Montreal High School - Magazine Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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98 T HE HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE Compliments of LIIVUTED Canadats Finest Leather Goods and Baggage Stock Ever on Hand 1105 St. Catherine St. West BROWN MONTGOMERY 8z MCMICHAEL ADVOCATES, BARRISTERS, Xrc. ROYAL BANK BUILDING MONTREAL McGill University MONTREAL Courses ojered as follows: AGRICULTURE APPLIED SCIENCE ffor Menj Architectural, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechani- cal, Metallurgical and Mining Engineering. ARTS COMMERCE DENTISTRY HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE ffor Womenl LAW MEDICINE MUSIC PHARMACY PHYSICAL EDUCATION ffor Womenj Edu ti Co ca on urse. SCHOOL for GRADUATE NURSES tfor Womenl Public Health Nursing. For 'Teachers and Supervisor in Schools of Nursing. SOCIAL WORKERS All the above courses, except those otherwise specified., are open to men and women. The Calendar giving full particulars regarding the courses of study, the Work comprised in each year and the details of the double courses offered, may be obtained on application to THE REGISTRAR African wilds, that of going into long grass after a wounded lion. Plunging in he walked rapidly in the direction where he thought the lion had gone when his majesty bounded at him from the side. He dodged as well as he could but the lion got in one smack with a forepaw that knocked him off his feet. This smack also opened a slash on his face. He fired at the lion but missed, and in the next second the beast was upon him. He threw up his arms to protect his head and the lion promptly met his teeth in his wrist. The animal then decided to start lower down and, sinking his claws in his left leg to hold him, began munching at his knee. Hospital examination subsequently showed that the lion had completely pulped the knee joint mashing the bones horribly. All this took place in an instant. Fallows, who had retained his rifle, pressed it against the lionls chest and fired. To his intense relief the lion rolled off and began writhing about. Fallows shouted for his boys, but they were not coming down into the dambo with a Wounded lion there. He managed to drag himself clear of the long grass and then noticed that the blood was coming from his knee in spurts. Realizing that an artery was severed he managed to adjust a tourniquet on his thigh and again shouted for his boys. Finally two, more courageous than the rest, ran down, picked him up, and rushed for the trees. They constructed a bark meshili for him and started back to camp, got him on his bed and under his direction cut off his clothes. He alternately released and tightened the tourniquct until he was quite sure the blood flow had ceased, In preparing permanganate to put on his wounds he made it too strong with the result that the gaping holes in his knee partially closed permitting poison to form. He then spent a night that would have been sufficient to excuse his com- mitting suicide. His boys sat beside him assur- ing him that he was going to die. The women of the compound sat outside and put up the horrible wail that they bring forth when someone is dying. In the morning his legs were stiff and he could not move them. He sent his cook and capita off with messages for Buffam and us, and then started his boys to carry him to Kanona. Buffam had met him near Shimomba and told him about the truck.

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THE HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE 97 CContinued from page 445 etta trees grow in this town and their colour was the first thing I noticed. For the umpteenth time I examined a statue of Cecil Rhodes. There must be a couple of hundred erected for him all the way from the Cape to the Congo. I bid good-bye to Spalding at Bulawayo, as he was going east to Shamva, where the asbestos mines are located. The train for Broken Hill left about noon, and I was soon on my way north again. Due to the boat being a day late at Capetown, we had missed connections with the through mail train, and consequently, instead of going right through to Broken Hill, I had to lay over at Livingstone. I considered this good fortune as it gave me an opportunity to see the Victoria Falls. The morning after leaving Bulawayo before reaching the station the train crosses the famous bridge you have seen pictures of, inscribed the highest bridge in the world . It crosses the Zambesi about two hundred yards from the great falls. It was the wish of Cecil Rhodes that the bridge should be built near enough to be dashed by the spray of the great cataract! His wish has been realized: as the train slowly crawls across the bridge, the passengers who crowd the vestibules receive a shower bath. Rainbows perpetually hang over the falls and I was told that at night wonderful lunar bows are seen. I had madeuthe acquaintance of one of the Barelay's Bank accountants on the train, and together we took the trip from Livingstone to the falls. We did all the stunts, visiting the Rain Forest, the Whirlpool, Bangorpoint, Knife Bridge, Livingstone Island, etc., posed in front of the tree on which the great missionary explorer is supposed to have carved his initials, and wound up with dinner at the swagger Victoria Falls Hotel, where they trim the American tourists. This dinner was at the invitation of a man named McLean, who is the head of the Johannesburg Public Works Council. 'Everybody makes friends with you here, just like in the western U.S.A. After a wonderful day we returned to Living- stone, and at seven in the evening left on the train for Broken. Hill. There was no diner on this train, and the next day we had to hop off at lunch places for our meals. We arrived at Broken Hill at 9 p.m., and I immediately rushed I Photo by A. Kerr THE NEW SOUTH SHORE BRIDGE off to the hotel for a good supper. The next morning I called ati the Anglo-American ofiiees and met the various oiiicials and was assigned my territory. The chief, Dr. Bancroft, invited me to dinner that night. CExtraet from letter dated November 11th, 1928j Adventure With A Lion We had hardly got the meshili completed when along the Boma path came Fallows' boys, carry- ing him on his bed. They had rigged a sheet over him like a tent to keep the sun off, and you should have seen the look of relief on his face when Ross and I poked our heads in. He thought he was faced with the trip accompanied by natives only, and that they would get tired carrying him and leave him. We hustled him into a hut and prepared to dress his wounds before pushing on. I pulled off his sheets and saw a sight that I have dreamt about a couple of times since. It surely took iron nerves not to appear surprised as he was in a pretty shaky condition. He smoked cigarettesincessantly, lighting one on the butt of another, as he was suffering terribly. In spite of our protests he insisted upon telling us how it all happened as we soaked his legs loose with hot water. He had gone out traversing and had just about reached a camp on the Kenwi River that Ross and I left about a month previously, when he stumbled on the freshly killed earease of a zebra. His boys told him that a lion had brought it down and had been frightened away by their approach. Looking about, one of his boys spotted the lion on the edge of a dambo two hundred yards off. It was an immense brute and stood facing them. Fallows is a poor shot but never- theless opened fire and on the fourth attempt wounded the lion, which dashed into the long grass out of sight. Fallows then made the greatest mistake that can be made in the

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THE HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE During this tale, Ross and I forced fresh permanganate into the wounds that turned him white with pain. We had between us now about twenty boys, but we figured we would need about ten more to be safe. Ross tackled Kamb- wili, but they refused to turn out. I was for forcing them out with my revolver, but Ross advised against it as they would have a case against us. When in Broken Hill afterwards, Fraser, the manager of the company, said they would have seen us through any such jam, if I had used my gun. At any rate Kambwili paid bitterly. Ross reported this to Chicken, the native commissioner, who happened to be in a bad temper. A week later Chicken had the whole of the male adult population of Kambwili brought in to Boma, about forty of them. They were in turn put down and twenty lashes from a hippopotamus hide sjambok administered. Some of these men were unable to walk for days afterwards. Carrying the Wounded Man A little after noon, Fallows became delirious and wanted to be set down so that he could rest comfortably. Then he became obsessed with the idea that we were deserting him and we had to walk on either side of him where he could see us. Along about 2.30, we hit the main road and saw the tire mark of the truck that had gone down to Missola and, what was more tragic, had returned. Our feet felt just like red hot coals. Ross indicated to me by signs over Fallows' head that he was going ahead to see if he could pos- sibly get the truck any quicker, as he could probably make half a mile an hour faster than the carriers. He was hardly out of sight when Fallows demanded his little bag containing his personal papers. I gave it to him and he took a writing pad and pencil and began to write. When he had finished he turned to me with his eyes wild, but talking in a calm voice, and said that he overheard Ross tell me that there was no hope for him. He therefore had made his will and written his last letter to his mother. He wanted to be set down immediately, Ross brought back and his last moments made as peaceful as possible. I tried to humour him along and con- sole him, and he seemed to get a bit more rational, but begged that I should get Ross back to be the other witness to his will. Figuring that this might steady him I started out to J Tel. UPtown 3441-3442 BURTON 'S LIMITED BOOKSELLERS, 8a STATIONERS CIRCULATING LIBRARY 1243 St. Catherine St. VVest Montreal 2TEiRNA 'l0N 306 St. Catherine West Montreal Est'd 1895 Day and Evening individual instructiong Bookkeeping, Accounting and Business Management. Touch Typewritiingr, etc., etc. Shorthand and Secretarial Courses. Position to Graduates. Visit Solicited. Prospectus Free. LAnc. 8378. FRED DONALD CAZA, B.A., Prin. Marvel Beauty Parlors With Branches From Coast to Coast The Largest Organization of its kind in America PERMANENT WAVING ...a . 3ii ci e+f2.9 Visit Q Expert H the V 5 Operators Marvel rig? 5,4 in fOr ll azz Reason' l, I Branches able ii i ' mor of P72668 BEAUTY will cuu-uns ,md 4 Beauty 531555- -,I Culture faction Work I Qiuzmrig 555251 maint: 2 Phone for Appointment An International Institution Operating under Dominion Government Charter 8 ST. CATHERINE ST. E. LAncasler 2781