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es ho °/ emeeg t «. © company. \ ... __. Britain t . _ _ went # The a1 E4 closing t * . _.@£ Grana i . _ Abe allle Ejhk&flm forces to molest. .. ~ Khe Allbusters surrendered to the Unit-- Sb 3P c % I +m t % e ... _ 20 States gartison as prisoners of war. _ _ _ . dust a year latér, with six Of these .. _' weterans, and forty--eight other Califor-- . .' mians, Walker landed on the coast of E& This happy republic was ----_ . blegsed at the time with--two--rival '.\__ ~Adents uffimmm& ~Chos &v soon-- had possession of the $ 9 . 'As hero of several brilliant o+ mfls Walker was made com-- -- / mman --cBfef, and at the next elee-- . . .\ en chosen by the people themselves se wg He had now a thousand :. /.. Amerf in his following, and when "';l. native : statesmen and generals ~ .. proved treacherous, they were prompt-- "\_ Iy whot. Walker's camp of wild des 2 > agaimered in -- .' and the aw! ue -- uxt thant t on M America and his dignity all . | .. prickles, hard to approach. He depend-- _ «. od for existence on the services of Van-- .. i Atheir warehouse for chrating. He was _--__ surbt by four hostile: republics, _.~ Costa-- Rica, San Salvador, Honduras > mnd Guatem u:lflw them all. ----«.. He suspended 'diplomatic relations _ @ wwith the United States, demanded for 25 | M# 4n schooner--of--wxar salutes from /. the British navy, and had no sense of _ _ unmor . whatsoever. . Thousands --of / ." Brave men died for this prim little law: n?'-*"'t;f_i' m. poor Walker was consid-- .. erab ~Oof a prig. So the malcontents _ . .@# Niecaragua and the republics from i > l ~to Pern joined the steamship _ . _ Khere were only one hundred. and| / fty invalids and sick in the Granada 5!@?,-« arr to man the church, armory _ _/ mwhd hospital agrinst Zavala, but the uoi loaded rifles for the wounded .. tund, after twenty--two hours of ghastly ;,;';?;g'&'* mage, the énemy were thrown out _ of the city. 'They fell back to lHe in _ Walker's path as he came to the res . _ u6. . Walker baw the trap, carried it \.mmhuhlutx _' ABA gity, broke him between two _ ¥oan . a Aetachment to interbUpt ... Mis O Kn this double battle, Aght» tag wight times his own force, Walker ind half the allied army. . But the pressure of several invasions making it Itmposstble for E to keep his communication with the sea while he 'held his :'rw. M the mont mw . Cunt: Cities, wmust we,' 1t be #é %j'» 'he Mezxicans and Indians thought . . . otherwige for while the new president "":'" ' i' marched northward, they ___ gathered in hosts and hung like wolves § i the rear of the column, cutting off _ atragelers, who were slowly tortured .. <&tp death,. Twice they dared an Actual --' "_ Willin: ,Wmir. son of a Scotch e *. time was whelped. ": rBever swore or drauk, or loved any-- o ddrimoace k ane glance or 1 '"w thirst, and blew their \__ own braing out rather than be captdured. _ Only thirty--four men were left when + they te the United States boun-- > dary, the president of Sonora, in a boot ' and a& shoe, his cabinet in rags, his _ army and 'nary 'bloody, with dried .0 offeasn -- «Cappright by Bobbs--Moci:l _ The armies of four republics were losing in on Walker's capital, the city O Gran He marched out to storm he allies perched on an impregnable 'm and was carrying hbis last chary to a victorioud lssue, when news e _him that Zavale with eight men had Jumy +d on Granada. MHe forsook his victory and rushed for Uhe capital city. _ Wfiufium&mofiz n in to wipe out his hapless govern-- He wore a black tailcoat and a bluck wisp of n necktie even when, in I.}hc landed an army of forty--Ave men to coflner Mexico. His followers were California goid--miners dressed in bilue shirts, duck trousers, long boots, bowle knives, revolvers and --rifies. 'After he had taken the city of La Paz by assault, called an election and pro-- elaimed himselt president of Sonore, he was joined by two or throee hundred apore of the same breed from San Fran-- <lsco. These did not think very much Of a leader twenty--sight. years old, standing fivre feet six, and weighing pure, believed in negro slavery, bris-- tied with points of étiquette and for-- mality, liked squabbling, bed a nesty sharp tougue, and a taste for dueling. The little dry man was by turus a doe-- tor, editor and lawyer, and when he wanted to do anything yvery outrageouns always began by taking counsel's opin only one hundred thirty pounds, so they merrily conspired to blow him up with gunpowder, and disperse with what plundér they could grab. Mr. Walker shot two, fogged a couple, dis-- r the rest without showing any sign of emotion He could awe the wbedience with one glance of his cool ky eye, and never allowed his men to drink, play cards or sgwear.. "Our gov-- hA 'H".'.hvrota."hubeen formed A'a firm and sure basis." attack, but Walker's grim strategies, and the awful riflies of despairing men, eut them to pleces. So the march went on through bundreds of miles of blazing hot desert, ----where : the ~fillbusters THE GBREAT FILIBUSTER the cleanest ever known iimenice f> d us Mn + oi ahe abject Far off on his farm--in Tennessee, old --Dary Crockett heard' of the war for freedom. l'mymotm" mmmmmm< quenched his thirst for adventure, or dulled his love of fun; but the man had been sent to Washington as a member of congress, and came home horrified by the corruption 'of political life. -- He was angry and in his wrath took his gun from over the freplace. He~must kill something, so he 'went Aor those Meticans in the West., British and United States squadrons; ment. him, and in the tepth of mm He--was cap Pured hy the Boitigh, shot bJ Apantsh-- tured by the shot by Spanish-- Ameri¢ans upon a sea beach in Hondu-- ras; and so perished, fearless to the surrender. . ;) _ _ __ _ "I presume, sir," was the filibuster's greeting, "that you have come to apolo gize for the outrage offered to my flag and to the commander of the Nicara-- guan schooner--of--war Granada?" ."If they had another schooner," said the Englishman afterward, "I believe they would have declared war on Great Britain." _ -- Then the United States navy treated with this peppery little lawyer, and on the first of May, 1857, he grudgingly consented to being rescued. .. During hig four years' fight for em-- pire, 'Walker had enlisted three thou-- sand Hve hundred Americans--and the proportion of wounds was ohe Hundred average eight of his adversaries, Four "wonths 'followed of confused Aghting, in which the Americans slow-- ly lost ground, until at last they were besieged in the town of Rivas, melting the church bells feor cannon balls, dy-- ing at their posts of starvation. The neighboring. town"of San Jorge was held 'by two thousand Costa Ricans, and these Walker attempted to dis NAfteen men into the heart of the town. No valor could win against such odds, and the orderly retreat began on Rivas. Two bhundred men lay in ambush to take Walker at a planter's 'house by the wayside, and as he rode wearily at the head of his men they opened fire 'from cover at a range of fiftean yards. Walker reined in his horse, fired six revolrer shots into the windows then rode on quiletly erect while the storm of lead raged about him, and saddle after saddle was emptied, A week af. terward the allies asgaulted Rivas, but left six hundred men dead in the field, the Jsle <of Qmotepe. In of the caplital city they ml spear, ant on the spear hung a raw»-- hide with this inscription ; "Here was Granada!" In taking that heap. of bliackened ruings four thousand out of six thousand of the allies perished; but even they werse more fortunate than a 'Costa Rican army of invasion, which killed fAfty of the filibusters, at a cost of ten thuousand men slain by --war and pesti-- lence. It always worked out that the and thirty--seven for every hundréd wen. A thousand fell. m& re publics had twenty--one d sgol-- diers and ten thousand Indiaok--and lost'fifteen thousand killéd. _ 'é' Two years later, Walker out again with a hundred men to 1 t s o oomaaian s of the Carlist and Hungarten re wahutmtcflutm t ,Wifihwvuflm'a mmwuu' gover his embarkment ah the lake. There had been four hundred men in the garrison, but only one hundred and fAfty an swered the roll call in their refuge on . Min Journey--.to the seat of war be-- gan by steamer down the Mississipp! river, and he took a sudden fancy to & sharper who was cheating. the pas-- sengers. He converted Thimblerig to manhood, arnd the poor fellow, like a But the girl fook up the verse, her song broken with sobbing: . . lutm »wed Dary, Bo the palr were ~th ough Texras when they met a beo hunter, riding in seirch of wild honey--a gailant lad in a splendid deerskin dress, who led them to his home, The bee hunter must join Davy, too but his heart was torn at parting with Kate, the girl he loved, and he turned in the saddie to cheer her with & scrap of --song for farewell : 'Baddled and bridled, and Booted rode he, A plumse in his helmet, a sword st his *But toom' cam' the saddle, all binidy to And Theore were adventures on the way, for Davy hunted buffaio, a com gar--knife to "--.fl%- Indian tribe to get passage. . Then were jJoined by a pirate from «rew, and a young Indlan ,; 4 SAfter thrashing a Merican the patty galloped into the Alamo, a Tex-- wn fortress at San Antonio, .« so terrific was the fire from the ram It was in these.days that a British nava@l officer came under flag of truce from the coast to treat for Walker's DAVY CROCKETT ~#= rge iU91%." % meneie <als > Wt .N epuens n smm nfi mnien itc BP _ _ id i3 mmn:ma&mm'm had gone to and calling to the two hunters, he salllied out to the re-- Mef.of the old man, who/was hard pressed. I followed close after. Be-- fore we reached the spot the Mexicans were close on the heels of thed old that he would be overtmben and.cut to pleces, he now turned again, and--to the amazement of the enemy® became tha acsailant in turs. <~He clubbed a wounded tiger, and they fied lk@ spatrows. "By this time we reached the spot, and in the ardor of the mo-- ment followed some distance before e saw that our retreat to the fort was cut of by another detachment of carairy, Nothing was to be done but to fight out way through. We were all of the same mingd. 'Go ahead!' falling into the fort like hail during tho dny, but without "eftect" "Auout dusk In the evening we observed® n sued by about a dozen Mexican car-- I. came down, took 'my bitters and went to breakfast, ~'Thimblerig told me the place'from which I had been fAring was one of the snuggest stands nnmvmmm?mmnu picking off two or straggiers be-- fore breakfast." . ~March third.--"We have given over Colonel !' 'We dathed among them, and a bloody conflct ensued. They Were about --twenty in number, and they On the twenty--ninth; "This busi-- ness of being shut up makes a. man wolfish--I had a little sport this morn-- ing before breakfast. 'The enemy had planted . a plece of ordpance-- within m«nmmwu% and the fArst thing in the morning the commenced a brisk cannonade point blank against the spot where I was and mounted the rampart. The gun was | charged '«gain,: a fellow stepped forth 'to touch her off, but befbore he could apply the match I let Him have It, and he kealed over. A second stepped up, spatched the match from the hand of the dying man, but 'Thim-- blerig, who 'had followed me, handed. me, his riffe, and the next instant the Mexican was stretched upon the earth beside the frst. 'A third came up to camp, . leaving --the cannon ready charged 'where they had planted it. stood their ground.© After the Aght had continued about five migutes a dAetachment was geen issuing from the fort to our relief, and the Mexicans stampered off, leaving eight of their comrades dead upon the Aeld. planted . a plece of: ordpance-- within m««mmmu% and the Arst thing in the morning f commenced a brisk ean::x)" blank against the spot ® was snoring. I turted "out pretty smart the match, bqtm-u-lfimmo fate, and the -- party gave it up as a bad job, and hurried off to the t'homu..uycowm handed me another gun, and I fixed off in like manner, : A fourth, then a Afth seized un tAotaAiDint s io A i, here is a scrap frord Da :-- *The set-- tles are Bying . ... leaving their possessions to the mercy of the ruth-- less. inxader . , ... _ slgughter is .Am discriminate, sparing nelither age, 8ex, nor .condition. --Buildings have been burned down, farms lalid waste . . . the enemy draws nigher to the fort." old man dled without speaking, as Boon as we--entered the fort We bore my young friend to his bed, dressed his wounds, and I watched beside him. He lay, without complaint or manifest-- Ing pain untll about midnight, when he spoke, and I asked him if he want-- ed anything. ° d "'*Nothing,' he replied.. 'Poor Kaktet d"flo'-wlm tears as he con-- [+" "MHer words were prophetic, ," and then he sapg in a low "But we did not escape unscathed, for both the pirate and the bee hunter Were mortally wounded, and I received iA Eaber cut across the forehead. The h anddle, alt bluidy to "But toom' cam' ho O the pirate to ride to Gollad for March <fourth.--*"Shells have been David Crockett, used--to think nothing of crossing the Ptciflegordlthlnuleflmtmr' slaves. But two or three hundred years ago the relgning shogun made up his mind that alaving was iinmoral. B6 he pronounced an edict by: which the builders of junks were forbidden to fll in' their stern frame with the 'msual panels. <«The junks were still ~yood enough for comastwise trade at home,. but if they dared the swell of _tThe outer ocean a following sea would That put a step to the slave trade; but no king can prevent storms, and law or no law, disabled Junks were sgometimes swept byithe big black cur-- careerof. Sam Houston, plonéer: | 'His life of cyclone pessions and whirling change--a white boy turned Indian, then hero--of a war against the red-- skins ; lawyer,--commandér in chief and governor ofa state, a savage, a broken man begging a jJob at Washington, an their leader, waited for reinforcements, until his men wanted to murder Him, but when he marched it was to San Jacinto where, with eight hundred Tex» ang, he scattered One thousand six hun-- dred-- Mexicans, --and captured --Senta of the Lone Star republic, which is now the largest star in the American--con-- stellation., A F Up with your banner, Freedom.. ... nh'b&u.b'.; %u'&::-..- you"fc.- b victory. - Up 'w;ow:w. Freedom. _ |, . . Tyrants <«laves :are rushing +/ 'hbga*hu'hul-t: * '§ N'"Mc h_,' oum'fimm Ti No groan will 'scape the dying, (+)}, uy wik T fevdoes. your o. bunew! 'iifl. id l@ader of the 'liberators. » y 5 "The fall of the Alamo filled the Tex-- ans with fury, but when that was, fol-- lowed by the awtul massacre of Goli-- adthey went raving mad. * Houston, across the Pacific ocean. The law made obscure fAgure in Texas--bad made him As to the seal, their. whiskers are worth fifty cents m set for cleaning opilum pipes, and one part of the car-- cass nells at Afty cents for medicine, apart from the worth of jghe fur. . Now the law that disabled the junks made it impossible for Japan to do much trade in the Kurils, so that the "lltn.l'idul"_.)dnnm'to dispogse them----~whydo you -- bring h"w w & lke a tiger Davy eprang at Santa Auna's threat.. 'Then he fell with a dozen swords through his body, -- and 'when the supply of zea 'otter falled on the Californian const' in 1872 K schooner callad the Oygnet crossed the Pacific to the Kurii islinds, There the sea~otters=-- were. pliéntiful-- in the m'muummudu Inspect the hunter's 'Their skins fetohed from éighty to ninety dollars fore Santa who stood .# ed by his staf amid the rulus. Gen-- eral: Cgnstrzilion: saluted the president, "Bir, here are 'slx --prisoners 1 have hk.firu«,;bwlnlll"d new way of getting rich, a young RKag-- Ushman, ~Mr.: K. J, Snow, bought a schooner, a hog--backed relic calied the Bwallow in which he set'out tor the bunting. Thrge days out, a gale dle masgtéd her, .ptm.".- wu: uwhe was cast away I e Snow's sécond 'venture 'm ctast away on a de#ort lsle, where the trow wintere 1. ~ "My vensels," he says, But no law disabled the Americans, When news came to Japan of this A4 actually got there .Arst' as with the fell but second man was hit first in one leg, then in the other, but went on pulling. The stroke oar, shot in the calf, fell Bo rapid was the fAring that the guns ashore must have heated, partly melt-- Ing the leaden bullets, for on --board the boat there was a distinct perfume d'mm,mnmm which struck the captain seem to have beex deflected by his woolen jersey, and ons which got through happened to strike a fold. It had been noted in the Franco--Prussian war that woolen underclothes will sometimes turn lead-- turned in for a night's rest. Next morning bright and early cathe & company's steamer with a Russian ollecmmnldug.:ho-arched the schooner. 'There not a trace of evidence dn board, but on general principles the 'vessel was seized and . In 1888, somewhat prejudiced against the virtuous company, Captain Snow came with the famous schooner Nemo, back to the scene of his misadventure. One morning with three boats he went prospecting for otter close along shore, shot four, and his hunters one, them gave the signal of return to the schoon-- er, At that moment two shots rang out from behind the boulders ashore, and a third, --which peeléd some skin from his hand, followed by a fusillade like a hail~storm.. ~Of the Japanese seamen in Snow's boat the boat steerer was dshot. through the backbone. A found one of the seamen, They halled and a boat took them on board, where the shipkeeper was found to be drynk, and the Japanese bos'n much in need of a thrashing. Captrai®Snow supplied what was needeéd to the bos'mt--and had a big supper, but could not sail as the second mate was still missing. He some months of imprisonment.at Viadi-- swimming beside the boat, hut decid-- ed that we should be just as linble to be drowned as shot, as no one could stand 'the cold water for long. For the greater part of the time I was w,,,A' m_ my pa s e« o+ 'M@flzg'fi-ficmz'"w body, the u:'?mmy.m ll_lo'k:;l the builets which struck me my clothing on mmmm.m-o. ment %0 be shot through the body, and 1 eould not heln wondering how it In 1898 Snow made his Arst raid On Bering island. Night fell while his crew were busy clubbing seals, and they had killed about six hundred when the garrison rushed them. ~ Of course the hunters made haste to the boats, but Captain Snow missed his men who should have fellowed bim, and as bun dreds--of sohls were taking to the wa-- ter ha joinegd them until an outlying squatted down, waist--deep. When the tame no to preach about the them a rule the sea luu,ua:adrhn&'tnomu sea where it was perfectly lawtul, At the wo'st they .landed on the forbidden Intands as poachers,-- The real differ-- set --off mlong The shore of bouders, stimbling and falling. When he found the going too bad he took to the hills, but sea boots reaching to the hips are not. comty for long walke, and@when he pulled . them off he found hbow sur-- prisingly sharp ard the stones:in an four milltion seals They ha. armed native gamekeepers and the help of an American gunboat. Mnmfln company leased Bering and is lands 'off Kamchatka, and Cape <«Pa tience on -- Saghalian with its outilier Robber island. 'There--also they hoad native gamekeepers, a patrol ship, and 'w the--two parties<was that . hunters took al the risks, whilé the company had no risks and took all the profits, * 6 would feel." serve the wild game of the islands, ; g "w ' the! of their home and Christmas dinner. . J¥ the adventure of the seea huntors we must follow the story of the leagsed tslands, The . Alpska Commercial company of San Francisco, leased the best islands for "peal and tter--Ashing. --From the United States the compazy leased the Pribliiot istands With three dying men, and three wounded, he got the sinking boat un der sail and brought her alongside the but even gamekeepers may show ex-- eess of teal when it comes to wholse the officers--to seil skins to the raid-- era or even, after nome refreshments, to help in ubbing a few bhundred _ It was rathbr awkward, though, for . of the schooners at Oape Pa-- tience «Jn the midst of these fos MUvities a t came round the cor-- m-m..'l'oandu"vuvm in that It 1# a matter of keen régret that the officers ashore took such good cover. 'Their guards, and the Cosmacks, were kindly souls enough, ready and willing--in the absence of "I remembet," says Captain Snow, course it was very good of the he. and tweive foundered with ail hands at sea, so that the total loss was forty ships out ef--Afty. For daring sea manship and gailant adventure sea hunting made a school of manhood hard to match in this tame modern tur seal at sea,--a matter which led to nome slight unpleasantness between the American and the British govern» ments. 'There was bhunting also in the seas about Cape Horn:; but the Yoke hama schooners have left behind them by far the finest memories. Captain Snow says that from frst to last some fifty white men's schooners sailed out of Yokohama. -- Of 'fAve there is no record, two took to sealing when the sea otter no longer pald, and fptur were slans sank one, captured and lost two, eaptured and condemned three, all six being a dead loss to their owners. For tury. His father, Alexander Smith, kept a little shop at Forres, in Elgin county, Bcotland; his mother, Barbara Stewart ESmith, knew while she reared the lad that the world would hear of him. His school, founded by a returned mmwmhm.w to sare a drowning Indian. : Quite apart from the so--called Yoko-- hnsd pirates, a large fAcet of law--abid-- ing Canadisgn schooners> hunted the those who shared the fun. . _ , wheére he res¢ued a shipwrecked crew adventurer, was one which sent out settlers for the eatonies, soldiers for the army, miners for the gold--Aelds, swamped, and the garrison a little too prevalent ashore, On the vexage of 1800 the Adele took four nandred famous in the annals of the Canadian frontier, rich, distinguished, commend-- ing all youngsters to do as he had done. When Donald Amith was in his cight-- seenth year, his uncle procured him a clerksbhip in the Hudson's Bay com-- Of 1889, a winter raid upon the Pribi-- lof islands. At the fArst attempt we clawed of a lee shore in a hurricane, the: second resulted in a mutiny, and the third lending was not --very.auc-- HRobert Nélson had proclaimed a Ca-- nadian republic and the British troops were busy driving the republicans in-- to the United States, So there was blopdshed, the burning of houses, the Alling of the jalls with rebels to be couvicted presently and hanged, Out Of all this nolse and confusion, Donald Smith was sent into the silente of Lab-- rador, the unknown wilderness of the Northwest 'Territory, where the frst m.chmmmxu of Eskimos that might be in-- duced to trade with the Hudson's Bay company. -- "In September (1888)," wrote McLean, "I was gratified by the arrival of deékpatches from Canada by a young.--clerk appointed to the district, mugmmm:.w:- gence of stirring events which bad taken place in the colonies during the precediny year." So Smith had taken a year to carry the news of the Canad+-- an revolt to that remote camp of the explorers. s MHenceforward, for many years there exists no public record of Donald Bmith's career,.and hbe has fPatly re Rused to tell the story lest he should abpear to be advertising. His work conasisted of trading with the savages justice, bookkeeping, and of immense fourneys by tunoe in summer, or cari« olé drawn by a team of dogs in winter, The winter is arctic in that Northeast Tertritory, and a very pleasant season between biiszards, but the summer is eursed with a plague of Insects, black fles by day, mosquitoes by Right ar ed the forbldden islands to subvert the garrisons, rob warehouses, or plun-- der the rookeries, while gunLoats of four nations fulled to eKect his cap-- mhmuwaufi::jt nocent yvirtue, at sea his supert sea-- manship made him as hard to catch as a ghost, and his adventures benat the Arablan Nights. I was with him as an ordinary seaman in the voyage when I asked him why not the &hummmmc thoseé old--fashloned pirates had no busi-- was the ites, but the case came up for trial the court had 'no jurisdiction, and ithe ship was released, ~From that exent dates the name "Yokohagrma Pirates," and Han-- sen's nickname a# the Fiying Dutch wan. Because al the time of capture he had for once been a perfectly in-- nocent deep zea sealer, hoe.swore ev-- 8i Nanr hhu the ma.w ship to port of ~ Victoria, British . Colupmbis, uiss hn:'!lu*m' Japanete, or exen mmummm&p Born in a Highland cottage in 1820, Canada was in revolt when in 1897 LORD STRATHCONA / ~ A D. 1871 £* hospital to Montreal, <At a cost of mmm&-un' sented the famous regiment known as Strathcoma's Horse, to thy service of his coubntry, and, in his hinetythird year ~was working hard as Canndian high commissioner in London. The syndicate building the road con-- sisted of merchints in whut was then a provinclal town, and when they met for business it was to wonder vaguely where ths month's pay to come from for hu.'r';';oddm tor the tumfl.qq'g-om Donald Smith would say, "Well, . W-M%bafl a bit." . On.November T, he drove completed. the Canadian P rail way, and welded Canadan a lving nation. A Afterward as Lord Btrathconsa, he endowed a university and gave a big W;zfi"iii'fii'fy&fi'«-b'& low , with a keen wind, but in m of fivre hours' debating. Mr. so underminéd the rebel author« ity that from that time it began to col« Japse. Afterward,--alithough the muzdered one prisoner, gnd times w more than exciting, Mr, Smith's p Riel and his deluded halft--breeds Ho, thanks --to Mr. Amith, Fort is now Winnipeg, the--central city of Canada, capital --of her central prov»-- of the Canadian governoment, which had bought the eountry, or of the Hud» son's Bay company, whith owned 'the stolen fort. Mr, Bmith, governor>of the company, was seut at once As com-- missioner for the Canndian government to restore the settlement to order. Om hiis arrival the rebel president promptly, put him in jail, and openly threatene@ his life. In this ®wkward situation, Mr, Smith contrived not only to stay alive, but to conduct a public meet» Ing, with Président Riel acting as his interpreter to the French half--hreed But when Sir Donald Smith had re _ signed from the Hydson's Bay come :-- . pany's service, and became a poliiiclan, ' . = he schemed, with unheard--of daring, -- for even greater ends.. At his sugges» °/ . tion, the Northwest Mounted Police was formed and sent out 4o take pos= _ session of the Great Plains. That add--~ ' ~ ed a wheat field to Canada which will . soon be able to feed the em. . . pire. Nest he speculated oms'),' wub.mum-..z.m gs" way track, which some build» _ _ Winnipeg, and a large trade opened :. with the United States, ~So began Ath@=s boom that turned Manitebs into"sa pope: _ ulous country, where the buffaio had luhm.flohmma'-"f'fi nadian government 'with the i /' that --unless ~they hurrled ~up with --a ~ railway, binding the whole Dominion from ocean to ocean, all this rich west: ern country would drift into the Unit. ed States. When the government bad muflu:nnm-:umuflb_- possible .railway, Donald got mmm.mis friends of his own, stuked every dol-- lar he had, made them gamble as heay-- liy, and set to work on the biggest road ever constructed,. The country to be traversed --was almost unexplored, al most uninhabited except by .savages, fourteen ~hundred wiles of to--k 'und forest, a thogrand miles of 'plaintsix hundred miles of high alps, governor of tie Mudson's Bay com-- pany, sovereign from the Aflantic to the Pacific, reigning over a country nearly as latge as Europe. Yo his predecessors this had been the crownm ing of an ambitious life; to himw, it »ag only the beginning of his great career,. 'The Canadian ¢olonies were then be--., Ing welded Into a nation and the first act of the new >Dominion governmient was to buy from the Hudson's Bay . company the whole of its enormous. empitze, two thousadd miles wide and nearty Ave thousand miles long. © Xever was there such a sale of land, at such a price, for the cash payment worked out at .about two shilllingw per square mile. Twothirds of the money went to the slcoping partners' of: the --come pany in EKngland; one--third--thanks to Mr. Smith's persuasion--was grant-- ed to the working officers in Rupert's Land." Mr, Smith's own «share seems$ to hate been the liitle nest egg Crom ~The man who has learned to obey has learned to commuand, and wherever Eroith was fll&'kfln bookx, were m.mm 'Mibh."" was not heard of save in the return of profits, while step: by step he rome to higher and higher command, unill"at the age of fort y--eight he was appointed Withoui anuther . word, without a glance toward the city this man turned on his tracks, and set off to trump a thousand miles back to bis duty. _ --< _ "Then, alr," answered the governor, "If It's a que--tion between . your .eyes, and swxmuu the Hudson's Bay compauy, you'll taks my advice, and ro turn : this-- AInstant--to gyour post." --~_-- 3# saw a o " gang W w' v »,u;v,; a 5 e Sn der ho to see loctt M t Mgs h ~--"And who gave you perm{zson 9' xp leaye your post?" . _ * s3 No one, wir." It would have takes "& a year to get permiguion, and his need _ f Naturaliy this did not meet the --vigw@# Tw 44e