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60000009.0609900000000906 Mitigation” Story of llle nest-ur- of Seal Ilunt- erg lost In an Ice Pack. ooooohoooo KVh-cn we had come to anchor in Trinity bay and all the sails were safely stciwed, the captain of our yacht proposed that we should go ashore' and see the celebrated Comâ€" eau fils. Barb, my companion asked, “Cell-- brattcd for what?" "Oh! for several things," replied the captain. "He is a most extraordinary man in his many acquiremeuts and knowledge. Born and brought up on this coast, he has passed all his life here, with the exception of the three years his father was able to send him to school, but those three years he mlade use of to lay the foundation of a wonderful store of practical knowl- edge. IIis schooling, as I have said, .was but the foundation; by reading and observation he had added to it in u marvellous way. From his early training and the life of every one on the coast, it' Would go without saying that he knows how to she-nihbut he is more than a good shot he is zL"dcadly" shot. Anything he aims his gun at that is within shoot- ing distance is dead. As a salmon fisher, no crack angler who visits these rivers can hope to compete with him. "As a. linguist he can speak, read and write in French, English, Latin and Indian; besides this, he can talk rapidly in the dumb alphabet. He holds the position of telegraph oper- ator at Trinity, also of postmaster and fishery overseer, and besides, when anything goes wrong with the lines for 200 miles east or west, the department immediately wires him to go and fix them up. "He has more than a fair knowl- edge of medicme for one who derived all his insight from reading alone. Last summer there was, an epidemic ofmeasles all along thecoast among both whites and Indians. Here with a population of 150, two-thirds of whom were down, Comteau, who attended the-m, did not; lose one patient, while at Bersimis, where the department sent a full-fledged M. D., there were 39 burials out of a population of 450. “You may be sure the poor people all along the coast love him.” So the boat was lowered away, and the captain, Bob and I row-ed ashore to see this paragon. From the; outside look of the place Icould see the man was one of good taste and orderly. The knock at. the door was answered by Comeau himself. ‘l‘he captain was personally acquainted with him and introduced us before we entered. I must say I .was disappointed. One altways is when he has pictured a person in his mind’s eye and finds that in reality he is quite a differâ€" ent kind of person. ‘1 had looked for Comeau to be a large man and ab-oisterous one from his position of superiority over others. On the contrary, I found him below the medium, a quiet, low- voioed man, reserved almost to shyâ€" ness. I saw at once he was a great observer, one lwh-o would make deâ€" ductions froun specks invisible to ordi- nary people; or, in other words, he could put two and two together and dovetail them better than most men. “he were uh‘re-d intoalarge, c1:an, airy room, in the middle of which sat a very good-looking lady in a roomy rocker, with a child on each knee. If Comeau himself is reserved and not inclined to talk, his wife can. do en- ough for both. She excused herself for not rising when her husband inâ€" troduced us. Nodding down at her babies, she said: "You see, I am' fix- ed." One could see she is a proud motherâ€"they were twin-3; this she told us before we were seated, and she further informed us that they were the clnly twins- on thz Labrador. So she is celebrated also. \Vhen we got fairly settled int Com- pau's don, the conversation naturally driftedinto hunting and fishing. Bob made some inquiriES about the pools on the Trinity. To make his explana- tions clear, Cc-meau pulled out a drawer of photographic views of the river. In rummaging these over, he must aside a gold medal. “Excuse me," I st:1i.d,.reachving over and taking up the medal, On it I read engraved: "Present-ed to N. A. Cour-an liythe R. II. 5. for Bravery in. Saving Life." Ur-sn my asking him to recount the circumstances, he blushed and looked quite confused, and said: "Oh! it was nothing worth speaking of, but I suppose people talked so much abaut it that they gave me that tokâ€" en. It was nothing more than any mm would have done," and this was all we could get. from him unless we carried persistent-y to an ungentleâ€" manly degree. After having spent a very pleasant. hour we returned on board. and the captain tolt'l u; the story that the > hero himself would n05. Taro years before, one day in Jan- uary, Commu arrived hem: from the back country to find that two men had that day while seal hunting off shore been driven off the coast toâ€" ward the ice pack in the gulf. One of the men was Commas own brothâ€" er-inâ€"latw and the C-t a half-breed. in spite of the Supi.lC.ltié!lfi of h:s wife and the persuasians of the: other individuals of the place, Ccul:‘:1us;-: about preparations to follor than out to sea. He asked no one to accom- pany him. The wind all th; afternoon had 1 .-en .Leavrlily off shore and was nor mod- crately ('nlm . lle oak with him some t‘cstot'utives, prov .ns, a lantern, a couple of lillznke ‘, his lllll' and ammunition an'. what 1-3»;- uselul ha could think of in his hurt The we pack was all-"n alnut 11) miles off lll’.‘ itlnrl, and h- sued the men must Le on the i . ll". liarg‘ an'l strng ans-ugh. or ‘in among it, if in smal ca .:.<, the latter being much more dangerous. From ‘L‘linily to Blatant: in a direct line the ,‘ll\LLllIL‘/3 is, l”) mill-s. and to push out in a frail \‘t‘uol‘n canoe alone and .1 he. (larku'ws com.ag on in the hllck gulf in midâ€"winter requir- ed (1. brave. man with extraordinary nerve to dare it. and this CODIQIIU dirt. ' Three. minutes after pushing out from this Lunch, canoe arrl man were snrallowml up in the darkness. The next the people of Trinity helrd of him was a telegraphic mussage on the second day aft-Jr. It read: "l\I:i~ tune. All three alivo. Joseph, hands frozen; Sim-0n, both feet frozâ€" en bully.” This message was to his family, but the Mitan; people sent a much longer one to tlr: government giv- ing the. facts, describing the hardâ€" ships thuse man had come. through, and a social train was sent; down with the 3st surgeon from Quebec. 011 th- suzrgeon‘s arrival at Malanc aocnsultaticln was held with the country practitioner. when it was de- cided that the man, Jo::.-ep‘h, would h-itve to lose two fingers out each hand and Simon both feet. The amputation was successfully carried out next day, and shortly after, when Comeau saw boil) men (well on llo' recovery, he started for his bomb, not, however, by the nay he had some... but. up to Quebec by the south shore and dohvn the north shape from Quebec, a distance of nearly '[00 miles. The last 100 he made on tnotwshoes. Th: captain told us that the deâ€" scription of this very venturcsome trip he had heard from Comcau'si ow‘n brother as the, elder one had describ- cvd it in the hie-art of his family. He had reached the ice pack, to the best of his judgment. about 15 mile-s from the land, and had remained on his ours and hallooed once or tlwi-Ccl with- out receiving an anstxvr. He sud- denly bevtlioulght himself of the lan- born. it alto-ft. Immediately a faint cry was heard to the eastward, and he homered his light and pulled away in the direction whence the call appear- ed to: come. After rowing for a short , time the Lantern was waved again above and this time an ansâ€" lwlerilulg about came from close at hand. ~ The two: poor fellows were some distance in the pack, and had ‘got on the largest oak-e they could find. They were sitting there hellpless, hold- ing on each by one hand to the rough surface on “chi: ice, and with the other to their canoe to keep it from being washed off. By lthe aid of thalantern held aloft, Co-mreau saw there was a much larger cake of ice some distance far- ther in the pack. (to this they made their way with laborious trou- ble. I’us‘hing one canoe as fan ahead among the ice as possible, they would all three get into this, shove: the oth- er in advance in the same way, and so repeating the process till they reached the solid field. Once safely on 'this, for the meantime, secure place, food was partaken of and day- light 'waim‘d for. Soon, however, ‘the intense cold be- gan to make itself felt, and drowsiâ€" ness was first taking hold of the two men, and their great wish was to be left alone and allowed to sleep. This Cerulean knew if indulged meant death, and it took all his efforts to keep them awake and moving about. Once, wvhilte attending to the halfâ€" breed, his brother-inâ€"laav. dropped down and was fast asleep in an in- stant. Cousteau boxed him, kicked him, without having the desired efâ€" fect of rousing him from his stupor. At last he bethought him oft what an old [Indian had done to him under somewhat similar circumstances. He. caught the man’s nos-e between the thumb and finger and uweaked it severely. This brought him to his fleet and mad to fight. Day was now tweaking and they could me the south shore at. a com- puted distance of 10 miles. Comeau also saw that the ice pack, was drift.â€" ing steadily east, and this, if they" re- mained on the ice, would carry them past Cap Chat, the most northern point of the south coast, and this meant death to a certainty. A rapid train of through Comeau's brain. He decided that if saved 'they were tobe, itmust he by passing over that 10 miles of moving. grinding ice. He forced some food on the others. They abandoned the roll of blankets, which had been of no use to them, and, Started, using the canoes sea-5am fashion, as they had done thy night before. They left threcaka of ice upon which they had passed 'th‘f‘ night 3.183.111., and only got ashore at the extreme point of Cap Chat at daylight next morning. At times they would come across nar- 'ro'v 1:11?) of water, .ut th 5) lines al~ ways ran at right angles to the di- rection in which they were going. Several times, when stopping upon what was l‘rl. Zlilfi‘l‘C‘J a strc. .. piece of ice, on). of tb'.‘ parly wouizl b:- immersed in the cold, crusl ‘\'.':1101‘,;1ntl be rescuwl with great trouble an! danger to th? rihsrt. \i‘lixt a pleura o” hetrt-f-l: pray- r er offering it must; htv ' cnlzo have scezt that" 311211 kueeli n ill’.) ice- hound show, pouringou, .h‘ir 1h nit: to .ll‘ ever-ararln‘ul Al “‘xty uh:- l;:.:l brought them salty ~1th Il-zn'; Dob, [the 11:»! taken down the capâ€" This he lit and lash-ml to the’ Jade elf one of the cars], and erected l t .1119. ground. Once . cveiving thought went ism Mia's narrative in shorthand, gave in.- his notes and Igive the story of adventure anl l)"‘(‘11~ln to th: Illlllllt‘. â€"->v LEARNING TO LOVE THE PIPES. Ralph Says He (:0! to Like Ihc Sound. Jullan One may perhaps gain \\ it h difficul- ty of :1 Scot- l"‘.<l1 1:ipe.‘:‘s appeal. to his :‘l,-:lntrym*n. Julian) Ralph. in "An American with Jamil Roberts,“ says that b"llll,‘ until-.risl.l,nill'ng w hv'n he was in cimp- upin (he. vcld, he, was tl\\'.i ' (-vl (-rtxr'y morning by the open _: groan of n liagpipe, lilac re- \‘l;7lil:‘ (Vi (ml: of LllI.‘ llighlzlud lJIltta~ L'I_;u.'. 'l‘he piping c:.u‘.inuwl.l for: at least t-ixtc-cln hints at a stretch. At first thin (paper music came as a nor-shy. Next (it (Mi-1y are to a tip-ems havingr rt used my curi- (-ithvr the. will or.“ strength for sixteen hours on end. with no longer pause than the module it required to change from one tune. to axial her. 'l‘h'-n the tunic-easing noise. bogztu to Dit'ldtlt‘n me. and l amrsml the p’pes as an instruâ€" ment of torture. The piper walked to dull fro tine. length of the! regi- mlmnt‘s lines, and "the air was furllll o'f zizâ€"ziz-ziz, like the. note of a demon bsc, while the. nealrer it, came, the more, its nasal chords mastered the nevighborhcxid and quixeied in any very homes. Al last, I cannot tell how it. came, about. I grew to like the sounul, and to miss the melody when the piper was eta-r and only this buzzing came to my cars. Whom he won near he played upon my body and my senses, My pen .ramzl with the purple music of the rec , my blood warmed under the defiant challemgc of the battle- Svdngs. A pleasant sadness possessed me when the tones were plaintive and gray. ,“llthtout a drop of Scotch blood in me, I yet began to love the Scotch, and to trike an interest in all Icoild see or learn of them. In time I used to leave my camp and cross the cnarâ€" r-otv lane to the Hig blah-dens, to watch a piper at his work. Then I discovered that there not one sole. piper; a score of men shared the burden. They stood in line, partiemtly watching as the lnlthi- cran of the moment. walked jauntin up and dotwlm, jus'tt touching his tees to the V'ClKI, like a mum: practising to walk (in eggs. As he halted the fly- n'ng ribbons would fall beside the drones, and the pipe (would be passed to another mun. fresh player, with :the streamers floating, his hips swaying, his head held high, and his hoes but touching I heard a man “H1 S say: "Gi' me the pipes, Sandy. I can tell ya what nuebnoIdy has said.” “$â€" ll'iEDiCAL DECEPTIONS THAT CURE. In Many Cases Emnglnallon Docs More (-1 and Than Medicine. \Vc are compelled to deceive our pa- tients, [said one of the doctors at it great London hospital the other day. Then otff strode the- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO‘OOOOOOO O .0 0 O 00000060060000.90000000 09000000000 0 SALADS 'AND SAND\\'.ICIIES. Hindoo Saladâ€"Arrange four slices of tomato on a bed of shredded lettuce. Pile some uhave celery on two of the slices and on the othelr two sou]: fine- ly out water Cress. Garnish with small pit-res of tomato and serve with French dressing. Tomato and Cucumber: Saladâ€"Ar- range alternate lelicos of tom'ato and cucumber until Iix slices have been piled one on top of anothelr, arrange on lettuce leaves and garnish with st-rzps of red and green tpeppers. Re- move seeds from peppers and parboil one minute before using. Monte Carlo SL1l:lll.â€"R€D.10VC pulp from grape fruit, add an equal amount of finely chopped celery and apple cut in _small pieces. Mix with mayon- naise, mask with mayonnaise and gar- nish with cooked carrot cut in shapes and truffles. Pepper and Grape Fruit Saladâ€"Ileâ€" move the tops from six green pep- pers, takeout the seeds and refill with grape fruit pulp, finely cut celery and English walnut meats. Use one- half as much celery as grape fruit, three halves of walnut meats and if liked one half teaspoon of finely chopped green pepper to fill each pepper. ‘Arrange on chicory or let- tuce leaves, and serve with green mayonnaise. Green Mayonnaiseâ€"Mix one tea- spoon each of mustard, salt and pow~ dered sugar, add a few, grains of cay- enne, the yolks of two eggs and one« half teaspoon of vinegar. Add very gradually one and one-half cups of olive oil and as the mixture thickens dilute with vinegar and lemon juice, adding in all two tablespoons. To one half of this amount add oneâ€"quarter cup of heavy cream beaten stiff and color green with color paste. French Dressingâ€"Mix three-quar- ters teaspoon salt, one-eighth tea- ,spoon of paprika, two tablespoons of lemon juice and four tablespoons of olive oil. Noisette Sandwichesâ€"Scam one-half cup of milk, add one~half cup of boil- ing water, and when lukewarm, three- qu-arte-rs of u yeast cake dissolved in three tablespoons of lukcâ€"warm wa- ter, oneâ€"half tablespoon each of lard and butter, two tablespoons of mo- lasses, one cup of nut meats, one-half cup of White flour and enough en- tire wheat flour to knead. Make and bake the same as ordinary bread. Let the. loaf Hand 2t hours then slice as thme as (possible and put current jelly or orange marmalade between. Cut: in fancy shapes if liked. German Sandwichesâ€"Spread Blices of zweiback thinly with jelly or marâ€" malade and sprinkle with finely out By doing so we can often cffectcures 1 English walnut meats. for imagination is in many cases more Liktely to do good than; all the mcdi- cintes in the world. There is in this hospital at the pres- ent ltime a young_man who has not S'llei’. tfor (weeks without first re- a hypodermic injection of pure Iwater. He believes he is get« ting a quarter of a grain of mor- phia twith each injection, and as he has not discovered the deception the treatment works like a charm. I had a patient a few months ago who: was suffering from imaginary . paralysis. and who could not. be benc- fitved by that use of drugs ort the elec- tric current. By prearranged plan, he was informed by a person suppos- cd to be interested in- his case that magnetism, not electricity, ‘was what he needed, and since then he has shown marked improvement under the constant application of a wooden r magnet painted .to resemble the genu- ine article. New and then a case presents an amusing phase. One ‘woman pos- sessed the idea. that her heart 'was growing to her tide, and, (lid not imâ€" prove unzler the treatment accorded her. Then I made up some medi- cine compound of the most nauseat- ing drugs, and the patient was or- dered to like doses hourly. After .lhe first day's treatment she said was well enough to go home. That medicine could have had abso- -luiely no effect, but it was intense« ly nlsty. that it was purely a ell-e of faith cure. â€".â€"â€".â€"â€"_ RARE AND CURIOUS GEMS. The rarest and the ‘costlicst of gems though not always esteemed the most beautiful, are pigeon’s loud rubies, fine opals and diamonds, that are pure hut shed a distinct glow of blue or pink. A Very perfect pearl of genâ€" erous size and lustrous skin, tinted a ra rely beautiful goldenâ€"green, was valued. un=et, at over £300. A fault- less green pearl is very rare. A cur- through i {he 7 ions stone is the Alexnnlhritc. It is a. dark green stone that is polished cut, and set, very like a fine topaz u: amethyst, in large showy rings, surrounded by diamonds. By the light of day the Alexandlritee has no special beauty Save its fine lust‘rc,but directly a shaft of artificial light strikes the dull stone. deep glcams of red flash out of the green, and under his or in the firefight one igâ€" normal. of this vaglry would inâ€" stantly pronounce it a ruby. I l l ‘ poring. Zweiback.â€"Cool oneâ€"half cup of Scalded milk until lukewarm, add two yeast cakes, one-half teaspoon of stock and one cup of flour; cover and let rise until very light, then add one quarter cup of sugar, oneâ€"quarâ€" ter'cup of butter, three unbeaten eggs and flour enough to knead. Shape like finger roll-.5 and place on buttered sheet in rows two inches apart. Let .rise again and bake 20 minutes. Cool and slice. HANGING WALL PAPER. As it is hard to find a professional paper hanger to go into the counâ€" try, many women do their own pa- ,The professional hanger in my childhood was a woman, and she went about town and country doing the paper: hanging, writes a corres- pondent. The houses welre low stud- ded to what the modern ones are, making the work much easier. I learned from this lady how to paper (rooms, and have formerly papered some of my own rooms with a sister’s help. An amateaur should select patâ€" terns that match readily. The cheap- er paper's. put on easiest. Trim from the rolls the widest mar- gins. All the rolls needed should be trimmed before beginning the job. Make the paste the day before, using three quarts water, half cup sugar and a little glue dissolved in the waâ€" ter. \Vet two pints flour to. paste and stir into the. water when it boils. Mix thoroughly and remove at once from the fire, as cooking spoils the sticking quality. Place a long board on two tables. Place a .roll of paper on it and cut: into the desired lengths, making sure the figures match. This is done by placing the first; piece cut on top of the roll, the figure on the same figure below. Turn all the pieces cut face downward on the board, leaving the margin of each a little beyond the edge of the other. Take a paste brush and apply the paste evenly to the uppermOSt piece. Catch the bottom pa:t way up, mak- ing the piece shorter to handle. Begin at some door and work from left to right. Hold the top of the piece in your fingers, and by the aid of a stepladvler stick the piece to the top of the side of the room; or as far up as will be covered by a border The late-st is not to have a border. Take. abrush broom,sweep the paper down with long, light strokes. If wrinkles appear, pull up from the betâ€" tem and sweep them out. Make sur; I your first piece is put on straight and exact. as the following ones will follow with no trouble. Now, take the nexf strip and pro- ceed as before, matching the top fig- ure with great care. Trim off the surplus length, if any. with asharp knife at the base board. Having fin- ished the sides of the room, put on the botrder, cut into yard lengths. If the ceiling is papered it should be done before the sides of the room. “'INTER VIOLETS MAY. Violets have become par excellence the flower of fashion in the city, and almost every I‘ountry garden that has a flower bed at. all, boasts its clump of violets for early spring bloom. But how few dream of the possibility of having these favorites all winter, crâ€" copt by purchasing them at a fabu- lous price from the florist. This lur- ulry is, however, not beyond the reach of anyone who has a. bit of ground and even a very modest income. This is the way one young lady manages to wear violets all winter, and she takes care of them herself. In May llho pots her young plants. leaving them to grow in a partly, shaded place all summer. In Septemâ€" ber they are not in cold frames. The plants begin to bloom in October, and bloom until Lpr'mg. A good plant will produce 50, the more prolific kinda several hundred blooms in a. season. The frames were placed in asouthâ€" em exposure and every pleasant day lifted the sashes a trifle for ventila- tion, and in cxtlremq weather covered them with heavy sacking, and also for further protection banked the earth closely around the frames. This its a little trouble of course, but one that no lover of violets will regret since it is so well repaid. The best and most prolific double violets are the Marie Louise and the California, the last named being of immense Size. POTTED IN â€"â€"â€"_°_. CURIOUS CITY GARDENS. In London Crops Are Raised In a Barrel, or All Open limhrclln. Many people have such a deeply rooted love for flowers that they will go to any amount of trouble to raise a few blooms even under the most apparently impossible circumstances. says the London Mail. instances of this occur' in the East» end of London, where sometimes the only available garden is a barrel. In order to make the most of this, how« ever, it is bored all over the sides with holes about two inches in diaâ€" meter, into each of which a plant of some description is placed, in addition to those planted in the usual way on the top, so that: a good display is obtained, in the minimum amount of space. These barrels frequently look very pretty and effective when all the plants are in bloom. The statement that there are garâ€" dens under bedclothes is supported by no less of an authority than that of the Very Rev. S. Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester. A district visitor in the Midland, when calling upon a poor woâ€" man, noticed how few were the coverâ€" ings to her bed. Upon being asked, she admitted that slhe had another blanket, and was re-monstrated with for not using it, as the weather was bitterly cold. It at length transpirâ€" ed that her husband had taken it to cover some plants he was rearing in a tiny greenhouse, in the hope of savâ€" ing them from being KILLED BY THE FROST. , Sun‘er devotion to flowers could hard- ly go much further than this. Not a few suburban householders usually find their gardens just out- side the lscullery door, and they ex- ercise: their horticultural ingenuity, upon the tiny slip of ground in which the considerate jerry builder has carefully buried his superfluous halfâ€" bricks. In various pa rts of the counâ€" try, notably at Nottingham, there are cottage gardens three miles away from the residences of their owners, so that when visitors are invited to "come and have a look around the garden" it means a somewhat leng- thy excurslfon. These allotments are, however, greatly appreciated and carefully attended, despite the fact that the time taken in getting to and from them plays sad havoc with their owners‘ ncanty leisure. Of gardens in cemeteries, there ap- pears to be only 'J. solitary example in this country, the one which Sir Joseph Baxton of Crystalpalace fame formed at Coventry. Gardens may be made on open um- brellas as far as obtaining a substan- tial crop of mustard and cross is eon~ corned. It is, only necessary to open the umbrella, wet it thoroughly, and sprinkle the seed over it. If the fabâ€" LlTiC is kept damp the seed rwill soon begin to uprout, and in o. few wet-ks a nice quantity of the salad, may be cut. The same thing may he done in a dinner plate with the aid of a strip of an old flannel shirt, apiece of felt, or: other similar cloth, provid- ed it is kept moist. . __+____. M A LIG NED. Hungry Higginsâ€"\Vot do you think? A woman caillgl me a animaer seare- crow [hi3 mornin'. \Vcary \Vatkinsâ€"J've knows-d you once the early eighties, but I nev- er air-n no aninution about you yet. C011 is cheapest in Austria, aver- aging Es. at the pit's mouth, against Liz. in England; and 83. 2d. in France,