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THE BRILLIANT HISTORY OF THE
ROYAL NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE
PART TWO
What is without question the most
remarkable fact about the expeditions
of these police explorers of Northern
Canada is that discoveries of tremend
ous importance have been made, and
yet hardly any mention has been made
of them in the newspapers or in
geographical journals. It is most in-
conceivable to believe that two new
lakes, almost as large as Lake Ontar-
io, and a range of mountains two
hundred miles long, could be discovered
within a few hundred miles of flour-
ishing cities without creating at least
-some sort of sensation. Yet this has
happened not once, but on several
occasions.
In February of 1911 Sergeant Mac-
L'od, of the Royal Mounted, was de-
tailed to undertake a hazardous patrol
into the unknown country north-east
of Fort Vermillion, an outlaying sta-
tion on the Peace River, to the North
of Athabasca. The result of his weeks
of hardshin and peril was the dis-
'.'oyery of a lake larger than Lesser
,SIave Lake, over seven thousand
square miles in area, a huge island
sea, into which one could put the
whole of Wales. The few Indian
4Iweliings on its shores had never
,?ef,le been visited by a white man.
Frain the most authoritative sources
the writer is assured that, outside
those associated with the reports, not
only is i1IacLeod's discovery totally
unknown, but also the still more im-
portant -discoveries of Sergeant A. H.
L. Mellor and Constable Johnson in
their exploratory patrol of the country
south of the Great Slave Lake in the
August and September of 1910.
Discovering a Sulphur World
When the Canadian Government
purchased the famous Pablo herd of
buffaloes in 1909 they determined to
ascertain if any wild herds still ex-
isted in the unknown Northlands.
This work was dene entirely by the
men of the Royal Mounted, and Mellor
and Johnson were detailed to pene-
trate deep into the country= which was
an absolutely unknown land, inasmuch
as it had never been visited by a
white man., All knowledge of what
lies to south and east of the Great
Slave Lake ceases at the mouth of the
.Buffalo River, and on the latest Gov-
ernment maps the country for seven
hundred utiles east and west and two J
hundred miles north Bind south is a
white blank.
Mellor and Johnson went only to
the edge of the mountains, gathering
data sufficient to show that the Cari-
bou Mountains, instead of terminating
seventy miles from the Peace River,
as shown by existing maps, extended
close up to the southern shore of the
Great Slave Lake. Had it not been
for an almost accidental foresight on
Mellor's part the two would never
have returned from their romantic
and perilous journey. In a swift
rapid in the heart of the sulphur
country, where they were completely
he -mined in for hundreds of square
miles by small lakes and streams and
impenetrable swamps, their canoe was
wrecked upon a rock and all their
supplies lost. By a strange and
fortunate chance the explorers had
cached a small part of their supplies
within ten miles of where this ac-
cident occurred. After practically re-
building their canoe they reached this
cache in an exhausted condition, and
from there resumed their journey
through a country barren of food and
life down to the Great Slave Lake.
There are many who believe that
instead of being nearly extinct, there
is a country somewhere in the un-
known lands of the north where vas
herds of buffalo still roam. Sine
1908 half a dozen expeditions hav
been sent out by the police to search
for buffalo. A few years ago it wa
believed that only a few solitary head
existed, but since that many herd
have been discovered. In March and
April of 1909 a patrol north-west of
Smith's Landing discovered several
herds, the largest of which numbered
seventy-five head. At the same time
a patrol was sent into the country
to the south-east and reported two
hundred buffalo.
Both expeditions found the thole
country through which they passed,
and which was heavily covered with
timber and hush, literally cut up with
buffalo trails, and infested by hund-
reds of wolves. In the Autumn of
last year Corporal Bates found two
I hundred buffalo in one herd, and a
hundred in another, near the Caribou
Mountains, and carne upon other herds
numbering from ten to twenty head,
All these expeditions have strength-
ened the •conviction that large herds
still exist in the unexplored country
south of the Great Slave Lake, and
also in the vast "plain" country be-
tween the Great Slave and the Great
Beer Lakes.
Tropical Lands in the Arctic Region
Several times during the past de-
cade the men of this remarkable police
force have investigated what are
known as "mastodon finds" ,in various
parts of the Frozen North. The re-
mains of several of these animals
have been found -in a state of perfect
preservation. The flesh had been
fresh enough to eat, and in the
stomachs of the prehistoric monsters,
in at least two instances, there have
been found the undigested tropical
foods upon which they fed.
Superintendent A. E. Snyder, eom-
mantling the Royal Mounted at White-
horse, Yukon Territory, reported to
the Commissioner in 1909 that from
north of the Porcupine River there
had come repeated rumors of the ex-
istence of a wonderful tropical region
which was still inhabited by mastod-
ons. "The Indians," concluded Sup-
erintendent Snyder,"report having
seen the gigantic tracks of these an-
imals."
Little attention was paid to these
stories, however, until in November of
1912 C. J. McIntyre and two compan-
ions made a most amazing discovery
north of the Porcupine River. They
were travelling by log -sledge, with
the thermometer at forty below zero,
when, to their astonishment, the
temperature began to rise so rapidly
that within a space of two hours they
lad thrown off their warm garments
and the snow was soft underfoot.
"It seemed," said McIntyre, "as
hough we were suddenly passing from
winter into spring." Soon after they
came upon the first of numberless
hot springs, the snow disappeared en-
irely, and dense vegetation took the
place of the stunted bush and timber
of the plains, Because of necessarily
slow travel on foot the explorers were
tot able to determine the extent of
this :
wonderful 0.7 r
flrl oasis .
rn the midst of.
six Arctic desolation. They found
several good-sized rivers, flowing
with warm water and' teeming with.
fish, and the country was alive with
bear, caribou, duck, pheasant, wild
geese, and other game, and gold was
cued in a number of the creeks,
l4leIutyro was to have made a sec-
ond trip into this In �sterioee country,
tut W"'fits prevented 'thr'i.gh 'rite oat -
break
of war, 'Now that the force/las been increased in numbers `these
exploration journeys are to be t'esiun-
ed, and who can say what geographic.
al wonders will be discovered ? For
five hundred miles east and west and
from two to three hundred miles north
of the Porcupine River, there is a vast
unexplored region as little known as
the planet Mars.
(To be Concluded)
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An Artist's Conscience.
The following little story is an il-
lustration of the seriousness with
which a French craftsman takes his
art and himself.
There are sprinkled over Paris
watchmakers who make watches at
hone, making every part by hand,
working as many 'or as few hoax s a
clay as they choose, with neither a
foreman nor a union leader to say
then nay. The big jewellers of the
Rue de la Paix know all these men and
await their work eagerly; but not even
they can make one work faster or
otherwise than as he will.
Before the war an attache of the
Turkish embassy bought one of these
watches and presented it to his royal
master to curry favor with him. He
in turn wished to give it to his favor-
ite wife. But there are grave practi-
cal disadvantages about polygamy; he
dared not give her the watch without
remembering at least five other wives.
So the attache was bidden to g8 back
and get five more watches just like
that one. He went to the jeweller, and
the latter sent for the man who made
the watch.
"You made this watch fox me, mon-
sieur?"
"Yes. Does the purchaser say that
there is anything the matter with it?
If he does, he is crazy."
"Oh, no! On the contrary, he likes
the watch'so much chat he would like
five more just like it."
"I told you he was crazy. I never
duplicate my work. I am making an-
other watch now!"
And rather than lose the sale, the
jeweller, more clever than scrupulous,
had to send the watch to Switzerland,
t where the Swiss watchmakers made
e him the five reproductions for about
e the same price as he had originally
paid for the watch, and the Sultan
S never knew the difference. But the
old artist would have known!
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OLD CLOTHES DYED
MAKE NEW GARMENTS
At the mostly of the Buffalo River
and Johnz:on triel to induce the
?ndit ra to ac. onipeny them, but the
most intrepid of their hunters refused
to go. They painted the dangers and
hardships of this unknown country
in the mot appalling terms, saying
chat nothing lived in it hut strange
<e nd powerful spirte. that it was a
country' "burning up" and filled with
deadly poisons.
On the eighth �.Z August the two
explorers set out up the river alone,
and from that moment were regarded
=s lost by the natives, When they
camped at the end of the first day's
eio'ar•ney strange and sickening odours
fame to them on the winds. The
eiext day the odours became almost
unbearable, and by noon their canoe
mitered the edge of what is probably
one of the most remarkable regions
em the North American continent,
It was literally a world of sulphur.
The swamps, the streams, and the
.endiees ".muskegs" reeked with it, and
though the country was well timbered
rand bore berries in profusion, not a
sign of wild life could be seen.
Undaunted by their personal dis-
comfort, Mellor and Ins companion
}pushed on, and forty-five miles from
the mouth of the Buffalo came upon a
very large tributary flowing into the
Maier stream from the south. In
places this stream was a mile in
?width, and it ended in a lake which
:opened up like a great sea across
ilvhirh they could not see. After days 1
of exploration the two men judged the
lake to be ,from thirty to forty miles
In width and from eighty to a hund- t
red ,in length. On a particularly clear
y Mellor and. Johnson were looking
the south and west from a height
}of land when they very distinctly t
made out a ran Ara of mountains run -
wing almost to the southermost shore
f the lake. Penetrating towards
hese mountains they .came upon a 1
i'hlnber of natives who lived far to
he eolith, and who were prospeetiltg
or erne C 1
"Burning
laso t a
C the
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A New Range of Mountains
The Indians stated; that the monitt-
lins ran "I:nany day's journey" to the
lout'ii, and that the river whieh they f
lad found wee hxonn as "the river.
a'hct :, a ee I t ori , r „r..1I4^ men wile
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So the busy tongues rolled it
Till it got outside;
When the crowd came across it,
And it grew 'long and wide,
From a very small lie, sir,
It grew deep and high, sir,
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And it frightened the moon;
For she hici, her face, sir,
At the dreadful disgrace, sir,
That happened at noon.
This lie brought forth others,
Dark sisters and brothers,
And fathers and mothers,
A terrible crew;
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The people they flurried,
As lies always do.
And so evil -bodied
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In smoke and in shame;
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And hit the sad liar
And killed his good name.
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of America for a go -as -you please flight
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by enterprising aviators.
Four hundred thousand dollars has
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•Prance for the organization of air
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Twenty thousand dollars is offered
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Perhaps .the prize scheme that is
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the first Australian airman to fly from
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has been perfected in England has a
wing spread of but 15 feet and weighs
only 200 pounds, yet has a speed of 35
miles an hour.
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WHY SAME PEOPLE
LACK GOOD LOOKS
REAL CAUSE OF FACIAL
UGLINESS.
Scientist Explains Part Played
by Certain Wonder -Work-
ing Glandis.
Ugly folk are guilty -of an injustice
when. they blame their parents for
their lack of good looks, "
It is their •pituitaries` that are the
real cause of their want of facial
charm.
Plain Janes and homeI'y-looking
Jams owe their joint unattractivenesbl
to the special pituitary gland wits'
which they were provided at birth.
This quite small but very potent or•
gan is situated on the under surface
of the brain, reposing snugly on the
bony floor of the skull, well out of
harm's way. From this point of vairt.
age it directs those operations, using,
such plastic materials as skin, young
and green bone, muscle, or flesh anti
blood, which result in the making or .
marring of your face.
Sometimes the pituitary gland has
an inspiration, and the result is a'
Venus or an Adonis. It is difficult to
explain why in one individual the
pituitary should have obviously done"
its best and in another its worst,
0f course it is not always the pitul- -
tary gland that makes a sad mess of
the human face. The thyroid gland, O.
modest, unassuming structure that
hides in the region between your col
lar -stud and your Adam's apple, often
lends a hand in the making or mar-
ring of your visage. And considering,
the difficulty of ringing the changes
without end oa a couple of eyes, a
nose, a mouth, and a pair of ears, the.:
combined efforts of the pituitary and,
thyroid glands to turn out really pre-
sentable faces, each of which, though
resembling the other, has an individu-
ality all its own, are to be highly corp
mended on the results obtained.
Judging by Appearance.
ITow is it done? All that can be
said in reply is that these glands dis-
til from their substance into the blood;
and lymph some very mysterious es-
sences which materially affect the,
building up and moulding of the tis
sues ,which go to the making of our
faces
It must be remembered that were it
not for the beneficent activities of
these and other glands every human.
being would be simply a replica of all
the others. We should not be able to
tell one pan or woman from another.
Fortunately the reverse is the case,
and these wonder-working.. -glands
which seem to pull the strings of life
and growth of the human marionette,
are responsible also for our figurssi
and even our characters. So it is that'
most of us can easily bo judged more'
or less accurately by our appearance,
Tho disposition, temperament, nature,'
and tone of the individual depend up-;
on the precise proportion in which the,
magic essence distilled from these
ductless glands is blended.
The idiot is mentally and physically
the product of his ductless glands.;
The genius is in like case, though so
far it is impossible to identify which'
particular essence or what special
gland plays the greatest part in hie
production. When science has finally ;
got at all the facts, idiots should ba'
as rare as precious stones, and Shake•
apeares as plentiful as blackberries,
Degrading and brutal forms of era-•
ployment are not without their in-'
finance in the production of the pock
tivety repulsive face, On the others v
hand, elevating, altruistic, and idealist'.
tie, activities have an obviously reflu.
ing effect on the contours and express
sion of the btiznan face, ;
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Beauty and ugliness, therefore, are
the result of internal glandular actif1
ty and of environment and habit of
life, A word to the wise is enough, •
The Cosnrnanclmen.ts in
Verde
Here are the com.nra.ndments
rhyme. This should help you tg •
memorize them;
Thou iso God shalt have but me;
Before no idol bow the knee;
Take not the name of God in vain;
Nor dare the Sabbath clay profane;
Give both thy parents honor due;
Take heed that thou no murder do;
Abstain from words and deeds u
cicely `
Nor steal, though thou art poor an{
mn
Nor make
eaai; wilful lie, nor love it;
What is thy neighbor's do not covet,
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Every piece of timber in it, except the
floor, was cut from one tree—a giant'
redwood, 18 feet in diameter. The
tree, which produced 78,000 feet of
timber, grew on a high monotony.
range near Greenville, fifteen milers
from the Paeific Ocean, end ashen out
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