PAGE SIXTEEN. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIGSATURDAY, MAY, 25 1912. SE mn ST EL SR he SO WORT AIT TR ue ANE Hm 1 | Give the Kiddies a ~ Bicycle ON TRAGIC BIRD ROCK SOLITARY LIGHT MARKS GRAVE. YARD OF THE GULF. Isolated Beacon In the Magdalen Group of Islands at the Mouth of the St. Lawrence Has Been Scene Have Lost Their Lives--Meroic Woman and Her Lonely Vigil. A gruesome record atfaches to Bird Rock Lighthouse, Death and disaster seem to pay regular visits to this barren and isolated gpot, the north- ernmost of a group of more than a dozen islands, the Magdalens, located almost in the- centre of the Gulf of WO things face ever rent, who doesn't, , ow them. First, the necessity of keeping the children out of mischief. Second, the necessity of giving them | healthful exercise as an outlet for their restless energies. The bicycle is the happiest solution in the world for the small boy or: girl problem. If the youngster is! bicycling you don't need to worry about him. He is having a time of his life combined with the most helpful exercise you can possibly provide him. Bt. Lawrence, In fact, the archipel- ago itself is particularly dangerous to vesgels and is known to the sailors as the graveyard of the gulf, so many have been the wrecks reabouts. Bird Rock is little more thsn a huge rock rising mbruptly out of the water to a height of 140 feet, on which the Canadian Government maintains one of the most inaccessible light house etations on the Atlantic coast. Its sides are washed by the dashing gult waters, while thousands of sea owl have built nests under its rocky ge. Until a few years ago, when a roadway was blasted out from the summit to water level, visitors and supplies were taken ashore by means of a cage suspended at the side, rais- ed and lowered with a windlass, such a landing being possible only in calm weather, Here it was that Peter Borque lived with his wife and baby; here it was that he kept the beacon going night after niglt--and long nights and lonely ones they must have been; and here it was that his poor body was cast into the swirling rage of the storm waters, while his courageous | wife, remembering her responsibilities | above all else, maintained the light { for 10 still longer nights before relief Bicye of doors, fresh air, b to his eyes his cheeks. Why childhood isn't child- hood without a bicycle! Don't the kiddies the best ifs of a Models for Boys and Girls in the famous " " and a Sloat makes with the ful construction of the adult models. keeps him out his lungs with the sparkle the color to NERVOUSNESS RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY TROUBLES. e-- Do you suffer from palpitation of the heart, headache, cold hands or feet, creepy sensations, indigestion, sleepless- ness, nervousness, hysteria? These symptoms show a condition of EXHAUSTED OR DEBILITATED NERVE FORCE. The natural function of every organ . is absolutely under cantrol of the nerve ! centres, and thus nervousness may bring | on Diaseres, Kioney Disease, Inwamp | Diseases, and other troubles so often ' seen in run-dows, nervous. girls and women, simply because the organs have | not a healthy nervous system to con- | LER Every girl and woman should keep * her Nimvous Svsten Steonc any Wert Barancin. Resrorarons Tasers will do this. They purify the blood and re- store the nervous system to its mormal | healthy standard and put the power of . resistance in the tissues. They are a | composition of great value as a food | i a 'for the + 3 regulator of di © culiar to girls and women. The experience of others shou reason why ¢ ~ them a trial. One box will con Jom of their meriss. Read the r for | 'on circuldr accompanying each | : be jo 2 came. And when the Government ship arrived, she was so weak that it was necessary to carry her aboard. Her courage has been commended by the Canadian authorities, 'for sven | though she and her small baby ware | subjected to severe hunger and cx. osure, she managed to keep the light urning which no doubt saved many . vessels from going on the rocks. And now another keeper is waten- ing the lamps nightly at Bird Rock Light. May his fate be a better one than that of each cf his predecessors. Telesphore Turbide, another keep- er, remained in charge of the light- house for over 16 years, but even 'he did not escape the dangers of his call- ing. On June 24; 1891, he was putting home a charge ih a signal gun when it exploded and blew off part of his right hand. n March, 1897, Damien Cormier, an assistant keeper of the lighthouse, started out on a seal hunt accom- panied by Charles Turbide, a lad of 17, and Arsene Turbide, cousin of the latter. Cormier's wife was left in charge of the lighthouse during his absence. The hunters made many killings, but as night approached they were overtaken by a blizzard such as is common in that section. As the storm increased in fury and the cold grew more intense, Cormier ahd his two companions made futile efforts to get back ashore and, failing in this, to at least withstand the buffeting gale: In agony the men Jumped up and down on the ice, beat. ng their arms across their chests and pounding together their frozen hands. At length Cormier tumbled over in a heap. Charles Turbide fell uncon- scious at his side. Before daybreak both were dead. ? Then Arsene Turbide went out into the snowy waste and looked about him. The storm had abated by this time. The snow had ceased to fall. He could see clearly now and quickly realized that it was impossible to re- turn by the route he had come, as the north wind had forced his ice floe far out in the gulf. In the hazy direction of his home a rough sea tossed, piled up with ragged fragments of ice. boat could live in such waters. His only chance for salvation lay in the hard, frozen gulf toward the shore of Cape Breton, even though that shore was 70 miles away. ¢ Arsene buried the bodies of his comrades underneath an overturned boat. Grasping the bludgeon he had used in the slaughter of seals he turned his face in the direction of Cape Breton and started on his long journey. All that cold day Arsene trudged over the rongh ice with neither food nor drink. Sometimes he p through deep drifts, sometimes he glided more easily over windswept surfaces. As the day wore on he was assailed by frequent spells of drowsi. ness. But he was determined to fight and struggle to the end. When night 0 "once he stretched himself upon the would mean his last sleep. © next morning he crept upon a seal and clubbing it to death drank the warm blood. He did not know that his garments, his face and his hands were smeared with blood, but he did realize that he had secured renewed strength tinue his journey, Late that after. noon he reached Meat Cove at Cape Breton and to i] i F FUN TN COMMONS, Past Session Has Shown a Renais- sance of the Old Humor, When the Jate lamented John Barr, the Shelburne doctor, aud member for Dufferin, was found dead in bed three years ago, the wise ones who watch the proceedings of Parliament from the Gallery chronicled the passing of the last of the long line of humorists of the Laurier re- 7 of Mapy Fatalities When Keepers™ gime. A series of sessions, unrelieved ' by the sparkle of wit, was in sight, The turn of time's wheel, however, i has brought into being a Parliament to which Barr is but a half-forgotten memory. ' wears the caps and bells. The session just ended, the first of the Borden reign, has seen the de- velopment of humorists out of what was formerly regarded as somewhat raw material. years gone ¥ Frank Oliver, for instance, was sel- ; , dom taken Seriously. With the load tof the Interior pasiment lifted | from his shoulders by the electors on September 31 last, the man from Ed- | monton has displayed a lightness of itouch in debate and a delicacy of | irony in retort which has astonis! ' political friend and foe alike. It was in he referred to 2 "Spouch. of George Bradbury, as "a series of pre- meditated inexactitudes." . Before touching on the new men t who have shown indications of turn- | into "Bill Nyes" and "George | Ades," a further glance over the oid< { timers may be permitted. Emmerson, | the bushy-haired man from Moncton, | displayed endurance in debate which | staggered the taciturn Frank Coch- rane. Visitors to Bt. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary years ago who went to the cell of the Valleyfield murderer, { Bhortis (of happy Lady Aberdeen | memory), will remember that that in- "teresting gentleman used to offer for sale little pieces of round cardboard, the exact size of a ten cent piece, on { which he had laboriously written the | Lord's Prayer. If Bhortis ever wants a change of copy, the Minister of Justice might send him the Unrevised Hansard of last session. The convict could easily copy the speeches of the new Minister of Railways on his lit- tle piece of cardboard. Those who followed the proceedings will remember the prominent part layed by Rodolphe Lemieux, the ex Perens and for a few weeks the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. Lemieux never sat in op« position before. He was born politi cally with a silver spoon in his mouth, at the general elections of 1806. "We are here, and you ard there," as Mr. Monk would say, make all the difference in the world, a the pelished Rodolphe has found lit tle humor in the change. In the ins "tervals between his incessant attacks on Messrs. Pelletier and Monk the former Minister had.one little til{ with A. C. Boyce, of West Algoma, | which formed one of the spiciest "en: . tre-acts" of the session. yee, whd has been in the running for the va cant Solicitor-Generalship for some time, was twitting Lemieux on his short tenure of office as Minigter of Marine. "But," retorted Lemieux sweetly; "my hon. friend will admit that I was a minister of the crown. I was not merely a minister in the news; papers. And everyone agreed that that was 8 good one on Arthur Cyril Boyoe.--~ The Mace in Saturday Night. A Porcupine Character. One of the most interesting char- | acters in the Porcupine district id , Mary Van Geer, known as plaid | "Mary" to the bulk of the population: | Bhe is a Dutch girl why blew in from , "outside" some time before the fired | and did heroic rescue work during | that devastating experience. She is six feet tall and very strong physicals ly, and many stories are told of her | muscular prowess. She keeps a sta- | tionary and fancy store which enjoys ! favor with the community, and if ad intoxicated man comes into her shop ! it 1s no effort for her to throw him | out. "Mary" mixes with the male * population of the camp on a unique ting of absolute equality and yet , possesses the re entire community. Her fine open countenance and ability to look every- body straight in the eye judices the visitor in her favor, with all her ability to take care of herself, there is nothing masculine about her. But Mary is moving on. She likes the frontier life and Porcupine has be- come less attractive to her since it got a railway and the telephone and electric lights. Bhe has the old Vik. ing blood in her veins. She is pos- sessed by the wanderlust and one of =e Our Trade With U. 8. te the defeat of reciprocity and the keeping up of the tariff re- | strictions against trade between Can. i ada and the United Btates, the signi- ficant fact is shown by the trade re- tarns for the twelve months ending with February last that Canada's to- tal trade with her neighbor to the essed dum Jour by 582,940, or abou per cent., trade with Great Britain in. E i | bi i | ; 3 A new line of youngsters + respect of the | the | BEAUTIFYING OTTAWA | Government Is Spending $100,000 a Year at the Dominion Cansital. | To embellish and beautify the capi. tal of Canada the Dominion Govern- ment is now spending no less than $100,000 each year, the money being disbursed by the Ottawa Improvement | Commission, of which Sir Henry Bate is the chairman. More than one million dollars has already been spent on driveways and | parks, and in the next five years ! probably one million more will be expended on the scheme of beautifi- | cation along broad and comprehensive ines. ! The Ottawa driveway, one of the principal works of the Improvement 'Commission, is universally recognized as one of the finest, if not, indeed, the finest, on the continent of North America. Bit by bit, the driveway system has been gradually extended year by year, { until it now reaches from the Experi. | mental Farm, on the extreme west of ! the city, to the Rockliffe rifles ranges, in the east, two miles beyond 'the city limits. | From the Experimental Farm to * Cartier Square--the Champs de Mars | of Ottawa--the driveway parallels the { Rideau Canal. A quarter of a mile | farther on the driveway resumes in | Major's Hill Park, and circles around | the Nepean Point cliffs, over | looking the Ottawa River, and con- { Canada's Royal Governor-General in | the Rideau Hall grounds. But the | driveway does not stop there. It ex. i tends for a mile and a hall farther i down the Ottawa River to the rifle | ranges, where the annual D.R. A. matches are held. | The driveway itself is a splendidly macadamized roadway, the most pop- ular route for motor cars and car- riages in the oity. On either side, the driveway throughout its entire length is bordered with beautiful lawns, shrubbery, flower-beds, shade trees and rustic work. Here and there miniature lakes add to the attractive- ness of the general scheme. All but one of the members of the commission are appointed by the Dominion Government. The excep- tion is the Mayor of Ottawa, who is ex-officio a member, The length of the driveway at pres- ent is 13.28 miles, and it is being added to year by year. Right now the Improvement Commission is eon- sidering a scheme to illuminate the driveway with the "'white way" lights from Rideau Hall to the Experimenta! Farm, a distance of some four miles. One feature of the driveway is a SpSedway at Rockliffe Park. It is a mile in length, and is ysed for speed- motor cars, i "Fhe general impression through the country seems to be that the Dom- inion Govermment is giving Ottawa something for nothing. However, Ot- awa gives good value for the money that is spent within its borders by the Improvement Commission. The Government buildings are exempted from taxation, and the city gives fire protect and water gratuitously, Hon. Mr. Monk, the new Minister of Public Works, said the other day that the new Government intended to continue on an even larger scale the policy inaugurated by Sir Wilfrid | Laurier and his colleagues for the embellishment and beautification of the national capital--Vincent Park in Loronto Globe. Bulgaria and Canada. i. For many years before 1909, a very "atge number of Bulgarians, Mace- | donians and Greeks left their own | countries to settle in the United States, but from the beginning of this i century there has been considerable Praleretios shown by these sub-Bal. an people for Canada. In the year | 1900, the immigration department fig- | ures showed a quite small number of | these, buf thi: has annually intreas- ed until in 1911-12, 4,484 Bulgarians | and Macedonians alone had arrived here, and sbout one-third of that num- | ber of Greeks. Many Bervians are | with this immigrating company also. | The majority of them find their start ing spot at Belgrade, in Bervia, and nee they travel to Rwmda-Pesth. From Buda-Pesth they practed to Jlavee, and travel via don & iverpool to Quebec, ¢ome on, the large majority, to settle in Toronto. Here they get employment as street laborers, on railroads, or, many of them at firét as waiters in restaurants. These blossom out later into oprie- tors of the cheaper feeding places in the city. There are not a few of the Small capitalists; among them who {inves right up to the very door of i | gine?" said the driver, 'go ahead : complacence other qualities, has endeared him to ed: ~ HAYS' BIG MEN. Chief Lieutenarts Have All Been Mentioned to Succeed Him. Three men have been mentioned as successors of the late Charles M Hays as president of the Grand Trunk anl Grand Trunk Pacific Railways-- Mr. E. H. Fitjhueh, first vice-presi. dent of the G.TR.; Mr. E. J. Cham- berlin, vice-president and ners! manager of the Grand Trunk Fific. and Mr. F. H McGuigan, formerly one of Mr. Hays' right-hand men on ths G.T.R. . Earl Hopkins Fitzhugh, who stood next to Mr. Hays and 'who had fol lowed his chief through most of hie career, was born in Missouri in 1853, started out as a banker, and then en- tered the service of the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern Railway as a clerk. When that road 'was sb sorbed by the Wabash he made the acquaintance of Mr. Hays, and when Hays went to the Grand Trunk he soon sent for Mr. Fitzhugh. The lat ter came to Toronto as superinten- dent of the middle diyision of the G.TR., and won rapid promotion. He was one of the men brought in by Mr. Hays to galvanize the old road into action, he helped a whole ot. When Mr. Hays left the G.T.R. to become president of the Southern Pa cific he took Fitzhugh with him, and brought him back when he returned to the G.T.R. in February, 1902. In 1904 Mr. Fitzhugh became third vice president of the G.T.R., and in 1910, first vice-president. Mr. Edson J. Chamberlin, who suc ceeded Mr. Frank W. Morse as vice. president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific three years 3 is somewhat older than Mr. Fits. hugh: He is a native of New Hamp shire, and was general manager of the Canada Atlantic when that road into the hands of the Grand runk. He has lived in Canada since 1886, and is an able, all-round réil-- way man. Mr. McGuigan, whose name has been mentioned in connection with «the big appointment, is better known to the public than either Mr. Fitzhugh or Mr. Chamberlin, because of his rather picturesque qualities. He came up from the ranks, and he is the sort of man about whom many stories are told. It is said he called J. J. Hill a liar on the occasion of his rupture with that magnate when he left the Great Northern, after a very briel stay in St. Paul, after he severed his connection with the G.T.R. It is also said that he applied the same epithet personally to an Ontario Cabi- net Minister in connection with the construction of the Hydro-Electric line, which he recently built. Mr. McGuigan"s success and the fact that he is looked upon as big enough to fill Mr. Hays' position "may be traced to his persistence when young of always fitting himself for a better job than he held. One day when he was a boy carrying water on the Great Western down near St. Thomas there was talk of a strike. An engineer laughingly said to him: "You'll lose your job, som, if the men go out." "Oh, I guess not," said young Me- Guigan, "probably I'll get your job." 'What do you mean?' asked the engineer. y y, I'll drive your engine," was the reply. "What do you know about the en- "d Show me." " ereupon McGuigan, the water boy, took hold and ran the locomo- tive! He had kept his eyes open and found out all about it. ' A Studholme Story, Mr. Allan Btudholme, M.P.P., the only Labor member in Ontario's Leg- islature, is a much better speaker than he was when he first entered the House. He used to pl the very dickens with the English ' The Labor member from Hamilton simply couldn't be kept from a front bench, which he now occupies. In his early, extra-ungrammatical days in the House, he was a back-bencher, but it was his habit as he warmed up in a speach to emphasize each good Joi made by a step forward, anding, finally at an empty front bench, from which he finished his ora- tion. One day he had accomplished this advance movement, and was elo- quently holding forth at some one else's seat, at the .fromt. 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