Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 1928, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free press Winnipeg 192s 14 i Canadian prospector stranded in Paris Longs to return to British Columbia by Francis Dickie walking along the Broad Boulevard Aarjo shaded from out an accent with the vernacular of a woodsman he was a French the hot. Summer Sun by the two As a boy of fourteen he Hail i run away from Bordeaux. Of lines of horse Chestnut Trees Fly Hing Schooner from Brittany to a Tail mar. Stepped up to me. In i had reached Newfoundland. Moving i is Wal in is lire ii Fite. There a ver Westward he had Farmed and Ontario and Manitoba. To had lumbered and prospected in a Rutish Columbia till his own was some Hing of Ino big my of the outdoors 1 had known to Tho wilderness regions oily a misty vision till his Way.--, of Canada. Lie was frightfully and thoughts were those of the new shabby and his e lamp Codle tie he a gnarled Semoc dirt in asked me Jie directions of reach i. Certain Point. On underground on the other of Eity. Fortunately l knew from in a forestry battalion n no Columbia one of those saw As listing As Nule Woods of France am a Amr ending of the War. _ much travelling about Tho City what Elk f Dweller m the in 10 answer. Hut 1 had nor up noun outdoors to Han no sons Money s Iive in French before he sa.i.1 he spent his an France. Eaner v in i Arlisi. Ice vim How difficult almost an where do Jenme it was for a Man such his Blue cos t hat looked out he unskilled labourer in this land from a. Web of on growing old to save up any Isles As you see on men who have travelled much upon wide Plains jr., mountains or upon the sea lighted i a beaming pleasure that Sini be tried a said a uk1, i. R ,.li, i Bra in i no Isi a i to.orrtffiiu-x. I Hung around t Aris the City seems very Inch of weeks. 1 nearly Stai Ved. 1 a. Suburb of Lor inn or new York. Tried to get on a ship to work Biu do Yon come he in within in doing. Once 1 stowed away on Eforo i had a t and just As the ship was about one of 3 moments when you Are in some Distant City and you see a coat Label from your own Home town in the theatre seat in front of you. S dirt our. They found me. Peak. From Conni darned big. It s hard to be a Stow a from there sue i Iway. And now there s nothing. I a world of fooling such regret. Have worked for awhile then no Lii Long incr. Such in lift of four francs an hour for ids report inc my Ennis r stared Teichr liners a Dollar and Morr can sly at him . Eglit cents a Day. Ice How 1 hate 1 was interested Iii. I Diieso frenchmen they re so Small. "1 wish 1 was Hack there. Thirty j they think in fifty centimes pieces years 1 lived there. What part do 1 stared at him in amazement Vou Homo Fromi Here was a apostate such As you Weil i be lived a i nver. By i Seldom see. Thirty years in Canada ree Emilyl lived in Smriti in Columbia i a new. A pioneering land where this strange. Inn do work Money and Opportunity were poured to with ins eyes. Never plentiful had changed his who " have i seen homesickness stare psychology. I m so they troop to the Halls of learning meet teacher and to plainly out two human orbs. To stood there together on the from . Trom he almost whip Street. Around us roared ? the place Confert a Silecc fell. We. Ging there is inc vere talked out we two westerners who for looked upon the the words. "1 was traffic of for Twenty years prospecting Locht Reau. Confide Many things by .1. Rali Tooke i brought yes i know thanksgiving bold Meltc and Twenty fourth of May and i know the Way. I been Here of Tea Zuj Liun. J. W j t to Vii Leipic All eyes Are on this t in world k r. Of Van con Vrr to you sea where the lies i and the Europe hotel i Cedars March Down and dip heir and water sit fret into the very brine. I put my again i nodded. J hand in my pocket. Alas if in he his ryes had n car away look 1lr. Been i my Power i would have sadness of a Man grown o a Anji bought him a ticket Back to the hopeless. Land 01" his dreams. Bui newspaper "1 used to come Down from i to men Are sad Wail s themselves a mountains often to vim mar. That i careless with Money As Little Cou is a Good country. A mans got a scions of its value As any old pros first of july out what about that great Day that red Leoter Day in sep tember the Day that the six year Olds Start school course they re five on the Street curs a lot of them but on that first tense of school open us they cautiously round Mother or by the Side of big brother or sister Tho word is Fornix no on their lips yesterday the Day before or lust mint i but six shortly after eight o clock they begin to arrive. Mothers in bout or Chance there. I wish i could get Back. Lut hero 1 am without a Job. T Haven to eaten Tor two Days. 1 sleep under a Bridge of the How strange Aro the Workings of human sympathy. Every Day 1i Pector. I gave him All i had about three dollars and Ray name and . Chic Felt hats in bobs or songs Buff Rao fliers proud six Pouf bringing this their untried Irno ent a. Offering to the Hall of learning. Prom the teacher s desk they form uneven line. A i the takes her place with a pleasant "g-oc-1 the first Mother Steps up How old a this Little with my big sister on what is your name when is your when it s the sound of laughing does not disturb her Calm Assurance. Were you born in Competition in Highland music that the Pichai reach the class ical music of the Highlands shall not perish from the Earth is the enthusiastic intention of scottish Highland associations everywhere including the scottish Amateur ath Letic association of Manitoba which has introduced a com petition As part of its programme at the grand annual gathering of the association in Polo Park on labor Day monday next. Famous pipers of the City and province will take part in this event. In connection with the1 general encouragement t of the the free press through the Courtesy they Oss them Pluck cherries from stems ail Oss them Down in that easy pole companionable Way they have we be eed lag. Here too Are More Sci lot . This our t Warbler is found almost every hero we have Opportunity to see out across the open Lake. Out beyond the farthest clump of Are waterbirds moving m a Calm spot that denotes a Hnatiw Tan Leol uprooted Pond Weed. 1 a. Binoculars pick them up som a Canvasback. A dozen Bald pates As Many mallards and a pied Bill ii Grebe it is noted that several of c a Ava backs Are White backed veterans from now Onward Bro urine subsist Foster s weather Chart for the month of september 1928 for on Rocky mountains and Mako Centre stars show the predicted variations. Represents Normal temperature for the month while. Pond the and Bald seems a a. Sleep Here in the Fiona tag Weed and not Drift before the Breeze. The pied Bill Grebe is the of John Macgregor of the Mant guest at this Toba association is enabled to quote we see from the Ross Shire journal of Dingwall Ross Scotland an item relative to the substantial gift i Alexander , of i Verchat Ron toward competitions and the foundation of tha Litlejohn Competition. The gift from or Littlejohn was presented to the Strathpeffer High born i was t Jackie has on h b Florec pair of Long pants. Tuck and Hoine made they Are the seams misplaced but they re new to him and daddy Macic he shyly says As is rubs their rough surface. They re just the teacher tells him. Your daddy must be a he s a Jackie prompt s informs her. And Here Are two Little mites from i m the Lith and i live at three a a Cov try. Granola and Beinhardt it Ess. Then As i was about to gov thera eight Bobby pipes i jul i sudden thought struck me Yvo Huv up ivs eyes unflinching. The words you Are p. Canadian Aren t you go Echo noiselessly on the lips of Thyl to the Canadian legation and ask i Mother As she bends Over him proud them to repatriate a Shadow came to his lean line i exultant. There is a smile on the s is she records the la this vast City of Paris a see him features to his face that had in it drops of beggars poverty in a form most horrible. Tirro Arn so Many beggars that one must limit Ore s but now i was moved with a tremendous pity. I listened while this Man of fifty talked on and eagerly of that land see. He looked Down at his battered boots from a Hole in which his of told he had no stockings he Looker at his shabby clothes. There would t be any use How to it Whir i tender i going this Way. No one would Light grew in his yrs As lie of those Bryom 0 this Mountain Rango and that or mining Anil places to a familiar. 1, Hud High in i snowy m of yes they would. I la go with he Shook his head again sadly. It s worse than Haven t any nuni Ains in a lonely Peak and i sized far away an in Here indeed was tragedy a Finley of Loyf Niv. Rock farm s and apostate yearning for the land of shoulders and vast sweeps that with his adoption and yet forever denied. The night look on 1 turned away sadly. Don t i or the shapes of human faces . Get to corns and see me 1 sail. Irving to to Cineel Ful. Of i la meet you on Hastings Street one of these Days in Vau convulsive hearings the top of the world where Tho Snow forever Lay. I too. Had 1 Down Long Mountain alloys in he cried Back jauntily glory of the . Spring tiny i stood and watched the tall heard the Blue Grotis hooting Lisa huge shouldered torm swing Down song of warblers High in the i Trees and at night been ii Leil wit ii vague half pleasant melancholy by the rippling melodies of Hermit thrushes. Arid so 1. Urd i . A the Boulevard whore the Sun laying Check ered patterns on the Cement sidewalk through the loaves of the horse Chat Stout Trees 1 watched Tho tall form go in its swinging was the who Heyt under stand Tho feelings of this old perhaps this four million of rhythm something p the wide of. Doors something alien that had no. _ place Here on this Paris Boulevard pesto r six thousand Miles from Tho j and there was sadness in my heart and yet though there was Little reason to believe it 1 hoped with All my heart that some Day this sturdy old prospector might really go striding Down Hastings Street in the land his dreams. Far opon he had been so Long. He was a curious combination one of the Strangi i of men. An apostate in vis own land. Far. Though his English was period he Polco with formation. And what is your daddy s my Tater the Mother bends nearer slightly apologetic. The enrolment has begun. Annie is six last March and she can say the alphabet backwards and can print All the letters off the front of the electric stove without looking Annie should be ready for Grade two with these qualifications but some How the teacher succeeds in Persuad ing the Mother to leave her a while in the primary room at first. Going to be Albert now Back again. He tried to get in at easter but was too Young. With his birth certificate in his hand he Steps up to the desk for All the world like a conquering hero. Here to stay this time. Aylmer is nervous and very temperamental will the teacher please see that the other children do no bother him. Aylmer twisting at h smother s Side kicks out at a boy Neir Holni. Kosetta s Mother is garrulous bos Cotta has been vaccinated twice but it has t clone her any Good her father s nationality is methodist nil works for the City and they live in such a Nice place now and big sister is so smart and has a Joe now and makes All Rosetta s clothes. A very Young miss comes Forward unaccompanied. I m starting to she announces and these Are my new How did you get Here who the would at its worst by Gluyas Williams. Of a Rian bed while the from Germany. Not a word in Mote from cover. See him so re he of on a Sandy bit of Shore. Hie Are some wader Iolli. Several big Brown marbled godwit Are sharing a shallow Pool with two lesser yellowlegs and a spotted Sand Piper. Quite a strange mixing ii we do not often see spotty mix ing with such company but tra Vellers Ever must find strange companions. How deadly serious. The godwit take themselves. By comparison the teetering spotty is a bundle of nerves and the yellowlegs flighty tattle tales i be they will wary enough selves but they will not necessary Clatter Over i i. A smaller flock of pintails whiff Les by overhead. The ducks Are restless now hundreds of Young trying out their newly acquire land gathering of August 17. In presenting it on behalf of the donor Angus Macpherson of Inveran said in part or. Littlejohn is one of the Oid est patrons of the Inver Charloa gathering. Though an octogenarian cur Yovera it is hi.--, Prev to Waal the garb Britt a High land Laird and to Foster ail worthy things the gift was a chinese government per cent. 1s9s custom loan the proceeds to be devoted to the perpetuation of the . Or. Littlejhon also presented a shoulder brooch to be worn by the Winner and medals to go with the first second am third prizes in the musical Competition. In acknowledging these gifts vis count Tarbat chieftain of the gathering speaking further of the pipe music from time immemorial has soothed the celtic soul. In founding the. Inver Charron Pio Baire Alul Competition m connect i in s the Hundred or go lion with the Strathpeffer gathering up from Ottawa a week centring of 28 this Dos turn. War below toward North America Houm those will cause Uejio a or non in it in error is but not much palpitation following this storm Centre a period of favor Able harvesting a Cahier will be exited in North Man Spring pc wheat i Hlyn should be taken every Tage of. September crop weather general crop weather of North America for september 1023, will be better than the to Lynnr average. Prevol Italton Lucre use and calculations Provo to be in error were those for the first of August my general for this period would also be in error. Should Southern storms move clone to of Strylka the United states Southeast p Coant during the period kept. To f of the Cuni t o considerably lower and i i h of English do they know. Gracila s Laate acl and see what is what Aad eyes Are tear stained her is the Bird Folk in these stirring Days when All Are so much on the let in go Down the Lake Shore following the Road that skirts the Willow Fields and soon emerges again into the habitat which is sure to yield a goodly bag of Birds for the note Book. First Lei us look carefully through the Elm clump just off the main a Point of Call to a Many migrants. Here in the Elm branches Are some a Bright redstart flashing in his fiery red and Black a yellow Warb Ler Tsip ing in his familiar Way what is this tiniest of Yel Low Warbler sprites he is smaller trembling As she clings to her Mother s dress. , straight and sullen seems like a Little watch clog beside her. The Mother ill a ease herself is speaking in German to Gracia. The words Are foreign to the teacher but the tone the actions belong to a language Universal the tone of a Mother crooning to her reassuring. Here is a Chance to sow seeds forbearance understanding Comrade ship in the hearts of these newcomers seeds that later May Blossom into the spirit of Trust loyalty patriotism the teacher realizes this Opportunity. Her smile is kindly her tone encouraging As she reaches out to Pat rely Hardt s shoulder. What a Fine big boy. How old is the Mother shrugs her shoulders looks about her helplessly murmuring in her own language. She does not understand. The Teaehey. Rises motioning to her to wait where she is. The girl in change of the Grade twos can speak German. She is brought in and presented to the Mother. An Avalanche of information pours Forth the three strangers have become transformed into communicative confident humanity. Gracila s lips Are steady her hand steals shyly the shiny surface of the desk. The question. Has this child teen has been asked concern ing each child. It has bothered than one but As Reginald Charles Burt Steps up boldly beside his brother he is bursting with this in formation. I Kin come to a Eccl teacher i been Down among the seats courage is developing fast among those who have been first enrolled there Are sly glances furtive to Caress a re Don Bow or to handle c pair of beads. Bobby is telling Albert my dog Laid three Pup Pleth lathe Nighti Rosetta is smiling Ami Tilting be Side Lilly. You Kin have a my Boun Oln Ball when we go out to she offers. Finally the Job of enrolling is coir. Plete. Most of the parents have gone. Some waited Only Long enough to see to the business end of the others lingered hovering about the seats As though clinging huge rally to the Lait moments of the baby Days that will end when they leave this Little one in the school and go Bacler alone to their Homes. As the last Mother with anxious backward gaze softly pulls the door shut behind., her and departs. The teacher leaves her desk and moves to the Centre of the room. There is a second of awed stillness. Forty the Silver ledge in the wilderness two weeks weary plodding Wii i paddles with the discomforts of flies and and the Blaz ing Sun and weeks again of chop Piug Aud slashing to Pierce overburden below which Lay hid Den the Argent Ferous mass thai inc came Cobalt hair Cybur new i i heard. I How different the spacious Ami impressive penetration iof today what must be the thought of inc same olympian sods they see men like Ach Ernar swinging to the West through the wide sky above them Graham of new Liskeard an.3 Cocke Rara and Burge of Hailey Bury. Novitiate of the Canoe and Clinometer and other primitive gear of the prospector have j Ollow cil through. With their own plane and Pilot they have flown from Ottawa to Wollaston Lake in Kat Chewan Miles As Eagle flies dropping Down Here shooting to nere to Aud from the innumerable lakes and Rivers Wing ing and swinging to the Pas supplies ten thousand Miles All. Told. Into six Short weeks they a i crammed the work of years. With the ease and Freedom of the gulls they have flitted about Peck ing at the Gossan on the shores and islands. Lindbergh afloat in the than the yellow clearer of color j through transatlantic night and fog without bit of living or Ovici. Pan Isthmian mount air tops while the world Waits and watches breathlessly pairs of wide questioning eyes the get a Peep at up. A up trembles a Quick Inrush s 7 j quivering breath is heard. The teacher takes something from behind her a picture a big coloured picture of three Huffy Kittens in a big Baske i Presto the air is electrified. The i first Contact has been made. The six year Olds have started to school unafraid they have stepped out onto the shining pathway of knowledge. Yes september the 4th is a great Day but they la never know from the Boston transcript brighter Cheerie and More Beautiful cemeteries Are promised by the memorial association of. America. The customary stiff straight White stones Are to be used no Raore and in their places Are to come stones of , so thai the cemeteries of America will be More Beautiful than those of Flor ence and set an. Example in color for tie world id or rather the concentrated brilliance of the Buttercup or Sun Flower Ray. A we have him. His gleams Glossy Wil son. It is but a matter of a Fea Days now till these sprites of the foliage will be gone. The spreading Willow clump along Shore at the end of the stand of slender Sand bar Willow a growing like canes. Is always a Bird Haven. We will visit it and give a squeak or two and see what we can i Veigle from the shadows. A House Wren comes peering out Aud chattering in his Cross tempered Way. Upon the outer tips a yellow Warbler darts in his questing for a breakfast. But someone is mov. Ing in the Low skirts of the clump. Now he comes out to quench his curiosity poses one moment in the Light and then darts Back again and Clown to Bird mouse like a his movements. But the Gollih use of him was enough it revealed him As a Short tailed song Sparrow without the breast streaks swamp Sparrow Ever a skulked. But another shy one is peering from the Green Back Clear yellow below a Warbler with the voice of a Wren and the Hill nor action of the swamp Sparrow and we know him for what he is a Young male Maryland yellow Throat despite the act that As yet he has not donned the Black facial mask that in will when he returns to us next Spring. These Are the Days when a sur vey of the Woods often tells us a. Story of migrants that moved by night. Sparrows and warblers seem to be to the fore today. Not a Bird of the Flycatcher kind shows up along the Wood Road. But Here is a visitor. A Brown Hawk drops from a Perch Over the Road and wings with rapid strokes be fore us a deceiving Bird in such action but the re is no doubt about. He rises suddenly to a new Perch and his Brown coat and streaked under Guise of a Young Bird of the year. The choke Chenies still hang in glistening profusion in the thickets Many that the Birds have yet stripped them. These thickets Are always a rendezvous of i to migrant sparrows. What Luck to Day there they go darting up from the Field Edge to hide in the Doz in where a Day or two ago there was but one. Some song sparrows a. Few Clay coloured spin rows a White thro to or is the beginning of a larger Gre gation that soon will hold Forth Here giving Way eventually to the tree Sparrow and Juncos of october Here is a Catbird. The cherries have been the bait to hold. My Here just As they have held the Cedar waxwings. 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