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TRAVELLING. eH LETS A 1% HL EA Ottawa Horse Show Ottawa, Ont, i Telp Tickets will bo Issued at er $4.20 Good going Wednesday, May 3rd and §ocd to return until Monday, Trains leave Kingston 12-25 noon arriving Ottawa 5.00 p.m. daily (ex- cept Sunday) and 2.48 a.m., arriving Ottawa 9.57 am. daily. Through sleeper to Ottawa on 2.48 am. train. For tal! particulars and sleeping car reservations apply to dP. HANLEY, Agent, Corner Johnson and Ontario Sts. oR GSTONG E100 RGYEALTY Round trip tickets will be issued, in- cluding one admission to the Horse Bhow, at 4 $4.20 Good going May 3rd. Good to re- turn until May Sth. . Leave Kingston 12.01 p.m., arrive Ottawa 6 pm. Leave Ottawa 10.45 a.m, arrive Kingston 3.56 p.m. feulars at K. and P. and et Office, Ontario Street. F, CONWAY, Gen. Pass. Agent. S-------------- BAY OF QUINTE RAILWAY. 'Traih leaves Union Station, Ontario et, 4 pom. daily (Sun excepted) bh rn and a & north. jee quick despatch to Bafnock h, and points on Central p your shipments via Bay "a Fog further parti- + Di SON, Agent, EE ATTEND THEATRE, of Winchester--His There are more stories told of Dr Talbot, the new Bishop of Winchester in succession of Dr. Ryle, who was than any other living cleric. recounted a story of a clergyma much esteemed for his skill at col lecting funds for church purposes, who found himseM ng country house which was reported to be haunted. On being asked if he would mind n 1 pleasure, as he should be very happy to meet the ghostly visitor. In the middle of the night, sure enough, a spectral figure appeared, clanki his chains and in other app ways testifying as to his genuine ness. The clergyman showed no sign of fear, however. Greeting the appari sired permission to put down as a subseribér to his school funds. Then, jumping out of bed, he begged to be excused while he found his pocket-book. By this time, Dr. Talbot has said, the ghost had dis- appeared, . Talbot was Vicar of Leeds from 1889 to 1485, and Bishop of Rochester Bishop of Southwark. His lordship's wonderful rhetoric was exemplified not very long ago when preaching in celebration of the reopening of a Bermondsey church after the installation of the electric light. The light went out in the mid- dle of the sermon; and with the ex- ception of 3 remark to the effect that it would not hurt to be in the dark, the bishop continued his sermon a3 fluently as if nothing had happened. Dr. Talbot is very tolerant and broadminded, apropos of which a story is told. One of his young lady rishi on one n asked er mother's rmission to visit a al je-hall in the company of her "young man." "The music-hall!" exclaimed the parent, "and what will the bishop say when he knows you have been there?" "The bishop? responded the girl; "Why, he won't mind. I heard him humming 'Stop yer tickling, Jock' on the top of a tram-car." A Sporting Offer. Lord Inverclyde, chairman at the annual dinner of the Gi w Ship owners' and Shipbrokers' Benevolent Association, went into business with Messrs. G. and J. Burns, of w, on leaving Repton, and acqui knowledge of shi subsequently m him known in House of lords as the representative of shipping. Then, again, Lord Inverclyde is one of the best-known sportsmen in the north, and besides being a good shot, is an rt a hockey, and curling. dered thirty a neighboring town. The shooting was of a really marveljous character; but the act performances need not be described in detail. The net results will be gathered readily from she following note, which ntly received from the dealer. It ran--"Gentlemen,--I beg i ly rder, only There was r admirer of the qualities of Lord Fisher, who, having a ites from the active list of the navy, than Queen Victoria. A delightful story is told of how, when a n French admiral was about to pay a visit to Portsmouth--this was. when Sir John was admiral superintendent at the dockyard--the Queen request. ed him to sure and "be very nice" to the visitor. With a face as impassive as a Chinese mandarin the admiral replied, "I'll kiss him if you wish it, ma'am!" Devoted to duty, Lord Fisher would brook no shirking any man under him. A certain captain once sent word that it was impossible to and such a ven "Umph !" replied "Jacky Fisher," as dh hank he Peppa Captain at i is igficars for X---- on. the day -- LIF have him towed there." ) Canadian Stage Favorites. A London news item of some inter ce on a ate. Palme, the charming French-Canadian singer, who was in the Co. at Covent Sazden this Anil is now sihging with the same aL Pa ui, sad receiving good notices. she is givit.g a recital of her own early in May, the first one she given in London. Miss Maude Al alse a Canadian by birth, : repertoire. Mr. Hyde, Ne | T the Great Eastera Rail Railway Commis<ion that i 1 Env to "Longonem for by the Le 'THE BISHOP'S DITTY GIRL JUSTIFIED HER WISH TO| Many Stories Told Abont the Bishop | And ! . Wonderful | . Rhetoric. Was Finely Exemplified. . installed as Dean of Westminster, | To a Blackheath audience he once in a | sleeping in the ghost chamber, he | stated that it would give him great tion in a most friendly war. he de- e¢ ghost from 1895 to 1905, when he became ' a ing affairs, which { hae recounted many good | concerning & | his seventieth birthday, re- | t his ship to such ! est to Canadians is that Beatrice La' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, | "THE SARN MAJOR." | ' ------ { About the "Crowned" King of the Lower Ranks. "Sergeant-Majors are ex-Sergeant-Major Robert Ed- in a recent famous law suit. s about right Queen Elizabeth the flord to ignore of briga. $5 a day te! ne zs, for | said | mondsor i 1d : ! fell ; ) that princely salary had been 49 1-2 cents per day + three times as gpuch to-day, { aud in his way he Ximates to { what Tommy Atkir if "a tin god." { But his evil genius is still at work, } 42 ers who want unpleas , fly fo the sergeant-mi: has fo be cleared away, dug, or baggage loaded, or ntries mounted ried, the sergeant-major has to "find" ! the men His chief « ty is to see that every- { body elge does theirs. He cannot, they, expect popular:ty any more than a hangman There is that terrible "Sergeant | major's parade," generally in the ear. ly morning, and 'consisting mostly of rap! evolutions that mean torture to the older non-commissioned officer burdened with "avoirdupois." But there is no escaping him. If you plead a blister on one foot, he may send you down to the gymnasium for hopping exercises on the other foot. If you plead inability to do fa- tigue work because of injured hands, he may have you harnessed to the heavy roller on the officers' cricket pitch. One boid Tommy pleaded exemption from church parade on the ground that he was an agnostic. i The sergeant-major assumed an ex- pression of innocent interest. "Don't you believe in the Ten Com- mandments? he mildly asked the bold free-thinker. "Not one, sir," was the reply. "What! Not the rule about keeping the Sabbath?" "No, sir." "Ah! Well, you're the very man I've been looking for to scrub out the canteen!" The sergeant-major wears a gold crown--on the arm, of course--which is the envy of all the non-commission- ed ranks. He must always be address. ed as "Sir"; and, if other stafl-ser- geants share his privileges of gold lace and slung sword, the sergeant-major is the only man who ever unsheathes that sword. Yet, with all these privileges, the sergeant-major cannot escape his evil | genius. He is responsible for seeing { that the eanteen and sergeants' mess | are cleared out at night; he has to remove the caps of prisoners before marching them in for their "'inter- view" with the colonel, and their stripes as well, il they be reduced. | But he has the goodly compensation of marching at the head of the regi- | ment, next behind the colonel The 8.-M. is generally credited with | the ability to drill a squad on a three- | penny-bit. And if, during the process known as marking-time, a lack of har- | mony mars a squad consisting of only | two recruits, the sergeant-major is the | only possible human being who could solve the purzle as to which recruit is out of step! If sesgeant-majors be doomed to un- popularity, there is obviously unlimit- | ed popularity in store for the soldier { who can take them "down a peg." Private Murphy was being treated right royally in the regimental can- teen, and his comrade Jones watched the proceedings with a jealous eye | He inquired the reason. {| "Why, Murphy's the regimental | hero! was the reply. "There was a | company cricket-match this afternoon, and Murphy was one of the bowlers | He's a great bowler, is Murphy I "Oh! He got 'em out quick; did the trick--eh ?" "No, he didn't; he never hit the wicket once." "Thought you said he was a great t bowler?' ' "So he is. Why, man alive, he knocked out four the sergeant-major's teeth first ball. The bounder won't be able to shout, ' 'Shun! As-you-were! 'Shun * until he gets a new get. !" i & tremen | eXtra In the Good Old Times. The brand of "8" figures in an ex- | traordinary act passed by our Parlia- ment in 1547, says a London paper. Any able-bodied man or woman found loitering and not seeking work for the space of three days could be eeiz- ed and brought before two justices of the peace, who, upon confession or on the proof of two witnesses, "shall | immediately cause the said laborer to be marked with a hot iron in the breast the 'V' and adjudge the sal rsort living so idly to hig pre 50 Do his slave for two years. said slave shall be made to work ¥ beating, chaining, or otherwise." If convicted of running away during this period, thé justices copld cause him to be branded on the forehead or the cheek with the letter "8" and then adjadged to his master as a slave for. ever. For running away a second time the penalty was death. Birds Are Early. Rev. Mr. Philp, of Essex, referring " the large variety of spring birds ready seen, says, "This is the earl jest coming that I have ever known and I have kept track of their migra. tion for many years." Usually - the meddier is purveyor of trouble. - unpopular," - 'MINER TO PRIVY. COUNCILLOR. Burt Is Father of the British House of Commons. The honor of being "father" of the British House of Commons belongs tc Mr. Thomas Burt, who has repre. isented the Morpeth Division since 1874. There ir only one older member. 3f !the new Parliament in point of Par. liamentary service, but his presence at St. Stephen's has not been con- tinuous. This is Mr. Henry Chaplin, who made his Parliamentary debut 'in 1868. + The son of a miner, Mr. Burt was born near South Shields in the same year that Queen Victoria ascended the throne, and his childhood was {filled with scenes of strikes, while one {of his earliest recollections was see- ing his father's furniture bundled out lof his cottage. - - - Although he is now one of the best Themas + |educated of men, Mr. Burt, who is a { Privy Councillor, had little education {in his youth exeept such as is gleaned from the stern school of life. At ten he was engaged as a trapper boy in a mine. Tt was his business to a and shut the door which directed one of the air currents in the mrine as. the tube came through. He had to sit in the dark, and worked twelve hours a {day. From this position he was promoted to that of donkey-driver at ong shilling a day. Mi. Burt's popularity with his fel low-miners was very great, and in 1885 they elected him secretary of the Northumberland Miners' Mutual Pro- vident Association. In connection with his election to Parlisment--he was the first miner to be so honored--some amusing stories have been told. Mr. Burt's oppon ent was Major Duncan, and wherever the major went he was received with every kindness. Once he was lured by the expressions of friendliness into seeking a vote of confidence as Conservative candidate. Practically only the seconder voted for#t, the major: to comment: "What de you mean? Ypu come in crowds my meetings; you do not inlerrupl me; you cheer my speeches; and then you vote against me 10 a man!" "Oh, yes," replied ome of the miners, speaking for the rest, "we like you weel enough, but we're gan to vole for Tommy Burt!" 0 mover and which: caused Dalhousie and The Kohinoor. Lord Curzon, while Viceroy of ln. dia, once referred to his predecessors in the Government there as men who "worked between an earth iron andra sky like brass, laying the foun- dations of empire." None more strenuously than the Marquis sf Dalhousie, to whom is mainly due the unity of the Indian Empire. . As Governor-General Lord Dalhousie iw troduced the telegraphs, built rail- ways, constructed canals, reduced postage, and organized departments of public instruction. It is wo Dalhousie that the English owe their possession of the great Kohinoor diamond, a jewel of famous history. In 1813 Runjeet-Bingh, au ludian potentate, extoried jt irom & political refugee. Alter the second sikh war in 1849. Lord Dalhousie con: fiscated it on account of the heavy debt owed to the East India Bubber Co. by the Labore state. It is said that the company imag- inesd it was to become their property, but, the Governor-General sent it Ww Queen Victoria. Those were adven turous times, aod it was only by great care that the jewel reached its des tination. For weeks the Governor (ieneral wore it on his person night and day. : « the tassels of the armles in which te diamond was set had been cut ol to diminish its bulk, snd Lady Dal housie had enclosed the anulel with its jewel in a leatbersbag. This Lag was 'sewed into a cashmere beit lined with chamois, which Lord Dalbousie wore constantly. Two dogs, Baron and Bendar, were chained to the Governor-General's bed, so the safety of the jewel was insured while he slept. ike Sir Michael Culme-Seymour. The principal witness in the roya. libel action, Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Is the head of a fam- ily whose motto might be "Admirals All." His cousin, Aamiral Sir Edward Seymour, retired from ihe birthday, while their uacie, another Sir Michael Seymour, mand of the British naval forces in the China War of 1888-67, both his ne- phiews serving under him. Another of their ancestors, the first baronet, won his title for gallantry while in com- mand of the thirty-six-gun Thetis and Niemen. When Sir Michdel Culme-Seymour was younger than he is now Le Was a very handsome youth, who, more success with the fair sex than marooned © a too-enterprising some manoeuvres for sendipg was of value to the enemy. ---------------- ' Conundrums. Why is a nobleman like a book? Because he has a title. What class of women give tone to society? The belles. What is hat which has = mouth, but mever speaks; a bed, but never lies mm it? A river. saddie? Because it hokis a Why are airships like tramps? Be. cause they have no visible means of worked frigate i Amethyst in 1808, when ue captured in succession the foriy-gun (rgates | Why is a fur quart jar like a side- |: gallon. APRIL 20. 1911, fo ---- ~~ MONUMENTS TO WOMEN. Feminine Valor. The custom of sentiment and approcistion for ihe jen: images, stamping of coins were thus honored and then it was distinction because of their power and ight. n modern times the custom has be- come more common and we now have monuments, tablets, statues and buildings erected to honor cne whose life is considered worthy of such dis- tinction. Three monuments and one building have been erected in Canada to keep alive the memory of dead women and hold in perpetuity the remembrance of historic events. In the Place d'Armes at Montreal stands a monument to Maisonneuve, the founder of the city. Among the subsidiary figures on the corners of base of this monument is one which seldom fails to attract the attention of the passer-by. Ii represents a woman tenderly stooping to bind up the | wounds of a captive boy. This wo- {man was one of the pioneers to, Cana- | dian soil, and hers was a life of self- sacirfice to the fugitive Indians whom | that little company, led by Maison- Ineave, had come to Christianize. | There are few lovers of Canadian his tory who do not henor and love the } In February, 1906, a fire occurred $n a suburban school of Montreal, which occasioned a terrible loss of i life. All Canada was thrilled by the i heroism of ome of the teachers in that building, a Scotch girl. She had | charge of the primary department'on {an upper floor and succeeded in con- | ducting forty of the small pupils to | safety. She went back to the sixteen pera ones in the face of certain death, and when the flames were sub- dued she was found dead with her little charges about her. Much en- thusiasm was aroused by her act of | heroism and self-sacrifice, and & chil | dren's hospital of that city was erect ed and dedicated to her memory. | Purther down on the banks of the | 8%. Lawrence is a simple stone tell {ing of the dauntlessscourage of a four- | teen-year-old girl, who is ranked | among the bravest of our early pio- neer heroines. The story of Made- leine de Vercheres is familiar to every stadent of Canadian history. Her brave command and delence of a lone ly fort manned by two soldiers and her own younger brothers against a band of Dbiood-thirsty © Indians, her fearless rescue of the settler's | family from a canoe in the very face { of imminent death, have been re- | counted over and over by the even- | ing firesides, A true follower of Joan {of Are, this little French maiden of | barely fourteen years was able to keep { up the courage of her litle company, | whieh included two cowardly soldiers { who would have blown the fort up | rather than make a defence if she bad | not deterred their hands and spurred | them on to action. Her aet of hero istn merits more recognition in the way; of public memerial than it has | yet received. One of the most prominent histori- cal figures among Canadian womens | unquestionably Laura BSecord, w | has twioé been honored by public me- { morials, one, a brome bust at Lun- | dy's Lane, where she is buried, and | the other a bronze tablet on a marble | monument at Queenston Heights, { near Brock's monument, but recently |.completed. { All who knew Laura Secord in her | time testified to her noble character, | and there were none who did not re- { joice to see her honored before her pa- tion as, perhaps, its bray % woman. She was of fair face and kind brown | eyes, and a sweet, lov smile hover- | ed about her mouth. The bust at { Landy's lane more justly represents | these characteristics of her features, | while the recently completed tablet at Queenston Heights represents her in old life wearing her quaint white cap | framing a face lined with care. There are plans in a more or less | completed state to honor other Cana- | dian women in the near future, and | there has been some very recent talk | of & memorial to the mourning queen active list | last year on reaching bis seventieth | was in vom | i y | fought and fell i | to the women wi | iantly, many of Ih having | sailors usually have, was nicknamed .| , "Ocean begun" by his comrades. | Sir Michael has one pel AVersioR--- journalists, and it was Le who dnoe |g" i ard Ey corre. | arine tradi spondent who was with hum during | 0.8 | newspaper certain information thas | They with A Canada Has Very Few Memorials of expressing public leeds of individuals by means of grav- | and } e is almost as old as time it~ | self. In the ancient days few women | only queens who received the mark of | glory, says Edith Carew in Saturday | PAGE ELEVEN. -- .™ ------ Ostrich Plumes Willow Plume, 'as ITlastrated Above, 17 Inches Long, $6.65. Direct fromm maker to wearer at maker's prices. 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