DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1917. FEARED HE COULD NEVER WORK AGAIN Rel day d, Leamington, returned home to-' BRILLIANT ARTIST DROWNED. - " » (Tom Thomson Was an Interpreter of Sheppard Had Breakdown And Was Forced to. Leave His Job. A few evenings ago Mrs Florence Shep- pard, a well known employee of P. W. Ellis company, who resides at 87 Sheppard, wife of Augustus McRoberts avenue, . Toronto, went into Tamblyn's for a bottle of Tan- certainly is fine lac and sald: Tanlac medicine. Why. a little over a week ago my husband got in such a bad condition he had to stop work. was told he must go to the hospital and be operated on and I was almost crazy. A week ago tonight I bought a bottle of Tanlac for him and in two days he was back at work, and he has been working regular ever since," In an interview a day or so later Mr. Sheppard said: "I had what I would call a general, nervous break- down, and for six or seven weeks was in terrible shape. The trouble seemed to come on me all of a sud- den and béfore I hardly knew it I was in a serious condition. I was under treatment and kept taking medicines without getting any bet- ter and was finally told I would have to be operated on and to get ready to go to the hospital. My ap- petite left me entirely and I got so all 1 could take when I went to the table was a sup of tea. My strength and energy all seemed to leave me and while 1 was in no particular pain I Kept getting weaker. I would have dizzy spells when everything seemed to be going round and round, 1 would have to grab hold of the nearest support to steady my- | self, and one day I was so overcome with weakness that I fainted and had to be carried out of the shop. 1 lost over ten pounds in weight and was Just dwindling away to nothing, I worked just as long as I could hold my head up and finally I was forced to give up. 1 was off for ten days and felt like I would never be able to go back to work any more, "So on Saturday night, my wife He Twilight * o A b " The usual weekly tea was held at the Yacht Club this afternoon. | » . \ Miss Harriet Gardiner, Bagot| street, was hostess at a delightful tea on Tuesday afternoon, . . . Mrs. James Third, Wellington street, emtertained at the tea hour on Monday afternoon in honour of her guest, Miss Margaret Waters, * . » A very jolly picnic was held at! Murton's Point on Tuesday afternoon | when those present were Miss. Dor- othy and Mise Edna Chown, Miss Margaret Creelman, (Guelph), Miss Eleanor and Miss Veta Minnes, Miss Isabella Waldron, Miss Ruth and Miss Nora Martin, Miss Jean Fla- velle, Miss Una Polson, Miss Mar- jorie and Miss Norah Minnes, Miss Helen and Miss Marjorie Uglow and Miss Margaret Murray, . » - Capt. R. Leslie Sparks has return- ed to Toronto after spending the Mr. and Mrs. Wildam Dewey, Stuart street. Miss Marjorie Gothard, Trenton, ié visiting Mrs. William Dewey, Stuart street. Mrs. Frederick Milo, Welland, is spending a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. William Vince, at her cottage, Fair View Park. Walter Hutchison, Port Hope, is a guest at Mrs. Willlam Vince's oot- tage at Fair View Park, Miss Pose Brouse, General Hos- pital Training School, has returned after spending three weeks at her home in Iroquois. . . Mrs. L. T. Best and Miss Nevada Best, Albert street, have gone to visit week-end with Mrs. Sparks' parents, | daughter, Miss Mildred Jones, King street, the guest of her uncle, Beverley Jones, at his summer home, "Rock- the Canadian Wilds. Canadian art has sustained an ir- ford," Brockville, returned to town|reparable loss in the death of Mr. yesterday Miss Eva Martin, Clergy street, is spending this week with Mrs, J. H. Byrne, Otiawa. Mrs, T. A. Sirawger and her sis- ter, Miss Rose, Barrie street, who have been visiting friends in Bath, returned home on Monday, Mrs. F. C. T. O'Hara and Miss Marion have returned to Ottawa, after spending a few days with Mrs. O'Hara, Union street. LJ * * Miss Isabella McCausland, the guest of Miss Isabella Wallfron, King street, returned to Toronto on Mon- Mr. and Mrs. David Murray and ! John, Frontenac street, are return- this week. Miss Willa Pyfrom, Ottawa, is the guest of Mrs. Lindsay Malcolm, Al- bert street. Beverley Jones returned to Toron- to this week, after spending the past two months at his summer home in Brockville, ing from Pine Point, Maine, Mrs. 'Holmes, Ottawa, is visiting Mrs. James Beard, O'Ki}]l street. Miss Florence Elliott, Barrie street, will spend the next week in Toronto, Miss Edna Richardson, accompan- fed by Miss Helen Graham, Ottawa, are the guests of Mrs. W. H. Rankin, Collins Bay. Mr. Wartman, a son, and Mrs. White, a sister, of Mrs, Read, Brock street, are visiting her for a few weeks, Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Hill and daugh- ter, New York, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. George 'Darragh, King street. Mrs, Alexander MacKenzie and Marion, Kingston, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Robb, 382 Chariton avenue, west, Hamilton. * . * Miss Muriel Brooks, Earl street, came home with a bottle' of Tanlac and urged me to take it, saying she had read so much about it she be-! lieved it would help me. Well, 1 started in on it and you may believe Mrs. W. H. Cobourg friends, Wormwith and Miss' Gill, Ear] street, are in Toronto with relatives, Capt. Victor Willams and Mrs. has returned from Sackets Harbor, N.Y., where she has been spending the past few months. Mrs. A. F. Wheeler returned to Ot- tawa, yesterday after spending the me or not, t Monday morning I was so much etter that I went back to work amd I haven't lost an hour since, I have picked up every day ' since I started on Tanlac and my friends are already talking about Jon much better I look. I certainly 0 feel a thousand times better and I have never had a better appetite, and 1 can eat just anything set be- fore me. That qld, tired, dizzy feel- ing has left me and I'm feeling strong and good. Tanlac has simply given me & new lease on life, and has sav- él me from the operating table. Things were looking pretty bad for me and my wife and I both were feeling mighty blue, but the gloom is all gone now and we are very grateful for what Tanlac has done for. me." ; Tanlac is sold in Kingston by A. P. Chown, ie a a a NE After an illness of about four months the death occurred on Mon- day of John Henry Pullen, at Ottaw:. dvt. The late Mr, Pullen was born In Aultsville forty-seven years ago, and had resided in Carleton Place for twenty-five years. | Monday from Stella, Williams have gone to Ottawa to re- side. Miss Frieda Stathers, after three weeks stay in Kingston left for Ot- tawa to-day. Miss Bernice Clapp, Picton, is the guest of Mrs, W, H., Dyde, Johnson street, * * General MacDougall 'has gone to Toronto for a few days. Mr, and Mrs. A C. McLeod and family, Stratford, are on a motor trip to Eastern Ontario. They will visit Mrs. McLeod's home at Sm'th's Falls. They came to Kingston where Charles McLeod will remain to take a course at the Royal Military, Col- lege. Mrs. Frank Britton, Hamilton, is visiting relatives in Gananoque. L. A, Hodgins, Westport, is in Kingston on his annual vacation, » - * Mr. and Mrs. W.-J, Rathman and daughter, Margaret, Kingston, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. Rathman, Belleville, Mr. and Mrs. T, Ahern, Ottawa, came to Kingston with their son, Charlie Ahern, who entered the Royal Military College as a cadet. Walter Guibord left Sunday for Flint, Michigan, after spending a week's holidays With, relatives here, * * Mrs, L. C. Lockett was in town on Miss Margaret Wise has returned to Toronto after a delightful visit with Miss Gwendolyn Folger, "Edge-] water," street. . | Mrs. 0. E. Rayson, University Miss Margaret Waters is the guest of Mrs. James Third, Wellington avenue, left yesterday to visit Mrs. Herbert Horsey at Cressy, 4 Mrs. Maynard Rogers and her Rev, Albert Brown and Mrs, Brown, who have been oceupying Mrs. D, G, MacPhail"s house, Union street, have returned in Picton. . * ss » . to their home| the past two weeks with Mrs, Ashby, William street. 'Mrs. John Webster and two chil- dren, "Orchard House", Hamilton, are the guests of Mrs. Cooke, the Rectory, Barriefield, Mies Bessie Farrell! and Miss Chrissie Dyde, came up from Thou- sand Island Park on Monday, and spent the day with friends in town. * * . Mr. and Mrs, Darley Guess, Syden- ham, have gone to Philadelphia and Bostonville to spend two weeks. Mir. and Mrs, William Hazlett left on Sunday for Montreal to visit W, Hazlett, Mr. and Mrs. George Cokfair and Miss Grace Cokfair, visiting friends here, left yesterday for New York. Capt. and Mrs. Van Dreaser, Howe Island, were in town on Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. James Baxter, Pitts- burg, visited in Kingston on Sunday. LJ * * Mr. (Dr.) Lockhart, Toronto, and Miss Maud Patterson, Winnipeg, are renewing old acquaintamces together in and around the city for a few weeks. Major Otto VanLuven has rs turned to Valeartier after spending the week-end with Mrs. VanLuven, 41 Union street W. - * * - The marriage will take place in MacVicar Church, Hamilton, on Aug- ast 29th, 'of Miss Gladys Jones to Corpl. Grant Potter, son of the Rev. James G. Potter. Corpl, Poiter. re- turned some months ago from France, where he had been seriously 'wounded. 'a . - - - Mr, and Mrs. C. Kellar, Sharp's Corners, announce the engagement of their daughter, Lillian Pearle, to R. Ray Valentyne, (Continued on Page 10.) Scarcity of Farm Labor, One of the great problems which I farmer bas {o salts, Tom Thomson, one of Toronto's fore- most landscape painters, who was drowned in Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, on Sunday, July 8th, and whose body was recovered from the lake waters ten days later. A deep lover of nature and a true interpreter of the spirit of the North Country, it was Mr. Thomson's hadit to spend many months of the year wandering alone in the wild stretches of Algon- quin Park, and in painting the beauty-spots of the rugged North- land, he wom himself fame as an in- terpreter of the wilds of Canada. ° As an artist with an iptimate knowledge of the many meods of the North Country--especially the sini- ster mood of nature--Mr. Thomson began to receive ettention .in Cana- dian art circles some four years ago, and since them his many pictures have been prominent in all the im- portant exhibitions, so that when his tragic death occurred, he was looked upon as the one of the few young men whose work expressed the spirit of the wild and remote places of*Can- ada. Being one of the group of younger Canadian painters, Mr. Thomson's methods were conservatively modern, and his colors, while brilliant to the extreme, were seldom overdopme. In his pictures he embodied the spirit of nature as few Canadian artists Have done, and to quote the words' of a well-known Toronto artist, "Mr. Thomson got that brooding 'some- thing' of nature which can only be in- painter." ; Although Mr. Thomson had only been painting for the past four or five years, his work was suéh as io attract, immediate attention, and sev: eral of his larger pictures have been purchased by the Federal and Pro- vincial Governments. Ameng these may be mentioned "A Northern Lake" and "A Northern River" in National | Gallery Shortly before leaving the city on hie last trip to Algonquin Park Mr. Thomson had finished one of his fin- est pictures, 'Moonlight on a North- ern Lake," which still hangs in the Studio Building, where he had his studio. The tragic death of Mr. Thomson is deeply regretted by his fellow artists, who view with deep sorrow the termination of a career so full of promise, Dr. D, J. MacCollum, pre- sident of the Arts and Letters Club, who was a' personal friend of Mr. Thomson, said; "We considered him a painter of painters in Canadian art, and I believe that the secret of the greatness of his interpretations was that he loved the Northland and its greatness, and he painted because of that love. His work possessed that feeling which distinguishes the artist who paints for love from the one who paints from necessity. In his death Canadian art has lost one who would have achieved an international reputation," World's Wheat Supply. Thé world's wheat-supply outside the territory controlled by the Cen- tral Powers, which no longer report crop yields, is, by any methods of calculation entirely unsatisfactory, though the exact condition of affairs is extremely difficult to set forth in figures. The year 1915 produced bumper grain crops all over the world. Measured against that year, the wheat crop of last season is 400, 000,000 bushels short, and an actual shortage exists in every country in 'the world. The falling off of produc- tion in Argentina from 172,000,000 bushels to 77,000,000 fully accounts for the embargo which. that country has placed on the export of the great bread grain. Canada's wheat crop of last season, as measured against the [year before, shows a falling off of nearly one half, and the wheat crop of the United States to only a little over 600,000,000. 2 ie This bad showing is largely the result of comparing extremes, for while the yield of 1915 was decided- Iy high, that of last year was abnor- mally low. When last season's crops is compared with the average for the five years before the war, | is found to be fully 200,000,000 bushels short--an illustration of the fact that variations as high as the at Ottawa. of | twenty-five per cent, may be due to season alone. 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