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Five Pas Touring or adster, $1,350, F.O.B, Toronto, 45 HP., with electric self starter, | STON ' AUTOMOBILE CO., AGENTS 140" IS NOT DYING OUT AS A MATTER OF FACT INDIAN 1s HOLDING HIS OWN. : { "The Noble Redman, Who Once Owned Canada, Now Numbers 104,966 Souls and the Eskimo 4,600--0On- | taris Has the Most Aborigines Within Hts Borders -- Education Works Wonders. Our native population--the descend ants of the ancient lords of forest and stream--is divided into two classes or races, one of which is wgll known. but tas other is seldom thought of as forming part of the population of the Dominion. These two races of abori. gines are the Indians and the Eeki. moe. If asked to give an estimate of this native population, and to name the province in which the largest | number of aborigines is to be found, | it is not likely that one person in | ten could give anything like correct answers. . The Indians are often thought of as members of a dying | race, fast passing away to the and beyond the setting sun; and as for | the Eskithos, they are usually asso. | ciated with the Arctic lands whers | the King's writ does not run and the | officers of the Department of the In- | terior and Indian Affairs are never heard of. Both conceptions are wrong. So far | as numbers are concerned, the In-| dians are holding their own fairly | well, numbering according to the re- | port of the Department of {Indian Af. fairs recently issued, 104,956, while of Eskimos there are 4,600 within the limits of Canada--a total native popu- | lation of 109,556. There are seven thousand more Indians:in Canada than there are white people in all | Prince Edward Island, while the mos are equal in number to one half the population of Soulanges 'county This total native population is equal to the number of all the people living in the counties of Beauharnois, Chat- eauguay, Huntingdon, Napierville, | Laprairie," St. Johns, Iberville and Missisquois, and one township in Brome. In every territorial divisio of Cznada there is an Indian popula- tion, and, strange as it may seem, it is not one of the new western prov-| inees but the old Province of Ontario that contains the largest red popula- tion, Ontario has 26,393 Indians; British Columbia, 24,781; Que bee, 12.817; Manitoba, 10,373; Saskatche-4 wan. 9.545; Alberta, 8,113; the Terri- | tories. 5.262: tha Yukon, 3.5009 Nova | Scotia, 1,969; New Brunswick, 1,903; and Prince Edward Island, 300 The report of the Department eon- gists largely of tha reports of the! agents having direct charge of the | various tribes and bands which here | and there are scattered over the | whole Dominion. These agents' re- | ports repeat the old stories told over | and over again, but there is this vary- i ing note runnicg through them--im- | { provement in industrial and moral | many re. an the | | conditions noticeable on | serves, particularly" on several | West, where the redmgn are turning to'the soil as & source sf 'livelihaod. | and in British 'Columbia, where whole | Lands are engaged in regular indus. | trial pursuits, and are rising steadily | in civilization. One of these agehey | reports is so glowing that it canpot | be passed' by without a few bef | gleamings It is the report from the | agency 'that includes the Queen Char. | lotte Islands off the coast-of British | Columbia. The Indians on this island | reserve are known as tha Haida na- tion. In one part of his report the agent writes: "When we read of 'The Passing of a Race,' and _consider the inroads, war and disease, made on this once Eski- | "ped died in a few | removed from her car. | with¢ 100 per cent. { could possibly take, | the medical classes alone, powerful nation, it may astonish the writer of history to know that the Haidas are increasing in numbers, and are becoming more and more | civilized It should be a further cause of wonder, If 'generally under- stood, that they have the number of good houses, cattle, boats, stores, public buildings and the Hest streets of any settlements on the islands. -- Their two le towns. are not 4» be compared with the tumble. down shacks commonly. found in In. dian villages. Two-story frame dwell. ings are common, and it is the am- bition of heads of families to construct | houses in accordance with plans and i specifications of the:lales' design. 'As boat builders, their "handiwork must be sean to be appreciated. To.day at Naden harbor every able-bodiad man of the band is at work building a cannery, residences and a wharf, for a fishing company and all are giving | satisfaction. "In the ohurches they have orches. tras and choirs, and lay readers. The Skidegate brass band carried off the rize at the annual competition in rince Rupert. They engaged the best "eachers available, and are pre. paring to contest at the next com- petition. During the summer months they engage in fishing, and as cannery work, and are considered' the Dest of employes by the cannery companies, During the winter months they are ot their homes, the children at the schools, and the men and women im- proving their houses and building. "At the present writing one band and the largest has a pay-roll of over $5,000 per month, when the fishing season begins, will be able to make large sums for the fish they will turn over to the canneries. In the to the fishing grounds, where the e spring sal mon run, and will receive from 20 eants to one dollar for each fish, catching from ten to fifteen each day ~for nearly two months. The women, meanwhile, are working in the can. . Teceiving on an average, two ars each day. They then 'take up the fishing for the smaller salmon, and continue until September of each year > Last 'year our Indian population had 61.612 acres pation increase of 3,062 acres over the re. turns for the preceding year. This land yielded 1,517,000 bushels of grain and roots, and 122,000 tons of hay, the whole having s valoe of $1.484346 The other of the income/ of bunti ous largest the St. Clair River and A TALENTEG-WOMAN, ~ Lite to t've Unfortunate. By the recent dat' of Dr. Alice McGillivray, Hamiltdn has lost a re- markable and high ly-educated woman. thay whem for exjensi-e and varied scientific knowledge this country Las had no superior and: few equals. De ceased had becn ailing for some time bus bore ap patiently and was suto- mobiling at the time her disease de- veloped suddenly an acute stage and hours after beiug From the early age of seven to her death at 51. Dr. McGilliveay was a continucus and ardent student and an omnivorous leader in the broad field of science. As a scholar and student she was a brilliant success. Born 'at St. George, where she at- tended school at the age of seven, she at once took her place at the head of her class, wherssshe was never replaced until she left for the High School. After passing through the High Bchool with the same suc- cess. she left for the Normal B:hool at Ottawa, where she achieved equal distinction. Then for a time she gave all her energy and ability to the toause of the higher education of wo- men in Canada, and her own bril- liant writing and speaking produced the most convincihg arguments that in brain power women we: the equal of men. Queen's University was the first to throw open its doors to women on equal footing with men, ahd Alice Mc- Gillivray, Elizabeth Smith and Eliza- beth Beaty at once entered. The male students treated it as a joke at first, but when the results of the first exam- inations were published, and when it { was learned. that all three of the lady students were well to the top. and | Alice McGillivray at the top of all marks, all she there was weep- ing wailing and gnashing of teeth among 'the male students. The medi- coy declared that lady students must be put out of the lege, or they would all leave and go to a Toronto college. The feeling became so des- perate, that through sympathy for the women attending the medical col- lege, money was at once subscribed, and the Women's Medical College, affiliated with Queen's University, was endowed for five years, in the belief: that at the end of that time, it would be self-supporting. Examination still continued the same for men and women in the uni- versity, and Alice McGillivray still ' continued this habit, which was so | obj tionable to: the male students, of ming out first in every examina. tion. Her ambition was not confined to for she completed in the arts classes at the same time, and carried off the gold | medalist in arts as well as in medi- cine. She was at once appointed professcr of practical anatomy in the Women's College, which position ghe held Hor one year, and was then appointed vice dean and professor of diseases of women and children. This position she held jor four years. She then' went to Chicago for a time and, yre- turning to Canads, started the prace tice of her Jrofesion, where she "re. mained until the time of her death. For the last fifteen years of her life she was very retiring, shunning so- ciety and publicity and giving all her time: to practice, study and 'quiet, charitable work. She was a friend of' the poor and the wronged and though she had a comparatively large income from her practice, she personally gave the most of it to unfortunate and poor girls and women. It was. said: by Rev. Dr. Smith. at { her funeral sérvice "Were every one to whom she did some loving act of kindness, to bring a blossom to her grave, she would sleep to-night be neath a wilderness of flowers." Genius and Insanity. Dr. Daniel Phelan, surgeon of Kingston Penitentiary who is regarded as an exper on menial diseases. has jssued a 33-page treatise entitled "Genius and Insanity." Some of his conclusions will be found startling to the lay reader, at least "One character of genius noted al- most invariably, is a sudden drifting away from 'ue ordinary, paths follow ed by the majority of men," says Dr. Phelan. ) "It is 'said. that more 'people of great genius exhibit" manifestations of in- sanity than do persons of ordinary mental faculties. This is due to the fact that genius is the expression of a highly sensitive nervous system, and is therefore more liable to dis eased conditions of. all kinds. "No man directly inherits true genius' any more than the divine gif of prophecy; on the other hand, tal: ent may marked in successive generations." ei ---- Air Line For Mail, According to recent reporis, mail between Port Huron, Mich., and Sar nia, Ont, will in the near future be transported by seroplape. - A school of aviation, backed by several weil known capitalists, will be establish- ed next month, and Lieut. Ruel, an experienced airman, will be the in. structor. The flight will be made on Lake Huron, the machines being equipped as hy- droplanes. The new ool expects to secure the contract for carrying the mail, and the citizens of both towns expect to get letters via the very lat est twentieth century improvement, the air line. The proposition will be a paying one in the winter, when the river is blocked with ice, and it is impossible for the ferry boats to cross. British Columbia ¥ producer of coal, soon take the lead among adian provinces. Here tofore, that honor has gone to Nova Scotia, which in 1911 produced 1 to the value of fourteen million dol jars. The British Columbia returns for 1913 are expeciad to reach twelve million dollars. : As a sh Co lumbia ma H you fell ail you think you know you will do some talking. i that kind thet | Late Dr. Alice "1cGillivray Gave Her | G. K. Chesterton's Happy Phrases Are | By No Mears Spontaneous. Mr. G. K. Chesterton hes often been ! dubbed the master of paradox, and | certainly he has no rival amongst] present-day writers in th. respget. | Consequently, he is both stimulating | and amusing, and he has now gather. | ed round him a huge and apprecia- | tive audience. t Mr. Chesterton istwont to déclare } tha he is one of the few real Liberals | left; the majority of that party have. in his opinion, fallen from grace. He is the sworn foe of legislation like | to Insurance Bills, Mental Deficiency Bills," all of which he regards as schemes for the oppression and regi- i mentation of the. poor. Mr. Chester-| fon's intellectual honesty is above | suspicion, and hence his fearless, out | spoken articles always attract the greatest attention. He himself be- lieves in wine and song and social | merriment, and so energetically does | he obey the old command, "Laugh and grow fat,'* that his waist line is | attaining alarming proportions. | It was in the true mature of things | that he should label a book of his | "Tremendous Trifles." A very inter | esting account has been given of his literary methods by a writer who re. cently interviewed Mr. Chesterton at his coantry home at Beaconsfield. "Tea disposed. of, Chesterton, a whale of a man with ambrosial locks and heavy tread, rambles like a huge blunderbuss about the room and talks. And as he walks and talks he blup- ders about among his words exactly as he blunders about among the fur- niture. He seems to:be feeling his way through a bla terms and pames, struggling with the | stiff, re- luctant clay of language in which all thought is imprisoned, to iget the wrong words out of i and. to, the right words to hold the, true mould of sense. : "This big man is he'whom dealers in literary tags never weany of weary- ing everybody else by naming 'clever paradoxer," and perpetually convicting | of 'brilliance.' Attend, and you will see that the process by which these paradoxes and these brilliances are evolved is going on before you. Those seeming lightring flashes of intuition are: laboriously fashioned out of such raw material as you sée--in what manner you also see. "However, you -must. see, still far- ther, if you use your eyes to fair pur- pose, that the big man, isnot thinking of paradoxes for the sake of pars- | doxes--as some foolish critics may have invited you'to suppose. Not a bit of it. . He is , fambling--literslly fumbling--after the truth, the 'net' truth, as it, were. He is rummaging in the rubbish-heap of words and cov- | cepts : to which a 'slovehly race of thinkers has reduced the working die- tionary of the English tongue. He seeks the clear word for the clear idea, baffled always by, the layers of mixed metaphor, in which every idea expressed (in, words is wrapped." 4 ' -- No Use For It. ¢ Judge, Parry says in his book that the uneducated man in (the street is a better witness of outdoor facts than a clerk or warehouseman,' having, a more : retentive; memory. ~ He tells a story-of a:blacksmith who went to the farriery classes held by the Manches- ter education authorities. The clerk in charge gave him a note-book and a pencil. "Wot's this; blacksmith. ° "To take notes,' replied the clerk. "Notes? Wot sort 0' notes?" "Why, anything the lecturer says which you think important and want to remember you may make a mole of it," said the clerk. "Oh," was ¢the scornful * reply, "anything. I swants to remember 1 must make a note of in this "ere book, must 1? , Then what do you think my bloomin' yed's ford" ---------- Perfect Confidence, #* Wmong the humblest of shopkeepers in Qardiff there is a confidence in stheir poor customers--quite unknown in different circles. Ove day 'the proprietress of a small shop stood on a corner gossiping, and a lad ap- proached. "Please, Mrs. he | announced, "we. have been kicking your counter for ten minutes. Mother wants a pound of soap." "Tell moth- er." was the reply, "to take what she wants and put the coppers in the saucer under the counter." --Cardiff Western Mail. ---------------- 4 A Wenderful Island of Chalk. & * The 'English island of Thanet, form- | ing a part of the county of Kent, is almost wholly co of chalk. | The island is ten miles in length and about five in breadth and has more chalk exposed on its surface than has any other spot of equal area on the globe. British geologists say that there are not less than 42.000,000,000 tons of chalk "in sight" on: Thanet and that it would take 10,000 men, and 5,000 horses and carts 20,000 years to move it, provided it was dug up / 'ere i for?" asked the ready to be carried away. gud Ship te Hunt Icebergs. "As 'a sequel to the report on 'the Titanic disaster the British Board of Trade is considering a plan to station a permanent iceberg lookout ship in the track of Atlantic travel. She will crufse along the boundaries of the jee region and will be in a position to warn the hurrying liners by her powerful wireless equipment of the exact position of icefields, drifting ice bergs and derelicts. bps New Life-Saving Apparatus. Birmingham, Eog., has a new syle of lifesaving spparatus for the fire department. Entrapped persons are rn seued in a cage which is raised and lowered to the windows of the burn. ing building. 6 The Costs. 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