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1;??? it “A Montreal ‘mercantile ambassa- dor vouchcs for the story of 8. Bart colonist at Rosthcrn, who, being much impressed by an accident in which one of his ‘matos’ chopped off a toe while endeavor-Eng to split a stick of wood, determined to avoid such a possibility in his own case by standing in a washtub while he wielded the axe. This story was ‘ounded on an actual fact, and was authenticated by a. snapshot. of the war-n‘ous hero of the episode in his ‘b.”â€"J. W. Bangough in The -:lobe. ' ‘- sa. owned by the then Prince of Wales, Seventeen times in succession during her first season. His first yacht of worldwide renown was the Scottish challenger for the America Cup, the Thistle, and the most suc- cessful of all was the King’s Britan- nia. He also designed for Lord Dun- raven (who was at his wedding) the three Valkyries, two of which raced for the cup. Mr. G. L. Watson, the designer of Shamrock III., who was married re- cently at Putney to Miss Marie Lovibond, was born in the 'year 1851, in which the schooner Ameri- ca captured the now historic America Cup in the celebrated match round the Isle of Wight. Mr. Watson's ap- prenticeship was served on the Clyde. His first famous yacht was the ninety-ton cutter Vanduara, which boat. the hitherto invincible Formoâ€" Paddling along the edge of a. mu:- kallonge lake or down one of the rivers, it is not difficult to find three or four good fish in an hour, but one good one will be all that aman will care to handle in a night. When he gets through he is generally tired enough to go home. There is no more picturesque way of taking the fish and nothing more exciting than the scene when a. big muskailonge has been speared light- ly, just deeply enough to hold and not deeply enough to injure it. Of- ten the torch is knocked overboard and the fight is continued in dark- ness. If the man goes with the .torch he will have to swim for it. Even so, it is hard to do anything with the fish, as the barb is in its side and it has all of its length to oppose to any efl'ort to drag it through the water. It is the aim of the spearsman to drive the spear clean through the fish as near a vit- al part as possible so that the shock will prevent it from putting out all iLs strength. For this reason amateur spearers prefer a spear from which the barb detaches as soon as the fish is struck. The pole comes out of its socket and floats along. There is a string tied to the barb and the man handles the fish with the string as if it were a line. The man stands up to deliver the stroke and stands up to make the fight and unless he be an expert he is apt to go overboard in the dark. It is a difficult thing to stand in a narrowâ€"bottomed punt, on rapid wa- ter and handle a long, stifi pole with a twenty-pound fish thrashing at the othwr end of it. It is not so hard to find and spear muskallonge as it is to land 1!: :-m after they are spcared. The fish is immensely powerful and if of lal‘gc size will put. up aflght against a spear that will make most men wish they had let it alone. Like other fish, muskallonge leave the deep holes at night and haunt the shallows, where they find food more ple-ntiful. Often they will lie with the single black fin out of water. tho Samo- The muskallonge lends itself to spearing because of its courage. Alone among the swimmers of in- land waters it seems to have no fear of man, and certainly it has none of a boat. A musky lying half-hidden in the weeds with only the front part of its body projecting from the cov- er will not stir a fin, as a skiff shoots by four feet over it and it will often strike at a spoon trolled not more than ten feet behind the craft. This boldness by day is increased by night, when all fishes are more approachable, and the great pirate will lie perfectly still while the boat and the man standing in the bow with torch and spear are rowed with- in five feet of it. The fish thus offers an easy mark for the spcar and would be hunted in this fashion even more than it is but for for laws which forbid it. ' no Bp‘ Ill-gal. "name I! we aunts-m. The beauty. strength and power of the [and “'11! never stir or bend at my command; But all the shade Is marred or made, If I but dip my paddle blade; And it Is mine alone. “0! pathless world of seenflng! O: pathlees life of mine. whose deep Idea! Is more my own than ever was the real. For others Fame And Love's red flame, And yellow gotd; I only claim The shadows and the dreaming.” “Mine is the undergone: ‘The little tern leaf, bending Upon the brink. Its green reflection greet; And kisses soft the Mow that It meetl‘ W'ith touch so fine, The border line The keeuest vision can’t define. so perfect is the blending. “The far fir trees that aver The brownish hm: with needles green 1nd gold. The alighing elms o’erheld. vine-grown and o . Repletured are . Beneath me far, Where not a ripple moves to an! Shades underneath, or over. “Midway 'twixt earth and heaven, A bubble in the pearly tit, I seem ’Dofloatuponthea £0015“! Of clouds of snow, As twilight drifts to even. “A stream of tender glam 01 film.)- sun, and opal-tinted ma. 0: warm mldsnmmer air that light]: [10 In mystic rings, Where neatly swing- The music of a thong”!!! wings That almost tone to m Why He Stood in the Washtub PAGE SIX SPEARING MUSKALLONGE. The Shamrock’n Designer. SHADOW RIVER. -â€"E. Pauline John“ But Practised Jun be at his disposal. If those tomes did not attract, he could often hie him- self to the school-house and plunge into a debate on the subject. “Which is the more useful to man, wood or iron?" or "Was Wellington or Nap poleon the greater general." Sneeou in Canada. "Birkenhead" writes to The Lon- don Daily Mail: “My son, who was then sixteen years of age. said to me twelve months ago: 'Father I am tired of oflice work. Give me £5 and I will go to Canada.’ He Work- ed his way out on board a steamer, paid his railway fare to Winnipeg, got immediate employment on a farm, and has already remitted most af the money he took away. . He writes that the climate is splendid '; that he enjoys the life, and is devel- oping into a big, strong fellow. As soon as the harvest is over he in- tends taking up a grant of 160 acres. These are facts, and show what an English lad with grit can do in a new country." and on the other if they were wo- men. This fashion prevailed whether in school or meeting-house, and con- tinued for many years after. A mar- ried couple who would dare to sit side by side would have been con- sidered “no better than they should be." The visiting coach of the pio- neers Was the lumber wagon. though there was a general improvement in most conveyances when the steel spring came into use, about 1840. For long journeys everyone rode horseback. Women traveled hundreds of miles this way, some of them carrying children before them on the saddle. It was an age of bees. 'l‘he men had their raising bees and their logging bees, Where whiskey flowed like water (the best could be had for 40 cents a gallon), and dogs fought as long as they could stand up. Quilting bees were popular with the ladies of the period, and one of their favorite amusements was to catch a luckless man and toss him on the quilt. Apple bees, too, were great fun. At these functions apples were peeled, cut, cored, and strung to dry, and to eventually appear as apple sauce. These social gatherings al- ways ended in a dance, unless the re- ligious scruples of some objected, in which case the time had to be killed in kissing games, such as “postoi- fice," “measuring tape," “lady’s slipper,” and “button, button." Coon hunting was popular themes now, and spearing fish by torchlight often kept a Sportive pioneer up all night after a hard day’s work. Wild pigeons Were so numerous, and so easily killed or caught, that one could hardly call the proceeding sport. They were so daring that they would swoop down on the seed grain before it had reached the ground after being cast by the sow- er’s hand. Game of «ever sort abounded. One who did not enjoy hunting or fishing must have had trouble in finding pleasure or recrea- tion after the day’s work. If he lov- ed reading, and had access to a. backwoods library, he could plunge into Buchan’s “Domestic Medicine," Brown’s Union Gazetteer, Ricketson on Health, Jessy Kerzey. “Memori- als of a Deceased Friend," reports of the British and Foreign Bible So- ciety, J.ob Scot’s Journal, or Lewis' “Dispensatory,” all of which would or two social duties for which the busy Week days had left no time. Visits Were always paid on Sunday to friends near or far, and one can readily imagine what a visit meant to people who, as likely as not, had not seen a neighbor's face for a Week. Those who did go to church sat. on one side if they were men, ate at the same table, and one would not go farther than the other in comments, favorable or the reverse, on the meals before him. It Was the custom for girls to go to neighbors to live if their own parents could get on without them. In efl‘ect, they were servants no more than at home, except that they were paid for their work. The idea of the girl's social inferiority to her mistress nev- er entered the head of either. As Mr. Haight says: “The fact of the girl going out to work did not un- favorably affect her position. On the contrary, it was rather in her favor, and showed that she had some am- bition about her.” Indeed, in those days it was rarely the case that a girl shrank from domestic service in order to be a typewriter. Visiting on Sunday. Sunday was the great day of the week fifty years ago. Only a. minor- ity of the settlers could go to church, but all could attend to one time of the Mackenzie rebellion. The distant past is magically mmmoned by the author on the first page. when he merrily remarks that he does not remember being born, though present at the time. He does mmelnber how his father threshed the wheat when the writer was still a baby, and tells of the settler turning the sheaves over and over on the barn floor, while the horses and oxen were driven round and round. Ho recalls, too, a barn raising, and the ~cus- tom of hurling an empty bottle from the top of the building to the ground. If it was picked up whole, it‘ was a good omen, if not, well, it had probably struck something hard. The settlers were a cheerful lot, and did not permit the hardness of the life they led to make them pessi- mists. He mentions the lavish hos- pitaiity universal in the early days, and tells how the plate of a chance visitor would be buried under the rude abundance of hearty fare. To toy daintily with the victuals was to disparage the host, to have no appetite an insult. In this connec- tion the absolute social equality of master and man is mentioned. They best known historians of that period in Mr. Cannifl Height, whose book, “Country Life in Canada," is a. treasury in its way. The author's memory uncoiIs like .‘ cord to “the Sou-o Plum That Are Now Anna 2-:- gotton in the howl-o. of Ontario- - Country Lilo in Canada- Recent events have caused the thoughts of many to turn back to early times in Ontario. One of the Reel-cation. ot the Time. PIONEER LIFE. Alnou lor- The Coékâ€"Bedad, I didn’t kno' nullinexzs was gunmen like cool“, According to a French paper, there is a man in London who possesses a remarkable straw hat. For year. past he has followed King Edvard about at foreign watering places, and whenever he saw the Prince of Wales as the King then was drinking any. thing through a straw he pounced down upon the straw and added it, to his collection. Last year this strange collector had gathered such a bundle of straws that he had ‘ hat made of them. Payment of Genius. At a recent sale in London “De- foe's Life and Strange.Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 0! York, Mariner." and “The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe." tWo volumes, of 1719. in the orig inal call bindingS, realized 31,535. If such a thing had happened in De- foc’s own time it is probable that that gifted romancer would have end- ed his days in a madhouse. Such in- cidents are the irony of fate. Every other day one reads of a Poe manu- script having been sold at a large price. And then one remembers Poe's miserable life and ill-paid re- turns. Shakespeare, a prosperous dramatist, considering his time, would gladly have sold not only the manuscript copy, but dramatic rights to “Hamlet” for scarcely a larger sum than that given above. It is safe to say that the Avon bard. good business man as he was, did: not receive from all his plays what, a modern "popular" novelist gun. from a single book with its dram ic rights. It looks rather unjust, but Shakespeare still lives. while the novelist sees his reputation flickering before his eyes. It is doubtful who- ther. taking all things into consid- eration, Mr. Shakespeare would care to change places with ll-â€"-s; you may fill in your own blankâ€"Current Utetature. The Cookâ€"She lam iverything the milliner, does she? to Every season, in London alone, the sums spent by newcomers in their desire to give a concert or to share in one are in the aggregate enor- mous. and generally the expense only comes as a. culmination after both friends and money have been exhaustâ€" ed in paying for a long series 0! lessons in this country and abroad, during which period the stu nt has never earned a Sixpence. Bu , after years of study, a hearing must be got at any hazard for the novice. and if she be a girl the very dress on her back has often cost an infiâ€" nite family sacrifice. In too many cases, though, agents have been pro- pitiated and critics have been actu- ally got to come to the concert- roomâ€"important concerts often clash on the same dayâ€"the result is a deep disappointment, for many a musical genius will break dOWn un- der the ordeal and be seen at his or her worst. From the colonies alone fortunes have poured into London that have been speculatively used in concert- giving in behalf of the tyros. but some nineteen out of twenty 01 the aspirants have been. as in the case of home-cultivated variety. comparar tive failurw. One of the greateSt concert-agents of the world said to the writer: “I have lmown scores of casesâ€"I mean scores literallyâ€"where a student, praised to the skies by professors, has spent ten years of study without earning anything, and has then expended a small fortune in giving experimental concerts. only to find that. he or she cannot. even earn a living." Fortunes to Get rumlc w. Let 0.11 those of the outside public who read that some eminent vocalist of the concert-room platform. of some astonishing instrumentalist of the same is drawing enormous fees, take the word of an expert that there is no efl‘ort in the world so diflicult and so heartbreaking as that of obtaining the car of the public in the way mentioned. says London Tit-Bits. _ people ye Why the The Maidâ€"Oh, yea! What the mini. The Power- ‘l‘hat Be. A le-nrltablo nut. McLHlm C0, That working party Wore most}, Madmen. Kitchener had hound the music vibrating on the telephone in- strumcnt. the K.C.B. Col. Money had his baptism on the Nile nearly twenty years ago, and for his brilliant work at Ginis he got special mention a the D. 8.0. At Atbara 'm later times he had his horse cut from un- dor him. and on the heavier day my» (bet on at Khartoum he had “0 horses shot between his legs, and got out of trouble by a miracle. For this the dwpatches included him gain, 3nd he was arched m tho Colonel Gordon Honey, the new commander o! the force. In Ceylon. in smion to the late Sir Hector Mandonald, is a. soldier who has borne a. charmed life. H3 is being moved up slowly for an omcer of his dash and ability. for he only now takes brigade rank at Colombo. but doubthss lie will soon he give. K.â€"l’laying at mess? Wellâ€"ahâ€" just have those instruments put “my [or some future occasion. will you, and make that working [arty 100 strong. to arrive here toâ€"mor- row at 6 a.m., or there will be aro- gimenta! command vacant. C. O. (stammcring) â€"Very good, sir. C. O.â€"I beg your pardon, sir, but my men are all employed on someâ€" thing or other. the mnjoxity escort»- ing prisoners down the line. K.â€"Oh, I see. A11. is that. a hand I hcar playing there? C. 0. (hesitatingyâ€"Y-yas, sir. K.â€"-Oh. it is. What band? C. O.â€"chimento,l band, sir, playâ€" ing outside the mess. mm W W ‘- ‘_‘ _-~ up at once, in order to strengthen it. Going inside one of the blockâ€" housesâ€"they are all connected by eel- ophoneâ€"be rang up the omcer comâ€" manding a. unit, in the town. when the following dialogue took plum: K.â€"â€"Are you there? C. O.â€"-Yes. sir. K.â€"Aro you in command of the â€"â€"â€"shire regiment? Some months after K., as Tommy calls Lord hitchcncr. had taken ov- or command from Lord Roberts dur- ing the recent War in South Alrica he had occasion to visit some block- houScs which Were in course of erecv tion just outside one of the loading comzm-rcial towns. One, he noticed. hhd bcen placed in a rather exposed position, and he therefore ordered trem'hes and saug‘as to be thrown 12.41 wane a Working party, fifty strong, with intcenching tools. to be here at 6 o 'clock to-morrow morning. 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