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The Name "Quebec" is of Indian Derivation —"11 • • 1
pames in, the Dominion the inveatiga- The striklug feature of e
In tracing tip the origin Of plVI/
ace. here St, Lawrence Narrows. •
thgeogra
voles of the Geographic Board of can. elle of Quebec, noted kali by Cartier
and Champlain, is that the river
ada have brought to light the,interest- Lawrence is "snut ru
in" " b •t cted" or
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ing facto -given below concerning the "narrow" here. Indeed wherd the
name Quebec. Tie first kuown ap- ,Canadian National Railways bridge •
pearance of the name Quebec is on a croeses the river, five miles above the
InsP "'Laeby Gaillanme Le7Ssseur,,, of part of the S. Lawrence, between
Dieppe in 1601, if Henri Harrisse L Montreal and the gulf. The breadth
citadelof Quebec, is the narrowest
not mistaken in the date. The spell- of the river here' between Wei' water
ing is Quebecq, The first appeera.nee lines is 2,440 feet. • Froin the. Indian
appellation for this narrowing of 'the
of the name in a - book is in Lescar- , •
river has been derived the:name now
hot's History of New France 'publish- borne by the province and city, of
ed in Paris, in 160.8, a copy of which Quebec, • Such authorities on •Algall-
' Is in the Library of Parliament at °t- quin Indian languages as Fathers Ala,
tawa. Lescarbot's elPelling 1s Xebec, bert Lacombe and Georges Lemoine,
without an accent, and he used it in whose Cree and Montagnais Indian die -
describing Champlain's voyage of 1.608,
of which he had learned orally from
the explorer, Quebecq is the spelling
used be ChamPlaiirin his own account
of his, voyages, peblished in 1613
The'first White man to visit the site
of theepresent city or Quebec was
jac4ties Cartier; in 1535, and there he
• •found the. Indian town of Stadacone.
Cartier notes that there is a narrows
of the river. here. Seventy-three years
after, in 1608, came Champlain. He
found UQ settlement of any kind. Stad-
acone and the Huron -Iroquois people
• dwelling thee had disappeared. Chem -
plain writes "Quebecq, whlchIs a
• strait of the river" and en the account lin1
states that he sought .a place for .a. in the early
had a definite 'spelling writers followed -
I fear
s'ke
tionaries are well known, are agreed eseseessee,
that this is the meaning of the name. 'Se "'Jilt:Di
The Rev, Silas T. Rand, a missionary- '
among the Micmaes of the Maritime
Provinces for forty years mentions
two places in Nova ,Scotia called Que-
bec by the Indians, the Narrows above
Halifax and a narrow place in the
Liverpool river below Milton.
Some have vaguely lismised that
Quebec is a French name becaude in '
certain parts of France 'tongues of ,
land formed by the junction of two
rivers have names ending in "bee as ,
Bolbec, Caudebec, Carbec.
In this connection the Abbe Gasse-
„ remarks that if the word were
of his voyage's, puilksbed in 1613, French, Pure and simple, it would have •. •
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V! teeg„se
eeeil •
5-
tfl LS
• lionse and found none better than "the days. This it apparently never had as
point of Quebecq, so called by the In- some 17th Century T.
• diens.” • In the 1632 edition of his voy: Lescarbot's spelling and others that
agea he reaffirms that Quebecq- is so of Champlain, with or without the
;called by the Indians. I final "q."
• Futility.
•New she who never lived is dead.
Toll, bells, toll!
.The pigeons on the reoatops.saw
A small, pale -soul
• That went out aimlessly
To an unknown goal.
'The pigeons fluttered their blue wings
And clung with coral feet,
`'Sheegoes to Heaven in the same way
She went along the street,
Blind to any loveliness
That she may meet!"
Ae Pigeon preened hisqeisple throat,
He said, "She's going out
• Slowly, like% little cloud
Winds blow about."
And still the bells were tolling
Their requiem- dove:kite°.
' The pigeons spread their painted
wings, „
Einerfild and gray, ' •
'It was such a small soul
Went out to -day, .,
The fast wind that it met
- „ Melted -it away."
- —Louise Iriscoll.
Indian Suinmei.
Hunter, in Vigil Over Corpse,
Slays Tiger.
One of: the most ferocious man-eat-
ing tigers that ever has troubled Bur-
mah has been killed by Heflin Tat,
divisional forest officer of Magwe, says
a Calcutta dispatch'. *
Mr, Tai kept vigil in a cachan erect-
ed above the corpse of a young Bur-
mese woman who had just been killed
by the tiger. At night the tiger re-
turned for the corpse. When torches
were flashed the animal became be-
wildered and was shot dead.
It was established that the beaSt had
kllIed thlrteen men andwomen in the
Magwe district, besides mauling five.,
In the Yamethin district there have
beei
as many tiger caeualties
reported, all -believed due to the same
animal. Cattle and dogs killed num-
ber hundreds.
Three villages had been abandoned,
as- the tiger had begun to carry . off
'men afevork in daylight, in one case
dragging a Burman away, with the
whole village pelling behind.
The goirernrnent reward of 100 ru
pees for killing the beast -has been di -
jaded among Mr. Tai, the relatives of
the' dead girl and •tho,se who aided in
the kill.
Gray 6,acy,'aild haze lake, '
The Power of Expression.
And .shadowy land,
And quiet waves, that break,
Upon the quiet sand.
A leaf fallshere and there,
A bird cries in the pines,
The goldenrod is sear, •
' The crimson sumach shines.
The low. windslower fall, -•!.-
Smoke from a bush fire lifts,
And sadly over all,
A. sad cloud drifts.
*. •
Gray sky and grayer lake,
And mist that falls to rain,
"And memories that wake,
The dreams of yout-h again.
• The power of artistic 'expression in
music also lodges in large parts in
various peronal _powers guite. outside
inusic, such as equable temperament,
healthy mindedness, -comeliness of h toe% eyes, and ears. A- daniaged
body and phy.slcal health. Great a
achievements on the intellectual side
tend, to balancea• man, whereas great!
achievement within harrow emotional 4
performance -tends to distort persped-1
.tive, an emotion being relatively a'
severe drain on the nervou.s energy'1
weakens the power of self control and
produces abnormal sensitiveness.
Many succeseful 'artists leave been
notorious for the violation f
meat $60,000. ' .• th '
•. Beyond the Night. • ,The Firefly's Secret.,
The city light are. bright with flames, A number of scientists have con -
where up and down the street I ducted quite • elaborate experiments
The eity'a gleamaflares up the way for on lightning -bugs, attempting to ex -
'countless drifting feet; 'plain the nature and action•on-their
And yet, I often turn away, where, light. What 'Dr. E. F.' Bigelow, said
tnrough a window pane •. • I severa.l years ago is still true—there
A dim, old-fashioned candle. light has not, been much success to the.ex-
• shines down a country lane. , perimmits.
; • I That familiar flash we see is sumn;er
The city has a thousand songs—a mul- evenings, says Dr. Bigelow, is prob-
. titude to sing; , ' I ably themost efficient light known in
A thousand voices sweep' the -night nature. The flash of an able-bodied
wbere.dim cathedrals eing; • • firefly is just 1-400 as bright as a
And -yet I. oftenturn. away, where, all candle, while the glow is much weak-
- the morning -through I er, or about 1,50000 of a candle pciwer.
A mocking bird calls back -to me across The- strength of- the ligbt Is very de-
. •, . the .silveredewe • • • - • " I ceptive; moat of us would judge It- to
Ibe much stronger. Considering the
The 'city -has a mighty voice—a, siren apparatus the firefly has for produc-
volce that calls • I ing its light, however; it is really mar-
-Where fame is pleading night and day velous power. To supply an .equal
• Within' her star -crowned wells; I amount of light • in the laboratory
And yet I.eften turn away, where, in would require a temp'erature of 2,000
, the teeing light • . 1 degrees Fahrenheit, while the firefly
A waiting mother used to call her boy generates no heat that can be meg,-
la from the night '
- - —Grantland Rice. In spite of all exPeriments, no one
`
e--- • has discovered. just how the firefly
Priceless Limbs. ' turns its. peculiar illuininetion on and
• ese,
' avlova, the famous dancer, is seld The materials it works with are
.Tereoeeey,..meeeenee, exy-gete
upwards of $150,000. The loss of a -
to have insui•ed her -arms and lege for a ' .
unknown ,sustaace, • possibly some
-
single toe evould In 'her: case cost the kind of fatThe tirade continues to
nsurance cornpany '$25,000, while the .
keep its secret, although it.- has been
i
oss ef an arm would involve a pay-
watched • beneath the most ' powerful
microscopes , as it • operates its: tiny
For several years Paderewsleitnof ,..
e e batery. All the ecientists can tell us
,
e'
great'plantst, paid $4000 a year in pre- • aeoutit is that thelight is some form
miums against hand iejurietto
es, .hof
..of okielatiiin, and it is 'hoped that by
' ese
his hands being insured for $60stndeing thfirefiwe iha,y discover
900, In i
i sp
is
addition; he had 'separate. polfcles ter i w, ica -
eme new method of roducing light
may revolutionize auiegreat 'gat,
' n
nger nail, which on one occasion pre- I works and, electric 'power plant.
One polet on will& the investigators
anted him from fulfillink an engage- I
ment, .coste the insuranee company
have puzzled particularly is -.the inter -
5,000.''_ ., • • mittence of - the glew—why does the
' '" •Z '"''' '''' ' light "come on" and "go off,". like an
Kubelik, 'the violinist,. • insures his .
. eleetrie hulls. that isebelug.playeel with
fight hendand arm for $1.0,00e agaeeet .
: o ' hieVoueChild?
eanent dleablement"
njuty, and for $50,Q00 . against per -.1 , y a ; . nelecr
Wnile tnfs' has, mei been. altogether
-
answered, items been dieceveli.al that
The first man to Jeanie lis ivesiiht...
,, ., jethe iliiiitiiig efreekeraiinsarietist belala
as the late ,ProfessOr HuxleY;ewnie th thl el ' •
_ 1 -eentre liet-efee-n ifee'fbirelg:Pcla.ilii• (eaf Illegerav)e.
ould have received $25,000- in- the
vent 'of his goingsbliaii.' -.1:t .1s siticie*h_if -
ED turOgg. •Sop:te aecident e flreflY
hat the hands of Ste Herbert Barker,-'
. .tecelet.4 an ipaury. in w.hichathis gang.
he manipulative surgeon, are inslite' lion is 'Peill-aturedelts light glows. con-
tiniteuelyetell ,the creatute dies. These
nerves .theflaps which cover
the entrancealo the breathing euhes,
and , when they are. injured the. tithes
ead short words takes great interest •
ruyeethe.--
n- die big letters she,seeS inetbe news(Viall eneeecee langs) remain
:'
open te the air Witt •the -air out ,
aper. The other evening aftershe had., . . - - - - • - , • '
. .,
a : the light goes epteeshoeving that its
ept heranothee awake half the night- '- see-- se- - ,,, - •
reading 'advertisements' to her she mulpc'nn4111P-o•re4Y °Pr-geo• • "
knelt down to aay her Playiet:Ele • !.-seeteeeeee -meal:eat ail>, *--
u'rtil?." ear. Loerdas'..sehe elsispaede,'''daftintiake„i'vernnet
ruine anciene any, ,subenerged'30-
Feench elifets-tege dfaeovered the
n with added fervor, "Make me abso- -feet bof anene,athethe water of theaMede-
tely pure like,baking powder!" • terranean-Sea, of,
the coast Of Teals.
•homely virtues, But we may well e
—Susanna M. Smyth. • n if they had not
meditate on how much greater t
theft -
Strange Garden Products, charm would have bee
t
been sick souled sufferers fro
UtL Johnny, Who was of school rations. :The principle remains that a
age, was on his way bore from the musicien-Who is well phylcally,
week -night eprayer Meeting, where he, ly and mentally, who has a good dis-
hed fallen asleep. His• father, who had position and who is socially att ti
had, great difficulty in waking him at' reesonable and well b 1
a enema he's the
e
the close of the service, was walking advantage over the warped persona litse
for • a very )arge sum, - •
Or 99 ..94-100% Pere."
A little girl who is just learning to.
by his side, holding his hand. Fearing and should represent our goal, '
that the boy would go to sleep again k
and that he should have to carry him,
• the father quickened his pace aads
twitching the little fellow's hand vig-
orously, asked him briskly where he Percy Bysshe., Shelley was a con -
had •been that day. temporary 'of Byron and Keats, three i°
"Over to Mr. O'Neal's," was the poets who all died young. His lyrics 'u
drowsy reply. • -- are One of the glories sif English Mora -
.s.
"'And what were they doing .at.Mr. ture.
O'Neal's?" 1'; ,
"Makin' garden," Johnny replied
"And what did they plant?"
• Johnny yaivned, "Planted lett's an'
• onions an'---" he stumbled, and his
• tongue grew thick; --"an rad'shes an'
Peas—an' q's—an' r's---an' s's—"
• At that point the father picked him
Up and carried him.
A Poem You Ought to Know.
Loers Philosophy. ' --
A Brave Man.
Jack is a brave fellow."
'How so?"
"Admits he
MO Jong,"
.the Beet Could Do.•
Father 0'Plynn—"I3ut why did you
pick a quarrel and fight with this man
—a total sttanger?"
tiathey-s-PStire; yer reverence', till,
MC feted.* wor away'
knows nothing
bout
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rlvens with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is eingle;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle;
Why not 1 with thine?
See the monetains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister -flower would be forgiven •
If It disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the monbeams kiss the sea;
What is all this sweet work wortn,
If thou kiss not me?
Olock in a Sidewalk.
Thousands walk over the northeast
corner of Maiden Lane and 13roadway
in New York and never know that they
are stepping on the fnce of a clock.
This clock, Measuring about two -feet
across is imbedded in the sidewalk
and is covered with glas's an inch thick.
The hoer and minute hands are paint-
ed a jet black. Because of the duet
end dirt the cletk is scarcely diecern.
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Stories About Well.Known People
Taking the Terrier's Title.
AA amusing story concerning hie
title is related by Lord Airedale. When
his tether, the greet iron -master, ap-
Peered in the honors list and ail -
Winced the title he intended to adopt,
he received a eommuelcatioa from the
Airedale Terrier Society • intimating
that, as he seemed to have selected
his title from their club, they would
he glad if he could preient them with
a prize cap.
Great Poet's Adventures.
When he was feurteen, Mr. John
IVIaiefield, the greet poet and author,
whose. latent •novel,'"Sa,rd Hawker," is
the first he has written for fourteen
years, ran away to sea "to get the
nonsense knocked -out of hi"
He gave up the sailor's life and
landed in America, where on one oc-
casion he joined two tramps. in an at-
tempt to earn a little money by sing-
• ing at street corners,- Obtaining a job
in a hotel as "handy -man," he had to
work sixteen houra a day, cleaning bar
taps, washing the glasses, and so on,
• his wage being ten shillings a week.
In his new novel the hero might
have been Mr. Masefield himself, for
he goes to sea as a boy and has many
adventares abroad.
The Guardian ef No. 10.
No one can have met more of the
'famous people •of the day than Mr,
Robert Lloyd, who for many years has
been • the porter at No. 10 Downlag
Street. He has opened the door to
Royalty, to the world's statesmen, to
great soldiers and sailors—not to men-
tion cranks of all deseriptiona
One of his many amusing stories
coneeree the visit of Signor Mussolini
to the home of Britein's Chief Minis-
ter, He burst into the vestibule and
shook the porter warmly by the hand,
"1 gni delighted to meet Eughse.d's
Prime Minister," he said, It was tact-
fully pointed out that he had mede a
mistake!
• No Knighthood Vitantedl
Captain Round, the research engin-
eer of the Marconi Company, dislikes
publicity, and on that account he be-
came known during the war as the
mysterious "Captain X.—the wireless
wizard."
Somebody once said to him, "Would
you accept a knighthood if et were
offered, Round?" And be replied
promptly, "No. I don't want people
calling me Ciacumference!"
The Interview.
The resourceful newspaper reporter
will never admit himself beaten. If
his man won't talk, he must be made
to talk—in print at least. Punch thus
describes the way the thing is done:
The' reporter from the Daily Wire
ta.me down the back garden between
the washing line and the gooseberry
bushes. "You were in the motor
coach that- collided with another at the
foot of Vender Hill?"
The young man who was mending.
a puncture inthe back tire at a bicycle
stood up. "That's right," he said.
I "You were among those who es-
caped with bruises?" •
"That's right." '
• Ydu actually saw the other coach
burst into flames before it fell over
• Romance of Silver Fox.
At all times in the fur business, a
silver -fox pelt was worth a hundred
times a's much as a red -fox pelt. There
was an old trapper -saying in Canada
during the days when a dollar was as
big as a cartwheel, "A red -fox pelt
will buy a whip, a cross -fox pelt will
buy a cutter, but a silver fax will buy
horse and cutter and ail."
The pelt -of a prime silver fox is ad-
mittedly the warmest, deepest, richest
and lightest in the world's output. Its
one fault is lack of durability.
It was the established imperial fur
of the Russian court. Every noble-
woman was supposed to wear a silver.
fax robe when she appeared at winter
receptions.
The wild supply was limited and
the bridge into the river?" lessening; the demand ever increas-
"That's right." ing; for these two laws underlie ail
The reporter, who was young and fur prices. Black is a becoming fur; it
hopeful, produced anotebook. "Could makes the plain woman interesting
you giire me your impreseions of what and the pretty woman beautiful.
occurred?" • Therefore, it is always In fashion. Sec -
Silence. - - • ond, the general trend of fur prices,
The reporter tried another leading without exception, has always been
question. "You assisted in rescuing upward.
the survivors?" The silverfox pelt went the way of
"That's right." • the rest. One hundred dollars was a
fair price a hundred years ago. The
"It was towards five o'clock, wasn't
it?" same pelt today brings $1,000, while
, "That's right," replied the other and pelts, of exceptional beauty go up to
Added awith a sudden -burst of elo- ;1,500 and $2,000.
crtience; "Getting on for tea time." The inevitable result was the fox
The reporter closed his notebook. ranch. There certainly werebun-
"Thank "Thank you very much," he said. , (trees of attempts made—made only
' Extreet fromatne ;Detre. Wire of the to end in failure—until the problem
toliowing day: -tem 4inal1y-'3131'veeety twa enterprising
THE VENDER HILL TRAGEDY Canadians on Prince Edward Island.
Description.4 Mie One Other ranches sprang up. For some
of.the Passengers on the Green' Coach. 'unknown reason, the climate or soil of
"It
was a glorious evening," Mr. 1 Prince .Edward Island has proved or
William Blow, an engine fitter, of • 321apPears.to have proved more conduc-
Laburnum Vissas, Ballhom, told our: ive to eucceas than that of any other
correspondent, "and I was just admir- region.
ing the glow of the setting sun across , -Fur prices continued to climb and
the,peaceful valley of the Vender wheu about the time of the war .they went
the•ill-fated blue ceachappeared round through a crazy boom, $10,0.00 and $12, -
the curve e I realized instantly that 000 a pair were paid tor choice ranch -
raised silver foxes as breeders. The
record price is said to have been $34,-
000 for one pair.
Since the boom, things have become
normal again.. Prices. of other furs
have dropped a little in the last two
yease, but they are still near the peak.
the driver had lost control. My' heart
eeemed ,te miss a beat, but I kept cool;
and so, I believe, did my fellow passen-
gers. It was. a tensely deamatic mo-
ment', as you may suppose, and I sin-
cerely -hope I shall never experience
such nether. , With the crash, 1
tholiglit iny laet moment had 'come,
butas' a matter of fact I got off with
a few ,bruisess.e. nahell never forget
seeing' a pillar -1:e fire going xp from
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Sockeye Salmon Runs Heavy.
The prospects for a bumper
the other other coach. It was a magnificenttion of Sockeye salmon eggs :for the
and aweenseiriag *spectacle.' ':Theri i
hatcheries operated in British Colum -
of the bridge gave way under tile ter-
crasie of fallieg anasenry as, the •wall tFisheries are unusually good. Mosthin -by the Department of Marine and
riffs impact, and the doomed vehicle encouraging reports have e -
fell down, down, down, into the sullen ceived at Ottawa indicating that the
water a beneath."• • , runs of sockeye are considerably in
The next -dear neighbor left his rab- excess of other years. In the Fraser
bile:and came to speak to Mrs. Blow river, allprecious collections of sock -
over the wall. "I see Toni: nisband's eye eggs have been exceeded with a
given the Daily ,Wire 'int -'and ac- take of 5,000,000 in the Pitt Lake area,
count." and the run of sockeye to the 13Irken-
'"E told 'em what 'e could," said heed river in the Harrison-Lillooet
Lakes area is greater than any pre-
vious run in the memory °Palle hatch-
ery employees. The collection of eggs
amounting to 31,200,000 is the largest
that has been made to date in this por-
tion of the Fraser.
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Mrs. Blow, "but 'e says they've ]eft
-out a good bit." She raised her voice.
"They didn't put in all you said, -did
they, Bill?"
"Tbat's right," said Mr. Blow.
The World's Oldest Statue.
• The world's moet ancient statue is
to 'be found outside, not inside, the
British Museum.
• It is said that it took two hundred
men from the crew of H.M.S. To,paz,
and three hundred natives, to drag
the etatue from its original site, al-
thoughlt weighs only four tens. It is
the -week of a race of huge builders
and was one of many similar colossal
statues, soma of then weigbing as
much as a hundred tons, scattered
Over Easter Island, in the Pacific.
These hideous images were original-
ly supplied •with hats, in tome cases
'weighing anothet live or Six tons, which
veme red became they were made of
tufa or volcanic rock. ..A.11 tho hats
have fallen off now and are found lee
ing around the huge statues as though
there had been a high Wind. •
This race of - ancient builders left
treeies in the shape or immense etone
monuments. right across the Pacific,
and many archaeologists think that the
Islands et which these monuments are
found are the last remnants left above
the serface of a Vast submerged con-
tinent. There is nothing -which fixes
f ii1s uevemen,
I t t tl tti 1
Often Followed by the Wolf.
TouristeeTheettork would seem to
be the cab*. animal that. ever visits
•th' • ,c 't "
Native ---"Wrong; steanger, it's fre.
quentia followed by the wolf when it
makes its ealls.". ••
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It Made a Difference.
A truant officer made a call •at'Me
home of a Pitpil ssemee absence had
extended for over h week.
"Mikey' is now past his Ihirteentei
year," said the boy's mother, "an' me
and 'bis ladies think 'he's After havin'
schoolaa time enough."
"Sebooling &lough," repeateti the
offieer;','"Why. 1 did not finish my edii.
cation until I was 23,"
. at . sa womatt In
ible during the daylight houre, but at e a es on le con neat s ow i PhOthgral,b, taken af• but it Is, pbs4thie that the statnes are amezemenL Then, reaseuringly ''efter
night it is illuminated and is a usqui Pragae Czeolle-Slovaltia, shears "Great Sport,' oue( of the birds, after it at%leiw,C, as aLt ao the pyramidof a tholigledul pause: "Well, eor, ae gee
teller of time. i had won the main race of the card.
that be of °lire. Ilae ler•rains." •
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