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CAPTAIN VANCOUVER, The Lite of t ha Intrepid Narigator Who Qare His Ha-jie to the Favored blind of the Pacific Province. *d ..,, tralrual.l ha* JM.I l-rn SjBletlV Olrhr.llr.l l BKIurl. ,! . U'ith the close of the year 189-.'. during which period to many enthusiastic cele- brations have been held in Che Eastern and Western he-, isphere* in honor of toe dis- covery of the continent of America by Columbus, 401. year* ago, it KOOM titling to refer to a few fact* which appear to be but little known or apparently forgotten, namely, that only 100 yean ago (17W> the Western coast of North America, it may be aid, wai unknown, or at least not explor- ed. It remained for Ceo. Vancouver to make inch practical discoveries, and to transact the diplomatic negotiation*, which ended in securing to Lhe Crown of lireat Britain the whole coast of the Pacific north of Mexico, which then was claimed and taken ponmion of by the Spaniards. When the western continent wai dis- covered by Columboa, Spain wa in the zenith of power, and piubed forward further discoveries with great vigor along the eaitern coast. Her intrepid navigator*, frian and toldien carried everything be- fore them, by conquest when required, in the name of their country and their church. They gradually penetrated through Mexico; reached the Pacific ocean : took possession of the entire coast, and made settlements at the most desirable points Active, was riding, bearing the broad pen- nant of Sea. Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega Quadra, commandant of the marine establishment of S*n Bias and California. As Senor Quadra lived on shore, Lieut, Pnget was sent to acquaint him of Vancou- ver's arrival, and to inquire if a royal salute to the flag would be accepted. A polite reply in the affirmative was returned, and a salute of thirteen guns exchanged. Van- couver afterward* went ashore and was re- ceived with great cordiality, i.'uvira re- turned the visit next day, to the Discovery. Till BITXtOX's BAY <OVPA>T. An enduring and graceful compliment was paid to the memory of Vancouver in iMI by tl.e then governor of the company, Sir George Simpson, who had a handsome marble tablet erected in Petersham church, with a suitable inscription. Sir George visited Puget Sound overland and Van cou.-er Island, and therefore had a person tl HIM. iirr. A .. stea's t.i .- aiarr. la itMCanaeUaB Meetly We**. " Life in tb North-west Mounted Police and Other Sketch*)*,'' is the catchy title of a neat little volume just issued from the press of the National Publishing Company. The iiithor of the book is Mr. Charles P. Dwight, son of th* popular and esteemed manager of the Gnat Northwestern Tele. raph Co. It u an account of the author's adventures and experience in "a year's knocking about the Canadian Northwest," as we are informed in the preface. We have read the book with very great pleasure and delight and must confess to a little surprise at discovering such positive literary ability in so unpretentious an author. There is not a dull chapter in the whole volume and we could wish that we had pace to reproduce it in our column*. We must content our- selves, however, with a mlec'.ion which will knowledge of the difficult and important pioneer work which Vancouver so triumph- antly and diplomatically completed. A sketch of Petersham church has been made by Mrs. Beetoo, wife of H. <_'. Beeton, agent-general in London for British Colum- bia, who has also secured a fac simile of the tablet, together with a protrait of ' *ide, I was awakened by a lusty call by my Capt. I .eorge Vancouver, from the paint-! boss from below to "get a hurry on. ' 1 ing presented to the B C. Board of Trade crawled oat of bed, banging my head on the by Mr. Beeton. These will appear m one , roof of the boose at the same time, lighted of the illustrated London paper*. There is ' the Ian tern, and a/ter getting into my clothes no naow more closely connected with the { descended the ladder into the kitchen, early history of British Columbia, or which where I found my employer already up and serve to indicate the bright and racy style in which the book is written. The follow- ing is the interesting account Mr. Dwight gives of his first experiences in cultivating the virgin soil of our prairie*) : At four o'clock the following morning, and while it was still perfectly dark out- should be more highly honoured than that sj CAPTAIX GEOBUE VA..VOI-VEB, yt" \DsVA AND VAM'ofvuit. After full and careful explanations be- tween Quadra and Vancouver, all in the Sir Francis Drake made a voyage around , most amicable manner, it wa* agreed that ' who/ ipan deci dressed and awaiting my arrival. He lost | no time in leading the way out to his stable where he had come eight or ten head of cat tie and a yoke of oxen. Handing m* a pitch fork he indicated what was wanted, and ii ed oat with sty day's toil, and was just o the point of turning in to en joy a night's wrl earned repoee. Had I not pitied the man in his trouble, I would moat certainly have refused to move under any pretext, but ou seeing the situation, and the threatened destruction ef his grain, I finally consented to accompany him. Kach with a fork ovet shoulder we started out in the direction oi the barley tield, where we arrived after a tumbling march over the rough prairie ni nearly two miles, thoroughly soaked and besmeared with mud trom head to foot: Little time was lost in getting in work, ami amidst the down pour of rain, and with barley burs playing havoc down our back- or down my hack at all event* we work- ed away at the stack until properly shaped, when we trudged off again through the rain and mod towards the house. A happy end- ing, I thought a most touching finale in- deed to my first day s experience as ;\ farm- er t When we reached the house it was in a mist pitiable state f general disorder, and my discomfort was not a little aggra- vated by th barley burs which had found their way down my back, and which caused an almost endless amount of scratching u I squirming. I git under my skins that night shivering with the culd, an I in a most dis- tressing state of gensral disability after my first day's efforts, and firmly vowed that the healthful pursuit of farming, if my tirst day's experience was any correct indication of the matter, was something which I would abandon at the first opportunity. 7-steellr*. livery community ha* to suffer from buy- bodies. They are, of course, of both sexes ; A clear conscience i* better thaii a gold- en orown Murmur not at Clod's dealings : it may bet He seeks thy good, in ways thou canst not see. Avarice is a raving madness which seeks t > grasp the world m its arms, and yet de- spises the plenty it ban already. ^Lavish imiution U the practice of an -ip hut to follow another where he leads ari ind there only, is the wisdom of a r goodness, look for gladness. rill meet them all the while ; Look for i You wil If you bring a smiling To the glass, you meet a smile. Any accomplished cross-examining law- yer knows within a little whether a witness is genuine or a deceiver. Truth has her own air and m inner, her own tone and empha- sis. When misfortune ian be cured it i* the duty to exert every energy to obtain relief, aud not, by remaining inactive, permit the evil to continue. It is folly for a man to pronounce judg- ment upon what he sees but in part, and in it* beginnings. How many accidents have passed for misfortune* which have resulted as the greatest blessings ? Be still, sad heart, and ceas* repining ' Behind the clouds i* th* *un still >hming : Thy fate is the common fate ol all ; Into each life some rain must fall, Some days be dark and a few moments I was cleaning the place out. Count nothing liule winch even in a but society is' usually rather hard on the one small degree hinders your usefulness ; oast |T sex at the expense of the othr. The female 9ut fron > * temple of your soul the seats t ; busy body comes in for all the abuse. Th* ' tn m tl at sell doves, as well a* the traf busily engaged Cape Horn to the Northern Pacific in 1379. i the whole njrtter~~rsiative to" the" "right"! 1 j U'wm aTlVateVed'and fed!*af uTr*which*he i *"'pW frequenter of tea-partie*. whoa* , n^*" la hP and oxen. The narrative of that voyage, a* written by occupancy, would remain in abeyance until moodily led the w.y to a wood pile, where ' ton u " r '"> thirteen to the dozen, and Don t tish f.-r sprats with golden booki : ' whe circuliLtea th L&ttle &jiti Mtjulitl a thi* Lh Iwmlf vmul.l M wm*k more than you often are abili one Fletcher, i* not considered reliable. It contains several incredible statements. Drake was knighted after his retain to Kng- in 1581 ; and in 1587 and 15*s the decision of the British and Spanish gov- ernments should be fully known. Arbitrators were appointed by both gov- ernments. They met in Whitehall, London. "*W\*J tvu vuc **/ fct * WWM U1IV, WI1VIQ . . , , - on an unmistakable hint as to what was re- hc circulate* the iatlle and scandal o. the quired. I* proceeded to operate for about aaifcUbonrhood. is universally condemned. half an hour. At six o'clock we adjourned to the house, where we found the little wom- rendered signal service to hi* country, by | in 1 793. The difficulty was finally settled an, hi* aunt, at work busily slicing pota the effective and leading part he took in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. For nearly 'JOO year* after Drake s visit not anything of consequence wao don* on the part of Kagland on the West coast of North America. In 1776 C'apt. Cook was , commissioned to proceed on a voyage of dis- covery to the North Pacific. Hi* r?utr was round Cape Horn and by the Sandwich island*. He reached Nootka early in I77tt, remaining in harbor there seteral days, but '. was not aware that the coast formed part of a large island, now called " Vancouver She is 'alt to be at the bottom of half ths mischief in every village, and not only s", but la every city or suburban circle ; but, the hook would be worth could catch with it. How lie* and energies laid out upon objects which quite unworthy of them ' by a convsntion held at Madrid, in January, ! toss for the) frying pan, and getting things I nuisance) who of 1 794, by which lime all the Spaniards hid generally in readiness for breakfast, which, withdrawn from Nootka. It wa* also ' for my part, I now considered veil earned. agreed that, pending the decision of occu- We wen soon seated at a small table, before , puon. the Urgj uland should be named a huge plate of porridge and potatoes each. '? knowing everybody business tsr " Quadra and Vancouver Islvid : and so which, together with a loaf of dry bread, ^tter than his own.butwnoaspinnalso toll* it appear* in the chart of Vancouver . *x- constituted our humble repast. | th l a r opinion and the head of every ploration* during the summers of 17.. '93. Breakfast over we again betook ouraelv** moveo.ent in bis dwtnct. \> all know him 94. as publihed in I SO I, along with the to the .table, when my boss asked me if I " thl '* prenta-ntioo*. and indomitable hi*tory of hi* voyage to the North Pacific now considered myself sufficiently fortified nuisance-thi. fly in every man s ointment and the northwest coast of America. ta commence operation* with th* plow I thu <"urper of everybody s functions. It Ouadra aad his fleet left Xootka oa the ' explained that I had never done any of thi* I alt*ra not what hi* oosition in life may be. Sept.. I702. |or his Mexican head kind of work iu my life, but nevertheless Sometimes he lives on hi* mean* eking out confident that I acanty incom* and eating th* r- - idleness in the conviction tha; --' What grand designs some have formedal in point of fact, she is harmless compared futur , wrvltf , / ^ with the male specimen of th* breed the vain, restless, inquisitive. irrepressible not only enact* the part ,,. What followed ' Ah, it is to-day than to build a palace next year. (!~ Serve Cod with such education u you have, and thank Hun for blowing through you if you an a ram's horn : but if there is a possibility of your becoming a silver trumpet. chooe it rather. I. s Island." Continuing his voyage north- quarter* at Saa Bias', la anticipation of the expre*sd myself a* quit* wards, cruising and examining the outline* , adverse decision likely to follow. Vancou- would soon acquire the necessary dexterity of the coast to Kehrmg sea until August, he ; ver, after arranging tor the storing of sup- with that nslrameat. The oxen were then crossed to the Asiatic side. In September plies, etc., left Nootka on the l.'th of taken out of the stable and marched off to I he shaped his course southward, reaching October, for the Sandwich Islands, where , the field of our labours, where they were h* wintered. During the year* mentioned soon hitched oa to a plow and handed over the Sandwich Islands in January. 1779. In February, during a melee, whilst assisting or directing a party of his men to recovet one of the ship's boats which had UKO stolen. Capt. Cook was killed by th* na- tive*. he is a gentleman, that he belong* to the upper class, aad has a right to the homage of man kicd bejanss h* lives in hi* own house or drive* his own carriage Sometime* he >;IOK..I VAV orvuv On this last mentioned voyage, and on Capt. Cook's former voyage, which occu. pied the years 177-7"'. he was accompanied by (ieorge Vancouver, who entered the navy in 1771 at the age of I.X H* served a* an able bodied sssmin on the Resolution for over three years and a half, and a* a mid- shipman on the Discovery for more thi four yean and a half. In October, 17SO, he passed a* lieutenant under certificate from Captains^Cook, (Jure. Clerk and King. He bore such an excellent character that uy or der of the Lords of the Admiralty "jour nals were dispensed with" in his promotion in the chart referred to Vancouver faithfully and satisfactorily completed his mission, aad returned to England. September 1 793. It may be worthy of notice to state that in 1 793, when Vancouver wa* engaged in surveying an inlet which extended tar into the mainland, it was afterwards lesrned that Alexander Mackenzie, of the North- weat Fur Jompany, reached the Pacific, at the easterly shore of the same inlet on which Vancouver wa* at work, although neither of them, at the time, wa* aware of . the other's presence. Mackenzie was the tirst whit* man who cross* J th* American j continent to the Pacific, north of fie Rocky Mountains. He wa* afterwards knighted ! in appreciation of the difficult and danger- ous feat which he then accomplished. On Vancouver'* return to England h* was promoted to the rank of Port Captain. continued, however, whilst itrength per muted, to prepare for publication, an ac- count of th* voyage which he hail brought to such a successful termination. Ustler portion of t the narrative was com- pleted ti brother, John Vancouver. To wants the close of his '*' The by his Subsequently he rvvcd as lieutenant under | Shortly afterward* his health failed. He Lord Rodney in tii* West Indies, having thus gained a thoroughly practical training and experience of about 'JO year*. The Admiralty (elected Vancouver in 1791 and appointed him to the command of the loop Discovery with li*> men, which in- cluded himself and three lieutenants Mu<lg Puget and Bker. His commission required hisn to undertake an exploring and survey- ing expedition to the Northwest coast of America, and to settle -er tain dispute* which had ansasi at Nootka respecting Spanish oc- cupation there. For this important mission hi* experience, courage, prudence and in- tegrity ad.nirably fitted him. Th* armed tender Chatham W. K. Kroughton com- , with 45 men, was provided as hi* Vancouver left England early in 1791 via Cape Horn, and wintered at the Sandwich Island*. He took his departure where hi* remains now lie, surround- ed by a multitude of illustrious dead. It is proposed by the Vicar of the Parish. ohurch is not quit* suitable to the congre ration, to have a new church erected near by. and preserve the old. unique building ' with it* ancient tomb* and tablet*, a* a relic i of former tin** : and that it should be used for marriage, baptistical and funeral serv- ' ices. The old church is said to have formed 4'a*e s>wells>n, It look* *i though a living remnant of the cave dwelling race, which onje lived in Arizona and the regioae thereabout, had been discovered as far north as Alaska, or upon a small island off th* Alaskan coast great extent. It i* said that on his arrival there, he exclaimed, " Here would I desire to live, and ben would I die." The latter --,_- portion of this exclamation wa* prophetic, northwards in March. 179 1 .'. for the Straits for he died in that room, in May, 17'is. at ot r " uc - I the early age of 40 yean, and was buried in The Northwest coast was sighted in May, the cemetery of the ancient church of Peter- 179-2, at some distance south of Cape Flat- terv. On reaching the entrance to the Straits of rues, Vancouver followed the southern shore of the Straits, which now form* a por- tion of the northern boundary of the State of Washington. II* turned southward at the first great inlet (Admiralty Inlet) ei- plored and surveyed it naming th* inland waters " Puget Sound,' after Mr. Puget, one of hi* lieutenant*. During the past S'linmer tlSW) the resident* o( the vaiioa* cities which have recently sprung up m Pu |et Si.u.id paid due respect to Vancou- ver's memory by enthusiastically celebrating the tint centennial anniversary of his dis- coveries in that region. A remarkable coincidence occurred on the 12th Oct., 189*. viz. the dinner which wa* held in th* Whitehall Rooms. Metropole, London, under the presidency ol Hi* Kxcel- lenoy, the Marquis d* la Cassa I.aiglesia, Spanish Ambassador in London, in com- memoration of the fourth centenary of the groat discovery made by Columbus, was also the first centennial anniversary of the day on which Vancouver left Nootka, after hav- ing arranged with tha Spanish commander there to withdraw from the possession of that place. On completing th* survey of Puget Sound Vancouver continued his voyage northward, surveying Burrard Inlet, How* Sound, etc. In an inlet near Ciray's Point, June -*-', he found two Spaaiah vessels of 4."> tons burden with -'I men each, under command ol Sea. lX>n U. Ualiauo, and Sen. Don C. Valdez, who wsr* engaged in surveying thoee channel*, having come trom Nootka by the north end of the island. They received Vancouver with irreat cour'esy, and inform- ed bin that at Noo'.ka there wan three Spanish frigates and a hrig awaiting hut arrival. They gave him copies of their chart*, which facilitated Ins voyngf north ward. He rounded (.'ape Scott, the north west point of Vancouver Uland, an the -.">th, and reached Nootka on the '.Tih of August. At th* entrance to the harbor he was met by a Spaui.<li otlicer and a pilot, who brought the Diioutery to anchor near whsre Hi* Calboli* U*jaty's " brig. to my cars, plowing a parcel of land which had been carefully marked off for the purpose. Nev er having plowed before, and with a team of ox*o now in front of ins. it can be readi- ly understood that my position was some- what bewildering at Brat, and 1 felt consid- erably at a loss to know just how 1 should comsasace operations, a-id in what particu- lar terms 1 should couch my language in addressing th* beasts I now had in hand. At a word th* oxen itartad off, aad by a frantic effort I managed to get th* plow in position, and sallied forth over the field. My first furrow could hardly have been termed a marked (uccesa. Th* stretch was a long one, and th* oxea seemed perfectly aware that a new and verdant hand wa* at th* helm, and the proverbial stubbornness wa* not loag m coming to the (urfac* when I endeavoured to turn them about at the end of the furrow. I began by speaking to them I in as kindly land persuasive a tone of voice a* I could command, bat I soon found them i utterly deaf to so mild a form of entreaty, ' and not at all inclined to move in any di- rection. I thereupon assumed a somewhat I sterner tone of co,nm%nd, but again without life he took up ! result. There bein^ no on* in sight, I hoi his residence a*, the Star and Garter hotel, { lered at them with all my might and main, near Petersham, a village adjoining the | and to any "ne but oxen I am sure that an town of Richmond, Surrey, about 'JO miles ' ominous ring might easily have been detect west of th* city of London. Richmond Hill. ' ed in my vote* and manner, which called i* known asoueof th* most picturesque spot* for immediate and implicit obedience They inKngland. TKeviewup the Thames from the maintained an air of stolid indifference, room which Vancouver occopi*! in The Star ' however, and with maddening persistency and Garter, is one of rare beauty ana of , firmly stood their ground. After complete- " ' ly exhausting the strength of my vocal or- gan* in this manner, I concluded to take a more *evere method of enforcing my com mantis, and looked about for some tangibl* mean* w ith which to convince my friends that I meant exactly what I said when I 4 BeasarkaM* Mr. Gladstones intellectual activity ha* remained even in his declining ysars one at the marvels of public life. ' His melodious voice ha* lost it* peculiar resonance and purity of tone, but there are few other ia<ii cations of h>s eighty-fourth year. Of Uisn it cae be said in Scriptural phrase that his \*m v ^FIVW mu<i UMIUVU wvvr i . . ' - . th ' w H1U [U ovtlpfeur with instructions to commence Pf; nU himielf in tne guise of a gam lous u not j lm , lor hu ^ * * old doctor, keeping up a show of profe* ioaal activity, and pasting about hither and thither, though fur tli* most part at- I tached to families, because, like a burr, it , is found next to impossible to shake him otf. Th* mischief such a maa oan do is incredible. 1 It matters not that no one belie.it in him ; I that he is universally regarded as an old I twaddler : he still has the 'iirr-e at many 1 houses, and since he i* incessantly talking, mast, in ths long run, say much which it ! wen far better was left unsaid. Clerical busylxxlte* are, of -uurse, a privileged older. They are so constantly sniffing the incense of flattery, that it would be hard indeed if they did not deem themselves ;h* true)sait 01 tne earth and laaden of society. Placed under the nucroecop*. th* busvbody yields a not uninteresting study. The obvious question in regard to him is. what ; i* the source of his lafluence' On what I doe* he base his pretensions ' \Vliy i* he perpetually found in the front, busy, rest- less, and offensive It doe* not mult from any superabundance of brains or length of head. I'sually he ha* au ordinary cranium with no indication of it* being particularly well stocked. Often he is vulgar, illiterate, and offensive in manner. If he has a distinctive feature it is generally a big mouth, reminding one that the lowest order of aa.mal life consists of a mouth, and noth- ing more. But he has something more ha* a tongue, glib and alert, though it may be too large for bis mouth, and so is seldom found at rest within hu teeth. Nine time* out of ten, this is the busybody * chi*f char- acteristi.-. He might be. like Shakespeare * force i In political lea-l*r*hip, m controversial polemic* and in genius fur public affaire ha is still a giant among Knglishmen How can the intellectual \igor and extraordinary vitality of Isu* leader of men be accounted for' That is a question which Mr. Clad- too* himself is pre-eminently qualified tt answer. His explanation when recently aiked what wa* the secret of hu remarkable activity, wa* embodied in a homely analogy. " There wa* once a road leading out of London," he said, 'on which more hones died than on any other, and enquiry revealed the fact that it was perfectly level. Coooe- >|ii*ntly th* animal* in travelling over n used only oae set ol muscle*. Continuous employment of the same physical power* on the same line* involves exhaustion and deterioration. It is varied and symmetrical exercise of all the muscle* thai lie* at th* baa* of any sound system of physical train- ing. The same principle a rightly applied to the mental functions. It is not work that breaks down the men of our time, al- though it is the busiest of all the age*. What u destructive to nervous force and intellectual vigor i* continuous concentra- tion of purpose upon the same object. What th* great majority of workers need is not the reel thai come* from complete cessation of activity, but rather ill* rest that is in , volved in change of employment aad * thought. Mr. <ilad*tone's career ha* showa that a prodigioa* amount of work can be doaa without producing physical or mental ex- haustion, provided it be constantly varied. His outdoor life has route into notoriety hollered " gee ' or " haw " at them. I was not long m finding a (tout club, by the help of which I finally succeeded in making a little faster piogres* in wheeling them idea of Rumor." painted full of tongue*. (rom tn , ,! f(>rnl O f hlll ncreatum-- but hi* on* u sufficient to *et up naif a thlkt o ( f. llll>K tr ^,i n H,warden Park: but dozen quielly discreet person*. And while , h . lmpl>rUuc , of such exercie* ha* been rmed with this weapon he i* also skillful in , x ^g. r , le a. H* ha* alway* been foad it* use he is a master of fence. His chief D , w^ikmg |ait M Wordsworth was ; bat recommendation i* that h* is *ver ready to (,, ^ ordinary recreations of an Kngiiaa P*:-to makea*et speech, or to_ dehyer gentleman, ridin;. hunting, fishing or hilelt111 **'. n* h^ n*, r di*pl*ped much mclm a. mm pi 1'|VB*>*7U Liy VMC V II AT Ol I slC 1 I AsTlslO nvnw win. a asivsi,ww- - n wiaaj 14 VIITMII 1 , -j J *, I Rsv. Mr. Oxley. that as the venerable ok) abot. buteven then their stubbornness was 1 wlth rtux "ord*. he is always . i tap ; atwn _ W hil , hat m vanably ar something wonder'nl to behold. They I seemed to know a* well a* myself that 1 ' was not an adept at th* business, and did all ia their power to haras* and worry me, and make plowing iu my eye* something to be religiously detected. With the aid of my olub, however, I meted en' measure for a portion of "the great Abbey of Chertsev-, " ! measure, and if at the end of the day my The present edifice was rebuilt in I '.>. voice wa* hoarse and husky, aad my nerve* __^_^ M _^^_^_ i shattered with combatting their itubborn ness, I felt not a little coasolod with th* fact, that a more whole*em* and heartfelt club- bing than they had received at my hand*. would have been impossible to administer without danger of serious or permanent in jr upon a MM island off the Alaskan coast f t- <. tu a plowing I accomplished which was recently visitad by the Cnited pro bably lee* than one-half what an ex Slate* cruiser Bear. The Bear s officers. -_,,..i ...d m iaht iiava ,!<,. in tK. officers, whils exploring th* upper surface of the rock known as King's Island, which rises above th* waters of Behnng .strait, found | an aboriginal tribe of cave dweller*, who seem to pease** some of th* characteristics of the curious people which in old time *x- tsted far to th* southward. From th* ac- count given of the dwellings w* infer that, in construction and in grouping, they re- semble those of the cliff dwellers of Ari/.oua. New Mexico, and Colorado. Some of their implements are similar to those that wei* made by th* cave and cliff people elsewhere: i expert iced hand might have done in the time, bat I nevertheless felt tolerably satis tied, under the circumstances, with the progress I had made. Needles* to say I was thoroughly exhausted and played out after my first day'* work, and was riady to turn in very aeon after having nupper. A heavy fall of rain commenced about half past seven t>at evening, whieh aroused the lethal gy of my bos* a* he sat (taring into vacancy, and teemed to set him think ( in g , manner I was at a loss to under <t and. lV>wu the rain came in torrents, and wh . n wjth reasonable certainty it seemed bat their food is not like tha which was , \^ t } y to continue tor some time, he gather used by their southern kin, who I ad no op portunity of fattening upon whale blubber or walrus meat. It is hardly worth while, however, to (peculate about these Alaskan cave dweller* until we have fuller informa- tion concerning them. That the island had some inhabitant* was known befoie it was visited by the Captain of th* Hear, hose report i* likely to be of interest to arch*, ologist*. *> ed himself slowly together and calmly in formed me that than waa a lot ot half stacked barley in one of hi* fields about ,1 mile \nd a half off. whieh he said would have to W looke 1 After at once or bluo r-i would moat cerUinly follow He .iske.l I n my coat, arm myself with a fork and follow hire : all in a moat aggravating and perfectly take- for granted ir. I Ic-.-ke askance at him for a moment, without mov i ing'from my *t, when he remarked : "IV and at occasion* are perpetually anting in which opinions have to be expressed or question* explained, then is endless oppor- tunity for the exploiting ef him who nath " the gift of Vhe gao. ' We see little chance that lociely will ever be free from it* petty leaden, its insignificant diaturbere, it* irritating manikin heroes, who, floating as scum on the wave* of public life, persuade themselves that they are gigantic breakers J* 1 his life so as to allow the natural man a fair degree of fresh air and physical exercise, he has not followed any system of hygienics. What he has been careful to do i* to avoid continuous intellectual labor on the same level. He has never been so d**ply im- mersed in public affairs as tu lose sight of his* early classical studies, or his refined taste for Italian literature, or the varying phases of religions or economic controversy rising high abov* the levefof humanity. | or loe tr , Bj anj t *ndncies of Kngtish fie ~ tion. Always at work in Westminster or Growing old gracefully taxee the inner I lu fcj, horary, h* has never lacked eitbert*- foroe* ind resource* of u* all, and some | dinalioa or leisure for taking up subjeot*. how it seems to be that it is the few only who so take th* change* and experiences of life a* to be not merely chastened. IMI' sweetened by them . not merely disciplined, but mellowed. We need always to guard against a a certain tendency to detoriora tioa, and 1 am quite sure '.hat one secret of youth is to keep up, with deteriitiaed and steady hand, one's own t >ne, to avoid rut and narrowing circles. {J. F. W. Ware. A new problem ha* sprung eat of the KasUTn juestion, and that is, who own* the Black Sea ' Although it washes th* shores of four different States, Russia asserts, in unmistakable terms, that two of those State* have no part in it : that the sea belong* ex- clusively to Russia and Turkey, and that it will be just as well for the Sultan to make sparing use of his rights and privileges there. Thi* view is no', at all popular in Hou- mania \nd Bulgari*. B >'h 'hot? States liave frontage on the Black Sea \nd assert that it is absurd to deny thst they have a rigtr to develop fleets in it* waters. The semi official pi CM of Russia replies that if any body except th*Cxai and ; rakes to nuiataiii a fleet on th* Black Sea there will la trouble. The- dis*ati*lied State* are loo little to make any ver\ effective protest. imt it in probable that thi* new ik|<> One hundred CII'MO ieet of wall i\ in-* a' course you 'Inn t -iund the rain. " "Oh ' no. >licord will have to he digested by the next iord of atone, three bucket- of 'mie and .1 1 no.'not atall " I replied, sn.othcnng my in I'migress convene I to settle ('**': in di cu'v y ml of sand. I (liquation a* best* I could, for 1 was ]> i\. ,\ I {>utc<. opposite kinds. This ha* been the secret of the wonderful intellectual vigor which he ba* never failed to display. The twain of % great worker lika Mr. clad -.tone, or i !> the, or Kant, needs precisely what tne eye require* ; the restful fleets of change* in the angle of vision. It was a habit, which the Prime Minuter formed early in life, to be onslaiitly studying yet never weatying himself ly exclusive de- votion to any one subject. It h.u not oaly tended to make rum a muiysided man with -.net haustibl* resource* for interesting Ih* public ia hi* spee. hee, writing* and per- sonality, but it ha* also prolonged his Ufa aud k*pt hi* working power unimpaired. It is not h.-d work that kills men in thia over-wroug.it, busy world. It is the dead level of ontinuous abtorption in business or though i hat Mowly paralyze* the worker. *>ir Henry Maine, startirg will) delicate, health and pursuing with unremitting real his studies respecting the origin of law, waa 'tilt falling into a London grave when he >eceiv*d a comminiun for India. For a long period he had a complete change ol thoU|(ht and pursuit, and he returned Kngland with many yean of successful labor in reserve, lie had not been idle in India, but he had been enabled to work in 1 to think at A fro*h level ai-J <n a new wav. That is what Mr CU.;tu* has done ';' he iiia>