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9l'\VII` l til I_-v ----uv--`nu--- In they 1:` 1789 the crew` of the British W .ip Bounty, mutinied against the s - erityyof the commander. Captain Blig` . They put him and eighteen loy`. -companions into the ship's launchgtwith a small supply of food and W9. ,r and a compass, but neither sexta nor chart. By mig- nificemt seam`: nship be accomplished o"he of the mo ~ - remarkable voyages in history, saili his open boat 3600 miles across tli vast Pacific and bring- ing it safely L Timor in the Dutch East Indies, `ithout the. loss of a (Copyright by Mcclelland & stewart, . . Limited, Toronto) THE STORY or THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT ' Over a. hundred years ago there lived in Scotland 8. great many `people who were very poor indeed. Some of these had only very small farms to live on and others had no.ta.rms- at all. A uvnu-up n-nnl` rnnn `YIQYYIPA T.nrd Sel- and others naa l'l0~I8.l`II1S'8.I. an. A very good man `named Lord Sel- kirk saw how poor these people were and wanted to help them. So he wrote - to the Hudson's Bay Company and asked them whether theywould give these people some land it they came `over to Canada. "I|r\ `IInRunn u Rnv (".nmna.nv PLEASING PLAYS GIVEN 4 nvrupns or ovanm-2N 3 I I The cunsunas closing on Uvellucu _- again tookthe form of a- Shakesparan play." `The Merchant of Venice)? preceded by a uularly tertaining _ little French play. "Les: Trois Citrons,". presented by the jun-; ior pupils. - - , _' g The Os-end:-n plays have always been wdl acted. I1.-ll staged and well `received,hutthegene'!-alopinionseems to be that the splendid presentation of `The Merchant of Venice" on Thurs- day last surpassed all former sucess-! and au aeserve mucn prarse. - Miss Elsie Sumner- s portrayal of . Portia was exceptionally clever, While! the spontaneous and infectious humor; of`Miss Barbara Scadding as young; Launcelot Gobbo, won the audiencei completely. ` - A V A4-'+m- Hm .n1av Miss Elzood and Miss` completely. 1 After the play, Miss Elgood and Miss` Ingram received the guests in the I drawing room wherevrefreshments were served`. L mr....1.. ....m:n+ ac Ann 1\/Ties: Qfnnninz. _e3. ' | The young actresses entered into their parts enthusiastically, and one; and all deserve much praise. * NI -fan: Tluio Qumnm-'1: nm-traval of Much credit is due Miss Stenning for the artistic and colorful costumes and scenery. . A-nnnna +110 (\` (1-iris: Wh 8.SQiSted| man. ! It is -not wit Captain Bligh and his companions-th we are at present con- cerned but wit` the fate of the mutin- eers. They s ed the Bounty back to Tahiti where e remained and were captured by a; ritish war-ship. iThe remainder of e mutineers, nine in number, sailed ways from Tahiti, tak- ing with them eighteen natives. six men and twelte women. They were ' under the comriiand of Fletcher Chris- ` tian, t_he onlygone of their number who understoo hnavvigatlon. . r` `nothing was heard of them. The were believed to be Jostin the ho dless South Pacific, Then an Ame can ship touched at Pitcairn Island, a tiny speck of land 1 two miles long by one miles broad, Zhalf-`way betwen New` Zealand and South America.` There he found one Englishman, t ` sole survivor of the mutineers, eig (or nine Tahitan wo- men and a. c nsiderable number of half-breed and. ative children. rrw... mm a nf Hm qbftlomnnf m1 l4e'_UneI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .n.. AVLGL uu The Merchant of Venice .The Duke of Venice . . . . .. R. Adams The Prince of Morocco B. Calderwood The Prince of Arragon D. Worsley Antonio, Merchant of Venice .~.` . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. F. Featherstonhaugh Bassanio, his friendand sister to Por-I tia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P. Scadding 'Salanio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. Turnbull Salarino . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. Morris Salerio . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . N. Hargreaves `G1-atiano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. Bell Lorenzo, in--love with Jessica . . . . .. M , , _ , _ _ R. McAree and scenery. ` Among the Old Girls who assisted were, Misses Anna Stephens, Irene Hill, Elsie Raikes, Christabel Raikes, Helen Palling and Helen Lawson. rm... no`-cfn nf fhn fwn nlnvn were as! Le Pxfince . . . . . . . .. La Negresse . . . 1st Princesse . . . . . 2nd Princesse . . . . . 3rd Princesse . . ._ L I-Iiver . . . . . . . . . . L'Ete . . . . . . . . . . . . . L Automne . . . . . . . . . Le Printemps . . . . . Dames de la tour . n n 1-1e1en 1-',a.u1ng anu nexell .u'a.wsuu. 1 The casts of the two plays were as follows: ` T.nn 'I"v-niu {" inage` Le _Ck shy1d1,' ai'c'1i J'e'6v' I I I I I I 15."J3BB`f Launcelot Gobbo, a servant to Shy- 1.m1. ` R Q:-ondinz Launcelot UODDO, a. servant. LU Buy- lock . . . . . . . . . . . B. Scadding Old Gobbo. father to Launcelot . ; . . . . M . Crouch` Old UODDO, Iatner to uaulxcexuc ; M. Crouch ` Ba1tha'.2.1.',' '5 ' Servant to Portia . . . . . . ` . `I 'I`1n-nhull Jsaltnasar, a servant LU rurua. . . . . . I. Turnbull ,Portia, a rich heiress . . . . E. Sumner ` Nerissa, her waiting maid . M. Stewart "Jessica, daughter to Shylock . . . . . . .. ' . ,, F`, Trmes not leave them long in peace. I Once more they swooped down upon the settlers; they burned their houses and destroyed everything they bad. And once mor the settlers had to go away. This tim they went to a. trading post called No way House. n..+ Mme xxrihfnr mnra npn-n'lA name nalr-Dreeu anu. auve Uuuuruu. The first yea s of the settlement on. Pitcairn Island "ad been a perfect riot of drunkenness lawlessness, lust and bloodshed. Fl tcher Christian and several others h (1 been murdered. The rest had died 0 their ownlexcesses. At the end of t 11 years John Adams (or as his right name was, Alexander Smith) was the only man left. . Vhnn fhn nhnn nnmn, .Tnhn Adams caueu Norway nuuse. But that winter more people camel out from Scotland, and as `soon as!` spring came again hey all went back - to Red River; hop'ng' that this times they wouldbe left in-peace. - dBut once more they were disappoint- e . - ' - - . One evening when most of the work was over, some women and children saw riding toward them a party of men, hideous in war paint and feathers. Poor people! They knew very well who these dreadful creatures were. and ' they ran as fast as they could to tell ` the rest of the people. A.-___._..-._ -3 LL.` 'L'I'.u.Innun n `Dav! 5:: . . . Chef rm. Les Trois CitronsV 130111` . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .B. Creswicke, M. Leslie` . . . . . . . N; `Plummet. . . . A; Martinl In-nab than M. Finlaysonl H. Bacon; Mary Morris] .. G.` Heward M. Holtbyf .. M. McAreel H. McGibbon; E. Heward` S. Plummer G. Morris: ucaruua. nunoll R. McAx-ee . . D. Jennings nu-xvuf I-A Q1511- Innes So they had toA stay, and once they returned. to Red River. ,, .1 _A__. :4 .__-__-J A... 30 `\1\l\I-- |.AA\.4J Luau-`An uvu -V -way. ..--. ._ >And now it seemed as it better times were in store for them. Their crops grew finely and they `had a splendid harvest. The people were very glad and ' thankful. They thought once more that their troubles were at an end. `I`l'T8n4-nu `kn:-I -nn-nv nnrnn "and fnr fh Smltn) was Lne only man 1c1.l.. . Then the chan came. John Adams `was a man pas forty years of age. `He was an almost illiterate sailor. whose earlier ye rs had been spent in hard service in e navy, interspersed with spells of dr nkenness and riotous living, ending in nutiny and this wild, savage life on an unknown island. Now he saw the futility of it all. In the tragic fate or!` his companions, he `realized that "the wages of sin is death." He reso `red to save it it were possible, the rem nt of his life from destruction, and save these native or half-native c_ ldren from the sins of their fathers. ' - `IJVIAI-AI-nan (`I-`win!-I 'n ivkn Ann nr1nn9fn' end. Winter had now come, and for the rst time they were living in their `Red River homes. They were quite comfortable and happy when one-after- `noon a terrible snow storm came. The whole country grew almost as dark as night. `The snow fell in great masses for several days. At this time many of the settlers were out Hunting and were a long way from home. The snow fell so fast that it was impossible for them to get back, and they had to stay. in the snow drifts for -days. They had no 'food and were nearly starved when at last their friends were able to reach #1` non ICLDL Ll them . Du+ more Certain lamps, irrespective of the amount of care bestowed upon them in theway of cleaning, always seem to gym@@a@&@wa@a@aa@w&@a@ burn dimly. This may be remedied by dropping` small pieces of camphot into the bowl with the oil. mutineers andfmurderers up _to a high level of Christian living. He died at `sixty-nine `years of stage. The elast. twenty odd years of his life had re- deemed it from utter failure, in spite of the `black record of the previous forty or more. To-day the brown- skinned descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty, and their Polynesian wives, whether on Pitcairn Island or on Norfolk Island where theoverflow emigrated, aretamong the most re- ligious, moral and 1`a.w-abiding com- munities in the woridy`? They are the fruit of John Adams" resolve to save the remnant of his life from destru(- tion. ` 7 m1.:.. 4:. +14.) nanuemcrn nf (`ind in nvnrvv ` U0!) . This is the message of God to every man.` It is never too_1a r.e to mend. Behold I stand at the door `and knock. God has no pleasure in the failure of a. life. He is always wait- ing for men to turn and save` their lives from utter failure. However late it may be, there is yet a chance that the last year may save the wreckage of all the years vs>hich_ went before. _ T"Ir\{cc :<.- nu. inna$Io'!1 n1f"fi1>. nlnqinz` which went before. This is tl:~c_~ message! oftne closing days of the year. However few they may heather are yet enough to save the year from total loss." The last week of the years may redee1_n`_all the others. It cannot call the other weeks backagain. They are gone forever. But it may cast a. sunset brightness over a year which otherwise would close in clouds and darkness. Christ is still saying: Gather up the frag- ments that remain." If thev be sav- ed, all is not lost. . . FAMOUS CANADIAN!` 5_T_0R!E.5;../ Re`-`told. for-`|:i|;en by Leslie Harrier