The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-06-09

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epoch. There ISIS a Reinforcement
/ such as we hat not seen since the
days of the Huns, the Goths, the Van
dals, since the Cimri movement It
ISIS an epoch. my friend! 1t ISIS fate
that ISIS in it,"
$50, then, it is great country?"
asked.
/! 1T ISIS so great, these traders do not
wish it known. They wish only that
it may be savage; also that their
posts and their harems may be undis-
turbed. That ISIS what they wish.
These Scots go wilC again, in the
! wilderness. They trade and they trav-
ell, but it ISIS not homes they build.
Sir George Simpson wants steel traps
and not plows west of the Rockies.
That ISIS ALL"
They do. not speak so of DR.. Nc
Laughlin,' began tentatively.
my friend, a great man, McLaugh-
lin, believe me! But he ISIS not Nc
Kay; he ISIS not Simpson; he ISIS not
Behrens; he ISIS not Colville; he iss
not Douglas. And l say to you, as 1
learned last night-you see, they
asked me also to tell what l knew of
Oregon say to you that last night
Mclaughlin was deposed He iss in
charge no more-so soon as they can
get word to him, he loses his place at
Vancouver"
after lifetime in the service!" /
commented.
"Yess, after lifetime; and Nc
Laughlin had brain and heart, too. If
England would listen to him, she
would learn something's. He plants, he
plows, he bass gardens and mills and
houses and herds. Yess, if they let
Mclaughlin alone, they would hat a
civilization on the Columbia, and not
a fur-trading post. Then they could
oppose your civilization there. That
| ISIS what he breaches. Simpson
| breaches otherwise. Simpson loses
/, Oregon to England, it may be-"
Then you think there is chance
of trouble between our country and
England, out there?"
He smiled. 1T iss not chance,
but certainty" he said. at wass
only agreed last night England will
march this summer 700 men up the
Peace river In the fall they will be
across the Rockies. So! They can
take boats easily down the streams to
Oregon. You ask if there will be
troubles. l tell you, yess"
What time can England make
with her brigades, west-bound, my
friend?" asked him casually. He an
swered with gratifying scientific pre-
| cision
From, Edmonton to Fort Colville,
west of the Rockies, it hass been done
in six weeks, and five days, by Sir
George himself. From Fort Colville
down it ISIS easy by boats. 1t takes
the voyageur three months to cross,
or four months. 1t would take troops
twice that long, or more. For you in
the states, you can go faster. And
ali! my friend. it ISIS worth the race,
that Oregon. Believe me, it iss full
of bugs-of new bugs; IL news species
l hat discovered and named. 1t ISIS
something's of honor, ISIS it not?"
What you say interests me very
much, SIR said. Il am only an
American trader, knocking around to
see the world little bit You seem
to have been engaged in some scien-
tific pursuit in that country"
"Yess,' he said. "Mein own govern
ment and mein own university, they
send me to this country to do what
bass not been done. / am insecto-
logger. Shall / show you my bugs of
| Oregon? You shall see them yess?
Come with me to my hotel You shall
see many bugs, such as science bass
not yet known
was willing enough to go with
him; and true TO his word he did show
me such quantities of carefully pre-
pared and classified insects as I had