Daily British Whig (1850), 22 Jul 1922, p. 13

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"SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1922. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. -.." 13 -- z > ' DEATH PEEKS IN AT THE WINDO ile Thomas Hardy, England's 82-Year-Old Poet, Mere 7 to Make a About Human Joys and Sor- rows--Naturally Graves, Ghosts, and Epitaphs Figure Largely in This Volume of Lyrics, Probably Hurdy's Last Work. By Professor W. 7. Allison. £ There are many people who never [these is entitled, 'Voices from : read poetry. They have never ec- quired a taste for #t. This is prob- ably because they had to parse and analyze stretches of it when they A wore boys and girls at school and a they have hated the very sight of it [Once 1 ik Sumered tke . bN ever since; or in later life they have In daisy Sc, Up ue ey ay been repelled by lyrics of passion or i have dozed over the descriptive eon- | All vi Ags : net or poems which have seemed to All night eerily! oi them to be far removed from the, pc-] telities of Mfe. For all such I sh. Hke to commend Thomas Hardy's new volume, "Late Lyrics and Earl. ler" (The Macmillan Company, To- | ronto), because this 82-year-old bard | is a disciple of Matthew. Arnold, who Beld that all grep: poetry ia at bot- od 3 ia YOu, ore ruddy of view tom a oriticism of life. Hardy has | All day cheerily ' an eye for the beautiful in nature, | oe pn but he never falls to Mnk up nature | ' Ft ita vor wt tre agar | 4 ad Grids. proud, al brd, . Sir or Madam, ti a Kinievat he writes {Am I--thts laurel that shades your : | head; 80 briefly that the most prosaic Per | Into ts veins I have stilly sped, 5 a pe Mad . [And made them of me; and my leaves These flowers are I, poor Fanay Hurd, Sir or Madam, little gir] here sepultured. a I, these berries of juice alll gloss, Sir or Madam, Am clean forgotten as Thotnas Voes; Thin-urned, I have burrowed away from the moss That covers my sod, and"have enter- ¥ | now ghine, \As did my satin superfine, | All day cheerily, All night eerily! In a London Flat. This Aged Poet Sticks to Rhyme. When we read Hardy's poems we | are impressed much as when we take | up Browning. He uses rhyme, but | he does not obtrude its jingle; we are 80 intent on the thought that we are | volume which deal with the swift Scarcely conscious of the fact that coming of death and the separation this is expressed in orthodox rhym: Jot loving hearts. Almost at randoin ing style. A mam of Hardy's down- |! choose one of these poignant lyrics, right temperament, one who has all "In a London Flat," as a revelation $is lite been a flouter of convention, [0f Hardy's power of compression, his might almost have been expected to |V/Vidness, and command of pathos. take up with free verse, but he looks | : 5 upon this Georgian freedom of style "'You look Uke a widower," she said With positive aversion, In the not- Through the folding-doors with a #ble preface to this volume he tells laugh from the bed, us that as he looks about on his As he sat by the fire in the outer you contemporaries he feels that | room, en destroyers, not creators of | Reading late on a night of gloom, beauty, that they are bedevilling Eng- | And = Stans : wheese, and the altogether. In this con- | clap of its fee so Doesy XH ierpalt this Jeremfad--- IN its breathless pace on the smooth "The thoughts of any man of letters | Wet street, concerned to keep poetry alive ¢an-| Were all that came to them now and not run uncomfortable on the pro- | hen. catious prospects of English verse at | YOu really do!" she quizzed again. esent day. Verily the hazards | are Ly 1 the birth ;And the spirits behind the curtain ing forth of almost every heard, . in -- town, of numbers are And aleo laughed, amused at her ominously lke those of one of Shel-| word, UL Iouyly Xs thous of windy lake. | And at her light-hearted view of him. And a forward conjecture scarcely | 'Let's get him made wo Just for a | whim!" Sald the Phantom Ironde, * "Twould serve her right permits the hope of a better time, unless men's tendencies should change. So indeed of all art, litera- ture, and 'high thinking' nowadays. Whether owing to the barbarizing of taste in the younger minds 'by the aay dark madness of the late war, the un- | s ae cultivation of selfishness, The Sprite of the Pit in all classes, the plethoric growth of | it was fun! knowledge sim "taneously with the stunting of wisdom, 'a degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation' or from any other cause, we soem threatened with a new Dark Age." Wherefore Mr. Hardy holds aloof from the young barbarians who are today sporting with free verse; he prefers to stick to the old paths, and as far as verse is concerned preserves the measures of the classic school. But his matter is as new as that of the youngest of his brethren. night." ies. "She said But so it befell, whateve That what she had cal next year was; And on such a night, when elsewhere, He, watched by these again sat there, And gazed, as if gazing on far faint shores, At the empty bed through the foid- ing-doors As he remembered her words; and wept That she had forgotten them where she slept. Fl -- r the cause, led him he she lay phantoms, When One House Talks to Another, Mr. Hardy's modern way of put- ting things is evident in such a poem || 48 "The Two Houses." It is too long for me to quote the whole of it, bu fn the opening stansas the reader will come to the conclusion thet here is a subject and a way of treating fit that seem new and original. In the heart of night, 'When farers were not near, The left house said to the house on the right, ; "I have marked yéur rise, O smart néw-comer here." Appreciate Your Present Happiness. This aged poet has much to say ahout joys long fled. As he looks back through the past, he calls up happy times and good friends, and laments tlie fact thet he did not re- alize just what a wealth of happiness was his in those dear, dead days. He dwells oa this' theme in brief com- pass but with striking effect in this littde poem, "The Last Time": h The kiss had been given and taken, And gathered to many past: It never could reawaken; But you heard none say: "It's the last!" Said the right, cold-eyed: '"'New-comer here I am, Heneé haler than you with your cracked old hide, Loose casements, wormy beams, and i doors that jam. The clock showed the hour and the minute, But you did not turn and look: You read mo fads in #t, As at closing of a book. "Modern my wood, y hanglugs fair of hue; While my windows open as should, And water-pipés thread all chambers through. ~'Your gear is gray, Your fate wears furrows untold." '"--Yours might," mourned the oth- er, if you held, brother, The Presences from aforetime that I hoM . they Put you read it ail too rightly Wien, at a time anon, A fighre lay stretched out whitely, And you stood looking thereon. Hardy's Last Poem. Two of the most famous poems in our language are Tennyson's "Cross- ing the Bar" and Browning's fare- well poem, "Greet the Unseen with Cheer." Both were written by old men and were fll my "You have not known Men's lives, deaths, tolls, and teens; You are but a heap of stick and stone: A new house has no sense of the have-beens. tentionally Bis book and ft will no g "Void as a drum cecuny this place in al You stand: I am packed with these, Thoueh, stranzely, living dwellers |" who come . See not the phantoms all stance sees." R---- Death Looks in at the Window, When a poet is in his eighty-third Year, it must often seem to him as if death were pecking in at the win- dow. Perhaps this is the reason why 'Twas 80 many of Hardy's new poems _ deal with grave-yarde and ghosts. One of the most striking of my sub- | i {That suffereth Things Growing in a Churchyard," -- [It we coaxed the Will"to do it some | "O pray not!" pleased the younger My heart in its arrogancy. "You"held not to whatsoever was true," Seid my own voice talking to me: | "Whateoever was just you were slack ! to see; {Kept not things lovely and pure In | view,' |saia my own voice talking to me. f i | "You slighted her that endureth all," Said my own voice talking to me; "Vaunteth not, trusteth hopefully; long and is kind withal," Said my own voice talking to me. "Yon taught about," 8 . Said my own voice talking to me; 'That the greatest of things is Charity--" And the sticks burnt low, and the fire 7 went out, 1And my voice ceased talking to me. --W. T. ALLISON. not; that which set Li Sir John Williso dent Imperialist in {ber of "The Notes. n writes as an ar- the current num- { Nineteenth Century" on | 'Canada in the Empire." He main- | tains that through connection with | Great Britain and Co-operation with. | Great Britain, Canada has greater 'Power to serve all the good ends of civilization ghan can be had through any autonomous nationality, any in- dependent alHance with other coun- tries, or any separate representation in a Leagug of Nations. So greafly stirred is 8ir John on { this question and so fearful of the j talk in various Canadian papers re- | garding our new status as a nation. {our powers and privileges, that he | goes £0 far as to say that new school | of constitutionalists who are for | language which closely resembles, in | letter though not in spirit, that of {Henri Bourpssa, "the inflammatory | leader of French Nationalism, | against whom Laurer struggled to maintain his ascendéncy in Quebec." that he is, Sir been grieved by certain of Empire held now-a- equal status in the Empir ing | There are scores of poems in this | a ® Smpire 419 ce, In | | Good Conservative | John has | conceptions Arthur Meighen. He thinks that these statesmen have become ;alliss of John 8. Ewart, K.C., of Sir Cliff- | ord Sifton, of J. W. Dafoe, and of | Prof. Oscar D, Skelton of Queen's | University. The only unkind refer- | ence made by Sir John Willison in | his interesting article is an allusion | to Prof. Skelton. He calls him "an aggressive Nationalist, in all of { whose references to the Empire thera [18 the flavor of vinegar."' Thus doas the early biographer of Sir Wilfrid Laurier tartly denounce the later worshipper at the shrine where once he sent up clouds of incense. Simultaneously with the publica- tion of Sir John Willison's stand- | pat article on imperial federation, | appears "Canadian 'Constitutional | Studies" by Right Hon. Sir Robert Laird Borden (Oxford University Press). The chapters of this book were originally presented to the public in the form of lectures on the Marfleet foundation in the University of Tao- ronto. Sir Robert writes fn a weighty but clear style concerniug recent developments In the relations Ship of Canada to Great Britain which have marked a departure from the strict letter of the British North America act. He claims that the Royal veto is now obsolescent if not obsolete. A book with a lively title is "Shae Blows! and Warm at That!" This is a whaling story cf the New Bedford fishermen of the seventies of last century. Its author is William John Hopkins, a graphic writer who knows how to fill his pages with the tingle of adventure, Although Sherlock Holmes sud spiritualism seem to be the usual as- sociations that rise in the mind on mention of the name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, we should not forget that in pasf years he was no mean pcet. Only the other day an elder- ly medical friend of mine was chan'. ing one of Doyle's verses with great gusto. It is therefore worth a pasg- ing note that a collected edition of all Sir Arthur's songs and poems will be published this fall. Here is a romance of bookland. J, Thomas, a barber of Derby, England. recently inherited a batch of oid books on the death of a distant rela- tive. It is not likely that he was greatly uplifted in spirit at this he- quest, but he must have cheered ap mightily when some bookish friend overhauled the dusty volumes and discovered among them a first eds- tion of Bunyan's '"Pligrim's Prog- ress" (1678). And imagine the hairdresser's heavenly joy when this little old hook brought him in $10.- 050 at Sotheby's auction room, Lon- don! especially during the summer and prompt action is the little one may soon be aid. Baby's Own' | days by Sir Robert Borden and Hon. | Sunday Services in Churches | | i | | St. Andrews--Rev. John W. |{Stephen, minister, will conduct both {morning and evening services, 11 ja.m. and 7 p.m. Students and vis- {tors cordially welcome. i t St. Pdul's--Canon W. F. FitzGer- ald, M.A., rector. Morning service, 11 am. Evening service, 7 p.m. Note--Holy communion on last Sun- day in month at 8 am. St. Luke's Church, Nelson street Rev. J. de P. Wright, M.A., B.D.; tor. - Sixth Sunday after Trinity. 11 fm. morning prayer; 4 p.m., holy | baptism; 7 p.m., evening prayer. | | i | { Zion Presbyterian Church, Pine Street__Rev. Bdwin H. Burgess, min- ister. Services, 11 a.m. end 7 pm, {Dr. John Mackie, M.D,, wii preach fat both. Sexts free. Everybody wel- come. Sabbath school, 3 pm. | Queen street Methodist church (worshipping with Cooke's church congregation: during July)--Presach- {ér at 11 a.m, and 7 p.m. Rev. J |W. McIntosh, M.A., of Prince "Albert, {a former pastor of Cooke's churen | Everybody cordially thvited. | Bethel Church, cor, Barrie and {Johnston streets--Pastor, A. Sidney { Duncan, phone 2094w. Services, 11 jam. and 7 p.m.; Sunday echool. |3 p.m. Christtan Endeavor, Monday, {8 p.m., prayer meeting, Waednes- |day, 8 p.m. . Come, and welcome. Princess Street Methodist Chareh {--Rev. John A. Waddell, minister. |Bervices, 11 a.m., the minister; 7 {p.m., Rev. W. K. Shortt, M.A. Sun- day school, 12 o'clock Ep- worth League, Monday, § pm.; | prayer meeting, Wednesday, § p.m. | Strangers and visitors cordially wel- jcomed. | Calvary Congregational = Church, |corner Charles and Bagot streets | --Pasior, Rev. A PF. Brown, [14 {Barrie street. Phone 1806w. Suan- day, 10 am., Sunday school, régular [services, 11 am. and 7 p.m; Monday, |S pm., Christian Endeavor; 'prayer | 1eeting; Wednesday, 8 p.m. Every- {one welcome. Cooke's Presbyterian Church-- ful discourse, bright einging, and a warm welcome to all, Come. St. George's Cathedral--Very Rev. G. Lothrop Starr, M.A., D.D., dean and rector. Rev. W. E. Kidd, M.A, M.C., curate, 7 Wellington, phone 869w. Sixth Sunday after Trinity. 8 a.m., Holy Communion; 11 a.m. Mortiing Prayer. Preacher; the Bis- hop of Diocese. 7 p.m., Evensong. Preacher, Rev. W. B. Kidd. --- St. James' Church, corner Union am. holy communion; 11 am, morning prayer and sermon. Preach- er, the Rev. Canon Austin Smith, 3 p.m., Sunday school; 7 p.m. even- ing prayer and sermon. Preacher, the Ven. Archdeacon Dobbs, M.A. First Baptist, Church, Sydenham and Johnson stréets< Rev. J. S. LaFair, pastor. 9.45 a.m., Bible &chool;\11 a.m. sermon theme "Open, Windows." 7 p.m. eermon there, "The Summer School of Christ." Prin. R. Bruce Taylor will assist in this service. Union street church, George Cowie, student pastor. 3 p.m. bible school; 7 p.m. public worship. First Church of Christ Scientist-- Johnson street, between Bagot and Wellington. Sunday services, . 11 a.m. Subject: "Truth." Public read- ing room, same address, every after- noom, except Bunday ard holidays, 3 to § o'clock, and Thursday from 7.30 to 9.30 pm. Wednesday,. 8 p.m., testimonial meeting. All are cordial- ly invited to the services and to the reading-room. Chalmers Presbyterian and Syden- hani street Méthod'st churches--Un- fon services in Chalmers church. Rev. Prof. A. J. Johnston, "B.A, of Vietoria College, Toronto will preach morning and evening. sub- Ject--11 a.m. "The Witnessing church". Subjeét 7 p.m.. "Uncon- querable Love.""* Morning service, Lady Twining, who has been fifteen years in India, will sing, 'Come, Jes- us Redeemer.' Evening service, An- them dw the choir, Oh Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Organist, Mrs J. R. C. Dobbs. Students and Brock street--{Union services with Queen street Methodist chureh in Cooke's church. Rev. J. W. Meln- tosh, M.A; of Prince Albert, Sask., and a former pastor of Cooke's, will Strangers are welcome. In Syden- ham street church--W: W. Chown's ciggho is a.m.; bible school 2.45 P.@l"; John Miller will give a cornet solo; Primary and beginners, 10.135 &.m.; Wednesday, prayer meeting, conduct both services. A short, help- AAAs mim, » THE PEOPLE By the Rev. Sigues Every industry pot self-supporting is a parasite. It remains alive only becaure healthy industries are giving of their life-blood to sustain it. An industry is not sélf-supporting unless it pays wages sufficient to live, rot only while the workédrs are em- ployed but while they are compeiled tc stand in reserve during times of inevitable unemployment, Any industry thet cannot Pay a Hving wage has no night io live. Such an industry not only deprives workers of a living while they are employed, but it becoifiés a charge on the community and on other legitimate industries which in the last avalysis are compelled to take care of the derélicts--the castoft | workers--of these private enter- prises. Whenever a new business of enter- prise seeks to establish iteelf in any tity, it should be compelled to make a complete statement as to ts stand- &rde of working conditions dnd wages paid, and if it comes up to the re- cuirement it will be worih something to it to be given a dean bill of Health. Every city owes it to those who are trying to be fair to the workers and public to protect them from business pirates and parasites, and every cew business enterprise that expects to profit by the city's reputation and ac- cumulated values--sochal, economic, and commercial---should be compell- od to give a guatantes that it will rot selfishly lower standards or deo- grade working conditions. : It is absurd for anybody to insist that he has the right to come into a long and well established community and take off the cream, leaving only skimmed milk for those wihio paid the cost getting the cream. And yet there are individuals who claim an inherent right to conduct any kind of an enterprise they please, pay what they please, and run their affairs as they please. Ii ESE 8 p.m. COME FIRST Charlés Stelzle. & paychological or sociological reason Which {s responsible for much of what most of us call "sin. It must be perfectly plain to any feir-minded person that 8ome s0- called criminals never had a fair chance. We sed too many mea to jail. Some of them should have been sent to the instead. All the great social questions are fundamentally reMgious and moral. You cannot think of some phases of child labor, for example, without a Swelling of the throat caused by a high moral resolve to fight it, but beyond this personal aspect of the Question is the fact that child labor is dmmoral. You cacmor discuss this Question purely from the economic standpoint---it fs more than a mere Matter of money. ; It is queer that while some excel- leat people can see the liquor ques- tion as a moral and religious problem and, while some of them will gladly open their éhurches for the discus- sion of temperance reform. they are blind ¢o the fact that bad housing and poor sanitation drive many peo- ple to drink, and that these are also mora] and réligious questions. They will organise great maes mesting to fight the saloon, but they will not even attend a conference to discuen situations that were primar- ily responsible for the saloon. There must be gréater breadth of vision both by workingmen who are concerned primarily about soctal and soonomic reform and churchmen who Are most anxious about moral and spiritual reconstruction. 11 these two groups can be brought together and made to see that while each has an important though diyer- efit task in the Building up of so- diety, their work has a common basis, it will bring about quickly the great reformation which simply united leadership, \ Sir and Arch streets--T. W, Savary, reé-; tor, the rectory; 152 Bartle street. 3° led our communit comes as a check to men{Who have become uccustomed to things as they are, who, quite satisfied with presept dl' conditions, are unwilling to be mada uncomforiable by a change which nay mean a readjustment in their suethod of Mving and in their way of doing business. : But to stand in the way of progress is futile. It may be that #t is neces- sary to oppose certain features-- man-made and man-ihepired__which have crept into the plans which "he people present, but back of them all ahd beneath them all will be. found the band of God. This has been proved in history. In the beginming of every great fight for the right emd for progress, the ileisured classes, the so-called upper Clandes, have been on the wrong side of the but'lefield. The common peo- Ple--the men of uncommon sense-- to these the world owes a debt of gratitude. If you would hear the volce of God, keep close to the people. ----_ team YARKER BASEBALL TEAM Put out of Business by Accidents to Players. Yarker, July 20/-Rev. J. Ww. Down and wife have réturned from Ottawa where they visited their son Arthur. Many of the homes in Yar- | ker are closed while the owners are enjoying the cool breezes at Varty Lake. their sister, Mrs. A. McLaughlin, at Keene. Mrs. William Smith has re. turned home atfer spénding two weeks in Watertown, N.Y. Mrs. Be!l and children, Belleville, are visiting at the home of Mr Burgess for a few days. Mr. and Mas. Fer- 'guson, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Brown and daughter, Brockville, spent the week-end with their sister, Mrs. Main, at Yarker. Wednesday Yarker ball team met defeat by Tamworth at the latter place by the score of 15 to 6. The Yarker catcher, T. Warner, had the misfortune to get his right leg brok- en, G. Woodhouse, a brulsed arm, and Howard Holland a lacerated {face and broken ankle. This wil} | practically put the team out of busi. ness for the balance of the season. J. B. Sanderson was to Arden on a business trip recently. Mr. and Mts. D. A. Stewart spent Sunday last at Marysville. Mrs. Clayton and son | Frank, Teronto, at the home of her | parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard wil- son. 8. B. Babcock and wile, Alton, were in the village last week calling on friends and relatives. B. Richard. son spent cently. The baseball lawn social held on the lawn of J. Warner was a decided success, the proceeds amounted to over $100 and was attended by young and old. Bora to Mr. and Mrs. D. Dafoe, a daughter, Saturday, July 16th. Death of Rockport Rockport, July 20.--D oo) Lady. eath enter- y Saturday, July 15th, and called to rest, after a long lness, which she bore with great Christian patience, Mrs. John Dun- don. She will be greatly missed as she was always ready to help thoss In need. The deceased lady was in her sixty-ninth year and leaves to mourn one son Leo, and two daugh- ters Mrs. Den. Reid, Rockport, and Mrs. Bernard Murray, Kingston. Her funeral was held Monday morning to St. Barnaby's church, Brewers Mills, where a solemn requiem mass was sung By Rev. Father Traynor. The pall bearers were Andrew Reid, R. J. Leeder, John Murray, Thomas Short. ell, Thomas Root and Richard Mau- gan. The floral and spiritual offer- ings were numerous. Lady Bathurst, owner of the Morning Post, one of the most con- servative newspapers in England, has a hobby of raising goats. Miss Gladys Down and bro- | ther are spending a few weeks with | 2 week in Newburgh ra. | | "DR. FOWLER'S Saved the Lives of 'Four Children Diarrhoea, dysentery, cholers fa- fantum and summer complaint are { responsible for more deaths, especiale Ly among children, during the sum- mer months than any other form of disease. According to statistics, in the City of Toronto alone, in the past five years out of 1008 deaths of child- ren, from diarrhoea, 757 died during the four summer months. It there- fore behooves every mother to look after her children on the first sign of any looseness of the bowels by us- ing Dr. Fowler's Extract .of Btrawberry, a remedy that has n on the market for the past 77 years, and has been proven to be the best there is. 4 Mrs. Harold Sellers, Pennfield, N. B., writes:--"Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry saved the lives of four of my children when all other remedies failed. It stopped the vomiting and terrible diarrhoea 'with | which they were troubled. I will al- | ways recommend it, and now always | have a bottle on hand in case of emergency.' Price, 50c. a bottle; put up only by The T. 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