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The following interesting -article reader is that of "The Rialto," be -
written by Miss Kate Deadman, of pause of its associations in Shake -
Braude, is taken from "`Just and speare's `"Merchant of Venice," In
West,,' a Sunday School paper pub-
lished in Toronto, dated 'November
21st, 1020, and is well worthy of re-
production. The scene of the story
was vieited by Miss Kate Deadman.
last yeast --•The mere thought of
Venice suggests romance. Everything
about our conception of it roman-
tic, and Venice itself quite lives up
to its reputation, It is alluring in the
present; its past was no lose so. The
city was founded and fostered under
unique circumstances, and to appre-
ciate it to the full, one must recall a
little of its past history,
By the fifth century, A. D., the
glory of the great Roman Empire had
waned, and other people and nations
.were gaining the, ascendency. Chief
among these were the Huns, with
their war -like leader, Attila, rather
significantly caled "the scourge of
God," Attila boasted than"'grass
could not grow where his horse had
trod. Rather than suffer conquest
at the hands of theinvader, seine of
the inhabitants of Northern Italy
left the mainland and thrust them-
selves upon the mercy of the sea.
Henceforth the sea became their
mother, their protectress, and with
the courage and strength of youth,
they set themselves the difficult task
of building a city out of the numer-
ous small islands grouped together in
the northern Adriatic, and of not
only combating a powerful foe, but
of ek',ng out a liying for themselves
and their families.
. In spite of the fact that they might
be said to have become pirates, we
cannot but admire the determination
of purpose and dauntless courage of
these people in the face of tremend-
ous odds. They ,might truly be said
to have been pioneers. Meanwhile
the low lying islands were built up,
and the . foundations 'made strong
and sure; and the fascinating city of
Venice sprang into existence. It
was said that the foundations of the
buildings cost more than the struc-
tures themselves.
The Bridge of the Rialto is only
moderate in size, but k had a hun-
dred and fifty feet of marble and
twelve thous.•tndstrunks of elm trees,
ten 'feet long, used initsfoundation
alone. In time a powerful republic
had arisen, and the warriors were
proud of their prowess on the sea,
before which the enemy trembled.
Tremendous wealth and booty were
looted from vessels which dared to
come near their waters, •and even
peaceful countries were plundered.
No wonder that in time, the city be-
came exceedingly wealthy, and that
we find such structures as St. Mark's
Cathedral and the Ducal Palace.
-
An interesting told of Ven-
ice.
� story
ice. In the old times on Ascension
Day, the Oodgo, or ruler of the re-
public, descended from his balcony
and stepped upon a barge adorned
with canopies of gold and velvet, and
with• a deck inlaid with ebony and
mother of pearl. To the sound of
inertial music, this splendid vessel
swept out towards the sea, propelled
by eighty gilded oars, until, amidst
the roar of cannon and the shouts of
the assembled populace, the Doge
cast into the blue waters a ring of
gold, exclaiming solemnly:` "We wed
thee, 0 sea, with this ring, emblem
of our rightful, and perpetual dom-
inion." Venice has, for this reason,
been called "The Bride of the Adri-
atic."
dri-
atic. "
As we approached Venice., we felt
this very spirit of romance. A bridge
two and a half miles long connected
the mainland with the city, and then
we' reached the station, not to find a
line up of buses and cabs, but instead
a great array of gondolas which are
not unlike large rowboats, with 0
coquettish addition at the ends. Our
gondolier saw us comfortably seated,
and having stowed away the luggage,
he himself stood up at the end, and
with one large paddle, deftly guided
his boat in and out of the many can-
als, under the rustic bridges, and
past the overhanging balconies, until
Cat were brought safely to our own
hotel steps, which were right on the
water. Quite recently,
boats for question
of substituting
gondola was discussed. One feels
like pleading that the full individual-
ity of Venice be allowed to remain,
and that she be left in her most .fit-
ting setting, undisturbed.
Nodoubt it was this romantic
beauty which inspired the great art-
ists, such as Turner, Tintoretto. Guar -
di, and many others tb paint their
Venetian pictures; or made it a place
beloved by poets, writers and music -
lane. It was in the Palazzo :Vendee -
minis that. Wagner died in 1883.
Myron lived not far from the Grand
Hotel, also Robert Browning, The
The
Nome of Titian was a14o. here;
Ruskin was always an ardent admir-
er of it.
Although Venice is composed of
more than one hundred 'elands, and
there are one hundred and fifty 000-
lds, yet one 000 readily ':o frons one
to the other without thegondola, if
,:o desired, as there a•,' no fewer
than four hundred bridges ----fab: sle-
d bridges, tiny ones, wooden or
Romantic Venice
13y KATE DEADMAN
the old days it was here that mer-
chants meet in a vest exchange, else
the laws of the republic were pro-
claimed from The Rialto, The other
bridge of whieh we read is "The
Bridge of Sighs," which connected
the prison with the Ducal Palace it
was over this bridge that prisoners
bad to go to be tried, so that it was
quite appropriately named
As the gondola quietly glides along
the Grand Canal, which is the larg-
est and most important of the canals,
one is most impressed with the Piaz-
za of St. Mark, the Ducal Palace, and
St. Mark's Cathedral. On the water-
front are two granite columns. On
the top of one is "The Winged Lion
of St. Mark," and on the other "St.
Theodore on a Crocodile." These
were brought from Syria, or Con-
stantinople and were erected in
1180. In the old days, prisoners were
put to death between these columns,
and had to face the sea during the
execution. Now it is merely a stand
for gondolas. Near by is the Ducal
Palace, for more than one thousand
years the residence of the Doges.
Ruskin once spoke of this palace as
"the central building of the world."
On the giant staircase, between the
statues Mars and Neptune, the Doge
took his oath of office. In all, there
were a hundred and twenty Doges.
When the republic ceased to be, the
palace was devoted to art and an-
tiques. The most interesting paint-
ing here is "The Glory of Paradise,"
by,Tintoretto. It is seventy feet in
length, and has six hundred figures
in it. Tintoretto was over sixty years
old when he painted it—surely a
great achievement!
Connected with the. Ducal 'Palace,
and facing St. Mark's Square, is the
famous St. Mark's Cathedral. It is
not so high as the average cathedral
but is very ornate in appearance, be-
ing built in the Italian Byzantine
form of architecture, with a blending
of the Gothic. It was begun in 830
A. D., and rebuilt after a fire, in 97a.
In the eleventh century, it was re-
constructed in the Byzantine style,;
after the model of the Church of
the Apostles at Cgnstantinople. The
fanciful effect of the facade was en-
hanced by the Gothic additions it re-
ceived in the fifteenth century. The
edifice is in the forst of a Greek cross
or with equal arms, one large demo
being in the centre and one at the
end of each of the four arms. Ex-
ternally and internally the church is
adorned with five hundred marble
columns, mostly Oriental andin many
styles, chiefly booty fron battles.
Some of these colored marble col-
umns came from Jerusalem, some
from Ephesus and Smyrna; they even
•
lobbed Christian churches, such as
St. Sophia at Constantinople, in or-
der to enrich their own. > For five
hundred years the Venetians -beauti-
fied their church. Over the principal
portal are "The .Four Horses," in
gilded bronze, They are five feet
in height and are among the finest
or ancient bronzes' and the sole ex-
isting 'specimen of an ancient quad -
riga. They probably once adorned
tete Trium)*ial' Arch of Nero and
afterwards of Trajan, Constantine
sent them to Constantinople, whenre
the Doge brought them to Venice
in 1204. In 1797, they were carried
by Napoleon to Paris, where they
graced the Triumphal Arch in the
Pince du .Carrousel; and in 181.5.
after the .Battle of Waterloo, they
were restored to their former position
so that they have had various vicis-
situdes. In the interior of the
church, guarded by the Twelve Ap-
ostles, is buried the body of St.
Mark, patron saint of, Venice.
One of the elements which helps
to make St. Mark's ornate in appear-
ance; is the great amount of mosaic
work, both in the interior and exter-
ior of the building, The floors are
inlaid with marble mosaic, but the
rest of the mosaic is mostly, gold be-
tween plain glass. In St. Mark's,
there is over one acre of gold mosaic
alone. The work in the sacristy is
very, chaste and beautiful; in fact it
is said to be the finest of its kind in
the world..
In front, and to one side of the
cathedral, is the Campanile, which is
three hundred and twenty-two feet
high: The view from the top 18
splendid, commanding as it docs, the
whole countryside and giving 0 Very
good topography of Venice. Im-
mediately In front of St. Mark's are
two .very richly decorated bronze
pedestals.
One cannot,go'to St. Mack's Square
without forever afterwards associat-
ing the pigeons with it. Here they
gatheein hundreds and are a great
source of pleasure • to the children,
who love to. -feed the tame, gentle
creatures out of their hands. An in-
teresting story is associated with
them: In the thirtoeetli cantury, the
Venetians were fighting Caudill
They noticed sono pigeons and killed
them, .and under their wings, they
found messages, from which infor-
mation they were able to tulce the
MIAMI in twelve Ileurs. The pigeon
became almost a sacred hied, and
steel bridges, elaborately carved, 01' :down to the close of the eepnblle
plain Ones, hump backed, or straight, E were fed at the public expellee..
Perhaps the most interesting to the '.there 000 other churches 01 real
1
Ron. T. A. Crerar Was re-elected
President and General Manager Of
the United Grain Growers, Limited.
at the meeting of directors at Win-
nipeg last week.
interest in Venice, and several of its
industries deserve notice, especially
the making of the beautiful Venetian
lace, all hand done, and celebrated
the world over rot its exceeding fine-
ness. ' And visitors will scarcely leave
the city without a few chains of Ven-
etian beads, or without having seen
them made, from the spun glass to
the finished product; also the excel-
lent Venetian glassware.
A walk of about two miles along
the promenade from the Piazza of
St. Mark,' win also reward you -with
a beautiful park; with variegated
shrubs, semi -tropical trees, fountains
and flowers. _.
Altogether, Venice' is a charming
place, and we had 'real regrets when
the time came to leave it, and we
once more went up "the liquid
streets" to, the station, carrying with
us a lasting memory of the romantic
city, with its gondolas and care free
life, its Grand Canal and St. Mark's
Square, with all that surrounds them
ofbeauty and interest.
A fine Series of Articles
Of all the American newspapers,
none is so favorably remembered by
Canadians as having championed the
cause of the. allies during the war
as the Providence Journal. Under the
able editorship of John R. Rathom,
who was been in Australia, The Jour-
nal not only ably advocated American
participation on the side of the allies,
but did wonderful service in expos-
ing the campaign which the Germans
were conducting in the United States
to hamper munition manufacture' and
to prevent American help, for the al
liad armies.
It is for these reasons that Can-
adians will read with particular in-
terest a pamphlet issued by The
n • of a
• al consisting ' acs J
ut n g
Provide 0
cries of articles on the Dominion
written by Ashmum Brown, the
Washington correspondent of The
Journal, entitled, "Canada, Our Most
ate O4ute
cYVlessengerr
By GEORGE ELMER COBB
CCvprrisat, • tst;t, by thq woeiera Nowt'-
psr on,)
Ben Dymonyad waUsls out 01 a job and
there wee a hungry wife and child at
loam, Ile had moldered the streets all
the morning without meeting with the
tenet encouragement as 10 employ.
went. Footsore, down -hearted, faint
from the want 0f food, be was rest-
Ing
estIng on a refuse box In front of a ho-
tel when a bareheaded man In over.'
Ills came out ou the sidewalk, observed
his 'woe -begone appearance, and ac -
coked him.
"Ready for a two hours' task?' he
inquired incidentally.
"Ready for two years, night and
day, so the home folios have regular
meals!" responded Ben with alacrity.
"Well, there's flfty cents an hour in
It," volunteered the other. "Come on.
Hello 1 no drink in this, I Hope?"
"Never touch that," said Ben. Then
with a weary smile: "Nothing ex-
cept it couple of crusts since last
night," for he had staggered and his
companion had mistaken the cause.
"Very well, you come with me," he
directed. "The meal will be a good
one, and thrown in with the dollar,"
and indeed it was n famous meat in
the hotel kitchen, There was more
than a plenty. Ben ate sparingly un-
til one of the cooks, comprehending the
Situation, shaved in his pocket a box
tilled with choicest viands and "lunch
at bedtime—see?"
Ben was taken to the roof of the
hotel, where he MILS given a carpet
beater. and a pile of possibly a bub-
Bred small rugs. no attacked them
with a will: Iu an hour and a quar-
ter by the clock ire had completed his
task and his employer handed him a
dollar bill.
"I haven't worked the lull time,"
submitted Ben.
"No, but you've done two hours' av-
erage work, all the same. Now per-
haps there's some odd work for''to-
morrow. You stay here till I hunt up
the manager and find out."
-Ben wns nothing loath as to seat-
ing himself on the cornice and resting
up: He became aware of a comae -
tion in the street, and peered four
stories Clown. Aoross the street was
a great skyscraper, and in its shade
a crowd was gathered, eyes fixed sky-
ward. Ben followed their gaze. Dan-
gling from a telephone wire waS s
pigeon.
The pigeon had struggled into flying
position, fluttered up and took off in
a violent dash: The string held and
the bird was jerked back to helpless-
ness. Women grabbed the arms of
men they 010 not know and Implored
then to "do something!" Wordless
prayers seemed concentrated upon
anxious, sympathetic lips. Again the
well-nigh exhausted pigeon fluttered
up, drew the string loose, 'tumbled
wearily through the air and dropped
inert at the feet of the interested and
pitying Ben. Its eyes were open, its
breath.came.iu spasms. As he took It
into his hands and caressed it Ben no-
ticed a small mete' disk surrounding
one foot. Cleeely traoed upon it
were the words: "Carrier dove, regis-
tered.A 32e Property of Arthur Bloke,
32 Webster terrane. 'Return or report,
at owner's cost."
The mum who bad bleed Ben sbowed
up to tell hila that he could eoue to
work on the morrow. Ile stared et the
pigeon and listened with interest to
Hen's e-eplanationr
"It must be,0,bird of some value,"
he said. "Webster terrace? That's
only n mile from here. I say, you
stand a good chance of a reward for
taking It to this Arthur Blake."
"MI do just that,'; declared Ben.
"Not that I want the pay, but the poor,
gentle thing's heart is beating like a
trip hanuuer," and he placed it within
his coat and was on his way with his
now adventure at once. Ills destine -
tion pruned to be n hand'rmtne Man-
sion 011 a select thoroughfare. The
servant who admitted hiss led frim to
a room where sat a stately old lady,
who took; the bird from Ben's hand
and held It as lovingly to her breast es
though it veils some cherished child.
She asked Ben a slumber of questions,
thanked him for his restoration of the
bird, and expininctl that it was a val-
ued pet of her son. She took up her
purse and insisted on Ben accepting
a $5 bill, and lifting a wing of the
pigeon drew forth u compact little wad
of paper secured to a tiny metal ring,
opened It, perused it, and read aloud
the words: "Colne back and—for-
forgive !"
nd—forforgive!"
Later Ben knew that this missive
was from the fomites fiance of Arthur
Blake, n Miss llthcl Brent. They had
quarreled over a trifle. Blake lied been
disappointed in recetving no word from
Ids petulant love and had just left
the house bound on a long journey,
The old mother arose to her feet deep-
ly excited.' She asked lien to hasten
to a eertninn railroad depot, to board
the Sunset Limited, to hand to her sone
the little note and explain how he had
come by It.
Just ns the train was shout to pull
mut Ben sped by. the gate guard, swung
to a rear parlor coach*, made at vola•
hie inquiry, :placed hr the hands O1-
n bendsmme young 111011 010 tiny note,
and both left the train Just as It vette
1110V rg 001: Ae they peeled, and Al,
thin' !Slake hasteetel;to seek Ills rob•
trite stveetheurt, he pressed Ripon lien
hnif. the ronteals of his purse. slid/.
Mont to keep Ilio wolf from the doot
for many a day to cone,
tt.
1'
JOHN R. RATHOM
Agreeable Neighbor." There is so
much silly nonsense written about
the Dominion by ill -formed writers
who make a hasty tour through the
country, that it -is a relief to read
the articles by Mr. Brown, who writes
informatively and interestingly of
everything, from "Canada's Post -
War Economic Position" to "The
Achievements of Church Union,"
There is such appalling ignorance
in regard to Canada on the part of
the average American citizen, even
the well educated, that any publicity
of this character, which will put Am-
ericans right as to the development,
the progress, the problems and the
ideals of the' people of the Dominion,
is more then welcome, The Provi-
dence Journal has donea good piece,
of newspaper work for its readers
and for Canada by this fine, series of
n111010s by Mt". Brown.
PERTH COUNT''
During the year endin1 0 •1 iia,
there were 192 deaths and 485 births
at Steel frud.
The •linstelil titer Ohrotntei', al
I,Ixrtrnwel,
eeleln riled its a1xih. Mt.
11iverent y lristsver It.
The harlot' of the ladies' Nut* nr
St. Jo tot's' A11101( 4111 ping eh, 111,
Marys, netlod 00 et. $8400.
,Llatno01 )iORO tal T, net litter heel a
very aur'eeesful wear 7.'1ta1 mnhtten-
fume tae $10,8.4.10 rut' the year,
1nhn 81 entnn, nahVie; ted or murder
at Winnipeg, will hang on Feb.'tltln,
Ile was n tortnee St, Marys restdetlt,
GOVT; MAX UTAVe
2 LIQUOR PLANS
Premier Ferguson Expected To In-
troduce Matter in Legislature•--
Election in June --Would Appeal
To Electors On Control or Option
Platform
Toronto, Nov, 25 The fact that
for three hours yesterday the Ontario
Cabinet had under consideration the
program for the coming session, has
strengthened the impression that be-
fore lung there are likely to be de-
velopments of some importance in
provinclai politics,
Since his recent speech, when ho
said there were to be no more plebis-
cites on the liquor question so far
as the present government was con-
cerned, it has been taken for granted
that Premier Ferguson will appeal to
the electorate on a "wet" platform
of government control and local op-
tion. The details of such a policy
are no doubt engaging the deepest
thought of the cabinet in an endeavor
to please the "wets"' and at the same
time keep within such limits as will
retain in the party a sufficient num-
ber of Conservatives with temperance
leanings to carry what will be es-
sentially be a "wet" policy.
Heard by Hotelmen
The hotelmen are said to have in-
formation from some source that
a government control and local op-
tion program will be adopted by the
North 411.001:tInitali c,nrelr; Una.
el wee the set 1lerr Le a r'"aiminie
wettable on Writhes,1,y, Neve -ellen
18. at 1.2.13(1 p rtr , whet,tl",1;. reg
lbnrte. , my daughter et A. .1 and
Mee, '1'altridge, awns unit,,' SO inti-
Ilege tar Leslie lloralitt 1';0ntlarnd,
eeemid'soe of Mee, 1tentland atnri the
late J. 11, Pentland,
PREMIER FERGUSON
present administration, • who will
fight the next election on the issue,
and it is believed to be not unlikely
that before long an announcement
will be made that this is the govern-
ment's policy.
It is regarded by no small section
of the Conservative party that the
government is taking heavy chances
on such a platform, and members
for constituencies which voted "dry"
on the occasion of the last plebiscite
are decidely,nervous as to what their
fate will be. The reasoning of the
partisan element. however, 'is under -
td to_be tlr
Cream
Wanted
We pay Highest Cash Price for
Cream. 1 cent per 1b. Butter Fat
extra paid for all Cream delivered
a. t our Creamery, '
Satisfaction. Guaranteed
Brussels Creamery Co.
Limited
Phone 22
not be more unpopular than it has
been as the result of the 4,4 legisla-
tion, and, gamble though it may be,
it night retrieve matters somewhat
if the support. of the "wets" were
catered -for. Those who argue thus
believe there are Tories who are
more Tory than temperance, sufficient
to put in office a government
with a "wet" platform. Those,who are
doing the fighting for the Conserva-
tives in the "dry" ridings are not so
sure of this, however, even suppos-
ing the local option idea is: played
up for all it is worth.
Election in June'
The feeling still persists that the
government will decide not to hold
tate six by-elections but that it will
bring on a general election about
June.
Had it not been that Conservative
expectat]ons were disappointed in the
Dominion election by. Mr. Meighen
not getting a clear majority over all
parties, many belive that a surprise
election would have been sprung in
Ontario in January.
- SAY ""WETS"' PREPARING
Toronto, Nov. 25.—Publication of
a piece of moderation league propa-
ganda in the form of a survey of
thy' law conditions in the United
States has caused some stir to -day
in the ranks 'of. Ontario prohibition -
1 ists.
"There is no doubt that the moder-
ation league and the liquor forces
generally contemplate a fresh cam-
paign," said Rev. Father Minehan.
He is one of the leading spirits in
the Ontario Prohibition Union.
"It appears almost certain that
they will try to get a form of local
option," was the opinion of Father
Minehan. "They are 'after something.
and they are out to take advantage
of every chance. They will carry
their campaign ' into the municipal
elections on Jan. 1 as a means of in-
creasing their strength."
Regarding the moderation league
argument, that there has been a great
increase in the number of drunken
drivers, Father Minehan took the view
that in the recent past there has been
greater police activity in this line
and this would help' to account for,
the number of arrests. The increase
in the number of motor cars being
operated is another contributing
cause.
Fred hlolntosh, R le. No, 5, St.
?4arys's, was elected President of the
U. F 0. Asshciation of South Perth,
at the annual meeting_ held at 8t.
Paul's.
Gilbert White, aged, 67 years and
a widely -known dr•aver, expired pnd-
denly on the farm of Fred Hyde, East
Missouri, from heart failure.
Rev, G. P. Duncan was the guest of
honor at the Port Credit BowlingOlub, Port, Credit. ou Friday evening,
when the membership el the Club
presented him with a beautiful man-
tel clock, with a suitably engraved
silver plate, as atoken of esteem and
appreciation from the members of the
Club. They also expressed sincere re-
gret at the loss sustained by the Club
by elr. Duncan's remobal to Strat-
ford.
s at the government can- READ THE ADVTS iN THE POST
NEWSPAPER - ADYERTISING
1. Because it it secures the best distribution.
2, Because it is read.
Because it is regular.
It takes years of effort .to work up a news-
paper's subscription list and the advertiser gets the
advantage every week, And whereas probably not
more than one bill out of three is read, every paper
is read by three or four persons.
For reaching the people of Brussels andBrus-
sels district, there is no medium to compare with
THE BRUSSELS POST,
1. It covers the field.
It is a paper that is read through,
3. Its:readers belong to the purchasing class.
The 'Quality of a Paper is , Reflected
on its Advertising --If Business needs
Stimulating try Advertising in -~
The Brussels
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