Show ’JM V tHhUiMW5eWlkiitiiisHu‘$jSiiia6ii THi £ a!i Jak "nwottfi THE gails GMjotIi Tsrritory Irtiiy Paper n and the to Home Interest and Political rights ot the people A' First Class Family Paper circulating every settlement ill the Territory PUBLISHED TRU3 at Delivered annum Three annum Three MONDAY & la THURSDAY AJYAMJK! residence in the City Six Months $700 Months 4:00 IS 6:00 Six Months Months 8&60 TRSHS— IS Per ‘‘How many children have next inquired “Seven” Jlv wife had always wished to begin “And all are coming witli Mr housekeeping and I liatl always thought Tipps?” ‘You ace” she explained “we tliat considering rent and other things thought we would shut up the house the mode of living would be too and that considering the quantity and visit a while till we might find a to suit us of work it would involve it would con-- i I haven’t She found one yet that suits me” ert my wife into a drudge and so at length I Fanny rose from the table and beckever found a white frame house oned to me to come out into the kitchyielded in a nice neighborhood en I tii! lowed her and we held counof two stories : yet economy cil 1 furnished it tastefully moved in and settled “With her alone” she said “our tally and we butcher’s and grocer's bills are running down said canny sinking into u far beyond the limits required by our“Now in the pretty little drawselves She is an enormous outer And breath “I when he co nes with those seven what ing room and taking a long am at last it home” And she looked shall vve do?” She looked up into my face with cn that J ymhii picture of contentment rejoiced expression of distress We put everything m order and got “And your work has increased Fanalong very wef after a rest following ny” I said “You are getting worn the first few days of tiresome work' out” She sighed was I got desperate The second week of Yet I look back upon it and I was hew ildered Some way of escape delightful think wlmt Paradise must he Fanuv must be found I took my hat and run with ease and over to a friend’s house where I had got through her work not visited much since I began houseright speedily and alter the nppetiz mculs which I would keeping nig and healthy find awaiting me when 1 got home we The door was opened by a giil with would sit down and char After supper a strange face — ari American girl I we would spend our evenings saw a piece of carpet was pinned around together in the cozy talking and her wait and in one hand she held a 1 aloud or would or reading laughing dirty shaggy doth take her on my arm and we would sally “Is Mr Manners in?” I inquired “Yes come in if you are coining If out to some lecture or other entertainment That house was our eastle you ii'n’t dear out and I’ll shut the where no one could molest us or make door” This mode of address us afiaid strange as do not think we were selfish Vfe coming from a servant had perhaps the need of company now caused me to stare at her and linger began to and then at our table and in the draw little and so we came to invite “Show me where he is” I said friends to tea and to spend the evening “Find him yourself” she snapped And I remember the pleasme it “I can’t stop to show folk- - where folks to afford me to have our friends come are 1 can't leave my work Go yourFt self and find him in and partake of our hospitality He is down stairs does still "It does us good” Fanny smoking lie smokes up the house so ‘‘So it does” I responded savs Weil go and find nobody can hieathe “Hospitality under the regulation of him if you are going” is what J hope will always exist 1 found Frank down stairs smoking reason in our familys I did not the said as had girl just But— hut x will tell the story stop to talk about incidental matters Four or five weeks passed thus One An idea was working in my brain and was rung and Fanny the business on my 'hands was imporday the A stout elderly tant I did not soon sit down 1 stood opened the door in spectacles stood on the stair before Frank and put my talk in an ex lady with a bulky in one hand cited way and a reticule and a bandbox in the “How about that servant girl of other She looked up at Fanny and yours?” I asked smiled upon her He laughed “So you’ve encounterthrough the spectacles The smile was bland sociable and resu- - ed her” lie said “and she has given Jute you some of her im pudence IS ever You don’t know mo 1 guess” said mind I am about to discharge her I’ve held on to her three ho oh'iitnni it on the tkcpffiold as it to come in ami days longer than I intended to because 'settle down “Mrs Wilson I believe she is such a stunner at work Wife ! may call you says she never saw nor like as a worker “Fanny Wilson rather We can’t possibly I am your cousin — your fourth But her tongue! Fanny cousin-- -” stand it “Come in” said Fanny “Call her down here” I said “I’ll The stout lady entered hire her” Frank started “I mean our 1 said and put her luggage on the sofa “I’ll take the shrew off and sat down in the hands down” Cull her your She came Frank called her down Fanny clad in her sat down in a and stood storrnily jurf over the threshchair near old outside “Your grandfather's wife "continued “What do you mean to call me from the lady “was my grandmother's in a shrill my work?" she demanded Old Fnele lctor Briskets — tone “I can’t he taken from my work 'on know him?” nt everybody's beck and call in this hmny could not say that she did way I'll mc if you’ll do this again: that know tin- old gentleman you shall know” Frank laughed in her face and smo’Aell' continued the visitor' now 'aim ing her bonnet and shawl “old ked on Vnile Peter Brisket's was your father's “You are a good worker a’n't you -he said bantering her see your father's great uncle nou you give me a glass of water “I’ll let you know whether I am” army She gave the door a shove and it was wife brought the glass of' water being dashed to when 1 sprang and “1 declare ” said the visitor “it stopped it” ‘does seem “Come in Sal" I called lT want good to sit down and rest S' hoard you had gone to housekeeping hi see yon How much wa es uo vou fand thought I would run down ami How much do you pay Hal” I want? pay fc'ou a little visit asked of Flank since wo aft cousins II waited till you might get well settled “Ten dollar' and we only get tongue first" in return'’ I “How may address you?” Fanny “I’ll gave you eleven Sal” I called “Will you go with me?” mqiiueil while a vague appieheiision jStole into her mind “No I won’t!” “her mny Miaven’t told you my And she slammed the door too and !itme' exelaimed the newly found rel went off I turned to talk with Frank I said “then she 'Turn her off ' jfhve an vour cousin ' will come” But the door open again rauny excused herself for the t there stood and went down Sal minutes few to the kitchen in u “Where do you want me to go shmksng what on mrth could have ' I dvwught Tipps to our house and she asked street” “Over to 1) "Us Ms Tipps vas likely to Iff can’t go over there alone" ‘Thin f slumfu pity the ruffian who would !aimed when molest to ture got you” I retorted ial told me In minutes 'he entered the room dressed bn "paged and cross I ’’J11'!'!’' 'he uied “1 must" 1 ill settle down Nto When wo reached my house I found withus if von J10 a condition of things before which I j piotested M I stood appalled Mr Tippshad arrived must show her ordinary said Faimv with three trunks and seven boys The "4 trunks were pik'd up in the hall the up stairs to the dr twins Mm fipps received me with a i p s and Mr Tipps were at the table r(mgvospimlu smiling and resolute enough Every numb was gone and every tlohn mule me lalievc that was plote scoured Eight ravenous faces e n mher own house Mr Tipps 'r were turned to grc et me "du from his chair and 'honk un- Sio the of relate ro'c upon topic The seven young and d (lie hand hi Mwnidt she to topic pitahlj wlinto-eweieonn atel pthmug tin Tipp'C' cave me no u mid nniy sat and staled at the empty dining tlu Mv iLoiuh wrotum i"i more idate- iivoc d i innkr! a1 In r 'i d wile sal dejected eiilof 'et ii tilla Ip ‘f bale bioiraht 'ail to ttn k She looked at Hal m 'll il P' III (if till! she we In r cliffy the sine tippses "'J’l't ni it” ir ADVANCS: Per annum 8:00 Six Months 'i'hrco Months the table Fanny and I widted outside Sal's first salutation was and listened a rough one “Wlmt are you waiting here for? Haven’t you had your supper? I should think so from the way you’ve You must be a set eat up everything Gei up of gormandizers “We want some more” we Imuvd one of the young Tippscs say “You want some more you brat you? I just tell you jou can’t have any more and if you ain’t up from the table in just no time at all I’ll box your earn for you” There was a clinking of plates and a stirring of chairs and feet and Fanny and ( ran up stairs to the ready to burst with glee We heard the Tipps family come tramping up the stairs the whole procession of them They entered the room Mr and Mrs Tipps looking at which of us with a hurt expression course common politeness led them to suppress as much as possible and yet make us acquainted with their grievance “Be seated’ I said politely and the whole family- settled in the chairs around us like so many hungry boarders ready to make complaint “The girl” — began Mr Tipps with a preliminary aliens and crossing liis kgs in paterfamilias style “That girl” said Mrs Tipps “is Would it not be well rude to the boys — ahem— to discharge her?” “Well no 1 think not” replied “She would not get us anything to eat” put in one of the seven bo sulkily and the whole family then looked to us for an explanation of that act of But they got no explanation rudeness ami in the course of an hour the boys got sleepy and were conducted to bed the seven being accommodated with t wo beds in one room Such was the plan That girl Sal had conceived a special I grudge against those seven boys knew that before they went up stairs under their mother’s care They encountering Sal n the threshold of the room she ordered them hack They tried to force a way in She just stood her ground and cuffed them one after another until they all beat a retreat with their mother and came running down to the again “She is crazy” I remarked “but she is such a good worker that I urn murdered risk by her” willing to being exelaimed both Mr “Murdered!” and Mrs Tipps in a breath “She is just off trial” I answered coolly ‘Tor murdering u whole family She was acquitted on the ground of in- sanity” ‘And you intend to keep her?” asked Mr Tipps rising from his chair and viewing me with a look of awful rebuke “I intend to keep her and to restore her to her senses” 1 replied “There” said lie “we shall not stay We Wife get ready in this house will go from your house to a hotel Hir There we shall lie safe” “Perhaps that course would lie best” I replied We had the satisfaction of seeing the Tipps family depart from our house that very hour As to Sal we endured her a month ROltinVO IT IN BRITTANY Walking iu Brittany is no bad way of spending a tew weeks of a summer s holiday for those who love to see a new country and a new people who can find pleasure in ransacking quaint old towns and delight in inspecting the traceries and curious tradiThis year tions tf ancient churches 0 happy bachelor to whom a month’s recess from labor shall have been conceded after you have selected year and purchased traveling companion your needless necessaries when nothing shall remain lbr you but to choose a field for your wanderings take my ice and give a few minutes of your attention to the idea of sceina: Brittany and I think I can promise you some for your trouble renmuciation even after you shall have quarrelled as you probably will with your traveling companion and after you shall have come to the conclusion as I hope you will that after all there is no place to hold a But let me candle to old England premise first that you are a person who can make up your mind to be put out at no amount of roughing it which vou may have to encounter for you will have to rough it beyond a'l question if you mean thoroughly to sec the country to get away from the big towns and study the people in their native You me nut likely to primitivenos-find a lavee and comfortable hotel at end in!: day no ynur journey no ing kindhml to ilran looking iron Ik d to yeuv exhausted limb' my liiemi so if vou tooth-bmean yumdking ju't U'!i and tsamp it with uo other nt must enter on vour lot fie1 better or lif voi viiir luor u ill be mu 'Cl ii imis weight am! vi'tr - it bub'- -' t at ii sponge Mill nimh vou over the lavo! tea tqi you arc bkelj VMnidei “f ’pii'e e lleiik you le umllg to be ti find for a tub K u mv word' an lei oth( !' and in the siimm i f'lohlaih ii the spiteful 'do1 vv:i' n wliMh'he Irsi got horn Sd "! stay a way 'I lie latter is viiii h !: tl siu me wiieie ui't il you tl you non am thinking of pm suit! n mv ihimrs you can’t future am put out uns rom a total v at)! ol me You may jud know vvth me do Lien jisl now first off qu dilies which I Mv iiieud advo said atuig as neeessinv ‘Fanny with whom have broil recently travrroni- won't yeuv’’ eling assures me aed I am inclined to Out in lih hull I explained matter-Sal took off her tiling' laid down Imr think with truth that I lack a certain A dirt ot broad bioMjv and flipped do" n stairs u a asperity of taste so The Tipps family were still at beans and a bed on jiffy that there of the sky be no rain under the canopy would detract but little I thiuk from my pleasure provided the discomfort be in company with a cheerful friend and rendered less distressing by the moderate consumption of tobacco but there arc in me a native horror of a couch a sneaking weakness for such a modicum of water as will enable me to perform my usual ablutions and a keen desire lor of strange and uncomely an food which combine to mar my comfort at uncouth eountiy hostels 1 had often contested this point with John and have felt my friend in question the notion of his supposing very sore at me to be east in a more effeminate mould than himself' but I fear I confess to nysclf occasionally with great secrecy that such is nevertheless the case I recollect on oim occasion so bitter had I grown at his derogatory that it induced a short separguments aration from him during our travels that I might so to speak win my spurs For three mortal hours he had been in water colors a rather sketching and 1 who pretty church in Brittany nave no more notion of drawing than Inis a cow was beginning to get a trifle sick of it “How much longer do you intend to be? I asked with growing impatience for though I had smoked two ei ears it wasn’t lively “I can’t say” replied John coolly To tell you the truth my dear fellow I am beginning to think I shall have to sponge most of it out after till in fact 1 am thinking of doing it over the porch is again— that straight out of drawing and that peasant girl is in the wrong place besides she’s fHAtLKD— annum 7:00 $3:00 ADVANCR: Six Months Three Months 2:50 4:00 heather and bracken looking fellows both of them especialFood for the eve truly a copious and ly the son and looked very wild and luxurious feast ibr the lovers of nature savugo in the firelight with their long but to my jaundiced hair hanging about their eye shorn of unkempt much of its beauty dressed both of them in tho owing to tlm ab- shoulders sence of anything to relieve the !uhtl usual peasant dress of Brittany — a The great wideawake scape in the shape of a house ugliest of the ugly among those hideous blue jacket and hlghblue waistcoat little builders’ speculations which we tricked out here and there with a little so deplore as they crop up hero and embroidery their legs in huge knickthere to mar our English views would erbockers that might have beeu but have been to me just now by far the were not white rough leather gaiters most graceful bit of the wild scenery and monster sabots stuffed with straw before me To stand howevc’on the As to their necks what shall I say? banks of a stream about which there We formerly wore outrageously high collars in England already hangs a mist in a light sumbut these gentleis at best an occu- men out fashioned fashion in that mer pation which is apt to pall upon one They shot un so straight and and the solution of one of the earliest high those white collars of theirs from riddles of my childhood impressed up- their waistcoat that one almost wonon me the fact of the stationary and dered how they turned their heads at somewhat disobliging nature of beds all I have heard it said that of men so that pondering these tilings it was there are some who have mind without not long ere I made up my mind to muscle and some that have muscle pack my traps and start in quest of without mind that there are also some food aud shelter endowed with both qualities but that Over those detestable hills I wander- there are others who having neither ed for at least an hour without seeing mind nor muscle have collars Verily either a human creature or a human Dame Fortune has not forgotten the habitation and I began to think that peasant of Brittany in the latter remy kid for that night at least would pent at all events have to lie spread in the open air I found that I made the sixth of the However 1 did the best I could got party lbr besides the two ruen were an on the of the rock and though old woman — I should say somebody’s the wind did creep round now and then a young girl grandmother probably and pierce my scanty little coat it was the daughter of the elder gentleman iu and though my the chimney ‘and one Anna a better than nothing couch of heather was damp it was at person of about five and forty I bethought least soft me of my fish summers whom I found to be the aunt and wondered whether I could broil if the young people— sister in them into a respectable meal I did fact of the man 1 have just mentioned my best to light some wet bracken with The old lady was not occupied witli this but of anything beyond reeking her chair and purpose my Vesuvius for The Swiss shooting admiring glances at my course it didn’t answer Anna was enanti Family Ryliinson would have struck two This was too much flints together and there would have gaged in mending some garment or “I’ve been thinking John that as been a blhzing tire in a crack I daresay another of neoessaiy but hidden use a it’s not too lively watching you sketch with bread and salt and other accessowhich was not useful pursuit shall take my rod and look for some ries ready to hand odd trick she But then I was interrupted by an not the Swiss Family Robinson had ot! robbing her fingers violently as fishing” “1 wouldn’t advise you you won’t All at once I suddenly thought I though they were cold whilst the find any within fifteen miles’’ beard a human voice and my heart youngest of the party she who had “Well even so vvhat then?” heat quick to think that the land was driven in the cows was busily occupied “What then? Why you would have actually inhabited after all I listened iti attending to the cooking of some and as intently of but kind a a was uie to sleep out somewhere the mess It grunt principal ingredients of which you wouldn t have me to take care of yes it certainly seemed to emanate judging from the fumes which emanayou that wouldn’t do yon know old from human lungs then there was a ted from the pot I should imagine fellow” faint sound as of many "footsteps I were garlic and onions The room was ‘T must confess I don’t see what shouted: there was a reply: and in a half full of smoko and everybody and that has to do with it” few minutes I made out against the everything in it looked dirty with the “ Well you know I uicaa you won t sky ou the brow of the hill the figure exception of the white and shift for yourself without a companion However I It didn’t of a woman aud some cows cap of the young cook well you are uot much of a fellow for take me long to reach them She was made myself as comfortable and happy roughing it” driving her cows in for the night she as I could: talked Breton iu bad gramThis was a sore said (It is the custom in Brittany to mar and villainous accent to the chim“I’ll back myself to rough it against driv c in the beasts at night for fear of ney teimnts vainly endeavored to transthe wolves) Where was she driving late a syllable of their muttered and Jou Uiya4iy day”-“Nevertheless Well rather sidky replies felt I was roughyou are not cut out them to? Driving them home lor roughing it and I shouldn't ad- if the home was only the it ing it and chuckled as I thought of vise vou to go besides I don’t know would be better than nothing I both 1 hadn’t to wait very long before that it is quite sale you don’t know quired: Was there an inn anywhere we were all summoned to the board where you are going to or what peoakiut? But this was a question quite to partake of I think without excepple you will be among — you may be beyond the reach of her mental capac- tion the nastiest mess that has ever robbed who knows” Garlic to me is an Probably such a thing as an inn passed my lips ity “Robbed — nonsense inrobbed was not to be found at all in these parts its savoury odour is abomination deed” replied I in not too pleasant a possibly my knowledge of the language nauseous to me its taste quite re“T’U toll mood But no this is a supposition volting and yet these good people you what I mean to which must not lie entertained unable to partake of seemed quite go so Fll take iny chance of that” Well it's hard to quarrel with John would accompany her and her cows a it A capsingle tiring without these painters are such cool collected She seemed rather surprised and lookital but tiny leg of mutton follows over their work generally and ed at me wonderingly but I suppose I cooked was spoiled by it aud He looked respectable for she only shouted the nsh which I presented to them renJohn never loses his temper and at her kine gathered merely stopped for one moment dered quite uneatable by its presence up her tethers with a little disappointment in his tone by which they fasten their cattle in the so that had it not been for some good answered good naturedly: day and hold them together like a fresh butter a small tower of which as1 as they drive them home pired a certain way towards the ceil“Very wclll old fellow he it so daresay this sketch does bore you and in the evening and passed on without ing and some bread I had as 1 want to do that bit beyond the further comment till distant glimron the chance of having no food for farmhouse after this and just take mering light appeared amontr the trees that night at least The meal over I down some of the points of that old Yonder was the home Oh yonder found there was a discussion as to where chateau we passed about two miles was the home was it? Well it didn’t and how I should bo bedded for the from here our plans will just suit each look spacious but I hoped for the best night aud I could make out partly by other Be back t if you can If a North American Indian with my small knowledge of the language though hope by then this frightful his feathers nodding on his warlike and partly by the indignant expression head were to ring the of a on the face of poor Anna that it had peasant gill will he a trifle prettier” And then I lit another cigar and house in Be (crave Square and in this been carried unanimously that I was for a few minutes watched John’s North American again weie to be lodged at her expense that she as the to inquire of John Thomas whether was to abdicate her couch in my favor great bold masterly touches have lodging for the aud ere- long the lady having been lights and shades were brought out on he could there the old gray stone and the foliage al- night we imagine that the powdered brought to see the necessity of such an most seemed to quiver on his paper functionary would betray symptoms at arrangement mine host proceeded to over the head of the graceless nymph It was scarcely my conduct me to my apartment 1 hadn’t least of surprise I rather repented my severity' but province ttievelbre to wonder at the very far to go a snort passage led us felt that John’s glove had been down stare of astonishment with which the to a room on the ground floor similar and that I had picked it defiantly up uncouth family of the Breton farmer in size to the one we had just vacated must go greeted the appearance Vestigia nulla rifrnrsum at the door of and in a kind of cupboard m the wall I Half an hour of inquiry and prepara- a barbarously clothed foreigner chatas pointed out a dirty looking bundle tion and two or three h nirs’ journey tering bad Breton to them and cravof blankets and mattress wherein and I say barbarous- whereon I was informed I might pass partly on foot partly in the uncouth ing their hospitality cart of a beneficent villager however common the night Well beggars must not be brought ly clothed because me at about four o’clock in the after- an object m England the eyes of the choosers you know but 1 confess I did noon to the banks of a somewhat Breton peasantry are little accustomed leel a slight shudder as I gazed at my siream — brought me to to the spectacle of a suit of grey dittos uninviting couch the banks of the stream and left me and are strangers to the boots of Holy Hunting-mesay “The more vou alone in the wildest of countries with At all events with a stare of astonishlook the less you like it" I recollect little baggage but my fishing rod and ment my appearance was greeted as I having said so myself once to a less with only a moderate knowledge of the stood at the threshold of the somewhat fortunate friend on the wrong side of a — astonishment language of the country to shift for my- primitive fence over which my horse had safely dwelling self My first iiire being for my sport which was in no way mitigated by my carried me against my will and the I eommem-edI felt to Ik: an occasion in peminbularory survey (arm rt appeal for a night’s lodging present liftin' stream m search of a likely spot “Gould they take me in did they which my philosophy might well be a duty for which I was “WM1 they thought not but mv think?” Ho I looked another competent way brace ot of a tumbled instead and took a general survey of big trout in might tiy" Ju t then early capture Ere the shades of night about my purse hot won my fingers part proved the apartment us a eat will do before had fallen on the bleak hills around and hinted that k‘ quite he settles down i’ictuie my amaze me my cuunincly devised flies had ready tu pay tin- it This seemed to incut at discovering that proved indigestible food to many a finny treat a motion in fax r of my ica'p-- j my own there were uo s than umoei lit but whilst they had been tion from the old woman of the party thiee other beds tinin room and bobbing and their a and after short conversation amomrst an awful di'Coveiy fur one who is a! 'pm ting iiisidiiais evolutions on the surtu e of it wa q loneth dt termined nice end pauiiuiar aLnur a tin 'viper had hi cn too much wrapthat a lndaiiu should be found lbr me himself Then1 they wen1 and 1 was duh installed a nit ink r ot ped up in the ei Kement and thru couelu let into thejwa!! the nt te n member th it I vvr the fu'Jilh to mine end all three hearing jPi (I primitive liwelliiu A far L" somewhat ju't thi'ii in a Enic dirty appearance toi'ii that oil i:j ied a Well es it was il'in tin to wire other men attached to th paupir mi a think said As JohiIih had time to loiih about me now and tlid up lnv step mblishment was at a loss to co:: md Celt rod howviaket teKe a him ot the apartment It iv i for whom they could be intended i'i toat VuliU't Inend ot iiiiii iii e'gu was sn ill aud niuiiiv the whole of one and then it flashed across me that as did oeuii' to me it would be ease was taken ip in a huso deep lirekm w myself u be uicupying Anna's il in wliii’i ' t fitln r aud son led this could scarcely bo the tu f should he quite hemchu-place that should lim in leaning out the fire and 'inoki'ig their an inn No tfiei all was at all events deed’ j looked to the trout and none in the (Imniioy is it were occutu enjoy (?) tin room to myself and japes was there Wlnnd me- - mu a roof i be pying' very much the jiosiiion that you with this reflection laid my self down seen to the left to tiie light but ail u ml I would we to sit facing each and prepared lor deep Now ii you was bleak lull and dale and great dark 'ther on either hob f a 'caily wish to sleep it often happen1' finest of beach and tir lit up here ami only that they were on theground-Suu- r that a steady course oi preparailon will (here by patches of origin gome and sj to speak They vvero line stalwart- - defeat your object having manv I hi id m I I ol ‘i ur ! r “ - |