audience, but as he leaves this country to spend his last 

 days in England, after preaching here for twenty-six 

 years, he no doubt thought it well to give the people 

 something to think about. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway being the most acces- 

 sible route between Alaska and the East, some very val- 

 uable train loads of merchandise pass over its rails. 

 Probably one of the most valuable trains of freight ever 

 hauled in the same number of cars passed through here 

 yesterday. It was a train made up of ten cars of seal skins, 

 booked through to London. Each car was valued at over 

 $200,000 — over $2,000,000 in all. The train had a wTeck 

 coming down the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It 

 parted in two ; the back portion ran into the front, sma.sh- 

 ing things up very generally. What a calamity it would 

 have been — what a rude shock to the American feminine 

 heart had that train and its precious cargo been destroyed 

 b}' fire! How many of the "lords of creation" would 

 have been obliged to put their hand a little deeper into 

 their pockets next Christmas if the heart of their better- 

 half should be filled with love for a new seal skin ! But 

 thanks to a providential decree that ordered otherwise, 

 the calamity didn't happen. The train passed in safety 

 and let us hope that its beloved cargo will survive the 

 boisterous gales of the Atlantic and come back to us in the 

 shape of that most beautiful of all the adorning apparel of 

 woman^ — that warm, glossy, cosy, fascinatingly lovely, but 

 awfully expensive, seal skin sacque. 



We reached Crane Lake on September 20th. During 

 our ride in the Hunting car Yellowstone we had matured 

 our plans for a big day's sport, and we got it. I saw more 



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