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BALLADS -et A-MItteaMA.--
• My Threw* ere Mien and Often fit
My rhyming
I've drifted, eilvenotailed„ on iteas of
• dream,
Hearing .atar the hells •Of Elfiand
t
chiming,
i Seeing the „groves of Areedie agleern.
I was the thrall of Beauty that re.
, joicee
:From, peak enow-diaderaed to regal
. star;
Yet to mine aerie ever pierced the
Voices,
The pregnant voicee of the Things
That Are.
The Here, the Now, the vast Forlorn
ereinad us;
The gold -delirium, the feriae atrife;
The luta that lure us on, the hetes
that hound us;
Our red rags in the patch -work quilt
of Life.
The nameless men who nameless riv-
era travel,
And in strange valleys greet strange
deaths alone;
The grim, intrepid ones who would
unravel
The mysteries that sliroud. the Polar
Zone.
These will I sing and if one of you
linger
Over my pages in the Long, Long
Night,
And on some lone line lay a callous.
ed finger, •
Saying: "We human true -it hit; me
right";
Then wi 1 count this loving toil
well spent;
Then will I dream awhile -content,
content,
-Robert W. Service,
SPENDING MONEY HERE. .
U. S. Consul Calculates American
Capital Invested in Canada.
A return, which will be interesting
to Canadians, has been made by the
United States Consul at Owen Sound,
covering the principal manufacturing
establishments in Canada which are
branches of United States concerns.
In all, 128 are given, most of them
large companies. Toronto has the
largest number -no less than 43. This
is followed by Montreal, with 18;
Hamilton, with 11; Windsor. 8;
Walkerville, 6; Niagara Falls, 5'; St.
Catharines and Welland, 4 each, and
Chatham, London, Sault Ste. Marie,
3 each. The aggregate capital is said
to exceed $125,000,000, and the actin,
ity covers pretty much every line of
manufacture.
The tariff gets the chief credit for
effecting these gains, but some of the
American newcomers state that the
tariff is by no means the sole con-
sideration. A combination of circum-
stances induced them to take action:
They had arrived at the opinion that
the Canadian market was at the be-
ginning of a big expansion and wish-
ed to be right on the ground to take
advantage of it. Also, they had tio-
ticed that their Canadian customers
evinced a stroog disposition, other
things being equal..to • fanor articles
made in Canada. Then they found
that there were in the Dominion a
number of excellent manufacturing
sites from which all the great ,dis-
tributing centres could be reached by
water -borne freights; and that they
could, before shipment, set freight
quotations from the railroads definite-
ly fixing the cost of transportation
to almost every little shipping point
in the country.
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5REAKFAST
The liket 1.14 te Se Oren.% Waist.
Mot Fresh Olives.
Of all breettlfsst fruit* the orange la
deservedly the most popular. It la
food that la dietlactly batik!, giving.
Orange Mee aide greatly in reducing
the sanottst of putrefaction found in
the intestluee Of nearly ail pentane
whe are eilinnitted. to clinical labora-
tory testa,
Grapes are another fruit that should
always be eaten freely when obtainable.
Apples are preferably eaten before re-
tiring. and two are about twice as good
as one. The apple habit, persisted in.
ofteu Works rather surprising results
with persons whp are naturally list-
less. Lemons can hardly be eaten as
a fruit, but lemonade Is a valuable
beverage. When used as a. laxative
fresh figs should form the deseert.
When not onteinnble the dried lige
form a good. substitute.
Of the value Of bananas there *metes
some reasonable doubt. !deny person@
eomplain that they tind them indigestl,
ble, They aro quite likely to reach
this conclusion If the batmen he eaten
frequently as the needleen complement
of an already henrty meal. On the
other hand, there rim be no doubt that
the growing popttlarity of the freeh
olive in fully desterved. It surely ranks
with the orenge and the grape and is.
of course, much ahead of either In
etiSINI of sluggish tntemtines or constitu-
tional thinnetta.-41, Irving Iliiticock in
Good Housekeeping.
• Speculation Iri the Country.
Those who scoffingly read the min-
ing advertisements in the Toronto'
daily newspapers and sniff in sus-
picion at the news of the mining mar-
ket have very little idea ofhow great
a had the mining craze has taken
upon the smaller towns and village*
of the province of Ontario.. In To-
•ronto, Montreal, or Ottawa, a Mining
craze takes possession of the -cene-
1 infinity for perhaps *Ai months;
Ilarge number of gentlemen who have
'no fixed vocation but live on coinmissions from real estate deals, bond
:selling, insurance and so on hang up
their shingles as mining brokerte
'prosper for a time, and when the
boom shbsides seek something .else
to do. But in the country, where
ithere are small opportunities for play -
ling the races and where the ordin-
ary course of life is apt to seem pro-
,saic when indulged in for 365 dayn
of the year, the prospect of purchas-
ing shares in an area 'of rock for
I eleven cents that will be worth five
:dollars as soon ae development takes
:place is alluring. Thus the :Mining
!promoter, whose plant consists of
s several contracts for thousands of
:lines of display advertising, finds a
;ready hearing in the country, while
jin the city he is dismissed as a mere
curbstone faker.,
The
TOO COMPLICATED. .
W. Ssy "You" instead of
Using "Thom"
The reason commonly given for the
substitution of the second 'person
plural for the second perm% singular,
"you" instead of "thee -that it °rig'.
flitted as a fad of courtesy -may ex-
plain its origin, but its universal adim-
tion Is due to a 'deeper reason -namely.
that the second person singular of the
tot is a compticated and difficult
form. while the second person plural
Is simple to the last degree.
With every principal verb in the lan-
guage and with every auxiliary except
"must" the pronoun "thou" requires a
special change in the form of the verb.
which is often the only break in au
otherwise uniform series. Thus In the
present tense of every verb, with the
single exception of the verb "be." the
pronoun "you" employs the unchanged
root form of the verb. as "you love.
have, can do. shall, win" Pte.. while
"thou" requires( -change of form, as
"thou lovest, lust. canst, dost, shalt.
wilt." etc.
In every such choice tbe unchanged
root form has always the right of way.
Thus "you" has become everywhere
current in the busy activities of life,
•while "thou" is carefully laid up in
• the museum of antiquity or the shrine
of religion -James C. Fernald In Har -
per's Magazine.
THE SANCI DIA*ONO.
Its Ceara, Ohm* the Time Omuta
Elistetrete illeoght it.
Rilisabeth of ittiadated palirchatted the
famous' Sane Manama when Sabel.
extravagant owl splendid, was km la
puree, When Chairiee Weenie king WA
seet Buckingham to Faris to hring
back bis bride, Ilearietta. tbe metseme
ger wore the Swat Charlet; quarreled
with his queen. Henrietta. and; with
his psrliament, and not long atterwurd
Cromwell asked for his head. Henri.
etta gave the diamond to the iterl ot
Worcester. Worcester prottable gay*
It intik to the ntuarte, for whotn he
ruined himself, for It de:wended to
Jeittee IL Jatnele distietrous reigti cost
Ilitu the crown, but be kept the Sand.
That and other jewels witich he took
away with him supported various Stu-
art pretenders. ThIM Partkintir one woe
sold to Louis Xi% of France tor #1'23. -
Mt.
Stolen with otht-r jewels in 1792, the
Same digit p pea red for hi rty,s1 x years.
A jeweler came hy it. and Frinee Dein-
'doff purchneed it for his wife. Tweo-
ty yearn later ehe let It go to Jam&t-
jee In rich nierctut lit tif Boni
bey. Again it appeared at a Paris
Jeweler's shop and was Sold to the
mitharenth of rutting*. Ile, too, came
'Mon hard three. It was from jt Lan-
don jeweler Mat William Waldorf As-
tor bought It for his wins
Frenkiln (ieale fm.Everybody'n Mag-
azine,
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Making Sure .of the Architect. .
Norman-Al•Ootian. an Menem king
• whoneignett long. long •ago at Elimle.
commanded t he. architect Sennemar. to
• build him wondrous .palace. Thia
the architect did and when ft was,
done a single Stone fastened tbe whole
strticturen and the colors of thewalls
changed •.frequently • during the 'day.
The .king was ;•greatlypleased atin,
showered all kinds of rich gifts upon
the blinder with the lavishnesi.of ori-
ental kiugs. But monarchs Were
treacherona In those old days; and it
oecurred to the king that. Sennemar
'might build a palace equal. In beatity
:or even superior for some rival ruler.
The more he thenignnoner It the more
Jealous he berainenuntil one. day he
ordered the architect .to he thrown
•
froth tbe' top of the palace to make;
certain that no duplicate palace would•
he made. "After t hise he king was sat-
:letied that his tialare was the only
one. and the Arabians iegardedit as
one Qf the Wonders .of.therworld.
Canada's Water Power.
There are few, if any, countries
which have such magnificent water
powers as Canada possesses, says The
Vancouver Daily News. The develop-
'ment of electrical science has given
'these water powers a value far be-
'yond what they were considered to
thave thirty or even twenty' years ago.
,In the cheap production of power
t which is possible by the utilization
.of the currents of our rivers and
,streams, we have the most important
'factor for the foundation of all lines
of manufacture under most. favorable
'conditions.
Mr. Challies estimates the minimum
flow development of all the water
powers of Canada at 25,682,907 horse-
power, of which but 516,885 horse -
'power has as yet been developed. A
;calculation made by Mr. Young
shows that the maintenance of one
horse -power per annuna from steam
'.power requires a consumption of 21.9
tons of coal. If we take nth as a
ibasis the available water powers of
!the Dominion represent an energy
iwhnni, if maintained by steam power,
iwerald require a coal consumption of
.562,455,633 toes per annum.
Ducks Slaughtered' Out of Season.
There is a great slaughter of ducks
along the Rideau Canal, more par-
tieularly at Dog and Cranberry Laken
despite the fact that it has been the
close season. I ' etained Bobby.--Iieluwator.
• • As Good as'.He Sent.
Ate. reet;nt Meeting of the directors.
.of • an eaSteru• .railroad a prominent
railroad Man repeated a story that he
just had fnonna eotiducter, ofl one of•
the liMited expresses between ;slew,
York • and the west. • • .
• It seems that a dapper Chap in the
first chaircar bed managed to beeome
unusually friendly- with an attractive'
young woman in an adjoining seat.
When the train pulled into Buffalo, tbe
masher. In taking leare of the lass, re-
marked: . ,
"Do you know. I mist thatik yen ter
• an awf Ily. ativrIly pleasant :titne, but
I'm afraid you wottlduot have be,en
o niee to me .L .4 you known that :1
Was•a married man." :
"Oh. ns to that." quiailtlY and pleas-
antly, 'responded the charming young.
woman, "Yeti heroin the Wain' advan-.
loge of me; .1 tini an escaped lunatic.".
' &change. .
rast arid Slew.
• The raillery! learn .with *erre*,
ley son, that yon. are getting to he
what they tertn.quite feat, •The
tAon-
Von shouldn't believe all you tear,
dad. VII introduee son to a man who
will tell. you another story. The Fa -
titer -And who h4 he? The Son -My
tenor. He gays I'm the slowest Chep
he's got on his booke.
THE SPIDER.
It Differs From an insect In Five Main
Particulars.
The Spider le not in Insect. though
probably nine people net Of ten' would
clam it 1111iier thin term. Vinth 'scor-
pions and mites anklet* form a Mass In
the animal kingdom known an areal -
nide. This mune in derived from it
my Meal • personage called A rarb ne.
the daughter of st purple dyer on 'Ly-
dia. who was fabled to have chal-
lenged Minerva to a trial of,skill in
*Winning. So indignant was the god-
dess at this aet of bolditesti, that she
fort h wit h transformed the, hapless
e ha I tenger int o n .spider, presume bly
In order that she might have the:best
possible opportunity of practicing the
'art on which she prided herself so
much,
Silkier:4 differ. from 'linnets In tive
niain partieulars. Their eyes are stun -
pile Instead of Compound, t hey have
eight legs in Ware of six: they do not
pass through the metamorphoses
whet are chnracieristie (it 'tweets,
Alley have no antennae and their
breathing is aeeoleplished by means ot
organa which eomni tie the tunet ions
• ot lillige atid gills instead of by tubes
pemtding their bodies. These points
of distinetion are sutilelent to delen•
Mine the fart nun it IS Impossible to
class spiders as insects:: '
•
• The "Picket."
The picket was generally Inflicted on
cavatty. and artillery. mew and was a
singularly brittal hit of torture.. A meg
peat. tient* w Web iitoed a steel. was
driven Into the greurid. Therienequent
Was ordered to mount the stool. and
his right hand Was faStened to a 'book,
Ili the post by e noose. drawn ani as
• high its It eoual be.stretcheit. mann his
wrist. A stuelp.the neigh; ot•the stool;
with ita•eno at to a rotind,unit tannt",
point, was Mao driven into the eartn
Close to. the post. -• Then the stool was
taken away; and the sufferer had togg-
les to rest hisogre teet opon but the
stut»p. "wheat, though It did not tieti-;
ally break tho i.t,tn saya Citptain
,Grose, nem, ono Itt great tortmen1)15
Only means of relief ening ity resting
libi;,...weigtit 401 ilts„ 'tile:pain Of
which :404011 1 P(1.7.11114. inioterittilef: Otte
4,itt very 'Well believe him,. eshevialiy
• when' he'intikes• atliotipn. tt“it •11
wee waealot 10 tregitetitty teft• to stand
in this pesitien tar tent an .tiour,. 017
him Int the , orthodox iteriod. (It ondur-
tinee Was hiteen inittuies. --.Lonann
OWN) NorroMissivii
stwasipir 14144 009
T.* Off SOSO A VIEM I -"Asz tiorm10
F. H. 10441011411 Again 4110" OP le Name Heontoeteedis Seislf Taken UP
-the Limellaht. in the West.
Some men Bean feted to be always "We esa, see the Mush of the day
in the spot light -no matter where oe tree Lewis tor eettlement, In the •gmeer, a Comedian who lies !earn
as
they move, it soutettow follows there. West not far away. now." said F. T. to his native country after sojourning
saYs a Writer in Saturday Night. Of Griffin, land cominissipner el • the in many laud, and who was a friend
ouch hi Franeis H. McGuigan, now Canadian ,raciaa the other day. of the late Entente Wintan in Ilie
of Toronto, anci formerly of Montreal ferbere win proh;4'hly aome good
A oF
144011 Parades SaVed Wealthy
Wan an imstettont Lawouit.
There itt Toronto an old civil en.
PalnlY doll. The career of "vviman,
ways happening is tint accidental; free lands for the next year or two. the Toronto newsboy who rose to be
and other places. That which is 41 -
but afterthat the settler who wants a great American capitalist, and later
from which one might conclude that slily aort of suitable location will came to an ignominious fall, is One
lita.tthe
ns
uciogantainstasa?enot anaccident.ot
bia
, but have to buy his land. Settlers look- that some day ahpuld receive an ar-
thname with big enterpnsea is an Judi- ing for freg lands will be forced awe,' tide all by itself. This tale has sole -
cation 0i the quality of the man. If back. ra
far from railwaY communiese ly to do with an incident in his Ca-
tion, and the time during which free reer when he was a agnate in, New
confirmation bneeded, one has but lands will be available will depend York and woe engaged in making
to make enquiry around the Grand far e
Trunk offices, to be pretty well eon- upon how north the wheat-preduc- great modern improvements on Staten
mg section of the map can be relied Island, where he had very heavy in-
vineed that whatever happened in
that mysterious affair over in St. northwards.' Probably this will prove temente. One of these improvements
Louis, a few years ago, the Great to be mane more extensive thtui we involved a tunnel. under a highway.
Northern Railway, and not ir, H. Me- imagine to -day, but within a very • Something went wrong with it, as Ofr
Sheri time settlers will either have ten happens with contraete of the
of tne disagreement. to buy land or go to. the far north of kind, and riyal capitalists who were
Guieen. was the greater loser because
The spot light shows Me. MeGui- A.Inabea: °rer aSeatsekeatcothetweeint,'"ner, Griffin 'plinnYsie°46at Woneeseis;rotmheotfedruiritigehtiiosn.enWteith
a view to tying up the work until the
franchise involved ehould expire un-
der the time limn fixed. These are
the sweet, kincUy manners of capital.,
itite toward each other.
The matter was fought through the
court*, Om technical point involved
Wbelagintanwithadetheorarrithede oi"iti*wawshaiethunliner1
or an excavation. It was carried
innesgie several courta and one after -
soon Mr. Wiins old Canadian en-
gineering friend whom he had not
sena for years' celled on him and
found hiza in a state of deep dejec-
tioa.. The tioucts had decided against
hint; his work was not a tunnel but
merely am excavation. The money
he hen spent wae lost and he was
hit for heavy costa as well. He out-
lined the cane to his friend, a case
inesitpwirahadthbe"bnesbt elaatewyn.ers he could
'Wenn' said his friend. "didn't you
know that there is no legal terrain°.
logngoverning works of engineering?"
'.'What do you mean?" asked Mr.
• Childhood's Unfailing joy, -
As long as there tire ehildren in the•
world the golden anti. object testa (yeti
Italian of make believe will go on: i he
pliNtlit of iielight Itself, untrittittneied
by rules, or purpose. -- Eton College
'broil fele. '
Actions Speak Louder Than Words.
late Sunday sehool.class was abla-
ut; "I Want to tie no Angel." "W by
Men you sing louder. Robby r
sitiong ne loud as I feel," en.
• Seizing 'the 9.plioort.wity..
Doet;11*—V+m hare no .reitscal ro be-
nmdam, that itir nustainu allot
tilmsCit Imentionam0. •
itu-tam -till. dear. not it was purely
.sieeidetiMi, Hilt 1-, he of-HIM:41y hurt':
, Doetor Quito seriousty. nut 1 1(11118
Wt. (lin anyt.
,
What are Yon going to no
alow with an those- horrid surgical ill-
si 1•11 Ine I S ?
Bible head ef the new Lake Superior stated that the proportion of settlers
gan, at the present tizne, as the pore
year.. Twenty-five thousand dollars
Corporation, at 9 Balm of 824,000 a •who bought land was continually in,
creasing, while the number of home -
the most of ns would know how to steaders was comparatively dropping
draw -that is,. it would be if we were off. owing to the steady Way in which
per year is rather more sentry than
really, ceneeientious. Not being eon- all the available land within easy
scientioue, for the moet part, we aceess was being taken un. The land,
sales of the Canadian Pacific during
our jeans. The subsequent proceed- thincerepaaaset orearrthhoiseed ashopwrenvioausdeyceiadrsed.
would manage somehow to get it into
reading. Roughln speaking, $25,006 owing probably to the better class of
settlers who are coming over.
inge would probably make interesting
"The talk of a big harvest has, of
per year ia WO per week, whereas. course, affected our and sales," said
$1036 per year is sliahtly in excess of
the
the sum which placed our fathers inGriffin' "and results of this
affluence and allowed them to get year's operations have been decidedly
good. A marked feature of the year's
married and accumulate a large and sales has been the number of men
husk," family. But theneorld is "rnov-
ing some," for offertrf $215.000 Per . who bought land in districts where
an
there are still tree lands. The chance
year wottldn't raise lieDuigan'een- of getting 100 acres for nothing natur-
thnedasm a jot. In feet, it might ally appeals to the settler, and a
even plunge him itdespondency. - great many have bought land this
no *
How would you like to have your 'year in such a location diet they
salary cut down about a third? Well, could also take up a quarter section.
it's likely that that is about the way This has been particularly the ease
poor McGuigan would feel; for, to in southern Alberta and parts of Sas-
have to take $25,000 per year would • t
mean a reduction of a little :matter of
$10,003 per year, as compared with
his last ;ob. And it was no fool eith-
er that paid him $35,000 a year, but
Jas. I. Hill, probably the ablest rail-
way man in America. Oh what a
cinch -$35,000 a year -$700 a week-,
3100 a day.
When McGuigan left that job there
was more talk than when Kaiser Bill
dropped his Pilot: Why he left it
cannot be general knowledge until
this day, for I,, can't even pick up a
hint,. It was exceeclingly'interesting,
however, to read that story of the in-
terview between Louis W. Hill and
'Francis H. McGuigan, in which the
latter was made to Administer several
physical rebukes to Louis ' W. before
he drew his final check. A loyal
Grand Trunk man was heard to re- one. morning recently, when he ea
mark, "McGuigan could do it too " •taxicab No. 2" with Chauffeur Bishop
'katehewan, notably in the
"Simply that there is no such thing
,ry
west of Weyburn which is the start-
ing point for the,C.P.R. line to Letle, in law as an excavation. An excava-
tion is what it ultimately becomes."
bridge. ' "Explain yourself." said the capi-
As a result of the increasing de-
roand and decreasing supply of free talist.
lands, Mr, Griffin stated that there' "Well, if you dig a hole in the
had been a steady appreciation in ground in a vacent lot, it's an ex-
am prices of land throughout the monition.. isn't it?"
:West, the figures running from 310 to "Of course!" said Mr. Wiman.
"But when you put a house on top
325 an acre, according to the loca-
tion and quality of the land. There of it it'El a cellar, is it not? Your ex
-
had also been a very active demand cavation if completed would have,
for irrigation lands in the Calgary been a tunnel?"
district, where the prices ran from "By Jove, that's true," said Wi.
man. "We'll reopen the case."
$25 to 330 an acre."
His lawyers were sent for. An ap-
•
,peal was granted and the case was
•Stork Beats Taxi.
won on this paradox, which wasal
' Old Mister StOrk established a new
1 a very commonsense paradox.
record in Toronto in the early hours ter el
•
Imentr.7-We are going to probe for
. the eullet.• • • •
ilatla —Ne81. Weil; doelor...• •while
you ,a re n Iuut it won't you • Inv
enough nit see. It 7011 Cliret find 8 eon •
hutien I ion him lest week anti
that he earelessiy swallowed': ,
Athletic Exercises.
Mattered. itestatirato
glad •to hear, sir. *mitt you've been
groaang ;to .strong ,site•e pre Ileetto
eoming to my rest au rant. Ionlif11—
Well. Ws 11 fact, You See, toy Willits
are sedentary, and I .ran't afforil. to
enter' it, gymnasiete... Ava, ale, pair
steaks Hod roust foWls ere making a
new men ef me,
No Difference,
. Miss NrilYtipin,- it was my germ fric-
• tune that ,my aneestors (lime over •In
the Mititiower. Miss ri eh -Mar
flood. Why-. tay folks made their tor
tune in September wheat. -St. Louis
Time*.
Sareatitin.
"Ti‘Oneft just inn. thing I wanted to
say le yeti,". began Mrs. Aeitt to ner
husbatid.
"Only one. 'Wrier' qtieried he Rolle-
ItouslY. "Aren't you feeling wen?"
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Spermaeeti .add'ed to boiled starch
gives the goods a gloss. Borax makes
che starch adffet.
PISS TOT WAX
carmine poo• Teeing Owne Lind
freesia Wiese to WOW.
ft lusty mess aboard Mogealtfit Oahe.
al Walking. The flying Osh1 nee
known. but Ite flight looke ouch like
awhowie$ In ttie air. Wo oaturally
thinit ef dilbes me living always in
water, aa being lucapaide. la fact, or
living anywhere eta& Oat mature main.
fain' no hard and fast Ones Of
don between animal life whIch belong,
to the land and that which belongs to
the water. If we cen believe the Ite.
count* of naturalists, there are ashes
that traverse dry land-.
It is reported that Dr. Praticie Day
of India has (*fleeted Mita or lieVerat
instances of the migration of ashes by
lend from one piece water to au!'
other.•
Aparty of English °dicers were upon
one oceasiou encamped in certain
Pon Of India wben their attention
• was attracted by a rustling gonad in
the grass anti leaves. investigatIoa
showed it to be caused by myriads of
little (Jebel' that were making for one
direction and were passing *lowly on.
There were hundreds of them moving
by using their side and small ens as
feet. now upright. now falling down.
squirming. bending, railing ever. rifilam
PlinIng their finny feet and again
pressing on.
Theme dudes were the fitments climb -
Ins perch. and they were passing over
the coontry to avoid a drooght. When
the stream ift which they have been
spending the season dries up they
scale the banks and. directed by some
niarvelons instinct, crawl to attOther,-,,
Pearson's Weekly.
t the w heel' in a neck and neck race
but I am told by a very close friend a
last man in the world to do that in fre m Scollard street to the General
ti°oS ital Also when. Baby Head,
of Mr. McGuigan.' that • he was the
1-2 n one -day-old son of Charles Head, 82 Scotland
to allow matters to get to that pee
of •thing,.being,'in fact, too diplomatic street, wants to visit his
'doubt that lut. in- ,..
birthplace he will have to hunt up a
e James. S.Hill cont
bright red taxicab bearing tag No.
However that may be,. there is little
ued in the position of president of, the j,801.
n wathis way: A. private ward
Great Northern, instead of resigning
had been taken at the hospital . for
in favor of his son, /Yin McGuigan
ing the position Mrs. Head, and at 3 o'clock in the,
would still be occupy
morning a taxi .was called. The lady
of. chief vice-president of the road and .
was hurried into the motor and the
drawing that fine, fat salary. • rage .between Mr. Stork, an institiin
. - •; tion as Old as the world, and Gilbert
A "Special Article Expert. • Bishop in charge of the conveyance,
Among the young Canadian writers, which shares the lead among the
who are "in right" with Americanmoderns with the Airship, was on. •
editors is Mr. Arthur E. McFarlane, Brother Bishop, when he • learned
who is at present living in Toronto. nhe nature of his trip, got very busy
out Scarboro way. When Mr,•McFar-• and tore up the speed limit, arrivieg
lane was at the Toronto University he at the hospital door in just about six
became afflicted with the literary bug, minutes after leaving Soollard street,
took a hand at editing that facetious but it wasnot enough. Just as .the
sheet, The Varsity, and when he taxi drew 'up at the doors of the hos-
graduated began to approach local pital Baby Head was born and Mister
editors with copy -short stories, spa- Stork won. •
dal' articles, and so on. Most of the , Bishop declares' that the race was
editors printed his cony but sent him not on the square, for the reason that',
no checks in return; so McFarlane the Stork, taking the air -line, was
cursed Canadian newspapers and able to cut corners, on him, and thus
magazines and • editors, all and sun- . shorten the rim, _
dry, with a mighty curse, and -left Both and anchild, a cheery
the country. He went over: to New • little chap of eight pounds weight,
'York about •the same time that Ar- are doing well at the hospital. It is
thur Stringer and other baneful young understood that the little fellow 'corn
Canadians 'made their debuts there, fided to the nurse en entering the
and although his name is not so well hospital that a taxi Was a that -class
known perhaps as those Of :Stringer place no be born. and that •whenever
and Norman Duncan . and Harvey he hears "Home Sweet Home," he
O'Higgins, he has been about as suc- I will yearn for a taxi.
cessful• in his way as, any of them. I .
He can stroll into the editorial rooms
of any one of a dozen or so big Amer-
ican publications, go o, with the
editor to lunch, find arrange for the
writing of an article ora series of
articles at a price that would even
yet fairly stagger some Canadian edi-
tors. He also has the satisfaction of
knowing that he is making more
money than a good many of the afore-
said Canadian editors. Mr. McFar-
lane began his literary success as a
writer of short ' stories, and good
stories they were, too. But while he
can still produce meritorious tales to
order at any time, and does so occa-
sionally, he devotes most of his en-
ergy to the manufacture of special
articles. They, pay better.
• Oetal Trgtffie.
tit some way a paragraph went the
rounds of the press recently with re-
spect to trate on the canals of Can-
ada. Definite figures were given
tending to show a very considerable
falling Off M business. The result
-which they indicated was absolutely
contrary to fact. The canal traffic ot
the current year has been the lerg-
est in the history of the Dominion by
' millions of tons. The aetual increase
ue to the end of July, as compared
with the same period in 1968, amount-
ed to 5,203,719 tons, or more then the
total tonnage nine years ago. This
increase nit distributed as follows:
Sault Ste. Marie ... 4,809M0
Welland 161,491
St. Laweence 209,648
Charobly , 40,1361
St. Peters 5,504
Murray .. . 30,023
Ottawa .... 144790
Rideau laor
There was a slight decline in the
business of the Trent Canal.
• .
Yachting Expensive.
Racing yachts 'at Cowes sometimes
cost as mueh at $10,000 a year for
working expenses alone, The captein
of one of none ertehte can twin:amid
as much as $5,06 a Year.
'
•
Building Boom On.
August "construction" notes a gen-
eral improvement in building opera-
tions. From 19 centres permits for
July totalled 35,295,486, compared
with 34,645,968 in July last year. To-
ronto's figures were 31,754,105 as
against $1,221.;000 a year ago, a gain
of 43 per dent. Peterboro shows an
increase of 244 per cent., London of
114 per cent., Berlin 106 per cent„
Hamilton 31 per cent., and Stratford
10 'percent, •
Next to Toronto, MIS/Areal has
shown -greatest building activity, with
3712,126 value, as compared with
3435,.405.•
Winnipeg's figures are . $950,800,
considerably less than last July's
• building, which amounted to 31,401,-
250, other cities submit the following:
Brandon, 320,480; Calgary, 3182,280:
Edmonton, $274,355; • Fort William,
3186,235; Hamilton, 3205,475; London,
$73,808; Port Arthur 3114,260; Regina,
351,300; Stratford, 314,760; Syelnein
317,750; Vancouver, 3549,307; Victoria,
$372,120; Windsor, 333,650.
WANTED IT ALL
No Ross Bible Would Content This
Orange • Orator.
Men yet young will remember the
•controversy which took place in Ou-
twit, over what was known as the
Ross Bible, but some of the genera-
tion which has since grown up may
. be puzzled to know what it wasall
about. The Celebrated volume took
;its name from Hon. G. W. Ross, who,
was at the time Minister of Educe -
:teen. It was weeries of excerpts from
the King James version of the Holy
Writ which the' present Senator had
collated for reading in the public
nehools. The Minister was of opinion
%that certain passages of the complete
Volume were unsuitable for reading
by the young, but when the scheme
was promulgated a large -section of
the community thought the "hand ot
Rome" was manifest. The Orange en
der, one of whose tenets is the 'open
,Bible,". made a strong fight, and ta-
mest defeated the Mowat administra-
tion, which' was forced to back &mu
on the. issue. '
One of the funniest incidents of the
campaign was e speech by the late
"King William" Bell, 'at that time
a prominent figure itt ideal polities
and a high functionary in the Orange
order. Onenight he was speaking
at a meeting in West Toronto, and he
became very much excited.
"We 'don't want any Ross .Bible,"
he cried; "We don't *ant any mangled
version of • the Hely Scriptures; we
want the whole damned book." ,
. 'The audience fairly roared at
sally and the speaker;recovering him-
self, apologized and'withdrew the ad-
jective. Anyone who wanted to make
•
him "sore" afterthat had only to
allude to the episode. •
Service Fee Aged.
One Sunday morning recently in
Elm• street Methodist Church,. Toron-
to, Rev. W. F. Wilson condunted one
of the most . unique and impressive
services ever held in that, grand, old
historic church. It was a service for
old people, and the church Was filled,
many people coming in carriages. mo-
tor cars and taxicabe.
There were people in the congrega-
tion whose ages ranged from seventy
to ninety years; one couple has been
married nearly sixty-five years.
Hymns were sung to the old tunes so
familiar fifty years ago. Thd text was
taken froln Acts xxi, 16. The sermon
--"Ari Old Disciple," -was particular-
ly appropriate; bright and inspiring.
The preacher's chief 'points were the
rich memories, blessed example and
eerie -tie hopes of , old people whose
lives were Citrist4inric1ied, and the
eternal rewerd that sou. must be
theirs who stood amid ihe shadow of
the even tide el life.
•
A HOPEFUL POET.
Failure to Recognize His Denton Didn't
pantsuits Hie Ardor. • •
Paddy (Mein. a type of bohemian
found only betvreen the covers of a
cheap nevel, was sentenced by Justice
Samuel C. Hydn congressional repre-
aentatire for Washington during ter-
ritorial days, to serve ten days on the
rock pile after confessing that he had
waked otily seienty-five minutes dur-
big his stay of two months in Spo-
kane., Asked by the ciaurt to explain •
how beearned a living, the prisoner
said: •
"I am a poet. but there is no use
explaining to you that which would
be unintelligible to your mind. I will
recite some of my poetry instead. 1
will read d few stanzas from my mas-
terpiece."
Before Quinn could give Voice to the
second lioe of his latest work the
court had imposed sentence and the •
sweet singer was on the way to the
'city jail, where his tattered garments.
oxford shoes and flesh colored hose
were exchanged for overalls. jumper
and hobnailed brogans. His' long
black hair and flowing beard were also
trimmed for bygenic purposes, and,
armed with a six pound hammer, he
started for the rock pile, mumbling as
he left the stationa.
• "The niuse got an awful jolt that
time at the hands of an unsympathetic
judge; but. then, there's hope. Recog-
nition will come sometime. It must
come Officer, please see that Pegasua--
Is properly cared for until I return!"
The Lunatic's Idea of it.
'"I Was going through one of the
• warde tbe other day." -said the super-
intetident of a lunatic 'asylum. "when
one of tbe patients -Incurably insane.
1 believe -walked up to me to an-
nounce that he wanted. to be dis-
charged.
Whyr 1 asked.
" *Because nve been here three
years; and that's long 'enough,' be re-,.
• plied. And I want to be discharged
today, too,' he added. .
•"I looked ahim steadily histeadily for several
seconds
seconds and then said:.
"'My dear fellow. do yeti realize
that I have been here seventeen years
and have not been diseharged yet?' • • ,
"The .question appeared to puzzle
.the num for an instant. '1'hen hesnap-
ped at me: ••
"'Wei; you ought to have been' dis-
cbarged long ago.' "--New York Globe. •
Long Search For Father..
, The New York 'World of a few days
ago says: August Linder,.cashier for
the Athens Hotel, has found his father
after a search' that lasted years' and
extended half way around the werld.
• The father w,as a merchant in the
Russian Government of Volynst,
pps-
sessed of property, a. wife, a little boy
and •girl. One day the father disap-
peared, when August was two years
old. Year after year the mother
searched • Europefor trans of her
missing husband. When August' was
tert, he was sent out. In Austria, he
Went front town to town asking every
postrnaster and every Official of the
Elder Line. Then he went through
Germany from place to place. Hie
mother, in the meantime, with her
little girl, sought a new home in New
York, . •
August searched Scotland in vain,
and then sailed to New York to join
his mother. He sold papers in the
streete of New York and spent what
he made in buying postage stamps to
-write to every, postmaster of every
capital city' in the union. • Last Octo.
ber he learned that his father, was at
Dorchester, Ont,
In 1897 .the mother had died. August
said that he found his father a man
of fifty with another Wife and family
�f two. His father besought him to
stay and share in his business, but
he refused.
August Linder, as he is known
there, has been the hotel business al
Dorchester since the spring of last
year.
A Saving in Light.
It has been estimated that, should
the Daylight SavingBill become law
In England, the saving in the cost et
artificial light would amount be
$linen000.
$1.00 will p
•
Corset Ancient Armor.' .
A rennet) historian Of wonietnediess
states that the•coreet was worn by the
anelent Egyptians.: This assertion •is
borne out by the figureacarved on the .
tombs of women, who are invariably
represented. as wearing.a garrnent '
strongly resembling the modern cor-
set. There:does not appear to be any
ropresentation extant of Cleopatra TI., •
Inc belored of Antony, but in one of
the temples there is a figure Of •her .
predecessor. , Cleopatra II., In whieh
the ;settlptor has endowed her 'with: a .
.(!erset cat on the Ilnea of those worn
today. Whelebone Was probably un-
known to the Egyptlanie but a nation
capable ef ronet meting pyramids 'with -
trot oteam eranes would probably .find
no diffieulev In, making steys without •
butilts.L-Lotilon_Chreelcie.
.ilie Favorite Song.
There is a young optician.' In Denver
who sings very well, says the Post of
that eity. The ,other night he was.,
making a rail cm a emtple of sisters up
on Corona street when he was .asked
to sing. •
:"What shall it be?". he•asked as be
went to the -piano..
.'rlso.ur favorite song." said one of the
ri
"Ali right!" he replied, and then
the Optician sat down and Rang "The
Night Huth a Thousand- Eyes." •
Impertinet.
Mrs. Hank --if you won't do no work
yet. won't ;zit no dinner, and there all
there Is 10 it.
"Tell you What I am willing to do.
will giVe you a lesson in correct Bug-
Itett. Is ith.trer-Life:
.a subsci'iption to lattid of. 1011