* -- YEAR}. NO. 158. Frm-------- he SIR WILFRID LAURIER; THE STATESMAN eng A te By DIL. ANDRNW MAC THAIL, Copyrighted by Publishers Pr Sir Willeesd 5160 his 94 of mee Laurier has served country in its Parliaments for 'years. He catered the lowislatnre Quebec in November 7th, 31, ns ber for Arthabaska. In elested to the House of Commons fr the same district; Theee years late October Sth, 1977, he enter xd the « thi net with the portiolio of inland reven we. The following day he firese oi himself for re-election and mm Octonper 17th, when the polls closed it ------ wa ¥rof. Dr. Andrew Macphail, M. D. found that he haul heen defeated ve majority of 20 votes. On November 28th he was retumped: from Quebec East, and has represented that stituency till this day. On September 17th 15878, ment wos defeated bv a majority of 86. On October 9th, Mr. Mackenzie re signed office, and on April 28th 1880, he reticod from the leadership of the a con- the govern: 1534 he was | sjoed me that a Protestant can be | menwe toleration. He ie always amused { but never anuo wed; and with all his experivnce, his experiente has not made {hi im hopeless or sad. He a man of vision, of imagination. and vet he has {never brought himseli to really be licve that the men by whom he is sup | rounded arc: angels, no matter { faithfully 4 may de fend them, or his opponents in the wrong. Possibly the education which he ceived in bis youth may hcp to count for his sagacious and Fympa- thetic attitude towards all opinions, no matter how absurd they may seem. The motherless boy attended the ele- mentary school of hie native parish till he was twelve years old. Then he spent 'a vear at® & Protestant school at New Glasgow, aud lived with Hrich family. Mucn of his leisure spent in the house of John Murray, who was an ¢der in the church of Scotland and had been educated for Ha ministry. In proof of this surmise his own words may he duoted: "The fareily We and the 'godly conduct the Murrays impressed me is that are always hopelessly ree an an WH pure of and convin- an tnroest,. true a Catholic," The next years were L'Assomption College, stitutions which ave the last refuge of education on the Amencan continent, In 1861 he entered Metall University, and graduated from the faculty of law at the expiration of hiz course. In the valedictory address which he made to his fellow students he charged them that their mission was to) catise jus tice te "reign; to 'separate the true from the false; to maintain the rights of adrens; to preserve the general peace; to preserve for the famfly its inheritance, for the individuak his hon our, for the public the just repression of affencus; to hold within limits audacity of the powerful; snd to re lieve the wretchedusss of the weak, without violence to the ane, indul Christian, as well as goeven spent in ane of those in- the or gence tof the other. how KINGSTON, ONT ARIO, 8 ' SATURD. AY. J ¥ { 1 RE RE EIA TIT T TAI A E TRRR IR Rweaa RIGHT HON. ee SIR WILFRID LAURIER been knows vd expr ] His Kho 1 fairs. He can manage a campmign or a debate in parliament with equal ease, his fy method being to en eourage his opponents to raise a clond f tery of publ of dust in whdch they find | discipline of their way, That plan worked to per fection in the de bath the naval | | bill And vet; on the other hand, a mind of extreme innocence, ness, and--1 bad almost said ver natu on ¢ vaurite , ls ma cannot party ) hr: disposi to rely : ouput individu s defect Lif thw | pachiam ahsol ut tion he has Wilfred direct | l'o wide simplici- fai ir 18 tov {for half me 1 upon m the inthis 8 f his qualit c Wilieed La of Ca not vite hi tury. That tory { present inténtion, especially as opposivion. He was ward Blake, and be in turn retived Jue Ind" 18%]. 'Sir Willred . Laueier i. was ubanimoushy chosen ng leader on June Tih, and has odcupicd that place fox twenty-threo years. Ia 1806 the Liberals were voturied th parliament io the majority, and theie Joader beeame priv minster; a post which he still 8. 4 Bir Wilired Laurier wns bora on No- vouher 20th 184), at St. Lin, in the County of Xssomption, His father was a landsurvevor, His gprandiather was a farmer, yeb interested in mathemat. ion and the seience of those days. His mother wits + Mareelle Martineau. Her only ciuld was Wilfred, and she died when he was fgar years old. On May 13th 1868, he warried Zoe Eafon- tains, of Montreal. That a man is and is married. ~these are 'wo of the ome events' of real importance in hig 1 The most notable servants of the crown in the overseas Dominion a Sie Wilfred Laurier and Me. Loui tha, and neither is of English Pe They are the most useful on that | se count. In the first spoech which Sir ever deliveted in parliament he declared that, under the British eon- stitution, we had freedom, privilege, and power. lt was the finest un men ever lived, and especially to Waite citivns of different rac i These 40 aker lias mever te. Unless one. close apprehension of the cen he can form no estimdte Wilived Laurier bas in succeeded by Ed- gious strife. already b 2O Willison from near person of a great of the pdopla' diritich crown. no expanse a complete admir but obse "n i task has Mr, ra g YY vat i the | tervant | of the But vey of Canada, ar idea of hig humorou quaint and not quite 'whimsical, old-world way of standing ing, his gentle courteons bearing, affable, _complaisant, winsome, manner; which may in the word débonair. Lady Lauder figure than her husband. She one the impression of being in her ow home entertaining hir neighbors. T} friendly frankness of her hy th accuracy of her comment, shrew: wit, the justness of her pecially upon the conduct proper t women is a refreshment, the more ¢ pecially when it as heard in =o high quarter. Lady Laurier would be del premier in-a parliament of wome thoiigh | fear the not be very prolonged. The French have that ig, of bonhommie, which is good nature, honesty, dom, and simpli ity, may sometimes see door in the h h cheer no less interesting SNC the a word, a mixture « humour, Such a pers sitting by evening of his life having one joicing in his ~lapenret should that this term, which phed to him by Mr. acewrately than an Wilfred. =a Was once a Thomson, © mor other defines He was brought up in a bard school. Before te was yet thirty he was in the thick of eal political and reli Poli des was. sos then al question of awakding a contract or fil- hing an office. Thesissue was whether froe-oorn wen should govern them- selves, or whether they. should 'be gov- wrnpd by the terms of the "Programme Catholique" which was the last politf: eal expression of ultramonanism, or by the "Protestant Defence Association," or by both,' Those were the days, too, when Ca- nada was a congerics of widely separ ated provinces with different or hos- ti'e interests. The sound of the "Pa. pinead gun" bad scaresly died Sut; Eyvar Mackenzie 5s efforts had not ve fully decided if the Executive was to be subject to the - control of Parlia- ment, or if it would. surrender to the peoples the privileges which it had us- axpesd ie little wonder then that Sir Wilfred learned how to handle: himself as does in a debate over the production of some papers ,we shall sav, or at an imperial conference where the choicest cover the high wits of the empire are assem Sir Wilfred Laurier came to the. sera ting of British institutions with a fresh eve; and he was quick to dis place which govern- ment by party holds. Belore a party can govern it must get into power; and if it would continue to govern it mast stay in power, Sir Wilired pever forgets that, whilst he is prime mia. ister, he is alse Lo ader of 4 party, and be is as sedulous in = performing the duties of the one as of the other. Any one who supposes that he does . not understand the management of a cam- | mastak. paign. will find himself sadly evn; and opponen tlety. adeoitness, and skill in contriv- : inst are vars, tikely to fin Shemaciren Le always tells the and had insolently retesned. Ite ha {of nts who resart to sub | Every man who Is presented with a umbrella is expected to put tup, A girl bs willing if eourtul; she wants an automubi when she is married, ty. He has the faculty of getting hald of a thing by the right end, of seeing intg the heart of 4 matter, and hand- ling. his material in the mast natural. way. He gives the impression which one revives upon oh pros a practis- ed Craftsman engaged in tasks which to the inexpenicnesd are impossible or dome only with much labor. It 18 easy to know what in any oi 0 vase. All one 15 to ask one's gell," what is ue cam mof-sense © of the thing, ' knows what course the premier "wh take, whether it be a question of giv- tng school te Protestants or to Cath- ohés, making a treaty, building oa na: vy, sending armed forces over-seas, or Jnaviding for the consolidation aud dis ence of the empire. Bui he must not be hurried. No one understands better the solving fore of time upon politi cal problem No man in Canadian public lie has received more afteniion at the hands political fators. He has been blamed votestants for being a! good Catholie, and he has been ac cused by Catholies of being 5 bad Catboli®. 'Ad one slection it was al firmed that he was a Protpstant min: igter, an apostate, and a companion of Unt execu nica blamed him for | oh gre} hi people ng rel 1S own reach of which have. him for speaking: oy or speaking, that he is a man first, and a a and Feouchman aftetwards, Bren the crime of treason has been Inid to Wis chavis buf all the notice his: detraflors received was & 2ad Cemile and a few chance reflections ap- on their foolishmese rather than pon their wickedioss. In forty vears, how- aver, nd opponent has been so base as to utter a Sande which tondhed his peftonal. hemor, the musty of his pri or the righteournres of his he will do has to do none and the nada ths the ably or ion and faithful of writing ean- con- fuve, hin expression which is more than and mov- all be summed up gives opinions, "es a mo deliberations would | snow borhome, a person who is in possession wi hig done good in his time and quietly re: oar "Om thing to walk when she ULY 9. MAKE A NEW- ALASKA BEASTS ARE INDUSTRIAL FAC TORS ON FROZEN PLAINS. -------- od tevolutionized the Eskimos---I¢ Equivalent of Sheep in Affording Material for Food and Clothing-- Takes "lace of Horse. News-T raphe bune doubtless still believe the reindeer to be non-existent save in the lore that accompanies the Yule tide celebrations, but old Une dé Sam, who has an eye dor the practical side of everything, tobk pains to Invest: gate the question of Santa Claus steeds and discovered that the reindeer industry could be made vastly profita - ble on the irazen plains qf Alaska. Uncle Sam St to work to fase rejn- deer ago and to-day, it is ~| sasd, this animal has Jone much to revolutionize Alaska. und the Esiino as the automobile has dono mn the Un ited States: The invasion of the the white men virtually mo out of business, issn hpunalits able pursuit of their old o cups NE fish® ng et rolt Many SOME VOars Lig peninsul 3 by post the Fein far as the Wiss fon ation Tor the 1a that vould fir while men h H tang ~ "A coceet. The only sal/ tives was the--e=aining | them to be of use fo ta> The reindeer proved the key to thas perplexing situation. The introduc: {tion of the horne 1. animals made fam | iliar to us all by the traditions of | Kris Kringle, has put the Eslimo in | the of supplying the! white men | with food, clothing and tfansporta- the three things they need most {and will pay the most for. oa The very climatic conditions of {land of gold pronounce it ideal fur {the activities of the reindeer, for in {that five 'sixths of the swisce of Alas ka which is barren, so lar as ¢ waned, the only in large amount i this rein dev man, ad reid statistician trouble of ca matter for the g ent; estimate that {ihe 400 000 square miles of rocky for mation covered with reindeer mossto he found in Alaskal will support fully 12,000 000 reindeer. At the rate of ter retnderr for the support of one inhabi- "tant, this would: provide subsistence for more than a million people in a totritory that popu of little mor: The reindeer is equivalent sheep in res aff » Cieg mare for food aml clothing, nnd is valent of the horsé for transportation in the 1 and. More the aves pe veind farnishie or tody times as much meat an ordinary sheep, whereas a reindeer hide. makes the best of Arctic clothing, A steed v such as is pictured in Santa Claus turnout, can travel from fifty to 100 mikes a day a smooth track, drawing a man on a sledge A tran of eight of ten reindeer, With a n leader, each drawing one 'sledge a: w | arranged Aandems will draw a ton of w freight twenty or thirty miles per day 14 In the section of Alaska where. th reindeer finds his especial forts, there are no rosds' and 'no bridges in sin s- mer, but in winter--which means a tually four-fifths of the vear | streams are bridged with thick 1, {and all the level region is one vast field with a hard surface, fue | nishing' hichwave in any direction for | the reindeer sledge. The herds of reindee Siberia to Alaska by 15 | States government some B have multiplied rapidly tthe reindee® tain nox # lick ably show nar inials and at the rata of there will be és than a of a million rdndear in Alas ars from now. ~ Not only has started the reindeer ak, but he has through the government schools conducted an der the auspices of the Unised States Bureau of Education, trajned young Eek'mos as reindeer herders and driv ore. : ) That the government has thus up young Eskimos in a decidedly toas of way tion this = j ture is con r- Substance moss, Now o. | fuod for for the have gone to investigati et States governm but it food w lie cfelly Unit nd 8 and the the ir u now has a than 26.000, th to qn of tie ol Tis wl pect ihe « is ver thea = as 8 over 2 vio o vr th roe, imported from the Uniwed years of ase ng wil (th census &p ins fan ¥ jcreas: = quarter © Thy ten ye Unde try, Nam rats s0 to spe n le sok pro- "Every One Thought I Had Consumption, ™ Pe-ru-na Saved Me." "1 THANK DR. HARTMAN FOR PE-RU-NA"™ NEGLECTED cold is generally the firstesuse of catarrh. 'Women are especially liable to colds. These colds occur more frequently dur- ing the wet, sloppy weather of winter snd spring than any other time of the year. Often they are not consid- BEWARE/ OF ered serious and CATCHING COLD. | are allowed to run on, or they are treated in such a way as to only palliate | the symptonis, while the eold becomés more deep-seated and the patient finally awakens to the fact that she has a well-developed case of ca tarrh. By reason of thelr delicate structure, the lungs are frequently the seat of a cold, especially if there is thé slightest weaknessof these organa. The treatment of catarrh of the lungs is also more dif- ficult and discouraging than ¢atarri Of sny other organ of the body. It would be wise therefore, to guard againet it by every precaution possible, WOMEN SHOULD 9 PAGES v YO 14, __SEC ON D "SECTION "I hardly know how to thank you for the good Peruna has done me. *1 suffered five years with pain in the stomach. About & year ago it became | #0 bad I could hardly bear it. I coughed day and night and grow weaker and | weaker. The pain extended through my body and I also had difficulty in breathing, which made me cough. Everyone thought I had consumption. "My husband heard of Perum and bought five bottles. This treatment vir | tually cured me and now I recommend Peruna to every one who is suffering. "I thank Dr. Hartman for this excellent remedy." Ste. Julie de Vercheres; P. Q., Canada, «Mra, Mois Parizean. Perunsa has been found tho most re=| liable of all remedies for coughs, colds | and catarrh, by reason of the fact thas | it goes at once.to the very. se at of the' Arouble. It searches out every eroviee, every duct of the body. It quivkens and equal- izes the circula~ tion of the blood, thus relieving the congested mueons membranes. 1iex- ercises a healing and soothing effect upon the mucous membrahes, no matter whather t! are the more exposed membranes of the head and throat, or whether they line the remotest oélls of the lungs. Mrs. Jaschob, 163 Hilo ks Bt, Toledo, Ohio, writes: "When I wrote to yon for advice, I had been sick for thee yesrs. 1 had troable with my throat. Often 1 could | nos Sresshe through nose, [alse had pains in nry ches took Perunw. socording, 0 directions | PERU-NA THE REMEDY FOR CATARRH OF THE LUNGS. sad it bas cured ma You Can Have a Model Kitchen' "as cool and white as a dairy. § No smell, fo smoke," no heat, no dust. No old-fashioned contrivances. Is the latest practical, scientific cook-stove. It will cook the most elaborate dinner without heating the kitchen, Boils, bakes, or roasts better than any range. 'Ready in a second. Extir puiheds inasecond. Fitted with Cabinet Top, with collapsible rests, towel rack, and every up-to-date feature imaginable, You want it, bee cause it will cook any dinner and not beat the room. No hes no smoke, no coal to bring to carry out. It does awsy with the drudgery of cooking, and makes it a" & leasure. Women with the light touchy quick fire, gimply by No half-hour Ap is lesy trouble than coal, br ay } The sickel finish, with the turquoise blue of the gnameled chimneys, makes fitable line of business may readily be appreciated when itis explained that & male deer will command a price of {from $20 10 840, from the white min Lore and others who soe ever in the sarket for the snimals and that the ipmat sells for from 25 to 30 cents a pound. > The Forgotten Thing. MA Londen Miss Haldane shares with her | fingujshed brother the secretary war in the British govermment, a glrong sense of humour, Her best stories are shout her own -tountry- men, andl smack of the soil Spenk- ing once to an sudince of ladies, she told an amusmd story. of a Pertheh we plarmer who on bis way home, from marist one day, sukdenly remember {od thal Be had forgotten something, thr what be could not reesll. | As bn peared home the conviction Fineremsed, and thre times Be stop. tpud' his horse and went eareiully {through bis pocket-book in the von | endeavor Ao diecover. what he had wilsse Jw die course he r dis of at him in surprise and J {Forme and hi a was wet by is Sug lif, ok - Witisioey and Onions, Cleveland Plain Doser. senator Elihu Root's onion atory is an iklustentan of the diffienity of ton ieabing «vil pradtioss, "Ture she cuse," anid Mr. Root, "of old Joba Hedowm. Jobs was a lawy- habit of going (0 a neigh alobn every apr at 1 taking a stat glass of was nist proud of this bab after the whisky, be always a ove. x TEN "Put ope morning it there wore nn vioves in the bar... and Jolmi, after Kaviag somsldcred the mat- te a small raw onion from the th tray, That would destroy telltale whisky ardor, go dour, 1 pe the clove bad always done, ip Ahinking 1h returned to his it wasn double desk. At it be snd Wie smsplorer sat face to face. ey on bie reivrn was soon aware that his cosploves noted somethi Tho una' nostrily quivered, he sailled; and by, wth a grimaes of peat, froke out. hens, {oak we father, what hare you done ud a» cingha-& Po ik confidential elork, a d Be had the baspenad thet *