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lin the Early Part of the Eresent Century....
Seine Were 13rought in try the
11.1. Loyalists.
Canadianjustly hold the slave trade
and everything pertaining to it ix
abhorrence. Yet the searchlight of
history shows us that in the early
part of the present century, as well
as in tae past, slaves and slave owners
were to be found both in Upper Can-
ada and in the lower provinces. Dr.
S. Watson. Smith in the latest publicaa
tion of the Nova Scotia historical so-
ciety has brought together a great
:many facts relating to Canadian slav-
ery, the larger part of whioh will be
entirely atm to most readers.
The first slave sale reported in Can-
ada took plaice in 1628, when David
Kezek eold a Madagascar negro boy.
for 50 half crowns. Late in the 17th
century occasional mention is made
of the presence of Indian slaves at
Montreal. These ''Panis,'' capte.red
in war, made better domestics than
the aborigines of some other, tribes.
But the Indian after a time had an
uncomfortable habit ' of finding his
way baclr to his native forest, and the
French, for lack of servants were of-
ten in rather hard straits.
Naturally then they looked toward
Africa for relief, for the fame of the
Virginia slaves had extended beyond
the English colonies. King Louis ap-
parentlyhesitated alittle before aiv-
ing permission to his American sub-
jects to engage in the slave trade un-
til as a salve for his conscience and
theirs, it was suggested that the con-
versionof the proposed slaves to
Christianity might counterbalance any
ill effects arising from the traffic.
Throughout the 18th century, ,at
least during the French supremacy,
there is repeated legal recognition of
the slave an Canada. One edict made
the negro movable property, and au-
' other, in 1736, regulated the manner
• in which she should be emancipated.
The demand for slaves in Canada was
• Pot so great as at first expected, al-
though e'ne,groes, elects and mer-
chandise" continued to be grouped
together in documents down to the
transfer of Canada to the English.
The articles of ,capitulation provided
that negroes and Penis should remain
in their condition of slaves.
Until after the Revolution the
slaves in the province of Quel3eo did
not increase greatly. Indeed, the cen-
sus of 1784 gave only 304 as the num-
ber, and some of these had come in
with loyalist refugees from. New
York. The number in. Ontario may
have been larger in proportion to the
larger number of loyalists in this
province, bat' on the whole there was
a growing sentiment in. Upper Canada
against slavery. In 1793 Lient.-Gov.
Siancoe Inid. said: "From the mo-
ment that I assume the government
of TYPper Canada, under no modifica-
tion will I assent to a law that dis-
criminates by dishonest policy be-
tween the natives of Africa, America
or Europe." In the same year, dur-
ing the second. session of the first Par-
liament of Upper Canada, a bill was
passed "to prevent the further intro-
duction of slaves," and "to limit the
term of contracts for servitude in this
province." While those who then
owned slaves were not disturbed in
the possession of their property, the
further importation of slaves was for-
bidden, and all children- born to those
negroes who were then slaves were to
be free after reaching the age of 25.
GRADUAL EMANCIPATION.
In the United States, New York and
Rhode Island had already adopted
sinailarmeasures, and. New York in
/799 followed with a plan of 'gradual
emancipation. So gradual was the
freeing of the slaves in this part of
Canada that advertisements offering
riegroes for stile were often to be met
in the early part of the present ceu-
tury, such as: "A negro man -slave,
18 years of age, who Its had the
smallpok, and is capable of service,
either in the house Or outdoors."
Many of, the slaves Surviving in the
present century had been extremely
devoted to their masters in colonies
during the Revolution, • and their
• strong arms had been of great help in
hewing a way for the refugees who
went to Canada at the close of the
war. la their wills the owners often
made prevision for their faithful ser-
vants, not always as liberally as So-
. licitor-Gerioral Gray, whose will,
mule in 1803, •discharged from slavery
his "faithful black woman and ser-
vant Dazinda," and gave her and her
• chaaren not only their freedom, but
• directed that £1,200 should be invest-
ed for their benefit, and the interest
tea aside for their maintenance.
The French in. Acadia peobably had
no slaves, but doubtless they were
bought and sold in. Halifax soon after
that aity, was founded. A number of
ahem were employed in the butiding
tail, the recite city, as may be readily
inferred. froM an advertisement in the
I3oston Evening Post, 1751: ,Tust
arrived from Halifax and to be sold
10 strong, hearty,, negro men, mostly
tradesmen, sucb as caulkers, carpen-
ters, sailinakers and roperaakere."
An amusing advertisement in the
Gazette reads: ''To be sold
at public, auction, on Monday, the 3rd
or November, at tine house of Mr.
• John Rider, two slaves, viz, a boy and
a girl, about 11 years old; likewise a
puuchoon of ahoice cherry braiedy and
fax to the see, effered too easy a mama/
Of escape.
Many negrees aecompa,nied the loy-
alists to the Maritime Proviaces.
Most ot these Were eseapea slaves
from the Southern States, -who dariug
the Revolution had fled Within the
British linos Sir Henry Clinton and
other British Generals had offeretl
tile/a protection, end many of them
had served in the Britisli regiments in
various capacities. Coae negro corps,
the alack pioneers,, was formed, and
rendered efficient military service.
The 2,000 escaped slaves in New York
at the close of the ware were in, great
terror lest they should 13e returned to
their proper owners. Sir Guy Carle-
ton refused -Washington's demand for
the giving up of these slaves, adding
that if sending thorn away should be
regarded as an infraction of the treaty
compensation inu.st be made to their
owners by the British Government.
Accordingly, a register was kept of
the name, age and occupation of each
negro seat away from New York, to-
gether with the mune and residence
of his former master. These escaped
slaves, provided with certincates,
were sent away in trausports to Nova
Scotia, and New Brunswick. The
addition to their number of many lib-
erated slaves from the South gave
Nova Scotia a fairly large negro pop-
ulation after the war.
CLAIMED THEIR LIBERTY.
In connection with the settling of
the black pioneers in Nova Scotia, a
rather pathetic letter may be quoted,
which the writer recently came across
in the archives at Halifax. It is dat-
ed Annapolis Royal, August 21, 1734,
and addressed to "Wm. Parr, Esq.,
Capt. -Gen. and Gov. of his Majesty's
Province, Nova Scotia."
Sir,—The Harable Petition of the
Black Pioneers beg your Honors would
be so good as to look into the follow-
ing description: Sir, we first enlisted
in the year 1776, and was promised by
order of Sir Henry Alderman Wadla
by order of Sir Henry Clinton to serve
faithfully .and truly during the
elmericaii aebellion, which, when it
was over, we was to be at our own
Liberty to do ancl provide for our-
selves.
Which since we came to this place,
I look upon it the order of govern-
ment, we have not received, which
we would be very much obliged to
your excellency if you be so good as
to grant the articles allowed by the
government to us same as the rest of
the Disabled Soldiers of His Majesty's
Which when we first enlisted' ausl
served and swore, we was promised
that we should have land and provis-
ions the same as the rest of the dis-
banded soldiers, and which we have
not received, but would be ever bound
to pray for your Excellency if you be
so good as to order us •what was alt,
ours by Government the same as the
rest of the iiew core, which our pro-
bition is now stopped, and we would
be mach obliged to and bound to pray
for your excellency, if you would be
so good as to order ns to receive it.
As we have behaved ourselves accord-
ing to our promise at the first you
swearing in, Which for myself I have
my carter along with me to show,
• which I believe that any Gentleman
that knows sthe Pioneers will give
them the same, which we would be
ever bound to pray for your Excel-
lency if you would grant us what is
allowed. by Government.
In behalf of the Black Pioneers,
Thomas Murphy Peters.
• Murphy Still.
Sergeans of the Company of .Pioneers.
This letter,' in spite of peculiarities
of spelliug, evidently had some
. .
weight, for it is endorsed: "If his
excellency will be pleased to grant a
warrant of jury for the quantity each
mail is to have, Mn. Norris will write
to his depaty to lay out the same."
It is gratifying also to know that each
of the corps diti receive the land to
which he Nye's entitled.
The number of negroes in Nova
Scotia after the war might have
proved embarrassing but for the ar-
rangements made by the Sierra Leone
Coinpany to transfer at the expense of
the British Government all who wish-
ed to -remove to Africa. In Jaamary,
1792, 1,180 of these freedmen sailed
for Arica from different parts of New
Brunssviek and Nova Scotia.
The loyalists, especially those from
New York, took many slaves with
them to,Nova Scotia. In the neighbor-
hood of Annapolis men 'like Col. De
Lancoy, Col. Davoue, Capt. De Moli-
tor, and ,Capt. De St. Croix had from
three to six slaves each in their fam-
ilies. In other counties of Nova
Seotia told in Now Brunswick there
were rimay slave holding loyalists.
Indeed, in all the British North
American provinces there was but one
avowed anti -slavery settlementathat
of the Quaker loyalists at Beaver
Harbour, N. E.
Gradnally, in both sections of Can-
ada, slavery began to die a natural
death. Nevertheless, slaves coninu ed
to be bought and sold in Nova Scotia
through the first decade of the present
century, while the last otter of a re-
ward for a runaway slave was made
through the Royal Gazette of New
Brunswick in 1816.
A VERY MILD TYPE.
Wi'tli few exceptions slavery in Can-
ada was of the mildest type. Dr.
$mith, quotes from Rev. Sohn, Wis-
wall, loyalist refugee at
who in a letter fron.1 Boston mentions
his slave Dinah: "J.lemember mu to
Dinah; I allow her to live with you
or where she pleases until she hears
from inc.'' Occasionally sem° Can-
adiau ewners treated tee slave accord-
ing to the southein fashion. • la tree
in Upper Canada was pointed out as
Otto to which e slave had been tied to
be thrashed. The wife of a cortaia
prominent loyalist in Annapolis Was
by tradition held responsible for the
death of a slave whom she had.
whipped se-verely. Lieut. Carson nar-
rates several cases of cruelty, but
those who know can bring 'forward
MOTO 111.11110f 011S instances • of sincere
attachment between master mid slave,
After the act of 1797 in Upper Oan-
ada, slavery certainly detained; from
time to time there were legal con-
flicts, with decisions more often in
favor of the slave than the master. In
the Maritime Provinces, too, -very
strong proof had to be given before
an escaped slave would be returned to
bondage.
In tao war of 1812 many entees took
refuge from Southern plantations on
board British ships. Of these the ma-
jority were taken to Nova Scotia and
Now Brunswick, where they were
treated as freemen, later enfranchised,
and finally permitte1 td sit on juries.
This eufranehising came after the ;sot
of William IV., in 1833 had freed
all slaves held in British possessions.
11 cau be proved that some Canadian
sea captains and nierehants engaged
in the slave trade, and that occasion-
ally Cenadian slaves were not well
treated. But on the whole, slavery
in Canada was a very different thing
from slavery in our southern colonies'
• and states.—Helen Leah Reed.
STORY OF A BOER SPY.
Showing; the Boer a 5X,in of Shrewd Can -
flint; as Well as of Bravery.
Here is the story of a Transvaal spy
that well illustrates the shrewdness
and pertenacity which have made the
Boer such a tactfal and able enemy in
the present war. It was just before
the erection of the Johannesburg
forts. The spy was ordered to report
on the defences of Chatham.
While employed in collecting mater-
ials he came upon a certain secret sub-
terranean passage connecting Fort
Pitt with—somewhere. He tried hard
Id find out where that "soraewhere"
miabt be, but without avail. Rumor
said it was Fort Clarence. But Fort
Plarence was then—and is now, • for
that rnatter—used as a provost prison,
and access to its interior was strictly
pr °hunted.
One way of getting within the walls
there was, and the spy took it. He
committed a somewhat serious 'offence
against military discipline. for which
he was reduced to the ranks and int-
poisoned.As he had foreseen, he was
consigned to Fort Clarence.
The provost sergeant in charge kept
rabbits, which were shat up at night
in a sort of underground passage that
opened into the moat—at least, so the
other prisoners affirmed. The spy
ingratiated himself with the warders,
and after a week or two he was taken
all shot drill, and promoted to the
post of rabbit keeper in ordinary to
the provost sergeant aforesaid. He
looked carefully and conscientiously
after his four -footed charges. In fact,
he spent the =eater part of his time
cleaning out and white -washing their
underground apartment, with the re-
sult that, an his release, he was able
to forward full plans and details to
Pretoria.
Tn "Telephotourisph" the Boers.
For the first time in history the
telephotographer is about to play his
part—it may be an important part—
ite warfare.
Second Corporal Ford of the Royal
Engineers, Chatham, has been detain
ed as telephotographer to the army in
• South Africa, and has sailed from
SOuthaaapton with his cycle .and ap-
paratus.
Corporal Ford's camera, which is
fitted with "telephoto" lenses, is a
wonderful machine, which will take
a clear photograph of a man, or bat-
tery, or intrenchments at any distance
up to two miles. So that beyond the
range of the enemy's rifles Corporal
Ford will -be able to get photographs
of their positions which would DrOVO
of groat value. As military telephoto-
• graphic scout he ought to be able to
render useful service to the British
armY
This special apparatus was devised
by Lieut. Foulke, R. D., and made by
the Lendon Stereoscopic Company. It
is fixed on to Corporal Ford's bicycle
in such small compass as to be hardly
noticeable, and the whole thing --bi-
cycle and apparatus—is painted the
familiar khaki color.—London. Mail.
"No 'WWI to Give ln."
One of the Gloncesters taken priS-
oners at Nicholson's Nek writes from
Pretoria to relatives at Bristol: "It
was owing to an accident that we
were captured; we were trying to
get to the rear of the enemy in the
nada, but tile mules stampeded and
we were found out, and in the morn-
ing they surrounded 11S. We were
fighting, for about seven hour, and
lost about 200 men, If we had not
given in then, We would have all been
slaughtered. It was no wish of the
men to give in. We had all fixed our
bayonets ready to charge, and would
have kept on until the last man dropp-
ed, but the officer ha command thought
that he had enough, and so gave in,
and what remanied of us were march-
ed /twits after niving ip oar arms."
Ti -IAT GOLD SERVICE.
ieeiv Itexustozo AnK000s ef (1.1teen
'The pivcretr(Ous:ittzuee" il'ar)lienal"'17crelS'eak;he sends
011t 1:110 Stale ab011t Willie Kaiser's visit
to the queen says in Isis cheery offhand
/Banner that grandina's table service
is of solid -old axIdsvortli 310 000 000
This is a large sem even for a full set,
as it would be a good nigla school ex-
ercise to figure what the lnaleidual
butter plates would come to if the gold
teapot was marked down to $99,999.
It isn't the sort of set either that the
queeu would pare to put out before the
land ot women wlio have the souvenir
habit. Ifshe gave that sort of a din-
ner party, she'd probably want to
dress the coachman up as a butler and
1110.11 have hitn stand at the door and
search the guests as lee,y passed put.
It Nvoulcin't do to take many cereless
chances with pie plates at $7,210
apiece. There are people who would
be so overcome by this sort of display
that they'd probably try to bite cliunk.s
out of the $4,900 =ger bowls,
At the same time there is one thing
you don't have to worry so much aeout
if you OWn a gold set lilte the queen's—
tiler° isn't so 13111011 danger teat the
hired girl will smash it up. On the
other hand, it wouldn't be easy to take,
a dent in an $11,450 cream pitcher out
of her week's wages. You can't chap a
$37,600 soup plate in tbe kitehen sink
very many times without its showing
the effects of the fall.
That's the great trouble with gold—
it's so ductile, We never liked it on
the table on that account. Good old
stoneware china may not take so high
a polish, but we use it in place of gold
every time.
Colonel J. Wolfe Murray.
Colonel Murray has attracted consid-
erable attention as one of the defend-
ers of Kimberley. He has had several
battles with the Boers.
Depends.
"If you are «troubled with wakeful-
ness, count slowly in your mind, and
you'll generally be asleep before you
reach 300."
"That won't always work. I counted
3,000 the other night and was wider
awake at the eud of it than when I be-
gan."
• "Did you have your eyes shut?"
"Web, no. You can't very well walk
with a baby and count your steps with-
out keeping your eyes open."—Chteago
Tribune.
Re Was Weary.
"Sluldrum is the laziest man I ever
saw. He keeps a shoe store out in our
suburb, you know. Web, while he was
resting the other day a man came in
and said he wanted to buy a pair of
slippers. What do you suppose hap-
pened? Muldriun said:
"'Oh, come around some time when
I'm standing up.' "—Chicago Times -
Herald.
General Schalk Biome/.
.7s
• N , /
General Burger is one Of the mili-
tary geniuses of the Transvaal. He is
now said to be in command of troops
tear the eastern border of the republic.
• commandant ViTellha eh.
This officer, Who has been very ac-
tive' in recruiting troops for ,the Boer
army, 18 ane of the prominent militar,1
asu at tlo Transvaal.
THE HUMOURS OF WAR.
johe New :tact Ld, Vu vrerkt Oilesieged
.1pi.000, 05 See i h Atri+ ..;ventn.
. 11 May be Oaf l'OaSt hoof it may be
our Anglo-Stixon blood., or it may be
our national, light-heariedness, but
the English warrior reirises to be
depressed, if there are any eireum-
stances calculated to imince
VieW Of thill,O,S, they are to ho lifsireg-
ed by a vastly superior force in an un-
protected' town, to have your tele-
graph wires cut, and to know that re-
lief cannot reach you for many weeks.
Yet, according to the latest reports,
Col, Eaden-Powoll--so affectionately
abbreviated to '`13. P. ''—is very
cheerful at alafeking. When Croaje
Proposed to surrender "itt order to
avoid furthoe bloodshed," he had ask-
ed "when the bloodshed was going to
beign." Being roused from sleep by
a messenger from the enemy, lie had
promisd "to let them know when he
had eaough." Col. Baden-Powell is
to bo cong-ratulatecl on his excellent
spirits. SO, indeed, is Kimberley.
where, -while the enemy was counting
their dead outside, the victors went
home ana danced.' This town also
'announced that one cooking pot had
beau injured after a dey's bombard-
ment. Both cases are pleasiant vaxia-
tioas of the Don't -Speak -to -the -Man -
at -the -Wheel policy. 'When the Man -
at -the -Wheel can crack a jolte with
the tempest, the passengers are not
likely to be doleful.
Neither ''13. P." ',nor Mr. Rhodes,
however, typical Englishmen as they
are, is the inventor of this branch of
humor. War has always had. a certain
grim fun of its own. Sometimes it is
the besieger who holtls the best end.
of the joke. So long ago as 1347,
when King Edward III, was before
Calais, a letter fell into his b.an.cla
which had'been written by John de
Vienne to Ring Philip, describing the
terrible straits to which the town was
reduced. Edward at once forwarded
the missive to its proper destination,
adding on his own account a postsoript
recommending his Majesty to hasten.
to the assistance of his devoted and
beleagured. subjects. The royal jest
very much of theiaugh-and-ready
Mafeking textaue. Laleed, Edward
III., must have been a 'good monarch
to blockade. A. feW' yearS before, at
the siege of Tommay, he proposed to
Philip to settle the issue by single
combat, or, hi the alternative, by a
fight beteyeeu 100 pickell men on
either side. Can you not imagine
how 'B. P." mid his merry men
would welcome a bout of , pure fisti-
cuffs with as many Boers as a final
test of racial ascendency?
There was a good deal of this sort
of pleasantry during the Civil War,
the cavaliers, as might have been ex-
pected, showing themselves to be bet-
ter jesters. A little skirmish that
Isappened at the siege of Carlisle in.
1645 would have delighted Dumas.
The Roundheads held the town stout-
ly, and were not to be drawn into
battle. But 0110 day a certain Lieu.t.
Frisle, witli a handful of dragoons,
rode across the stone bridge within
pistol shot. of the wall and carried off
some linen which was drying outside
the gates. This dastardly outrage—
for the Puritans were alavays particu-
lar about their linen—was too much
for the garrison, who immediately
sallied forth to the rescue of their
garnients. There was a. fierce little
fray, which ended not only in the
recovery of the shirts, but also m the
capture of the daring Frisle. ,As a
Man of humor, he would no doubt,
appreciate the joke if his captors had
had the wit to hang out his own, roy-
alist, shirt in flauntina defiance of the
besieging host.
In America one finds the Dame An-
glo-Saxon knack of looking on the
bright side, and even, when there is
no bright side, of inventing one to
look at. The siege of Vicksburg, dar-
ing the Civil Wax, was as depressing
are experience as is likely to fall to
the lot of any modern garrison. Yet
at least one officer was able to sraile
on an empty stomach. After the fall
of th.e town the folloWing monu was
found in the rebel camp:
HOTEL DE VICKSBURG.
Bill of Fare for July, 1563.
Soup—Mule tail.
Boiled—Mule bacon, with poke greens.
Mule, ham, canvasecl.
Roast—Mule sirloin.
Mule rump, stuffed with rice.
Entrees—Mule heed, stuffed a la mode.
Mule beef, jerked a la Mexicana.
Mule ears, fricassed a la gotch.
Mule spareribs, plain.
Mule liver, hashed.
Side Dishes—Mule salad.
IVIule hoof, soused.
Mule brains, a la omelette.
• Mule kidney, stuffed.
Mule tripe, fried.
Mule tongue, a la bray.
Jellies—Mule foot; .
Dessert—White Oak warns.
Beech nuts.
• 131ackberry leaf tea.
Germine Confederate Coffee,
Ligneurs—Missisisppi water, vintage
1492, superior, $3,
Limestone 'water, late importation,
• -very fme, $2.75.
Spring water, Vicksburg brand,
Meals at all hours. Gentlemen to
wait neon themselves. Any inatteietion
on the part of servants will be prompt-
ly reported at ihe office.
JEFF DAVIS & CO.,
Proprietors.
The man must have been a relation
of Mark Twain. For so high-spiritec.
a people tile Spanish war was some-
what lacking in bunior. What there
was. however. (Meow'
nainly to ()Ap.t. , vaus fo-
scioiiilations ill the event of future,
operations. ilis langnago is etrettg
than an English officer and a gent
man would use, and his re/park t
the Spaniards '`didn't; hit it thing
bt-
tite ocean," is, 'boorish beside "
P:s" courtesy, -but he had ,the nigh
point of view.
SPaiux has growo soniotitlit is
why she was beaters last year ---but her
hey -day furnishes oue pretty instance
of siege humor. It Was during the
attaek on Lerida by the Priam
Conde. The to\vri was defended by a
fine old Spaniard known as Don Gre-•
gorio. The Prince, flushed , by the
successful campaigns of liocroy and.
Fribourg, Caine to Lerida in au im-
perious mood, and gave it out that he ,
would mount the trenches at the itead
of his regiment on the following noon-
day. Meantime—this was a wedding
custoni—he ordered his hatift of four
and tlyetit,),- fiddlers to strike up be-
neath the walls. During the night.
Don Gregorio made a sortie with
much success. In the morning, he san0.
to the Prince a present of fruit cnd-
106 fel' the wounded, begging hi -
Highness to excuse him for not return-
ing the, serenade, as he had, unfortun-
ately, no violins,. lf, ltowe,Yer, he,
added, the music which be had given •
last night, was not disagreeable to his
Highness, he would be delighted to
continue it so long as he did him gin,
honor tou'emain in the vicinity.
.
That is a beautiful soecirden of true
Ca,tsilian humor; and the case of the
English general before Cadiz who ex-
orted his men not to be beaten by
"those d—d fellows who eat or-
anges" compares father poorly with
it. More Subtle, in its way, was the
remark Of Broadfoot ,during the siege
of Jellalabad in suppert of the conten-
tion that the place could be held in-
definitely. They could, he said, "col-
onize if they liked." Of punsters,
one is glad to find, the Englisa ser-
vices have contained few. Tbe story
goes that Admiral Dancen, before go-
ing into action. at Camperdowu with
de Winter, called tost.et,her his officers
and said: "Gentlemen, you see a
very severe Winter approaching, cilia f
have only to advise you to keep up a
good fire". But the most authentia
case of an Admiralty pun is that of
Saint George, who on being received.
by Anson after the fight at Finisterre,
observed: "Sir, you have conquered:
the Invincible, and Glory follows'
you' ---i'lrevincible" and. '`Gloire" be-
ing the names of"two of the' ca.ptu.red.
French: vessels.
TORONTO STUDENT CORPS.
General Heaton Explains His Scheme ta
Two Toronto Coile;:es.
A large and enthusiastic niiISS meet-
ing of Students of Toronto and Trinity
Universities Saturday 'afternoon,
unanimously decided to form a Mili-
tary Corps as outlined by Geiieral
Hutton. The latter. who was pres-
ent, received a cordial receptionand
associated with him on the platform
were: Director -General Neilsou of
the Medical Service; President Lou-
den, Colonel Delaraare. Dean Giekie,
and many of the Faculty. -President,
London occupied the chair' and intro-
duced General Hutton in a brief
speech. warmly commending the pro-
posed organization.
• General Hutton, after referring to
the neecl.of cohesion in the Military
System of Canada. explained that a
bearer corps. a field hospital corps aad
an engineering corps were those which.
had been decided for the colleges to
raise. In asking them to take part in
the military system they were asked
to undertake a share in the defence of
the country. it was no light matter,
and involved self-sacrifice, . but mili-
tary service was •a privilege. They
would drill on the grounds of the
Royal Military College for' 12- days
every summer, receiving the same
equivalents, etc., as the rural battal-
ions. General Hatton then explained
the duties of engineer corps. Two
were being tatisecl, one in. Toronto,
and one in Montreal from McGill.
In conclusion the General asked all
the students who thought it right for
them to contribute to the 'support of
their country to raise their hands and
all handE; went up. He thanked thent
and said he would baforra the Govern-
ment of their willingness itt that re-
spect. Director -General Neilson and
others added a few remarks and the
meeting.broke up with three cheers
for the Queen.
Metliers and Children. .
Mothers often say that dhildren.
should have a ' 'good time," as they
will soon be unhappy enough over the
serious duties of life. If a child is
brought up in idleness and does noth-
ing hut have a "good time," work
will come mighty hard. The duties
of life will trove very disagreeable,
and the grown child will be apt to,
regard the good times of youth as` flee
natural tbort of thing and the stein
dtitios of life as imnatural. Children
should be happy, but parents 8hou1d
not carry the idea so far as to rem
their children and make loafers of
them.
Visiting Burns' iplaco.
During the year ended September 80'•
the 'number of Visitors to Burns' cot-
tage, Ayr, was 42,499, being '4,20n.
More than 1896, which was the ,
eRs reeord year.
Big Socialist G atiterinh" Neat Near.
SOClaiiF4S will hold at Faris this'
year the largest congress in their
tory,