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THE CITYO'F LEARNING AND
PH'IILOiS!OiP'HY.
--
Would I ,Exc!h•ange Canada for Brit-
' air'?---AAnswer to Mr. Cahn,pbell,
-Great . $i'i'tain and Can'ada 'Com -
'Bred •.ahitt
Comared'•a'nid' 'Contra:sted-`.Catiada
My
Home--lFiuneral of ',Sir Ro-
berlt ,Chnistis'otr - Comparison -
iTibe Great D'arknle's's`°Longfell'o'w
IB!l:air-ISlolonvon-INeis'on -- P•la•y-
I8air Iliums - !George Brown
'Caudlis'h-IGtrthirie, &c. &c.
beet 'Christison, Bart. I had the honor
of alttend:ing his fuiferad I-le'died at
the ripe age of 8!5. He was for a
length of tnt'e Prof.. Of medical ]uris-
prudeuee, an'd afterwards of Materia
Medica, in 'Edinituegh university, and
is, the author olf several works, one of.
which on Poisons, has gone through
several. editions, and, is stili consid-
ered ..a st'aedlard on that subject, He
was no doubt 'a very learned and
pecediarly gi'Ilted in'an. Th'e hineral'
procession was the 'grande's't I 'have;
ever seen. The only funeral .econtege'
In i•eferenloe to friend. Campbell's 'to.whic'h 3 c'ou'Id at all 'campere it was.
1
question d say, that 'this is a that of the lahmm:ted MclGee. 1 was al
I woe
grand old land with : a magnificent 'student he :1lIcGil'1 l5tniversi'ty; : Mon-:
treal,when MdGee was• ! i
'histor'y and
.glorious . temin'iscences, aspasstnateo..
B ita e must con'Eaes, has' been 8 salw the body 'lying 'in state,• ands
i r n i We along with the other students, with
the ProMessoes leading, we loath our
places in, the 'processi'on. `There were
nilare people at MeiG'ee's, but 'Christ-
is'on':s Beeler -all was 'the grandest by all
odlds. It would 'be 'h'a'rd ;to. get so
en'emy'large•ibrained', iinttelligent, lean-'
ed, rewenend evoking men together se•
one time in •ani thy in the world -'
certainly not in any city with a Tike
population;'. We will not attempt 'to
describe the ,precession. Six feet of
earth in the Calton. Hei burying.
ground was the end df it aril. Death',
is a great leveller. The rich and tihe'
poor there meet together,: and all
proud distin'ctions are forgotten.r
There is no aristocracy amongst th'e'
inhabitants of the city .of the dead.;
It is one grand democracy. As Tho-
mas MdQueen,' of :the ;S'igir 1, used to
remark: "All enter the great Hark -i
Mess.°' Well aright ;the poet Shirley,
say-
"'The glories of our 'blood and:
;state
Are shadows, not substantial
things;
Ther- is no armor against death;
Death lays 'his icy hand on
Kings."
the bulwark olf civil and religious lilb-
erty, to the nations olf the earth in
-440 gone by, and in many respects
ger is still their hopb in years to
come.'SShe hes been, In short, a. cloud
!by day, and a pillar of fire by night
to the ,oppressed, ,down'tradden • and
,enslleved •natio'nelibi:e's and races of the
sons of men, 'and her benign in-
fluence is exerted 'today in the cause
of truth and justice wherever , her
glorious old flag waves, but taking
her upon one side and down on the
'other, I would not exchange my awn
youthful, forest land, with its possi-
bilities • and .probabilities and the fu-
ture which -I believe is in store for
her, I would mot exchange -Canada,
my home, for ,this .hoary old land,,
with its magnificent seats of learn-
ing and history pregnant with nbbl'e
events and daring deeds. The future
o'f Britain 'is .behind her, if you will
allow me the paradoxical expression,
the future of 'Canad'ais before' her..
If it is true, and I believe it is, that
a 'nation -like an individual passes
through a period of childhood, youth,
manhood, old age and decay; then
!Britain has reached the zenith of her
power and glory, or in other words,
her future is behind her, while Can-
ada fs in her glorious youthful prime,
e.wiih her future all before her, and
.who will say what that future will be,
if 'Canadians are only true to -them-
kelves, and true to the land of their
Can storied urn, or animated. bust
birth, and tenidrnlber that the people
Mack to 'its mansion call the
retake the country, and not the coon -
'try the people thereof. We need not
apologize for ,our youth, but nemem-'
Iber what Lord Bacon says "That the,
youth of a country is also its an'tige-'
ity." ;In the ages yet to 'be when Can-,
ada is the home of teeming m'illion•s„
the historian will look back through,
the ditn vista of the past and point to
our time as the au'cientdays of a
great, powerful; influential and happy,
people, hence we are Jiving in the
days of our nati'on's youth, and like-
wise her antiquity. There is another
glorious • spectacle which I love to
,
enb Itedrnplalte, and it is this, that while
in '• the populous cities' and over-
, crowded nations of the old world, the
people are pushing,' and kicking, and
stabbing, and, shooting one .another
;fpr'want of room; this sturdy' youth,
,Can!a.da, is standing on the rocky
'Mountains, with the .olive branch of
.peace in one hand, and the maple
(leaf of his native land in the other,
and with outstretched arms towards
the staeving mu'•ltitudes of all land's,
,'is saying to them, "Conte on ye poor,
oppressed, act down -trodden; no mat-
ter what your race, language, color,
political or religious principles may
Ibe, come on, we Will receive you with
open amts, Canada will give you all a
happy. halite. We have room for fifty
mielione -Who then would exchange
Canada for the old land ? But there
is still another reason. Cahada is my
native land and my home, and a
"m'an's home ought to he the, dearest,
sweetest spot on this side of Heaven,
and .now when the 'buds are burst-
ing into flowers, the green leaves a'p
spearing, the birds ,tinning their mel-
low throats to welcome gentle spring
t with its mild elcy, verdant, fleads and
�naitgnificent landscapes, Fbegun to
ythink of "home," and llorig to depart:
111 is natural, :and I cannot • help it.
That feeling is in the heart of every
Mon, and was placed there by the Di
vine Creator. It wee in the breast of
slim "who beheld the city sand• wept
over it." He too loved Ills country,
and His heart rwent ()tit after "the
bit sheep of the house Of Israel." In
leonchisianI would's'ey in the tango-
, .age of eferstgoinery:-
"There is a spot .of cant' sup-
remely blest,
A dearer, Sweeter soot• than all
•the rest. .
There it no discharge in this' war,
there is no dispensation against d'ea'th,
and there is .no. devise, nor knowl-
edge, nor wisdom in the grave, and
when there we can never return,
Where shall that land, that spot
of earth be found? .
lArt thou a man? a patriot? look
around:
.0, thou shall tin'd, howe'ec thy
footsteps ro'a'm,
That land; thy country, alt
that spot t•hy home,''
''Che inactive,' event which stirred
:Edinburgh to the cone was the death
of one olf her honored sons, Sir Ieo-
fleshing breath? •
'Can honor's voice. provoke the si-,
lent dust, •
.Or flattery south the du4'1, ,pall'
ear ;ol .death?
It would be indeed a mournful;
termination o8 our busy 'lives if this;
"narrow house nppoented for all live
leg," in which Christison ,'has just;
been laid : was ;fhe end of all. Here
reason can go •n;o •lurither; at, gropes.;
!Faith now tomes In and raises us
above the "Great Darkness," and, the
",eternal sleep," and the mysiteriesf
which s'urroun'd the final exit' oI malt i
from this vale of fears. Longfellow, in
his resignation; gives us the ihtr'igh;t
side when he says:
Ilhere is no death; What seems se -
is transition;
tlihis life of mortal' ibreath
Its but a su'bitrb of the life elysfan,
Whose portal we call death.
And Blair in his ;poem . on: the
'"Grave," which "I read and re -read
when a boy, gives us the same idea
when he says:
Thrice welcome death!
;That ,after many, a painful
;bleeding step
Conducts us to our home, and
lands us safe
On ,the long \visited for shore
A walk in 'a cemetery always puts
nie in a thoughtful,'melaneh'oly snood,_
wihi'c'h is not dis'agr.eeabl!e, and I hope
not unprofitable, for as the wise man
says: "By the sadness of the face elle.
heart is mad,e better," On this-"ac-
cas'ioin• as I stood by the open grave
of the departed B'aronet, ' and; 'cosec
sid•erecf that his wa's a long, thought-
ful, industrious life,' with emoluments,
honors and fame, as :the winter of age
silvered his hair and yet thalt he
must become food for the 'worms,
inlay pass away in gas, .I re=called' to
memory the words of the good old
hook, "Vanity of vanities, all is .van-
ity." We look around and observe"tlte
monument to A'dnniral Nelson, whose
pole star was duty-_d,uty to his"King
ait!d country, and whose dying words
were„ `'Th'anik God I have dome my
duty." The monument to Mayfair ,and
'Dougald Sltew'atit, niers eminent in,
their day, deep th'in'kers, famous in
their, sphere; the nronnenant to Rabent
'Burns, the poet or Sc!oltd:an.d, and of
'nature; that to, the political] martyrs,
mho went to their, °graves, without
their heads, on account of their ad-
herence to human liberty; the mann-i
nieinit to Slir Dlavid Hume, the h•s_
toren, the phnlasopheq the man of'.
genius, a hard worker .in his day;',
tlnalt to Dr, Candlish, the fa'unous
Free Chamch Divine and c'o•nttoversi-
alis!t, andJbitt their, name is legi'on,
'for there are 'Many,, were be moulder-
ing on the: Calton ;Hill, and as ;we
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looked abroad and saw :the High
School where our own George Brown
had received his early Waiving, eve
thought that if he could answer the
roll call from ever' the sea/ and the
others rise from their graves for a
few minutes, what impressive advlice
'could they give? I't would be worth
a'tihou'sitnd sermons, It would be like
the ,truirri'pet tongues of the angels!
,,We would never forget it ! What
would the advice be? It :would be
workl work! work ! ! ! while it is
called to -day, for, the night of death
cometh when no man can work. And
we imagine that. Dr, Chandiasti would
s'a'y, "'Here we have no abiding city,
weseek:.ane to came, a city which
hath 'foundations, whose !builder and
maker is Glod," and as Slowly and
sadly we walked d'o'wn: from Christ-
isvn's 'Monte, with death on the Mill
top, and ase we were passing through
the gate front the city of the dead;
into the city of the:living, we imagined
filet we heard the voice of the smart•
ed Guthrie, who . had come from his
last re'sti'nlg place in another ceme;t-
ery, to give adiviceto the 'dying men
around 'him; the voice of Giilthrie, the
gra.n'dest 'Slcot le -nein of his day;
Guthrie, titre hero df the ragged
Schools and of every good work; -the
voice of th'e old man eloquent, in tomes
•sweet as the lark ,from his kindred
skies; Whispering in mild, persuasive
stones, in the ears of the' ' retreating
mourners, "Be ye also ready,• for at
=such ani 'hour as ye think not the son
of man Vcimeltlh."
FO'OT;SLOGGINIG IN JAPAN,
Meal time was: always interesting.
The girl -rte sari, one called her. or
`elder ,sister' --would bring in and
place on the floor before me a little
tray set daiin'ffly with odds and ends
of soups, bean -curd, egg, fish, little
boilings and fryings of unnameable
assortments, most of them de'1•idious,
but .containing among them es 'though
in deliberate 'ambus:h some innocent -
seeming delicacy -some seaweed or
paste .or pickle -which .would flood
my mouth with a sudden atrocious
savor impossible to -eradicate. 'How-
ever, after experience, I learned to
avoid .these snares; and, indeed, .after
a very l'ittl'e while, I 'became so fond
of Japanese -cooking thalt I often find
myself hankering for one .or other of
those delicate tasty dishes. Naturally,
I was obliged to use chopsticks. As a
matter 'of lfact I found them extraor-
dinarily easy .to manage except that
one or two dishes presented difficul-
ties Vermicelli for instance, 'had to
be .whipp'ed around' them and sucked
into the mouth in a continuous
stream. But then, in Japan one 'is un-
der no neoessity to conceal the sound
of such suction. River bream, -two,
served whole, complete •wit'h head and
tail, .always made :me nervous. For the
skin was hard, and the insidetender,
and in prodding it open "1 was apt to
split it suddenly ' apart and send it
scattering across the floor. This would
not have mattered if iI had been alone;
but throughout the meal the girl
would be 'kndeling opposite me, re-
filling from time to time my little rice
bowl from an enormous w'oo'den can-
ister 'by pea •side. To 'begin with, I
found this rather embarrassing, but
alter a time ,I carne to enjoy this 'pe -
cellar tete a-tet•e, and incident
ally;,I
absorbed through it aworkin know-
ledge of 'the language. 'It was roman-
tic too; 'because the Japanese girl is
such a 'delicious little creature; with
bee high •coiled hair, her wide colored
sash, her long 'flowered gown which,
clinging tightly about her and taper-
ing to the ankles, gives 10 her figure
a kind of bird -like slenderness, an im-
pression which is enhanced b '
P Y the
sweeping sle'eve's which fall to either
side like folded .whngs. YYour feeling
is that she is a pretty ornament. In
fact, you feel you would like, to ;buy a
few to send home to your friends.
And 'I 'musit try and explain just
what it is that makes the J'apanese
inn *s0 distinctive. 'It is not merely
that it 'es completely free of that :air
of fonbi'dding, alm'o'st deliberate, cheer_
1e'ssnoss, which pervades our western
hotels, It is something more;'p•os•itive
than that. From' the moment of en-'
tering you are made to Feel. 'that you
are being singled out for particular.
care. I think the :secret is that a .spe-
cial girl is detailed to attend to you
or at least that is :how it appears-
and she makes it her business always
to :be o.n hand .to anticipate yam least
Want. She respects your retirement,
of course; but once you step outside
your apartment she materializes from
som'ew'here and fio1lows you with a
clattering shuffle, ready to do you
some service, if only to aurin your
slippers toes ,outward when you 'kick
then; off be'hin•d you as you :rteeeiater
your room. 'S'he seems to know, too,
just when to bring you a pot of tea,
or :a plate of fruit; and If you :feel in-
clined far 'a s'troii she guesses thatal-
so, and is waiting fbr you a't'the ves-
tibule with your boots neady cleaned.
And she 'is still waiting for you when
you return, bowing and smiling in
welcome, and with tea set ready. And
all this, as you can imagahte, gives a
touch of homeliness and intimacy
which is perfectly delightful.
I must tell you, too, of the evening
bath, far'that wasnever lacking. It
was a wonderful in'stituti'on. 0 Euro,.
it was called, Honorable bath,' and
I was us'h'ered to it as though to a
feast. ,Sometimes I enjoyed it in soli-
tary state, sometimes it was a social
relaxation. Bud a preliminary word is
necessary - if you wish to avoid of-
fence. The golden rule is that the
water must be left as clean as you
find it, for others are to follow. That
is, you must do your washing before
entering the bath itself. There is
plenty of roont'for this, and you may
s.plas'h as much as you like. You are
given a little 'four -inch -high stool to
sit on and a little wooden bowl and
dipper. You fill these from the bath
and pour stinging hot water over
head and body; or possibly the bath
attendant does this for you, scrubbing
your back and massaging your limbs.
And in nemo!ter places the custom
still •lingers of the girl herself, per-
forming this office. If you come upon
this you must not ,be embarrassed,
Then, when cleaned and scrupulously
rinsed, you may enter the bath. But
first you must pour plenty of water
over your head, because you will be
up to your neck in water so hot that
it requires a distinct determination to
force yourself in -so hot, ,indeed, that
the Japanese use their towels to wash
with, fanning themselves dry, or more
simply drying ie. their- own steam,
But 'once •in, it is heaven; especially
after a day's hard tramp over rough
hill track beneath a blazing sun.
I have left myself little time to tell
you of the country. But hills you can
Picture for Yourselves, and wide boul-
der -strewn adverts running in deep ra-
vines,set about with bamboo groves,
and with every fifty yards a pool for
bathing, and tall erect cryptomeria
pines swarming up prlecipitous -gorges,
and lilttl!e mountain lakes, and _sweep-
ing valleys between the hills terraced
into rice -pad'd'ies. Every yard of it en-
chanting. iFor'a month I meet no white
faces. I -heard no word of English. I
never Belt indispcosed. 3 never went
huiagry. I'` lex,p'er'ien'ced'. !innumerable
kindnesses, ' coinpairiooelhip,s, 'hospit'al-
itie's. People would tramp a couple of
miles wiith iris to set me'safely on my
way, would serve me with tea, would
draw water for me to wash my feet.
And .travelling in 'this way, among the
woad -cutters on the 'hill's and .the ear -
mer folk
armer'fol'k in the valleys, I saw, oat ja-
pan. olf the tourists, not even Jiapan o'f
the shrines land temples, but some-
thing 4io're intimate, more fundenven
talJJiap•an of the Japanese.
TO SPEAK AT EXETER.
Hon. D!r. Manion, M.C., MJD., who.
will speak at Exeter on Thursday,
wan born at Pembroke, Ontario, in
tIb:1, of Irish -Canadian parentage., He
was educated, at Fort Welliam Public
!School ams Plort Arthur High School,
at Trinity, Toronto, and at Edin-
burgh, ,Sc'otlan'd. A phy'sici'an andsur-
geon by profession, Dir. Mianion was
elected to .the House of Commons in
1191117 as a Li'beral.U,nion'ist. In . 1918,
at the opening of the thiriteen'tih Par-
;liamemt, he was a'pp'ointed a• 'Govern
meat whip for Ontario. When Mr.
¥eighen reconetruoted his Cabinet
,prior tothe genera eiiec'tian of 1921
he selected Dr. Manion to be Minister
off `Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment.
:Retiring from office will] : the Govern-
ment he was re-elected atthe general
elections of 1921, 1926, 1926, and 19130.
He was appointed Minister of Rail-
ways and Canals in the Bennett cabi-
net in August, 1930. Dr. Manion serv-
ed with the French Army in 1915.
them joined the Canadian A M. C.,
serving as medical officer of the
Twenty1Fiirst Canadian Battalion. He
won the M.C, at Vimy Ridge.
PLOUGHING.
(!Experimental Farms Note).
!Ploughing is one of the most im-
portant of. all tillage operations. The
kind of ploughing dome is quite large-
ly indicative of the final condition of
the soil following later tillage opera-
tions. The object of ploughing is to
commence the preparation of a seed-
bed which will result in the greatest
tilth, other things being equal, ,to
produce the maximum germination
and growth of crops planted• therein.
Plough•ink should be done, therefore,
in such a way as to best loosen the
soil and provide a desirable tilth, and
at the sane time to cover alt trash
and crop residue, as well as manures.
which are to heploughed down.
de experiments conducted on sever-
al o'f the Dominion Experimental
'Farm's, resu'l'ts s'ho'w that it makes
very little difference what depth or
width ploughliing, is done, providing
ihlte furrow is ploughed ata uniform
depth and: is cut and turned the ream-,'
lar width of ,the plough, That is to
say one should, sot attempt to- turn .a
'13-i11ch furrow with a 10 inch plough,
A field plougbzd in this way, with
irregular depressions or 'hog troughs`
all over it, is ,not only unsightly hut'
!the soil is, nolt properly loosened,
weeds are itolt',cut and it is very diffi-
cult to prepare a fine, uniform seed
bed,
lThe time
to nlougli is rather im-
portant, although conditions are not
always ideal.' at the most convenienit,
or in some eases, the most suitable
:time II'f Fend is ploughed when too
Wet thesoil is likely to puddle and
become very hard and ofP oor tillth.
Ilii ploughed when tow dry the labbr
of ,ploughenig is increased and a cloddy
condition may result. 'This is Partic-
ularly true of ,slay soils. Tit is not so
important in light sandy soils. Fall
P'lo'ughing is generally recpmmended,
'
and from the sta'n'dpoint of weed eon-
tr'ol summer ploughing' to'p'working
'and re'o'towghing in late fall is very ef-
Ifective.
IIn order to plough d!ownn' crolp resi-
due especially where sod is being`
ploughed a joiniter or skim en'er is a
very important part of the equipment.
!Sod should not. be ploughed without
using it, as it is im!pos'sibie .to turn un-
der the grass at tihe edge of the fur-
rolw without it. The plough point and
coulter should be .kept sharp, both to„
redtt'ee thed'railt and to make sure of
e dean cut at the tb'ottom and side of
the furronv. '
Sai Olotober nexit ploughmen from
all over the continent will galther at
'the Central Experimental Farm, Ot-
tawa, .' to match their skill in the In-
ternational Ploughing Match. At this
'time some of the best ploughmen ba-
the world will be seen in -action. At
this match ploughing will be seem•
which approaches perfection as neerly-
a's is hu;m'an'ly.possible. The road of
all •enthusiasltic ploughmen shtufdt
lead to Ottawa in October' if not to
plough, to see ploughing at its best.
FALL FAIR DATES.
Arthus' Sept. 27, 28
;Atwood Sept. 16, 17
'Bayfield Sept: 28, 29
¢Blyth Sept. 30, Oct. 1.
Brussels ........... Sept. 29, 30
Drumbo Sept. 27, 28.
Dungannon . ........... Oct. '12
Entbro Oct. 6
Exeter Sept. 20, 21
Forest ''Sept. 27, 28
Fordwich Sept. 30, Oct. 1
Godericli Sept, 20, 21
Harriston .. , Sept. 29, 30
Ilderton Sept. 28
Kirkton Oct. 4, 5
Listowel - Sept, 21, 22
Lucknow "Sept. 29, 30
Mitchell . 'Sept, 27, 28
Mount Bridges 4
New Hamburg ............Oct,, Sept. 16, 117
Parkhill Oct. 4, 5
Port Elgin . Oct. '7, 8
!Ripley • ., Sept. 27, 28
St. Marys ... Oot. 7, 8
Sarnia .. Sept. 19, 21
,Seefo'th Sept. 22, 23
!Stratford Sept., 119, 21
Strathroy :Sept. 29, 30
Teeswater . . Oct:: 4, 5
Wingham .. .. ... Oct. 7, 8
Zurich Oct. 3, 4
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