Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba daily free press. Winnipeg feb 13. Best advertising an advertisement of any sort times As much in the daily free press arid the evening free press and Sun together As in any other Winnipeg daily advertising medium. When time is done. And again amid the thronging Street hastening through our Dally round to go our pulses to unwonted measures beat. To see Somo face of Light Oenea am then lost to sight. Whereat to Muse. How Onira soul to sow aau Aguilu in quiet be beef us hours. Rome precious Page will Stool our hearts away. The while to read to feel life s dormant Powers to Tonch that Robe of White live in that presence Bright Fly Divelt we not near that Sweet it say. A new Ami Peiin Yati Edi. Waiting faces of whose Days Aro nearly rui1 gentle manhood Hildroa s tender graces bring Wistful Joy like pain. Could t also with us remain flow different Wero life beneath our Sun t ver from beyond the Suu shall Cuoio Tho Light to show All longing their Neter found loved and lost each one thus great Promise pm that do on Earth who live shall Jove and knowledge Hava when Tinio is done. A Henry Venslow in youth s companion. A plaint from pm Candy a Mill Winter night and bitter bitter cold. Not so much anew but a wind which i bail fun Arctic in it. It stung the face like vitriol and the blood made a fellow cry out is if he were in pain like. Three of us just co Tomou newspaper re porters Wero scurrying through mail Street Lulf running to get to a warm Picc. We had been at work up town try ing off Flud certain facts about a Man who had been mysteriously murdered in the tenderloin Johnny Spellman the jockey. Well the City Vilall Park was Bleak a Jongh. The wind shrieked across it and the Hall with its old White Marble Steps stood Over yonder pallid ghastly. Not n human being in sight. Nobody would stay oni of doors such a night. The lights in Tho tall buildings in Park Row and in Tho Low Entrance to Hitchcock s Ever blessed old cellar Coffee House were Happy cheery beacons. It was late Well on toward Midnight. That made us hurry All the More. Even Uncle Sam s tagged out old horses and wagons which forever wait in the mail Street Alley behind that grim Stone where big bags of mail matter for All parts of Tho world Are bundled in and out had disappeared out of the cold. There was no sound of the mail clerk s voice calling off the bags. Vote reached the Middle of the mail Street Block. We were on Tho North Sido of the Street. I ran in Tho rear of the procession. Out of Tho shadows of the Park Camo n Man. La a voice which upon that night wind was the most piteous sound i Ever heard to cried stretching out one hand in a suppliant Way k Parley Francais it was a strange courteous question to come wailing amid the howling of a storm. I turned and then stopped. Then in Hon est amazement and pity said my god i had Learned borne French in boy Hood then had bought drinks for a Paris Boulevard Ier and fulfilled the dubious linguistic requirements of a new Jersey col lege. I had a deep seated love for the a French people and a Deal of fondness for the French Tongue. There in that wretched night when i heard that question i saw the honest peas simple sturdy toiling afield in far prove co. I saw the Breton Fisher flinging As he patched his nets on the Shora of the dear old sea. I saw Gay Paris and the Sweet Valley of the Loire. And Here alone Clad thinly was a Sou of that Franco a stranger in a great selfish City in a great strange and selfish land Nona night when no mortal Ouight to have shown his nose out of doors. To was just i Learned it in his first lonely just asking for some one to give him a helping a syllable of direction. The two other reporters went pelting along. I looked at the wanderer. A Man of forty maybe old to begin life anew. To was above medium height a Little stooped in the shoulders on account of the cold perhaps. He was overcoat less Bare handed a and carried a Small parcel under his . Over his head was drawn tight a knit Cap such As football players Wear. It was a of no Story he told me stand ing there in the open on that awful night with the sparse flakes flying All about us. He had Ciao that Day on the Bretagne. Tho passage had been very Stormy. A Fel Low passenger a Picard who smell eco terribly of garlic had taken All his Money. His Chest containing his worldly posses Sions he had left at Castle that was before the Barge office Days. Ilis wife and two of i such pretty Chil at Home in Picardy. He was Toi Irry and thirsty. No one but an Hon est Man begging in the streets of new York would admit that he was thirsty. Common reporters Are not habitually Well to do. I had sixty five cents. I gave it All to him. I told him about the Rich possibilities of beef and Beans. Then i directed him to a ten cent lodging House. Then penniless i hurried on after my companions. I expected to walk All the Way to Twenty first Street. But then i Jad rowed in the eights in the fall and weighed 183, and was equal to it. God bless you in French sounds Well upon a fierce night wind. I told the Fellows when i overtook them Tuat it was a Relief to find an honest beg Gar. One of them who knows Mcglory and fat Flynn and B., and has been among Tho Oyster pirates of Maryland and Shanghai ers of Greenwich Street and Yucatan curled his smooth churchly looking lips and sniffed at my Story that i gone broke on a beggar. 6 f k Spring came. The Trees in City Hall Park Woro budding. Tramps had Couie to sit under Tho electric lights in Tho Circle and listen to Tho night noises. Was done. Evening was just changing into Lato night. The same three us sauntered across mail Street wend 9 ing toward Park place station. The odor hunk and Che clan of the presses were Denind us. But a soft Breeze played about tic Corners and stirred the dust in the Street. Out of the shadows of the i wad my Godl i bad Learned some French in boyhood. Then i had bought drinks for a Paris Boulevard Ier wad never mind about that. In is too much like Tho Story of George Zin Zendorf. But there in that quiet night when All the air was soft with that question i saw the honest ple sturdy afield in far Provence. I saw the Breton Fisher sing ing As he patched his nets on the Shore of the dear old sea. I saw Gay Paris and the Sweet Valley of the Loire. It was strange How Tho memories crowded on my mind. I looked at the Man of 40, maybe. Old to begin life anew. He was above medium height a Little stooped in the shoulders. He earned a Small parcel under his . It was a woeful he told with the Spring Moonlight All about a. He had come that Day on the confound the Man and his two children in Picardy i this Paresis was an awful thing. Bat what if it were All a breath from old Egypt and my great Grandfather Hoa heard a Story about a fellow Picard and a Roll of Money stolen in a Steerage i swore. As i said i had Learned some French in boyhood. Then i had bought drinks for a Paris Boulevard Ier never mind. The Paris Boni Evandier had taught me to swear in such fashion As would have made me Hail fellow in Mont Mart re. And i damned the beggar and i called him the worst things that his native Tongue permitted. The Man who knew Mcglory blushed and looked Bock and Forth from the beg Gar to me. And the Man with the bundle shrunk and shrunk and made no reply. He crept always facing us backward further from the Light and disappeared into the deep shadows under the Trees. His form was lost. His Pale face was the last thing which i still swearing saw. And we went away. Summer makes Gramercy Park pretty and the lights of the players club Shine and men drink and say cynical things in the Small hours. An August night i was passing through Gramercy Square homeward. There was just the Distant murmur of fourth Avenue with the occasional Footfall of a late fellow walking along Irving place. I could hear the Fountain s drippings fall into its still Basin. Tho air was Sweet with the fragrance of blossoms wafted ont through the tall Iron palings. Out of the shadows of the Park came a Man. In a voice which in that soft night was Tho most utterly piteous sound i Ector heard to cried stretching out one hand in a suppliant Way Parley Vous Francais it was a strange courteous question to arrest a a Home going Chap at such an hour. I turned then stopped. Then i closed my right very tightly As Bob Turnbull had showed me How Long ago. Then i. An swered my god i had Learned some French in boyhood then had bought drinks for a Paris Boule hardier and fulfilled the dubious linguistic requirements of a new Jersey College. I Hod a deep seated love for the French peo ple and n Deal of fondness for the French Tongue. There in that sultry night hearing that question i saw the honest ple sturdy afield in far pro Vence. I saw the Breton Fisher singing As who and what was this Genius of Gall who with his face and dismal beggar voice kept stalking out upon me from dark places was he going to to like or. Dick s head of Charles i could i know no Refuge from this garlic breathed Picard and his two and his Roll of Money lost in the Steerage of la Bretagne profit cried i thing of evil. Front still if Bird or Devil i hit him very hard. Assuming that Liis face was France in my fist lauded in the Norman territory. He moaned and muttered something in French. I paused while he Lay and waited for me to go away. It was enough. There was no fircht in him. In an ecstacy of meanness i walked off whistling loudly the aliens allows Jnes enough of sentiment Story told of the times the great kit Carson. Of a desperate plunge into a Mountain of his were broken und us was Itu weakness Tor poor notice tile evidence. Canadian s Best route the air was filled again with december snows. Gray looked the tall buildings through that sifting Cloud of White. The Street lamps were dim and Dull like the eyes of poppy eaters. Far Down a shabby narrow West Side Street in the purlie us old Greenwich Village shop windows gleamed Gay with the Frost upon them. Men and women and children with Bright faces leaned against the storm s great harsh breast and laughed. Street cars with their merry a White door with the Snow leaped about it. Some tracks up the Steps and the already nearly obliterated evidences that a Wagon had been at the Curbstone told that the undertaker and the Coroner had been there. If was a Coroner s Case suicide from despondency they said. There was no carpet in the Gusty Hall. A blows Landlady showed me to the Sec Ond floor. In a rear room a fire not much of a one burned in a tired stove. The room was chill. An Oil lamp shed Light Over a form upon the Low bed in the Corner covered face and All with a Sheet. At a table sat a child a girl of not More than a dozen years. She was Reading when i Ento Rcd. She Laid the Book Down gravely. I noticed that it was a French i Ayer Book. Her eyes were big and very dark and there were tears in them. She simply said and her Calm voice there in that still room beside the dead was the most utterly piteous sound i Ever heard Tarletz Vous Francais Monsieur York world. Thirty or forty years ago when trap Ping was the regular occupation of the plainsman and Mountaineer varied per haps by an occasional fight with Tho Sav Ages the expeditions of Tho frontiersmen into Tho Remote regions where the fur bearing animals abounded lasted for a year or two and sometimes longer. They Hud no watches in those Days and to keep a record of the time was no easy matter. Kit Carson told me that often one Man of the party was detailed to keep the or the passage of Tho Days by that most primitive of calculations notching a stick. Frequently the stick was lost und All their calculations were mixed up and it was an amusing thing when they returned to Tho settlements to Dispo Soof their furs to learn Bow far they were off from the True Date or Day of Tho week. Nearly every Man had his own idea on the subject scarcely any two of the outfit agreeing in the matter. It was surprising too on those extended trips How severe accidents would occur or How one of the party would be badly wounded by indians in some single handed Alghn when away by himself and yet get Well where ordinarily the chances for re covery were a Hundred to one against it. Kit told me of one of these hair breadth recoveries if i May employ the term in this connection which happened to one of their party when they were trapping Way up in the nearly half a Century ago. Touched his health. The Man was a Frenchman As were Many of to old trappers in those Early Days his name has passed out of my mind. He was a kind hearted Man fresh in the country and a Little inclined to look upon the indians with that sort of mistaken sentimentality which characterizes the average new England philanthropist who has never seen tiie untutored to on his native Heath. Late one night after they had been camping on Cue of the Ninny streams of the Region for several weeks As he was on duty guarding Tho Camp from the incursions of a too inquisitive grizzly or the impertinent investigations of the wolves his attention was attracted to something High up in a treo near by which seemed restless changing its position con stantly like Somo animal of prey. The Frenchman Drew u bin d upon it and there came tumbling Down at his feet a dead Savage with his War paint and other in Dian paraphernalia adorning his body. The poor Man was terribly Hurt Over the circumstance of having killed an Indian and it grieved him for a Long time. One Day a month after the night s Inci Dent to Riding alone far front his party and out of sound of their rifles As Well when a band of blackfeet discovered him and started for his Scalp. He Hud no possible Chance for escape except by the endurance of his horse a magnificent Ani Mal so a Raco for life began. He had no trouble in keeping out of the Way of their arrows the indians had no guns and he hoped to make the Camp before they could possibly Wear out his horse but just Asho was congratulating himself on his Luck right before him there suddenly appeared a great Gorgo and not daring to Stop or to turn either to the right or left the Only thing to do was to make his Ani Mal jump it. It was his Only Chance it was death if he missed it and death if the indians got him. So he drove his heels into his horse s Side and attempted the awful leap. Ilis willing animal made n desperate Effort to carry out the wishes o the daring rider but the Gorge was too wide find the indians saw both horse and rider dash Down to the butt oui of the fright Ful Canyon together. Believing that their enemy Hud eluded them forever they went Back on the Trail without even going Down into the Gorge. The Vall cured him. The horse was instantly killed und the Frenchman had both of his legs broken. Being far from Camp with the indians in close proximity he did not dare to fire off his Rifle or make any noise so he was compelled to Lio there and suffer hoping that his comrades missing him would out to Hunt him. They did so but More than a Day had elapsed before they found him und his pain was intense. Of course Doc tors in the Region As impossible As Angels so his companions set the broken Bones As Well As they could and fixing a litter on some pack animals they carried him around with them from Camp to Camp until he recovered a period extending Over three months. The affair cured him of his sentimentality for the Indian. Many years after Ward when new Mexico had become a part of the United states and courts were regularly constituted this Frenchman was drawn As a jury Man on a Case where a Indian was to be tried for the murder of a Man. The trial As the courts were constituted in those Days was not a vet a prolonged one. But it was observed that from the very beginning of Tho proceedings Tho Frenchman had dropped into a deep sleep so profound was it that when they wanted him to decide As to the guilt or in no Cento of Tho prisoner they had to shake him violently to Rouse him. He had not Chicago St Maui Kansas City railway fast timed from St. Paul to Chicago Toronto Ottawa Montreal and All Points Hast in Canada Sott Tec Desmoines St. Joseph Kansas City Superb equipment close connections with Traina from the North at St. Paul Safe transportation perfect Comfort Lor first or second does passengers at season ask for your tickets via this route Northern Pacific Railroad. Taking Oleo sunday december 7th, 1890. Central or 90th Meridian time North Lou d 11.20a 10.46a 9.56a 9.40a 9.20a 8.b5a 7.66a 7.20 a 6.30 a 4.10p 3.30p 8.20p 8.12p 800p 2.43p 2.80p k.10p 1.86p 0.42a s.00p 8.86p 9.30? 16 8 23 274 32 5 10 4 16 8 66 0 1.46p 06 0 68 1 1610 2660 313 463 470 1 m Winnipeg Portage Junction. St. Norbert. 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