Y x THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG - |the unregenerete Gritd present be- RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE SECRETARY |@an to smack their lips and suggest By J. L. PAYNE | that it be passed around. "Just {a litttle barley water, gentlemen, for Early Newspaper Days and Men---Sir James Edgar's Trained Political Choir--The Private Secretary, His Duties, Painful and {1ay over-taxed throat," Sir Charles {explained. But that was uncdnvine-| OtherwisewOivil- Service und Patronage, © a SICKENING HEADACHES 'Effect was splendid she tried this Fruit Medicine : SATURDAY, DEUEMBEK 29, 1923, re re 4 9 r ing, and finally, to my horror, 1 | Was called to the front and asked to |solemnly certify to the entirely jn- '|nocuous and non-st.mulating cnar- i acter of the medicine, That really | made matters worse, and one lost| ities of genuine statesmansaip. He soul shouted: "Your barkespers { Sir Charles Tupper, Baronet, suc- had made a greal name f h.mseif (word won't go." ! East Ship Harbour, NS. 3 |ce.80T tu Lue Premiership of Canada in Nis native Province of Npva Seutia As a matter of fact Bir Charles | 9 fatter peace had been paiched up be- beicre_entering the Pederai arena. Was a strict abstainer. If he was | Cre oa) fore tween the two divisions of the BOw- He was one of the notaule father. tired, he took a bowl of soup. He and I was miserable in every way. ell Cabinet. He was then in his/of Confederation. I shoud mot be was, no doubt, during that Nothing in the way of medicines seventy-sixth year, if I remember disposed to class.fy him as an elo- campaign, with intense heat | seemed to help me and I was almost correctly; but still vigorou. and in quent speaker; but he was a very ef- [in Ontario, frequently wearfed; yet! discou: A possession 'of that fighting spirit fective speaker. He was at his best [his recuperative powers were wWon-| Then I tried "Fruit-a-tives" and which had made him known as tie | when he was ttrenuously opposed, /derful. His fighting :p'rit sustained | the effect was splendid ; and after "War Hor.e of Cumberland." He and certainly reveided in a hard bat- | him. And on one occasion 1 taking one box, I can safely say I had other pseudonyms, all denoting tle.. He was essentially a fighter. [thought we were going to have that| am well. I feel like a new person in the warrior, He had, of course [It wouid be mislead.ng, however, to Ispirit put to tHe supreme test. every way and I am deeply thankful changed somewhat since I first saw speak of him as a bulidog Nobody to have relief from those sickening him in 1877. He then had a heavy lever to referred to him. He was |Gaelic-speaking men of Inverness, headaches'. head of black hair, an erect figure, more like the liop--dignified, im- County. Dr. A. W. McLennan, | Mrs. MARTHA DE WOLFE. and a marvellous voice. He was perious, fearless and confident, - [the L.beral Candidate, turned up at! : se : : now gray, somewhat bent, and less Few names have Leen written more (the meeting and claimed the right | "Frdit-a-tives" will always relieve Headaches due to. resonant of voice. He still had a | conspicuou.ly iu the history of the [to reply to Sir Charles. Sir Chanes| they act directly on the liver and cause the haw 10 mare rather di.tinguished presence, and, Dominion, Hibbert Tupper was to 'follow ms | Baturally. This rids the system of impurities and a once he had warmed up to his sub-| He was, as has been with '-e ¥ ARTICLE 1V. eh is something new in all leading garages and service stations, giving "Maple Leaf" Non-freeze protection. 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A mixture of "Maple Leaf" denatured Alcohol! and water gives better satisfaction at less cost. Correct Winter Driving preparations when "Maple Leaf" denatured Alcohol is used, are as follows: and flush the radiator Do not run car with radiator and system and see that cover or cardboard in front. there are no leaks. Allow a free flow of air to old fire, | private secretary and he neither had If he fel: that he had a hard task the elasticky of his step nor tne ahead of ham to save the Conserva- patience of his younger days. {tive party, be did not reveal a trace was the kind of man with whom v.= jot it in his bearing toward those !did not debate an order; yet he | who flocked about him. Instead, | never was arrogant, He had his he radiated confidence. Indeed, if|moments of irritation when things one were to sum up in a single word {went wrong, and he would roar his his attitude toward the contest into disapprobation in a terrifying way. which he had been so summarily His anger meant nothing, however, plunged, it would be that word '"con-'and every trace of it was gone in fidence." Some might have thought a few moments, I liked him best "defiance" a more fijting; for there!wiien he was in a reminiscent mood, Tighten or renew the hose The Jun ut oll Himes: Leaf was something of that too. in the and then he revealed himself as a Then t Maple gladiator who unsheathed his sword keen and analytical student of men. ie Sn, Brand desatused Aloghiol in for the battle of 1896. His bitter-| He had an entirely original con. and renew belt if necessary, completely protected, est enemy never doubted his cour- ception of the qualification and pos- age. ition of a private secretary, He Yet he was a great diplomat, too. {expected of him encyclopaedic know. I can say that much in all sincer- ledge and an infallible memory, I ity from what I :aw of him during had neither. He also looked to him that important poiitical struggle. to take the blame for all the mis- He knew when to cajole and when takes of his chief, I could tell a to coerce, and he was a master or thousand stor.es in illustration 'of both methods. To me it veemed these whimsical notions of his; but that he was gu.ded by instinct as'one or two will serve my purpove, well as by long training, in lis hand-| One day he received a letter from ling of men. He could flatter, and an old friend In Nova Scotla, con- he could flay. I remember that Sir gratulating him on his call to we Mackenzie Bowell, who had no par- Premiership and recounting some of ticular love for:Bir Charles, told their experiences together, Sir me that the trouble would not have Charles dictated a go.s py reply, happened if Sir Charles had bee= un and in it said something like this: th.s :ide of the Atlantic at the time.: "Yes; and I aeléo remember when Sir Mackenzie bore testimony quite 'you ran against me for the :chool frankly to the genius of his succes- trusteeship in 1848," In the course oor in straightening out an ugly 01 a week or two there came anoth- situation, - ler letter from this friend, who said: "1 too recall that old fight; but you are wrong in saying it occurred in 1548. - It was 1849." To the buzzing of my office bell {1 responded, and when I came into 'Sir Charles' room he handed me this bi JR letter. "Read that, Sir," he com- and party took place 'on 43rd June. manded in a stern voice, I road. He was a great man to me on that {pow could you possibly make such iateful night. A special wire had |, unpardonable blunder?" he roar- been put into his room in the Bast oy Feebly, yet earne:tly, I remind- slock, and returns began to come in ed him that he had dictated the early. He had been out to dinner, | and did not put in an appearance reply himself, but he broke in with; "What h hat t ith it?" And until about nine o'clock. By that. ont has that to do with it?" An {when I took refuge in the defence time the news of the defeat of Hon. |i) this exceedingly important con. Arthur Dickey, in Cumberland, Nova, for the school trustee.tip hac Scotla, had been sent in, ' (taken place ten years before I was Dickey had unfortunately at that poem, and in a province remote moment dropped In to hear the!s.. my own, he shut me off with a news\in general. Sir Charles, BOtifnal blast of thunder: "My God Wishing to have her distressed, AVS man, I expect you to kfiow every. lier some reassurance, called a ab 1hing. You may go, Sir; but don't and took her home, let it oceur. again." He did not return until ten, and then learned from me how many Liberals and how many Conserva- | tives had been elected. "Never {| mind numbers," he said: "make up for me the gains and loses." Wh.le > | waiting for this to be done, the wrote a letter to Lady Tupper. He had j| | some muscular trouble which pw.- kf] mitted him to write only with pains ty Cool in Defeat. Sir Charles upper 8 tenure at the +ead of Government was short. It | vegan on Ist May and ended July 49th, The deieat of his ministry Kingston Battery Service W. MILNE, PROPRIETOR. A ALL MAKES OF STORAGE BATTERIES, STARTING MO- TORS, GENERATORS AND MAGNETOS REPAIRED PRICE FOR CHARGING BATTERIES .......... 78 "FOR AUTO ELECTRICAL REPAIRS Se F. 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In that election fight, 1 recall, he was by his = ppponenw christened 'The Big L" | But he réally - was not an eg | man, At'a meeting in Toronto d the campaign --at which meeting, by the way, Hon. John Beverley #oviu- son fell dead as he was mounting the stage of Massey hall--hiy aud- lence contained a sprinkling of Liberals disposed to heckle in 4 play- ful way. Whenever he used the first person singular, these mischiev. fous spirits would ery out "1, 1, 1." They did this once when he' beguu $0 quote something about Sir Wil tried Laurier, and he shouted back at thom, rYou are & pack of fools! 'I' in this caie 1s that of your leader, that, FLAT RATE SERVICE | Bring oar in, or send for us to call and get it. We ful slowness; yet he never once con- you a fiat rate for overhauling it or repairing it. i} | cerned himself about the election class Special Compressed Air Oil Spray. [ll returns until he had finished his let-, and the Greasing Rack, are some of) ol ter. That would be a little after . ! eleven, 2 "Have you made up the gains and losses, Mr. Payne," he a ..d. I told him there had been 36 Lib- eral gains and 4 Conservative, Sir Charles did not utter a syl i} liable when I gave him those omin- ous figures. Instead, he folded his letter, placed it in an envelgpe, seal ed it, and then, with a terrible scratching of his pen, wrote the ad- dress, I a EE ---- a Si -------- For all kinds of Automobile repair work, and where a real mechanic is needed, see us and have it done right. R. GREENLEES Angrove's Auto Sales, 146 am Street "Mr. Payne, that means defeat!" "I am araid it does, Bir," 1 as sented, and neld my breath, awa.t- ing the outburst that I was certain would foliow. I expected he would thing that could the country, and : Conservative party; for _ Just Barley Water, An amusing He | ," He got along better after |! {Hibbert explained that the plans for {& joint meeting had fallen through, {and that if Dr. McLennan wanted to speak he could have the hai cer. | London, Eng. Ogdensburg, | There was much wrangling, and FRUIT-A-TIVES LIMITED, OTTAWA, ONT. N.Y. {loud calling for Dr. McLennan, alluded, I firmly asked him to pe |the midst of which Sir Charles Hib | good enough to permit. me to glve {bert pleaded with the Doctor to "call [to the electors before me the ex- |off your dogs of war." The Doctor, ceedingly important information I |who had been timidly edging his was on the point of disclo.ing. Bu. {Way forward, saw his chance, turn- pe persisted, came to the front of |ed about and shouted: *'Men of In- the platform, and started to make {verness, he calls you dogs." Then |g speech. 1 then saw that he was |the war broke out. A score or more | violently intoxicated. The meeting {of fierce-looking men came swarming | was tlopped for several minutes [through the door, and in a body (while five strong men removed ta. |pu.hied Mclennen to the foot of chairman from the hail. struggling the platform, If a blow had been |and shrieking like a madmen. struck, I never doubted that the | Where and how did he get the lig- place would have been turned into fuor to reach that alarming state o a butdher's :hop, for that section frenzy?! He certainly did not get it lof Nova Scotia has a bad name for|on my éar." |itse sanguinary fights, The worst| Sir Charles Tupper has long since {that happened, however, was that ines ed fo his reward, and he dieu |the meeting was taken completely | without unravelling the mystery ot jout of the hands of the Conserva- | where and hew Mr. M., got his tives and their eniment speakers | st mulant. 1 can now tell, These {were compelled to retire. {three men had retired to a room in'] : Sp ---- the car after coming aboard. When Secretary w Buffer, {they had goue, the porter showed 1 dreaded the meetings, because |¢, me four empty bottles which had jof my relations to Sir Charles 2< | been full of potent Scotch whiskey, la buffer for whatever happened of n other bottles which had od Ofland sixtee jan adverse nature. Like "being | sontained impotent Appolinaris." | kicked down stairs, it Was possible |arierwards learned that one of them to get used to it; Christchurch, N.%, Look s Ke 3 L P -- of that meeting. The car wis no as "dry" as Sir Charles had believed it to be. The warm hall had done the rest, \ } but impo.sible to {accounted for two of the empty lig- grow fond of it, For example, if a i uor bottles. He was the chairman member or candidate kalied after (To be continued.) {the meeting and expressed , regret {that some particular point had not {been touched upon--usually some {vote he had given or something of {a lccal character--Sir Charles in. stantly rang for me. 'Were you at the meeting tonight," he would de- mand to know; and no matter whether T answered in the nega- tive or the affirmative, I got the blame. "You ses, Sir Charles would explain, 'my secretary, on whom 1 must necessanrly depend, shirked his duty end was not at the meeting;" or "You hear my scretary stand be- fore me and confess in your presence that he was not at the meeting anc therefore could not slip me a re- rainder." And I would be dismissea as the real culprit, We offer a GRAIN and Kingston Branch, Fifty Y ears of Banking MERCHANTS MANUFACTURERS and MUNICIPAL'TIES STANDARD BANK ca id complete service for FARMERS CATTLE DEALERS There was nothing petiy about Su Charles. He liked big ideas big undertakings and big points ot view. He much preferred to talk in terms of millions than in thou- sands, and this led to reproach of being an exaggerator. He wah guilty; but without the slightest in- tent.on of deceiving, He had the | weakness of Gulliver, He Jove the Brobdignagians. 1 could teil many amu.ing stories of his disposi. tion to pa.nt with a bold brush; but I refrain, for the simple reason that | myself would be guilty of ex- aggeration, It would mean the isojation of a single feature in ni. composition, and hide his real pro. portion:. 1 naturally saw hum in his bad spells; yet he remains very vividly in. my mind as a big ana courageous man, patriotic to a faul, and the dreamer of bright dreams. He was a leader and a comumanding personality, The Chair Interrupts. It bas jpeen said that Sir Charles Tupper 'was an abstainer, and | know he abhorred drink.ng. On one occasion, I will not say where, three men' came aboard our officiai car and travelled for two hours or more with us. They retired into ones of thaw#ilins for the purpose of a conference, and left the the car to go directly to the meeting witich Sir Charles was to addres that night. I saw nothing of them Again to this day; but I shall long remember one of them. When tne meeting was over and there had been hurrahs and farewells outside the car, I asked my chief how he had Hared, + "It was a most magnificent ing," he declared, with his usual 0's STE & 5 a Sectional Book Cases