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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1929-01-10, Page 6Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 }Lead Office, Guelph, Ont, Risks taken On all Glasse of incur. ranee at reasonable rates. ,ap,BNER COSENS, Agent, Winghatn J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE; ACCIDENT AND ?1EALTH INSURANCE — AND REAL ESTATE +. 0. Box 360 Phone 240 4/1INGHAM, ONTARIO 3. W. B1JSI-II' IEI.,D Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office --Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R.'VANSTONE SOLICITOR, ETC. 1 BARRISTER, SOLst Rates Money to Loan at Lowe Winc,hana - Ontario AUTHOR OF citier :TWOS Of Thr tr "` a PAI WIt A b7R6I701 XOUT:dr t 'an• se HUGH PCNDE.`iytR• 02;1, 1915. wmaome CHAPTER I sailed it from the northern lakes to the gulf. I accepted. mines as pos- WINGHAM.ADVANCE-TIMESS : ing post and named i1 .after Madatne the Duchess of Pontchartrain. ]:t was the first permanent French set, - dement in the valley south of Kas- kaskia, Ah! But these French were 1heforehard, if they could have held what they were first to take how dif- ferently history ~Would read! It was now my business to recon- noiter the fort, and observe how much strength the place had gained since* I was there last. Of first im- portance also, was to learn the atti- tude of the Natchez toward the French, White Apple, the main Natchez vil- lage, was located about three utiles southwest of the fort on a small The Natchez Make a Picture. The pirogue drifted into an eddy and, knowing I was in the immediate 1 vicinity of Fort Rosalie, 1 leaped out and drew my dugout up on the bank. It " s near sundown and the shadows were beginning to seep out from the western banit. Although having three years' of experience with the mighty river it always algng now! red pirogueofwas yarns—andrumhadsmileMORTON • e The English feared that the impetu- I worked along the bluff until with- .,_,..,-,„ osity of • the French in exploiting the in sight of the post and breathed in DR. G. H. ROSS Lousiana country, and their feverish deep relief. The storehouse seemed efforts to populate it, would give the closed, and I could discover no signs vast valley to Louis XV. But I could of any new cabins in .the `background. DENTIST if not forget that France's belief in the The place had grown none unless it marvelous must be reflected in her be some few settlers had built cabins ria Office Over Isard's Store that Lousiana would be held by those of study satisfied. ire, and I began re - colonists. And 1 could not believe invisible from my position. A :minute i . s t. , rman the firstwho believed in myths and fairies, nu treating toward My pirogue, when a and Surgeon ages • Was the Physcian in from. its more than the English could have noise between me and the riven sent S. C. R. attack themonsters drinking, if,instead me to ground and to cover. 'Medica: .. z`resenlative D. m had travelled it much and held the east settlementsg Phone 54 Wingha flood: IIt was a slight tapping noise ante! ]t Successor toward it, but again sought cover as ��I�OBT. G. REDMOND giant, what you would. It flowed • „• No tale was of prosaically retaking homes, they had dwelt on -the fantisied doings ofKing Arthur's knight's. Trade was to shape the destiny of the Mississippi basin. Those who persisted in dwell - ling in elfdom must Lose the race. Beau Law's job was to keep his stock from. exploding, and within three years he had seen it rise from 500 to 15,000 livres a share! TheEnglish- man's ng is a- man's job was to bring tome -makers into the country and establish perma- nent communities. .Homes and crops first, then mines if there be any. So far as I could foresee, the very oar titre ut Law's advertising mast defeat r to Dr. W. R. Hamby always found it to be a mystery. suggested a. woodpecker. I crawled — -- ..- • — It was a sinister tyrant, a whimsical l careless steps sounded in the. growth. • ENG) L.R.C.P. (Loud.) through hobgoblin land. 79d 'f B.C.S..mastic fere beliefn The man passed quite near me. He ( too strange and fawas a tall fellow, at least an .inch PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON connected with the Mississippi. I over six feet, with the mahogany prided myself on my hard-headed complexion and the graceful, power - DR. R. L. STEWART English sense, and yet I could not fill physique of -the Natchez. Graduate of University of Toronto, resist its lure, There was no beauty ec Gr E ] 1 After he had passed from hearing. Medicine; Licentiate of the to attract rte, such as 1 had observed I took his trail and easily followed Faculty of 1 7 Ontario College of Physicians and along the more gracious Ohio. '!here it back to the edge of the bluff, It Surgeons: olm Block i was lacking that spell of utter deco- ended in an opening which afforded Office in 'Chisholm Phone 29. !anion which I found in pushing up Josephine Street. tradersit CHAPTER II France Sends More Rubbish After leaving the hills and bluffs, I experienced a feeling which always came tp me when descending the riv- er alone; that is, that'the river was sentient and was pursuing ole. Fool- ish no doubt, yet impelling enough to n'take me swing my head frequently in staring back over the desolate flood and its burden of drift. 1 nev- er experienced any bizarl•e sensation in fighting, my.way up -stream. I sharply missed the companionship of Damoan the Fox, a great scamp yet prince of woodsmen. Once 1 would have sworn a piece of drift suddenly darted behind a tangled mass .of for- est. trees, as if propelled by human agency: During illy trip across Maurcpas a magnificent view of the river; and _ the muddy current of the Missouri. there T found what had caused the It was a rapacious thing, a fickle; tapping. And it made my heart glad; thing; its potentials, its many pro- for it threatened matd1 trouble for the mises of incredible achievements, yf people of young .Louis XV and his haunted me E �f+�qd dissolute uncle, the duke of Orleans, Such puny triflers as La Salle and .) ti � �t regent, When the French fell, the F. A. PARKER De Soto had been peremporily dealt OSTEOPATH with; the assassin's bullet for one and the river's maw for the other. And All Diseases Treated these two were simply types of count - Office adjoining residence next to less others, of high and low degree, Anglican Church. on Centre Street. even including my humble self and Sundays by appointment. Asteopatlry Electricity suck savage yet dependable fellows phone nye., Hours -9 a.m. to 8 p.m. as Damoan the Fox, who had parted DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST ' Office over John Galbraith's Store. _ --. from one at the niouth of the Ohio. A. R. 4 F. E. DUVAL And what forttnre did tlic river hold fur Spain, fur France, for England? Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. ~ince the wreck of the Armada, Spain :rcraduates of Canadian Chiropractic was out of the game except as it /College, Toronto, and National Col- won temporary success by rather de- • lege Chicago. suitor!: playinn,g. Solitude had made Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry arc something of a philosopher, just Store, Main Si. IsIOUdtS. 2-3, 7-8,30 p.m., and:1by , my occupation tutored me in poli- appoint yet. tics. If • I .filled my loenly hatches -dint oil dpwn eel .4.115 re'. with mooning ever the mysteries of ,,hooded to. AL „tiw ,+''• .•..• .fide aeon! the inscruteb}c waterway, also did I Phones. Office 300; Restnenee 60r-13, observe melt which pieaserl Gover- nor Spotswood of Virginia, and other J. ALVIN FOX notable leaders along the Atlantic Registered Drugless Practitioner coast. CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours; 2-5, %-S., or by ! appointment. 1?hone 191 D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adjustments given for diseases of nil kinds; we specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant, Night calls' responded to. Office on. Scott St., Wingham, Ont.! Phone 150 ._., GEORGE A. SIDDAL — BROKER — Money to lend. 1,n first and second mortgages on farm and other real es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of interest, a150 on • first Chattel mort- gages on stock and net personal notes. Afew farms on hard for sale or to tent (lit easy terms. Phone 73• Lucknew, flit. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER Jolrn. Law's amazing circle of fi- nuec0, with the mighty empire of France thoroughly gullible, was cluse- ly watched by us in America even it we could not forsee how swiftly the crash would follow the first symptom of weakness in his system, 'There are those who in calmer years have held that the fantastic notion; concerning the: 1 .enisiaita country grew tip' fi•um the p ,idigieu5 falsehoods nurtured by the company Of the Indies, better known as the Mississippi company.. l neVet could accept this process of I reason ; in truth, I reversed it. I have ;always held that Beau Law could not have staged tl'1t al yailihling saturnalia of the ages had not the way been snruth`y paved for him by !Europe's credulity in the marvelous and, impossible. 'Only because. it was the age of fairy stories 'were half a ;million foreigners flocking madly to l the dirty rue Quincarnp ix to trade in the stares of the 'Mississippi cnin- i cen1pa111'. \Vt' in Virginia and the Carolinas :were intimately informed cif the do - lugs of Law from the titue he •organ- REAL ESTATE SOL izict his first company. It was ci>itr- D Mon knoveledge how map makers and Athorougli kni,wlcdge of Iaarni •'histeriarrs" were v3 lee with cath Stock Phone 231, bVinghatn DRS. A. J. & A. W. IR W I N DENTISTS " iiee IVlacdoaae*ts t"" , '?$yr; igharn iY"Y.YWurv.,giro uu uuWru,iuwMn A. J. WALKER Phones; Office 106, Resin, 224. FURNITURE DEALER, aflt1 b itINERAt, roTillCCTOIt Motor Equipment "d iiINCHt.M Ci T`I'A1:1•It 14114110(M'MW1t,,u'orisrrb,u,infer,nuu.J,ywrr.Wnuo....uW�r11.4 be- thought SWITZERLA.ND'S BLUE LAT1tM. .— Little Lake Is Quite Startling In Its. Singular Beauty. Although a glass of pure watprr,: whether it be fresh or sea -water, 31:9, invariably colorless, yet in bulk it apparently varies in a singularly strange and remarkable manner. The ever-changing colors of the ocean especially, are most striking and '.. beautiful. At times when, the sun hayintg sunk beneath the water horizon, tilt• heavens are emblazoned in a glory o • carmine._. ,and gold, turquoise and I Slid the Muzzle of My Musket Over the Side and Called on Him to Halt. "And you, Monsieur I3ratitpton, the White Indian! My heart was broken and for half the distance on Pont- when 1 found Yvonne had married .a. chartrain I might have been the miserable spindling fellow, who does last man in the wo.rld;`for aside from writing for the governor. '1 come wild fowlth and e water life -there here to bury my heart. Little birds was nothing to attract rriy attention. tell me' France is to send over many emerald, pale mauve and amUer; and Then my isolation was shattered by beautiful worneri, like virgins. And. waste of �vi4.ers re�oct and •blends the sight of 'a canoe comfitg towar.cl` to find you here, in monsieur's backthe vivid calming of the western sky, " aviator surface o3'the oeean 1* me frons the cliret:tion of Bayou $t• door, as one might' say! c the she a "I am making a short cut—" I transfor•nied into a veritable sea ot[ opal, gradually, as the fiery !lues of "Diable! But you are a _Unreel the western sky pale away, fading in - the North. He, 'too, was much- in- man!" ! to a dank, sombre indigo. e for he rested his pad -'"Brave? How so? I know the r•iv-� But perhaps the most striking to terested in me, stance to be seen in the whole world die and shading his eyes scrutinized et', and the forest and the Indians. I ieizr de Bienville? I` youl of the. wondrous apparent coloring nie closely. "Ah, but S t of bodies of water is the alsomarvellous- I rested and waited for him to friend, wish by all the saints that your' toward me Swiftly. I slid the muzzle' lency's 'soldiers I down to the edge of the water, antiof niy musket :over the side and call- way to .Carolina. 'And Ire Vowed lie their higher activities axe earb d ied on him to hall. Almtnt approach- Would hang you if lie ever caught you' mantel. of eternal snow,'' thee litiltlae1 lake, nestling in its deep hollow basixtes in the Louisiana wilderness be tok- for enticing them away."and protected from winds and Storm,ened hostility, or „great friendship. This was disturbing news. I could', isquite •startling in its sin ulartrust Joe Labrador, old companion In beauty. g"limey a venture, to speak naught but!The water, althongh really purethe truth. Then. I became a.ngry, asi,'a rnan will Wlio is wrongfully accused,transparency'is so remarkable that aThere was mach Bienville could havel, , small ntetel coin dropped into th,earraigned. me for; I might even ha-ve' water in the centre of the lake eaube seen gyrating downwards until it .seduced his soldiers from their alio-, • Jean. As it drew nearer I decided its sole occupant was a voyager from ly -beautiful "Blue Lake" in Switzer - his study. Suddenly he drove knew him! After you went up the; land. Encompassed on all sides by finishlofty mountains, their lower ranges his paddle over tine side and carne river the last time 40__of his eMcel-i luxuriantly clothed with verdure English went up—and • contrawise. And this shaggy fellow was unknown It was a dressed skin, made fast to to rte as yet. the bole of an ancient oak, with two _ "That is near enough;" 1 called in reed arrows, painted red, stuck in the French '"'Who are 'you?" ground before it in the form of an X. ,lrardicu! How proud he 1st Thetine,On it was painted a hieroglyphic pie- \Visite Indian will not greet his tine, In the upper right of the pie- ture was the red and white feathered headdress worn by the Grand Soleil, or Great Sun, as head chief of the Natchez was called, Next was depicted a naked Natchez warrior holding a war club. Theu i canoe an arrow,: pointing at a figure ! over the head of which was a crude I representation of the flour -de is. Ile- i low was a moon and the outline of a. . peach and a bunch of grapes, follow- i I ed by many straight marks. Being translated it announced that the Great Sun of the Natchez declared his intentionof making war on the `` i^renc,h during the Moon of Peaches.. i It was now the tenth of June, the Ilium-) of Watermelons. The Moon of Peaches was in July. Counting the marks I found there were 28 of them, It Was the First French Settlement' and I knew that within 50 days war would begin if nothing intervened in the meantime to cause the autocrat of his plan to people the valley, From the Natchez to change bis mind. his residence in Place Louis le Grand he might order the sailing of many ships; but who would fill them? The absurd tales peddled by his agents sty were the French inclined to sus - absurd attract not only the dissolute, pest me of being English at heart as the reckless, the purely .adventurous, we11 as of name. but never the heads of families. Aside froth this instinctchof selftht The corning and !Dint; of these un- piesenvation was the likhooda stable classes would leave -no French the atcliez would change their foothold on the land. In all my work mind. lacfurc it came time. to ssnokc of spying n.p and clown the river 1 the final lvarr calumet. Icor 'l'attoed knew of but one menace to 1:English c' of called Stub ambitions; the linking of Canada to Serpent by the French— war chief of g the gulf by a chain of forts, thereby the Great Sun, had been a consistent making permanent settlements possi- .friend of the French ever since the bis. This WKS the fifr-sig hied plan of ti- tible in 1716, ip d his guest . itifht- l..ouis de {laude, count of hrontcmac, encu would be against war. As his one of the greatest Frenchmen of his l 'biother•,;!tad great affection for frim me. 111 the cnnsunlation of his ori- 1 did trot ewlieve the throil the ginai plans 111y' France's strength and painted 'hidebould be :caerieeat(!. Ont. England's peril. !\lsci; word of the declaration was '1'n detect ,1111' adoption of this most sure to reach Biloxi speedily. 1- ow•- sc•rrsihlc iroliey had engaged nttsclr of ever, for my purpose the declaration my time. and was responsible for my was of rnucli itiiportanice, provided 1 uneasy flitting tip arid (10110 the river.. were the first to carry the news down The Kaskaskia" settlements and an, the river. 'Until changed, the war building of Fort C hartrc•:s alight meati.• plans of the Natchez were of evil im- friend!" in the Valley South of Kaskaskia. Here was a matter of great impor- tance: Here was something to take to Bienville as 11 proof of my singer The merry insolence of his voice, giance had it appealed to me as being than a hundred feet beneath. or in prrlitil trizing ntiracic. 111 flip new• world. One .could lift one's self by tine hoot -straps 111 Lettsianit. The Mississippi was 1)111 annt110-1• name for hyperbole. •b, , 1r •. Tt tribtrtat us drained tn c d regions where e strange white races d'w'ell along shores of vast 1111011(1 lakes, lr(•inno'd in by sands of purest gold. i was no skeptic concerning mines,. and possible pearl fisheries in the gulf. lltit when immigrants poured in and expected 'to find unicorns and either dream-rnoltster'5` in the land of the I'adncahs (Comanches) 1 laughed. 1 `knew the river as well as •arty'voy- agetu'. :rot Three Rill years l' had 1110 scheme was being worked out in the Illinois country. it wonld amount to bus little unless extended down to: the gulf: Bence my desire to learn if 'Fort Rosalie had taken on any poli. tical niportanct' or remained simply' a storelmosc for French trade, With my smooth -bore flintlock over my shoulder- 'f made my way rip the 'bluff crowned with oaks. When lher- ville, that great apostle of I,ousiana's commercial future, first saw time gra- cious hills around the main village of the Matches( Indians he fell in lave port to the lower:valley: The mall who (1r11 carried The word would be doing. a T ,great 'serivee for France: proposed to do that service, and thereby learn things Of more iutpor lance before starting north again... Yes," surely did 1 have an excellent excuse for thrusting my head inside the French settlements once more, and giving the lie to any stories 50- cus'ing me of 'being an. English spy. And one did steed ,the best of 1'efenc- es when confronting Sieur de Bien- ville of the- implacable will, with the spare. 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