Faith in "Progress."

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 8, 1 June 1909, Page 259

Faith in "Progress."

The management of Progress was agreeably surprised the other day to receive an order which is perhaps the largest ever recorded in the ordinary way of business. We have all heard of the old Governor of the Hudson Bay country who, dependent on the visits of one ship every year for his supplies of goods, liquors and literature, used to order a year's supply of the Times in advance. How he got through this supply it is worth while to remember. His servant had orders to take out one copy every day from the big bundle, and to air the same on the fender, so that the old Governor on coming down to breakfast should find his paper all ready for him. By never reading more than one paper at a time, and reading that pretty closely, this representative of the Sovereign Company of Hudson Bay became a remarkably good but somewhat belated authority on the contemporary history of the world. That he was above curiosity in a degree superhuman goes without saying. The circumstances, however, of this order in advance for years, as it necessarily must have been, were extraordinary, and the order is therefore accounted for. In the present ease, we have received an order for four years ahead, under circumstances that are ordinary enough. But it is not for us to cavil. The faith denoted by the order in our widely read journal is quadruply welcome; which is really all there is to say about it. "We say it with thanks.