Daily British Whig (1850), 11 Jul 1921, p. 14

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Caught Events EEE urrent by the Camera aust (C111) Lon LR ron I TO TTI TT IIT dant. li rn, ps A -- 4 H Bl ; I (1) An armoured car used for patrolling the streets of Dublin during the recent rioting of Sein Feiners, (2) Remarkable work accomplished 17 ele phants in removing logs at Kobo, on the banks of the Brahmaputra river, in Assam; some 40 miles above Dibrugarth. . (3) Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill arriving at Westminster Abbey, London, England, for a Memorial ice for Admiral of the Fleet, Sir A. K, son, V.C. (4) A. W. Jones, the wonderful 17-year-old American tennis player, who took part in the Kent Lawn Tennis Championships at Becken- ham, England. (6) Gen. Godley presenting Gen. Bainbridge tn the Baroness Ernest de la Grange, who placed her chateau (The Chateau la Motts) at the disposal of the British authorities during the war, ANNE sm (6) Carpentier at his training quarters, Ce CE TO EE ELLER A This is the great division line between Alberta and British Columbia a Away up in the Canadian Rockies on the main line of the C/P.R. travel- lers looking out of the train-window are attracted by a curious rustic- fim > bearing the words "The Great Flanking it on each side in similar rustic letter are the words "Alberta" and "British Columbia." It is at this point that the two Provinces of "Alberta" and "British Sombie' bound sah other. But sign was evidently not put u here on that account. It it had ere is no reason why eve other Canadian . province not have its boundaries simi. larly set forth. In fact such a sign t indeed be very welcome to the tourist, en route across Canada, who, often does net know, as things now are, whether he voyages in Saskatchewan or Alberta. And most commuters. think that all the Rockies belong to British Columbia, poli- tically as well as geologically. adh Si i Leet call attention to a most wonderful at the same time simple feat in The division of the wat: it is: the lifting of its hat, so to speak, to a power greater than it- self; and yet a power to which 'it bears resemblance in that it also crosses the continent and unites two oceans. ' You step out of the train with the other passengers not at all knowing what you are to see (if this be your first trip). About you, are trees around the little clearing, and over- head, the bow! of the blue sky. There are no houses in sight. You wonder what it is all sbout. You say to yoursélf, "Something important all right to halt the Im- perial Limited." And then you come to the other passengers with a ques. tion on your lips. At that momen* an official comes along answering the line of questions. "Yes, yes" says he, with the broad smile and 2 good nature which in itself stretches away across continent--"Thig is the Great Divide of the Streams." And then you go and 'look, and there, over the clean stones passes a rinnle of ldughters that is The Great Divide! A little rill above pebhles of a depth that would nicely hold the bulb of "hyacinth or daffodil on a library table. A little shallow stream upturned to the sky here on this height of land with an almost imperceptible turning, as if by the twist of an artist's brush, of a few drops toward the Pacific and a few, others toward the Arctic. With 8 pebble between to cast the vote, You suddenly see this little erys- tal-¢lear rivult as something mvs. tical and great. Mystical as the 'little flower in the crannied wall" The Great Divide awes travsliers ways! The beginnin of two mighty into silence. Tt ia the nartine of thy rivers embracing half a continent and controlling the UYfe of all the land through which they pass td their ordained destinations, ro far remote from each other that were vou at their mouths instead of here at their source you could never be« ieve they had ever any connection ith each other. e C. P. R. » not ashamed to pause, ty bring treat enines to a ill here at this little altar in When your tralnman calls "All aboard" and yom take your seat again it is with an eéntirelv new fools ing of intimacy toward the Colume hia and Mackenzie rivers. For have seen both their Great Divi ind their great marriage. '

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