Great Falls tribune. [volume], January 15, 1887, Image 7

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THROUGH THE ROCKIES.
On the 23d of Jrn last some of us were 1
becalmed at the ,unmit of the Selkirk
range. We were travelling in the con
.truction car from Donald to Farwell
(Revelstoke.) We were delayed, as the I
road was not then travelled over, and some 1
little finishing touches were being execut- 1
ed in front. We were not sorry to spend I
a couple of hours in such a scene. The
great glacier was in front of us-a roaring t
torrent behind, spanned by the beautiful
trestle-work of a wonderful bridge. On t
our right there rose up a snow-crowned s
summit, and away down beneath us on the I
left the brawling Beaver river, whilst the
yellow light stole in among the huge pine I
trees around us. There stretched along
the line the construction town, one of the
best specimens we saw-"Canvasville," we
called it, There was one of these canvas
tents worthy of note. It was two yards
high, two yards broad, and two yards and
a half long. A stove pipe protruded from
it behind, suggesting that the nights in
that high latitude were a little cold; whilst
in front, there was the sign in large letters,
"Doctor's Shop." Near this was a log t1
building, with a stretch of canvas at the
side, rejoicing in the dignity of a sugges
tive name, "The Brunswick Hotel." Our
group consisted of Mr. Fraser, the artist,
looking out for subjects for his brush, a
little perplexed by the grandeur and varie- t
ty on every side; Mr. McAlister, the pro
prietor of Carbett Guthrie, in Scotland, h
who had come out to see the new lands c
along the new line; and the writer, who
was returning, after sixteen years' absence,
to have a look at his old home in British
Columbia. We were taking a saunter c
among the groups of constructionists-
Canadians, Yankees, Italians, Germans,
avd others who were engaged in the work. a
They had just been to dinner, and were a
returning from their several mess-places. a:
One enterprising landlord of a hotel ad
dressed us when passing, "Have dinner,
gentlemen'?" "No," said the most out- 0
spoken of our company, "we are to dine
further on; but if you could give us 'a red i1
herrin' we would be obliged to you." The e
man looked at us with an expression of
amazement, mingled with contempt, which a
brought out the old Scotch in perfection, c
and said with genuine Doric accent, "A u
red herrin' in the middle of the Rockies- e
who ever heard the like o' that; what next
I wonder! Gentlemen, ye should gang tae
the North Pole, and ask for plums." And I
he added again, still more contemptuously, C
"A red herrin' in the middle of the Rock- j1
ies!" "Why not?" I said. "A red herring a
would be the best thing going here. There is
a plethora of butcher's meat salted, and
butcher meat canned. A red herring
would be the most agreeable change, and
not such a difficult thing to get either."
"And," added Mr. McAlister, "this new
line will make red herring as common in
the middle of the Rockies as in the heart
of Novia Scotia. With the Atlantic at one a
end and the Pacific at the other, they will c
soon have herring and all kinds of fish in
abundance." Such was the prophecy in
passing. I returned by the same line, and
two months after was at the same place.
What a change! the groups of construct
ionists had passed away, and with them
the numerous canvas tents. The doctor's
shop was not to be seen. The Brunswick
hotel and that of the amazed Scotchman
had gone. Near to its site rose the modern
"Glacier hotel." Fraser and some of his
brother artists were descried under their
huge umbrella at work upon the Syndicate
Peak. We sent up a hulloo that speedily
brought him down. We were now passing
through at the rate of over three thousand
miles in less than five days. No time had
we now for sauntering and easy talk in the
charming scene. A hurried meal we were
permitted before the cry was given, "All
aboard!" but sufficient to realize the
change already wrought. We had for our
dinner salmon fresh from the Columbia
and Fraser rivers, and fruit delicious from
New Westminster. Our same train
took along quantities of fish packed in ice,
and fruit new gathered. The day of
amazement at a red herring in the midst of
the Rockies was gone. There were fish
and fruit on the table, and there were fish
and fruit being carried along for the cow
boys at Calgary and the sheep farmers at
Regina, and the farmers at Brandon and
the merchants of Winnipeg. The new line
had started new branches of industry, and
connected those who had neither fruit nor
fish with those who had abundance and to
spare. Travellers can now have "a red
herrin"' in the middle of the Rockies, and,
to use an old Scotck expression, "a' the
comforts o' the Saltmarket." Such are
the beneficent results of -enterprise, and
thus are established the fraternities and I
equalities of commerce.--Rep. Thomas I
Somercille, Blackfriars, Glasgows.
Makes Us Shiver.
Among the novel sights along the Union t
Pacific through Wyoming is that of great
herds of antelope. One band which has
been about Rock Springs lately, is suppos
ed to number 10,000. A party went out i
from that town one day and in two hours j
returned with seventeen, which were all
they wanted, but could have killed'many i
more. Another party went from Bryan
are and bagged thirty-six before they got tir
irk e1 of the spcrt and were glutted with meat.
)n- So it is all along the road from Laramie to
ell Carter. Old railroad men say that the
he bunching of antelope is a good indication
me that the winter is to be a severe one. They
ut- refer to the fall of 1877, when the ante
nd lope gathered in great herds and remain
he ed together during the winter, which was
ng the worst ever experienced on the road.
Pul The same was the case several other win
3n ters which proved very severe. But they
ed say they never saw them so thick before.
he Not only antelope but all other kinds of
he game appear to be more abundant in the
ne West than for many years.-Salt Lake t
ng Tribt.ne.
Varieties From an English Paper. i
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ds At arm's length-Our hands.
ad Children of the sea.-Harbour buoys. b
Nature's most becoming dress.-The
tn close of day.
ist b
rs, A tourist without money is a tramp. A a
og tramp with money is a tourist.
he The more drams the fewer scruples.
s- The case of a man drinking to excess. e
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st, That man is voted a bore who persists in 1
a talking about himself when you wish to R
e- talk about yourself.
o- Little Jack: "My mamma's new fan is tr
d, hand painted." Little Dick: "Pooh! Who si
ds cares? Our whole fence is." I
Lo n
A fashionable young lady says she al- d
sh ways enjoys the transatlantic voyage be
er cause she makes the acquaintance of so
many swells.
's, "Do you take kindly to menial services?"
. asked a lady of a nursemaid, "Well, yes, d
re mum; but I should prefer the hymeneal,"
° she answered.
r, He (tendorly:) "And what do you think t
ot- of the engagement ring I sentyou, Gertie? o
me She (delightedly: "Oh, it is beautiful- o
ad in fact the handsomest one I ever had giv- s1
en me." te
of "What station do you call this?" asked a
ch a man as he crawled out of the ruins of a
n, carriage after a recent railroad accident. d
'A "Devastation, sir," replied the feliow-pass- d
- engers in chorus. g
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ae First traveller: "Well, but, if you're a
ad Doublin man, how came you to be born in ti
Cork?" Second traveller: "Sure it was b
k- just this way, begorra-I was staying there a
at the toime!" t1
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"Mother," said a little girl to her parent,
who takes great interest in charitable in
stitutions, "I wish I were an orphanl"
"Why so, my dear?" "Because I should i
see more of you, for you are always going
to the orphan asylum."
"Captain," said a cheeky youth, "ia there
any danger of disturbing the magnetic I
currents if I examine the compass too
loosely?" And the stern mariner, loving
his little joke, promptly responded: "No,
sir; brass has no effect on them."
First tramp: "I say, Bill, what is com
munism?" Second tramp: "I'll explain
it to you. I have an empty bottle, and
you have three coppers. I let you have
the bottle; you buy threepenn'orth of spirits
and put it into the bottle, and I drink it.
That's communism. See?"
Young lady: "My dear professor, I
want to thank you for your lecture. You
made it all so plain that I could under
stand every word." Professor: I am
truly glad you did understand it. I have r
studied the question for about thirteen C
years, and I flatter myself that I can bring
the subject within the comprehension of
the weakest intellect."
Bertie; "It's very wrong, ma, to tell a v
falsehood, isn't it?" Mother: "Of course I
it is, dear." Bertie: "And it,s wicked to a
ask a little boy to tell lies?" Mother: v
Why, yes!" Bertie: "Well, that's what *
my teacher made me do today." Mother;
"Gracious me-made you tell alie, Bertie: ii
Bertie: "Yes; she made me promise al- f
ways to be a good boy in the future." a
A reporter upon a western paper, speak- g
ing of a certain noted beauty, remarked a
that the ,'profusion and color of her hair v
would lead one to look upon it as though
it was spun by the nimble fingers of the
easy hours as they glided through the
bright June days, whose sunny rays of a
light were caught in the meshes and were c
content to go no farther." The girl had
red hair-that was all.
Webster, the American statesman, used b
to tell a story at the expense of Peter Lit- it
tie, who had in early life-repaired clocks h
and watches, but who had for some years Io
represented a Maryland district in the r
house of congress. One day he had the ti
temerity to move to amend a resolution by ai
John Randolph ontihe subject of military as
clix> -` 1ir p < terth
amendment had been oiee and, draw
ing his watch from his fob, asked the Hon i
Peter what o'lock it wi. Hetold him. te
"Sir," replied the orator, "yon can mend R
y my watch, but not my motions. You un- <
n derstand tic-tacs, sir, but not tactics!" a
"There used to be a story," writes Mr. I
Robert Leslie to Mr. Ruskin in Dilecta,
"which I dare say you have heard, of how
e Turner was one day showing some great
man or other round the gallery; and Tur
y ner's father looked in through a half-open I
door, and said in a low voice, 'That 'ere's I
done;' and that, Turner taking no appar
ent notice, but c:ntinuing to attend his 1
visitor, the old man's head appeared again a
after an interyal of five or six minutes, and t
said in a louder.tone, 'That 'ere will be T
spiled.' I think Landseer used to tell this a
story as having happened when he and
one of his many noble friends were going e
e the round of Turner's gallery about the i:
time that Turner's chop or steak was be- c
ing cooked."
While electioneering at Tiverton, Lord a
Palmerston was greatly bored by a Radical
butcher, who wished him to support a cer- b
e tain Radical policy. Once, at the end of
one of Lord Palmerston's speeches, the
butcher called out: "Lord Palmerston,
L will you give me a plain answer to a plain *d
question?" After a slight pause, Lord
_ Palmerston replied: "I will." The butch
er then asked him: "Will you or will you c
not support this measure?"--a Radical
SBill. Lord ralmerston hesitated, and then
with a twinkle in his eye, replied: "I will
- " Immediately the Radicals cheered
tremendously. "Not-- "Tremendous Con
servative cheers. When these ceased,
Lord Palmerston then finished his sentence
with these words: "Tell you," and imme
diately retired.
BILL NYE ON CREMATION.
The subject of what we shall do with
ourselves after death is one that should be
duly considered at an early date. In all
seriousness, the soul is'hotthe only thing
to be looked after, either during life or af
t ter death. We aref;too.prone to neglect
? our health during life and then bequeath
- our accumulated microbes and other re
sults of a long and perhaps crooked career
to some sightly cemetery,'set on a hill like
a city that cannot be hid.
Longevity is a]good thing, though I
have known public men to;overdo it. To
die at the proper moment and leave a
good impression on.history is one of the
lost arts. To flicker out of lifewith the
a applause of a great people still ringing in
a the ears, is a good thing; but man that is -
a born of woman, and the majority of them
e are that way, are too prone to linger on
this side of eternity until they have done
some little thing thatis never properly ex
plained on their tombstones.
But after death what shall we do with
ourselves? In this brief f treatise I dare
not attempt to be thorough, or even lucid.
Leaving others who know all about it to
state exactly what disposition will'be made
of our souls, let us look into the matter of
what we shall do with our bodies. I hope
that what I may say will not be regarded
as flippant, for this isjno place:for flippan
cy, but allow me to speak plainly of it, ra
I would on any other subject concerning
our health.
Death has some very peculiar character
istics. For instance, it will wake up the
dormant oldjcrank whoohas never missed
a funeral for sixty years. He goes for
miles to see the "deceased." It is his hol
iday. It is the one saving spot in his oth
erwise joyless life. We all remember him.
He is sometimes a woman.
The thought~that the time will come
some day when this man will put on his
funeral clothes and come to my funeral
makes my tall hair rise up on end. He
cannot gloat over me now, :but the day
may come when I'shall lie low, instead of
lying otherwise, as I do now; and he may
outlive me and come to see me properly
buried. Then he will enjoy himself! Ah,
what a blessed relief it 'would be could I
hover over the doorway when he comes,
and hear my footman announce to the old
vulture that he "is a little late, as Mr. Nye
was put in the kiln half an hour ago."
I could suffer a good deal through life
if I knew that I could at least head off the
funeral fiend--the man who wouldn't loan
me a dollar when I was struggling for
grub, but who cheerfully visits my funeral
and shows his approval in every possible
way.
I must say in all candor that there are
many attractive features about cremation.
I am sure that when cremation is placed
within the reach of all it will probably be
come popular.
In the first place, if the space between
life and physical annihilation could be a
made just as narrow as possible, it would
be far more cheerful to consider. Death
itself is cruel enough, but to add to it a
hippodiome of a public funeral and turn
our parlors into a giddymorgue, and then
repose in a crowded cemetery till the city
till the city-wa~ts the ground for a ptk;
and then to pick up our crumbling bones
and move away to . new grave,=s not
I have often thought that a cheerful
book of fifty or sifty paged mightlie wri
ten'under the title of "Recolsloes iofn
Resurrection; or, the Diary of &Body." It
tn- could be made to teach us a valuable les
son. Politically I am pledged to genuine
[r. national reform. Let the nation try it,
and if it works all right on the nation I
I will try it myself. Then I am commit
at tad to the unlimited coinage of a tame dol
r- lar, one that you can steal up behind and
,n put salt on its tail; not the evasive and
ignis fatuus dollar of the the present.
Nr ext, I am in favor of cremation at living
pis prices. At present the price is too high,
in and the poor man is left to decay and fill
id the soil with poisonous gasses, which the
se poor, as well as the rich may indulge in
is after death.
id Death should end our c:reer, so far as
ig earthly affairs go, but with the embarrass
le ing prospects of a premature burial, the
e- cheerful chances of being boil'd by the
janitor of a medical college and our skele
tons wired together and hung in a muse
Sum, and the opportunity, if we escape the
al first two, of being tipped out of our graves
r- by a flood, earthquake, or the ac' of the
common council, it is no wonder that peo
ie ple cling to life.
"' If I thought that for centuries after my
n decease my long but symmetrical skeleton t
d would be used night after night, in a nude
condition, to illustrate the union in case <I
n compound cyclonic fracture of the tibia, I
wouldn't be able to sleep nights..
n BILL NYE.
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