* OER MAGA FALLS SHE WAS DASHED TO PIECES. A Thrilling Sight From the Time She Struck the Seething Rapids Until the Mighty Falls Tore Her Into Splinters--A Pair of Tough Geese. The following story of the first pub- He excursion to Niagara Falls was written at the time by an eyewitness: "The schooner Michigan was the largest vessel on Lake Erle at that time. She was too large, in fact, to enter the various harbors on the lake, and, being somewhat decayed in her Bppers, the owner, Major Frazer, got: the idea that she would answer the | purpose of testing the fate of a vessel that by accident might approach too near the cataract and also. the fate of living things that might be caught in the rapids. The proprietors of the large public houses at the falls on both sides of the river and of stages and steamboats made up a purse to pure chase the schoouer, aware that they would be amply repaid by the specta- tors that the exhibition would attract. "For several days previous to Sept 6, 1828, the day for which the affair was fixed, which was Saturday, the stages and canalboats came to Buffalo crowded with people. On the night of Sept. 5 wagons filled with country people rattled through the village In unbroken procession all night Jong, and on the morning of Sept. 6 Buffalo it- self seemed to be moving in one mass toward the point of attraction. Five steamboats had been advertised to leave Buffalo Saturday morning. They were the Henry Clay, Willlam Penn, Ploneer, Niagara and Chippewa. The Chippbwa was appointed to tow the schooner Michigan to the Niagara river, 1 was a passenger on her. "As soon as we got well under way the scene became interesting. The oth- er four steamers came plowing along in our wake, crowded to the guards with passengers and bands of music playing. The Chippewa towed the big schooner to Yale's landing, on the Cgn- ada side of the Niagara river, where our passengers went ashore, as did those of the William Penn. The pas- sengers of the Henry Clay and Pio- n landed on the "American side. Yale's Tooting was three miles above the falls, and the crowds of people were taken from there on down the river in wagons of all kinds. The hour fixed for towing the Michigan from Yale's Landing to the rapids was 8 in the afternoon, "This task, an extremely hazardous one, was intrusted to the oldest sallor on the lake, Captain Rough. With a yawl boat and five sturdy oarsmen the old epptain got the schooner under way. "They towed her to within a quar- ter of a mile of the first rapids and withif half a mile of the tremendous precipice itself--as near as they dared | approach. They cut the big vessel | adrift, and she passed majestically on, while the oarsmen of the yaw! had to bend their every nerve and muscle to | remove themselves from the peril of belong drawn down by the rushing wa- ters, Indeed, such had been the fear and apprehension of the men that they mutinied against Captain Rough and cut the towline before the time he had set. If they had obeyed the reck- less old captain, he, the yaw! and its crew would have preceded the Michl- gan over the falls, "The high grounds on both shores of the river were lined with people as the Michigan, unguided by human agency, approached, head on, the first rapid of the seething descent, apparently keep- ing the very course that a skillful nav- igator would have gui¢>d her in. The American ensign streamed from her bowsprit and the British jack floated at her stern. The vessel shot the first rapid onhurt, still head on, making a plunge, shipping a sea and rising from it In beautiful style. In her descent of the second rapid, the water momenta- rily increasing in velocity and tumult, her towering masts went by the board, giving the spectators a startling repre- sentation of the crashing of a vessel's spars in a shipwreck at sea. She swung around and presented ber broadside to the dashing and foaming water, and, after remaining, as it seew- ed, stationary for a moment, swung around until she was headed upstream. "Passing the third rapid she bilged, but carried her hull to all appearances whole ns she tossed and groaned be- tween Grass island and the British shore to the Horsesloe fall, over which she was drawn sternforemost and hurled into the thundering abyss, She | #0 exhausted when they got on Jang | | that they made no resistance to being | | captured. The bears, before they aban. | { doned the ship, climbed the masts of | | the vessel and, as it was presumed, | from that outlook saw what their fin. | { ish would be anyhow and then deter | | mined to take the chances of getting to | land, slim as they were. The raccoon | ran up a mast and remained there un- til the mast fell. He was never seen again, The foxes ran frantically up | and down the deck and went over with the schooner, as did the buffalo bull end the geese. Not a trace of foxes or buffalo was ever found. Two of the 'geese swam ashore half a mile below the falls. The other two met the fate | of the buffalo and the foxes." i HIT HIM IN TWO PLACES. The Way Cicero Treated His Devoted Admirer Petrarch. } In the early autumn of 1358 Petrarch suffered an accident which may be narrated in his own words. "You shall | hear," he writes to a friend, "what a trick Cicero, the man whom I have loved and worshiped from my boyhood, has jest played me. I possess a buge | volume of his letters, which 1 wrote | out some time ago with my own hand because there was no original manu- script atcessible to the copyists. Ill | health hindered me, but my great love | of Cicero and delight in the letters and | edgerness to possess them prevailed | agalust my bodily weakness and the | laboriousness of the work. This is the | book which you have seen leaning | against the doorpost at the entry to | my Hbrary. One day while going into | the room thinking about something else, as I often do, I happened inad- vertently to catch the book in the fringe of my gown. In its fall it struck me lightly on the left leg a little above | the heel. 'What! My Cicero,' quoth | I, bantering him, 'pray what are you | hitting me for? He sald nothing, but | way he hit me again, and again I laughed at him and set him up in his | place. Why make a long story? Over | and over again 1 went on suffering the | same hurt, and, thinking he might be cross at having to stand on the ground, I put him up a shelf higher, but not | till after the repeated blows on the | same spot had broken the skin and a far from despicable sore had resulted. 1 despised it, though, reckoning the | cause of my accident of much more weight than the accident itself. At last, when the pain was too much not { only for my wit, but for sleep and rest,"so that to neglect the thing any longer seemed not courage, but mad- ness, I was forced to call in the doc- tors, who have now for some days | been fussing over this really ridicu- lous wound, not without great pain and some danger to the wounded limb, as they insist, though I think you know Just what reliance I place on their prognostications either of good or evil. | 80 this is how my beloved Cicero has treated me. He long ago struck my heart, and now he has struck my leg." ~From Hi CO. Hollway-Calthorp's "Pe- trarch." | GUIDEPOSTS IN FRANCE. | A Striking Feature of the Roads Throughout the Country. | A feature of the roads of France Is | the ever present guidepost. These guide | posts consist of an jron plague about | | two feet long and a foot high securely | mounted on sturdy posts or fastened | to some substantial wall, They are | painted In white and blue and show without any possibility of mistake not | only the commune or township In tant place in either direction as well as thie - distances between all the 'chief | points upon that route. Thus you will find if you are traveling on a road which leads to Paris that the name of the metsopolis will appear on the sign- board, although it may be several hun- dred kflometers distant. i. In addition to these guideposts the Touring Club of France has put on the chief roads a series of signs and approaching. The sign "raleptir," which ! motorist who Is unfamiliar with the road he is traveling to slow down and | passed that It was well that he paid at- tentlon to It because of a steep grade or some abrupt turn. There is no ex- cuse, in view of the symbols and sign- boards, for any one motoring in France to get on the wrong road or to come unexpectedly into trouble.--Frank Pres- | brey in Quting Magazine, v 1 Shakespeare's Last Iliness. According to a tradition handed | down by Ward, the vicar of Stratford, | Shakespeare's last {liness was a fever Drayton and Bea Jonson. Another au- thority, Halliwell-Phillips, says that great poet died of typhoid, caused filth and bad drainage about w Place. Like nearly everything else about Shakespeare, the question the character of his last illness can "That's all it's good for." "What's all it's good for?™ "To blow about"--Cleveland Pldn Dealer. Use For Them All "You have three pairs of glasses, pro- "Yen; I use one to read with, one to see at a distance and the third to find , There is nothing worse for mortals than a vagabond life.~Homer. The Japanese census is inaccurate. | They take it by Simply: counting the and allowing five persons 6 | title recalls two ine { scalp. next day as 1 came again the same ! { est. lin the colonies | 8t. Louis, at Quebec, and in Jacques | Red Cross. to find shortly after the sign had been | | NEW CANADIAN BARONET. How Founder of the His Family First Won Honors. The accession of Sir Gordon John- | son, as fifth baronet, to the family lents; the sig- wn of the foun- der of the family," and of his son's ion to that crown at se fortune nal services to the er the lo William John near the Mohawk, in the then colony, and now state of New York, an Irish gentleman, was, like Clive, a natural leader of men and of soldiers. He also possessed in a marked degree that secret to which British supremacy i has' been most indebted for its sue- | cesn with races of all shades of color-- his word was his bond--that which Johnson promised to deo, he perform- | ed, and Britain was respected and obeyed by the red men. There were but two baronets creat ed in America up to the declaration of independence, and, for that matter, for long afterwards. Both were con- ferred in a large measure for similar services: one went to William Pep- perrell of New Hampshire; the other to William Johnson. The former was a recognition of his happy capture of Louishourg in 1745. That scourge { of the Eastern Atlantic wis restored to Old France a very few years after- wards, and, when 1766 opened, La Nouvelle France was stronger than | ever, and increasingly aggressive. The war whoop of the Indian allies of Louis XV. resounded from Maine to Kentucky, a zone of blood and fire surrounded the English settlers. Hun- dreds of scalps, many the long, light- colored tresses of mafrons and girls, waved before the home of the Cana- dian red men--so many francs a The colonies were disunited and! vacillating, and confined within the narrow strip between the present Pittsburg and the sea. England was appealed to, and Gen. Braddock, with a force of regulars, came out. His destination wag the important out- post we have just named. The axe had to clear a road through the for- scarlet and of brave men. The colon- ists, for whose safety they were to fight, who knew the woods, should also have known better the skill of the French officers and their Indian allies. Though only a few yards off they were as invisible as are to-day the long-range marksmen, and the forest glades were strewn with sear- let coats, and vain was English valor against an unseen foe. Hearts sunk Cartier Square, at Montreal, many toasts were drunk to the success of arms, Gen. Dieskau, a soldier of Marshal Saxe, commanded in Canada, and with him were some splendid regular French regiments. Johnson, of Johnson Hall, was made a major-general. The Indians, lis- advancing fleur-de-lis and the They began to see the end in store for them. But they were strong. They were numerous. They looked across the whole land, and conld sé the cavalry squadrons of their people extending to the Rocky Mountains. About half a century before the massacre of La- chite had almost exterminated the pale faces of Canada. A Dollard had died; the tide of extermination was arrested. We can see afar off, through the forest, a Pontiac and more secar- Jet coats and vain valor. "If I kill a bear," said a Sachem, "I cannot even take his oarcass; some white man claims the land on which I slay him." Johnson alone eould control the red man of the colonies, and induce him not to join his kinsmen of Canada Dieskau, flushed with the vietary over Braddock, descended Lake Champlain, and met Johnson at the the which they stand, but the next fmpos- | head of the Lac du Saint Sacrament. This time it was the white uniforms that strewed the forest.. Dieskau.was a prisoner, dangerously wounded, in | Johnson's tent, and the first victory gained of the series which ended, five vears later, in the surrender of Can- ada. The joy-bells rang. A baronetey and five thousand pounds came to John- son, and with his victory came the new name of Lake George, after the King. Four years later~when the pibroch of the 78th Highlanders was symbols to indicate to motorists and | borne" on the Quebec breezes to the bicyclists what sort of a road they are | anxious ear of the gallant Montcalm «Johnson was in the trenches before translated Into good United States | Niagara, defended by as accomplished means to "let up," has caused many a | and as brave a regular of the 'Bearn regiment as ever drew a sword. When ita strong breastworks went down. and the surrender was made to the baronet, with them érumbled the Gull of Mexico. : Thus two of the great victories of the war were battle honors for the Lord of the Manor of Johnson Hall. | Bir William died at the dawn of the Revolution of these same colonies to which he had wi 0! h value. His eldest son, Bir John, inherited his position and estates. Like some other old titles, the son of a Johnson baro- met is a knight at his birth, but fur. ther honors had been conferred ow Sir Johut by a special knighthood at 8t. James In 17656 Had he chosen even to r+main neu- tral, he could have saved his estatas, but he was not of that metal. He preferred the British flag to a fortune rohased at the cost of dis<imula- fon and came to Canada heading the noble roll of aligts, with property confiscated which an Astor or a Van- rbilt might envy. ger the pool honored list is found the other Colonial Baronet Pepperrell, the founder of which family had also, by skill and industry, secured a great estate, and two of whose descendants were rescued from a poorhouse by the indness of strangers. . ve of Bir oy sons were British officers. One fell at Badajos; a son- in-law, a general officer, is recorded both 9 St, Paul's Ctahedral. The late baronet was also an officer ae Bn Ly, a married a 2 i . fling sown the ote of Food now Ais nephew, Sir Gordan, Ouly One "BROMO QUININE," that is Laxative Bromo Cures a Cold in One Day, : is often a kick jo un, of Johnson Hall, | There was a bravp display of | At the Chateau of | tening and thinking, stood between | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MARCH 28 1908. i BORDER INDIAN BANDS. Mr, J. 8. Crate Enters Plea Against Their Demoralization. ' The Department of Indian Affairs | for the Dominion of Canada is face to face with a problem of gravest im- { port. Tt involves either the disin- { tegration and utter disappearance of | the border Indians on this half of the | continent, or their perpetuation and physical and moral vation, The race that can produce the ad- { ministrative and creative qualities of { an Oronhystekha, the literary genius {ol a Pauline Johnson or the athletic { predominance of a Longhoat needs no | apology from those who have inter j ested themselves in the Indian { ples. The Mohawks, under the infu- ence of the good that is in civiliza- tion, have produced many good citi- zens, professional men and even distinguished figures, at a chasm there lies, however, between the healthful surroundings made possible in one case and the damning, soul-blighting, death-dealing conditions under which some of the border tribes are forced to exist. The Department knows fall well of the ravages of tuberculosis in many of the Indian tribes. If the assurances o the Minister the Interior may, relied upon the De ment will do all that medical Jepastm can do for these people. That is part of the campaign, and the time may yet come when the little Indian boys or | girls may enter the schools with some | slight chance of reaching physical maturity before filling graves in the reservation cemetery. The Indian Department, while cog- nizant and doubtless appreciably con- cerned about these conditions, is also | aware of the peculiar difficulties { which confront those who are work- along the Rainy River. There are 14 reservations and eighteen bands in this jurisdiction. Many of the reser- vations are located ws the river directly opposite the state of Minne- sota. It is not against the law in | that state to sell liquor to a Canadian Indian, and in consequence these unfortunate people have been exploit- | ed and degraded almost beyond cred- j ence. Men of vicious character have { established across the river from the | reservations "blind pigs," where { whiskey of the most vicious kind is j sola. The utter soullessness of the men who lend themselves to this de- grading business is almost beyond be- | lief, and the Indians go blindly, even | willingly to the slaughter. In his annual report to the De- | partment, J. P. Wright, Indian agent. tells, for example, of the Hungry Hal bands of Objibways. Their reserves { cover 6,280 acres, and much of the {land is a rich clay loam. They have | no taste, however, for agriculture. | "These Indians," says the agent, | "are addicted to the use of intoxi- | cants, which they usually get on the { American side." Again, of the Long Sanlt bands, he { writes: "I regret to state that all the | Indians along the Rainy River are { very much addicted to the use of in- | toxicants, which they can easily pro- | cure on the American side, for, as { the law now stands, there is no pen- | alty for supplying liquor to Canadian { Indians on the American side." | In his report of the Little Forks | band, the same story is told in other | words: "These Indians are intemper- ate," says the agent, "and as there is a 'blind pig' kept on the American | side of the river, opposite the re. serve, they can get all the liquor they | can pay for, consequently a great deal of their money is spent in liquor. In | November last two of these Indians | were 'shot and one seriously wounded | in a drunken row with the keeper of j this 'blind pis. but both recovered." | The cold language of the official re- | ports conveys scant information of the { demoralizing influences exercised on | the lives of these people by condi- | tions across the river from their reser- vations, What chance haz that little Indian boy who was held up playfully by the guide when I visited one of the border reservations? While his black { childish play he runs around "the | tepee, his future is as surely blight {ed as the flower that withers and falls with the first frost of 'winter. He is one of those who must grow 'up and contribute to the men across the | river, These Indian bands range in num- ber from 40 to 110. There are 18 of them in the Rainy River country. Two things I strongly recommend after making a personal investiga- tion and knowing full well the na- ture of the information in possession of the Department. Remove the re- | servations far back from the border. whole esvefully planned lines of em- | It will help to save these people and vire from the Great Lakes' to thegewill remove at the same time one of | the greatest obstacles in the develop- | ment and settlement of "the Rainy | River valley. Then, let the Depart- ment of Indian Affairs approach the United States and Minnesota authori- ties with g view to securing their co- operation "fér the protection of the border tribes of Indians. The Indian population of Canada is 110,345, of whom 10,347 are pagans. In 1906 the population was 107,637, of whom 10,906 were pagans. Any inference to be drawn from these figures is leit to readers who may be interested in this article. Czar Enters Lawsuit. An extraordinary suit at law which is exciting much interest among Manitoba lawyers is now in progress in Winnipeg. No less a person than the Czar of Russia is suing a citizen of the western metropolis. The state- ment of claim sets forth that one Proskurekoff, sing under the as- sumed name of Stefan Tudkofski, was formerly treasurer of the Department of the Interior of the Russian Gove ment in the iady, pretty and of high degree. There he invested in real estate, and lived luxuriously. 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WE'RE AT IT TOOT AND NAIL. eyes gleam with laughter'now; and in, OF CANADA, Gains in every department, is the splendid record made during the past year- Here 'are someof the facts and figures taken from the Annual Report to January 1st, 1908, toshow how this Com- pany is growing in financial strength every day. INSURANCE. The new business written amounted to $7,081,402, a gain over 1906 of $1,577,855. The total assur- ance in force was $51,091,848, another gain over 1906 of $4,179,440, 3 | INCOME. The income for the year amounted to $2,233,- 570.15; being for premiums, $1,733,041.88 ; interest, $509,- | Our competitors may be Water' "Urying to make onds mee but wa won't he outstripped Ly in furnishing satisfaction te public. To tell the naked TFuTH going to outdo ourselves in toeing | mark this coming season body at once. 1 have seve who want to | May next. Hast it with me clients out of town in Kingston before 159 Wellington Street. buman | unless the | If you have any City Property to sell ® "1a hot 0." the ral ny T. J. Lockhart, | Real Estate and Insurance Agent 240.02; and Profit and Loss, $1,288.25. PAYMENTS TO POLICYHOLDERS. The total amount paid during the year was $680,220.30, as follows : Death Claims, $317,776.50; Matured Endowments, $178,- 785.00 ; Surrendered Policies, $92,138.68; Surplus, $80,805.19; Sapant. and Fire Extinguisher. Endorsed. by the Leadin Companies, adopted by the UJ. SN roment and priociple Cities throughout the U. and Annuities, $10,714.93. The Death Claims were less than J}. | Cpoada ~~ in 1906. chemicals, which do fre, will not freeze or clog. EXPENSES AND TAXES were $383 981.33. Agents wanted. were very low in view of the business transacted. ASSETS. The assets at the close of the year were $11,656,409.92, made up as follows : Mortgages, $5,756,070.85 ; Debentures and Bonds, $3,593,- 965.84 ; Loans on Policies, $1,410,130.87; Premium Obliga- tions, $22,534.21 ; Real Estate (Company's Head Office), $30,875.79: Cash in Banks, $280,494.29; Cash at Head Office, $1,505.19; Due and Deferred Premiums (net), $319,277.97; Interest due and accrued, $241,554.91. The total Liabilities are $11,656,409.92, which includes the reserve for the security of policyholders, $10,019, 563.89, computed on the Company's standard of 4, 3%, and 3 per cent. ' SURPLUS. On the Company's standard of valuation the surplus is $1,503,719.68 ; and on the Government standard, $1,897,358.28. 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