- 12 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. MONDAY, SHIT. 10. Som. a ---- ------ teary ot eR -------- MAY ENLARGE CANADA "dea Is by No Means a New One, Has Been Much Discussed by Our Own | Political Leaders--The West In- dies agd Canada Were Once a Whole ATO Few Persons Seem to Be Aware of the Fact. HE Right Hon. Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was by no means giving expres- pion to a new official idea when he pecently publicly .urged the linking Bp of Canada amd'the British West Indies. For some years, and parti- pularly following the outbreak of the . Preat' War, British Governments pave expressed their give their consent to and their bless- ing upon the consummation of such p union, believing that while on the #ne hand it would tend to consoli- flate the Empire it would on the pther hand prevent the possibility of parts of the West Indies transferring heir allegiance to the United States. About a year ago the Chamber of Pommergce of British Guiana passed resolution favoring the opening of egotiations with Canada for union of some kind, and it is said the Gov- prament of the colony made applica- Hon about the same time for auth- prity to do so. There, however, the atter appears to rest for the time ing. British Guiana's reasons for esiring closer relationship with Can- R Are apparently largely economic. brief, it wants Canada's assist- ce in the construction of a railway to the interior of the country, in © development of its natural re- urces, and in the improvement of harbor facilities. As far, however, fudles as a whole are concerned political union with Canada has not become a matter of practical folties That the situation in Can- : Is similar is equally certain, the foncensus of opinion in this coun- being that the imitiation of egotiations should be undertaken either the West Indian Colonies emselves or by the Colonial Office London. But it is easier to meaggre the : wth of trade than to guage the evelopment of sentiment. Since the erential agreement of 1912 went to effect there has been marked elopment in both Canada's. ex- to and imports from the West dies. Including with, in the term est Indies, the cplonies of British lana, Bermuda and British Hon- luras, the exports thereto during the year ending March, 1921, had } value of $18,191,828, compared With $5,079,693 in 1912. This was Increase of $13,112,185, or 266 cent. Imports during the same od rose frem $11,081,906 to 24,185,041, an increase of $13,- 68,136, or 117 per cent. That the \gresment of 1913, which is now luperseded by that of last year, has rorked satisfactory to all concerned B self-evident, Should the desire of the British Bovernment for the political union M Canada and the West Indies be Htimately realized it would not be fhe frst occasion en which these farious parts were under one system M Government. And it was even comprehensive in its scope that which is now contemplated, it included the North Ameri tinent from Hudson Bay to Flor- the whole western coast of lea, the eastern coast of South erica and the Antilles. The ambi- scheme was inaugurated 357 ago by Kiag Louis of Frange, th Marquis de Tracy as imperial ; and the West Indian Com- jay as the designated governing . Nominally the union lasted fer t tem years, ceasing when the y Canadians of dag i Brrr it Rteresting to know that the prim: object d-a- Pen entailed in the union of as the West half centuries ago was the ber Eo Rg hm A an of Had foreign vessels been allowed to te in the trade the results uld probably have been more suc- jeasful than they were. At any rate hat was the opinion of the broader- pinded men of that day. One thing, wever, that it did for Canada was induce Talon, the Intendent, to mbark upon the first venture of jullding ocean-going vessels, at Que- lee, thus laying the foundation of industry which from that time 1668) to the present has never fail- to exist. These vessels of Talon's ried Canadian cargoes to the West dies, whence products of the lat- were taken on for France, while the return voyage they bore mer- dise necessary for the require- hents of New France. Ancluding British Guiana, Ber- fuda and British Honduras, there 'e about a dozen separate entitles lied in the term West Indies. ; Saggeate area is 111,100 or nearly four times t of the Province of readiness to } THE OLD BEAVER. { / m Steamer to Be Used In Peace Portal. ) The steamer Beaver, I whose timbers will be incor in the Peace Portal which w erected this year on the bounda between Canada and the United | States, near the Pacific Ocean MA celebrate the century of peace bs also the completion of the Pacific Highway, holds a unique position in the history of navigation. It was | not only the first boat propelled by | steam to enter the North Pacific, but it played a conspicuous part in the | exploration and settlement of British | Columbia and. in carrying civilisation | and respect for the white man's law | to that portion of Canada. | A great deal of segtiment attaches | to the Beaver and whole boeks have been written about it. This pioneer steamer of 100 tons burden was launched at Blackwall ship yard, London, in 1836, three years before the Great Eastern started on her maiden voyage across the At- lantic. It had an elm keel and ocak and greenheart stem and stern post and ribs of oak. The spaces between the ribs, up to the water line were filled in with curved oak! Then came a eovering of oak planks and African teak and on top of that an- other covering of fir planking and finally a sheeting of copper. The Beaver was built for the Hudson Bay the North Pacific, around South America, most of the way under its own steam. The fifty-three years of | its life was devoted chiefly to the fur | trade but the Beaver made history in other fields. It carried the party who erected the first stockade on the site where the City of Victoria mow stands, and also carried the expedi- the Russians the transfer of a por- tion of that peninsula to the United States. Guided by Indians the Beav- er's crew landed on Vanceuver Island and feund the great coal fields which have yielded hundreds of milliens of dollars. The Beaver was the first te use this coal in her furnace. She gold rush, carrying the gold diggers up the Fraser river to the head of navigation, from which point they proceeded on foot or on horses or mules. The old boat was washed on the rocks at the entrance to Van- couver harbor in 1888. metal was converted years ago and sold all over the coun- try and much of its wood is now in use in British Columbia, as clock frames, lodge gavels, other household articles. The Peace Portal will be erected on the boundary at a point over- looking Puget Sound and also com- manding a view of the snow-capped mountains to the east. The portal will be constructed of concrete and aguinst earthquake it will be erected on piles three feet in diameter and driven 25 feet into the ground. On top of the plles will rest a huge base of concrete 'and on this the portal will rest. The timber from the Beaver will be worked in the Canadian side of the gate and in the southern side will be placed a timber from the Mayflower which carried the Puritans to the new world. The piece of timber was re- cently secured in England. The Pacific Highway. passing through the peace gate will stretch from Vancouver, B.C., to the border ot Mexico, a distance of 2,000 miles. A significant date has been chosen for the opening, namely, September §, the date on which Marshal Joffre checked the German tide at the bat- te of the Marne. The great French soldier has promised to be present at the dedication of the highway d the peace monument, accompan- by Marquis de Chambrun, a dson ef Lafayette It will be e first monument erected anywhere in the world to celebrate peace. It's Cold Nearer the Sun. You would have thought that the Bearer you get to the sun, the warm- er the temperature becomes, would- a't you? But this is by no means the case, for it is much colder 'closer to the sun when the latter is shining its brightest than it is on the earth. This is proved by the fact that the highest mountains, even in tropical countries, are perpetually snow- capped. Were the heat there even of the same temperatire as that of the Plains beneath, thd snow would soon disappear. You know, too, that the higher an airman flies the more warmly clad he must be if he is not to suffer from cold. The reason for this strange phe- nomenon is that the rays of sunshine pierce through the upper layers of the atmosphere, which offer very lit- tle resistance to them. The earth, on the other hand, being more solid, cannot be penetrated so easily, with the result that we get the full effect of the warmth, boih as the rays strike the earth and as they rebound from it. Farthest North, A new farthest north Royal Cana- dian Mounted Pnlice post has been established at Pond's Inlet in the extreme north of Baffin's Land This is now the most northerly post held + While their joint4b¥ the force of scarlet riders, the ation, according to the latest ble statistics, is about 2,100,- 0, or approximately 600,000 less that of the Province of Ontario. t of the dozen, all but two are colonies. Those having self- ent are Bermuda and Bar- the former of which recently to concur in the new prefer- ial arrangement with Canada, withstanding that its represents. ) Was one of the signatories at the Ottawa conference of ye bhould the proposal of union N "The Lady of the Snows," Kipling termed Canada, and the Antilles fail consummation Fy has a pleasing glamor ------------ is My friend, it you are true to your- It you will show no injustice to 1s seldom that a dollar gets so 0 as to lose its legal tender orate-tombstone and a con- 'will are about al! that wean to some men, nearest to it being those at Chester- field Inlet and Cape Burwell, at the entrance of Hudson Straits. A sole staff sergeant will be full police au- thority at Pond's Inlet and will have full charge of customs and judicial control of Baffin's Land and the ter- ritory about it. Only a few Eskimos are to be found there and it is the occasional port of call for traders. : Large Telephone Cable. carrying 408 pairs «! wires, [it possible to conduct 600 ednvers.- j tons simultaneously, has been laid jon the bed of the Detroit river, be {tween Detroit and Windsor. The {cable weighs 50,870 pounds, is 3,000 {feet in length and 10% inches thick. -------------------- The only increase in most af the { families these days is the increase in | eXpenses--due to the arrival of the, | new car. Don't imaginé that the billpdster makes an assignment every time he As driven to the wall. It's the man with the stuff that Pe , optimist. | usually shrinks at the visit of the | assessors. tween:the tN COURIIOE -RH ed to- Bansal Manteno. cs Co. and was taken on its leng trip to | tion to Alaska that negotiated with { also played a part im the Cariboo | Most of its | into medals | servers and | steel and in order to make it secure | "Peettle. The largest cable in the world, i aking | ; lmever welcomes trouble. THE FRANCISCAN ORDER NOBILITY TO CANADA. Titled People Settle on an Alberta Ranch. any of the members aristocracy are taking up rmanent residence in Canada, driven thereto by the econom ditions' and - burdensome taxation in the old country, that the Dowiniy 8 "will soon have a peerage of: its own, says the New York Spur. Among {he latest: settlers' are Lord and Lady Rodney, who announce their inten- tion of living permanently on the ranch which, tiey acquired some eighteen months ago in Alberta aad | which they are working and develod- J mg in a very successful fashion. They have with them their little boy of three, who is on his mother's side a | grandson of the Hon. Lancelot Low- | ther, only brother ard next heir of | | the childless Barl of Lonsdale. | Lord Rodney, who served through- | out the Great War, first as a captain | of the Royal Dragoons, and after--| wards as a major of the Tank corps, is one of the very few remaining holders of an hereditary Perpetual Pension. It amounts to ten thousand | dollars a year, paid to him by the National Treasury for the services rendered by his ancestor, the cele- brated Admiral Sir George Rodney, who has justly been described as the greatest commander in England's naval history, with the exception of Nelson and Blake. His principal victory was over the French in the West Indies, whi¢ Peace of Versailles. Lord Rodney's mother is a sister of the present Lord Wimborne, also of Lionel and It Was Founded Over Seven Fiun- dred Years Ago. It is seven hundred years ago this summer that the Franciscan Order was founded by St. Francis. The or- ganization is officially known as the Ihird Order of St. Fran~is. A general congress of the Cana- dian fraternities was recently lield -- of the Eng their pe ¢ con 1887, it was reported, "there were 25,000 members in Canada (in- cluding a few In New England) To-day there are 70,000. Rev. Father Labelle, speaking to the congress, said that the Order of St. Francis, carrying the Christian virtue of self abnegation, should save the masses of the world asw in davger of social disintegration from | the many evils of the day. Rev. Father German-Marie, O- F. M., gave a historical review of the lives and works of illustrious mem- bers. He attributes to its inspira- | tion in the early days the many re- forms of the social order. The evils of feudalism had been mitigated, and there came a new blossoming of re- liglous fervor and a new conception { of justice. | Among members of the order have been Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of Henry VIII; Raphael, Murrillo, Mi- chael Angelo, Palestrina, Dante, | Galileo, and many popes and mon- | archs. There were also thirty-three | saints and sixty beatified persons. The president of the congress, | which was called in response to an [appeal from Pope Benedict XV. was the Very Rev. Father Jean-Joseph, | O.F.M. He paid a tributegto the sup- | port the Order received from His Frederick Guest, each of whom has | Eminence Cardinal Begin; Mgr. Pie- an American wife. tro di Maria, the apostolic delegate The family of Rodney is a very {and from His Grace ArchbishoD [ancient one. In the time of Empress | Bruchesi. Maud, Walter de Rodney ie shown John Richard Green refers to "the by contemporary records still in { mystical piety, the imaginative en- | existence to have received a grant tthusiasm" of . Francis of Assisl, [ of Jang in Somersetshire, named af- founder of the Order. ter him, Rodney Stoke. Another "The Life of Francis," says this Rodney was one of the feilow cru- | historian, "falls like a stream of saders of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, | light across the darkness of the time | ang was killed by his side at the | (thirteenth century). siege of Acre. "In the frescoes of Giotti or the verse of Dante we see him take Pov- | erty for his bride. He strips himself of all, he flings his very clothes at | his father's feet, that he may be one | with Nature and God." | His passionate verse claims' the {| Moon for 'his sister, and the Sun for his brother; he calls on his bro- ther the Wind, and his sister the | | Water. | His last faint cry was a "Welcome, | Sister Death." To force the new "brethren" into | entire dependence on those among | whom they labored, their vow to Poverty, Green says, was turned into a stern reality. The 'Begging Friars" were to subsist on the alms | of the poor, they might possess | neither money nor lands, the very houses in which they lived were to | be held in trust for them by others. A tide of popular enthusiasm wel- | ¢omed them. Clad in their coarse frock of serge, with a girdle of rope around their waist, they wandered barefooted not only in Europe but in Asia, lectured in the universities and reached and toiled among the poor. "We can hardly wonder," says Green, '"'at the burst of enthusiasm which welcomed the itinerant preacher, whose fervid appeal, home- ly wit and familiar story brought re- ligion into the fair and the market- place." The work of the Friars was phy- sical 'as well as moral. The rapid progress of population within the boroughs had outstripped: the sani- tary regulations of the Middle Ages, and fever or plague or the more terrible scourge of leprosy festered in the wretched homes of the | suburbs. \ It was to haunts such as these that Francis had pointed his disci- Ples, and the Grey Brethren at once fixed themselves in the meanest and Poorest quarters of each town. The first works lay in the noisome bazaar houses; it was amongst the lepers that they com- monly chose the site of their homes. At London they settled in the shambles of Newgate; at. Oxford they made their way to the swampy ground between its walls and the streams of Thames. Huts of mud and timber, as mean as the huts around them, rose within the rough fence and ditch that bounded the Friary. 4 They scorned such comforts as pillows. "You need no little moun- tains to lift your heads to heaven," one of them sald to a weaker com- fort-seeking colleague. To Curb Careless Campers. Serious consideration is being giv- en by the administrators of the for- est resources in the various provinces to a scheme for curbing the gross | carelessness of camping parties in | needlessly starting forest fires. The Job of extinguishing timber con- | flagrations resulting from the fires , set by campers and cigarette smokers has caused the public treasuries such a sum of money that some means. of curbing the evil will have to be devised. Already the Province of New Brunswick is considering the classification of its woodland area with a view to prohibiting the entry of fishermen and others who may employ camp fires or drop lighted tobacco and niatches. Such a regu- lation might work a hardship on many sportsmen, but as a ciass fish- rmen, hunters and campers general- ly would have only themselves to thank for whatever Penalties might be imposed upon them in the inter- est of forest protection. To leave the camp fire burning has been shown over and over again to have vicious possibilities. The value of the forest resource is such that not an acre of timber can be burned without the people as a whole paying a serious Penalty. -- The Cult of Omar, The church of the Cult of Omar has expired. Founded on the Rubai- vat of Omar Khayyam, a new relig- ious organization, was born in The Pas, Manitoba, this spring; it sprang into sudden importance and to-day only three of its original members would admit that they still held firm to their beliefs The exodus from membership started when a new can- vert made the statement that the whole affair was arranged with the object of getting a Government per- mit to purchase liquors fropi. the | Government store under guise of its | necessity for sacramental purposes. Officials of the cwit deny that they had any such intention. Many leading business and pro fessional men of The Pas wers nIem- bers of the Cult, and the movement had assumed an importance and standing that was thought to threa- ten the temporary disruption of the local churches. Ministers were alarm- ed and amazed to read in a local | Paper the names of the membars of the Cult of Omar, some of whom | were leading members in the orgtho- dox denominations. Following 8 he statement of the truan: member ad to the alleged purpose of the society, the movement collapsed rapidly. "Rainmaker" to Get $8,000. ot "Rainmaker" Charles M, Hatfield has won his bet with: the Medicine | AD | Hat United Agricultural Association, | and he will be paid $8,000 for rain which has fallep in the district dur- | ing the past three months. Hatfield | was to receive $8,000 if four inches jof rain fell"™etween May 1 and {July 1. Up to Saturday, July 31, | four and one-quarter inches had been | recorded, and so Hatfield draws the { maximum payment. The association | will hold a meeiing shortly to deter- | the excellent appearance and quality mine whether or not the contract | of both the cheese and butter. Much | | interest was also taken in the display | shall be renewed for shother year. of Ontario honey and apples which Riccoughs In Quebec. were exhibited on the same occasion. Arrangements are being made to' Over three hundred and fifty cases {send another exhibit of Ontario { of hiccoughs have been discovered | daity products for display in Londen | In the Province of Quebec, according | and other centres. A few of the fac- | to an official staiement by the Sup- | tories and creameries in Ontario are erior Board of Health. There are planning to ex! only fifty-nine cases in Montreal, the | tive display at t | rest being distributed fairly ovenly | held in the Rovrel Ag | amongst the various counties. The { London, Enzizad, Qcte | form of hiccoughs now prevailing | 1921, appear to. be a new and bafMing dis- -- ease, the exact nature of which the | Ovr Nickel Safa, physicians seem to be unable to | That there is not even a remote | | Possibility of Hugo Stinner Prissing capitalist, gainice eontrol of the Some Lightning. | British-Amarican Nickel Corporation, The slats of the bed occupied hy | despite persistent rumors that! |S. Beverley, of Ferguson's Cove, | Herr Stinnes planned a visit to Can- | i N.S., were removed from under Mr. {ada for that purpose during the | | Beverley recently by lightning, leave | resent year, was the emphatic state | ing him lying uninjured, but shaken | ment in Cttawa of 8 M. Brown, jee | | up, on the floor. { retary-treasurer of the B.AN.C, Ontario Products Abroad. *= exhibit of Ontario butter, ed milk was displayed in the office London_.last winter, and created a | great deal of interest. Mr. A. EK. Percival, assistant to the Agent- General, Dr. Creelman, took charge of this exhibit, and reports that it | was inspected by the leading provi sion importers, who commented on The man who tries to be honest | { i never makes a failure of the job, 1| A 800d wife prepares food and | | notice i drink for her husband, but a quarrel- i Tiere is radically | S0me wife will drive her husband "0; something Bouin 3 I = | drink and she'll get food for thought, ! ovis with the mdlvidual Who Suds | =, love Site 00 Hi | Neuse Jraniving man' 'who does | sure that you will never possess dol- | not know what trouble is to be a pro- | 87S. : The sting of a bee is only about | Even the most hospitable persoy| one thirty-second of an inch oh | length, resulted in. the |. cheese, condensed milk and powder- | § of the Agent-General for Ontario in |} THIS COUPON worth $1.00 with every purchase of T0007 5F ves during fair week. Kingston's popular store for men who work and save. 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