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THE LAUGHTER OF ALLAH.
Monsieur Jonquelle the Prefect of of, this desert he would be old. And
Police of Paris, told me this story, what had he got—what would he get
-We were on the deck of his yacht h out of -these great. honors?
the - Mediterranean: the ,coast of The man rode slowly, holding the
.Africa was inthe distance. We had nervous. Arab in. The strange, in-
been talking of that strange, famous congruous,cuerent of the City. passed
tEnglishman ` whose tragic death in him, but he was thinking of some -
the North Sea had stirred the world. thing else, and he gave it no atten-
Why had he never married- the tion.
greatest Englishman of his time? We , There was another thing. He mus -
did not name him... •Monsieur Jon -led vaguely, •He had seen on this very
quells called him "Sir Henry" in the day, in the shade of a magnificent
story. I flowering vine, a young' soldier and
The Prefect of Police of Paris pre- an English •girl. They were sitting
rented the story as though it 'were on a -bench; neither moved, and only
a detached tale of an oriental bazaar their .hands touched. They did not
of Cairo. And I listened with my speak, and yet their faces were like
eyes closed on the cool' deck moved the faces of angels.
slowly by the long swells.... listen-, This was a thing that he had al -
ed to the tragic love story of this ways hated. It was not the enemy
etrange, reserved, famous English- in the front that threatened the army,
man who had lived in mystery and it was these, loving creatures in the
died in mystery: • rear. Ruthless' and determined,' he
had set his face against it. The army
should be celibate. And he had
broken and elbowed out the men who
would encumber themselves with a
loving heart.
Well, he had lived by the rule him=
self! There had been no woman about
him on the frontiers of the Empire!
When he cattle, now and then, to Lon-
don, the current of life in which they
moved failed to touch him, They were
creatures apart.
He knew`of them only what appear-
ed before the eye. And, while he saw
the beauty which they assembled, he
saw also the thousand follies that
seemed td give them pleasure, find he
wondered in what mysterious' charm
lay their appalling influence on his.
soldiers. •.
And on this evening, alone in this
mysterious city, he began to be assail-
ed by a curious consuming' wonder.
He began to doubt the value of the
one thing that he had gotten out of
life. What was this other thing that
gave an ignorant soldier and a com-
mon housemaid, motionless and silent
in the shadows of a flowering vine,
the faces of the angels?
What did this mysterious, word
mean that men used to designate this
thing? He knew what the love of
life was for he had seen every sort of
creature fight desperately to live;
and he knew the love of gain and the
love of power. 'But men all men,
everywhereimperilled and abandon-
ed these things for the love of women,
and they did it with no doubt, lilse one
who trades glass for a jewel?
He reflected. There was no virtue
in the thing that he had, in the thing
for which he traded away his life,
thus to transfigure the human •face.
And when he should come sty out of
this great desert south toward Khar-
todm, he would be oldl
Suddenly he realized that the horse
could not go on, and that he was con-
trolling it with difficulty. He had
traversed the Rue Mudd, skirted the
Place Esbekiya and was about to
cross the Kernel Pasha, that short
boulevard entering the Place Este -
when she ought to have been .loosened kiya from the north, when a pro -
'with a great shout to a holy war. The cession stopped him.
heads of Islam were quiet, but the The sacred carpet had arrived from
tribes' were restless. Mecca, The streets before him were
England, feeling always with her • gorged with people, and the whole
delicate antennae, knew this and, al -lefty echoed with weird Oriental cries.
ways wise, moved first. She had' There' was little new to him in the
withdrawn this man' from India and orgy ofthese native ceremonies, with
cent him here to set the butt of the
Lee -Enfield a little flrnier in the and
south toward Khartoum.
He had a fortnight in Cairo before
he took up this tremendous labor, and
he: used it to be free,, to be alone, to
* e *
The man who rode' north from -the
citadel, along the Boulevard Moham-
med ' Ali, was no longer young.
He sat firmly in the saddle, and to
•the distant eye, he was hard and
lean like a hunter in condition, but
his face discolored by wind and sun,
in repose, was tired. It was anun-
usual face, seamed and crossed with
- lines, the mouth firm, almost harsh,
with the muscles developed along the
jaw. But it was not these features
that impressed one. '
It was the mans extraordluary.
eyes. They were large and set far
apart. The color you immediately
saw—a dark metallic blue—the blue
of certain remote spaces in the tropic
sky. The lids drooped, giving the
nian'an expression at once of serenity
and menace.
He rode a ' gray Arab, and his
clothes were evidently the best pro-
duct of a Bond Street tailor. He
rode like a soldier—like one accus-
tomed to live days and nights in the
saddle,
The man felt old and tired.
The vast,eternal unchanging as-
pect of Egypt oppressed 'him. -Here
all human effort seemed equally fu-
tile. Here, as in India, one grew only
old and accomplished nothing. And,
on this evening, he felt acutely the
menace of 'Egypt.
England had only extended fingers
on this great desert running south
into .impenetrable mystery, She had
oi'lly the peace of the bayonet; and
behind 'the indolence, the listless
resignation of these desert peoples,
there seemed to lie a vast, inherent
hatred of the invader that never.les-
sened, and that waited always with
an unfailing patience. In India, this
thing skulked in the distance, but
here it seemed to approach—to be at
hand.
Perhaps what the man knew staged
this impression.' The whole world of
Islam•was uneaey. She had been de-
spoiled in Turkey and shamed. She
felt that weakrulers, for gain or the;
love of life, had held her in leash
their riot of sound and color, and their
vast medley of tribes assembled from
the waste places of the earth.
Foramoment, as a soldier, he, ap-
proved the precaution taken by the
English autheritles—a ' company of
ride when he liked without an orderly troops thrown in here and there to
always et his heels. I divide the tribes and the horde of
It was great honor that England natives that surged along with every
ooler and with every sort of cry, and
every extravagant gesture.
He approved, too the diplomacy
that gave these regiments a gala air
with their bands of music, as though
they rivaled' the Arab and the fellah
in doing honor 'to the holy relic, while,
in fact, they held the fingers of Eng-
land on the city lest they clip off in
a sudden rising of those native hordes..
Then his mind returned to its .re-
flection, wiht an idle interest he
watched the strange,' half -naked,
primeval creatures that appeared,,
issuing out of the vast limitless ocean
of sun dthat lay endlessly to the
south, from tribes, old and unchang-
ed since the days of Abraham -crea-
tures from the uncharted deeps of the
Sahara, naked and eubsisting like the
Baptist.
What lay far off there in the dead
cities ofa this sand -swept wilderness
whence mune these mad men, gaunt,
covered with hair, and infinitely
no human creature could say. Per-
haps the magician and the •wizard of
old times lived on thete. And •there
in 'ancient tombs, in honeycombed
walls elfting full of sand, in strange
wilderness oternelly dead and silent,
old wires men abode who knew the an-
dent formulas by which the inexer,
able course of nature could be turned
aside.
did hien; He might, in he end, be-
teme Viceroy of India or Sirdar et
Egypt. But on this evening he was
impressed' with the value of what he
paid—his youth had been required of
him. When he should come up out
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hard after they try\the dell-
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Perhaps they maintained there to
this day that mysterious` power which
the sacred books or all xeligions'agree
that certaih dread members of the
race pone:acd In the morning of "the,
world.
Hh! RuALIZED THAT THE
HORSE COULD NOT GO ON.
background for that other mystery
that so profoundly disturbed the man.
And while he sat in the' saddle
looking down at these wild people of
the desert, another: looked down- at
him
A woman, accompanied by the
resident doctor and a maid, entered
the English hotel on' the other side
of the square, crossed' the foyer and
got'into .the lift. As she passed, a
Iittle dapper man, bald, dressed like
a tailor's print, .and with the air of
one who is a- social register, spoke to
his companions pouring a cup of tea
at a table by the wall.
"That's. Nelly Landsear—sued to be
a famous Southern' beauty in the
States. Jove. She's gone to pieces!
Had a devil of a life! Married Heis-
ted Ames --dirty little beast! My
word, she was a'wonder once! Looks
fifty to -day."
And he began to tell the dramatic
story of this woman. and the creature
that she had married, the story of a
tireless • effort to keep a weakling on
his feet, to make a man of him. The
story over again of Daud'e's "tinge
in Exile," A story that was a tragedy
of failures.
(To be continued.)
Chicago and the Mississippi.
London Free Press (Cons.):
Through the Chicago Drainage Canal
is bowing daily south into the Missis-
sippi River as much water as pours
over the American' Falls at Niagara.
It does not need an expert to figure
out that if this' enormous stream of
water was left where dt belongs, in
the Great Lakes, it would relieve the
pressure of the flood waters of the Mis-
sissippi. The chances are that if the
Chicago theft was at an end the South-
ern States would no longer be nfen-
aced by the Mississippi.
Au Irish housemaid, boasting of her
lnduetrious habits, paid she rose at
tour, made a fire, put en the teakettle,
prepared breakfast and made all the
bede before anyone in the house was
up. '
expert calculates that the -.women of
the,17•nited States spend $5,x,0 a
day ea cosmetics ' and other 'devices
for improving ,or .maintaining their
natural charms.) A Million:peunds a
day es a tremendous sum. In'Ameaica
it seems to be regarded with satisfac-
tion, and the expert who has bean
making these-calculationspoints with
pride •t� the fact that women are
spending "more in powders and roup
to protect their appearances" ,than i
spent by the United States Govern
merit on its navy and ale force. It i
a .quaint way of looking at the mat
ter, but perhaps there is legitimate
ground -for satisfaction in the though
that American women spend more i
keeping, heir powder dry than doe
the American Admiralty. .Lxpendi
tura under both hears can lie regard
ed as•prepaiatione.for war, but from
the mer* man's ,point of view it is
on the whole, more satisfactory t
fall in love than itis to fall in battl
—if the choice is between cannons an
cosmeties, the powder -puff is a kinder
weapon than the whiff of grape -shot.
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The Inevitable Expense. '
Dally -"Clara Beams able to main-
tain her beauty without effort"
Dot "Yea, dear, but not without ex-
pense."
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pense."
Some Good?
Chrletian Science Monitor—There
are indications that the effects of Great
Britain's action will be more notice-
able In Russia than elsewhere. It has
been claimed that the dominant poli-
tical party in Russia, headed by Joseph
Stalin, disapproves the "world -revolu-
tion" program which has been Impres-
sed upon the radical leaders in many
countries. Stalin believes, it is said,
that the progress and rehabilitation
of Russia have been hindered, rather
than aided, by the campaign of the
Third Internationale. Great Britain
'seems, to have supplied him with con-
vancing evidence in support of this
contention. Will he take his present
opportunity to "repudiate the propa-
gandist campaign?
"The motorist thinks ohs is a kind
of monarch," writes an megry'pedes-
trian. happy and glorious, long to run
over. tie, so to speak.
LINDBERGH'S EXPLOIT REVIVES
INTEREST IN FLOATING ISLANDS
Scheme for Establishing Stages in Ocean at Which Air-
planes Might Alight and Refuel Conies Into
Transatlantic Air Service Consideration.
Paris—The project for floating is-
lands in the .middle of the Atlantic to
enable airplanes to traverse the ocean
in several stages has been revived by
th magnlfiont exploit of Captain Lind-
bergh. After a''week of Continuous
fetes, serious -attention is _being paid
to the possibilities of an air service be-
tween Europe and America, and it is
remembered that Lindbergh himself
on his arrival remarked that practical
steps might he taken to ,realize a
scheme of artificial bays where air-
planes can find stores of gasoline and
descend at need.
This opinion of the men who has.
made ai direct nonstop' flight is lin-
portant. His performance is exception-
al, and poaeibly could not, under exist-
lag conditions, lie repeated as a matter
of commonplace commercial usage.
But it is obvious that 1f an airplane
can alight at reasonable distances and
seek protection from the weatimegreat
progress Call be accomplished almost
Immediately,
The question remeltvs whether it is
possible to construct floating islands
lncloeing smooth water'. It 'will be re-
membered .that mo'n'ths ago the Paris
correspondent of "The. Christian
Monitor" described the' French plan
for floating !elands%
Bach island Was an immense pon-
toon of horseshoe shape, open. at the
poop. Perhaps an anchorage in deep
water Is impracticable, but the con-
struction tan be furnished with power-
ful propellers. which would maintain it
in position, keeping its nose windward.
At the opening would be a breakwater
and the internal bake would be com-
paratively calm.
Experts believe such a design within
the capacity of modern engineering
skill, and (ince the island would be
twice as long as the most powerful
wave It should ride steadily while lat-
eral ballast would prevent reeling.
Lighthouses, could be erected on the
island anti -Bangers, Workshops, hofels,
a wireless Mahlon, meteorological ob-
servatory and warehouses.
Four such islands would be sufltcl
eat.
Other types, notably giant platforms
supported by anchored buoys are en-
v'iengad, and an American ssengineer
named Armstrong has a more complic-
ated scheme. The problem deserves
working out, though a- arge outlay of
capital le necessitated.
FAMOUS FLIER, MOTHER AND GRANDFATHER'
The larout above gives three generations in the Lindbergh -Land family.
The old-fashioned youth with the muzzle -loader woe Charles H. Land, barn et.
Simeoe, who dater became Dr. Charles 51. Land of Detroit. The photograph;
taken et 'Brantford ducting his school days there, was lent by Mrs. G. W.,
eiseetry, oP 80 Spencer Ave, Toronto, whose maiden name was Land and who
Is a relative of the flier. Tho other figures 1n the photograph are the intrepid .
aeu•onaut and lits•3inothor rtamdin be iia e h• ' "
WILL GIVE MEDAL
`O EVERY1 SCHOOL
• CHILD IN. CANADA
First. Batch Have Gone. to the
Remote Portions of the
Dominion.
LEVER MAKING .IMPRINT
MOVED BY LADY
WILLINGDON,
Lady Willingdon struck the feet Con-
tedoration Jubilee: medal at the mint
recently. With her own banda •oho
moved the lever that imprinted on the'
bronze the commemorative .words and
designs that went out in a batch of 300
medals to the school children of Yukon
territory. It is intended subsequently
to give one to every echoed child in
Canada,
The ceremony took ,place at the
Royal Mint In the presence of alis Ex-
cellency Viscount Willingdon, as'wall
as Sir Montagu and Lady :Allan, off -
of Goveanment House, officials
of the Mint, and members^of the prase.
Upon their Excellencies valve! they
were taken on a tour of inspectlon-
throdgh: the mint. The first point of
call was 'a little"truek, on wblch was
heaped $600,000 worth of gold in sglid.
bars. Each bar was worth more than
$10,000, the exact value by weight be-
ing stamped on. each. Alongside were
other bare, ar bricks, containing about
80 per cent. gold.
Made Many Friends.
Hea•e Lady 'Willingdon showed her
democratic spirit when, thanking the
workmen for showing her the modus
operandi of that department. she shook
hands with them ail, grimy handed as
they were. She may have soiled a pair
of gloves, but she made .many friends:.
Amid the :whirr of many machines,
the vice -regal party watched the
bronze bars being flattened out and
roiled to the proper consistency.
Strong lights were focused on the
machines and. on the party and the
camerae started to grind and click as
Lady Willingdon stepped forward with
a blank bronze, cirole, She shoved it
into the proper oval and then looked
for the assistant to give the sign. This
he did, the medal was struck and the
brief ceremony had ended.
The medals contain on -one aidea
picture of, Queen Victoria as she was
in 1867 and one of King George as he
Is at present. Confederation is print-
ed on the top and Canada on the bot-
tom; 1667 is printed opposite Queen
Victoria, and 1027 oppesita King
George. On the reverse side is a shield
containing the Canadian chat of arms,
surrounded by maple leaves. On the
same side is the' motto fo rthe coat 0f
arnts, "A marl usque ad mare."
• 2,000,000 Medals.
TWO million of these will be struck
and they will be turned out at the rate
of 500 a minute and 100,000 a day. They
will not be distributed locally till near
Confederation date,
How Soon?
Some time :ago henry Ford said
he thought- mechanical devices could
}snake farming a "standardized busi-
ness." The practical farmer laughed.
A new invention just tried out may
put a different light on the mater..
It is constructed of three pieces of
Wood, a few bolts, a spring, a piece of
aluminum shaped liked a huge: spoon.
It was hailed last week at the Ne -
breaks Agricultural College as a po-
tential revolution in the farming
world. It will enable the tiller of the
soil to go to the cinema or drink cider
or sleep, while his fields are being
plowed. It will soon be put on the
market at a cost of a few dollars,
.It is the invention of F. L. Zybach of
Grand Island, Neb.
To use this device, a farmer must
first attach a plow to his tractor and
cut a furrow around the carter rim
of his field, making the corners
rounded instead of square. Then he
fastens. Mr. Zybach's invention to the
steering wheel of the tractor, putting
the spoon -end in the furrow. He
starts the tractor, climbs out. The
tractor, guided along the furrow by
Mr. Zybach's invention, continues to
make shorter and "shorter trips
around the field, until it comes to a
atop in the middle.
Tests of the device last weir pro-
duced plowing like Clockwork. But
when Mr, Zybach was first expert
menting with a crude model, his
neighbors warned him not to let the
tractor gat loose and destroy any of
their property. Once he set the Ina-
chines to plough all night. The
neighbors came over at midnight and
implored him to atop It.
A Thankless Task.
Nothing hos come to our notice
more revealing of the difficulties un-
der which prohibition officers work
'then a recent statement by Capt.
George A. Parker of Massachusetts.
This official, with a fine record .as
head of the State Police behind him,
has been the chief Federal prohibi-
tion officer of the State for the past
year. During• that time, he says,
three of hie one -hundred men have
been murdered, several wounded, and
all subjected to every kind of pres-.
eure, both physical and monetary.
They have done their best, yet dur-
ing that year nota man has received
a single' note of thanks, of commenda-
tion, or of encouragement from any
living human `being, nor even a kind
word to make,the task easier.
Britain and the United States.
J. L. Garvin in' the London Obser-
ver (Ind. Cons.) :: The more we leave
the Debts Question to be fought out,
Ira the arena of American public *pin-
kie, the sooner will come the chance
of a change. We ought to, be above
vindicating ourselves to America. ,In
every sueh ¥indication our interest
unavoidably is too much' mixed up
With our virtue. ' Every argument of
ours addressed directly to the Uni-
ted States only tends 'u put back the
, sg s The Spisit f St. Louis- .1 elook.v,
Make Paper from Hardwood, '
9le�abousne, Vic---lnvestignllpns baso
reGentky ,been Iui,ile Into the i,asafbilll-..',
ty of producing paver pulp in Austra-
lia, Anil the research office, .of -the.
Common'ealtii institute' of Soientiuc
and Industrlal.Resesrdk has reported
that satisfactoiy, results have been ob-
twined. Because of the rapidly dimim.
ishing< forests of seftwoods,' it is
thought in some quarters tilt the
world is facing a shortage in the sup-
ply 9f paper, it has been estimated
that (ho world's newspapers are using
about 6,000,000 tons of newsprint a
year. Australia alone is using' about
100,0-00 tons of ' newsprint annually.
Australia has practically no- soft.
wood forest's, add its timbers being of
die hardwood variety, and the investi-
gations which have been carried on
have been in the direction of ascertain-
ing "whether it is practicable to pro-
duce .paper from that class of timber,
As a result of the research it con•
fiodently believed that it well be pees
table •to manufacture paper from hard-
wood, and •thatwhen the industry fs es,
tablished it will be capable of ssipple-
ing all Australian requirements .and
providing almost unlimited supplies
tor export,
The different varieties of the eu.
calypt comprise' the principal Austin -
lien toresto. It has been found definite-
ly:that about 8.0 per cent. of ground.
wood, or mechanical pulp frim certain
immature euoalypte, can be used with
sulphite pulp from manlier woods, Ad.
jueements in mechanical conditions in
eulrphite cooking havo resulted in a
0FTENS
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t every ensu 'a
ti Maid-ofellwarie
':.n.,. 'GAD
sating of four hours in the cookng.
Elie -..a reduction of from 10 hours to
six hours—with a pronounced increase
in yield and an improvement in .the
quality cif :the pulp for newsprint pur. '
poses, -The, combined results of the
new data indicate a reduction: of from
e2 to 23 a ton in the estimated whet of
the .production of newsprint.,
SairoPles of the newsprint produced
from this process have been inspected
by members of the Council. for Sclenfdd
Re:, and Industrial ,Research.- They,
were described as being eminently sate
istaetory, and interesting develops'
menta are expected' very dhoray.
A debating star shales best when
his points area clear.
Wo want to know whetbei, the new
velvet- breeches:: for men will be celled
"Plush fours," Yea, now lt'e eater •
June let.
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FOURTH PRIZE. ESSAY
The Confederation of Canada.
Mists Irma writes in peat as follows:
I was very pleased to,hear that my
essay had won a prize and wishto
take this, opportunity of thanking yell
for It.
I was born in Stouftville and have
lived here all my life attending the
Stouffville Public and Continuation
Scheele. Last year I tried the High
School entranceexaminations and
succeeded in passing them with hon-
ors, and this year, so far, I believe, I
halve led my classes. Composition has
bean about my best subject and I be
'Have it 10 the one subject I really* like
for I- really enjoy writing a composi-
tion on an interesting subject though
I have by no means any great talent or
ability for it.
I am very fond of reading books and
have read a great many of theme of
many different classes and, it Is very
hard indeed to leave my books and at-
tend my school duties. But thank 1.
enjoy reading books I are by no means I
the proverbial "book -worms because,'
sports or all land form an important
part in my life. In the winter to speed I IRAIA S. GRUBIIV, Stouaynse, ti,uas
swiftly around the rink onskates, in
the exhilarating air which brings the Sportsmanship no Disquallfloatlem,
rosea to your cheeks, to me is life. Gel to a Good Writing.
Paeans it is a long anowahoe tramp
A LOVER OF SPORT
to the pond. Just now we are actively of union. Alec); during the American
engaged in basketball at school and
enjoy it greatly, especially as we seem
to have the winning team, but we are
trying to learn to be good losers as well
as good winners for we cannot always
win. Then there ie an endless list 00
Water sports midland °parts too num-
erous to mention. I em a member of
the Dieted Church of Canada I -ere and
consequently engaged in the activitale
of the charades connected with it.
"The Confederation of
- Canada."
Through more than threw oeuturles
of conflict and doubt, the history of
Cantata has gradually unfolded itself,
until today we have a nation. The
daring of the early pioneers in war
and trade; the courage of the Roman
Cathane misatonarles; the French-
man's loyalty to creed, rase and lang-
uage;
anguage; the cove of liberty of the United
Civil' War, fear of a United States
invasion made Canada see that for
strength alta must have unity,
The french had feared that by be-
coming not one of two provinces but
one of tour or flue, they would be
enempod, but Cartier persuaded them
of the opposite.
The Maritime Provinces were sag -
gosling union of themselves and sent
delegates to the Charlottetown con-
ference where Upper and Lower Can-
ada
anada sent representatives to ask for
larger union. They then adjourned to
Quebec and drew up a series of Resole.
tions which in 1866 wore passed by WR'
Canadian Parllament.
Upper Canada favored them but
Lower Canada, New Brunswick, NOW
foundland, Nova Scotia and Prince $Ids'
ward Inland objected. However the
objections were overcome by Cartier
in Quebec, Tilley in New Brunswick
and Tupper In Nova Scotia.
Empire Loyalists; these and many In 1866 delegates Brom Upper Can-,
other Influences have gone to mould ada Lower Canada, New Brunswick
Canadian institutions and Canadian and Nova Scotia met at London where.
aharacter." The men who drew logo the Quebec Resolutions became a bili.
they all these complicated threads into , The - British Government gave every
a united whole and held it true to help but the most prominent figure was.
British loyalty while retaining an lade Sir John A. Macdonald. At last, the
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penitence of Its own,are itnown in Cants -
British North America Act was ready''
than history as "The Fathers of Con- and on March 29, 1867, was passed by
federation," a eaud of men drawn to- Great Britain and on July 1, 1067,.
gether by a great idea. George Brown, Canada became a Dominlon.
Sir George Cartier, Sir Oliver Mowal, ! The terms of `this- sect which made
Sir Charles Tupper and others all
Canada a tree Dominion across the sea
exercised their influence and need!
their persuasive poweree seeing the i from her Motherland aro:
need' of unity illi working for a great (1) Upp and •Loser Canada, Now
Brunswick and Nova Scotia were form-
bojeetive, Confederatlen. All did their ed to be one Doininlon under the name'
best but the men - who carried the of Canada
greater part of the burden and who did I
more Wan all to hold the nation. to- i (2) Upper and Lower Canada were.
getter alter It was united was\Sir John to form two separate provinces, On.
A. Macdonald. They won tor Canada • tarso pad Quebec
Confederation, freedamn,In a ndence l (3) The King was to be represented:
by a Governor-general appointed by
unity and still remained loyal to the isle Bing,
Motherland; and Confederation—•the I (4) phase was to be a cabinet o!'
B.N.A. Act tae made Canada a nation, thirteen members which was raeponai
a glorious home for children proud to . bio 10 tics people's repreeentativea lit:
call "themselves Canadians, Parliament, to advise him.
The Quebec Act and Constitutional (8) The legislature included two
Act had given new forms of govern -
bodies; the Senate; appointed for life
meat but were not entire q 01 0by the Governor-General, and the
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tory. ThenLord Durham was sent
sent outut House of Commons elected . by the
and recommended responsible govern• people for five years. Quebec Was to.
mems and union and :wan aided by
n. have sixty five, members and the others.
Sydenham, Meterdfe and Lord Elgin.
As - a result the two provinces were an equal number in proportion to their
United , and responsible government papulatioh.
Canada Is rapidly beooming a great •
woe. nation, Population has grown more
There had been many suggestions °lawny than in the great nation to the
of union in lite least century, Colada- south of us, but it does not foliose that
Morse suggested !t in 1777, tbCo ind.e-
pendant ata in , John . she will always lag behind. Her pee,Sneom In
layall1800, and Lor1791d, Durham Rob• had pie' have made for her so honorable 4
favored ii itt first blit gave it up be name that men and women, eager tai
cause of the lack of trausportatton, call themselves • Canadians will coma
$y 1884 there had been in three to fill up the great A'orth-Westerp
years, two e'lectlons-and four minis- ]dame. Canadians aro hanoiad sad'
tries and the two paities to Canada heard with great respect .whenever
wet•° at it deadlocit. It 'wee thought learned nese gashes. Eve'ry year thous'
that if all British North Amerlea were ands of strangers seek health or pleas,.
united, new members would coma in ure along the wonderful St. Lawrence,.
Diem the Maritime Provinces and give among the towering peaks of the Cana
one part? ;the majority, About this d1an,Itocklee or plunge into the forest
time, although for years they had been to camp and fish. Canada Is a conn -
bitter enemies., because they were he try of wonderful resources. Her fors
eplred by Contederation:and heard the eats cover• over a million square miles't
call of Canada, Macdonald and Brown the has millions oGacfns•of rich wheat
milted In her em -vice. Great Britain lands, in mineral wealth she ranks
favored union and the abolition of her with any country and her manufae-
Codn Laws forced Canada to look fora tures are rapidly being developed.
new trade. In 1851 the Rectpeoctty "Oh Canada! our home and native,:
treaty gave her free trade With tleitecl laud,
States but it wane soon abolished. So True patriot .love in all thy sons come
she thought that tf she could not Grade nand;
north and south, why not east and With glowing; hearts we see thee rine
west? To do this Theme must be a The true North, strong and free,,
railway to the Maritime Provinces And: stand on guard, CM C,apa.dal ..
and for thie there must ,be some kind we Mend en guard e'er then," •