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CLINTON, ONTARIO THURSDAY, DECEMBER '17th, 1908
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Whole .Number 15,95.
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NATIONAL MUSEUkt
RESTING PLACE FOR 441AD I AN
RELICS PROPOSED.
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DUILDVIS. PiCKS UP
Reports From Trade In ' Canadian
" Cities Show Prosperity.
To determine with a fair accuracy
the exact building conditions that ex-
ist throughout. the country generall.Y,
"Conatruction" has secured statistics
• from eleven representative Cities of
ilMovers of New Institution Fayor a the Dominion, showing the aggregate
Repository at Montreal -A' View of coat of bundinge for which permits
Were *Med for the drst,eight months'
Demolition of Old. Chateau Rama- a 1908, as cordpared with 1907.
say—Many Valuable Tietieurin Ani .1 In eleven cities rePorted, the cost of
Available For Preservation In Pro- huildinge for the first eight months of
per Building.
Now that the Chateau de ItameraYA
.at Montreal, is about. to be demolish-
ed, and its historic collection trans-
ferred to the Monument Nationale, the
,auspicious time hes arrived, it WOold
seem, for establishing a National Mos
.;seum. The .proposal build a na-
tional museum in Westmount Perk.
lbas already been endorsed by ener-er
tiie founders of the Chateau do Raines
zay.
There are many historical. treasures
!in the vicinity, at "Temple Grove,"
for instance, which should be taken
over and cared for in a national mu-
seum. In the library of _thictswentler-,
ful old. place, the residence of Mr,
D. R. McCord, K.C., are cases and the largest increase .029,13) per cont.),
.1908 woe 424,134,510, as 0002Pa:ed. with
02,550.589 for the same period
1.9d7, tints showing a dectease of 26.84
Per cent..
In nine cities for which figures were
secured for the moiith of August, the
aggregate cost of buiklings. for Aug -
list, 1908, was $3,854.984, as compared
with 43,194,535 for the corresponding
mental of 1907; Urns showing, an in-
crease of 20.67 per cent. • •
• From this it can be seen that Can-,
ada's principal -centres have turned a
decrease of 26.84 per • cent, .ter the
eight months of 1908 into an increase
of 24.67, per. cent, for the month. of
August, 1908, as compared with the
same periods of 2907. •
noted that - Bsiginasahows
I'. SKINDLE.RE'Elii -0001). TE liON.TR OF NIPENESS, - CANADA'S ELEVATORS,
•••••••••,14.44••••••
.4,1141.1•44141•111•40,11.•
Miss Agnes Laut, the Noffelist, Dis-
cover* Orierital Matting Material.
lifiee Agnes Lent claims she has dia.
00•9erefl in the Saskatchewan river the
used b the Chinese
Dominion Donets the Largest One In
the World Tenclay.
As a necessary complement to the
building of a great fresh water maritie
Canadian shipping interests required
grain elevatera and within the past
decade and a bed, the most modern vied friends on Bloor street .for the
:silents in the world have sprung into fortnight. The dela were well filled
existence at lake ports north el the I with shopping and "exhibitioning,"
international boundary. •4 but one evening—a Wednesday even -
Canada ib in the grain -growing busi- I mg, too—there arose the question of
noss and in the. grainoneving bush where to go.
Thou languid August noon, -
When all the slopes ate anianYt
When, with jocund, dreamy talne,
The, bees are in the honey,
When with purple flowers, °
and wapaneee in making matting. No , Amuninlf in 43 sun, "
reed outside Of the Orient, Ilse been The drowsy hours
found with the same fibre- Mari Taut Thread m" by one '
, The golden pleasmmees.
" Go"voThernmsceinetntishttsivt: the beenfor
Suitoanteyff Thenisooteartan'the me usseasintutim, et, .
Years engaged in a search for the reed Old Eilri,n for inward rbanne
from which matting is made in China Is full of golden reasone—
and Japan. An attempt has beer
g Then the ripening gourd,
made to cultivate it on swanaP lands The sun -kissed garden Wall,
in the States. but so far all these ode The purpling hoard,
tempts to cultivate the plant in the The...gocks that call
United States have failed. Adown the distances.
"The imports cd matting into the . ,
United States from Chino. at present Forego the saddening tear,
amount to about twenty million dol- Thou month without alloy;
lars per year. n_,... To younger seasons of the year
"This reed is ' known to scientists Resign the flag of jog;
as cphragmites communist,' and I saw But thou, be what thou art,
• a field of it whieh was seventy miles
peg. The plant grows to a grea Full breeding to the hrhu
long in the. vicinity of Lake Wimiii• Of dreams apart,
haseig,thhtf; reed
wisiiitowg.litowtos the Iandtreinen.Et , Anr.purlieus dim
Of leafy silences.
Hudson Bay people call it 'muskrat • -7-Wilfred Campbell'
reed,' from the fact that the rats feed _
EVER SEEN HAMILTON? .
mi"IittsiTelViteS. exact' reed which is used
THE UNEXPECTED 'HAPPENED
And They Did Not Get So Far /thud
'of Their Where Atter Alt.
• lAring the Exhibition in Toronto,
a certam Pteebyterian Minister and
his wife, from a stetid, •Sexetch settle,-
• Ment in Western Ontario, came to
ness nolenith a vengeence. Since the
inniulse of national expansient • thrill-
ed the country and hrenght great. en-
• terprises into being. $22,000,000 has
been invested by Canadians in great
buildings for the lifting, forwarding
, and storage of •grein. • • .
Th.e story readieromance into Oi pro.
"We've been to an organ recital,
an illustrated lecture and a talk on
China," said the hostess thoughttully.
"See here!" she ejaculated, lowering
her voicesssignificantly, :'let's go to
Shea's—there's no hares in ie—and.
when you're going back to that death
arid -alive -place for the rest of the
saic sulsject, for to healthy Canadian year, I think you .need a little diver -
can fail to feel the thrill of national sion, •
' spirit when he is told that ,this court- "But what would I say to John?'
try has the largest grain elevator in said the minister's wife, atter a few
the world. At the head of the great half-hearted protests,
•lakes are Canadian elevators which "John—bless me—I don't know,"
can spill fifty thousand 'bushels of said Mrs. A—. "I believe he's tak-
wheat into a big lake steamer in leas ,tiaa my husband to .prayer -meeting.
'than,. an hour. At Georgian Bay are We'll go, anyway.", The women had'
great modern steel tank receiving ele- been chums at boarding -school, and
vators, which ean snatch 30,000 bush, , the prespeet of Shea's seemed like an
els of grain—art hour from. a vessel's old-time eseapade, Therefore-, to
, . •
City s oya o • - •
hold and at the same moment be fill- Shen's they.nvent, and were enjoying
thelves full of old leather-bound vol- Toronto Ole smallest increase • (6.05 so' largely in China and Japan for the Citizen of Ambitious C'ty I L I t ' nag a train of cars on the other side the foiirth number on the Program
umes and precious historic doeu. Home Town. , , • for quick despatch to the seaboard. when Mrs. A.--;-- frentically clutched
Per cent.), Vancouver the largeld de- ,production of matting. It would '
from all parts. A letter of Neilson. N.B.', the smallest decrease (19.96 per Western Canada material for a new wAilunanisinei,d.oefntohritiqesttfichabulighgaostarb Deanal, hunBedreoemdsin.0gi yre0tunrogspmecetnivwe,h0thmeraervtealer4e '
he'reng/ItrisyVosualromok: at those two men. ---...
ments, gathered as a labor of love crease (23.96 per cent.), and St. Sohn, •
seem that in this reed we have 'in
Fort William has the largest in-. ernment. of Cm:Lade/should' do what Quebec, and that betrayed a whinisis at the elevators which steed at Owen there? It's yout John and m Henry
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string his impre,ssions of Quebec, to- cent.) for the Month of Auguet. ''''' and important industry. It the Gov-,
cal loyalty on the part of a Hamilton Sound, Midland, Prescott; Kingston, —and I believe your husband is wear-
ter
and a few ether ports fif- ; ing one of Henry's coats."
the 'United States is doing in the mat.
militia officer, occurred during one of
ter...it would at/ once investigate the • 1 'Just at this indolent .the siniling
sightt hu
extent of the territory on which the the functions of the recent celebratitm teen years ago,
in the old city. 1 ,-- - - One great modern, Canadian eleva- ' hmuestibaanndds eba0uwgehdtof the
ti tiwnowwno;
to Milts and JaPan, to investigate the It happened that during a lull in
the proceedings, the dean, who be- those little buildings fife past decade fusion, The reat of that program
ter con hold more wheat than all
reed is to be found and send scientists
methods. of gathermg in the raw ma -
came known to aliteast ever, guest, e0Inhined, They are insigtud%nt to, was -as a painful: dream to john, *he
gether with the signature and official
seal of Wellington. Also the signa-
ture of Dollard and three others of the
sixteen heroes who saved thesnolony
from the Iroquois in 1660; ers well as
those of nearly all the heroic band of
Jesuits, who, with death staring them
in the face on every hand, penetrated
the forest wilderness, and carried the
story of the cross to the Indians.
Casot—the last of the Jesuits—is there
(1783), alongside of the signatures of much lower than that of any o o
larger eastern. cities.
Frontenac and of Maisonneuve, the
founder of Montreal, is that of Laval Only three of the cities -reported,
'de Montmorenci, the first Catholic show a decrease for August, viz.:
.Bishep of Quebec, and of saintly Vancouver, Calgary and St. `John,
Bishop Stewart. On? the table is a N.B., while only, three .show an in-
Dollond telescope, which could tell crease for the eight months of the
many a tale of etirring scenes beheld Year, viz.: Vancouver, Edmonton •and
• or i .
crease (90,16 per cent.), Edinonton e
smallest increase (8:5 per • cent.),
Montreal the largest, •deereass (50.32
per cent.), and Winnipeg the smallest
decrease (27.3 per cent.), for the first
eight monthd of the year. ,
11.„viete of •the general opinion that
Witintdeg suffered Most from the
Money 'Stringency, it is worthy of note .
that the decrease in her building was
from the slopes of Mount Royal in
the early part of the nineteenth cen-
tury. Then tbere is an-Eolian harp,
nearly one hundred years old; a fine
Reports OS tO prospects for the re-
mainder • of the year were generelly
bright and it seems to be the, coneere.
sus of opinion that the year will fin-
terial and the manufacture of the
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saw standing at his. side the Hainnten day in the light of a great does had • been a firm disciplinarian, and
matting." - • man, and asked him what he thought larger needs, • ' ' had mote than once expressed die-
- OLD .:ESSEX FAMILIES. ,of Quebec. The response was not • • approval of certain frivolous tastes
please L MACKENZIE'S LETTERS. , displayed by his wife, Andsdt was
quite. enthusiastic enough to
the dean, and he said: ' in vain afterwards for Joh to
The Wigle Family IS First In County .messineirstteciruasvfiearuinidglyseethatht0shee thought tin
a beau- Interesting Correspondence. Presented
'With 'Scratch, a Close Second.
.7AlliYe;ruF-cilituqt•tethsionit," CI:greel:1 the offi-
In the riding of South Essex, Ont., ' to Ontario Archives.. •
Thkrrimhxtah ski dn' of Dr, A. B. order to' be able to warn others.
• a citizen named, Darius Wigle is the es'T;l3tit • " th d
str said e dean, with some 00 nedern.l. esser, prrinei.ai • .
DISTINCTION FOR CANADIAN.
Conservative candidate for the Fel-
eml . seat. Recently Mr. Wigle gave eagerness, "the Duke of Norfolk was archivist, has received a coup e of na- e 0
reasons for the political faith that is ,here, who has crossed the ocean Bev- tereenng lettees written by .i • ' '
.. . , . . Lyon. Mackenzie - to .Cols Carroll of Sydney, N.S.., Girl- le First to Win
that he .possesses a farm of 650 acres. and he says there are only two gcitie; . De. Cook obtained the letters for the s
worth seeing on the face of the lobe Norwich. • • ... • Oxford Mu•slcal Degree: •
first
00410mSyddngeiryi, toNwovina
m him, and Incidentally mentioned entee11 tim, es. He has seen everything
old barometer, presented by the Roy Wigle were riot the owner of many • Ds. , . Y e ' Scrttassti isBtulThesil
that can ytsouch this and the are archives from Miss Carolm Carroll . „ , - .
It wc;uld be strange, indeed, if o,
Society of England to one of Mr. 'VI°. ish well. There seerris to be a g Edinburgh and Constantinople," de- daughter of Col. Carroll, and ,now the , rs
year and Lor an_ peaches and tome once v Thesofficer
., dazed' the dean . with 'emphasis, sole survivor of the family. Col. Car- the distinction of having passed the
d 1 'it the belonged to the Wigle . connection. lis'tened lifith attention, , nill Was. one' of Mr. Mackenzie's most 1 final examidation fOr the Degree of
Bachelor of Music, Oxford •Uriiver-
Cord's ancestors.; the cross of old Bon- amount of building, that was-corttem-s. Esse?c. acresi,... for . that country ...,of •
and then suddenly responded: We, intimate friends and sympathizers. I
dean', has the duet ever been to Ham- . Oh the eve of the outbreak north of BitY' In 1903 she passed at •Oxford
ilton?' - Toronto, Mr. MaCkenzie. went out to the "Preliminary (Arts) 'Examination
WOLFE'S IMPRESSIONS-
GENERAL'S" DESCENDANT DM
CUSSES CANADIAN TRIP. ,
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secours Church; an ancient arquebus, P
,and other curious relics. In a closet andel reasons had to be pOstpened, ,
are shelves loaded with portfolios of that is being proceeded with this fall.
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valuable drawings and engravings by - ,... s_ss, John's -,,„• ss ,,,
'the thousand, all representing cele. •< - Sir tumid htY,
bhated scenes and incidents in the - It was in his address to, the elect:vs
annals of Canada. One, a velvet issued at the Opening of the campaign
mezzotint of the Marquis of TOW1113- of 1878 that Sir • Sohn A. Maedonald
!bend, is a veritable work of art, and used that oft -quoted and stirring sen- wrote to his successor in these terms.
„s is only one of many such. tence—"A British subject. I was horn eryou. will ,fiild on. interesting. field.
Here on the walls, are swords, bixin- --e. Britidh subject I will die." , I here and I hone -you will be .greatly
derbusses, guns, bayonets, daggers The wish therein expressed was reas. blessed. Old Beret& called this morns
'and other ancient weapons of war, ,lired. •shortly. afterwards, when 'Sir ing and said he would be happy to
-ed by the entire Canadian people . his entertain your family until the par-
sonage is ready." The new man
• • John 'eased away at Ottawa. MOurn-
remains were borne' back to Kingston,. was somewhat scandalized until he
to which seventy-one years before, discovered • that the •character so re -
he had come, from Scotland, •a poor . !erred to was the richest member in
lad, to Mahe his way in a new land. the congregation, with ettch vineyards
• Sir John's expression of determine- as .are hardly seen in Coterie, SO"
tion to remain. a. Briton, and which side of Essex and I:lunette.;
Next to the Wigle family comes that
s of Scratch end- an alliance of a
Berateli and a Wigle—rather an odd
conjunetion of names—meant that the
whole countrt, came to the wedding.'
It is 'related that a minister who was
departing from an Essex parsonage
'in galore, the most interesting being
the sword of Gen. Brock. Nearby is
a glass case containing the war -bon-
net of eagle feathers of Tecumseh,
together With his • bow and arrows.
There is a fine example of the ebm-
lete armor of a knight of the time
-of the War of the Roses—with marks%
of battle-axe cuts in the helmet. In struck a respoesive c or
another corner is a piece of the ash of the Canadian electotate, was ,used
tree under which the first Superior of oalmost word for 'word some years ear -
the Ursuline Sisters of Quebec taught lier by that great Nova Boeotian, 'Sin-.
the Indian children. On one part of eph Howe. When eddressiog a gath-
the staircase walls are to. be seen ering of electors duritig" a time of
thirty-nine paintings in oils, repos- considerable unrest S and vshere, mein.
senting historic scenes and places in 'terings ot •disloyalty were heard in
Canada; interspersed with trophies of certain parts of, the province. Howe,
the warpath and the battlefield. in the course 0! his speech; said:
will litre and die a British sh teet."•
A Murderous Weapon. He died not Only . a British subject
' Not content with the siiialler knife and a citizen of Nova Scala, but an
'affected by his less blood -thirsty officer of the Government of the Dom -
„countrymen, an Italian now in Parry- inim Catiada, whose creatioo in
ISound tail has exercised his ingenuity the form it took in 1807 he strenuous-
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.6'n making a "murderers' tool,” mit °PP°sed•
•!of a file, and he has done his work
' /well, for when the knife, sent by a
magistrate from that northern dis-
trict, arrived at the Attorney -Gen-
eral's Department the Toronto detec-
tives who viewed it said/they had nev-
er seen its like. •
This elide was ,made from a file 9
inches long, and 7 1-2 inches is Manz-,
ed as a blade. It tapers from an inch
in diameter to a needle point and car-
ries a keen cutting edge on both
edges. The shank is set in a piece of
Ismall maple branch with the. bark
still on in some plaees to ensure a
perfect grip.
. In the hands 61 an assassin etch
'a knife 'would go through a victim as
• .. easily as a bayonet on the end of a
Iheavy rifle; and it is ,asgood thing
the knife wits taken away from this
sanguine native of sumiy Italy before
he had occasion to use it.
More Go 'Ida Teaching. • '
.Increases in teachers' 'salaries, Says .
Hon. Dr. Pyne, Minister of Educa-
tion for Ontario, who •ha just re-
turned . from En land, is responsible
dor the large • in the number
:of entries for the Normal riche* thie
Yeter• There are- 1,300 applications/.
rwhich 'is more than donblesthe avers
age. The ilia Normol 'Schools, have
accommodation fot about 1,200 Skis
' Amts.
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The average increase in country
se.hool salaries has been from $402 ih
in 1904 to $458 in 1907 for males and
, grom $295 to $379 for females. ' In
down schooli the increase is from $485
to $547 ..for 'males, and troni $335 to '
4389 for females. \,
Hon. Dr. Pyne is )reserving his cen-
elisions from the observations he
!made MI technical education in,Great
'Britain. '
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Shows Are Immoral. "
Say
• Oompl *nt has been made to 'the
department of mond reform of the
4 MethOdifi Church about the elms of
itheatrical production aliened to en-
der the Dominion from the' TInited
States and do 'business throughout
Canada.
It is charged ilittt in certain thee-.
dm in Toronto, Herailtorl and Monte
.treal plays of viciousquid Alimoral ten.
&mei are glVen,. • • \
Eaten by Wolves.
Mike McHugh of, VancteaVer, BA.
peered three years ago at Al -
Vancouver. Island. 'Recently ,
remains of the skeleton • were, t
indicating he had been killed
wad.otareereci..hy Ire.itee or pentite.c.t!
Prof. MOLean's Careee.
• Simon James ,•McLean, whom the,
Dominion vernment has appointed
a : railtiray isdiener, . is foal a
young .rnan, but has hada. Very. bril-
liant and creditaisle 'career.
He is about .38 Years eld; and was
born •near 'Ottawa, and received,' his
early education •in the Ottawa schools
and Collegiate. • He. graduated from .
• Toronto University, in 1894 in opoliti-
eat Iscience, and took. his LL.B. •in
1895: He then. went to Columbia
ni-
. . . .
Versity and reeervecl, M.A., and
frorp there went 'to Chi -cages. Univere
• lay. whete he took thesdesce° of Ph.D.
The Siffieurs. , • . Fle.was appointed an•ehlodate pro -
The following note. by Dr. Ilector, *set in the University Of Arkansas;
the geologist who. accompanied , Dile. and .from there Went to Leland Stan -
of • the early explorations Of l3ritish ford University.; el -which lie• was ac.t...
Columbia under Captain Palliser; re- ing head of a departinent for a time.
fers • to the mountain woodchuck, - .. Laistly. he , came „haelt. to Toronto
' which the French trappers 'celled lditivetsitY, and for three years •has
siffieur, or "whistler," on account of ..Prien. associate professor of politicai.
its erg. The whined is common near; .s'efence there. Prof. McLean was. wen,
the timber -line* throughout the earth.'" liked by the. students, and was eve -
ern .Rockies. • ., *, daily *ell up in his work. For:such
'We saw (On , Castle mountain) a young • Man he has done a great
several bands of sheep, but did not amonnt of, 'research works and. has
get 0. shot; howeVer, we killed two • written much for variant journals on
Of the marmots or siftleurs.' This • railway and transpogtatiori preblerns
animal is the size of .11, badger,' with . as well as on banking, and finance.
• coarse hair, and no power fur. It ' • • .
has. large incisor teeth like those Of ' Rejects. Undeeirables.°
the beaver; it lives, among the rocks, ' Thomas Itobinson, the recently -ens'
and lmea, large nest, in. which itilays painted immigration Officer at .lidini-
up• stases of provisions :for winter,' IO:r,'has started hi to conduct an ag-
during ' which season it 'never, ecaries greesive, campaign against the •cheap
abread ' but whether it hibernates or alien labor which- for seine time has
not th:i Indians do not know..„ It re- ' been • flooding the westeria.rt of•On-
trans , to. its hole late in September, tasks He turneck back .a. h ' of 25
at which time it Is very 'fot, and :Poles' who crossed over retently with
quite. as good eating as the beever, dinner beakete, hoping to get, work at
. having the same rat, flavor." - the Windsor end of the tunnel, No
• • '' • • attemPte hi being mado'. conduct. re -
Disaster Pursued Him., s .. , Ialiatory trieties as * t the United.
'.'• Charles DYneri; storekeeper of Sap- States' head. tax; which •contimfet to
parton, B.C., a suburb of Nese. West- be impOiedintin Canodi going in -
minder, was awakened by fire in the to the United States for the•iiret time,
store' below his room, `He, his wife but a `Strong effort, will be made to
and five children" fled in their* • te ,keep out the ohjectiona.ble class of
°Whet. just in time to save r foreigners which for ,,some: time poet
'lives: His wife .and ;her beliy gi two has been ievading the cOuntry in
Weeks, ;were both ill. The building •. ever-increasing numbers . at liceder,
end contents burned to the ground. -notate... .
„The same Morning repossentatiies _..
of ,rieniranee companies decided to im- . Meets Five Bears.
mediately pay the. damage. D'illee- - • Roy Coon, of Apsley,.. &Me across
*rent to New Westminster for his five bears in a field of marsh hay near
check. He ;received the money and his home a few *daye ago, and, ha, -
was riding home on the front end of 4ing taken hie Ems with him shot two
. a street ear: At a switch the tar iet them The other three disappeared;
lurched and thew 'him off. He was in. the woods near at hand, i„,,, of
thrown under ,the wheels and cut, in 'them easrling in his. hide teat .thae
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for Students of Ildusic,' and the First
Col..Co.rroll's house,. then in Tordato
active , Examination for the Degree of Mus
• Repairing the Boundary. 4 ' TOWnshifi, • and req,uested his
Sixty-six years • have ,passed sinceamine.tion candidates are not obliged
For' the Second mus, Bae, ,ee.
• -* •assistance.The colonel point blank , Bs°.
between Great Britain and the United full sympathy with the demand • . e
need, stating that while he was in
h naad sub. mit for ex. amina.tion a mesical
the signing . of the Ashburton Treatyto go to Oxford. They are 'required
. States by which the southeastern for c,onstitutional changes, he clepre- t°
exercise of their owls compositton.
d ' 1 t • and that if he
frontier of Canada Was definitely agre-. jettstrt vte ett - in tke' sssing it would This must he e vocal work with "ac-
ed • to: The it:del-national 'boundary td.0 part a all me. , .
inst eompaniment i or a .string bands The
line having been ran, it was. marked be as. an_officer ,of : itia, and aga
.. ' - s following movements are exPeeted:.a:
highway '. where" it passed from open • !Pawl. •macireozie s •
'' flight he was. be -
b unaccompanied vocal quartette, and as
five-part chorus, a •song or duet; an
by iron . poste •• erected* along every his'. „s_fried. . . . 1
country into the other, . .— • , . • , five-part fume. The -shark , ma • e,
' b
trended and hidden for some -clays- y -
• •Buts.the posts have heti falling into 1 • •
Itr :Holcombe in Pelham Township Y
fro ti he 'was either sacred or secular. Miss Bin-
a state of disrepair and were over- on the Niagara n. er, until m &ell chose a sacred siebject, giving
safel condiseted across the river. • r. . , , .
ot the title 'The Light•of Men." She
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Monuments In Deplorable Condition,
Particularly That of Warrior •
Ancestor—He Found No Wolfe Be,
In Quebec Are TerribieeePlains of
Alicbs.raWhaomrtha Twidaltstien,g, About—Roads
The Yorkshire Herald publishes an
interview with. MT. George Wolfe of
Acomb Priory, York, and County Kil-
dare, Ireland, who, at the invitation
of the Dominion Government, attend-
ed the Quebec Tercentenary. In Part,
the article is as follows,: ' •
Naturally, Mt. Wolfeesid particu-
lar attention to the 'Plains of sabre -
ham, where Wolfe defeated Mei:dealt!?
in 1759 and .Levis triumphed over
Murray six months later. These pre-
cious Plains, sacred to French and •
English alike, appear to have been en
sort of Tom Tiddler's ground. •
"They are in a most deplorable con-
dition," said Mr. Wolfe, in answer ,to
a •question. "There are no trees, per-
haps there never were any; there is,
.plenty of stones and rubbish; there
is no grass. Really, the leek of the
Place is disgraceful; A greatidealhas •
been. enetnaclaed ,on, many houses
have been built, send there are isig
_market gardens. Very little reraaina,„
One a the objects in view in organite
ing the pageant was to raise mgney.,
,W help ,to buy out those People who ,
. have acquired rights . over the plains • '
in one wayandanother; and turn the
plebe into a par;k.'
"The famous •Plains" of Abraham
look like apiece ,.Sv este land?" .
"Exactly se. Likes a city building
plot not ready dor, the market."
"And what about- monuments?"
- Mr, Wolfe picked up. a picture•of a•
MeirtoriaL "That is Champlairee mon-
timent. It a beauttful piece Of Work.
Champlain was tiAslounder of • Que-
bec; you know, and the celebrations
Were really in honor of the/Champlain •
tercentenary. You see they had to
be careful of French susceptibilitieS.
They could not expect the Fretich- ,
Canadians tie'rettilee over the capture
cit Quebec by the English."
"Did you ;see Wolffes monurnent?"
"Yes; it is nothing but a •straight
pillar with a bit of green paintedrail,
ing round."
"It is not elaborate; then "
"It is sadly rieglected. The •place '
seems to be the resort Of all the cats
and dogs of the neighborhood. It is,
in very - bad bondition2 The jpint
Memorial to Wolfesand Montcalm is
a little better, but not much. That
also is straight pillar. The moven,
Merit to Murray • hi' little better, '
grown with weeds. • . :
• The, work of restoring these fron-
tier marks haS been carried on along
the southern boundary of the pro-
viwellneefionfisQhueedb.seTtTed It is nh°airve151.bllen izngte)s-lrfites; wabisethat,en!ient• for the , successful, ly passed m ay •
reset and are now in'tetter donditiou °hives 0.1the PreviPee• 'Yeitr• •
than they ever we bef h -After rar. Mackenzie was pardoned. Th April Miss Burchell passed the
ease where: the higldeer• e.rossee and .entered into ...public life- once. examination for Associateship of the
frontier the iron Post has been 'set in agairi; his intimate,relationahirs' with .1 'Royal College Of Music, 'at that insti-
a massiVe base of : eement, end •alongs', Cols -Cardin was resumed end the let, tution in London. H.R.H. the Prince
the frontleit at about' everY enarter of • 'tem • not*" Pre.aented . to the arehives of 17Vales is president . of the Royal
Holcembe was an. intimate friend p
shad the good fortune to have her first
Dr. °milt's, and in after years gave
work accepted by the examiners. •
him minute particulars •of Macken-
• • dr w, I • The Third (Final) F.aamination was
• • ..
ded. •th political niatters in vsboili
College.
Vriii 171 ed Ins' „,,„ss,sterS essise, ' '. Miss Burchell studied sander Mr.
a mile smeller • granite paits-solidlY:
figed in cement have' been set up,. and-. Ssessegs a-, -7 '...t.n .. ..'-- . Peter . Leaneur, : 1VItis. Bee., • Oxon>,
wheinVer the ' line—Oilseeds through': • • . • • • ' F.It.0.0: . 'L.B.A31., formerlg music:
woodland the. trees and bruth for s. ' : '. . !'+ •Lairigr EthiY. _ master q't. the Methodist College, St,.
distance of fifty feet • have been odd „ -During the royat , tour of : the . heir John's, N'ficl:;.. and under Dr. C. W.
'
away. Our tioundati line, separating 'ern:arm:it in 1901, 'Sir Wilfrid was 'Pearce, Mus. Does; Cantab., F.B.C.O.,
the proVince sfrom the . adjoining........ti rdown. over-iealons ad- of Trinity College :Of Music, London..
'
*two. • ' had failed to reach his vi . Coon
bad with hilt only a few cartridges;
The Irish of It. as he did not expect to meet any game,
The Minister of Agrictilhire ter the The bears he killed were the mother
her province of Alberta is Irish. It and a Well-grOwn cab. •
`reirern who sought to make his pro- She le the daughter o , . U.
, . .
gress :lama's Canada in the- entourage nurchell, (IE., of Sydney, N.S. fors.
- of the .Prince of -Wales a eort, of joipt merly Governinent engineer . of 'New-
• affair. - . • . foundland, and afterwards director of .
- The royal train tan in two sections. public works, British Honduras.
The first; which ran half an hour • • •
st,ates„ is new dearly and permanent-
ly marked. -
. Germans. In Caneda.S,
, .
: AlthoUgh the emigretionsto Canada
from Oteat Britaih this yeer has fail -
To Leek F
ForCastaways.
en off in nuntbers, the sunned states • .a.head of the second, carried' dete.c-. •
continue to pour an increasing stream liteS, . corresPOntiente, Sir • Wilfrid, .- H. M. S. Aigerine, now at Bequi.,
of farmers and settlers OverlheInter. g°d'g : malt, is spreparing for a cruise to
national" ,Boundary. These are at- and the *Rideen Hall party. C4 i
'down through Northern Muskoka,. en ,
' wreck, exidether islands of the South
Christmas Island,. scene of the Aeon
tractecrby 'the prosisiscv es •••yjsgin soil . route to Toronto, the first section stop.
Obtainable at a loin•cofitSand yet with, ''Ped. ler hall an hour at one' point to • Pacific. Until •a few years ago, a
similar climatic, conditions no those- .take in, water. and to have' the wheels cruise was, na•cide rtnnually,to,the is..
prevailing in:Minnesota and the Da-
kotas, where all the ,cheap land hits
.already been taken op. The. Cana-
dian Padfla _irrigation scheme near'
Calgerg,• his,•.`absorbed Many of these
• immigrants,. and the sales of „irrigate:.
ed. binds tine year have
ed all noevions records: Ito fewer than"
20,000 sores ha,ve been.doWrecently to
German fanners from North Dakota,
, and as, this goes into cultivation at
once, Canada will have a considerable
Gernian colony at the gateway' to the
•
Rockies: e •
• '
' Fast Horsed In T nto.
• A Tsoronto roan was in ontrealand'
while standing chatting on a corner,
part of the fire brigade. passed' ita
fway W. a islaressomewhere.
"Tha,t's -odd r.exclaimed the Toren -
to• man. '
"What's odd?" a.sked the Manfred:
"Whys, in Toronto. our firemen el-
., .
ways let the horses. walk retursnrig
from a fire."
"But they're not returning trete •11
fire—they're going to a fire,' eIceurp-
ed the Montrealer. .
• "Going- to ct fires !" The Toronto man
guyed incredulously at the er.
"Why, do you know, he , "the
horses in theloronto fire _brigade go
A want of sheep because eaeh man
'faster than that' when ther/re.Strw. Itee a ii;elees Agrieuitdr-
d The looal Liberal Association lands of Smith Pacific to investigate
the possibilities of castaways being
found on an unhabited islands and
to renovate graves, etc. • . •
. With the addition of Algeririe at the
Esquimalt station, the practice is be
-
• revived •
quiries by salvage. companies re- •
Vali-promptly° On hand with an ad-
. •
'chess in honor of Sir Wilfrid, placing
him jri very awkward 'situation. It
Weald have: been a• gross .breach Of
etiquette for him, as asubsidiary* per-
sonage hi the wait. machinery of the
British Empire,. to accept ,an address.
on a tour in honor of the heir apper-
ant: At the risk of Of -tending the dele-
gation which had planned.tlais foolish
political displays he sent 'them .about:
„their business, informing them that
he was Merely a • private individual
• on this tour, and that honors • Were
reserved for the prince.
• Scots Ceiticize. • lk
•
•. The members of the Scotch farming
bommissioe have token home admir-
able accounts of the tour. .. They ap-
parently -found much to admire in
Canada, and something to criticize.
R. B. Craig 'declares the Quebec faint-
ers to be ecineervative and interest -
Ing, the" worst farmers in the
Dominions.. while regarding Ontario
farmers, he observes a Buchan Man
would cut Mote thistles with less
dash. There is plenty of room' in On-
tario far Wen with • capital, though
land is not cheap, he says and points
out that it quantity'. ef land is svasted
in, New Bruninvick and Quebec 'ter
ing . .:astollegePs are the objects of wannest
•
His Own ,Naine.
• appreciation.
dir Alexander Mackenzie, the is,
Model of Old, Quebec.
4,4144
"Iwwgianad:usityheilul'.... when tliveastraineneepsntedtrftveniligno at Among t•lte recent additions to the
• objects of interest in the archives
. Ail Married Polkir. .. alittle wath"testil'he irotikalu:' hav711.to branch is e complete Model of "old
Quebec City. which was sent one hun- A Toronto resident recently =niers-
. told that, owing to a bl tor -
'dent of NevrIloine, to td men y
lk ill "LtY-Biz remrsiulcheTee e 'wag ome hours, dred years c:go to the Itritigh
yearn a real , A Gi'venl." ed three young kittens hi a barrel of
water, With the intention Of drOwning
Itle. ReurY Ft) t r Bev ---- 11 k l'°r I t b ' Colonel By, the founder of
• .
garding the possibilsty of solving the
steamer Aeon, wrecked on Christmas.' sented the two pistols he was wearing - •
Ists,ncl, have disclosed the fact that 'to his doctor. The doctor's family are
the engines 'have broken' away and,. • ' s to sell them to the Govern -
. "Nelson'a ,monument :..Trafalgar
square id a piper; and we think it .
lot about'it." n •
"Oh, but this is nothing like Nel-
son's mommient. These pictures flat-
ter. it very miteb.- It is small affair.'
Butithens of „Course, one• could not ex-
pect the French to join in any glori-
fication of Wolfe: and Murray.' •The ,
restoratioh or re -building . of these •
monuments is part of the sdherini of
improvement." .
"What do you think of Quebec?"
"It is a beautiful city—btit their
roads! They are terrible! Never again •
will I .grumble at our roads. Nobody
ever. seems to make up a road. Some -
of them look .as if they had never s
,beens. made at all—full of ruts and '
great holes. And Motor cars scud-
ded about in the wildest fashion How
they kept upright is a.raystery to me. •
Why, if this road out here was a tenth ....
part as bad' as the roads in Quebec,
the hedges would be dotted with
smashed motors." •
s "One Of the most interesting visits
we paid waado. the Ursuline. Convent.
Quebec is full of mins, and the Ursu-
line order played a great part in the
earlydife of Quebec: We received the
Pernussion of the archbishop to visit •
the place. Montcalm was buried in a •
chapel there, and they 'keep his head.'
under a glass shade. .It was a grue-
some sight, the *yes and nose. cavities
being filled with a -Bort •of soft wax.
When Coant de Montcalm so* it he
nearly fainted.. The sisters. have .also
the last letter Montcalm wrote, and a
table. Get. Murray. wrote his Orders
on." • •
, "Did you ape any Wolfe relics ','•
•
"Io, these doesn't seem to -be any.
He liveeit very austere life, and his .
possessions were of the . simplest. It
'd heii he was dying he, Pre- •
the' hull .ii brealdng. No .hope of sat"
vage is entertained. The Canadian-.
merit, but they want an enormous
price—about £4,000. There. seems no
Australian line agents say.the steam- do about their genuinen.ess. • By
er Maisulta will undoubtedly ball at the way, there is a lIttle cottage near
• Christmas •Island, as instructions to Montmorency Falls where Wolfe lay
that effect will be cable from Sydney, for some weeks sick after the fight
to which port the sarvivors of the on the Plains where the English got
Aeon Will be taken. ' • defeated. I visited it,. and the owner
•ANN; •presented me. with a bit of plaster off
Room For Settlers. the wall of the room where Wolfe
RePorts 'received frdra BritiSIT 06- tb give."
.lumbut land surveyors sent titit to •
exarnine and. survey land along the • - McNicoll 'Celebrates, •
i
route of the Grand Trunk Pacific •• Mr. David MeNicboll, vice-president •
Railway represent that th'e area , fit and general manager of the Canadian t"
for settlement is very ranch larger Pacific •RailwaY, has just celebrated •
than was generally supposed. From the forty-seCond annivelsary Of his en -
present indications, all the land along try into the field ' of railway work, ,
filet railway in., this proyinces; with a which took place On Aug. 20, 1866. Mr. 1.
fete isolated exceptions, will be taken -IteNteoll began as -a clerk in. the
• up by actual settlers within it *short goods department of the North Brit-,
steeervniceyecamaro e to Ceded+ Here in,nine-
,,tithifiraeotiuehanftteterptrhriathtsee itivireeatiBprirstijsbehl.ltdo. JumtWasenvibasia jell Itailway, and alter eight years of
he rose, from a clerkship • '
section would not be traffie-producing, to his Present position iii second in
There is, hoWever, as a matter of fact, comrxiand 4n one of the world's great- •
every 'reason to believe that it will est railWriys. He has the reputation •
be the seat of many and Varied in- of being one of the hardesisworkidg
dustriette • men ia a profession that calls for
hard Work all the time from whoever
kitten' ostme to We. would rise, above the average level,
'end he has well deserved all the suo-
sett! he has, won,
is hardly necessary to label Idea after
reading the following:
This 8011 Of Erin sena down atiktia-
grath, in the southwestern corner of
the province, where he was address -
Mg the farmers. In the course of
his remarks he urged -urns them the
try and"carrycarry all their eft in elle
Emerald thaw Wordet
.."We tenet alWitt, look tforwouie
some ing to fall 'beck'. on."
•
neeeseity,d'following. line "mix.
ed fartmt!g," and told them omit to
basket.' Thee cattle it diet), y of the
• county, died it few days ago.
,pecuhar circumstance is the fact that
her daughters are all unitcsd in mar-
riage to men of the same name, and
yet are not related. They are:
W. Z. Pak, Lambardy; Mrs. Samuel
PakPort. MidThe y, and Mts. J. H.
Polk,
, Burgles. decellaed was
stater a Mr. It. L. ierrit,
North Auguste..
• Is
thr Alexander was
his destination, and.,the delay maa•
him anything but pleased. "Sono
hours in this hole of a place," he
exclaimed, "away front' an CkVithillt•
tion Why, I hate de very rtanser.
Then, happening to put his bead out
of the cartage whacker, he bebekt the
name of the istatierl in large letters..
It 'Was Illitekensiet"
The Model wee sent, probably for POMO tiMej apptrctitly dead, arid were
wrnioolltittwilichPaustrense'lat Arced. hetass„, gobeenoogninty buried, Next day one of the kittens
has voLeuepoececa.: ottiedniihthi:newhicapaneshnitlwatudaIt!onswait ,he;:sr, iiti.fzioowutildr,LIliceinv„edge. atTili:Whrtadadib.1.YeTrhatab:24odele
e grave mx1 secured the only
by the Prince of Welts, was another kitten will& had mit life in it and
interestinp historical relic now inthe host brought it heck t
e health
•firchivee' lranah.
4
and
O. Ts P. Shortcut.
The Grand Trunk Pacific has just
'adopted a eat -off in Northern Cariboo
that will effect it saving in mileage
of between 100 and 166 miles. The
main line as now finally located will
run across the country due west from
Grand Rapids, on the south fork of
the Fraser Elver, to Fort George, on
the Main rivets .