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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-1-25, Page 7eeereseee.•• A HEALTH N ant Work Dons a tieing in Me Conservation a kol 0 'which ruet rtl er reeal 'patreea , a ' saalNe gatherins, )30th pled: OpIe And laymen from all oreieion neet to consider: 'eataining to th.e pnblioeve to discover tM Meet N. a of helaing 0100 w 0 how, , r ...eve not the po thernseivee. And eveey one,' It is the symbol of tb.e,great brother- s Reyna IF4glineee, who operie hood af the Sikh ealigiem and with- engreee at a brilliant tee- out that title a man is. nothing in Royel Victorie Coe, to the eyes of the true Sikh. Translated lir aseietan,--areery ale into English the word means "Lione" e w a wilL T14 seemed to and as every male over eighteen is feature of the. eouvention. No eligible for that title upon baptism, Atteladed rahhhY to enjoy himself the bravery and strength that such a se egatreeez leve aeceetance, ext the' surname eoeveys eta. spread threugh zeds of euggestion Ana ad: the entire Sikh race. 4 § 00na anied by proof that To a reporter, Dr. Sunder Singh, lea led to their utter.' the prominent Punjab Minister, gave i ties covering every aspect a very interesting story of the rise U '0 ealth, from "Military pro.: and fall of the once great Sikh race, s Of Oanitation" to "Dust as e Dr. S'mgh has been in the east in or in Disease," Were plaeedbefore connection with his petition to Ottawa q, ngrem vit,13. peraotroel remedies 1 for a ehange in the immigration laws. ea treizing fatal reeults, He is one of the very highest naen a Mpre$SIVe: feature Of the .,eone • among the Sikhs, and is regarded as wl‘e the important pert teken the real leader of that race in Canada. 0 in this great rbteraent to Wearing the turban, whieh every Sikh tl. te'r living. Without belittling '0 dale. by all a the Men ever ose agg leg efforts axle energy made etOnvention possible, it must be Med that wonien effect reforms; wo-; en disoover needs whieh men would o see, and the women take the hate 1 ,1'v --bringing to public, notice tone t ons width require complete alterai on. Without theix assistance me Quid be powerless to reach the Too the matter. Every paper read a 0 ,bonerention (there may have bee 1 0 or two teehnieal exceptions) cone e ously er otherwise, bore out the eta of this statexnent. Women had abed money tor elate and that; wee en had given their services for title that; women had taken statistics -4 ad invaded homes for this purpose,. here mem, would not have been aue itted. In this great eampaign against orality and vice, against poverty)! ess and early death, against wholee ale deterioration of tb.e race, it es colleen -who need assistance. , ,. His Royal Highness, the Duke of, ormaught said that the -vast inanie ate resources of Canada—her for. etts, her rivers, her fields, her mines' were of no value with.out animate! • eSources to work them. It is woman'e 'gilt and privilege to give sturdy sone nct daughters to her land, and in. ie ,ousetry as young as Canada this eau: e done—it must be done! Do your. Orb 1 Help ever so little and some. ne else will not require to do so A 13 1 N • Every Baptt e Sikh Takes eh Tht Surname. "Sunder Single." To the, average eitizen Taneela the above eignattire acro es the regis- ter at a hotel the name mewls noth- ing. It is simply another peouliaritY that is to be met with in dealing with Beat Indiana. However, to the Sikh, more especially to the man who hae been transplanted to another land the strrnanee "Singh" means everything. , tta must adhere to, he is a very striking figure as he passes along through the crowded thoroughfares of Toronto's business district. "In the year 1469," said Dr. Singh "the same year that was made famous by the rise of Martin Luther, the Sikh race was founded. It was in the 15th century that Nank, the real creator of the Sikh religion, earae to the fore, and that date marks the beginning of our era. To begin -with, the Sikhs threw off all easte, such as is recog- nized by the Bramin and Hindu, and of couree a great deal of, opposition was shown to the new sect Many were murdered for upholding their be- lief, and nine of the first teachers of the Sikh faith were crucified. "Gobind Singh, the tenth teacher, was the man to lead his followers to success. There was at that time a .price placed upon -the heads of those who professed the Sikh belief. It was then that the word Singh was added to those who joined the brotherhoed. Singh roeans disciple, so that the en- tire race is bound together. The Sikhs do not worship idols, as do the other Indian races, and there is no priestly class, every man being placed upon. an equal plane. "It is polution for the Hindus to cross the ocean; in fact their entire life is controlled by -the Bramin or priests. The Sikhs, in taking names upon themselves, follow pretty much in the footsteps of the North American uch i The mere narae—The Censer-. Iedians. For instance, Dr. Sunder ation of Public Health, can encore.' Singh, gets his first name from the eta& nothing! English word "beautiful." Other ;Cold storage, town planning, labor.; Sikh names are taken from object, gtory work, sanitary engineering and flowers, etc. To these are added the eobitecture, sewerage and garbage' surname Singh, signifying -Unit they sposal, and many more papers bear- are baptized and belong to the broth- rxg upon theee subjecti were present- erhood: , A word about the first before go-, "Many have wondered why it is so g on. Sir Tames Grant voiced a many colors are shown in the turbans art of popular sentiment when he reel which the Sikhs must wear. According i%lied to Dr. Bryce's interesting revieW to Dr. Sunder Singh there are seven eef the cold storage and refrigeration different grades in religious knowl- ;..testion. Sir jaMESS asked. if the food edge. The class that a man occupies ' us preserved did not lose ranch a is designed by the eolor of turban. he ts nutritious value; he said. that fish: is given. Black is the lowest grade iparticularly should be eaten great% while the pink and yellow turbans and the same applied to fruit, e thee that Dr. Singh has ween. during the cold storage meat and fowl Was noV past two years mean that he has to be eompared to fresh. Then, ale, reached the highest ,possible perfec- ihough the point was not. argued, le tion in the Sikh race. ' . fact was mentioned. which proved thee It is this man whom the Sikhs have :by refrigerating meat properlY, alli entrusted with the work of securing an iphysical changes in that body were, amendment to the immigration laws absolutely arrested—in othee words i that will,permit of their bringing in i eihould be as good as when freshl , their wives and children and Dr. Singh deified. Dr. MoConnell said that i ' has every confidence that he will be :One refrigerating plant he had seen S' able to go back to his people and tell hog which had been there lor years them that he has been successful. a. d was still solidly frozen. ' The section wader the heading of :Social Workers, of which Dr. Grace :Ritchie England -was convener, struok :it the root of the whole question -1n - main it dealt with infantile mortal- lity. Dr. Helen NfacMurchy showed a ;6011ection of pictures illustrative of leer paper, which were appalling. The .average mothernis perfectly ignorant tof such conditions existing in what are called the slums.—Madge li/Cacbeth 'in Canadian Courier. A Hint to Game Lovers. It is not very generally known that 'Toronto spentsmen can el:0'0,y a little ehooting right, as it were, at their own front doors. During the early fall, they may gb out on the lake be- yond the island, and if they are lueky, they will return with a fair bag of ducks. True, they are not the , .best type of ducks, which go north to the rice beds of the Muskoka Lakes. The local eportsraen have to content theraselves with vrigeons, saw -bills and eea-ducks which are not ao par- ticular about their -diet, and therefore . xtvel in the 'refuse from the city. The men who like this shooting do not think they are securing a table delic.aey. One of them, returning from the lake with a couple of brace, decplained his point of view a few days ago, "I would as soon eat a Piece of an old shoe," he said. "It Could not be much tougher, and. the flavor might be better." "What de yeti do with them?" he was asked. "Oh, there is plenty of sale for the ducks,"" went on the hunter, "when people are not wise, they pretend to like the peculiarities and call them "the fine gamey flavor.' "—Saturday Night, .. Civic Representation in the Prisons. Iast year, according to the report of the Ittepector of Penitentiariee, there was 11834 daily population in the prisons of Canada. Montreal, Vaneouver and Winnipeg ittent more individual representation than the other -cities of Canada. There ate SW eititene of Montreal in the' enitentiaxies, 130 VencouVerites, and 14 bad mert from the 'peg. Toronto, Alio good, comes fourth with te9 err- -lag eons whiling away hems behind prison bats. . 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Toronto. • 86 Old Times In Kenora. Kenora men are talking of leaving and joining Manitoba. This recalls a bit of history. Nearly thirty years ago, Kenora—then suffering under the unpleasing name of Rat Portage—was the battleground el a conflict between Ontario and Manitoba. There was a boundary dispute between Ontario and the Dominion. The line claimed by th.e Dominion would have passed east of Port Arthur. Oliver Mowat put up a fight for Ontario that fired the Liberal heart and paesed into hie - tory. Then A was that Sir John A. Macdonald said he did not care a rap for Mowat, his Frasers and his Blazers, his Hardy's and his Pardees, his Lardies and his Dardies. He had a law passed making the eastern boundary el Manitoba coincide with the western boundary of Ontarie. This was—as Sir Sohn. perhaps faintly suspected and did not deeply deplore—the signal for a fight between Ontario and lVfanitoba, centred in Rat Portage. Rat Portage had two governments, two jails,* two court houses, two sets of police. The con- stables arrested. each other, the pattieans fired each others' jails and released prisoners. Manitoba was an the verge of sending soldiers to the scene. Finally Oliver Mowat return- ed from England, and framed up a compromise with Attorney -General Miller of Manitoba. And now Kenora wants to lea.ve us and go arid live in Manitoba's house. --Star Weekly. A Marriage Foe. A Toronto clergyman tells an amus- ing story eoncerning a very important event in the life of Rev. 3. E. Starr, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Juvenile Court. It seems that when Rev. M. L. Pearson, formerly pastor of Berkeley Street Methodist Church, was married yeare ago, he asked Mn. Starr to perform the eere., mony and presented him with a fee of fifty dollars. Mr -Starr took it grace- funy, and when very WW1 after he was to be indfried himself, he select- ed Parson to tie the knot, where- upon he handed back to hie friend his filty dollars. Friend of Children. ! After seventeeu years' service in the Ontarie Governmaset's Department of lteglected children, 'Vire. J, L. Ilan vie has resigned. . The htenanitarian work of caring for tottet and neglected children has al.: s been a pleasure ,as well ea a forrare. Itarvie. Por her it was SEPULCHERS OF WAX. I Tombs That Sees Sometimes Erect In Their Hives. Bees have a very ingenious and sani- tary way of disposing of a mouse or a slug that may happen, by accident or design, to find its way into their hive. When the intruder is killed the prob- Ini ariees how to deal with the body. If it is impossible to expel or dismem- ber it taey will proceed methodically to inclose it in a Veritable sepulcher of nazi. • In one of his hives a beekeeper dis- eovered three such tombs side by side, erevted with party walls like the cell of the comia so that hio wax should be wasted. These tombs the prudent "sextons" had raised over the remains ofethree snails that a child bad inteo- dueed into the hire. As a rule, when dealing with snails, bees will be con- tent to seal up with wax the opening of tbe shell. But In this case the shells were more or less cracked and broken, and they had considered it simpler, therefore, to bury the entire snail. They had further contrived, in order that traffic miglit not be impeded in the entrance hall of the hive, a number of galleries exactly proportionate, not to their girth, but to that of the male bees, which are almost twice as large BB the workers. -Loudon Standard. or," of love. A CANADIAN IMPERIALIST. Capt. D. F. Campbell Now Sits In the Oritish Commons as a Unioniet. Another Canadian has made a hit he British politics, Fie is Capt. D. lh iNuipleell, formerly of 'Toronto, who hate won a seat for the Unionist at North Ayrshire, Scotland. It hi not very loug sinee Campbell left Teronte. Re was bora there about thirtyeltve years ago, and was edu- cated in Tetoato. Campbell wee a football star in his college deys, punt. ing the pigskin at Trinity College Schotil and Trinity College, After he lead taken on boot on the gridiron, he Went to Beg:land to take a post -gradu- ate eourse e military school. He liked the clank et' sabres and hei rattle of guns, and ch tided to join th, , regular army. Becoraieg attached .te the Lancashire Fusiliers, he soon got a taste a real warfaee out in Malta, There he covered himself with glory, an& when the South African war cloncl loomed up, Campbell got a eotn- mission. In Sonth Africa he had the misfortune to have his foot knocked a trifle awry by a Mauser bullet. After the war, the gallant captain linked -up with the Black Watch High- land Regiment, and for some tante has been living in barracks at Bermuda. This duty is as good as a furlough, and the captain took advantage of his leisure by reading up on polities. He got somewhat of a reputation for dis- coursing eloquently at mess table on corn taxes, the navy and that sort of thing, -until, first thing he knew, the Conservative party in England began to write him appeals to run for Par- liament in England. said the Campbell, "Scotland forever," By which he just meant to say that he wouldn't run. unless a Scottish seat Wine provided. A few weeks ago, Mr. A. M.. Ander- son, K.C., got an appointment as Solicitor -General for Scotland. That meant lie had to eontest his seat again. Here was a chance for Camp- bell. But it looked mighty slim, for Anderson, K.C., is a cracking good debater and platform orator, ovlaile Campbell has nothing more to say than. a soldier should. However, the genial, -whole-souled ways of Camp- bell prevailed at the polls, .the cap- tain w.orsting the prospective Solici- tor -General by 271 votes. Capt. Campbell got Christraas ca- bles of congratulation from Mr. S. Lorne Campbell, the Toronto stock- broker, Barlow Cumberland, publicist, and others of his relatives over here. STRAIT OF MAGELLAN Place Names That. -Do It Breathe of Its Tragedies. The history of the toll of the strait of Magellan began when the first primi- tive canoe capsized and fatally spilled its dark skinned Anierinds into the icy waters of this southern archipela.go. The first White man's toll -was paid on his maiden passage through an() strait by the man whose name the strait now bears, and the price -exacted was one of the flower of his tleet and the deser- tion of others, which turned tell for home before the bitter blasts from the western unknown. Since that long 800 years ago these wild. and forbidding regions have ex- acted their heavy toll of life and property from every maritime nation of the globe which has sought to use these "ends of the earth" as a high- way. The very names given by explor- ers to these parts are a clew to its his- tory and character -Mount Darwin, Beagle channel, Mount Sarmiento, Desolation island, Thieves bay, Port Famine, Mount Misery, Unfit bay, Last Hope inlet, in many eases spelling trag. edy in its worst forms. --Outing. Stevenson's Name. No modern writes Is better 'mown by his initials than Robert Louis Ste- venson, but "R. L. S." was arrived at after considerable experiment. Ste- venson's baptismal names were Robert Lewis Balfour, and the third name caused the diffieulty. Until he was about fifteen be signed himself "R. Steenson." After that he occasional- ly Used Stevenson, "11. L. B." In 1868 he asked bis mother to address him as "Robert Lewis," eut a year or two later, as he expressed It in a letter to Mr, Baxter, "after several years of feeble and ineffectual endeavor with regard to my third Initial (a thing I loathe)," he finally abandoned it alto- gether. Stevenson when about eight- een changed the spelling of his second name from "Lewis" to "Louis," but Lewis he remained at all times in the naopth of his family, and friends. 010 TIME NEWS FILES OF A CENTURY AFIEJNTERe ESTI NG R EAD I NG. 'The Quebec Gazette For danuary, 1807, Contains the Pruseian Mani- festo Wtsich Meant So Much For Europe Under a Small Heading-- Pertnerehhe Notices Reveal Some 1110911C Names. The New Year euggeets the old year, and the impalse that oomes to one at this season to look backward is al- most irreeistible, It is always inter- 'esting to review the peth over which We have passed, for if it does nothirig else it reminds us how far bave traveled, says The Montreal Standard. At hand are the ilea of a number of old Canadian neWepapers, and by means of !their time -stained and badly printed pages one can look backward many yeaes, and obtain something like a sucoession of pictures of the life of long -ago ae mirrored in the public press. First at hand is a file of The Que- bec Gazette for the year 1807 — one hundred and five years old. It was Upper and Lower ;Canada then, and each province was fpr the most part a wilderness. For fifteen years the provinces had had representative government. lb was still the days of the stage-coaoli and the sailing vessel, There was not yet a steamboat on the continent; the steamship did net come until about a quarter ef a century later; the steam locomotive was not invented. in England until almost. twenty years after this old news - nine 'years were to paper ea= off the press, and twenty - pass before there. Lion," was acquired by the Frenah was a railway in Oanada• Government for the Musee de Luxexce There was an issue of this old bourg. newspaper on New Year's Day, 1807, Miss Wallis studied at South Ken- A CANADIAN SCULPTOR. Miss Katherine Wallis Gains Fame in Europe. One day a lady was eitting feorib of the lion's cage at the Serdiu dee Plantes, Paris (the "Zoo," ae we would call it), absorbed in her task of "Axing" in plentic clay the pose al the tnahnal, when. the lion pushed his paw through ihe cage and caught the end of a fur scarf worn by the young artist. - Intmediately a stranger rushed to her assistance,. mid was Overjoyed t,o find that the sear!, not hairing been fastened, fell, harmlessly out of the lion's paw. The young lady WEL; Katherine E. Wallis, from Rotel Ont., whe had spent some tint„. Smelt Keneington, and had' nine te Paris to complete her studio The incident just narrated was the ninst fortunate of her artistic cateer, for the friend who rushed to her rescue 'MU the famous ;sculptor, Mons. Ozcar Waldemarm. Learning her story, he at once toele her as his pupil, ,o,nd for ten years has been her "guide, phil- osopher and friend." It was a great privilege for the young Canadian to have the personal help of the greatest animal sculptor in the world, and richly has she profited by- his experience and in- sttuction, Mons. Waldemann has for a qua -re ter century exhibited in the Paris Salon, and received honorable men- tion. In 1900 he received a silver tnedal in the Universal Exhibition in Paris; took first prize in sculpture in a general competition in Paris; re- ceived the highest award at the exhi- bition of the Society for the Protec- tion of ,Anixnals, Paris, for an import- ant exhibit; has had several of hie Nearly every farmer on 11 works produced in porcelain at the lanted from five to a dc state manufactory at Sevres, while '*f -tobacco as, a measure his fine piece "The Waking of the ectien. And it was a good idbecause it has b„een ion speaking- th a ' sense: Tobacco is such a rich c quires so much attention t individual acreage , is the authority has claimed thaee will make as much as el should grow, but in MereX of the County of Essex thenk of teneetwenty, thirty, and ferty -acres being grown re' In the vicinity of Blenhe Oeunty of Kent, there are fifty"- acreeef mans- of.Jobae e.fields are also encounte One of her weeks, Dachshund (bronze), .was acquit -eel bere.the eeee- bition. authorities in Dresdenafter being shown there in 1901. Her "Mercury Charmed by His Own. In- vention" (stone) was acquired' by the Ontario Government in 1908; also "Mignomre" (marble bust) in. _1910. The city of Paris acquired two medal- lion reliefs for the Petit .Palaie col- lection. An exhibition of her work, with that of Mons. Waldemenn, in Montreal, in 1908, was visited by the Governor-General and Lady Grey, Miss Wallis has become very much attached to ' Paris on account of the artistic atmosphere prevailin.g there, but I trust event e may yet take her back to her native, land, -where her influence wink], greatly assist the growtinoLant. It was a great-ploaeure to me to visit lier'''Studierjand that W her enthusiastic tutor.—Thomas Ben- _ gough in The Globe. London, pages tell us -what Canadians were and in a limited way its eight small sington under Stephen Webb and Lanteri, and won modeller% free talking about on that first of January, It eontained important foreign news scholarship for two years. She has one hundred and Ave years ago. exhibited. seven times in the Royal '—sensational news we would call it Academy, London, and eight times in now, and news having to do with Paris salen.s. By spetial invitation of the time. she exhibited at Liverpool, Leeds, events that contributed to the history This falas of British Art" and "The Animal in oreign news filled the first Glasgow and London--"Tvrenty Years Art Throughout the Ages." She re - and it bore in small type the simple Univrsal Exhibition, Paris, 1900. TOBACCO OR Ne.' Farming Industry Real Meet. In . certain favored seetion Doramiori there is springir comparatively Lew farming that is becoming tea importa in the agriculteral developme country, Tine i6 the 'prod tobaeco. The traveler in the eoente 40 and 'Kent, at the eeitee weetern part of Ontario, and petioles ef the Provinee „Of !ell fine farmers who entities alittert that tobacco 'ie the be elesp they car grow, $o vet the induitry become the" t tie production increased fro petuids in 11396 toe o -ver eigh rairlde for the last flecal Ye Where a farmer., can geow, eobatco to the acre and get e Pound for it, as he did. I he iss long-headed ,pncagh mit that few. Atter crops A him 020 iiii acre, It used to be said in Esee that corn was king there, 1 has been an agricultural inE end King Tobacco reigns on t IA the Plaeo of King Corra In the Province of Quebeel e,f "L'Associetion des Pia Tabac de la Vallee de Yam tell you that tobacco id al gold mine for them. Across on Pelee Ieland, southerly point of Canada, ti was the means of "pullin a chorus of praise for tobai many a farmer who waul I have suffered a slim finario' account of the exceptio Weather that prevailed lee e three pages of the New Year issue, ceived honorable mention in tle head -line. "Prussian Manifesto." That !manifesto, issued by the King of Prus- "sia, announced that the King "had The Mayor. and the Censor. 1 itaken up arms for the defence of his 'people" against Napoleon Bonaparte. Those Toronto policemen who act It meant the renewal of the great - as play and poster censors have leap- -European war which, with brief in - ed into the limelight lately by reason terruptions, continued until the battle of soine rather absurd direttions con: 'iof 'Waterloo, eight years later. The cerning the covering up of cards and manifesto is reproduced in full, and cigarettes shown on posters. its date shows how slowly news This recalls a rather amusing ex" %raveled at that time. petience that Mayor Geary, who hap- The manifesto was signed, "Head - pens also to be chairman of the Board iquarters, Erfurt, October 9, 1806;" and a 'Police Commissioners. had with it was now published for the first those same censors shortly after his time in Canada on New Year's Day, return from Ms coronation trip to 1807, almost three months after it had England. been issued by the King of Prussia. While in London, Mayor Geary mei It was also announced that "the nego- a bright and literary -minded Mente 'tiations in, -which the Xing of Great real girl, who talked with him about Britain had been engaged with France literary matters, and advised hirn to had been terminated without. sue: read H. G. Wells' recent book, "The eeseet New Machievelli." which deals with On another page is news that fol - problems a Obotal and political lifei as the sequel of the manifesto The mayor Is ,, not an admirer o of the King of Prussia. It is an ac - ;lows Wells, but he iead the book. Ho eount of about one thousand words found it interesting. 'of the battle of Jena, in which the Soon. after he returned to Toronto Prussians were routed with great loss he was asked to address the Buenos!! and Prussia again. prostrated before Women's Club, a flourishing organ.; !Napoleon. ization of some four hundred mem, Of Canadian news this New Year bers. He found himself. drifting in issue oontains next to none, except his speech along the line of Wells' such as can be gleaned from the ad - doctrines, and then he frankly told vertisements. There is one death no - the feminine audience to read the tice, which announced that, on the book. day following Christmas, Thomas For a week or two thereafter his , Faunee, Town Major of the garrison, worship was bothered by frequent and naval officer of the Port of Que. requests from women who had heard bee, had passed away. his speech and who wanted to know The first advertisement is a notice where they could buy the book. The addressed "to the Seigniors and Farm - mayor made some investigation, and 'ere of the District of Montreal," which, found that some three weeks before point out that "wheat is too precari- the police had put the book undei ous in demand and cannot give 13Ut• the ban. They had discovered soil ficient employment to the rising gen? little incident in it which d.escribe eration, which is very numerous, and a fall from grace on the part of thci from habit like to live near each otha hero, and they decided it was inn er." The advertisar, Chas. F. Grace, moral. And so was presented thi then goes on to say that persons de. amusing spectacle of the chairman el sirous of seeing the different pro- . the police commissioners recommend. cesses in the culture and manufacture ing to women the book hie subordin. of hemp will be employed by hirn at ates had banned.—Courier. ihis establishment at Longue Pointe, where he is making experiments in Amusing Election. Incident. the mitten of hemp. The recent municipal election in Several of the partnership notices Hamilton was not without its emus- are interesting, one in particular, relish which may be -called historical. It ing incidents. One of the most re ed stories around the city hall 131. announced that John Gregory had volves Mayor Lees and Harry Kent, withdrawn from the firm of McTa.vish, who is a son of the eity clerk and who Fraser & Co.; that the firm ha's been was an officer at the polling booth reorganized, consisting of William McGillivray, Duncan McGillivray, where the mayor voted. • His wor'shig entered the voting place and intima William Hallowell, and Roderick "Plac- ed that he would like to exercise his kenzie, the firm -name being McTav- ish, McGillivray & Co. The notice right of suffrage. "What's the name?" demanded the young 111511; He was was sigaed at Montreal on Dec. 11, told. "Where do you live," dutifully in 1806. Here are names conspicuous continued Mr. Kent. This informa- the history of the Canadian West. lead - tion was also supplied vritla becoming Some of these partners were the spirits of the North-West Com. modesty. "Are you a tenant or own- pany, the great rival of the Hadson er?" was the next question the mayor answered with a smile.- At this junc- Bay Co., and subsequently amalga- tura the officer recollected that Geo. mated with it. It was after William McGillivray that the fort built at the g. Lees happened to be the name of mouth of the Kareinistiquia River ,was the mayor Of the eityand with an named Fort William—to-day one of abashed air, he hurriedly passed out the required voting blanks amid a Canada's two great grain -shipping ports an Lake Superior, and the is., burst of laughter from the other occu- s pants of the booth. ter eity of Port Arthur. May Upset Reduction Bylaw. Kingston, Jan. 19.—Hoteimen of 'Kingston have hopes of'13,eing able to quash the bylaw for :the' reduction of tavern licenses by ten. The first step -was taken yesterday when a recount. of votes was arranged to take place on. the 96th before Judge Price. The offieial majority of 105 is known to be incorrect, as the deputy return- ing officer of the subdivision wrote council that he had made a wrong return, which brings the naajority down to 67. Virginia Wants Roosevelt. Charleston, W.V. Ian, 19.—Gover- nor W. E. Glasscock of West Virginia issued a statement last night in whieh he declares that a earful canvass of the political situation in West Ver. ginia, haft convinced him that the people of the state are overwhelmingly for Col. Theodere Roosevelt, for the Republican Ptesidential nomination, and he calks uponthe people to elect delegates to the Chieago National eon- ventlofl wJi Y9ta fp): his tom!. nation. Earl Grey a Peace -Maker. Roderick Mackenzie -was a cousin of Sir Alexander Mackehzie, the dis- coverer of the Mackenzie River, and Earl Grey has not forgotten Canada the first white man to cross Canada since going back to England. At this and reach the Pacific. Roderick Mac - moment the earl is prominent in the kenzie built Fort Chipeevyan on Lake movement to celebrate the centenary Athabasca, and assisted Sir Alex' of peace between Canada, England der with tho Journal of his fanwee and the United States, dating frora voyages and Joe/nays, ! "Roderic]; the signing of the peace of Ghent in Mackenzie," says Dr. Bryce, "had the 1814, Earl Grey has been elteted pen of a randy teelter; and it is gene president of a society which will or- erally believedthat he gave him (Sir ganize celebrations it the three above Alexander) much help in prepating tottntrie,s during the years 1913, 1914 his journals," and 1915 Prince Rupert Goes Aheqd. , Growing Pains of Fredericton rrederieton, N.B., has been 'hitherto knowo as the ca,pital of New trate. wiek, and a quiet eollege and residen- tial town Recently the eornmercial spirit has got hold of reederieton. In the town there is Tway 4 well -directed movernent ef business,inen which aime to boost the populatien of Predericton !torn eight to fifteen thousand hi 1916. Prinde Rupert, the Pacific coast ter- mines of 'the G.T.P., is at present malting great strides. A waterworks system is being installed at a cost of about $550,000, $100,000 of which will be spent thee year. The city is also spending 8600,000 on the sewerage sys- tem, and another $500,000 is being Spent on rock-catting and street grad- ing.. The Democratic Duke. The Dukeeof Connaught, Canada's new Governor-General, is utterly de- void of austerity or affectation, and thereby, hangs this little human in- terest tale that all the daily papers have missed. Recently the royal train was speeding along the C.P.R„ and arriving at Havelock about 7.30 a.m. a stop WM made for breakfast. The train stood west of the station. Train Despatcher Tom -Pyser took his camera, and accompanied by Yardmaster Haig, went out to get a picture of the royal traveling outfit. They were rather despairing of get- ting a glance at tin duke on account of the early hour, and meeting a man owalking up and down the station platform, they' assumed that he be- longet to the Governor -General's suite." "We are going to take a picture of the train," said Pyser. "I wonder if the duke is coming out soon?" "Why, do you want to get a picture of him, too?" asked the stranger. "We sure would," answered Pyser. "Weil, go ahead then, my good man. I'm the duke." In amazement, the two railway men stared, and then quickly took their hats off. They had dreamed of the duke as being clad in a gorgeous unifoem, and he, like an ordinary mortal., was out taking a stroll as a morning appetizer, in plain civilian attire., The duke conversed with- Pyser and Haig, and when Haig re- marked that they had expected to see him in a uniform, His Royal High- ness explained that he always wore plaiu attire in the mornings. Then the duchess and Miss Pelly, waiting, came out, and the duke in- troduced the nien to them. Then Pyser, pleased ...beyond all his ex- pectations, got a picture of the whole royal group. Wanted—Cars. There is a transportation famine about Regina just now. It is grain- movieg tirae, and exporter's are urg- ing upon the railroad companies the need of more cars. At Davidson, the story goes, grain has been piled up in the main street because "freights"' were not tooting by that way. There ate 94 towns howling through Boards of Trade for 6,855 ears to be despatched instanter. P. Month's Record.' n One Province. 'An Easterner hears of the "Arnett - can invasion," ant he wonders What is the exteet of it. Illuminating fig.' tires from Manitoba for October, ghow that itt that one Month, 584 of Uncle Sam's people crossed the line on to Canadian prairielxk that province; 290 of these people were children. Thy brought 748 horses, 163 head of ,cat - tie, in 149 railroad ears. Vancouver Islarid Roads. , Five hundred miles of roads aree open to the public in Vancouver DO, land and may be uted Automobgail along the shore of Lak 1Elgin County. Mes- ons of Walkerville have 'stinctionof eultivating the largest crop of toba world. It le a plantation o containing one. million tee and fifty thousand plants' The tobacco plantseere May, sprayed and culte September or October, w are out off, -which widen ens the leaf. The sprout ered" once or twiee, a October the hervestieg operation consists in leaves, placing them u the Esun for half a day after which they are st "lathed." and then toll process. Quite often the tole purchase the crop in cently agents of Cana 0 F,ssex and K dreds &CAI -Tons ncls o ing 12 14 to 13 eents a mediate delivery. Qu' able part of the crop wi spring in tobacco barns, shipped to the manufac The Dominion Govern tered the tobacco indu establishment of a epei. which is okthnooreffiZ4 th vision of the Departm ture. have rendered assistance tine, atfor instane the almost prahibitie cents a pound on the lueraftnCoabneadian ma dayel A Preeteble From a financied sta 1911 will go down' in tory as one of the Canada has ever had:: only from a staodpoin ous financial transacti been carried out thrai but more particularly of the big changes- wl brought about in conne lie utility' ! and Wee prises in the -chief ci try, like Motreal, nipeg. The year jast closit • been a bumper yea hanks. The institute theit fiseal year if ber were about t4t,) these together were creases in their n $1,500,000 for the y oE the other institut cal year at the ea( by the time they ments to their sh pected that the to year will amount which is a pretty the manner in wit to make money. -9 Both Are "Righ„ The distineuished bers of the t'Priey Mr L BCiden pointed, in order of now Sir Charles Tip er,, Laurieni 'Sir Rie,hard 'Ca . Chattel:, lepatriek Feed For`Ohlt, o&st time ina Canada, the two lee, ing,parties will new r er in addreesiug 'the Right lionoralele Mernb While Canada has five cillors, Australia hae Zealand one, and South Decrease, I n SUCC A falling off in the s of the province of Ontaric past year is shown by, ti ures: December, 1911 December, 1010 Deorease in 1911 Year ending Dec..31, 1914. Same to tied. 31, 1910., Deorease itt 911 v, •