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THS BRILLIANT HISTORY OF THE
ROYAL NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE
The decision of the Canadian Gov-
ernment to increase the Royal North-
West Mounted Police force to more
than five times the number ever en-
gaged as patrollers of the far places
calls attention to this remarkable body
of men and their work as explorers.
Indeed, little has been said of the dar-
ing feats of these men in strapping out
huge tracts of unknown territory.
Durini the decade or ea that pre-
eeded the war they discovered great
lakes, huge mountain ranges, nighty
rivers, vast herds of game, and new
tribes of Indians and Eskimos whose
existence was absolutely unknown.
Here it night scent strange to speak
of any parte of Canada as unknown or
une:,plored. Yet it is an indisputable
fact that ;Here.' are still big areas in
the Northlands of the Dominion that
are unknown country, and it is the of -
ricers of thfe reiri:trkalle police force
who have dont) more than anybi,dy
else in 11ll:ng in i.hct blank spriees. In
this,,, work they have endured herd -
ships and trials as great e e time ex-
perienced by the most daring of 1i1 -
ce11 or Arctic adventurers.
The recent Order in Cternel uu de
provision for inereasing the tore? to
5,000, but at the 1<1onieii4 the number
aimed at is :,',000 men. Recruiting has
been going on since May and has had
a brisk response. The raising of the
Three is due to several reasons ---the
industrial unrest, elle enormous new
area which the force is to cover, and,
not least, the decision to eolith= the
exploration work which was dropped
when war broke out and of which
virtually nothing is known.
Until the Order in Connell was pass-
ed the mounted police only had juris-
diction over the prairie provinces of
Saskatchewan and Alberta, and the
semi -arctic and arctic territories of
IIackenzieland, Hudson Bay, and the
Yukon. Now they have had their
jurisdiction extended to the whole of
British Columbia, Manitoba, and foto
New Ontario as far as the shores of
the Great Lakes --a stretch of terri-
tory almost as large as Europe with -
tut Russia.
When war broke out a. milt cf the
Mounted Policy went overseas and
fought as a cavalry detaeltmcut, Large
tiunbers also enlisted in verb:Ale in-
fantry regiments. So great was the
aepletiou caused by war's demands
that the force, the lop strength of
which was 750 men in January, 1917,
went down to 400 before the close of
the campaign. Of this number 150
went to Siberia and served for some
{tele with headquarters at Vtadiyc-
etock. With their knowledge of atretic
regions, the handling of dogs, wear-
iog of snowsiicoe, err., they proved a
'valuable core::,
The force was founded in 1S7.3. At:
that time the new West was just be-
ing opened up. The monopoly of the
Hudson's Bay Company ceased in
1869, and their territory was taken
over by the Dominion Government by
purchase. Following the passing of
the territory from the rigid sway of
the fur company, a horde of whiskey
emuggtere and cattle runners swept
in. from the 'United States. To vein -
bat these men and retain law and
order over a wilderness half a mil-
lion square miles in extent, Sir John
e.)., Macdonald took the matter up in
?. arliament, rebexithlcii.dtiig that i3.
force be organized "without gold lace."
This famous epigram stuck to the
police for many years.
In May, 1878, the Bill was passed
ltutherizing the Mounted Police, Three
hundred men formed the first three.
Recruited at Toronto, il1'tcr i,leut.-
Col. French, they travelied by train to
the thsn end of the railway at Fargo,
North Dakota, Frani here they
marched eight hundret e nese throttgii
the prairie !;.:rixntls and established
,tiie Afar- post at Fort hIcLeoft, near
the foothills el. the Rooky Mountains.
Later Fort Edmonton (:L i`ie-of-boites),
Store Regina., the headquarters, end
Calgary hosts were established, all in
iia.t is now Alberta,
Another large post was r stdbai.=.11ed'
t Eattieford, in what ,s now Sss-
.ateite(van, The yrest :ninthe i pest
today is that at Herschel, right away
up o1i the extreme, northwestern tip
ief Canada in the Meek Ocoee. .Il'ere,
too, is the "7t'urtheet North" white
'eagle*, -lel; of ., t" :led. end front
the cabin windows one may look
across a narrow stretch of lifeless
barren land to the twenty-one crude
wooden crosses that mark the graves
of the twenty-one white men who
have been buried here. It is nearly
two thousand miles from civilization,
but is only ono of many similar deso-
late police stations in the wilderness
of the great Northland.
The men of this remarkable police
force, perhaps the most famous body
in the British Empire, have beau the
very backbone of strength in the
building up of Western Canada. They
hate gone ahead of the settler, in ad-
vance of the railway and the surveyor,
and they have made their uniform re-
spected and feared in a territory that
stretebes a thousand. miles east and
west and eighteen hundred miles tiortll
and south, Although numbering un-
der eight hundred i'trong, they have
done the work of an army-. A cattle
thief two hundred utiles away from
the Nearest officer feaes the law as
1 , utely as the city la*breaker who
works in the very presence of the
police.
"There is a white man who i:; se11-
ing liquor to the Indians," said. the
Inspector at fort 3laepllersou to one
of his ;nen. "lie's dowel on the In-
dian lIare River, three hundred guiles
frons. here. Go and get hint."
The officer went. 1{e travelled
eight Hundred miles for his man, and
he "got bins." The assignment was no
more unusual to this dollar -a -day hero
of the Royal Mounted than it would
be for a city policeman to be detain
ed to arrest a roan in the next street.
In 1917 the 797 men who comprised
1 the force inade 14,277 arrests, and
1 convictions resulted in 11,657 cases,
their wonderful work eau hardly be
appreciated until one pauses to real-
ize that this entire force, which pa-
trolled a territory half the size of
Europe, is no bigger than the police
force of a city like Toronto, The
Athabasca and Mackenzie River dis-
trict, for instance, is patrolled by three
o$icers and twenty-five men, yet it
comprises an area of 020,000 square
miles—slightly less than a twelfth
of the North Amei'icen continent,
about a liftti of the whole of Canada,
and oomo five times as large as the
United Kingdon. Nevertheless, no
lawbreaker is safe in the whole of this
vast country, for once set upon a trail
a roan -hunter of i.he Royal 'Mounted
is a veritable Nemesis.
I''rom six mouths to a year is the
time allowed for a "rookie," or no-
vice, ` to prove himself, After that
first year he becomes either a "re-
liable" of the Royal Mounted or a
"discard." In the fifth month of his
service a young, smooth -faced "rookie"
cornered three desperate cattle -
thieves in the Cypress Hills, east of
Lethbridge, tought them to a stand-
still, and brought them into headquar-
ters single-handed, one of then; almost
dead of his wounds. A little over a
year later, this same "rookie," whose
name was .Barry, was sent out after
man-ltiller with those words which
are epic in the annals of the Royal
Mounted: "Don't come back until
you get him." Ile got his man, but he
was away seven months and he tra-
velled over two thousand miles.
This i i the type eS roan of which.
the Royal Mounted is made up, so it
is not so strange, after a11, that eight
hundred such characters should be
able to do the work of ten thousand
ordinary Hien. In a way the Royal
North -Wet Mounted Police is a mis-
nomer. It is riot all "mounted," as
most people suppose. In the entire { +
service there are only 640 horses and
'nearly all these are to be, found at the
posts in Ibe prairie provinces.
An inspector stationed very close to
lite Arctic Circle once suggested to
mo that it onght to be called "Tile
Royal Mounted, Dog -Sledge, Snow-
shoe, and Canoe Police of the North-
West." That name would just about
hit the oats on the head, though the
!writer, instead of saying"Police of
t the North-West," would suggest
" Police and Iaaxplorers of the North-
West." For it must he conceited that
it is something of importance to '"dis-
cover" a sixth of a continent, to re-
veal untold millions of new potential
wealth, anis to add lakes and rivers ..
f and even mountains+ to leafs that
were naked white spaces less than.a
decade ago. There is .something . in
this of deeper import than the "dis-
covery" of a Pole, whether at one end
of tb.e earth or the other,
(To be Continued).
Iceland's Hot Watch.
The hot-water fountains of Iceland
are on mounts averaging seven feet
high, the top of which forms the edge
of a sort of basin.
From this basin steam can be seen
.rising, and hot water runs over the
edge. The. water, although .boiling,
is as clear as crystal, and one can see
to a great depth into en abyss. White
incrustations under the water Provide
a pretty picture. Occasionally, ilhe
boiling water will shoot up into the air
fifteen feet high, and this is followed
by a succession of jets. ' -
Sometimes the basin •will become
empty, and on rare occasions a "steam
shoot," producing a white column of,
spray and vapor at least sixty feet
high, Provides a magnificent sight.
The boiling -water -streams from the
Geysers cause some delicate and pret-
ty petriticatious, and such 'things as
birch and' willow -leaves, converted in-
to white stone with every detail;
grass and rushes, inarbie-like, are toy
be seen where the slot water flows.
The Geyser gives no warning before
it spouts, and when it does, itis said
to make a noise resembling artillery
in action! The Highest shoot known
was ninety feet; , visitors to the boil-
ing springs of Iceland have been
known to scald their fingers and hands
s-verely in the endeavor to obtain
perfect specimens of white incrusta-
tions formed by the boiling water.
What a saving in coal oe. ewashMg
days for the Iceland housewife! All.
she has to do is to take her washing
to 1)1e Geyser. put then; in gently, and
• -trust: to luck that they will not be
shot out Tato the air the next minute!
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The Last Word.
"Robson, do you know why you are
like a donkey?" the witty friend asked.
"Like a donkey?" echoed Robson.
"Why, what do you mean?"
"Because your better half is stub-
bornness itself."
The jest pleased Robson immense-
ly, for he at once saw an opportunity
for a glorious clig at his wife. So when
he got home he said: "Do you know
why l'm like a donkey?"
He Waited a moment, expecting his
wife to give it up. But she didn't.
She looked at slim coldly and then
said: "I suppose you were born so."
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In ancient Rome domesticated os-
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On one occasion the Emperor Ilelio-
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WRITING HOME.
On� aches an her way, totl
school saw a young woman who lived
next door to her standing absorbed'
before a shop window in which colored .
karasois were displayed. The teacher
spoke to her twice before she got any
answer, and even than the reply was
the quite irrelevant remark, "I believe ,
that lavender parasol is just the shade
of mother's new foulard!".
"Your mother's new foulard?" the
teacher repeated. "Why, you haven't
seen. it!" Mother and daughter. had
not met for years. ' . . .
"No," replied the other, "1 haven't
seen it, but 1 have a sample of it ttiat
mother sent me. I'm sure it is just
that shade. If it is, I shall get the
parasor r."
"Butol,"ftheheteacher su
ggested, "per-
haps your mother ail'eady has a para-
sol like her dress."
"No, she carries her old black -and -
white -striped parasol when she wears
her lavender foulard, but the white
stripes have turned a bit yellow, This
lavender one will be just the thing, if
it is the right shade. She can bee it
with her gray muslin, too; she wears
that to church on warm Sundays."
"How do you know• all these little
things?" the teacher asked.
"Why from letters. I write two e
wwee1, to mother, and she writes two
I a week to lee. It is the way we keep
together. Yon see, when J married a,
Novo Scotian I knew that I sloop;
probably live in Nova Scotia the rest
' of my life. Father and mother have
Ialways lived in Ontario, and very like -
1 ly always will. None of us can afford
to travel back and forth very often.
so the only way we can keep together
I is by writing 11:4.ters frequently and
regularly."
1
t The parasol did turn out to be of
the right shade, and the young "woman
- bought it. A few months later it hap-
lii-
paned that mother was able to pay
!her an unexpected violt. On the very
! day that she arrived the daughter's
one servant left without notice. In
' her difficulty the young woman
thought of her neighbor and friend,
the teacher.
"Could you possibly go to the train
1 to meet my another?" she asked
1 anxiously. "Iter train is due at four
I forty-five. I must stay and take care
1 of the children, and -Henry can't h atvo
his office. could you go?"
"Of course; your mother has never
seen me, but I. think I shall know her
from her photograph." • .
"Mother will know you, too, from
your photograph. I sent her the one
you gave me, to look at."
The train was on time, and the
teacher easily recognized her friend's
mother. On the way up from the sta-
tion the older woman said:
"1 thought that servant would be
leaving. I'm not surprised. I could
judge from little things in Mary's let-
tern that she/Was face to face with the
servant problem."
As they neared the house the old
lady quickened her steps, "That is it!"
she said. "The pictures of it were very ;
good. And there are the• roses that
Mary has grown from the slips father
sent her from our garden! That west
window is in the room that I a.m to
have. She sent me a plan of the house
when she moved into it."
Frequent letters! Regular letters!
Letters full of the small, sweet, home- .
ly, intimate detaile that make up so
much cf Wei A family cannot always
live in one house, or even in the same
town or province, but it can always
keep together. Love will keep it to-
gether, but love must be watchful and
active. The dear intimacy between
mother and daughter, especially, is
made up of litttl° things. When the
daughter marries or - leaves home to
earn her living, she need not sacrifice
that intimacy; she can maintain It
by hoe letters.
"Incorrectly Stamped."
The obliging Post Office Official to
whom I was so irately complaining
about a "delayed in transit" letter, the
non -receipt of which had caused see
inconvenience and monetary loss, thus
disclaimed all responsibility on the
part of the Post Office,
I asked him to explain. As far as II
could see, it mattered little how Or
where the stamps were attached to
the envelope, so long as the correct
amount of postage was paid. But he
very quickly "put me wise."
The bulk of letters mailed are 'pass-
ed through an automatic "stamp can-
celling" machine, atter which they ate
Paned on to the sorters, who invarie
ably find a percentage which have not
had the stamps cancelled, owing to
the latter being wrongly "placed."
The machine only catches time
which have been placed on the top
right-hand corner."Hisses"'
are Itut
aside to be stunned "by hand" later
on. In the meantime, ,out goes the
mail without them,
A good nozzle ,is one of the most
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"I will not borrow trouble," said th(
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