The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-11


Canada sir John was the sort of man
that Napoleon had In mind when he
said OF certain officer to one of his
marsd Us rrom mqamd that ma s ae
was poor lad OF good. sound Scotch
parentage, without what people call
much of chance in life" But he had
been Bible bred he was an ardent a pa
brains. He had absorbed great ideals
with his mother'st milk. Parents make
a great mistake when. they bring theif
children up on the streets, on sense SET Is !,
ideals and yellow literature. without
any discipline, or Industry, or sense
of duty. Here was a lad who proved
this: AT twenty-two he wa. was pr re1,ie,
of ali Canada for thirty years. He
was noted for his flial devotion to his
widowed mother. He supported her
from childhood; then, for ms ,oya I1S
shambling, careless gait; d long,
massive face. elementally masculine.
and full of thought and power; q true
| head full of goodness, wisdom. brains.
ambition for-Canada, not Sir John NC
| Donald. He was n statesman, not a
politician.
Sir Charles Upper.
Sir Charles was man of some force.
too. but vastly Sir John McDonald+s
began life as fisherman, and was
| the son of a poor shoemaker. But, all
the same, he was the hero of q wildly
romantic story: for a rich old maia
saw him. fell desperately in love with
him. sent for him, sent him to Scot
land to the University of Edinpursh
to be educated He graduated there.
brilliantly, in medicine. He came back
Er Let m hope sr that the RfG peSr SPIN
ster lady had her money. at least re-
turned When he was made Premie r
he was described as "a tall hand
some man, with a singularly pale face
and capital debater, rushing out from
behind his desk when he got excited
and making as much play with his long
arms as windmill"
SIR Wilfrid Lnuricr.
The present Premier is man o.
family; comes. indeed. of one. of tn
best OF the French Canadian families
He took his degree ut Laval College
lfIuebec. He is n handsome, stlave, pre-
else man. scholarly In his tastes, bu
full of practical sagacity In public at
fairs. extremely courteous and we'll
bred. like all French gentlemen. an
devoted to the best interests of Canada
So much about our neighbors acros
the border and their northern lights.
The Aurora Borenlis.
You cannot imagine anything NOR
exquisite than the Canadian aurora.
of color. that travellers in the Arctt
regions describe, but it is ethereal an
beautiful beyond words: a suffuse
light above the horizon. luminous, We
; soft melting into such bands of pales
. apple green, or rose. or blue, as ar
only to be seen in the skies OF tn
: Far North They seem almost to be
a long to another planet to person VIII
: has lived in the tropics.
:. Then sometimes great black clou
r is pierced with sudden lightnings ar
turns into a rose; or Ions. shafts G
I quivering. pulsating light shoot dow
r from zenith to the horizon throug
c this lovely. cool. fair sky, in a wa
: that feels apocalyptic-not of thi
I world at all.
d The Canadian Noblessc.
Ell Louis the Eleventh dealt the fir:
s i great blow to the nobility OF Franc
s and began the work which Others wei
to finish. for he overthrow the gre;
;. vassals of the crown whose power AT
= wealth and Independence threatene
- it's stability and menaced or disobeyt
: every ruler less than Charlemagne a
:. down the centuries. Richelieu fearful
g crippled the great lords. Robespier
almost destroyed the aristocracy I
the guillotine. But, like every 9TH
e tree, its branches and leaves. had fill'
L all the land. and the fine flower
'e French chivalry had in the spirit
9 the Crusades attempted the conque
IS of Canada; so in the great wilderness
lie where courts and kings and cardina
le could do them no harm, some of Il
~ noblest of the French houses we
Is planted afresh and are still WORTH
A. represented. The deeds of the Sieul
~ Seigneurs. Comics, Barons and Jesui
$. of France, among the savage trib
GU and in the painless wilds of an II
j known continent. would stir the blo'
of a worm. Parkman's History
the Conquest of Canada" makes shu
p work of all sentmentality over I
!, ~ noble" Indian. for never We're the
. rucH tends! But Froissart chronicl
y, nothing finer than the adventures
a. Maisonneuve, ST. Armand and the
"a companions. And to-day one meets
&c Quebec and Montreal and all ov
". Canada the high bred, charming pre-
~ chevalier of France.
Two Races.
"a Two civilizations. two races--t
IN French and the English--met in Ca
~ ada. Both were too Virile to vie
~ -. an inch The result is very curio
sc ). and interesting. and Just as. $50 mi
Is, out from shore In the Gulf of MeXi
,;s blue patches of ia Belle Riviere' {
=, to be found in pool of yellow M
~ sissippi water, so do the two gre
Nv rivers Of human life and histo
~ achievement the French and the Er
"a lish. meet, but not minEle, In Cana
hi Neither understands, appreciates
ali likes the other. But that both
cd blessed with the best government