Daily British Whig (1850), 4 Sep 1915, p. 6

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(1) Red Sucker, Tunnel, Lake Superior. (2) Port Arthur. .(3) Kakabeka Falls, (4), C. P. R. Lake Passenger and Freighter, (5) Rocks on north shore of Lake Superior, Nos EE ] GES and ages before the first mammoth trumpeted his way ahead 'of the glacial drift; geologicacons advance-of the time when the bat-lika pterogaurs with their twenty foot wing-spread went dipping the continent via Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico, thefe was one big stretch of country that had risen above the encroaching ocean and had never sunk This wonderful thousand mine trip has been called the backbone of thie world, because here the very earliest rocks were nev s the observation car at the back of the Imperial Limited and watch the C. P. R. ties flash out from under you, as'you cross the looking at the very granddaddy-rocks of the cosmos. These -Archaean (or Laurentian) rocks as they're called, underlié all others everywhere. year intervals, the timeless sea about which geologis previous to the entrance of the three-toed horse on 'to the cosmic stage; long, long in and swooping over the wide arm of the Arctic Oce an that used to reach down through! again, er covered by later water-laid deposits, and. to-day, as you tap of Take Huron and swing westward over Lake Superior,' They are the very skeleton of the world, bat, as the land rose and sank and rose again at million ts dream, laid mile on mile of sand and clay and silt and ooze above them; which layers in turn wére covered by others and pressed into rock. ut--but the lower down we go, the farther back into dreamless' eternity, the simpler not laid down by water, but cooled after we know not what terrific adventures in the fire--thére aré no animals, no plants, no words or sounds to indicate anything except what that strange Old Book tells ys that, "The egrth was without form. And void." i But if these Ladreutisn rocks and the just-later Huronjan are poor in life-records, they are richer than you can dream in something else. If the animals preceded man and the vegetables came before them again 4he mineral kingdom was the first of all created thoughts. And the thousand mile strip from the St. Lawrence to the Manitoba boundary, with its hundred thousand areh is all Laurentian-and-Huronian, And--if we dare believe the geologist--all solid wonder when it comes to mining. ' 3 i Hastings-Grenville gold area, ; the Cobalt silver finds, the worlds greatest nickel belt around Sudbury, the coppér and iron and silver mines north of Huron and Gowganda--these dre just little scratchings on the outside of the pile of wealth that belongs to us because the underpinning of the St. Lawrence in u're h which in the main were Superior, the gold of Rongue--came along and called this formation amygdaloid Some of these gems are worthy to be set with di oun bit the olive color is as soft as an October landscape, er semi-precious stone of the district to be had at variety, and much beloved of the cool blonde who can wear tod lurk in all serts of veins cutting the slate rocks, Russian America. The crystals run frém the shores are full dm a quarter of an inch to five inches 't have anything te do rock sel with these modest violets, of there hen that the supply exceeds the demamd and unless When it comes 10 garnets, Py SUMMER BOARDERS Mrg. Henley nodded: stiffly at the trim figure perched up beside the driver on the dray of trunks and new furniture which, was passing. And when it had padsed her small white gate she sat down the can with which She was sprinkling the pansy bed and lookéd after it. The expréssion that lay about her slightly wrinkled mouth was not pleasant. "Who was it?" asked the husband from the tiny porch where he ' had been nodding over the farm maga- "Zine that came in the morning's mail. "Jennie Gole. 1 guess she has come out to open up her hduse for the summer," She added disap- provingly as .she ' picked up the sprinkling can: "I don't think it looks very nice for a woman or her age to ride out on the dray." aon 1 guess it A bad," aughed aida ley, "Say, this mrigazine 'don't believe in so much spraying: . Mrs. Henley went around to the > pump. far another can of water, She was ashamed of her pettimess, her mean spirit, But every May, when Jennig Gole came out from tne city, . where she worked all winter, and opened her big, charming house Toi boarders, Just as spiteful. And all through tae sweet spring months and the tangiiia summer months her mean feeilhgs 'increased. For Martha Henley, toc; kept summer boarders--not so many as Jennie and on a distinctly ciimer- ent scale. Jennie had 'u cotored 'cook and eitified waitress, a pert girl who Sometimes came up to the Henley farm for extra cream. And Jennie's boarders were pert, hand. some people. At least, they were well dressed. They were distinetiy of the class that is labeled "smart". They loaféd around Jennies awn and porch in a languid way: hey lounged around the woods ang -coun- try roads in a leisurely, bored fasn- fon that only the possession of money usually gives. : At least none of Martha Henleys boarders had that leisurely, selfs | poised: way. - They were an unpre | tentious lot. She seldom had mere than .seven during the entire sum- mer. First came old Mr. and Mes. those wine-dark sparklers x ~ fake weary tiem both down at ice, and unless some method is found e felt just as mewn and} and. came back every summer for a month of country. cream ane rried chicken. Then there was Addie Holt and her garrulous, but well meaning old mother, a second cousin ef Josizh Hin St. Louis, She was a ta:t, rather slovenly girl; no longer young, who 'was glad to fling herself in a ham: mock and le there every day of her two weeks' vacation. Mrs. Henley liked her and was glad to see her get a nite rest, but 'Addie certainly was shabby, and so was 'her mother. Then there was Josiah's two nephews, whe came out for six weeks of fishing They were pleasant young fellows, and not # bit of bother. They liked anything that Mrs. Henley cooxed. At ence when they afrivee thay pot into khaki pants and sweaters and did more than was necessary, until they were ready to go back nome and not bother with the niceties of dress work. Of course Martha ¢lé not care how they dressed, bul she en- vied Jennie Gole her'smarter patrons | pnd Josiah had finally guessed it. He 'lapghed at her. nesE, ma, we've without a raft of boarders," She knew it. And she Ener 'nat Jennie had to keep boarders or side EE ---------------------------- "My good- tenough to live on Howard, who used to live near there literally riddje the of chemically shelling the little red sto + ~ n Addie kept hooks for' {uear.™ | prise, Jonnie stopped one da § the stop, 4 she had (te go away Tor a Weed. She this lett ttle round or al up to a girl who behoids res is malachite, , and thousands of deep-purple dollars' worth. go out of the I in length. Some of them, alas, wear rusty brown opera cloaks o {o-the specimen, the cutter won't bot rocks all along Georgian Bay, in the city, as Addie did. "Anyway," persisted Joslah, "you could have all you wanted. Addie has two girl friends that are com- ing." "Our house i: too small té" have more," shé objected." :"Just littie, poky rooms," . "Well, you wouldn't want to #re yourself out with a lot." "I could have a girl if I bad a vig- ger house and a lot of boarders. That is, if they paid well." ' "But our folks pay well enough' don't they?" "anxiously. know. Addie and ler ma can't afford much." : "Course they can't, and I ¢on'f want more from them. Ive oniy---" But she could not explain to Josiah, that ambition--not mere desire for oney--moved her. She haq ptenty {0 live upon, olit she longea to ve a successful women of affalrs. She knew of no better descriptive phrase it irked her to see Jenny Hit about with that important air. She knew she conld wear it just as well. On, she knew, tod, that she was sity, bat she couldn't help it. Envy gave rise to positive rempes before the summer was Owes. Ane old Mrs. Howard added fuel ro i: me when she said innocenuy: "We do like it here hecause you don't pu! on any style." Addie never knew how she offended when she said gratefully: "Ge! This is the place fo rest in. But it's a goon tninc I'm old and homely; or I'd be tten:ng to wear a fluffy white dress add mmx "with that crowd op there ™ And the two bovs offended, igo, by say- ng: . "Believe gs, #t's'h treat not to have to wear ¢ Is." : She was glad they all were com- fertable. And yet----- Jennie Gole rode'by sometimes, go- ing to town on business. ways was dressed neatly in' white. And though she was as old as Mar- tha Henley she looked Yu years younger. 5 "She does tantalize me." Nirs. Henley sighed; balf whimsically te herself. "I wish she didn: lve And then, when the summer was Just about over, to Mrs. Heme s si-- ¥ mstead Lor riding on, She was more sur- prised when Jean's told the adfect of A relglive had died anil knew that Mrs. Henley had po boa:- ers at that time. Wound sae, as a mon d, because amygdasa was Latin for an almond and the true amonds, the jeweller experts say, and bring anywhere and so "different" that Mo wonder the the Poly Arthur and Fort William sto "Course 1| She a} d was cooled so rapidly when jt came into con d-shaped holes. The geologist-~who always wears scientist never talks modern languages unless he hundred and fifty dollars. They 29, it promptly wants a specimen, : green as spring grass in Ireland, a ¢ 4 , and huge banded wonders as dig as your head. hier with it. the only trouble being that, the hardness of rock me out of its bed, it will remain more or less of } 3 ae en en IE WE " great favor, go up and take charge of her house? There would be fio work, but she hated to. leave 1. with only a pert girl in charge. She didn': altogether=trust the girl, Ether Tt would be a favor-that she could nc ver repay---never--but wouldn't she? Well, Mrs. Henley at firsz) said stiffly - that she didn't see how .she could But sié& soon decided that she could, and she took Jennie's thanks guiltily, knowing that not friendliness, but curiosity, inspired her. "Don't let them run over yoa," ad- vised Jennie, as she hurrted away after installing her. Mrs. Henley neither resented. that. It implied that she was not uséd to such peopie Six days later Jennie came back. "Get along all right?" she asked. time. "Did that woman with dia: mond earrings have a piece of toast browned just right?" she demanded, tiredly. ~ Jennie sighed. "I don't think so; How~-how did r daughter act?" 'She threatened to ledve because you hadn't waterinelon, for break- fast the day you went away, 57'miy, "Of course, 1 forgot it," anxiously. "And that tall man in the e:giith east bedroom?" "That elegant one in white flan- nel and eyegiass?' coldly. "sé sayy his bed is not made well enough, I found a tiny wrinkle Im e238 spread. And he told Mr. 'Whilicns mat the strawberry shortcake was punk. Awd It any ome ever tasted better ie Jennie soothinglv interrupte He is always complaining. - Apd---and + Mr. Whilkins?™ { ° "He ordered hot tea at midnight | vecanse his shoulder ached from ly- (ing in a hammock all day. He thinks | the hammock 'was hung over a damp placer? "He ordered tea three diiligr- i ent nights" » ba: i It is fretting work," sighed Jen- fale. "Sdmetimes I don't think tie v money I make is worth the wear apd' | tear of making 1." ont P21 don't sed haw you male any 1 money, Baving six kinds ay meat ev { ery aight for dinner." | "1 don't make so terrible much," ; tonfessed Jennie. "I wish I didn't {have the finicky high-priced elass. | Now. I dare say your people are lots | easier to thie careef™ fo "Ard your maids are' térviiny ex ftravagunt" ST RE 0 weow," sighed Jennle. "But I { "n't get any better," - Then lhe § antty to-Superior region held firm, and ourdawn-of-time Per ore superior in color even to the i «ake Superior region every ver their mauve gowns. The geologists love them just as wel, but Mrs. Henley looked at her a long | tary terms: tact with the atmospheres, his dictionary hung to hig s ordering a meal, year to jewellers all over North Indeed there are so many of: and garnet being about equal, the a spepimen--only this and nothing gigh was checked. assutiiéd a bright, obliging smile. Mr. Whilkins appeared. He Sala: "Mrs. Gole, really L feel that I am paying elidugh to get better service. I don't fancy the bread we had for luncheon. It was white and fresh, but I fancied it tasted a little of wheat." Mrs. Hensley snorted. Then she went home. 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