my! Prince Rupert. S) Miss Violet Whitlow came up . - : , ? stad, of the Skeena Lumber Co., #1 were. visitors in Prince. Rupert THE OMINECA HERAL —rreerrenr! nai OO Pt _ a # *The Town was Burned Three Days Later?” we 8t. Juachim, P.Q, Some parts of the world seem te ‘ merely as. slates for the penc gome of these slates the copy -once written has been allowed to stand for a little, and make room for fresh text, On others the original text has been of such import that Time fix the text more indelibly, the “scene” more vividly, as when painters of old varnished their pictures to| § bring out the colors and “fix” them. F Now there is not a reader but. “slates” in Canada. _ serially, or each an entity in. itself . from these earth-slates of the printed page, And so it is that we learn to original slate, the land itself, with ita endless tales. |, The best short stories of this year. and every year, ; past, present and ‘to come. Such a tiny slate is the little village of Saint Joachim, a few miles froni Quebec city: ‘it begins in water-reeds, lush from the toying Lawrence takes a couple of.steps upward and spreads out into a plain on which some scattered farmhouses of ancient habitant type and a church have been flung as if by way of illustration. Then the plain steps up suddenly into a low bench and the bench spreads ont levelly for a littl way leaps with vim into giant Cap Tormente, two thousand feet high, its head in the clouds and its feet eternally abathe in the mighty river. _ -History had a mind to write a word story here at the time she made up her mind to compose that greater romance in which she changed the text, on a slate of continental magnitude, from French to English. So.she set to work at once. And being herself all absorbed, like any modern business man by the larger work in hand, she dictated her St. Joachim communique to her secretary, General Now the Wolfe pen was in the be- ginning a clean-cut sword that grew in passion as the tale unfolded to a torch, as military romances in olden did. In order that thera may James Wolfe. ‘ time almost everywhere be no comeback from the rear that ter to the larger work when the route the villagers, the mateh was laid to the scattered farmhouses, and when the smoke cleared two only remained. And they remain to this day. into greater prominence ‘by their f {L) The Wolfe Headquarters, which survived the burning of Bt. Joachim, prior to the taking of Quebec, P.Q. . (2) The sccond house to survive the burning by Wolfe. (3y An ald church with very beautiful and rare interior at without the slightest effort on his part dozena of such A million romances .. . to run Dominion on to the} § and still feave a million more untold. [f that they survived “when Wolfe burnt the place.” Thus do present day disasters, rubbed and polished by the friction of the years, often change into assets of inestimable value. ’ . a Sq it falls out that Time, the great proof-reader, when he came to the manuscript written by Wolfe and have been created il of history, On then expunged to has only served to can bring to mind .. might be swept come back to the waters of the St. in turn and then suddenly whole. little six hundred He- leaves tt to which he knew by So,.too, here at might spell disas- sword had put to Monsignor Laval. Brought nage and the fact| Laval. days later.” ' here and there which And though you may not Time has added are the human interest touches. ‘He tells that orie of the houses, the low whité. one with =~ the tall and stately Lombardy poplars, resembling — Greek columns, in front, was “Wolfe’s headquarters.” | - scarlet-coated, lace-ruffled, powdered and be soldier of that day, who for all “The pomp of power,” | 7 his troops at Saint Joachim, approved af it in the — main, but thought that he himself might add a line would add to the picture as a think it, the touches that the Eged us to sereen in its doorwa eart, had heart no doubt to regret war's necessity for the torch, watching the then even more than hundred-year-old farmhouses: at his feet, going up in flames. a re ; Saint Joachim, Time brings out a | French oil painting of Saint Louis de Gonzaque and pointing to the eyes, says, “Tears were seen to fall | from these eyes three days before the burning of Saint | Joachim.” The picture then hung in the workroom of Saint Jceachim at that time being part of the vast seigneurie belonging to the eminent “On seeing those falling tears," Time says, “The people were deeply troubled, wringing their | hands and saying that semething terrible was going ; to happen to them." And, there on the margin of the - old, manuserist in Time's own handwriting is the illuminating line, “And the town was burned, three a ee PT Re Rl ed Pt ad Usk . } | t Skeena’s Industrial Centre ' H. D. Gazanoff was a recent business visitor in Smithers. © J. L. Bethurem returned on Saturday from a business visit to etal on Sunday, from:Prince Rupert to spend the school vacation with her mother. Le, C. W. Swanson and. W. Biorn- last week. , og Tanita A _ A. H. Edwards, managing. di- rector of. the, Canada. Products Co., ‘madé'a return. trip to-Prinee Sige Maer wh Rupert this week.’ 7” Mis I.’ Weatherhead: formerly. of Usk, but:now of the high school: teaching’ staff at Rupert, has been a holiday guest of Mr. ‘and Mra. P:R. Skinner. Olof Hanson, of the Hanson Tie & Timber Co., in company with A, Goodenough and R. E. Allen, was in Usk .on Wednesday. in connection with pole ship- ments, _ cs Sawing operations at. the Skee- ‘na Lumber, Co.’s mill were halted for a few days this week die to the .blowipg’ out of a, cylinder- head, However, the planer kept in- full operation, and shipping continues . uninterrupted:: - -Log deliveries are-catching ‘up. A ‘| new office building is in course of erection = g tis a - Wm. Johnson, an old-time resi- dent of the district, has -heen hit ' tby:the Cassiar fever and has just returned’ from-Hazelton, where of the mushers at possibly a much less cost. Aloft, the view of the ‘vast inland empire of Northern British Columbia will beentranc- ing. Over historic Groundhog, the anthracite storehouse of the continent; over the Cordilleran placer and mineral belt between Omineca and Cassiar, a zone of virgin newness and vast poten- tiality-—why.- the flight will-be the envy of the gods, and will be well worth the ‘passage ‘money, even if not a dollarsworth - of gold is found at the-end’ of the trip mh Mrs. Chas, Durham, with her| for Canada. D, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1925 — i travelled *Sofnewhigt ‘over: the}! soenes of Youthful reeollection | and-found:leas change in Norway|’ than in the'rest of Europe, With|* her daughters she left. Norway lin March and visited France, from whence the crossing was made to London, and on the 26th they sailed from Southampton, experiencing one of the fairest trips across the Atlantic, On the same vessel were 600 immigrants | Though ‘noting the ‘| dissimilarity ibetween. the modes of life in the old.world and ‘the new, Mrs, Durham: was pleased to return to Usk, where the high mountains are in striking con- trast to the flatness of the rest of the world. vet ® 0 eta Rather es " a = Lakelse Valley weeks, est was 64... ae ¢ ‘Several farmers in the Fran- cois Lake country lost their teams when attempting to cross the lake once too often: farmers nearly lost their own lives as well as the lives of some of their family. Some of the “"W. 'T. 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