Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 31, Bloomington, Monroe County, 1 December 1883 — Page 6

Writ only c ol r. Bt B1DISO OIT A MAIL. Whistling throngh tbe forests. Tumbling through the bridges, Bumping over arches Or derailed on ridges; Colliding in the mountains, Telescoping in the rale, Bless mel it is aw fill, Riding on a rail. Hen at different stations Don't know red from blue, Get the signals mixed up, Engineers too; High and lowly people, Birds of every feather, On a common level Smashed np all together. Whistling through the forests, Tumbling through the bridges, Bumping over arches. Or derailed on ridges; Colliding in the mountains, Telescoping in the vale, Bless me! it is awful Biding on a raiL -Philadelphia Call' Afloat oh the Ice. A Story of ShipwreckLooking eagerly for our first sight of the New World, after having safely crossed the Atlantic, we were astonished by a sudden change in the temperature. The balmy days of April were followed by a May cold and cutting almost as winter. At length we entered the broad estoary of the St. Lawrence, and 4henthe mystery was solved, for its entire surface was checkered with masses of ice; evidently the broken-np winter covering of the river above ?being swept by the current out to sea. : Nothing could exceed the beauty of the ice-fields as they flashed and sparkled like gigantic gems in their setting of siure sea. Many were of great size &1sn. lilrfl flra finer inlanda and til A ieaped-np blocks upon their surface rgleamed from a distance like cities of dazzling crystal. The wind was in our favor, and our good ship sped up the gulf, threading . her way through the channels of the : floating ice-fields, while, hour after . hour, her passengers stood watching with unwearied eyes the splendid scene . around them. Even when night came, - there was the same eager throng of - gazers, for those large frozen plains, glittered in the moonlight with a strange, spectral beauty none of us had vever seen before. Sifter a time a mass of ice huger than common appeared floating down ;the stream. Subsequently we learned 'it was part of the cone the spray forms every winter before the Falls of Mont-anore-cy. On it came, gleaming palely -gainst the deep-bine sky like a castle of spotless marble, rising in tower and turret, and massive buttress, and en-.-ruthm! Vv thA most delicate tr&cerv. Every eye was fixed on it in breathless admiration, as it swept majestically by until, as it passed between us and the vind, by its" loftiness it momentarily becalmed us. Suddenly the stationary ship received a severe shock, which "vibrated not only through all her timbers, but through every one of the hundred and forty beings who formed hex living freight. Never shall I forget the shrieks of terror that followed, as women, well-nigh frantic with fear, clasped their children to their bosoms, believing that the ship had struck upon a rock, and that their last moment was -come. A cry from the bow, that it was but -a blow from the ice, somewhat relieved their fears, and they stood quietly by while the helm was put down, and the -sails drawn round, in the effort to free jis from the huge mass of ice which still lay across the vessel's bows, pressing and grating audibly against her timbers. A minute more, and above the din of blocks and cordage, and the .stamping of men's feet, there arose a will cry that echoed far and wide over the surrounding ice-fields, and through every cranny of the neighboring iceastle "The ship is sinking!" It was an appalling announcement; and unfortunately it was a true one. The ice had struck us heavier than we thought, and its hard, sharp edge, keen and resistless as that of a knife, pressing against the bows of our vessel undefended as she was by the double timbers needed for ice encounters -had cut them completely hrough, so that the water rushed in with the force and rapidity of a cascade. What a fearful scene of terror and confusion ensued! The shrieks and lamentations of women, the cries of children and the silent anguish of men, as they beheld the fears and danger of those dearest to them. On none did the blow fall heavier than on me; for I liad a delicate little wife on board, and of my two little ones the younger was an invalid. Meanwhile, no time was lost. There was no space to lower the fooats. and the pale, terrified passen gers were hurriedly passed down, by be bowsprit, upon the ice. It was .touching to see some snatch a cloak or wrapper as they passed, the sole relic of their worldly possessions; whitf others, in their terror, departed with

out even that. A few provisions were next sent down, quickly followed by the crew ; and then we stood a wretched, cowering group upon the ice-field that had wrought us so much evil, watching for tbe last moment of the good ship, which had brought us in peace and safety more than two thousand miles. It was not long in coming. Suddenly the bow bent low, as if to salute the waves, and the stern rose high into the air; then, with a rapid forward movement, the stately ship passed silently down into the bosom of the deep, every tall mast and tapering yard in its place, and every sail spread to its uttermost, and gleaming whitely in the moonlight, until each in its turn passed from sight. For a few woments there was a troubled vortex, and then the moonlit sea rolled placidly on, and the gentle night wind swept over the spot, leaving no trace of the fearful shipwreck which, in scarce ten minutes from the time the ice struck our devoted vessel, had left ns exposed and helpless upon the broad sea, our only refuge that desolate field of ice hard, inhospitable and shelterless. That night was one of infinite suffering to hardy men; what, then, must it have been to the feeble and helpless? A few loose planks and spars had been thrown over from the ship, and the scramble to obtain them was like a struggle for gold. I was so fortunate as to secure one, and ou it I placed my wife and elder child, rolled together in our only cloak; while through the livelong night I paced to and fro beside them, with the little one wrapped in the breast of my coat, striving in vain to s ill its cries ; and as I walked my feet clung to the frozen pavement beneath them, ' and the cold shot through my limbs like an icy fire, causing intolerable pain. As the night passed on, the cold increased, or else we felt it more ; and many times, as I looked on the shivering beings crouched around me, I thought that few among them would survive till morning. But thanks, under Providence, to the officers of the ship, who served out, at short intervals, small allowances of spirits, day dawned on all save a few small children, my own dear babe among them. And truly, when I looked on the wide waste of waters around us, dotted here and there by silvery ice-fields, but uncheered by a single sail, and thought of our isolation, our misery, and probable fate, I felt that it was mercifully called away from the evil to come. But the mother

could not feel so, and amid her own sufferings her tears fell fast on thesweet, placid face that would never weep again. With the morning the ship's compa ny and passengers were mustered, to ascertain if any were missing, and great was our consterna tion to find that Mr. Grant was absent. Every inquiry was made, and every search among the crevices and crannies of our rugged ice-craft; but all in vainIn the confusion and misery of the night none had missed him, nor was any trace of him to be found, and we were at length compelled to believe that our kind friend and master had either perished in the wreck, or else in his passage to the ice. Meanwhile many were the eager eyes continually scanning the horizon in the vain search for a friendly sail. As the day wore on, the sun shone brilliantly out, and his beams flashed in a thousand dazzling rays on our ice-raft, until we were almost blinded by their radiance. Yet they shed a warmth through our chilled frames for which we were most thankful, and in many 1 spots they melted the ice, which ran in little rills, enabling ns to quench our thirst, without filling our mouths with ice. Twice in the day a little biscuit and raw pork were distributed to us, and "thus sadly and sufferingly passed the day, till a second night of misery set in. This proved far worse than the former, for, erelong, wild gusts begans to howl over the ocean wastes, out among which we now had drifted; and heavy waves lashed and raged around us, and dashed themselve against our refuge; and though they had not power to put it in motion, we knew not how soon they might sweep over it, or shatter it in pieces. It was a fearful night, and so exhausted and despairing did it leave us, that we scarce could rouse ourselves to exertion, until a sailor's cry of "Sail ho !" awoke fresh hope. How many tearful eyes 'brightened and heavy hearts throbbed quick and gratefully, as they watched that sail speed on toward us before the last breath of the expiring gale! As she drew near the only fear was lest she should not have space for all. Nearer and still nearer she came, until we could see the men upon her decks, and then we scarce could believe our eyes she passed us by, unobserving or unheeding the signal we had raised upon a spar, and the dark group of human beings clustered round it. If unheeding, Heaven forgive them, for it was a fearful depth of despair into which to fling back so many of their fellowcreatures. The women sank down too heart-stricken for words, and the men lifted up their voices in bitter indignation at the cruelty that could thus leave

wbmen and children to perish. Death in one of his most fearful forms did indeed seem pressing close upon us, for our scanty stock of food was exhausted. Many flung. themselves at length upon the ice, utterly indifferent to all outward objects; while others prayed earnestly over the dear ones for whom all earthly hope was past. Suddenly a loud shout rose above the plash of the waves and the murmur of sorrowful voices, and echoed cheerfully over our frozen resting-place. Every eye turned seaward, and there, but a few fathoms from us, lay a large vessel, which, absorbed as we were in our misery, had approached ns unperceived. Her bulwarks were filled with sympathizing faces, and to our feeble cheer of welcome there came back so hearty a response that it sent a glow through our shivering frames. Never was kindness greater than that which we poor ice-wrecked voyagers received from the crew and passengers of thas ship, crowded though she already was. To their care and attention we owed not only our own lives, but those of the dear ones who seemed about to die; and never can wo feel sufficiently grateful for their good offices, or the many sacrifices they madca on our behalf. The ship was westward bound, and on our arrival in Canada the account of the misfortune brought us many offers of employment. Years have passed since then, and the world has gone well with us, but nothing can erase from our minds the "haunting remembrance of days and nights of suffering we passed upon that fearful ice-field.

THE FUTURE OF CANADA. Not until the east and west shores of British North America are connected will Canadians and Englishmen thoroughly appreciate the capacities of the Dominion. The era of "booms" will soon set in in Canada, if it has not set in already. Mighty railways like the Pacific lines of America do for a country in a few years or even months, what a century of creaking wagons will fail to do. Towns and tillage appear as if by fairy bidding. As the road nears completion, tho enthusiasm of the workers grows apace. The sight of the Pacific will be a tonic as invigorating as the sight of the sea was to the ten thousand. When the three thousand miles of line are finished the progress of the Dominion will have assumed another phase. That Canada has a great future in store no one doubts. The Dominion has its wildernesses, but they are far less frequent than its oases. The severe cold in winter, which is the only drawback to the rich lands of Manitoba, should create a hardy race of men, unless experience contradicts itself. With inexhaustable cereal and mineral wealth, the Canadian northwest is at that happy stage of social development when there is land enough for everybody, when labor is highly paid, and when it is not worth a man's while to be lazy. It is the golden age of a country, about which it cannot make too much while it lasts. But, just as children are impatient to become men, a country is ashamed of its childhood and hastens to reach maturity. The Dominion is anxious to fill a large place in the eye of the world, and one may safely prophesy its success. Given a vast and rich country, with an energetic population communicating its energy to every settler who sets foot upon its shores, and a railway traversing the land from one end to another, nothing short of the superhuman would seem able to stop the Dominion from a career of prosperity. London Times. THIS HUMAN It ACE. The fact that, on looking back to the Egyptian monuments and inscriptions of 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, several of the best-marked races of man were already in existence, including the brown Egyptian himself, the dwarf, white Semitic man of Assyria or Palestine, and the Central African of two varieties, which travelers fetill find us distinct as ever, has led some of the most eminent antiropological writers of the present time to the conclusion that the causes which brought about their differences in types of skull, hair, skiu and constitution did their chief work in times before history began. Since then as the argument goes the races which had become adapted to their geographical regions may have, on the whole, undergone little change while remaining there; and, though some alterations are traceable, as due to migration into new climates, even these are difficult to follow, masked as they are by the more striking changes produced by intermarriage of races changes which took placs during a prehistoric period of vast length. Exchange. Immense tracts of forest land along the coast range of California art annually destroyed by fire. No effort seems to be made by the public author ties to prevent such ruinous work, although the rainfall of that State ii always deficient. This Czar is 38 years of age, and so ii the King' of Greece.

DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL. Eowin Booth wears a mustache now must be putting on 'airs. Saba BBNHABif is going to write a life of herself. Hoiir the old girl will blush. Mb. Dan Magisnis appears to have met with cordial favor in his new venture, "Willie Beilly." Osoab Wilde denominated one of Irving's legs as "a symphony" and the other as "a beautiful poem. " A friend of Anna Dickinson's says that that lady never lost a cent on the stage. Probably she leaves her money at home. Mb. Cab Bosa is meeting with great and continued success in the provincial cities of England with his English opera company. Manager Stetson has purchased a play called "Wanda," which is an adaptation of Ouida's novel of that name by Mr. Walter Ileynolds. Mdlle. Aimee will play in English farcical comedies through the United States next season under the management of Mr. Maurice Grau. Miss Tebbv. remarked to a reporter : "But it is in comedy you must see me. I was born to laugh." Miss Terry is evidently not lacking in good opinion of Miss Terry. Tommaso Salvini writes to the Boston Herald to say that he does not propose to retire from the stage as yet, and that he is in hopes of again paying a professional visit to this country. It is announced that J. B. Studley is about to play the part of Matthias in "The Bells," and W. E. Sheridan will make a specialty of "The Lyons Mail," These are palpable results of the Irving boom. Mb. Ibving was so pleased with Mary Anderson, the Kentucky actress, that he says he is going to give a performance in Kentucky out of compliment to her just as soon as he can find out where that town is. Minnie Palmeb continues the reigning favorite in London. The only way for Mary Anderson to assert her preeminence is to buy a pair of striped stockings and introduce a Lancashire clog into the potion scene of "Juliet." Janauschek's manager contradicts Modjeska's reported statement that Janauschek is ill and feeble, and has lost nearly all her large fortune trying to sustain her reputation before the public The force and fire of the latter, he claims, are undiminished. The authorities of the "German theater" in Berlin have forbidden actors to appear before the curtain except at the conclusion of the last act, or to accept any bouquet flung on the stage. They appeal to the public to help them in carrying out this reform. Mhe, Patti will sing twice a week for forty nights, receiving $220,000 for the season, in addition to hotel and traveling expenses for herself, Nicolini two maids and a valet. All in all, Patti costs Mapleson $300,000 for forty nights. The Edwin Forrest Home, in a suburb of Philadelphia, has nine inmates, and that is the largest number it has ever-contained. Forrest died ten years ago, leaving nearly all of his property to this institution, which he planned to be an educational institution as well as a charity. His estate was put into the hands of-three trustees, two of whom are now dead. Miss Efste Ellsleb is to succeed Miss Minnie Conway in the Union Square company. Minnie's stay with the Union Square people was short and far from sweet. Maud Harrison and she quarreled like a couple of hostile cats on a tarred roof beneath the pale glimmer of an August moon. To quarrel with Maud means immediate trouble with the Union Square management, for Maud is as solid as a sea of ice with her employers.

The part of Shylock is generally conceded to be the most difficult in the range of the Shakspearean drama. Since the eider Kean, who achieved in it his first great triumph, the elder Wallack has been regarded as its strongest representative here. Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth and E. L. Davenport attempted it, and then struck it from their repertory of parts. Save with Wallack, it has never been popular or profitable. Cabl Pbetzel's Weekly: Bev. Miln Is not noted for doing good things, but he does occasionally make a mistake nd send a gleam of sunshine cavorting up and down the spinal column of the great human race. His first good deed was to retire from the stage, as he said, temporarily, but now he comes to the front with a sugar-tipped and joydiving declaration that he will never again try the hurricane deck of a stage as Hamlet or any other histrionic son. Now we will observe Thanksgiving with a heartier zest. A New Yobk critic says of Irving's acting in the "Lyons Mail :" "In the dual role of Lesurques and Dubose, Irving gave still further proof of his great accomplishments as an artist. As Dubose he was the cool-headod robber, oold-blooded murderer and heartless

libertine; as Lesurques he was tho dm ful son, the devoted father and th honorable gentleman, suffering beneath the cruel circumstances that almost fastened the guilt of another upon him All in all, this performance is per hap i the best that Mr. Irving has yet given here,' Chicago Tribune : A reform in tho matter of programmes in theaters is recognized as one of the needs, of fhe

hour. The rustling sheet of advertise ments. which now passes for a hand bill is recognized as a nuisance. It is suggested by a New York paper that the list of characters should be neatly printed on slips of muslin or some such material which could be conveniently handled. Since no trouble is taken to make the present. irograinmes attractive, and siacb the cast is always buried beneath obtrusive advertisements, such a r form would be warmly welcomed. J. H. H WEitx. v. says that he is about to build two now theaters,, one in New ork and the other in Philadelphia. The money for the enterprise is to be furnished by Chicago capitalists, but he will have the management in the building and furnishing of the theaters. The site for the New York house has been chosen but not bought. He proposes to build after the plan of the London Alhambra, at a cost of $1,200,000. It is to be the largest and handsomest theater in the world. The one in Philadelphia will not be on so extensive a scale but on the same plan. Haverly expects to begin building next spring and complete both houses for opening Nov. 1. Henry Ibying said to a New York interviewer: "I like Shylock. Shylock was not an old clo' man. He was the merchant of Venice the great money-lender of the Venetian Wall street. He was a much-abused man. He was reviled and men spat upon his Jewish gabardine for no other reason than that he was a Jew. Shakspeare repented of his own hatred of Shylock before he reached his third act. He put into his mouth words of defense which draw sympathy from every heart. Shylock was tortured' into his hardness of heart. Contumely and swindling, legalized by Venetian statutes, had been thrust and practiced upon him. Bad men stole from him his daughter. He was in every way cruelly dealt with. His side of the story is more pathetic than laughable. " HOW DO THE TIDES RISE AND FALL. Let us consider the moon first, as its action, from its greater proximity to the earth, is much more effective in producing tidal waves than that of the sun. We know from the laws of gravity that the moon tends to draw the earth toward itself. If the moon be overhead, its tendency is to draw tho earth upward; if it be at the antipodes, beneath our feet, its tendency is to draw the earth downward. Now, if the earth were a rigid, solid mass, like a ball of iron, this action of the moon would have no other appreciable effect than to draw the earth as a whole upward or downward. The case, however, is different when on the surface of the solid globe there is an ocean of Hquid matter. The force with which gravity acts is greater the nearer two bodies are to one another; consequently when the moon is overhead the surface of the sea is attracted with greater force than the solid yields to this foree, and is raised up in the shape of a wave, much in the same manner as we may have seen the hair of the head rise up toward a charged electric machine. The con verse of this action holds good also at the antipodes at the same time. There the bottom of the sea is attracted more than the surface of the waters; consequently the latter drop away, as it were, from the earth, and also form a wavelike foam. Thus we have at opposite sides of the earth similar waves raised at the same time by the moon's attractive force. Then the earth as it revolves on its axis, brings every place in turn under each of these waves, when it is high water in each place as it arrives at the wave, and low water when between the two waves. FUSS. The term "puss," commonly used in this country and in England, when calling a cat, is the ancient Gaelic name for that animal. At the time of the Norman conquest the fashionable language among the upper classes in England was a mixture of the Latin and Norman-French. The pure Latin name of the hare which is often called "puss" in England is lepus, Persons who mingled both languages supposed the first syllable to be the article, and le thereby soon converted leptia into lepuss. RAILWAY SECURITIES ABROAD. The total amount of American securities of all kinds, State, municipal( railroad, etc., and of dividend-paying shares in railroads, etc., held abroad cannot be determined with accuracy. Our present annual payments upon them in the shape of interest and divi. dends are not probably overestimated by the Economist as ranging from $45,000,000 to $50,000,000. They have "soap bubblein Laramie, Wy. T. , , (

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THE SQUATTER AGAIN,

H Have Friend bp Hi Answer. Vtsty Evmsit A parjj of revenue men stopped aft the rude house of an Arkansas "squtter." He saw at a glance who they were and when they called to him, he limped out to the fence. - "How do you do, sir?" said the commander of the squad. . "Putty well, thank yer. Won't yer light an' hitch?" "No, we are in something of a hurry. What is good land worth?" "Idunno." . . "That's singular." , T "It mout be ter some folkos, but it ain't to me. Say thar, Jim," turning to his son, "drive he. sow outen the house, for she moutturfj ofer the sugar troff an' spill the young "un." "Do you know a man in this neighborhood named Bob Blakemore ?" "Is he got a sort otonoon eye on one side an' a sort o rainy-day eye on father?" "That's the man, I belieyeV "Sorter walks like he don't kere whar he was gwine, do he?" "Yes, from what I know of him he does." .. . "Sorter whines when be talks, like he was a longin' for suthin' he ain't got?" "He's the man, I have no doubt." "Wars a par o' shoes what was made by Josh Simmons, with one heel thiser way an' tuther thater way," making signs with his hands. "That's the individual. Where can I find him?" " WelL if yer know him as well as I do yer oughter know whar to find him." "When did you see him lost?" "Don't recolleck the last time as well as J. do the fust. The fast tune 1 ever seed him we fit. We fit till his wife she come, an, then till my wife she come, then we all. t. Airter awhile we got mixed up, an' iny wife she fit me an' his wife she fit him, an" "Well, wa don't aare anything about that. I'd like to know where we can find him, as we can doubtless strike a trade." "Yas, but lemme tell yer. Say, Jim, did you drive out the sow?" "Yas, pap." "Did he spill the young 'un?" "No, pap." "Look here, my friend." "Don't know as I'm yer friend, but I'm er lookin' thar." We want to find Bob Blakemore." "111 tell yer how to find him f that's ' whut yer want. See that hog-path?" "Yes." "Wall, take that path till yer come ter the deer-lick. Bob's a mighty hun ter, an' yer air mighty likely to find him T thar." "Suppose he isn't there?" "Then I ken tell yer 'zaetly where ha is" "Where?" "Summers else, all right?" "Yas, pap." "Look here Say, Jim, is the sow "Lookin' thar agin. "We want to go into the house," "Sartinly, come in," and the party dismounted and entered. After looking around and seeing nothing but a bed, a kettle, a sugar-, trugh cradle and a baby, they ; went away. After they had been gone' awhile, a blanket in one corner of the" room moved and uoo xiaemores head appeared. All the time the old 1PO d I V h MIT nue men in conversation, Blakemore) who knew that flight would be useless, " was digging a hole in the dirt floor, and when he had crouched down and covered himself with the blanket, the boy Jim, discovered that the sow was "all right. Arkansaw Traveler. EE EDI y a TRAMES. The last report of the British Qoward Association specially condemns the practice of tjiose persons in conntry districts who give mdiscriminately to tramps, thus perpetuating a vicious and profitless race. Attention is drawn to the fact that the Prison Commissioners relax too much the penal aad " moral element of cellular isolation. It is maintained that recommitals axe fosteredby the easy allotted to tbe worst offenders, as well as by allowing these habitual rogues to associate with each other in large rooms. With re speot to juvenile offenders and neglected youth, the committee urge that the responsibilities of parents a4. friends should be more practically enforced, and that they should not be allowed to withdraw the children arbitrarily, in order often that they may minister to the dissoluteness ot the' parents. ' A mustano is so trained to the delivery of newspapers on Pleasant Plains, Staten Island, that now; when his owner is sick, he is sent around alone, and in three weeks has missed only two of the fifty-four places where bis master called. A Michigan man left $1 in his will to ' hang his daughter's has- .

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