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The Seaforth News, 1933-11-30, Page 7THURSDAY, QVEIIMBER 30,' 1933 tin--na. .,uw,^"q, t.=R,atn.....! 1m.em.mi. 111 110 1 We can save you money on Bill and , Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay iota to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged, Sec- tional eational Post Bin'd'ers and Index, The Seaforth News.. Phone 84 .�un�nn�au�ult�r1 pn.�pn�ur�-ub.rua+r tt�ru THE ''SEAFORTI-I NEWS. 4 eldest of the British Government, to check to on. the report than Peter 1 and had given -regarding the near- ness of Lake Athabasca to the Faci- a, O'eean, Tnreor made ,ort Chipe- A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with $I for six weeks' trial subscription to. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published by TaoRene v &lams 81 s PNs eoc1Erx Boston, A. In it you will and the. devoted t women a the children a interests, special writers, as well u Dranoopertmentsso �ea lCIS advocate radio; peace n ole( be . to welcome me tato Your home s. tearless en ntivocnte of pence and prohibition. And don't miss Snubs. Our Dog, and the Sundial and the other featbrei, Tao Career ss 801001me MONITOR, Back Bay Station, Boston, Mass. Pleasesend me a six weeks' trial subscription. I enclose one dollar On. (Name. Please print), (Address) (Town) ... A (State) wyan hds lteaclquarters, and, according to his leap he did not ascend the '.G'e�uco. ehlacl envie was in England, engaged in sciil'ntif)c studies at that time, and when he returned in •the fall of 3791 with the ,Athabasca 'Brigade, he set off, ahnost immediately, up the Peace River on the first lap of his expedition to the Pacific. The first post he men - titans on the river is 'Boyer's "Old Es talblislh'ment," whore, he says, '`in the, summer of 117313 a small spot was cleared. and !sown with 'turnips, Carrots and parsnips." He ,mentions it as be- ing five hours by canoe from the up- per end of Grand Isle, In his "Wint- ering Partners on the 'Peace River," J. 'N. Wallace, is of the otpnion that this was either identical with 'modern !Vermilion or within a very few miles higher up the river, •1tlackenzie's next stop was at the New Establishment, just opened- and put in charge of Mr. ,Finlay.'35 was on, a bend of the river and today is spok- en o'5 as being in the westerly half of: township t11016, range 113. (What Mac- kenzie calls the old fort of Mr. Mc- Leod, was a post believed to have been at the mouth of the 'Whitentud River, The builder, ,Alexander Mc- Leod was _a nephew o,f Norman Mic- Leod of the famous firm of Gregory, MdLeod 18t Company. The old .fort was replaced by :Fort McLeod, six miles above Smoky iForks, and it is believed that Alexander MclLeod 'vas the designer of ;Fork Fort, where Mackenzie wintered, on the south east side of the Peace. In 11797 'Finlay made an "exploration. of the headwatet's of the Peace River and soon after that Rocky Mountain Port was built,—the earliest above !Smoky Forks, of which; there is any record. It was a little more than ten miles above the mouth of the Sinew 'River, on the south side of the Peace. Its site• is sometimes confused with the fort that Simon Frazerbuilt at a later petiod at modern Hudson Hope. During She last; decade of the eight- eenth century 'Roderick Mc'K'enz'ie and Alexander McLeod see'm to have PIONEERS OF THE NORTH t;'dezvous, Mackenzie succeeded Ross. In' theold days the route from the 1Ide arrived. at Pond's House on the St. Lawrence to the Pacific was by twenty-fifth o•f O,ctober n11784, • and way of the 'Peace River, The earliest about a week later he sent his two travelers across the continent took assistants, Mcleod and !Boyer, to the that road, and it was the fur traders, Peace River country. They took with established on Peace River, who gave tlteni twelve men and nine •hundred ritish Columbia its.first name -New pounds of ,goods, their object being Caledonia.' Sir tA,lexasder McKenzie to obtain sufficient venison and pent- went tip the Peace River on his his- mtican for She use of the 'spring bri- toric trip to the Coast :the first; white gade, as well as to induce the Indians ntau to perform the journey overland, t bring their fur, to Pond's 'House. and .Sinton Frazer,, went the sans way till he launched upon his great advert- tore ---the ; exploration of the Fraser River. !TG was not so very' long 'before Mac- kenz•ie's arrival in the district; that ivhite men first heard of the Peace. The two great British pioneers'- of'the Mr trade in ,Canada, Joseph Frobisher and Alexander (Henry, Sri, were told of the river by 'Indians whom they met at. Ile a la 'Crosse Lake in June 1'1776. ,Thomas-' 'Frobisher, Joseph's brother, spent the winter of '1.777-1T8 at':Ile a la Crosse where he carried on ithf he natives,and it was "It' is difficult to say what can be he' suffered a serious loss at 5110 hand' a trade with t f '78 that the 111 time to come in this country of some of the wintering partners o during the summer o done n Again in first white man ventured into the vi- encasing the entire region' of ,Great the North West Company. Again in f t cinity of the Peace River. 'His name !Stave (Cale and the ,Peace River) but I113118.:Clarke's men and the North \esters fought a miniature battle" rax Peter �'Ponct o fa banks of clue ,Peace (River: 2liss Pond was convuisfoned by several api tl 11 be to passrbtl c,n the i . who 'died of -the l oantreal merchants to build a try •Louise Clarke,, his danghtet the trade of the "O 1 scant n at a very great age only recently in tiermanc»'t.house for "'Pond's - er- Montreal, told that her mother ae- rated and 1 ond's-I3ou,e'' was tort. 1 1 1 membered Lord' Selkirk'sspctking°at- ected that year on The halide of the Athabasca River, forty miles below uir b„gate iectionately of her father as 'J'ohn the :spot Clarke of 'Athabasca,” Lakee: the river acliv dnes c • rlier fray between the X. Y Where the r�iwer dfi'ides into two The c. Y l been in joint control of the Athabasca departmenit, 'MdKonzie at .C•hipewyan and MdLeod at .Smoky Forks, In 1999 group of newcomers arrived, They were men who made names for them- selves both in the history off the fur trade and. in exploration—Simon Era- ser, John Stuart, James MdD'ougail; !John Stuart, fames MdDougail, John Thomson and .James 110Kenzie (bro- ther.of .Roderick), A notable arrival in '18013' was Archibald 'Norman Mc- 'Leod, who was _asked to go, for the North West Company, as both the X, Y. Company and the Hudson 13ay were becoming eneomfortabiy aggre- sive. (David T:h'ompsun Went up -the Peace , River 111 11304, anal Daniel Wil- liams lianms I-Iarnmon was there four years Theywent on foot, probably in a later. lit ;11804 David Thomson report - cru' direction south of Claire ed visiting Fort Vermilion, just north west Lake, arriving at the ',Peace near the of the crossing of the 27th surveyed mouth of the small stream now called base line and, we learn from J. n- `.or 'Brousseault. River' a'bonti..-WaIface, "as nearly as can be esti Vermilion sixty-five miles below Vermilion Fans. ated on' the right side of the river in } (Iii the previous year Messrs: Grant section 44, township .105, tame '1'3•° and ,Leroux had opened up `a trade John Clarke, who became a, rather so- h on Great Slave (Lake, and when Mac- kenzie became established at Pond's House in he sent an order to Le-. roux to bring all his men south to where be was. Pie hail no very great hopes regarding the trade of the dis- trict for in !February !117133, he ,wrote: Journal of it, To MacDougall he writes at the saltie time:. "I send my journal over to Mr, S'tuart to copy and it most be Idooe in order to send it down by the next oppor•tunity that it 'nay go out to headquarters in the eight canoe, besides I have another plan 'i11 view, that is, if it could be clone with care, so get all the goods that will be required for going down 'the Columbia in the spring." ' (Fraser went (!'own theriver in the spring but it was not the Columbia, The greatest disappoutlinattt in his life cable when he took the latitude When, he rea'ohed the sea and found it to be more .northerly !than he knew Columbia to he, Yet the .Fraser Riv- er is. Canada's ;greatest :ni•ontunent to Simon Frasers; .memory. ,Fur tr'ader`s' Iridian wives are al- ways o'l' interest, and in ',Fra•ser's let- ters, there are ,several references to matrimony. He wrote to 'MacDougall uz i must t ' I'c 'er 18(Y6 in i' u Danb et ( ,ssy g wish you joy as'' 1 understand you have entered the matrimonial state, 5 am glad to `hear the children are: all well taken care of, I assure you that I ani nowise' concerned about them as they are under your protection." if -Ie adds, "Anything that the children want oand t'hat,can be had please give it them and charge the same to my account." Three ' months after this he wrote: 'Yes, my dear .friend, I :have once more'eeetered upon the' matrimonial state and you would ,have a hearty laugh if you heard of our courtship." He mentioned .that he had received his supplies from headquarters and said further on that the coat and trousers were "amazing ^large." The last he got were so small that he 'could a not put;. them on, 'much less make use of them." ,ugh on her throat to loosen her bold just a trifle she would catch my arm again an inch or two lower down. Thus I. drew the full length or the arm throt gh her mouth inch, by inch, I was conscious,of no pain,, only of the sorted of the crushing of tette muse - les and the choking, snarling grunts of the beast, As'I pushed her farther and farther down my arm 1 bent over and when I had almost freed it' fell d • rd under- neath n r to the ground with the leaps e neath Pte. '11y right hand was in her mouth, my left hand clutched :;' her throat, my knees were on her lungs, and ;my elbows 'tt'ere in her armpits and so 'spread her front legs that her frantic eta wingdid no more ,than tear sty shirt, ,Her body' was twisted in an' effort to get hold] of the ground to turn herself, but the loose sand gave her no hold, For a moment there was no change In our positions, and then' fat tate first time ;I began to think and to hope I had a'chacce to win. If I uld keep my ad 'hang' per- 'hape elle ponyrbby would come with a knife, 'I called, but to no effect. I still held the leopard and continued to shove the hand down her throat so hard that she could not close her mouth, and with the other'I gripped herthro.et in a strangle hold. Then I surged down -on her with my knees. To my. surprise I felt a rib go, I did it again. I felt her relax,. ,although she was Still struggling. At the sable time I felt myself weakening and then it .became a question which of us would give tip fir!Ls,(i ttle by little her struggling ceas- ed. My strength 'had outlasted hers. After what seemed an interminable time I let go and tried to stand, I called to the pony boy and he now screwed up his courage enough to ap- proach. Then the leopard began to gasp, and I saw that she night recov- er; so I asked the boy for his knife. He had thrown it away in his fright, but quickly found ' it, and at last I made certain that the beast was dead, As I looked at her later i conclud- ed that what had saved me was the first shot that I had fired when site was in the hush. It had bit her right hind foot. I think it was the broken foot that threw mit the aim of her spring and made her get my arm in- stead of my throat. With the excite- ment of the battle still on me I did not realize how badly used up I was and I tried to shoulder the leopard to carry her to camp, but soon - found that I roost conlfiue my efforts to get- ting myself to camp. a'AIWOUNiDED LEOPARD ' .Not litany •men have had the .hair- breadth 'escape's from w^ill' animals experienced 'by Carl E. Akely, sculp- tor aitd taxidermist. In his book In lBnigh'test Africa there are natty strik- ing stories; among them'is this thrill- ing account of a barehanded fight with a leopard; irks I was advancing a few steps a slight sound attracted my attention, and, glancing to one side, I had a glimpse of a shadowy form going be- hind a bush, Then tI did a very foolish thing; I shot hastily into the bush, The snarl of a leopard told retie what kind of a customer p was taking chances with. A leopard is a cat and has all the qualities that gave rise to the legend that cats 'have 'nine lives. To kill frim you have to kill hint clear to the tip of his 'tail. Moreover, unlike a lion, a teoparc! is vindictive. A wosnded leo- pard will fight to a finish virtually ev- ery time. And if .it ever gets hold, it claws and 'bites until its victim is in shreds. Ail that was in my mind and 1 began looking.round for the best way out ,5 turned to the left to cross to the opposite band: of 0 deep. narrow stream, but when I reached the bail: I found that 1 had not crossed hoc w -as on an island round which the stream forked; but going a little way to the point of the island I ehoilld be.; able to see behind the hush where the leopard had. stopped. IBM what I had started the 'leopard 7'a8 intent on finishing. Peering round, I detected the beast crossing the stream about twenty yards above me, I again began shooting. although in the dusk d could not see to aim. T3'owever, I could see where -tlie bul- lets struck as the sand spurted up be- yond the leopara. The first two shots went above her, but the third scored, She 'stopped, and I thought she was killed, The pony boy w13o was with me broke into a song of triumph, which, was promptly cutshort by an- other song such as only a thoroughly angt•s' leopard can intake as it ,charges. For just a flash I w'as'paralyzed with fear; then' I worked the bolt of my rifle and realized that the magazine was empty! At the same instant I re- membered that a solid point cart- ridge was resting in the p'alnt of nay. left .Hand, one that I had `intended to replace with a soft: nose. If I could only escape the leopard until I could get the cartridge into the chamber! As she came up the bank on one 'table 'figure,. was in charge of t post, Clarke changed his allegiance to the Hudson's Bay. Company at a lat- er date, and in 045 when the trouble arising from the determination !Lord Selkirk to open parts of the west for settlement, was at its height, r as can be judged (rout present appearances tere••yvi t - of establishing a fort there to ad- vantage: 1 1"course to ,i Mackenzie went to the eastwith the in she string'; and on his return his favorite cousin, Roderick yfc{IC,enzic, came to Pond's Hoose "On our arrival at 14r, 'Pond's old establishment, wrote !Roderick, "the outfits for the several E the department were evade up and dispatched." 'One of those went l •'s lace on the Peace. The exact site of L'oyers post puz- zles "historians. Theoldrecords of he Eta describe it es being at. (Fish River, sixty leagues up ` the n traces of 1t were fou ed. left the country in 'May, that. We do know t,'iati he had a line ;and uath'iitg is, known of los subse- by succeeded t'. s >. Yna career. IIS to J - n the � t car II use o t. �t�❑ c at :ons o went base• River;, and that he made a map Vauclreoil. 13 this map that T' eau• 111c 11caclquaelera of the of the country. It. wa. t s ;that } �� led Mackenzie astray in his search for _Athabasca department were moved to, and which gave r :Ch'ifew an, and Alcxander'Mac the Pacific ,17.,9,i'o t l Y the explorer the added honor of the kmtzie went on his long voyage of dis- p ii r. and ex lavation, `of The covers down the ` Mackenzie River. a,scove y p 3 Mackenzie River. 11is failure toi teach the "ivler' De \ c '14ackenz'ie gives the year '198'6 as !retest in that ,sIirection brought a 'tc 'f t -c arrival of the first new settle of im'portan.ce to the Peace 'the da o -l' traders :n' the Peace River: A 'Raver, and in 117911 another. Hoot was white t a colleague P'a'nted Ross was in, charge established ;five,. hundred miles above g of the new Athabasca department its mouth., ` r 'but lie was murdered, and. Philip Turnor was the first scienti- that year, t followingthe tra- tic surveyor to come to the region of iii the excitement y the Peace River, He was sent by the, exact l'ocat'ion of ,the Peace River ten- p udsoil's Day Company, at the re- n Company and the North Wasters was branches, with him, t broLigd11 to a finish by the union of the \Iackcuzie in his journal, says that vex j❑ IIS'0µ. t\'ftcr that "Pond's establishment was the only (ten coar p'ani _ there was a marked increase in the ac- o»c in this part of the world until.posh o t tivity of the district. Business exteed- 1i718�5." It was that year that 1'Iac- t the `U er et ed up the river and'over the dit'ide, coonr ,h' whe went pest o t PP to lBo} p and New Caledonia was 'established country,', when he spent two tivi i la ll a de atlttnent for trade. Simon_Fra- iitcharge:oi the post at Ile a la d the as p .dens ser and James lllactDougall were the Civsse. Fi tr1 in that direction, There is some s'.'iglitevidence tlhat pioneer; ud lin n9129 Dr. A, G. Doughty, in the Pond I l the Peace +1 h t to Pane may have c:.;coyerec '10 t ea e, u o 1'I t • '1759 appendix to his annual. report, gave a 'fiver but fhe.re is no definite ,proo,f' of Boyer y gedy no one semis to have given the transctiotlon of letters which passed between ' the trackers, Some are quite amusing and they all throw light on an intensely intoietstitig period. ,Sinpon I raser, almost lntore than acyan e:ite can react of, exhibits the'trruo spirit of Ripling's "Explorer," "Something hidden. Go "and find it. Go and look behind the, ranges— tSomet•hing lost behind the ranges. ILosd and waiting for you. Go!' 'T -le makes nd''pretence' at being a writer, ,In a letter written in 11937' to his friend Stuart, he says he is..;send- ing his :Journal and asks,, if he will cnpy it for him, for "i$ is exceedingly ill -wrote worse worded and not well spelt." 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By that time I fisc' inserted the o!ge wrheeled—E.th leopard inand ln11130151 bo Tlie rifle ace w:ase laiocl.ed Flying; and in its place were eighty pounds of frantic cat! She in- tended to sink her teeth into my tln•oat and hang to me w^!lake with her Hinck claws she dugout my stom- ach --for that is the way of leopards. Happily for ill, however. she missed her'aim. .Inetead of getting my throat` she struck me high in the chest and caught nay upper right arm in her mouth. The accident not only saved my 'tlurolat but left her Build legs hanging clear where they could not realchmy' stonfiac31 (With tali deft hand I caught her Inain in their home, under the ice and cca snotiv, 'the entire winter. Here, occa- sionally diving through the holes in the dining'room floor to ,their pantry below, for a log or two, they rest, sleep and spend the only vacation of which they know, Few people know that the beaver • carries a pair of pinchers, Yet, this is the fact. Now and then, ,in cutting wood up into the right lengths, and in peeling loge' and shrubs, the animals get slivers embedded in their gums or wedged between their teeth. ;How they managed to get,these out unassisted long puzzled malt. "They pull slivers out with their pinchers," declared the veteran 'woad, - man. "Each beaver has two sets of pinchers which he always carries with him, The toenail of the second toe from the inside on each hind foot is radically different from the others; it is really a pair of nails, hinged at the base, and two of.the knife-edges com- ing together make an ideal ,pair of pin- chers for han'dlling small objects. like slivers, Thus, each beaver actually has two sets of ,pincher,, one on each hind foot." The influence that tate fabled she - wolf had in founding the Roman Em- pire was insignificant compared wiith. the influence of the beaver in opening up and developing forth America. The skin of this water -baby was the ,powerful magnet which attracted white explorers, trappers and traders from. the old world, AN INGENIOUS !BUILDER IND animal on this continent is so clever as the beaver in budding his home. No engineer reveals , greater skill than he in interlacing his hitt to protect 'his tribe against natural ene- mies, such as the wolf and bear, or trappers. The entrance is under wat- er, enabling the beaver .to pass in and out even after ice has formed on the pond. ,In appearance the beaver hut resembles the igloo of the Eskimo. The foundation is laid in a circular shape to a thickness of about six inches, and in a most wonderful way it increases bit by bit, formed. to re- semble a perfect dome. Throughout the shape is symmetrical, both inter- ior and exterior being very snooith, and the work has the appearance of haring been executed by a mechanic Using a :trowel, The 'dome is the real home of the beaver family. A s'hel'f, three or four feet long, prow+ides a comfortable place for the animals to curl up -,close- ly in their beds, whioh are made by stripping yellow birch into long shreds, somewhat like the brooms made by the Indians, which keep the animals warns and contented. In the Fall, lust es killing frosts appear, the liouse is carefully plastered with stud, w•'ith the exception of a small place at the top, which .serves as a ventilator, Then nature furnishes the extra cov- eringin the deep falls of snow. On a "floor" Beneath the sleeping quarters is a cozy little room about four in:clies above water level, which is used drying the fur after a sw'im, and as the dlining-rooni, Six inches above is the bedroom, so that the water would need to rise ;tell inches or'. a foot before it would trouble .the mates. iFor going and coining, or to make a way of escape front tate meddling. otter, two holes ere trade in the din- ing room floor, Which lead directly to the water, Under 5115 writer, tunnels are dug 111 the bank some distance from the house, to furnish other ways of escape. After The clams and lodge are coin - plaited the beaver -works hard during. favorable yveather "gathering. stores Incethe long winter season. Itis favot ate' food. is the cambium layer or green 'pant just under the bark of the tree. When the hark is 'proper'ly seasoned tfac logs are cut into lengths varying from two to twelve feet, and arc low- ered to tate bottom of the pond near the hut. This pile is of considerable size, for it most provide food Inc the THE LAND OF NO MORE HOMEWORK ,Russia has taken another step— boys and girls will call it a stridel— toward the Utopia that the soviet leaders promised away back in 1917. The University of Education has an- nounced that all homework in the public schools is forbidden—not op- tional, mind you, but forbidden! It almost seems as if we should have heard the reverbating cheer that went up from millions of young throats at the glad tidings. For that announcement—that Junior Emanci- pation Proclamation,. as it were ---re- moves one of the, greatest grievances that boys and girls have against school. Only two other important ones remain; they are recorded in the cid chant that schoolboys sometimes sing on their way on the 'last clay of school: "No more homework, no store books, No more teacher's angry looks." The University of'Education is not wholly indifferenttowhat the school children do after hours. It suggests that they keep diaries anti write brief accounts of anything that interests t10111; but it stipulates th'at they must not spend more than an .hour a clay on such work and before !Sundays and Holidays must be omitted altogether, 'W'hat is the purpose of such a "benevolent" programme of eduea- :tios? I+t is propaganda, of rotirse. iSiuce the beginning of soviet mile Russia has been flooded with propa- ganda of all kinds, most of it design- ed to make good 'Bolsheviks of the people; much of it aimed at the young, The control of education is a potent force. By means of a benevolent po1- ic t11e at tit cities c create Y t o an .rte to in the ininds of the young good will inward I3•olsihevisnt'--'good will that, being im- planted a an impressiona'b'le age, will last lotig. IA benevolent policy bib; another important iillfluence: it keeps the in- tellect of the masses at a sufiirientiy low and slafe level, iBoishet'ishn is es- sentially a "leveling down"; it Inas to be. in order to exist. 'Boys and „girls se'ho learn too much, who acquire the ktitiele of thinking for thehliselves: are not wanted in Soviet 'Russia, Theo would grow ltrto hien and wotnen who would be t'o hard to handle, tlier'e- ,fare this reemon, education, mast she kept front Hteaia, throat and pried lo wrench sty'.: right.' entire familia; from four to six inonfha. arm free, but I c,ouldn't do it'.exoeipt 'Id the clam be firm and the stock or 'little by •little. When. I got grip en ,Food be ample, phe'beavers may re-