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Mr. Churcher is indebted to the direct intervention of the King, through His Majesty's private secretary, Lord Knollys, for this recognition of & ro- mantic , Mr. Churcher, now 76 years old, is a tall, commanding figure. His tread is still elastic, his manner dignified, and his speech quiet but full of force. Two of hit sons are officers in the British army, Two of his brothers were killed in the mutiny, In July, 1867, when the mutiny was at its height and Agra deluged with blood, J. Russell vin, the hapless lieutenant governor of the united pro- vinces, sent Mr. Churcher, a Seung civilian, to attempt to restore. Britis authority in a town and fort 70 miles away fram Agra, on the hi toad Hom a to Uawipare, an order for rupees, the part uncashed, is one of Mr. Haren er's treasured possessions, With this he was to raise a force and do his work. How his ragged force marched from Agra; how they caught and flogged a rajah twenty miles away, who, three months before, had robbed Mr. Churcher's father and mother; how they came through at last to Etah are incidents which would provide ab- sorbing narratives. But the great in- cident was the taking of Etah. *"] came to Etah in August, 1857, with 100 horsemen and 150 foot," said Mr. Churcher recently, "and called upon the rajah' to allow me to ocoupy the fort for the British. He planted a green flag on the wall, proclaimed himself a vice-regent of the we Delhi, an refused sdmission. at evening, camped in the mango grove near the fort, I heard that 20 Sikhs who had mutinied from a regiment at Benares were approaching. "Knowing the dare-devil character of these men, I sent for their chief and offered him and his men 100 ru- pees each for a night's work. They eed, With heel ro and branches of the mango trees they made storm ing ladders, which they carried in the dead of night and against the walls of the fort. they went, and I followed, while my men went round to the gate of the fort. It was a for- lorn hope, but it su v "1 remember well running along the famparts with a spy, who knew the fort, and one of the Bikhs, look- ing in the darkness for the rajah. We found him sitting in his room with attendants on either side. He was a fat man and slow to move. Through the glass doors we, bein in the darkness, could see him well. "My, Sikh raised his musket and smashed in the doors. I rushed in, a pistol in one hand, a sword in the other. The attendants drew their swords, I threatened to shoot the rajah first and them afterward, where. upon they fled, and I secured my prisoner. "Meanwhile the rajah's soldiers had attempted to fly by the gate of the fort, and later we counted forty dead in one spot. Next morning. the fort was surrounded by the people of the town. 1 took the rajah to the gate and announced from the wall above it that I would hang him on the spot and turn the ten guns, which we cap- tured on the ramparts, upon the town if they did not disperse." ; Thus was Etah taken. For six months, until the end of the mutiny, Mr. Churcher maintained authority, collected revenue, which he sent to the relief of Agra, and kept the trunk road clear of rebels. Wounded and sick, he came to England when the mutiny was suppressed. Returning again, he found that a native clerk. For nearly half a century following the mutiny, Mr. Churcher, who is a barrister, acted as unpaid speci magistrate in the United Provinces. He is now. living in a quiet flat in West. London. The House of Peers is i need of repair. Not ouly red leather benches in & but the seats in the i Ix 8 =i BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, ! THRILLS OF ICE BOATING. Sport Seems Tame Till Craft Strikes a Hummock. One of the most inspiring sports of the winte: season is yachting on the ice. The frozen landscape slips by at the rate of forty miles .an hour, more or less, and the pure, frosty air makes the ears of the passengers tingle. On, on the machine flies, swe every turn of the an ate creature, and zegret of the they can't bo, chased sev cop. there is a chance for it to explode. Noth- ing can happen, he reasons, on the swift gliding ice of the poetry of mo- tion, which pails on the appetite. More action-- The amateur's heart jumps and he clutches a hand rail as the yacht shiv- ers from a stiff jolf, swerves. and leaps into the air like a. bird. It comes down rather hard, and wabbl- ing. That was an encounter with a small hummoek. When the strikes the next one the actiop-loving amateur may have a chance to go overboard and sail two or three hun- dred feet of glassy sea on the seat of his trousers, There is also an exhil- arating pros of meeting cracks in the ice. The boat will leap across ordinary chasms, but it may come to one which will engulf the merry crew and make them swim in waler of an extremely bracing temperature. A knowledge of seamanship comes in play not only for such an eventual- ity, but in handling tiller and sails. The ice yacht responds more quickly to the helm than w craft, and an untrained hand would Pause an upset in about half a second. Sails must be reefed for approaching squalls and allowance made for contrary eurrenis of air sweeping through breaks in the shore line. Racing between well matched boats provides lots of fun and excitement. There is faster going in these contests than in most other kinds, save for automobilig and sledding in the Alps. A speed of more than sixiy miles an hour has been attained. yachts are provided with steel runners, which soon become highly polished; a sha rudder, which cuts into the ice enoug to give a purchase in steering. and often a ie atended heavy runner to balance the wind driven craft. The latter feature resembles the devige in use by South Sea Islanders for surf boats. In some home made models of jceboats there is merely a plat- form of boards above the runners, and the youthful sportsman goes "belly- whopping" while he steers his speed- ing craft. The iceboat 18 not so popular in country districts astit is near cities. Long experience of rural mankind has shown .that an iceboat requires too much attention when two persons Ro out, together, and nothing can beat the old-fashioned one-horse sleigh. The horse wiser hioualf wile ng man a sit Tar in blissful meditation or RN hands to touch under the buffalo robe. Yet, for all that, when a third person manages the iceboat, the young man and girl have a chance to hold or be held which is not to be despised, ---------- New Prairie Towns. In view of the approaching comple- tion of their main line from Winni- eg to Edmonton, the Grand Trunk Pacific Co. is now busy making ar- rangements for placing about one hundred town-sites in Western Can- ada on the market. These town-sites are dotted all across the three pre- vinoes of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the average distance between them being seven miles. The indica- tions are that there will be no lack of competition for lots in these town. sites, and that upon most of them, before the season is over, the founda: tions will be laid of goodly-sized towns. At Rivers, the first divisional point on the line west of Winnipeg, there has already been a good de mand for lots, ~ some twenty build- ings, consisting of stores and dwell- ings, are in course of erection. "Fhe extremely mild weather of the winter season in the West has enabl- ed the compauy to go ahead at a great rate with tonstruction work, and a high official of the company stated that the line will be completed fram Winnipeg to Portage la Prairie by | June 1, thus giving a through track clear to Saskatoon. There is every pros, that the line will be complet. ed © into Edmonton by the end of the summer, although the construe. tion of the bridge over the Battle River may to some etient delay con i ruction. : In the vicinity of Winnipeg great ations are mow being made for a» big season's . In the great a St Boniface, now enclosed by a ence on either side two miles in length, from 20 to 30 miles of track been laid, while , where i 28 sPERE fetid ft gf : APRIL 4, 1908. rr TALE OF PINCHER CREEK. How the Neighbors Helped Them. selves to a Shack, In the early days in the Canadian West the rancher or the homesteader felt quite free to leave his shack for days or weeks at a time, confident that on his return nothing would be found amiss -- except, perhaps, that pass strangers had found shelter there for the night, and made use of the place as if they owned it. Buch was the custom. But no damage could be done, and nothing would be car- 8d off. Of more recent years a more mixed class of people have been en- tering the West, some of them unvers- in those traditions of the plains which the early comers took so uch pride. The new homesteader, if a bachelor, use to put in his time while doing his duties, by working for a neighbor, during which time he might visit his own shack for weeks. shack of his was, perhaps, not enough to contain a "four-posts er' of our grandfather's time, and its furnishings were few and simple in the extreme. There is a story told at Pincher Creek of a young bachelor, absent from his shack in this way, whe dis- covered that his few possessions were rapidly disappearing -- axe, sleigh, tone were gone. No doubt some of these things had been borrowed in fod faith by neighbors, but it was bad form to take them in that way, and he decided that he must put a stop to it, and in order to do so he went "home" to sleep at nights, The first night was uneventful, but on the seco he had a dream, in which he felt that he was on the sea crossing the rolling billows towards his English home. A noise awakened him, and his amazement may be imag- ined when he discovered that his residence was actually gliding across the prairie. Various wild theories flashed over his mind as he sprang up, but on looking out of his little window he found that a team of horses was rapidly hauling his shack away, the long grass serving almgost as well as snow for the purpose. His indigna- tion was great and just, and his first impulse was to take summary ven- geance, but being a young man with a strong sense of humor, he threw himself on his couch and decided to wait until morning and see the strange adventure through. At daybreak his shack ceased its long journey, and it was evident by the noises outside that it had reached its destination. Those outside imag- ined that this was to be its future site, Then the door of the shack opened and the rightful owner stood there smiling cheerfully on two startled men who were unhitching the horses. "Well, boys, you needn't unhitch here," he said, genially, "I'd plan- ned to go to town this week. on't you drive me on in while I get break- fast? You must be hungry." MAKING NEW BLOOD. Sir James Grant Uses Electricity te Relieve Aged Man, Sir James A. Grant, physician to Earl Grey, Governor-General of Can- ada, and consulting piysisian to the Montreal General and 8t. Luke's Hos- pitals, announced reeently in an ar ticle in the New York Medical Jour- nal that blood can be made by elee- tricity, and that persons suffering from spaemia can be benefitted greatly thereby. "An important fact, demonstrated clearly," says Sir James in his article "is thgl blood can actually be made by electricity, by stimulating through the abdominal walls the ganglia that take part in the process of blood for- mation." "For many years," he explains, "I applied electricity in the ordinary way finquently with beneficial results, without knowing exactly the why or the wherefore, As the body is largely composed of water, holding in solution salts or potash and soda, it becomes an excellent electrolyte. In no part of the human system are the irregulari- ties of life more marked than in the alimentary capal, where the defences of the organism permit the ingress of bacterial toxins. In this tract the blood becomes interrupted. Under such circumstances a perfectly stable nervous system is a rarity. Here par- ticularly electrolysis becomes an im- portant factor, giving new activity by establishing beyond doubt an average negro-physic equilibrium. He then introduces the quoted above about making blood. mong the cases cited is of a man 71 years old, who had suffered for a number of years from muscular weakness and general debility. "Electrolytic treatment through the solar plexas," he says, "given every se¢ond day for three weeks brought about an entire change lor better. The patient now walks with ease and Satnfort and his face regained its red passage sindian Poisons. pole, and then went to certain places they knew they would find rat in abundance. 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