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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-2-8, Page 2s.' TIE EXETER• T1[MES ps MONEY IN FOXES - iPRINOE EDWARD ISLAND FULL OF VALUABLE RANCHES, Wig Rare Animals For Their $leins Has Been a Thriving Indus - 1., the Island Province Far. THE SIKH AT HOME. Winch DiscussedPeople Come of 3 Race of Warriors. At the present time, vvlien the qeestion of Hindu immigration is oe- copying so prominent a place in the consideration of Canadians„ it is not amiss to remark that, Outside ot dia, very little is known by the aver- age reader of the character, history and religion of the Sikhs who, of all Forty Years, But It Has Been Kept* the races of India, are the most demr- able, people to whom the rights and a Close Seerct Until a Few Years privileges of citizenship in the var- Ago--Investment Is' Heavy. ' bus British dominions may be ex- tended iteevergreen forest of Prince Edward community domiciled iu the Punjab, Phrouded in mystery and buried in The Sikhs are member of 'a religious ;Nall& lies a peculiar industry which, the "Land of the Five Rivers," so •Lxwe it inception some thirty or ; famed in Indian history, and all who . ' 11Y -five yeers.ago, has attained pro- have so far emigrated come from a OrfitOns no longer cenceelabieu Tut Idietrict immediately surrounding the Ought of 'anyone deliberately start- City of Lahore. Their position as the to raise foxee, as more every -day Lmost enlightened 'race in India is konreeeafo tieelfens or asigs, appeals i largely, duetothe .etharactetr oif their ab act that gonsiderable fortunes in this unusual Manner makes it an interesting to fa) those whose poetic fancy evinces iears ago that a highly respectable elite which we are told oecur in the a, E. 1, suffered one of those mei- men maareesintaottay; savhialesstl: esptoreyithbeergitillise pie fuseatiog ceremony. gains by eonapar- erenelgel,oins' no slveisc lfinfleAosrPlrol grisillailli-- ison with the formality of Occidental ity, and, in its lack of ritual and ob- ale of red los:es living in western Wends studs, teelf ohietly in red neckties and dia- Iack fox, whose arrival in a litter of lt, is probably cloee on to forty 1 ligion was Guru Nanak, who was born in the year 1469, near Lahore. I Re preached a nometheistic doctrine, caboudrcltehdaotinthoThterufoounwdoerrshoipf thofis tiii-ea.. first teacher, whose followers were thus called, the term Sikh being San - maintaining that there was one God Deity was to •serve one's fellow -man. The name Sikh originated with this est regulated families. Had Ernest hompson-Seton known of the little hodeur red ones formed the mistake scrit for disciple. Guru Nanak tray - e erred to, he would doubtless have eled far and wide in his own country, seen in it the proverbial black sheep. as well as in lands outside of India, aboue vrhich a fine roraance might be preaching his gospel of fraternity and humanitarianism, at a time when a°17.'8ena't aA115413 Iditngis'entehlske ome of the original fox clique, be- I was e:eerteci, at all times, to avoid I eonal qualities, but this much can be conflict with the Khalsa. Historian differ in their summing up •of the per- eth the day when man's appraising the .Last was surcharged with ritual - first aaw in him a valnable pieee istie faiths in which spiritual develop - the, liandise to be promptly a‘ppro- merit was always subservient to mere riated. His captor reasoned that, for' here on handsome black fox occurs As the Moslem faithful have their y eliance, -scientific methods may se- salutation, meaning "there is only a a n ber; and a number at one God and Mohammed is His Pro- be prices paid on the London market phet," so the Sikhs have a greeting eant--. 'Here he stopped eountliag which is literally interpreted, "Vic- es foxes and got to work. tory to God, to Whom the Khalsa Realizing that the black variety belongs." Govincl Singh gave to all as a ram avis on the island, and the Sikhs the name of Singh, which at another freale of nature might be means' Lion, and the name was well ard to. come by, our young friend merited, for, in the years that inter - as mated to a eommon red fox. Then vened between the passing of this nsued a careful process of eliminin teacher and the establishment of Brit- on readily understood by any stook ish rule in India, thousands of Sikhs aiser; while, to prevent inbreeding, were martyred for their convictions. •nstant lookout was kept for stray The organzation of the Khalsa by lack foxes, and these were added at Govind Singh so strengthened the ervals to the raneh. Fora time the Sikhs that, after his death, the Pun - or spotted variety outnuinbered jab came into their hands. The king he desired color. Gradually, how- was then Ranjit Singh, `the Lion of ver. the better strain, predominated, the Punjab." Ranjit Singh was one • d sacnv in twenty years, the ranch- of the most remarkable of the Hindu rs ha:ire had nothing but black rulers with whose lives history makes ems. us familiar. His friendship was court - 4., .an eannot make a millioei dol- ed by the British, whose diplomacy toney or the saline an absolute se - ret. So, presently, Alverstone, the ane •the site of more and more i stated with truth; that he was re- anch.es, lentil to -day it is known as ' spected and loved. by his people, and e great fox 'country. Yet the that he kept faith with the British. anehes are by no means confined to 1 After his death had removed restraint 'at section of the Island. Over twee- 1 from the Sikhs, they were intrigued such plants are to be found within 1 into war with the British troops and asy driving distance of Summerside A eventually the Punjab passed. under you know how to knock on the i British rule. During the hist decade the Sikh has found his way to many placei outside of his native land. He is to be found in the Federated Malay States; he is the policeman of Hong Kong. Australia, Canada and the Brit- ish territories of East, West and South e banner industry, farramg—a fact Africa have become familiar with is at nearly startled the touring Brit- bearded. lace and his picturesque ph iournalists out of their national turban. alm and certainly betrayed them in - r. -,:npareritly a great many men in e little island have been eonvine- d that raising foxes for their pelts • a. peering business. At the preseet e there is said to be as much oney investea in fax ranching as in sh,owing an almost hiunan interese n colonial affairs. Indeed was there ot a reverse side to the picture, the ox market would soon be flooded. ortunately for those already estab. shed in the business, experience ,oyante for a great deal. It is not •. ard, when you know how, but you , ,ust know how. "Buy all the infer. 'II Won you can along with youi . oxes," is the advice of Mr. Frank ' uplin, a well known breeder. Yet at of your knowledge must be . ought by experience, and to lose e t.air of fi.ere or six thousand. dollar oxes by injudicious feeding is suffi- 1,50e:int to dampen the ardor of the ileerage enthusiast. - Another factor to be considered is .1"' r the cost of establishing a ranch. •A 1 'evell-equipped -pla.nt requires in the neighborhood of $10,000. Such a one ' Was built this year by Dr. MacNeill • of Summersi.de, in partnership with Messre. Allen and Saunders. , It con- '• sista of a main corridor with several •liens of 20 by 30 feet on either side, • and. the houses for the males at one end. Each pen has its little house in which the young remain, jealously guarded by their mothers, until a month olcL As foxes are great bur- rowers, the cloeely woeven wire fence faIrrOUnaittIg the pens was sunk to a • depth of four feet in a cement lined 'trench,• and the ten -loot extension above ground was carted over et the top to preterit any exit- through the roof. When you add to this a • refrigerator plant for milk and meat,. which, with bread, form the food of these "hot house foxes, the hose 'and Water power for ?remotion against , fire, and a housea for the keepers, the above eatimate is riot an extravagene • one. . The next step is stocking your ranch. Dr; MacNeill bought six pairs of the best Week and silver varieties, at prices ranging from Reit to six thousand dellars, Right here though los where -the area:teen foz,raiser may 4 bitten. Ile must know a fox s the aforesaid price from one h ten or fifteen dollars, or he is ly to learn it at heavy cost, One An Who was fooled In this way ooleld t be Convinced of his mistake until 'Sent. bis first shipment of Pelts je1 With those of a well-known er, to the London, market. The ler VA from OM to $500 each, h le the other man realized only e eat $10 per skin. It is the price the fox dead that detertainee its liss line living, and the wthe ranchet . e no buying from a dealer who e ' toe prate his stook by shoeing e bille of sale. Another point worth inhering is that the blue -black, o brOwnsblack, foss htinge tho •The alleet fox is (if cOntee valuable of all, but Also the to cora° by, the ranehers only te get elle Out ef three et 0,4t Lewis W. Clemens. Mr. Lewis Clemens, president of the Canadian Travel Club, who has recently been honored by election as a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Insti- tute, London, Eng., left Jan. 20, with a number of merabers of the Travel club, to make a study of the Island. of Janaaica. This club was organized two years ago, and now has six chap- tets—at Toronto, Montreal, London, Ottawa, Mount Forest, and Moose Jaw. It is making rapid pi -ogress in accumulating travel lore, and the president has been very active in this work. . Mr. Clemens is native Canadian, an artist, and writer, whose work has been appreciated in Canada and abroad. A typical example of his work as a decorator may be seen in the old County Court building, To- ronto, part of which were recently beautified by landscape friezes by this artist. In December last Mr. Clemens' Imperialistic essay on Jamaica, B.W.I., won for him first plate in the list of awards. The Canadian Travel Club co-oper- ates with the Royal Geographical Club, the Royal Colonial Institute, and other leading British educational bodies. Gold vs. Turkey. A discovery of gold in the Swan River district was made through tur- keys. Just before Christmas a farmer named Murphy sold some turkeys. Several flakes of gold were noticed in their erops, and when the ontette were properly examined a number of nuggets ranging in weight up to three ounces were foiled. Murphy heard of it and staked claims along a ridge of black sand where the turkeys had run during the suramer and fall. Thin destroys the value of the fable about, the goose that laid the golden egg. To get turkey gold yo11 must kill the turkey. In. a few years it will not matter, for the difference between the value of turkey and the value of gold will not'be appreciable. Doing It Thoreughty. 'Arthur Reining, a Toronto artist, receritly oeerheatd, in front of the National Club, Toronto, a conversa- tion that startled him. While passing trio, of the business, men who belong to that, promineot club, he heard the word "art" men - leaned. He slackened his pace eq. ough to catch a few sentetees, and diecoverecl -that th.e two were talking, about art io Europe, "That isn't the way to go about it," said one, in &newer to the Other's. statement about bo W to apprecie.t.e that art. "If you 'Went toget the best out of learoedare art, you ought to go at it seriouely, Give * whole Week to it." PROivitiNENT RAILROAD MAN STRONGLY ADVISES HIS FRIENDS TO TRY GIN PILLS FOR THE KIDNEYS •"I have been a Pullman Conductor on the C. P. R. and Michigan Central during the last three years. About four years ago, 1 was laid up with intense pains in the groin, a very sore back, and. soffered most severely when I tried. to urinate. I treated With 711Y family physician for two months fir gravel m the bladder but did not receive any benefit, About that time, met auother railroad man' who had. been similarly affected and who had. been cured by takfng Gin Pills, after .. r having been given up by a prominent physician who treated him for Diabetes. He is now running on the road and. is perfectly cured. He strongly advised me to try Gin Pills which 1 did,—with. the result that the pains left me entirely. laANK S. IDE, Buisensto; N. Y. ,soc. a box, 6 for $2..5o. Satnple free. Write National Drug and Ckem:cal Co. of Canada, Limited, Dept. I Toronto. If you suffer with Constiptilcri or need agentle laxative, take ITAT ION LAZY LavER PILLS. 24.2. a box. 105 ,LAVALLEE IS MAYOR. Montreal Citizens Leave Only Won Half Battle. Montreal, Feb. 2.—Ald. L. A. La- vallee, advocate, was yesterday eleet- ed mayor of Montreal by a large majority over Ald, George Marcil, real estate dealer. The referendum vote on the aboli- tion of the property qualification for mayor and aldermen showed a large majority of voters in favor of aboli- tion. This vete, however, ean have no effect until the Legislature at Quee bee passes a bill in accordance with the wishes of the citizens. In -connection with the polling for aldermen chief interest centered around the wards, ten in number, in which candidates black listed by the citizen's association were running. The association had opposed ten can- didates, either members of the famous "23" of the 1909 council, who are charged with voting to grant huge contracts to high tenderers for the benefit of middlemen, or men who, since their advent to the council, have been classed as reactionary. Despite the opposition of the citi- zen's association, backed by the ma - pray of .the neeepapers of the city, no less than five of the cendidates op- posed by them were returned, includ- ing ex-Ald. Giroux, whose defeat they secuAd in the 1910 elections; ex-Ald. Mederic Martin, whose name was prominent in the records of the royal commission, and who also failed to re- turn to the council in 1910; ex-Ald: Seguin, ex-Ald. Lariviere arid ex-Ald. Judge. Ex-Ald Sauvegeau, Gallery, Marin, • Lamoureux and Levesque were de- feated. A feature of the elections is the re- turn of three more English aldermen to the council than in the last elec- tion, these being Stroud, Macdonald and Blumenthal. SCIATICA EXPECTED DEATH ANY DAY Another Case Where • Life Was Saved and Health .,Restored by "Nerviline." • It is because be feels it his solemn duty to tell to the world his faith in Nerviline that Victor 1). Hires makes the fonow,ing declaration: "For three years I was in the Royal Mail service, and in allkinds of weather had to meet the night- trains. Dampness, cold, and exposure brought on sciatica that affected my left side. Sometimes an attack wotild oome on that made me powerless to work. I was so nearly a complete cripple that I had to give 1113 ray Job. I was in despair, completely east down because the money / spent on trying, to get well was wasted. I was speaking to my chemist one day, and he recommended "Nerviline." I had. this good liniment rubbed on several times a day, And got relief. In order to build' up iny gen- eral health and im- OU ED prove my blood I six used Ferrozone, one tablet with each viz , Rs meal. I continued this treatment four YafiaSA51.21140.13[41M19121...M.• in 0 n Ells and waS r.ured. I have used all kinds of lini- ments, and can truthfully ady that Nerviline is far stronger, more pene- trating, and infinitely better than any - ting eise for relieving pain. I urge c ryon e with ititribago, neuralgia, bearnativrrip or sciatica to use Nervi - ilia. I knOW it will cure them." Tere leret a more highly -esteemed tiicn in Westchester than Mn. Hires. .':htlie says ran be relied upon. For teer yea & since boles cured he hasn't had a eitigle relapse. Don't accept any- !bing from your dealer but eleeeviline," 66 centa per bottle, trial size, 25e; sold eversowhere, or The Catarrhozone Co, Veingetort„ Out, EPITAPH FASHIONS, Lines 'on Headstones In Canada • Change With the Veers. It may surprise some to know, but it is nevertheless true, that there is a fashion in, epitaphs, changing not so quickly indeed as in -woman's dress, but still cliaaging in theeentery. (ir mare of our Ontario history, following certain, it seems, fixed, laws, lime at one time Scripture texts abounded and Seripture names, then a period when a verde from a hymn was used, or ono 'of doggerel rhyme composed by a friend, then the stately inscrip- tion almost in Johnsonese, then. in Mennonite or Quaker graveyards situ ply name - and age—' 'mere ly tlial and nothing more"--ou low stones not more than a foot in height, appareet ly expressing humility, butperhape . representing as much pride theh own way as the stately olumn. Soele• times a pathetic quotatioe from a real poet, or, again, something orig-inal. according to individual idosyncraeies. The present. fashion avoids th.ilielsom praise, the elaborate, carefully propoe tioned periods. even the Scriptural •text, and generally gives name, -age and birthplace. In the Niagara Peninsula may he found all varieties, often alas lie some neglected spot on •the farm, whice Ile:reaps, has ,changed oweers, atel now briars and weeds abound or cat- tle roam at large. Is it not time that M every early -settled county these inscriptions, fast becoming undeci- pherable and the stones chipped and marred by the hand of time, should be copied? asks Tenet Camoban io a recent article in The Toronto Globe. There is so much of history in them —the date when the Loyalists cattle from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, or the pioneer from distant mother -country, In the case of the latter how 'fondly is it mentioned, "a native of Inverness, Scotland," or "Devoeshire, England"; in the ease of the clergyman, his long years of ser- vice in what to him must have appear- ed a wilderness; the military man, his regiment, the battlee which he fought. Some altar tombs leave long inscrip- tions, which Must have added greatly to the cost, notably that to Mrs. Sch.00lcraft, A.n.caster; Thomas Dick- son, in the Hamilton Graveyard, Queensthn; Thomas Clark, Chippewa. Nor are there lacking inscriptions in other languages—French, German and even the more stately Latin—and we find. curious traces of death: in An- . dersonville Prison; of a young Cana- time to time taken great interest en dian's death in. the Boer war, and of hockey ane one of the first was the our Northwest rebellion in the death. now Judge Barron of Stratford, who of•Mr. Gowanlock, a prisoner with Big in his day was also a crack player. Bear; of a victim to Canadian mis- rule" before the rebellion of 1837; of the war of 18e2, and even of the revo- lution and of prisoners with the IP - diens. Here is an inscription evidently be- fore the school/nester was abroad, pe- culiar in punctuation and ortho- Advertising Quebec. graphy: Adviees from London state that the Deborah Freel died 1816 'aged 70. visit there of Hon. Charles R. Dev- lin, the Minister of Colonization of the sister province, is resulting in a distinct boom for Quebec interests. He has made it elear that the Que- bec Government has no intention of minimizing the work done by the Federal Government in advertising Canada as a whole, but he lays stress upon the desire of his colleagues to create a home in London for visitors , •• (TAR' 0 HOCKEY IS CHIEF, • BRITISH OFFIUk:t/ Is Now Canada's Premier Winter • Game. I -10040Y, properly named Canada's great,* winter's sprat is increasing in, interest year.alter year. Tbe game is one that is easily understood—its rules are simple, particularly in On- tario. • It ia a game in which speed is one of the greatest assets and it is by this speed that the public inthrest is •aroused. A recent statement by a newspaperman of Britiah Columbia, where the game has recently taken a great hold, was: "Lacrosse is fast, but it is a funeral proceseion eompar- ed with hockey," In the Province of Quebec hockey is the popular winter sport. There the greatest interest seems to be M the professional side. There -verse is the case in Ontario, where the game has made its most advanced strides. Ame- teur hockey reigns supreme in our own province and the sport is con- dueted by one oe Canada's greatest amateur bodies, the Ontario HockeyAssociation. To give some idea of the heights of popularity to which hockey has reach- ed. it might be mentioned that the O. A. this winth ter has no lesp an 113 teams playing in its association. Owing to the uncertaie winters in some parts of aanad.a artificial ice rinks are being built in many of our cities. In British Columbia 110 IC39 than three of these structures have been erected and the game has taken a great hold on th.e fax western peo- ple. The three places in question are Vancouver, New . Westminster and Victoria and as the game is being played by professionals no expense has been spared to secure players from all parts of ,the Dominion. British Columbians want the fastest and best hockey in. Canada, if they can buy it. In Toronto there is in course of con- struction a great artificial iCQ arena, and next winter the followers of the game will be able to. sit in comfort and watch the game played under the most fa,vorable conditions. The game itself was not played to any extent in Toronto or neighboring - towns and cities until 1890 although it had previously awakened great 'in- binds England. bCanada and Sol- terest and popularity in Montreal, diers of the Empire to one another. Ottawa and a number of eastern places. It was in 1890 that the 0.H.A. Four chastely designed. figures, sym- was organized. and from that time the • belie of Britannia, Canada, Fortitude, interest has increased. •. and Sacrifice, are carved in the Ian - Many notable publie men have from tern at the top of the memerial, while • the erest of the regiment—the Maple Leaf—is also represented. The memorial is enclosed in a cop- ing, on which is a small shield bear- ing the Words "Canada to England," and the following lines: Then lead and ..your son will follow, Or follow and leveill lead. And side by side, though the world divide, - We'll show by word mete deed That you share with me ialy youthful- ness • \ And I with you your prinre.„ And so it shall be until the sv shall • set On the uttermost edge of Times,. The memorial is a fine piecet, of workmanship, and has been much commented upon, and it must be a - source of great gratification to the of- ficers and men of the Queen's Own Rifles, and to the deceased's many friends in this country, that such a handsome tribute has been paid. to a member of a regiment and departed comrade. The Latest In Commissions. Pay f_ast Respects to Memory of eke.. Gzowski of Queen's -Own Canada has a greater ir110.7' t the military cemetery of A:A vi England, since the visit tetn Queen's Own Rifles, last year. Dwell the visit of the regiment they 'el Unfortunate to lose one of their ale olficers, Lieut Roy Morris Czowsk, and the remains of the gallant youte officer found, their lapt reefing place amongst the Men who have died e the service of their King mad country No •doubt many who knew the de ceased lieutenant, often thought of a memorial to malse the spot v.'..cre their 'countryman was laid, dee t fore it must be a source of plee.... to see a picture of the handsome tic morial erected to his lemon,. by :lie officers of the Aldershot- 011;e:end. The memorial has been destenel by •Mrs. G. F. Watts, wide* of the leen- ous Royal Academician. and modelled by Mr. R. R. R. Davey, one of the . young artists at the pottery and terra. cotta school whish Mr,3, Waite C.: duoth at Compton, Surrey. where he: Inesbend spent his last years. Standing out amongst the other memorials, the one marking the grave of Lieut. Gzoweki attracts the atten- tion of all visitors to the ometery. It Stands 12 feet high, and is model- led in terra-cotta. In the lower por- tion is a beautifully suggestive figure of the deceased soldier in a kneeling positioe, and in the aet of giving a.p his sword. laying it upon the. altar. On one side of the memorial is the following inscription:— • To the glory of God and. Roy Morris Gzewski, Lieutenant, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, Who died whilst doing Duty with his Regiment In the Mother Country. Born at Toronto, Jan. 10, 1890. Died at Aldershot, Sept. 25, 1910. On the other side is the following: This memorial is erected by the Offi- cers of the Aldershot Command in honor O their Canadian comrade in token of the fellowship which The first president of the 0. H. A. was the late LienteCol. A. M. Cosby, who also donated a handsome trophy to the association. • . The first Ontario chanepionship went to Ottawa in 1890. My dere ehildren: Think on God: And his commandments: An he will think on yo: Observ your youth: don't lose no time. Least God should take yo in your prime: Sate God. abov: and on this world: hec not your lov. In the same fatally burying -place (Butler's Graveyard) is an. example of the high-sounding, carefully -balanced periods of those days. In a country 0'1.1 ot)Ficir) IS 24 eetiens you ea.* painloc,sly 1-inedici any 'Gott, Neter hard, soft, or bleeiling,:, By' :poi 7,'telst Putnani '0 Corn Itixtractor, It' '''''170tA hurtle, leevea no sear, easetelne no eareile.ee, beeniire trimposelit of .liealinfr.,v,,gnins arid balms. Fifty p Jit use.,- giinralitCCd, Sold ofiseee •. ".7'..1 bOttlef.4. r*eute •1'.'!tit"itl,tPAINL, L1;4;,:litt churchyard in Scotland I copied one from Quebec. and to interest British of a divine. with whose name I was investors in the opportunities which familiar, in much the same style of Quebec offers to them. carefully proportioned descriptive The Quebec Government is not look- phrases:— Here reposes Maria Caroline, the generous -hearted, high-souled, talented and deeply -lamented •wife of Major Richardson of the Military Order of Saint Ferdinand of the First Class and Superintendent of Police on the Wel- land Canal during the Administration of Lord Metcalfe. This matchless wo- man died of apoplexy 'and to the ex- ceeding grief of her faithfully attach- ed husband, after a few days' illness in St. Catharines and on the 10th day of August, 1845, at the age of 37 years. It is remarkable how in telling the good qualities of the wife the hus- band wanders off to tell of his own dignities. The Smooth Robert. They are telling a story at Ottawa which may throw some light on Hon. Robert Rogers' success as a politician. Mr, Rogers was born in Argenteuil' County, Quebec, now the -particular stamping ground of Hon. George H. Perley. However, Mree:togers left the district when he was very young, and 'nes recollections of his boyhoo& days are rather hazy. • A banquet was given recently to Mr. Perley by his constituents, and Mr. Rogers was invited. Before he was, called upon to speak, so the story goes, he got a local politician to point out to him the old-timers who were boys in the neighborhood when. he was one himself. Then Mr. Rogers arose and made sentimental references to the delight of revisiting old scenes and meeting the friends of his youth. He oontinued something like this: I see at the head of the table my old friend, John —• , down at the right I notice my forther churn Tom —, to my left I see Dick ---; and so on. At mention of each name there was -wild applause, and Mr. Rogers can have anything he wants down in Argenteuill.. • oCif to Athabasca. 'Way -ap at Athabasca Landing, there has been an important eppointrnent, The town in the •Arctic has a new chief ot police. MS name is Wroughton, and he suceeeds Col. Sanders, D.S.O., Who is now police magistrate at Calgary. /nspector Wroughton hae had a long and strenuous eareer in the R.N.W. M.P. -Ile hos been a rider of the plains /or twenty-five years. In the gold fever days of the -Yukon he. pa- trolled in DaWF1011. During the past tWO years he •has been, located tie Regina. Ing with as much earnestness for set- tlers as are some, of the other pro- vinces, but it is quite evidently awake to the advantages of publicity as re- gards the industrial openings and the sporting attractions which the pro- vince las, and the new Agent -General, Dr. Pelletier, will have in his new office a continuous up-to-date exhibit of all that Quebec has to offer to the capitalist, the tourist and sportsman. Mr. Devlin, who enjoys the distinct - tion of being the only Minister of the crown in Canada who has had seats M three Parliaments in the Empire, has been greatly, feted by his old friends at Westminster and especially by the Irish party, of which he was ono so valuable a member—Ottawa Free Press. • The Nova Seetlan. Nova Scotia once had a great in- dustry—the building of wooden ships. Iron ships replaced them; a,nd Nova Scotia was left with her forests and shipyards empty and -silent. As for the Nova &citifies themselves, they are more under the spirit of the Old World than the rest of Canada—which •is, being interpreted, that they are less greedy of money and less inclined to measure all things by the total of a .man's bank accoupt. I am sure that you have noticed tells virtue of their's; fax I do not hesitate to call iee. a vir- tue right in the teeth of a coieunity which conspicuously lacks it. They think More of their golden hours, and less of their golden treasures than we do. -It is quite easy to understand why a Nova Scotian may be content with what lee has, when he has en- ough; and ready to sit down and live his life. That is what an Englishman would be very apt to do. They do not look on "trade" •as) duty in the Old World, but as a burden; and they pay their highest honors to the classee which have wholly escaped from it.— Canadian Courier The Retort Vindictive. They have merry little nevespaper scraps on the Pacific coast The fol- lowing from The Victoria Times tells of one of them: • "Speaking of joutnalisin at a low ebb, the morning paper professes to •despise a humorous cartoon in Vie Times of last evening. The carte in • was suggested by the •hurglarice theft of a cork Ieg hom a men ie Vancouver. We should think that a newepaper that has so petsistently and successfully 'pulled the leg' of the people of Victoria as has our • • • ' senetimonimthraentor would be reit- I sonably anxious te forget •finch ' things,' • I n chistr fat Accidents Eighty-two fatal and 194 non-fatal accidenth to Work -people were reeord. ed by the Department of Labor during Deeember, This record showa a slight dectease tempered with the pretiedeng • New Weetern Towns. Dtiririg the year 1911 the C. P. E. established 41 new towns in the three' provinees of 1Vianitoba, Saskatchewan •seed Alberta. This year, with the larger ranethet of new brarieh Heels eed ex, teteions tontetephite& it is probable the the reilwey establiele more mew municipalitiee. Manitoba is about to ereate a com- mission of the latest and most mod- ern kind—a public service eommis- sion. The only one of its kind in Can- ada is in the Province of Quebec, but it has so fax done lettle to make it-, self famous., Like the Ontario Rail- way Board, its powers are so -limited as te, make it ineffective for the work which it might be supposed to per- form. Premier Roblin has promised a pub- lic service commission with powers as wide as that of the New York Public Service Commission, one of the most important bodies in the 'United States. It will have complete control over all Government-owned or privately - owned corporations that give public, service. It will supervise all steam and electric railways in the provinte, all gas and eledtric light companies, telegraphs, telephones, grain elevators and se on. Ample provision will be made for the enforcement of its or- ders, Premier Roblin declares, so that there will be .no possible evasion of its orders. He declares that the ,com- missioners will •have positions that will carry greater responsibility than that of a chief justice of the province. Detective Laboratories. It is not at it celebrated detective office or at a well known police head- quarters, with As elever brains and its wonderful machinery, that detec- tive skill attains its deadliest perfec- tion, but in the laboratory, where the magician of -the test-tube and the re- agent bottle draws round the poisoner a net from which there is 210 escape. It is magic, nothing less, this de- tective work of the laboratory. Think for a moment of the stupendous pro- blems with which the chemical ex- pert has to deal. It is suspected that a man has been poisoned; his duty is to determine what was the precise agent of death, and what was the dose administered. The poison may eerie from the whole domain of the vegetable and animal 'kingdoms, and it mast be traced and proved to the last lethal erection of grain. •, In -the Grip of Fire Demon. That was a eurious comcidenee in Tocconto the other day when within en hour the offiees of those old rivals The Globe and The Mail ared Etnpire werarbOth set on fire- After midnight, one tight, the watchman in The Mail building discovered and pet Out a blaze at the rear of the ptemisee. At. the same time The Globe editorial, staff were struggling valiantly with a fire demon. To neither office much damage resulted.. Incendiarism is sus- pected as the eause of the fire. Thei Glebe and The Malt have maintained a reputation iri the past for hated combat at eleietioll times. Ba neither sheet fields it •letterset hot profitable. literal • "flee QUEBEC IN Witi.How Jean Feroex Say Mirages 1 The MattaAwnicalleArntviaCitY. was the isolated poet . on the Riglit-oe Through the coldest winter of ti odd years in the north count winter that the Cres: around Reuse named "the White Cur Goole' and the engineering corp led "the Bons -Ear," Jean lel rived in came where he was the white man nota Slam laborer. pearest residency was a two, TheI°eurnuttr:.7dhm eiTil.-eowarrnone hi o ms vieitor, bought him five times winter sheafs of letters from Qe all beineaeing his absence, an seribing to him in varying dt of detail the gay life of that town. The reading et these message ed his mind through the etill and nights, and in the solidi ;less of the frozen bush Jean began to see mirages of Quebe ing on the fur boughs before the stove of his teet, he would nl, the city as plainly as if h etancling near , the King's Ba the head of the Vitedel tebegg looking down on. bilis, and ri ilissets, and spires, and towe eould see the brilliant lighte Chateau, the sentry. signals raniparts, the tiny twinkles of ries, the far-off beacons on th Liturentians, the nearer g Lower Town. He could see the toboggan% the dash of the s and the whirl of carnival gaye vividly as if he were a Peeping watching the people of leis di move in a maze of revelry. He see the•soft little lights in the In even those of his own. home.; ex could never hear a sound, thoul strained his ears in hstening te wail of the wolves broke on the. and brought him back to for TO tion of the camp; , Then, -414 mirage faded, he Would repeatl ehant the song of longing oil hemesick habitant who afar free mountains prayed for the bee one glimpse of the hill of Sanee tien.—Mary Synon, • , • Sir George's Memory. Sir George Ross left reetrill Arkansas 'elot Springs to seek from his rheumatism, and in main there six, months. At al it is said he will net take h' the Senate this year. It is very regrettable- that Si should be so enfeebled by the which for years has been his able enemy. For otherwise markable gifts •are unimpai although he passed his sev birthday last September, he is er than porne of the most r and active of Our emblio Sir George's -wonderful one of his chief chara,cteristi long ago a reporter had oc interview him at his home ' ator seemed inclined to while before coming to the hand, and.....t_h_a interviewer if he chanced to remember one- day-era:my 'yeare ShIgil town In 'company -Edward Blake and the 1 Timothy Warren Anglin, National Policy ' was the Dominion politics. "It was time T. ever heard you sp George," explained the rean„ "and although I " wa ohild 1 always remember dreSS, because it was more i to me than the others; and cause my father introduced aster tile meeting, and. I was a great thing to have ter of Education shake my "1 remember the day ver, ly," said Sir George. 'I . that I don't recall being to you, but, of course, I your father. 1 ean tell wher —it• was in the Agriculturee' t was a very, -very hot , " The Cocaine. B The worst of the sobial the authorities of the 1 if Canada, have to cam at -rush, is- the nefarious c le and the misery .and vhich follew in its train. Montreal is, perhaps, r unfortunate in this *spec .da's metropolis 'the s :cached to tremendous 5o formidable has it bee° aundreds has it ruined, th :united efforts of all who ales enthe Weaknesses o is yet failed to crush it. Anyone knowing the r. the dread cocaine works 3rs cannot regaril the lifierence. It is this )ast. indifference whic tes that they are, ha ,tandard. he evil to sep the life a ts baneful inflei erospects of ,the many A Useful I nven Dr. Howard Barnes, :essor in McGill IJnive eking a two weeks' sr ner, whieh may net „eipturnelismes is somet •entor. For some tins working on an instillment lebergs. This instrument, letects iceberg -Miles away. ase s ship engy •be warned. o .)roximity and steer out of dal Because they receguite the iuch an instrumeut wink', he gation on the St. Lawrenee, th nion Government will next place at Prof. Barnes'at et the big vessels of the D of Marine and risheriee. ainr will Kiel down thr Strait of Belle Ike and c iceberg territory to test his Building a Highwa refiners about Montreal,‘ Napierville, and Lacomb to draw stone in the idle `Winter, That Will be their pe of the greatest road -making sine* the days of Caeear, the Edward ,VII. boulevard fro, real to New 'York. :This highway le to be eixteett • throughetite,' &Whet bridges and, conexe*