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Daily British Whig (1850), 29 Oct 1912, p. 13

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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, RE-ENACTING HISTORY i DO.LARD'S BATTLE FCUGHT OVER AGAIN AT LONG SAULT. | Moving Picture Artists Ma; Spent the Summer Reconstructing Scenes From Canadian History and Have { Leased the Place With a View to | Returning Next Year--Story of Dol. | lard ls Their First Effort. | Down on the 81. Lawrence River-- j at Lake St. Joseph--a staff of moving | picture actors and operators are en- | gaged on a work which is of interest i to all Canadians, and particularly to | students of Canadian history. They | are reconstructing for generations t. | come, scenes from the early days of the French in the mew world. This | Summer has been spent on the story of Dollard and his fight at the Long Bault. The south shore of Lake St. Louis, which is an expansion of the St. Lawrence river. two miles above the Indian village of Caughnawaga, is in a state of nature--a woodland with open giades here and there, bordered by haw-trees red with ripe fruit, and occasionally a butternut and maple converted into natural arbors by the trailing vines of the wild grape, from which the fruit hangs in purple clys- ters. A little bay sets in. The water is shallow, and on the- sand bars riishes bend before the current. The bavk is sandy, but a maple grove of second growth comes down almost to the water. This is the natural stage on which Dollard's heroic deeds are being "acted" for the benefit, not of spectators on the spot, but for the wonderful camera that catches the views for the motion picture show. Back a little distance are the cot. tage-like buildings erected for the use of the permanent stafi--for the com- pary has leased the shore for a num- | ber of years, and will use it summer after summer as a stage on which to reproduce dramatic scenes from our early history. These modern habita- tions, of course, never appear in the pictures. Excluding these buildings of raw, new lumber, the remainder of the camp makes it easy for the visitor to imagine that he is back in early times, when at any moment a blood: thirety Iroquois was likely to spring from behind a tree with tomahawk or scalping knife in hand. Here is a cluster of tepees, or lodges of bark and skin. each bearing the outline of the totem of its occupants, but the whole discolored by smoke and dirt. Huron allies. A few yards distant, but somewhat nearer the shore, are ledges of rushes ingeniously woven, the whole capped by comical-shaped roofs of birch-bark. These mast pie- turesque but equally uncomfortable dwellings housed the Algonquin war- riors, who, be it said to their credit, stood more loyally by Dollard than did the Hurons, who went over to the enemy. In anotber part of the camp is a log building, constructed exactly as were the buildings of the first settlers. The logs are joined together and the crevices are filled with moss and clay, ond clay is the mortar that holds together. the rough stome of which tlo chimuoey is built. No iron is used in the structure. The hinges on the doors and windows are of wood, and $0 too, are the latches. Not far away is the altar, at which Dollard and his companions received the sacrament before setting out op their expedition; and back in the wods is the stockade around which tle tight raged and in which Dollard and his companies were slain. Such is the stage. For actors the dramatic profession and the Indians of the Caughnawaga reservation, only two miles distant, were drawn upon, and whites and redmen, when they "acted" the famous fight were in ev. ery sense dressed as were the white men and redmen who fought and died at the Long Sault two and a half centuries . When all this is depicted by motion pictures the spectators will see the famous fight as complete tail as it is possible to make it. Buch picetures should certainly pos- sess the power to thrill, and possibly they will do. more. They should not fail to stimulate an interes' in hib- tory. and especially in the history of | those early days so filled with the | stories of heroism and self-sacrifice, of those times Dollard and his men were worthy representatives. It is not necessary here to recount the thrilling story of Dollard's mem- arable feat of heroism; but its essen. tial facts may be briefly enumerated. The drama may be said to open with the scene in the church in Montreal, in which Dollard and his Freneh-Can- adian associates received the sacra. ment before setting out on their quest of a large band of Iroquois, known te have wintered in the Ottawa Valley in order that with the oncoming of spring they may strike New France a fatal blow b oapturing the western outpost of Ville Marie, or Montreal, then only eight years old, Then follows the voyage in canoes frou. Bachine up the western arm of Lake St. Louis, through the Lake of Ie Mountains Bo is pend, where the ake contracts 8, great water. course becomes the Ottawa river, Here, at the foot } they land | 8nd build a camp nearby. low the bloody scenes of the Again and again the Iroq y r k Dallard's stockade, but as ey as they attack they are driven back wits heavy losses. Reinforcements arrive, and at last the Frenchmen are wiped wat, ¥ , a ---- Motorboats From China. Huong Kong is exporting motorboats across the Pacific into Canada. These are the lodges of Dollard's |. in every de. | TUESDAY, OCT FATAL CIVILIZATION, | The- White Eskimos Will Soon Perish } Under Its Ministrations. It is with conflicting emotions that one hears of preparations already making to raise out of barbarism and paganism 'i.e white Eskimos discov- ered in the far north of Canada by Dr. Stefansson Missionaries, ungues- tionably inspired by the highest mo- tives and nobly prepared to encounter cruel hardship and even death 'or the good of this long-lost tribe, are plan- Bing 'o> live with and teach them, and presumably fur dealers and other traders will be equally or more prompt in doing their part toward convincing the supposed descendants of Lief Ericson that Stone Age fash- ions are out of date, Of course complaint about the in. eyvitable is useless. The white Eski. mos have been found. That means the end of their isolation, but it alse means, almost certainly, their rapid destruction. Yo tribe or race as delis cately adjusted to a peculiar environ. ment as these Eskimos must be to have survived where they are. ever yet long withstood contact with a higher and stronger civilization. The common result of such contact has been a ruthless extermination of the weaker people, either by war or slav- ery. When the efforts have been made with the kindly intention of civilizing and elevating the barbarians the on | fects upon them have usually been equally Jisastrous, \ While the inhabitants of Tierra del l Fuego lived out of doors with no other protection, where it snows every | month in the year, than a single skin slung over the windward shoulder, they were healthy rnd fully able with their rude implements to hold their rown against their dreadful climate. When they were persuaded to wear clothes and live in real houses--and to struggle with the vices as well as the virtues of civilization--of course they could not do in a lifetime what it has taken us 'housands of years to learn, and they proceeded to die off with great rapidity This cxperience has been repeated a hundred times on all of the out-of. the-way corners of the earth. and though the other Eskimos have not disappeared as fast as savages usual [ ly do under civilized tutors, yet their numbers have rapidly waned, as every fraveler in their country has noted. And the other Eskimos were partien- | larly fortunate in having tutors who did not try to do too much for them J or to change tLei~ habits too speedily. | Ths whi*s tribe may be treated with \ equal discretion, but there is every provability that for them, too, the ap- proach of civilization will be fatal. Alberta Enthusiastic. The province of Alberta is enthusi- astically taking to the single-tax idea, and many agricultural communitjes in the province will bg organized this year under the rural municipality fect, passed by the last Legislature | and effective in 1913. The new sys. tem provides that taxes shall be levied equaily upon all taxable land in the municipality, according to the assessed value of such land. The as. sessment plan is based upon the fol- Inwine provision in the rural muni. cipality act: i (Land shall be assesse! at its actual cash value as it would be appraised n payment of a just debt from a solvent debtor, exelusive from . the value of any building erected thereon ; or of other increase of value caused ¢ by any other expenditur: of labor or | capital thereon." The question of taxation is déalt with entirely by the council of the rural municipality; The new act fixes the limit to taxation for municipal purposes at 10 mills on the dollar. It i# not expected that a rate will be levied to exceed $8 per 160 acres. and in many cases the rate levied will not exceed $3 or $4. ; The act-proyides that every muni- cipality shall, in so far as it is pos- sible, comprise an area of I8 miles square, or 324 square miles, and all municipalities shall be laid out on a uniform plan, as the conditions of the system of ..e Dominion land survey and the physical features of the province will allow. Flowers In the Snow. Snowstorms__during the summer months are of frequent occurrence in the Canadian Rocky mountain region at an elevation of 10,000 feet and up- ward, sometimes covering the ground to a depth of several inches. The flowers at this elevation are usually small, of delicate tints and very beautiful, but lacking in fra. grance. Owing to the absence of moisture in the atmosphere freezing does pot affect vegetation at this alti- tude as it does nearer sea level. The flowers, after having been completely covered with snow for a day or two, will regain their former vigor after the snow departs, although they will appear slightly wilted for a few days after their snow bath. There is a tiny little flower of tour petals which follows the receding snows far above timber line, which is usually about 11,500 feet above sea level. Bo closely does it follow the melting snows that it is often possible to a'and on one spot, pluck flowers with the right hand and make snow. balis with the left. Gold Mining In Neva Scotia. Gold mining 's about {0 be started on a large scwie ut South Bay, Ingo. ish, Nova Scotis. A modern crushing plant, to cost $50.000. is to be installed immediately. Several conerete build. ings are to be (rected at once at the mines. These mines are situated * about three miles from Ingonish town and the cumpany have built a high- wey three miles in length, Ore is being extracted {fom three tunnels, each about 250 feet in length, driven in the side of the mountain, dhd two shafts which have been sunk 50 feet. The company own a M [60° vein, the ore assaying as high as $180 a ton. Some tons of the ore have 8 ready been banked. . Ne Word for Love. It is related of ane of the early missioparies that in allempting to, translate the Bible ioto Algonquin he could find no word to express "love and was compelled to invent it, BER 28, 1912. HE SHOULD BE DEAD. Bullet In Veteran's Body Enough to Kill Ordinary Man. A remarkable operation has just been successful'y earried through af) the Western Hospital, Montreal, re- sulting in the removal from Mr. Fred Irving of 385 Notre Dame street. Maisonneuve, of a steel-coated Boer bullet which he has been carrying around between his lung and heart since the fight at Talana Hill, Natal, on October 20, 1899. Mr. Irvine was not assured until re cently that he had any Boer material concealed about his person, and only a few weeks ago began to feel that there must be something abnormal in his inward make-up which did not to the onginal Garden of Edén mould, Just how this happened together with the events that followed. is one more of the hitherto unrecorded ex- periences in a war that proved a much loaded-down history of hair-raising tales. yu By all agreement, by all the medical decisions of the army sawbones con- gregation, Fred Irvine, of Paisley, Scotland, ought to-day to have only a number on the war office roll call, and an unmarked grave in the Veldt. When, recently, Mr. Trvine exhibit. ed a 75 cent prize mark on hic chest just over where the heart loeates, he got the medical laugh. "Why, man." he was told, "if yon had got a bullet right in there, vou would have been under the daisies long ago. No man could take 'a shot right there and live": X-rays examination, however, prov- ed that the Scotsman had been hold- ing on te the Boer missile through all the years fram the fight at Maritz's farm. almost thirteen years ago. How it all happened was told in an interview. Just at the beginning of the war, Corporal Irvine, who was a member of Squadron, 15th Hussars (now the Queen's Own), in company with a detachment of the Dublin Fusiliers, were sent out from Dundee uned Col. Moller, to circle round and get in rear of the threatening Boers, advane- ing in strength. This was only nine days after the delivery of the ultima- tum, and Dundee forces had already driven off the Boer attack. To the British went th. victory, but without *upports, it may be remembered they had to fall back on Ladysmith. Meanwhile the small party of 150 men sent out to turn the enemy's flank, and of which Corpl. Irvine was a unit, had got in a tight corner. They were miles away from the main force, and as it turned out had 4,000 enemies between them. and their comrades gallantly stood up te face the foe, gradually falling back on the Maritz farm in rear of Talana hill. It was in course of this retiring fight that Irvine was hit. but right here comes coincidence number ene Some peovle will label it something more than an intervention of coin- cidence. Corpl. Ityine had been in the habit of carrying his strongly-bound note book in the upper right pocket of his tunic. For some reason or other, he happened to transfer it to the left pocket of this particular day. "or what reason he cannot particu- larly recall to-day. Whatever the reason or. want of reason, the change of book saved the Corporal's life, for early in the fight, a mauser hit the edge of that book and instead of carrying on its jour- ney right through the Aitken heart, it got diverted, and as recent Montreal investigation proved, turned a som ersault behind the volume entered between Irvine's ribs near end to the front, and brought up between the heart and the left lung. With four thousand of the enemy playing shell and bullét on the farm the remnant of the little band had of course to mark time and were therzafter transported to Pretoria where they remained until the Rob- erts' relief in June following The Boer medico could find no bul. let, but told Irvine to get ready to die quick, and later on a British field doctor smilingly assured the gallant Scot that judging by the size of the wound thé bullet must have buckled back out of the same hole by which it entered And a! the time Irvine was carry ing about the extra weight. Rapid Progress Made. Rapid progress is being made with the construction of stations along the main and branch lines of thé Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and an effort is to be put forth that will result in a station being erected at every stopping place from coast to coast with the comvnletion of the line. Out of a total of 237 stations, 79 have been complet. ed, 58 are in various stages of con- struction, while 100 remain to be erected, The work on the construction of the G.T.P. stations is as follows: Main line, Winnipeg te Fitshugh, 150 sta. tions, 68 compieted, 44 under construc. tiom, and 40 not started Yorkton branch, 10 stations, 2 completed, 5 under construction, and 3 not started Regina branch, 17 stations, 4 compiet- ed, 3 ander construction, and 10 not started. Calgary branch, 32 stations. 4 completed, 3 under construction, and 25 not started. Prince Albert branch, 19 stations, 3 under @natruction, and 16 not started. A Splendid M.H.O. Fort. 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