Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1877, Page 10

mi THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER. 9,:1877-SIXTEEN PAG: ES. : a Jand Church this morning on ‘Two Philosophies,”” and in the evening on ‘*The South Wind.” —The Rev. Charles Hall Everest will preach morning and evening in Plymouth Church. —The Rev, Leltoy J. Halsey will preach in Oak Park Church this moraing. —The Rev. G. H. Peake will preach morning aud evening in Leavitt Strect Church. Morning subject: ‘Living to God.” Evening subject: **Blessing of Prompt Obedience." and eventng inthe Bethany Charch, Paulina and ‘West Huron streete. CHRISTIAN. id The Rev. J. T. Toof willpreach in the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty- filth etreet, morning and evening. A. J. White will preach morning and evening in the Central Church. 8 EPISCOPAL. Bishop McLaren will oficiate morning and even- ing in the. Cathedral of SS. eee and Psul, Peoria and West Washington streets. —Tne Rev, Samucl Warris, D. D., will preach morning and evening in st. James’ Church, Cass and Huron strects. ‘—The Rev, E. Sullivan will preach morning and > evening in Trinity Charch. The Ker. Francie Mansficla preaches morning and evening at the Church of the Atonement, Ropey and West Washington etreets. Z —The Rev. Stephen 11. Granberry, late of New Orleans, will preach this morning at St, John’s Chorch, Aehland avenue. : —The Rev. J. Bredberg. preaches morning and ing i i thurch, Sedgwick strect. —The Rev. Clinton Locke, D. D.. will preach in Grace Church, Wabash avenue, at 11.2. m. and Sp.m. ~The Rey. Robert Linkiater, of London, Eng., will preach this morning at the Church of the Ascension, North Lasalle and Elm streets. —The Kev. C. S. Lester will preach morning and evening at St. Paul's Church, Hyde Park avenue. —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will preach morning vaud evening at St. Mark's Church, Cottage Grove avenne. —The Rev. G. F. Cushman, D. D., will preach morning and evening at St.’ Stephen's Church, Jobuson strect. : '—The Rev. Luther Pardee will preach morning and evenmg in Calvary Church, Warren avenue. —The Rev. T..N.” Morrison, Jr., will preach morniug and evening in the Churen of the Epiph- any, Throop street. —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will preach morning and evening in the Church of Our Savior, Lincoln and Belden avenues. i ~The Rev. Henry G. Perry preaches morning and evening in All-Saints’ Church, North Carpen- ter and Went Ohio streets. - : —The Rev. F. N. Luzon preaches this morning in the Good Shepherd Mission, Lawndale. _ —The Kev. ¥. N. Luson will preach morning and evening in Emmanuel Church, La Grange. b ‘The Rev. J. Stewart Smith preaches morning and evening in St. Mark's Church, Evanston. ~The Rev. W.F. Morrison will preach in, the Cnurch of the Holy Communion, South Dearborn street, between Tent sumth and Thirtreth streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30p. m. LUTHERAN, : The Rev. Edmund Belfour preaches at the Church of the Holy Trinity, commer of Dearborn avenue and Erie streets, morning and evening. ‘METHODIST. The Rev. W. ¥F. Crafts preaches at Trinity Church morning and evening. Evening subject: “Religion and Science Not a Dream.” The Rev. Dr. Williamson will preach at the ‘Michigan Avenue Church. Eveningsubject: **The Helation Which Christian Young- People Bear to Each Other.” —The Rev. C. A. Towle will preach aad | W. A. Spencer preaches at the First g and evening. Rev. Dr. Gurney preaches at St. Paul's Church, Morning subject: *-Surefooted Chris- tunity.” Evening: ‘Principles of God's Govern- mmnent.” —The Rev. Dr. Hicks, of Florida, witl preach morning and evening in Western Avenue Church. ~The Rev. John Atkinson will preach morning and evening ‘in Grace Church, North LaSalle and White streets. ‘H. Adams will preach in Centenary —The Kev Church, West Monroe street near Morgan, morning and evening. —The Rey. George Chace will preach morning and evening in the Winter Street 31. E. Church. =—The Hev. T. P. Marsh will presch morning and evening in the Grant Place M. E, Church. —The Res. A.W. Patter will preach morning and evening at the Wabash Avenue Church. + PRESBYTERIAN. ‘The Rey. Jacob Post will preach at the church corner of Erie and Noble streets, in the Holland in the morning ‘ard in the English Janguage m the evening, —The Rev. James Maclanghlin will preach at the Firet Scotch Church morning and evening. —The Kev. J. H, Walker preache2 at the Re- anion Charch morning and evenin: Prof. George L. Raymond, of Williams College, i preach morning and evening in the Second Church, Michizan avenue and Twentieth streets. ~The Kev. Sanford Martyr, of Terre Haute, Ind., will preach this morning in the First Church. —The Rev. Charles L. Thompzon will preach morning and evening in the Fifth Church, Indiana avenue and Thiricth street. —The Rev. H. ‘T. Miller will preach morning and evening in the Sixth Church, Vincennes and Oak avenues, —The Rev, J. M. Worral}, D. D., will preach in the Eighth Church, corner of Wachington and Ro- bey streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. W. C. Young will preach’ morning and evening in the Fnllerton Avenue Church. —The Rev. W. 8. Folton, of Pittsburg, will preach morning and evening ‘in the church corner of Paulina and Monroe strects. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. : The Rev. J. D. Cowan preaches at Grace Church, corner of Hoyne and LeMoyne streets, morning ond evening. ~The Rev. R. H. Bosworth preacher at Emman- uel Church, corner of Hanover and Twenty-eighth elreets, morning and evening. —The #. H. Bosworth preaches at Englewood BABES IN THE WOODS. Roundabout Ramblings to and on the Brule River. The Jolly Good Time of Some Chicago Babes in the Woods, In Roving, Roughing, Canocing, Tenting, Trouting, Shooting, and Mise - céllaneons So-Forths. A Diary of It All, by John Lyle King. “‘Andifthe angler take fysshe, surely then there is no man merrier than he fs in his spyryte. —Priorest of Sopewell, 1498. * The Brule is a small, clear, rapid river, of about seventy miles, an affluent of tue Menomi- nee, and is also with this latter a boundary Wetween Michigan and Wisconsin. August is the vacation mouth of Chicago law- yers. Threo of them, James L. High, Franklin Denison, and myself, and Lorenzo Pratt, real estate, made upa party for rest, health, and sport, mainly on the Brule. Hich, Pratt, and myself had journeyed to and fished it in Au- gust, 1875. We then reached it by an. overland route from Sec. 18, Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and ascended the stream. Our aim was now to strike it at a point about thirty miles aboye its mouth, and descend it. The preliminary arrangements for the trip were made at Marinette, Wis., where 9. Arthur T. Jones, Freight and Ticket Agent of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, very obligingly extended to Us, in advance, the most valuable _—_ courtesies in ‘the way of information, having the canoes —the “Dickey ” and “Tom King” of our for- mer use—repaired, engaging guides, and having things-ready st hand when we reached that town. To us, strangers then, to whom he was known only by repute as an accomplished gen- - tleman, and, himself an expert with the rod and gun, these vivilities, freely and kindly tendered, were the most serviceable aud grateful. He was specially happy in his sclectionnf “guides.” They were David Kakotash, a veteran woods- man, hunter, cook, and canoer; Mitchell The- bault (Tabo,-as we call him), his brother Paul, and Joc Dixon. In the first glance at the group of sturdy and athletic men, we foresaw the muscle and endurance needed on the portage and with the canoe. Thetirst was pure Menom- inee, the others half-breeds, but the dialect of all was udian. These more than justified Mr. Jones’ choice. The route from Menomince was to Republic, thence on the Michigami River, by Lake Mary, to the Paint on that stream to Trout (or Sugar) River, and on it, through Lone Grave Lake to Lake Chicagon and Lake Minnie, and thence to the Brule, and from it back on the Menominee to Manuette or the Town of Menominee opposite,—all in the birch-barl canoes, except the portages, which we footed, a distance of 500 miles. At Republic, not far from Marquette, and where are the famous iron mines of that name, said to be the greatest in the world, and on the Michigami, we started in. Here our first tent’ ‘was ‘struck, and the diary commences at that point. It was written up all along as its incidents occurred, and when and as writ- ten, very much of it read to the party. Denison was the shooter, High and Pratt the experts. and I the learner and novice, in trout-tishing. Wepxespar, Aug. 3 (Republic, Michigami River).—The tents were pitched last evening just by the Water-Works suppiying the mines. Situation not good. Fogon the-river, damp- ness, temperature of . Chicaro in November. With all our resources of blankets for warmth, we were uncomfortably cool. Lawyers are some- times thought to find Iying on any side easy enough. . But all the sides I rolled on in trying to steep I found to be uneasy tome. Ithought, for the matter of warmth, more blanket supply ‘was necessary, ané eo straddled a timber on the Tron Company's heavy truck and rode round the hill to town, and, at Hart Brothers’ store, bought a pair of blankets heavy enough to haye had in them the ficece of many sheep. One of the this afternoon. Subject? **Secret of Christian Stability.” —Tne Rev. M. D. Church will preach in St. John’s Church morning and evening. —Bishop Cheney will preach morning and even- ing in Christ Church, Michigan avenue snd Twen- ty-fonrth street. cele Res. Dr. Hunter will preach morning and evening at St. Paul's Church, ann and West ‘Washington streets, >WEDBNBOEGIAN. The Rev. L. P. Mercer wilt preach in Hershey Mustc-Hall, No. 83 East Madison street, at 10:45 a.m, Subject: -*The Mystery and Lawe of Di- vine Providence.” ‘UNIVERSALIST. ‘The Rey. Sumper Eilis will preach at the Church of the Redeemer this morning. —The Rey. W. H. Ryder, D. D., will preach morning and evening in St. Paul's Church, Michi- gan avenue. Evening eubject: **Honesty.” UNITARIAN. The Rev. J. T. Sunderland preaches at the Fourth Church this morning. Subject: ‘+The Great Bibles of the World." —The Rey. Brooke Herford preaches at the Church of the Messiah this merning. —The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach in Unity Church in the morning. ‘No evening service. 3 MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Rev. W. J. Erdinan preaches corner of Chi- 2ago avenue and LaSalle street this evening. —A Gospel meeting will be held at No. 97 South Despisines street this evening. Dieciples of Christ meet ut No. 229 West Ran-- dolph street at 4p. m. —The Rev. A. McKinnon preaches at Calvary Tabernacle, 320 Ogden avenue, this morning, and the Re Stone in the evening. ctarian Bible meeting will be held at Room 23 Nevada Block this afternoon. —Elder D. ft. and Mre. M. S. Manstield will of- ficiate morning and evening at the corner of Fulton and May streets. —Elder McCulloch preaches at No. 221 West ‘Madison street morning and evening. —Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond will lectare morn- ing and evening m Grow’s Opera-Hall, =The Society of Friends will hold a meeting on ‘Twenty-sixth street at 10:30 a. m., and at No. 71 Randolph a5 me iar eco —A veries of popular Sunflay meeti inaugurated at the new Weal End ‘Spee House, a Madwon street, between Elizabeth and Throop, Sunday. evening Sent: a a tots Swing, of Cen- ral Church, will deliver the opening Congregstioual singine, penkig disconrar, ‘here will be an open-air Gospel tem; mecting at the northwest corner of Astisnd arenes and West Lake street this afternoon at 4 o'clock. 3 Sapte, Brana will conduct ‘the meeting. jon. and sev‘ 5 Fe worker ct Hapentd Several Christian temperance —Miss Emma Jeffries, of San Francisco, will Rite & pubhe test seance at Meissner's Hall, on enty-second strect, thie afternoon at 33 o'clock. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Sept. 9—Pifteenth Sunday after Trinity. ? CATHOLIC. Sept. 9—Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Holy Sept. 10-St. 1 of Mary: St. Gorgonius, 3M. Sept. L_—Of the Octave; SS. Protug and Hyacin- icholas of Tolenting, C. Sept. 13—-Of the Octave. set 2s Ezaltation of the Holy Cross. ve of the Nati : St Nicomedea aio Of HEB: V3 5 JEWISH. Be Spt. 9—Second Day of New Year (Tishri 2), Sept, 10—Fest of Gedaliah. IN MEMORIAM. I chall remember something jodoanderrees nae cneloget Sut brighter than those memoi i ‘The thought that thou wert a etn me, 1 shall remember comething of Whoee fair, young beauty Thad atkea to prize. My heart, pgometimes, “may thrill bezeath the byt Of early fancies, and of soft blne'eses, Within whose depth my own 86 oft ha: Entranced, enraptured. But more fondiy sail Return the thought that never can grow old, Of one whose friendship slande? could not chill. Thy friendship! Ab! I held it nothin; 1 For all my sou! Another filled; and I ee Deemed not the life more dear than all was but A thing of treachery and a liviig lie. chal remember something of the Past: But heppiegthan those memories shall be ‘The thought of cné far-parted aud away, 5 ‘Who was a friend—pure, noble—nnto me. r Curcaco, Aug. 30.” - ‘| We + Ownn M. Wirsos. ~] I Hart brothers (the one who muct resembles and. is as good-looking as our Abe Lipman) was un- usually civil and friendly. { portazed the blan- kets back to camp on foot, over the long way. Those blankets will surely add much to the warmth of fecling between High, who will share them, and me. Pratt bobbed in his fly as an experiment and snatched out a beegarly chub, and then put up his rod in dis- gust.. Denison had his firearms - ready for anything on wing or foot. He worked:sunie way through the bushes; ke Drought a partridge to an untimely end, and plowed a King-fsher to its kingdom vome.’ This morning the fndians are tinkering the canoes and smirching the leaks and seams with pitch and resin. We took account of stock and bad a general statement of the outtit to know what There was incamp. We have live pairs of blank- ets, four valises, four baskets, two ponchos, a gaisson with Denisou’s deadly missiles,—tixed ammunition. For medi stores, paragoric, quinine pills, oll of pennyroyal, adway’s it. R., neatsfoot oil, cherry pectoral, camphor, Squivb’s squills, a whole pocket pharmacy of Homeopathic pills, Dillets, and pillules (Pratt for doctor), «Bourbon (for miasina), sour mash (for malaria), Hennessy cognac for general utility, tracrdinary remedy (see High's nary Remedies; Cullaghun & Co., Chicago, 1874). To my surprise, I tind there is 2 cirentar- ing library in the camp. Supposing that a yery smal] amount of literature would’ go a ercat way, I brought—only as my contribution for the intellect of the party—that loveable book, Walt- on’s “Complete Angler,” in case of a rainy day, and that because it accorded with the main end and spirit of the trip; 1 thought the reading for the occusion should relate to the purpose of the occasion. For instance, a man of war, like Denison, when vut -on the shout, one would. think, would prefer to resd up on gunn and = projectiles or “Jomini’s Art of War,? or some powderous subje T had wy opinion of him when | saw titn stretch out on his blankets—the sentimental soh of saltpetre,—and go a-siching over Hawley Smart’s love: story of “Two Kisses.” | ‘Th motty of the book—“ Methinks no wrong it were if 1 should steal” trom those two melting rubies one poor kiss ”—settled it. Then there are three or four of Jules Verne's. preposterous Muuchauseuisins (Lakeside edi- tion: 10 cents), ‘Joshua Hazzard’s Daughter,” “Weavers aud Weft,”. * Christie Jonson,” “Two Destinics,” ‘Heaps of Money,” “Th American Senator,” and “sich. “We: he: there is a big bear ranging the co! down. Denison, thinking forcarmii follow forewarning. overhauled his cartridges, wiped and oiled his gun, and sharpened bis belt- knife to an extra savage edge. “ Bring on your bears, now.” At falf-past 1 we bade adieu to the Water-Works, and set oil Uigh and I were in the rear. canoc, the one having Denison and the missiles for any game that might turn up going uhcad with D: at the stem. Jt was not very long before we saw him rounding quictly into an expanse of high grass. Both fired, and a doe jeaped high and dashed a intie way out of sight, but sprang in the air and disappeared in the Wwkedy jungle. As she was probably struck, they went ashove to determine, but they did not find the deer., Four miles below fot shots at another deer browsing among the reeds. Here, too, they thought they had, at least, wounded it, as it dashed about frantic- ally. Going ashore, they found some of the grass stained with blood, but not the decr Whose veins were tapped. We. came a lone stretch of smooth water, in a solitude of calm, and, at a tiny brooklet that came quictly tink: ling in, the cénoe was stopped for Pratt to try a throw fortrout. It is generally supposed that the Michigami is not a trout stream. But there Was aa immediate * rise *” to Pratt's fly, and the little beauty was taken.” High's eye glistened, and Denison forgot his gan, and each ‘had thei rods ready for action iu less than no time. For a while the trout jumped lively, to the glad sur- prises and suceess of all. ‘Thirty were brought togrief in as many minutes, and then they seemed to subside, and the chubs came in for their turn, which, of course, led to the rods being unjointed and a quick departure. - Den. ison was so disgusted that a rash one that tackled his fiy was flung far on the way to Jericho by the indignant vigor of his swing, wenta few rods ‘and camped. While tne tent was being placed, I «baited my_ bass line with a chub, and a greedy two-pound perch took a x 10 it, and, by way of reprisal, ei and luuded “it, ~ The camp- i] ‘ho ing place fs a high bank at a bend. There are so many of these bends that Denison has a lively business on hls hands with bis compass to tel] the points and cours Our supper was a banquet of trout. Iw t after-supper lounge and smoking, Denison. pursued the fortunes of the miserabie lovers in the novel. High and Pratt entertained me by fishing over again their last year’s fishing in the Magalloway, down in Maine, aud at Abbott's Brook, and about Whipple's roaring camp-fires, ete. When it was too much twilight to read, Denison, who will shoot at any chance, fired 2 volley ata bat, and-also delivered a canister charge at a muskrat that was cutting triangular ripples across the stream. It was solemnly de- termined to-day. that we should not talk shop” under penalty of a ducking. ‘This was partly because three of us learned gentlemen were too many for Pratt, who was not learned, and we ought to be too considerate to worry, him with the vain subtleties and quiddities of the law, and because we could never agree, and there were sure to be three dffferent: opinions. They thought { rather put my foot into it to- night. referred to a curious case In Iowa, wherea meteorlite fell on a man’s land. The dispute was, whether the worthless product of the upper region belonged by aw to the finder by right of discovery, or to the owner of the land, as_an accretion. I insisted this was a meteorological rather than a legal matter. They” gave judement that _ it smacked “of'shop,” but (Denison dissenting) suspended sentence of ducking until we came to warmer water below. ‘Tuurspay, 9th.—The Republic blankets made High and myself bless ourstars for the thought- ful presclence which added then to our. stock,— they were needed,—the air Inst night frost-like, and, after High got up and grubbed out 2 pro- truding root, over which he some time had been’ unrestfuily turning as ona pivot, and after we got the fellows in the other blankets to quit snoring, we slept our-first, sleep in the woods sumptuously. Pratt is our morning harbinger. He likes to see the daylight coming and the jocund morn stand tiptoe.on the misty hilltops (if there are hills: about). And -he likes to seo the Indians rise about as well as the sunrise, for then the pot bejins to boil, and breakfast comes soon apace. He and Denison navigated them- selves, while the cooks were pottering to the little run where the trout were found, to try again— The fond credulit; Of eilly fish which, worldhing like, etill look Upon the bait, but never on the hoox. ‘The venture was fruitful but in two. Denison rambled around in the bushes with his gun, but ineffectually. Broke camp st 9, A porcupine was seen, like a bump on a log. Denison banged at him and wounded him. We drew up, and abo dispatched him with the paddle, after his showing fight, A mile or two below we dis- embarked to trail around some rapids which the canoe ‘could only pass when lightened. We almost Jost the trail, and truuged slow- ly up and down, ‘over logs, through brush and bushes, a longish,” weary way. At tne end was a handsome place of sone tormer camping. We bad our rods and baskets, for the Indians said there were trout there. We tned it. Tt was trouting under diflicultics, though. The brush and sunken logs madea hard place to fish in. High and Pratt serambied out on periuus ivgs and nade casts, but with little luck. Pratt, though, captured a splendid one- pounder. ‘The chubs began to pounce on their flies, and, atter viciously jerking out two or three, they quit the businessin high dudgcon. Waiting for the canoes and portage of the cargo, we'al took tothe grass and three novels were ab- sorbingly taken short turns at, while 1 lay in the shade amoking, watehing the clouds and the foam fioating. A short shower moistened us gently. Going on down, Daye sighted a decrin some far-off bushes, und got a long-range ritle- shot at it, but it broke tor the tall timber fastly. We came to a nearly invisible brook weakly fil- tering, almost drop by drop, into the river: | The brooks here ure cold irom the springs, and trout swim cold watens, and are to be foundin this river, if at all, only at these outicts from the springs. Our canoe was put in there, and Pratt flung his flies and had lively rises fora time, but could hold but torec or four, and each one lost seemed: to him larger than the last. About 6, on round- ing a bend, the most splendid and exciting sight surprised, and at the same time hashed, us into the stillness of admiration and caution. Straight ahead, the stately forms of a couple of bucks, ove of «iant size, with a lordly foliage of antlers towering up, his consort buck, also, not meagerly branched with horns, and. with them a beautiful doe. They were in {ull yiew fronting us, grouped together in the mid-stream, a wondrous-picture of majes- ty and gracefuluess, worthy to be sculptured into enduring marble by an artist as they stood. The largest buck seemed fixed in a pose of pride, as if contemplating his own massive pro- portions in the mirror of the stream. He and his fellow then dropped their heads, and threw thein back erect and tossed off the water that e spray, and again repeated the dip, and flew like spray i 1 appeared as if about, still another time, to im- merse, when the big-horned buck slowly turned his head as if rst’ to scent, see, or hear any sign or sight of danger. In the meantime our Indians instinctively crouched low, like tigers a spring, and.motioued us to perfect quict, thouch we already were breathlessly still. Tl “ 2 The forward canoe went on stcalthily and slowly with strokes of the paddles which expert Indi- ans only have the knack of making noiseless, and gradually shortened in on the fas spective. Our canoe was as silent! ng in the wake of the other, our ey: by a spell, scarcely breathing for fear a breath, even, would dispel the charm of the seene. But it was ascene really too tine to last but a mo- mentor so. Before the advance vessel could slip the shooters into right range, they were sighted and scented, and quick, like thouzht, the deer and the triggers went olf together, and with heads thrown back the deer piungei and dashed, in a foum of the water, to’ the shore and ‘shot into the bushes, “lost to sight, but to memory deer.” For a few seconds wewere still under the trance, and then nearly ali, simultaneously, broke out in aloud whoop of relief. Our boys then be- gun challing the other crowd for missing so fair ainark. Denison was really chop-fallen, and felt himself badly cold. In fact, afterwards, in the camp, it was said’ by one that he did not Jook like the same man, to which one of the party cruelly chimed in that the deer were all the same, though. Davie’s rifle fired no better than Frank’s shot-gun, The ranges was long, and it was_no fault of. either that they had to fire afar. Dave looked sober over: it, too, and cariest enough to let us kuow that he would yet show usa thing or two. Ie selected for a camping place a high bank with heavy pine overhangings, but more there I suspect, because there wus a noted deer teed close by, on which he intended to make a night foray, with the lantern, to redeem himself. And now that his blvod was up, Denison had a rage for deer, and between the two we had a sure foretaste of veu- ison. After the tents were set, and the pans and platters of supper were disposed of, and. the night came, the eunmen held a diyan on the grass, and arranged the strategy of a lantern hunt. Denison, with Tabo and Dixou manzing the canoe, bis dark lantern tacked on his hat so that when the slide was shoved aside the light out far in the darkness like a heht-house glare signal, vanished on up riverward. Kakotash and Paul footed it through the dark shadows of the pines toa neighboring pond or lakelet. High and I, the while, lolled on the blankets,” principally: ‘watehing the smoke of our meerschaums wreathing visi-’ ble fragrances around us. Waiting and wwatel ing not long. Suon the report of the gun in Dev- ison's direction was heard, and shortly he him- self came to camp, and rather proudly laid the first venison spoils of his life at our fect. We congratulate him on so handsomely winning his spurs. . Pratt, bis bedfellow, is so pleased that, in the fullness of his heart, he exclaimed that he didu’t wish to be considered fastidious, or of- fensively odd, or to surprise us, but would now five formal notice that he would, in the morn- ing, draw on nis slender stock for a ciean collar. Frank bears his blushing honors modestly, doubtless laughing in_ his sleeve that we don't know his mettle yet. David has just returnea, alter seouling the pond without the mark of a deer to shoot at. And now, after the day’s fit- ful fever, to sleep well—perchance. ‘Trout of to-day, 21. Fruway, 10th.—Frank’s venison, when served in the fry on the breakfast Joz,was not the tender- est edible of deer meat, but, tough as It was,we came smiling to it as our first dainty of the kind. I noticed that the second slice went the round of platters before it was absolutely agreed it was tough. Frank's passion for firearms is rest- Jess.. When nothing turns up to shoot at, he pops off his six-shooter at marks on the trees. I had some revolver practice with him. My pocket weapon had the same charges in it car- ricd on the Brule two years ago. I aimed at a chunk floating in the river. I think I must have perforated its centre, as there was no splash, but the others insisted. 1 missed the river and holed the missile in the sand-bauk. Thereupon I pocketed the pistol and the joke. When we were off and a little way down, we halted at a brooklet, wnen Pratt threw inand seta nest of trout into lively commotion for a very short timeonly, for, aftertakinga few, the whole trout community seemed to have emigrated suidenly to safer parts. As this sort of fun i was rather tame. the stey was bricf, and ro sooner bad Devison unjointed his fly-rod than Dave heard a deer, on witich he snatched. up the gunand, dropping the cance'a little down, he fet a shot at the animal on the run, but it was parraless, A mile on, a buck was seen takin his morning herbage, but he was too far for Duckshot,andall Denison’s cun accomplished was to burry him to a masterly retreat into the woods. “We came to 2. gorge of driftwood which looked like the debris of a forest chaotic- wally jammed together’ it was nearly a quarter ‘ofa mile of piled-up heaps and jaggedness, so solidly massed that the floods cannot move them. We trailed around, and the boys Shoul- dered the canoes and cargoesaround theobstruc- tion. Below this,2 nandsome but incautious doe was about fording the river.- The sight she got of us was not pleasing to her at all, and she turned, quicker than a whirligig, her tail on us and went, not stopping on the order of her going. Our dinner was under arching firs and cedars. We enjoyed it as much as if it had-been a menu got up by Brillat Savariu. We need. none of Soyer's sauces or the condiments of gastronomic art to sharp- enappetite orto lend to eating a zest and to | tea-drinking a flavor that are unknown to pam- pered yourmets and epicures around the inahog- any. ‘To snatch a trout or phimp a buck, or be around when it is done, idealizes as it were, or imparts to the morsels on the fork, the most al- sluringand gamiest of their capabilities. The Ro- man table diletlenti were wont to have the mul- letgand lampreys of their fish dinners brought living before them just on the eve of their be- ing put to pot, that the eaters migut in the courses quick tollowing have the sense of fresh- ness to tickle their appetite. Whoever hasseen the water dripping trom the trout as they are taken, and put in the pan and fried and served on the table nearly as one_ entire and insepara- ble process, knows the difference between trout at a dinuer at Burke's in Chicago, und trout on the brink of their native Michigami. These trout dinners on the river are something in the way of delicacy and luxury to remember.- On the afternoon down way we occasionally stopped for trout-at the mouth of a run, but a few rises seemed to exhaust the sport. All alouz the stream, where thereare grass patches, slougtis, or swamps, fresh deer tracks are innumerable. At French River’s mouth there was apparent! stamping ground for deer, and the sands were trampled into mire by their countless hoofs. . A couple of porcupines, sunning on logs, are sure to fret their lives no more since Denison went by. -He scattered 2 good many of their quillson the water. ‘Trout to-day, Ll. * Saturpay, 11th.—I went in forward canoe with Denison. Ata brook that ran over arocky bed the other canoe lagged and laid for trouting. We went forward, and soon saw: a porcupine lazily sunning. We bore down on him in close quarters. I-offered him the compliments of myreyolver, and Denison ‘showed him the fur- ther civilities of three barrels of his revolver. But he took itjeasy, and, with bis quills prickled up, scrambled off, unhurt, up the log, under our noses. Further on, Duve Ianded at 2 small ledge of white murble, and knocked off. some pieces to show us. He says there fs. a hill of. white marble deposit a couple of miles from the river, of the best quality. Some day, possibly, some of its blocks may be reared into a Chicago palace, or sculptured into monumental cfligies. Otherand newspecimens of natural history soon attracted our attention. There were a number of minks, frisking about, as if. on some festive occasion, and were just haying a high time of it when we, unofdden strangers, hove around the bend upon them. They stampeded in every di- rection with a rash before Frank could shoulder arms. So he could only draw on.a single ove, aud he was made to bite the sand. Kakotash brought bin in aud will make a tobacco-pouch out of his pelt. We saw a brace of partridges strutting on the beach sundiug their craws. Tue remorseless gun was Jeveled, aud the fowl got bird-zhot instead of sand, aud was laid by to be added to the’gatme part of our dinuer bill of fare. We started a fluck of saw-bills or ‘ top- pers,” an uneatable duck that infests this river. fuey always keep ahead out of harm’s way. They run, rather than fly or swim, ou the water. when alarmed, and make a-noise, with feet aad wings “flopping? the water, aud by also squaiking harshly, that can be heard at a dis- tance, end frightens the game. as David tell us, and that we should probably haye them again and avain for miles ahead. We saw tio porcu- pines in the top branches of two trees clinging there and very like branches of mistletuc.. Deni- son had the canoe Jand him, and he fired shot after shut into them before they got sick and We took some of their quills for Dave next sighted—for it is his restless, unerring eye that takes in everythin; amiuk making good time to his retreat. He made tracks so fast in and out of view through the brush that he escaped. the tate of having his skin made into some Indy’s tippet. We passed a ** windfall,’ where a tornado has swept tue forest tar and wide, and laid low the growth of mightiest pines, firs, and cedars, ina i crush and heaps of piled up and shapele: fusion and ruin. To realize the utter destruc- tion, the fearful havoc, of the wind in its fury, one needs to see a pathway it has made through a Michigan pinery. We reached Upper Michi- gami Falls about Lo’clock. We had to portage there. As we got to the end of the trail, the heavy clouds swept over and Ict loose drench- ing torrents of rain. The shelter-teat was with us, and afforded some protection. The other crowd was caught, but got to the head of the portage and crept under the turned-up canoe for shelter. The Indians with us managed, spite of the shower, to make a blazing fire, and, when High aud Pratt came in, they needed = and welcomed its cheering warmth. We well welcomed them, too, for they brought in a splendid mess of trout they had picked up in our rearon the way, They saw a family of deer—buck, doe, and fawn— swim the river in front -of them, but as the weapons of war were with us, the happy fumily assed scatheless, specding on their suuthward. way, admired but unharmed. These upper are not so zrand and wild a freak of Nature, in the way of a cascade, as the lower falls of the same river, atits mouth. There is no precipitous or dead fall of water over an edge or precipi-e, but acompression of the river between 2 point on one side and a wall on the other of ro water tumbling in terraces or ona slope. rocky wall rears nearly straight up, probably 200 “feet high, heavily’ garnished with smail stunted cedars aud pines. There is else uoth- ing striking in the scenery here. Some ‘of the party thought the basin 2'guod swim for trout, and paced along its margin from point to point, and whipped in persistently, aud skimme around ina canoe from one.and another eur- rent or eddy, but the only response was from the pestiferous chubs, so that the fishing was 3 watcr-haul. If there were trout there, they cut awide swath away from our anglers. No use- less time, however, was, lost in_ this tentative throwing on the waters. We had to lay in dry- dock for the rest of the day to hang our_wet foods to the fire, to dry the tents, and patch up and pitch the leaks in our keels. While these were going on the literary fever struck us bad. Denigon, now, was absorbed in the “American Senator,” possibly hoping to be one. Pratt touk ashine to “ Joshua Hazard’s Daughter.” High had Ins thoughts on -* Heaps of Money.” sharpened iny appetite for a supper of trout by reading of trout in honest Walton’s pages. We being so occupied, the shadows stole on us and deepened into night. the "Phe Suspay, 17th.—We discussed the sawbill nuisance: last night. They appeared several times ahead of us. ‘They keep to the water and winnow it with their wings and make a boister- ous splash as they go, on an alarm. ‘They are flying squadrons of scarcecrows. Denison says the whole flock, forerunning us to the falls kept on and went: clean over in the whirl and vortex, Without hurting them, the Indians say, abjt. Yesterday must have beens good day for porcupines. Hich’s party saw several. Our camp is so well situated here that last night we enjoyed in it the combined pleasures, ease, com- fort, and content.’ The blazing trunks of pine equally brichtencd and warmed.us. The roar of the falls just beyond and the ripple of the stretim in front of. us made soothing music for the senses. The lightof the swinging lamp enlivened the interior of the tent. We gossiped foto Inte hours, and with a good cheer of mirth and laughter—for there is no place like a camp mess for jokes and storics—smoothed the way tosleepand dreams. The compicte repose of mind, with not a thought of shop, and but little of the world, of the wars in Europe, the news and life of the day at home eyen, or anywhere, is the charm of scenes and pastimes like ours inthe woods. There are none of the agencies of. civilization—no people—to link us to the world beyond our iimmediate horizon. The mosquitocs pierced us sharply, and drove us early from our blankets this morning: We gave our last looks to Michigami Falls about 8. The clouds were : threatening, and we soon liad their ‘contents, but. the poncho well ‘sheltered those who had one. A good many pufls of foam, like great white sponges, were Moating from the falls. A raven winged a high ilight over our heads, and flew so shyly and so croaked at us that he evidently,was averse to human socicty, and not one of the friendly sort ofravens’ that bore bread to Elijab. Three miles out, Dave spied a distant’ deer in the brush, and sent a rifle-ball which clipped the twigs around him and started him snorting with fright Into the woods. A little .after- Wards; or forernuners, the sawbill ducks, the evil genius of yesterday, rose and squawked and splashed in panic and scooped the waters,on out of sight, but not out of heuring jor some time. ‘The river is growing larger as We proceed, with fewer rapids and siiallows, but bordered with a density of forest and unformity of wilndess. At noon we were come to the portage to Lake Mary,—as usual, only a faintly-traced trail throuzh bushes and woods and over logs. This little sheet, as we emerged from the leaves to its edge, shone in the giamour of the sua like a glittering mirror in a leafy setting of emerald. While the boys were lugging over, we had time for musing all we wanted to'in the shade. The lake bends, and is not to’ be wholly sceu ina frst view. We found its water cléar, and we thoucnt it stocked with fish, but if’so none ot the fins made any snatches.at the trolliug-hooks when we passed over. The stillness of the whole scene was impressive. A solitary loon, moan- ing {ts plaintive monody, as solemn as a sepul- chral wail, was the only sign or sound that told of any life on or around its silent expanse. We made the further end of the lake—about a mile —ata knoll swelling gentivun from: the little nook or cove where we landed. The under- growth has at some period been burned off, and the forest thinned out by fire probably, yet with enough scattering, sreen-flourishing trees for shade and to make the sev acres of roll- ing surtace picturesque and the whole a hand- some, natural park. On the summit of the lawn or slope our tents were ultimately pitched for the day. A heavy shower, with a goud deal of thunder Nand lightning ripping closely over us, came on {in copious outpouring fora time, and mostly during the afternoon there were clouds. dripping mildly. Under our :canvas we were high and dry, and with our Hterature and lying on our. blankets we had very little concern about the play of the elements. “After night act in, and the cheery fire lapped the dig logs in forms of flame, we squatted around it and lis- tencd to Denison’s story of his mountain travel in the West, of bis ascent of VPike’s Peak, and of the more perilous climb of Long's Peal, too. Hours thus passed, near into the witching time of nizht, and were made the pleasanter by those friendly and ready servitors ot all the hours of sume of us, our pipes. To-night’s camp-lire will touch the shrine of memury with some of the most delightful and enduring tinges, and for the time at least it has paled the memory of the lithts on the hearthstoues at home. We £0 now to lic down to pleasant dreams. Monpay, 18tb.—Our- waking. this morning was to the gentle pattering of rain on the tent. It showered only softly and shortly, and though the clouding did not vanish, the rain ceased so that we could make ‘onward. And beautiful as was the scene around us, we parted from it with no “longing, lingering looks be- hind,” for the promise of regions further prompted quickstep movement. We packed tor a two-mile portage over to the Paint River; and to aid the Indians each of us shouldered some of our own packs, and went stringing: along like Zingurl tramps. The trail is compar- atively easy, or clse, perhaps, our muscles would not have so endured the unwouted strain. It was noon when the portage wus finished. It. led toa high bank or knob of a hill, with a cleared place for former camping, and overlook- ing a broad, smooth, pretty reach of the river. At the foot of. the hill n Uttle brook, interlaced with . branches and brush, ran in crystal current, yet cold with the chill of the sorings that fed it. Undoubtedly, it is a very covert of trout, and High and Deni- son set out to trya take in some of its hidden uooks and recesses, but they found. the little stream impenetrably guarded “against the art and patience of all anglers by the density of the overgrowth and undergrowth; it was, toa trout- man’s fancy, a tempting Jair of trout, but one where neither trouters could rush in nor angels tread. Denison, probably, thought he dida “big thing” in carrying over his load. He weighed the parcels svparately, and the ag- grogate avoirdupois was fifty-seven pounds. Weconcluded his muscular capabilities, com- pared with the Indians’, was hardly worth the reckoning, and he ‘sung small on’ the subject. But neituer Dave nor Tabo can hold 2 candle to him im shooting on the wing, if they can out- carry nim. By the way, this torm of firing is so much his fancy that, for want of some winged creature to blaze away at, be had Tabo tossa potato in the airfor a flying target, and, sure enough, he blew it to_pieces with his shot as it was coming down. We had dinuer here. At the close of our meal acanoe hove into port with three passengers,—a Chippewa genticman, bare- foot, and two fashionable squaws of the same persuasion. ‘The. ladies . maintained their broad squat’ in the canoe, seem- ing to imply that, as “white men: are mighty uncertain,” they rather preferred to Keep their distance. So they rode at anchor. But Red Rooster, or whatever his name fs, knew some of our natives, and ‘came climbiig up the hilt to camp, to powwow them,—the Indian powwow being the original of ‘our ‘ intervicw- ing’? The entente cordia‘e was soon established, and the Chippewa or Menominee vernacular was the medium of their civilities. One word of it —‘now-o-ka”—or yery like that, in.sound, seemed to reach a most tender spot in Red Rooster’s manly diaphragm. We understood it to be the courtly Indian phrase for ‘grab,’ aud he, at least, took it as an epitomized card of invitation to dinner, for he at onve evinced decided alacrity in taking a chair, by straddling a log at table, which was a packing-box upside down.” He was not mealy-mouthed in baving friendly familiarity with our potatocs, and was singularly free from any prejudice against Ja- pan tea; and that Indians, as some speculators suppose they are, are not descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, the havoc he made in the pork side-lish was proof-sullicient,—his procliv- ity for cooked hog would sitence any suspicion of his being remotely of kin to the Jews. A sec- ond draught on the. Japan te2 was more than peaches and ‘cream: to him. In fact, all our cookery was just to his taste. He showed what he couid do, when he had a rare chance at high living like.ours. But the greedy savage lost bis gallantry in his glut, for never ainorsef or hunk did he take to the Minnehabas in his craft. ‘When we embarked, Red Rovster, who was going in our direction gunning for most any- thing, consorted with us, and he and our men poled canves side by side, and kept upa lively chat between the pushes of the poles. Over in the bushes, David espied a half-concealed birch- bark canoe. He ran over to it, and-on an in- spection, determined to condemn it by Indian law, regardless of any niceties of mefim and tuum, as derelict. He and Paul hauled her out of her cunning embosomment of leaves, and set to work repairing with pitch and resin. The indian ladies stepped ashore to lend Davea hand in the process. It was no trouble to them to step out in the wet. Their kips and Bal- briggan hose were away in the wigwam, if they have any. They waded about and daubed on the resin like experts. I had an interview with one of the ladies, who was. melting resin by blowing flame on it from a burning chunk. 1 said “Please let me have your chunk to light a cigar,” in my langcusge. “She passed it to me with 2 mellifluous “Ugh? in her language. ‘The interview, mutually aereeable, then ended. Finally, the canoe was Jaunched into her uative element. We vained her the Foundling, to give her history in the name. David andl, after dividing the load between us and the Tom King, went on in the Foundling, ana Denison and Paul ‘paddled. their own canoe, The Dickey had beena Jong way ahead of us. We skimmed the water lighter and fleeter than before. When we parted with our Chippewa consort, Daye presented the vermul- ion dames who helped him on the new canoe witha perfumed cake of Babbitt soap. We found the Paint, on but short acquamtance, to be a hard stream to run our prow against. It is broad, shallow, and rapid, and but for the Sun- day rain we must have fought our way up by inches. Even as it was, and light as was the Fonndling, Dave frequently had to wade and drag her along by the nose, and we got slowly ahead. We reached the Paint Falls just in time —though but seven or cizht miles—to catch the last brilliant crimson flushes of sunset on the water, as if'a stream of blood had run red into it from a field of battle,—a glory of color worthy of a ‘Titian to paint. The falls are a ~broad, curving break in the water, with a low rock formation, and large bowlders upbeaving over the surface at places, makiug the falls on the approach from below look like slight slopes of ground with snow drifted in patches over it. The camp was at the upper end of ‘the portage, ‘and a space for the tents had to be cleared of weeds and bushes. Though a huge drift-pile was near by, it was ditlicult to get wood for warming ‘and cooking. There have been no campers here before us this year,—we are the pioneers of the season. Pratt'and High found places to drop thcir flies. They brought in tif- teen captives, which were served, in their sweet- est freshness and flavor, on our supper platters. That gang of Micigami scarecrow sawbills, or some of their kind, was on hand to disturb the serenity of Denison’s temper. He ‘sent a little hail of shot at the nolsy flock, and one duck came down and will squawk neyermore. How Frank did exult over that shot! “Here hes Percy for you.” If he could extermiuate that nomadic gang of disturbers of the peace ot the game he’ would'go home pleased, though he should not throw a trout or shoot a stag here- after on the trip. At our biyouac to-nignt, Den- ison made a centre shot by his story of a mouse. His office was infested with mice, or a mouse, ‘which nibbled and slivered his papers, anu it was too smart for any trap. So he charged a shotgun with small shot and laid for the petty marauder, who crept out just in the nick of time to draw his charge of leaden mustard seed. The mouse’ slunk back to his hole, a3 Denison thourht. with a sound alin. Bot next dev.’ turning over the papers, he found the mouse laid out cold. The cream of the story, how- was. that the mouse had attempt- ed a Dit of surgery ‘on himself by plugeing up a-shothole in bis side with a tiny wad of paper to stanch the flow of blood, —and, after all, the mouse dem{sed. Pratt ex- claimed: “Well, I declare!” High begged to consider that story as slightly bordering on the marvelous. I said, ‘Frank, your affidavit on that.” He declared his readiness to swear to it, and, os a Master in Chancery, proposed to swear himself to the tale. “High gave his pro- fessional opinion that an oath administered be- fore himself, by a Master in Chancery, to him- self, was a‘uullity, or, in the language of the. law of Wouter Van ‘Trwiller’s time, was “nix noot.”” That settled the matter. Denison be- ing, xs Master in. Chancery, a minister of the Jaw, was conscientious about doing an illegal act, and prostituting his sacred functions, the jurat.was dispensed with. We are ready now tostcal off to our blankets for the night, to muse how the best-laid schemes‘of men and mice. gang aft aglee.”” ‘ Tuaspay, 14th.—The current of the Paint is 60 stiff two men are required to run the canoes. To avoid division of propelling power, we had toleave the Foundling high and dry in the woods for somebody.to pick her up asa waif. Wehope Wirt Dexter’s party when it comes along will attend to that job. The river is broad, shallow, and rapid. At many places the boys waded and dragged us over, and at one we ourselves stepped out and wetted our shins in the shallow. The party in the Dickey had the lead, and had the tantalization of secing a family of three deer swimming over on their southward emigration way, without any chance of making anything but a distant acquaintance of them for want of guns. Denison, in our boat, got a chance shot at a straggling sawbill, and slauzhtered him; and not far beyond, in the far-off perspective, a buck was descried on the move. Ourway is through a monotony of dense foliage of vivid green, a very wall or huge hedgerow of verdure, seem- ingly built on the water itself, so few are the patches of naked shore or spots of sand, and beyond an untrodden wilderness. We remark. everywhere, so far, the singular rarity of bird- life in these immensities of woods. Few are the “twodd-notes wild” of forest songsters. ‘The twigs and branches bend or sway but sel- dom with the’ pressure of plumages. The silence of the forest is solemn and dcathlike. At this season the water-fowl of these lonely streanis are not numerous. A kinglisher some- times swoops down, for a scoop, from 2 branch. Ducks are yet uuseasonable: Even for deer, the right time has not come. We shall have more of them of the home-run down the Menominee. Just before taking to shore fora portage,the pestilent congregation of “ floppers”” was ahead, and, as usual, stampeded in squawk- ing and confusion. The portage was the start towards Trout River (or Sugar), was.a half-mile Jong, and led to the most inesnecainly) dismal, paltry, petty lake, or really pon of dead water, having. o greenish surface, like that of ‘a frog-pond, but from .the countless water-lilies, whose leaves lie spread -out flat on top of the lake. in che trail to this lifeless pond, there were wild cherries, to which the bears are greedily partial. It’ was not strange, then, that we came across tracks and other signs, in the pathway, of very recent ursine presence aud. cherry-tree spoliation. Perhaps it would not be out of the way that nervous susceptibility should increase the shade of atremororso. We had reuewed entertain- ment with a porcupine, who was ,taking a sur- vey of the country from the lofty hmb of a large pine tree. In the match between him aad Denison, Frauk prevailed, and irom bis high percn he “came tumbling down.” We plucked some of nis quills fur memory. Crossing the water-lily pond, there was another ee of a mile and a halt to Trout Kiver. Though now far towards night, we set out to make it, at once. “It was a wearisome tramp. The canoes were left for portage to-morrow. . Late in the evening we fetched up for encampment in a dreary, low, swanpr, malarious pie flat, most uninviting and unpleasant. The place, how- ever, is Hobson’s choice—a topographical neces- sity. Trout River is 2 few rods off, a sluggish, crooked, narrow channel of open stream, in 4 meadow or broad margin of ooze, bottomless mud, .water-lilies, and reeds, where a sand- hill crane would be mired in the slime or get lost in the thick plant of reeds and water-grase. How we are to launch the canoes, and then reach them, over this mushy and nasty. morass, is g problem which we must leave to the engineering re- sources of the Indians, who, in the phrase 6f Virgil’s hero,—aut veniam viam aut faciam,—will find a way, or make a way possibly, by pon- tooning with branches and trunks ot trees. It was impossible, trom the end of the trail, for Dayid to reach the river for water for supper, and he has just explored a route by along ob- lique to the proper place. He tells us that, by. a pretty free swing of the ax, a way can be cut toa point to launch-and embark. But, spite of all these adverse surroundings, now that we have the blazes of the camp-tire to cheer the gloom and grimuess, and that our appetites for our repast Were quite up to therezulation stand- ard, and that we have fallen into gossip not far from exkilarating, we were prepared to take things easy, in good humor and grace, for the night. This was so, until David, in bis remi- niscences of a former camping party here, some- what unbalanced our equanimity and the meek- ness of our resignation to the unavoidable, by telling us that three large snakes then crawled into the tent, and wired sbout among the sieep- ers. creating an unexampled sceue of unseemly midnight panie and consternation. Since the story, cold sensations and crawling motions in the spinal regions are prevalent. WebNESDAY, 15th.—‘ Be there bears in this country??? Yes, as surely as Ursa Major is in the sky above. After Dave’s recital of the snake incident, and our going to sleep ina sort of chill that blankets can’t warm, to haye been waked up by a.serpent creeping and coiling in one’s bosom, would not have been thought su- pernatural, but a chance of being hugged to the bosom of an unceremonious black bear,—who can tell how neur some of us “babes in the woods”? came to realizing that unsuspected em- brace? In the depths of the night, and in the depths of our slumbering, a bear loomed through the darkness from the swamps or fast- nesses of the wilderness, and ranged around, cracking the brush, aud Jeaving tracks of his paws closely enough to’show that he meant no good, and that, if he had no evil designs of bearglary on our tent, he was, at least, recon- noitering our provision stores with a keen nose and watery mouth, with intent to commit a felony. High, who sleeps with one eye open, was probably awake euarding against swamp- snakes, and sounded the tovsin of alarm. Deni- son half awoke, and, as if he were dreaming him- self Lavcoon in the coil of the Pythian ser- pents, or as if wrestling with a full-sized night- mare, and he intended to have his grapple out with his tmmediate incubus before flying to meet other ils he knew not of, was ratner siow im coming to the scratch, but finally reached about for his trusty fusee, and then remember- ed it wasn't Joaded, alter all, He requested Pratt, his bed-lellow, to get him his eartridze- case. Lorenzo must have becu in a somnambu- listtc condition, and, not quite half realizing the demand, fumbled around and clutched High's big empty buots as the first thiag he could lay hus hans on. ‘The revolvers were uncharged too. Denison’s bloody Arkansas toothpick had its point broken off at Camp Mary, and was not just the thing to put a bear hors de comput. Pratt and High had only their angling-rods to punch the evemy’s eyes out. 1 was relying on my gitinea-len hat, as my shield of safety, to {frighten the brute with. “Certainly our state of defense was not an assuriug ove, and we were in a pretty pickle. But, luckily, our Indian allies were wide-awake to save our bacon and such. ‘The bears know there is no fee-faw-furn foolishness about_an Indian who has aritle handy, and, when David stepped out with his weapon, Bruir sneaked off on a rapid retreat, leaving our pork and beans untouched, and’ with nothing but a faint savory sniff of our flesh-pots and contents for his pains. Pratt thought, this morning, if he had only ota little more awake he would liked to have gone out and shot that bear. Somnambulism is an un- lucky susceptibility, anyhow. 5 The boys cut anew way to the water, and, aftera deal.of floundering amoug the water- lihes, we got into the stream, such as it was, and ran against a small beaver-dam, which had to be knocked to oieces to give us passage.’ - A mile beyond was arocky rapids, where the water tumbled . over the stones in a stream barely wide enough fora canoe, and this passage was so tortuous andso densely bordered and overiung with branches, and there were s0 many fallen trees across, that we thought we had now come to the piliars of Hercules of our route, the xe plus ultra, antl looked at the prospect with alarm sud anxiety. ‘We got out, of course; and the Indians Jiterall F made the way, by pidking out stones irom the’ channel, chopping limbs, raising sub- merged brash, and: lifting the canoe, inch by inch, along. Our own way through the woods was almost impossible. Scratches and bruises, climbing, stooping, crawling along logs, break ing down on decayed timber, twisting bushes: ‘aside. wera anme of thé diffienitias of tha tramn . | Itook to the stream, and waded it, as than penetrating the Datural abattis’ there wat We were nearly two hours emerging from ta: couple -hundred yards of navigation. From, here, the river spread out intoa width of shal low water, with mud bottom, and with string and flats of ooze and marsh slong. In sort Places we moved through a soft mush or ‘mir yy pushes of the poles, which would sink stick fast inthe bottomless mud, stirring yp nasty smells. Denison shot a mallard ducis bit We couldn’t go throughythe slush to get it. The river then expanded into a Jake, a mile ands halflong anda mile wide. It is called Long Grave Lake, because at‘fts head a solit mound -marks the-. repose in uneal. ing sleép of some unknown one’s remains. Into the river again we go, and up it; we make haste so slowly that the hours go on apace fast. er than we. We chop and drag out brush, and then the -waterdlilies choke up the. pasiage We come again to fields of reeds and grass we have torun down; there are long reaches of slime in which we stick from time to time, and no one dare getout, for he would siuk and might stick for good, and the pushing of the poles in the slime stirs up fou! smells, and, in this respect, the Trout is ill-odorous and ‘un- savory as Chicago River in its hot dog-da; ex- uberance of sewage and offal. The business of gettipg along is too serious to admit of fooling with the porcupines we see. But Denison does like a chance at aduck on the wing, and pep. pered twoor three. Dave tel!s us the Trout swarms with ducks in tne fall,—that they aro thicker then than the lily leafage. We came to a beaver-damm which barred the way. It was about seventy feet long, and excited our admira- tion as a fine spécimen of auimal engineering and construction. It wasin form an irregular curve, with the extreme conver point in the- channel, soas to tura the current into the dip on eachside. The face is solidly embanked with earth, sloping smoothly and evenly from the top, while the mass the Structure was composed of the most closely compacted logs, limbs, and sticks, very artfully interlaced. Its dimensions were such that it must Lave been the work of much time and multitudinous beavers, although it is hardly. worth a dam to them for such fish as this river could. breed. ‘The canoes had to be unloaded, lifted Over, and then reloaded. ‘Ihe further we went the harder the tug and the heavier the drag. About 3° we reached the portage for Lake Chicagon, ard at another beaver-dam. When we got over this Slough of Despond we more than ever appreciated the indomitable and tireless push, pluck, and. patience of our abor- igiues. Our eight wiles of trip bere show we were more long-coming than far-coming. Our kettle boiled here, aud our dinner bill of fare was dispatched with much promptuess of sppe- tite. Denison here just missed the one chance, probably of a life-time, tbat of pluming him: self with tho rare spoil or Jove’s royal bird. A majestic eagle perched’ on the branchless stem of 2 tree that had fallen clear scross the stream below us, at right range and clear line, and in full sight, and calmly took along. look around, —long enough, there, in his regal pride of featners, for our gunner to reach and poisea rifle at the splendid mark, but, alack! it was his mischance it, with such a trophy and prize before him, the gun missed fire, and, of course, the monarch bird soared away, on quickly outspread wings, towards the clouds. How all of us would like to have a quill plucked from that cagle’s pinions! ‘The portage to Lake Chicazon is short ana easy, and strikes Trout River again about ten min- utes of paddle-strokes from where the river issues from the lake. There is.a still larger ‘beaver dam just one side of the trail, which is constructed of trunks of considerable: trees, sawed by the beaver with their teeth and then put in place. From here to the. lake is 0 wide flat and growth of reeds, among which we were. borne. In the grass and reeds a dear was graz- ing, but he disappeared before Dave could more within shooting range on him. Getting fairly out of the river into the lake, we saw before us a most lovely expanse of water,-of oblong form, and indented with many bays and sume bold promonotories, with two or three considerable islands. It is about four miles long and auite two in width. The water is clear and cold, and Mackinaw tront and whitefish are said to abound in it, . It was placid, as if it had never toszed to the fury of the winds. The setting sun refect- ing onit, it shone likea mirror, The margins of it lap the very roots and branches of the forest that girds it with the rankest lusuriance of ereén. ‘This is said to result from the water being raised into the trees Dy the beaver dam. ‘The effect is singular. The only life we saw was in the loons, numbers of which were winging | or floating. Some ot us trolled acrosa, but 23 the fish were not ina spooney or fond mood, and, for some reason, showed no love for our glittering spoons, we hauled in nothing—but the lines. We tanded at the extreme end, and, not finding wood convenient for our camp fires, we determined to leave this enchanting lake be- hind us and make the portage and camp at an- other lake, unnamed, so far as we know, a hall mile on. After leaving a thick growth of ald- ers, the trail was through hard-wood timber, including a fine maple grove, and woods like those of Southern IHinois,—an agreeable reliet alter the monotony otf pine, hemlock, tir, and cedars. This tral brought us to a little beanty ot a lake, which, when we first stood on its shores, had the tinges of the red sunset on it, to help us idealize the crystal sheet, and its ac- cessories of woods and verdure, idto a very scene of faery that touched ‘some of us into sentiment and poesy. Perhaps a particular ‘ gentlemar = was one of the poetized or sentimentalizing ones. Doubtless, atender, truant tuought or fancy that waywardly waadered far, or some haunting form, rising “out of a mirage of memory - Wrought of some dear romance of the heart, May have possessed him, for ne proposed to us tbat we should give the nameless iske a name— and Minnie was the name. We all, in spontane- ous unison, accorded in the christening—Lake Minnie! ‘“Letitbe recorded.” Even to us who haye no hallowing of 2 name to recall it, Lake Minnie will come to recollection, for it is “like a dream of poetry—beautiful exceediug- ly [To be continued next Sunday.] rr THE RAIN. All day long the rain is dropping, + "Beating 'gainst the window-pauet On the cottage-roof ‘tis pouring, In the garden, in the lane. 1am musing where the frelight ‘Throws its shadows on tne wall, Dreaming, while with patter steady On my Beart the rain-dropa fall, ‘Waking with their saddening music Voices trom tke vears long fled: Ever thus, since early childhood, Rain-dropa bring me back my dead. On through all the lights and shadows Of 2 life of foar-score years, Memory, blesacd spirit, wanders, Now in smiles, and now in tears, ‘Treading with her noiseless footstep ‘Through the ever-changing past; Laden now with trophies many, € ‘Back to me she comes at last. Childhood dreams, and girlhood fancic Flooded o'er with radiance bright; Woman's hopes and aspirations, Glowing with more mellow light; Years when Love made Earth a Heaven, -Years when Sorrow oowed the heart, Failures, taumphs, strangely blended, ‘In my varied Past have purt. * ‘Which are desrest, which most happy, Of these many checkered year: Were they times when woman. Won by prayerful toil and tears? Or, when in the scene of splendor, Dazzling eye with all its light, Taere, wid beauty, wit, and talent, Hers shone brightest of the bright? Ab, Or me! no} [ tinger longest the time when sunuy youth ‘Threw the gaise of Fancy’s fgare O’er the form of sober Truth; When the love that fond hearts yielded Filled with sunshine all my days, And no seltish, worldly feeling Dinmmed the brightness of the rays. ‘Yes! these were the dearest moments That my long, lung life e'er knew. Friends anu joys of happy girlhood! ‘© bad 1 but died with you! ‘The Earth fs now smiling, for sunset is glowing; ‘The birds’ merry nuste is beard ; 2 The rain-drops lave ceased, and the Areiight 1s . shining; ‘The leaves by the soft wind are stirred. And thus, O my Savior! will Life’s lonely evening Light ap with the eun of Thy love, And soon Thou wilt call me, Thy Earth-wearied creature, . ‘To rest with Thee ever above! Fineus. QUAND MEME, Yes, it was my fault—T let yor go, And sent your letter in torn fraginents back; T little thought that I would miss you so. O memory of the past, you're but a torture-rack! Q how I longed thé old pet name to hear; But yon were learning to forget me, dear, And quickly going from my life, as well as sight Just as rich sauset-glow dissolves in gray of night No! no! not inconstant, out unjust I own, For, darling, mad witu jealousy I'd grown; ‘And you—well, you were angry, and did not hear the cry, # So full of pain and anguish, under the stormy sky- ‘Although between our lives the gulf,lies deep and wide, I One pleading little word woold bring me to your side; 5 és But some’time you, perhaps,. will learn to reach across— ‘Then 1 will clasp you closer for the present 1083, Awunes Toewn, 1077