The Penn's Grove record., 1896-09-18
ACROSS CANADA.

ACROSS CANADA.
SEALAED, Aug. Both, '96.
From North Bay to Heron Bay ON
Lake Superior, the railway traYerses a
comparatively wild region where forest,
meadows lakes and rocky ridges alter
nate. The scenery is striking and in
places, extremely interesting. | have
great difficulty in keeping my compan-
ion (Bright) from jumping off the tain,
as he Is such an enthusiastic admirer of
beautiful scenery, as you and your read
ers will see by some of his letters that
Will follow mine. The porter comes
through The car saying, 'at Sturgeon
Falls refreshments can be had,n so
with a wink at Bright, l said "Let'sgo
u see If any sturgeon are here, 80 we
can send word to Tommy Torton and
That good old Democrat Jas. Strimple,"
Who will have TO go up Salt River this
Fall to hunt sturgeon. 1t is only a
small place and no one is around but
Two or three dirty Indians, whom
Bright goes up too and shakes hands
with saying, ''lIello Uncle" but for
Bright's sake | am sorry to say The red
men wouldn't claim relationship with
him.
A little farther down the road we
came to II station called Moose Jaw.
The name is an abridgement Of The H.
liza name, which literally translated is,
1he-CTeek observation-disclosures mend
ed-his- wagOn-with-a.moos jaw. Speci-
ments OF the Great Creek nation paint
ell and ~blanketed, may be seen lounging
around. OF course, Bright went out
on the Platform to shake hands with
the Indians, but l have the same thing
TO write, none of them would recog.
nize him as their Nephew. 1 expect
the first thing l know Earnest will be
Joining some Indian tribe. He seems
to be wanting to claim relationship to
them, and right here at this station l
saw for the first time some of Queen
Vicloria's dressed up monkeys. At least
when l first saw them dancing and
prancing up and down the platform
with their tight blue pants and red
jackets and dear little caps, about as
large as a &c piece tied on their heads.
l thought they we're monkeys, but on
close inspection found they were men,
earning a small stipend from the Eng
lish government watching the Indians.
ANY way, Bright and l came to the
conclusion that all was wanted on these
men was a cord around their waist,
a tail attached, and to go with a Phila-
delphia Italian organ grinder and for
tune would be assured. | trust our
friends d. z. Leonard and Brad. won't
take any exceptions to these few lines
above.
iii just relate a little incident which
happened last week, which a be
vouched for by the genial conductor r.
V. Egbert, of the railroad running
through here, as we'll as Mr.. Bright
and the people who reside in the house
(Hotel.)
AS l was coming up off Of the wharf
last Wednesday where / had been to
look after our fishing boats, l saw sew.
eral people running around, and as /
approached nearer some one call out to
me, ''for heavens sake Shannon look
odt for the Bears" 1 could not under
stand what SO much commotion meant,
but you cali bet your sweet life | did in
a few minutes after, for perched up on
the roof of a freight car was my friend,
the conductor, Mr.. r. V. Egbert, a
Jealous Christian, but al awful coward,
g%estulating and going on like a wild
man, following for some n to get a
cannon and shoot the bears. Two big
fellows who had come out OF the tim
Der land Close by and, by some means,
were then in an old wood shed close by
hunting and granting for something to
eat. OF curse the first laws of nature
is self preservation, so l hastily scram
bled up a post by our room window,
which Bright had fastened and nailed
down, and called to Bright to let me in.
But lie wouldn't get off of his knees, as
he was praying and going on worse
than the conductor, who was stif
prancing up and down upon the roof of
that freight car, and still following for
d cannon and gatling gun. 1 do not
know what l did next as l was SO
frightened, but when l came to my |
senses, l wal on the roof of the depot
rubbing my arm, which 1 had hurt
somehow in getting on the depot roof.
BY this time the Bears had come out |
of the wood shed and were walking
around the house, monarchs of all they
surveyed. l looked over TO conductor
who was crying like a big
school boy, and l had to smile, scared
as l was, as Mr.. Egbert only a short
Time before, had been telling me how
he used to kill Bears and Elk, &C., with
Ratchet, but when the Bears walked
over towards the car where Egbert was
perched, you would have thought an
insane asylum had been turned loose.
The way that fat conductor went on
was a caution, but the Bears were