: By JANET MUNRO Courtsey Canadian National Railway Magazine. Tr "' "Never a bedraggled trapper or pros- pector, ved or white," says Washburn, "was ever turned away from Switt's with an empty stomach. If an un fortunate lost his outfit in the river 1 was always, 'If we can got to Swift's place he'll fix us out'" And, for 30 years, Swift was the only homesteader at Jasper. Bet- tween Edmonton and Kamloops there was no other place where the travel ler might obtain potatoes, butter, fresh cream, and there were few travellers in that period--not.a score a year--otherwise the supplies might have failed. That does not count the Indians, for up and down the passes, from Yellowhead to Athabaska, still roam the descendants of the old Iro- quols voyageurs, brought in by the Hudscn's Bay Company a century ago. To-day, Lewis Swift, ploneer, and Suzette Chalifour, his wife, are old people In their seventies, Not be- tween the Atlantic and Pacific is there a finer old pair, Swift's eyes are blue as the sky spreading over the top of old Pyramid Mountain at his back; and kindly, it keen, is that "blue-eyed desert stare." Fifty-five years ago, the call of the wild came to him while selling light- ning rods in Buffalo. For a while he drove the Deadwood stage coach in Dakota. The '80's found him in British Columbia, Then he rode the Bani? ccuntry before ever a tourist, Alpine climber or trall rider heard of it. He fraternized with Donald Man- son at Kamloops and, still riding, came into old Fort Edmonton to shop. There he ran'across some of the men who had been with Walter Moberly on the trial survey of the Canadian Pacific Railway by the Yellowhead Pass in 1872. Moberly was an engineer, brother of H. J. Moberly, Hudson's Bay Com- pany chief factor, author and centen- arian. The Canadian Pacific aban- doned (he line by Yellowhead for the Kicking Horse Pass route. Not un- Hil 1911 did the Grand Trunk utilize Moberly's observations and build a railway through Jasper. Swift listened to the stories of Mob- erly's men, and straightway made up Lis mifd to settle In their beautiful Jasper Valley. Leading his pack ponies he trekked in from Fort St. Anne to the Athabaska, and along 2a banks to the half-ruined and aban- doned trading post of Jasper House, some 28 miles down the river from the Jasper Lodge of te-day. Lewis Swift unloaded his pack- tcrses on historic ground. David Thompson passed that way in 1810 with his assistant, William Henry, who built Henry House near the site of the present town of Jasper. The first great brigade passed through in 1814, John Jacob Astor's clerks re- tgrning east from the mouth of the Columbia by that circuitcus way after the Northwest Company had acquired their post, Astoria. With Gabriel Franchere in charge, were 76 men, ex: clusive of their families; a motley crowd of Scotch traders; Indians of half a dozen tribes; French Canadian voyageurs; Sandwich Islanders; squaws and children. Then followed Alexander Ross In 1825, David Douglas, the botanist after whom the Douglas fir was nam- ed, and Edward Ermatinger in 1827. Father Plerre De Smet drove gayly into Jasper -fouse in 1846 with a car- fole drawn by four dogs. In three weeks he had married or baptized eve~v soul in the valley. That fall, Paul Kane, the Torcnto artist, vis- ited Jasper House twice. Eighteen hundred and sixty-two saw the first emigrants ,a party of gold seekers from Montreal, Toronto and other eastern points, going through to the Caribco country: There came Lord Milton and Doc- tor Cheadle, who found that the "Northwest passage by land" passed right by Jasper House; Doctor Hec- tor with the Palliser Expedition, and Principal Grant of Queens with Sand- ford Fleming in 1871. Swift, following these great men, camped by the ruined fort, One end of the trading store had been burned off. He shortened the building by 2p feet, reducing the length to 30 feet, and repaired it with logs fom the ruined "Okemow", or master's house at the bak of the clearing. There were three open fireplaces originally He found a heavy iron stove with the ends knocked out, used to lengthen" the chimney of one of them. This stove, which must be at Jeast a century old, now reposes in a shed on his homestead. ~The main building he used fcr his dwelling, and | the fur warehouse nearby, for a trad- ing store. Warm indeed was his wel- : , Indians, Shuswaps and | toes all cleaned and 3 come from the Indians, Shuswaps and Crésdy {or ho Troquois, for it had been 15 years _sinco the Hudson's Bay Company ~~ abandoned the post. she induced ber husband to abandon the old fort for the homestead seven miles from what later became the sta- tion of Jasper on the Canadian Na- tional Railway line, There are few spots in the moun- tains as beautiful as this homestead of Swift's on a tableland west of the Athabaska. Across from it are the hard, gray slopes of the Colin Range, the heartbreak of many on early traveller. Behind, apparently only a few hundred yards, but In reality, miles, stands Pyramid Mountain, His rust-red sides, gory at dawn and, sun: set, contrast with the gray Colins across the river, From his glacier capped head a stream flows down past Swift's cabin ,and tHereby came inspiration. The lone homsteader of the Jasper Valley was a genius. Damming the thin cascade of water he carried the overflow in troughs 'made from hollow- ed tree trunks to the homemade mill a hundred yards behind the house, Here a wheel, its paddle, spokes and rim hewn' from another giant of the forest transmitted the power that ground the grain between two large boulders. Thus, nearly 40 years ago, Swift had the first grist mill in the moun- tains within a radius of 6500 miles, To-day white birch trees have insinu- ated twining arms around the tim- bers of the wheel. Towering fifty feet over it they murmur sweet words of content to the brave old worker whose sides, bathed In the sparkling glacier-fed, fountain, grow more moss- grown every. year. When visitors from afar come, Swift and Suzette take them down the winding path, bordered with turretted tufts of fiery Prince's Plume; to the green-gold gloom that shelters the old mill. "If our boy had lived the mill wheel would be turning to-day," they say. That was the youngest boy, the standby of "their old age who, after Curley Philips, was the best guide In Jasper Park. Three years ago he went on to join Lewis Swift's aristo- cratic old Dutch mother and Suzette's even as proud Indian forebears who were lords of a thousand miles of mountain, river and plain. The little stream that drove the mill wheel now runs on and down over the hill to irrigate the fields where the old pioneer and a hired man work from dawn to dark in summer on a field that supplies Jas: per with some of its vegetables, No better picture of Swift's, In those early days, has been painted than that in "Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies" by those intre- pid mountain travellers, Mrs. Charles Schaffer and Mary Adams, That summer of 1908 they had travelled, without seeing a soul but their guides, from the Sunwapta to Jasper, aim- ing for Swift's place, whose location they knew from the accounts of every traveller who had written of the val ley for 20 years, After numerous tribulations, chief of which were en- countered at the Maligne River, north- ward from what is now Jasper Lodge, they record. "About 1.30 we came out on a knoll, and there lay Swift's. I wonder if three or four log buildings, a little fencing and a few acres of cultivated land ever caused much more excite- ment. A crude notice on a tree on the river's brink read, 'Here's the crossing." Perhaps it was a crossing for anything that could swim three hundred yards to those canoes re- posing so tantalizingly across the river. . . . A grating thumping noise came from over the water and we beheld a man loosening the queer- looking craft. It was Swift. Chiet went to welcome him. "Women in your paFty? Prospecting or timber cruising? They're the first women I've seen around these parts!' He was conrtesy itself." Finally the painful and vociferous, not to say profane, operation of get- ting the horses and outfit over was accomplished. Swift's two little girls came down to the bank, Not a word or a smile could be extracted from either of them. They were Icst in wonder at the first white women they had ever seen. They gave their father a message to hurry home as a surveyor wanted to buy some pota toes. : Their father's rejoinder was that "Two ladies had come and he was going to get all the news, potatoes or no potatoes." ; Soon after, a hospitable procession made its way through the poplars, Switt carried a pitcher of new milk, the only milk in 500 miles, and, lead- ing his ycungest son, "Dean Swift," tittle Lottie with a pail of new pota- pot tiny Ida with a : eggs from the only hens between the pairies and the Thompson river. Last a noble face above a noble figure, Suzette Chalifour ccming to 'on the first women except Indians she had seen since she married Jasper : NEW PLANE TESTED FOR TRANSATLANTIC HOP New and lally igned two-motored land 1 was tested recently in preparation for proposed flight from New York to Bucharest, Roumania. P--e------------ mock and the sixth under a table. Everything was as neat us a pin The chalrs were of home manufacture covered with skins and it was all a lovely study cf what may be done with next to nothing in the land of nowhere, Then Mrs. Swift unearth- ed a box from beneath aor bed and showed us half a dozen gowns made by herself, most of them her bridal finery. As we looked on the care- fully treasured garments we realized --be it mansion or shack--there 18 sure to be stowed away a precious hoard around which a woman's heart must always cling." The most delightf1l days of my Jas- per trip In 1928 twenty years after the episode of the early women travel lers, were spent in Suzette's Chali four's cabin. It now has three large low-ceilinged rooms of log, immacul- ately slean, comfortable and plctures- que. - Suzette spoke French and Cree fluently, and English with a Scotch accent. It was not her bridal gown that she showed me, but the pictures of her boy, Dan, the flowers from his grave pressed in her prayer book, his saddle and his favorite horse. First the peaks of Colin's Range dis solved in wreaths of rose and gold. The opal came out on Pyramid's white head, and, up the valley, the color dled from Tekarra and Signal and the Whistler's, leaving them out- lines of purple on 'a pale eggshell colored sky. "Suezette Chalifour's eyes went far up the valley' head to where Mount Edith Cavell blocked the cul de sae. High Into the heavens rose her gleam- ing crown, a thousand jewels of the sunset, topaz and emerald, ruby, tur- quoise, amethyst, opal and pink pearls adorning it. Low on her breast the guarding wings of the Angel Glacier spread, white as the patriotic heart of her commemorated. Every feather of the pinions stood out curled and carved In snow 40 feet deep, Snowy angel draperies and snowy feet were buried in.the intervening pines. Lewis Swift's wistful blue eyes fol: lowed his wite's and then he rose ab- ruptly and walked into the cabin. We sat on ,watching the last seintil- lation of light on Cavell's coronet, but even after that it remained a white spire pointing to heaven. As the last Though one of the rooms of the cabin still boasted only an earthen floor, she gave me meals from a snow white cloth, a table napkin beside my plate. Swift's wife had broken her arm not long before and it re- posed in a sling. Still she worked with silk embroidery on soft buck- skin, 'doing her own designing and dyeing the silks herself. Having ray fell away from the Guardian Angel of Jasper Valley I turned to find Suzette telling her beads, lips moving in prayer. So in the eternal mountains will the spirits of Lewis Swift, ploneer, and Suzette Chalifour, his wife, live for- ever in such peace past understand- ing as comes after lives well spent in love and service for every God's been familiar in my childhood with the old Hudson's Bay store at Prince Albert, I sniffed appreciatively at the fascinating odour of the skins tanned in poplar smoke. She had gloves, moccasins and magnificent buckskin coats, snow-white deerskin baby boots, tobacco pouches and beaded bags such as would have made angels smile had they wanted anything In which to stow their wings. Then we talked of old days. From here and there she produced copper kettles and brass cauldrons of ancl: ent Hudson's Bay Company manufac- ture. One big brass pot with hand- made bales, used at Jasper House a century ago, black with an inch of soot (for it had been used, latterly, for a smudge pail) is now catalogued amongst the treasures of the Archives at Ottawa. Another fine copper ket- tle, one of a nest of such, heavy and lidded ,reposes on my desk as I write. Beside it {s an Indian arrow head of stone and design similar to those used by the extinct tribe of the Hur- ons. The wife of Swift told me that there was on old tradition of her peo- ple that once the Indians, from far away at the salt water to the east, travelled right to the mountains and w . ought tie Shuswaps antl they fied( She--"My Secure ls my fortune, to thelr hidden caves, ell, I want a girl whose for- But It was the evenings with the Tune runs into five figures. Swifts that I loved the best. Then orm -- we sat at the cabin door and gazed at the outline of Roche Miette in his Elzabetha 1 ruff, towering like doughty "Drake of old over the bowling greenjof extraordinary successes, --Vauven- that 18 the valley of the Athabaska. argues. creature that passed that way. a -- pi Tact Some of the best and ablest men are wanting in tact. They will neither make allowance for circumstances, nor adapt th ves to cir they will insist on trying to drive the wedge the broad . end foremost.-- Smiles. / Hopes By oid Time Customs and Ancient Surroundings tinent is by aeroplane. ~~ The carriage of considerable quanti ties of gold by air really dates from 1926, when the restorationof the Gold Standard resulted in the resumption of big international gold movements, but smaller parcels of bulilon had been carried ever since civil aviation Stowed Beneath the Seats Somethimes these gold shipments take the form of sovereigns -- for there are still millions of English sovereigns held by banks in every part of the world--but more generally bar gold is used. These bars weigh 400 oz. troy--that is, about % ewt.-- and cost £1,770 each. For transit purposes they are packed three or four together, in small . iron-bound chests. It takes, therefore, a good many chests to hold a million pounds" worth, which sum weighs about eight tons. Much of the recent gold has been carried to Paris by Imperial Airways, and, during one period of nine days. in July over 40 tons were carried in this company's machines. These cargoes are treated pretty much as other mer- chandise and, unless the quantity is large enough to justify the use of al began in 1919, ook ) ten these are on unused land or b , rs--and, the wayside. The walls have been me add that | left just as the saw cut them, irregu-|the red Duc Van Thol is very lovely, lar, flat-frced, leaving jagied edges This of tullp is also sweet. for the wild things to cling to. Some scented: It grows only about six of these quarries have been standing "inches high, and fs therefore especial for several generations, until one day ly desirable for table decoration. some mortal with more than common Other colors to-be had in this variety foresight realized that these are rose, white, yellow and red and corners of one's property might be yellow--all good, clear colors. made joys forever. a For Later Bloom The most spectacular and extensive of Bermuda's quarry gardens are yr later wom Saat ne lass those of "Southlands" fn Warwick Loi iioc are: Keizerkroon, our old parish. From the turquoise foam-' . ; . crested waters of the South Shore the rod sud yellow tien; Mon Trase ha slopes of "Southlands" climb gently.'} 4, a ar ye for Christmas A Across a cedar-wooded land, over the yianted with the Duc Van Thols; formal rose garden, gorgeous when Joost Van Vondel, a striped vatlety in Ye soe 1 on 2 Seulle apHitilike Ja? - cherry-red and white--looking for all * the Jae part Ki Jamar: th la the world like a stick of peppermint Bermuda house, over terrace after ter! Saugy; HS Sak, which Snotdces race of the quary gardens, they wan! white; Rose Grisdelin, a delicate rose, der to the highest ridge where we can' gushod white, and last, but by no look across the shining waters of the' means least, Vermilion - Brilliant, Great Sound at the other side of the' which fs all that its name implies. tsland, and to the picturesque build' mpere _are other good varleties for ings of His Majesty's Dockyard. And forcing, of course, but these I have with these slopes climb the gardens. planted over and over again and have One can easily get lost in the wind:| aver found them wanting. ing ways of these varelgulas quarry| Nor are the single tulips the only gardens of Southlands. They are a good, forcers. By all means' include ried by the ordinary services. distributed. tion in case of forced landing. Saving Time--and Money special aeroplane, the chests are car. Sie; Wh | series of lovely places like living pie-' some of the early double varieties * taken on the air expresses they are stowed away under the passengers' seats, in order that the weight may b When bullion is carried, both pilots and mahines are armed as a precau- i, cht on, hi ph inn, hoof fn ry ll hat" tt dnl ecole i Va of ta" wht Sota, Coie 30° slowing - a he Christmas ion crimson; Murillo, the old pink: walls, Down deeper in the re on There are many advantages in send- ing gold by alr, although the freight is higher than by rail and steamer. In- glrance rates are lower than for the other form of transport, owing to the almost complete impossibility of pil- terage in route." To the fi ier, however, the great advantage is that time is saved and, with bullion, time is money. A few hours may make all the difference be- tween thie gold being safely lodged in a bank one day or the next. This in- volves one day's interest. n a hig consignment of, say, £2,000,000, a day's interest is at 6 per cent. nearly £300. When regular: flying services are operated between London and New York gold movements between these two centres will be even greater than to-day. At present purchases of gold on American account depead largely on there being a fast boat sailing im- mediately. An extra two or three days on the journey, with the conse. quent loss of interest might easily render the transaction unprofitable. mesa Senet RIGHT THINKING It is important to think right, more important to feel right, still more im- portant to do right, but to be right is most important cf all,--Abbott. emf Sit The most absurd and rash hopes seems to me that you can see." have sometimes been the mainspring gar: "Oh, well, In these days competi- { I Pasger-by (to "blind" beggar): "It Beg- tion is so great that even a blind man must keep his eyes open." 2 '| treme care. ia any jars larger than a quart. The there may be a clump of blue agera-' apr out of the ordinary, being pale yek tom, neat oe rose-tinted begonia ow flushed with salmon. This latter , slender spikes of dell yarjety also lasts in bloom an unusual cate color rising out of glossy dark |y jong time. foliage. One 1 especially rejoice in has exotle water plants bending grace: ful fronds over a pool of limped water where goldish and their less brilliant kin, the silver fish, swim happily in those who have never attempted it tiny waves of sunshine, So trans-! 560m to labor under the 'mpression lucent is the water that they seem to that it is a complicated undertaking. be swimming upside down, while the Nothing of the sort. =All you need is blue and purple convolvulus clinging "OMe good garden loam, a little fing to the gray rocks above throw sky | sand and a generous supply of bone tints -among them. There. is only| mea! which, by the way, is the very lacking elfin presences, dancing to the best fertilizer to use for all kinds of elfin bells of tinkling music( to make DUDS: A sixinch pot will take six How to Do It As to the culture of tulips for fore ing: it is really very simple, though this a part of fairyland visible to mor.) PUibs: for tulips may be set raiher tal eyes. cloagly together; and a dozen bulbs Farther up on the hill an arch is Way be placed in a ten or 12inch pot. cit from the fray wall sand: ovet plo-| The top of the bulb should be even farseaue Gry slags we pas Irom one 7 (be Stace cf the sell. Firm he garden whose dominant rote is scar : o Ie, the Scarlet o brilliant red goram [370 Teuy (0 be sot 1 ums against a back f. \ : coh Salust » Sacksround ssbiny always place mine 'in the cellar, but whose walls are hidden by tall, shrub. NY HAY be plunged in a cold 1rame like plants of greens and golds, pinks Al Ssvered ith ashes, The Koating : and reds. You can walk up the hill- PE IE e: about. sight: w side, cross a little graceful bridge hil 2 i gre Feptiin:the cellar over a little gully, and so come to the 8 | RUEIG ot Growin, it 18: of first of the gardens, or you can wan. | 10% a 7. 'Do kept. watered, der by amore clroultous way, more' ater. thoroughly whenever the sur- gently sloping, aroand the house and face loves dey. up. the back, and find yourself sudden-| ion th tops show say Lo inches 1¥ upon them. The semi-tropical foli- to gro hous, oy oe do brought in. age and shrubs and plants of the quar light, a nok. into direct Wie ? 37 Surdeus ate bebiud and shove Jou. ais NEht oud yeas 4s n below are : Ine ble waters | Hooer ith mer | thrives best and lasts longer in Pi foun "lapping gently on the wa 1. 4 ol Samperair, | seve and pl sands of Bermuda's , ' 5 ever charming South: Shore.--From' the sung ro 78,80 any. stage of their do. Bermuda Days," by Berthu March. | "0c thlips . have finished ------ : blooming indoors, the pots may be re-- The Don'ts of Canning - sured 10 te cellar and should be ; ept wate: until the foliage turos Ia, en 3 good thing 2 point 0} yellow. In the fall these tbe may bs canning this seems particularly true. Vautea -ob agers, ii may Do The reason is that a great many house- mine usually do 8 (atthough wives know something about the sub- ly do) but:they will reward ject; but do not perhaps realize the you richly the second season and necessity fcr thoroughness and ex- ¥ yaar the r . It you bave never grown tulips in- aon, do pot up a tow this fail and to have spring in Don't try, at first, to can vegetables smaller the jar sterilize. : Dost uge old rubbers. It is cheap- er rubbe 'to 'the easier it is. to go