The Stanstead journal, 10 janvier 1889, jeudi 10 janvier 1889

[" y 48 + \u2018 ) \\ ÿ \u2019 Established in 1845.The Stanstead Journal.L.R.ROBINSON, Publisher.Journal Building, Ruck Islund, Stanstead.U.8.Address, Derby Line, Vt, \u2014 od \u2018Terms: One year, (advance payment), $1 00 If paid in six months, 12 At the end of the year, 160 Papers sent in single wrappers Lave the number paid to on the label, Keep watch of the number, and pay before the time ex.pirea, to save loss of papers.I Job Pfinting Of all descriptions, from a card to a poster, ently and promptly executed, at moderate prices.Commercial printing a specialty.\u2018ae \u2014\u2014 Advertising Mates: « Square 1 week (02 lines), $1 00 \u201c each continuance, 25 1 Half-zquare 1 weck (6 lines), 6 \u201c© each continuance, 10 Transient advertizing charged by the line, 10 cents for first insertion and 3 cents per line each subsequent insertion.One rquare une year, Special rates to Lusiness advertisers ly the year.No objectionable advertisements received, and nothing but legitimate burinese advertising rolicited.Business Cards.Doctors.H, C.RUGG, M.D, O.M., | Physlelan and Surgeon, Ottice in Hotel, Stanstead Plain.phone connections, Dr, TD WHITOHER, Beebe Plain, Vermont.Ottice at John Tinker\u2019s Post Office.Telephone connections.T'RALPHE M.CANFIELD, M.D., L.R.C.P.(Lond.) Oflice at Residence, two doors south of the Convent, Stanstead Plain, P.Q.Connected by Telephone.O R JONES, M.D, C.M.Hatley, Que.Tele Physician and Surgeon, Stanstead Plain Que.Fost Office address, Derby Line, Vt, FRASTUS P, BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.Graduate of Montreal Veterinary College Office at Let Farm, Rock Island, Que.Telegraph and United States Post Office address, Derby Line, Vt.Advocates.7 M F HACKETT, Advocate, Solleltor, &c.Stanstea Plain, Que.Will attend all courts in the District.Collections a specialty.JOHN G FOSTER, | Attorney at Law, Derby Line, - Vermont.\"CHAS O BRIGHAM, Attorney at Law and Notary Public.Derby Line, Vt.Special attention paid to Collections.Prompt remittances made.H M HOVEY, ADVOCATE, Rock Island, Que.J.5, l\u2019ost Office address, Derby Line, Vt.JOSEPH L TERRILL, ADVGCATE, Sherbrooke, Que.Will be ut Stanstead every Monday fure- noon.Will attend all courts without extra charge.C.M.Thomas, Registrar, will attend to my business in my absence.Aduress ail letters to Sherbrooke.Miscellaneous.THOMAS KIRK, Provincial Land Surveyor & Draftsman, Stanstead Plnir, P.Q.Orders by mail promptly attended to.A.I.MILES, Carpenter and Joiner, (Jobs of building taken at moderate rates) Way's Mills, Que H 8 HUNTER, NARNESS MAKER AND UI'HOLMTERER.Undertuker, Supplies Furnished.Stanstead Plain, Que._ b.c.LisBY EEPSs u goed agrortment of Caskets, Ceftins und Uniertakers Su; plier, all of which will Le sold at low prices.Henrae furni-hed when required.Buck Island, Oct.19, My 2178 HANSON BROS, Accountants, Auditors, &t.Muniei 178 St, James St.Montreal.Whitipal, Government and Railroad De- benturce and Bank Stock bought and sold, pecial attention peid tu the management of l'rust and other Estates.NEW MAR LBORO HOTEL, .American and European Plan.136 & 738 Washington street, Corner of l'arvard Street, HUSTON, W.A.YOUNG, Pr~}'r.E 8 MAZURETTF Notmy Public, _ Stanstend Plain, Que.tS LOCKE, qe mort wonderful LE i{Votant and magnetic healer, meget Centre, Vi.Specialties Rheu- : en, neuralgia, lungs, liver and kidney plaints, Will trent any disease and Rl ite suceers Personal references vill be given jf required, 13y1 \u2014 INSURANCE AGENCY.Coo of England Fire Insurance Any, invested funds 28,000,000 end the British Empire Mutual Life Ase net Cou pan, accnmulated fund or prescrip 4 #8.Ruten reasonable.EH.UKHARON, Agent, Magsawippi, Que.LOMBARD INVESTMENT COY'S 30 Guurnntecd Mortea ) es in large or 6% Fl) ene can be obtained.mithe COR of negotiation, from JUHN G.FOSTER.Derby Line, Vi, EBREFORD CATTLE FOR SALE.undersigned linving decided to thorough re a ule\" i sock of low prices, and grade Hereford osttle a 8.800TT JosKPH Rok I+inod) 9: § Bei qe Vol.XLIV.\u2014No.5, \u2018 DAIRYING INTEREST IN CANADA.HA Series of Lellers Addressed lo the Ayri- cultural Public of Canadu, being a careful Study of Tairy Methods and Practices in Creal Britain and Kurope, during a Four Months Visit in 1558S.English Dairy Methods, [Copyrighted.] LETTER NO.VI.In the fact of changes in the conditions of British agriculture, referred to in a former letter, are found new problems to vex the British farmer.Oue of these probleme, though u 1ni- nor one, is a troublesome one.It is the ditticulty of FINDING GOOD DAIRYMALDS, One speaking at the Conference argued that this problem, simple us it may appear, actually prevented farmers making butter at all.Another speaker said he *\u2018advertised for a nursery governess and had twenty applications, and for & dairymaid\u2019 had only one.\u201d What a pity, say we all, that the niveteen unsuccessful applicants for the nursery do not learn to handle the churn as\u201d well asthe wilk bottle, und so increase their fitness for a home, as well as cliance for employment.Punch has touched upon this question: \u2014Scene, a farmer's daugliter playing a piano accompaniment for her brother singing.Pausing, she says: \u2018Do vou know, Jack, mamma says 1 must help in the dairy ; she helped when she was a girl.I told her I would rather go out as a governess.\u201d **As to dairymaids, they scemed to be almost as extinct as the dodo.Those to be obtained did not sufli- | cienily know what ought to be their work,\u201d so remarked one disgusted farmer at the vouference.Another insisted that the sooner they trained up good dairymaids the sooner they should produce in England the butter and cheese for which they \u2018paid the foreigner £15.000,000 a year.\u201d Have we not , A DAIRYMAID PROBLEM EN CANADA?Are the farmers\u2019 daughters learning to make batter as their mothers did?Or, under the changed conditions, does not the mother find it easier to do the whole work Lierself than to in- itinte the daughters into the mysteries of the (old-fashioned) dany?1t certainly is true, in some parts of Canada, that, while the girls have opportunities which their mothers never had for acquiring pretty aud graceful accomplishments, the wothers largely monopolize both the knowledge and practice of dairy art, aud even, in some measure, of the household art.Girle, take the advice of one who will uot willingly stand second to none of his sex in his appreciation of and admiration for lovely girlhood, and who will ask for our daughters every ac- complishinent that their hearts desire, or that will make them wore than ever churming in the home.That advice is not to allow yourselves, from false ideas of life, to lose the golden opportunity of girlhood to profit from all the rich experieuces of mother, in the short time that you may have the privilege of a mother under the same roof that shelters vou.Let not a delight in brilliant accomplishments create a disdain for the common-place acquirements.In a word, try to anticipate as a g#l, your estimate, as a woman, of the relative value of what may be learned or ne- quired in the days at howe with mother.There are various ways in which A REMEDY MAY BE APPLIED.First, young people may be taught by means of schools, how to do dairy work.This question of dairy schools, and the training of dairy maids may well be left for fuller discussion in a later letter.Sceomd, parents should see to it that the more intricate rule-of-thuwb process of days gone by gives place to the simnplest aud easiest process known to the progressive workers of to-day, and one best adapted to the changed conditions under which we are living.© Make the age which gives you a sewing machine and an organ give you a dairy suited to the new conditions which these other things have helped to briug about.This can be done.I have in inind a mother who las provided herself with the Implements she can gety and has adopted the best process she can learn of.Having no daughters, she has made ber youngest sou a most efficient help.He is now able to churn, wash and salt the butter, (in the churn) leaving to the mother herself only the shaping or packing and the general oversight.Even the husband, whose whole life has been on the farm.has now begun to take considerable interest in the dairy work and begins to pride himself on having acquired some knowledge of the art of hutter-making.It 18 safe to say that under the old system and the necessity of skillful hand maripula- tion the mother would have been today doing the whole work herself, almost wholly unrelieved of even the most laborious part of it.The hext thing noticeable in the discussions in England was the fact of a strong inclination towards CO-OPERATIVE DAIRYING.This subject appropriately follows that one Just discussed.Having done the best we can with the home dairy, let us make the most of the great corrective of its deflclencies-= the co-operative dairy.Let us see what our English friends Lave to say about this question.One speaker favored \u201csmall dairying\u201d becuuse it had been more profitable than grain growing.lis corn return (grain growing) did not pay his labor bill.Prof.Long expressed himeelf as doubtful about the estabs lishwent of creameries, owing to the low prices of dairy goods.He favored the Normandy system of buying up butter aud *blending\u201d it in a packing house.Others, Lowcver; favored vo-operstion, Said one speak.er lee gm.\u201cIt is next to impossible to manufacture a uniform sample of good butter iu the farm dairies to compete with that made in factories ; the building and fittings are -quite unsuitable.If factories were established on large estates for the use of tenants, or else were on co-operative principles, either milk, cream or butter could be collected or delivered there in bulk aud treated and distributed in.accordance with tue tastes of modern consumers.Butter could be graded at the factory, and consumers would know what they bought; indeed, a local industry might be re-established were the factory system extended.\u201d Another speaker, (Mr.Howman) also favored creameries, where the farmer would send his milk to be separated, leaving the cream to be dealt with, and taking back the skim to be used ou the farm.He said : \u201cLhe great ditlicalty in competing in the butter market is caused by the butter that is made in farm houses being not only small in quantity, but variable in quality and color, and 1 am convinced that if we combined together and formed butter factories, we should be in a much better position to compete with the foreigners wlio now cut us out in our markets.\u201d Professor Sheldon, who is so well known in this country, was nol at the conference last May, but in 1886 he read a paper on this subject which took a dark view OF THE FARM-IIOUSE SYSTEM in England.Ile confessed to having lost hope that reform was passible in liome dairies.\u201cIn theory,\u201d said be, \u201creform is within reach; in practice it is not.We cannot well expect that the future will induce people to improve their dairy goods any more than the past has doue; and if it be true that they have not as à rule, improved them in the past, then it is pretty sure they will go on just the same in the future.What, then, must be done?I am not one of tlhiôse who believe that the best of butler amd cheese cannot le made, and is not made at the farm houses.I merely say this, that the great bulk of butter and cheese made in farm houses is not by any means as good as il might be, and I affirm my belief that it will be neither better not worse, as a rule, in the future than it has been in the past.If 1 Liappen to be sound in this notion, it follows that ONLY BY A CHANGE OF SYSTEM shall we be able to effect the needed reforms.And what must this change of system be?Many there are, and their number grows, who think and believe that cheese aud butter fne- tories provide the only system under which we can obtain the best results ; and yet we are not blind to the fact that even they are not always a success.They fail like other systems, if not well looked after, if the head wan is not skillful and mindful as well.Sometimes they fail, but not often; and when they do, the cause is not hard to seek, as a rule.I favor them becaus?they save expense, and produce even goods, and take labor from the women at the farms, and pay fairly well, as things go.\u201d \u2019 I endorse Prof.Sheldon\u2019s remarks so far as they bear upon the advantages of the factory system.So far as they bear upon the home eystem and its future, there are (wo weak points.First, the home dawy is a fact and has a lease of existence that is indefinite, so far us we are able to see now.It is, ahd is likely to be, a large factor in the problem before us.The factory has not replaced the home dairy to the extent that men have expected, cither in England or in Canada.Believing this to be true, I am an advocate for the improvement of the home dairy.Prof.Sheldon\u2019s reasons for believing it will not improve are nol conclusive.Because things go badly whén no adequate attempt is made to improve them, is not proof that they will not mend when the era of improvement sets in.There was a time, in the history\u2019 of Denmark, when there was more need than prospect of improvement.There came a time when there was less need than realization of iwprovement.We necd only to know that the home dairy is a permanent factor in our problem here, to realize the necessity of urging ils improvement so far as improvement is possible.While believing in the largest possible improvement of the howe dairy, I would urge the largest possible EXTENSION OF THE FACTORY SYSTEM.While there may be difference of opiuion as to what extent the factory system will supplant the older system, all are agreed that so far has the industry been advantaged.While we must not fall into the error of looking to the factory system as a cure-all, we may safely regard it favorable ns one of the best improvements at our hand.The Island Farmer (P.E.1) quotes in counection with the publication of my letters the following extract from the Rural New Yorker, bearing upon this question : \u2014**Co-op- eration is a step towards a COMPLETE AND POWERFUL ORUANIZA- TION, It encourages a wholesome au good-natured rivalry.IL encourages strict and methodical business habits.It breaks down the petty Jenlousies sud distrusts so commou in farming communities, aud so harmful to the best interests of the farwer.It encourages public spirit awl enterprise.The farmer who has an interest in the creamery and can examine the books from time to lime can casily sce how his returns for cream compare with those of his neighbors.If his neighbor is beating him, he will be sure to car ry his investigation still further, aud sce what breed of cows, what foods, what cave are necded lo even the re.turne.Au intelligent creamery pate ron would certainly sce the necessity of providing g roads, and conducting other needed improvements.By driving some of the selfish, seit fulerast feeling out of à farmur and | » developing public spirit, the co-oper- ative creamery would work good results.\u201d Here followed a preference for the creaw- gathering system, which because it will be discussed in other connection, I do not quote here.W.H.Lyxen.Danville, Que., Dee.20th, 1888.\u2014\u2014_ Mightier than Niagara.A Quebec special to the Boston Herald says: Marvellous stories are related by the few Montagunis and Nascaapee Indians, who lave penetrated far into the interior of Labrador respecting a cataract, beneath whose terrific leap Niagara pales into insignificance.But one white man has ever seen these falls, and the Indians\u2019 ideas of measurements and «listances are so imperfect that, even where their stories agree, it is exceedingly diflicult to deduct from them anything like reliable data.An expedition late, ly undertuken by Randle F.Holme- FR G.S., and lI.Duff, fellow of AI! Souls\u2019 College, Oxford, to explore the interor of Labrador and investigate these falls unfortunately failed in its object, the explorers having been misled by erroneous calculating as to distances and the exact location of the cataract, and compelled to return in consequence of running short of provisions.They got so vear to the object of tie expedition, however, that they were enabled, from the geu- eral configuration of the country, to form what must be a tolerably correct estimate as to both th: location and magnitude of the cataract.This estimate agrees with the description of the grand falls furnished by Maclean, who visited them in 1839 and whose further progress into the interior was stopped bv them.Ile gave the width of the fiver immediately above the falls at 1500 feet, but says that the cataract itsell is not more than 130 feet across.The height of the falls he estimates at 2000 feet, This estimate is endorsed by a half breed named Kennedy, met by Messrs.Holme and Duff in the interior and who, thirty years ago, was in charge of Fort Nascapee.on Lake Petchika- pou.countered by explorers desirous of reaching the falls is the obstinate refusal by the Labrador Indians to approach them.They believe them to be haunted, and think it iinpossible to look upon them and live.Kennedy was conducted by an old Indian named Louis-Over-the Five, who, being an Iroquois, did not share the superstitious belief of the Montagnais and Nas- capee.Messrs.Holme and Duff were principally misled by the erroneous statements and calculations as to distances contained in Prof.Hind\u2019s *- Lal- rador,\u201d the leading authority upon this virtually unknown country.The falis are on the Grand or Petchikapou Rivèr which flows into Hamilton Inlet.They are thirty miles above Lake Wainini- kapou a boily of water which is itself forty mileslong, add situated 150 miles inland from the mouth of the river.Prof.Mind gives this lake as only 100 from the mouth, so that the expedition of Messts.Holme and Duff has brought 10 light that the best works heretofore published upon this terra incognita contain anything bat reliable data.They agree, however, with Professor Hind that the elevation of the immense table land which forms the interior of Labrador is about 2,- 240 feet.On Lhis height of land are a stccession of great lakes joined hy broad, placid streams, and when these reach the edge of the table they commence Lheir wild career to the sea.The Moisie and the Coldwater Rivers descend by successive falls, but toward the southeast the descent from the elevated table is quite sud- deu.\u2018This is particularly true of the Grand River, which has a drop of over 2000 feet in the thirty miles cormmencing with the falls and ending at Lake Waminikapou.There is a slight rapid below the falls, but none near the lake, and everything goes to show that the height of the grand falls is very little if anything short of 2000 feet.They ave by a great deal the highest falls in existence that are composed of any great volume of water.There are mere woantain torrents that fall from a greater height, and the great fall of the Yosemite Valley measures 2550 feet, but it is broken into three distinct leaps.Niagara, on tbe other hand, bas a height of 164 feet only.\u2014 Death of a Noted Indian.Colorow, the old chief of the Utes, has recently died in his camp at Ou- ray agency in Utah, where he took refuges when the detestable raid of Colorado white men drove him from his reservation, and the white men tried to scare the country into believing that he was beginning an Ia.dian war, when nothing was futher from his thought.Colorow was the leader in the cruel Miunesota massacres of 25 years ago, but he had suffered great wrongs before, and since he has become a peaceable farming Indian.He went by a nickname ; his real name was \u2018*l'ss-p-wcets\u201d\u2014a rock and indicated his character.Ile was about 75 years old and is widely mourned by his people.When it was told them he was dying of pneumonia, they were in a fever of excitement, aud the squaws cut off their hair in token that the carth had become uninteresting to thew.Just a few miu- utes before he died, the old chief called Gus, his son, went to him aad asked to be taken out to the bauk of the White river, where he was laid on his blankets and died among the willows of the stream upon which he had passed the most of his years.Immediately upon his death, as is the custom, some of the younger members of the band mounted their ponies and rode to the ranges, where some 30 or 40 of the best horses were shot, the Lucian belief being that the spire its of the horses would accompany the spirit of the chief to the happy hunt pe grounds.\u2018There is womething loft on this oontjueut to inspire tue genius of agother Cooper: One of the chief difliculties en- Through Daylight Land.[Guzette.] Me.WHHL HL Murray isa writer who needs no introdaction to the readers of this journal.lis powers of description, his cowwand of language, his fund of ancedote are known aud appreciated so as to ensure for whatever comes from his pen a ready reception.When it is announced that he has made the transcontinental journey oner the Canadian Pacific and that Le has written an account thereof, something very pleasant will be looked for ; and in looking the reader will not be disappointed, Daylight Land,\u201d the title he has chosen for his book, abounds in vivid word pictures as the route they describe does in pleasant and striking scenes.The man and the work were congenial.The result is 0 book entertaining to read, pleas- aut to look upon and illustated wilh artistic taste.The author had as his companion Judge Doe, on Lis way to his Lome by the Golden Gate over the Canadian line, a Man from New [Mampshire, and \u201cJack Osgoode,\u201d and their conversations add an clement of quaint humor to the whole that will be duly appreciated.Travelling towards Port Arthur, along the north shore of Superior, liere is one of the scenes that present themselves : **At this moment we went roaring over a bridge whose mighty span stretehied in majesty a hundred feet above the mad water that poured whirhag downward below us.We glanced from the window as the rambling gave us its signal, and our mind received this photographie impression; a mountain to the right, mounted like a loaf and wooded perfectly from base to dome; to the left a precipice, lifting sheer half a thous- | and feet from the dark pool lying sullen and black in its shadow; through this gorge, and beyond in the distance, a space of sky shone like a mirror, and under us, the white angry water,\u2014a picture flashed on usin a second and indelibly impressed on the memory ; a picture which I keep to this day, und shall keep till the gallery in which it hangs, with a thousand others, crumbles to the foundations.\u201d \u2018\u201cThe history of bridges is the history of civilization,\u201d rewarked the Judge.But the necessity of remonstrating with the wailer\u2014It was breakfast time\u2014ou the underdoneness of a steak interrupted forever the Judge's disquisition on the convection between civilization and cantilevers, and led him off into a monologue on the ad- vautages of an epicurean taste loa traveller, the end and substance of which was *\u2018The equities of the stomach should not be trifled with, sir.\u201d Again he says, of the same section of country: \u201cWhirlwind round the cliff which brought as in sight of the blue waters of Lake Saperior, as they sparkled aod flashed brightly under the light of the morning.He who has rolled for fifty miles along the shore of this msjestic body of inland water, who has scen the summer sky arching the blue dome above it, its forest- covered islands, the hundreds of inlets that dot its surface, its curving beaches of brown and yellow sand, its deep secluded bays and rocky prom- oulories, has looked upon one of the wost entertaining and charming pictures of the continent.\u201d Where civilization is impinging on the wilderness this is the picture that presents itself: \u201cWe were running between some lofty hills.Here sud there we passed a sinall clearing, with its little log houses in the centre.Each narrow field was a mass of woodland flowers, scatlet, purple and white, standing as if planted in separate beds, characterizing the field with color.Outside the world was warm and odorous.The wild flowers sweetened it, and the wind which blew the scented air through our open windows and into our nostrils brought from the lofty hills wild gamy scents and pun- gencies of fir and pine.\u201d A paradise for the sportsman in the farther west is told of in this way: \u201cIf there are prettier bits of water anywlere than can be found in these western prairies, they bauve not been discovered.A few are alkaline, hut many are fresh, and the prairies roll down in billows of grass to their beaches or flatten to the water through acres of sedge, canvas.backe, mallards, teal, black ducks, wood ducks, curlew, thu big plover, and those wouclers of the western land, the huge suow white pelicans, whose wings have the stretch of the white-headed eagle's, and which float on the water with the slow stately movement of swaus\u2014all were here, aud in numbers beyond counting.On the prairie were coyotes, gray wolves and antelopes.What more could a sportsman desire than such & camp and such game?\u201d Banff, its flue hotel, sceuic silua- tion and its pleasaut drives call for a glowing eulogy.Standing by the sulphur dprings: This water smells bad eaough to cure a man, it he was very sick,\u201d said the New Hampshire man quietly, as he lifted a cup of the heavily tinctured water to his nose.\u201cI know a man who left his lameness in that spring,\u201d said the Judge reflectively.It may be thatis what I smell,\u201d added the Man from New Hampshire.«Iv doesn't swell like a rose,\u201d laughingly returned the jadge, *\u2018buta man will stand sulphur pretty etroug to get rid of rhemuation.\u2014\u2014 + The rugged grandeur of the mountains gives occasion for many brilliant word pictures that would recall with vivid force the experiences of the lucky traveller who Las with Lis own eyes lovked upon it, and awake in the breast uf tho bomekeeper a fecling of unrcet that Le too ip not aR eye-wits now of pospes Wat Po pen can hope \u2018less field before him.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1589, 10 detail and the painter's Lrush can hardly convey a conception of.Flere is one: *lelow the Fraser canon, the savage sublimity cannot, perhaps, he equalled on the continent; the Fraser curves to the right, and sends its deep, strong, down-rushing current with a sullen roar against the base of & wountain.And he who stands in the curve below Yale aud looks up that wild reach of water to where it rushes out of the gloomy pass, from between walls +f rock that rise 6,000 feet ahove it, sees as grand a spectacle and as sublime a vision of river and wountains as he may find on the continent.\u201d And here another: \u201cFrom the Gap, but a little wav beyond the beautiful Kananaskis Falls to Yale, at the outlet of the celebrated Fraser canon is nearly 500 niles and it is a moderate statement to say that no where else on this continent or in Europe cau the tourist see from his parlor car such a magnificent exhibition of mountain scenery.Here is a section of the transcontinental journey in respect to which the traveller can experience no disappointment.It is not only that he is constantly running along the hase of mountains of gigantic size and immense altitude by which he is stimulated and impressed, but these mountains are of every shape and color, present themselves to the eye in an infinite variety of appearance, and are individualized by strong novel and imposing characteristics.Here stands one of such immense balk and height, holding such a relation to the line of travel that it dominates the landscapeJand fills the gazer's horizon from edge to edge.Passing this monstrous obstruction to the vision, the eye suddenly beholds a range pinacle with eternal snow and flashing crests of ice, whose brilligney is the reflection of ages.Anon he is whirled round a curve, on a track so cut into the beetling cliff that at a distance it looks like a dark thread spun in the air and drifted by the wind against the perpedicular wall; aud lo! he is in the midst of a hundred mountains, tumbled promiscaously together a vast jumble of chaotic misplace- ments.At one moment Le is rolling swiftly down a valley, as green with springing verdure, as odorous with flowers, as peaceful and lovely as the lappy Valley of Rasselas; above it is the bluest of skies and the brightest of suns, with a flashing river running with musical ripplings through its centre ; and at the next, the train is way along a narrow gorge cut sheer through a mountain range at the level of its base, with the black rocky sides rising abruptly thousands of feet on either hand, a river of vast volume outracing the train at his side, here runuing in white flights, there whirling in dark pools, while all the black.air is filled with its hoarse cowplain- ing and explosions of thunderous rage.Now it is a lonely lake with its beaches and ils sedgus, its islands and its reflections of sky and cloud and mountain, and its signs of swimming, fly- iug life which charms him; anon he gazes entranced, amuzed, breathless, at a glacier hanging in white, green, flashing loveliness, ten thousand fect above hits ; or looks with awe upou a valley betwcen two ranges filled for iniles aud miles with suow to the very peaks, as be remembers that the hu- mau race is not so old as that thaw- Such avother live hundred miles of travelling is vot to he had on the face of the earth.Iu the midst of this the first glacier presents itself to view:\u2014\u2018IL was white, with green lights shot through the fractured and curved extremity, crescent shaped at the end; & monstrous motion suddenly solidfied as it plunged downward, and fixed foreverin a spot where it hung suspended high up and far off in the air.Above the forest, above the great bulk of the mountain, from the very peak, Luvg that strange monumental appearance, a miracle of nature, a mystery of the elements, a wonder to the tourist like vision of poet or the dream of uncasy slumber.\u201d But it is not alone thc scenery that these four travellers are impressed with.The Man from New Hampshire has ail the New Hampshire man's keenness and swiftness to seize upon the opportunity for a profitable inves- nent, aud his companions are not unlike him.Admiring the commercial advantages of Port Arthur, dilating on the vast agricultural capacities of the northwestern territories, and the northern territories that siretch up towards the Arctic circle, or buying corner lots in Vancouver, they see and acknowledge the progressive future of the land they travel through.Of the head of Lake Superior, the following prediction is made :\u2014 \u201cOne of the largest cities on the continent will stand here within fifty years.* * * The site of great cities isa matter of geography.Graat- ed a population north and west of Manhattan island and New York must be built.Populate New England aud Boston is the inevitable result.Tue Lachine rapids and an inhabited Canada necessitates Montreal.The prairies of the west must have & commercial ceatre, and hence Chicago.Now, look at this site.These mountains, hills, and even the islands in front of us, are full of precioas ores\u2014iron, copper, (and copper, too, free from sulphur), silver, gold, nickel.Look at this harbor, fenced on all sides from gales, deep, roomy, freed from ice each spring earlier than any other on the lake.Into it empties that river the Kaainistiquia, youder, up whose quiete chaoncl a steamer with draught of twenty-six feel can sail for four miles.as there ever such natural wharfage given for commerce, made ready, vo to speak, for the hand of mau to use, as thoes sight wiles of levePriver banks?Look at the eles vator there.It holde oue millivn three hundred thousand bushels of wheat.Within sixty days two more of thy pppoe sige will sland bealde ity WIIOLE NUMBER, 2242.Four millions of bushels accommodated where two vears ago commerce had not laid down a single grain! How wany elevators do you think, Judge, will be on that bank (en years frow to-day?Last vear those prairies to the west produced 13,000,000 busl- els of wheat.Four years ago scientific men were disputing whether wheat would grow ou that soil or not.The wheat urea west of us iv larger than the United States.The suil of this vast belt is virgin, rich, inexhaustible ! How much wheat do you thiok will be raised in that vast wheat belt vonder twenty-five vears hence?Aud how is it to reach the markets of the world?It must go south to the States, or it is coming lere to Thunder Bay.* * * * .* Five hundred miles north of the international boundary vou can sow wheat three wecks carlier than you can in Dakota.The climate is milder in the valley of the Peace river than it is in Manitoba.These great facts of nature are significant and impressive none the less so because up to this time they have had little advertisement and are known to a comparative few.\u201d Of the prairie section, stretching from tue Lake of the Woods to the Rockies, this is said: \u201cThe people to populate this country are coming from Great Britain, the north of Europe, and perhaps from the States.This country is agricultural.Our tent is pitched in the centre of the wheat area of the continent.Five hundred miles to the north, and as far to the south fiom where we sit, and a thousand miles cast and west measure what I call the great wheat square of thie the continent.Here is pure water, a perfect climate, cheap fuel, and a soil that produces forty bushels of prime wheat to the acre.As the soil to the south under our silly system of agriculture becomes exhausted, as it soon will be, and the average yield per acre shrink more and more, the wheat growers must and will move northward.This movement is sure to come.It is onc of the fixed facts of the future; it is born of au agricultural necessity, and when it begins to move it will move in witli a rush.\u201d And of the far Northwest, the Pence river district and beyond :\u2014The sail is as rich as auy ou the continent and the climate simply perfect.It is milder than it is here, or in Dakota or Minnesota.Wheat can be sown ear- lier\u2014three weeks earlier, I should think\u2014than at the national line.The days are longer, and the cereal growtls get the benefit of the prolonged solar light\u2014a great benfit I can assure you it is in bringing a crop along fast.At the northern party of my trail I could read a newspaper at midnight without the aid of candle or moon.It is Daylight Land up there, and so it might in truth as well as in poetry, be called.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 w.C.T.U.One Good Samaritan.M.A.B.Being in attendance on a state convention and entertained by a lovely lady not even & member of our worl1- wide order of women, I sat with her just as sunset's shadow stole into the room, when a visitor was announced.\u201cJudge Graham, allow me to introduce this lady,\u201d said my hostess, giving my name and residence.As 1 acknowledged the introduction, I looked into seemingly a noble face, and vet a trace of crimson on it and the portlicess of its possessor gave me à vague impression, soon dispelled, that in spite of his venerable look he might be a victim of the curse so undiscriminating to the eye.A geu- tleman of the old school, a Cumberland Preshyterian he proved to be, who soon enlightened my modern ignorance of their distinction from oth- et Presbyterians.He told me of their version of the Psalms, softly saying the twenty-third one with a Scottish cadence that sunk into my soul, and unconscionsly the tears streamed down my cheeks.A small volume by the idyllic Riley lay near him.He read one of its original, homely melodies, snd some reference in it to boyish freaks recalled his owa.Drifting ou to hiss maturer years he spoke sc reverently of his wife and lier loss to him, how he had trusted her entirely to train his sons.Such a social, sympathetic caller, I was loathe to bid good-bye, his courtly looks and actions had impressed me so deeply.As the door closed at his departure, and my hostess was seated once more, she said, *\u2018l think I must tell vou my first and only experience in temper- Ance work, and the Judge was my subject.\u201d \u201cWhat!\u201d said I, \u2018a Christian in the fullest sense of the word as he seems to be?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d she said sadly, *\u2018in spite of his piety, and I will tell you just how it came about.A select company went from this city to a famous ses- side resort, having speeial parlor cars provided, and everything to make the trip pleasurable and complete.A young wan of the coterie carried a flask of liquor from which he drank himself, aud gave the Judge to drink.Two years the latter had held the rein over appetite, but his was not an acquired craving for stimulants; his blood beat hot with the tainted inher itance of parental sin, and that oue drink renewed tae cntailed enslavement, and for three weeks he indulged in a degrading debauch.Some of the gentlemen took charge of his valuables and moaey, depositing them in the hotel safe, but himself aud bis soul, so much more valuable, were in constant danger.\u2018In the meantime many of our pare ty, including my husband, had ra- turoed, 80, somewhat disocusolaiely, I strayed into the parlor one morning, only to meet thy Judge.Such a change was wrought In him tuat À wgreels baew Mw, sed weld gladly have avoided hin, but he took my hand and in tears and trembling told me all, aud appealed for pity and help once more to couquer and become himself again.Then he told how at other times he had been imured in a hospital till cured, and asked me to search out some haven of refuge for his infirmity.Most unwillingly I promised, thinking surely some of his male friends would assist me, but instead they only laughed and sucered, saying it was no use, he could quit himself if ie chose, any man ought to know when lie had enough, aud such talk as that.Indignantly I hunted out a refuge in a neighboring town.Even then I dared not trust him alone on the boat, for its bar boldly enticed such as le, ahd then beyond the landing I knew stoud saloon aller saloon, sending their soul-ensnaring scents from open doors.When we landed, BO carriages were waiting, so I took kis arm, loping to eet one.As we neared the last saloon he withdrew his arm, saying, so piteously, \u2018Please let ine stop here for one last drink \u201d In despair I rallied all my resolution and said, \u2018Judge Graham, Low dare vou insult me so, after my coming with you to ward off temptation, this way.\u201d He took my arm once more saying, \u2018Forgive me, O, for God's sake forgive me, but no one knows this exc uciating torture of thirst but its victims.You are an angel, and you shall save mc from myself.\u201d Then a carriage came and 1 saw him safely ensconsed in a secure asylum.\u201cWhen E returned his tempter snecringly greeted me with, \u2018Why didu\u2019t you turn him over tome?The best place for him was his home, where [ would have taken bim.\u201d I replied indignantly, \u2018You have done him harm cuougl ; you shall not sec him again if I can help it.\u2019 Since then I think the Judge has never fallen again, but I thiok of his poor, dead wife's life of fear, lest the disgrace of a drankard\u2019s children should be fier own little ones, despile her constant watchfulness.Eternal rest must be a blessed release from her endless vigils.\u201d ; The revelation was so terrible to me that for a few moments I sat in silence.Then I said, **Can you not see by this one pitiful example the need of Prohibition?\u201d \u201cYes, indeed, and please God, I will help it on, fur the sake of such, and my own dear boys.\u201d But men have no compassion on a fellow-siuner of his sort.! heard a minister saying only last Sunday, preaching from the test, \u2018Watch and pray,\u201d that we must keep watch over appetite, a minister, who himself calls the cup \u2018one of God'sgood creatures ; and he spoke as though nothing was easier than to set a watch on one's lips.I kuow of two Christian gentlemen in our own city who dropped dead within & vear from only table use of of this **good creature; this false preacher may share the same fate.\u201cGod does not pay on the Sabbath,\u201d is the old Italian saying, but he does pay surely.If this reverend pays in apoplexy it will bz puh- lished as a \u2018dispensation of Providence.\u201d He Believed in Dreams.A woman living in the eastern part of Portland lost a fur collar last February, and though a thorough search was made for the missing article, it was never found.Recently Ler bus- band dreamed that it was secreted under a stamp in a lot near his barn.The next night the dream occurred again, but the husband did uot mention it to his family.The third time the dream was repanted, aud at last, actuated more by curiosity than by faith, the man visited the field aad found the stump.Brushing away some leaves he discovered a hole, and placing his hand in it, to his sarprise it came in contact with a furry snb- stance, which he proceeded to pull out.Then he went home.The skunk escaped.ee \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014n SQUIBS.Lawser\u2014\u201cI have my opinion of you.\u201d Citizsen\u2014**Well you can kecp it.The last opinion I got from you cost me $150.\u201d Easily Explained.\u2014Old Lady (to grocer\u2019's boy)\u2014\u2018\u2018What makes the price on them potatoes so stiff, boy ?\u201d Grocer\u2019s Boy\u2014*It's because there's so much starch in \u2018ew, mum.\u201d Easterner (in Western town)\u2014I don\u2019t see any school in this town.Westerner \u2014 You don\u2019t?Guess you must bs near-sighted.Don't you see that sign over that there door: **T'eechin Dua Here?\u201d Now that Stanley is pronounced safe in the Upper Niger, wz desire to know the name of the White Pasha, who has been gadding about Central Africa\u2014not necessarily as à guarantee of good faith, but for pablication.\u2014[Lite.Politics and Religion Mixed.\u2014 Consonants will get mixed up about election time, in spite of all endeavors to keep them straight.A veaer- able member of the North Charch remarked, laat evening, that he could hardly realize that the church had paid its bet.\u2014[Springheld Union.Visitor (to convict): \u2018What are you in for, my friend?\u201d Convict: ¢I got ten years at hard labor for swindling.\u201d Visitor: \u2018\u2018Swindling is very bad.What labor do you do?\u201d Convict: \u201cI'm in the shoo department, sir.I cut pieces of pasteboard that are put between the soles.\u201d ~[Fireman\u2019s Herald.In Kentucky recently the funeral of Mr.Shivers was deferred on scoount of cold weather.A dog is employed to guard the mail bage at the Pust-office in Allcu.town, Pa.The bags mre deposited uu the paveaent and the dog watehos them till the propagagereos removes Hm e The Stanstead Journal.| -_\u2014_\u2014.THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1t69.The Dominion Government have granted the Red River line the right of a crossing over the line of the Canada Pacific._\u2014- The author of the Murchison letter has been discovered in Mr.Geo.M.Ongoadly, of Pomona, Cal.Murchison is the family name.and it is said the letter was written in good faith.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Count Herbert Bismarck, in correspondence with Sir.R.D.Moricr, was guilty of using coarse and brutal language toward that gentleman, which discredit upon his character as a gentleman.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 A murder in Philadelphia shows an atlempt lo initiate atrocities of the Whitechupel unknown terror.Besides one reported Bradford, Eng, a report comes from Philadelphia of the murder of a man whose body was chopped up and placed in two coarse bags and hid in some pipes Blored ona vacant lot.No clue to the murderer has been found.\u2014\u2014 e- The session of the Quebec Legislature commences to-day (Wednesday.) Some curiosily exists as what course the party friends of Mr.McShave will take in his case.Ap immediate effort will made to have a writ issued for Montreal Centre.In Laprairie County the fight will be between Mr.Goyette the ex-member and Mr.L.Letourneau, a farmer.- \u2014 It is in Montreal tbat if Mr.Abbott declines a re-clection as Mayor, Al derman Grenier will be his successor.having aclieved an honorable record in the citv council.Mr.McShane uas also announced his intention of being a candidate for mayor, and would be a dangerous competitor but for the stigna attache® to his character in connection with his political record.\u2014\u2014\u2014 The Cualedoniun, of Si.Johnsbury, Vt., celebrates the New Year with an entire new dress of handsome type and an addition to the editorial force of Mr.Arthur F.Stoue, son of the editor, C.M.Stone, Esq.The paper has been published two vears over hall a century, and for most of that time by the present publisher.We congratulate the new firm on their success financially, and upon printing the neatest looking paper in the State.} - - \u2014 Gen.W.L.Greenleaf has made the following nomiuations to fill vacan- vies on Brigade Staff, National Guard of Vt., Capt.R.J.Coffey tu Le Mn- jor aud Brigade Provost Marshal, Capt.C.H.Spooner, tobe Major and Brigade Inspector of Rifle practice, Lieut.Andrew Kirk, to be Captain and A.D.C.and Lieut.C.E, Nel sou to be Captain and A.D.(.Capt.Nelson is a Derby Line boy, with a natural taste for military service, and bas risen by regular gradations.We congratulate Lim on his promotion, which has undoubtedly been secured by strict attention to the duties of his appointments.Rev.S.Bond, formerly a minister of the Methodist Church here, now of the West End Methodist Church, Montreal, met with a serious accident on Monday while walking through the St.James Methodist Church building on St.James St., he fell through a hatchway and sustained severe injuries.It appears that two carpenters had fallen off a ladder, and Mr.Bond with others went 10 their assistance.\u2018The wen though badly bruised, were atile to walk to a physician.Mr.Bond, in passing through the building mistook hs way and fell thirty feet to the ground floor.He was removed to his home by an ambulance from the general hospital.It is feared that his spine is injured.vee Most of the States of the United States bave adopted biennial sessions of their legislatures.The expenses are borne by the people of the Suites, aud the consequence 18 that tle expense account is kept down lo an economicat standard.The Prove inces of Canada might take a lesson from their neighbors, and save the country a good deal of money as well a8 obnoxious statutes.If it were not for the fact that under tie Confederation scheme the Dominion assumes a large proportion of the expeuse, (which indirectiy comes out of the pockets of the people) there would be move for biennial sessions in Canada, and there should be any way, and the legislatures of the Provincesshould be confined to purely local and municipal matters.\u2014 ee - Wipe Awake for January, is a beautifully illustrated Number, and contains holiday reading ; the opening piece entitled +The Cricket Fiddler.\u201d with words and music: a story by Hezekiah Butteiworth, \u201cGood Luck,\u201d Mrs.L.B.Walford, an English writer, contributes 8 Clrisunas story, \u201cSuck a Little Thing,\u201d and Mrs.Jessie Benton Fremont, a sketch of early California entitled, \u201cMy Grizzly Bear.\u201d The Serial Stories are very readabic, \u201cFive Lite Peppers Midway,\u201d by Margaret Sidovy, and Trowbridge\u2019s, \u2018The Adveniures of David Vane and David Cranc,\u201d is in Trowbridge's best vein.The other articles are all bright and readable.Wink Awake, $2.40 & venr, DD! Juibrop Company, Boston, Mase.The courte have decided that Hon.James McShane won his election in Laprairie by bribery, aml unseated and disqualitied him.Mr.Mercier is unlucky in some of his supporters.Whyte, Bourassa and McShane unseated and disqualified.Hon.Mr.Rhodes, recently elected in Megantic, is said tu Lave won bis election bya very profuse use of money, which will probably be inquired into.-~o \u2014\u2014\u2014 WASHINGTON LETTEK.(From our Reguiar Correspondent.) WasHiNgTox, D.C., Jan.5th, 1889.The proverbial ¢\u2018Cleveland weather,\u201d that greeted Mr.Cleveland's inauguration and visited his first New Year reception did not desert him on the first day of this year.The reception was in all respects the most brilliant that lias occurred during this administration.The crush was tremendous.\u2018The lines of waiting carriages renched far into the adjacent streets.The public on foot were uumbered by thousands, and when the doors closed, hundreds had not obtained admission, although introductions were dropped at the end of the first half hour, and people were almost trotted past the President, succeeding only in touching Mr.Cleveland\u2019s limp finger tips.All sorts and conditions of people were in the mob, An old colored man, filled with a weighty New Yeer greeting, paused abruptly and could not be moved until he had delivered it, to the infinite disgust of a plaid dude just behiud Lim, who was accowpan- ied in bis wrath by Dr.Mary Walker, in a frightfully fitting Prince Albert suit.The President wus seven minutes late, and the eabivet and diplomatic corps were waiting when he appeared with Miss Bayard, in the Blue Room, and the red coated Marine band in its programme.Among the select assemblage of invited witnesses was the historian Bancroft, merry us a school boy, showing his eighty-nine ycars iv wo line of his cheerful face aud alert figure.Needless to say, Mrs.Cleveland was the centre of attraction.The hard work of the day had no terrors for her.She has always been a distinguished log woman.Ou New Year she was a very beautiful woman, a picture of youth, health, form, intelligence, magnetism.What more can woman wish?A splendid gown.Well, she wore a Directoire costume of French gray and pale piok faille, the back being formed hy the full court train of pink, falling in folds from the shoulders.\u2018The skirt sides were sel in very wide gray panels, opening over a petticoat of rose colored silk, bordered on both sides with Russian sable.Her throat was en circled with diamonds, and like jewels gleumed io her hair.The diplomats were not su numerous as on former occasions.The corps included the new Gerwan Minister, Chicf Justice Fuller and the Associate Justices were next iu oflicial order, followed in succession by the army and navy oflicers, the minor departmental officers, the veterans of the Grand Army, and finally the public.As usual, during the interwis- sion, there were constantly passing more or less distinguished people who were not obliged to wail in the throng of the unknown.Congress assembled after the holiday adjournment on Wednesday.The usual quota of Senators wus present, and the galleries were well filled.Promptly at the close of the morning hour, he tariff debate dragged its slow length into view.And the visitors scattered to the four winds and left the Senators alove with their sorrowful duty.The House recovered from the holiday season more slowly, and not over eighty members were present when it re-opened.When the call for commiltee reports was made, not 8 committee responded.The friends of the international copyright bill seem again doomed to disappointinent.They bave almost despaired of even secugng a day for its consideration during the present session.The opposition they believe is only negative.The committee on rules still refuses to meet.The several chairmen of House commit- tevs that have importaut bills on the calendar are calling unsuccessfully fur a meeting of the Rules committee | to arrange an order of business.Messrs, Carilsle and Mills appear afraid of possible legislation, and seem to doubt their ability to control the House if the order is avanged.If they staud out none but privileged weasures Will be in order.The sensational reports from Hasti had the effect of crowding the recep- ton rooms of the State department with visitors yesterday, The Department, however, kept ils news to itself.Minister Preston gives no credence to the story that Legitime has threatened to kill all forcigners who oppose him, amd that the American consulate is filled with refugees.As it is, ibe New York Mail & Express story might carry stronger credence if Licut.Deering was a less lurid and perchance a wore modest writer.me eae India Still CALCUTTA, Jan.d.\u2014The negotiations between the English and Chinese governtuents have resulted in an agreement that the Judian Govern.| ment shall have control vf the prov-! ince of Sikkim.This contro) will ; greatly fucilitate trade between Fidis i and \u2018Thibup- Grows, Liberal Expenditures.le Courier du Cunadu calls atten- tiou lo the reprehensible waste of the publie funde in connection with the codification of the Statutes.No feature of the prescut administration reveals, in our contemporary\u2019s opinion, the recklessness of the Mercier Government in a more glaring or scandalous fashion.\u2018I'he Hon.Me.Tallon, indeed, took occasion, as a member of the Public Accounts committee, to conden the exorbitant salaries paid to Mr.Quinn and Mr.Martin for their services.Mr.Cuinn, as Mr.Mercrer announced iu the house, had lubored at the task of codification from July 12, 1887, at $10 a day and had received 83,590 for his services.His functions, one would suppose, wust have been very important.All that Mr.Quinn had to do, however, was to correct the proofs.Mr.Quinn, us Mr.\u2018l'aillon put it, was to Mr.Oliver what the bellows blower is to the organist.\u2018Fo allow $°0a day for such work wus more than liberal, added Mr.\u2018Faillon; it was national.As for Mr.Martin, his vole was that of secretary to the commission.At start he would have $400 a vear ; then his wages were raised to $1,000.In February, 1887, he became a candidate in Quebec County as the op- poncut of Sir Adolph Caron\u2014a step necessitating his resignation.But he was defeated and his berth was kept for Lim.For his services from July 12 till the end of that month he received 8600! Of this sum 860 went for travelling expenses; the rest, 8540, for 18 days work! In all he received from July 12, 1887, until March, 1888, no less than $1,466.66.He was granted, besides, $100 for preparing a Crown Lands bill.In that way the expenses of codification were swollen till they reached the enormous figure of $200,000 under the present reyime.\u2014 [Montreal Ga- zZette, -\u2014- ewe A Costly Official.M:.Beauscleil is an important personage.Mr.Mercir considers him such if we can judge by the payments he has awarded him.In 1887 Mr.Mercier appointed Mr.Beausoliel special collector of the tax on commercial corporations.On the 30th of September, 1887, Mr.Beausoleil gave notice to all the commercial corporations indebted to the government to pay at lis office the sums they owed.This collection took thirty days of Mr.Beausoleil\u2019s time, and for this months work, Mr.Mercier placed in his hands a sum of thirty- one thousand dollars, being one thousand and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents and a third per day, or forty-four dollars an hour, or sev- enty-eight cents a minute, or thirteen ceuts a second.This is a man whose value itis dificult to estimate, and still more difficult to pay.Two such in the public service would put the province in their pockets in less than two vears.\u2014[ Le Monde.cde In a casual reference in the British Commons the other day to the fishery troubles, Sir James Fergusson, the Under Secretary of State for the Col- \u2018onies, remarked tal *it was fortunate the honorable members should always think their own country in the wrong.\u201d The history of fishery affairs in North America, extends over a period of sixty or seventy vears, and while it doubtlees would certatnly be too much to contend that Canada has always been in the right, it certainly would be unfair to assert that she has always been iu the wrong.It is not to ler interest to keep in à state of un settlement subjects of dispute between lierself aud ler nearest neighbor.Not is it to the Interest of Great Britain to have the germs of possible complications kept alive when a little diplomacy would get rid of them.The fishery trouble is an important matter in Canada, but it would Le a mistake for our people to imagine that léogland has not matters of greater importance on hand to attend tu.For this reason she should not be found fault with if she does not seein to Le as anxious to bring about a settlement of the fishery troubles on lines which would be satisfactory to Canada 8s our people wish.This must be said, in all fairness, that the British Government has shown that it believes Canada\u2019s attitude in regard to the fisheries to be ouc of modcra- tion aud justice, and it approves of the modus vivendi in force between the two countries, by which fishery matters are kept running smoothly in the meantime.\u2014[Star.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 > Farao, Dak., January 6.\u2014A letter from the Rev.Ç.W.Riches, of Park River, Dakota, conveys the first authentic information of the extreme sutferings and privation among the Norwegian settlers in Western Walsh county.Men with a relief party report that they found about seventy familic: iu about as destitute circumstances as it is possible for human beings to be aud still exist.Many were found with Lardly enough clothing to cover their nakeduess, aud that of the thinnest material.Shoes were almost unknown.These farmers had lived on their little capital until nothing remained.Most of them have Leen living on n kind of porridge, made by cooking frozen green wheat andoats, stuff not fit to feed a hog.One family had not seen any flour for six weeks.The people have been dividing with cach other their potatoes until now they are all gone.-\u2014