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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1939-07-14, Page 7ff. 50 06 17 2i QS $$ ,39 ,46 ,aa ,513 :09 .1.6 .29 .411 .20 .36 .47 Loa .29 ti LECAL EIMER D. BELL, B.A. elleeesser to Jelin 8 Belt . istrera Sollcitar, Notary Publao BOWING Ontaski 11-110 MeCONNELL & HAYS Beankftere. Bolted:km NW eek D. McConnell nell - H. Mena Hare SEAFORTH, ONTT, Telephone 3.74 2693 - VETERINARY, A. R. CAMPBELL, V.B. graduate of Ontario Veterinary Col- lege, Vnivemity of Toronto. All dis- bar of domestic sal le treated by Wee most piinetples. torso seasonable. Day or night calla promptly attended to. Office oxo Main Street, Eennsall, opposite Town Hall. bone 1361, Breeder et Scottish Ter - ;dere, Inverness Kennels, Henault. 21-21 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. 'Graduate of University of Toronto J. D. COLQUHOUN, M.D., C.M. Graduate of Dalhousie University,- Halifax The Clink is Tully equipped with xaruaplete and modern ray and other pp-ton/ate diagnostic and . ereuptie egulament, Dr. Margaret X. Campbell, M.D., 14� P Specialist 2u diseases in in- fants and ehilelren, will be at the Clinic last Thursday in every month from 3 to 6 pan. Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist In diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, will be at the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5 Free Weld -Baby Miele will be held am the second and last Thursday in every month from 1 to 2 p.m. 36s7 - JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS° OFFICE Phone 5-W Seaforth W. C. SPROAT, M.D., F.A.C.S. Physician and Surgeon Phone 00. Office John St., Seafortb. 12-18 DR. HUGH H. ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate course in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; Bloyai Opthalmie Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office -Back of Do- 9nlnion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night ealls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforiaa IS -16 DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of �, Late assistanet New York Opthal- mel and Aural Institute, Moorefleid's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pital, London., Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, tram 1.30 tlu a. to 4.30 p.m. 53 Waterloo Street Souttla, Stratford. 1.x+37 AUCTIONEERS HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer' Speeialist in farm and irous'ehold sales. Price reasonable. For dates and infonrnation, write Harold Dale, Seeatortth, or apply at The Expositor Office. 11-11 An old Barky, approached the rain - later cautiously and very lightly tap- ped his sltamider. "Parson, sub," he said, "Ah done wants yon all to pray for me. Ah's hi a bad way, suih." 'Well, Pasture what's wrong with you?" "Stth, Mae got a floating kidney, Ah has, sash." "But, Rastus," replied the minister, "I can't pray for physical things like tbat; I only pray for siprit}'al things." "You all can't pray for a floating kidney? Then chow come you all arrayed last Sunday for the loose Ev- ora?" "So that cornet you bought provides you now with a weekly income?- Do you play in a band?" "Oh, no! Dad gives me 50 cents a -'week not to ploy it." • Me: "Why did you Send that poor fellow back row your cold cream? He will never find it." She: "I only wanted to get the ikon) afif nye handset!" • • "I bear Robinson bad hla that game est billiards with you )nest night," said Gugiey. "Bit of a joke, I'll bet!" "It was beyond a joke, believe me!" replied Mugley. "Every time it was hie knock we laud to 'hav'e two In the ,slips and one on the boutndary." "The telloav who disposed of -" the goose that laid the golden egg was ••Qit, .I e'apPoae a goose egg int liaothing to bind" BY JACKSON GREGORY 'SECOND INSTALMENT sYNOPSis Barry Haveril /eaves his Texas home to see the country, meets a; mann wtho has just been shot who turns out to be a cousin of his, Jesse Coneoy. Barry helps take care of his wounds and Jesse gives Barry Els gun, a very un- nsual One. When they past Bar- ry leaves for home but finds the family is no longer there. When he is leaving he suddenly comes across a dead man Who, turns out to be his brother Robert. He knew i)t was Robert the instant. he glimpsed` the sprawling form, ev- en before he looked for •any face, and he knew too that he was dead. `So it was a burning -eyed, blanched -face, tt atgic boy who ;burst. in upon the Humphreys, saying thickly as they stared at him: "He's dead. Robert, he's dead. Somebody killed 'him. Who? I want to know who? You tell me, Tex Fl umphreys!" Molly went back with him and Tex to where the body lay, a Moldy who was all melting black eyes from which. the tears sstrenmed unceasing - /Y. Tex' sat a long while one his, heels, then looked straight up ]auto Barry's hardened face. Hr rode off this way late yester- day," he said, speaking softly and drawlingly. "Somebody bush -whack- ed him. Stood right over, y'ander, by that Ibig tree. Shot : himi ;clean through the, haid." He got up and moved about, look- ing for sign,- "Here's where he stoodt, Barry. He was afoot; didn't have any lvoss. An' Robert d&1; he was ridin' my Coaly- My les' hosts, my Mex saddle an' bridlle—ail go, ! Someebody might mebbe tihoug ; e was wroth killlin' for 'that outfit; some- body afoot that wanted a hors real bad; . somebody mebbe the law was after." "We c'n follow the tracks," said Barry, "We en see which way he rode• off." Tex agreed in all heartiness. They Ihastented back to Humphreys' ranch for horses. They put in a dogged, determined day, and in the end turn ed back little wiser than when they started-. That night Barry shook his head at Tex Humphreys?' invitation to stay amid turned under the sitars toward hie own place. He walked half the night before he rolled exhausted into his blanket and sieept. When he awoke dime was so stiff and sore that. he could sicaresly `stand; ihte had less use for a horse than ever before, and vowed he would never fork another. In a pink dawn with a chill mountain wind blowing she breakfasted and rolled his pack and went on. It was almost a day's trip, north and west, bo the spot where he had watched the two border cross -breeds engaged in their primitive gold -glean- ing operations. Down in the ravine he sett his rifle aside, pulled off ehds• worn boobs, roll- ed up his overcalls, and went to work. He didn't have a pan as the others had, but he did have big strong cap- able hands. He found a sandy place between two big rocks, scooped up a lot of the wet sand and smeared it out thin and smooth on top of the ,flatter boulder. Thten he began pick- ing through it, disturbing particles with a horny fingernail, seeking the soft reddish Pellets - Next morning be tried higher up- Stream- Far hours he mounted, try- ing in all sorts of places. Before noon he found a polthtole under water artthe lower end of a pool. He spent Gout two hours at that hole, think- ing that he miigh.t as well clean it out While he wears at it; he could find another net time. Then figuring that he must have about all the gold he would need for the things he wanted in town, he started back cab- in -Ward Hardly started, he stopped and looked back, undecided. He'd i sleek, beautiful, tmatdf t d' bays with fleetingt slaver manes drew it; an im- Vosdng figure of a man drove it, a ihanxilsome big blonde man. At bids slide was a Little girl; she looked very little indeed beside the man's, dmrpiosling bulk, and about all that Barry could make of her as she went past was that she tore wore blue end that she had a big white hat from) whilehi blue ribbons streamed, and that she wtas laughing. Mow clumtped along the sidewalk, most of them dusty( and in high -heel- ed boots with dragging spurs, with beg bats, the brims pushed back, and with flapping, open vests. He 'htopPed fascinated. ,3efore a win- dow full of Mileage to make his miauth water; soma of them looked almost too pretty to eat. Banry went in. At one side was a counter, at the other a series of small tables with low partitions jut- ting out from the wall to separate them. He sat down and when a wait- er came said, after drawing a long breath: "I want a hunk of choc'late cake and a hunk of the white cake that's yellow inside and some sody water." He had dfispoeed of perhaps half of the chocolate cake and two-thirds of the white one, when he saw the big blonde man and the little girl 'come in; tlhley went to a table next to his bet were hidden, when they sat. drown, by the partition'. The wait,. en almost titan to serve) them. Barry wolfed down the rest of his cake rind caught the waiter's' eye. "I didn't bring any real money aIoartgl," he said; keeping his voice down: "You can take the price out of this." He heed, a little pile of dust and One grainer of gold in his palm. In- stinctively n- stinctively he refrainedd! from- show- ing alit he had. The washer booked startled. "Wait a sihalcet',' he said, and departed. Bar- ry, leaning oat from his cubby-hole saw him, go out on the sidewalk and disappear; he was seeking the pro- prietor. Presently a shocky, sandy haired man with stlnade-blue eyes and a con- stant blank, came and stood dver Bar- ry and peered at what was in his hand. "Two pieces o' Eancy cake an' sody?" he said. He scooped) the con- tents of Batrry''s hand into his own, "All right, buddy; well call it square this time," he said. And ellen Berry was conscious of the big blonde mpn, the Judge, stand- ing up, towering ever the partition. Barry looked straight ,into a pair of bold, very dark brown eyes. "What is it, AI?" the Judge asked the proprietor. "Doesn't happen to be gold now, does it?" Al wh)i,rlod about. "Hello, Judge," he said., "I didn't see you and Miss Lucy." I, reckon not." The Judge smiled after a fashion to warm a man. At leastt, so Barry thought. Al said Iw rrdedly : "I was jars' gain' to step out an' get it weighed era's I could give this young feller his change." Sure," smiled the Judge. "Sure." He extended his hand and Al said, "Shore, Judge," and gave him the gold. Scarcely glancing at it, the Judge returned sit to Barry. "Step night next dear into the Gen- eral Hardware Store," he said. "You can get it weighed there and you'll get homeeet weight. I'll pay for your lunch here." "I'm obliged, Judge," said Barry, "but I like to pay my own way." The Judge laughed; Barry saw Miss Lucy's bright eyes peeking out at him from behind the elrig man. "It won't amount to much, I reck- on," the Judge sand, , "and you can pay me back. Go ahead into the store; I'm dropping in there myself in a minute-" So Barry thanked .him again and book his hat and rifle and went out, oonscious ell the while of those live- ly bright eyes of Miss Lucy's. "She is real pretty," he thought. "Something like Sister Luce; too." It was but a few. steps to the store. As Barry stepped in he J..• • may—__"._x'12 •-••.T Jam' � He drew back as though afraid. want to gest a lest of shells for his new six -gum, a terrible lot of 'em; he wondered whether he had gold en- ough. The next morning he set out. It was a long walk to Tylensville; Jesse had told him it must be thirty-fbbrty ride. Tylersvillo, a ragged and crooked cow town, sprawled; in what had been once known. as 'Cottonwtood Flats. When a buckboard came dashing around a fax earner In an enormous cloud of dust, be drew back against a WW1 as though afraid of being ran down levee on a shkbewaelk. Then, seeding it close as; it shat on by, he was impressed by itta• elegance. Two et 'thought: , "Judge bulh? Why, he's judge flue! Sure to be. And he can tell me about Lucy and all me folks!" To the man behind ' the counter 'he said~ "I whist to buy jowe things. The Judge told me you could weigh my geoid for me." "I shore can if you ain't got so much as soli break my scales down," the stbrekeepetr addimitted. "What do You want to 'buy?" "Some shells) for my six-gun," said Barry. "This one." He unhole'tered it and put it on the counter. "Forty- fives.," he said. The storekeeper reached " for the gun; lie turned it over slowly in, hIS hand, seeming to studyLet. J6 tO,r., t%ttU "Where'd, you • get this gum?" he asked. "It's mine"! said Barry. "Gat any shells 'aloe it?" "Seems like I've heard of a gun Sipe this before," said the other, still turning it over. "Don't know what kind of wood tbdis is, maiaeanita may- be, but it's so bLoodyred a man sort of remembers it. Where'd you say you got et?" "Didn't say," 'answered Barry, "Got any '6helia for it?" "That gun belonged once to a killer, kide They call him the La- rede Kid." "What's he look like?" asked Bar- ry. "Never saw him, an! glad of it. You ain't him, ane you?" "No. And 1 guess there's other gune like this. ' Let's see your shells," He bolstered the six-gun; fie meant to bolster further discussion along with it. Just then the Judge came in. "Hello, Digby," he midi. "I told this young morn you could ' handle his gold for him. Fix him up all right?„ ' Evendn', Judge," said Digby. "Let the Judge see your gun, kid." "He says one like this belonged to the Laredo Kid," said Barry, and held it out for the Judge to look at. Tier Judge seemed interested; he handled the heavy weapon just as the storekeeper had done, then hand- ed :it back without saying any- thing. I. "I asked him where he got it at," said: Digby. The Judge's lips twitched into a smile. "What did he say?" he asked of Digby though he has looking straight at Barry. "He didn't say," snorted Digby, and the Juflge laughed softly. "All right, all right," muttered Dighy. "Pour out your dust, young feller, an' I'll tell you how much." This time Barry emptied his pouch on a piece of wrapping paper, mak- ing a small neat gold. hili. Digby jerked up his brows but said noth- ing; he did look sharply at the Judge. This time it was the Judge who spoke, briskly: "Look here, young fellow, I don't know • where you got that—" "It's mine, all right," said Barry. To Digby he said, "Are you goin' to weigh int?" "But I am going to tell you some- thing." The Judge's voice was com- pelling and Banry looked into that pair of bold, leaf -brown eyes, "You went the right place when you show- ed your gold in the restaurant if you want word of it all over town inside half an hour. Well, it's your busi- neses and you look dory- behind the eaens. He turned and went out, merely saying over his shoulder from the door: "If 3-ou get in trouble it's your doing, not mine.' But let me know. Just tell anybody you're a friend of mine. It might help." "Wino's he?" asked Barry of th,, storekeeper. The other stared. "Hell, don't you know him? He's Judge Parker Blue." "Thought so," nodded Baily. "How much in money does it weigh?" "Four hu.ned,red fifty- dollars," snort- ed the storekeeper. "Want to take it all out in ca'tri1eges, huh?" , "Give me the money," Barry told him. "Then I"11 do some buyin'." (Continued Next Wee't) " White Collar " Seamen When the new Mauretania steamed proudly into New York Harbor re- cently on her maiden voyage there were aboard her, busier bhan usual at this important time, a staff of men of ordtintarily numbered by the lands-' man among a great liner's crew. They are the seamen of the inkpots and forms and fiteue --whose daily preoccu- parti,ons, in nature if not in distance, may be as remote from the bridge and fo'c'sle as your own. Ln a modern passen'zeer liner there's a vast amount of "great water busi- ness," and the white collar seaman its a very real figure—however unjust- ly obscured by his more romantic col- leagues. A liner's captain. of course, is presi- dent, with final say on policies and important decisions, but there's little necessity for the captain to concern 'himself with office affairs, so smooth- ly are these attended to by the ex- ecutive ma.nagernent under him. Head offtice management is vested in the cabin class purser. Originally tee seasning office man- ager was custodian of a navel ves- sel's "purse," so to speak. He still is paymaster and banker, broker and ex- pert on foreign exchange, of course. But in the Mauretania lie and his of- fice staff also perform the funotions• of editor-in-chief of the daily news- paper .and all work printed on board. He's master of .the baggage masters as well, and supervisor bf the switch- board "bedeplreonists '—and his office de the place to go for inquiries on mails and parcels. While milady le having her break- fast in. the mahbegeany paneled dining room on B deck, a bundle of printed forms dreta4'l qg passenger competi- tions for the dirty is arrivingt the main office. "Thee solutions tiow in the purser's safe," the neat slips say, "are float" The slips are quickly checked—and dispatched to the so- cial rooms, A "writer" has just fin- ished- typing the cabin class passen- ger lieet for a prominent film actress who is giving a party; the "writer" will, if desired{ also serve as bier so- cial secretary extending invita- tions. "B`tttmfs," an office boy, will deliver Mein, An asstlareamt purser has the chief steward ooh, the phione ; the actress will require two dining room stewards as bedew and the bedl- }r VL • bate the qi e$IQW(t !t'liedt 'had bra, them koge631ie %;'tole, PrePesal tek its the lnaa',itiane pe'Oelleeea undue a governtm'ent .anal hie le1aaturre wik9 de'.olaired impxactdoable, but et '..tkte. public' 4azuner given to , the vieeltork John A. MacDonald made the. foil announcement that the de/legatee wenn unantlmous in t'"eh'king that of federal union of all the ..prov!ncee could •be effected, and that they would meet in Quebec city, further to consider the,. project of a general un- ion. The Ctlparlottetown Conference therefore was an essential part of the proceedings Which culminated in Quebec. The Quebec Conference beggan its sesseenes on the 10th of October, 1864. The Prince Edward Island delegates wean Homs. J. H. Gray, Edward Pal- mer, W. H. Pope, T. Hearth Ha rlIa ad; Georgie Codes; Edward Whelan atue A. A. MacDonald. The Conference sat in secret ses- sion for ,17. days, and after adopting the faunious 72 resolutions which be- came the basis of Confederation, it was resolved that the several gee - elements ,should, submit them to their neepective Legislatures' at the ensu- ing sessions, By a substantial major- ity, these F'eso!lutions were adopted by the Canadian Legislatures, but in Prince Edward Island hostility to the measure broke out at once. Public meetings were hold throughout the province and the terms of union were declared to be neither liberal nor just and that it would be highly &expedi- ent that they sleetlld be adopted. In the Assembly the terms, were reject= ed by a vote of 23" to 5. In the fol- lowing • year;' a resolution moped by the Hon. J. C. Pope, was passed) be 21 votes to 7: "That this house deem- ed it to be its sacred duty to de- clare that any federal union that would embrace thisisland would be hostile to the fellings . and wisehes, as it would- be opposed to the best and most vital interests of the people." Thus the prospect that Prince Ed- ward Island ' would voluntarily enter Confederation seemed remote, and there 'were some Islanders, like W. fi. Pope, who believed that the only way to handle "this iensi; aificant but troubleseome dependency" was by comipulsion, In the meantime, pressure was be- ing brought to bear .from the various quarters: Maritime Canadian and Imperial, In 1868 the Canadian Gov - eminent obtained papliamentary au- thority to raise the tariff barrier against- Prince Edward Island pro- ducts. The Imperial government also gpplied the screws by another meth- od. The Imperial Treasury had al- ways, paid the salary of the Gover- nor; a despatch from the Colonial Of- fice now announced that hieeceforth this charge would have to be, met by the Island' Government. - Th.is; des- patch also strongly advised that the Island should agree to join the Un- ion. At the instigation of the Ittper- ial government, three members of the Dominion Cabinet, Cartier, Tilley and Kenny visited the Island and discuss- ed the subject of Union with mem-� room stewardess will be detailed as maid. If you were to sneak up behind the purser and whisper "Manifest" in; his ear, he'd probably vileel in his tracks, fountain pen pc.ised for action. For a very large part of the office work in any great passenger liner is the "manifestation," far customs, pur- poses, of passengers, their baggage and purchases; of crew, their health and their purchases abroad; of ship's cargo, ship's stores, and what has she generally. A cargo manifest, individual pas- sengers' baggage declaration forms, and the. stores list, present an inven- tory -taking job of no mean propor- tions, The ,curio list, recording pri- vate possesesiens of the crew, is •an- other neat little item for the type- writers of the purser's office. Add formalities such as passenger lists, crew lists• bills of health, and port sanitary statements, certifications of meat carried for food, oaths 'of the ship's ,master and you begin to get tehe idea. Even when Mrs. X's pet Schnauzer travels to Europe with his mistreese the incident must be duly recorded, for the customs authorities. In addition to the normal business tth at goes on within a ship's office, there's :the seemingly unending de- mand on tee office staff for satisfac- tion of passenger -customer wants: "I'd like pound notes, please, for this American ,money'." "What was that ship we sighted this morning?" Tele- phone,calls through to London, calls to New York "My jewels from bhe vault, please; ivveariag them to- night." "Will you call the . chief steward, please, and ask to have one of his 'writers' sent to my stateroom for some dictation?" 'Offices are usually closed from 12.30 to 1,30, to give the hard-press- ed, though always courteous, work- ers a chance to lunch and rest from the busy whirl. The -merry round begins again soon after lunch, with passengers drifting hack to put, some question about lug- gage or landing arrangements- Per- hap's the whim has seized someone to hop the "Flying Scotsmath" from Kings Cross Station in London and go whizzihng up to the Hie'l'ands— ,more office work for the Travel Bur- eau, And, as in thousands of offices ashore, work piles steadily up to a late—afternoon, peak—and stays there. About 5 or 6 p.m, the triumphant cou- ples come racing "home" with the tro- phies of the day's Scavenger Hunt: the bottle corks, the piece of string exactly six feet long, the cancelled stamps and other such gay trivia. That's when the word game experts turn in their lists, and the lady in A-61 remembers why she marked one of her trunks, "wanted tin voyage. And like as not, while you're dip- ping into yotir 'caviar Minis at 7.30, the work in the Mauretania's offices will' still be going on, behind closed doors. For they'll tell yowl—with teat earmee cheerful overstatement you'd employ if you were in the midst of a busy stretch in your own office -that the "white collar",,seaman,, no less than the men on the 'bridge, has a "24-lratrrs-a-day" job. ilk+ ant xnAsato and the gal Qttawa+, t Winntla ... far from Confederation-;> r • Izp the avert year, EtIV tey+eJ,i men 11110 Pope, .eoaldielort, l ute silo=' dailyundleertook the a Vieltiteaeliren 'of a maiirwuy, a step was taken, `tt1 ly or srnevittingly, which WAR Ftp he decisive in making Prtinee Et a Ld : Is* land a province of :the ' Dominion, Prom that time the ;railway became the !chief issue in, Island politxep; and successive aditmnanietnatadnls bendred themselves more and more deeply in) tryttng to finance it By .agrecipe t. will the co'n reectons paynenrt was to be made in, Island debentures at Par.' These debentures bad been; pledged by the contractors to the Union Banti of Prince Edward Island in. re- turn for advances that were far ,be- Fond its power to support. Soon therefore these d'ebtentures, could on- ly be sold at ruinous disteount. If the Island entered Conefedearaet]on and the railwraryt debt were assumed by the Dominion 'Government the h+oldieere of these debentures would be relived of a heavy' lose. Now, the directors of the bank were curiously related to, and intermingled with), the principal public men of both parties; In De- eeinber, 1872, a great public meeting was held in Charlottetown at which it was contrived to passe an alarm- ing resolution on the state 4'f the lo- cal banks and the financial standing et the provincial government. The Hared:la ne government on January 2, 1873, was prevailed upon to forward a message to the Governor -General - in -Council suggesting that an offer of terms be made. At piece, word came back that nothing could be done by correspondence. Accondingly Messrs. R. P. Haythorne and David Laird sec- retly journeyed to Ottawa. That was enough. Immediately up- on the return of the delegation the scheme was submitted to the Legis- lature. Its adoption was moved ';by Hon, J. C. Pope and seconded by Hon. David Laird. It was accepted unani- mously by the Legislative Council, and by the Assembly with only two dissenting voices: Messrs. Howatt and Holland, members for the Bede- que District who remained consistent opponents of the scheme to the end On July 1, 1873, Prince Edward Is- land officially became a Province of Canada. The event passed off .with- out any demonstration public or pri- vate; the people know that .financial necessity and not their own free de= c"ision nor patriotic motives bad been the deciding factor. `Who was our first President?" asked the lawyer. trying to test the intelligence of a witness; 'Washington," replied the witness. "Right. And who was our second President." "John Adams." "Correct." There was a pause. "He's doing splendidly," whispered a friend of the lawyer. "Why don't you keep "I'm not sure who was the. third President myself." x IF TAKE 01'12O di Our Inhospitable; The United.. ."t'ates trernlbled at the bmiuit;. of war dry' when' James K. Polk Was President : on, the slogan:. - "F»ibtyei forty or 'fight!" While str gni! Britistiers were demanding all. cif Oregon couwtree •caxrt.prrtsfulg-today tb t ,rt) States of Washington, Oregon, Idako and part of Wyoming, and A•meritane, hotheads were clamoring for all fine: British Columbia pease cooler' h, eaed'le •, in our -own nation counseled the 490:; parallel, our present boundary, as the international line. Meanwhile, the Hudson's Bay Comrpany was frantic- ally appealing to " the. mother'- country for ships and marines to repel the in- vasion of the Far West by a tldie of American pdone'era, • . - - To obtain reliable information about the country, England sent Cap tain John Gordon to -bhe' Pacific. He was told that if he found Oregon, val- uable, Engiaad -w.i ii fight- tor, it. If it were worthless, as many''were say- ing, the U. S. ceuld have it and web come. Captain Gordo,• and • •.his • •rnarines arrived at Puget Sound harbor, main- taining loud9y • that they would "drive every last Yankee back over the mountains." At the Hudesen'a Bay post at Victoria the anxious inhabit- ants did their utmost to make the pompous Gordon at home. Hunters. were sent. out for game, Fishermen • brought choice salmon and trout for his table. But he was pleased! with Donee of it. Half-breed servants didn't attend his grants with. the ',skill of English butlers; he groaned with the discomfort _of sleeping in rude, frcmttier bunks; he was disgusted when he learned that deer were "still hunted," instead of run with dogs, as in Merrie England, The last, brittle straw of his patience broke when he asked for a bath—and was courteous- ly led to the shore of the Pacific and invited to walk in! Captain Gordon had learned en- ough. He stormed aboard his ship and set sail for England, away from this grim land, fit only for savages. At :home he declared that he "would- n't „ give the bleakest knoll on the bleakest bill of Scotland for all of Oregon's mountains in a heap." His word was accepted without question. England abandoned all ' thought of war, and accepted the 49th parallel boundary compromise --Clay Osborae in The American Mercury. Cre PICTURING FLOWERS SNAPSI1OT GUIL ethe Beautiful flower close-ups, such as this, are easy to take if you follow a few simple rules. I'1 EARLY summer, our attention naturally turns to flower pictures. Few camera subjects are more pleas- ing, and good flower pictures are not difficult to take, provided you ob- serve a few simple rules. Any camera may be used for pic- turing flowers, but a focusing model with anastigmat lens is preferable. With a box camera or set -focus fold- ing camera, you will need a portrait attachment. Slip this on your lens, and you can take pictures with the camera only about three feet from the subject. The attachment is also fir useful for more extreme close-ups with a focusing camera. Plain backgrounds are attractive in flower pictures. Use sheets of cardboard, white, gray, or black, which you can obtain inexpensively at most printing shops or stationery stores- The card is placed behind the flowers eau select for a picture. It should be -of the correct shade to afford pleasing contrast, Flower pictures should be taken during the two hours after sunrise, and the two hours before sunset. Sunlight is soft and pleasing at these hours, but around mid-day it is too harsh for pictures of delicate blooms. Use a small lens opening for flower "close-ups," and make sure the dis- tance between subject and camera is correct. Film of the panchromatic type is preferable for picturing flow- ers, especially if they are brightly colored. You can use either a high- speed "pan" film or a fine-grained 1 type. The high-speed film enables'e. you to make shorter exposures, while the fine-grained film yleids en- largements of superb quality. Exposure should be ample, rather than too short. With high-speed film, try 1/25 -second shutter speed at lens openiirg L16. With fine-grained film, try 1/10 second at f.11, or 1/25 sec- ond at f.8. For box -camera pictures, the high-speed ,film is preferable. Use a firm camera support, such as ! a box or chair, for any shutter speed longer than 1/25 second. Generally, your camera'should be placed or held at about the level,of the flower. Light should come front the side, as this emphasizes the • shape of the bloom. Take care' that direct light rays do not strike the • camera lens. Try to build up an album of flower`s',, Pictures this summer. Moth*i makes per ect, and with ertpelt%eneer':', you can preclude splendid 1 stall well worth your w ile, ' 240 Sohn teal Gsti'i ie