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[" ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT be Standard.SECTION NUMBER ONE VOL.II.No.17.MONTREAL, CANADA.171 ST.JAMES STREET.His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught\u2019s Visit to the Dominion of Canada PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT LEAVING THE LAND OF THE MIKADO FOR CANADA\u2014His Royal Highness, accompanied by General Kuroki and Admiral Togo, going on board the Canadian Pacific R.M.S.\u201cEmpress of Japan\u201d at Yokohama.o RINCE ARTHUR'S \\ VISIT TO CANADA.His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught, who this week viewed the stupendous majesty of Niagara, and passed through the peach orchards and grape vineyards of the Niagara peninsula, has now been upwards of three and one-half weeks in Canada.He left Yokohama on March 16th, and reached Vancouver on April 5th.After a short time passed in that city and in Victoria, B.C., he left on a special train, on April 7th, for the East.The departure was quiet and unattended by any ceremony.\u2018\u201cBob\u2019\u201d Mee, who has piloted many royal trains, was once more at the throttle, and Mr.W.R.Baker, assistant to the president of the C.P.R., attended to all arrangements for the trip across the continent.From Vancouver to Sicamous was a day\u2019s journey of the \u2018\u2018Garter mission.\u2019\u2019 The Prince, seated in the commodious vestibule of the car \u201c\u201cCornwall,\u2019\u201d\u2019 at the rear of the train, viewed the varying scenes of mountain, river and canyon, and acknowledged by graceful smiles and bows the expressions of Canadian loyalty from the people along the route.At Kamloops, where a large crowd had gathered, His Royal Highness inspected a guard of honor from the corps of the Rocky Mountain Rangers, and expressed extreme pleasure at the thought- \u2018AN Hine mr:t 27) \\ 4 mme LIFE ON PARLIAMENT HILL\u2014The Hon.Thomas Greenway, formerly Premier of Manitoba.Mr.Greenway is here represented in the act of enjoying a sun-bath on one of the benches in the Parliament grounds at Ottawa.(Photographed by The Standard\u2019s special photographer.) LIFE ON PARLIAMENT HILL\u2014The Right Hon.Sir Wilfrid Laurier, G.C.M.G., Premier of Canada, as he appeared on a recent occasion on his way to a meeting of the Council.fulness which had prompted the demonstration.After leaving Kamloops, the Prince and his party for two hours fished in Shusway lake at Sica- mous.The Prince succeeded in hooking a large silver trout, which he would have landed had not his tackle broke.Several medium- sized fish were caught.At Ross Peak, His Royal Highness mounted the engine cab, and from this vantage point viewed the wonders of the Rockies.He was delighted with the experience.A short stop was made at the natural rock bridge, and at Field the party stayed over night.At Winnipeg, Brandon, Regina, and Qu\u2019Appelle, the Prince and the members of his party were royally welcomed, and enthusiastically cheered., His Royal Highness arrived at Ottawa, on Saturday afternoon, April 14th, and, although the rain was falling in torrents, the pre- cinets of the Union Station were densely thronged with spectators.Among those who were present at the Capitol and participated in the official welcome to the Prince were : Col.Hanbury Williams, Capt.Newton and Capt.Trotter, representing the Governor-Gen- alongside of the Customs Pier at Yokohama.eral; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Hon.Messrs.Scott, Paterson, Hyman, Emmerson, Oliver, Brodeur, and Aylesworth, representing the Dominion Government ; General Lord Aylmer, General Lake, and Mayor Ellis.From Ottawa, Prince Arthur went westwards to Niagara Falls, Hamilton, London, Toronto, and other Ontario points, afterwards visiting the Maritime Provinces.He is expected to reach Montreal on May 8th.CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.Canada as she is has all the marks of a coming world-Power.Already Canada is the Imperial granary; her wheat, which is the lives of men, must be the Old world\u2019s living.Thanks to her position \u2018\u2018at the apex of the continent,\u2019\u2019 to quote Sir Wilfrid Laurier, which gives her the shortest sea routes across the Pacific, and because an acre in Western Canada produces much more and much better wheat than an acre in the Western States, she must control the North American trade in food- THE LATE MR.R.D.McGIBBON, K.C.\u2014A prominent barrister of Montreal, who passed away last week.stuffs with the Orient, where the standard of living is slowly but surely rising.Slowly but surely the centres of PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT LEAVING THE LAND OF THE MIKADO \u2014 The Canadian Pacitic\u2019s R.M.S.\u201cEmpress of Japan\u201d It was on this vessel that His Royal Highness crossed the Pacific.primary consequence\u2014lumbering, mining, the procuring of the \u2018\u201c\u201cwhite coal\u201d of water-power\u2014 march northward across the inter- MAYOR BARNARD\u2014Of Victoria, B.C., who welcomed Prince Arthur of Con- naught to that city.national boundary-line.Then Canada looks southward for increase of wealth and authority, and does not look in vain.She has cast down a net of preference, and holds it in the West Indies, the \u2018\u2018spolia opima\u2019\u2019 of our age-long wars with the other colonizing nations of Europe.She is arranging a commercial rapprochement with Mexico, the newest of the Latin-Ameri- can States, to which the growth of a middle-class\u2014no less than the genius of Porphirio Diaz\u2014has given political stability.Half-Latin herself, by the virtue of the inclusion of Quebec in her polity, she has a sympathetic insight into the affairs of Latin America which is not possessed by the people of the United States.Her statesman- capitalists have invested more than Carnegie\u2019s monstrous fortune in these Latin communities.It is already clear that the United States can never absorb her either by political or economic compulsion.It could not be done by arms in 1812- 14, when the Canadas were tiny river-States.Annexation is a time- confuted dream.\u2014\u2018\u2018The Outlook.\u201d\u2019 % # M4 44 M 4 44 4484 G + 42 aed 4 4 4 Crh ¥ : + d'd'4 4 4 PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT ON CANADIAN SOIL\u2014Crowds awaiting the arrival of His Royal Highness at the City Hall, Winnipeg, where he was officially welcomed to the Prairie City amid great enthusiasm.In the foreground of the illustration is the Battleford Column, erected some years ago as a memorial to the Winnipeg Soldiers who fell in the Riel Rebellion of 1885.Tom ees oe TIER trap cream meee \u2014 5 27 THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.Vesuvius, Whose Recent Awful Activity Almost Resulted in Another Pompeii Catastrophe VESUVIUS, THE \u201cCHIMNEY OF HELL\u201d\u2014So the Ancients called the famous volcano, which recently brought death to many thousands of people, and destruction to several Italian towns.from this fiery furnace have repeatedly desolated populous communities.in the destruction of Pompeii and MOUNT VESUVIDS, \"CHIMNEY OF HELL.LV conor the most romantic vol- cano of history, has a bad reputation, and the fact that its recent outburt did not equal or surpass in fatalities its memorable eruption of the year A.D.79, is due almost entirely to an appreciation of its previous destructive character.From the examination of the ruins of the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and from the graphic description of the eruption which destroyed those ancient and populous towns left in the two letters of Pliny the younger, it is evident that the fury of the present activity of \u201cThe Chimney of Hell,\u201d as the mountain was known in the Dark Ages, is far greater than on the occasion which introduced Vesuvius to history.Contrary to common belief, the loss of life in Pompeii was PARLIAMENTARY SNAP-SHOTS \u2014 Mr.Charles Marcil, Deputy-Speaker, hurriedly leaving the House of Commons after a division.Mr.Marcil is an old newspaper man, and represents Bonaventure County in the Federal Parliament.(Taken by The Standard\u2019s Special Photographer.) rN not over 2000 souls.Yet the city had a population of about 30,000.As on the occasion of the first recorded eruption of Vesuvius, a large part of the old mountain, known as Monte Somma, was blown away by the terrific explosion, so, during the present season of activity, a part of the cone has been removed by the violence of the disruption.For 2000 years prior to the year 79, when Pompeii was destroyed, the mountain had never shown signs of activity.Although recognized as a volcanic cone, it was believed that Vesuvius was extinct, and farmers, shepherds, and vine-growers settled on its fertile grassy slopes, all unconscious of Herculaneum.During the centuries, withering blasts Its most celebrated eruption resulted tt Even in those days there had been long warnings, and a dangerous crater.those who profited by them were saved.Others, who could not or would not, were buried under the ashes and volcanic mud, where they were found eighteen centuries later by industrious archaeologists.2,3 Sl aly is RE ee & Better Precautions Are Taken Now.The means of transportation in the days of Pompeii\u2019s greatness were, of course, compared with the steamships, railroads, trolley roads, and automobiles of the present.When the sick or feeble or the loiterers attempted to leave Pompeii, they were unable to do so.Those who had neglected the warning, perished.How many victims Vesuvius may lay claim to this time is not yet known, but few, if any of them, have been buried, as were those of the year 79.Certainly, eighteen centuries hence, the archaeologist probably will not find them they fell.The fertile slopes of Vesuvius have ever been the sirenlike tempter of the vine-grower.meagre, in the position where Four crops a year have been the temptation held out to the farmer.That was, he contended, worth a risk, and then the Government Observatory, established in 1841, always gave timely warnings.An examination of the ashes the other day showed that they will prove an active and valuable fertilizer.So, even after the present display of force is over, and the old mountain once more becomes peaceful, the farmers will return to the farms on the slopes, and chance it again.XX ¥% Log Pompeii and Herculaneum.Vesuvius enters history with the eruption which buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum on October 24 of the year 79.So far as is known, there is no previous record of an eruption.For sixteen years before the fatal year there were what to modern scientists would be undeniable signs of promised activity in the terrible earthquakes which occurred with fatal for sixteen years event, frequency before the awful A great part of Pompeii was thrown down by a shock in the year 63, and the next year, just after Nero left the building in Naples, where he had | been singing, the structure was destroyed by seismic disturbances.It is not unlikely that these warnings did have their effect upon some of the inhabitants of the cities on the Bay of Naples.According to Dion Cassius, who wrote a century later, Herculaneum and Pompeii were destroyed \u201cwhile the population was sitting in the theatre.\u201d Excavations have not proved this statement, for only a few bodies have been uncovered in the old theatres of Pompeii, and these are believed to be the remains of the gladiators either slain or wounded there.If the theatres were filled, there is evidence that the spectators were able to make their scape.The most famous description of the INVESTIGATION TOWER AT OTTAWA\u2014This tow winter, recently toppled over, ow THE INTO THE The Government is now making an inquiry into the cause of the mis- It formed a prominent architectural feature of the Western De- hap.partmental Block COLLAPSE OF THE LAURIER er, which was built during the past ing, it is said, to faulty construction.historic outburst is that left by Pliny the younger, who was an eye-witness, in two letters which he wrote to Tacitus.\u201cYour request,\u201d he wrote, in the first epistle, \u201cthat I would send you an ac count of my uncle\u2019s death, in order to transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgments, for if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well assured, will be rendered forever illustrious.And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune which, as it involved at the same time a most beautiful country in ruins, ang destroyed so many populous cities, seems to promise him an everlasting remem- observe a cloud which appeared of a very unusual size and shape.He had just taken a turn in the sun, and, after bathing himself in cold water and making a light luncheon, gone back to his books, He immediately arose and went out upon a rising ground from whence he might get a better sight of this very uncommon appearance.A cloud, from which the mountain was uncertain at this distance (but it was found afterward to come from Mount Vesuvius), was ascending, the appearance of which I cannot give you a more exact description of than likening it to that of a pine tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a tall trunk, which spread itself out at the top into a sort of branches, occasioned, I imagined, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upward, or the cloud itself being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in the manner I have mentioned; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according as it was either more Or less impregnated with earth and cinders.Re RR RE Darker Than Thickest Night.\u201cMeanwhile, broad flames shone out in several places from Mount Vesuvius, which the darkness of the night contributed to render still bright and clearer.But my uncle, in order to soothe the apprehensions of his friend, Pom- ponianus, assured him it was only the burning of the villages, which the country people had abandoned to the flames.After this he retired to rest.The court which led to his apartment being now almost filled with stones and ashes, if he had continued there any time longer, it would have been impossible for him to have made his way out.So he was brance; notwithstanding he has himself composed many and lasting works, yet I am persuaded the mentioning of him in your immortal writings will NNN : i 3 9 WOE WER Ag Re \u2014 1 PARLIAMENTARY SNAP-SHOTS \u2014 Mr.R.L.Borden, Leader of the Opposition, leaving the Parliament Buildings, in company with two of his friends.Mr.Borden is the central figure in the group.MNdNNer greatly contribute to render his name immortal.\u201cIt is with extreme willingness, therefore, that I execute your commands, and should indeed have demanded the task if you had not enjoined it.He was at that time with the fleet under his command at Misenum.On the 24th of August, about 1 in the afternoon, my mother desired him to MONTREAL SNAP-SHOTS\u2014Lieut.-Col.Wilson, Commanding Officer of the 3rd Regiment Victoria Rifles, and Commandant of this year\u2019s Bisley team, facing the Standard photographer in front of the St.James\u2019s Club.His companion is Mr.George E.Drummond.Mr.Alex.Stewart is seen leaving the Club.Neer awakened and got up, and went to Pom- ponianus and the rest of the company, who were feeling too anxious to think of going to bed.\u201cThey went out then, having pillows tied upon their heads with napkins, and this was their whole defence against the storm of stones that fell them, round \u201cIt was now day everywhere else, but there a deeper darkness prevailed than in the thickest night, which, however, was in some degrees alleviated by torches and other lights of various kinds.They thought proper to go further down upon the shore to see if they might safely put to sea, but found the waves still running extremely high and boisterous.\u201cThere my uncle, laying himself down upon a sail cloth which was spread for him, called twice for some cold water, which he drank, when immediately the flames, preceded by a strong whiff of sulphur, dispersed the rest of the party and obliged him to rise.He raised himself up with the assistance of two of his servants, and instantly fell down dead, suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor, having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed.As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.\u201d In his second letter, Pliny gives further particulars: | \u201cThere,\u201d he wrote, \u201chad been noticed for many days before a trembling of the earth, which did not alarm us much, as this is quite an ordinary occurrence in Campania, but it was so particularly violent that night, that it not only shook, but actually overturned, as it would seem, everything about us.My ously shaped masses of flame.VESUVIUS, THE \u201cCHIMNEY OF HELL\u201d\u2014At its base nestles the beautiful city of Naples, which narrowly escaped the fate of Pompeii and Herculaneum during the recent terrific eruption of the volcano.and its environment is eloquently depicted in the illustration.Sat mother rushed into my chamber, where she found me rising, in order to awaken her.We sat down in the open court of the house, which occupied a small space between the buildings and the sea.As I was at that time but eighteen years of age, I know not whether I should call my behaviour in this dangerous juncture courage or folly; but I took up Livy and amused myself with turning over that author, and even making extracts from him, as if I had been perfectly at my leisure.Though it was now morning, the light was still exceedingly faint and doubtful; the buildings all around us tottered, and though we stood upon open ground, yet as the place was narrow and confined, there was no remaining without imminent danger.We, therefore, resolved to quit the town.\u201cA panic-stricken crowd followed us, and (as to a mind distracted with terror every suggestion seems more prudent than its own) pressed on us in dense array to drive us forward as we came out.Being at a convenient distance from the houses, we stood still in the midst of a most dangerous and dreadful scene.The chariots, which we had ordered to be drawn out, were so agitated backward and forward, though upon the most level ground, that we could not keep them steady, even by supporting them with large stones.The sea seemed to roll back upon itself,and to be driven from its banks by the convulsive motion of the earth.It is certain at least the shore was considerably enlarged, and several sea animals were left upon it.On the other side a black and dreadful cloud, broken with rapid, zigzag flashes, revealed behind it var- These last were like sheet lightning, but much larger.XR RR Cloud Descends And Covers Sea.4 \u201cSoon afterward the cloud began to descend and cover the sea.It had already surrounded and concealed the Island of Capri and the promontory of Misenum, \u201cMy mother now besought, urged, even commanded me to make my escape at any rate,which, as I was young, I might easily do; as for herself, she said her age and corpulency rendered all attempts of that sort impossible; however, she would willingly meet death if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion of mine.But I absolutely refused to leave her, and, taking her by the hand, compelled her to go with me.She complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for retarding my flight.\u201cThe ashes now began to fall upon us, though in no great quantity.I looked back.A dense, dark mist seemed to be following us, spreading itself over the country like a cloud.\u2018Let us turn out of the high road, I said, \u2018while we can still see, for fear that, should we fall in the road, we should be pressed to death in the dark by the crowds that are following us.\u2019 We had scarce- DEMOLITION OF THE WINDSOR HALL, MONTREAL\u2014The work of razing this one-tj goes on apace, and in a few days nothing will remain of the superstructure.modern addition to the Windsor Hotel, which will greatly increase the accomm ly sat down, when night came upon us, not such as we have when the sky is cloudy, or when there is no moon, but that of a room when it is shut up and all the lights put out.7 2 3, ee ak Lei a oo æ = A Graphic Word-Picture.\u201cYou might hear the shrieks of women, the screams of children and the shouts of men; children, some calling for their for their parents, others for their husbands, and seeking to recognize each other by the voices that replied; one lamenting his own fate; another that of his family; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying; some lifting their hands to the gods, but the greater part convinced that there were now no gods at all, and that the final endless night, of which we have heard, had come upon the world.others Among these there were some who augmented the real terrors by others imaginary or wilfully invented.I remember some who declared that one part of Misenum had fallen; that an- LIF~ ON PARLIAMENT HILL\u2014The Hon.William Paterson discussing the work of the Tariff Commission with a Liberal friend.(Taken by The Standard\u2019s Special Photographer.) Na other was on fire; it was false, but they found people to believe them.It now grew rather lighter, which we imagined to be rather the forerunner of an approaching burst of flames (as in truth it was) than the return of day.However, the fire fell at a distance from us; then again we were immersed in thick | darkness, and a heavy shower of ashes rained upon us, which we were obliged every now and then to stand up to shake off, otherwise we should have been crushed and buried in the heap.RR XR Logs Various Eruptions of Vesuvius.\u201cAt last this dreadful darkness was dissipated by degrees, like a cloud or smoke; the real day returned, and even The beauty of the city the sun shone out, though with a lurid light, as when an eclipse is coming on.Every object that presented itself to our eyes (which were extremely weakened) seemed changed, being covered deep with ashes as if with snow.\u201d Vesuvius is inseparably linked with the destruction of Pompeii, so graphically described by the younger Pliny.Although the burning mountain before PARLIAMENTARY SNAP-SHOTS \u2014 The Governor-General (Earl Grey) leaving his office in the eastern departmental block for Rideau Hall, accompanied by one of his aides-de- camp and secretaries, His Excellency is the central figure in the group.(Taken by The Standard\u2019s Special Photographer.) NAN that time always had been regarded as an extinct crater, the volcano ceased its activity after that awful exhibition of its power, and for 124 years remained dormant.The principal eruptions of Vesuvius have been as follows: A.D.79, 203, 472, 512, 685, 993, 1036, 1094, 1138, 1306, 1631, 1779, 1793, 1822, 1861, 1872, 1906.The eruptions of 1631, 1872 and the present month are the most destructive since the ashes of the volcano sealed up the two ancient cities at its foot.That of 1631 killed about 4,000 persons; in 1872 about 60 perished, and it is estimated that thus far almost 500 persons have fallen victims to the present fury of Vesuvius, while the property loss, at present only to be estimated, may reach $20,000,000.Pompeii was buried under materials from twenty to twenty-five feet deep.The greater part of this covering is composed of volcanic ash.Several strata of volcanic material have been found by excavators, showing that more than once the lava, mud and ashes from the crater have fallen over the same place.Five-sixths of the depth of the materials has been found to consist of pumice stones of an irregular shape, from the size of a pea to two or three inches in diameter.Upon the authority of some scientists who have examined these materials, it is said that fire was no element in the destruction of Pompeii.a ; > R xt \u201cÉ Le 4, ua a.So RS æ 5 a hat com WN Mee SPLIT AT A Na Me popular concert hall In its place will rise a large and odation of this hostelry. Easter Day Church Parade at Montreal; Cobalt, Land of Silver Nuggets; Canadian Art mm A THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.AN EASTER-DAY SCENE IN -FRONT OF THE LARGEST METHODIST CHURCH IN CANADA\u2014This illustration will give readers of The Standard a splendid idea of the manner in which the Easter Day services in the churches of Montreal were attended.The scene shows the congregation of St.James\u2019s Methodist Church leaving that edifice at the conclusion of the morning service.This church is one of the architectural features of St.Catherine street.It is the only Methodist Church in Canada which allows its clergy to wear Geneva gowns when officiating at the services.ASTERS PROTEST & AGAINST DEATH.\u2014 Even if there were no joyous and crowded assemblages in the multitudes of Christian churches through the land on Easter Day, and no glad carols of praise rising from millions of throats, humanity would, nevertheless, long ago have found some other way to voice in a public and conspicuous fashion its protest against the thing we call death.It is so plainly an alien element in a universe that throbs with life in every part\u2014it is so manifestly an intruder, a robber, a foe, that everyone with a spark of manhood in him, with a bit of yearning for the abiding, would cry out against the reign of such a force.With Longfellow, we affirm\u2014 There is no death, what seems so is transition, This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, \u2018Whose portal we call Death.But this poetry, you say, how can you assert such a thing in the face of the countless graveyards all over the world.In the face of what we see every day about us, the sudden stiffening of the form that was so alert; the closing forever of the eyes that looked their love to us day by day; the silence and the loneliness; the vacant chair; the failure to return; the lack of any word from that boundless, mysterious realm to which they have gone.But still, again we protest against such an ordering of the universe, which permits this invisible hand to arrest in a twinkling of an eye all the currents of life, and still we fall back upon that proud reply of the distinguished scholar, who when taunted with the remark of the sceptic that \u201cMan dies just as the brute dies,\u201d replied: \u201cYes, but the difference is, a man knows that he dies.\u201d XR BR RP Meaning of The Resurrection.And it is just here that the inalienable conviction that has resided in the hearts and, to some extent, in the reasons of men through the centuries, meets with a certain historic event, which tallies with the human intuition and gives to it the measure of sacredness and validity that it would not otherwise have.We believe that 1,900 years ago a man of supernal worth and beauty of character died as other men have died, but was restored to life, after a fashion and in a form which we cannot fully explain, but the reality and certainty of which do not depend upon precise scientific definition.We believe that this person showed himself alive after death, to many with whom he had companied on the earth, that he gave sufficient proof that he was he, the same, though different, and we believe, too, that, after thus making himself known, he went into another realm of being, where he lives to-day, and out from which, he sends constantly the influences of his great, rich personality.R Faith in Eternal Life.Re XX XX \u201cDon\u2019t believe it; don\u2019t believe it; don\u2019t believe it.\u201d So they said on the streets of Jerusalem that first Easter Day, over and over again.Indeed, there is relatively less doubt in even New York or London to-day of the resurrection of Jesus than there was in Palestine at the time the event occurred.Study of the character of Christ and the course of Christian history have made it seem rational and necessary that such a being as he should have triumphed over the grave and emerged into a finer, ampler existence.If any kind of life desirves to be unending, it is the kind of life which we associate with the name of Jesus, and it is that kind of life reproduced in his followers which has a right to immortality.So, then, our Easter assemblages are not indigantion meetings, at which an outraged humanity expresses its sense of wrong and injustice because Death seems to stalk abroad through the earth, unmolested.They are, rather, the gatherings of glad and grateful souls, to acclaim the one who has shown himself conqueror, to thank God for such a gift from heaven, and to summon men everywhere to enter into the comfort and joy of the Easter message.\u2014 The Parson.Development of British Columbia TE men of the westernmost Pro- | C vince of Canada have recently founded a Million Club, the function of which is to realize the magnificent project of peopling British Columbia with one million inhabitants.The scheme has been enthusiastically style her, has expressed her ambition, in the circumstances no lowly one, by forming a Twenty Thousand Club.These things are characteristic of the buoyant hopefulnesg of the enterprising people of the far West.After half a century of somewhat sluggish progress NA.the resources of the Province until something like an adequate population has been attracted to it.AR XR RY Remarkable Dimensions Of the Province.It is difficult even for well-informed Eastern Canadians to present to their minds a picture of the country in its vast dimensions.At a recent meeting of the Boards of Trade of Southern Kootenay and Southern Yale, Mr.G.C.Buchanan, of Kaslo, B.C., a competent observer and reliable authority, used these remarkable munities words: which we \u201cThe com- represent have within the past fifteen years added a principality to the Empire of Victoria and Edward, not by original discovery, nor by conquest, but by occupation, by development, and by the demonstration of the fact that there is here the capability of vast wealth production, and more than that, an environment where generations of men and women can make permanent homes, and where they may surround themselves with the comforts and enjoyments of life.\u201d This district alone is as large as Scotland, and contains as yet a population of only some forty thousand inhabitants.But into the ample spaces of British Columbia as a whole, the France, Spain, and Portugal might easily be fitted.Her capital, Victoria, lies far south, about the latitude of Brest and Brittany; almost areas of her unexploited unexplored northern regions stretch as far north as the Shetland Isles.Happily named \u201cBritish\u201d Columbia, she is like a new and far larger Britain, her shores washed not by the Atlantic, but by the Pacific Ocean, her eastern frontier not guarded by the North Sea, but lying along the huge mass of the Rocky Mountains.This great range, with heights soaring as high as the romantic Matterhorn of Switzerland\u2014heights on which perpetual snows are feeding shining glaciers, and becoming the parents of mighty rivers and multitudinous lakes\u2014seems with its parallel and divergent mountain ranges to make a new country of the valleys and the plains which lie folded in their embrace.Probably no living man can correctly estimate the possibilities of this immensely diversified surface, of the universal wealth which lies buried in the mountains, of PROGRESS OF ART IN CANADA\u2014\u201cCoin de Ferme, Fontainbleau,\u201d painted in Paris by Mr.Rene Beliveau of Montreal, and hung at the recent Spring Exhibition of the Art Association of Montreal.adopted by leading men in all the principal cities, and, as it is in itself far from being an unreasonable one, many of the founders of the club may live to see its consummation.Several British Columbian cities have formed similar plans for themselves.Vancouver believes that although she has done it, she need scarcely go to the trouble of forming a One Hundred Thousand Club, as the increase of her population is already so rapid.Nelson, the Queen City of the Kootenays, as her admirers PROSPECTING IN COBALT, THE LAND OF SILVER\u2014The nucleus of a camp, and the \u201cshack\u201d of a quartette The work of these men was interfered with, as late as April 17th, by the snow.of prospectors.and of many disappointments, British Columbia welcomes the visitor and the immigrant with a sanguine cheerfulness that is inspiring.The twentieth century is to be Canada\u2019s century, and a large share of the expansion and the prosperity is sure to come her way.XR Good Reasons To be Confident.EE RE She has good reason to be confident.Her geographical position, which at present implies a certain degree of isolation, ensures to her in the future a commanding influence, looking across, as she does, to that Orient of the Old World, where Japan and China are displaying marvellous possibilities, having at her back the immeasurable wheat fields of Manitoba and the new Provinces, and being in close touch with the Western States of America.It requires only a thoughtful glance at the map to perceive that the day is coming when British Columbia will play a conspicuous part in the world\u2019s development.In obscure color on the gate through which he passed into the Inferno, Dante saw inscribed the words, \u201cJustice moved my Mighty Maker; Divine Power made me, wisdom supreme, and primal love.\u201d These words might well be inscribed at each of the main gateways of traffic opening into British Columbia by land or sea.No scenery speaks more impressively of the majesty and exuberance of the creative mind.But instead of the words that closed the inscription which Dante saw \u2014*\u201cAll hope abandon, ye who enter here\u201d\u2014there should be written in letters of gold on all our gateways the apostolic message: \u201cWe are saved by hope.\u201d Without hope a country so vast, and presenting physical difficulties so enormous, might as well be left untenanted.The growing determination of the present inhabitants is to advertise the forests and the fisheries, and the responsive virgin soil.te ORE RR Plenty of Room For Thousands.Over this area is scattered meanwhile a population in the proportion of about one human being to each couple of square miles of country.The mention of this gives one the impression a 3 PROGRESS OF ART IN CANADA\u2014\u201cThe Peasant Woman,\u201d painted by Mrs.Atha Caldwell, of Montreal, and hung at the recent Spring Exhibition of the Art Association of Montreal.that there is at least plenty of room.The census of 1901 disclosed the total number of inhabitants as 178,657.A large porportion of these were Indians, Chinese, and Japanese.Possible not more than 140,000 were white men of any nation.Nearly 100,000 of them had been born in Canada, and about 80,000 elsewhere.This means that out of every eighteen inhabitants you would find eight who had been born somewhere else than in the Dominion.Contrast this with Ontario, where out of every eighteen inhabitants only three would be found who were not Cana- dian-born, or with Quebec and the Maritime Provinces, where the proportion of foreign-born is much smaller.It is evident that the morals of such a population will be affected by its sparseness and its very miscellaneous character.Then, if it be observed that the same census showed that the proportion of males to females was not far under two to one, it will be understood how rough-and-tumble the work of settling the country has been.It is also noteworthy that the settlement of British Columbia, so far as its white population is concerned, has been almost entirely through individual enterprise.There has been no movement of large bodies of colonists under one discipline, and carrying with them one tradition.Adventurous spirits have made bold to cross the mountains, lured by the golden possibilities of the mysterious West, or tired of themselves and the conven- tionalities of the East, and each man finding more than elbow room to himself, has taken his own way and thought his own thoughts \u2014W.Astley Hale.bedi + SCIENTIFIC BURGLARY.Successful burglary is no crude robbing, but an art.The only men who are able successfully to overcome the obstacles of the safemakers and locksmiths, and at the same time avoid the police, are the only men who employ as much care and thought in their work as the successful business man.longer The man who once turned to burglary as a last resort, chose a dark night to force his way into an establishment, and after hours of work with files and saws, forced the door from the safe, can no longer succeed.The only men who succeed in their efforts to open safes now are the ones who often spend weeks studying conditions and in preparing their instruments.The resistance offered by the fine grades of steel used in safes usually destroys the tools used to open the locks.Until the use of time-locks and elec- trical safety appliances on safes, it was comparatively easy for the skilful safe-cracker to open any safe with the contrivance for cutting out the combination or with the lever for tearing off locks and plates.The improvements to be found in all modern safes made the old-fashioned tools useless.The nitro-glycerine \u201csoup,\u201d which the burglar carries in a little phial in his vest pocket, has provided a capable substitute for his former cumbersome tools.With finely- tempered saws and files he makes a fine crevice in the safe in which he inserts the nitro-glycerine.A percussion cap, fitted outside the crevice is attached to a little pocket battery, and the explosion that follows generally opens the contents of the strongest safe to the eyes of the burglar.The safety appliances of the modern safe are such that without the use of explosives, the burglar is practically Its use, however, has added a new element of danger to his life.Carelessly fitted percussion caps, and overcharge of nitro-glycerine, or a failure to cover the safe properly with rugs or carpets to deaden the sound, might be the undoing of the burglar.invention of helpless.SILVER WEALTH OF COBALT.Dr.Robert Bell, chief geologist, who returned from Cobalt recently, after an official inspection of that district, reports an increasing inflow of prospectors, but the snow in the woods was still a foot deep when he left.He says he secured many interesting facts necessary to the completion of a general report on Cobalt, which will be rushed to completion and given to the public.A suggestion of the extent of the Cobalt deposits is furnished in the fact that Mr.W.J.Wilson, of the Geological Survey, while carefully examining some rock specimens collected last summer, found one with distinct indications of cobalt deposits.This was a surface specimen picked up on the shores of a small lake on a hitherto unsurveyed route between the Sturgeon river and Lady Evelyn river.The spot where it was found is 45 or 50 miles west of the present cobalt area, and north-west of Lake Tema- gami.The discovery, though it may not be of importance in itself, is important as showing the western spread of the cobalt area.The country in the region mentioned is covered with spruce and pines, as shown in the illustrations, some of the latter being at least three feet in diameter, heavy timber, PROSPECTING IN COBALT, THE LAND OF SILVER\u2014A blacksmith\u2019s forge in the \u201cdiggings,\u201d where the implements for extracting the ore are repaired and made fit for work.Note the density of the pines.-r 4 THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.The Standard\u2019s Latest Fashion Hints; Beautiful Drawing-room at the Canadian Capital ; - .#* 3 + GER T° 57 + ai ; RED > \u2018 i By wp FN Rest as Lr ce EXQUISITE LACE COSTUME\u2014Nothing will be found to answer the requirements of the fresh spring evening gown more perfectly than this charming white French crocheted lace gown.a white chiffon body, are beautifully brought out by the sheen of the satin taffeta slip.The lace skirt motifs, applied by hand to A hem of white satin is doubled, and frou-froued with a Richelieu plaiting of Valenciennes lace.More of these lace plaitings finish the loose bell sleeves, and edge the curves of the cutaway coat In prettily turned motifs.Medallions of sheerest embroidered mull are inserted upon the coat, making for an unusually attractive lace combination.Mayday Opens Up a White Season nll, = The Simple Lingerie Frock\u2014Elaborate Lace Costumes and Practical Walking Suits, All in White\u2014Malinette for Bridesmaids\u2019 Frocks\u2014Grenadines Are Back in Favor rr EW YORK, April 26.\u2014 It eral way.But this does not pre- would seem as though the clude the appearance of fascinat- season\u2019s styles must be |ing and fetching modes at every quite conclusively settled before turn, variations mayhap of some Mayday; and so they are, in a gen- general fashion, but presenting distinctly new points for our admiration and approval.All white gowns are shown in quantities, ranging from the mull Princesse lingerie gown with hand-embroidered panels and pas- tel-colored ribbon girdle sashes for debutantes, to the more elaborate white gown of lace for the matron, built over a chiffon or thin satin foundation and accompanied by the most alluring little Jace coats.A new model for such a lace gown shows a Princesse design with the heavy French crocheted Decorators.eo Designers.Bell's Galleries Cabinet Makers.Upholsterers.2336=2338 St.Catherine Street.nl \u201cvv cover old furniture.kind.We always carry a large stock of Louis XV.Chair and Table from Bell's Galleries.E undertake the re-modelling, decorating and furnishing of one room, or the whole house, in any style from the most simple to the most elaborate, always keeping in harmony the key note of refined taste, color and design.manufacture at our own workshop all kinds of high grade Cabinet Work, such as wainscotting, door trims, mantels and furniture.We also keep a large staff of upholsterers who re-model and re- We also keep a large staff of decorative artists, paperhangers and painters who execute work in any part of the Dominion the same as at our own doors.pleased to submit estimates and drawings for any work of this We We will be Fine Rugs and Carpets, Wall hangings, Curtains, Electric Light Jirtuves, etc.SHOWROOMS-2336-2338 ST.CATHERINE STREET, MONTREAL \"\u2014_\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\" lace flounce separated and applied by hand to a round thread lace-net foundation.The coat accompanying is designed along the lines of a man\u2019s cutaway, but is really an adaptation of the later Directoire mode.It is made to shape in one cleverly curved piece, with medallions of sheer hand-embroidered linen adorning the front curves, and also placed upon the top of each short sleeve.The coat edges and sleeves, trimmed with curved motifs of Richelieu-plaited Valenciennes lace, illustrates the prevailing taste for lace combinations, and shows the value of a simple lace like Valenciennes to bring out the fuller beauty of the heavier lace which it frames.But lace gowns do not occupy all of fashion\u2019s favor, prominent as they are this season.Chiffon cloth, a more simple and yet most effective material, is very much in demand.It is now being shown in printed patterns, only a gown length of each, with wide, self-col- ored flower bands; these are already copied in mouselines, organ- dies, and mulls.Built over linings of contrasting color, they pro-! duce a gown of strikingly harmonious and artistic beauty.oc XR RE Malinette in New and Vastly Improved Guise.Nets in any of the plain pastel shades remain favorites, and are still very good style.This is not to be wondered at, for there are few materials as sheer and fluffy dren: \u2014C.E.de Montarville, aged in July, 1905, that retain their freshness as long and as well.An old friend in a new and vastly improved guise is malinette, a maline that has taken to itself the virtue of being moisture proof; that is, it stands service without crushing and matting with the first change of the barometer.Since there is no material so airy, so fairy-like, it is natural that this new, practical form of it should lead to its very general use in party frocks for debutantes and in bridesmaid and flower-girl costumes.Malinette is most successfully combined with heavier nets, the malinette being applied in the form of full ruches, banding skirt and bodice at intervals, and a wide ruch-edged sash attached to a folded girdle.Double ruffles of malin- ette shirred through the centre formed an effective trimming to a bridesmaid frock of organdie printed in huge tea roses, the ma- linette being of the deepest rose shade.RE RR RR New and Wonderfully Pretty Veilings Shown.Veilings showing revivals of the old, round, thread-woven meshes, somewhat resembling grenadines, are quite new and wonderfully pretty.They will take any amount of fluffy trimming, as a new Francis model of coral veiling evidences.It is made over black and white striped Louisine, with the veiling appliqued with panels of Richelieu-plaited point d\u2019esprit, finished with deep coral-colored velvet ribbon.The bodice, bouffant with more of the point d\u2019esprit plaitings, is prettily strapped with velvet ribbons to suggest the years; and Louis Maurice, aged 2!/> months.HOME LIFE IN CANADA'S CAPITAL\u2014The handsome drawing-room, at Ottawa, of Lady Taschereau, wife of Sir Elzear Taschereau, Chief Justce of the Supreme Court of Canada.suspender motif ribbons already becoming a favorite finish for high girdled gowns.For semi-dress the latest Parisian idea shows a white Irish lace blouse, the lower edge of which is applied flatly upon the outside of HOME LIFE IN CANADA'S CAPITAL \u2014 Lady Taschereau, wife of Chief Justice Taschereau, of the Supreme Court of Canada, and her three chil- H.Edward Panet, aged 3 The photograph was taken (See also pages 5 and 6.) 6/2 years; the high, folded silk girdle which accompanies the silk, sunray plaited skirt.The lace is not brought to a straight edge, but tacked in graceful points in such fashion as to dispose effectually of the straight top line of the girdle so displeasing to many.In all cloth wooltex suits, the lighter-color effects are tuned to harmonize with the advent of warmer days.They are shown in light tan, gray, and cream-colored henriettas, serges, English mohair, and other light-weight cloths.So soft are these fabrics, that some sort of facing is necessary in the skirts, and thin haircloth is used to good advantage, as it holds its shape perfectly with least possible weight.A slight stiffening of this same haircloth is used to good advantage upon the edge of the loose little straight- front coats, and again for the proper maintenance of the velvet-fac- ed collars and cuffs.Another new feature which these light cloth suits repeat, is the dainty coat lining of allover embroidered lawn or batiste, seen earlier in the season upon a few of the dark silk street suits sent from the ateliers of Francis, Callier, and Doucet.Apart from the attractiveness of the idea, lies a practical side, for these linings are merely lightly tacked to the coat with ribbon-run beadings, and can be removed at will for cleansing purposes.The girl who wishes to remain \u2018\u201c\u201cen rapport\u2019 with the newest wrinkles yet, must count her pennies as well as beauty in this fashion fancy, and will straightway search her scrap bag for bits of lace and embroideries for a coat lining.JEANNETTE.(See also pages 5 and 6.) A LITTLE BIRD WHISPERS THAT The openwork hose that so long held sway are no longer to be popular.XR Re XR THAT The up-to-date woman now clings to a perfectly plain black silk or Lisle stocking for general wear.X% XR RR THAT Taffeta suits, coats in colors and black, and both short and long, will be very fashionable.ee HR XR THAT\u2014Warp-prints in floral designs on white grounds are the fancy of the well-dressed for dinner and evening gowns.XR XR Re THAT\u2014Satin surfaces are very strong.Messalines, peau de cygne, mervilleux, Sapho, peau de Lyons, and the soft variety of satin duchesse are all in high favor for gowns and separate waists.RR XR ee THAT\u2014 Voiles are again on the crest of the popular wave, but only the finer goods are in strong request.ææ æ te THAT\u2014It would seem that the rage for lingerie gowns, coats, millinery, and parasols must reach a climax this season.a GENTLEMEN, REMEMBER ! THAT\u2014Solid colors, as well as striped and checked effects, and small figures, appear in the new ties.ie HR *% THAT The latest thing in smoking jackets is of white or brown linen, the white to have the cuffs and lapels braided in white, the brown with colors.XR XR XR THAT\u2014The most popular color is \u2018\u201cdregs of wine,\u2019\u201d which is a deep red.Tans, too, come in for a large share of favor; also two- toned and tinted effects.Re *æ THAT\u2014T'he smartest materials for ties are combinations of silk and linen, and linen and lawn for dress ties are generally adopted.RE RE RR THAT Colored handkerchiefs are not looked upon as being so smart as they were a year ago, and the silk-and-linen mixtures are giving way to plain white linen.do 3 « 2,3 = cé A SUMMER SAILOR\u2014The after Easter hats hold many novel surprises in the way of trimming.This fine white straw model represents a refined type of the sailor, and combines a charming color arrangement in its violet and green ribbon embroidered white Neapolitan, beaded band.Marie Louise clustered violets with a few pink roses are bunched well to the back on the left crown.The hat was especially designed for wear with a gown of violet bordered white mull.a tn i + tle PS \u2014\u2014\u2014 ee a ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT VOL.II.No.17.be Stanodu MONTREAL, CANADA.SECTION NUMBER TWO 171 ST.JAMES STREET.The Supreme Court of Canada; Something About Highest Judicial Tribunal in Dominion CANADA\u2019S HIGHEST JUDICIAL TRIBUNAL\u2014Interior view of the home of the Supreme Court of Canada, showing the seats of the Judges and the tables for Counsel.HE SUPREME 2 COURT OF CAN- = ADA.\u2014 To Steven- fs son, a law court NT, seemed one of the = ugliest places in civilization.Because there, he said, envy and malice and all uncharitableness meet to wrestle .& .it out 1n public tourney.From an .9 Lea ethical view-point again, it might, however, in justice to the profession, be termed a clinie amphitheatre rather than an arena\u2014one whose white light reveals merei- lessly hidden motives and quib- blings, hurtful causes and effects, with the ultimate aim of benefitting the publie.Stevenson\u2019s view is that tacitly MR.JUSTICE IDINGTON\u2014Of the Supreme Court of Canada.held by most people.For though to legal minds, law is \u2018\u2018the greatest and slowest of all sciences,\u2019\u2019 it seems, from its abstruse application of the elementary principles of right and wrong, never to have been intelligible to the masses of the people\u2014never quite amicable.It probably never will be in Canada, until some popularizing movement\u2014such as that successfully initiated in Quebec Province by Madame Gerin-Lajoie, through her text-book and lectures\u2014has become universal in our schools.Then at an impressionable age the embryo citizen will grasp the fact that the law secures rights to the individual as surely as it imposes restrictions.RR RR ææ Has Won Many Eulogies.It is traditional of British subjects that they respect the law.Yet even in childhood a something unfettered in humanity chafes at the restriction of domestic \u2018\u2018shalt- nots.\u201d As children of a larger gal life rarely emanate from these courts.The Supreme Court of Canada has won many eulogies upon its administration: the buildine in whieh its sessions are held.however, looks like nothing more than a rambling lodge-house built at the western gate of Parliament ill.Lying at the base of the hill.in the shadow of the high-perched conservatories, this insignificant structure is an anomaly in a city of handsome public buildings.A stray bit of the Parliament Buildings that has drifted down the Hill to a mooring, and been captured hy the legal brotherhood! Apropos of this, an old colonial story suggests a comparison.In the good old days when, it the builders\u2019 hands, it was found that a large amount of the Nepean sandstone remained.To utilize it, a long low building, with disproportionate (Gothic windows, was built at the base of the Hill\u2014for Government workshops! In 1875.when Parliament established the Supreme and Exchequer Courts of (Canada, their sessions were held for a time in a small room in the Commons.This being found quite inadequate, the workshops were then taken over and put in shape to meet the temporary requirements of the highest judicial tribunal of the new Dominion.One presided over by a distinguished Chief Justice and five puisne judges, scarlet-robed, ermine - decked, impressive : a Le ae - SIR ELZEAR TASCHEREAU, KT.\u2014Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.must be confessed, the colonies squabbled, as provinces do to-day, the Nova Scotians used to say, with a characteristic air of super- jority: \u2018\u201cWhen the Creator had fashioned the earth, some red clay \u2014very red clay\u2014of no apparent value, was left over; but, pinched in shape and set down in the Gulf, MR.JUSTICE GIROUARD\u2014Of the Supreme Court of Canada.growth, mankind 1s impelled by the same instinct to criticize laws frequently, occasionally to break them, and always to enrich life with humorous tales at the expense of the legal fraternity.Both criticism and humor\u2014perhaps also in- terest\u2014are conspicuously absent in the public attitude towards British Supreme Courts.There seems to be an abiding trust in their honorable administration, and few quips are aimed at them.Dozing jurymen and worried witnesses form no part of the calmly judicial sessions, where an almost palpable dignity and solemnity prevail ; a circumstance which probably explains why the deliciously humorous or satirical stories of le- Co =m XE Ll \u2014 EEE Prince Edward Island arose\u2014as an after-thought.\u201d\u2019 The response of that geographi- cally-attenuated Island is not on record, but considering the period and the provocation from its patronizing sister, it is altogether likely that it was not couched in language suitable for a Supreme Court judgment.wR HR FR Architectural After-Thought.The old story, however, quite applies to this Court Building, \u2014 also an architectural after-thought.When the beautiful Gothic buildings on the Hill stood out complete at last, radiantly fresh from Court that not only\u2014in the familiar words of Cassel\u2019s Practice\u2014 \u2018\u201cholds and exercises an appelate, civil, and criminal jurisdiction within and throughout Canada,\u201d but interprets and gives decisions upon constitutional points referred to it by the Governor-in-Coun- cil.Still, it remains in the quondam workshops.222 ce al, \u2018ee % 2, wo ge £2 Building is Inadequate.The building is in other sections also inadequate\u2014in accommodation, in ventilation, and in security from fire.The provisions for ventilation in Government workshops thirty years ago, do not meet the requirements of modern offices, and notwithstanding the introdue- tion here and there of a patent ventilator, the atmosphere of the building is decidedly musty.In this point at least it vies with the quaint old Inns of Court, that withdraw themselves from busy Fleet street in the Capital of the Motherland.The narrow gray corridors are still narrower in places from the piles of books that have overflowed from the library.The tiled flooring, with up and downs in its surface, like a corduroy road, has a quite venerable aspect, while the floors of the offices have a decided MR.JUSTICE (SIR) LOUIS DAVIES, K.C.M.G.\u2014Of the Supreme Court of Canada.MR.JUSTICE MACLENNAN\u2014Of the Supreme Court of Canada.] inclination to slope down to the outer walls.The building is \u2018\u2018settling,\u201d\u2019 and though a visitor would say there is no immediate prospect of the fabric tumbling about the heads of Canada\u2019s highest judiei- ary, anxieties are entertained.On a couple of occasions the fears were sufficiently grave to cause the Court to consider adjournment.The Court-room is, perhaps, the most adequate room in the building.Its main feature, an arched roof, with massive beams of pine, was, no doubt, suggested as an harmonious accompaniment of the Gothic windows on either side.The judges\u2019 dais and high-backed chairs stand out from a pine panelling surmounted by the Royal coat-of-arms.The Registrar\u2019s seat is immediately in front of, and below the dais, with the Sheriff and Reporter at either side\u2014the Sheriff\u2019s sword and cocked hat adding picturesque details to the general appearance of the Court.In front of these seats are the lawyers\u2019 benches, where the distinction between the gowned counsel, attendant K.C.\u2019s, and the men who aspire to be K.C.\u2019s, is as closely drawn as if the sword-god Heim- dal himself made the ruling.By very force of contrast, one (Continued on Page 8, Supplement.) = x _ Tol od LACAN IAN By 2 an 1 + YT Af ny oo ce 4 toy k RY; yw ER g CANADA'S HIGHEST JUDICIAL TRIBUNAL\u2014Exterior viewrof the home of the Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, from a recent photograph.4 6 THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.Chorus and Audience at the Historic Farewell of Madame Albani to Her Canadian Friends MADAME ALBANI'S FINAL APPEARANCE IN MONTREAL\u2014This photograph was taken on the occasion of the Canadian diva\u2019s farewell concert in the Arena, two weeks ago, and an historical interest is, therefore, attached to it.Madame, it will be noticed, is surrounded by the members of her concert company and the chorus of the Philharmonic Society, which assisted at the concert.The floral tributes presented to Albani and her associates in song and melody occupy a place on the stage immediately in front of the diva, and include a large swan bouquet of American beauty roses\u2014the gift of the Philharmonic Society.leyshaw, Miss Eva Gauthier, Dr.C.A.E.Harriss, Madame Albani, Mr.Albert Archdeacon, Miss Adele Verne, Mr.Hadyn Wood, and Mr.S.W.Ewing.THE HOME LIFE OF LADY TASGHEREAU (See also Pages 4 and 5.) HEN Thomas Jacques Tas- Qa chereau, the representative of an old French seigniorial accompanied the Marquis de Beauharnois to Quebec in 1726, he founded in the New World a house that has through several generations upheld the prestige of the family in France.Sir Henri Elzear Taschereau, Chief Justice of Canada, who is the present head of the family, resides at the Canadian capital.family, His second wife, a young and beautiful woman, presides there, tactfully dividing her time between her social duties and her home and children.The balance is permitted to swing largely in favor of the children, for Lady Taschereau is devotedly attached to her boys.The second, a child of uncommon grace and beauty, was born on Coronation Day, and was consequently named Edward.His eldest brother, Charles Elzear de Montarville (born Oct.5, 1898), is a handsome, ser- ious-faced child, giving promise of future intellectuality.À third son, Maurice, was born on April 19th, 1905.Lady Taschereau\u2019s home in Ottawa, where she spends the greater part of each year, is a comfortable house with wide lawns on either side.At the very entrance one is impressed with its cheery home-like atmosphere.The hall, in which a fine portrait of the late Sir John Macdonald hangs, is finished in walnut.Crimson wall-hangings and furnishings emphasize the rich tones of the woodwork.The salon opening out of this hall reflects the brightness and charm of its young mistress.In lighting the long room, a very artistic effect is produc- | ed by the numerous rose-shaded elec- troliers on the ceilings and walls.These are reflected in tall mirrors at different points in the salon, enhancing their flower-like effect.The ceiling is hung with white moire, the walls with soft shades of green and gold in narrow stripes.The rug is of dull rose, relieved with tones of green and white.The upholstering of chairs and couches and a few light draperies show the same tints of gold and rose and pale green.Wide windows looking out to the south, and tall palms here and there throughout the salon, add to its gar- den-like appearance.Before the broad fireplace there is a polar bear rug, in whose white depths Lady Taschereau\u2019s children, like rosy faced Cupids, sometimes sit to watch the play of the flames on the hearth.At such a moment, with their beautiful young mother bending over them, the picture in the bright salon is a sweet and sunny one, however the winds of a Canadian winter may whistle without.Even the pleasant landscapes and other cheery pictures adopted son, Nikolay Pieshkoff.on the wall would seem to have been selected for their brightness.A few handsome vases and statuettes of old French china complete the plan of decoration.The dining-room, which is enriched with a fine old oak ceiling, contains several family portraits in oils.One of the late Cardinal Taschereau hangs above the mantel.At one end of the room are two old engravings by Henry Sadd, representing the late Queen and Prince Consort in their youth.The decorations of this room are crimson and gold, with a judicious enlivening touch of green.The whole aspect of the room is dignified, providing an admirable background for the official dinners given from time to time by the Chief Justice and Lady Taschereau.Sir Elzear spends a great deal of his time in the library, a pleasant bookish room, with well-filled cases and several rare old editions.It is panelled in oak and has severely plain wall hangings of terra-cotta.The portraits here are quite interesting, having for subjects as they do Sir Elzear\u2019s friends among Canadian jurists and statesmen NEW YORK PICTURE OF MAXIM GORKY \u2014 Who recently plainly told the Americans what he thought of them.author and revolutionist, known to the Tzar as Alexis Maximoff Piesh- koff, is here represented in the company of Madame Andrieva, and his (Photograph Underwood & Underwood, New York.) A Reading from left to right, the figures in the front row are: Mr.Ernest Gye (husband of Madame Albani), Mr.Robinson, Mr.Craw- (From a flashlight photograph by Homier, St.Catherine street.) lll boudoir is a veritable nest of white- ness\u2014soft, spotless, and dainty.Lady Taschereau\u2019s bedroom is also situated in this southern suite.Its decorations are in rose and white, with touches of gold in the airy draperies, while the furniture is of antique make with fine carvings.A deep painted fresco of roses lends an altogether bowerlike effect to the rose and white room.Lady Taschereau, while lending her patronage to many good works, takes no active part in any of them.Her duties as a wife and mother have always been first with this devoted young matron, and the good fruits of her devotion are very apparent in her home.This devotion of her mothers to the duties of home augurs well for the future of Canada.\u2014The Gentlewoman.The celebrated Russian in the earlier years of their public life.Among them one easily distinguishes, however, the form of his young wife photographed with her little ones.Lady Taschereau\u2019s boudoir is a dainty room fitted up in tones of rose and white, with lively touches of gold.On the mantel and escritoire are photo- GORKY PROPHESIED - FRÉEDOM QF RUSSIA Y people have suffered the +\u201c IN ng crucifixion of centuries.They are awaiting their resurrection\u2014and it will come, come sooner than our oppressors think.\u201d So prophesies the idol of the Russian peasantry, Maxim Gorky\u2014whose opinions concerning the people of the United States underwent a sudden transformation, a few days since, owing to the manner in which his private life was exploited in the public press.Men like Tchaykoffsky and Kropot- kine, who have worked with pen and FRENCH MINERS RESCUED FROM A LIVING TOMB, AFTER STARV- ING FOR 21 DAYS\u2014M.Voiterie being greeted by his wife\u2014who wears widow\u2019s weeds for him\u2014and baby child.It was a pathetic sight when the wife, who believed her baby to be fatherless, took the wasted shadow of her husband to her arms, and, laughing and crying by turns, held up their baby for him to kiss.(Copyright \u201cIllustrations Bureau,\u201d London and New York.) AAMAS voice in this country for their downtrodden breathren in the empire of the Tsar, have impressed us with their earnestness, the serious scholarly temperament that takes a tinge of added sombreness, pgrhaps, from the gray hairs of these students who have thought deeply and thought learnedly of all the abstruse phases of political economy and revolution as these are related to Russia.Gorky is different.thusiastic, He is young, en- emotional.He has the tongue of the poet, the heart of the poet \u2014a Burns fired with an infinite pity and zeal for the people of whom he is a part.\u201cI want the United States to know all about Russia,\u201d he said.\u201cA nation is struggling for birth at this very moment in a land that has been been kept mercilessly under the sway of superstition and political oppression.When it is born it will be a nation greater than all Europe, territorially greater even than the United States.It has to fight for its existence against obstacles that are similar in some respects, different in others, to those that were encountered here in the birth-time of the United States, and it is natural that we revolutionists look for sympathy and encouragement from the home of political liberty.But the United States does graphs of intimate friends; on the walls, among other pictures, are some fine copies of the Madonna.The night nursery opening out of the RESULTS OF AN ICE-SHOVE IN MONTREAL\u2014Men shovelling ice, which has been piled 30 feet high by the force of the shoves, from the wharves along the edge of the St.Lawrence.Photograph taken at the foot of Victoria Pier by a Standard photographer.So i\" > cost lb not know the situation in Russia entirely.You have been misinformed by many who have come here in the interest of the Tsar that\u2014if you had witnessed all that I have witnessed\u2014you would admit is destined to fall, \u201cSuch men as Serge Witte, clever and plausible politicians, represent a class, a small class, and nothing at all of the people of the Russian nation.You have listened to these men, and you have concluded that Russia is not ready for self-government, and that without the Tsar anarchy is inevitable.How they twist the facts! It is Tsardom alone that spells anarchy.As for the working classes\u2014the real Russia\u2014such men as Witte purposely keep themselves in ignorance of their true condition, and tell you that the peasants need the rule of iron and the cross of shame that have been given them in order to maintain a civilized form of government.BE RR RR Gorky has Hope in the Peasantry.\u201cBut the Government of Russia today is not a civilization, neither is her beasantry what Witte and others of his kind say it is.Everything with us hinges on the peasantry.If the latter are kept in ignorance the Tsar\u2019s throne is secure; if enlightenment becomes widespread the success of the revolution is certain.I am hopeful simply because the Russian peasant is not what he was thirty years ago.He ig reaching at last up to his full manhood.\u201cIt is the ownership of the land about which the great problem in Russia is revolving to-day.Of course, on the emancipation of the serfs, the peasants received parcels of land in community.But the arrangement was woefully deficient.The peasant tills land that is not his own, and furnishes wealth to those who do not labor.This oppression is borne by the class composing 72 per cent.of the total population, and this vast multitude, awakening from its enforced lethargy, is commencing to demand all the arable land for its own.\u201d \u201cHow is it that the revolutionary movement makes such slow progress?\u201d Gorky was asked.\u201cAh, there are many reasons for that,\u201d replied Gorky.\u201cThe education of the peasantry, although it is taking place, and will be inevitable in its results, is necessarily gradual, and it is on the education of the peasantry that Russia depends for its freedom.present The revolutionary movement is probably a slower process than is usually looked for, and this because there are great forces fermenting beneath the surface which, when they come to birth, are destined to change the form of the independence for which the people are preparing to fight, MADAME ALBANI'S FINAL APPEARANCE IN MONTREAL\u2014The Arena, where her last concert was held, was packed to the doors with an audience that must have included upwards of 4,000 people.This illustration shows the crowded orchestra and a portion of the stalls and gallery.The flashlight photograph from which the illustration was made was taken some minutes after the close of the concert, and the gallery and stalls had been pretty well emptied before the photographer was ready.(From a flashlight photograph by Homier, St.Catherine street.) + en pn rn ey =a ma \u2014 \u2014 an TRE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.7 Rush of Immigration from the Old World; Prominent Canadians Who Have Passed Away SETTLERS FOR THE CANADIAN NORTH-WEST\u2014A Swedish family en route to Brandon, Man., where they will take up land.STARTLING COINCIDENCES.A couple of men, strangers, sat down together to lunch in a restaurant in a Midland city of England.One noticed that the other was reading a Colonial paper.\u201cI have a friend out there; he went out from here ten years ago.I wonder if you know him,\u201d and the questioner mentioned his friend\u2019s name.\u201cIt is very remarkable.\u201d answered the Col- oc, un 2 3 Be STREET SCENES IN MONTREAL\u2014 Mr.R.H.Lane, Secretary of the Charities Organization Society, on St.James Street.onial, \u201cthat you should ask that question at this moment.I was reading, when you first spoke, a three-column article in this paper describing the mysterious disappearance from the colony of that very man.mately.\u201d I knew him inti- The Colonial went on to describe the strange disappearance of the mutual friend.He had gone from the colony, as mysteriously as if the earth had suddenly opened and swallowed him.The conversation was suddenly in- terrupted by an apparition.They made a rush together for a corner of the room.To oblige the psychists one ought to be able to declare that it was the wraith of their friend that the two men saw.It was not.It was the man himself.hearty and well.He had been seized by an intolerable weariness and brain fag, and, acting on an impulse, had fled from the colony to his birthplace to recuperate.That was all.meeting with these two friends gave His chance him the first intimation of the alarm which hig disappearance had caused.WHY GUNPOWDER EXPLODES.Modern British military gunpowder consists of ten parts of sulphur, fifteen parts of charcoal (preferably that obtained from alder, willow, or similar woods), and seventy-five parts of salt- The powder manufactured in petre.other countries differ slightly in the relative proportions of the constituents.Fine-grained powder is employed for guns of moderate size, and for blasting, coarse-grained powder is used, whilst the prismatic powder, used with very large guns, is in pieces about two inches long.The explosive nature of gunpowder is due to that fact that, when fired, the charcoal and sulphur are burnt at the expense of the oxygen in the saltpetre, much heat is developed, and large quantities of gas are produced.This gas exerts great pressure on the sides of the gun; 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