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North Ontario Observer (Port Perry), 10 Dec 1903, p. 1

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HEAD OFFICE. - N * Qapital (Paid Up) - - - $8700,000 Rest - Fi % 8,000,000 ESTABLISHED 1867. Sei. BUSINESS WITH FARMERS BE Loan" made" to 'farmers for periods ex- i " ding from one to nime mont for feed- 3 ttle-and oth rm prposss. apriers' Notes discounted or col lected at the most favorable rates. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. its of One Dollar and upwards Dipoaits 4 and intervst allowed at current | Interest fa added to the deposit TWICE 4 in each year, at the end of May and q November, positor fs, subject to no dela 3 The Denon tke withdrawal of the i or any portion of the deposit. No Charge is made on withdrawing or depositing money. Port Perry Branch W. H. DUNSFORD,; Manager | R. D. ARCHER, M.D.C.M. Victoria | University ; M.B. Toronto University, Member or the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ont,; Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburg ; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edin- burg ; Member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons , Glasgow ; Late Resident Puapilof the Rolunda Hospital, Dublin, - for Women. Office and Residence, second door west of Davis' Furniture Emporiam, Be Queen Street. Office hours--9 to 11 a. ., and 2 bo 5 p.m, and evenings, Rs 1 have taken as partner, my brother, Dr R. Archer, M. D., C. M., Member of Co!- ege of Physicians and Surgeons, Ont. Port Perry, June 9, 1897. w R. J. H. SANGSTER, Physician, Sur geon and Adeoucheur, and Dr. W. As Sangster, Dentist, may on and after 10-day, be found iu their new Surgical and Dental Offices over the Post Office, where they will be found as heretofore, prepared to attend ] : to their respective professions in all their ranches. "Port Perry Dec, 8, 1897. t } 4 ] DR. 8: J. MELLOW, 8 PHYSIQIAN, SURGEON, &o. | Office and Residence, Qtieen St., Port Perry Office hours--8 to 1g a.m; 1to3 pm, and Evenings. Telephone in office and Rouse, open night and day over the lines south, connected with the residence of G. L. Robson, V.8, Port Ferry, Nov. 15, 1894 WN. H. HARRIS, B.A. LLB. BARRISTER, &c,, Successor to and occupant of the offices of the Jate ¥. M. Yarnold. Port Perry, - Oat sas MONEY. TO LOAN, Private Funds at 4 per ceat. Fob. 7 1901 -- JNO. W. CROZIER pr SoLiCIToR, CONVEYA si &c. Office at residence, 6th Reach (one: mile west of Port Persy,)-- : Monk¥ To LoaN. V. F. PATERSON, K.C., Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, | ind | St Petry, June 26, 1807. £100,000 STERLING (British Capital) To lend: at 4, 4% and 5 per cent on good Mortgage Security. -- Apply to D VID J. ADAMS Banker and Broker, Port Perry, Ont. J. A. MURRAY, DENTIST, Jice over the Post Office. PORT PERRY. All branches of Dentistry, including Crown aud Bridge Work successfully Practiced. Artifical Teeth gn Gold, Silver, Aluminum of Robber Plates. 4 Fillings of Gold, Silver or Cement Painless extraction when.required: £T Prices to suit the times® GEO. JACKSON, Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator, &e. FOR TRE COUSTY DOF ONTARIO AMD TOWNARD OF CARTWRIGHT, ISHES at this the commencement o another Auction Sale Season to re- taro thanks to lis numerous patrons for past favors. In requesting their esteemed and continued patronage he desires to state that no effort or pains will be spared on his part to make all sales entrusted to him successes. His very extensive practice in the past should be a sufficient recom mendation to his ability. Al Sale given into his charge will be attended bo with promptness abd dispatch. Sale list made out and blank notes supplied free, on application. Parties withing to engage his services may consult his SaLz REGISTKR either at the Observer or Standard Offices, Port Perry, for dates claimed for Sales, and make arrangements, or write to his address CHARGES MODERATE. GEO. JACKSON, Nov. 1, 1901. Port Perry P. O. ~ AUCTIONEER. YHE undersigned takes this opportuaity of returning thanks for the very liberal patrcmage he hae received as Auctioneer in the past, The increased experience and extensive practice which I have had will be tarned to advantage of patrons, and parties favoring me with their sales may rely on their interests being fully protected. - No effort will be spare to make it profitable for parties placing their sales in my hands. My Sale Register will be found at the Leland House, Casares. THOS. SWAIN. Cemsarea, Aug. 26, 1896. H. McCAW, . ISSUER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES, Port Perry Ont. Port Perry, Dec. 19, 1883, WM. SPENCE, 'Township Olerk, Commissioner, &e. d to L tity of EE oan iy Sat oT Money cent (Trust funds). 4 ~All kinds of Conveyancing executed with neatness and dispatch. : Office---One door west of Town Hall, | 2 his 'Challenge requiring a see this mac June 3, 1903, OOUNTY 3 WHITBY -- Clerk, L ary 6, February 4, Juiy 4, em] OSHAWA--Qlerk, BROUGHAM-- 8, PORT PERRY Ol --Janusry 9, January 1 CANNINGTON January 15, BEAVERTOX, Janus: a 12, By ord Dated'at Whitby, Ni ISHES t that she in Dréss and Our charge Port Perry, ICENSED Tas an liberal and ronage Livery in intimates t conveyan: respe: able for pr dings, wish AV double ful drivers D. 0. Macdonell, ETE Ng ember 1, Jan: 8, 1904 March 13, November 11, Jan. 11, UXBRIDGE Clerk, March 2, Marah 16. 24, November 19, Jan, 13, 1 arch 18, UPTERGROVE-- Clerk, Thos. P. Hart, U --March 17, May 26, September 23, November 17. ov, 25th, 1902, manfier "unsurpassed for the value given County of Ontario. the Oparrver Office Manchester, Jan. 19, 1899. - Jamieson's Livery funerals, &o. an eir choice of suitable or sfagle rigs and care: ed when required. I possess a number of good aod Dray Wagons and > 8 to 2 44 ; lor de, t| trains, on given oa Dae Lyte; Village of Prince Albert, 1 is sitiated on Simcoe Si d contains fifteen acres, more' pr thereon x 00 i £2ed offre arties Separator should e Apply to the owner. JOHN COLLINS, Jr., Scugog. Sitting of the Division Courts OF ONTARIO. 903. 11, Whithy --Janu- March 4, April §, J November 4 Dos: D. 0. Macdonsll, Whitby--Janu- M May 7, Juve 4, 17, February 5, J ul i Repiams "taberf, Normihar 5, Dec- -- Janr- 9, Nor. . Gleeson, Greenwood 9, July 7, September J. W. Bumham, Port Perry , Mey 13, July §, Yo ji Beptember Gould, Uxbridge Jos. B. May £9, July 15, Septembe. 25, November 20, Jan. 14, 1904. eo. Smith, Cannington -- ny 3 July 1, September rk, Goo. I. Brice, Beaverton May 27, September 23, Nov. 1904. rgrove or, J. E. FAREWELL, Clerk of the Peace. HARRISON Dress and Mantle Maker o inform the ladies has moved to her fire Rooms in the Allison Block where she is prepared to execnfe all orders Mantle Making i Zang Correctness of Style » and Charming Effect. s are consistent with March 27, 1902. BATRD AUCTIONEER for the Sale Register at Patronage solicited. dersignod takes this opportunity of thanking the inhabitants of Port Perry and sncroanding country for the still increasing pat- bestowed upon him since commencing Carting and Port Perry and now hat he is botter than ever prepared to supply all requirements in his line. Having extensively added to my stock of horses ; as well as of the latest type of construction for comfort and pleasure, I am in a position to meet the requirements of the most fastidious as to style and desirable equippage in every ct--in_every way suit wed- wrties afternoon drive can irate driving, will also be suppli- «© time being WM, JAMIESON, Port Perry, July 30, 1903. hit ANTED represent "CANADAS tes" in the townof Machine |p at a Bargan. Although the machine has been in use about three years it is none the worse for that. | ped gon, reader {'sent condition of affairs. [veg | digestion. Also for Sile.a Farm, being com . of . 4 * pased of the East-Half of lot 20 and North-half of lot 21, in the 1st con. of Cartwright, gontain- ing 200 Acres, more or less, on the operty there is erected a first class Barn, Driving Barn and Stables, and Dwelling House. The land ina good state of cultivation, well fevced, there isn grand spring of good water thereon. There are about 40 acres of Rood pasture land. For further particulars, apply to W H. Harris, Barrister, Port Perry, or to the proprietress. MRS, M. LANG, Prince Albert 1903. June 24, H. GRAHAM | Has just taken possession of the| FOY SHOE SHOP one door South of the St. Charles Hotel, where he intends to make all kinds of Boots and Shoes, and do all kinds of repairing, All comers strictly attended to, He wants to to please all who come his way, if possible. Port Perry, June 10, 1903. WANTED -- SEVERAL INDUSTRIOUS PERSONS in each state to travel for house established eleven years sud with a large capital, to call upon merch- suts and agents for successful and proatable line Permanent engagement. Weekly cash salary of $I8 and all traveling expenses and hotel bills advanced in each week. Experience not essential. Mention reference and enclose self-addressed euyelope, THE NATIONAL, 83¢ Dearborn St., Chicago. DRUNKENNESS AMONG INDIANS. Deminien Naturalist Tells of Whiskey's Influence Ameng the Aborigines. Mr. J. M. Macoun of the Canadien Geological Survey, who has returned {WHOLE a Nd. MMDXC other pair of trousers he possessed. the mud clerk. Both the first and second clerk hand coughs of all Loi Phi take any- ter than Ayer' during . which he Thoms the ed, however. FEIN en Tr, - an tio! y "meet ¢ understands Bhim tha and heals. terrible pough for weeks. Then I , Gore Frciom) and only one ee Sonny Bt. Joseph, Mich. DEEL for ioral Coughs, Colds pects. hasten recovery by tak= | of Ayer's Pills at bedtime. all? | SL SR CR SR TT) | They rate on the company's pay rell 1s third clerks. Unofficially, but more gorrectly, they are known as mud clerks, Jimmy Boynton was mud clerk on the big side wheel steamboat Rena Stanton, and he was proud of the fact. Now, the chief clerk on a Mississippi river boat is a dignitary of no mean Importance, while the second clerk 1s almost as impressive an individual The mud clerk is the youngster who some romantic day dreams. eyes and a brown eyed young man turn for a cold plunge. to Ottawa from a summer's cxplor- ing trip to the Peace River district in the Northwest, makes some tares Ang * po ze > Indians and halfbreeds in the coun- try, around Lesser Slave Lake, and to the north of that region. Mr, Macoun has traveled very extenBive- ly in Northern Canada from Lab- rador to Alaska, but nowhere, he Bays, has he noted such drunkenness as prevails in the districts referred to. The, system of permits common td the Territories prevails there, and though infringements of the regula~, tions are almost, if not quite impos sible, owing to the vigilance of the Mounted Police, the system permits each resident to bring into the coun- try 20 gallons of spirits each year, and few of them fail to avail them- selves of this privilege. It is not, however, altogether, or even chiefly, to the permit system that Mr. Ma- coun attributes the drunkenness so country. and perfumes made specially for the northern trade and which are really little more than pure alcohol flavor ed 80 as to allow of their being lab-; eled "essence of ginger," "Florida, water,'" "peppermint," 'cau de cologne," etc. Clerks at some of the trading posts | find it necessary to frequently rofuse liquor to drunken Indians, but the latter are generally able to prooure it through some intermediary so long: as the money is forthcoming. all in their power to discourage th! trade, but have about givem up 0 fight as being, hopeless unless the importation and sale of all essences and extracts containing alcohol prohibited. An obvious remedy [i in the hands of the Hudson Bay! Company and those who are trading in opposition to that company. $ have simply to agree to sell no m alcohol and the thing is ended, Hil there is not a single trading post the whole Peace River region wh this has been done. The taste alcohol has taken such a hold on natives that at any sacrifice . th will trade with the man who wi satisfy the craving, and the have not the courage or lack desire to put an end to a bu them physical fia to humt successfully. 0 'language, say o ate the demoralizing could ate influence upon tho natives of the pre- The mis- sionaries' and others who have the interestsinf the native at heart are 'in despair and all their efforts to 'improve the mor: of the Indians ant f-breeds, and teach them hab- Sts of thrift and industry, will count for nothing, unless something is done to make it more difficult, if fe Bas Ah i NELLA veral months our younger had beén troubled Sith n- He tried several remed: benefit from them some of Chamber- = ies but 0 We | got ni blets-- oLLEy BROS, i comments on the demoraliz- apparent to everyone who visits the |# It is to the sale of essences { The missionaries and the police do} million gallons of petroleum |K in Burmah and Assam. y Branch; Mo. Eor | the Rena Stanton had not got under full headway before Jimmie bolted inte his tiny stateroom in search of the only They met at the supper table, and when the meal was over Jimmie thank- | od his stars that, after all, he was only had desk work before them, and Jimmie Bad only a long, lazy evening on deck, could show Miss bealities of his river life. | . There werg moments when this pleas- { 8 That was when Thomas' t daughters of railroad . presidents with their purple and fine Ilnen, which in this instance appeared In the form of forgetmenot blue and rose pink, were mot for mud clerks, even if the latter had flattering pros- He bad about decided to lead up to the topic of ber family when the | Tate 4dsms hove In sight, and they teaned against the rail while Jimmie discoursed upon the feats performed | | by this the fastest boat on the river. | [n truth, Jimmie's ambition had once | stopped with the captaincy of the Kate | Adams, but now he thought with a sigh, "What is the Kate Adams after | But he did not linger on the thought. ' It must be admitted that under the Influence of a blanket, some hot grog and the fulsome praise of one or two of his comrades Jimmie indulged He had a picture of a grateful railroad president, a pink and blue vision with downcast (ng very magnanimous, but neverthe- less accepting a lifetime devotior in re- Then the ef- fects of the grog wore off, and Jimmie -- orman mas OY #iE, determined 3 take their Jart in the building up of goptnitioy There was the country, -hat@ly free from the visible signs of war, and in spite of all the setbatks and difficulties en- countered since 18 conclusion, begin- fing to assume the uspect of a flour- ishing colony fhhabited by a hopeful | and determined people. fey of looking upon the subject from the ip beginning. Great rate, can rest con- Wr work of resettling ! the former ighabitants of ber new colonics. ; "But. there Ik still another side of a te ep this question must to a very extent guide our future policy in the new colonies, The Beers Grateful. | "Personally, I believe that the average Boer has a distinct feeling of gratitude for what has been done for him, and that he is fully aware df the magnanimity of his new Gov- ernment. Dut his gratitude is to a degree discounted by the uncertainty | of the future The great majority are in the Govermuent's debt; and it is thd doubt as to how far their share of the free gift of £3,000,000 will get them out of debt which loom& largely in their minds "To my mind the hardest task i pi . is B CUPID AND THE { | still in front, namely, the collection | Everything happened too quickly. Miss of debts, the just assessment of a Thomas in her excitement had climbed claims, and, above all, the fulliiment MUD CLERK | up on the foot rail when the imperti- of promises wade, It is the manner | nent eveniug preeze took a fancy to the = in Wai 2 chis Yi work is carried pink crownell hat. Away it went. Out which = wi atermine tthe dv /. By W. W. HINES gi | There was a shrill ig some. | "ttitude to be adopted by B | i thing blue and fluttering bent a little the greater proportion of the Deen Copyright; 1008, by T. O. McClure too far over and then went after the Population hh rie Bresen ene meme i§ | bat. And after both went Jimmie. and the utmost tact, and no promise . . . . . . . made by us must remain unfulfilled ""The Boers do not accept the new order of things without considerable misgiving, and the hurt to their na- tional pride cannot be at ounce heals ed; but I fully believe that for the most part they have faith and confi dence in their new Government, and that their confidence will be kept so long as we carry out our professed principles of Integrity and fair play But, if once lost, it will be well- nigh impossible to regain. It is a dificult task which faces the Admin~ in be- follows the Tonent 200k haat oF the shook himself vigorously. ifsasiog bug ne. which, if carried gangplank at every landing and checks | Tne next morning he stood diffident- ©" Ply 1 yef ave a lasting effect the freight. When he jumps off the [ty ta Miss Thomas' presence. Gone | °° the future of tho co ¥ isughlank il generally lands bh a were the blue frock with Its lace frills Tiey Wear a Mask, ef. TH agson wh he Y = py ap to ig noes. A yn and the beautiful rose crowned hat. A What I have stated above ap never receives his rig | very sober, sad eyed young woman plies to the average country Boer clerk is obvious. | clad in a simple gingham dress mur- but there are two other classes still Some men might not consider this | req her thanks. to be considered First, there are pleasant work, but Ht sulted Fale {. Jmmie shifted from one foot to the the 'temporary irreconcilables," and He knew, too, that t he Way ia mud other and tried to hide his embarrass. these I am afraid, exist to a very clerk, if properly AR : | ment, but when Miss Thomas burst tonsiderable Sumber They. are Je ol i x o clever men, 'un weir attitude is ¥ a8 oi n. Meantime he was a me oh onal erence Of 8ta- . hidden hy. an outward mask of pas MDD y go lucky sort of lad who was | BRL. sive acceptance. So long as any- | Oh, I reckon you won't be any the thing ¢ be got OL os GG pi ed by every one from the captain g can be got out of the Govern 7 worse for the ducking," he said by ment their true feeling will be kep wn to the negro deck hands, more : g 9 pt 1 Knows a8. rousters" : | way of consolation, wishing he could in check, put wimn once they have RInOr BY TY \ b was ot | take the sobbing figure in his arms and obtained all they think possible they n is af Re eS | say something more comforting. may be expected to show their.| jREnce ID ee, DN loading the |, 'It Isn't the wetting I mind, but hands, 8 TD 30 yore a on ne | but--my--oh, my dress! 1 sewed three This class requires governing with argo of cotton on ie. lo e Y | weeks for Aunt Myra to pay for that the greatest firmness, and any indi as mechanically checking the num- | cation of sedition or open disloyalty rs atop the bales, but a strange sort | dress, and 1-1 was so proud of it. I must be Instantly suppressed It is § inner consciousness was drinking in know 1 shall never have Another one only by firm, though scrupulously e beauty of the scene before him. | ®% preity as long 4s ive) just, handling that these quondam " | "Yes, you will," declar Jimmie, irreconcilables will in time fall into att had turned the muddy | ' e setting sun had turned the y with the alr of a prophet who knew line with the rest. Dut if they are waters to a sensuous, laving silver. [ast beyond the ripples made by the owly turning paddle wheels of the in the reverse motion necessary to unteract the force of the current lay | tiny island, formed by the cutting in 0 of a long, narrow sand bar. A few | tonwood trees nodded lazily on the pliiful bit of land. To his right the, | Jevee had crumbled away, and § | w one had been built behind it, form- an artificial lake fringed with tall onwood trees and gnarled stumps cypress. Across the stream the = ghty force of water had cut into an \d, and every time the boat passed | his calling. 15 mysteriously. | her expression. He was clothes, g 1 "Just you wait," be added "SYhy, you'll have one of 'em every summer; see if you don't." | The girl dried her eyes and looked at him in wonder, but he hardly noticed thinking ecstatically that you cannot always tell a railrgad president's daughter by her And it was not until Jimmie became chief clerk of the Rena Stanton and settled his bride and her widowed mother in a neat little cottage at Natch- ez that he discovered that very pret- ty muslin could be bought for 121% cents a yard, with pink roses at 50 allowed a free hand, and epen sedi | tion is winked at, they a source of considerable trouble in the will become political ruture | There is yet one other ciass, al though but a small one. These we may call the 'permancnt irreconcil- ables.' And it is from these that. | the chief danger may arise They | still share with their cousins of the Cape Colony the aspiration of some day seeing a great Alfrikander Re= public in South Africa. The idle dream of obtaining this by the sword has hoen put aside; but the dream | remains, and the manner in which {% is to be realized is by fp and down the river the contour of | ts That Ser he he bank had changed. Sometimes | S°R'S 8 spray. hal wag when he In Politionl Intrigue. 5 a sisted upon choosing the bridal gown ily a foot or two had been slice These. dreamers have already begun a Sometimes whole acres had dis- and ruled severely against the lovellaat. i \ J t hl amor y. 2 cotton back white satin at 87% cents -#0w!the secd of disconte g peared. ard. the otherwise well-disposed inhabit- Et was a marvelous power, was this | Per ¥ on ants; but whether it germinates or ther of waters, and yet Jimmie not must depend upon the future ought exultantly that he was master it. Ke could ride it, turn its force money, make it earn him position d promotion. And, thinking thus, he | jded that he would not trade jobs | t now with his own congressman. then she came on the scene, and | h§ slldenly discovered that it might be jirable to be a congressman after all fd wear glossy boots and unstained RAVAGES OF THE WAR. What, ef the Task, TS, all happened very suddenly--so nly, In fact, that he stopped in the & mighty volley of very forei- e aimed at a lazy rouster, stub of a pencil and, in orance of what he was do- deliberately staring at the Aly vision tripping up the gang- have taken him to all parts of Transvaal since the close of in the London Times concerning observations: : ome can expect the islon wore something very fluf- | nearly three years' hin and blue, with something still at her throat and wrists, which fluttered about very ishly when she turned her head her skirts. And her broad flat _wreathed in the pinkest of Jimmie had only one brief ut he remembered quite dis- t the blue in her dress and 3% matched perfectly, likewise her hat and her lips. course any authority on fash- have informed Jimmie that was most badly dressed for 'but to Jimmie "good form" unknown quantity, He de- the vislon must be a daugh- f fallroad president at least, and "had a million or two in ber . Having reached this dect- | ished the volley of language, ap his penéll and resolutely | ck on the vision. ° such as Miss Lorens - a haunting quality. (cabin, so called by courtesy, b self, has been the country peaee, who traveling over The first trek rovealed nothing and barbed wire, The Reconstruction. "The last trek built up; tle, hor stock of déseriptio and ploughed. up; roads and driits ruins, now pot only rebuilt police magistrates, other end of the i for the sake of their own and ut' Jimmie was ut 58 _ same time henefiti saw schools full Tisited settlements: ot Duish, THE NEW TRANSVAAL BRITAIN AND BOERS REPAIRING THE Was Paen Already | Dome--The Reconstruction as It Is Prose coeding--People Are Fairly Careful-- There Are, Lowever, Two Classes of | Dangerous Dutchmen Amoug Them. A repatriation oflicer, whose duties ! South African war, writes as follows * 'In a little over twelve months no ravages of war to be thor- oughly repaired; but to one like my- who traveled over the country immediately after the declaration of contmually since, watching the progress of the work of restoration, and who has been over once again quite recently, the extra- ordinary rapidity with which the re- covery has been made is astounding. devastation, desolation, blockhouses, revealed houses r grazing on the veldt; immense tracts of ground paired; outlying towns, formerly in prosperous, but growing with extras ordinary rapidity. One found all the paraphernalia of local Government-- and officials of all kinds. One found everywhere pross pectors and others hent on the de velopment of the country, no doubt their principals' pockets, but at the the State. One happy childrer:' One came across new settlers, {ull of cellent "presaritation of the bright, courage, enterprise, and hope. Ore «little comedy, Mr. Bayenport's inter, . nment policy of the Gover ' moment sutneient 'At the present labor is not available in the coun try, although in a few generations the natives, haying been educated in | the value of woney, may in suffi- | | cient numbers offer their services in order to obtain the same. But the | necessity ' 18° urgent from both an economic and a political point of view, thinking map that the whole future | of. tha country depends upon its in- stant prosperity. "Ihe very first thing which the Government should do in South Af- rica is to permit and offer every facility for the importation of Aria' tie labor. The second requirement is capital for the development of the agricultural possibilitics 44 the the his a | Yamillar'te Canadisws. | to In the latest list of accessions the Dalfour Government Will found a name that i8 familiar to many Canadians. It is that of Mr. William Bromley-Davenport, who has been appointed Financial Secretary to the War Office. Mr. Lromley-Dav- enport is not known in Canada, but pup his next eldest brother, Mr. A. H. Bromley-Davenport, was a resident in the , of Toronto for some years | early nineties. His residence was on | St. Patrick street, and he was a pro- minent member of the Toronto Crick- et Club, on whose best elevens he was able to qualify for g place. Mr. Davenport had learned his cricket at Eton, where all the boys of the fam- ily are sent for their schooling, and his effective, though haidly finished style of batting, helped the Toronto, Cricket Club to many victgries. As an amateur astor, Mr. BromMey:Dav-" etport waa very clever. ~ Doubtless many Torontonians will remember . ths capital performance of "A Serab- live re- and of Paper.)' which was' given by the for club in the-Grand Opera E Duss, fome, fourteen years ago. Mr. Davenport,: Mr. Grant Stewart, Mr, Townsend and' others combined to gite an' ex- ' esc 1m theacricas' one has been car- | ~---- store, and in 1871 chusetts, where he worked on a farm, He had always an inclination fon wood-carving, and, having gone to Montreal, obtained a prize at the Provincial Exhibitions of 1873 for a swall bust in wood. Sagu alter wards he was taken into 'the stidio of N. Bourassa, sculptor and 'paift<r er, and, after working there for five years, studied for a year in Paris On his return he entered on his pro~ fession until 18806, when he removed to Furis, where he has since main- tained a studio Ac his works are the statues of De Salaberry at Chambly, Sir George I Cartier and Sir John Macdonald at Gttawsy Maisonneuve and Chenier in Moos treal, and Champlain at Quebec. Hd hus been a wmember of the R.C.A. since 1886 Dr. Robert Dell, Director of the Geviogical Survey: ef Qanada,. was born the township of Toronto in 1841. Ho was educated at the Gram- mar (School, | L'Orignal, Que., and McGill University. in 1857 he join- ed the Canadian Geological Survey. From 1868 for five sessions he was professor of chemistry and sciences in Queen's University. He was medi cal officer, naturalist and geologist in the Government expeditions to Hudson Bay in 1884 1885 and 3 18 Morgan s; of hinxibat dur- ing his connection with the Geologi= | educational institutions | tion medal | 1t is apparent to almost every | tT EEE ere par as no minor part 'with Mr. Willard. conscientious. study séon' br him tion. After some with Willard he joined Mrs. La try's company, appearing here with: har two or three years ago. Mr, Davenport is now in England, be ie making rapid strides in profession.--Torgato Globe. "WHO THEY ARE. Cunsdisns Whe Wore Monersd With Bee Sorations vn King's Biithddy, Nov. 6 ~ ! - a 1 na Of an Mn prize. Having studfed" be secured the degree. p was called to the Her in 1879, and" soon buMt up a lucrative practice. He joined the 9th Battalion, and bad risen to the position of Major, when appointed to the present posi- tion, Deputy Mialster of Militia and. Delence He was also M.I'.P. [for Mutane from 1890, He was created »(Colonel on November 1, 1906 Louis Thilippe Hebert was born at Ste. Sophie d Halifax, Megantie county, Quebec, January 27, 1850. Jiducated at the local schools, he be- fourteen clerk in a county went Lo Massa came at cal Survey of Canada he has had op- portunities of making more exten- sive Surveys and explorations Vhraiighout the Daminion than has fallen to the lot of any other man/ These include the Mackenzie River region, the shores and country around Hudson Bay, the Labraden Peninsula, and part of Baffin Land, In 1895-96 he found in the territory * southeast of James Bay an immense region of good soil and fintber, and surveyed a great river all the way from ths height of land to James Bay, now known as Dell River He has been the recipient of many hon- ors from various learned bodies and J. George Hodgins, LL.D., is his toriographer of the Ontario Depart- ment of Education, which department he entered as chief clerk in 1844, be coming Secretary of the Provincial Board of Education, 1846; Deputy Superintendent of Education, under the late br. Ryerson, in 1855, and Deputy Mindster in 1876, a post which he held until 1889 He has' thus been for sixty years, prominent--* ly connected with Ontario educatiom..) He was one of the pioneers schoolbook literature in Canada, and is still engaged in important work on the historical side of education im this Province. Ha was aso ehiefs editor of the lif? ot hr Ryerson, #e. graduates of Victoria University, an' A.D. of Toronto (1870), = Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society (1861) Dr. Hodgins has also the French decoration of the Palm Leal (1879). Me also holds a confedera- in acknowledgement of his services as a public officer and. man of letters, Dr, Hodgins was born in Dublin, August 12, 1821, He is an elder brother of Judge, Thos, Hodgins. aid sag 3 Licut.-Cql. Hepry Robert Smith, Sergeant-atArms of the House of Commons, was born at Kingston, Dec. 80, 1833. Educated at 'the Kingston Grammar School, he ent", tered the public service May, | and became Deputy Sei geant-at | Arms in 1872, and Secrgeant-at~ | Arms, Jan. 11, 1892. | Lieut.-Col. Acheson Gosford Irvi warden of Manitoba Pi gazetted Yo enant ig the ] | lion for service at La Prairie. | the Red River expedition 1870; com, | mand of Manitoba Provincial Bat-- | talion 1871, and retired from the service with the rank of lieutenant~ colonel, June, 1875. Assistant Coms missioner of Northwest Mgntad Police 1875, and Commissioner a Served in Northwest Rebellion 1883, and was appointed to his present ot fice 1893. 3 For Over Sixty Years, 3 MOS. 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