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The Huron Expositor, 1937-08-06, Page 3rt ► ass t1 !f ,i ..t 41 • •a 4H (001114u00 OVER : eo A) • TQ Teaekh ate Gtenannati Mate Male iQampbeil.,has been e ► gatged as teacher 'at the Oleilatetate ea.c'hoolar W ligham Ad •ore des. • Cars Damaged ' • Ase slight accident occurred abaalit a mile east •of Mitchell op Sunday around midnight when a ear . driven by Clarenee Pauiest, Mitchell, crra'sh- • ed into the recur of a car driven by Thomas Archibald of Wlalton. The - driver of the Walton car had stopped on the side of the road to light his tape. -Paulen: clamed• -there etas• -no tail light on the parked car but Areh- ibal'd said that the light was working when he left a .service station 100 yards from,, the scene. The Paulen • oar suffered the most damage. The accident was investigated by Traffic Officer Jack Callander. D'ARCY M GEE By Hector Chailes'worth, in Toron- to Saturday Night, being a review of "D'Arcy McGee, 1825-1925; A Collec- tion of Speeches and Addresses." Se- lected and arranged by the late Hon. Charles Murphy, K.C., L.L.D. In 1933 a commonplace type of gun- man was hanged in the city of Ot- tawa. The incident was of no more than local interest except for the fact that it was then revealed that the last previous execution in Ottawa had been that of"W'helan, the assassin of D'Arcy McGee in 1868. Ottawa had thus the unique record of freedom' from capital crime for a period cov- ering nearly seven decades. Even to -day it is not. known whether Wthel- an was merely a small-town fanatic acting on his own impulses, or (as is sore probable) t'he agent of sinister principals, who regarded the most brilliant Irishman• who has ever lived an Canada, •as a traitor. to his native country's cause. In the above volume ' there is no allusion .to the circum- stances of McGee's death, save a veiled reference in. a quotation from Sir John A. Macdonald's obituary speech: "If ever a soldier who fell on the field of battle in the front of the fight deserved well of his ooun- try, Thomas D'Arey McGee deserved well of Canada and its people-" Canada did not fail to honor`tim. Back of the beautiful library of the Parliament Buildings his sta$ue stands looking over the Chaudiere Rapids towards the .. Laurentians, .a stalwart bronze effigy. He 'is one of the most prominent figures. in Rob- ert Harris's famous painting, "The Fathers of -Confederation." The tra- dition of his superb oratory, equalled among that of t h is • contemporaries, only by that of Hon. Joseph Howe of Nova Scotia, is permanent Isobel Skelton (who contributes a brief in- troduction to this volume) wrote an authoritative biography, some years ago. This latest book, a labor of love 1 a Canadian public man, not long since dead, is a most valuable sup- plement to all that has gone .before. It contains twenty of the most import- ant orations of McGee, manuscripts of which were preserved entire or in. part; and. a complete report of speech- es at a centennial dinner held at Ot- tawa .on April 13th, 1925, organized by a. committee of • Canadians of Ir- Iseh .descent- presided over by Hon. Charles Murphy. Befitting the occa- sion the oratory was .of exceptional quality, and the speeches of Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen and: Martin Conboy, at that time President of the New York Bar Association, were especial- ly worthy of preservation. Mr. -Con- boy's picture • of the Ireland of Mc - Gee's youth, file famine years, is mar- vellously graphic. Unquestionably McGee,- though his life in Canada covered little more than ten years prior to his death at the -age of 43, was• the most preco- cious and versatile man who ever played a. part in Canadian public af- fairs.. Genius is the only term that can be applied to such a career as bis and such mental illumination as characterized his utterances.. He was - mainly .self-educated, son of a poor coastguard at Carlingford, but at the age of 15 an oration by bird won- come inendati'on of the great temperance -orator, Father Matthew. At 17 he -was in Boston es .one of the staff of ate Boston "Pilot" r at 20 ' he was back is Ireland, a leader and poet of the "Young Ireland" movement. For a __ ‘‘TOBACCO " FOR`,A;'M I LD, COOL SMOKE Creet:TWO -WPM.,lilt editirP, file 149ctter , autiirliiitegi • I2 •lief ,15141,1,6 h hieldiega Wig of tli :: ea pl• a terectt laud the *Mar 4 like a ►ri tet :tile Pot, tee ,trlaut, potb a and Awed.- vastedi'OWN' the elbow afr twat. tto: There's co ,Fun 'like work; ' Allem-this tour de force ids friends began to speak of hist{► as "Sir Tea." For some years priorto ibis death Sir Thomas Lipton lived among this mammies. He d=welt among marble halls al a• place called .'Southgate. The house is a 'museum of reminiscence. Enormous rudder comront .cue at ev- en?' turn," and -tillers' and -compasses and bo"waprits" and the ,sort. of Greek goddesses ,one puts generally in the garden. He was Passiogately devot- ed to billiards, and the players pick- ed their way among these heavy ob- jeets, or cracked- a figurehead with the flat end of a cue. There is an aroma of teak and tar and oriental gums. The walls are a mass of photo- eraphs, of boats and prificesses and launching ceremonies and distant, places. Even the yachting trophies which used to be kept in a beak are below stairs he a strong mom, guard- ed by an expoliceman. Sir Thomas showed you these things with father- ly pride-, but he was pleased most of all with the small •stuffed figure of a dog who liven under the tea table. It was given to him by an A•me'rican lady, and lived for its allotted span as his mascot. It is a fox terrier with the perfect trefoil of a shamrock on its rump. Its tail forms the stalk. He had a Singalese servant called John, a black man in white skirts and long hair wrapped round a tall tor- toise -shell comb, from whom chauf- feurs recoil in terror. He answers the door and waits at table with a sinister watchfulness; and had done so for 30 years. You met unusual people• thee, all redolent of the sea, bearded men with keen eyes and short pipes, the captains of decrepit tramps and Atlantic liners. Sir Thomas was a great believer in fresh air. , He played a little golf, .potted Among his orchids, went down to the stables to see his'xotting horses, and Motored a great deal. He had three colossal prewar, Mercedes cars, chain - driven and of uncounted horsepower, green and polished brass. He would often order one of these out at two in the morning, and drive 30 or 40 miles. time he was London correspondent of the "Dublin Freeman" and completed his education by study in the Library of the British Museum, where he ac- quired an amazing command of liter- ature and history. At 23 he was back in the United States and .subsequent- ly served as lecturer and newspaper editor in Boston, Buffalo and New York. At 32 he came to Canada at the invitation of the Irish residents of Montreal and was speedily elected to.Parliament. He took a prominent part in the niovemeet for Confedera- tion, and entered the cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald in 1864. He was rot in the first Confederation cabinet, but his honors awaited him when he was slain in 1868. At that time he had not forgotten Ireland, and was probably the earliest advocate of Do- minion Home Rule for his native land based on the Canadian model - a policy which reached fruition more than Half a century after his death. He was shot because, though a -true Irish patriot, she maintained allegiance. to the British Crown. • Apart from his' political career, he threw himself enthusiastically into the d•eveldpment ,of intellectual life of the young Dominion. In this re- spect he has had no parallel in public affairs before or since. The speeches of most dead statesmen are moribund on the printed page, but -those pre- sented in this volume are far from 'being so. They are fascinating read- ing. Here was a man who could dis- cuss Shakespeare, -Mil-", Burns and many other poets, and llumine his- torical problems, ancient d modern with a wealth of culture\ -that pee- yokes ro-vokes comparison with Macaulay. He was not verbose as was the habit with the great orators of the nine- teenth century. At this very moment publicists .can learn much from a speech he made in the Legislative As- sembly at Toronto .in June, 1858, on "The Separate School 'Question," in which he outlined the history of ex- isting educational system in Canada. On Shakespeare he spoke with a knowledge - and authority equalled by but one other Canadian public man, Rt. Hon'. Arthur Meighen. His address on "The Political Morality'•of Shakespeare's Plays," delivered at St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto, in 1858, is a remarkable analysis. That the reader may realize what the oratoiiy of McGee was really like, a few sentences from this address are given: •• 1r' ' IE DOGPROTECTION TAX AND LACT STOCK IVE • ' lhls legislae1dn proses Alva stack owners against the ravages of dogs This Act requires:- - The taxing of dogs and the issuing of . dog tags. -where live stock (Cattle and Sheep) are injured, the owner shall notify the local Valuer or the Reeve of the Municipality within forty-eight hours after discovery of the damage. -the local Valuer muat•make two reports, one for the Municipality, and one for the owner of the livestock. -if either of these is not eiatisfied with the report, he may,appeal to the Minister of Agriculture for another Valuer by depositing $25.00. This money is returned if the appeal is successful but is forfeited if the appeal is lost. -the award made by the Valuer appointed by the Minister is final. For copies of this Act apply to the Live Stock &abets ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Parilladient attadlaaa. Toranta, Ontario RON. DUI4OAM MARSHA=L lfiiaiateY' JAMES a. PAIRBATRII Deputy Misittes' flrOt we reluctan?fit0 Y vit)io,ntn• eor• 4 "Muk to xisIe , #arlv>rye net had to tam 00/1' esince starts to. use 1wrrH 1?0r' Eirre . Klug (address on re- grlest . Common constipation is usuali duo, tali -teals low in "balk." Kellogg s ALL-BUAN supplies this needed abuik ' Within the body, tics cereal ab- sorbs twiceits weight in water;,, forms a soft mass, gently sponges --nut the system. ALL -BRAN -'also furnishes vitamin B to tone up the intestines, and iron for the blood. Enjoy this food instead of tak- ing weakening pills and drugs. Serve as a cereal, with milk or fruits, or cook into recipes. ALL -BRAN is sold by your grocer. Made and guaranteed by Kellogg in London. "He planted bis compasses in pis own age, and he swept with them the circumference- of time," "This Island Oracle shall not be quelled er quenched until the knell of all earthly things has sounded. His voice shall speak to all nations of the mysteries of life and death, of duty and destiny, of liberty and law, of the remorse that dogs the steps Of crime, and the blessed peace that shines• on the good mast's death. bed. To him all genius shall be tributary hereafter. as all genius has been in the past." Witchcraft Days In Salem (Condensed, from Esquire in Reader's Digest) Salem village in • 1691 • was no dif- ferent from any of a dozen New Eng- land hamlets. _ Its folk were tough and knotty stock, not'widely , lettered. They lived a life of hard work, drank rum on occasion and took their re- ligion with a mixture ofenthusiasm and grimness. Their names were the Puritan names that we are accustom- ed to reverence -Mercy and Abigail and Delborah, Nathaniel and Samuel and John-,,-' To this peaceful community in the spring of 1692 came a madness that was to shake all Massachusetts. We are wiser, now. We do not believe in witches. But if, say, three eases of Asiatic cholera were discovered in your home town -and if your news- paper ran a front .page warning to all citizens -you would have some idea of how the Salem Villagers felt when the "afflicted children" denounced their first victims.. For witchcraft, to those New Englanders, was a definite and diagnosable evil. True, there had been only same 20 witch trials there up to the Salem affairf-compar- ed to the thousands of hangings and burning,s that had gone on in Europe during the past few .centuries. But people believed in witches. Even the Bible said, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." - Three years before, Salem Village had got a new minister -the Reverend Samuel Paris, ex -merchant in the West Indies. Paris brought with him a West Indian servant, a woman nam- ed Tituba. Tiiuba must have been an imagination -stirring figure in the small New England town. And the winters were long and white -and any diversion a godsend. During the winter of 1691-92'a group of girls. and women began to meet nightly at the parsonage where Tituba amused them by telling fortunes. In this circle were three servant girls who nursed grudges against their mistresses, and a dominant, high strung woman, Ann Putnam, who bitterly hated her neigh- bors. These few adults were later to use the children -among them . Ann Putnam's 12 -year-old daughter -for their own ends. From harmless for- tune-telling the circle proceeded to more serious matters-Weet Indian voodoo, weird stories told by Tituba and weird things shown, while the wind blew outside and ig shadtows flickered on the wall. Soonthe members of the group - adolescent girls, credulous, servants, superstitious old women+ -begat. to show hysterical symptoms. They crawled under tables and chairs, they made strange sounds, they rebook and trembled with nightmare fears- The thing became a village seandhl-who had ever seen normal young girls be- lieve like this? Grave ministers were called in to look at the afflicted chil- dren. A Dr. Gregg gave his 'opinion, almost too terrible to believe: Witch- cra Mft!eanwhile the "afjicted children" enjoyed the awed stares --the, respect- ful questions that greeted them, with girii'sh zest. They had been unimpo•r-. Cant in the little hamlet -now they were the center of attraction. They contai•nued to write and demonstrate until, on the 29th of February, 1692, in the midst of an appropriate storm of thunder and lightning, three wo- men, Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn and Tituba, were arrested on the deadly charge of bewitching the children. The next day the first hearing was held in the meetinghouse and all Salem' swarmed to it. Sarah Good and Sarah Osburn were old women of no standing in the community; the first had been a beggar and -a slat- tern, the second had married a re - den ption.er servant after the death of her first husband --also, she had been bedridden for some time and there- fore Irregular In churoh 'attendance. Grim Justice Hathorne went to the root of the matter -at once. "What evil spirit have you familiarity with." "None," said the piping old voice. But everybody know worthless Sarah Good; The Justice turned to. the children. Was ,Sarajh' Good one of the persons who tormented" them? Yed, yes! And theta, before the etre-struck crowd, the children began to -be tornie ted. They writhed, they grew stiff, they were stricken moaning or • speechless. 'Yet; when they were allowed to touch Sar - biltk ire it' Pellet 4 f t OSl,,r •blit-' iiat f'a1 fnb> not ewe . St roti Osiburet",ss. Ili►at3ea folleoltr- same useless ed Os wine eou (koala -41w eazu .J4.0 optic fei1 of the "afflicted 4ap -the ean*e ; end; only ahs was 'tor die in jail .,and tans cheat the vat/lira-a- When Tit►the was examined she have tbem their, fill orf marvels, %medl fes and: borrdre Si erewdly and retpen fly* --she • ad- mitted' toripentin ' ties ohildeital . she had been fereselseto Ito so by Goody Good and Goody Osburn and two other witches whom she hadn't been able to recognize. Her voodoo knowledge aided hes----she filled the eager ears of the 'iltrurtnoom with tales of black dogs, red eats and black cats and• the Pgiantasm of . a woman with legs and -wings. And 'ev- erybody ev-erybody could see that she spoke. -the truth. For. when she was first brongbt in the children were tormented at 'herr presence, but is soon as she bad confessed, she was tormented herself and fearfully. But she had saved her neck. The hearing over, the men and women of Shlete.went excitedly home to discuss the fearful working of God's providence. ' For the "afflicted '•• children" the hearing had been; the most exciting event in their narrow lives- And it was so easy to do --+they grew more and more ingenious with each rehear- sal. You twisted your body and groan- ed -and grown people were afraid. On March 19, Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse were„;., arrested for witchcraft. The reign -of terror had begun, for if these notably God-fear- ing and kind women could be witch- es, no one in New England was safe from the charge. The children's , self- confidence had become monstrous -- there was no trick too fantastic for them to try. Elevensy^ear-old Abigail Wiilliams ran about tbe , parsonage, throwing firebrands and crying that she was being tormented by Rebecca Curse who was trying to !make her sign the Devil's book. The whole colony was now aroused. Governor Sir William Phips appoint- ed a special court to try the castes, and the hangings. began. The exam- inations were brutally unfair - the children yet bolder. They wouI'd, in- terrupt .questions to shout that "a black man" was whisperin+g in the prisoner's ear -if the. accused stood still, they were tormented, if she moved 'her hands, they suffered- even greater agonies. - All through the. summer the accuse tions and trials came thick and fast. Nor were the accps'ed now friendless old beldames like Sarah Good. They included Captain John Alden (son of. Miles Standieh's friend) who craved himself by .breaking jail, and; the wealthy and prominent Englishes who saved themselves by flight. Susanna Martin'sonly witchcraft, to quote from the testimony, seems to have been that she was an:unusu- ally tidy woman and had once walk- ed a muddy read wit'iiout getting her dress bedraggled. Ass for Elizabeth How, a neighbor testified, "I have been acquainted with Goodwife How as a naybor for 9 or 10 years and have fining her just. I never heard her revile any person - -" But the children cried, "I am -stuck with a pin. Im pinched,'.' when they saw her -and she hanged. It took a little more to hang the, Reverend George Burroughs.. The cloth had "great sanctity, but Ann Putnam -with tbe able assistance of the rest of the troupe --overcame this. Mr. Burroughs was a man of unusual strength - anyone who could lift a gun by putting four fingers in its5 bar- rel must do so by magic arts. Also, he had been married three times- So when the ghosts of his first two wives appeared to Ann Putnam and cried out that 1V Ir. Burroughs hada tanrder- ed them: -he was doomed. •• Judge, jury and colony readily be- lieved the writhings of the children, the stammerings' of tbose whose sows bad died inexplicably, the testimony of such as Bernard Peach who ew^.ore that Susanna Martin , had flown in through his window, bent his body into the shape of a "whoope" and sat upon shim for • an hour and a half. Through such testimony. 19 men and women .were banged. Then, suddenly, the made ess was gone. The "afflicted children," at long last, went too far. They had ac- cused the Governor's lad. They bad accused Mrs. Hall, the wife of the minister at Beverley and a, woman known through the colote for her vir- tues. Th:¢ thing had become a re- ductio ad absurdum. If it went on, no one but the . "afflicted children" and their protegeee would be left alive. In January, 1693, the Superior Court brought 21 to trial and condemned, three. But no one was executed. In May, 1693, a proelamation emptied the , jails. So the madness died. In 1706, Ann Putnam made public confession that she had been deluded by the Devil in testifying as she had. She, had testified in every case but Otto. I have not spoken of the 55 who actually confessed to being witches -or the solemn examination of a 5 - year -old child for witchcraft --or 6f ho* two of the Carrier boys Were hung u'p by the heels to make them testify against their intitheri-or of tete time when Benjamin Hutchinson and Eleazer Putnam .went stabbing with their rapiers at invisible cats and were solemnly assured they had slain three witches, equally .invisible. We 'have no -reason to hold Salem up to obloquy. It is no stranger to hang a man for witchcraft than to hang him for the shape of his nose or the color of his skin. And once we light the fire of intolerant fan- aticism we cannot forsee what it will finally coneum.e-any more than they could in Salem, 245 yearn ago, Modern Youngster: "*bat- a r e pray'ers,, mother dear?'" 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