Quebec morning chronicle, 23 janvier 1897, Supplement

[" QUEBEC MORNING CHRONICLE SUPPLEMENT _____M\u2014BBT I\u2014¦\u2014fcl\u2014\u2014W\tMJ1\u2014MM\u2014\u2014\u2014M\u2014\u2014¦ WBW-B¦¦¦>!¦¦\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014¦W\u2014nWW\u2014\u2014 11 IWBMI\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 l_\u2014\u2014\u2014^l~ ^\t' T-T\u2014Wf I IIBI 1 l !»¦¦¦\u2014\u2014Wl ¦\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014¦\u2014\u2014ml QUEBEC, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3», 1807.The Jm^ro.Oh come ahead, let'a have a war, no matter what the cost\u2014 A chance to fight with some one is a thing not to be lost.WVve got a navy and a half, and scattered through the land Are specimens of an army that is really very grand.Old Cenerai Someone\u2014I forget exactly who, or when\u2014 Told me our army had at least some sixty-seven men, ]Sot counting bands and officers, of whom there\u2019s near a score ; So come ahead, get out your guns, and let us have a war ! There\u2019s England, we can fight with her about most anything, She\u2019s always ready for a scrap, let\u2019s get her in the ring.Or, if she won\u2019t, there\u2019s Russia ; if there's no cause for a fuss, Why, look about and find one ; anythiug will do for us.If Russia won\u2019t, then Ho for fireece, or On to Italy, Or, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, or warlike Germany, Or China, France\u2014it matters not with whom or what it\u2019s for.As long as we can go ahead and have a bloody war.And should it happen that those folks oq \u2019lother side won\u2019t fight.Why, let us turn about and see what we have here in sight, A war among ourselves, perhaps\u2014by Jove ! a notion grand : The navy on the seaboard \u2019gainst the army on the land ! \u2014John Kendrick Bangs, in Harper\u2019* Wttily.Personal and Pertinent.This year\u2019s exhibition by the woman artists of Paris, the fifth is pronounced the best of all.David K.Francis, just confirmed as Secretary of the loterior, is reputed to be a millionaire.He laid the foundations of his for* tune by trading in wheat.The Queen\u2019s reference to the \u201cexpedition undertaken by His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, with my approval and assistance,\" may convince the poor little Khedive that the old lady still retains a healthy sense of humbr.By trying the De Chimay case in secret to save the King\u2019s reputation the Belgian Courts are showing that it is some advantage after all to live in a country where the Courts are more careful of a man\u2019s reputation than he has been himself.SarJou was an adept in Spiritualism in his younger days and much interested in all the mysteries of the occult.In later years he put away such pursuits for more material things, but now he is said to be about to utilize some of his old studies in a drama.In the voting by the readers of \\[roman, the English journal, to decide who is the \u201cmost popular woman in the United Kingdom\u201d outside of royal circles, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts led the list, with Ellen Terry second and Mme.Patti third.Charles Maron, who lately died in Paris, claimed descent from the poet Virgil.Regularly every New Year\u2019s Day ail persons in Mantua, the poet\u2019s native town, who bore the name of Maro, the poet's patronymic, sent greeting to Maron, whom they regarded as first and greatest of them all.Maron was a man of letters, especially well up in the history of French architecture and sculpture.An interesting thieg about Watts's \u201cWounded Heron,\u201d now on exhibition in London, is that it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy sixty years ago, in the year of the Queen\u2019s accession.It is believed that no other living artist can say as much of any picture of his own.His boyhood work was sold by Mr.Watts years ago, lost sight of, and then repurchased by the painter for $25 from a Scotch dealer.There is considerable discussion in the English papers about the wail of the banshee which was said to have been heard in East Kerry before the fatal bog moved.A correspondent writes that the late Archdeacon Whately, the celebrated Archbishop\u2019s son, told him of a certain instance of the ban ahee\u2019s cry.The Archdeacon said that he distinctly heard the wail while in an Irish country parish administering the Holy Communion to a dying man.On the Isle of Man there is grief at the Jaath ef Joseph Mylchreest, gold-seeker, diamond-miner and philanthropist, and Hall Caine writes that \u201chis life was an inspiration to honest, faithful and upright effort.\" Mylchreest sold his share tu the claims of the De Beers Consolidated Company to Cecil Rhodes for $600,000.Then, putting large gangs of men to work night and day, ne cleaned up all he could\u2014\u201ca fabulous amount of material\u201d\u2014before the time when the contract was to go into effect.No one knows just how much the late Mathias Splittog was worth, bàt he is supposed to have been very nearly a millionaire.He was one of the last of the \\V y&ndotte Indians, and his wealth was largely in the \u201cunearned increment\u201d of lands along the Kaw River, near Kansas City.For one piece of property the Missouri Pacific Railroad paid him $160.000.He had considerable ingenuity and a great aptitude for mechanics, and he is said to have built a small steamboat which used to ply the Missouri River between Atchison and Wyandotte.One of Splittog\u2019s peculiarities was that be would never sell a piece of land except for gold.A Rich Strike at Caribou Mines.E.H.Gladwin, of Truro, Had a Couple of Nuggets, Said to be Worth $900, on Exhibition.A tall, tbio, determined and delighted looking man was in the city yesterday.He carried a grip, which contained something heavy ; and the visitor looked as though his grip and its contents were both worth carrying.The visitor was E.H.Gladwin, of Truro, and in the grip were two of the finest specimens of quartz ever seen in this or any other part of the world.It was not a piece of quartz stone peppered with gold, but two junks of gold peppered with quartz.The value of the two specimens was placed at $900.They came from the Elk property Caribou.Gold was originally discovered on the property over twenty years ago by two men named Bruce and Zwicker.They came to town and took up areas ; but the areas the} took up were not the ones on which the strike was made, but the adjoining ones.Alex.McDonald got the claim with the lead on it.He worked it some time with success and sunk 100 feet, when he lost it.Two years ago the property fell into the hands of Jack & Bell, who sunk the shaft to 276 feet, and worked it with but indifferent success.On January 4th they sold it to a Truro company.The new proprietors got to work under the superiotend-ency of Robert Wright.He put in a couple of shots at the bottom of the shaft for the purpose of putting in some timber, and was as surprised as he was delighted to see, as the result of tiiose shots, about $3,000 worth of gold at his feet.He had struck the roll \u2014 and struck it rich.All the old miners who saw the specimens carried by Mr.Gladwin yesterday, had never seen anything like then, before.They had never dreamed of anything like it in Nova Scotia.If there is any quantity of quartz of that kind in the mine\u2014and they say the roll runs from ten inches to two feet six inches wide\u2014the Elk will undoubtedly turn out to be the richest mine in Nova Scotia.The strike was made just ITS feet from the spot where McDonald lost it.The specimens exhibited by Mr.U lad win were far supericr to those \".aken from the same district, which were awarded first prize at the world\u2019s fair.\u2014 Halifax Herald.SIR JAMBS M I.EMOINE.For the information of the hundreds of members of the Royal Society, located from Newfoundland to Vancouver, we print the following, anent their Knighted Past President.(From Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography\u2014 Toronto, 1SSS.) \u201cJames MacPherson LeMoine, sixth son of Benjamin LeMoine and Julia Ann MacPherson, was born in the City of Quebec.His father, a genial ai d polished gentleman of the old French school, was a partner in the exporting house of Stuart and LeMoine.Reverses in trade caused the firm to suspend about 1823.Mr.Daniel MacPherson, Se%>jneur of Crane Island, P.Q., his grandfather, adopted two of the eleven children then torn, Louis Duniere and James ; the latter of whom, the subject of this notice, assumed his name and was known as .lames MacPherson LeMoine.Daniel MacPherson, born at Fort William, near Inverness, Scotland, had settled at an early age in Philadelphia, which he left with several other United Empire Loyalists^ about 1,8.3, to reside at Sorel, later, known as Fort William Henry, a noted U.E.Loyalist settlement.After marrying there a Miss Kelley, he removed to Douglaston, Gaspc, also a U.E.L.settlement.Having amassed wealth, he purchased in 1803, from the heirs de Beaujeu, the rich and picturesque seigniory of Isle aux Grue* and l*le aux Oie*, P.Q., where he spent twenty-six years of his life.This early home of the historian, with its Scotch teachings of industry and self reliance, together with the healthy example of the venerable Daniel MacPherson, who closed his career, at St.Thomas, at the age of 87 years, seems to have ever remained uppermost in the mind and remembrance of the subject of this sketch, and to have tinctured his views in afterlife.The paternal ancestor of J.M.LeMoine hails from old France ; the LeMoine or LeMoyne family\u2014for the name is spelt both ways among the descendants\u2014 is one of the oldest and most distinguished in t he colony from iU dawn.Jean LeMoyne, the progenitor, was a sou of Louis l^Moyne, and was born at Pitres, near Rouen, in Normandy, in 1634.Jean LeMoyne, a near relative of Charles LeMoyne, or LeMoine, of St.Reroi, close to Rouen, was a man of importance in his day ; he figures in old titles as the ttitpieur of three fiefs or seignories : La Noraie, Ste.Marie and Gastineau.He held lands near Three Rivera and owned an island, \u201cIle des Pins\u2019 \u2014the island of pines\u2014which turniahed hint the addition to his name.He was called LeMoine des Pins, to distinguish him, probably, from his illustrious and warlike relative, Charles LeMoine de Longueuil, who became Baron de Longueuil and, on two occasions, acted as Governor of Canada.The Abbé Verreau, in his work \u201cL\u2019Invasion du Canada,\" 1775, exhibits a descendant of Jean LeMoyne, styled Jean Baptiste LeMoine des Pins, as a sturdy volunteer of Montreal, repelling manfully the invader of the soil, in November, 1773.He w\u2019as, however, taken prisoner by R.Montgomery\u2019s continentals, at Longueuil, carried across the border and underwent a protracted captivity, Congress refusing to exchange him \u201cas he was of too much importance,\u201d it was added, \u201cin iiis own country.\" His health was ruined by his captivity ; his wealth, dissipated by the upheavings of the invasion.The warlike old fjaitilh&mme, too proud to sue for indemnity from the British Government for the losses incurred, in upholding the standard of Britain, closed his long career, near Quebec, in 1807.\tCanadien newspaper, of 10th January, 1807, in his obituary notice, pays high compliment to his devotion to King and country.\u201cA victim,\u201dit adds, \u201cof the pairiolic ardor which hastened his doatlj.\u201d) Young James LeMoine remained under the protective roof of his maternal grandfather at St.Thomas, until August, 1838, when he was sent to the Petit Séminaire de Quebec, for his collegiate course.Tnis seat of learning, he left in 1843, after studying Belle* Lettre*, uuder an accomplished French Professor from the College of Saint Stanislas, at Paris, the Aboé P.Bouchy.He was subsequently indentured for five years as a law student to the late Hon.Judge Jos.Noel Bossé, at that time, one of the leading barristers of the Quebec Bar.In 1830, our subject\u2019s name was added to the roll of practicing barrist era.In 1854 he became a partner of the law firm of Kerr