The Standard., 12 mai 1906, samedi 12 mai 1906

[" ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT VOL.II.No.19.Canadians, Young and Middle-Aged, Who Take a Warm Interest in Amateur Theatricals AVE AWAY $19,000,000 IN TWELVE MONTHS.\u2014When Andrew Carnegie, whose recent visit to SE Montreal is illustrated in this issue, receives a visitor for the first time, the latter is almost always astonished at the man who comes forward to greet him.He advances with outstretched hand to welcome his caller, and always oR A WORLD-CHAMPION\u2014Wiil, Sher- ring, of Hamilton, Ont, who won the Marathon Race at Athens, Greece, last week.The photograph from whieh this illustration was made was taken at the Stadium at Athens, the centre of the Olympian Games.addresses him by name.It is a little man that comes forward, five feet four and a half inches high, with a large head of white hair and a short white beard.Blue eyes look sharply out from under thick white lashes.As he stands and talks, it is easy to examine his points.He weighs 160 pounds, \u201cwears No.4 shoes and No.6 gloves, | and his head fits into a No.7 hat.The glance of his eye tells of shrewdness, but has in it nothing of personal attraction; to a penetrating observer it explains the wondrous faculty its owner has for judging men, taking their measure and selecting the pegs that will just fit the holes he desires to fill.There is a self-satisfied air about the smile that trembles on his lips \u2014and well there may be, for few men have more legitimate occasion for satisfaction with themselves than Andrew Carnegie.\" TR ee ee Wealth His Boyhood Ambition.Andrew Carnegie, as a poor boy, set himself the task of amassing millions ; having succeeded beyond all his hopes, he set himself another task: to spend his millions in such a manner that they would do good to others and enable him to pass out of the world as poor as he came into it, happy in the knowledge that he was leaving nothing over which any of his heirs could quarrel and nothing that would place any man in a position where work 1s unnecessary.He is achieving this result in a way that is satisfactory to him, so why should he have a care to worry him?Self- satisfied?Why not?The man is not human who would not be self- satisfied in Mr.Carnegie\u2019s position.This is the self-satisfaction of the man who, starting from the plain, has climbed laboriously to the summit of a great mountain, and looks out upon the world below him and the other great peaks around him, and having achieved, starts deliberately and happily to climb down again.Mr.Carnegie will be sixty-nine years old next November, and THE LATE HON.PETER WHITE\u2014 Ex-Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, who passed away last week.MR.CARNEGIE IN MONTREAL\u2014The well-known philanthropist is here represented in the act of conversing with a friend shortly after his arrival at the Windsor Station.would be considered a first-class risk by an insurance company.He is the picture of health, and loves to play golf, to take long walks in all sorts of weather, and to tour his coach and four over the rough roads of the Scottish Highlands as much to-day as he did when a much younger man\u2014one cannot say when a young man, for in his youth, however he might have loved these things, he had no opportunity to enjoy them.He loves travelling, and his restless disposition explains his frequent flitting from residence to residence, now in New York, now in Florida, now in the Highlands of Scotland.2e *% BH Has Nothing To Worry Him.Mr.Carnegie has nothing to worry him.Several years ago he retired from business, leaving the vast industries his genius had created in the hands of young men, every one of whom owed his fortune to Mr.Carnegie\u2019s ability to see genius in others.He stopped work when still young enough to enjoy life, and he had ever had such a diversity of interests that when he closed his office door behind him he was not, like so many men who have spent their lives in amassing money, at a loss to know what to do with himself.Mr.Carne- gle always enjoyed life.He never made himself a slave to his work.He had that inestimably valuable faculty of selecting as his subordinates men on whom he could rely implicitly to attend to all the details, leaving him free to devote himself to the broad, general direction of affairs.To this day he adheres, to the same policy; his vast correspondence is conducted by a clever young Scotchman named Bertram and a large staff of clerks and stenographers.This is so systematized that not one letter in twenty ever reaches the master\u2019s eyes, and it is scarcely ever necessary for him to take a pen in his hand or even to go to the trouble of personal dictation.There is one thing that angers Mr.Carnegie more than anything else, and that is a mistake.He is unmerciful to the man who makes it; he is so accurate himself, and has such shrewd foresight, that he is unable to understand how other people forget, make blunders, and are unable to see ahead.Such men he will not have about him.By close application to the work in hand, by honest study and perfecting himself in its every detail, he climbed to the top of the ladder, and by similar qualities the young men whom he has helped to rise MONTREAL, CANADA.-\u2014 - \u2014 - - behind him have won his attention.If one could have watched the boy of sixteen and known that some day he would be worth $15,- 000,000 a year, one could have prophesied the Carnegie libraries.These, the largesses of his days of prosperity, are the inevitable result of those days of early struggle.Then, books were to him things to be coveted, toiled for, things worth sacrifice\u2014and to-day, casting about him for means of doing good to others, he looks back to those days when he was working as a bobbin-boy in a factory, when he was attending to a stationary engine and borrowing books from whomsoever would lend, in order to gain for himself the education his father\u2019s slender be Standard TE 3 è means had not permitted; he thinks of the tens of thousands of youths who are hungering for knowledge as he did, and it is to place books within their reach that he endows a library wherever one is needed, or seems likely to be needed soon.I) XB EE Andrew Carnegie\u2019s Democracy.But Andrew Carnegie has learned one great lesson in his life, and that is that the man who will not help himself is not worth helping, and that the truest way to help a man 1s to place him in a position to help himself.Good, old, canny Scottish philosophy this.And so, SECTION NUMBER ONE A GROUP PICTURE OF MONTREALERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN AMATEUR THEATRICALS\u2014They took part in the performance of \u201cCinderella\u201d at the new Stanley Hall last week.(Flashlight photograph by Homier.) save under very exceptional.eir- cumstances, he will not give a library to any town that will not agree to maintain it.the principle of stimulating publie spirit and teaching towns that they have something more really worth while, something that uplifts the mental as well a8 the physical well-being of its citizens.This boy, studying geography and history in the intervals of his work, reading Plutarch by the light of a candle at night, was the father to the munificent giver of free libraries and the author of the proverb, \u2018\u2018The man who dies rich dies disgraced.\u2019\u2019 Throughout his life he had been a democrat\u2014mot in a political sense, but in a social.He has stood This is on 171 ST.JAMES STREET.by the friends of his early days, and the word \u2018\u2018Pittsburg\u2019\u2019 on a visiting card is said to be the open sesame to the doors of Skibo Castle, his palace in Scotland.His friends to-day are great men, the great men of all the world, chosen not because of titles or wealth, but because of sterling character.The late William Ewart Gladstone, John Morley, William Black, the STREET SCENES IN MONTREAL\u2014 Mr.P.B.Mignault, the newly-elected Batonnier of the Montreal Bar, and a friend leaving the Court House.Mr.Mignault is on the left of the picture.late Sir William Vernon Har- court have been his intimate associates.Gladstone was denounced by the \u2018\u201cnonconformists\u2019\u2019 of England for dining with Carnegie just after the latter had spoken disrespectfully of Queen Victoria, and the statesman felt obliged to justify himself, which he did in a card issued by his private seere- | tary asserting that Mr.Carnegie had the deepest respect for the Queen.But it was as a woman that he respected her, not as a Queen, for Carnegie has no love for royalty, as any one who has read his \u201cTriumphant Democracy\u2019 must know.There is to him but one ar- istocracy\u2014that of brains\u2014and he would just as leave hobnob with a noble lord as with a laborer, always supposing the noble lord has as much brains as the laborer.Mr.Carnegie is now busy getting rid of his millions.He has already given away $150,000,000 ; in one single year he gave $52,000,- 000, but his income is still about $15,000,000 a year, and he finds some difficulty in disposing of them where they will do the most good, for he is no believer in indiscriminate charity.MR.CARNEGIE IN MONTREAL\u2014The \u201cLaird of Skibo Castle\u201d is here represented in the act of acknowledging the salutation of one of his Montreal friends.Principal Peterson, of McGill University, who accompanied him to this city from Ottawa, is standing beside the carriage.In this vehicle Mr.Carnegie was driven to McGill University and around the Mountain.During his recent visit to Montreal, Mr.Carnegie made use of certain statements which have somewhat shocked orthodox theologians, and which have since called forth some pointed comments from the pulpits of this city. - 2 THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.Canadian Tells Story of a Recent Trip Up Lava-Strewn Slopes of Mount Vesuvius Ya ÿ \u201cTHE CHIMNEY OF HELL\u201d\u2014View of the crater and dome of Mount Vesuvius, from a photograph taken during a lull in the recent terrific eruption of this volcano.of scoria from the interior of the earth.\u201cOW | CLIMBED MOUNT VESUVIUS.\u2014 The recent disastrous overflow of Mount Vesuvius, described by a recent writer as \u201cpresenting the sublime beauty above, but in its descent filled with mysterious malignance of the Gods of the underground,\u201d did not occur without timely warnings being given to the unfortunate inhabitants living on its slopes and around its base; but, like many other similar cases, they had grown indifferent to the threatened danger constantly hanging over their heads.And what could the poor unfortunates do, even though they desired to respect the repeated warnings sent out by old Vesuvius?The majority of those residing in the little villages in close proximity to the volcano were of a class of fruit- growers belonging to the poor and ill-fed population of Southern Italy, eking out an existence by tilling the soil of lava and earth, which makes a fruitful mixture for the production of grapes, olives and other fruits.Many times had the crater, some four thousand feet above them, belched forth columns of black smoke, showers of red hot ashes and streams of molten lava; but it did not impress the inhabitants more than the report of a noon-day cannon in a fortress town, and when the smoke had blown away, the grea\u2018 black mountain, with its little smokine chimney, kept on lazily emitting but ar insignificant sign of the fiery furnace which raged beneath.It was very early in the morning when I arrived in Naples on a cruising yacht, and from my diary I take the following impressions I formed of its grandeur: \u2014 BR XE XR Splendid Grandeur Of Vesuvius.Jan.29.\u2014At 7 a.m.I arose and stood on the deck of our steamer as we sailed or steamed up the Bay of Naples.The sun had not risen, but there on our right rose Mount Vesuvius, like a collo- sal Egyptian pyramid, with the smoke curling out at the conical top.There was no wind, not even at that'enormous height, to turn it one way or the other, and it hovered over the peak in a confused state, much like the hot air and smoke that remains stationary in the air after a balloon has capsized and descended to the ground, not knowing in which direction to wend its way.How that scene impressed me, as I watched the changing colors of the horizon, which first cast a sombre hue over the sky and made the volcanic eruption look like a dark black cloud.Then it illuminated into a bright red, and later the whole east was ablaze with a most delicate pinkish tint, and the smoke again changed to a white and clear shadow in its lofty sphere, and Mount Vesuvius retained from first tv last, that still, dark iron grey outline, which made it so perfect and magnificently grand beyond conception.Mount Vesuvius! The world-renown- ed volcano! The wonder of centuries! The pre-eminent feature of the leading sight-seeing works of nature, stood before me in its awfulness.I clutched the railing of the ship, and tried to think, but something held back my thoughts, and refused me will power to even do that, It was Vesuvius, and I was under its wondrous spell.The sun rose and put everything in a glow, and the sight of ships and small craft, with the dropping out of the heavy chain, told me we were coming to anchor, and I moved away, and there on the other side of us, under the brilliant light of that glorious sunny morning, was Naples, the city that has for the past ages been the attraction of the most famous authors, lecturers and philosophers, that has given history to the sages, art to the world, and if it will admit of comparison with any city in existence to-day, that city is Quebec.We moored between Britain\u2019s latest and most modern cruiser, H M.S.\u201cLondon,\u201d and the North German Lloyd SS.Company's \u201cHamburg,\u201d within a few feet of both.The band of the latter was playing \u201cGod Save the King\u201d in our honor, as we finally settled for our three days\u2019 visit, followed by the Russian Anthem, in recognition of a Russian ship, also near us.It seems we had all come into port that beautiful morning.XR XR XR Spasmodic Outbursts From the Volcano.Feb.2.\u2014Sunny Italy! How often have I heard and quoted these words without knowing their full meaning, or realizing their true significance as I do to-day.This is my fifth day in Italy, and every hour has been of a nature to win enconiums for its superb weather, balmy and pure air, and its clear blue water, and glorious sunsets.My hotel room was so favorably located that I had the benefit of the sun\u2019s rays by day, with its glowing sunsets in the evening, away from the din of the noisy streets, and facing the picturesque Bay of Naples.As I write these notes, the sun is sinking, but to describe it would require a poet\u2019s brain and a poetic audience, for one is subservient to the other; so I will proceed to describe my visit to the top of Mount Vesuvius instead.This was the second day I had risen at seven o'clock, to join in an excursion to the top of the mountain.Yesterday morning, when we arrived at Cook's office, we were informed that the weather was unfavorable, and that the trip was postponed until the next morning; but later in the day I was informed that the real reason was the dangerous activity of the volcano.It seems that the strangers visiting Naples at the present time are favored with an extraordinary sight of Vesuvius, which, for many months, sleeps as peacefully as a child NN MR.J.WILSON\u2014Musical Director of Christ Church, Chatham.in slumber.But to-day, and since arriving here, there has been a constant heavy cloud of smoke issuing from the crater, occasionally disturbed with spasmodic outbursts of red-hot ashes and cinders which scattered promiscuously in the air,descending upon the outlying villages and vineyards, and making it dangerous for visitors going too near the crater.Then the molten lava streams running down the side of the pinnacle, resembling two small rivulets, only so hot that their contact with the cold atmosphere made a steam that created a hissing sound, which can be heard for a long distance away.As the livid mass of lava separates itself down the sides of the volcano, it gradually hardens, and at last turns into a clinker substance, and piles itself, here, there, and everywhere, and after a time (years) forms part of the present great Mount known as Vesuvius.At any time these streams, and occasional explosions, can be seen from any part of the Bay of Naples, and on land for miles around, making a gorgeous spectacle.I considered myself very fortunate to have come to see it at its best.Since arriving in Naples, more than ever have I become convinced that there The black specks in the clouds of smoke and steam are pieces NNN are many things in this world, and particularly in Naples, which mortal man cannot adequately describe, nor can the most perfect painting and illustration properly depict, and there is only one way to have them impressed upon you that is by a personal observation.Mount Vesuvius, with the other thousand and one relics of the dark and gay scenes of the past, opens up a vista to one\u2019s observation which is indelibly carved upon the mind forever.It can never be erased.Each picture, statue, church, palace, temple, and cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum, resurrected from another world, so to speak, with their thousands of rescued treasures in an almost perfect state of preservation, make one stand with awe and wonder.There is, however, one thing, the writer, lecturer, and artist can do, and that is, create a desire, or interest, to see those places which have stood so pre-emin- ently in the history of the world, and it is a good thing for all of us that we CANADIAN VOCALISTS \u2014 Mr.Ro- dolph Plamondon, a Montreal baritone who has achieved a great success in Paris.have such pride and curiosity to do the rest.*% 2% æ Naples and Quebec Coupled Together.While lunching one day in the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, with Mr.D.L.Moody, the great evangelist, he looked out of the window and said: \u2014\u201cWhat a view! Tt puts me so much in mind of Naples.\u201d Since that day, many years ago, I have always wanted to see Naples, to judge whether it was worthy of such a comparison.Then I remembered reading what Charles Dickens wrote after climbing up to the top of Mount Vesuvius, for there were no electric cars then to aid him in his ascent, as the public of to-day are favored with.\u201cWhat words can paint the gloom and grandeur of this scene?\u201d said Dickens; and I lived to see one of the two objects which seemed to strike this great author as being most wonderful to behold.(The other was the Coliseum.) It was his lengthy stay in these parts which was responsible for his \u201cPictures of Italy.\u201d It was, therefore, no surprise for me to find myself in the midst of great excitement and pleasure while on my way to Mount Vesuvius.Re BR RR View from Crater Was Magnificent.We drove from the booking office, through the town, particularly the old and dirty quarter, always interesting to those who can drive through it in comfortable two-horse vehicles, and view the squallor and crowded tenements at a safe distance, and sitting on a comfortable cushioned seat.But one cannot help being moved to pity and compassion at the great poverty of the city, and its thousands of poor and ill- fed inhabitants.Many sad scenes meet the view of the stranger at every step; but the poverty goes on and on, and it is awful to think of the fearful suffering, penury, and woe which is following the continued decline of Italy.After a ten or twelve-mile carriage J.ROSS BRYSON\u2014A gifted Canadian artist who has made a name for himself in the world of pictorial art.drive, we arrived at the Vesuvius Electric Railway, which took us up for many thousand feet over a winding road, leaving Naples in the plain beneath, each house and street growing smaller and smaller as we kept going higher and higher, until we reached the huge fields of lava which had been CANADIAN VOCALISTS\u2014Mr.James Trotter, of Chatham, Ont., a prominent vocalist of Western Ontario.: as lil eu PRE roam, \u201cTHE CHIMNEY OF HELL\u201d\u2014An interior view of the crater of Mount Vesuvius, from a photograph taken during a period of inactivity.The recent eruption considerably enlarged this crater,and completely altered its appearance.thrown up in 1872 and 1895, when Vesuvius erupted millions of tons of red- hot cinders, ashes, and rivers of molten lava, and destroyed many lives and property.The view from the open-air car was magnificent, and from every side elicited unusual admiration.The day was perfect, barely a breeze blowing to waft the smoke away from the crater, as it appeared on the surface.Only the air became colder, and many complained of cold feet and hands, and those who had brought heavy wraps found good use for them.We were more than half-way up, when an electric motor car came out from a shed on the side of the track, and after being attached in the rear, began to shove us up by means of a cog-wheel upon a centre rail This was necessary, as the track had assumed a greater incline which was beyond the power of the ordinary trolley.We finally passed Cooke\u2019s hotel and CANADIAN VOCALISTS\u2014Mr.Joseph Saucier, the baritone, who leaves for Europe in the near future.well-known restaurant and the Royal Observatory, and I should say that previous to this we had passed an occasional house, and small vineyards, tilled upon the heaps of lava piled up all around us.The lava, when mixed with clay, makes a very fertile earth, and the Italian peasants who were making a living with vineyards, were doing so at the risk of their lives, for Vesuvius gives forth one of its destructive eruptions several tim 's in a lifetime, from which escape for the poor people we saw encamped AN PAA AA me a \u201cTHE CHIMNEY OF HELL\u201d\u2014The ruin wrought in Pompeii A.D.79, by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.After being buried for upwards of 1800 years, under the lava and ashes which Vesuvius rained upon the town in the first century of the Christian era, the ruins are now being uncovered and explored.This work has been going on for 25 years.upon the sides of these heights, seemed impossible.But they had no fear, and lived, hoping that the eruption would not occur in their time.In fact, they never think of it unless someone asks them if they have any fear; and then they hardly know what to say.Living where they do, is sufficient evidence that they are not by any means sensitive about the dangers which hover over them.The molten lava, which flows past their doors, and the frequent explosions and incipient eruptions, have made them indifferently fearless.BB RR RR Volcano Bursts Forth With Terrific Roar.We finally passed the uninhabitable line, and were nearing a small station, the end of the electric line, and the beginning of another conveyance resembling an elevator, which carried us up a very steep part of the mountain for another distance.We were then about three thousand feet up the side of the volcano, and to do the other thousand feet we entered a small car holding about twelve persons, which was hauled up an almost perpendicular incline by a cable.It took about eight minutes to accomplish the trip, reaching an impromptu looking station at the top, just large enough to contain the car.Here we found ourselves standing on the side of Vesuvius, almost at the top, with a magnificent panorama below; but by this time none of our party were much interested in views from such a dizzy height, or cared to look downward.There was no railing, only a small path which we commenced climbing, with a full knowledge that if we lost our balance, or made a misstep, there was a good long roll and tumble awaiting us.Each couple was given a guide, and CANADIAN ORGANISTS \u2014 Mr.Edward Broome, who vacated the organ bench of the American Presbyterian Church, Montreal, on May 1st, to become organist of Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Toronto.A thus we proceeded up the very steep path.We had not left the station five minutes on our way up to the edge of the crater, to get a peep into it, when the volcano burst forth with a terrific roar, and there arose volumes of dense black smoke, and around us on all sides fell showers of small hot ashes and Pumice stones, which fortunately were cooled off by the time they reached the spot where we were standing; or, I should say, lying down, as the somewhat unexpected reception a few feet away over our heads had, for the time being, given us all a slight scare.This sudden surprise settled a number of the party who had gone as far as they wanted to, and caused them to turn back; but there were several of us who were determined to go on to the top, even when our guides claimed it was very dangerous, and refused to accompany us any further.We thought they were trying to deter us from the final climb, which was a most difficult feat, and required every effort and persistence to face; but with an old Calfornia miner, from whom I received courage, we started up.When half way up, we each had to take hold of a rope tied to a guide, as the sulphurous smoke was blinding and suffocating us, while the steep climb had left us very much out of breath, and our respiration was exceedingly heavy and breathing difficult.XE ORR RR A Descent Into The Big Crater.nd We arrived at the top of the outer edge of the crater, descending it on the inner side for about twenty feet.At this point the air was as hot as in an engine-room, and the temperature perfectly moist and filled with sulphury fumes, while the noise of the boiling lava in the enormous opening was almost deafening.I could not see a foot ahead of me, and was depending entirely upon my guide, who was pulling - me along at a rapid pace along a narrow strip of flat land.We came to another small ridge, but the guide stopped, intimating, by pulling me to the ground, to catch our breath, that we could go no farther.We must have been very near the crater; for while I could see nothing but a dense volume of steam and smoke, from the noise which came from below, I imagined that I must have been on the very edge of it.Almost choking with the hot sulphuric atmosphere, I thought we would never get out of it alive, as my throat and lungs were beginning to feel the effects of the sulphur and smoke, and I had a disagreeable choking sensation; but I seemed to have confidence in my guide, who pulled me along with a cord which he had fastened around my waist.The sensation of sliding down the incline and emerging out of the smoke and steam into the clear, sharp atmosphere, which was over freezing point, was as if IT had dropped out of a cloud, and it required some time to recover from the novel experience; but the constant urging of my guide to hurry down, that if another explosion took place we were in great danger, made me strain every effort, and with his assistance, I finally got down to the wooden shed, where some of our party were awaiting my return.My companion, who, I later on found to be a sufferer from heart disease, had become unconscious, and was carried down to the mountain hotel.I was satisfied with my trip, as I had succeeded in accomplishing a long-felt desire to see the active crater of a volcano.It was a feat of which I was quite proud, but that was all I could say, or feel at the time, until we hag reached the lower station, and my internal anatomy began to assume its natural state and hunger was appeased with a good lunch at a hotel on the side of the mountain (now washed away by the eruption).RE ORR RR Old Vesuvius the Same Night, Night is when old Vesuvius makes a spectacular show of more than ordinary interest, such as I witnessed.The two streams of molten lava made brilliant effective outlines on the dark background of the volcano, which at times was attended with spurts of fire and flame, which lit up the whole Bay of Naples.It was a grand spectacle, with the two streams casting shadows upon the waters of the bay, like the reflection of ga huge conflagration, revealing an enchanting picture, with the odd-shaped crafts floating by in the the weird light.During the following days the eruptions became so active and dangerous, that all the guides and railway officials had to leave their posts, and part of the railway was carried away.This was the beginning of the eruption of 1906,which has recently wrought such suffering and loss of life and property around Mount Vesuvius, FRANK CARRELL. THE SILVER LINING OF NEW ONTARIO\u2014Open cut through the rocks on the property of the Nipissing Mining Company at Cobalt.The vein at this point was very rich in silver 4G OBALT \u2014 LAND OF PRECIOUS MINERALS.\u2014When the Temiscaming and New NA Ontario Railway, in the township of Coleman and Bucke, in New Ontario, had been ballasted with 70 per cent.pure silver ore, and nuggets of almost pure silver bigger than a man could pack had been found on the surface, that part of the district of Nipissing gradually became of interest to the people of Ontario, and that was the beginning of an interest- À new name appeared on It was ing exodus.the map of North Ontario.Cobalt.At the present time this exodus has assumed big proportions, and to-day throughout Canada there is an epidemic of enthusiasm about the Cobalt country.Thither prospectors are proceeding from all parts of the Dominion and from many centres in the United States.Already the town of Cobalt has a floating population of a couple of thousand men, most of whom are anxious to make their fortunes in a few days.Many are suffering from the common delusion that wealth is there to be picked up without labor, for the fairy tales that have been told concerning the richness of the country are worthy of old Grimm himself.Most of the men are not miners, or trained and expert professional prospectors\u2014they are men who formerly led a grey-toned existence in city offices and shops, and on country farms.* The name of Cobalt, therefore, has proved most alluring.And no wonder, as any part of the earth\u2019s surface which is buttered with ore running 10,000 ounces of silver to the ton is alluring to the man who is constructed on the human pattern, if he has not other business interests which are very profitable indeed.On this page will be found a number of illustrations showing the wonderful mineral wealth of the Cobalt district, and the manner of mining the ore.These are reproductions of photographs taken recently by Mr.Milton Hersey, of this city, who made a thorough inspection of the district.RY B® ee Minerals Found At Cobalt.The minerals found in and about Cobalt are: Silver, cobalt, nickel, copper, absestos, and galena.One of the richest mines in the district is the Trethe- wey mine, situated right in the heart of the town.Through the courtesy of Manager John Reddington,a correspondent of The Standard was allowed to inspect the property.Mr.Reddington told him that since July 17, 1905, the mine had shipped $500,000 worth of mineral, and that the total expenses had amounted to $10,000.He pointed out a comparatively small hole in the ground, and said that $250,000 worth of metal was taken out of it.He showed him ore worth all the way from $70,- 000 to $125,000 a car.There are nine veins on this property.The veins are from two to seven inches in width, and are found right on the surface, running The value of this mine at this time cannot be estimated.There are a number of other large from east to west.THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.Winter is at Long Last Giving Up Its Stern Grip in the Wealt there are two banks, located in fine frame structures, two churches, one hotel nearly completed, and scores of good store buildings.There is not one saloon in the town, and the drunkenness and disorder of a new mining camp is conspicuous by its absence.Theft is a thing unknown in the district.Prospectors can leave their tools on a claim for weeks, and go back and find them safe; the same way in the town.The mines are shut down on Sunday, and the day is well observed.Lots situated in gullies or on high places have sold as high as $1,300, You cannot buy a residence lot for less than $600, and money cannot buy most of the lots at this writing.Development work is progressing very extensively south-west of Cobalt.Finds of all kinds are made or reported daily, but prospectors naturally do not talk about what they have until the prospector has passed their claim.Metallic gold has been found in the diabase near the head of Cross Lake.While this is news to a majority, it is a THE SILVER LINING OF NEW ONTARIO\u2014Rock cutting on Kerr Lake Mining Company\u2019s property at Cobalt.The crooked whitish line behind the man in the foreground is the vein, which is about two inches wide.mines in and near Cobalt, and a larger number of smaller ones within a radius of ten miles.There was on exhibition recently in one of the banks a huge nugget weighing 250 pounds, and it was composed almost entirely of pure silver.XR FR ¥% Wonderful Growth Of Cobalt Town.The town of Cobalt now possesses a population of upwards of 2,000 souls, and yet it is only a baby in its swaddling clothes.In May, 1905, there was only one building in Cobalt; to-day fact that metallic gold has been found in the ore of the Drummond Mines, Limited, and has also been found on the Buffalo property, and again to the north of Clear Lake.The district, therefore, seems to be rich in all sorts of minerals.It is generally expected that by October next the Government will open five square miles of the Gillies timber limit to prospectors.In anticipation of this, the firm are now putting a camp on that part of the limit from which prospectors are excluded.sc es x \"THE SILVER LINING OF NEW ONTARIO\u2014The comfortable log cabin camps on the wonderful Trethewey properties at Cobalt.These are not luxuriously fitted up, but they are, nevertheless, cozy, THE SILVER LINING OF NEW ONTARIO\u2014The north and south bound trains passing at Temagami Station, near Cobalt, on the line of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway.HOW KNIGHTS OF THE GANTER ARE MADE F inquiry were made of any com- 3 petent authority, not in England only, but throughout the civilized world, \u201cWhat is the greatest distinction and highest honor which could be bestowed, even upon a monarch?\u201d the unhesitating reply would be, \u201cThe knighthood of the Garter.\u201d Its splendid and unsullied traditions, the rigid limitation of its membership both in numbers and personnel, its magnifi- cence of ceremonial, dress, and surroundings, all combine to make a K.G.the summit of honor, and its insignia to be justly regarded as the proudest distinction which can be worn by even any Sovereign in the world.The origin of this illustrious Order has been much disputed.The popular legend, to which, despite all the doubts thrown upon it, general belief still attaches, gives its origin in the picturesque story that Joan Countess of Salisbury, a beautiful dame of whom Edward III.was enamoured, while dancing at a high festival, accidentally slipped her garter of blue embroidered velvet.It was picked up by her Royal partner, who, noticing the significant looks of his courtiers, used the words to them which afterwards became the motto of the Order: \u201cHoni soit qui mal y pense\u201d (\u201cEvil be to him who evil thinks\u2019), adding, \u201cthat in a short time they should see that garter advanced to so high honor and estimation as to account themselves happy to wear it.\u201d Pretty as this story is, however, it does not bear the light of prosaic investigation.Equally unsubstantial are the other stories of its origin, one asserting that it was first instituted by Richard Cœur de Lion in his assaults upon Cyprus, when he girded the legs of a chosen band of his bravest knights with a leathern garter.Going back to the dim shades of legend some writers have maintained that the Order is really only a revival by Edward IIL of the Order of Knights of the Round Table established by King Arthur.wR BH XR Another Story of Origin of Order.Color was lent to this story by the undoubted fact that Edward III, who unquestionably instituted the Garter in its present form, when bent upon prosecuting his claims iv the throne of France, gave forth that he intended a restoration of King Arthur\u2019s Round Table, and issued proclamations throughout England, Scotland, and th of Europe, inviting all knights, desir- whole ous of approving their valor, to a solemn feast and jousts, to be holden within the Castle of Windsor on St.George\u2019s Day, 1345.The flower of the chivalry of Europe\u2014excepting France \u2014were present at the tournament, and at this chivalrous convocation the institution of the Order of the Garter was first arranged, but the actual foundation took place in 1348.The constitution of the Order as then founded was substantially the same as it exists to-day, the only alteration having been made in 1831, when all lineal descendants of George I.were declared to be, as such, members of the Order.The knighthood consists of the Sov- ereign\u2014who is invariably the head of the Order\u2014twenty-five knights, the Prince of Wales, and such other knights \u201cbeing reigning Sovereigns or their Heirs Apparent,\u201d as may be admitted by the King's or Queen\u2019s mandate.The dress of Knights of the Garter for ceremonial occasions is, as befitting the premier Order of the world, most magnificent, and, with slight variations in detail, is the same as was worn on the first installation, when \u201cthe King, accompanied by the twenty-five knights-companions attired in gowns of russet, with mantles of fine blue woollen cloth, powdered, with garters and bearing the other insignia, the garter, surcoat, and hood, held the first chapter of the Order.\u201d Velvet lined with taffeta was substituted by Henry VI.in the material of the mantle, and the famous \u201cGeorge and collar\u201d were added by Henry VIIL, who revived and greatly added to the glories of the Order, The full ceremonial dress, worn now nn on great occasions, consists of, first, the Garter itself.It is of blue velvet edged with the richest gold lace, bears around it the motto, \u201cHoni soit qui mal y pense,\u201d and has a buckle and pendant of solid gold richly chased.The mantle is of blue velvet, lined with taffeta (the finest white silk), and having the star of the Order embroidered on the left breast.A hood of crimson velvet, and surcoat, or coat without sleeves, of the same material, and lined like the m .n- tle.A hat of black velvet fastened with a band of diamonds to the lining of white silk, and bearing a plum3 of white ostrich feathers, having in its centre a tuft of black heron\u2019s feathers.Over the mantle is worn the \u201ccollar\u201d of the finest gold \u201cweighing 30oz.troy,\u201d and consisting of twenty-six garters\u2014 signifying the number of members in the original foundation\u2014enamelled in azure-blue, each enclosing a rose \u201cgules\u201d or red enamel, and having between each garter-link a knot and pendant in white enamel.From this is suspended the \u201cgreat George,\u201d a figure 3 hy Region of Cobalt THE SILVER LINING OF NEW ONTARIO\u2014A view at Kerr Lake Mining Company\u2019s property at Cobalt, showing beginning of mining operations on a two-inch vein of rich silver-cobalt ore.AAA iably by knights of the Order when attending at Court, the \u201cgreat George\u201d and collar being only assumed when, by special order of the Lord Chamberlain, any great ceremony is declared at the King\u2019s command to be a \u2018\u201ccollar day.\u201d ee ee RR Membership of The Garter Order.The present membership of the Order comprises twelve dukes, five marquesses, and eight earls of the kingdom; the foreign members, appointed by special mandate of the Sovereign, in accordance with the rule of the Order previously quoted, consists of twenty- one reigning Sovereigns\u2014including the Emperor of Japan, who has within the rast few months been solemnly invest- THE SILVER LINING OF NEW ONTARIO\u2014Preliminary development of the rich Trethewey mines at Cobalt.The ore averages about $2,500 per ton, and there are at least ten rich veins.of the patron saint of England on horseback, who, having thrown the dragon on his back, is slaying him with a tilting-spear.Across the left shoulder is worn a broad, dark-blue ribbon, with the \u201clesser George\u201d pendant.Finally, on the left breast is worn the star of the Order, having eight points of silver with the cross of St.George in gules in its centre, and encircled with jewels.The latter may be added to both in number and richness at the discretion of the wearer.The ribbon and star are worn invar- way station at Cobalt.ed with the insignia of the Garter by H.R.H.Prince Arthur of Connaught, acting as the specially appointed envoy of the King; and six heirs apparent to European crowns.The installation of a knight, when solemnized at a full chapter of the Order, is one of the most gorgeous ceremonies to be seen in the present day, though rarely carried out now owing to the great preparations necessary.It takes place in the beautiful Chapel of St.George, in Windsor Castle.In the glorious choir are the exquisitely-carv- ed stalls, one for each knight-compan- ion of the Order, above which hang the banners, helmets, crests, and swords of the owners, and the Royal stall of the Sovereign as head of the knighthood.The ceremonial, carried out in full, follows exactly the lines laid down by Henry VIII.The King, robed in full habiliments, enters the chapter-house\u2014 situated at the north-east corner of the chapel\u2014accompanied by the chief officers of the Order, proceeds to the end of the \u201cvestment board\u201d or table, and takes his place on a chair with cushions and cloth of State, the Knights- companions whose stalls in the choir are on the \u201cKing\u2019s side\u201d seating themselves at his command on his right, while those whose posts are on the Prince\u2019s side take their places on the left; the officers of the Order stand in p their respective places\u2014the Prelate and the Chancellor at the upper end of the table, the Garter King-at-Arms and the Registrar at the foot.When the King and knights are seated, intimation being given by an usher to the \u201cBlack Rod\u201d\u2014the officer whose duty it is to keep the door\u2014that the newly-elected knight is without, the intelligence is communicated to the King, who orders two \u201csponsors\u201d to induct him.BR te ee Order Bestowed By the King.This being obeyed, the knight-elect approaches , Garter marching before him.Bowing reverently to the monarch, he sets his foot upon a gilt stool placed for him by Garter, who pronounces the following admonition: \u201cMy good lord, the loving company of the Order of the Garter have received you as their brother and fellow.In token whereof they give you this garter, which God grant you may receive and wear from henceforth, to His praise and glory, and to the exaltation and honor of the noble Order and yourself.\u201d The garter is then girded on and buckled by the senior sponsor; the new knight then kneels before the Sovereign, who invests him with the gold chain and George: the Chancellor pronounces another short admonition, and the knight arises and takes his place among his new brethren.This full ceremonial is rarely now carried out, a K.G.being usually invested by the Earl-Marshal, commissioned by the King.The officers of the Order are the Chancellor, an office held by the Bishop of Oxford; the Prelate, always the Bishop of Winchester; the Registrar, which post goes with the Deanery of Windsor; the Garter King- at-Arms, who is ex-officio the chief herald of the kingdom, the present oceu- pant of which most important office is Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty; and the secretary and Black Rod, Colonel D.F.R.Dawson, C.M.G.The beautiful insignia of knighthood, the star, garter, and two Georges, are the property of the King, and at the death of a member of the Order are invariably returned to His Majesty by the successor to the title of the deceased.P| THE SILVER LINING OF NEW ONTARIO\u2014Power house and shaft house at Trethewey\u2019s famous mines near rail- Mr.Reddington, the Superintendent, in the foreground. online dE SB \u2014\u2014 EEE \u2014 3 ce THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.Latest Styles in Wedding Gowns and Going Away Costumes for the June Brides A LITTLE BIRD WHISPERS THAT Dotted and embroidered Swisses show greater variety than heretofore.Small flowers, both single and double clusters, are to be had in abundance, as well as the regulation stripes and dots.XR *% BH THAT\u2014Plaids and stripes are quite the thing in organdies, the patterns being almost without exception laid over a crossing and barring of fine cords.ee RR RE THAT Green bronze straws and green crin hats trimmed with narrow wreaths of small flowers, and many looped bows at the back, are very much in favor.KC *% *% THAT Peacock feathers and green velvet are much used upon Leghorn hats.ee Xx XE THAT For coming summer days, in harmony with linen suits, are the white and yellow pongee parasols and white embroidered linen ones, together with parasols which match the suits.X% ee HR THAT\u2014Black and white costume combinations are among the most fascinating early summer creations.ex RR BR THAT-\u2014Pointed toes and high heels in shoes remain unchanged, both for indoor and outdoor wear.Xi *¥ FR THAT\u2014There seems to be no limit to the beauty and usefulness of ribbons.This year\u2019s favorite is a striped one, with a satin border on the edge.est of garments from the establishment which makes a specialty of fine hand-made lingerie.But the average girl prefers to fashion these immediate garments with her own hands, leaving the bridal and various other gowns to the discretion of the dressmaker, who, in nine cases out of ten, delivers that most important garment of the whole trousseau, the wedding gown, at the eleventh hour.Many a woman has stormed in vain over such a condition of af- THE BRIDE IN HER GOING-AWAY GOWN\u2014\u201cGoing-away\u201d gowns are of first importance after the bridal dress.The illustration above depicts an unusually handsome model of lace and broadcloth, that might be copied in any other material, even linen, without losing a jot of its swagger appearance.The color note is gray, the medallions and curved banded inserts of lace dyed to match.The Eton coat is a network of this lace, Cie ERS grated; aa FA) 14 NÉ et F9 45 ht 425 An 0139 AN y a LE EE ey \u20ac Sy Ee Le LA es 1 fo 8e 3 ee 8 Be om Bm dy on FP, tL ; N ora.© 2g 3 v oy b Be a Ÿ > DE : 17 CES J REF UF am ® | UE EF ee da Ta A Là À es 3 CU Est J a \u201cTong x Ey ; A 4 = w ;, ve\u201d EN & 9) CS amb, re SA ED J SW rg KE VE SE : \u201cy Be A © 3 Le % oo i £a + o ge a, \u201cof 5 wo Le Ret SE NS yi write vy bat J THE WEDDING GOWN\u2014The bridal gown illustrated is an exquisite robe of fine net appliqued with braid lace above the white moire hem, the whole mounted over a foundation of accordion plaited chiffon, tacked at intervals to the taffeta Princesse slip fully featherboned to the figure.More of this lace is used for an overjacket draping the bodice of Lierre lace that is shirred into Empire effect at the bust line.The sleeves are of Lierre lace, ruffled and met at the elbow by long white gloves.The simple tulle veil is coroneted upon the pompadour of the low coiffure, a wreath of orange blossoms caressing the soft, waved hair.fairs.RP BR RR Rivals for White Satin Are Here This Season.White satin, though always _ fashionable for wedding gowns, is this season finding rivals in the REV: K.J.MACDONALD\u2014Who was moire antiques, silk poplins, and last week inducted into the pastorate exquisite lace robes, among the of St.Matthew\u2019s Church, Point St.fashionables.The first of these Charles.rivals does not mean that stiff,\u2019 heavy brown, blue or gray fabric that our mothers were married in; of small means as to her more for- not at all.The modern article is tunate neighbor.Its present pop- of shimmering white silk, quite ularity can doubtless be traced to soft and sheer, and with the wat- [tS use in the wedding gow worn ered line quite indistinet, the by one of the dainty American ae- whole blending exquisitely with tresses In the last ac t , f that popu.any satin bands or chiffon flounces | là\" English play, The Catch of that may be used for trimmings.the Season.That practical Sug- The poplins, though quite ex- gestions can be obtained from the pensive, are so exquisitely dainty 80W1S WOrn on the stage is demon- ° trousseau, are burning questions, [that their use is very general, Strated in this instance.The June Bride and Her TrouSSeau| ais ih: Gere of feminine in: vie heir ise Is very general, we we we \u201cLe a = \u2019 EL - sessions i.ii, NILE ume wl ARS LE - Bu tes À 4e = Fr SRE See ER ih asi PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT LEAVING OGILVIE'S WINNIPEG MILL\u2014Reading from left to right: Sir Daniel McMillan, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba; H.R.H.Prince Arthur; W.A.Black, Ogilvie\u2019s Manager; Mayor Sharpe; W.R.Baker, C.P.R.representative on the Royal trip; W.Campbell, Assistant Manager Ogilvie\u2019s Mill; Ald.Davidson; Ald.Sandison, and Admiral Seymour.On Monday, April 9th, Prince Arthur, accompanied by Admiral Seymour, Sir Daniel McMillan, Mayor Sharpe, and several of the City Aldermen, paid a visit to the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company's large mill at Winnipeg, and were received by Mr.W.A.Black, the Winnipeg Manager.They were shown all over the premises, and were much interested in the various processes of the manufacture of flour.The above snap-shot was taken just ts the party was leaving the mill.4 A Comprehensive Group Picture of the Mail Conductors of the Postal District of Montreal ; po 7 SO RET ICE RR MRP er aL STA ATES pA AT I IN SERIE RE PPS PEAR à, RE PET APE SOON CPE ES ATEN Ho PER pe } 8 1 al .\u2019 I ARE THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.+ Véachapet\u201d &.> & ML ANGENS < no MAIL CONDUCTORS OF THE POSTAL DISTRICT OF MONTREAL\u2014For a long time, the mail conductors of the Postal District of Montreal have wished to present a token of esteem to their Superintendent, Mr, S.Briegel, who has been in the active service of the Post Office for almost forty years.Recently they presented to their chief a superb group picture, containing the photograph of Mr.Briegel, surrounded by those of the staff.Messrs.Channel, M.Felion, H.D.Felion, Dewar, Jones, Peters, O\u2019Regan, and Lachapelle, in turn made speeches.At the same time, letters of regret were read from Mr.B.N.Armstrong (Controller), Mr.A.LeBlanc, and Mr.F.Tuck, expressing their regret at being unable to assist at the re-union.The enjoyable occasion was brought to a close by the singing of \u201cFor He's a Jolly Good Fellow.\u201d Mr, Briegel entered the postal service on March 17th, 1866, and, under the present Administration, was named Superintendent of the Postal District of Montreal.By his courtesy and ability, Mr.Briegel has been able to secure the esteem of a great number of citizens.The ladies of the Postal District of St.John, N.B., have also presented him with a handsome gold-headed cane.Madame and Melle.Briegel, especially invited to the function, received each a beautiful bouquet of flowers, MEDALS WON BY - THE GRAND TRUNK HE two handsome medals which were awarded the Grand Trunk Railway System at the World\u2019s Fair, held at St.Louis in 1904, have reached the General offices of the railway in this city.The obverse of the medals contains two figures, one of which, Columbia, tall and stately, is about to envelop the youthful mciden by her side\u2014typifying the Louisiana Territory \u2014 in the Stars and Stripes, thus receiving her into the sisterhood of States.The other figure is depicted in the act of divesting herself of the cloak of France, symbolized in the emblem of Napoleon\u2014the busy bee\u2014em- broidered thereon.In the background is shown the rising sun, the pr) SAFO >.LIFE ON PARLIAMENT HILL\u2014The Hon.H.R.Emmerson, Minister of Railways and Canals, and the Hon.A.B.Aylesworth, Postmaster-Gen- eral, strolling in the grounds surrounding the Parliament Buildings.(Photographed by The Standard\u2019s Special Photographer.) dawn of a new era of progress to the nation.The reverse of the medal shows an architectural tablet bearing an inscription giving the grade of the medal.Below the tablet are two dolphins symbolizing the eastern and western boundaries of the States, the whole being surmounted by an American eagle, spreading his wings from ocean to ocean.These medals were awarded the Grand Trunk for two special clas- sifications, namely: (1) their beautiful picture exhibit, and (2) their collection of fish and game that composed a portion of the excellent arrangement of the general scheme.The dies of the medals were engraved and the medals were struck at the United States Government Mint at Philadelphia.> TT CANADIAN ARTIST AND HIS WORK.Mr.J.Ross Bryson, whose portrait appears on page 2, though still a young man, has accomplished much in the field of art.By birth Mr.Bryson is a Canadian, having been born near Montreal.By a queer turn of fate, he was as a boy apprenticed to a sign painter.Naturally this gave his artistic instinets little chance for development, but he served his time, and did his prosaic work faithfully.At the close of his apprenticeship he started for Europe.where he spent several years, visited all the art centres, and studying under the best masters.Returning to the United States, he settled down to hard work, determined to make a name for himself.He soon found that pastel was his favorite medium, its peculiar softness and deli- try, cate transparency appealing to him strongly.To-day he ranks as perhaps the greatest pastel painter on this side of the Atlantic.Mr.Bryson has his studio in Chicago.À visitor finds but few of his works upon its walls, however, since from the first, buyers have been more numerous than pictures, notwithstanding his industry at the easel.But his pictures are frequently seen in the more prominent exhibitions all over the coun- and many examples hang upon the walls of the leading Chicago clubs, and in the houses of the more discriminating art lovers.A future of continued brilliant ac- chievement is predicted for Mr.Bryson by the best art critics.lll ov NEW RECTOR OF SAULT STE MARIE.Rev.H.A.Brooke, M.A., for the past four years Curate at the St.James the Apostle, in this city, who left last week for Sault Ste.Marie, Ont., to become Rector of St.Luke\u2019s pro-Cathedral, of the Diocese of Algoma, is an honor graduate of Bishop\u2019s College, Len- noxville, where he took his B.A.degree in 1890, and his M.A.in 1896.He was ordained by the Lord Bishop of Quebec, his ordination being the first episcopal act of the Right Rev.Dr.Dunn, who REV.H.A.BROOKE\u2014Who this week became rector of the Anglican pro- Cathedral at Sault Ste.Marie, Ont.was elected to the See of Quebec in 1892.The departure of the Rev.Mr.Brooke from the Church of St.James the Apostle and from the Diocese of Montreal, where he has been an active worker and good example, is a matter of regret to the congregation of St.James the Apostle, as well as to many others.Rev.Mr.Brooke is what is called a \u2018\u2018good Churchman,\u2019\u201d\u2019 and before leaving, was presented with a new cassock, surplice, and stole from the Woman\u2019s Auxiliary; a travelling clock from the infant class at the Sunday-school; a book-case from the St.Antoine Street Mission, of the Parish of St.James the Apostle; a substantial purse of gold from friends in the congregation of St.James the Apostle; a handsome French movement clock from the city clergy of the Diocese of Montreal; and other tokens of regard and esteem, including a gold cross from personal friends, coupled with the good wishes of his many friends and former parishioners in Montreal.eli -_\u2014\u2014 NEWLY DISCOVERED OPERA BY BIZET.By pure accident, a youthful operatic work of Georges Bizet, the French musician, composer of \u2018\u2018Carmen\u2019\u2019 (which opera Nietzsche declared to be superior to any music drama of Wagner), was found several weeks ago among a mass of old papers long neglected.It is entitled \u2018\u201cDon Procopio,\u2019\u2019 and is a bouffe operetta in two acts, founded on a story which is very old in Italian literature.Bizet wrote the score for it at the age of nineteen ; it was never produced, however, though he spoke of it in letters to his mother and friends, and expressed satisfaction with the music.It was apparently lost after his death, for his fame would have induced more than one impresario to produce it, had its existence been known, and could it have been recovered.The announcement of this interesting \u2018\u2018find\u2019\u2019 created great interest in Paris, but the Prince of Monaco, who is a patron of the arts, secured the privilege of producing it first at the Monte-Carlo opera.The musical event occurred last month, and all accounts agree that the occasion was notable.The operetta proved to be delightful, and equal to the best work done in the same style.It disclosed the very qualities which later brought Bizet fame, and the crities think that it will survive on its own merits.Mr.Robert Brussel, musical eri- tie of the Figaro (Paris), gives a detailed account of the libretto as well as of the score.He says that the music clearly shows the influence of Mozart, Donizetti, and Rossini, and especially of \u2018\u201cDon Pasquale,\u201d\u201d\u2019 but that it is by no means merely imitative.It is not strikingly original, but it blends French subtlety and grace with Italian melodic eharm.There are, says, Mr.Brussel, reminiscences of older music as well as curious adumbrations of the more dramatic and significant music of \u2018\u201cCarmen.\u201d\u201d The melodies are bright and fresh; there are spirited and humorous choruses and a brilliant march movement; above all, the orchestral accompaniment is remarkably opulent and colorful for the period, and for so young a man as Bizet was at the time.Among the most pleasing numbers are: An aria of Bettina, a serenade, a love duet, a trio, and an aria by Ernesto.Bizet was not content to provide a minimum of melody ; he was lavish in this respect, and there is not a \u2018\u2018dry\u2019\u2019 scene in the whole operetta.i Sn 1e LIFE ON PARLIAMENT HILL\u2014The Hon.Charles Hyman, Minister of Public Works, and the Hon.Wm.Paterson, Minister of Customs, leaving the Privy Council Chamber.(Photographed by The Standard\u2019s Special Photographer.) 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