Bi ----------e rei REBUILDING: --FERNE].. BIG CHANGES IN THE FIRE SWEPT TOWN. Within the Months--A Racv Ae sit There, a 'ernie smiles, nestling amongst thy suntains on every side, and seems to hold out the welcoming hand to the dusty stranger alighting gids a he ~wildering throng of people from the train, 'says Moutrie in The Toronto Globe Altiost before he is aware of it, his belongings are seized and deposited Mb ne tatiseoh basi Jabal, bs alert porter, who smilingly beekoms him to follow Pra. in the Cagalinn order of things, has doubt- less ordained that hotels and banks shall occupy street corners by right; whilst not following this order, so closely as some eastern cities--Toron- to forsooth !~-yet Fernie adheres suf- ficiently to the ecatablished decree, und is amply provided for. Naturally the first things that at- tracts the stranger's eye are the mountaing, with their snowy peaks and rivulets gluddening the vision on these hot days, and, strolling around with the curiosity of the newly-arriv- ed, his attention is next taken by the turbulent little river Elk as it rushes and boils in its sinuous path. Shade, like the proverbial snake in Ireland, is non-existent in Fernie, but it is very pleasant indeed down by the river at evening time to sit, smoking one's pipe, on a fallen cottonwood tree, whilst listening to the hurry. i river, and to enjoy the cool, int air that blows softly by the I i One can hardly barely ten months sgo devastated by tire, and, of old wiped out When one and sees the massive build- have already arisen, and arising, and the continu that prevails on every seems marvellous and in- credible Some of the New Ontario towns are pretty go-ahead in the building li ne, buf this place surprises one fo nuous effort and. results down the main street, brought up short, so a huge wooden building across the thoroughfare, taken aback, having obstruction , early that morning ; but it is nothing. They are oiNy moving--a common sight in Fernie--to inove oneself and residence at the ame time Lumber is high here, and cannot be left behind, and it is chPuper to utilize the building one h than to reconstruct another. So 4héy haul away at the ropes and the house creaks and movés on Amidst the blackened stumps down by the water' neat little and lots are vegstables and Have Been Wrought Pust Ten count of a Vi credit at first that Fernie was like Carthage looks rout ing thi it are daily ous activity ide it As one To and is suddenly to speak. by drawn right one is t first seen no such cottages and dwellings, being fenced off and flowers planted with- in the area once swept by flame. Real estate values are high in Fer- nig, and will be higher, and one can ddly wondeér-ant-1t, with the . pro- gressive idéas of its inhabitants and the evidences of their belief in them- selves around. Well-dregsed people busily moving about remind one more of those of Edmonton or Cal- gary or a down east city than one would naturally expect to see in a town whose inhabitants vary from four to seven thousand, according to whom vou ask At night the ruddy glare of the coke Kilns, with their flickering flames, lends a weird air of its own to the surroundings in the city heights, with the eternal snow-capped " mountaing in the far distance, whilst behind the depot itself the mountain, with its color of purple heatfer and makes a peseeful active little Fernie dark green foliage, background to smiling beneath Canada's Peat Bogs. A bulletin entitled "The Investiga- tion of the Peat Bogs and Peat Indus: try of Canada, during the season of 1903-09, by Enik Nystrom, M E., peat expert, has been "issued from Ottawa showing the location of Canada's peat supply Of those in astern Canada the most valuable are I. Mer Bleue, near 2. Th lfred peat miles from Ottawa. i. The Welland cat bog, about six Ottawa alout 40 bog, New I'he wing , on the ' about a Railway, and 40 miles from Ottawa 6. The Perth bog, a mile and a halt 1 Pert G6. The Victoria Road bog, mile from Victoria road Midland division of the Railway, fhe balletin contains a deseriptive report of each bog, showing the loca- tion, area sand structure, and giving an estimate of the available supply of peat iu vith recofds of analyses, fic values, ete.,.and should be of ntorest to those engaged with, the develop- nadian peat resources. sting plant is now it Ottawa, in. which the value the production of power nstrated, and the Dé. about a tation on the Grand Trunk onnected dem f ast Tie. Severed. f the ties that bound Lord ald to Ottw'wa has been sev and grounds at Rockliffe ld to an Ottawa syndi property which consists witiful land, broken into building lots When Lord Dund meld left Ottawa it was given h Se was holding his prop Rockliffe and that lat vr, whon his private and public af fairs had b tled in Scotland, he return to Ottawa to live It rally understood that Lord t in his ularly for of 20 acres of b will be the property would, i indicate that His to remain 1a the Cc P. R. Spiral Tunnels. piral tunnels on | the.( n Puecitic Railway line be- ld ¢tor;in the Rocky M tiie as just been completed. Th irnets > 8 four miles to the | i grade {rom 4.5 te 2.2 per cent a IORI rie ART 3 the people 8 UIVORTS TET 2 edge are rapidly rising" 'lodge was presided over by being | quickly | they | unnerve any but an expérienced hunt- | er," and thus eseape. £2 at ut reduce the | mane he ANS PEE _ STUDYING Esau x ¢ mts re resem 4. THE DAILY RRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, - Government wit Make Further ine vestigations In North. 'The Canadian Geological Survey, undegs thes late Dr. G. M. Dawson, gathered from "time to time a large amount of interesting and valuable information regarding the native races. Since the death of Dr. Daw- son this portion of the work of the department has begn allowed to lan guish, but this year a fresh start was made in a direction which cannot but prove to be of great historical god ethnological interest, as well as being of pefygeular value in allowing Cafiada to become bet- ter acquainted with their fellow eiti- zens who obcuapyithe vast frozen ter- ritory which forma our northern st A Src Spe The present subject of ethnological research by the department is the Esquimaux rafe; and it is dee especially desirable that this work should be resumed amongst them just now, because their habits are rapidly changing and kecoming more difficult for: scientific. $tUdy, 8s the white man penetrates the Far North, The Esquiniaug is perhaps by his natural gifts the most admirable of the native rages of Canada. There are no more intelligent and kindly people than the uimaux of North- een Canada, and ene that so readily respond 10 coutigsy and good will; and yet they are probably the. most misunderstood and misrepresented of all * native races. which was wy out last year for the study of the J isquimiaux consists of Mr. V. 1sson- and Df. R. M. Anderson. The undertaking is by no means a new task to Mr. Stefansson, as it is the second of a series of jour- neys he has planned to carry out within the next fifteen years, during which period study every Ksquimaux from Fast Cape, Siberia, to the east coast'of Greenland and the of Labrador, The present journey is planned to | cover two years, one of which Mr Stefunsson expects to spend between | Can- | Cape Brown and Bathurst Inlet, ada, the other on the Colville river Alaska. He believes that near the mouth of the Coppermine river there 18 'a group of Esquimaux who have never seen a white man; these he desires to study while as yet they are uncontaminated by white influence and before *'civilized" ways change their system of living. Dynamited by Dog. The news of a very remarkable ac- cident at a mining camp at Hanging Stone Lake, near Gowganda, by which one man was killed injured, cently by Frederick Dunn, a resident of St. Johns, "Quebec, who accom- panied from Northern) Qutario remains: of Andrew Dunn, the prin- cipal victim, for interment at his old home just outside that city Andrew Dunn and companions were dynamiting . a vein. The fuse was ignited 'and the 'men ran, followed by Dunn's collie dog, which picked up the dysidnite stick .in his teeth The explosion came just as the dog reached - the cabin aad dropped the explosive Dunn was Killed almost instantly, his skull being fractured in two places, and one of his arms and two ribs being broken. One of the other men, Sims, was stunned and cut 'gbout the miner, Hackett, escaped with a few bruises. The dog, which was the cause of the disaster, bounded away and escaped injury A Man of Weight. People in many Ontario towns know Mr. Holland, of Whitby, who has done excellent work as grand organiger. of the Sons of Temperance Mr. Holland is a big man--not only big in achievement, but big in per son. He related on one of his tours how he had gone into a certain place to be weighed, but as the scales went up to only two hundred and fifty pounds, he could not succeed. One time lage of Port wheré the a demure but droll Worthy Patriarch the customary preliminaries Mr land was admitted, and as he made his ponderous way to the" platform the halting Worthy Patriarch remark- Robinson, Hal- ced dryly; "Well! they told 'me Holland was coming, but I think it's all of Hol land and part of Belgium." She Didn't Go Back. Miss Agnes laut, whose address on "yellow journals" and how they may be .got' rid of, created sach a stir at the International Congress of Wo- men, has ever been noted as one with views of her own and with a courage of her convictions. In Winnipeg she is remembered as a delicate girl with definite opinions and an independent spirit that entirely belied her looks. When Miss Laut left Winnipeg to try her fate in the big world of jour- nalism and literature, there were not wanting these. who predicted that she would soon be back at her desk in The Free Press office. Her first work was the reporting of the meetings of the Joint High Commission in Que- bee, and in this she succeeded in a way that ranked her work with that of the ablest Ottawa and Washington correspondents. From that time her rise has been steady, and though she has seyeral times Visited Winnipeg, she has evinced no tendency to oecu- py her old desk The Moose. The nrdose is the largest animal now existing of the deer family, standing often as high as six feet, and some- time weighing 1,200 pourds; but not. withstanding its great size, it is very fleet of foot. When brought to bay, a blow with its fore foot or horus is a very serious matter for the huntsman Ofter when pursued by man they have their intelligence to thank for their escape, for sometimes, if closely fol- lowed, they dquble in their tracks and stand motionless in some thicket until! | when they | the hunter has slipped by, glide away. make kuch At other times a commotion as to The Very Newest. In eadét and navy blue soft hats, Campbell Bros'., Kingston's hat store a See Ribby's new suite, at $10 and $15 ry: 'med | The. expedition | | was ecstatic | rupees a month if he stayed in Bom- { bay, or 30 rupees if he traveled. | my intention to go up ceyntry, and two | was brought to Montreal re-: the | badly | neck, while the other | | nceident or | ditional After | | tion might be | trains, | meetings, | &truction, | 68 feet wide. i be 20,000 tons, | tons of H.M.S. Dreadnought. g12 | Europeans In Orient Need a Big Fi lowing of Retainers. THey have a servant India, and it is problem in other "countries. are accompanied by your wife, , it is quite" necessary the mem-sahib should have her "ayah." To endeavor to go through the east without this | chocolitecolored bodyguard is to | stamp yourself as either mean or else | unfutored in ways oriental. If you | are a resident, and if+it does not mat- ter how humble a position, your: bungalow is overrun with attendants. | You are wai on hand and foot; the custom means bondage of a Bag iarly Rustin character, since pri vacy is virtually non est. very. man servant in Jodia is a dh... "HE RiRy oe Pp eRes I ways, "boy," except those who are repu to be able to read and write English | and insist on being «called tracts a disease called the "boy" fever. 'The luxury of being waited oh hand and Fars is ifresisiible, . most insi Eng ishmen soon learn to yell * pda 1 choloric tone which is been invented by the earliest mem- bers of John Company. To the seasoned Anglo-Indian every boy is born liar and. thief." He is ae- cepted as such ipso factor. newcomer this attitude toward our "black brother" is incomprehensible. After a season in India the newcomer knows why and invariably is more bitter in his race and partnership than the oldest resident. I have usually of third or fourth hand, of the | but 1] existence of an honest boy, Ea | have seen none. 1 hopes to visit and | | settlement | 1 was very innocent when I engag- ed my, first boy, but then I had been | { only 24 hours in India. shores of | ed with the appearance. * His white clothes and turban were spotless. He was tall and handsome. His salaam and he wanted only 25 His beautiful. or testimonials, majors, "chits," Generals, tionaries, had enjoyed the services of Behwar, as he was called, and all said what somrow it gave them to part with him and with what pleasure they | remembered him to another wander. bing sahib. 'or two days he was as faithful as a dog. On the morning of the third he informed me he was married sand had quite a lot of children; as it was would sahib allow Behwar three the poor | months' salary in advance so that he | | could leave provision for his family, | I was very innocent, and the "boy'" was so charming. 1 advanced 'him his salary, and an hour later India had swallowed him As I hawe said, | up, never to be seen by me again. The next applicant for the post was a little Madrosi, perpetual smile. He spoke very litile English, bundle of chits, of which he was ab- normally proud. The first read some- thing like this: "The bearer ofthis is a splendid menteur. He is a most adwirable color. tion in our enfers. Pigeon Messengers. Pretty pigeons of Australia carry packsges and messages between Ho- bart and Maatsuyker Island light- house, a distance of about seventy- five miles. LastqNovember they call- ed a physician -fot a lighthouse atten- | Saved - his Iffe with mes- and three ad- dant" and probably Three birds are liberated sages every three weeks, illness occurs birds are set {ree birds in all are used for the service While messages have not always reached their destination, the service | has nevertheless been highly satisfac- | tory | piece he went to the littl vil- | The messages are written on a of paper tied under the bird's wing; but' the marine board has: in view some celluloid cases which may Le adjusted under the bird's wing, and in which a good deal of informa- carried. The birds are fed on grey peas of good quality, get plenty of grit and fresh water, and are kept thoroughly clean. They are also allowed at their station plenty of opportunity for needful exereise That Maatsuyker Island tighthouse, which has a most isolated position, sician frem Hobart sixteen after he had been sent for by pigeon post has suggested important possi. bilities for more general use of hom- ing pigeons for such" service. Tro- phies are' to be provided for homing competitions, so as to encourage own- ers to breed the best descriptions of carriers. There are about 20,000 of these birds in Australia. Starved In Midst of Plenty. A curious story is told in a Louden contemporarysby a correspondent who recently discovered in an old bureau a letter sent by a relative in Australia | many, many years ago. It was writ ten by a squatter in the bush, much faded, and grains of the sand which had been used to dry the let- ter still adhered to it. breathed disconsolance. Times *h sand; the writer of good times too m prospec succeeded in restoring them. But the chemicals which were plied to the paper had a curious ef- fect on the grains of sand. ed many of them as grains of gold. General Booth's. Tour. In connection with his South Afri. | can tour, General Booth traveled near- ly 18,000 miles, spent thirtytthree days | fifteen in | and nights on the and held sea, sixty-four public The New Dreadnought. H.M.8. 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