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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1911-06-29, Page 3• • ..e ' „.••• • Jus 11111th. 1911 FOON HOTEL DIEU ;JEANNE MANCE AND HER DEVOTe ED MITE IN CANADA. • French Women Whose Statue Vandals , In Montreal Recently Tampered ..• With le One of the Most Magnith .! Cent -Character; In the. History of ; the Dominion—She Served the Sick and Wounded for Thirty Years. the purpose a those, who a few night ago, tampered with the statue a Jeanne Mance, which adorns one • ot the friar corner, of the MaiSell- neUlre mernandent in place d'Armes. Montreal, was siMply to work destruc- ' Oen upon one of the moat beautiful specimens of the seulptor'e art in Canada, then there are vandals id our r Midst who woatel have been, At /nem - hers of that barbaric horde that early i31 the middle ages poured: over the overaan Italy, and sacked Rome. However. the purpose of the vandals Was mit aceomplished, and the beau- tiful bronze figure remains, to adorn the monarnent that commemorates the founding of Montreal two hundred and years age this month. inc Work to which Jeanne Mance devoted her life and her means Waa. that of nursing the sick, succoring *he infirm and needy, and binding up the wounds sustained by these, who., in almost daily conflict, were holding the,little outpost of civilization against' the onsets of the relentless Iroquois.' Jeanne Mance was the Florence Night.' ingale of Ville Marie, the PretatYlee of the trained names whose services, -form se 'large a Part of the work of, enema carried on to -day in our great• tutspitals. Mademoiselle Jeanne Mance belong- ed to an honorable family of Nogentla Rol, near Langres, France. She was i horn in 1606—two aeare before the founding of Quebec. She received the. education of a young gentlewoman of. her time. Her conatitution was delie` aate, her manners graceful yet digni-, . fied. Though an earnest devotee, she, lett no vocation for the cloister;and yet, writes her biographer Fenton,. while "still in the world" she led the lite of a nun. She had read accounts of the missionary work_earried on among the Indians of Canada; her en- thusiasm was kindled, and she journeyed up to Paris to seek advice respecting her engaging in the work.. She received encouragement from high eeclesiastic.s, and from ladies of rank, wealth and zeal. Well supplied with money for her pious work, she went to Rochelle, from whence the ships sailed for Canada, and here she fell , in with the party about to set out for., the wilderness for the purpose of es- tablishing a colony almost two hun- dred miles beyond Quebec, on the is- land formed by the junction of the two great rivers of the west and the north—the Island of Montreal: On May a 1642, they embarked for Montreal, the little flotilla consisting • of a pinnace, a fiat -bottomed craft moved by sails, and two rowboats: On May 18 they landed an the Is- land of- Montreal at the spot where, thirty-one years before, ' Champlain had chosen as the at site of a settle-. anent. ' In the following ,year a French lady Of rank, Madame de Bouillon, gave forty-two thousand livres for the build- --lag of a hospital at Villa Marie. The enelosure within the palisade stood near the river, and in the spring if was in danger of inundation, andin tact, during the first winter the high water caused by a thaw nearly flood- ed out of place. There was also no room to spare within the palisade, and the hospital was accordingly built ori higher ground adjacent. In order te protect it against the Iroquois toe was surrounded by a palisade, and, in time of danger, a part of the garrh son was detailed to defend it. The hospital was intended not only te .nurse sick Feenchmen, but to nurse and convert sick Indians. Among the notes to one of the vol. . 'umes of the Relations is this tribute to Jeanne Mance. She "was at one time the main support of the Montreal colony. Beseiged by the Iroquois in 1651, and at all times exposed to - their incursions, the new settlement was in danger of destruction; Mlle. 'Mance furnished Maisonneuve with 22,000 Byres from the hospital en- dowment, with which to raise and equip soldiers for the defence of the town. In the following year she visit- ed Paris, and procured the reorgani- ation of the Montreal Society, which had become greatly reduced, both in numbers and funds. Liter she had much to do with bringing from France the nuns of St. Joseph. For the latter she procured an endowment from Ma- dame de Bouillon. The establishment of these nuns, her administration of the hospital (in which they succeeded her after her death), and her share in the management of the colony placed great burdens on the shoulders of Mlle. Mance, but she discharged her duties with enthusiasm, conscientious, devotion, and excellent practice' judgment." These were dark years for the col- ony. Danger was ever at hand, and at times destruction seemed inevitable. Its prospeets were far from hopeful, and what was left of vitality was in the enthusiastic Mademoiselle Mance, the earnest and disinterested soldier Maisonneuve, and the priest Oliver and his new Seminary of St. Sulpice. During these years of struggles and danger Jeanne Mance remained at her • post, administering the affairs of her :hospital, and with her associates' nupIng the sick and wounded, and oaring for the needy and homeless. And so passed the life of this heroine of the early years of Montreal, and it is because- of that work that in the group of statuary that forms the monument cornmemorating.the found ing of the chit, a place has been game 'to the 'figure representing the first nurse in Montreal, and the founder of its first hospital. Joanne Mance's re. mains were buried in the chapel ol alieealotetetaiati.--aMerareal etandard. Relationships Changed. This is the latest story which has wandered up here from the Province of Quebec, and it is typical Of the .quaint Prench-Canadian sense of hu- mor. Jean Baptiste has lost his wife. And as a Mark' of respect and a vis- ible sign of mourning he put a black band on the sleeve of his coat. He . grew lonely, and three Months after Ike death of his wile he married her sestet, but he did not think it quite roper to remove the mourning band no quickly, and Of course his new wife did not object to One day Jean Baptisee met a friend, -whom be had not Mender tante time. Noticing the badge of mourning, he inquired. "Seen,' Who eats eet die in your familyr "My Reester.in.law, She die,' re. plied the happy:bridegrooM! ' able* N.W1141441041 • e•• 3 WHY R.P.O. IS POPULAR. Hs le the NW Bell Player by Far In the House of Commons. There are many reaitona why Non. George Perry Graham, Minister of Railways and Canal* at Ottawa, is exceedingly popular with his political aaaeciates and with those with whom lie owners in daily contact. Here is a reason why he ought to be popular with everybody who knows the differ- ence between a pop fly and a sacrifice hit—whieh is to say everybody villa is anybody. He is the best baseball player in the House -of Commons. That means more than it sounds. too. You mustn't get the House of Commons mixed up with the Senate. They play "three old eat" over in the Red Chamber when they feel the spring intheir bleod. There are some good players in the Iiguse They say that Fred Pardee, chief Liberal- whip, could have been a big league first baseman if he had- n't gone and thrown away his oppor- tunity by going into polities. True. he's a mighty influential man around Parliament, but what's that to the Real Things? Me. Graham's long suit is• pitching. and they do say that he can put them over at a speed that takes a profes- sional to hold. Moreover his "wind.' Mg up" is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. He's got 'em all, out -curves, in -Shoots, fade-aways, the whole sparkling galaxy • is at hie command, and they're all real ones too. which is the amazing thing about it, Mr. Graham went mit West with Sir Wil- frid Laurier last summer, and in Mel- ville, where there was an off day, the press car challenged the politicians to a game of baseball. Mr. Graham was a dark horse, of course, and the politicians looked so easy to the press men, some of whom coal play ball pretty: well, hat the latter spent some time in deciding whether it would be worth while to play three innings or •four. By that time, as they figured it, they would have a score of about eighteen or so, and the politicians would be foundered. The score at the, end of the ninth of a Most strenuous series of innings was 7 to 5 in favor of the politicaans, and the press men have not quite figured it out yet. be- yond realizing that Gao. P. Graham, Minister of Railways, had pretty near- ly done it single-handed. He bizzed them over in 4 way that made the. scribes gasp and the man who was catching him hold his breath. Man after man he struck out, and he came out of it sniffing and strong as ever. Meanwhile "Fred" Pardee On first had been performing prodigies, grabbing and spearing bare-handed, treating the hottest ones as though they had been handed to him on a platter, , It is not so long ago that Mr. Gra- hare. was Playing baseball regularly. His hair is grey, but his heart is young , and his musclesturdy.--Star Weekly, Free Library For 0•44 Blind. Of all our public libraries. eine of the most interesting and most deserv- ing of public support is the Canadian Free Library for the Elind, which was established at the village of Markham in 1906. It is now proposed to move the institution to Toronto, in ordee. that 1 it may be more eaay of access,'. and to improve its usefulness by plac- ing some hundreds of additional vol- umes on its shelves. An effort will also be made to install a press for -the manufacture of tactile books, in order that some of the genie of Canadian literature which ha.tre never been re- produced in raised letters may be en- joyed by the blind. This library has abio a department of free instruction in the art of read- • ing tactile print. While it is difficult for those of us who are blessed with • sight to realize hilly how much tactile books, and the ability to read them, will mean to our five thousand fellow - Canadians who are doomed to •pass their days, as well as their nights, in utter darkness, this library's appeal • for publie support on hanianitarian ground is eloquent: ' The library is available to all the blind of Canada, from Halifaxto Van- couver. Books are transmitted free of postage, and the librarian promptly mails books ordered from the eats- logue.—Montreal Standees- • • Model Farms Far North. The stage which left Edmonton for Athabasca Leading on a recent day carried among its passengers Messrs. G. Card and A. J. Bell, formerly. of Guelph and Prince Albert, respective- ly, who will •plant and maintain for years to come along the lonely shores of the Mackenzie River the most northerly demonstration farms in the Dominion.. Mr. Bell will be •stationed at Fort Smith, which lies on the line of the northern boundary of the Province of Alberta, while Mr. Card's lot will be cast in Fort Simpson, on the Mae. kenzie, at one time the headquarters of the Hudson Bay 00. for the whole north country. . These Points were ohoSen as the best adapted for the location of farms for the demonstration of the agrieul- tural possibilities of Canada's hinter- land, and at the same time to hold up • to the northern Indians the man- ner of life lived by men in civilized communities,. For this reason the farms are to be more or Tess under the Department of Indian Affairs. • Crime on increase. Six months aetivity of the Ontario provincial police summarised in a re.. • port made at the Parliament Build- ings recently. The statistics are for the half year ending April 30. The work included 847 eases, an in. crease of 100. There were 592 coevic. tarns. 376 fines, 133 sentences, 33 sus- pended Sentences and 130 cases pend- ing, For violation of the liquor license laid 167 cases, 132 fines and 3 other sentences. The fines totaled $9,110. The provincial. police. seized 5,463 bottles of liquor, 153 gallons, 4 bar- rels, 165 gallons of "Riga wines and 606 gallons of beer. • Violation of fish and game laws: 61 prosecutions, 47 fines, amount $1,740.. Houses of ill -fame: 2 sentenced to imprisonment, 9 fined, 4 released, 1 discharged. Sixty.eight charges of vagrancy, with 63 Canadians. Total aggregate of fines, $13,269. Rapidly Growing City. Windsor, Ott, is boasting of its growth, and indeed it seerna to have cause tot boasting. The record of building returns for Canada in April shows that the only place that beat Windsor was Printe Albert, which had An increase of 825 per cent. Windsor's inoreate was 335 per cent.. and St. Thomfte came third. with 187 1-2 per oent. And 'Windeor is keeping at IL The Aanonnt of its building permits for the first half of May is More than double that of the WWI et May, MO. CANADA'S MUSEUM, New Institution at Cttawa Will Se * Credit to the Notion. With the eonepletioo of the Victoria Memorial Musoum,, Ottawa will have added another jewel to her crown of handsoMe public buildings, and the 114einebeopead-rt:ralitNya.tional art tiallery On Dee. 28. 1904. 4 contract was en- tered iLto for its erection. The orig- inal figure was *950,000, but on March 24, in the gime of Ooramons, about al.,200,000, including several large es - tree, was reported to have been spent eo far. The work of erection began in the spring of 1905* and the buildiag is pretty wet! finished. There was no publie 'ceremony or laying of a corner -stone. The museum was in the hands of a contractor—Mr. George Goodwin. It has not been for - really made over to the Crovernment yet as a matter of tact—and both pol- icy and precedent, 'except in rare, cases, prohibit any publie demonstra- tion ander these circumstances. Mr. D. Ewart, chief architect for the Department of Public Werke, desigeed the building; vatiCh is Gothic in style. Some time was spent by Mr. Ewart in England, visiting various public ballding,s. before he made up his mind BB to the Victoria Memorial AlneeUM. it is built of dark grey stone, some of which °eine from Wallace, Nova Scotia* and the rest from Nepean. about twenty miles from Ottawa. In. stead of being "pointed" with grey or yellow mortar—like the Archives, for instance—a terra cotta shade is used, which brings out the iron in the stone and gives a warm reddish- yellow glow to the entire surface. To appreciate the carving over the doors and windows it should be seen. Various Canadian animals are repre- sented, very few of which are dupli- cated on the slabs. The chief clerk of the works explained that a man never worked long at one window—he grew "stale" on it, and moved to another subject. When he received a fresh inspiration, he went haelt to the first, and so on. The eastern side and back of the building are not etirved at all, and it is understood that this work • will not be taken up immediately. Doors of gleaming oak with brass trimmings make the beholder proud of Canadian wood as well as stone, and his pride increases *upon seeing the Missisquoi marble which is used in the interior. Entering the museum froth the front, you walk op a short flight of stone ;steps into a large rotunda; much stain- ed glass in both doors softening the bright light. Just opposite the door is a broad stairway, dividing,. a few steps from the floor, and leading to the two wings of the•bnilding. Behind this staircase is the amphitheatre. The eastern wing on the ground -doer is already filled with specimens; rang- ing from the skeleton of a musk-ox to a tiny nugget of gold. The western. portioh, onthe opposite .side of the rotunda, will also contain curiosities. The Geological Library will be over the amphitheatre the whole of the western wing given over to the Geo- logical Department. • The two floors of the eastern part over the room already • n:ientioned will be devoted te statuary, and' the top floor will contain paint- ings. Mr. Eric Brown has been appointed euretor of the art gallery the official' opening of which was set for April 20th, but which has been postponed 'till the autumn. As the collection of paintings is of great value, no pains or expense have been spared to make the gallery safe in every respect, even to the plaster; .which is of an asbestos variety.—Canadian Courier. • A Hard Fighter. . • • Mr. John Ring, KO., leading coun- sel for Michael Fraser, the rich. Mid- land octogenarian, • who married a young bride, and has been in litiga- tion ever since, is a native of Toronto. but Mr: King's father was born in Eraserburg, Aberdeeashire, Scotland. The coincidence between Freed' and Fraserburg may have no significance, but there can be no doubt that Mr. King is putting up a strenuous fight for the midland Fraser. Mr. King comes•from a fighting' stock. His fath- er was a subaltern officer in the Royal Ilqrse Artillery, served in Canada, and died in Quebec. • . Mr. King was a brilliant student, B.A. in 1864, M.A. in. 1865, and 'prize - man in University College and the University. As an undergraduate he joined the .University Rifle Corps at the time of the Trent affair, and has the medal for active military service during. the frontier ditturbances cul- minating in the Fenian Raid of 1866. -Mr. King was called to the Bar in 1869, practiced law in Berlin until 1893, when he came to Toronto, and is a' member of the firm of Hine and Sinclair. He is a .RC., both by King and Provincial appointment, is an authority on libel law, and is a lecturer in the Law School. Mr. King edited The Berlin Tele -- graph in 1864-1865, has written many general articles, and is the author. of legal treatises, more particularly on • slander, defamation, and libel law. • He is an honorary 'member of the Canadian Press Association. Mr. King married the youngest daughter of William Lyon Mackenzie. Of this union there are two sons and two daughters. The sous are Hon. William Lyozi Mackenzie Ring and Dr, Macdougall King of Ottawa. In ids day Mr, king has refused Government appointments, including a county judgeslitp.—Star Weekly. , Making It Easy. "Gee!" says the first little boy. "I hate to go home. My roamme always wants to give me a bath every even- ing." "So does mine," says the second 111. tie boy, "but I don't mind it. My papa is a doctor, and she always gets him to chloroform me, so I never know a thing about it until it is all over."—Canada Monthly.. Putting Him Right. Hungry Higgins—Say, Tatters, ain't rouse one uv dem, fellers wot don't berlleve •iri dein' two Vings ter wunst? Tired Tatters --Two t'ings? Why, I'm one uv dem chaps avot don't her - Reed in doin' one Vim; at wunst. COI Worthington Retires. . LieutaCol. A. N. Worthington. M.P. for Sherbrooke, Que., has been placed on the reserve list of officers with the honorary rank of colonel. This is one of the highest honors given to any military man in Canada, and is a 111. ting reward fet the many deeds of valor performed _by Sherbrnake's pop- ular member. There are lest than half a dozen oolonels 10 Canada. Col. Worthington, who '14.'4 surgeon by profession, Was apetially mention- ed an despatches by Lord Roberts for his services in dressing the wounds of injured men under fire in the engage. Ment at Valves Put. South Africa, OUNMERCHANTSERVICE CANADA HAS DROPPED TO TENTH SHIPPING 001,1 NTR Y. The Dominion, Which Was Thirty. Three Year* Ago the Fourth Na- tion. In the World In the Matter of Marine Tonnage, Seems to Be at the Bottom of Her Fortunes—Sail- ing Days Were Palmy Ones. In 1878 Canada ranked fourth among the ship -owning countries of the world, with a fleet of 7,196 ',Mania, aggregating 1,333,015 tons, upon the Dominion Registry. Since that date, which was the zenith of her shipping prosperity, she has decliziel to tenth place—her tetel tonnage in 1910 amountiug to about, 700,000 tops. It was iu the age of sail that Can- ada won her high position in the merehant navy, and with the impetus given to trade after the Amerman Civil War and the decline of the United. States mercantile marine, the shipowners on the ea.stern 'Canadian seaboard ordered ships as f est as the ehipbuilders could turn them out. The creeks and coves of New Bruns- wick, Nova Scotia and Quebec were the launching waters of many fine craft—keels which were destined alter - Wards tO plough the waters of the Seven Seas and make the names of •British North. American vessels fam- ems the world over. Built of wood, these "Bluenose" craft, with their trim, neat appearance, well cut and well set stayed masts, were familiar to the nautical eye wherever and whenever descried. Many of them were built almost by rule of thumb in some -quiet little creek adjacent to the forests from which planking, scantling, knees and frames were cut, and when launched and rigged they made themselves and their builders famous by their fast passages and the money they made for their owners. On the other hand, a few of thes "Down east" craft became a trifle in- famous with the sea -faring fraternity, owing to the highhanded way in which the officers treated the erews, and their names were retailed with bitter anathemas in the foc'sles of other' ships by members of the crews who were unfortunate enough to have experienced a voyage on the "nig- ger -driving Bluenose packet." To Canadian vessels must be given the credit for beIng • ahead of the Mother Country in design and gear, and in later years. British ship -build- ers were glad to im:tate the innova- tions of the colony. American and Canadian vessels ,were the first to use double tonsails—the American four - mast clipper bark ".'Great Republic," lahnched in 1853, being actually the first vessel so fitted. By dividing the great single topsail, in vogue then, in half and having separate, yards for each half of the sail, the work of -reefing and furling was lessened, and the number of men required to do the work, reduced. To close reef an old-fashioned long topsail in a blow, often required a whole watch upon the foot -ropes to tussle with the re- fractory canvas. With the divided sail, the furling of the upper topsail ' was equal to close reefing the old long topsail, and at the same time the smaller amount of canvas could be easier handled. • Then again, Canadian vessels, be- ing built of wood, were prone to leak. and on many ships pumps had to be manned twice in the twenty-four hours. Wheel chain pumps, operated by turning a wheel, were used in- stead. of . the old-fashioned up and down brakes familiar to the British ship. Built lower masts were also peculiar to Canadian vessels. Instead 01 having the mast in one long, whole spar, they were "built" of several pieces. wedged in Mid held together by iron bands, which encircled the built spar at intervals of about two .feet apart. Besides the differences in the build and rig of the ships, the British North American vessels had many institutions .aboard of them peculiar to themselves. . Crews had to work bard, but were well fed. No boat- swains were carried --the prows were supposed to be competent enough to do all the "sailorizing" necessary un- der the able tutelage of the second or junior officers. The services of a sailmaker, usually carried on other ships, were sometimes dispensed with, and the making and repairing of sails. had to be done by officers and crew. The galley and culinary department was sometimes carried on by contract —a cook and his wife would sign to- gether, and the woman would attend to the cabin and the wants ofthe officers, instead of a steward. . Regarding the trades in which Canadian vessels were employed, many of them sailed from Quebec to Great Britain with timber in the sea- son—carrying general cargo out, and in the winter tirae they traded from the American cotton ports to Liver- pool and the continent of Europe. The smaller vessels plied around the West Indies and South America,.. while the larger ships • went on long deepwater voyages to and from India, the East, and the United Kingdom, and also on the West Coast of Aneer- ica. Although • built and.' owned in Canada, they seldom came into their home ports, but sailed wherever a cargo was to be had. For many years they, with the United States fleet, reigned supreme Upon the seas, until steel shipbuilding and the steam en- gine gained sway, and the windjam- mer began to disappear slowly but surely off the face of the waters. The Western Ocean packet ships went first, followed by the China tea clip- pers and the Cape Hornets, and trade after trade, for many years the ex- clusive passages of the sailing vessel, was captured by the economical steam tram p. .Re,garding the ports of registration, the largest is Montreal with • a net register of 126,049 tons, including 736 vessels. Victoria? B.C., comes second with 50,000 tons, including 285 Vessels. St. John, N.B., is third with a register of 46,000 tons for 326 .vessels. in Nova Scotia., Windsor leads with 32,523 tons for 84 vessel,41135toofra . Ontario has Toronto first'with ma Ottawa next with 32,661 tons—the vessels owned by the Government being registered at the latter port— Canadisa Century. Nickel and bismuth. both hate!). the peculiar property of expanding at they bebottle cool. Came a Long Way, Miss tlizabeth de Czernkovitch, who has just passed with distinction the eXaMinatiOns in the Faculty of Arts' in Laval University, is a native of Croatia, where her father ia Lienten., ant -Governer. She Wee educated at Seared Heart Convent ttt Goetz, Aus- tria, and speaks English as well as French and Getman, having *pent, vine. tinotin Englancl. vt4tAA' , STARTED EMPIRE DAY. Mrs. Fessenden of Hamilton Respons- ible For Holiday. Empire Day has practically taken the pier* of Queen Victoria's birthday throughout the Ernpite, and May 24th has eorne to be a sort of imperial loll. day: Just how this occurred as worth the telling. There is no doubt that the original suggestion came from Mrs. Clementine Feasenden, a Hamilton Wornan of more than ordinary ability and outlook, and to her must be given tall credit for having initiated ene Aim Most important patriotic move - :moats of recent times. In the month of June, in the year 1$96, the Wentworth Historical So- ciety' met in Hamilton and passed a resolution of condolence with Mrs. Fessenden on the loss of her husband. Irt replying to this resolution in per- son, Mrs. Fessenden expressed the hope that the patriotic elArit of the grandfather would descend upon the six-year-old grandchild who accompan. ied her. The members of the society were impressed with this remark and at once triode the child an honorary member of the society. The child her- self was greatly pleased and aroused by this event and niteasely interested in the badge and maple leaf with which she was decorated. And it was the child's delig,ht and interest which suggested to Mrs. Fessenden that oth- . er children Might" be similarly affected by similar ceremony. In this thought lay the origin of Empire Day. The little girl has 'since passed away, but her memory is fragra,nt in the =mild celebration in the schools of many countries. Shortly after 'this we find Mrs. Fes- senden discussing the matter with peo- ple who were interested in education and suggesting that patriotism might be cultivated by simple ceremonies among the children. She also wrote letters to the newspapers and one of these appeared in The Montreal Star of August 24, of the following year. In November she wrote the Minister of Education for Ontario with regard. •to having a day set apart for flag exercises. The Minister suggested that she take up th.e matter with the Hamilton Board 'of Trustees and so call public attention to the move- ment. This suggestion was carried /out and in January, 1898, it was de- cided by this body "that the board set apart one afternoon hi the year for the purpose of inculcating petirio. tic sentiment." Mrs. Fessenden fol- lowed this up by getting the boards in Dundas and London to approve of. the idea. In August of that year the Minister of Educaticin wrote a letter te, be read at the meeting of the Dominion Edu- cational Association in Halifax. ' The Han. Mr. • Ross, now Senator Ross, who was then head of the Edu- cation Department, indicated his pre- ference for the name ”Empire Day,' and suggested that the 241h of May be the day selected.' These suggestions, after full discussion, were approved by the association. Senator Ross is therefore entitled to share •with Mrs. Fessenden the honor of having creat- ed this great festival. Soon the idea attracted attention in Great Britain, where Queen Victoria's birthday had not hitherto been a holi- day, and where there was no particu- lar patriotio day celebrated by the schools. It is estimated that: last. year no fewer than thirteen and a half mil- lion childsen joined in the celebration of Empire Day. The exercises were held in over fifty thousand schools throughout the Empire. , Canada should be proud of the part that it has played in giving the British Empire a holiday which will aid in the uplift of all the peoples who coin - prise the greatest • political organiza- tion of modern times.—Canadian Courier. • He Ate Them. • 11. J. P. Good, -who for seventeen • years was official booster for the; Canadian National Exhibition and who, at the 'Dominion Exhibition at • St. John, N.B., last year, turned the • expectation of.a four -thousand -dollar' deficit into the reality of a fifteen. thousand -dollar surplus, once had the experience of playing a joke on him - "How are you on chickens?" was the question put to hirn one day by the late Joe Dagga.n, owner of the Woodbine property, Toronto. "All right," answered Mr. Good. "Well," said Mr. Duggan, "here are • a dozen eggs I'll give you." 'Months afterwards Mr. Duggan ask- ed: "Haw did those eggs come out?" "Cozne out?" repeated Mr. Good in surprise. • "Say, what did you do with those eggs?" asked Mr. Duggan in whose ri.:nd a terrible suspicion was emus- . mg. "I ate them," was the answer. "You ate them?" said Mr. Duggan, in a horrified tone. "Say, I gave you those eggs for setting. They.cost me $22 a aoesire'; , • The City Beautiful. Several Canadian cities are realizing to some extent the need to make theraselves beautiful. Among these, St. Sohn, N.B.,, and Lethbridge, Alta., recently gave evidences of that. an Lethbridge many people turned out, a few nights ago, to hear an ad- dress on "The City Beautiful," and they were advieed to "get a good land- • scape gardener to plan things." In St. John The Daily Telegraph • recently gave a long editorial in Which it said that a requisite of eivie • being is "a eondition of things which will en.sure that the maximum of beau- ty be introduced into the life of. our city." "In the rush of modern life," con- tinues the editorial, "its amenities espeeially in new countries, are tot easily forgotten. Our hames bedtime merely refuges from our work, and, our places of work represent the irre- ducible minimum of everything which is not directly of value in the mak- ing ol fortunes." Love's Labor Lost The best laid schemes of practical jokers don't always work eatishietor. ' • A. man on the ground floor of a big office btiildisig in Toronto has, towardsi street organs, a hatred that rises to! the dignity of a passion. Knowing that, a smart tasting Mall paid several street organists to play. M front of the office of the other Mtn. The treatment Was kept goingli prettymuch all of one week, and i early n the follewing week the young matt went into the other's office. The joker knew the persecuted: Man's daughter, who is -employed in: her father's office. • • Having explained what he had done; he said with a broW smile, "How did your father enjoy the musk!" * "Pa.cher Was home sick all last answered the lady, arid the young man now wastes his spare Menet itt other ways.—Canadian t)outier. Is good for Ladies' fine footwear as well as Gentlemen's Shoes. It does not soil the daintiest garment, the Polish being smooth, brilliant and lading. It contains no turpentine, Try it with a match. It is good for your shoes. THE F. F. DALLEY (AD., Limited; 13 HAMILTON, Ont., BUFFALO, N. Y. and LoNrioN, Eng. 'Guelph's new street -lighting system was inaugurated on Coronation. Day. Bishop Sweeny of Toronto dedicated Peterboro's new chimea in Sit Johms Church, Captain Leslie 1VlacCcavan of the Canadian Coronation Contingent was injured by being thrown from his lame. •••••^.^ The ceilebratiion of Coronation Day was general throughout Canada- Re- ligious services were head in itha morning, and the rest of the day was given over ro sports, military dis- plays and pleasure -making of all kinds, - The Queen displayed deep emotion during the Coronation ceremony. 7r1464 LIPTON'S TEA OVER 2 MILLION PACKAGES SOLD WEEKLY M. Botclen addressed meetings at A deputation ' asked • the Coulter Qu'Appelle, Indian Head and Regina,. Councils of Leeds and Grenville ea. ex - The ,Coeservablve leader is having propriate the Brockville and Prescott some trouble with his voice. toll -road. 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