The National tribune., 1908-07-30

good ship made the voyage from France
laden with this fair cargo, Which was
largely taken from the refuge hospitals
of Paris and Lyons, the most comely
being, Of course, selected. These girls
after arriving were divided into three
classes, and piled one On the, other in
three different halls, where 1.-THE men
came and looked them over much as a
butcher chooses his sheep from flock.
All sorts and kinds of feminfnity was
represented, the short and taII99 fair and
dark, plump and lean, so every man
found his Jill and every girl her Jack.
We are told that the plumpest went off
first, and like hot cakes, as the saying
goes, because it was thought that. being
less active on account OF her flesh, such
a one would be more likely 70 keep at
home and not CAD about. and that she
would also be better able to endure the
Winters cold. Not only did the Grand
Monarque thus provide wives for his
settlers, but he offered a bounty for
early marriages, and the girl who mar
ried before she was 16 received the
Kings gift" of 20 livres in addition to
her ordinary dowry Bachelors who re-
fused to marry were made as uncom-
Portable as possible and taxed well for
their timidity or obstinacy. Large fam
lilies were encouraged, the man who
could show family of 10, among which
were no priests, nuns or unmarried girls,
receiving from His Majesty a pension
of 80 livres year, and the proud pos
SCISSOR of ~ such children one of 400
livres. Many of the girls thus sent over
by Louis XIV. married the soldiers and
officers of the Kings army in New
France, who had elected to remain in
the country, and from them the aris-
tocratic class Is largely descended.
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The festivities with which the people
of Quebec have celebrated their tercen-
tenary have been of quite an unusually
attractive and original character. They
have brought thither a great crowd
of people with Representatives from
many countries. Our country was
represented by Vice President Fair
banks and some other officials, and we
also sent vessels of war to add to the
great fleet which had gathered there.
The British Government sent as its
representative George Frederick, Prince
of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and York,
Duke of Rothsay in Scotland, and the
heir apparent, who was born in 1865,
and is therefore AZ years old. He has
represented the mother country with
dignity and tact, and increased the 10y
atty of the Canadians.
The main features of the exercises
was wonderful series OF IageantS rep
resenting all the events in Quebec's
history from the landing of Jacques
Cartier in 1884, to the decisive baEtle
between the forces of Wolfe and Mont
calm upon the Plains of Abraham. All
these historical pictures were represent
ed in costume and with the greatest
fidelity to all the facts. Gen. Wolfe, fol-
lowed by his soldiers in uniforms of that
period, was represented scaling the
beetling cliffs, muttering the lines-tsf
Gray's immortal poem, 1.-THE Elegy in a
Country Church Yard" In the battle
on the Plains of Abraham there were
soldiers and Indians in tho uniforms
and costumes of the day, and ct the
conclusion of the battle the Commander
of the French forces laid wreath upon
the monument of Wolfe, while the lead
er of the British did the same to that
of Gen. Montcalm. Vice President Fair
banks very happily represented our
country and carried to, II our messages
of good will and interest. n.tro- I'm,