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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1920-4-8, Page 2The " Character o y this brand has. an International Reputation. 5566 A Trial Packet will bring speedy conviction THE BRILLIANT HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NORTH-WEST EST M0 NTED O POLICE PART THREE As pioneers of road -making pollee are of the greatest value, their atest wor k lethis respect being the construction of a trawl from Ed- snonton to Dawson City, a distance of nearly 2,000 miles, through the Peace River country. The difficulty of con- structing this trail may he understood when itis stated that three years were occupied in making it. Its principal use for some time to come will be as a road for the conveyance of prison- ers from Dawson City to Edmonton, without passing through the Unit States. territory. Yet the greate tragedy in the history of the metal police occurred on this trail. While passing overland from Fort McPherson to Dawson •City a pats under Inspector Fitzgerald got lost a blizzard. They wandered about u til they died from starvation and haustion. One man committed ede. The relief expedition wh' found the remains also recovered diary of the leader in which th story of how they ate their dogs a then the leather of their moceasi was told. The annals of Arctic and Antarctic exploration es not cont a more thrilling narrative of a brave man's fight against the forces of na- ture than Fitzgerald's little diary. In carrying out their ordinary police work these daring men, in mak- ing their way across the trackless wilds of the Northland, return valuable information as to the e istence of rivers, lakes, mountai and creeks, which enables the ma maker to fill in the blank spaces. Patrols covering a thousand miles and more have frequently to be rnede. The Coppermine River Crime recent striking example of hunts for murderers ,inn the far north is here described. Some five years ago two Roman Catholic missionaries were murdered at the head of Great Bear Lake. It took some time for the news to reach the police headquarters, but early in .June; 1915, Inspector La- Aiauze, a. twenty-seven-yeor-old offic- er, was despatched to arrest two Es- kimos who were suspected of the crime. Taking two constables with him, he left Regina and proceeded to Peace River Landing, Alberta, by train. From there they went down the Peace River to Lake Athabasea, then down the Slave River to Great Slave Lake which they crossed to the of the Mackenzie River. Down that stream they went to Fort Nor- man, at the mouth of the Bear River. Following the Bear River to Great Bear Lake, they crossed it to Dense Bay, where the party wintered in the cabin wt:ere the priests had Jived. Early in the spring of 1916 the pa- trol again took up the trail and crossed over the Divide to the Cop- per's -sine River, thence down that streams to Gornation Gulf on the Arc- tic, Here they were fortunate in fal ling in with Corporal Brwce, one o West Mounted Police was dispatched the to secure, if possible, the two Eskimos who had committed the crime. Inspector W . J. Beyte was in charge of the party, with Sergeant Oalkin and two others. From Regina they went by train to Halufax, a distance of over two thousand miles, where they took the schooner Village Belle, especially chartered to take then into the wilderness. The schooner sailed for Hudson Bay, and on the trip had numerous mirac- ulous escapes from icebergs and ice ed floes, and was nearly wrecked several st times. Finally Chesterfield inlet was ted reached. The party pressed inland, and for three years scoured a vast land some half a million square miles ore in area in a vain search for the Esu in kiln° murderers, They did, however, n- find the last hut in which the ex- e sui- lch ied Hudson Bay Railroad leads to civa- do piorers had lived, and a diary be- longing to Radford. In the late sum- mer of 1916, the patrol's three years of duty being up, they started back f,or civilization, coming overland to Le Pas Mieion, where the Government ization. On January 28th they ar- ia rived back at Regina. Inspector French then set out, but he has returned after an unsuccessful seorch of three years. The fact is the police have only the vaguest clues and no accurate description to work upon. Furthermore a good deal of sympathy nth is felt for the unmown murderers, as ,C_ according to rumor among the native ns < people (and rumor is all powerful in p the Northland) the white men were to blame. It is expected that the hunt will be abandoned,. but it has already cost the Canadian 'Government $150,000 and en- tailed journeys of many thousand miles into unknown territory: It has resulted in filling in many blank spaces on the nags, and for that reason alone cannot be described, as altogeth- er a. failure. Scores of unknown Es- kimo settlements were discovered and much valuable data regarding their life and habits secured. Indeed, the Canadian Government are now arrang- ing to send reindeer to these people as they were found to be very short ant food through the disappearance of the whale and the seal. And it is the Mounted Police who will transport the reindeer tp their countrry and teach them how to look after them and rear them - To -day the Mounted Police have strong bodies, ranging from a hundred to one hundred and seventy-five men, posted in the principal cities of West- ern Canada. The conservative ele- ment of the population speak of them as Canada's bulwark against-Bolshev- �d,l. The radicals call them an entire- ly erent name. In the great labor crises in Winnipeg in the summer of 1919 the Mounted Police and striking laborers fought a pitched battle on the main street of that city, when several men were killed, and dozens wounded. i' The past history of the Mounted Police has been a brilliant one. Prob- ably the principal secret of the red - coated riders' success was the fact that they always recognized the In- dians' rights when adjusting difficult- ies that arose in the early days. The Indians knew they would get a square deal. Thus the massacres an both sides tvhvch marked the whites' dealings with the Indians in Eastern Canada and the United States in the early drays kvere avoided. Nb doubt the force's future record -will be a worthy one, and through them we sball learn something of the :secrets of the yet untrodden wilderness of the Far North. In this work alone they have proved themselves equal to the great explor- t ers of the past. The End. p the members of Stefan�sson',s expedit- ion. Although he bad heard nothing of the murdered priests, he had sac- eeeded in becoming well acquainted with the natives, and it was through he good offices that track was event- ually found of the men who had one the deed. One was discovered on South Victoria Island, while the other was arrested on an iceburg out in Coronation Gulf. All told Inspector LaNanze travel- led close upon three thousand males to secure these men, the journey oc- cupying over a year. With the two prisoners he proceeded to the post at Herschel, where a constable was dis- patched home with the reports. From Herschel the prisoners were brought to Edmonton, a distance of over 2,500 miles. According to the story they told they met the mission- aries on their way up the Copper - mine River. A storm was raging at the time, and the missionaries pre- vailed upon them to assist the dogs dragging the sledges. As the storm grew worse, the Eskimos became scared that they would be overwhelmed tend sought to turn back for shelter. The priests, however, were determined to go forward- Angry words follow- ed, to be succeeded by'-- the blind- ing storm kindly draws the veil upon the scene. Cruel, raw, elemental, like the Iron t oentr which witnessed it, the quarrel could have but one condusrion, Had it not been that the murderers appropriated and wore the garments o their victims, the fate of the mission- Aries might have remained a mystery forever, as these garments afforded the only clue. Whether this was ac-, Wally the case or 'not will never be known. Anyhow public •sympathy was with the Eskimos; they 'were found net g inty, and went back to the Arctic ggrreatly pleased with seeing the won- ders of the white man's land Six years S on the Track of Justice A ill more remarkable st o kalrte patrol was that for the murderers of Harry Bad- ord, the famous Arctic explorer of ew York,' and his companion Street, Who were speared to death by Eskimos in, the Bear Lake region of Hudson Bay in 1911. News travels slowly in these desolate regions, and it was not entll 1918 that a patrols of the North The Boon df Curiosity Nature has filled the child wi curiosity for a purpose, It is ju as essential to the growing mind as hunger to" the sturdiness of the bo Parents who would not think of fusing food to the hungry youngest often thoughtlessly deny to the dev oping intellect the very element up which it thrives, The young mind demands its right to grow into a knowledge and training that will make life worth while. This ever-present demand is in the form of curiosity; and because of its persist-. ence, parents, burdened with other cares, are many times harrassed into denying it, It is the parents whose child lack this natural tendency, who should wo • If theeir child possesses not th eager, questioning voice, tremblin forever on the brink of some great unknown mystery, as thrilling to him as are some of the big unsolved ques- tions that perplex and lure us grown- ups; if this be true, then these parents have cause for real alarm. A child without curiosity is mentally sick; and should he grow up without gain- ing this gift to pry, he is doomed to a life of inferiority. Happily most children are supplied with an abundance of this quality. Scarcely two months of their life has passed before this trait is reflected in the gleans of intelligence that posses - es the baby eye. From then an till maturity it assumes a multitude of shifting, tantalizing fornix that have hidden beneath a system which, puzz- ling as it may seem, will if encourag- ed, work marvelous results when the child reaches adulthood. Nor need parents have a knowledge of the by -ways of child psychology in order to bestow the greatest benefits on their children. They have only to follow the course: that nature has viv- idly marked out. 'Whatever the child's curiosity leads'let the parent follow; and if that curiosity be running in wholesome channels, supply the craved for information, or if unat- tainable frankly tell him so. True, ..this requires an expenditure of patience; but parents will be re- paid, knowing that they are rapidly. building a foundation which is stable because of sound training and correct information. Nature has not intended that a child shall always exercise curiosity solely for the knowledge of the moment. No sprinkle with grated cheese, co ,'rr th whole. with milk ,and bake in a modes - st ate oven for an hour and a 'half. is Serve with corn bread and. eabbage d *, salad. r ' '2.`�ahy people have the habit of tell- ars Ing and re -telling the snishaps of the el- past.:They seem never to be able to on s or- at Have y thrived on them? Wouldn't g you feel more content and less selfish as you sit down to your good hot dinner at noon if you. knew your boys and girls were also getting soinething hot to' eat? Not only would yen -be happier, bitt your clti9.dren would do better school work, would grow eturd•- ier and .have fewer colds and spells of sickness if yogi Wilke the little effort which is necessary to get a hot school lunch started.. The children will like it not only becauee their noon lundh will taste better, but also because they can forma school lunch club and take turns in cooking the hot dish. It does not require much money and. if there is a will there will always be a way to get the little equipment that is needed. let bygones be bygones. Long stories of struggle and ,sickness roll off their tongues as though they enjoyed the thought of unpleasant experiences. When we learn clearly the old, "Suffic- ient unto the day is the evil thereof," we will be prepared 'to do our life work sweetly and to some fine liur- pose. How have your children liked' their cold, sometimes frozen,and usually un- appetizing school lunches this *inter? matter how trivial and useless the i formation. sought may seem, the par- ent has but to remember that the youngster is keeping bright' for future use that tool-curiosity—which is the only instrument that will open an av- enue to hits brain. It is through this trait alone that he learns, and. this is the only means by which he will ever learn; consequently the effort he puts forth is worth far more in training for later life than in the small amount of knowledge he might gain. There comes a time in every child's life, about the age of three or four, when nothing but question marks fall from the lips. All their sentences seem to be equipped with an initial "why." " Many of them are unanswer- able and appear to be asked just for the pleasure of asking. Parents are often puzzled as to just what attitude to assume. The writer has known parents to become humiliated at the' inquisitiveness of their child. Instead they should have been proud. These questions were but the sign of a bril- liant mind in the making. They had behind them the driving power of• nen- tal growth. The child was utterly unable to restrain them. This probing trait is found in the youngster at every turn. The child that begs to help at grown-up work, even for a moment, is longing to sat- isfy that subtle power. They have a curiosity to know how it goes:to peel potatoes, pick eherries, or cook a cake. It is work of nature etoring up for hem. rich experiences, The child that has the fortitude to eel• into silent recesses , explore a cave, or climb the highest tree is so urged by nature that he might develop a courage to do the big things of later life. Because of the varying succession of outlets that curiosity employs, par- ents are apt to slight this important, trait and think it but a passing whim. It is natural that the activity of yes- terday should be discarded for the one of to -day; for the small mind has ab- sorbed all that is new and moves on to some fresh object. In time, how- ever, after it has grown by further experience, it will return to.the old and will then ,comprehend features it could not grasp before, A Ribbon. So Gay It was only a bright gay ribbon the new teacher revealed when she took off her coat that rainy morning in the dingy little, schoolroom, but it seemed to scatter gathered rays of sunshine among the assembly of county child- ren clad in. typical rainy -day gar- ments. Because of the :rain it, would seem that each mother had dressed her child' in his oldest, darkest, least becoming clothes, with the result that a gloom seemed east on. the school- room from within as well as from without. But the new teacher was pleasant to' look upon. Her • :black skirt and white Waist ' were relieved by the bright red -ribbon tied at her throat, and the children, noting the addition, smiled and forgot the rain. Perhaps the teacher, too, felt the• effect of•the bit of:colors at any rate,• becheery air n- was even more pleasant that morning. - Now, rainy days must come -occas- ionally everywhere, but they need not be days of gloom. Why . send yopr children to school in their drabbest "!duds"? If ever cheerful hues are needed it is on sunless days. Think of that when you awake to the patter of raindrops' on your roof. Dress a bit more carefully yourself that morning, think up some ;.,especially well, liked dessert for dinner, don't clutter the house with disagreeable odd jobs, but endeavor to snake the least cheery day out of doors the cheeriest of them all within. And help the district teacher keep the little minds under her alert by dressing your children in sunny colors, to make up for the ab- sense of the sun's rays. ANY WOMAN CAN DYE AND KEEP IN STYLE "Diamond Dyes" Turn Faded, Shabby Apparel into New. Don't worry about perfect results. Use "Diamond Dyes," guaranteed to give a new, rich, fadeless color to any fabric, whether it be wool, silk, linen, cotton or mixed goods, --- dresses, blouses, stockings, skirts, children's coats, feathers, draperies, coverings -- everything: The Direction Book with each packs age tells how to diamond dye over any color. To match any material, have dealer show you "Diamond Dye" Color Card, Why, indeed? A boy of eight was dining with his father at an hotel where the manners of the guests were not rem ark ble for their elegance. Soon after they lead seated them- selves at the' table, the youngster piped up with: "Daddy,. why do all the men say 'whoop' to their soup?" *sap rain atc.'e abetment ifn the lionise: Concerning Domestic Affairs Bail- celery stalks with your cab- bage. Two or three will be sufficient for a head of cabbage. The celery improves the flavor of the cabbage and lessens its odor. Maple sugar sauce is timely. It requires one-third of a cupful Of butter end one cu 1 of maple aple sugar. Cream the butter and gradually add the maple sugar. Form into balls and chill . thoroughly.' Serve over steamed rice for dessert, A whole meal in One dish: Fry slightly a thick slice of ham, cover thickly with raw potatoes, sliced thin; season with a little salt and pepper, The Troublesome Ground- - Hog. Nearly everybody has heard of the ground -hog. It is too bad this ,mar- mot has to be mentioned as 'a farm foe, - because farmers have always placed absolute 'confidence in his ability as a weather prophet—so much so that they almost sacredly looked for his appearance February 2 each year. • -Unfortunately, as is sometimes the case with peo-ale, unlimitedconfidence has made this friend presumptuous:' He Is taking far more than just com- pensation for his services as a weath- er expert. His inroads upon garden and truck crops are devastating. The damage due to his burrowing in mea- dows and cultivated fields• is enorm- ous, for:' the burrows hinder farming operations and often start gullies down the hillsides, .After pillaging gardens and feasting indiscriminately on beans, peas, cu- cumbers, cabbage, forage 'crops. and other tender plants during the sum- mer, it is not surprising that the. ground -hog is able to put on a thick layer of fat to keep him warm while he sleeps through the winter- until Candlemas day, His long sleep af- fords an opportunity to make crops and fields safe for next year. Take a piece of cotton or moss, saturate it with carbon -bisulphide, place" it down in the burrow and close the openings. The groundhog will not see his shad- ow on Candlemas day, and according to the old proverb, which says that Ili such cases "Winter is gone for all the year," there will be an early spring. Then the burrows can be filled with the assurance that they will not be dug out again. Her Army. "There's • one thing I've always want. ed to ask you about your life in France," she said. "Yea?" prompted the ex -buck tremu- lously. "What did you and the colonel usuals. ly talk.about at meal tine?" Kicking Over the Traces. A man may feel that he is merely jogging along day after n shafts, held up by the harness•day--i�'etthe to I.3 a faithful tractor, A'lene or as a a ritefellow, Is meritorious, andthe ad- j3ctive "tractable" Is not the worst that can be bestowed, The tractor pulls, and the tractable is passive and nonresistant; but whether one leads er Is led, if the going is in the right direction, all is well, Theworld is not so usefully served by thesuddenly eccentric persons as by the safe and sane majority. In- spiratious and surprising inventions are not to be decried, tihough comment- ly those who have thought out new things have been pilloried and mock- ed. We need those who dare to' tell usnwelcome truth, who possess and ea- press their •goals, who speak out with neither fear nor favor when the 'cru- cial hour strikes. But those who, do the .extravagant and 'spectacular sort of •thing merely to advertise themselves be <'thu noble noise they: make" are a, different breed. The great, humane works of relief per formed in wax -time have, by no Weans been free from those whieras'enerad- ed in the splendid game for the' sake. of headlines and man'sprise, •. Before .we kick oyer' the traces, be- fore we abandon he careful• routine. wherein . we motive, let its be circum- epect and make very sura of what we are doing, You da not like the work you have, perhaps. you think it engages the least part of you. You,belteve your employer has: a blind eye on the side toward your; merith The lament of being misplaced or not appre,' _ated is as old as human toil Vont look about and the labor maeket semis toibristle with opportunities,„ and everywhere are hands thatitbeekon. erAtadesplace looks good io;;ya n but taelloneniehere you happen to be standing, The dis- tance lends enchantment, andtlie em- ployment and employers . seem: -con- genial becatiee you do notrviewlthein at close range. But before you ping yeerself, out -of your post in 'a springtime sgirit of Insurrection it is well to,befeainr and consider. Not every change ist,for the best. The development of our, abili- ties to their highest and finest'restate comes by steady -toil is sti poised tran- quility and not by restlessness. -. C$hnese:Buglers The rank and' file rot the •Chinese army can outbugle an;.,y�army of the world. Nathaniel Peffner, in writing of the two buglers to every squad system of China's doughty fighters, says: "One thing the Chinese soldier does do. He bugles. The one great, in- satiable, unconquerable passion of the Chinese army is bugling. I have never investigated, but I venture that ane out of every three -'hien has a bugle, that one out of every two hours he blows it, and that not one time in three thousand does he blow it to the. resemblance of any recognizable call or tune. "He begins at 3.30 am., he being now used collectively. He plays the same note, he now being used in dlvidually and each he playing a dif- ferent note, till 6 a.m. Then he switch- es to another. He stops for meals and for few hours of sleep—that is all. . "When a regiment moves into a town foreigners living 'In it resign themselves to insomnia, The Chinese don't. Noise to them is one of the normal and pleasurable phenomena of existence, the more deafening ° the siore,pleasurable. 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Tice rat is a great nuisance, brut >soG> id• a necessary one. He can be got of by concerted -,notion, and can, bn• fought and kept within limits even by individual action. If means for the control of the pest are not takenv the rat's fecundity, combined with an, increase of his food supply and hiding planes' as population becomes denser, will' most certainly result in his . be - corning nothing less than a national menace. Indeed, he is that already and rats do an incalaulable amount of damage wherever food, is produced,, stored or transported. The various means at man's dispos- al for combatting this cunning and prolific rodent are: A. The encouragement of the rat's natural enemies. ' (1) Domestic animals, e.g., cats, terriers and ferrets, - (2) Wild animals, e.g., owls, hawks` snakes, weasels, etc. .As to cats, the ordinary pampered house pet is useless as a rat catcher, while a semi -wild cat is liable to be dangerous to game, poultry and small Insectivorous birds. Nevertheless,. the fact that the cat has been associa- ted with man since the days of ancient Egypt shows that, on the whole, it has been found more beneficial than harmful. Terriers are commonly used by professional rat catchers and can be trained to be exceedingly, expert. Female ferrets are used—the males being too large—to enter the holes of rats and either dive them forth or destroy them there. Farmers' Friends. It is strange that, though man har- bors the cat, he should generally show such an antipathy to -small wild came.. vora. Few creatures are more bene- ficial to man, than the owl. He preys principally on rats, mice, gophers, squirrels and ..other noxious rodents. The damage he does to poultry is negligible. Even the hawk, though he does take a chicken occasionally, does infinitely more good than harm. ,. `, r Only the Sharp -skinned and Cooper's fid hawks and -the Goshawk are excep- tions to this rule. The weasel and his congeners may indeed work sad hayed - in a poultry house, yet, if proper pre. cautions are taken, they can be ex- cluded and their bloodthirsty incline- tions turned against vermin. As to. snakes, the common species found in Canada are all 'non poisonous. They . certainly destroy many field mice and, if given a chance, there is no reason why they should not be valuable allies against rats. B. Traps. ..Rats are exceedingly cunning crea- tures and no trap has yet been de- vised which has been more than tem- porarily successful in any one locality. . No doubt many rats can be caught with them by a skilful man, but, as a means of extermination, they are not to be seriously depended on. C. Poisons, e.g., arsenic, strych- nine, squills, etc. Mr. E. G. Boulenger, Curator of Reptiles, Zoological Gardens, London, states that, to kill rats, ho has obtain- ed the most satisfactory results with squill poison, which, in the small quantities• necessary for rat extermina- tion, is harmless . to domestic_animais. It is best used by soaking bread in a. solution of the poison mixed with milk. Barium carbonate, of which 11,x• to 2 grains kill a rat, though 10 to 15. grains are harmless to a chicken and 100 grains to a dog, is next best. It should be mixed with tallow atnd smearedon bread as it makes the rats thirsty. It can be used effectively- - with squills. After it has been 'put down, bowls with squills and milk hould be placed where the rat will o to drink. Other Means of Extermination. g Strychnine is too dangerous for general use. Phosphorus and arsenie are also very dangerous, and are less successful than squills and barium car- bonate. ' • = - Since the war, the suggestion has. been made that poison gas should be employed against rats. No doubt this, would -prove very effective in confined spaces, such as cellars and the holds of ships. D. Bacterial cultures. In Denmark, where a vigorous, na- tional caimiaign has been waged against rats, a virus discos*eyed by Dr. Neumann, of Aalborg, has been. found very efficacious. Cultures of Neumann•'s bacillus are put up in tins. under the name of "retina' It is. simple to use and has been found to be an, attractive bait. Its harmless ness to domestic animals hes been demonst:•ated. Among rats, however, except in isolated instances,'it pro- duces a. virulent epidemic, with a very high mortality. plxperiments with this culture in Scotland, Germany, and India are also reported to have proved satisfactory, r Britain exports anoint two million, pounds words of furs each year. A single female potato beetle is capable of producing between .1,800 and 1,900 eggs during its buring midsummer it takes e little over a ttionth for these to develop into adult beetles, Hence if kriny are unmolested they ineree,;e-in nvieberti ennorniously,