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IN CAPITAL "or B BRITISH CO- LUMBIA. \ Story of The Hudson's Bay Com- pany as it Relates to Its Be- ginning in Victoria, Victoria, B.C., is said to be the one place, above all others on the American continent, where an Eng- lishman may feel at home. The oaks and laurels and hollies of Victoria make it seem like a bit of old Eng- land dropped down at the door of the Pacific. : The history of the place is in- separably linked with the ancient Hudson's Bay Company, which won this portion of the continent for Bri- tains red banner in the long &go. While other coast towns are alive with the prospect of their future, Victoria is complacent in the glory of her past. She is proud of her hon- orable age. Her people hold fast to thie old traditions--and that's Eng- ish. Their little city is famed for its beauty, for its cleanliness, for ' its law and 'order, but its' as old-fash- ioned as the old-fashioned flowers 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- gain his lost pocketbook. The merchants come down to their stores as late as they did 20 years ago, make their little prolits and go home again. They have always tak- en things easy, and they will con- tinue so to do. 2 People All Well-te-De. The trumpet call to arms that is sounding through the west, arousing new commercial forces, finds few re- cruits in Victoria. The people here are rich, or well-to-do; or, if neither, satisfied. '"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- led notions about getting on." That's their way of taking life, and they unquestionably 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 schedule of the west. Victoria has every reason to be proud of its assoeiation with the Hudson's Bay Company, The his- tory of this old corporation reads like the fanciful tale of some adroit story-teller, It was organized in 1670 unger a royal charter granted when Charles Il. was King. It was dubbed the 'Honorable Compahy of Merchant Adventures of England.' The first sale of 3,000 beaver skins took place in a Loadon coffee house, and Dryden, the poet, was there to write a verse about it. The first Hudson Bay traders went so far from home that it took seven years for those at the most remote stations to get returns from their shipments. These 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 trifles that otherwise would have been thrown away. How Business Was Done. The manner of communication em- braced every possible means of trans- portation. Horses, boats, dog trains, and when none of these could be utilized the traders carried the goods upon their backs. AH merchandize, either supplies or furs, was made in- to packages weighing 84 pounds, That it took a strong man to qualify for service with the Hudson Bay is shown by the fact that when carrying was necessary each man was expected to move ecight or ten packages (168 pounds) for a quarter of pieces (168 pounds) for a quarter of a mile without resting. Some of the men performed wonderful feats of strength and endurance while maving the goods. The record was estab- lished when one husky burden-bearer carried six pieces (504 Founds) one mile without resting. The old records give some interest- ing accounts 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 was final and his will supreme. He clothed himself in such a halo of dignity that his person was almost held sacred. His dress consisted of a suit of black or dark blue cloth, white shire, high collar, frock coat, velvet stock and straps to the bottom of his trousers. He wore a costly black beaver hat. When traveling this fancy piece of headgear was covercd by an oiled silk cover, and his ordi- nary costume was supplemented by a long, flashy cloak with capes. Ilis arrival or departure from a post was signalized by the firing of salutes. The crew were required to lift him in and out of his boat. In camp his tent was pitched apart from those of his men. le had a separate fire, which the crew had to start before they looked after their own wants The explanation is offered that all this ceremony was considered nceces- sary becau it had a good cllect upon the Indians, and added to the dignity of the factor in the eyes of his subordinates. To get possession of. a factor's cast-off beaver hat made an Indian a big man among his people. The el- fect upon the factor was often as had as the result upon the Indians was good; he frequently becamé so conceited as to be intolerable, Posts on the Coast. The company's poits on the coast of British Columbia were described as being mostly quadrangular posts, surrounded by tall palisades. Small cannon were mounted on these and kent loaded. ready for any emergency iS pet Over $2,000 Doctoring. Joseph FPominville, of Stillwater, Minn. after having spent over $2,000 with the best doctors for stomach trouble, without relief, was advised to try a box of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. He did so, and is a well man to-day. For sale by druggists. Hae BE that might arise. The gates were closed to everyone after 9 o'clock at night, and a watch was set.. The movements of the day were re- gulated by the ringing of the fort bell, Strict discipline was enforced. The laborers' day closed at 6 o'clock, but _glerks had to work umtil 9 in the evening. No irregularities were allowed, and all hands, regardless of their special tenets of religion, had to attend service every Sunday morn: ing in the officers' mess room. The officer in charge read the service, and although he was often a Preshyterian or a Roman Catholic, he had to use +the common prayer book of the Church of England. ; The history of the operations of this great company shows that no other organization was ever more successful in dealing with the In- dians. The red non were not allowed free access to the forts, but were al- ways treated with civility and some- times with hospitality, A lookout had to be maintained for bad In- dians, and sometimes serious trouble could not be averted, 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 off 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 trifle with, and that the best way to get along was the peaceable way. of the C Victoria was the creation of the Hudson's Bay Company, It was the outcome of a political necessity. When the Oregon boundary question became 80. acute and the inrush of American, pioneers to the valleys of the Columbia and its tributaries in Washington and Oregon occurred, the Hudson's Bay people saw clearly that they would have to move farther north if they were to remain under the protection of the British flag. Victoria owe her existence to this move. As a great commercial enterprise the Hudson's Day Company had but one rival who accomplished more, and that was the East India Com- pany, which won India for the Bri- tish Empire. 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 Montreal. This last named post is 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 mufls. They are a staple article every day in the year. The home office of the Hudson's Bay Company is still at No. 1 Lime street, London. The stockholders be- gan drawing dividends jn 1671, and the venerable organization still yields its annual profits, Every English- man is justly proud of its great record. Great Port for Sealers. Victoria's more recent claim to at- tention arose from 'its being the great port for sealers. The industry was at its best in the early nineties, and the fleet of vesscls hailing from Victoria at that time numbered €0. There are now 42 vessels in the flect, 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 engage in what is called coast scaling, and this method of taking the seal is the most interesting, most humane and most skillful, The season begins in Jemuary, when the fur-bearers are returning to their rookeries in the north. They are found anywhere from 10 to 200 miles from the coast, Kach schooner will have seven small boats, each manmed by three men, two to pull the oars and one hunter. The White hunters 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 thom 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, and the other on its side, with its head protected by one flipper Passing of Cap sad Gown. At the.presont rate it will not be long before an essay may be written upon the passing of the cap and gown in the University of 'Toronto, says The Globe Time was when their use was laid down jin the regu- lations, but the atmosphere favormg their retention has become more and more rarified as the years have pass- ed, and as the utilities have super- seded the humanities in the schemo of education The professors still appear in the lecture rooms clad with the traditional badge of the scholar, but the students sit before him dress- ed in street clothes, and the "robe of an inquiring mind." There are ex- ceptions to this statement, of course, as the senior men in the classic and English courses wear academic dress, and the women students, either be- cause of a greater conservatism or out of an appreciation of the decora- tive effect of the gown, wear it al- most generally in the class-rooms. These exceptions are arguments that the time for the essay has not yet come, but perhaps a stronger argu- ment is the unwritten law that pho- tographs for graduation greups must include a gown, éven if it be hired for the occasion. Ths attitude of the student appears to be that, while he covets the regalia of a degree, and would be sorry wo see the gown abol- ished as an institution, he cannot be bothered with it as & part of his everyday attire within his college Kant Krack Rubbers. Sold only at Abernethy's. Cunningham; piano tuner; SHOPLIFTERS. HOW TREATED WHEN DIS: COVERED. Elaborate Means For Watching Customers in London Shops Who Are Light of Hand. Though there is every appearance in all the great London shops that the public is to be trusted implicitly. says the London Daily Mail, an el aborate and carefully organized sys- tem of espionage prevails to clreum- vent the designs of the peripatetic thiet and the marauding Kleptoinani- ac The invisible detective, Whose of- fice is some unsuspected gallery in the ceiling, whence from artfully de-. signed peep holes in the inolding he can survey the whole establishment, is the most successful foil to the shoplifter. But there are only a few shops so structurally designed that surveillance of this kind is possible. Some of the jewellers' treasure pal- aces are guarded in this manner, and, to make assurance doubly sure, mo attendant is without his satellite, who keeps a wary eye on the cases of gems exposed to the customers' inspection standing at the salesmen's elbow while he is showing them. At all periods a careful 'watch. is kept on those dress establishments that are pervaded by women, but more especially at sale time, for it is then that covetousness overwhelms mortality most easily, and the crowd- ed state of the shops favors the picker-up of unconsidered trifles. A r of one of the largest estah- lishments in the metropolis says it is in those departments that are not spacious that pilfering principally goes on, and that in them detective supervision is always most acute, By Pre-Arranged signs Every shopwalker and counter at- tendant is in effect a detective, but there are some professionals who as- sume the guise to hide their real position. It is the duty of every at- tendant when he is suspiciots of a customer to call the attention of the detective to her, not blatantly, but by prearranged sign. The detective then keeps the suspect under her im- mediate eye. In the large empor- jums where women chiefly congregate the most efficient, because least con- spicuous, detectives are women, either employed as shopwalkers or as cus- tomers. When an attendant misses or thinks | he misses something, or notices dis turbing signs of thievery he speaks to the detective, who, as an elegan®- ly garbed customer, seats herself in a position commanding a good view «of the suspect and makes her pur chases like any other woman, all the while gathering data upon which to proceed. The disguise assumed hy the shop detective differs day by day. If there be one result less desired by the shop proprietor than another it is to comvict a kleptomaniac. Pro- secutions do not forward business. The proprietor's policy is to prevent pilfering by every conceivable means. Hence a blind eye is turned to what is theft in embryo, and the wretched shoplifter caught in the act of pure loining a blouse under cover of her watelproof is asked whether the ar- ticle may not be sent home for her. To the bulging umbrella or the gap- ing handbag the detective alludes with an apology, fearing that madam has inadvertently incommoded ' her- self with something that fell from the counter. First offenders are often cured hy narrow escapes such as this from falling into the abyss that leads to the dock, and gladly pays for the experience in coin of the realin as if they had all the while meant to pur- chase instead of to purloin the goods. Lenicncy of such a kind sel- dom fails to lead the trespasser back into the paths of rectitude, but when it does the manager's office is made the scene of more serious negotia- tions, on which it is well to draw the veil. Considering the immense popula- tion of London and the case with which beautiful objects can apparent- ly be taken in the great shops, the detectives find their talents called but scldom into play, probably bhocause their system of surveillance is so capitally organized and carried out. ---------------------- Ribben Rish. Charles ¥. Holder, the naturalist, believes that what people see in the ocean and mistake for sea serpents are really ribbon fish. This curious deep sea fish often grows to a large size, Dr. Andrew Wilson of the Uni- versity of Glasgow, chronicles that Lord Norbury while trawling in the Firth of Forth one day hauled up a ribbon fish which when stretched upon the deck of the ship, 'which was of forty tons burden, was longer than the vessel, or sixty feet in length. Says Mr. Holder: '"The fish is literally like a ribbon. 'Those handled by the writer were beautiful diapbanous creatures, clear. and jel- lylike. The color was silver tinted with blue and splashed with black tigerlike stripes. The forehcad is very bigh, and from the top of the head rises a series of dorsal spines, eight in nunber, a vivid coral in color, which when -ercet resembles pompons or a red mane, giving the {ish a most fantastic appearance.' Imagination. Sir Robert Ball, the English as- tronomer, recently was showing a visitor a double star through ga tele- scope, and, since his friend was not an expert, Sir Robert thought to improve the occasion by a word or two of information. *'One of those stars goes round the other," was his remark. "Yes, I saw it,"' said the visitor. As a matter of fact, the star in question takes a little over 900 years to revolve around its fellow! Very Pleasant Electioncering. In South Australia female suffrage has been in operation for some time. A member of the Commonwealth Parliament, anxious to ascertain the best mode of approaching the wo- man voters in his constituency, sought the advice of an experienced South Australian Legislator, "How do you please them? Do you kiss the baby?' **No, sir," was the candid reply; "we kiss the elector," --Lon~ don Chronicle. Me Raké (A033 Sx Mite FES Se Xue wakase- have avers: sanbanceuinitbinstgeatiar Samshves inviting shat 3¢ > perfectly against imperfections in material and w Such a Guarantee accompanies no other Gurney, Tild Hamilton Toronto - Montreal --AT-- Crumley Bros' Wo keep Ready-to Wear Novi-Mcdi Costumed in Block, = Figures not easily fitted with a Ready-made, rou ols you and deliver garments in 10 days, fit and finish guaranteed, Smart Jackets. Large Women Easily Fitted Here, We Are Sole Agents for Kingston District. November emphasises the need sf a New Buit or Costame. you do, go to some tailor, or save half your money ? There's s wylom costumes fine without being expensive, and Novi-Modi alias us to ments, ready-to-wear, that &re equal in every respect fo finest: ing: We bave rezeived many comp'iments on the fis and finish of Ko Costumes. The fice work. strong stitching, heavy and earcful fitting are the ball marke of perfection that go ¥ ekirt we sell, Bu ts shown and fitted in Millinery Departinént on so haga? CRUMLEY BRO. 132.134 Princess Street. Gaiters, sizes from 8 to 11, price of which is $1.25. If your size i take a pair at Luis IS HE 5 Ce its. McDermott's