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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-1-29, Page 2CliAFTER XXIX,--eflentlimecle Lay Edith gripped help by the 011ouldere ie.; elm Itnelt, :Led, bandiug forward, leek- • iuto the dark, glowing eyes expreesiee wheel reileeted that; ie tbeni. "Are you sure. are you oure?' pant- • "cen yot,. eau yen reach him-egeoh )1t9:---- She caueht her breatb. "Call YQ11 make him euiter- .through her ltrhet ern I, !seeing? a/ hat could we do? And if eould---- No, no, let him Fce-! And yet-eel:it girl -a common giele Saree distorted fate twisted into a, simile; she laughed, e, low, letteth tenet, and nodded two or three tames with an expreesion f vindictiee trait/rine "Oen I DOt, dearie? she leescd. "You shall see. And seeing, you obeli be Betio - fled. Yes; satietled. Be CRIM, tRit'Sle; DOS. itees youe soul in patience, You will not see long to wait, Sara promises you that -Sara, who nureed You on her beeota, Sara who lenows hew te strike when. her beloved one la hurt, and wOunded to the But, Lady Edith eeareely heeded or head; or did she? ClHAPTER XXX, Olive did not go round to Greavenor Square that night; for be felt that as could not meet Lady Bdit,h, and plea his art in 'what had become a tragedy, with intie 70i00 still ringing in his •epee, thet remembrane.eof lier teareehe ttomb. of her bend, eo keen and vivid. Re Worked. at his office ep to a, very late hour, and, of course, got very little eleep during what remained ot the night, or, rather, the early inerning. Ile wae at his *Mee again a little after ten, end located so fegged and wan that tee excretory was moved t,o reisionsteate. "You're ruehing on to a breakdown, Mr. Harvey," he said. know the signs YerY well; I sew them in Mr- laer'eYn"-Mr. Mervyn was a, former Home Seeretaey-"he Just looked as yett look, and he -wouldn't listen to any at ue when we warned him; but he had to eave in: he had a very bad Clive tangled. indifferently. "I'm etrongpr than I look, ma dear fellow,"- he said; 'bet thank you all the eamie. • anook off for a bittwhen we; get tamough this present beta of -work! The ',Seerotary had .sea.roely gone off -with hie pile of lettene 'when Lord Clies- • terleigh was announced; and the momeet he entered the room Clive enw that some- thing was the -matter. "Edith?" he said. aperehensivele. "Yes; it's Edith," leepanded Lord Cites- terleigh. She is not well -there le no cause for alarm, my dear Clive -she was taken ill last night. 1 ent for Sir An- drew as eoon as I could this morning; and he said that ebe -was eulfering from -some Strain, that it was a kind of nerveue 'cel- este°, and that she must remein 41110, and .see no one, lie added that she ought to go out of town, up North somewhere; and Edith took it into her lead. to fatart for Seotlendte .To Soothatiell" echoed Clive. "Do you meen that She is already gone?" "Yes." replied Lord Chesterleigh grave- • ly. "Silo insisted upon goin,g M once; she • would not let me send for you or• e-veu let you know. I have Just taken lier to the station." • Clive rose, and leeeed lie and down with troubled air at the mass of work ou his table. It is impossible for nee to go to heat" be said. 'tette krows that," Lore Chetteetteetn said ouiekly; "and she clew nteteeisb, you to. Don't be hbettfor her urt, Andrew hinks bey. se. to ite alone for s. little while: Re tenact liet'er --used a moment. 'Toe know- Edith., Clive, She is -is different from 'eget girle. I was going to say that ebe is Peculiar; but teat is not the word. Yoa know how highletetrang she is, how sersitive. and, for all her appaeent calmness and self- possession. how easily sad deeely she is reeved. The strain at the election. poor Dolteee death. the postectrietnent of the wedding -they have to use a common but expressive phrase, got on her nerve% she bee gone to our shooting box -it ies come - thing more thee a box -at Talnyetrair, and •there the will be truest, abeolutely quiet, and well looked after." "Sbe will have Sara. with her," Murmur- ed Clive thoughtfully. "No; she has net taken Sara; for some reason or. other she did not wisk to have • her; but she has taken her niaid, who is almost as devoted to her as Sera, le There is nothing to be alarmed about; or, of toner's, 1 shouldnot have let her an, or ehoulel have gone with her. As it is. I •shall run np es soon as I can get away" He -was Foreign. Secretary again, of eollreene sighed. "One hears a great deal about 'the sweets of °face,' and we feliowe who are 'in' are envied by those wbo know nothing about it." He looked at the tabl,e laden with panere and lei- ters. 'alere are we two elaving as City • clerks never haveteaved: and all the thanks we shall get at the end of our • term will be vituperation and abuse. Evert at thie moment 1 kaove that I must, not keep you: and, indeed, I must go back to my own den." "I'll write to Edith at once," said Clive • In a low edice, Lord ChesterIeigh turned, 'with his hand -neon the dome "Yes. do. But don't be alarmed or worried if she should not re. • vIy (tuff:lily; for she told me, just es the train started, that Sir Andrew said elle was not to write letters or worry aboat anything. Clive nodded, and sae down to les -work again. He was distreseed by Edith's 111. - nese; but, with a sense of guilt and shame, he 'was COUSOIOUS of a feeling of relief. Re -wrote to her: but he tore up the begirt- • ning of two totters: and he knew that the third wheel he finished Wag, for all lee protestatione of grief M her illneas and. their parting, oeId end forced. Ino reply eame to this letter, but on the third day -he was dining at Grosvenor Stiller° --Lord Chesterieigh told hen that he had had a letter from Edith. • She was better; ehe would -Trite to Clive • ?Voile -title; and he was on no account to go to her. Lord Obeeterleigh and he tspent a, quiet liner or two. then Clive started for the • Melee. Ae he was passing through the dining -roma •Sara, entered the hall. She tithed aside to let him pass as usual, and salaamed profoundly, • • "I am glad to beer that your mistrees is better, Sara,' he ezid. She ealeed her eyes, almeet hidden by the tbin silken shawl, end said, in lier •emeoth YOiOO: • "Yea; she is better, sahib; she *will be quite well soon -if she is left.quite alone. knowe Vent, and will not go to here Clive frowned slightly; for there 'was c. • note ef fareillatitv, of insolence, in the -weavers's Yoke which jarred upon histe "I ni eurprieed thee yeti ere not with your mistress, Sera," :he Beet • She threw out her hands; then creased them meekly 'OD het Inmate, • "It fa eold Where my lady has gone; end Your Beretta feele the oold, sahib," Clive Dewed on, ani left the honed. AS he eiftleee, lie remembeeed. he wanted some pencils 191161 lie had left on big table sit Burleigh Street; and betook a eab, mud told the man to drive quiekly. Ile • ten ale the stairs, end opetted tlae door sheep- ly; but stopped dead ehort, for be was • confronted by the weird Metre of Tibby. Hee faee was White, her hal awry, mad elle was evieettly in a etete of terrible egial tioe • aTibbyl." Isa exeleintecl, She brolte•in upon .111m: with a. eterlialf- •;thee g inning, 11 al feint, lor n Where ie she?" ithe demendea liereely. aWbete le elle? 'What, het% you done with her? I've edatehed for in your mote, Slie'e not here -you needn't, toil me that, Wea.t, limas you dorm With her?" Clivets heart etuilt with a terrible fore- boding, "De :0011 Mean .eilea. Tebbe?" he. attkeel, '0" couree, 1 -Mete Mina!" elle retorted. "No neer 1 want, lier, went • her at etmel yen iitwc spitited her await set• ae- where! eleee Pet bee teeth herd; teen, dtead of t new net telitta threatened to OVI`tr' -elm ben. •%Mut, wag' 100b, IN:41AI* Iti danger -of what?-anel it behoved him to retain his value to ecaumesel all hie fac- ilities to meet tbe. eeee. Ito pulled hm seel together, and. amt. les band ca Tibby ebouitter, "Yoe think 1 have spirited Maia ewer Tibby?" Ise sled. "Look iu ray tam You ltuow thet I leive net done ea, that X do not know where she is. lie 'slim, 'tabby teit's eaey to give way; I myLelf eould give way, but we must net do e0; fer we want. all our wits, all our ourea-et She lied eliakee his band from nee shoulder; but she bad obeyed life cote' matt& and had looked into bie eyes; and ehe knew that he was speaking the truth. leer lips quivered, tted her eyee betel With tears, but ehe dashed them eavey fiercely. "%Viiete is she, then?" ahe demanded. "Jae frightened out o' my We." • She was eliaking violently. Cliye gently forced her into a cliair, poured out emee wine, and iusested, with a gesture on h r drinlsing it "Now. tell reo everything," he amid. "Mind! Everything." Gulping down tt sob and eteuggling foe her weeds, Tibby settle "She went ewer thie arterneoe, She w,ae alone there -father bad gone at eee after a place ie a band, and 1 was at, the factory. When 1 got beme to tea, 1 found she'd gone. She had left St letter for nie -I saw at once it was a ePoof, thoueh it deoeived her. Fox whybecause she'd go to the end of the earth if she thoaght You Were in trouble, and weuted her, "In trouble? Wanted her!" Clive eried. "The note, Tibby, the netet-Ali, don't ,say that you've not brought it, girl!" "I've brought it eight enough," Tibby said chokingly, as she produced It. CRAPTElt XXXI. Clive almost snatched the note from Tibbe'e hand. It was iveitten en belt a sheet of uotepaper, and consisted only of L few liees. Be read, them aloud through his elenclied teeth: , "qtr, Harvey has met with an eceident, and is badly hurt. Be has tient for me end I must go -you know I MUSD go, Tib - by! I am so afraid, in mill dread, that oan scareely write. I will eorae back as eoon as possible, or send for you. 'Olt, Tibbs-, if he should be badly hurt, dying!" Clive folded the note, anti nut. it in hie waietcoat, pocket near his heart. -I did not, send for her." he said, al- most to himself, "Who can have done it --with what motive?" "I knew you wasn't hurt," said. Tibby, "You wouldn't have sent for her and frightened her it yea had been; bet I thought it was a, plant to get her to come to y,oe." Olive began to pace up and down the DOOM; but he knew that he must remain absolutely tam, and he at down agnin- "Ana you came to ane at tome, Tibby? Quite right! Don't be frightened. She cannot be in any danger: .how can she? It is wee foolish trick, some eractieal joke." But eten as he poke he knew that the explanation was a, feeble one. "Is it possible to find out how the got the supposedd, messige from me?" "A meesenger boy brought it," replied Tibby sharply_ ''Of course, I.. esteent-tlie landlady and Amette-teeetetete--that'e the etneetteager boy came with it. re atmust have brought a, letter; but if he (lid, she took it with belt" , Clive stifled a green. "If she had only left it, it ehe had only said in her note where she wee going!" he ,said. "Is there no other clue? Think, think! Eyery lit- tle thing, any little incident, that may be cennected bewever indireetly--have Yea noticed any etrangers about the Rents?" • Tibby made an trapatient gesture. "There's always strangers going in and out; an' I don't take no notice .ot 'em. Why should I?" She was silent a mo- ment, then she looked. UD With an acute expression on her ehrewd faee. "Stop! There was that man, that, dirty furrin ohne that helped to bash you at, the 'all • that nigbt-I saw ban crossing the stroh- wayeaeby, it was the day I met you, and let you go to Mina." "Ereehki!" said Clive "Tes," assente-d Tibby. "An' come to speaking of furrinets, there wee a kind. of Italian woman or a Indian, an old wo- man wrapped up in shawls like, with gold ear -rings; I've seen her once or twice, and I saw her -walking on the other side of the tette to Koshlti; but they did- n't speak to each other." "Sara!" inurnaured Clive ineudibly, The introduction of Sara into the affair ouly served to complieate and intensify the mystery. And yet' -could it be pos- sible that she was concerned in the ale dectien? Abductioe! To the generality of people the word would lave aeunded nn extravagant one, one savoring of melodrama, and the fax -fetched; but Clive knew enough of the daek nide of Lostdot life to be aware that not only abduction but murder itself was often committed, and that in' some cases neither the crime nom the oriminals- were disclosed, Dien and woruen disappeared almost daily and Were never diseovered, Soinetimee a body was -found floating down towards the tnouth of the Thames or lyieg under a hedgerow in a, remote country place. Sometimes one of the quiet and innocent - looking foreign barques which sailed team the port of I,oedon cerried a drugged man, hidden away under the hatches. All large cities have their dark and hidden crimes; and no city has each raystmeoue ohms, euch infernos ef eke, atoll dens of f ,as L llis heart sank with fear, and yet it throbbed with a sense of fury; but he maintained a sheer of composure; for Tibby B eyee were on him, full of pathetio anxiety and. a nameless terror. "We will go down to the Rents," he said. "Some one may have seen thing. We may obtain some, clues." They went down in a ca,b,, and -while Tibby ran up/steins in the vaan hope ot lindieg Mina there, or some moitage from ler, Clive looked about him almoatas hopelessly. had kept the eale welting at the arelrway, and hall a dezen uroliias -were larking round it and chaffing the ca.braan, One boy, older that the reel, IVAIS espe- cially impudent, and the cabman Ease at hen with the -whip', and said eeeeeely: ''Ain't you never seen a decent • cab afore, Yell Young savages? I e'Peee you nen% en' it's a, regular treat for you,' "Gam!" yelled the boy. "he., we've got a cabmae as lives here, an' keeps 'is 'ova* in that stable.' Be kicael his leg In the direetion of e shed. "An', twee more, heet ape genie eff on a job with a young lite' The bleed rusbee to (Mesa face, and he tuened away to that the ettlanan aed- the boys Should not obeerve the excitement, the wild excitement of holm ealieh ho knew displayed itself in his fece. Then Ite satinteeed towards the geoup, lounged agairest the archway for ft nth -lilt*" 'tz' two, and, eventually (Welling the boyes eye, nodded to him - The boi looked, etre-id nt eret; but Clive nodded again, end held -up a ehilling and, Oise et time, the boy eidied toeratia "Look beret' teziel Clive, drawing him aeart, give you this end another one on the top of it, if you'll toll me where the young Indy fold the eabnuin to drive her." The boy eyed tte shillieg Itungrilte but hie face fen. •t "Wish 1 toted., guvaier," he said; "but I dunno. 1 eee her start; but /the (Barn give no orders; she wined fluetered era liiVet, are' ehe 'ended up a ember to 11111 the etbelan." • Clive's heart sank again, "I sunnoso won't teem back? He'll go on the crawl?" lie ?sold, replied the boy 'cutelee "hell come baok 'ere, `eos a day cab, an' he outs is 'Orgil up early.' , • Almost as 3iSepOko, fairs hoard the sound of wheels. Be droned ta1f a crown into the boy's hatel, wed Wee meek- ly to the .areliway. A seedy atnd ram- eatickle emit deove itt. end Olive Went tila to le He env at ft gimlet thee the driver was drunk; end foreleg Weimar to SOltie degree of patience, he waited until tint Fresh from the Gardens of the finest Tealroducing country in the world, 11 Ceylon Tea. Sealed Lead Packets Only. wf Try it—it's delicious. BLACK, 31IXED or GREEN. man had 1k -trolled off his Pereb, before atl- elreesing. him. "Had a long drive?" he said pleasantly and etieually. The eataman stared at bine thea smiled anti winaied knowingly, guv'uor," lie reviled, "And you left the young lady there?" said Olive in a ma,ttereaefact did,"reill)nnand tile man' "Tm('nli 1m1the ehery of the part to her friend as was wsatg for nese All . ho has Played a ver nit; • d 113 1 - in the history of Canada,. He has teairet orften a pare gable,' has sueh good drink stood 'he. An no 'keeling rePr" estecl the Ci"adian people °tea the fare, neither," no ad,cleti unette around the Council Board in a e'eues14 lt“elltatneeAinteleeen.4';1 dac rs noistivAes oa, number of. big diplomatie issues. miuel Queer cattle, women,. mister.' He was attaohed to the star of the ''They are," aesentod calve with a laugh. "come 'round the oornee, and British agent in the I3ehring Sea have a drilla.- • arbitratiem of 1893; and had a part Ile led the wite• to the public -house, end celled far a small whisky and •a lerge rnsecuring PNteetri°n or th° sod,a., The cabman stared at him with este of Canadian sealers, He was tipsy surprise. sf yooftt soap as s, w e torder gun r gas);loo, nrg aimadight Agent of the Canadian Government 1)ieco have a, bath," he said derisively, in the Joint 'High CO ramission Be took 1,tut, th, sobering mixture, which sat in Quebec and Washing- ton during- the. early years of the Administration of Sir Wilfrid. Laurier. He was associate secre- lady. The cabmen set down lus ease, tanY of the Alaskan Boundary. bi- Quebec, • His elevation to knight- hood eame in the Now°Year's hon- ors of 1918. This tells the etory of how Sir Joseph came to bear so many titles, bat it does not by any means tell and..Olem wsC1iaT with brean on ere un- til it was finished; then he }said slowly and gravely: "Pull yourself together, ray man, / want to knew where you took that young end stated resentfully at Clivebunal. He accompanied Hon. Ro- ; but hig gaze softened as Clive drew a flvemoun „ , Lemieux1111. . note eo ofefzultermh.is lockeeetee end laid it on aolpeuon his se3.011- to " klg it 14' 4nd mit it in Japan, which re your Pocket," he said; "and take nee to „ ,, resulted in. tile , Jimita- the place at which yen left, your tin. Mil or Japanese -immigration to ru disolutrge trou there, and you can the Dominion. And just two years drive away R5 if the buoineres no further ooneerned you. Refuse, and you.11 find yourself in serious trouble." • The man sstretehed his brows, and ltook himeelf as if with •an effort to throw off the fumes of liquor, and taking tbe note, carefully folded it, and put it in his pocket. "Hanged if 1 didn't think there was nomethiug wrenig about it," he ,said. "Jump In, gutene.r. I'll take you right enough. You're a 'tee, I suPpose? But mind! 1 don't take no hand in this. I drives you to the place, and drives. erf again; no questions asked, no qUaStIOUS 'antswered. le that strieht?" • "That's straight," eaid Clive. "I'll be ready in less than one minute." He ate up to Tibbn's room, white and breathless. "I have found out where they have tee - en her, Tibbyl" he said. t'leo; I tem% wait to tell youl Thames not a, moment te lose. Remain here, rn bring her back to you, please God!" t As he got into the cab be gave the man a sovereign ansi told him teeeletegareatkter They went eaelteceele3--tte, Olive the -wee eeeriletteietes.. itanable; and his heate sank tlenater end lower as they left the large and respectable thoroughfares, a,nel be- gan to pierce into the dniger slums of the ar eae L. (To be continued.) SIR JOSEPH POPE. Canada's Debt to Him So Great It Is Difficult to Measure it. • Among the civil servants of the Doxninion there is only one who bears the title of Knight. That one is Sir Joseph Pope Under Secre- tary of State for External Affairs. Nor does he flaunt his title in the face of the public. Look up his de- partment in the telephone directory of Ottawa. arid yeu-*IA find him down as plain "Joseph Po. pe." But just as a, matter of simple historic fact, he does occupy this unique position, and he does not occupy it without justification. ]Ie is Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George for the very good reason that he has been able' in a, number of instances to parfarrn- ,Outstancling services for the frominion, ,a,nd he has been able to perform these outstanding see - vices because he possessed qualifi- cations whieh are exceedingly rare on this side of the Atlantic. The tentral fact of these 'special qualifications -is a wide knowledi;e of the "savoir faire" of offieial He knows how to dothings. He knows his 'way around Government offices, and he known his way around royal courts. He is an ae- thority on the etiquette of official and court eircles—a, branch of knowledge whieh is highly useful even in our democratie community. Of course, he did ,not pick this up in a, day. He had a long appren- ticeship under that Master of date- cra,ft and of the craft of managing men Sir John A, IVIacdonald. • The first occasion on which Sir Joseph was chosen to represent the Ca,nadian Government in the enter- tainment of guests of State was in 1901, when otis, present 'King and Queen visited 'ita as the Duke and Iluchesa of Cornwall and leek. Everyone remembers how meccas- ful that tour was, and in its success Mr. Pope, as he then was, had a large part. It was for bis services at that time that he received his first mark of royat favor and en- tered the Order of St. Michael and St. George as a Companion. Five years later he aceompanied Prince Arthur of Connaught on his tour through the Dominion, and in 1008 he was selected to receive Prince Fushimi of Japan on his visit to this eountry. Iaeonnec- tion with the visit of Prince Arthur, Mr. Pope had bestowed upon him the Irn,perial Service Order. while the Japanese Government recog- nized his servicee to Prinee Fusbi- riii by conferring on him the Order of the Saered Treasure of the sec- ond class. In the same year as the latter he was made a companion of the Victorian Order by the King beeeuse of bit assistance in the or- ganieation el the tercentenary at ago, he again represented Canada in the international conference on pelag•ic sealing, which adva,need the work begun in the Behring Sea, ar- bitration. This bare catalogue of some of the salie▪ nt national affairs in which he has played a part is in itself an advertisement that there is a, hin- terland in "Joe" Pope's life which must supply explanation. And as- suredly, the present Under Secre- tary, of State foi• External Affairs TEST OF SURGEON'S NERIIE OPERATIONS PERFORMED »ER TRYING CONDITION,S. Cool Work Or Doetors in hospital liThile Building Was Afire. A few weeks ago a, workman en- gaged on the 'top of thc reef of a tall building at Springfield; Mass, dieleaeted his shoulder, : It was im- possible to bring him 'down., so it ,51,1rP.6i1 climbed up, and; coolly eit- -Ong. astride a, girder, hundreds ef feet above the crowded ':Street, pea - eeeded to chloroform the injured man and reduce the dislocraion. To the man in the street the skill of the surgeon is always something of a miracle. To carve living flesh with steady hand and sure eye, to secUre -each streaming yein, to re- move 'diseased organs, and then to mend up the wound so perfectly that hardly a sear remains, seenis to him to require almost superhu- man skill, Shpreme Test, And there is no doubt but thatit big 'operation calls for the very highest qualities that man posses- ses, Even in the perfectly lit and perfectly appointed operatine thea- tres of a great hospital, wit?i every possible aid at hand that modern science commands, the task 'is a eevere ono. Yet often and often the surgeon is called upon to perform opera- tions without any such aids,and then the °ideal may be almost, as severe for doctor as it is for pa- tient, For instance, in a railway acci- dent. One raw winter morning, two years ago, a paSsenger anght- ing in a hurry from a train at the little station of Earlestown, near Warrington, slipped and fell between the still moving train and the platform. A doceor, summoned in haste, fennel that the only possible meth- od of extricating the unfortunate man -was-to amputate one of his legs. Instruments were fetched, and as it was not yet daylight, a ring of 11.0.rtee4s,:lsbood round _with,..,qtatiom lanterns, While Other persons struck matches to assist the sur- geon. What made the horrible business tor of Sir John A. Macdonald are a permanent part of the life of Cam- ada...—Z'ra,nais Carman in Toronto Star Weekly. More terrible waa the fact that if was impossible to give the iniure46 Inan chloroform', He remained con scions all through the operation. In spite a th,e Cramped position in which the surgeon was compellecl to work, and the lack of light and appliances, the operation wa5 quickly and successfully • finished,' and the sufferer removed to a hose Pi a • Operating .Under Fire, • Often in war time surgeons have had to operate on .the battlefield,: seinetimes actaally under fire, Bub' it was under fire of a different sort , that two doetors performed an op. eration at the hospital 'at Bidde- • ford, in the State of Maine. The, operation was to remove an inter- nal ulcer, but five minutes after they had begun it was (Escovered that the hospital was afire. To move the patient, was to kill, her. The surgeons stuck to their, work. The roar of flames was, plainly heard, and the hiss of water from the fire hose. Presently wa, -ter began to ponr through the Too and pieces of wet plaster to 'alit thudding to the floor. The nurses! • Put up umbrellas and held them, over the patient and the doctors,/ No one dreamed of moving -until all was finished and the wound sewn up. Then the patient was re -1 moved tea place of safety-. In February, 3911, a similar eager occurred at the -West London Hos- pital, but here the fire broke out just before the operation was be., gun, so there was time to remove the man to another department. CJIIPS WITH THE BARR ON. , No man is rieh who does not think be is. " The man of few wards often keeps them buzy. It is pleasant to have a, square man 'round. - It is becoming 'orthodox to op- pose orthodoxy. Remember the fate of the steak that is tough—ie is made into hasha Iler Long Suit. "Mrs- jinks -says ehe never can tell what any 'of tbe neighbors will do next." "'Well, she loses no time in tell..., ing what they did last." , Tred,Ve' What 'They Do. ."Have you ever noticed one Qdcl thing about blunt "' peoplel • "What is that?', "They are the ones who general, le come bo the point." More than a watch dog is need. ed to keep the wolf froin the door, Sir .Joseph Pope. conies Ereen n vigoreus stock, He is a native of Prince Edward Island, where he was born on August 46, 1854. is father was the Hon, Wil- lia,ni Henry Pope, who was •One of the Fathers of Confederation, and his uncle, Hen. J. p. Pope, was Minister of Marine afid Fisheries in the'Cabinet of Sir John Macdonald. Pope the younger came into the Do- minion serviceIn1878 and was for a few years 'a, clerk and private secretary to his uncle. Then he entered the service of Sir „John, and made for himself a name as the pri- vate secretary par excellence in the history of Canadian Government. • For a bine alter Sir John's:death he remainkl in the Privy auneil office'but in 1896,wa-s made perma- nent head of the department of the Secretary of State,. Here he had eontroy of such widely different functions of Government ZS the management of the printing bur- eau, the issue of charters to com- panies, and the issue of passports to Canadians travelling abroad. When the new department of Ex- ternal Affairs was created in 1909, he was placed at its head; and it is largely hie own creation. This de - pertinent it is which handled all ro- latin with the Imperial and with foreign Governments; arid all cor- respondence relating to these mat- ters passes through Sir joseph's hands. He is now directly respon- sible for the discharge of his &Ales to the Premier, who is the political head of the department. Of all Sir Joseph's services to Canada, perhaps the greatest is the preparation of the "Life of Sir John A, ,IVIaectoriald." It will al- . . ways remain a c1a,Sei42, among Cana- dian biographies, because of the in- tiniate light it sheds upon the poll - tical life of the Dominion. A cora- penion piece.to it is h eenealeT1 ef Confederation cloeurnants, 'rig a diary of the Quebec confer- enee, which is indispensable to to man who wantto know itew we anus to be, Sir joseph Pope's la- bors as A, public servant, valuable though th 0,y ere, may bo forgotten. His serViees as the Irterary execu- ' MAKES HOME' BRIGHTER AND LAB Oft LIGHTER. A .PASTE 'THE FF. DALLY tral No Dual - No WASTE MAMILTO N. CANADA No RUST • e_ 111,1 AMMEgfa" • atta. • . t • • Um. • "14t5l 11 4 le esti ter.':.•,:e I t see 'n2.4 ';; r•fr4 -silmomootek semmeadr notowsmereetannootincie- ' e: 440,. Concrete Hog Houses and Feeding Floors Enable you' to raise bigger hogs and better' pork without heavier feeding. 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