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MOre genu b e regret
....that of JUdge acCallum of
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'GOvetnornera1/5 if e Has Many tserIntite,aisonb4teirir kthurdzia'voRwi-Shillentht
1 Hobbies, But Ail Are Philanthropic Conservatives were, ' In, — p—ower,
—She is an Enthuoinetic Supporter "ATchie," than a rural barrister prae-
P 1w fmi tit
1, of the Work of the Salvation Army i vinoe from end to end, especiallY the
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t and Is Deeply Interested In Homo Gaelic settlements, • denouncing Tory
Industries In Canada. , corxuption. He had an intense, fer-
vid and quaint istyle of Gaelic eke,
Margaret B. Downing, a well-known quence, with the higiAteyed• voice ef
writer, contributes to a number of the Highland Scotsman, and much as
' •Aerreetean newspapers a new sketch of he denounced them, his magnetism.
Lady -Grey, wife of Earl Grey, Pan- was such that even the bad and un-
ada's Governor-General. The sketch godly Tories liked him. Previous to•
is written e from Ottawa and among that he 11 been a reporter on The
other things contains the following Globe, and in the gallery of the Leg -
Lady Grey has been accused of pos-
sessing many hobbies, but they are all
on the side of philatithropy. Like all
grande dames of the elder world, she
takes the duties of her position ser-
iously. Ne assumes that the obliga-
tion to look 1I ithe physical and
moral well -64j ofliledase under her is
part of her lofty situe+lon Conse-
quently she ht 8kefD e work, if Gawd, ere we , as near to power as
not with the loudliourishbf trumpets, that?" when he got- a telegram on
•as did the Countess of Aberdeen, at the train that the conductor had or -
least as systematically and enthusias- den; to let him ofrat Iroquois, which
tically. was not a regular stop, is said to be
Lord Grey has two hobbies, religion Sir Wilfrid Laurier's favorite anee-
revival, notably Salvation Army dote. A glimpse of his quickness on
endeavor and temperance reform.
Lady Grey is just as enthusiastic.
though she cannot assume the le-ader-
ship of such movements. She makes
frequent visits to the camps of the
Booth 'cohorts and she takes part in
the exhortatiene, not in the form of
set speeches or in the general assem-
blies, but quietly and personally, as
it were to a few auditors. She belongs
to almost every form of municipal or
charitable association. established in
Canada. It is said a her that she is
somewhat lax about her social obliga-
tions, but about her philanthropic
-work, never. In this regard she has
distributed her favors impartially
among French and Indian Catholics,
Anglicans, Scotch and Irish Presby-
terians, that mysterious sect, the
Doukhobors, the semi -civilized denii
•zena of the ,Pacific slope and fashion-
able charities of the large Canadian
•cities, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and
Quebec.
Lady Grey has patronized the home
industries of the Dominion and has was one with a circumference at the
given an impetus to native produe, ground of 63 feet and nearby was an-,
lion. Though in London -she is not- other that had a Gothic arch cut
ably one of the handsomest -gowned through it, affording easy passage for
women of Mayfair, in Ottawa she a man on horseback. But the tallest
finds all she desires among the mo- talges are the .firs. Two hundred feet
.distes and milliners there or in Mont- la a very moderate height and soine
;real. Not a garment comes from the shoot up to above 300. •The fall of
other side and she employs a small one of the monsters when the woods.
_rmy of needlewomen on her lingerie men have cut through its base is
r and lace. Her -gifts to friends in Eng- something appalling. As the tree be-
. land or on the, continent have taken gins. to give the- sawyers hustle down
efhe form of Canadian products, the from their perch and seek a safe dis-
tance. Then they look upward along
the giant column and listen. 'She's
workin' all the time," says one. -
fully designed native lace. and the "Yes," agrees the other, "you can
exquisite jewelry of delicate enamel. hear her talkin'"; and he gives a
Lady Grey, though reserved and dig- lond cry- of "Timber r' to warn any
nified, as becomes the wife of a belted fellow laborers who may be in the
earl, and the queen of such a vast neighborhood.
social domain as the Dominion of The creaking and snapping increase
Canada, moves buely among the peo-
ple and is known and beloved by the
entire poorer class of Ottawa, where
she lives the better part of the year;
of Quebec. where she spends the sum-
mers, and in Montreal, her favorite
shopping point. At Rideau Hall all
the cereMony which pertains to the
lioniea of British titled officials is kept
-up and the same is true of the sum -
11101 -.1)011(T near Quebec. But other-
wise, Lady Grey moves around much
as Queen Alexandra does in London
or Mrs. Roosevelt in Washington.
When she appears in public, as the
wife of King Falwart'a• pro -consul she
is gowned in becoming state and her
equipage -would warm the heart of
the most ardent lover of pomp. Or-
dinarily she drives around in a small
brougham, guiltless of emblazoned
arms or liveried coachmen, and she
wears raiment as severe as a nun's.
Lady Grey is dedicated to the cause
of temperance, but her endeavors are
far removed from some of the intem-
perate nropagandas which pass cur-
rent. She seeks the hopeless neigh-
borhoods for her crusade, which never
takes the forni of total abstinence,
but is rather to provide the least de-
leterious form of stimulant to the
poor. She is in favor of establishing
neighboring stores where good beer
and light wines of the unadulterated
order and the best brands of whisky
will be sold at low figure. The entire
neighborhood is to be given opportun-
ity to get stock in such a venture and
they are to be made responsible not
only for the good conduct of the estab-
lishment but the quality of goods gold
and the way it is sold. Lady Grey has
not realized the hope of getting these
eo-operativea stores. in running order,
but she is doing yeoman work in this
direction. She rarely spends her time
getting converts to her cause to take
the pledge of total abstinence, but
she is eltsquent in getting them to
aid her in closing disorderly places,
where vile liquor is sold and where
the. pennies uf unfortunate men and
women are eteient to their own•misery
and the privation their families.
islature and nad pen & wide aequamt-
anceehip and popularity with- the
members of both parties. His alert
mind and ready.wit,.together with his
power of picturesque expression, made
him welcome in any company. •
Many stories have been told of
him. The ono related about him,U
few months ago of his remark, "My
the platform may be had from a rem-
niscence of a • joint debate up in
Bruce County. is opponent closed
his speech with the remark: "They
tell tue—of course, I do not know that
it is true, but 1 have heard it said—
that Mr. MacCallum is an applicant
for a Government office,"
"They tell int," said MaeCallum,
in his droll voice on rising—"of course
I do not know that it is true—but 1
have heard itr said that my opponent
set fire to his gristmill and burned it
down for the insurance." He stated
rumor correctly, and the meeting
broke ,up in great disorder.
rff -an ,••
the course oI eoture vitivered
recently. Montreal, 'helot e Bar
Aeseeiation, the Hort. r. Justice
Lemieux related an kite *sating in.
oident, connected with the early life
Of one of Canada's most prominent
public men of to -day. The lecturer,
'Oho, by the way,•does not 'belong to
the Lemieux family of which. the,
Postreaater-General is .a member,
to tor his subject the late Mr.
;indite, Ramsay, who for many years
was a judge in the Court of Queen's
Beach, the highest court in the Pro',
vino of Quebec. He • was not only
a eeignior, of breed culture. and of
high literary attainments. But lie
was also noted for kis temper, which
was very short and equally hot, so .
muck so that well -seasoned .lawyers
were afraid at him,. And to young
lawyers he was simply a terror. In
fact, he waesomething of a juridical
martinet.
One day many years ago an appeal
from the district of Arthatiasea came
up for heitriOg before the full Bench
of winch judge Ramsay wasa ra,,e11/1
ber. The advocate for theappellant
w
was young
ed striking in appear-
Alice- fiii bushy hair almost reach-
ed his collar, and his gestures were
the very expressions of grace, • But
still morp remarkable was his flueney, t
and at *nee" his bursts of polished 1
eloquence.
tention, but finally Judge Ramsay's
The court listened with close at -
patience gave wuy 1,14, was not
ate style of sneaking he cared for,
especially in a contt.of appeal. More
law, with less elequenee, was to his I
taste. He stopped the young pleader
and warned • hitxt. to be more brief,
and, in fact, he interrupted to fre-
quently and with such heat that the
lawyer brought:his address hu,rriedly,
to a close and sat daft, •
It is related that a fellow judge,
Mr.. justice Monk; father of the presi
ent member Of the. House -of Come
, FELLING A BIG ONE. teens for Jacques• Cartier, and as
kind-hearted and genial a man U.
ever sat nponthe Bench, leaned over
Graphic Description of Woodmen's and whispered to Judge IlanisaY:
Work on Forest Giant. "Why did you stop the young Man?
cedars in particular reach:a It was a pleasure to hear him speak."
vast girth, connnents a writer •onCtin.
ada's wonderful forests of the Pacific;
slope. In the valley by the roadeide•
'dainty embroidery at which the
rrench nuns or the French gentle-
women excel, Cie intricate but grace -
and the tree swings slowly at first,
but crashes down through the forest
to the earth. There is a flying of bark
and broken branches and the air is
filled with slow -settling dust. The men
climb on the prostrate giant and walk
along the broad pathway of the trunk
to see how it lies. What pigmies they
seem amid the mighty trees around!
The ancient and lofty forest could
well look down on them and despise
their short-lived insignificance, yet
their persistence and ingenuity, are
irresistible, and the woodland
doomed.
Bear Terrorized District.
There is an extraordinary large bear,
of the grizzly species roaming around
the Squamish Valley in British Co-
lumbia. For years there have been
many stories about the big brute. And
of late these stories have been fur-
ther supplemented by people who,
have actually seen the animal, and
who fully confirm all that has been
said about its size.
That it is an extraordinarily large
animal may be judged by the fact
that there are half a dozen reputable
residents of the Squamish Valley who
have seen the animal's tracks, and
who are prepared to affirm that they'.
were eighteen inches in length by
actual measurement. A bear track is
very much like the mark of a naked
human foot, only broader across the
toes. There are only four toes, too,
on the bear's foot as compared with'
five on the human biped. In the case
of an ordinary -sized black bear a foot.:
print measuring nine or ten inches is
about the average. But when an ani'
mal that can make an 18 -inch track'
goes roaming around it is little won-
der that few Squamish residents do
much traveling around now without a
rifle of heavy calibre.
The next sessions of the High Court
for this county will be held at Gode-
rich as follows; Jury assizea opening
April 28,before Chief Justice Falcon.
bridge; nen-juryfopeninet June 22nd,
before Justice Blitton.
That young lawyer was Mr. ,Wilfra
Laurier of Arthetbaseavtlle, now. Sir
Wilfrid and Prime "Mitister of :Can-
ada. •
On the following day the too elo-
quent e young lawyer received at the
hands of judge Rainee,Ya second.
surprised, for the court had decided"in
his client's favor and' the decision
was rendered by judge Ramsay who
on the preeeding day would not 'hear
the pleader out, • •-
It is a long time now since Wilfrid.
was Stopped in the midst of an. ad _
dress. .
Pictorial Grain Loading. ' • .
A striking representation of the
method- of loading grain irein the
Fort William elevators to lake steare-
ers ie afforded at the Charing °roes
windows of the Canadian Governindat
Emigration Offices in London. Re-
produced from a. photograph the
scene is moat realistic, and large
crowds gather rouncl the window to'
see the mechanical workings of ,the
ingenious arrangement. By means of
belting. which operates behind the
picture wheat is to be seen pouring
mut of the -elevators 'into a modelled,
steamer lying in The blue inters out.
side the port. At night.tiine- the
buildings. in will& the eleVatora are
fixed are illuminated, and the scene
Presented, =Hat the usual display
of minerals, • woods',.. cereals, and
mounted birds, which Wive for some
months been features •of th,e window,
is pictUreserneiy attractive. Tho
admiring crowds ,have beeiv so great
that the police on occasions have
been compelled to keep the people
moving. It may be stated that grain
is turned out of the eleva,tors at Fort
William at the rate of 60,000 'bushels
an hour. The four or five eleVators•
,have a carrying eapacity of from
to 7 1-2 million bushels, said an
official of the Canadian. Government,
to a representative of The Standard
of Empire. The total eapacity of the
combined elevators is 3 million...
bushels.
OW; For Wemen Whit Oon Form.
Western Canada is about to have a
suffragette question, as it were, of its,. -.010;',.
own. The women of the Prairie pro-
vinees are not yet clamoring for votes.
But some of them at least think that
there ought to be certain changes in
legislation which would prove meter,.
ially advantageeus to them. It 1140
several times been pointed out that,
among other things, the right of dower
should begiven to wives in the West,
as it ie to wives in the East. '
And now onee another "woinan's
.plea," from Fort Qu'Appelle, Sas-
liateheivan. It is made by Miss Geor-
gina 'Binnie-Clark, who suggests that
the encouragement of free homesteads
be given to 'women who have capjtal
and capacity, The writer has exam-
•ined the homestead , lavi and Ands
that it grants land to a 'woman only
if she is the sole heed of a farailY;
unixtarried women cannot take up
homesteads. Miss Binnie-Clark says
that as theneed of the West is we -
men, the way to get them is to en-
courage them in this practical way.
And she says: "As against all the
Melo immigrants you 'have known to
tarn out failures, have you ever heard.
01 an English youttin immigrant fail-
ure?"
Miss Binnie-Clark is herself •an
English woman, and is making a sue -
ems of farming in the West. Al-
though this year has not been a very
good one in her vicinity, she is able
to pay off $1,000 on her land, besides
having enough' seed wheat fOr 100
acres next -year, and enough produce
to maintain her household until
spring. She has only been in Sas-
katchewan three years and when she
went she did not know barley front
oats. This enterprising woman:farmer
writes to The Canadian -Gelato, of
London, to urge. that the Canadian
Government encourage other English
women to come out and do the same.
She has had a nureber Of inquiries
from women, with some capital, who
would like to make the experiment,
qaundarthere.roctisuogngsestion' is, that twelve,
sheuld be granted an-
nually for three„ years to English wo-
men selected and' approved by
Obed Smith on behalf of the Cana-
dian Government, and let the result
show..whether there is aTeal need and
a way 'of,rneeting it. ,
Few •Big Ranches Left.
There are probably not More than
30 big "cow outfits" left. in the Cana-
dian west, exclusivet.af British Colum-
bia, where several more exist. By
big is here meant ranches stocked
with from 6,000 head up, The largest 1
have perhaps 30,000 head of eattle. I
All were considerabl larger before
the bad winter of 1906. In addition '
to the eattle ranches there are several
big horse outfits, some of these hay
ni.
g as many as 3,000 or 4,000 bead of
horses.
Some ranches have recently acquir-
ed 11 -year leases of vast tracts of land
declared by the Government agrieui.
tural exports to be Unfit -for farthing,
There tfferefore, a likelihood of
there being. some -big ranches for
many years to dome, .41te eattleMen
not already having gritting leases are
mostly endeavoring to acquire theme
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ANOTHER FAKER.
Arthur Stringer IsOitt41ter.Ernerson
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Hough's "The Warrant," ,
Arthur Stringer 'will now inclitele:'
Emerson Hough and The Sart Set
in his :list of Canada faker. That
Magazinei„ in anrionneing as one of
its -features few' December a story by
Mr. Hough dealing With the Canadian •
West,. says .' • • . ,
".`Canada has become, in the past
few years, .a. favorite •flold for Ameri-
can novelistswho fincl in its 'historic
features, its 'Old World leanings altd
its glistening, exhilarating winter life a •
constant source of inepiration. Emer-
son 'lough; in hie latest sto"The. . •
Warrant,".Publislied 1. the Decernber • ' '
Smart Bet; has 'passed by the interest-,
in,g St. Lawrenee region of ' Caoada
'and has,Written strong romanco of
the bleak northwestern • wilderness,
where Doukhohors and Galician
erants dreg out their narrow .livee, •
their ' hard., sordid Monotony, broken
only hy pecasional.prying expeditions -
on the part of the Northwest Police.
Out of Ulla unromantic material Mr:
Hough has volved a magnificent- ,
.stery; Which forms one of The Smart.
Set's filatures for the. month."
The etory is a good story in many •
way.q, but the foregoing announcensent
will show that its publishers know '
about as much. about. Canada. east
axid west, efts do the producers of such,
Alleged Canadian plays as `Pierre of
the Plains," etc. •
L'ate Dandelions,
The flowers 'that bloom in the •
spring, tra-la., .have nothing to do
with the ease reported by Reeve Scott •
of Smith, Ont., recently. •
There was a great variance between
the statements 'of the observatory ex -
pots and of Mr. Scott regarding the
weather. The air- specialist in the
meteorological', office said that the
t i th ovince
average tempoa ure n e pr
was ten degrees. While, in an inter-
view with The Teterboro Times, the
reeve said that on his way into 'that
city ;with a drove of cattle he noticed
at several places dandelions were
blooming along the roadside.' He cort-
fesses he, was greatly Surprised, as
it is seldom those yellow heads have
lunch to say at this time of the year,
but • attributed it to the "Very mild
weather,"
Big Yield of Grain.
'Weekly. papers have of late been red
porting big yields of grain.in Ontario; •
-Here is the report Of a a)). wheat -1
grower in the West. Pelletier'
a Pincher Creek farme lag finishe •
threshing his crop of o. 1 Alberta'
red off 134 aeree, Th , yield was 5,490
to the sere. •
bushels, or 41 bus
The land on which it way groWn, Vette
feesh breaking , 6 eoSt of produce
tion was $13 . acre and the wheat
was sold rata Ms per bushel, 'ohielf
brings a return oi $32,80 per sere. ,