x! | November. No shade, no shine, no butterfiies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds-- --Thomas Hood. 1. The whimsical poet tells the truth about November in these clever lines, but not all the 'truth. He per- ceives the motif of the month and straightway proceeds to exaggerate the same--a privilege which belongs to all poets, and is assumed by some who are not. Every month of the twelve has its characteristics and November an in- dividuality quaintly its own. The vivid and varied color scheme of mid sutumn gives place to a study in gray monotony. The trees are 7 | leafless and they stand sharply sil- ] Campbell ....00000 Presiden. Pan A Guild .ooveciinn Baits and oui VEFEONE Shassns sans name Rem, The strangers you see on Easy Stréet usually are bill collectors. : We have so leisure class a Can- ada except those who play checkers. Mr. Stanley Baldwin retired early to-Gight.--Press cable. Another bed- time Tory. Buogland's unemployed get govern- ment ald; most of ours are on pri- vate payrolls. At thit the crab is worthy of re- spect, unless he refuses to make a fourth at bridge. ~The great man and the nobody seem strangely similar when they get on the defensive, The theory that preserves repub- lics is that elevation to office makes a common mutt great, {0 ---- The prophets agres that this will one of the hardest The job for scientists is to find the gland whose imperfect development affects the trigger finger. And now the family budget mast revised to keep the bob that way, \ The moose may not cure the in- to murder but it stops the man doing it twice. v ba N's about time for dealers to agree on a reason why turkeys #hould be higher this year. ns it. In the old days & ford was a safe place to 'cross; now it's the Ford on some other man's. wife, 8 ofie who sells heavy clothes to who thought it ould be Bot. "661 so heroic If erie brought | o public spanking on Main Street. Freet this sentence: "I cen tell na mother," said the 'and shortly 7 he Way she tadline vist | grow houetted against skies that are lead- en and bleak. The wind rustles amidst the fallen leaves as if search- ing for something it has lost, -and the fitful gusts scatter promiscuous- ly the leafy heaps of brown and buff. There are hints not vague, but broad, that winter is near at hand and snow may fall any day. There is a sombre charm in No- vember days and nights. The air Is often! crisp and invites the pedes- trian to fill his Jungs to their peak with deep breaths and pure. The landscape is alluring, even in its un- dressed effect. Rarely there is a sunset of such weird beauty as would have moved John Ruskin to exclaim "It was well worth seeing." {| The twilight comes early and deep- ens quickly into night. The constel- lations keep pace with the calendar, after supper mighty Orion makes his appearance dnd be- ging his triumphant march across the heavens. The insignia of November is the fodder shock, the pumpkin and the turkey gobbler strutting to his doom. History and romance meet and mingle in this month, mellow with the memories of those days when Canada wag young. It is easy now to see things at night. In the frosty twilight the rows of serried corn-shocks resemble a village of In- dian tepees and in fancy one sees the shadowy for, of warriors, their women and the children moving to and fro beneath thé light of a hare vest moon. The time of the frying of dough- nuts has come, the making of mince- meat and the baking of pies; the cranberry sauce blushes furiously for they are grinding knives in an- ticipation of Thanksgiving dinner "out at old Aunt Mary's." FROM BEHIND PRISON WALLS. Those jmmortal words of Richard Lovelace, 'Stone walls do not a pri- son make, nor iron bars a. cage," wers written in» prison cell and ex- press a truth many times proven by Mterary captives. There is little | doubt that it is to "stone walls and iron bars" that the world is indebt- od for many of its sretas literary masterpieces, Ovid petined his "Trista" in pri- son. The 'Congolations of Phil- osop of Boethius and %The 'Queen's Quhair'" of James the First of Scotland were written in captiv- ity. Much of the best philosophy of Sir Thomas Moore was written In the Tower of London while he was awaiting execution. The unjust im- prisonment of Sir Walter Raleigh gave the world hig "History of the World." The most universally known 'work of prigon literature is Bunyen's 'Pligrim's Progress." Millions Have languished behind prison walls to produce these few immortal literary works but these few make certain that the imma. teriaiity of walls and bars is more fact than fancy. A strong mind can adept {teelf anywhere, Aen ---------------- NEEDED: A HISTORIAN. Thére ire signs that suggest that Canada is ripe for the advent of a historian, The most éncourag- chance of it. Amd if he does, =a result will be worth more to Can- 'ada than a dozen new industries or six successive bumper crops. For h will establish in us that passionate | sense of our debt to our own past that is the very essence and soul of | patriotism. We do not wish to sug- gest that much has not already been done to establish some feeling of that. kind; many respectable and earnest analysts have presented ac- counts of what our ancestors did for us, in excellent detafl and with well- reasoned explanations, But the great literary artist in our history is yet to arise. The French-Canadians have come nearer to it, in Garneau and Chapais, than we English-Cana- dians, and as a result the early fig- ures of their records have a swelling port and a compelling magnetism (even for us who do not read about them much in French) that our own great primitive figures still lack. The pre-eminent need, we take it, is for an inspired and inspiring Life and Times of Sir John Macdonild--a thing which is only just becoming attainable, because 4 great romantic figure can only be painted from some distance. It is not mew facts that are needed, it is a new breath 'of life in the old ones. In particular we need historic portraits which will present. living men and not impos- sibly perfeot saints and philosophers. Other nations do not insist that their great men shall appear like Sunday school superintendents. The Nelson of the public imagination of Eng- lishmen (himself largely a product of a great biography by Southey) is not less a hero because of Lady ITamilton, nor the elder Pitt because of the two bottles of port which formed his customary evening drink, Canada is now sufficiently grown up to look at its great men as they really were, Epes" Ra November 4th. This was a busy day in Fort Prince of Wales in 1769, for acting upon orders from the governors of the Hudson's Bay Company in Lon- don, Samuel Hearne wag on the eve of setting out on the first of his great yoyages to the interior of western Canada, The ancient com- pany had been charged with negleot- n> explore the lands committed and of failing to-prosecute the search for the northwest passage to the Orient, which loomed so import- antly in the eyes of all men of that time, The British government, in an effort to encourage the quest for the passage offered a reward of twenty thousand pounds for the find- ing of it. The Hudson's Bay Com. pany instructed Hearne to make a journey around the north of Canadas into the Pacific. At that time the governor of Fort Prince of Wales was Moses Norton, a full-blooded In- dian, a man of singular energy, and of powerful influence with the In- dians. He had been educated for nine years in England, but acquired little of the virtues of elvilization, Like a Turkish despot, he had many wives, each locked away in geparate apartments to which he carfied the keys. He wag insanely jealous, and inferiors curried favor with him by deferring to him as to & prince: In- deed he Is known to have murdered those who crossed his wishes. This then, was the man with whom Hearne was planning the details of his first great trip into the rich lands of the interior. HUMAN COMET as gt "42nd battalion. DN That Body, of The Alert Agent. An insurance .agent who looks upon his work as a profession, has learned a few things by observation. For instange since blood pressure is now an important matter in the eyes of the insurance companies, this agent tries to watch this part of the examination. Accordingly he arranges with the physician to be allowed to be present during the greater part of the ex- amination, and always during the taking of the blood pressure. His idea is that in the presence of the agent, whom he knows, the candidate for ineyrance will mot be as nervous or excited as he otherwise would be. Further he knows that this first time the blood pressure is taken, it is higher than it will be at any sub- sequent time, due to this nervous- ness, and he attempts to counteract it by his presence, Another couple of things he has discovered, is that immediately pre- ceding a meal, and particularly to- wards the ¢lose of the afternoon to- ward six o'clock, the pressure is somewhat Jess, due to fatigue. And still one more thing he has coached his man about, is that when the cuff on the arin is tightened by the pres- sure, and the doctor is about to read the pressure,' that he must breathe easily and softly. He must not take a long breath, A deep breath puts up: the pressure. Now all this is quite proper, and is not "cheating" the doctor nor the company, because under the above circumstances the man is getting the reading as it really is, under normal conditions. Of course the physicians does not accept nor reject the candidate on blood pressure alone. The heart and kidneys are the big factors in the average man' examined, but where there are other things that may be slightly against a candidate, high blood pressure is not going to help his case any. Tenth Anniversary Of the Great War November 4th, 1014. The Allies 'are pushing the Ger mans on towards Metz and a general withdrawal of the enemy in that section is anticipated by the French war office. 'The Germans continue attacks betwéen Lys and Arras. 'Fighting is désperate. There is no tHange around Dizxmude Russian troops Foss the" TY frontier and occupy seven rE The advance guards of the Turks are driven back with heavy losses. More engagements are expected. Two British mine-laying ships were sunk by Germans in the NoFth Ses. A large German fleet is reported in the Baltic, apparently prepared to fight a decisive engagement. A lsrge pumber of troops from Cornwall, Port Hope, Ottawa Valley and many other places are In the city to receive training for over- seas. Kingston gives them the heartiest welcome. The 42nd regiment has the larg- est number of volunteers, coming td Kingston 161 strong, end a pipe band with it. Lieut.-Col. J. M, Bald- erson is in commend, The city is full of soldiers. The Kilties band of Renfrew is with the The companies, as they paraded the streets displayed many bapmers. One read "From Pembroke to Berlin." There are now 1,010 men and of- ficers of the 21st Battalion quarter- ed Io the Kingston barracks. They are gomfortable have started drilling. 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