if tbey do venture to come on; but
I thfnk they hive had pretty nearly enough
otus."
This was the only house where a success
ful resistance was made, and on getting to
the last station the party bivouacked near
tbe ruins of the house, and placing two
men on guard, were soon asleep. They
were undisturbed till morning, and mount
ing as soon as it was daylight, rode back to
Mr. Armstrong's station. Three wagons
had arrived late the night before, and with
the assistance of the troopers were already
loaded with furniture and other effects.
Two ot the burghers ofiered to assist Mr.
Armstrong in driving his cattle and horses
to King "Williamstown. The party was ac
comranied by the other settlers and their
families, several of whom had saved their
wagons and animals, as the Kaffirs had mads
their first attack upon Mr. Armstrong,
knowing from the Hettentot servants that
the settlers from three or lour of the adjoin
ing farms would be gathered there. Their
defeat, therefore, had saved not only Mr.
Armstrong but the other farms from pillage.
Very warm were the thanks that the settlers
before starting bestowed upon Bonald and
the troopers, and Bonald as soon as the car
avan had started rode somewhat thought
fully off with his men to the first place he
had visited.
Here they found that the Kaffirs, after
thev had left, had made a determined at
tack upon the place, but had been beaten off
with much loss after several hours fighting.
The settlers were now, however, occupied in
preparing to leave their farms, as the attack
might at any moment be renewed, and per
haps with 'overwhelming numbers. The
party of mounted police remained in the
yillage until the following morning, as their
ore's, alter their heavy work on tbe pre
vious day, were not fit? to take the long jour
ney back to the camp. On the following
morning they Baw the settlers fairly on their
way, and then galloped oft to rejoin their
corps at Fort Cox.
As they ascended a piece of rising ground
within a mile of the fort and obtained a fair
view of it, they reined in their horses simul
taneously. The fort itself appeared silent
and deserted, but at a distance of a few hun
dred yards from it they could see a large
number of men moving about.
"Those are not soldiers," Bonald ex
claimed, "they must be Kaffirs. By Jove,
jfie place is absolutely besieged. Look at
the puffs of smoke. Yes, there can be no
doubt about it, I expect the column has
gone out again, and the Kaffirs are trying
to take-it before they return. Well, lads,
it's too late in the afternson now for us to
do anything. We had better ride back ,two
or three miles and then camp for the night.
In the morning we must try and find out
what has taken place and where the troops
have got to. ,
All agreed that this was the best plan,
and they accordingly rode quietly back, as
for aught they could tell keen eyes might be
upon them. They did not attempt to halt
until it was quite dark, when they turned
off at right angles to their former course,
and after riding for about a mile, camped in
a clump of bushes. They had plenty of
cold meat with them, for the settlers had,
before starting, filled their haversacks.
There was, therefore, no occasion to light a
fire, which, indeed, they would in no case
have done, as should a Kaffir catch sight of
a light he would assuredly bring an over
powering force down upon them.
"We will watch an hour apiece, two on
sentry," Bonald said. "We can eatonr
meal in comfort first There is no tear of
their coming down upon us at present, at
anv rate.
The manner in which he had led them in
the attack on the Kaffirs had greatly im
pressed the men, and they yielded as readr
and willing obedience, as if their corporal
had been an officer. After the meal was
over, Bonald placed a sentry on each side of
the bush.
"I will relieve you at the end of an hour,"
he said. "Keep your ears open. I sball
go out for a bit and reconnoiter, and mind
you don't shoot me as I come back. I will
give a low whistle, like this, when I get
near you. If you hear anyone approach
ing, and he doesn't whistle, challenge, but
don't shout too loud, or you might be heard
by any Kaffirs who may be in search of us.
If he don't answer, challenge again, and
then step into the bushes. If he comes on,
and you are sure it is a man, fire; but don't
fire if you have the slightest doubt, for it
might be a stray animal, and your rifle
might bring the Kaffirs down on us."
During the greater part of tbe night
Bonald moved about, keeping about a
hundred yards from the clump, and return
ing every hour to see the sentries changed.
Toward morning, having heard nothing to
lead him to suppose that there were any
Kaffirs in the neighborhood, he returned to
the bushes, and threw himself down for a
couple of hours sleep. At daybreak they
were in tbe saddle again, and approaching
as near asjthey dared'tbe Fort, they concealed
themselves, and presently succeeded in cap
turing a Kaffir woman who was out collect
ing sticks. One of the troop knew a little
of the language, and from her they learned
that the greater part of the soldiers had
marched away on the previous morning, and
also gathered the direction they had taken.
Keeping up a vigilant lookout, they rode in
that direction, and presentlv met a detach
ment of the Ninety-first 'and their own
troop ot the Rifles marching back to Fort
Cox.
The force was under the command of
Colonel Somerset, the Colonel of the Cape
Mounted Rifles. Captain Twentyman, to
whom Bonald reported himself, rode for
ward at once to the Colonel with the news
that Fort Cox was invested by the enemy.
Bonald was sent for, and questioned as to
the strength of the Kaffirs. He said that
owing to the position from which he had
seen them, he only commanded a view of a
portion ot the ground. There appeared to
him to be 700 or 800 men so far as he could
see, but, of course, there might have been
double that force on tbe other side.
"Well, I think we ought to push forward
at once," the Colonel said to the officer com
manding the infantry, "The Governor is
in the Fort, and the lorce for its defense is a
very small one. At any rate we must try to
relieve him."
The troops were halted for half an hour,
and as the news soon spread that .the
Kaffirs were beleaguring Fort Cox, and that
tbey would probably have to fight their
way through, they formed up with alacrity
as soon as the order was given. The Cape
Mounted Rifles went out in skirmishing
order, ahead of the infantry, keeping a vigi
lant lookout for lurking foes. The men had
learned from Ronald's party of the massacre
at the border settlements, and were burning
with impatience to get at the enemy.
After marching two miles, tbe column
came upon a spot where a broad belt of
wood extended across the country. As the
mounted men approached this several as
segais were hurled from the bushes. The
cavalry replied with their rifles, and then
fell back upon the infantry, who advanced
with a cheer against the wood. Half the
cavalry were dismounted, and handing their
horses to their comrades, advanced on foot
Ronald was one ot those who remained be
hind. Keeping up a heavy fire at tbeir in
visible ioe, the Ninety-first advanced into
the wood. Tbe troopers with tbe horses lis
tened anxiously to the sound of the fray
the rattle ot musketry, the loud reports of
the Kaffir rifles and their shrill yells, amid
which a British cheer could be occasionally
heard.
"It's hot work in there, corporal," Lieu
tenant Daniels said. "Too hot to be pleas
ant, I should say. Judging by the yelling,
the wood must be full of Kaffirs."
"I should think so too, sir," Ronald
agreed. "I fancy each Kaffir is capable of
uuiug uu immense auiuuut 01 yelling; utlb
still, as you say, the wood mast be lull of
them to make such a terrific noise as that"
A quarter of an hour passed and then the
Rifles emerged lrom the wood. Those with
horses at once galloped forward to meet
them, and soon all were in the saddle.
Ronald heard Captain Twentyman, who had
led the dismounted party, say to the Lieu
tenant: "There. are too many of them, Daniels;
the wood 1 crowded with them. Take half
the troop and draw off to the right, and I
will take the other half to the left The
Ninety-first will fall back directly. As they
come out. prepare to charge the Kaffirs in
flank if they pursue them.'
Now tbe red coats began to appear at the
edge of the wood. They were in pairs, and
every two men were carrying a wounded
comrade. Presently the main body came
out in regular order with their faces to the
enemy. With yells ot triumph the Kaffirs
poured out from the wood. The Rifles
fidgetted in their saddles for the order to
charge, but Lieutenant Daniels had his eye
upon the other wing of the troop, and Cap
tain Twentyman did not give the order to
advance until he saw that the Kaffirs were
bo far out upon the plains that they could
not get back to the woods before he would
be upon them. Then he gave the order to
charge, and as his men-got into motion,
Lieutenant Daniels gave the same order.
As he saw the cavalry sweeping down,
Colonel Somerset gave the word and the
Ninety-first poured a tremendous volley
into tne rvamrs, ana a moment later the
two bodies of cavalry swept down on their
flanks. With a yell of fear the Kaffirs ran
for the wood, bnt numbers of them were cut
down before thev could gain shelter. Then
the cavalry fell back and Joined the infan
try. It was found there had been a desper
ate hand to hand struggle, bayonets ngainst
assegais. Two officers and 20 privates bad
been killed and a great many of tbe men
wounded. They afterwards learned that the
Kaffir loss in killed had exceeded 200.
The party then fell back and rejoined
Colonel Mackinnon. There was now an
anxious consultation, when it was decided
that as Fortr Cox could certainly resist all
attacks of the enemy, it would be better not
to attempt an advance to its relief until a
junction had been effected with tbe other
columns which were now at a considerable
distance away. On the 31ft the news
reached them that that morning the Gov
ernor, with a small bodv of Cape Mounted
Rifles, had made a dash right through the
enemy, and had ridden to King Williams
town, 12 miles away, where he had at once
issued a proclamation calling upon the
Colonists to rise en masse to assist the
troops to expel the Gaikas lrom the Ama
tolas, while a force of Fingoes was at once
ordered to be raised.
In the meantime the Kaffirs were plunder
ing and destroying all over the country.
The settlers entirely abandoned their farms;
and tbe roads to "Williamstown, Grahams
town and Beaufort were blocked with the
great herds of cattle driven in. Tbe news
came that the Gaikas had been joined by
the T'SIambies and Tambookies, number
ing not less than 15,000 men; and it was re
ported that an influential chief Kreli
who could put 10,000 men in the field, was
preparing to make common cause with the
rebels. The Hottentots of the London mis
sionary station at Kat river, who had for
years been fed and clothed by the Govern
ment, and put into free possession of a. beau
tiful and fertile district, joined the Kaffirs,
and tooka leading part in their attacks on
tbe settlers. Their example was speedily
followed by the so-called Christian Hotten
tots at the missionary settlements of Shiloh
and Theopolis.
Against such overpowering forces as were
now leagued against him. the Governor
could do nothing with the small body of
troops si ins uisposai, una was lorcea to re
main inactive at Williamstown until rein
forcements could arrive. He contented him
self, therefore, with throwing supplies into
Forts Cox, White and Hare, this being
accomplished only after severe contests with
the natives. Bodies of Kaffirs had now com
pletely overrun the colony, rendering even
communication between the towns danger
ous in the extreme, unless sent by messen
gers escorted by considerable bodies of
troops.
On arriving at King Williamstown
Bonald Mervyn was greatly disappointed
to find that the Armstrongs had gone on to
Grahamstown. He found a letter awaiting
him from Mr. Armstrong saying that he was
very sorry to leave without another oppor
tunity of thanking him for the immense
services he had rendered him; "but," he
said, "my daughter, now tbat it is all over,
is terribly shaken by all she has gone
through, and I think it necessary to get her
to a place a little further removed from all
this trouble. I shall probably leave for
England before long. 1 hope to see you be
fore we go; but, if not, I will write to you,
giving you our address in England, and we
shall both bejery glad to see you if yon re
turn, as I hope you will, and that before
long. We shall never forget how much we
owe you."
"Perhaps it is better so," Bonald said as
he finished the letter. "It would onlv have
made it harder for me if I had seen her
again. For if there is one thing more cer
tain than another, it Is that I can never ask
any woman to be my wife." i
The Cape Town Rifles were before long
joined by two troops from Cape Town and
Port Elizabeth, and were continually em
ployed in escorting convoys and carrying
dispatches. A batch of 20 recruits also
came up to fill the vacancies that had al
THE PITTSBURG-
ready been made by the war, and to bring
the troops engaged up to their fall force.
One of the four men who joined Captain
Twentyman' troop gave a slight start of
surprise as his eyes fell upon Ronald Mer
vyn. He looked at him several times, and
a slight smile stole across his face.
"Who is that corporal?" he asked one pf
the troopers.
"Corporal Blunt," the man said: "and a
fine fellow he is, too. He led a small detach
ment ot our men splendidly in an affair
down by the Kabousie river. Why do you
ask? Have you ever seen him before?"
"No." the man said, carelessly; "hut he
reminded me of someone I knew at home."
"He is a first-rate soldier," the man said,
"and I expect he will get the first vacancy
among the sergeants. We all think he
has been an officer, though he never
talks about it He's the. best tem
pered fellow possible, but you can never
get him to talk about tbe past However,
that makes no difference to us."
"Not a bit," the recruit agreed. "I dare
say be isn't the only one with a queer histo
ry in the regiment"
"I didn't say he had a queer history,"
the man replied angrily. "He is as good a
comrade and as good a fellow as one wants
to meet; there's not a man in the troop
grndges hi being poshed on."
"I meant no offense," the recruit said.
"The man he reminded me ot had a queer
history, and I suppose that is what pat it
into my head."
"Well, if jrou don't want roar head
punched vou had better say nothing against
Blunt," the trooper grumbled, ''either in
my hearing or out of it."
-The recruit Jnrned away and occupied
Himself in grooming nis norse.
"This is a rum start" he said to him
self. "Who woald have thought of meet
ing Captain Mervyn out here? I aaw in
one of the papers, soon after I came out, the
account of his trial. I wonder how I should
have felt if I bad been standing in his
place? So he has changed his name. I
suppose he arrived at tbe Cape when I was
up the country, and must have enlisted at
once, for it's nearly three months since I
joined the depot, And a draft had sailed
only the day before. At any rate it's not
likely he will know me; not tbat he could
do me any harm if he did; still it's always
useful to know something against a man,
especially when he doesn't know you. If I
ever get into a row I can put tbjp screw on
nicely."
As the recruit, who had enlisted in the
name of Jim Smith, had expected would be
the cose, Roland Mervyn' eye showed no
signs of recognition as It fell upon his face.
He thought the new recruit was a strapping
fellow, and would be a good man to have
beside one in a hand-to-hand fight with the
Kaffirs; but beyond this he gave him no
further thought
A considerable number of the Flngoe
allies had now arrived at King Williams
town. They had no idea whatever of discip
line, and looked every bit as wild as their
Kaffir foes. But there was no doubt they
were ready to fight, for tbey were eager to
be led against the Kaffirs, who had so long
kept them in slavery. They had been
armed with muskets, and each carried a
heavy knobkerry. At present they had
nothing to do but to sleep and eat, to'dance
war dances and to get drunk whenever they
conld obtain sufficient money to indulge in
tbat luxury.
They were accompanied by their wives,
who not only waited upon and cooked for
them, but earned money by going out into
tne woods and bringing in bundles or fag
gots. Numbers of Hottentot women
were engaged upon the same work, while
the men of the same tribe looked after the
great herds of cattle, furnished drivers for
the wagons, helped in the comissariat stores,
and. so far at their lazy nature permitted,
made themselves useful.
Shortly after the return of the corps to
King Williamstown Bonald was promoted
to the rank of sergeant
"If I were the General," he said one day
to Sergeant Menzies, "I wouldn't have a
Hottentot about the place. I believe tbat
they are all in league with the enemy. Look
how they all went over from the Missionary
Stations, and the farmers tell me they left
in the majority of cases on the day before
the massacre. It is quite evident that the
Kaffirs somehow always get information of
our movements. How could they have laid
that ambnsh for us at Keiskamma river if
they had not known the colamn was going
that way? How was it they were ready to
attack the detachment that went with pro
visions to tne orts. it could not have been
from tbeir own people, for not a Kaffir has
been near us since tbe troubles began. I
believe it's these hateful little Hottentots."
"They are hateful." the Sergeant said,
"whether they are traitors or not Except
the bushmen, I do believe that they are the
most disgusting race on the face of the
earth, with their stunted bodies and yellow
faces, and their disgusting and filthy ways.
I don't know that I should turn them out of
the camp if I were the General, but I should
certainly order them to be washed. If you
get half a dozen of them on the windy side
ot you, it's enough to make you sick."
"I wonder the Kaffirs didn't exterminate
the little brutes," Bonald Mervyn said. "I
suppose they would have done it if it had
not been for the Dutch first and us after
ward. The missionaries made pets of
them, and nice pets they have turned out.
It is just the same thing "in India. It's the
very dregs of tbe people that the mission
aries always pick up with."
( To be continued next Saturday.)
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at the intersection of Biverton street with
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river to a point in the public highway in
Mifflin township, opposite tbe terminus of
said Biverton street on said river, thence
along said publie highway down said river
for a distance of two mile. E. P. Douglass,
of McKeesport, is President
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Ok Boabo Sch'b. "Sophia," August
L Leaving the bright and beautiful Cha
teau Bay, our course now lay within the
Atlantio along the Labrador coast, whose
general bearing is to the northwest for
600 miles until Hudson' Strait is passed,
and the almost measureless shore ot Hod
son' Bay turn squarely to the south at the
mighty headland of Cape Wolstenholme.
Out to the southeast stood-grim Belle Isle,
tbe first land which European steamers
make along these turbulent shb res. This,
wifhQuiripoa Island, were known as the
Isles of Demon" in ancient times, and in
the old prints they are represented as being
covered by rampant devil with wings,
horns and tails. Certainly no otber
creatures could subsist upon Belle Isle.
It is here that the chroniclers locate the
scene of the pathetic tale of Lady Marguerite,
niece of Boberval, "Viceroy of New France,
and her impetuous though devoted lover.
We sailed near the southwestern edge of the
island, close enough to well observe its
formation. It is simply a tremendous
monolith of stone nine miles long and three
broad, rising precipitously from the sea at
the outer entrance of the Strait, with n6t an
iota of verdure upon its iron like sides and
top. We got a fine glimpse of its light
house.perched high upon a southern head
land, its guys and anchorings for preventing
m wmu6 w.wnu .nj. giuj i, iud ayjjcar-
ance of some colossal Arctic auk poised in
readiness for flight.
BATHEB. WINDY.
"Yes," said Captain Deschamps rumina
tively, "only once a year any vessel lands
there: and the storms are so terrible that
every time we sailors pass we dread to look
up there, fearing the ligbt'ns'll be blown
away. How hard does the wind blow? Well,
I can't rightly give ye the v'locity, but I
can furnish facts. Twenty years ago 'n I
well remember him akeepemamed "Vaughn
had charge of the light He got sort o'
hankerin' arter green 'things. Awful fool
ish; but twus hard to get anvbody to stay
there at all, so they 'lowed his scheme for
a garding. They took hull boat loads of soil
up there V made him a gardinen acre big.
Nojhln' would grow on it, but he liked to
dig in it, prob'ly. One evenin a whirlin
sort of storm riz, 'n' sorter kept nsin all
night. When "Vaughn poked his head out
in the mornin' he coulde'nt see the garding
nowhere. He didn't know at fust but he
was a leetle confused hisself, an' climbed
back in an' took his bearin's; but there was
no garding nowhere certain. That tornader
had jest yanked up the hull sile an' spilled
it all over the 'Lantic Vaughn had sperit,
he did. He wouldn't stand that So be
threw up the job an' took to 'shovic' seals."
Onr captain had sailed out of St John's
for many years, and knew every island, cove
and inlet between Belle Isle and Hudson's
Bay. Dangerous a voyage as it always is.
ours was fearlessly made through mazes of
islands and rocky channels which lined the
coast We successfully passed the many
headlands and islets of St Louis Sound,
the wonderful mountain-ribbed expanse of
Alexis river mouth, the inconceivably grand
and awful barren peaks of Occasional Har
bor and St Michael's Bay, the black and
frowning ledges and crags of Dead, Barren,
Hawk and Seal Islands, and passine Bound
,Hill Island, the eastermost land of Labra-
aor, to our rignt, rounded tbe great Isle of
Ponds, crept through the noted Indian
Tickle channel and sped out into the ocean
again, past Gannet Islands to the Esqui
maux Islands at the north of the vast Ham
ilton Inlet, the Ivuctoke of the Esquimaux,
and made oar first anchorage among per
haps 300 vessels,, sloops, schooners, brigs
and brigantines, and indeed every manner
of sailing craft that follows tbe sea for fish.
DESOLATE SCENES.
F' There are no more impressive scenes of
desolation on earth than are to be found
along tbis coast; and yet one will hardly
find anywhere upon the sea, away from the
great ports of the continents, such swarms
and bevies of vessels. In every cove or bay
we passed could be seen their sails or masts
looming behind blackened -crags, or their
rocking hulls moored to sloping shelves of
stone. We met them hourly returning to
the south with fall cargoes of fish; in some
harbors tbere must have been 1,000 boats;
and at Indian Tickle we-were informed that
more than 7,000 vessels had passed to the
north through that channel this season.
So far as a landsman might judge, onr
dangers, if any, lay not so much in the jut
ting barbs of the steely coast, as in collision
with, otber craft, and tne constant menace of
those silent and dreadful Arctic travelers.
the icebergs. They were never out of sight
day or night. By day they are dreadful
enough; but when at night they confront
you, ghost-like and weird in the pale light
of the stars, there is a sense of inexpressibly
awful danger in the first chill of their icy
breath. I 'was at sea in 1882 when our
steamer in a fog ran with slackened speed
squarely into one of these monsters, crunch
ing and climbing upon Its hidden base with
her iron prow. It vu thought that tbe
mass would topple over upon us; but we
finally slowly slid quivering back into the
sea.-
In that five minutes' nearness to an un
steady iceberg, several hundred of us ex
perienced more than it. is said men feel
when they die. But on our way to Indian
Harbor we had a stranger experience still.
The English tourist- and my friend the
timber-hunter were sitting beside me on
deck at about 10 o'clock at. night, watching
tremendous iceberg -lying
ring aoout a mile
Captain Deschamns
raa a uui toue east.
assurea us is was tne largest be bad
ever seen in these waters;- and he estimated
its length to be fully three-fourths of a
mile and its height above water at nearly
300 feet Our especial amazement at the
time was in its wonderful-appearance under
tbe dazzling effect of the brilliant Northern
Lights. Presenting apparently to us a
solid wall of the .softest opalescent light
now and then the stupendous mass would
glow with exquisitely beautiful pulsations,
from a pale and shimmering sheen to the
intensity of flame at s white heat
THE ISLAKD EXPLODES.
But this thrilling scene was tbe least of
the wonderful phenomena. Suddenly, with
a crash so appalling that onr schooner
masts quivered like wind-whipped tree
tops, the whole vast Island of ice exploded
into millions of fragments. Nothing else
save the sudden irruption of some marine
volcano could have presented so bewildering
a spectacle. Latterally and perpendicularly
pieces weighing thousands of tons were
burled tremendous distances. A corona of
a mile's arc lifted high above the spot com
posed of other millions of glittering slivers
of ice. As these and the more massive
Sieces descended showers of diamond-like
asbings from the reflected rays of the
mighty northern lights quivered and shot
toward the sky, as no pyrotechnic art of
man conld ever imitate in the faintest de
gree. Then the ocean lashings about the
maelstrom spot leaped in spumy crest star
ward to repeat countless spear-like glitter
ings as if of whitened flame, followed by
dismembered crags of ice crashing and
pounding each other in thunderous detona
tions. No human eyes ever beheld a more sub
lime spectacle. Stupefied with Its aweing
power, we had noticed nothing else. But
now a if rushing upon u to engalf us, came
waves of mighty height and volume, white
lacea a aeatu; reienties a deatn
and life;
and a frozen tornado of wind
roared madly
AUGUST 17, 1889.
it seemed no human power conld save the
Sophie. It was all of short duration; and
but one little hint to man of the inconceiv
ably awful power within the mighty ele
mental forces. My timber-hunter friend's
speculations were upon different lines, how
ever. Changing his cad. he measaredly
and pathetically remarked:
"If I could jess tow what ice wuz wasted
In that enssed blow-up into Bosting harbor,
I'd buy the Cap'tol for a residence an git
the old Common far s front yard."
THE ISLAND METBOPOLIS.
Here at Indian Harbor of Indian Island,
the latter one of the three-score or more
Esquimaux islands at the month of Hamil
ton Inlet, we found a resident population of
possibly 300, and a temporary population on
vessels of fully 4,000 souls. The former
chiefly comprised the Esquimaux Indians,
who, from appearance, are tally as lazy and
sodden as the Montagnais and Nasquapees.
The missionaries all give an excellent ac
count of their docilltv, good humor and
general admirable qualities. But fishermen
and others wbo have no interest in impress
ing strangers with their importance, flatly
say that they are the most miserable wretches
who live, and that tbe missionaries would
not be here with them but for the large sums
made oat or them in the annual diclcerings
for fur and fish, and in providing them with
supplies; for the missionaries are not only
leaders and teachers, but they virtually con
trol them as so many slaves, paying them
what they like for their furs, and conduct
ing every transaction of purchase and sale
at outrageously low and high valuations.
This may be Christianity to tbe heathen,
but it seems a much like heathenish business
with pretentious Christianity. During July,
August and September, th'ere are always
busy scenes here; but they are all connected
with preparing and dispatching fish, chiefly
the cod. This is wholly secured by "shore"
fishing, there being no fishing whatever on
"banks" along the Labrador coast Her
ring is principally used for bait; though the
launce, and to a much greater degree than
the launce, the capelin, in the absence of
herring are also used.
The shore of Indian Harbor consists of an
irregular series of broadly arched shelving
rocks. There is nothing in sight but har
bor, huU, sea, rocks, vessels, their crews,
Esquimaux and fish. More vessels are
moored to huge staples embedded in these
rocks than by anchor. All a vessel requires
for wharfage is hawsers and staples. They
are rnn alongside these natural mr
moored, and the work of wheeling the fish
in creaking barrow to the "washhouses"
begins. From these they go upon the rocks
for drying and curing. Piles like small hay
stacks are often seen, and for more than two
miles of shore the entire harbor takes on a
pale yellowish tint of curing fish, as a
strange temporary fringe to the purple dark
ness of the black and barren stone behind.
THEIB HABTEST.
.Boats are constantly arriving with their
loads of fresh fish; frequently hundreds will
come rushiag in pellmell together, to escape
siiuucu squaiis outside: and Dries, brigan
tines and schooners are daily setting sail for
tbe south, stowed to the gunwales with the
ripened harvest of these shores.
Hamilton Inlet has other features of in
terest besides its greasy Esquimaux and its
fish. Behind the numberless picturesque
islands at its mouth, it stretches back for
fully 160 miles, the expanses of Lake Mel
ville and Goose Bay included, a vast land
locked inland sea; and from ithence its
windings are followed for hundreds of miles
to its river source, but a short distance from
Seven Islands Bay at the mouth of the St
Lawrence; forming, with a few portagei,un
doubtedly the longest canoe route in the
world. Midway between its source and the
Atlantic, are (alls variously stated to be
from 400 to 1,000 feet in height, at the feet
of which the great river is compressed into
a narrow gorge 300 feet deep through which
it leaps in mighty cataracts for a distance of
30 miles. At Bigoulette, some 75 miles
above Indian Harbor, where the inlet is
narrowed between tremendous cliffs at a
point called the Narrows, is a trifling Es
quimaux settlement, and one of the ancient
Hudson Bay Company's trading posts. All
the way from Bigoulette to the sea gigantic
masses of stone frown above the bay. Be
hin.1 ttiAa- a 4l. ahT. J!.. lt1 ...L... i
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valley there are, all told. perhaps 20 acre
of ground under sickly cultivation; and this
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fronting on SO and CO foot streets, and sold subject to building line. These are the best and
cheapest lots in Wilkinsburg. Two lines of cable roads now acquiring franchises to build
through this property; from 5 to 10 minutes' walk from Wilkinsburg station .on the P. R. B.
Sixty trains each way a day. Thirty-nine lots sold in plan No. 1 of this estate in last five weeks.
Have been offered 175 of an advance on some lots In plan No. 1 ten days after purchase. These
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KA Smltbflela street, Pittsburg, and Wilkinsburg, Pa.
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l-district is proudly termed the "garden spot
oi tne .Atlantic juaDraaor coast l
In all this 600 miles of coast line may he
found unbroken aerial beaches of boulders,
(and, shells, fossilizatlons, 10, 20, 30 and
even 40 feet above the present sea level. How
many centuries, or ages, have been required
to accomplish this upheaval, which naviga
tors tell me is clearly noticeable to a start
ling degree all along the northern hemis
phere, or at what rate the oceans are subsid
ing, lor there is certainly an upheaval of the
land or a displacement of the sea, would
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MINNESOTA'S SCHEME.
Tbe New Law PaaUhlnc Drnnkennr.a urn a
Crime la In rtncceaafal Operation
The Uaaal Means or Restrict
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fic Reversed.
tSrZCULTSXXORAKTO Tnx PtlPATCa.l
St. Paul, August 16. The firt experi
ment in any non-prohibition State of mak
ing drunkenness- a crime has now been in
effect two mouths in Minnesota. Tbe act
known as the "Scheffer law," because in
troduced in the last Legislature and
championed by Senator Albert Schef
er, went into effect June 1, and makes
it compulsory Aupoa the police magis
trate to impose the penalty of 30 days' im
prisonment upon anyone found guilty of1
drunkenness for the third time. While the
law of Maine Is much more rigid regarding
drunkenness, Minnesota, is supposed to be
tbe first State to impose snch severe penal
ties on the drinker pf liquor, tbe end of the
law being usually to punish tbe seller. For
this reason the result of the law is of great
importance, as its champions in the Legis
lature claimed it would materially reduce
the number of cases of drunkenness.
During tbe two months of June and July,
1888, the number of prisoners arraigned at
the bar of the municipal court for drunk
ness, or for drunk and disorderly combined,
was 225 for June, and 269 for July, a total of
484. During the same months of this Tear,
since the Scheffer law ha been in effect, the
total number of such cases in tbe same court
was 446, tbere being 199 in June and 247 In
July. These figures show a decrease of 38
cases a compared with last year, and
whether this is a direct result of the Scheffer
law or simply accident of time, certain it is
that the admirera'of tbe law earnestly claim
the former. For the past few years the
Prohibitionists of Minnesota have been very
active, but the only result on the statute
books is the high license law, $1,000 in large
cities and $500 in towns, which was enacted
by the Republicans as a counter irritant.
While Senator Scheffer is by no means a
Prohibitionist, being a champion of Ger
man liberality as regards drinking liquor,
yet the Prohibitionists were highly pleased
at the stand he took in procuring the enact
ment of the new law. He says that while
lie has no objections to any one drinking
liqaor, he thinks it an offense to public
morals and decency for one to be seen in
toxicated, and for this reason he sanctioned
tbe new law. Judge Burr, wbo presides in
the court having jurisdiction in tbis class
of cases, i becoming impressed with tbe
idea that the Scheffer law is a good one and
acts as a deterrent in many cases. He ex
plains that there are plenty of men who do
not fear a trial in the municipal court,
where they give false names and make light
of a fine for drunkenness, but shudder at
the idea of the penalty attached to the third
offense imprisonment in the workhouse for
30 days. Thus far only two cases ot the
third offense have been before Judge Burr,
although, unless the parties are well known,
it ia easy to evade the law by giving fic
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TALK WITH A ROAD OFFICIAL
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie road from
Pittsburg to Youngstown, O., without doubt
passes through one of the most picturesque
portions of Western Pennsylvania. Bun
nine down along tbe Ohio river, which it
crosses at Phillipsburg, thence up through
the Beaver and Mahoning Valleys,high cliffs,
studded with forests of trees, green valleys,
fields of grain and populous villages and
cities greet the traveler on all sides. It
was while on a trip over this road that the
writer first met Mr. P. V. Birmingham, ot
No. 15 Crystal Bow, Carson street, South
side. He is brakeman on passenger train
No. 12, which leaves Youngstown at 10:27
a. M., arriving in this city at 1220 r. M.
During the course of conversation Mr. Bir
mingham said:
"I have been railroading for about 11
years, ten of which Ispen ton the freight runs.
It is to tbis that I attribute considerable of
nry trouble. It was 15 years ago when I
first noticed that I seemed to be continually
catching cold. My nose was clogged up
and I was constantly raising phlegm from
my throat. When I went on the. freight.ruu
my trouble grew worse. The exposure to all
kinds of weather seemed to irritate it. My
head became stopped up, and a dull, heavy
pain set in over my eyes.
"There was a constant buzzing or ringing
sound in my ears, and when I blew my
nose it seemed as though something was
breaking inside of them. My nose for sev
eral year would bleed, anywhere from four
to a dozen times in one day. Tbe trouble
seemed to have a firm hold on me and to be
steadily, though slowly, extending. I spent
large sums for patent medicines, and was
treated by several physicians, but obtained
no relief. When I was promoted to the
passenger run about a year ago I had got
into what was indeed a serious condition.
Mr. P. V. Birmingham, IS Crystal Row.
"My throat would become parched and
very sore. I could scarcely speak above a
whisper, and a physician told me I would
lose my voice entirely unless I gave up the
business. The calling out of the stations
being particularly hard on me.
"I could not "sleep. When I woold lie
down the mucus would drop back into my
throat, nearly choking me. I would get up
tired in the morning. I had no appetite,
only eating one good meal in a day, and
then the food laid like a heavy load in mf
stomach. I had to use laxatives constantly,
to keep myself in any kind of shape. I
began to have severe cutting pains in my
side and groin, extending to the shoulder
blade. They would come on me suddenly,
and when they were over, I would feel
faint, and everything would be spinning
around in front of me.
"I had lost 25 pounds in flesh infour
months, and was weak and unfit for work,
when 1 heard of Drs. Copeland & Blair. I
called at their office. They did not promise to
perform any miracles, but their charges were
reasonable and 1 felt confident they could help
me. I placed myself under their care.
"I improved from the very first. Soon my
bead became clear. The buzzing sound in my
ears left me. My throat got well and I had no
more trouble with my voice. Gradually the
pains in my side and groin disappeared. In
fact, to-day I feel like a different man. I sleep
well and eat three good meals ar div. I have
gained m weight. I am once more strong and
bealthv, and owe my recovery to Drs. Copeland
& Blair. I am more than grateful to tbem."
Mr. BIrmtoebam lives, as stated, at No. IS
Crystal Bow, Carson street, Soutbside. He
can also be seen every day at the P. 4 1 e.
depot at ISO r. M., and bis statement easily
verified.
UPON THE HEARING.
Showing iho Connection and the Signs of
Progress.
A large proportion of the troubles of the
ear may be traced to catarrhal affections.
Many sufferers from catarrh will testify to
the peculiar effect that the disease seems to
have even in its early stages upon the hear
ing. The roaring and buzzing in the ears i
one of the most familiar symptoms to ca
tarrhal sufferers.
Sometimes the sound which they hear in
their ear is described by them aa "steam
going out of a pipe," "the sound of a great
waterfall," "sounds of water overflowing,"
or "steam from a locomotive," aa buzzing,
inging, ringing and crackling; sometimes
like the soundsin a shell held at the earo
the bursting of babbles.
Sometimes the sounds are of a beating,
pulsating, throbbing character, in case
keeping time with the regular beating of the
heart. Sometimes there are several different
sounds sucb as pulsating and buzzing together,
in some cases tbe sounds are so intense as to
render life a burden, and tbere are initancns on
record where the distracted sufferers hare re
sorted to suicide to ria themselves of them.
There can be no more important predisposing
or exciting cause in producing ear diseases than
catarrh in the nose and throat. The symptoms
or catarrh Itself can bardlv be mistaken. In
many eases tbe patients hare pains about the
chett and sides, and sometimes in the back.
They feel dull and sleepy; the mouth has a bad
taste, especially in the morning. A sort of
sticky slime collect about the teeth. Tbe ap
petite 1 poor. There Is a feeling like a heavy
load on the stomach, sometimes a faint, "all
rone" sensation at the pit of the stomach which
food doe not satisfy. The eyesare sunken, the
bands and feet become cold and clammy.
After a while a cough sets in. at first dry, bat
after a few months ltls attended with a greenish-colored
expectoration. The patient feels
tired, all the while, and sleep does not seem to
afford any rest. After a time he becomes
nervous, irritable, and gloomy, and has evil
forebodings. Tbere is a giddiness, a sort of
whirling sensation in the bead when rising up
suddenly. 'The bowels become costive, tbe
skin 1 dry and hot at times: the blood becomes
thick and stagnant; the whites of the nyctfbe
eome tinged with yellow; the kidney secretions
become scanty and high colored, depositing a
sediment after standing. There is frequently
a solttlne up of food, sometimes with a ann
taste and sometimes with a sweetish taste, this
it frequently attended with palpitation of the
heart and asthmatic symptoms.
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