Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-11

ters house (or convent) where, if you are
as lucky as we were, you may hear
large class Of Indian girls at the Con-
vent school sing several choruses in purcst
English. AS to whether they know what
they arc saying, or can speak the language
than POLITICALLY, you will not stop
to inquire neither should you question
the utility Of a highly cultivated rendition
OF The Sweet By-and-By" as means of
practical education. For, what Eastern
seminary would tolerate 4 similar inquisl-
tion, and how can you call the g Sisters
to account? On slight knoll in the val
10y stands the foundation of what is to he
u large handsome church, in the form OF
cross, while lower down steam saw mill
is gnawing away ut the logs that arc to
h,rnisl, lumber for it. All around stretch
the wheat fields and pastures, where the
farming and stock raising is carried on by
some of the lay brothers, while others at
tend to the saving, building, &c.
Our chief being we'll known to the fra
tcrn;ty, We found, when about to leave,
that most bountiful and excellent repast
had been prepared, with hospitable fore
thought. by one Of the lay brothers, and
we willingly proceeded to discuss it with
the " Father whose tales of early adven-
turc were appropriate seasoning; though,
in truth, little condiment was needed after
spin of eight miles in sleigh with four
l,c& &6n @oh1
height had all along been perplexing my
curiosity rs we'll as upsetting all my theo-
| RIGS as to the transfer of food from plate to
mouth, we were informed that it was also
used as an altar when the cold prevented
the Use of the chapel.
| l must acknowledge that the 'hab-
liant" of Colville valley, this grandson of
France, with all his pOetical or romantic
association, is, in proper spirit of frank
ness, like the Indian, the Italian peasant
and other f;,vorites of romance an, uE-
pleasant object for practical cOntcmpla-
tion. Ignorant, lazy and dirty, his lack OF
energy, ambition and enterprise, limit his
highest aim to bread and meat enough for
the present, only and his ideal Of happi-
ness never surpasses break-ncck gallol
down the valley with half a gallon OF
whisky aboard.
Established for score OF years in one Of
the most fertile valleys ofthis fertile country
he does not yet know what a kitchen gar
den is and has not deigned to take ex
ample from the soldiers, who stake Out
half an acre right by his rancho, and take
home wagon loads of magnificent vegeta
bles of almost any kind in the fall. Wha
would one of our Lancaster county farm
ers say to leaving herd of twenty milcl
COWS unmilked for three or four days at ;
time, every week or two, while he wa
away OH social visit to friend in tn
neighborhood ? These dairymen'' won
bother themselves about such small mat
ters, and it is therefore no wonder that but
ter sells for 81 per pound, and eggs for tn
same price per dozen, right in the mids
of their settlement, and that Scotchma1
who has small 1O-year-old orchard, sell
his apples at " four for dollar
Ills Ittcc Ctl uuG Nolit ltS oNl 'ooiio
the Anglo-Saxon, and must either fall t
the position of its servant, when it feels tn
> weight of it's competition or else, as an
inclined to believe, it will gather its lodge
poles and, deserting it's cabins, will driv
it's ponies further north into the wilderness
of King Georges land, as it still calls tn
;, British possessions. "GOod Queen Vic
will no doubt find in them tractable Sc
: of subjects Judging from the tim
that has elapsed without enlishtcnin'
them on the succession of monarchs of tn
British throne, they seem to be cOnstitu
tionally untitled to grasp the rapid change
in our national politics and we can watcl
their forms grow beautifully less as gladI
= as we watched the exodus of Sitting Bull
= ':out-fit'
y. B. "Out-fit' is word used to dcsig
, nate anything and everything in tn
Northwest Synonymous with "rig'
q "circus,'' celebration and boom,
q in their now general meanings) and whicl
is perhaps to work its way into publ
: favor: for slang, unlike the sun, travel
f from West to East. FRED.