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FOOT WEST STREWE, MARVELOUS CURE OF SKI ERUPTION Four Children Constantly Scratching, Nearly Tore Limbs Off; Curedin a Month by and Y fit 1 i L ; iid J KEEWATIN 1S A VAST AREA OF LAKES AN) RIVERS. For Just 300 Years Port Nelson Mas Been on the Mio ot Canada--The winter There Is Colder and the Summer Is Just as Mot -- The Indian's Strongest Drink Is Tea Hudson Bay Co. Supreme. "1 will share my kingdom with youn-- . Of the northwest wind, Keewaydin, Of the Home wind, the Keewaydin." When Mudjekéewis, the West Wind and ruler of all the other winds of heaven, gave the Northwest Wind to his sop, Hiawatha, after the famous trial of his strength in the great fight, as told in the legends of the Objib- ways, and translated into literature by Longfellow, Port Nelson as a port had not yet been placed upon the map. Indeed, it is doubtful if there were as yet any such things as maps, unless Hiawatha himself made a ma of his territory on a sheet of bire bark. . Possibly, indeed, the port itself at that time lay fathoms deep under the sea. Not until Bir Thomas Bur. ton came. there, first of white men, in 1612, did Port Ndlson get itsell on the now known iy and not till Bir Thomas' mate, Mr. Nelson, died there, some time during that winter of 1613 1613, did Port Nelson get even its name. & Thus for just exactly 300 years has Port Nelson been en the map of North America, and for just exactly 248 years it has been in business as a rt. Until now, that business had ut little concern with settled Canada, however, being chiefly dealings of the native inhabitants oa the woods and prairies of the far Northwest, with a company of honorable gentlemen in London. The present outstanding fea ture of the new Government's achieve. ments during its first session at Ot tawa just closed, has been the gracious granting of a section of Keewatin to Ontario as another vacant lot to add to the provincial back yard, together with railroad right to Port Nelson, across Manitoba's portion of said ter- ritory, same said territory consisting! of Hiawatha's ancient land grant, the home of the Northwest Wind, Mani toba gets another and bigger portion, together with partnership rights in Port Nelson, the former fur trade sea~ port on Hudson Bay. j One hundred million acres or more of spruce bush, clay levels, sandhills, ranite escarpments, big and little, {alana lakes and rivers great and, small, level sweeps of muskeg, bearing thinly scattered stunted spruce, fea- thery tamarac on soraggy jsckpine-- Hiawatha's land--unsurveyed except for the main rivers, and the salt water coast line. Still, after all, these vivid changes throughout the other home lands of the Crees and the Ob- jibways -- undespoiled, lonely, and primeval! Keewaydin still spreads a blanket of snow three feet deep every winter over those lonely little lakes. Old Nokomis still puts out her rabbit snares in the forest along the frozen shores, still sets her fish nets through the ice. And in the spring, when Bhawondsses, the South Wind, breathes upon the ice, and the rivers break and the eager bude of the silver birches and the northern poplars swell into tender Joung leaves, every vali ley becomes a dimple of delisious green, each nesting its own small fragment of the sky as reflected in Keewatin's innumerable lakes; The summer comes late to those little Kee- watin lakes, but when it begins to come it comes without reaction or delay. The water lilies fpread their green pads and the immaculate blos/ soms burst from the bud about as early as do ours here in the southern part of the province, Midsummer comes coutemporans eously with ours, and is almost as hot, The moose wades out deep into the tepid water to escape the flies, and to dive down for lily roots. The wood# ! land caribou mother leads her spring i ealf into the lake to teach it 10 swim, : 80 that the migration will not be hin | dered when in the fall the time comes to move further southward. The woold ly little wild ducks hatch out to float and flutter around the mirrored ponds, and the glimmerglass bays. The partridge broods rustle through thd ground leavek and learn to fly ug nto low branches of the thick-sef ce or the glistening birch trees, This mink and the muskrat go their business of catching clams, building houses, and réaring fur-bear. ing families for old Skutawabos his family to trap, when, in a few short months, Keewaydin, the Northd west Wind, freezes the country u again. In Keewatin---as we spell i now-~winter comes by the end of tober, and winter is the period of ol the meantime Skutawabos he company ag ving on flour and por! and dissipating on tobaceo . tea. For despite his name "Firewat, , doesn't drink much Agden : H can't get it, in short. The Haddon Bay . won't supply it--they went out rum business in t Ruler shall you be thenceforward; - Bkutawabos' most active industry. In - snd his - THE DAILY BRITISH Whig, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1912. © STEAD AND SPIRITS. The Great Journalist Had Fully Prev. en Their Existence. The late W. T. Stead, a victim of the terrible Titanic tragedy, was = firm: believer in the occult. "He made investigations which satisfied him that the spirit world could communi: cate with this, and he acted upon his belief. He was laughed at. e was called a fool. What of it? William T. Stead did not care. He had been in Prison for his thoughts. He could jeered at for them. Impressed with his new belief, and having The Review of Reviews, which he had founded in 1890, proguensing rapidly toward success, he found rderland, a quarterly devoted to occult philosophy and psychics! phenomena, The journal was edited or several years, and it was during this ing the "automatic hand." And that was exactly what Mr. Stead meant He insisted that by making his mind passive tlose at a distance, whether in this world or some other, would move it for him, would make it tran. scribe on paper their thoughts, their messages. And chief among these persons who sent message from be- riod that there came into be. the great divide was "Julia." . ond These messages of the "'automatic hand" cau Mr. Staad to announce with absolute conviction that the dead return. For him, it was a "truth established, 8 problem which is solv- ed, a subject on which doubt is hence forth impossible," He also states that soon after she slipped out of her body he began to develop various psychic accomplish- ments, among them automatic writ- ing, and them "I placed my hand at the disposal of Miss Ames, and she has used it as her own ever since." : This was their favorite mods of the interchange of thoughts, though they used both clairvoyance and eclair- audience also, and Mr. Stead affirmed that she "made good" in them all, although he subjected her to every known test; he did not, however, ac- cord her his unqualified approval or belief in her identity till she gave him convincing proof by both "ex- ternal and internal evidence." One of the letters from Julia con- tained the following sentences: "The world is full of spirits longi to speak to those from whom they have been parted. It is a strange spec. tacle. On your side, souls full of the anguish of bereavement; on this side, souls full of sadness because they cannot communicate with those whom they love. "Many on earth are racked with agony because they imagine their loved ones are lost in" hell, while in reality they are within the all-em- bracing arms of the love of God. Some- thing should be done to enable the sorrowing ones on earth to know that their so-called dead live nearer than ever before. It would dry many a tear and ease many a sorrow. hat we need is & bureau of communica- tion . . . It is the most important thing there is to do , . and you can count on the eager co-operation of all on this side." It was this message from Julia that caused Mr. Stead to open his famous "postoffice for spirits" in London in 1909, where he communicated with persons in the other world. Fishes That Dance. There are some giddy doings about this time of the year at the bottom of the sea, according to a writer in the "Field," particularly among the American bow-fin or mudfish. 'When warm weather sets in the bow-fin leaves its winter quarters and be- ging to make good the loss of flesh incurred in the winter; but while the female retains her dull color the male assumes brilliant hues, obviously intended to attract the female. The fins become a bright green, the bronzé of the back and sides is brightened up, and various other color decora- tions are assumed. Contrary to the usage of polite society, it is the fe- male who, in the bow-fin community, often seeks out the male. In April both resort to a quiet place well wn with water-stumps, afford- ing shelter for nests, the male con- structing the nest by working mainly at night. More curious facts regarding fish were given by Mr. F. Martin Duncan before the Royal Society of Arts, Lun- don, recently. He showed a remark- able series of cinematograph films re- presenting the movements of all kinds of fish. There were congereels who dance with wonderfully regular move- ments, and rays who swished about and seemed to be winking at the audience every time they opened their mouths, Perhaps the mot amusing picture was that of scallops. When a scallop wants to move & shell as wide ible, a%allow s a great mou of water--a sca is all mouth--claps its shell toe again, expelling the water, and so move forward with a litlle hop, its progress being something like that of a jumping bean. Something For the Inner Bar. gone. Missing was very severe in his ex. amination of the wi , THRE BUTSHER-BIRD, Fs Preys Upon the Small Fry of the J Canadian Wools, Once you see and recognize a shrike, <u will never forget him, says Mark binson in & recent article in Toren. fo Saturday Night. He is light grey in color, with ky wings and tail marked with white. There are also some dusky markings about the head. In size and build he ® blue jay. The shrike is vy im fii a rule, but when in pursuit rey, "he appears to move with uch mope speed than most birds. he song of the shrike suggests in any ways that of the "whiskey. jack." Bat it is much more harsh and grating, Among birds the shrike is a bandit and a murderer, though his disguise is' a very imnocent and inconspicuous one. The upper bill is slightly hook- ed and very powerful, and the shrike possesses strength enough to drive it into the brain of the unfortunate birds it captures. "The legs are very strong, and haye long toes, armed with long curved claws, in which they carry their prey. I first saw the shrike some years ago near the old Bulmer farm, east of Stayner town. It was in the month of June, and 1 have noticed them there at that season ever since, They would seem to have & breeding-place near by. While they are a somewhat rare bird, they are seen more (re- quently in the late autumn, hovering over stubble fields and turnip patches, as they come from the north follow- ing the migration of the smaller birds. During the past season I no- ticed a pair nesting in Minesing, a pair in my father's garden at Eden. vale, and a pair near the old haunts at the Bulmer farm. I believe the shrike is becoming more Jlentitnl throughout the Nottawasaga alley. Some years ago Mr. James Rupert, of Edenvale, called my attention to a bird which he described as a SpAITow- hawk, and which was clearing his barns of English sparrows. I visited his place and found that it was shrikes which were doing this work. They made their raids early in the morning, and again shortly before dusk at eveni We never saw the shrikes approaching the barns. The first sight we would gét of them would be dashing through a loft-door. The sparrows would fly about in confusion, plunging into the sides of the straw mow in their endeavor to escape from the shrike, The shrikes would follow them, and a hard struggle would al: ways ensue, for the English sparrow dies hard, and many an old cock- sparrow saved his life and won his liberty by sheer pluck, in a fight where the odds were heavily against him. The younger birds, however, fell easy viotims, and were carried away to the woods along the river. Almost every autumn since then a pair of shrikes have visited those barns. On another occasion, late in Novem. ber, I noticed a large flock of red: pol feeding in some scrub cedars. uddenly they flew about in great con- fusion, and, after circling a small bunch of willows a few times, de parted to the neighboring woods, 1 went to find the cause of the disturb- ance, and saw a red-poll hanging by the neck in a forked branch of the willow. The stain at the base of the head showed it to be the work of a shrike, which was hovering close by, The shrike must have gome deadly enemies, probably among the hawks and owls. Its vedi Babin would indicate a rapid increase, and yet. they are one of the rarest of our birds. They feed upon frogs, newts and smal! rodents, as well as birds, and it may v 1 be that they often fall victims to weasels while hunting for prey. A Man-less Land. One hundred years ago, Canada was a manless land. There were a few settlers in Nova Bcotis and New Brunswick, in Quebec and Ontario (to use modern names), and they were a few Red Indians and fur-traders in the West. But what impression could even a million people make on a stretch of territory which is almost the size of Europe? That this is a true statement of the then situation is amply proved by the history of the years which have elaps. ed. That million people has grown to eight milions and the Souniy is still largely manless. British Colum bia has twenty million acres of grain land, of which enly an infinitesimal fraction is surveyed. Ontario has a "clay belt" stowed away in its north. ern vastpess which has an equal acre. age and in which there are not yet a thousand farmers. Every other pro- vince is in much the same condition. Compare this country with Great Britain. Canada has thirty-one times as much territory as the United Kingdom. If there were as many peo- le to the square mile here as there, anada we have a population of more than a billion. To-day, Canada has eight millions or less. Give every man a thousand acres, and there would be two million land- owners in Canads, which would mean a population of from fifteen § twents million. Give every man a hundred acres and there would be twenty-four million land-owners and a population of fifty million. Is not then Canada a man-less land an Courier. ests the | Hers Was the Premier Steamer to Cross the Atlantic. It was the proud boast of those who designed and built the "mighty Ti. tanic" that she was the "last word in marine engineering." * word" sow lies at the bottom of the and wood, surrounded in her vast sepulchre by many of the bodies of her hercie victims, We have not the "last word" yet, but we have the first word, and it is interesting to lock back and learn what it was. To Canada belongs the honor of having constructed and navigated the first vessel to cross the Atlanti@ pro- pelled wholly by steam power. first of steamships was the Royal Wil- liam, and its first trip scross the At- lantic was made in 1833--twenty-four years after the Bt. Lawrence River was first navigated by steamboat, snd three years before the earliest of Can- adian railways was opened between rairie and St. Johns. e Royal William was built a joint stock company, and in the list | of owners a the names of the | , Henry and Halifax, NS., founders of the famous Cunard Line. The Royal William was built at Que- bec during the years 1830 to 1831, and the work was carried on in the Jad of Campbell and Black, ship ers. A native of Quebec designed the ship and superintended its construc he -- COOK'S FRIEND N "The Baking Powder With A Pedigree" made from pure grape cream of tartar, contains no alum or other deleterious ingredients. For over half a century it has been even purer than the law demands. tion. He was Mr. James Goudie, born ! in Quebec in 1808, and who died in 1802. In the spring of 1881, the ship was | launched with much ceremony. The dimensions. were: Le , 178 feet; | hold, 17 feet, nine ; breadth | outside, 44 feet; breadth between pad- dle-boxes, 28 feet. The ship was fitted | with three masts, schooner rigged; and the builders' measurement was | 1,370 tons, with accommodation for | sixty passengers. The launching having been success. fully carried out, the vessel was tow- ed to Montreal, where her machinery | was put in and she was fitted out for ! sea. Her first voyage was from Mont. | real to Halifax, and for a time there- | after the ship traded between Mont. real, Quebec and Boston, Then came the voyage that gave the Royal William a permanent place in history ~ the voyage across the At- lantic. On August 5, 1833, the ship left Quebec 1 calling at Pic- | tou, N, B., 'for coal, and to have machinery overhauled. Bhe started again from Pictou on A st 18 with seven passengers, 2064 drons of coal and a light cargo. : Off the banks of Newfoundland the Royal William encountered a severe gale which disabled one of the ves. sel's- engines. However, the voyage was completed, the Royal William reaching Ponto twenty-five days af- ter leaving Pictou. The subsequent career of the Royal William was out of the commonplace. Ten days after reaching London the Royal Willisn was chartered by the Government of Portugal, and in the following year it was sold to Spain, and was converted into a war vessel, being given the name, Isabel Sigunda, and was employed against the forces of Don Carlos, pretender to the Span- ish throne. In a paper read before the Cana- dian Institute, Toronto, in December, 1802, Bir Sandford Fleming asserted that "to his mind it is incontestably established that the memorable voyage of the Royal William in 1838 must. be held to be the first passage across the Atlantic under steam. She undoubted: ly proved to be the pioneer of Atlan- tic steamships." During the meeting of the Inter. colonial Conference in Ottawa, in June, 1804, a brass tablet was affixed to the wall of the corridor leading to the library of Parliament, the tab- let being to the honor of the men who built and navigated the Royal William. The brass plate was the gift of the Royal Bociety, and the presen. tation was made by the secretary, the late Bir John Bourinot, clerk of the House of Commons. The tablet was then unveiled by His Excellency, the Governor-Gener- al, the Earl of Aberdeen. Recorder Weir, Recorder Weir is to Montreal what Col. Denison is to Toronto, snd T. Mayne Daly was & Wiuripeg--the ' dispenser of justice in the police | court. He is known far and near for his "neatness and despsich"--parti- cularly " tch"--in dealing with prisoners. is reputation as a judge made him much sought after by de- bating societies in Montreal. A com- mittee called him up over the phone to ask if he would be kind enough to render the award in a debate. On the day of the debate the Re. corder was unusually busy. sent various prisoners down for terms befitting the crimes. That evening he was on hand promptly at 8 o'clock. He heard the debate, analyzed the merits and demerits of the speakers, inting out the variocis shortcom- ings and achievements eof the sides, giving a point here and there for this or that argument, and rendered his decision accordingly. At the conclu. sion of his remarks the Applause was loud and long-continued. 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