The canadian gleaner, 14 janvier 1892, jeudi 14 janvier 1892

[" .- |.3 [/ ~ 3 .3 » ~8 3 - a .NO.1474 THE HUB Depend On It VERY 25 cents worth of goods you buy at.The lub, you save a little money.Depend On It VERY dollar's worth of goods you buy at The Hub, you save more.Depend On It VERY good hill of goods you buy at The Hub, you save much, Depend On It \\\u201d OU ean get the best goods at The Hub, (Isn't it a fact?) Depend On It \\ A T I'TH the cash you havea picnic und things about your own way ut The Hub.Thousands and thousands of choice goods to be soll, Angus McNaughton YHE offer of clubbing THE WITNESS with the Gleaner expired at New Year, and no further subscriptions for the Witness can be received.TO THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC.N the opening of the new road for travel, the undersigned will be prepared to furnish good stabling and board for horses, for any wishing to take the train from here.Parties leaving their horses in my charge will he driven to and from the depot without charge.M.CARRIGAN.Athelstan, Jany.2, 1892, Ti MHE EARTH CLOSET made by the Gananoque Gear company is a success, Follow the directions and it is all its makers claim, They ave cheap, neat, and convenient.For sale by Boyd & Co , Hun- tingdon.INSOLVENT NOTICE.In the Matter of LR.BAKER, Beau- harnois, Que, FRYE undersigned will sell by Auction, at their oflice, No 7, Place d\u2019 Artes, Montreal, on THURSDAY, 4th February, 1892, at noon, the undermentioned real property: 1 ALOT OIF LAND situate in the town of Beauharnois and known as No 23 on the Cadastral plan for the town of Beauhnrnois, with 3-storey Brick Store thereon crected, 2 A LOT OF LAND situate in thesaid town of Beauharnois, being part of No 26 on the Cadastral plan for the town of Benuharnois, containing 47 feet in widthby 180 fectindepth, hounded in front by St Lawrence street, in rear by Lake St Louis, on one side by the remaining part of said lot, and on the other side by oflicinl No 25, with :à stone house, grain, shed, and other buildings thereon erected; and also the wharf in rear of said lot with the buildings thereon erected.The above immoveables will be sold, subject to the mortgages and other charges affecting sme, MarcorTE Bros, Auctioneers, KENT & TURCOTTE, 7 Place 4\u2019 Armes, 76 Montreal.FOR SALE On reasonable terms, in Huntingdon vil- Inge, that comfortable dwelling-house and large corner lot, oceupied by the late Thos.JosEN.Apply at once to Mrs JOsEN, on the premises.3 \\ ILL sell 3 first-class, highly cultivated DAIRY FARMS, in Dundee, separately or together, for cash, or on easy terms nt interest, FARMS FOR SALE, 3 .For particulars apply at my residence, Dundee, P.Q., or address me, Fort Covington, N.Y.PETER GARDINER.FM FOR SALE.THE subscriber offers for sale 100 arpents of land, hall in timber, situated one mile enst of Franklin Centre, having good house and burns, well watered by running stream and wells.Apply to Geo.Duxy,or to Wa.Suave.Franklin Centre, Q.Ti For SALE, _ 250,000 feet dry Hemlock Lumber, at $7 per thousand; also, 200,000 No 1 Hem- ock Shingles, at $1.65; Dimension Timber kept constantly on hand.JAMES ANDERSON, Ji., Anderson's Corners.T3 3 AVENUE \u2014 § YHIS popular Family Hotel is central, quiet, near depots and points of interest, Travellers and families will find clean, comfortable rooms and good table.Hot and cold baths, No liquor sold, Terms $1.50 to $2 a day according torooms.Reduced JIN rates to permanent guests, HOUSE also table board.| M7 To insure rooms please writeortelegraphin advance.Five minutes from Cl\u2019.and GTR.stations.E.8.REYNOLDS McGill College Avenue, Montreal 2 dd FURNITURE AT A.G.HENDERSON'S At Montreal Prices.T is n foregone conclusion that we are still leading in a nice line of BEDROOM SUITES Ranging in price from $13 up to 840, in Ash, Cherry,and Antique Oak.Also, some very nice SIDEBOARDS, in Ash, light, dark, or antique finish.Coil 8pring and W.Wire MATTRESSES.Also Fibre and Sen-Grass.A nice line of 2-inch WINDOW POLES.In CHAIRS of all kinds we offer good value.Centre, Leaf und Extension TABLES.And When You Mention Parlor Suites We have something in that line that ia sure to please, in Plush and Hair Cloth, and: we are giving just as good vilue as you can get in the city of Montreal.Call in and look over our stock and see the bargains we are offering.A.G.HENDERSON.CENTRAL Brock.! Huntingdon, Nov.ith, 1891.A LITTLE CAPTIVE MAID, (CONTINUED.) \u2018SURE there ain't a boy in the town that has the spark in his eye like yourself, sir,\u2019 responded Nora, with encouraging heartiness.\u2018I'd brenk away from these sober old folks and the docthersand all, and take ship, and you'd be soon over the say, and live like a lord in the first eabin, and you'd land aisy on the tinder in the cove o\u2019 Cork and slape that night in the city, and go next day to the Eccles hotel in Glengariff.Oh, wisha, the fine pluce it is wid the say forninst the garden wall.You'd get a swim in the clane salt wather, and be ae light as a bird.Sure | wouldn't be t'ased wid so much docthoring and advising, and you none the betther wid it.\u2019 \u2018Why couldn\u2019t 1 have a swim in the sen here?\u2019 inquired the captain, indulgently.\u2018Sure, it wouldn't be the same at all,\u2019 responded Nora, with contempt, \u2018\u2019Tis the say-shore of the old country will do you the most good.The say is very salt entirely by Glengariff, the bay runs up to it, and you'd get a strong boatman would row you up and down, and you'd walk in the green lunes and the folks in the houses would give you good-day; and when you'd be afther givin\u2019 old Mother Casey à trip- pence she'd down on her two little knees and pray for your honor till you'd be running home like a light horseman.\u2019 The old man laughed heartily for the first time that day.\u20181 used to be the fastest ronner of any lad in school,\u201d he said, with pride.\u2018Sure you might thry it again wid Mrs Casey's kind help, sir,\u201d insisted the girl.\u2018Now go to Glengarifi this next month 0° May, sir, do!\u2019 \u2018Perhaps I will said the captuin, decidedly.\u2018I'm not going to keep up this sort of thing much longer, 1 cun tell them that! If they can't do me any good they may say so, and I'll steer my own course.That\u2019s a good idea about the salt water.\u2019 The old man fell into a pleasant sleep, with a contented smile on his face.The fire flickered und snapped, and Nora sat still looking into it; her thoughts were far uway.Perhaps her unkind aunt would find meuns to stop the letters between Johnny Morris and herself.Oh, if her mother were only alive, if the scattered household were once more together! Jt would be n long time at this rate, before she could go buck to Johuny with a hundred pounds.The fire settled itself together and sent up a bright blaze.Theold man opened his eyes and looked bewildered; she stepped quickly to his side.\u2018You'll be askin for Mr Reilly?\u2019 she said.*No, no,\u201d responded the captain, firmly.\u2018What was the name of that place you were talking about?*Whiddy Island, sir, where me father was born?\u2019 Nora\u2019s thoughts had wandered far and wide, she was thinking that she had heard that land was cheap on Whiddy and the fishing fine.She and Johnny had often thought they might do better than in Ken- mare.\u2018No, no,\u201d said the captain again, sternly.\u2018Oh, Glengarriff,\u2019 she exclaimed.\u2018Yes.sir, we were talking\u2014' \u201cThat's it,\" responded the captain, complacently.\u2018I should like to know something more about the place.\u2019 \u2018I was never in it but twice,\u201d exclnimed Norn, \u2018but \"twas lovely there intirely.My father had a time of fishin\u2019, and \"twas one sumuuer we left Kenmare and went to a place, Baltimore was the name, beyond Glengarifi itself, toward the illignnt town of Bantry, sir.1 saw Bantry, sir, when | was young.We were all alive and together then, my father and mother and all of us; the old shebeen we lived in looked like the skull of a house, it was so old, and the roof falling in on us, but thank God, we were happy in it\u2014Oh, Ireland\u2019s the lovely country, sir.\u2019 \u2018No bad people at all there?\u2019 asked the captain, looking at her kindly.Oh, sir, there are then,\u2019 said the little maid, regretfully.\u2018I have sins upon my own soul, truth 1 have, sir.The sin of st'aling was my black shame when I was growing up, then.\u2019 \u2018What did you ever steal, child?\u2019 asked the captain.\u2018Mostly eggs, sir,\u2019 said Nora, humbly.\u2018I dare say you were hungry,\u2019 said the old man, taking up his newspaper and pretending to frown at the shipping list.\u2018Oh, no, captain, \u2018twas not that always.I used to follow an old spickled hen of my mother\u2019s and wait for the egg.l'A thrack her within the furze, and whin I'd be two days getting two eggs I'd run wid \u2018em to sell \"em, and \u201ctwas to buy things to sew for me doll I'd spind the money.I'd ought to make confission for it now too.I'm shamed thinkin\u2019 of it, and the spickled hen was one that laid very large white eggs intirely, and whiles my poor motber would be missing them and thinking the old ben was no good and had best be killed, the honest cr\u2019atur\u2019, and go to market tbat way when poultry was dear.I'd like one of her eggs now to hoil it myselt lor you, sir, \u2019twould be aisy \u2018atin\u2019 for you coming right in from some place under the green bushes.I think she's long dead, I didn't see her a long while before I was l\u2019avin\u2019.A woman called Jobanna Spillane bought dead.She was a very honest, good hen; a top-knot hen, sir.\u2019 \u2018I dare say,\u2019 said the captain, looking at his newspaper; he did not know why the simple chatter touched and pleused him so.He shrugged his shoulders and moved of his emotion.\u2019 speaking to a large audience of retired shipmasters.\u2018Stove her bows, rigging cut loose and washed overbonrd; total wreck 1 suppose you never saw a wreck?\u2019 he turned and rerarded Nora affectionately.i \u2018I did.sir then,\u201d said Nora Connelly, i flushing with satisfaction.\u2018We got news of it one morning early, and all trooped to the shore, every grown person and child in the place, 'aving out Mother Dolan, the ould lady that had no use of her two legs, and all the women, me mother und all, took their babies to her nnd loft them, and she entreatin\u2019\u2014you'd henr the bawls of her a mile away\u2014that some of the folks would take her wid em on their bucks tosee what would she get wid the rest; but we left her sereeching wid all the poor shilder, nud 1 was there with the first, und the sun coming up and the ship breaking up fine out a little way in the rocks.sweet oranges, she was, and they ull com- in\u2019 ashore like yellow ducklings in the high wather, l got me fill for once, I did, indeed.\u2019 crew get ashore?\u2019 \u2018Well, I belave not, sir, but I couldn't rightly say.1 was small, and | took no notice, | mind there were strangers round that day, but snilors or the nixt parish was one to me then.The tide was going out soon, and then we swarmed aboard, and, wisha, the old ship tipped up wid us in it, and I thought I was killed.\"Twas a foine vessel, ull gilded round the cabin walls, and 1 thought in vain \u2018twould be one like her comin\u2019 to Ameriky.There was wines aboard, too, and all the men got their fill.Mesilf was gutherin\u2019® me little petticoat full of oranges that bobbed in the wather in the down-side of the deck.Wishu, sir, the min was pushin\u2019 me and the other shilder into the wather; they were very soon tight sir, and my own father was wid \u2018em, God rest his soul! and his cheeks as red as two roses.Some busybody caught him ashore and took him to the mngistrate\u2014that was the squire of our place, sir, and an illigant gentleman.The bliguards was holdin\u2019 my father, and 3 running along, screeching for fear he'd be going to jnil on me.The old squire began to laugh, poor man, when he saw who it was, and says he, \u2018Is it yoursilf, Davy?and says my futher, \u2018It's mesilf, God save yaur honor, very tight intirely, and feelin\u2019 às foine as any lord in Ireland.L'ave me go, and I'll soon slape it off under the next furze-busb that'll stop still long enough for me by the roudside,\u2019 says he.The squire says, \u2018L'ave Lim go,boys, \u2018twas all from his\u2019nting the oranges! says he, And the folks give a great laugh all round.He was doin\u2019 no harrum, the poor man! 1 \"run away again to the say, then; I forget was there any more happened that day.\u2019 \u2018She must have been à fruiter from the Mediterranean.I can\u2019t think what she was doing up there on the west const, out of her bearings,\u2019 said the captain.Faix, sir, I couldn't tell you where she was from, if it's the ship you mane; but she wint no further than our parish and the Black Rocks.I heard tell of plinty other foine wrecks, but I was to that { mesilf\u201d CHAPTER IT.The lengthening days of late winter went ; slowly by, and at last it was spring and | the windows were left open all day in the , captain's rooms.The household had \"accepted the fact that nobody pleased the ; \"invalid as Nora did, and there was no feeling of jealousy; it wns impossible not to be grateful to anyone who could invariably ; spread the oil of sympathy and kindness over such troubled waters.James Reilly : and Mrs Nash often agreed upon the fact that the captain kept all the will he ever had, but little of the good judgment.Yet, | in spite of this they took it upon them to argue with him upon every mistaken point, Nora alone had the art of giving a wide | berth to dangerous subjects of conversa., tion, and she could twist almost every sort \"of persistence or aggravation into a clever | joke.She had grown very fond of the lonely old man; the instinct toward | motherliness in hersimple heart wns always ready to shelter him from his fancied .wrongs, and to quiet him in the darkest hours of fretfulness and pain.| thin during the long winter, and she lost ! the pretty color from her cheeks as spring | came on.She was used to the mild air of | could not feel like herself in the close rooms _ of Captain Ballour\u2019s house on Barry street.; By the time that the first daffodils were in | bloom on the south terrace, she longed inexpressibly for the open air and used to, disappear from even the captain's sight into the garden, where at times she took her turn with the gardeners at spadiog up the rich soil, and working with a seal which about in his easy chair, frowned still more .at the shipping list, and so got the better down à silver candlestick and wiped her covetousness.Nora.to nse her own ex- \"Twas loaded with | \u2018Dear, dear,\u201d said the captain.\u2018Did the : | Young Nora Connelly's face had grown ; | Ireland and to an out-of-door life.She the dabbling ducks; then she fell to thinking lovingly of her last walk with Jobony ' HUNTINGDON, Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1892.thing troubled the girl, however; she looked older and less happy; sometimes it was very plain to see that ahe had been crying.that she could spare, leaving but little for Who subscribed $1,200 for tickets in the One morning, when she had been delayed | herself, had been sent in secret to Johnny's Louisinna lottery.They delegated two of reached them, started a subse unusually with her downstairs work, the \u2018 mother.She always dreaded the day when their number to go to New Orleans and ; they intended to devote to ler aunt, and, though she had had angry appeals for more, the other pound | try every year.Only two months ago a ; avadicate was formed taking in 150 clerks $1,50 A-YEAR © At a recent review of the Nimonoffak i (Russin) regiment of the Guards, the off.cers of the regiment, moved by the stories distrews und deatitation which had ription which to the relief ; ; ; ; rate i .of the famit .\" captain grew so impatient that he sent her avaricious aunt should find this out V°Ch the drawing, their expenses being fine sufferers.It was necessery Reilly away to find her.Nora quickly set powdery hands upon her apron us she ran (inn picture book, and eveu when Nora \u201ccame in, he did not smile.\u2018I'm going out to take a walk,\u2019 he said, angrilv.\u2018Come on, then, sir,\u201d said Nora.I'll run for your cout and hat if you'll tell me where\u2014' I \u201cI'ooh, pooh! child!\u201d the pacified captain was smiling broadly.\u2018I only want to take a couple of turns here in the hall.You for- \"wet how long I've been house-bound.l'un a good deal better; 1 have that meddling : Reilly know it, too; and 1 won't be told \"what 1 may do nud what 1 may not | \u201cTis thrue for amiably.Steady yourself withmy arrum, ! now, nnd we'll go to the far end of the hall Fang back again.\u201cPwas the docther himself said n while ago that ve'd onght to Fhiey walking more, and \u201ctwas your honor was like to have the life of him.You're a very conthrairy gentieman, if I may be xo bold! The captain laughed, but the Luriness of dragging his poor heavy foot was more serious than he had expected, in spite of all his brave dstermination.Nora did her best to beguile him froin too much consciousness of his fecbleness and disap- | pointment.\u2019 \u2018Sure, if you'd see ould Mother Killnhan come hobbling into church, you'd think Yourself us good ns a greyhound,\u201d shesnid, presently, while the master rested in one of the chairs at the hall's end.intirely.I saw her mysell asleep at her beads this morning, but she do be very steady on her two knees, and whiles she prays and says a bead or two, nnd whiles she gets a bit of sleep, the poor crature.She do be staying in the church a dude this cold weather, and Father Dunn is uiay with her.every morning of the year.so she does, vou sir She's very old very She makes the stations and one day she come trough the deep SHOW in a great storm there was, and she fell down with weakness on the church stops; and they told Father Dunn and snid how would they get her howe, and he come running himself scolding all the way and took her up in his arrums, and wint back with her to bis own house.You'd thought she was his own mother, sir.\u2018She's one of God's poor,\u201d says he, with the tears in his eyes.Oh, captain, sir! | wish it was Father Dunn was praste to you, Ido then! I'm thinking he'd know what prayers would be right for you, and himself was born in the country forninst Glengariff, and would tell you how foine it was for your stringth.If you'd get better, sir, nnd we'd meet him on the street, we'd be after asking his riverence The captain made no answer, he was tived and spent, and sank into his disdain- y ed eany-chair, grateful for its comfortable support.The mention of possible help for his feeble frame from auy source clung to his erratic memory, and after a few days one of the thoughts that haunted his mind was that Father Dunn, a kind-fuced elderly man, might be of use in this great.emergency.To everybody's surprise, his bodily strength seemed to be slowly returning us oftener nnd oftener an appealing childish i renewing of his shattered forces.At last one day, with Reilly, in his fawiliar chaise, ; The captain's old friends gathered to wel come him, and he responded to their salutations with dignity and evident pleasure; but once or twice, when someone congratulated him upon certain successful matters of business which he had planned | before his illness, there was only a troubled \u201clook of dullness and almost pain for an- Bwer.One day Nora Connelly stole out into the garden in the afternoon, and sat there idly under an old peach tree.The green \u2018fruit showed itself thick all along the slender boughs.Nora had been crying already, und now she looked up through the green leaves at the fur blue sky, and then began to cry again.She was sudly homesick, poor child! She longed for her lover, whom she feared now never to see.Like a picture she recalled the familiar little group of thatched houses at home, with their white walls and the narrow green lanes between; she saw the pink daisies under foot and the golden gorse climbing the hill till it stood against the white clouds.She remembered the figures of the blue clonked women who went and came, the barefooted merry children and Morris, the empty bird's nest, and all \" their hopes and promises the night before she left home.She had been wilful in yielding to her aunt's plans; she knew that Johnny feared her faithlessness, but it was all for love of him that she had left him.| Ste knew how poor they were at home, suid Nora, | the spring days went by, but there wns look in his face, the firm lines of it were | blurred, even while there was n steady | he was able to drive down the bury street | and empty ail the vials of hor wrath of pression, Was ns much in dread of this \u2018I see that the old brig Miranda hasgone upstairs.The captain was standing inthe | aunt as if the sen were a dry diteh, Alans! ashore ou the Florida Keys,\u2019 he suid, an if | middle of the floor, scowling like n pirate ' she was still the same poor Nora Connelly, ! though vich nnd busy Amerien stretched eastward and westward from where she \"had made her new home.It was only hy keeping her pounds in her pocket that, she could gather enough to be of real and per- \"mnnent use to those she loved; and yet their every day woes, real or fictitious, stole the vounds from her one by one.So she sut erving under the peach tree until the pale old captain came by, in the | box-bordered walk, withscutfling, unstendy (steps.Ele gnaw Nora amd stopped, lenning Con his cane, (TO RE CONFINUED) i CANADA.Ottawa, January $.\u2014The new Banking net, which went intoforce Inst July, requires every chartered bank in Canada within ltwenty davs after Checloxe of each enlendar | reur to transmit to the minister of finance i nreturn of all dividends which haveremain- | ed unpaid for more than five years, nud, Palso, of all Iimlanceea in respect.of which no transactions have taken place or upon which no interest lens been paid during the Hive vears prior to the date of such return, | Every bank failing to make this return | renders itself linble to a penalty of $50 for every day during which such neglect con- | tinues.If after diligent, efforts have been | Hide to find theowners of the money, they are not fortheoming, the amounts, after n certain period of time has elapsed, go into the Federal trensuey, Kabject, of course, to all rightful claims on behalf of any person other than the bank, Owing to this provision the local hanks have been working up depositors who have had balances lying to their credit, unclaimed for years and as a result a good many persons hinve had welcome surprises during the past fow day.One fiem of government contractors liad $5,000 which they hand deposited ns security and forgotten, returned to them, and {here live been a number of eases of amounts under: hundred dollnes returned, some of which have been to the credit of the parties for as much as twenty yours without their knowing it and without the bank notifying them, Quebee, Jan, 2.\u2014=The widow of the Intel.W.Dunscomb, for many yenrs collector of customs at this port, who died some cight or ten days since, did not.long survive her husband.She is nlso dend.She was a daughter of the lute General E.W.Durn- ford, of the Royal Engineers.\u2014 Barrie, Ont., January 6.\u2014A bylaw wan passed by the town council of Gravenhurst nt the last meeting prohibiting children under sixteen from loitering or lonfing on the public streets after8 p.m.The penalty is arvest and imprisonment.Guelph, January 4.\u2014Dr Richard Orton, uw well known medical practitioner in this city, died on Saturday from blood poisoning caused, it is said, by the green lining of his slipper affecting an abrasion on one of his toes.A year ago the 27th of this month John Heslop, the aged treasurer of Ancaster charge, by thieves who broke into his house to rob him of certain municipal funds thought to be in his possession.There was no Lrace by which the criminals could beidentifieed, and nfteri few days\u2019 sensation the matter dropped from the public view.Eleven months aîter four men were arrested, and now, by the confession of some of the participants, one nt least, of the gang is onn fair way to mount thegallows, The adage that murder will out has had an- \u201cother justification, H.G.Ketchum, engineer of the Chignecto \u201cShip railway, has submitted to thegovern- ment a scheme by which he snys vessels drawing upwards of twenty fect of water can be passed through the present St Lnw- rence canals from Port Arthur to Quebec without deepening the canals or enlarging the locks, thus obviating the expenditure | of millions of dollars of publie money upon \"canal deepening.He hus outlined theplan in a paper to be read before the society of engineers.Mr Ketchum proposes that large vessels he placed upon steel rafts or pontoons and thus floated through the canals and over river shallows, the vessels to be placed upon the poutoons by means of hydraulic liftsestablished at theentrance of each canal.He says $500,000 would provide pontoons and lifts for all theexist- ing canals; that these lifts could be used as graving docks; that little time would be lost in placing the vessels upon the floats, and that the plan hus been successful elsewhere, À determined effort is being made to get rid of the lotteries for which Quebec is noted.There are now sold openly in Montreal tickets for ten different concerns, two of which are native here, while the rest are .from the United States and Europe, Over .$250,000 worth of lottery tickets are sold -in the province of Quebec every month for \u2018foreign lotterien, besides those sold for | lotteries conducted in the proviace.Some- her from my aunt when my mother was put to shame their Janguid efforts.Some- She had faitbtully sent a pound a month thing like $3,000,000 goes out of the coun- township, was murdered while defending his paid.Not one of the tickets drew a prize.\u201cIna factory employing 500 hands for the | past three montha 20 per cent.of wages | has gone in lottery tickets, Another which has a big sale, and which secures the money of the poorer people, is the Little Louisiana lottery of Kansas City, which has chenp tickets, 25 and 50 cents each.Queber, Jan.1.\u2014The lieut-governor held his annual New Year's day reception this morning in the legislative council chamber, and it was the most brilliant.affniv of the kind ever held in Quebee, This in sutticient- whom there were 7340, nnd at the first rush 209 entered before there wan any break.ministers who are in town, and a brilliant military staff, sixty in all, Bigg John of Canghnawaga, carried out I his intention of runnin the Lachine rapids on New Yeur's day, although, as he himself afterwards confesaed, it was one of the most.exciting tripe he ever had.John did not make the trip alone, for his son Alee, Mr dobn Murray and two passengers, necom- panied him.Big John steered the ennoe, whilst his son aud Me Murray pcddted, The party left Canghtawagn at nbout 10 o'clock, and the only place where they experienced any trouble with the ice was just.before renebing the rapide, The wind was blowing from the enst, aud some very choppy water wns encountered.A good deal of water wan shipped, nnd by the time the travellers reached their destination they were pretty well soused.Whenshoot- ing the rapids the burly form of Big John was completely hidden by the fonm and spray for two or three minutes, and the other occupants of the bout fenrved he had gone overbonrd.They were mine relieved to find, na the little eeaft emerged from the fonming water, that he wan still \u201cnt the helm.\u201d The bont had to be baled out frequently on nceount of shipping so much water.UNITED STATES, Lockport, N.Y, Dee.20,-