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WATERMAN IDEAL FOUNTAIN PEN REDUCTION OF _5O PER CENT. IN % MANY` LINES. ~ SMITH BARBIE `AND STROUD. 111EA1>vANcE With Any Paper A BARGAIN LOT OF Letterheads, Noteheads, Billheads, Envelopes,Statements, Dodgers, Etc. FROM A DOLLAR AVTHOUSAND UP, FOR ;THE NEXT FEW MONTHSAAT '1"1:_3.ted `Tea. and Coffee Pots, Crumb Trays and Children s Sets, Carpet Sweepers; THE ADVANCE (rs % RATES IN THE DOMINION EVERY ONE `GUARANTEED WILL/-`T Clubbing Rates PrinLtjng.. __mmm 31, 1903 Goods -Iuueu. ,_ ` . Fifteen years ago the schooner Nellie Hunter went to the bottom on her second trip. She was bound `with coal from Oswego to Toronto. ,and carried. a` crew -of seven men, as iwellras two `passengers. '_None_ at -_'them `were`ever seen again. - vuvu ayII\J ALAS VJUW Us JJVU VVVLU luau. The ill-fated name "Emera,_1d" ap-` p'ea.rs more than once in the marine chronicle of 1880. On Jan.v26 Wm. Brown, a, seaman, was drowned of! the schooner Emerald in Luke On- tario. In May the propeller ' Oswego ;13ell_e had its name changed to Emer- ald at Collingwood-. and a. month later _one of its sailors, `Patrick El- liott,` fell from the mast` and was killed. . _ ` ' ins;-L , "-- ` - In vlbw \II \J `V \.IO [lull LIIGII LJKJIIIM I\ U- In April of 1880 the schooner N'orithma.nVcapsized ten miles of! Port -Credit,'a.nd the captain - and nine men all perished. In the` following September the schooner Olive Branch `foundered between the Main Ducks and" the -False Ducks, and Captain `Cook and his crew of five` were lost.- ; IIRL- 1111-1.-.` ,, -_, Von`; v vs:-Ivj 6lGl\-I K5995` EKCHQC The same year, 1880, was one; of `the worst in the history of the Great Lakes, and mariners still speak of it in impressivetones as` a proof that lake sa,ili`ng., although less ro- mamtic, may be fully as dangerous an occupation as a life on _the high `seas. In 1880 the total loss of life on the lakes was 456, which was in -excess of that of any previous sea.- :son since-1860, the year of the Elgin horror. - - _,_,;_ `Y u >1" -.3- ,uuL1.p.u. In the same November gale which `sent the Zealnnd tothe bottom, the schooner Belle Sheridan Went` down near I{in.gston with Capt. J ames Mc- Sherry, his three sons and two other seamen, only one member "of the `crew being saved. Ths schooner Nor- way foundered in the same storm. all the crew of ten men` being lost. .'Tn' Ans-{I A4` 1000 4-LA .Q..I.....`...... .d1d 'you wouldxft `have :`;,h_:,ea . V` ` )1 . ` caning- guppe; :3} ten.` f DC It was `Viv uvv-.oav vulv an-1556570 llrll-I0 One of the most mysterious disas- ters in the history of Lake Ontario was that of the propeller Zealand, .which sailed with a cargo of flour trom Toronto for Montreal in the early part of November, 1880. A erce gale raged on the lake after the vessel's departure, but no anxiety was felt for its safety until it was so long overdue that it became ap- 'parent that it had gone down. Its fate could only be conjectured, how- ever, for not one of the crew of `six- teen came ashore, either alive or dead, and not a sliver of_ wreckage was found to indicate how or where the vessel had been sunk. ' rf._ __... _ _ _ _ ` .. 1fi('\I\ __-.. H 7 A ..:.' .' .. . The Attu.tAlon.~ I gi Hc~-I'd `give up` _all my uglllionltoi shave you.` ` % V - ..m`nn.-* 1'4 _-.. 1.11 ',..-..-.-`...I.I-'05 .1...--' W.` 7' The loss oi the schooner Picton,` two years "ago, with all hands, is still fresh in the memory of the pub- lic. It was a parallel to that of the Emerald in that the master and his -son went down together. The Picton was at one time owned by Captain llcoster, and he sailed her for over ve years, disposing of_ her when he `bought the Emerald. V539 V` UUVC` 5 91 Lake Wie. this is due to the increased density of the water of Lake Ontario, because oi its greater, depth. They say, too, that while Lake Erie is much more unruly on account of its shallowness, its waves do not possess the same force as those of Lake Ontario, and if giv. en their choice of lakes on which to weather a storm of given" .violence. they would choose Lake Erie. ' They do not pretend to harmonize their views with the teachings of science, they _only present them as their own personal belief, says The Mail and Empire. s . s ' ` PHI`; I.\..- -0 4.1.- _-I_-_..-.. LAG-BU UILLGI IU lallaafl all TI.l_A_-._ Their explanation is that Vbavvv `Lake sailors have a. theory of their own that the waters of the various `lakes possess a distinct individuality, which they ascribe to the variance in depth of these big bodies of` water. They say that e.--vessel passing from- one.1a.k.e to another, will without any changes whatever in the ca.r'go,i be V. found to ride fully one inch higher in the waters of Lake Ontario than on` '7 -l.- 'l:..:- nu.-.-_- __-J ,_- . loss of the luau-old Recalls Vulou hu- Ilton in Ontario-1880 Was` the Buck You-. l The loss of the schooner Emerald ` with all hand, has served to recall to the `memory of mariners, vessel owners, and others interested in lake` shipping, some of the many similar disasters of which Lake Ontario has been the scene. Whenever two or three old lake sailors have been gathered together recently, the talk has tum- ed naturally from the sad fate of the Emerald, and its brave master. and crew, to other disasters which have come to the notice of the nar- rators, either from the.lips of others or through their own persone.l experi- ence. ' .:_n;"_1;uL Fel_t whom. V 1}* boy mu tell you th.t gyen '% `ALL--_, _I[....-.... 5.-.: ` h 'J4`L ' ' ` ' `LAKE Twnack necomi.` `Snake Killing Cat: of Cairo. A native woman living in old Cairo was entering her house when. to her great terror, she perceivedal snaketof . formidable dimensions, which had tak- en possession of thehearth during the woman s'absence. The woman ed, leaving the door open. Her cat then appeared on the scene, entered, aw ' the cobra. put -up its back and tail, spat and otherwise manifested its hostility and in turn `went out. A few minutes afterward it returned incompany with a second cut. After a similar exhibi- tion ,both went out and returned, .with a third. and `similarly went away,` re- turning tinally with a fourth. Con- sidering thut suicient force had been recruited `to kill the snake. the four at once ' fell on the reptile, and after '9. short but erce struggle the latter was literally torn to pieces. A . ` nu. --v v v.--u Be oivii. sir; And now tell "me in "what latitude and longitude you cross- ed the equator." T Ah. you are joking." _ f`No, sir; I am in earnest, and I de- sire an answer. That s more than I can give." Indeed. You a chief matoand un-H able to answer so simple a quetloni N17-.. 4.]... ..a........I.....;. ...--...L1-.. 1 __-__ .-~-- v moan: -. my uugoo-`a-v yo \1su\uv-ruavono Yels. the 'simplest ques on I -ever was asked.` . I thought even a fool of _a lawyer knew there's no latitude at the equutor.-Success. anseet Traps. Brazilian birds. y catchers. display a brilliantly colored crest easily mis- taken for a ower cup. Insects , at- tracted by what appears to be a fresh- lyopened blossom. furnish the `birds with food. An Asiatic lizard is en-_ tirely colored like the surface of the desert plains where it lives except that at each angle of the mouth blooms a -brilliant. red folding of the esh exact- ly resembling a9 little ower that grows in `the. sand." A Insects laredlyby the seeming ower an iincontiently dis- wn-tenedl 7t!=n;*!* W6 non it he 1 f ' Apyouincep ,Aa.lnnt Elm.` "Do you mean"-[to `intimate that, the - prisoner 1,vo,a'lntox1_catedV?" ' ` 11111-11 ..`.....'.......' '......' . .'......'..... A" "5.-....c..~..1. "'~ -"vir2If, "a3-7p77-ES5'}emea "against Zhimxl _ i ,. .. . W f'W_hat .uppe1u`anceu?" . . . A nrwan 'Nr L =?~ Was there a moon that night?" Yes..slr." _ - Did you see it? No. sir." L ' Then how did you know there was a moon?" _ . , - The `Nautical Almanac said so. and I'll believe that sooner than any lawyer in the world. Burns chaste Wan Beaten. - As one of the very few occasions when the wit or Rufus Choate was rolled an incident is recalled whenthat . brilliant lawyer was examining one Dick Barton. ehiet mate of -the ship Challenge. Choate had cross examined him for `over an hour,` hurling ques- tions with the speed or `a rapid re '-vr v-- - --v----on---w-u And I may say in passing it is useful to them in many way, for not only op- eratives. but business men `of every de- scription. frequently need those pecul- iar faculties which got to make up a criminal chaser. I once knew a man who had the instinct so strongly de- veloped that he thought of nothing else than the unraveling of mysteries` and chasing clews. He "found some- thing of interest in the slightest case 01 theft and would amuse himself a by working it out. It became a `mania with him. and he was a sourceof much - amusement to the officers. , There was never a murder day or night that he was not among the first on the scene, and his peculiar talents frequently ena- bled him to lend-valuable assistance to the regular force." T civilians Frequently Are Better. gleuthq Than Professionals. ' . `".'l.`he detectiveinstinct is inborn in some people," observed an old detective. and it is a rather curious thing when you think" about it. I have known good detectives, naturally so, who were new er connected in any manner with the" service. They possess all -the mental qualities of a sleuth-quickness to grasp a situation, keen perception, rae pidity of thought, strongly developed power or deduction, and extreme ner'- ous ativity. While it is true all great detectives "have acquired distinction through hard work and unagglng ap- plication, it is also true that many men have the detective impulse. so rmly welded into their natures that it will crop out in spite of themselves. 411...: 1- ...__._-_.I__ _.A__.:.__._ ;Ln_ __.._A_-u m-:'r:-zcmva ms'rmc'r.' -oagav vv I vsliluv A uousllsn The old records give some interest- ing acc_ounts of how the great busi- ` ness was conducted. The chief fac- tor was responsible for the. good `conduct of all. He was the exalted functionary and lord paramount. His \ word wasnal and his will supreme. He clothed himself in suchea. halo of dignity that his person was almost vheld sacred; . e His `dress consisted of a. suit of black or dark blue cloth, white shirt, 1 vhighicollar, frock .coa,t, velvet stool: I -`ma straps to the bottom of his . trousers._ He wore a. costlyblack beaver halt; When traveling this fancy` piece of headgear was covered by an oiled silk cover, and -his ordi- nary. costume wassupplemented by 9. long, ashy cloak with capes. ' His arrival or departure from a. post was signalized-by the ring of: salutes. ` "\n l\I`l\III vvviuun uunn.n.;nn.I 4.- I.'DL'I.2._. Inna wwyun \oaanUIrWu\z|J0, To get possessibn of a. fa.ct.or s cast-o beaver hat made an Indian a. big man among his people. The ef- fect upon the" factor- was often as bad as the result 1_ipon the Indians was good; he frequently `became so ' conceited _.a.a` to J bo_ intqlerablo. _, _ V. 290;: 93 316. cniuu _ ._ ~ .h"i.. ..`->1"h. .cojat .. 1 "British -. ;cb1um1g:;- ifivgeye - "men performed wonderful `feats of 1 lIv|,\.aAIl,|.}`\.lJ '1 K Iajllll lJ'Z 1J\I|Jll'\l. That it took I Itrong man ' to} qualify for service.\vith the Hudson ` Bay is shown by the fact that when } carrying was necessary each man was expected to emove eight or ten.` packages (168 pounds) for a. quarter of i pieces (168 pounds)_t'or a qua.I'ter of a. mile without resting. Some of the strength and .en-durance while moving`, the ,goods. The record `was estab- lished when `one husky burden-bearer carried six `pieces (.504 pound's)e one mile without` resting. "'ID ni 1-nnnn-tin n-"11.-. shun- {ml-nuns`: In-Bonuntooldvun Lag vnnv 6105016 \.lI- Duollllaktn The crew were required to lift him in and out of his boat. In camp his tent was pitched apagt from those of his men. He had a. separate fire, ewhich the crew had to `start before they looked after their, own wants. The explanation is oered that all this` ceremony was considered 1icces- sary because it had a good` effect upon the Indians, and e.-dded-to the dignity of the fector, "in the eyes of his suberdina,tes., . . - - _ u-osuv u vcsno uuuuu so The first Hudson Bag; traders went so far froxn home that it took seven years for those at the most remote `stations to. get returns from their .shipmeQ_ts. '1`hese pioneers in `North American commerce endured ' great hardships 'and reaped rich rewards. The account` of one expedition states that after all their stock in trade was disposed of, they added $20,000 worth of .furs to their cargo by trading "old clothes, bits of iron and `tries that otherwise woul-d have been thrown away. How Business Was Dons. The manner of communication em- _braced every possible means of_trans-- portation. Horses, boats, dog trains, and when none of these could the _ utilized the traders carried the" goods- upon their backs. All merchan-dize, either supplies or furs, was made i114- to packapws weighing 84 pounds. mkn` = `A1-`lo g cal-`nos-ans us`:-nus J.-, uyaavuu-v \Il I.1Lv' Ivvwua } - `Victoria V has every reason to be ; proud of its" association with -the Hudson s. Bay Company. The his- tory of this old corporation reads` like the fanciful tale of some adroit story-.t.eller. "It was organized in 1670 unger a royal charter granted when Charles II. was King. It was dubbed the Honorable `Company 01 Merchant Adventures of . England." The first sale of 3,000 beaverskins took place in a London coffee house, and Dryden, the poet, was there to _write a. verse about it. I The trumpet call to grips that is sounding through the west, arousing new commercial forces, nds few re- cruits in Victoria. The people here are rich, or `well-to-do; or, if neither, satised. `?What s the odds," _say they; we are living Well and en- joying ourselves in our own way. ~ Don't bother us with your new-fang- 1 led notions about getting on." 'I`}1af u fhnil` 111135. nf fnlziamnv Iifn on;-I 1 -ova lnvvsvuw uuvuu EIFUIIJLIH cl]. schedule _ of the; West. ']`ha.t- s their way oftakinig life, and they unquestioxiably have the right to cut their own cloth. The worst that .can be said of them is that they. lack ginger. They are good neigh- bors; They treat the stranger well. The Victorians are all right, except that they are running behind the - 1)'._A___._ vlav Q uvaaav t _The history of the place is _.in- separably -linkedwvith the ancientj Hudson's Bay Company, `which won this portion of the continent for Bri-' with the prospect of their future, 3 tain s red banner in the long ago. ; While other coast towns are alive i Victoria is complacent in the glory of her past. She is proud of her hon- I; orable age. Her people hold fast to 1 their old traditions-and tha.t s Eng`- lish. ` ` 815 um: uupmmy Llnkod wm: ha. ` `pic Won-to-di A` 0 - and 71330 Lin `"9:-3 ' lunj no 3 3:10-8:01-y or the iludo i un'g Buy company so It Bolgtoftc ` It; Beginning in Victor-in. ` Victoria, 13.0., is said to be thin one plane, above all others on the `American continent, where` an Eng- lishmam may feel at home. The qaks ` and laurels and hollies of Victoria. make it seernlike a bit of old Eng- land dropped down at the door .0! the Pacific. fl1I-_ I__'_A.A,, L -m"1.`.l'1eir little city is famed for its -beauty, for its cleanliness, for its law and order, but its . as old-fashs toned asthe old-fashioned owers in the door-yards. In an alley there is a, blackboard where the citizen Writes with a. piece of chalk his desire `to sell his bull terrier. pup, or to `re- gai_n_his lost: pocketbook. H11...` ....-.'._I.-._4... -_..._ .I__.._ L_,J.I,-_'_ '=--.__- -.-- _v-.- `,.,..,..-,,-,.,.,.,--. The merchants come down to` their stores as late as they did 20 years ago, make their little prots and go home. again`. They have always ta.k- 1 en things easy, `and they will con- tinue so to do. ' ElHGLlSHM_EN\AT HOME IN `me am. `nu. or-'. BRITISH COLUMBIA. _LIIIOI` lud;oa'a conpuiy-_roo- ' People .111. won-t'o-no. _._._ ..--_ _....-.v-up vs usual 1111368 uuu "ears for expressing too freely their opinions, political andreligious. T r ' The drains were in an appalling con- dition. The innumerable churchyards were so full or comns that they often projected through the turt. Bear and bull baiting, dog _ tights` and boxing- matches were attended even by royalty "as late as 1820, and "live years later all ms .the da`nd1s" in.London rvvfe1_0fI"nar1nc` . .`f':'` t I-Lvrlce-sivom burn to ; two at their :' when `Traitors Heads Adorned Lon- don Bridge and Tinple Bar. p p London in 1700 was a comparatively small city of about 600,000 inhabitants, the rough and ill kept main roads to. which had been but slightly improved since Tudor times. The ghastly specta- cle ot many of the trees on the South- wark road bending under their burden of hanged men had indeed been slight- ly modied, but none the less the de- composing heads or traitors still filled. the atmosphere about London "bridge and Temple Bar with myriads on banetui microbes. _v t\.... .|._._..-.1n-ne A - --- an-n n-nnnwovlibc Our immediate torbears were evident- ly not overparticular `bout sights and smells. They were accustomed to see men sitting in the plllory pelted with rotten eggs and possibly included among their immediate circle not a few who had been deprived oi.` their noses and -Anna Can non-`uni-.. .4... 4..., Croat Port for Icahn. Victoria's more recent claim to at- tention arose from its being the , great port for sealers. The industry , was atpits best in the early nineties. , and the eet of vessels hailing from i Victoria at that time numbered 60. There are now 42 vessels in the eet, and half of them are at anchor in the harbor here, with nothing to do. They are dead capital to their own- ers. The Victorians are still very bitter over being barred from the Behring Sea sealing grounds. -They. still` engagein what is called coast sealing, - and this method of taking the seal is the most interesting, most humane and most skillful. The season begins in January, when the fur-bearers are returning to their rookeries in the north. They are found anywhere from 10 to 200 miles from the coast. "Each schooner will have seven small boats," each manned by three -men, two to pull the oars and one hunter. The white hunter! use a high~grade shot-gun, and the Indians a spear. The seals live on the surface of the water, except when they are feeding._ The hunters try to `surprise them when they are `asleep. A seal snores like a drunken fat man. It has two postures in the `Water when asleep, one in a natural position, with only its Head showing, above the surface,j`and the other on" its side, with its head protected by one ipper. ' ` . ' - uxuu ulusyax V. . The Hudson's Bay Company is now a gigantic mercantile concern. It has nearly .200 stores in Canada. No place is too large or too small for it to operate `in. It has one post over 200 miles north of Dawson, and one }that is over 1,000 miles north of IMontreal. This last named post is T about 200 miles nearer the north pole than the northernmost tip of Newfoundland. The man who runs this store for the company never in- cludes palm leaf fans or straw hats in his orders, and he never has to have out of season" sales on ear. mus. They are a staple article every day in the year. ' "11... 1...... ..u:.... .0 +1.. u ..Aa....I.. 9 V `Fl J BLCIIJ III IJIIKF J DID` I I`he home office of the Hudson : Bay Company is still at_No. 1 Lime street, London. The stockholders `be- gan drawing dividends in 1671, and the venerable organization still yields its annual prots. Every English- man is justly proud of its great. record. ` C-LLU vvo `As a great commercial enterprise t_he.Hudson'vs Bay Company had but one rival who accomplished more, and that was the.Ea.st'India. Com- pany, which won India for the Bri- % } tish Empire. rI`I-sn TJ'u1rIa.r\un'n nu H...Mn....n :5 nnvn xu uvv uo uVcI.uvu. One account tells how some early "traders came to grief. . As a ship loaded with provisions came to an- chor in a harbor it was boarded by Indians and every member of the ex- pedition killed but "one. The one member of the crew who succeeded in secreting himself managed to touch on the powder magazine while the Indians were pilaging the cargo, and over 100 of the marauders were blown to pieces. While the lesson was a costly one, it taught the In- dians that the whites were dangerous to trie with, and that the best Way to get alongwas the peaceable way. Creation of the Company. A Victoria was the creation of the: Hudson's Bay Company. \It was the I \ outcome of a politica1`neo_essity.' When the Oregon boundary question. 3 became so acute and the - inrush of 1 American pioneers to the valleys of ?the Columbia and its tributaries in ` Washington and Oregon occurred, the -Hudson sBay people saw clearly that `they would have "to move farther north if they were to remain under the protection `of the British ag. Victoria owes her existence to this move. ' _ ....__A_ ___,-..-._`__.....I __-L........._.,. T.`.\I.l \Il CZIIEIIAIIKIO The history of the operations of this great company shows that` no other organization was ever more successful i-n dealing with the In- } dians. The red men were not allowed \ free access to the forts, but were al- } ways treated with civility and some- Vtimes with hospitality, A lookout had to be maintained for bad . In- dians. and sometimes serious trouble cotuld not be averted. - A _ A n . . .-A. `-11.. L`: a......- ..-..l_- l" -i ~i;;"i,;37.;?1gI{;Zs"3:i"zi'."e 32$ leer; re- gulated by the ringing of the fort bell. Strict. discigline was enforced; The laborer's' day closed at 6, o'clock, but .erko haivto work until 9 in the evening. No` irregularities were allowed, and all hands, regardless of l their special tenets of religion. had. r to attend serviceevery. Sunday morn- ; ing in the officers `mess room. The : oicer in charge read the service, and although he was often a Presbyterian or a, Roman Catholic, he had to use the common prayer book of the Church of England. fl`)... l.:..J.-.... 95` 4|... -..-..-:...... -0 ihat.miEl'1t airisof The gates "Willi 3 closed to everyone after 9 o'clock at % night, and a watch `was set. ` FBI..- ....--......-..--4.. -2 51.- .I_.. _..-..- .._ LONDON IN 17oo.% l7 :2. of all kinds in stock or made L Funeral Requisites furnished. `'5 1% k;?;9:i:9h6ywiso promptly attended to. 9-`ya;-.H:99I`o l.._-..-.!. V` ._ , I I Ur-up Ausvuugurg DI/rvwwo ou%noonu.:onIior-st.,nmi. ihristmas ;& '>%++++++T+++++++++++++++++_++++++++++++$ p+o++++++++++++oo+++++o+4+++++++++++o++o+++o+ L THE NEWEST BOOK. We have them. '01-` Excmxn Pmuznns AND HYMN8, Mmnonxsr A.\'D bindings; CATHOLIC PRAYER Boon. 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