THE BRITISH WHIG notice of the escapes hag Ast been | 4 : communicated to them until after the | 86TH YEAR | incident had gained pubiieity in the | { Press. A curious thing about this [occurrence fs that one of the men had a notorious record, and was | wanted in New Hampshire informa- { tion that should have been available when his removal to an asylum was under consideration, so that deporta- tion might have been effected, if he were an American, and this country relieved of the cost of his mainten- |8nce. Rockwood Asylum has never been classed as an institution for the criminal insane, and his incarcera- tion there, in view of his record, is inexplicable. The treatment of the gase indicates Ignorance of the mans identity and antecedents. The incident recalls the celebrated Thomas O'Reilly case, when a pri. soner serving fifteen years was re- leased within a year in mistake ror -- « | another O'Reilly. 'Whether these in- - Editor and | cidents are dus to accident or laxity ny ee™ | we are not tn a position to judge, but ..343 | the government should investigate -332 | the cause and take nto serious con- otra. eer" sideration the early appointment of a SUBSCRIPTION suitable man as warden of this peni oN RA hy Sqr ol 6.00 delivered In oity fit tentiary. 50 35.0) in advance ... -------------------- WHEN CHRISTMAS HAD NO JOY. No day in the year has such a hold ---- upon the popular fancy as Christmas FF Calder: 2a RE RN A | Dev. Young and old, rich and poor, pon, sox en BIAS: | feel in some degree the spirit of good- + ['oron PR 238 Fifth Ave, New York | will, and make the day ons of joy FRR 1510 Ase'n Bldg. Chicago and gladness by the exchange ot tos . {Bem eekly Editton if got poids la aavace HES tod States ......$1.50 ° dix and three months pro rata. THE eer But the wage earners were not by | under a deception similar to that any means the poorest class, for be- neath them Was a class in constant receipt of poor relief, 'estimated at one-fourth of the population. , The Poor rate was the heaviest tax borne by our ancestors, and it amdurted to about seven hundred thousand pounds, alittle Jess than half the en- tire revenue of the crown. . The bene- fits that Mave come to the common people with the march of civilization are amazing when cast into relief by' the conditions of life two hundred and thirty years ago, and would be missed painfully by the laborer as by the peer. The market place that tan now be reached in ap hour was distant a day's journey, The streets of towns and cities were absolutely dark at night, and he pedestrian Was in' constant danger of breaking his neck or of havigg his head brok- on and being plundered of his small earnings. To-day any workman who falls from a scaffold, every person ruh over by a car, is able to receive drompt surgical treatment and coms pensation for his injuries, benefits that all the wealth of a kingdom could mot purchase at the time we write of. Still more important is the benefit which all orders of society, and es- pecially the lower orders, have qe- rived from the mollitying influence of civilization on the national chy- racter. It is pleasing to reflect that the public mind was softened while it ripened, and that we have become in the course of ages not only wiser, ance of refreshing waters. A simi- lar fllusion seems to haunt nations the highest degrees of opulence ana civilization. are mow 'within the reach of the peared intrepid Father Marquette, who was age of 1 DAILY BRITISH WHIG SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913 which misleads the traveller in the ENNERENEERERNEREER EERE EEN ARER AanERrERREEL #2 # -- Arablan desert. Beneath his fest al! is dry and bare, but far in advance and far in 'the rear is the appear ¥ Store Open Evenings. - See Bibbys - "$25.00 Overcoats through every stage of the long pro- gress from poverty and barbarism to Comforts and luxuries BIBBY'S| | : See Bibbys $2.00 Wool Scarfs thrifty and diligent that were former- ly unknown; medical science has added many years to the life of the average citizen; and when we stuay the matter closer we find that the New progress of science and the increawe of wealth have in reality benefited the many much more than they have the few. CanadaEast and West /} Dominion Happenings of Other Days. Father Marquette, Few more heroic figures ever ap- in Canadian history than the born in Laon, France, in 1687. He Wes & member of one of the oldest and most honored French families. But of a religious mind, at the years he turned from the world and becume a member of the Society of Jesus. When his studies ! wore completed he volunteered for | mission 'work in the new world. Septemedr 1666 he landed at Three Rivers, Que., ahd after learning the | language of the Montagnals Indians | gE } i I § :8 | We Bel We have no "cranks" in this store. Men's and Young Men's Wear Things are Shown --Where the First ieve In Smiles but a kinder people. There x» scarcely a page of the history or lighter 1iterature of the seventeenth century that does not contain proof. that our ancestors were less humans than their posterity. The disci line of workships, of schools, of 2 ety families, though not more efficient than at present, was infinitely harsh. er. Masters were in the habit of beating their servants. Husbands of decent station were not ashamed tb beat their wives, and knowledge was imparted by beating... The populace showed no mercy to a \prisoner, and it he were put in the pillory he was fortunate if he escaped with his lite from a shower of stones. Gentlemen formed pleasure parties to the jail on court days when women were sentenced to be whipped. A present day boxing match is refined compar ed to the fights that were then favs We never grumble, no matter how many suits a customer may want to examine. We never frown if we lose a sale, We're glad of the fact that ecile think enough of our store and clothes to come in for a ook. We're cheerful --always. _ We've found iit pays and besides -- It makes life all the happier. rere the first- explorers Maving do. P.S.--Don't forget we're now offering exceptional values in-- via the 'liMnols. Then they came . Suits And Overcoats back to Lake Michigan but he had = not been back long when be Foseived mn Tatoo er in sry | Men's Garbese ~Men's Armlets --Men's Handkerchiefs --Men"s Hosiery to do the work that had been com- ' a ~Men's Underwear # he spent a couple of years with them. | Then he journeyed up to Lake Huron | and across to Sault Ste. Marie, where | he erected a mission with a mission- ary: who joinéd him a Mitle later. He went on to Lapointe a couple of years afterwards and started work there among the Indians. War broke out and the Indians left for Mack- | inaw, with Marquette accompanying | them in their migration. In 1878 he was chosen to accompany Jolette on his mission of discovery down the Mississippi River down which they celebrated in commemoration of the 3 Nativity or the Birth of Christ, and Attached fs one of the best job + | printing offices in is fittingly observed by religious ser- . vices. Its origin is shrouded in tra- . || The circulation of THE' dition, but no one now living would | WHIG is authenticated wish to see the spirit of Christmas } : tha ; ABO and the festivities associated with it Anan Bureau of - disappear. Theré was a time in history, how- ever, when the observance of Christ ". Qur midwinter festivals are all ce- mas was forbidden by law. This was during the Puritan domination in Jobrations. of what mankind is pleas- od to consider its conguest of nature. England. The object of the warlike > saints who surrounded Cromwell was It is civilization that makes winter the settlement of a free and pious endurable and even enjoyable, We commonwealth, and among many re- are Warm; our stomachs are full; let | straints imposed a ban was placed the winds howl around the eaves and upofi Christmas festivities. The the creeping cold try every craany Long Parliament gave orders in 1644 and every keyhole; we shall not shi- 1 Bait e published ronan to, the or are Published | gifts. In the Christian world it 1s --Men's Gloves --Men's Mitts --Men's Caps --Men's Hats --Men's Shirts mitted to his hand but he was taken . very {Il while travelling with the Indians. It was a return of an ill- ness that had previously threatened his life. The braves brought him out of the woods to some friends and 'apples to go with it; and somewhére : did everything they could tq restore thers is, veillsen in abundance. Or we |, the curtain of skins, leaving but a day by romping under the mistletoe, flap open for the Qscape of smoke, and consume the strip of dried meat or & half-frozen root, safe from the 'wild beasts and the cold. Having this haven of refuge to retire to, we go out through the wilderness, immune to the traps of {ts white magic and defying those ragings of nature be- fore which it has heretofore been the law that all animal lite should flee or perish. We neither flee nor perish. Another ice agegmight descend upon the earth and we should live through It with equanimity. © | * Such is civilization. All traditions, bereditary customs, transmitted runes, bits of sanctified folklore, have more affective force in eating boar's head, and drinking ale flavored with roasted apples. No public act, wé are told, irritated the common people more, and on the following Christmas riots broke out in several places and the prescribed services were | openly read in the churches. Such was the spirit of the extreme Puritans. All public amuss- ments were vigorously attacked. But the rule of the Puritans pass- ed with the death of Cromwell, and a great reaction set in with the Re- atoration. The wits and the Puri- tans, never on friendly terms, looked on the whole system of human life from different points and in differ ent lights. The earnest of one was '| the jest of the other, and the plea- sures of each were the torment of the other. To the stern precision arm us; but in the winter we shall even the innocent sport of the fancy bo conventional and conservative |06Med @ crime. To the light and 2 festive natures the solemnity of the Teach us again your ceremonial ob- ro furnished : : let us w 11% hats i rethren furnis| copious coats; 'decorous calls matter of ridicule. The apirit of the Jat us pay anti-Puritan reaction pervaded every. phase of social life. The playhouses, shut by the-meddling fanatic in the day of his power, were #Rein crowd- _| ed, and from the day on which they the custom in bygone days. For | Vice: In literature only Bunyan and iWe suspect that it {x but a fragile | Mtn escaped the contagion that that has given us this warmth, | Placed the literature of the day on a a low plane. Nor was this all,/ The statesmen who followed the Phritans were men who were not cofispieuous '| tor their virtues; for the austere practises of the Puritans were held It is {nteresting in these days wher the common citizen lives in prince): fashion, so far as bodily comfort i: gth of time | concerned, to turn back the pages of a responsible head. A tem- | history and see how people existed pordry head Be ever so efficient, [in the good old days when Englana cumbent possibly can; orite diversions. Frequently wea pons Were used, and the loss of an eye or a finger was ha'led with de- light. The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every, crime and every disease. But on all this misery society looked with profound indif< ference. Nowhere could be found that restless compassion which in our own time extends a powerful pro- tection to all Auman being wherever found. The more we study the an- nals of the past the more 'we rejoice that we live in a merciful' age, in which cruelty is abhorred, and in which pain even when deserved is in- flisted reluctantly and from a sense of" duty. Every class has gained largely by this great moral change; but the clédss that has gained most is the poorest, the most dependeht and the most defenceless. It may at first sight seem strange that society, while constantly moy- ing forward with eager speed, shold be constantly looking bapkward with tender regret. 'This springs from our impatience of the state in which we live, and while it stimulates us to surpass preceding generations, disposes us to overrate thelr happi- ness. It is unreasonable and un- grateful in us to be constantly dis- contented with a condition' which ie constantly improving. We labor there's no coal. moc that's vaih, and a cloudless id that plorers of the old regime. every animal, except man and pos- swim naturally; can swim as soon as they can move about alone. climbing. hie lies down just as his forefathers | comfortably. , Published and copyrighted by tha TIME OF TRIAL. Se 1 set down this plaintive ditty in a time that tries my soul; for ih our afflicted city water's scarce, and --Men's Neckwear --Men's Scarfs +~Men's Umbrellas him to health buf his strength had been sapped by the hardships he had undergone and so he passed away. He was one of thé most daring ex- --Men's Sweaters } The Reason Why ) +Men's Bath Robes - : | --Men's Smoking Jackets . --Men's Sweater Coats Does a Human Being Have to Why Sear to Swim? It is strufge isn't it, that almost --Pyjamas sibly the monkey, knows how to --Men's 'English Raincoats --Men's Mackinaws a --Men's Shoes YOUR (XMAS, SHOPPING MADE EASY AT MN others such as birds, horses, dogs, cows, elephants, See Bibbys $25.00 Overcoats The trouble with man tn this con- nection is that his natural motion is See Bibbys $25.00 He has been a climber ever since he was developed from the monkey, and when u throw him | jg into the water before he has leirned to swim, he naturally starts to olimb and as a climbing motion won't do, for swimming, the man will drown. 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