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LC Pioneer.
By, 1KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD
Copyriget by Hod der and Stoughton
house, crops of wheat, barley and rye
hacl been sown. An orchard climbed
(be slope on the left Behind; the old
barn end the stables were a roar of
haystack.s. The cowsheds and milking
yards were a little further away.
Round the liaystacks and about the
barn a score of the buff and butter-
milk -colored progeny of IVIother
J3tmeh, a few speckled' chicaens, black
and white pullets, and miseellaneous
breeds Gf red -feathered, and long -
Synopsis of rreceding Chapters.
Donald and Mary Carnexon are carv-
ing home gut of the Australian wilds,
When little David was four months old
his father set off to Port Southern for
fresh supplies. On the fourth day
two gaunt and ragged men, one of
them wounded, entered the hut, Mary
offered them unstinted hospitality
and heard the story of their escape
from the Island prison and the
treachery of McloTab -who had promised
to befriend.: them—at a price. Clothed legged', Yell"' f°w1s, Kra c 'a
and provided with food, they departed, I pecked industriously. '
the tall one hoping to repay the debt. Donald Cameron farmed. hie lend in
IVIary refused to aid her husband in the careful fashion of the Lowland
Scots. There was perhaps here and
there a crooked line in his e s an
a rick awry behind the barns. But
all was neatness and order, from the
bee -hives which stood with their point -
-2)
. _
rope, ering birds frani the plowatl
laud whenseed wa ip, ana cutting
ferns fer the cawasheds end sieaules.
Hie fathee was little more than a dour
taskmeater to the bey, Davey had les
memory of bearing him sing the gath-,
ering song of the Clan at Dermal .tho
Black,
His mother had taught hini to Fee&
and count ao she sat with her seineing
wheel in the little garden in front ()-C
the house, or stitching by the fireein-
doers on winter evenings. Deeee had
to sit near her and spell out the woad
slowly from the Bible or t4: only
other book she had, a shabby 14tle
red history. Sometimes when he was
tired of reading, or the dick andeejiar
of her wheel vet her mind wandeeing,
she told him storiee of the eeinitey
over the see where she was - bore.
Davey knew that the song she sang
sometimes when she was spirmingWas
a song a fairy had tateght a Welsh-
WOMan long ago se that her 'spinning
would go well arid: quickly. She•told.
him stories of the tylwyth .tegiOthe
little brown Welsh fairies. There was
one he was never tired of hearing.
"Tell me about the farmer's.,;boy
who married the fairy, mother,"- he
would say eagerly. .
And she would tell him the story she
had. heard, when she was a child.
"Once upon a time," she wouldeiaY,
"ever so long ago, there was a farm-
er's boy who minded' his fathers iheep
on a wild, lonely mountain side.' Not
a mountain sidle like any we see in
this country, Davey clear, but bare and
dark, with great rocks on it. And ono
day, when he was all alone up there,
he saw a girl looking at him #0111
round a rock. Her hair was eo, dark
that it seemed part of the rock, and
her face was like one of the little
flowers that grow on the nenintaan
side. But he knew that it was not a
flower's face, because there we 'eees
in it, bright, dark eyes—and a mouth
on it . . . a little, red month, with
tiny, white teeth behind it. They
played on the mountain to:get f r
a long time and sometimelaSI
him to drive bis sheele Afiber
they ,got so fondof eecaaoaaer
boy asked her to goOlioiale w
to his father's house, and he
father that he'wanted • mar
"That night a lot el litt
riding on grey horses, ea
from the mountein on a path o
light and clattered into the fai
of the farmer of Yetrad. The
and fattest of the then, in
. . . they all wore red c
rode grey horses. Did I say
all rode grey horses', Dewar'
"Yes-, mother," Davey bleat
She had this irritating 11
of going back a word or two
story if a thread eaught on he
"Well—" she began again
as, likely as not, her mind ta,
putting the police on their track.
CHAPTER VII.
In ten years, Cameron's had become
the biggest clearing in the hills, as it ed straw bonnets beneath the apple
was the oldest. Many others had been itrees, to the cowshede, where newly -
made and were Ka -tiered theoughout
the lower ranges overlooking the Wile
ree plains, though at great dietances
cut bracken was laid every day or
two for the cows to stand-in when they
were milked. There was no filth or
,
apart; ten, twelve and vometimes squelching morass iri his oow-yar s.
ing homesteads. # leg under the tender grass. Scarcely
twenty miles lying between neighbor- The pigs wandered! over the hills ro,ot-
The hut that had been Donald and a straw was allowed to stray between
Maury Oatnreon'e first home had been! the beck of the house and barns. In
i -
broadened by the addition of several 1 the feed -room the harness-roem, in
extra. rooms. Floors had been put' every shed arid yard, the meticulous
clown and a wide verandah spread out precisaon and, passion for order which
1
from them. Every room had a win- characterized all that Donald Cameron
dow with four small ghee panes. The did, was maintained.
window -sills, verandah posts and I There were changes indoors as well
doors had been painted green, and the as Gut. A long straight kitchen, with
whole of the house whiteweshed. Its ' a bricked floor and small -window look -
bark -roof had given place to a cover -ling out on to the yard, had been added
ing of plum -colored slates; there was; to the original horae._ On the east
' even a coin or two of grey and golden; side, two rooms had been built, and a
lichen on them, and the autumn and small limewgshed shed behind the kit-
spring- rains drummed. merrily on the; cher). served for a dairy. In it, on
iron roof of the verandah. Creepers I broad, low shelves against the wall,
climbed around the stone chimney and the row's of milk pans, with milk set -
the verandah; clematis showered; thug in them, were ranged.; a small
starry white blossom ever the roof windew in the back wall framed a
and about the verandah pests. square of blue sky. When Mrs. Cam -
A little garden, marked -off from eron was making butter, the sound of
the long green fields of spring wheat the milk in the churn, the rumble and
by a fence of sharp -toothed palings, leplash of the carded erearn, could be
was filled with bright flowers—Eng- , heard in the yard. The sweet smell
lish marigolds, scarlet geraniums,' of the new butter and buttermilk
pink, yellow and blue larkspurs—anal hung about the kitchen door.
all manner of sweet-smelling herbs -1 Ten years of indefatigable energy,
sage, mint, marjoram and lemon! of clearing land, breaking earl, rais-
thyme. The narrow, beaten paths that .ing crops and rearing cattle, doing
ran from the verandah in the gate!battle with the wilderness, overcorre
dd that a
WHERE YOU FIND ONE, YOU ALWAYS FIND THE OTHER
—Johnson, British and Colonial Prese
About
the House
1
Keeping the Weeds Down.
It seemed as if the parting of the
ways had come—the ways of mother
and daughter.
Molly was fifteen. Ifio to this sum-
mer, she had never wanted to go any-
where or do anything without mother.
.aew, she had fled to her -room,--- after
a cold, perfatictory kiss in place of
the hug that was her usual good night,
—fled in angry tears, because her
mother had refused to allow her to
spend the night with her chum.
The mother, alone downstairs, was
moat unhappy. She realized that her
ehild must have girl friends, but
Molly's choice of a Particular friend
distressed her. She knew little of the
girl, or of her relatives, but from her
fsee-and-easy deportment, her use of
slang and her general conversation.
the mother argued that the intimacy
co-uld not be beneficial,.
So, long into the night, she sat
elownstaars, alone, thinking, hoping,
plarming.
The next day was Saturday. Molly
belon.ged to a tennis elub that met
very Saturday afternoon.
"Bring the girls home to tea, dear,"
and round the house were bordered mg all the hardshipswith the tangled thread, w
'with rosemary. And in the summer , pioneer has to stre le a ainst had
gg g 'Where was I, Davey?"
And Davey, all impatie
to go on with the star
wield have almoit bol
would say: "And tis
test of the men, in
‘,`Oh, yes!" Mar
'I'maarede "
the, fartlierr$, ear, an
Peneloli's father . „
was genelop . . . aun
let her marry the fat
give her a dowry of
and happiness, on condatio
body ever touched her with
iron. If anybody put a pieo
on her, Penelop's father "'sal
would fly back to thearnountain and
her own people, and never More sit
by her husband's hearth and chi, or
a long line .of hollyhocks, pink, white left their mark on Donald.
and red, and red anawhite, waved, tall Every line in his face was plowed
and straight, at one side of the house. deep.
The edge of the forest had been dis-1 His expression, gloomy and taciturn
fenced so far on every side of the as of old, maelted an internal coticen-
clearing, except one, that the trunks' trailer -I, the bending of all faculties to
of the trees showed. in ,dim outlines;the .o.ne_erid that ctociimleA,,bi.ix,,,,
Al -
against • 1;forclai Its the farm
^ tWaying over and across them. Only grew and its operations increased, he
on the side on whieh the track climbed became more and more silent, talking
uphill from the road, the trees, still only when it was necessary and sel-
pressed a,gain,st the paddock railines.I dom for the sake of companionship
A long white gate in the fence where Or mere social intercourse. His mind
the road stopped bore the name Don•-! was always busy with the movements
ald Cameron had given his place— of cattle, branding, mustering, breed-
"Ayrmuir." It was the name of the' ing, buying and selling prizes, possi-
estate he had workea on ha Scotland, bilities of the market. He worked
when he was a la& It gave -a -him no , insatiably.
end of satisfaction to realizeethat he: He was reminded of the flight of
was the master of "Ayrrnuir," and , time only by the growth of his son --
that his acres were broader than those a gawky, long -limbed bay.
of the "Ayrmuir" In the old country; I As soon as he could walk Davey
not oily broader, but his to do what had taken his share in the work of
he liked with—his property, unencum-Ithe homestead, rounding ep cows in
bered by mortgage or entail. 1 the early morning, feeding fowls,,
On the Cleared hillsides abeut the hunting for eggs in the ripening
Let the Sun's Rays Do Your Cooking
•
The tim,e may yet arrive when on boiling. You can cook eggs or meat
dear days, even in winter, the house-
wife win 'forsake her range and, step-
ping out into an attached "sunshine
kitchen," roofed with glass, do her
cooking by the heat of the sun. It is
no mere dream. Indeed, the idea pro-
mises literal fulfillment in the near
future, a number of inventions having
already gone far toward proving it
practicable.
Cooking by sun's rays bas several
obvious advantages. It means no dirt,
no ashes and no cost for fuel. Thus
1st Egypt and the African Karroo solar
cookers of a simple pattern are even,
now in comma use, the device employ-
ed. for the purpose being an insulated
box of teakwood blackened inside and
fitted -t,vith a glass top. It makes tt
eilleient oven for baking, and
may be utilized in the preparation of
soups and stews, the temperature M-
elee the box rumning up to 215 degrees
Fahrenheit in the middle of the day.
With the help of a mirror it can be
raised much higher bban that,
We all know what egkies cover will
de to hold the eun'e heat—as illus-
trated by so familiar a thing as the
"cold frattie" wad for raising early
in it. If you will make the box double
—putting one box, that is to say, in-
side of a box slightly larger—and iill
the space between with sawdust or
other insulating material, you can get
a tremendous heat.
How,„it may be a.sked, shall you
place in your sun oven the things you
want to cook? That can be managed
in various ways; but a very, practical
suggestion on this point is offered by
another inventor, who proposes to rest
the box on one of its edges—the upper
two of its four sides covered with
double glass,. and the lower two sides
lined with black felt for insulation.
Shelves inside ate arranged so as al-
ways to adjust themselves horizontal.
ly, no matter bow the box is tilted, to
receive the solar rays', and upon them
pans of bread or other food recep-
tacles, are put,
A British army officer 11111161a some
years age devised what he called a
"cooking box," a most ingenious affair,
of 'wood lined with mirror glass!, coul-
ee.' in shape end eighasided. At the
bottom was a small copper boiler, with
a eover of plain glass to retain the
heat concentrated. by the mirrons upon
the boiler. By this means steam was
vegetablee, The solar rays pass generated when the boe was expoeed
pressing them into place. Three-
fourths a a pound, or three-fourths of
a quart of most berries measured as
purchased, will pack into one No. 2
can or pint jar. Fill can with hot
medium syrup, seal and process in
steam cooker. No. 2 cans or pint jars,
ten to fifteen minutes; No. 3 cans or
quart jars, fifteen to twenty minutes.
Remove cans, cool quickly in cold
water, wipe, dry, label and store away.
Glass jars are removed and sealed at
once.
If, in making the syrup for berries,
the berry juice is used instead of
water, the resulting product will be
much better, both in color and in
flavor.
It is Not Easy, But It
Pays ---
To acknowledge it when you
areTowerQcinmgit that' you have made
quttsttaatee. your me,dicine; to
stand up under rebuffs, or un-
just criticism, This, is the kind
' of stuff that beetle big men, big
wit).TrgoeIki.eeli your temper when.
others all about you lose theirs
itnrdogkoeteoppyieoleterep. 65
5
e, your
men
tai balance under trying condi-
dons.. Others will respect you
morre; you will respect yourself
MOre, and. you will have infinite-
ly. more 'influence. Nothing else
quite takes the plaee of a superb
poise In tti.a situations In life. --
Success.
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ao
and the mixture will be gritty. If you
use too little, the fudge will set to a
dry hard mass in the pan before you
can scoop It out. Most fudge makers
put in too 'much liquid at the start
and have to boil it out—and unscien-
tific procedure that wastes tine. It ie'
posaible to measure the ingredients
so exactly that the fudge is ready to
cool and stir by the time they have,
been melted by heat and before they,
have been boiled at all.
When that is done there are usually
a few crystals let undissolved. They,
will not seriously affect the fudge,'
but it is better to add at the start
about half an ounce more of liquid'
than the exact amount required, and;
to boil that off in about thirty seconded
One pound of sugar, three fluid. ,
ounces of -milk, three ounces of fine-'
grated cooking chocolate and one
ounce of butter are the right propor-
tions for a standard fudge mixture.
A few grains of salt will improve -the
flavor. When you have cooked the
mixture add a teaspoonful of vanilla!
extract.
Do not poursthe fudge out without
first stirring it, and do not stir it. sa
long that it sets solid ire the sauceparai
Place the saucepan in cool water and,
stir the mixture. At the filet sign of,
stiffening, scoop it quielcly into a but_
terWedhetnin'a sample of the fudge drop-)
ped into eeld water is just too soft
be rolled between the fingers to a soft'
ball the fudge is cooked long enough.
It should. not taste gritty; if it does,'
add an ounce of water and boil the\
paprika. mass until it is of the right consist-
ency. IT it is too hard, but is smooth'
.ested the mother, as Molly, very and free from grit, add one table-
d pretty in white duck skirt Mix dry ingredients and add egg spoonful of water and stir and test
i'clY blouse, tennis " mast and yolks. The dry ingredients are mixed the mass again, but do not cook it
na easeeer 93.11.4F, uSul 3 3 - e' again. •
0 start, . • Then beat unth the- egg Yolks 'thieheao - 8ave,g +.,1,•&iy0k4t -
arik you, mother," said. MollY, slightly. Add olive oil drop lby drop in a glass graduated marked in ouiieee,
er coldly. She was still on her and beat until thick. When four table- and to measure the sugar in the same
ity. Other girls, slept about veal-. *spoons of olive oil have been added, cup- every time. -
•usly with their friends. Why couldn't it may be added faster. W:hen the Few of the substances used. to flavor
she? ' mixture gets too thick thin with the fudge will affect seriously the erystal-`
llowey,er, the temptation to extend lemon juiee and vinegar.
hospitality was not to be resisted. To make Thousand Island! dressieg,
Therefore, the mother, watching the add one cup of nchili sauce to half the
garden gate late that afternoon, saw quantity of dressing you have made.
with pleasure a group of girls, verY Boiled Salad Dressing.--Ond table
-
Salad Dressing.
Any mayonnaise dressing is as good
as you buy in betties, if it is made
with the best of materials, pure olive
oil, a good grade vinegar, and- fresh
eggs. Here is a recipe for mayonnaise.
Two egg yolks, one teaspoon salt,
one-fourth teaspoon eayenne, one
teaspoon • mustard, one tablespoon
vinegar, one tablespoon lemon juice,
one cup olive oil, one-fourth teaspoon
spin for him. So the faeme
married, Penelop and very happ',
lived together. Everything
farm ,prospered because Of
wife, though she wore a red.
and was like any other womah
boy
hey
at
ok
at, only more beautiful, and a Ways
busy and merry. She made fine soup
ancreheese, and her spinning w s al -
4
vvays good, lead everybody wa very
fond of her. Then one day wile her
husband wanted to go to a fair, she
ran into the fields to help him to Catch
his pony. And while he was throwing
the bridle, the iron struck her arm—
and that minute she vanished inionthe
air before his eyes." ell
She paused for Da_vey'e exclamation
of wondeement and then continued:
"Though he wandered all over the
mountain calling her, Penel,op never
eame back to her leasband or the two
little ehildren she had left with him.
But one veey bold night in the winter,
he wakened out of his sleep to hear
her saying outside in the wind arid
rain:
through the glees, eontributing te the to the sate If the steam was retained
air beneath a warmth which does not tb.e result was s stew or boil; if
ease:a .eseane, .evertin the winter time. lowed to escape, the food Placed -ba the
tpon. Vigo principle roost4f 'Nan
civets" are based. One af them is the
inveattiou <of a Obicago man, Ribetezer
Sperry, and may be deseribed as a
large box ooverod vit1114 glaSoS, ing the diameter of,the box the heat
lined with metal painted black to ab. could be augmetted
sorb beat, When it, is exposed to the In. lilgypt the Sudan and Algeria,
son enough heat is generated to boil
water and mele eteata, the latter.pass-
ing into a cooking chember aloe°.
An apparatus of this kind is, a real
flrelees cooker, requiring no fuel to
ftitnish beat to start 'with, You can.
make one, for yourself, of more simple
pattern, very easily. Take a wood:en
box, paint 'it bleek Inside, and cover it
with two sheets of glass separated by
an itch of air spa,ce, The ilieh of
(1.(Ad napital insulator, Put
th ly.x in the sun and scan the term'.
1,.....Lture of 115 illteriOr Will rise above
lization, and if either is added in suf-
ficient quantity it will form -the whole
mass into a caramel mixture.
For a fair subetitute for maple
sugar omit the chocolate and the but -
pretty in their gay colored sweaters, spoon sugar, one teaspoon eaeh of ter in the recipe given Above, flavor.
preceding her daughter along the salt, mustard' and flour one egg, one- the niass with 'half a teaspoonful a
garden path.
Molly, on her part, was frankly de-
lighted and proud when she saw her
mother prettily and effectively dress' -
ed,
ed, and the _drawingeroom at its best,
gay with flowers, shining with care.
The tea table, set near the open win-
dow by the verandah, was a picture.
It held not merely delicate sand-
wiches and tempting cookies, iced tea
and lemonade but the very best china
and the embroidered tablecloth—
everything that was used for the most Maldng Fudge.
Fudge is really nothing bat flavored
imeortant company. And a friend of
her mother's, also dressed as for an fondant. That is, it is flavored sugar
important occasion, was pouring tea. —melted by adding liquid and heating
The little festival was a greet sue_ it ---that crystallizes when it becomes
"Lest my son should find it cold, -
Place on him his father's coat.
Lest the fair one find it cold,
Plate on her my petticoat" '
Mary sang the words to a quaint
little air of her own rnaking,, while
Davey listened, big -eyed and avve-
stricloen.
"When the children grew up they
had dark hair and bright, sparkling
eyes like their mother," ahe would con -
half cup milk, one-fourth cup vinegar, maple extract and 'a teaspoonful of;
t
'Vanilla and add a pinch of salt. The
recipe is economioal, and it is easYlo,
double the quantities if you wish.
0
The Young Christ. -
By Nicodemue side in days of old,
'Mid a strange company there sat a,
Child;
A robe of light enveloped Him; He
smiled,
And Mary, pausin,g on the low thresh -11
old
Of that strange room, was euddenlY,
consoled;
"Where hast tbou been?" she asked
In accents mild;
In truth she could not see what had
beguiled
This lad -of scarce twelve summers; 1
the guests departed. "We , shall at it occurs slowly the crystals have time then He told.
ways be glad to see you." • to grow large, and that makes the
When they were alone, Molly rushed fudge Hers not the und,erstanding -when He,
gritty. In making pure fondant
from unflavored sugar—such as is
to her mother and hugged her, to the cried;
detriment of her gewn. i used for filling chocolate creams—no eme
y Father's voice has called; His\
elle' undissolved crystals should be left in
"You're an angel, mother," work I do!"
cried. "Giving my friends the best, To -day the world, eerburdened with
the hot fondant, for if there were any
of everything!"
tablespoon butter. Thoronghly mix
dry ingredients, beat in -the egg, add
milk, stir well, and put in double boil-
er. Add the vinegar slowly as the
mixture cooks, stirring con.stantly.
When thickened, remove from fire and -
add butter. A• second egg yolk may
be substituted for the flour. The recipe
may be doubled Or trebled.
eess.
"Molly will have tea every Satur-
day " announced Molly's mother, as
cold. For good fudge the erestalhza-
ton should take Place rapidly, so that
the crystals will be very ,small. If
1 they would start a growth of coarse distre•se ' 1
crystals while the mass was cooling. '
So' their ways were one again. The Has overlooked the lesson Christ sup-,
Stirring the fondant vigorously when peed ‘
danger was over; for the "chum" did
it is tool forms the crystals all at once
not come back on any subsequent'
in the desired degree of fineness; but And taught mankind, le shnple,
weeds, and true . , 1
'Saturday. The slight effort required
d et it is possible to make delicious fudge "Be thou about thy Father's( bustle
nese!"
—Elizabeth Scollard.1
4,
A shark can keep up a speed
from seventeen to twenty miles
hour. •
elude, .amiling at hen. And when they ment -up to the standardofee melees' without being so careful about the un-
to keep ei own
had children they were like them I dissolved crystals, because if you im-
to,o, ad" that people who came fron home was a little too much,
mediately cool arid stir the mixture in
the valley where the farmet's boy had Thus Molly's friendships were feria -
panful of water the crystals will
niarried the fairy were always known ed, little' as she knew it, by the prin.! a
not have time to form.
by their looks, and they were called ciple of the survival of the fittest. She
Have the proportions of liquid and
Pellings, or the children of PeneleP, I found those girls most congenial who 1
-1" eaiTY seemed to fit, into her home. Yeare sugar just right. If You use too much
because it was vaid they a A 't
liquid the crysta orm s ow y 141tiard,o LInIment for eurns. eta.
'Wood in their Veina."
I later sh b d
thins to ask. Ile liked to broo 1
c over I mother s wisedeensers
the story; but he leatnt more than
feiry tales from his mother's inemor-
e understood and lesse her
Dewey had always a thousand ques- b -
iedeptacle wee baked. In azi apperat- les of the old land. Her mmd waS be -
Canning Huckleberries.
us, of this kind rations for seven men, ginning to be occupied with thoug•hts I
including meats, were prepared in two of his future. She and her Imebana, ly the same methods of canning may
hours, It wag obvious that by increas. were simple folk. Cameron mild, be Used as with other bearies.
barely read and write, and what little; Giese jars or enamel -lined cans are
knowledge Mary poaseesed she had neaded, The condition of the fruit
kneav what Donald Cameron's
already passed on to arnbi-
DaveY, Sbe will heve much to do with the quality, ,
of the product. Berries should be
For canning huckleberries prattical-
where water lit for drinking 15 apt to tions were, and after ten -ca:
ears of life
be scarce, there is ,to -day in commori With hint hod little doubt as to their' g'atile'rec
l in shalleov teaye or baskets,i
use a portable solar distilling outfit achievenumt. The position that le and not in deep vessels which allow,
which is the inventiOn of a Frenchman would put Davey in had begun to be them to be bruised or crushed,. They
named Mouchon, it is a simple an a matter (drfacobneeecronnttinottehz. shOuld be ireifOrnilY ripe and sound,1
lol Cl the
ant
rgement of boiler and tr,
coneave in.
ror. the latter serving to focus the.
earl's rays upon the former, while e
coil of tubing in a water-jaeket does
duty as n. condenser, Thm
e achine,
which 6 man can carry On bis baoh,
will boil a quart. O. water and keep It
bcning, U' ordinary output being two
gallons of pure drink per day,
Hard times are good times towork'
hard. •
Mother loVe is very strongly de-
veloped ening apes,
(narth Lphrient, far tatneetta:
and as larg,e p
berriea tare fully, removing sterna •mid
leaves. Plata a hallow layet of ber-
fies in o, leage colander or el:miner
and wash catefully by pouring Water
017014 themPitk itt cano as dosely
is potaible without cruahing. Thie
may be done by putting a few berries
e time into the can and gently
Tropical Valley in the North
Discovery of an almost tropical val-
ley with rivers of .boiling W.ater, many
initeral springs, abnormal plant
growth, and abounding with game it
far northern British Columbia, is re-
ported P
eer. of Vancouver, back after seven-
teen years' spent prospecting the Weird
valley close to the 'Yukon border.
'For mineral reasons, afir. Perry, at
the preemit time, Is not divulgleg the
exact location of the "hot water" val-
ley, whieh be came upon in the depth
Of winter, The, unlisted sight of, a
, hooey fag in e winter attracted him to
the valley, end later exploration ehow.
' ed it be be approximately 200 inne_s
tong awl about 40 miles wide, Itiveie
of hot water elan through it fed. y
drecle of het springs., which babbled.
out of the ground in all darectioue
Mr, Perry reported he saw nianai.
wlid animalso 'These 'congregated drao
to the, luxurientovegetation made p
sible by the heat generated by
springs, and inthe valley were huna
dred•s .of mountain al:lee"), erel g.oate,
Caribou and inbost, .alsa witebettes aud‘
othc fur -bearing animals: The ritoosee
almost square from tat, woreio
that he has been able to walk a,inOngst‘
them .antl could almol.t touch theni.
The Indians, although knowing the vat;
ley to be a Minter's pond:lee, itevet
visit it through the eiteetstitiee tha
prehistori animals f3t1I1 reale the die,