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A Night on a Dog -buoy
Thrilliin Adventure That Befell a Greenhorn with
a Scotch Fishing Fleet
There is a small village in t
Highlands near the border line
Banffshire and Aberdeen that ago
by the name of Mountblairy, and
was in the bracing air of the vie/
ity that I lived up to the time
the adventure I am going to relat
-says a writer in the Wide Wor
Magazine. My father was a croft
and had a small holding on the bet
ren hillside, and it was all we coul
do, work as hard as we might, t
get a bare living out of it, In ord
to improve shatters I determined
try if a living could not be made i
tonne other way, and so; in the let
spring, after we had sown what li
tie seed we had, I resolved to
down to the coast, about a, doze
miles away, and try my luck as
fisherman, having heard good ac
counts of the wages that were give
en` the boats.
The road to Banff was soon go
over, and. that evening found me o
the quayside watching the men a
their work, and gauging as well a
I could my own fitness for the call
ing. On making inquiries of one of
the hands I Was directed to go to
the fish -curing establishment, where
I should Very likely find the owner
of the fleet. He would most proba-
bly engage me, I was told, as all the
boats were not completed with
crews, which usually consisted of
six men under a captain, with a boy
as cook,,
On Board The Donald Dim
The owner, Mr. Duff, put me
through .a sort of physical examina-
tion, and, after a little talk about
the kind of work required, finally
engaged me in the capacity of
greenhorn on board the herring
boat Donald Dhu. I thought the
terms were very good—a £l0 -note
for three months' fishing, free liv-
ing and a share of a shilling a cyan
with the others for the whole per-
iod. This, with good luck, would
leave me about £16 at the end of
the season which -would be a good
help to the people at home.
On the following morning I made
my way to the Donald Dhu, and, on
presenting my papers, was shown
to the berths in the bow of the boat,
which was fitted for four green-
horns, the remainder of the crew
finding quarters in a similar place
at the stern. The Donald Dhu was
a splendid craft, being compara-
tively a new boat.
When I went aboard the remain-
der of the crew were employed in
mending and joining up the nets
ready for the drift. There were 50
nets aboard, each about 30 yards
long by seven yards deep, the mesh-
es being about an inch square.
When made up for casting the 50
were joined together, end on, un-
til the whole formed one long net
nearly a mile in length. Along the
bottom, edges stones were seepend-
ed in order to keep the nets up-
right when in the water, while
through the upper edges of the nets
a stout rope, called the baulk, was
woven, 'for hauling in the catch.
id luck on our trip, and as the boats
of moved out of the :harbor in proces-
es sign. thee, people on shore gave us a
dff
it hearty seno.
n Outside the Harbor
of
e, the full power of the breeze exert -
cd itself, and, our sails bellying out
elt in response, sent the fleet bowling
r- merrily along. Our destination was
d to be about six or seven miles from
o a place known as the Skate Hole,
er which was about fifty miles 1rum
to the nearest shore. This place
n was so called because fish of that
a name were to be.caught there in,
t- abundance.
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About 4 o'clock we arrived in the
n vicinity of our ground, and then the
a boats drew away from each other
so as togive room for work, at least
n a mile being required by each boat
to allow of the full drift being tak-
t en: As the cast would not be rrlade
n till dark we put out our sea anchors
t and took in the sails.
s At last' the wished -for time ar-
_ rived. We had observed a flock of
gulls settle down on the water
about a nne.:away,' and, as. this
sign is always looked for to denote
the whereabouts of a shoal, we got
our nets out beside the hatch and
prepared for a cast. Night was fall-
ing and the moon was on the wane,
so that once the darkness set in we
should have very little light to. work
by ti]], the noon rose just after mid-
night; the couple of deck lamps be-
ing just enough to keep darkness
away and nothing more.
"Stand by1"-shouted the cap-
tain, "Haul away I"
Up went the mainsail to the
chocks with a bang. The boat then
got under way, and the sea anchor
was get in -board.
"Cast away!" the captain shout-
ed, and the end of the net, with its
large, dog -buoy and anchor stone,
was thrown over the side.
Our boat was well on the move
now, and the net was being handed
over the side as quickly as it came
out of the well. There were two
men handing out the bottom part
of the net, with the stones attached,
while I alone was
Handling ,the Baulklino.
All wenjawell till a rather larger
buoy than usual came up out of the
well in a rather awkward way. It
caught on the edge of the hatch-
way and then came over the desk
with a swing, catching me across
the loins and, in the 6i:asling of
an eye, pitching me overboard. The
force of the Blow was such that,
while not hurting are, it lifted me
about five yards from the side of the
boat into the trough of the sea.
The thing all happened so sud-
denly and aio unexpectedly that for
a moment I could not realize what
had occurred. I went under for a
yard or two, and on rising found I
was caught just under the baulk -
line of the net. I had no difficulty
in releasing myself from it, how-
ever, and on coming to the'surface
found myself close to one of the
dog -buoys, which I hastened• to
seize.
During this time the boat, had got
well away from me, and although I
shouted to the men on deck to give
them some idea of my whereabouts,
the boat still held on its course.
The net was still being paid out, so
it was quite evident that I had not
beeu heard, the noise of the stuns
and buoys coming over quite over-
powering any other sound. It was
no good shouting. The only thing
I could do was to hold on to the
buoy and await developments. In
any case, I realized, it would be
quite an hour before they could
stop the boat and haul in the net
to pick me'' up, Keeping my gaze
fixed on the craft as long as. I could
see the lights on board gave me a
hope of thecae, but at last the
lights passed out of sight and my
last hope of being picked up vanish-
ed with them.
I hung on to the slimy dog -buoy
for dear .life, the sea as it rose and
fell making me tearful of losing my
grip en its slippery surface. As iny
feet dangled in the water I could
feel theenet below, into which I'en-
deavor•ed to force my feet, so as to
obtain
A Somewhat "'inner Position..
T
gave "up all. thoughts now of be-
ing resohibd tefitil the nets should be
hauled in, at' clasybro
ak_ If I could
only hold on till then,,I told myself,
all would be well.
As it happened, however, I was
not to be left in possession of the
dog -buoy without a strong fight for
it. I had the shoal of fish to reckon
with, The herring now began to
coni. against the Lace of the .net,
net in scoree but literally, in mil -
liens.
Y,
liens. '.Dime very sea was soon one
seething, pushing, lenrrying, seur-
rying mass of herrings, Low thick
they were, to he sural I think they
were scarcely thicker in , the "gut-
ters" (troughs) ashore than they
were around me. One could almost
walk onthem, they were so closely
asked. .When the first 'shoal 'ivee•
reeked by the net the, other fish.
In the Centre of EachNet
and at the'places where the several
nests are ,joined, were the buoys,
or bows, as they are called in the
vernacular, Some of these were
made of tin or thin sheet iron, of
the usual float shape, and painted
to protect them from the action of
the salt water, Others were of a
more primitive kind, being nothing
.more than inflated dog skins, slight-.
y tanned, with the hair still on.
_These were known as the dog -
buoys. These were also in demand;
consequently stray dogs were scarce
in the village. Shonld'one make its -
appearance about the place its de-
mise speedily followed, and a few
days afterward its skin was doing
duty as a dog -buoy.
For the first half of the season
we were kept pretty busy, the
shoals of fish Doming 'along fre-
quently and koepiug us well on the
run. Ourfleet consisted of about
thirty boats, and it was a pretty
sight as we left the harbor with our
sails set and our bows pointing to
the open sea.
We were fortunate in our catches,
and nearly every trip placed about
,70 crane of fish to our credit. This,
at a shilling a Bran to be divided
among the erew, gave: us an addi-
tional incentive ho work hard while
the season lasted.
m
went w t wall withus till about
the middle of the season, when an
incident occurred which nearly cost
me my life, and which placed me in
one of the most curious positions it
is possible to conceive,,
a
Wo had not been out for ample
of cls s, aD iliq, weather had been
'eery`yy
'
Eliseo hes �-, anEliseoWAN a 'gtiocl
deal of thunder, but when it be-
came clear again we made ready to
take a trap a little farther out than
nsua•1,
It was 10 o'eloolc an the morning
when word was passed round by
Mr. Duff, for the fleet to hoist sails
and be off, All was lnrrry and
seur, ry for a few minutes: • The own- ,p
er stood on fho beach to wishne el
MEXICAN RAILWAY DESTROYED BT GUERILLAS.
Pictorial Comment on Mexican Situation.
"Why the United -States Ambassador to Mexico has been rushed to
Washington to confer with the President is no longer a mystery in the
light of such pictures as the above. The guerillas are destroying rail-
ways in which European and American capital is interested, and such
acts are said to have been common since Huerta assumed the reins
of power.
pressing on behind filled up what
little space there was to spare, un-
til they became crowded into a cern-
pact mass and almost forced me
from any hold,
But I was determined to hold en
as Jong as I could and not give in
until 'I was actually forced to do
so. I kicked and splashed as well
as T was able, thinking ,by that
means to drive them away. The
herring, however, driven on by the
pressure from behind, forced them-
selves inside my shirt and up the
legs of my trousers, and I think
that of all the horrible tortures that
could be conceived, this was about
the most dreadful. The sensation
was awful, and I began to shout
and yell in despair,
The shoal of fish had now filled
the nets in my vicinity and was be-
ginning to flow, as it were, over the
top. The pressure of the fish as
they crowded past nye forced my
legs up until -they were straight out.
in the direction in which the shoal
was heading. Luckily for me I had
any hands well twisted in the rope
that held the dog -buoy, and as long
as my endurance lasted I knew I
should be able to hold on. My only
thought now was of the strength of
the rope that held the dog -buoy.
If That Should Snap I was Lost.
- After a while the fish began to
get perceptibly less numerous. The
shoal, then, must be nearly past—
a fact that I hailed with joy, for it
meant that I should be able to get
a better position on the net -than the
ono I had held for an hour past,
My spirits rose accordingly, Pre-
sently I felt myself coming once
more to an upright position beside
the net, and seen I could touch the
baulk -line under my feet, and was
then enabled to obtain a long-
wislied-for rest, I could new disen-
gage one of my hands to free my-
self of the fish that had accumu-
lated inside my clothing. This was
a great boon to me, and I felt much
relieved when the operation had
been performed, Luckily the water
was not cold. I felt warm enough,
but the exertions of the last hour
or two had a weakening effect upon
me. I began to feel drowsy, and es
I held the. dog -buoy to my breast T
felt inclined to rest any head on it
acid go to sleep. I conquered this
fatal desire, however, and began to
sing and shout to pass away the
time and keep ins awake.
After much weary waiting I saw
the first signs of damn appeal' in the
sky, and after a time, ee it grew
lighter, I felt a curious vibration of
the baulk -line under my feet, and I
knew then that iny mates were battl-
ing in the catch. Some time
elapsed; then I was overjoyed to
observe the top of a sail a few hun-
dred yards away, I shouted wildly
in iny excitement, acting se foolish-
ly that I almost lost my hold of the
buoy. This se frightened me that I
ceased my antics, and quietly wait-
ed till the beat came up.
I was laid up for about a month
through this mishap, end in my
dreams for a year afterwards I
would repeal: my adventure end the
horrible squirming of the herr
angs
against•my flesh would awaken me,
With a start. '
A.'marl's future is his own. IEe•
Makes it every clay as 110 5045 along,
Grains of Gold.
There is justice in the world, but
sometimes it takes a deal of finding.
—Mr. Filson Young.
There is nothing trivial if you
Jove the person to whom it hap-
pens,—Mr, E. F. Benson,
I decline to admit that there is
any stimulus in poverty or any in-
spiration in squalor —Lord Cur-
zon.
Cowards and weaklings curse the
world; the strong do not blame the
world; it gives them all that they
desire:—Lafeadio Hearn.
Every happy moment that' com-
eth in your way treasure as a prize 1
Let no one delay, for who knoweth
what the end will be?—Halfz.
Love does not spring up and grow
great and become perfect all at
once, but requires time and the
nourishment of thoughts,—Dante.
The men whom I have seen suc-
ceed best in life have always been
cheerful and hopeful men, who
went about their business with a
smile on their faces, and took the
changes and chances of this life like
leen, facing rough and smooth alike
as it came,—Charles Kingsley.
Bismarck and the Eggs.
The dinners and luncheons that
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria had
served him in the field during the
late campaign are in startling con-
trast to. the fare with which other
victorious monarchs have content-
ed themselves under similar con-
ditions. After the Battle of Sedan,
for example, the odd Emperor Wil-
liam supped off a piece of dry
bread, while he sat on a ladder
that was supported on one side by
a barrel, and on the other by the
body of a dead horse. Bismarck
used to delight to relate that,
when he was foraging with two
companions in an almost deserted
village daring the Prance -Prussian
War, he came upon a man from
whom he got five eggs. Unable to
divide the five equally among
three, he swallowed two, Then
calling his companions, he shared
the three remaining eggs with them
— truly Bismarckian idea of an
equable division, says the writer
who describes the incident,
"Conlin' Thro' the llye."
Probably .very fcw persons under-
stand the expression "Corrin'
Through the Rye," 'There is in
Scotland a ,small stream called the
Rye. The girls forded it; going to
church, school and to market, and
as the
they had to hold their iris up,
The boys would meet the in mid -a
stream and kiss thein • wit tout -one
difficulty, as the girls cool n't drop
their skirts to make any r sistanoe.
That's what the poet aneent when
he wroto "Conlin' Thrbegh the
Rye," but most people think he
meant a field of rye.
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'sot .
"Don't go near that, eild fellow in.
the .
pasture, sonny," the ,farmer
warned the fresh -air child. ''He's
terribly fierce."
"I tried him olit a'ready," the lad
replied, "Tits ain't half as fierce
es An einteniebile in the city, Got
any bear's or lions around here 1"
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SOMI yl'RVIVALS.
('forks On Your Glovers—The Bow I
- Insides Man's Hat.
The three marks on the back of a
glove and the clocks on a stocking
are due practically to the same sir
cumstanee. The glove marks cor
respond to the fourchette pieces be
tween the fingers, and in other day
these pieces were continued alon
the back of the hand, braid bein
used to conceal the seams.
A somewhat similar origin is as
signed to the ornamental clock o
the stocking. In the days whe
stockings were made of cloth th
seams occurred where the clocks d
now, the ornamentation -then bein
used to conceal the seams.
The useless little bow in the lea
then band lining a ,man's hat is
survival of the time when a h
was made by taking a piece of lea
tiler, boring two holes through it,
and drawing it up with a piece of
string.
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Fact and Fancy.
The best test of honesty, after all,
is horny hands.
Bicycling is good for asthma.
Sophistry means the other man's
argument.
Mushrooms are nine - tenths
water.
In the banquet of life the scum ie
usually mistaken for the cream. -
Men wear their hats in Holland
churches,
A friend in need is a friend you
don't need. .
Glass bonnets are worn in Ven-
ice.
There are some people,-ihet ,the
more you think of them the less you
think of them.
The French are the worst dressed
soldiers, the Americans the next
worst.
Are You Left -Handed.?
Why don't you make more use of
your left hand i It has been- esti-
mated that 87 per cent. of the Eng-
lish-speaking people are right-
handed when they grow up. Sev-
enteen out of every hundred ,.are
born right-handed, but the remain-
ing eighty-three are born without
any inclination to use one hand
more than the other, and, there-
fore, become right-handed owing to
influences brought to bear on them
during, their childhood days. It is
impossible to calculate how much
leen lose by neglecting their left
hands. Formerly—in primitive
times, that is to say—everyone was
ambidextrous; and the sooner peo-
ple become ambidextrous again the
better. In Japan, for many j -ears
past,.soldiers and schoolboys have
THE WORLD IN REVIEW
A great calm has settled down upon The
Political storm centres. Old timers in Ot-
tawa say they never. saw Capital Hill as
quiet as at present,. The Premier is at
St. Andrews by the Sea in New Braaswick,
attending to urgent matters of state by
wire, but chiefly recuperating from the
arduous work of the past year. The Min
later of Finance le in England, Hon. J.
D. Hazen, Minister of Marine, and .Hon;
Mr. Coderre are on a trip to the Yukon.
Others are taking briefer holidays and a
few remain at their posts to transaot the
necessarybusiness of the country,
In Toronto 1t is -much the same. though
Premier Sir James Whitney is in his office
everyday. Sir James does not often take
a holiday. His favorite trip is a voyage
across the Atlantic, but it is only occa-
sionally he is able to And time. This
year Dr. Pyne, who is a close personal
friend as well as a colleague of the Prem.
ier's, is in England on business in con-
nection with the Education Department,
$e Is the only one as yet.to go on an ex-
tended trip. but the holiday spirit is In
the air.
Col. Sam Hughes and the Canteen.
A critic of militarism said recently of
Colonel the Honorable Semi. Hughes, Ming
toter of Militia, that he was trying to re.
duce the science of murder by warfare to
u Sunday School basis. The quip referred
(TREASURE HUNT A FAILURE
MUD INSTEAD OF ZINE MTL-
LION ODD PfitINDS,
I
After Thirteen Tears' Work the
"Sacred Lelte" Ie Aban-
doned,
The exploitation of treasure trove
is seldom successful, though the
lure of such undertakings is a eon
stent temptation to the speculator
and the adventurer. Another ad-
dition to the list of failures has now
to be made in the winding up of the
company formed 13 years ago iu
England to raid the sacred Lake of
Guartavita in Colombia.
The reputation of this lake as a
depository of jewels and ornaments
of vast wealth has persisted for
centuries, and has been frequently
referred to by travellers, from Fa-
ther Simon to Humboldt and Mow-
bray Morris, The lake is situated
in the mountains, about half a
clay's journey on. horseback from
Bogota, and lies about 10,000 feet
above sea level.
The origin of its reputed vast
wealth is the praetice attributed to
the ancient Indian tribes residing ;.
in the locality of casting vessels
and ornaments of precious metals,
and also offerings of gold dust and
precious stones into the waters as
A. Religious Rite.
A computation—obviously more or
less guesswork—of the value of the
treasure at the bottom of the lake,
made in the early part,.. of the nine-
teenth century, put it at £1,120,-
000,000.
Various atteanpts have been un-
dertaken from time to time to re-
cover this supposed wealth, and
the Spaariards are said to haveto Colonel Hughes' unrelenting hostility
low -
to the canteen or to any toleration of ered the waters to within 14 feet of
drinking mons soldiers- the bottom, when the sides fell in
In thie attitude Colonel Hughes is un-
doubtedly a judicious Minister of Militia, and brought their labor tq nought.
because it is unquestionable that a great
itia hoe been based on the more or lase The modern effort to retrieve the
deal of prejudice and hostility to the mil - among the men m camp treasure was .commenced. by a na-
in. habits which in former days prevailed
five company in Colombia about 20
Now Colonel Hughes as gone a step years ago, butt progress was slow
farther and has attaoked d
the olircere of the ri
eking among
permanent force,on account of the lack of proper
have hitherto been regarded as som
who
what plant and the absence of direction
Privileged
Parsons, Ata -recent garrison
dinner in Halifax all intoxicating. liquor by a Scientific engineer.
was forbidden- by the Minister. Notwith- -After spending £1,000 the native
standing this a number of the officers
present behaved themeeives in a manner company invited the eo-operation
which could only be explained by asaum- Of more ex -pert assistance, and the
ing that they had obtained access to a
private supply. Several of the speakers English company which. 1s now be -
were interrupted in a most uncomfortable ing wound Up was the Tesnit. This
manner. Colonel .Hughes was not the g
man to let such an. incident pass nano- concern,. which possesses the. vary
tired and he took occasion to arise and
unromantic name - of - C ntraetoi'S,.
deliver a castigation to the offenders that
they will .not soon forget,
Talk of resignation on the part of some was registered in 1900, with a Capi,-
et the officers followed immediately, and tal of £30,000, and took over the..
rumor Las it that Colonel Hughes' reply work of the native concern. It was.
'see that they could not resign any faster arranged that if the treasure were
then be would accept their resignations,.
Now it aeome proiablo that the troubhe found the capital the latter had ex-
noel hie°onevrho wniho 0010me second es Is pended and the capital to be laid
The New Poet Laureate, out by the new undertaking should
a
Robert Bridgee is the new.poet laureate. pfirrostfitbse remrepainid.ingand that then the should go as to
It is likely that not one Canadian in
moo ever heard •
of Robert Bridges be 59 per cent, to the English core -
fore. But we are assured he is a verypalsy and as t-0 41 per cent.+to the
competent poet of the ere Oxford h
of verse,and that he will b bl Colombian company.
eacreditable
holders
to a long ]inns of distinguished
holders of the position. Over 48 Feet of Water.
However, it seams undeniable that Rob-
ert Bridges becomes poet laureate because T1m0 lake is, or war, 46 Poet deep
of his negative and not of le positive at the lowest point, and the plan
virtues. He is unobjoetionable to rho
the powers that be. Therefore he got the of the engineers was to drain it by
is probably almost unanimous opinion
Job. Apart from political prejudices there means of a tunnel through the
that the one poet with the real spark of mountains 1,100 feet long and car-
Kienius in the Empire to -day is Rudyard Tied down 70 feet below the level of
pling. It is quite true that Kipling has
written a tremendous `lot of trash. But the surface of .tlie water, The cost
that was inevitable in an age which de. was estimated at £13,000. The
monde from its favorites a tremendous
has the true ring of genius and he could accomplished in
volume of output. But much of his work. drainage scheme was successfully
the end, but in-,
have taken his place beside Tennyson and
Wordsworth and the others with no .apo]- stead of a clear bottom the - ex -
087'
•
Kipling a Partisan. ploaters came en 25 feet of mud.
net Kipling, in hie Interyears narttau Their work took much longer than lady, hasbecome a was expected, violent political Parti- p , tt nd 1110 lake was not
been taught to use both hands. And the outstanding political controversies of
this wise example is now being the last deeads. And he rise not heei-
talight in Germany, 1i10 to use lice pooh° genhie to Purthor
his opinions- The Home Rule issue wa
San, He hoe been mixed up in most of emptied till 1903, and then kept
partially refilling through heavy
rains and springs.
Why Harriett hien Live Long.
The reason a married man lives
longer than a single mea is because
the single man leads a selfish exist-
ence. A married man can double
his pleasures, Any time he has a
streak of good luck it tickles him
all over, but it makes him feel twice
as good when he tells his wife about
it, And she is so pleased and proud
that he feels like a two-year-old.
There isn't a chance in the world
of a man's arteries hardening or his
heart weakening when he can get
a million dollars' worth of pleasure
out of making his wife happy,
,p
The ane thing a man is anxious to
share with the world is the good i
opinion he has of himself,
Idle Money
UL' SONS hnvitfg Idle funds on
r hand for temporary o
r fonent
Investmeds,nt,
or nn a taro 'OUR PER
invoetmni,, enn obtain POUR PER
CENT. interest, compounded quar-
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CAPITAL fpaltl.55) • 44000,000
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the most recent oontroverev on which be
drew blood, As he has been generally
against the government it was scarcely
within the range of human possibility
that he would be selected for the vacant
laureateship.
Similarly the one other outstanding poet
of the time, Mr, William Watson, is -non
Persona grata with the powers that be,
Not only line he been mixed up in no-
fltioal eontroverey, Including also the
Home Rule issue, but, his publication a
few years ago of "The Woman with the
Serpent Tongue," in which he attacked
with virulence membersof the Primo Min=
later',, family circle would to. many minds
be quite sufficient in itself to place him-
self outside the pale.
Lacrosse 58111 Languishes,
Canada's national game, Lacrosse, le
EMI -under the ehatlow of "roughhouse"
tactics. Ono incident in whiali a player
nearly, had hie eye gouged out led R. Z.
Fleming, owner of 'tate Toronto Lacrosse
Club, to threaten the disruption of the
big professional leagao. The incident is
not without Significance. There seems
little doubtthat there hasbeen a spirit
of toleration of rough tactics On the part
of those: responsible for the conduct e,f
the players. Meanwhile public interest
continues to languish. Promoters do not
seem to remise thn.t they havo got the.
I game out of favor, and that the only way
to get It beck le by a long campaign of
playing lacrosse mid not by giving -
i ne r
ht bit o of brutality.
Lord Chancellor Coming.
'When Lord Haldane comes to Canada on
Monday, the first of September, it will be
the first occasion since the days of Usury.
the EIghili that a •Lord- Clnnnrellor of
Saleso tl has ]fend onteideChan-
Isras on a p001le infesion..'Shi Lord Chan-
cellor le the eustedian of the great Boal,
Cls"this coonskin, with the approval of 500
Hing, the groat seal is to bbflailed in
Commission during the Chaticeilor'e ab -
sotto, which will last only a little over
n fortnight, Ills etas in Canada will That
about two and a half days, during which
Ito will address the annual meetingf
the America Bar Aaeosiatlon in Montreal,
Its will leave England- on Augnet 21rd on
ono of the Atlantic,.geogheutads and be
home again ..
t f0 to me,e
The last
Claucoller of 'England to laavo the man.
try on nublic mleaion wag Cardinal
Wolooloy. w�to 1i,'0:0 abut en a mission to
Franco, Englent�'a Volley at that time be
ing i0 cheek, fife ambition of the Em.
poror.
:i aehclds' quarters unav he est
changed for better halves.
•
Meanwhile a few ornaments and ,
jewels had been found whichsnit=
ficed to whet the appetite of the
seekers. But by this time all the
available cash capital of £6,000 had
been spent, and'more money was
wanted. The capital of Contrac-
tors was .accordingly inereased
from £30,000 to £35,000 in 1904, and
still further to £40,000 in 1908:
When the rains hacl oeased and
the springs had dried up fresh dif-
ficulties arose, for the mud set lined
and the water to sluice it away
through the tunnel that had drain-
ed the lake was
No Longer Available. •
An attempt was made to carry
the tunnel from the. edge of the.
lairs tothe centro, the idea being
that the mud would more expedi-
tiously be got away from that
point, but there was never' enough
money available to. finish this pro-
ject.
•ect
In default of the completion of
the prolongation of the tunnel
shafts were slunk in the dried mud
and ehanpe.ls driven through it at
various spots and more small erne.
ments and precious stories came to'
light, blit altogether the value of
these diseoveriee was cot much
more than £9,000, These modest
operations have filled up the lust
few years, stud ea signs of the vast
treasure reported Ur repose in Gtra-
tavita having been found, :the coni-
pany, after en outlay of some £15,-
000, has finally decided to aban-
don time hunt, and' the meeting of
the creditors is to take plaee,
Thus Another ellaptcr, has to be
lidded to the Annals of Melly fettle,.
less searches after hidden wealth,