MN \ a fllin .§: and Icirig made from Bakers 8 ap et iS ba Copyright 1925, Selwyn P. Griffin. Louis de Buade, Comte de Fron- tefiac, by far the most picturesque and pawerful personality among the French governors of Canada, arrived e velley of the St. Lawrence savage tribes in the less, surging years of éffort, maguificent plannimg for the ent. They were years of bitter internal strife also, for, the impetu- ous and regal disposition of the great earl would brook no division Stirring Tales of Canada's Early Days Frontenac Was Arrogant Until Proud Councillors Paid Him Due Homage which had thwarted, checked and exasperated him so oftem, he would and could now -discipline them; he would make them crawl. There was a new intendant. He should never in the county in the autumn of 167%. [be allowed to begin assuming airs |For ten years he domimated the col- in opposition to the governor. The vigorous old man landed in t-- [October at Quebec, welcomed ecsta- tically by torchlight by the whole population who saw fn him their From October, till Febru- ary he was unrestingly occupied with the pressing business of the lit- tle colony 's defence, much of the time at Montreal. Even when he re- [turned to Quebec he paid little 'at- tention to the details of domestic with that followed by sovereign councils in France in similar cfr cumstances. To this M. de Villeray answered that the council had found no sure rule, though it had searched Industriously, but that it had hoped its proposal would please him. Would his excellency be so kind as to tell the council exactly what ob- jservance obtained in France? The governor replied briefly that the council could find out from the bishop. When the senior councillor re- ported this conversation to" his anxiously-waiting colleagues in the lower town they passed a resolution that ihe bishop should be invited to take his place in the council to throw what light he could upon the subject. They then 'adjourned. The next Monday, March 6th, found the council once more assem- bled, the intendant.. the attorney- general and five councillors present. The intendant reported that, in ac- cordance with the resolution of the last meeting, he had spoken to the bishop, who had begged to be ex- cused as he had no idéa ,what hon- ors should be paid the governor when he arrived to assume his place. few--in fact income year well-earned Independence is not an indefinite something which just comes. a success quality which very very Itis only four men out of every hundred at 65, have attained. A Manufacturers Life policy is not only a stepping stone to inde- pendence; it is the very foundation upon which it can be built. System- atically setting aside a part of your by year will bring you independence in later life. Should you notlivetoold age your life insurance will create a fund that will help to maintain your of command .,and such division the king, in his wisdom, had most de- fififtely wrought into the constitu- dependents. ) Build NOW for independence. On the motion of the attorgey-gen- eral it was then decided that the 2 Chocolatel [(Preraum Nard - affairs and ignored the sovereign council. The members of the latter, By all means the tion of the colony. For something most satisfactory chocolate for cook- ing and drinking. SADE IN CANADA BY , | general, 'Gartland's Art Store All Pictures and Frames re- duced for this month. See our new Picture and Frame Mould. attempted to over two years there was no intend- ant to impinge upon the governor's prerogative, and he used that period to reduce to abject submission the town and island of Montreal which bad still retained some shqw of par- tial independence of the central au- thority at Quebec. Then came Duchesneau as intendant, an office which was that of secretary of state, minister of justice, minister of trade and commerce, postmaster- minister of agriculture, minister of marine and fisheries, minister of public works, minister of finance, minister of immigration and colonization, minister of the ja- terior, 'minister of customs, minister of inland revemue--all in one. There was nothing left to the governor but titular supremacy, defence and In- dian affairs. For a while Frontenac assert an equivocal the ings. 237 PRINCESS STREET otra A rin 5 GRAY'S SYRUP | WED SPRUCE GUM Re Ei nrrrnrs ena = BUILDING A TOOTH + Good teeth 'are built out of vital foods. Building a right to sit as president of council, but after bitter quarrelling and as bitter complaints to the court, the king awarded this last also un- equivocelly to the intendant. From that moment the strife was .unre- strained, and the entire colony was divided into two warring factions that actually came to blows in the streets of Quebec and kept the coun- ry seething. With every boat there arrived in France, hot, recriminatory de- spatches from-both officials, through which interminable documents: the patient, hard-working sovereign du- tifully labored himself, and it served him right for pinning his faith to such a clumsy system. However, in the end he wearied, and, for the sake of peace, in 1682, recalled both gov- ernor and intendant. During the next seven ts. the colany was governed first by Col. de Ia Barre, and second by the Marquis de Denonville. Both succeeded in lowering the prestige of the French among the Indian tribes, both en- emy and ally, while the old earl kicked his heels in genteel poverty at (cplitt, emjoyed the = stimulating society of his charming, bril famous but independent coun (among them the grea who met at the great Paris house of his sister, Madame de Montmort. When finally the situation of New France had become desperaté by reason of the protracted and para- lysing warfare carried on by ' the Iroquois, against whom the Marquis de Denonville was helpless, the king turned in his anxiety to his faithful and impoverished old servant Fron- tenac, the occasional sight of whom wandering about 'without employ- ment for that flery energy and near genius of his, may have caused him some twinge of remorse. Calling him into audience, he commissioned him a second time as governor of Canada. "I ask nothing more of you," the sovereign said, "than that you will serve me as ably as you did when you were there before." Ee The task - which faced the earl, sixty-nine years of - age, was appal- ling, 'but he sniffed the scent of bat- tle, planned immense activity = and was happy. Had he not, moreover, the unqualified approval of his royal master? Would he not be now indis- putably lord of 'the colony? Jesuits, who had been recall; the bishop, "who had sided against him; the sovereign council, most of whom had held their posi- tions continngusly for many years, and, therefore,"during the stormy period of Frontenac's first adminis- tration, were chagrined at the gov- ernor's neglect. Moreover, his con- tinued absence crippled their trans- actions, to validate which the gov- ernor's presence was necessary. Finally, they realized that the gover- nor was waiting till they should humbly supplicate him to take his place amongst them. The council] sat now in the newly- completed intefldant"s palace in the lower_town, where Boswell's brewery stands }o-day, instead of as formerly in the governor's residence on the rock, the Chateau St. Louis, above whose foundations towers the pres- ent Canadian Pacific Railway hotel, the Chateau Fromtenac. There, in the fine new council chamber on the second floor, on Monday, February 20th, 1690, met the councillors, their main business being the pro- blem of persuading the governor to attend. The attorney-gemeral re- ported that on several occasions he had urgently invited the governor to All his vpcant chair. The intendant added that he had also done so. At the last meeting it had been decided tha the attorney-general should wait upon the governor to learn his wishes. The attorney-general® re- ported that his lordship had replied that the council knew its duties and that when the - king's service de- manded his presence in the council he would be found -there. The attorney-general saw in this remark a hint that the governor was expecting some definite show of respect on the part of the coumeil. He suggested that, inasmuch. as, now that the council no longer sat in the Chateau St. Louis, it had no precedent as to the ceremony to be observed in receiving the governor. It should commission certain of its members to wait upon the earl and invite him to take his seat ana to name the day. The councillors solemnly debated this. The records of the proceedings of former years were brought fn and diligent search made as to how governory, bishops and intendants had previously been received. After considerable discussion it was de- cided that four councillors should wait upon the governor, invite him to take his place, and tactfully re- quest his views as to how he ought 3p be received. Further it was .de- ¢illed to ask the governor and the intendant both to write to his ma- jesty for a precise ruling concern- Ing the ceremony. to be followed in such cases in the future. At the next meeting, on Monday, February 27th, there were présent the intendant and five councillors. The senior councillor, M. Rouer de Villeray, reported that, as decided at the previous meeting, he and his three colleagues had waited on the Savamnor, and, as spokesman, he had "Your excellency, we are come on behalf of the sovereign council to invite you to take your place with that body. We should have come earlier had it not been that the council, having no precedent, is at a loss as to the precise ceremony he- fitting the occasion of receiving the governor, and also the bishop and intendant. We should be happy to know your excellency's wishes con- cerning your reception, * assuring your excellency that our whole da- tention is to render cheerfully i observance due your person." M. de Villery went on to say that the governor had replied that he was astounded at the forgetfulness of the council; that it was the coun- cil's place to inform him of their i : | f i HH 10 Ht senior councillor should again climb to the Chateau St. Louis and lay be- fore the governor the council's new proposal that four counefllors should present themselves at the Chateau St. Louis to accompany him thence to the council hall in the palace, and that, if this was not acceptable, let him only name the honors he wished and they would render them. The senior councillor was given power to promise anything. M. de Villeray climbed and return- ed. He reported that the governor seemed satisfled with the couucil's proposal for his first reception, but wanted to know how it proposed to receive him each time afterward. Moreover, he insisted on seeing the minutes of the couucil recording the discussions upon the whole subject. The intendant lost his temper. He said that the couucil had honest- ly done its best to satisfy the dignity of the governor. He thought that, pending a precise ruling from his majesty, nothing more ought to be done for the everyday reception of the governor than what had been so far the usual practice. Thereupon he got up and went out. The attorney-general moved that the minute book be shown the gov- ernor, and that the senior councillor once more wait upon the governor to propose that he be received each time of attendance by two council- lors either at the entrance to. the ante-chamber or at the head of the stairs. If this was not enough the senior couucillor should have power to offer any ceremony within reason. The motion. was adopted. A week later, Monday, March 13th ,the council once more assem- bled, this time minus the intendant, who was " business. M. de Villeray reported that he had oftered the minute book HER FACE WAS COVERED WITH PIMPLES SHE GOT RID OF THEM _BY USING BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS Miss T. 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STARTED EARLY IN LIFE TO SAVE. LIFE to the governor's inspection and de livered the message from the coun- cil. The governor had graciously replied on perusal of the minutes that he recognized with pleasure the sincere endeavor of the .couneil to son, asd that if it had proposed anything beyond the minimum ré- quired he wduld most certainly have forbidden it, inasmuch as he was very jealous of the dignity of a body of which he was the head. He said that he would be satisfied it at his first appearance four councillors conducted him from the Chauteaun 81. Louis, and if at each subsequent appearance two councillors met him ace. -In genfal humor he thanked the council for its consideration, and remarked that he would take his place after Easter. The council had crawled most abjectly for five weeks. It had learned its lesson, been taught its political manners. The governor could afford to be genial. The bish- op had most cautiously kept clear of the controversy and the intendant had withdrawn in undisguised pique. To emphasize the point, the 'governor kept thé council waiting seven weeks longer. . It was Wednesday, May 3rd, that Frontenac named 'as the day on which he would grace the council chamber. On that day the entire membership was present----the bish- op, the intendant, the attorney-gen- eral and six councillors. At the hour appointed four of the council. lors, headed by M. de Viileray, left their Ycolleagues waiting, climbed the steep streots and presented them- selves at the Chateau St. Louis. There they waited. till the Comte de Frontenac appeared. Dowa through the town they marched, two ahead stairs into. the council chamber, Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. | A where the five were standing; to re- at the head of the stairs In the pal-| and two behind the governor, up the): READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS Keep Up With Progress omit nothing due his rank and per-| i Py + Makers also of for Headaches, ceive him. The tall, commanding figure of thé old earl, veteran eam- paigner and courtier, always struck something of awe into the companies he frequented, and probably more 80 on this occasion than usually. Majestically he moved to his throne at the head of the room and, being seated, thanked the assembly fn that most polished manner of which he Was master when the circumstances required. Frontenac shad begun his second administration in the major key which he was to majutain for the eight years which remained to him of_lite and rule. ? The ses otter takes several years to grow to maturity. 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