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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1902-05-29, Page 6iiipowomposoloommom000moopoomiosomt 1, • Historical Sketch of $. Huron County. • ael-asatealeeessesee Selleaterelelelellethellela'see'lesealle EDUCATIONAL. It is a fact which the splendid edu- cational institutions of the present makes it difficult for us of today to comprehend that in the early settic:- greatest disadvantages Miler whim meta of the country (mei ol the very the pioneers Thinned was the entre absence of facilittes for the Instruc- tion of their ehildren. 'When the question Of keeping soul and body to- gether had oitee been solved by the uroadening of the little clearing.; when the corn, waving over the Spat uhich required toil and suffering un- speakable 1.0 conquer front its pram:v- at state of nature and transform into krtile fields smiling with promises of a bountiful harvest told of no more ituniedia.te want of the bare neeessit- ks of life ; when the adjuncts of a gtnerally improved domestic wadi, - tion began to fill the place of - dis- courag,ement and want and the Yen were growing up in ignorance of the most pr unit ice literal y ace= p- islonen ts which add a grace to the natural intellect ; it was then that the need of the school, that great adjunct of enlightenment which till now had been a thing with them inore ardently to be wished than seriously hoptd for, began most gravely to be felt and the means for supplying the want most earnestly to be sought. The Legislature, too, SeeMS early to have recognited the fact that .upon the completeness and efficiency of our educational institutions must rest the hope. of a healthy national develop- ment and our country's future great- ness ; and as early as MI6—long be- fore a white man, other than the ear- ly French discoverers and their more immediate successors, had set foot within the limits of the greet " Hur- on Tract"—Parliament passed the first Common School. Act, the general provisions of which required the elec- tion of three trustees for. each town- ship, whose dttties were defined as in - eluding the hiring, of teachers, selec- tion of books, etc., etc, ; -but the question of means to carry on .the work was lat. almost eutirely.to priv- ate and individual enterprise and lib- vraiity until ilia [1 when the Han.. S.-. B. Harrison brought in a Bill, which subsequently became law, providing for an annual grant of $2o0,000 to the various counttes in the province in proportion to their school population and conditional upon the said i!'outi- ties supplementing the said respective sums by like 'amounte for similar per - poses. Shortly afterwards, in 1843„ the Hon (afterwards .Sir) 'Francis introduced a Bill making • a number of tunenchnents which two years experience of the working of the above had suggested. By . this - 'Act provision was made ler dividing townships into school sections ; and various other reforms were organized which. gave the above- Act (comnioxily known as the Harsison-Hincks School Act) the precedence of being. the cor-7 uer stone on which our .present mag- nificient school system rests—an Act whose - wise 'provision made it the foundation of a structure which., im- proving with years -and being. • 'at various periods .amendecr to cOincide with the altered conditions •of the times, elicits from disinterested and capable judges the opinion that On- tario now possesses the. finest .school system in the world. But although the .founciat.ibn of our present schciol. system Was the work of Messrs. Harrison rind Hincks, the success of its working, .the applice- tion of all its details and. its splendid . and extraordinary • .results are due, more than to any 944ter: or to .all others 'combined, to,Alle Rev. Edger- ton Ryerson, D.' De Wiles° name' for:. more than half a. centary has been a household word in every home itt. oui country. Of la E. Loyalist deseent; • this gimtleman had experienced whit . all the piceueers in Canada were oblig-. cd to in the way .of the difficulties:of obtaining an education. A self-made man, with a Most -sincere devotion to cause of education, •cotmled,' With. the advantages of. early -experience,..- possessing an energy and. determina-. tion which never. relaxed: till .the jects-for which he strove Were • aceem:..- plished and a - physical -constitut,on which no amount of toil or exertion. could conquer and a spirit',which er difficulties. nor dicouragements" could subdue, Dr. Ryerson . was beyond: a doubt the best fitted men io alt Canada fo deal with the intricate problem of public instruction as he found it in *1844 on his appciintinenia• to the ollice of Assistant SuPerinten; (lc nt of eduCation for •Cpper Ctin- ada Such wes his title, though in • reality he was Chief Superintend.ent, the Provincial Secretary • pro tem. holding the latter title simply • ex' officio. Having commeneed Itis work by making such whim' changes as his. experience. suggested, lie 'soon made tours, periodically, of the toast ad- vanced, in an educationel point of view, of the 'United States and alter-, wards of the most enlightened Euro, peon countries for the purpose cif •mak., aig a close inspection .of their var- ious educational systems. eititsequent- ly he framed a- bill which .embodied the best points, as suited to the Fir- cumstances of Canada, ,of the various school systems of the different coun- tries through which. he had Passed and the chief features of. this Act -.formed the ground -Work of the preaent cat ional system of Ontario . which the other provinces or. Canada have very largely copied. . To all whose personal knowledge of Canadian history dates -back.' tie the time when Dr. Ryerson took it hand the educational intereets or the country, it is not difficult to muter - stand how herculean a. task was his; and that it required more than the framing of a Bill or the' Isaseing - of an Act of Parliament to bring order and symmetry mit of the existing chaos is so patent to all as to make. it matter of astonishment hoW he ever so successfully aceomplished the ° object ftearest to his heart. But faithful aelhercuce to the purpose aorta' ed at, aided by a gradual 'conversion. of those opposed to the echeme—as there always will be to itity scheme of progress and advapcement necessi-- tatting the expenditure of inouey— backed by the increasing wealth and advantages. which a higher state of development always briage, gradually • swept away the most stubborn ob- stacles and has givee us in. the place of a few , scattered and dilapidated log shanties, a sufficieet lumber • of commodioue echool hotisca • of madern design ; While in the placee, :the teachers of those days—of whom very many were possessed of most bulkier. ent scholastic attainments—have -been supplied, by meane of the splendid Normal and Model schools" Winch the i sera y patriaisin of our legis- lators have given us, with others who are a 'credit to the SySteetn and the country Which suppOrta it. ; word, the Public scbool system of On- tario, " front a condition of perfect infancy, has ripened within the corn - pass generation into one which I Will Compare favorably with any e12- 1 lu regatd to 'Perot', county Orden- , der system in the knowu world." larly it mi ht be said di t tl earl settlers in the older townships had all the discoaraging eXperiences of the. lirst period,. marked by any legislaa tire action, of . the Old ProvIncial shoot, system or, more correctly, en- tire want of system. Fortanetely for the country and its inhabitants, how - etas:, the provisions of the Harrison - Mucks Act relieved them ere many years to a very great extent from the drantbacks of the first period of their settlement ; and since the operation of Dr, leyereon's amendments thereto the people. ,of this part of the country have .occepied a. position in regard to educational advantages which (tonse. a diplomatic expression) is equal to thet of the most lavored nation. With the minutiae of the thottaand and one details whose observance has brought the educational system of Huron county, as of the Province, front chaos to symmetry, •we do not propose to deal. So far as has been. practical we have gleaued facts con- nected with the various schools in elte various minor municipalities. which will be elsewhere briefly noted. We 'nigh say just here,. that the very first .schoolhouse in the •whole " Hur- on Tract" was a log ereeted -by the Canada Company for that put-, pose in.Goderich. John Ford, one of the very earliest settlers in Goderich, wits the builder at •a time when the towo contained scarce a dozen -fam- ilies and it was Wed for the purpoSes of a school lor manY years ;. but with the advance of improventeetti, it fin- ally gave place to more suitable and mote imposing structures. ' In 1847, the fit•st year of Which' we have been able to discover any. offic- ial record of the. working of the school system this particular section, we Ilitcl that in that portion .of the. Her- on %strict comprised in the Coinity of Httron them were 2a PUblie SehOOls' as follows • Aelifield, Colleatnea ; Goderich, 9*; Hullott, I ; elcKillop aed Hibbert (which were at that time united, , though • the ''.1a.t.t.-er is now iti the 'comity. al Perth), 3 ; Stephen, 1. ,• Teckersmith, 3 ; Usborne. and Hay (then united)a e and Wawa - nosh, 1, The . legislative , grants to these several townshipeamoonted that year • to a total of hiseeese. id., end total amount of salaries paid. to teach- ers .to twee alt average of .439- .15s.. 3d, or exemos per annent. , *. Coming° down more .reccat. dates we lind the smite • ..experienee.se the same, . dtificoltiee ' to meet,- the eame methods applied, to surmount them. and the. same •or like..reettlls as ,:itr.• other similarly situated .portions' 'of the Province. We had hoped' to give smite statistics ofeaullipiently latedate to make them of fresher interest than - the published. report of.. the Minister of:Education; for. Ontario laid before •Pcieliament at its. •session 1879. , This is; defeated, however, by the' ex- tremely incomplete (and insulliceent as they seem. to us) reports of thee•In-e vectors.' of Pulalic schools' The offic- ial reports front. the Department •. of Education lot. i8.77 Wow, the entount of anonCYS • receivedin aid of Public. schools ia the County al Heron Mid expended *in their- support to be as . follows : receipts,,,$12e4453;17, .of which $8,645.00 was described as 'legislative' grant. lam teechethe . solar - es $618,8; legislative. greats .lot • 'naps, apparatus, prises and • Wirer ies ; $14,848 .7-.3 *its in tiaicipal., echool ase' sessimut ; a75,99ca78 .as : ° trustees - school' assessment ; and .$23,249.84 as Clergy, Reserve. "toad. 'balances and .tither sources. -The expenditures iii- cleale $76,418.49 for. teethe -FS' salaries: $1,272.1/3 'for 'amps, prizes, etc., ete.:; $22,175.76 for selto.oi'houses'aud sehool• Sites e and $tr,783.ci2. for rent, repairs, collectors' fees and, seindr•ies,,Anaking a • total at $111,646..05 .Of eXpeitditere leaviug balance of: tO,8o6.32 'to he earried forward tosathe' iteect year. tit .e.ciclition to above should be noted the expenses conliected -the- speetion which woitld probably increase the total :by' another $3.,oesti at •least.' 'The abiiee reports '• also *show that' thc minther of children a ". school 'age" •(betweeireliae and 16 years) in lite .• County , was -20,e93 ; the number eactually' aiteaded schoOl daring the year, 20,936, of whotti 11,1;12- Were boys and 9764 wete girls ; and the actual average • attendance for the whole school year, ' It ahould be added added that the above figures do not °serer to the toiviiii; of which Goderipla Clinton •ancl Seaford', .(Wingligen was then only a village), together contain- ed .2,792 Childreft .of .school age and had en actual' and average .attcodance of, 2,400 and 1,364' respectively. The total.; cost 61 the Public schmels 01 these, wives :for 1879 we:ea .Godericit, .$5.881-71 •;.: Clinton, $e*,816.92 ; and 'Seaford', $3,023.47 ; making . a total expenclititi•e for' the whole eotinty, eluding :the • tOwns,. bet .exclus've of the whole cost of •bOth , county and local inspect:km, of. $123,368.95. . • • HIGHWAYS... • The first highway -coestrected, ot. .rether chopped, through the Old .Iltti- oit District was the still more encients Huron Road. which was surveyed through front Stratford. in ifiefi•hy the Canada C.oliMaity's engincera under the directiim of Di. Dmitorn who Ural; al. that titne " acting natter a roving commission front the Company.'" , The Superintendent,. of the Canada Company's affairs in Caliada at thiS One was Mr, John Gait, the origin- ator of the Coutpaliy, and the father of, Ilmi, Alex, 'I', aucl Mr. Justice Galt, as well as- the latc Mr. John Galt, who represented Colborne town- ship in the • first District Council, and eubsequently was Registrar ° of the I County of Ilitrou. It' were Well per- haps to explain in this connection that at the time of. wItich we write' Mr, Galt was subjected to all the impediments and restrictions which a pttsi laninions Court of Directors, ut- terl ignorant of the uattire and needs of the district which they had sent 111 1 Mit from letaidalt to develop,. ouid well impose. His .every step was jealously watched and his every eapeuditure iit the Comparty's inter- ests criticised by the over -exacting Court ; mid short he Was subjected to a sort of "backstairs" interest,the aecountant of the Company being sent :' out .aiul kept lit Canada as a spy'tipon his movemelites, Hence the Huron Road was not put aa good condi- dolly by any means, as it Wottld had Mr, Gait's enterprise and liberality been allowed free scope, Jolth Mac- , thinald and a party of tett or twelve melt did the surveying and there were two pack horse a and " pack" Indians Who brought up the rear with a sup- ply of provisions and other uccessare ices The late Senator Donald .11.111e• TUE MINTON NEWS -RECORD II 1 •••••••••••...- •••44.6b • , „ donald waa also en a this sur- vey under his uncle John. His age at that time was only about tWelve or fourteen years. Col. .Antliony Van Egmont', who is referred to - at length in Political His- tory of the District, was the contrac- tor for the building of this road ; but gecl on %Vita UM Invitation, given more in looks than words, 'we seated ourselves tear our new acquaintance on the settees In the little molt. The perfume of March roses overhang the city; we teeget itt its deliciousnese the signs of 'decay that lu portions of that quaint old twee imports a pensive melancholy to its beauty. Netir by we In.the green grass Is a pool set about with a low border ot cactus; a mimic fort, with all its bristling thorn .guns out, and its. blossom floating from the ramparts, which are guarding- from mit fierceness only a lazy fleet of water " lilies, under the shade of which there is whirl et goldfish. A stone footbridge crosses the pool and epees the river of eactuses. It Is a very odd and tasteful device, this pool, and the little park in which it is placed itt pnique in its way, There is nothing overdone, neither 'neg- lected. It la a well kept, refreshing, situ- ple setting for the statue itself. • "She was a working womane-a sagrant here. When I first rementber her I was IlVitiR neer here, and site was taking care Of the cows in it stable tbat stood almost on tbe very spot where her statue awls Pow, She was working then for tbe sis- ters ef the asrlina, She fed anti milked their cows and sold milk in a cart about the city. She was a strange looking person —remarkable In ber appetwence. I think now as 1 recall her she 1111(1 it breed Ore - head, serious eyes. a pleasent, broad smile, a rather short, stout figure.. 1 clo not suppose she ever in her life wore any dress better than a guinea blue calico; she always wore heavy shoes and a black straw boneet trimmed with n neat band of black over the top. From my residence I cotilil see her many times a day waile she wan at her stable work or coming back and forth with her milk outs. "What was her natne? Her mune wee Margaret flauggery; she had been mar - teed and at dint time was a widow. fIer. husband and little child died just after she.eame to New Orleans; so:We learned, after she became famous: She was alone and poor in a :avenge country and went to work in the stables for a living. Some- how -everybody liked Margaret; her smile was sweet and her words shrewd. The cbildren called her illargareti and she - knew their netues and answered their salutations along the street as she. drove •by in the milk curt. • "After some years Nfargeret hail saved enongh to buy it 'bit of ground that had , on it 2 sraall bakery: The Once was sold , for a trine, but now alaegiteet was In ! royal trim—a landesener itial a manufae- Ousel-for she Openee the shop and began bread and Pie making for the 'might:ors.' Presently there was a large bakery Wit; , soon bread Carte 'were running over the eke bearing the winels 'Margaret's Bak- ery.' it beceme the fashion to . buy at - Mergaret's pince. 'During war, pestilence. and disaster Margaret's !Wee were liever out, and the delicious -rolls kept tip their weight and quality, no Matter what el:10 Inlife failed. • Then she began running her free bread carts during the Neer pan- : ie. No one Wept heegry. who Ives. within sound of ber Cart wheels.From that .time on .no one need go hungry. in New Orleans-S-thoSe tee, poor to buy weee given a loaf fresh and white ,as the best, and it Was given heartily, with g 'Clod uriteg thee- Wetter times!' . There, seas no disfitte• thee in ,Alitrgaret's favors,'She .'eare to White, and black, of •Ikny-elittrch.ot. none.' 'Are you htiegey'r aliat is, all that wits necessary. 'Hoe is bread; take it With GoiFs blessing.' There have been in this city dread days. whielt seemed AS if God and everybody had failed us but Mar-. the county owned 'too miles of • sceond egaret; days When he almoixt literally •fed den to the first clasp r,orids• alluded to ei the city. During the yellow fever .penie class toad which had been gravelled Margaret begith het' noble woele. of talchig but rot in etriet conformity willthe the children froin the homes of denth and etattite. providing for the • imposition putting, them into a lionse under- goad" of • tolls, though we. Would. iemere. itt 'care, "supporting them -herself in eyery this , connection that then' condition ' particulate.. Soon the o.ne asylinii• grew Was generally simerior to the. major-tete-many; the dozens of her little charges weie numbered by hundredetind at the time other death thensande. At the gate . of every orphan :asylum in the city. Mar. games bread its'emoking rolls, was seen daily; nt every, cluiriteble hied- ' tntion 'whatsoever x.ste took the *privilege of. giving her bread teeely, elaigaret's name headed the ilst ter eeery ,clineitya "Our grand Charity hospital, one of the Most :fantods in the -meld, was largely • the gift of Margeret.. 'You. must, that hospital.' It will make you bettee 1111 your life . for having seen it. Hight - througli•the trees there, at the right; .do .you see that magnificent building with its fonr,galleries meting 'areinul the arst foto .stories of the house? Ilis gate tells ingoldep letters that this ts ir childeen's home, given by alargeret. Muse': to the end. a -time ns II be ca viid for and • educated by Wee bequeste."*Manse of oat cemeterica contain itt. form or bniulson:, tinabs :\fargaret'Ssimple but munitican thoughlfidn'ese. Here You know al me, buried *above 'Monne .in crypts..pr eve", of masonry, and when you visit our ete.e. strengers always thl, tor r are to /Ariel places !Nettle:la in .t.e, --you 'Will -.see stone. teethe; f'f,*:1! , one, Vire .four dozen' bodies .nr,. 'seethed, 'Given to -the Little Sista. Poov by 'Margrieete 'The So - 'feints (liven • IT It 1 e egarete 1 • Mergaret seem. more motley fut • • . than the .iechest man in the histoey 'of the, state, and of the sympathy and diet:ern. meta of elle ticaid:a of the poor the - email neverbe told. She silent noddle: on . herself, —A clean blue calico, kola shoes, a ,hinek straw bouitet, it knitted jacket oie. shoulder shawl, ne Wen bale stead in a Mom without even it rocking chair.iind overlooking the bakeshop, sues fieed Or her. • Site had no time t� enjoy real ittxuriei. As long as there was a weepingchild or •frientliess weetail in the city. whatthee and sheto fold . Iter arms in a rocking chair?. While there Were 'unburied, collinkes forms eould slie adorn her home of the living? And so it Impnened thnt to the end of life Mar- garet speet neither time, 'enre normoney. on herself. She forget there Was such n mortal as*Margeret. "And . when ape day the news -Went atouttd that Margaret weadead the great city aroseandput oil mourning; the busi- nesebouses wei•e' closed; all the etiM103, ments of -the City stood et111.. • The day of the burial thousande of her little orphans. • followed her bier as leourneve; every . churchsent delogutions 01 hamhearers;,- : the public school ehildren johied iethe throng; the houses Were draped along the line of march: all the bells 111 thc eity tolled; civie and military joined in the procession with ecclesiasties; there never was here a funeral like Margaret's. "Afterward it was found that her pos- sessions had been so disposed that had • death c011ne at ttny' moment the 'attire Of • thio life were . well nude...intelligently Wound up. There were no personal 01- tecte of Value, but eren her few gee° manta thinett to the poor, arid With the • proeeeds of her ivise inveettnents her Chnrities are royally vedowed. • "nth, statue le the 'gift of the eity, to show in this public way the esteem in width she Is held. It is Very like Mar- garet The motherly figure, seated with one gym encircling a standitig 011114 et her side; the lintrInsthed deese, merest shoes, the little crocheted 'shawl about her shoulders ere hotnely, hnt who Wolff& change theta Or finer clothing? The Smooth hale, with its old fashioned French parting; the strong ehin, the pleaannt umiak, tile serious eyes—le there. not taste -ailing faselteating in the contradic- tions Of the face? "Did you ever see inteh a head ent • woman's shoulders? 1111teSiVe, WOilder- ftil! That is the head of it Statesman and finander, While Its mentla with Its pleas- e/it smile, telling of the tact and natural suavity Of 1kftwgaret's, eharacter, pro - Plain* the element:: of e born alplomat Yet, look again at the broad. inessive heone Mal see:the earnest, tovine eye that as the Canada Company at that tone shut off their supplies of moitey to, Mr. Galt and his determination to Fatly out the •enterprise being thereby increased instead of abated, he was compelled to resort to the Company's land, of which he still held control, as an article with which 1.0 pay -the contractor and he in turn was obliged to pay his sub -contractors in the ealue sommodity. We quote /rout Mr. Galt's account of his 'operations in Canada to show the state of health prevailing amongst the laborers on this road. Re remarks : " But though the mag- nitude of the Caesarean operation' on the roads was gratifying to the imagination, it occastoned some -pain- ful tugs of humanity. One morning, upwards of forty of the =weenie in aillicted with the ague. They were the dolor of mummies and by. hard- ships frightfully emaciated. I had wrrtten to the directors to let me hire a doctor for a year to the settle- ment, but no- attention was paid to the solicitation. However, „Is hired a surgeon to . be engaged as clerk and made him a compensation for his skill." Thfi e rst point of contract with the C. minty of Heron was at the South- eaet corner of McKillop township, whence it took its course along the southern boundaries of McKillop aud Rullett and through the southern part of Goderich township in an almost (Erect line to Goclerich harbor, • con- . sequently its original locatiou in the vicinity of the town was farther south than at present. It was over this road that most of the early set - tiers came in, many of them before it was chopped out, until 'which tune the blazed treee were the only guide boards:. The next important bighway. con- strueted • was -the Goderielt and Ion - don Road, running' fromthe 'airmer place, through Clinton Brumfield and tteter, to Londoio 'This road* was cut thiesugh by the Government but its construction • was only tinperfectly accomplished . until it was assumed some years lathr. by the eounty,-Who gravelled it 'in what they -termed ond class style ,• and . from Brumfield -they constructed • two branches—the • one to Bayfield ,thee:shcre . of Lake Hurou and the other through .Seaforth and the Tillage ot Brussels to Wrox- eter, both of' the*" branches' being con- structed in first class style ,and: toll gates placed upon them. 'The only -private corporation who ever control- led Huron. -County roads. was the. • " Northern ravel Road *ColiMbny," the only road -owned by them being' the Gochrtch and 'suet:now- highway, ,22 miles .in leigeta. The County,. how- ever, .bought out the interest of. this Coinpany and • abolished those lcical scourges known as toll gates which hadbeen loceted. on the line ; and country roads on which toll was COI- therei being stilt 8o miles of first class lectede a • bylaw. was *passed • lay the: county. council in "873 abolishing all: tolls throughout .the coulttv. In addi- Ity of toel' roads in other counties. .Antortre the • second class. steeds' inight 1,e mentioned the • Goderith and Kin= eardine Road, which was...opened • by the Covermnent .at . a. comparatively tecent date, jolt afterwards assumed by the cruelty-iand the Goderich aitd Louden .Road befewe referred to which -along , with. all ,the other country road's, were su! gequently transferred to the • respective,. townships through or- betWeerr which they ran • reserv- ing, however, 'the control of alt bridg- es on what had formerlyebeen eountry roads, togethet, of Course, with the xesponstbilitice 'which attach to the dignity of ownership. ' , The values.ot the bridges owned - by. ine county in 1879 '.was alf0,000 r but WhOtit 'is explained that from fifteen to twenty Per cent. of their .value wai • annually ,expencleci in keeping 'them in' repair,it becoines questionable wheth- er the " responsibilities" .alluded . to. do not outweigh. the " dignity." a • ,.The good. roads Of Itttionare not an txrensive luxury.. 'The nethee of the surface, wilien is generally level or neatly- . so, .renders ,the construction of, highways comparatively • easy, while the nature 'of the soil is such that it chas m t rctein the water Mt -its stir- :ce t eny great extent,. in which r,speet it ' differs An:aerially from the counties -further 'south, notably that in the vicinity of the River Themes.; ond 'added to these advantages is the still greater one of having ample beds ot 'first elmsa gravel °located in 'parts of the vanity within conveillent dis- tance of each' other, only e .cirive through the different • townships being necessary to ) demonstrate the ' fact that 4 ifficraf.and beneficial use has been made of theproducts of these reds. •In shert, there is probablyno county west of the Bay 'of Quintc that'. can Wiest such uniformly 'good high- ays at . • all- seasons of the year thiougliont its entire length aml breadtli as con the County of Huron. . . 4*(et.00,00.0e144•••1. AN IDEAL OHARITY REALIZED. era000000.a4.0.4, "I Wonder if k idealizes her?" ' • We stand beside the statue of this fa. mOtis woman, Margaret of New Orleans, and, after the manner of sttangere, con- jecture on what we for the firsttiine see. itt all," a voice aliswers in the soft southeratongne, "It looks juat like "Ale theta: you. .You live hover wAs born here.- This Is my hone," - "You weee here during the war and • yellow fevet Mid everything? ,And was Ben Butler so dreedful? Amid have you men Cable?" • - A nod answers each oite a my young eeinplution'S impetuous qneries, "Hew deghtfull" coiteludes My friend, but the lady shrikes her head and taps her fan lightly on the girl's soft cheek and ears emeingly: "It did not seem as if 1 would1' 1 It, but 1 hae, nad now eomes one who eetly my tt•iitts lightful." .How cruel!" "Alt, parchnil But I Was thinking of that clutrming men who wrote the dell - (lolls 'Muse. 1)011)111110 1 Svas thinklug kow e.tly lo*'eIy here and kttow him—taul then to live in city that has had suelt a histoty—it is so romantic.. And can you tell us anything about Margaret?" . "Tide little eptice—'1Inrgeret place,' it ,Is raped—it lo It pleasant spot to root In," fr speaks of a true N100uill11100d: leek once More at the coarse garments end you will eee that poverty added her load to the or- divary burden of womanhood, While igne• ranee, hereuvement, sailed -en, loneliness join hands with poverty against this stmt. But the massive brow coequered, thenn- taught brute whimplied, and under the leaderehip of the sad. gentle eSelf gave to the suffering what might, Mut she been a man born in otlwr circumstances, have 'been the gain ot nations and tbe glitter of the trapping of ft diplomat. "When I considee what Margaret did for oue rite/ under met desperate dised- vantuges. I wonder what site could have done tor the world If all the environ- ments bad been right. I was thinking ue that ns loolael, hi passing foe the bun- dredtb time, at the strong, few:Mating face this tummies, when your question met my ear,. "Yes, it looke like her, and theve will ne-ver be another 01 marble lece, it to the end of time. She woe a gratel tharacter —tender, strong, oiiginal, pitiftd, helpful, wise." Re Ifir.new What Tiles, Would Po, Sir Chat:lea Locock, who was- the phy- sician attending Queen Victoria at a eye. ttlin period of her ringir, was once com- manded by her uatjesty to emeeed to Ber- lin and report on the condition et her danghter, the crewa princess, Qu the re- turn trip, stopping at Dover for a beery luncheon, he was enabled to, snatch a glass of poor sherry aud a piece of gime- tionable pork pie. After the tram had pulled eat and Sir chitties, had beeu locked in his eompart- meet he itegnu to feel drowsy Mid to fear thnt Wetness was °vet -011(111g Iona medintely he:thought to himeelf: "They wili Mid me in a faiut on the. floor and bleed -me foe n lit, -and I need en niy Mood to digest tide pork Plc." Thereupou he hurriedly drew out hie •weote en It piece 'of paper aud stud; it in tee band of bie hat. Then he resigned himself to the deep. sleep that came upon him. •He aid not wake until the train lute pelted into. the .London sta- tion, and, still dazed by, Ms slumbers he jumped iuto a eiwringe and was driven home, • . The grins .of the Servants and the ex, demotion 01 his wife. were followed by the inqUiry 'from one of the children, "Oh, papa, what have you got in your hat?" Tben he remembered his experience on the train: Taking off hie eat, he, removed the lerge white paper on whit+ he hail scribbledthis petition to the getseral pub' .."Dozi't bleed me. 'es Only a Si of indi- gestion from eating seine confouude(1. pork piel"—Youtb's; Companion. • • , Old , ' Among the tveasures held by the Anti- quateau toelety in Portsmouth, N. II., there is an old box the hiStoey of which is given 011 a label which, it bears. . , , The box is of tin, painted green, raid Sho-wa eigns 01 mu -eh -usage, which is .not surprisingwhen one coneiders. that it car- ried tbednited Stetes mail between Ports-, mouthatal Boston during the Devolution. - It is about 9 -inches long; 41,es Welles wide .and a little more thee that naheight. It was carriea ou leireelinek:bi Captain' John Noble, otherwise known. as I/puma Nobles 'wbo was peer rider until 1783. ' . This boa contained all the mail and nuide every , week one round trip, oceepyieg three dnys itt the journese—fromortse mouth to Boston the tiest ef the week ane three days at thereat of the week from Boston to Portemouth. The distance" be- tween the tnnepleces is e little more Oats. Do Not Neglect Tug LITTLE, ILLS OF TODAY. TH ITS1,1 • Paine's Celery Compound WILL ERADICATE FROM • THE BLOOD AND SYSTEM THE filtEDS Ole DISEASE. As grains •of sand make .cnte lofty mountain, drops of woter the migh- ty occan,a,nci as our massive build- iugs are macle• of otte "Mick piledup- on another, so do the Dille ills of lile contribete to the .building up of deadly diseases in the hotly. . Experienced medical men laim that fully three lourthe of our men anti women enter the summer season with Lttle Ws and symptoms or disease weich must develop iuto serious anti iatal troubles if -uot bauished .at. once. We hear our -friends complaining daily of ilteumatic tendencies, sharp end darting neuralgic pains, dyspep- sia, pains in the side and beck, tier- s ousness and -sleeplessness; and we s tt. with our own: eyes the effects` 'of impure blood in facial blotches, erup- tions. told votes. The little ills' and Pains of t9day build up the alarming and fatal ,thseases that„ tollow days' and weeks or neglect. • Wise and intelligent people who' have leoked into the claims of Paine's Celery Compound and followed its re- markable cures of relatives,. friends end neighbors, use it themselves with faith and coefidence to • banish thole .eymptoms of coming troubles, to cleanse - the blood, , to re-establish.' nerve force, energy and bodily strength So that they will be in a condition to stead. the • enervating effects ofthe, echoing hot weather, • In .every community where Pain's Celery Cimipoutid has beet' esecl • at (los • mason to lieniall disease it is regarded as a Godsend.' • Workers itt shops, factories and weary and run down wives aud 'mothers .in their horites have thenked heaven for Dr, rhelp's marvellous ;prescription .be- muse it made them well, 'Pry a bot- tle' or two, ye who - are ailing . and sick it will give you what yon most stand in need of—health ited.new FOR, ovErt- SIXTY YEARS. Mrs. Winslovies Soothing Syrup has. been ,used. by millions of 'mothers ..for" theieethildren while teething. II- dip- turbeel -:of eight and broken' Of your rest. by a sick child euffiferiag and.' crying • With pain of cutting teeth send at once aand get a bottle of " Mrs Wiesiow's- Soothing .Syrtip" for ciu1d ren. teething.* It. 'will relieve the -poor • little -sufferer ;Thimediately,• Depend amon it,...mothers„ there,' is no mistake' abmit it. It- cures". Diarrhoea, regua lates tlta Stoneaeli ,and Bowels, cures ,sof tens the•Gunts,. reduces • Index/one:dohand gives tonesand eit- crgy ••sto the whole '•system.- - "-Mrs.. Wilislow's Soothing Syrtip''. 'tot child- - -reit teetiong. is pleasant to the ethete .and is the .preseriPtion of one of the 'oldest and best female, physicians' and inaraes.'-in:. the I,Triited • States, Price. 23,:eent8 a, bottle. • Sold by,, all, drug- gists throughout the world Be sure andask for. Mrs. Whislovi's Sooth- ing. Syettp." Goon cnqi! ovTLooK, ttiet*toke**#,6k,,tt,e,t6,1,4s4.4,0 Whellit, Oats, Ilarlei Acrepos 1\lay 29th 1902 .aa aasaa,..eassesseeeariesasateateseseee CHEAP` ROUND TRIP RATES TO: NORTII PACIne com-vr POINTS. Prom May a%th. to June 7t1t3 Melee - lee, very low metal trip tickets wi1I le on •sale from -ell etations in °now-. io to Victoria,. Vancouver, B. C.,. abo to ' Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., mei Port -lend, Ore, via Chimps,' St. Paul and Gnat Northeru Railway, valid for return within sixty days of hole Pell particulars on application to Cham. W. Graves, District Passeesra Agent, fi Eing street West (Room 1.1) 'To mato, Ont. CANADIAN PAcIFIC sepia ItUN Home Seeker's CO -Day Excursions To TILE OANatioss • AT ale VUltN FARES Winnleete .Ileginfi— 't Waskarin ... $21 m,....ii-,1-$3o Estevera ,.. Yeretiai ..; hewn ..„... . Arcola Pr. Albert Monsumbi Mat !cod.. W a warnisa Ca I gory .. 1311yeartb$28 Albania lied tencia o $40 rn" vi,. fetratie Swan Itiver. tonal r4oin4.,TitneSra, retureleg moil August 4111 tall ren Des. et Alberto.) Ooing dune 2t ( li, returning milli A ugnst eath tea ma or s. se 'Alberta.) Going July 151b. rtill et ing man september inth (all nal' Or t", 8. Alleal•M Tieket4 are net goal on "Imperial • 14imit tai,', 1' 01' tbnets a 1111 pamphlet. giving full pavi len- lees apply In your DeitrOSt Ottladitth 1 '11141 18 Ae•eia, or to . A. It NOTMAN, Asst. Gen. PONS: Aga 1 li.liertareet l•lo, st, Toro:to. ,.• MARBLEAT FignmENr. cp6 Alm fi Rattetibtiry Street Works nit ect itnporters. ' bitao- ship arid Mat et lel guarani J.G. ...SEALE mud CO . .r,Ropru v. • • — 130.6"' After' 'WOOave •1311081110airleP . The Great Engfis741?Cnia71/.. 8old and recoil -intended by -all druggists in Oanadc. Only reit. able medicine disco -erect packages guaranteed to cure all forms o Sexual Weakness, all effects of abuse or excess, Mental Worry, Excessive use of To- b.51cet?, Opium or:Stimulants. Mailed on receipt • caPZegele 'XX& t%1;) aCtis; Mgr' The Wood Company, Windsor, Oat. Wood's Phosphodine is sold in Clin- tini by II. B. Coinbe, R. P. Rockier E. Hovey and Watts .8: Co.--druggis t s. Ipt:eat.lagtdiadta. ' 4-;• , Winnipeg, afity 24.—W. L. Parish, '• secretary of the Northwest • Grain 40 Dealiirs'• Association, ° nes compiled eo the followin statement regarding the 10 crop contlitione ine the Northwest, . 41 From circularsent out ore May 1 4/ cingwers. from 103 point' show condi- '6 ton when tabulated .as follows: '3 • Wheat acreage. comparea with last 4 eeseas,eseaseatiaaesasaaaseelieee year r 163; wits, 100; tacteley, i05 • ee flak 145. • The fdllowing ,replies were given is . to • the, season befog favorable or • otherwise; Good. 717; Sai, 10; late, 4 12; unfavorable, The Bed River Valley shows con- siderable decreltae •In wheat acreage, and a few .other portions of Manito- ba on 'Lemont of too mech ram, but from. the 83 points in Maniroba the pereentage shows 98.78, 'and the 21 poiats tri, the Northwest Territories show the 'acreage to be 119.29 a,g Compared with with test year. . The wheat lend ie now practically . all seeded, and the weather his been of the • most fayoeable kind to make : rapid groeith... ' The following wae the acreage last Y Manitoba: 'Wheat, 2,011,835; oats, 680,951; barley, 191,099; U:4,2,978. Northweet 'Pereitories: Wheat, 50,4; 'eats, 229,983; barley, 20,0 \ 44. itt il141il m 4 4 ".2 • 4, ,a; 41- 1 : • 40 40 4; 4; 40 ' 40 410 nt:.the children • see. • A . ticket examinee entered a corn- partaneut wherein a respectably dress- . 411 40 • 41 .‘" .t- •• 4, 4, . 4, 4,- 4, . 4, ed lady 'wes comfortably seated, e,le did- not notice a long,' flat package 'oti theopposite s'eot, 'covered witjt .4. Irang yeli. rug • and -a, newepa-. Pee carclegSly thrown over' it, and he probably would have left docom- partment oblivious of its existence had not a pair of sweet, pretty eyes peeped everthe trp. and 111 a eau- tiOus tone the owner of themlnquir- ed : 4, 'appaa.ently. ten revealed herself.— - 4, • Ln oden Tit-Dits, ' . • • 4, . . , 4, 4, iiioild.orfutiforue Helpers,. 4 . . "Mamma, hath s e men gone yet ?" he Tartful mother confusedly ex- . 'stained that 1101 child was only three and entitled to travel free. but curi- osity impelled him to further investi- gation, and, a robust young girl or HE ABLEST ANALYTICAL CHEM- -, a 1i SAY • BEST. " . T1ie. abicest and best analytical chem. lots in the world affirm without hesi- tation that, Diamond Dyes .are :the purest arid best dye -stuffs for home dyeing, All the colors are guaranteed fast to light and Wasitifig with soap ; they color more goods, package per package, than any other dye in ,the world. As, there are imitations of the pop- ular Diamond Dyes, ladies should he careful of dealers. who attempt to res cbmittend the worthless makes. It elionld be remembered that these itni- tattoo dyesare made up of poisonous aftd daligeroits aduiteratioue tiftcl the hands are often injured by them. Diatnond Dyes are so easy to use that. even a child can work with them tut- cessfully. See that your dealer Sup- plies you With the Diamond, refuse all °theta. 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