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[" - + -\u2014 .- i Us | ROA AO) CO0EERE@REERRO bed a] | Tr 1 ses Whe Standard SECTION NUMBER ONE VOL.II.No.48.MONTREAL, CANADA.Royalty Attended Famous Andrew\u2019s Ball 171 ST.JAMES STREET.Long Ago THE PRINCESS LOUISE, DUCHESS OF ARGYLL, AT THE ST.ANDREW\u2019S BALL HELD IN MONTREAL TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO\u2014The St.Andrew\u2019s Society of Montreal, since its establishment in 1834, has, with one exception, celebrated each recurring festival of Scotland\u2019s patron saint with a ball such as that which was held in the armory of the Royal Highlanders last night.Since Confederation these functions have very frequently been graced by the presence of vice-royalty.On one occasion, a daughter of the late Queen Victoria was included in the list of distinguished guests.The above illustration, \u2014 the reproduction of a photograph by Notman, \u2014 commemorates that fact.This princess was none other than H.R.H.the present Duchess of Argyll (then Marchioness of Lorne), whose husband, the Duke of Argyll (then Marquis of Lorne) was Governor-General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.The especial ball illustrated on the top of this page was held in the old dining-hall of the Windsor Hotel, which, about a year ago, was completely gutted by fire.The Marquis and his royal consort will be seen standing on the right of Lieut.-Col.Stevenson, a little to the left of the centre of the picture.Col.Stevenson is uniformed in Highland garb.This ball was probably the most exclusive and the most successful ever held under the auspices of the Society, and the presence of Princess Louise did much to make it the noteworthy function it proved to be.The great Conservative chieftain, Sir John A.Macdonald, is standing behind the Marquis.A Remarkable Home Coming Welcome to a Young Canadian Singer MR.W.M.RAMSAY, President of the St.Andrew\u2019s Society of Montreal, under the auspices of which the annual St.Andrew\u2019s Day Ball was held last night in the armory of the Royal Highlanders on Bleury street.St.Andrew\u2019s Society\u2019s Prominent Officers LIEUT.-COL.GARDNER, one of the vice-presidents of the St.Andrew's Society of Montreal, and a former commandant of the Sixth Fusiliers.DNS AE Ny dE A.[O4 Ce ms kh THE HOME-COMING OF MADAME DONALDA\u2014The above illustration is a reproduction of a flash-light photograph taken by Homier especially for The Standard on the occasion of the de but of Montreal\u2019s gifted prima donna soprano before her fellow-citizens at the Arena on Monday, Nov.19th.It shows a portion of the large and fashior able audience leaving the vast auditorium at the close of what was one of the most historic concerts ever given in Montreal.Donalda was in splendid voice, and at the conclusion of the programme received a tremendous ovation from the thousands present.During the evening she was presented with a gold medal bearing the civic arms, and an address of welcome, by His Worship Mayor Ekers.DPR AD §) Neo - mm eo EE ds ee ee.a MR.WILLIAM SEATH, Treasurer of the St.Andrew\u2019s Society of Montreal, and one of the prominent merchants of the commercial metropolis of Canada.St.Andrew\u2019s Society\u2019s Prominent Officers MR.F.8S.McLENNAN, one of the vice- presidents of the St.Andrew's Society of Montreal, and one of the leading lawyers of the Montreal Bar.Û Ol 1 pee || 2 THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.Some of the Sights Which Meet the Eye of the Traveller in the Dominion of Canada (Written for The Standard by Prof.W.R.Fraser, Ph.D.) ARTICLE No.1.-PPROACHING Winnipeg from the East, there is very little to prepare one for the great city to be found on e- the banks of the Assini- boine and Red Rivers.It is with wonder and amazement that one beholds the phenomenal growth of the place, and it is not until you have travelled farther west and seen the boundless prairies, dotted with huge stacks of grain, that wonder gives place to a firm belief in its future greatness.Twenty-four years ago, as an old resident informed me, you coud count on your fingers all the houses there were north of the C.P.R.tracks.To-day there are 30,000 people in that section of the city.What struck me especially, as a newcomer, apart from the substantial stone and brick buildings going up on all sides, are the concrete sidewalks and asphalt pavements.Armies of men are employed in the newer portions of the city, in the construction of these, and no discrimination seems to be made between the humbler and the wealthy parts, or between different nationalities.BR RP BR Winnipeg Streets are Wide Thoroughfares.The streets in Winnipeg are wide thoroughfares, straight as a rule, the chief exception being Notre Dame Ave, PROFESSOR WILLIAM R.FRASER, Ph.D., who writes to The Standard of his experiences in the Canadian West.Nl which corresponds to the old trail Pasyage avenue, the people tell you with pride, runs straight away to Portage La Prairie, some 65 miles.To the south and west of the city, there are some beautiful residences in course of construction, with ample grounds, and trees.This is destined to be the beauty spot of the city, and is already fitted out with asphalt streets, smooth as the floor.Everything is on a grand scale here.Stopping in Winnipeg over Sunday, I had the pleasure of listening to a sermon in Westminster Church, by the ON THE WESTERN RANGES\u2014Sturdy young Albertans in the land of plenty.Rev.C.B.Pitblado, whom I used to listen to years ago in Chalmer\u2019s Church, Halifax, when a student at Dalhousie take before settling down.He is only nineteen years of age, and is the possessor of a homestead north of Saska- are certainly not very inviting.We must not forget, however, that many of these farmers are bachelors, and have good stables.In his stables, we were shown a flne Clydesdale stallion, the property of a syndicate of farmers here, valued at some $2,400.It is hard to conceive the richness of the soil in this country.Here in Creel- man, which is only one of many stations on the line, and by no means exceptional, there are three elevators, one belonging to the Western Canada Flour Co., one to the Lake of the Woods Co, and the other to the Canadian Northern.The wheat is brought in direct from the threshers in teams of two and four horses.It takes about ten minutes to have your load weighed, and receipted, and you give way to the next.The plank on which the wheels rest are so constructed as to tip, and when the tail-board is removed, the grain runs out in a rich golden stream.ve ORE BR The Price Of the Land.Land ig pretty high-priced here\u2014all improved land, of course\u2014from $22 to $25 an acre being asked for it.This should not be considered unreasonable, for right here in Creelman are two brothers who own a section and a quarter of land, and raised 7,000 bushels of wheat this season.I intended to stop over at Regina, but found every hotel full up.Fortunately, however, the Im- ON THE WESTERN RANGES\u2014Cal gary, the Sirloin City of Canada, in the great ranching district of Alberta.College.He retains all his old-time vigor and earnest address.My next stopping place was Brandon.It is situated on a gently sloping hill], and is a charming little town, growing rapidly to be a large one.\u2018Away across the prairie is a ridge of hills, which extends for miles to the west, After the monotony of the level prairies farther east, this is a great relief to the eye.There is also some \u201cbush\u201d to lend variety.One is impressed at once in these Western towns with the evident intention of the people to begin well, for the streets are well laid out and the wooden sidewalk is rapidly giving place to concrete and asphalt.Most of the buildings in course of construction, and many of the old ones, are of stone and brick.There are several hotels for the traveller to select from, and Brandon is not without its King Edward.However, she must look to her laurels, for Portage La Prairie, a little to the east of her, is ambitious to eclipse her.There is a fine experimental farm in the\u2019 neighborhood of Brandon, which is visited by many every day.From Brandon to Regina, I determined, for several reasons, to travel by the Arcola Branch, which is a loop of the C.P.R., and, of course, many miles longer than the main line to Regina.I wished to see what the country was like away from the main line, and I also wished to stop at Creelman.Starting out the next morning with a rig, I rode away over the open prairie, in search of a friend, passing on my way teams ploughing, with six and seven horses to a plough.On all sides there were huge stacks of straw, where the grain had been threshed out.At last I espied a young fellow working in a field near the trail, and, sure enough, it proved to be the boy I was in search of.He had come out to this country a year ago, and had been even as far as the coast, and has taken the Canadian \u201cGrand Tour,\u201d as every young fellow of spirit should be ambitious enough to SCENE IN EBOULEMENTS, QUE.\u2014Cutting wheat with the old-fashioned sickle.This is still an every-day feature of harvesting in certain sections of the Province of Quebec.(Photograph by C.S.Mitchell, Montreal.) to the north, is somewhat different.It is a city of real estate agents and building projects.With a third railway to enter its borders, it has not yet reached high water mark in real estate prices, and it looks, too, as if those reached were to stand.In this Western Alberta country, one is struck with the continued sunny weather.Asking one of Edmonton\u2019s citizens what sort of a winter they had, I was answered, \u201cWhy, just like this.From now until June, the sun continues to shine, with, of course, more cold than at present.\u201d LE RR BR The Great Irrigation Works.Among places of interest in and near Calgary, the irrigation works of the C.P.R.are of first importance, for they naturally mean more for this semiarid country than any other project could.I was taken to see the Head- gate on the Bow River, about two miles out of Calgary, and given some idea of the never-failing water supply, this stream can afford.At the present time the Company has constructed four hundred and eighty miles of canals and ditches, capable of irrigating for one million and a half acres.The length of the entire block included in the scheme is 150 miles from east to west, and 40 from north to south, At the present time, the coyote roams over this vast \u2018 ON THE WESTERN RANGES\u2014The Bow River and the head of the C.P.R.irrigation works near Calgary.toon, and hopes to build a shack on it thig winter, and become a landed proprietor.He selected his homestead adjacent to land that may be purchased later, so as to enlarge his estate in the course of time.It speaks well for the climate that he had never had a sick day since he came out here.His is the best age to come to a country like this, for then the heart is more easily weaned from its love of the sea, and the trees and the mountains of his home in the East, *% we ææ 7 A Great, Lone Land.Make no mistake, this is a great lone land, and for a man of middle age to break up a happy home in the East to settle here, must prove, if not to himself, at least to his wife, a sad wrench.On this ride over the prairie of Creel- man, I was able to see how some of the people live.Many of the houses are built of sods, and while they may be very comfortable and warm in winter, NN Photograph of the weir gate.There is great rivalry between the different sections of this vast country.The old settler in Manitoba would not give one acre of his land for a whole quarter section of Saskatchewan prairie, and while he is speaking, he is passing through a country rich beyond description.\u201cWhy,\u201d he says, \u201cyou could see a cat move on the farther side of my farm, while here the whole country is full of duck slues.\u201d The land speculator who is equally interested in town lots in Strathcona and the outlaying country, swears by Strathcona, alleging that Edmonton has no ground on which to base her fabulous prices for real estate.And so it is all round.XR RR XR Money in Real Estate.A real estate agent in the east is a man to whom is attributed a good deal of astuteness and business ability.Here the veriest tyro can pose as a broker, and make money if he has any to begin with.\u201cI came here about eighteen months ago,\u201d a young Strathcona speculator told me, \u201cand to-day I have property worth three or four thousand dollars and personal credit in the bank for twelve hundred.\u201d I find Americans coming in are more interested in the irrigation proposition than boys from the East.In the East, farmers have been led to always expect enough moisture for their crops, to prevent them from considering the question of farming here.The American, with his knowledge of the irrigation experiment in Colorado and elsewhere is able to judge of its feasibility; and to them, no doubt, the Company look for the pioneers in this sphere of farming.The life here in Calgary, and to a less extent in Edmonton, takes its coloring very largely from the cow-boy and Indian.Men come riding into town with the loose reins and hosing of the cowboy, and then the reins are thrown to the ground, no farther ties are needed, \u2014the horse waits as long as his master wishes, XR X% RR Ride About on Their Ponies.Little boys and girls ride about on their ponies as a matter of course, \u2014 the girls riding astride, as the custom of the country is.The Indian does not seem to be very much in evidence, un- none but themselves to please.In the case of a man like Mr.Cowan, who is a family man, it is quite different.He has a nice comfortable frame house and ON THE WESTERN RANGES\u2014The C.P.R.irrigation works in Alberta.perial Limited wag three hours late, and I was able to proceed on my way.On the way West from Regina, we stopped for a short time at Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat.The latter town is the best lighted place on the continent, for its gas lights burn night and day.The people find it cheaper to allow them to burn all day than to relight them.\u201che dull glow of these lights, rendered dim by the light of day, has something weird about it.BRE ORR RR Beauty Spot Of the West.Calgary may be justly called the beauty spot of the West.When you stand on the cliff overlooking the Bow River, and see at your feet this new city of the West, with its dusky golden background of tufted plateau, and a hundred miles away, the snow-clad Rockies, rising up in their whiteness like blocks of marble, you are fain to say that it is one of the fairest scenes your eyes ever rested on.It grows on you in its attractiveness, until you are ready to say you could make your home here.Edmonton, two hundred miles away area without anyone to alarm him.As less you visit their reservations.In the the train sweeps by, he stands and neighborhood of Calgary is the tribe of looks for a moment, then is off for his covers, Indians called the Sarcees.fast dying out.They are SCENE ON THE MONTMORENCY RIVER, QUE.\u2014 This portion of the Montmorency is situated near the residence once occupied by Queen Victoria\u2019s father, a few miles east of Quebec City.(Photograph by C.S.Mitchell, Montreal.) 2 spot = \u201c2 a \u2014- THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.Laurentian Hills Are Full of Charming Spots for Setting Up a Summer Camp THE ROMANGE OF [HE CANADIAN WEST Ce is a very strange land, full of surprises and unaccustomed modes of life.We, who have been brought up in the Old Country, have come to think that romance is only possible in a land where things are ancient and men can trace their forefathers back through the centuries.A trip through the Western Prairie soon makes one realize that an equal share of romance belongs to nations in the making.RR RR XR Spirit of Quiet Optimism is General.Everyone you meet has some fine plan afoot by which he hopes to make his fortune, and can tell you stories by the hour of men who started as penniless emigrants a few years back, and who to-day hold influential public positions.There is a spirit of quiet optimism in the air which is very contagious; everybody believes in the future of the Dominion and in his own capacity to make jt more glorious.Here are men and women of all kinds and sorts, with all manner of histories at the back of them\u2014gloomy and otherwise\u2014doing all that they can to improve their present with the certainty of a golden future before them.To-day, for instance, in driving over the prairie, I came upon six men with bare feet, ragged trousers, and shirts open at the neck, hard at work upon their new homestead.They had borrowed a yoke of oxen and a cart, and, whilst two of them loaded the waggon, the other four ran up the walls, The house was built of turf- sods piled one on top of the other, in the manner of some of the Irish peasant dwellings, and was forty feet by twenty; they hoped to complete the entire undertaking in three weeks.These men had escaped from Russia, and had only been in Canada two months.On approaching them I found that they could speak German, and so could converse with me.Here, four hundred miles from Winnipeg, and twenty from the nearest railroad, upon a vast tract of prairie land which had never before in the history of man been under cultivation, I launched into a discussion of the Russian Revolution.Ja 22 22 Eo WE als ç ak The Russian Peasant {s Intelligent.The Russian peasant, as I have found him in Canada, is a person of very high intelligence and a considerable linguist.These ragged emigrants, in a lonely corner of Saskatchewan, gave me a description of the causes and aims of their nation\u2019s uprising, which, for clearness and shrewd criticism, would have done credit to a Times leader-wri- ter, When.however, I turned to things of more immediate interest, they became enthusiastic.\u201cIn the old country,\u201d said the father, \u201cI paid three and a half roubles in rent for wretched land, whilst here I can buy for ever the very best land for seven dollars per acre.(The purchasing power of one rouble is equal to that of two dollars, or eight shillings and fourpence.) He had taken advantage of the Government grant of one hundred and sixty acres of free land, as had each of his five sons, so that between them they owned a farm of one mile and a half square.It had cost them in transportation from Russia to Canada over a hundred pounds, so that on landing they found themselves penniless.As they told me of their destitution they laughed, just as though living on bread and water and EDWARD SHELTRY, an old mark around Trenholme, Que.land- He is over 100 years old, and has lived -all alone for many years in the little hut shown in the above illustration.(Photograph by ¥.L.Nunns, Sherbrooke, Que.) going about with hardly any clothes on your back was the biggest joke in the world.Living Upon the Open Prairie, The settlers are very kind to one another, as was proved in this case, and keep the new-comers going with now the loan of a plough, and now the gift of a few pounds of flour, until they are able to take care of themselves.These little groups of people who have been driven from their own country by in- \u201cCONTENTMENT.\u201d\u2014A character study by Barnes, Montreal.IN THE LAURENTIAN HILLS\u2014\u201cCamp Raquette.\u201d A bit of the veranda.justice and persecution, thrown down upon some lonely spot of ground by the chance selection of a Government official, often reprodueing in their methods of agriculture and the styles of their dwellings a something of the old\u2019 village life with which they have been familiar all their years, singing their country\u2019s folk-songs at their work, yet persisting that they are already Canadian citizens at heart, are very pathetic.They are so brave and full of hope.The old gentleman with whom I spoke must have been at least sixty- five years of age, and his eldest son could not have been a day under forty; yet here they all are, living as best they can upon the open prairie until their houses are erected, although they have in their company women with little children at their breasts\u2014and this without a single word of discontent.In the most out-of-the-way places one runs across reminders of the big world that has been left behind.Leaving the trail the other day to get some water for my horses, I met a nephew of Dwight L.Moody, the great evangelist.He was living all alone in a little one- roomed building, and had just commenced to break up his land.He was something of a sportsman, and had managed to procure upon one of his expeditions the cubs of both a red fox and a wolf, which he wag engaged in taming.When you speak to a man about his land, you must always take it for granted that his homestead is the most desirable does.in the Dominion\u2014he It is quite comic to come across a man hard at work carrying away great loads of stone from off his claim, and to hear him, still perspiring from his \u2018heavy labor, and with his back all crumpled up with stooping in the sun, declare that his tract is the very pick of the land.2e 2.2, oT æ ee A oo sk The Problem of The Unemployed.The man who lives in Winnipeg and writes home to his people saying that he cannot find employment must be either very blind or very untruthful, for the employers of labor are at their wits\u2019 end to know where to get men to carry out the projects which are already under way.Wherever you go there are up announcing that men are wanted for immediate engagement.The manager of the Canadian Northern Railroad, in speaking to me, said, \u201cIf two thousand men were to.apply for work to-day, I would engage every one of them, and the lowest wage which I should pay would be a dollar and a half (6s.3d.) per day.The Great Northern Railroad proposes to construct seven hundred miles of rail in the near future, and the only thing which will hinder them from doing so will be lack of men.The Canadian Pacific is at present engaged in flinging out new lines all over the country, but they are handicapped in the same way\u2014they can\u2019t get the men.\u201d He went on to say how impatient it made him feel when he was in London last year to hear so much signs Et\" h ENP f Li ?~ Coll RE 1, XX RANE ie about the unemployed problem when he knew that Canada would pay anything from six shillings a day upwards to every man, no matter how unskilful he might be, who would trouble himself to cross the ocean.At the present time they are engaging men of inferior phy- ing room, sique, who cannot stand the strain of hard work, and paying them high wages because they cannot get anything better, whilst great strapping fellows are content to starve in London rather than cross the water, REY AR XR Where are The English?Men from the southern parts of Russia, men from the East, men from France, Germany, and Holland have the enterprise to come to a land with whose tongue they are unfamiliar, whilst the men of the Empire\u2019s metropolis prefer to march the streets for chance offerings rather than cross a few thousand miles of sea.I have travelled for days together through country which equals for beauty anything in Yorkshire or the Lake District, and which for fertility much surpasses it, and yet it is empty.There are Russians and Poles, and men from every country of Europe to be found in plenty, building their houses and raising magnificent crops; but the Englishman is conspicuously absent.Wherever I go, whether it be to the Hudson Bay outposts up the Nelson River, to lumber-camps in British IN THE LAURENTIAN HILLS\u2014\u201cCamp Raquette.\u201d IN THE LAURENTIAN HILLS\u2014View of Lake Long from the veranda at \u201cCamp Raquette,\u201d the property of a Montrealer.so.They shoot, and fish, and farm their land for seven months in the year, i.e., from sowing time to harvest, after which they are free to work in the lum- ber-camps or upon the railroads, or to change their mode of life by going to a town.Nowhere have I heard a word of A corner of the loung- prise that Britain has ever had.The Russian, German and Swede see it\u2014 and why not the English?\u2014C.W.Dawson in T.P.\u2019s Weekly.2-2 + MARVELS AND MYSTERIES.How many and how incomprehensible are the inexplicable mysteries of the realms of nature.And amongst the most astonishing and noteworthy of them all may be numbered the mariner\u2019s compass, to which Great Britain, owning more than half the tonnage of the entire globe, is so much indebted.But the compass does not always point to the North; it is ever varying both in direction and in \u201cdip.\u201d In England, in A.D.1580, it pointed about 15 degrees East; in A.D.1813, more than 24 degrees West, then swaying backward, until, at the present time, the variation has reached nearly 18 degrees West.In some parts of the world, however, the variation far exceeds these figures; for, it is said, at a point in the extreme North Atlantic the variation attains no less than 169 degrees; in other words, that the needle instead of pointing to the north points almost due south.(This statement, however, appears altogether unintelligible and in- complaint; everyone is happy and hopeful.When I think of the men whom I have seen asleep along the Embankment, and the poor starving women and children who have marched up from the East End begging for alms during the winter in London, I cannot but wonder whether the fine old spirit of adven- Columbia, or to farms in Alberta, I find men impressed by and taking advantage of the greatest opportunity which England has ever had, and yet comparatively few of them are English.If the excuse be made that the life is monotonous, I can only say that the people who are living it do not find it A SURVIVAL OF EARLY LIFE IN THE PROVINCE\u2014Primitive log school house at Lac Charlebois, Ste.Marguerite, Que.ture which made our Raleighs, our Blakes, and our Nelsons, has not died out of the country which produced them.No man who has travelled through this country can fail to see that the North-West offers at present the biggest opportunity for individual enter- An iceberg encountered in the Straits of Belle Isle, from a photograph taken for The Standard from the deck of the C.G.S.\u201cMinto.\u201d IN THE LAURENTIAN HILLS\u2014\u201cCamp Raquette.\u201d camp, showing the log construction.The exterior of the credible.) varying degree; in The needle also \u201cdips\u201d in Toronto, in A.D.1851, the downward direction amounting to as much as 75 degrees.And then, too, like a piece of iron and a magnet are mutually attracted and drawn together by some strange force, so two individuals at first sight are powerfully attracted to each other, though neither may have previously experienced any such emotion; cases relinquishing a prospective throne rather than give up her who had claimed his heart.Amongst other mysterious wonders is the newly-invented portrait telephone, by which one person conversing with another by telephone sees the other on a plaque in front of him.And when more powerful batteries are in- in some vented it will be possibls for two persons, one at the Antipodes, the other on this side of the globe, notwithstanding that they are standing feet to feet with the body of the earth between them, to be able to talk and see each other as though they were face to face.And another stupendous mystery, in one sense equally as wonderful as their creation, is the marvelloug exactitude nr \u2014 te eas ten of the revolution of the planetary system, and doubtless also of the siderial universe.The earth performs its annual journey of five hundred and sixty- six million miles without deviation and without the slightest irregularity, or variation ,arriving, at a given moment, exactly at a calculated point in the ether at the second of time expected; each star, doubtless also, though at present this is beyond our powers of calculation, revolving round the stupendous and mighty pivot of the universes with equal regularity.But of all the unintelligible mysteries which could exist throughout the universe is the inexplicable fact that the great atonement made for us by the Son of God, by relinquishing His throne in the Heaven of heavens, living a life of perrury, hardship, and contumely.and dying that we might attain the glories and supernal joys of heaven, is, by the great majority of human beings, forgotten and contemned, and that such multitudes deliberately\u201d refuse to obey Him, thereby forfeiting their rights to that splendid inheritance, and inheriting instead\u2014the terrible Outer Darkness.il == AMBITION.\u201cAmbition\u201d is one of those strange words which convey every shade of meaning, from the highest wisdom and virtue to the rankest folly and vice.We may have the \u2018divine ambition\u201d of Hamlet, and Macbeth\u2019s \u201cvaulting ambition, which o\u2019erleaps itself and falls on the other side.\u201d Curiously enough, the word is not found in the authorized version of the Bible, although it is common in Shakespeare.In its primary signification it denoted nothing sinister.It merely meant the \u201cgoing about\u201d soliciting votes for office, a perfectly legitimate proceeding, even if attended with danger of corruption.But the illegal and corrupt canvassing of candidates for office was called \u201cambitus,\u201d not \u2018\u2018ambitio,\u201d and was a penal offence in Roman days, as it is, nowadays.nominally, From such a simple \u201cgoing about\u201d to solicit votes came a word which conveys either approval or blame, as it is uttered in commendation or rebuke.When we call a man \u201cambitious\u201d we may mean that he has a wholesome desire to achieve some ideal end, or we may mean that he has devilish determination to stop at nothing in order to secure his own aggrandizement.Washington\u2019s ambition was to make his country free and independent, so that liberty might be enjoyed by the humblest.Napoleon\u2019s ambition was to enslave Europe and bring monarchs to their knees before the footstool of a Corsican adventurer.This variableness in the meaning of a word, often dependent upon a mere inflection of voice, the raising or lowering of pitch, the slightest possible change of emphasis in tone, really indicates the existence of a great truth.It implies that the borderland between virtue and vice is often debatable ground.Love may be a most just and commendable consciousness of power or the most unjust and contemptible arrogance.Ambition may be the most laudable desire to achieve the noblest ideal of human nature or the most blameworthy determination to sacrifice humanity for the aggrandizement of self.ft, 4 = =\u2014\u2014Masspepe mes : TT ep «ag mp \u2014 THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.Tew Unique Parisian Fashion Creations for the Lady Readers Ea a BEAUTIFUL PARISIAN MODELS\u2014The Standard, by special arrangement with the celebrated photographer, Henri Manuel, of Paris, is enabled to present, weekly, to its readers, the newest creations in fashion, posed specially by famous Parisian models.Unlike the illustrations in fashion magazines, these reproductions are from life.The above evening gown in white spotted net in tunic effect is from the Maison Bone Soeurs.The waist and foot of skirt are embroidered in grape design, and finished with a fold of Liberty satin.This is also used for the simple girdle.Frills of lace compose the short sleeves, This and That to Wear.What London Is Thinking of in the Fashion Line.ONDON, NOV.28th \u2014We iL have been very busy with our tailors and our furriers; we have chosen our faced cloth and our supple velours, our fox and squirrel, sable and Persian lamb; we have decided to which seduction we shall succumb, that of the felt toque, clustered with wings, or the velvet beret plumed with ostrich tips\u2014the fur toque with grapes, or the beaver picture shape, with tumbling masses of cocks\u2019 feathers.We have laid the foundation of our winter equipment; well and good, let us turn our attention to more airy trifles, Just ds important, but not quite such hard work to think out! It is difficult, in thinking out one\u2019s wardrobe, to avoid the sub- jeet of the blouse for long.In the old days, when blouses were shirts, pure and simple, or elaborate bodices in all but the name, it was a different matter.Now, not only our more ornate coats and skirts, but even our regular dresses, require something of the blouse or \u2018\u2019slip\u2019\u2019 persuasion to complete their charms, something of which only a fascinating glimpse may be caught here and there, something, ~ possibly, that reveals but guimpe and sleeves, as a rule, until the little picture bolero or fashionable capelet of modern mode be discarded.The blouse of the day, in nine cases out of ten, plays the part of subordinate trifle, detail, fanciful addition, but is absolutely necessary, for all that, and replete with attractiveness and interest! FR OBR RR There is Nothing That Can Take its Place.Nothing ean quite take the place of the lace or net blouse all the year round.Of a morning it is out of place, but from the hour when we \u2018\u2018change for luncheon,\u2019\u2019 the lace blouse holds her sway.There is the model of Irish lace, still a favorite of fashion, that is half- concealed and revealed by its capelet of fine satiny-faced cloth and sweeping, short-waisted skirt that forms one accepted type of afternoon gown.There is the adorable net slip, embroidered, spotted, or sprigged, decked with narrow laces of the Valenciennes, Mechlin, Tambour, or Alencon order, with tiny ruchings of satin, pipings of velvet, threadings of bebe ribbon, a delightful possession in which to make a triumphant appearance upon the shedding of fur coat or driving cloak at matinee or tea party.There is the blouse of embroidered ninon, silk, muslin or linen, decorated with work \u2018\u201ca jour\u2019\u2019 and delicate stitchery ; there is the silken shirt than the best local dealers.for cash.write for our Illustrated Catalogue, request to any address, = At 8135.00.At 8255.50.Best quality Dia- Finest quality mond Ring; all Diamond Ring; selected stones.selected stones.Grand Hotel Building, Trafalgar THE SEAL OF FASHION IN FINE JEWELRY belongs pre-eminently to our gems and settings.They are worn by the social leaders of all continents and adorn the court ladies of the United Kingdom and European dynasties.The WORLD\u2019S GREATEST DIAMOND MERCHANTS are at your service, and can give you greater satisfaction even We sell direct to the purchaser; grant credit to approved clients, and allow 5 per cent.discount If you wish to see a revelation in the finest in the world.DRAWN TO EXACT SIZE.The Association of Diamond Merchants, Limited handsome, fashionable jewelry, Sent free on Fine quality; double cut clusters and 3 PAs EE > centres: STEEL forms SKIS) cu X So Brooch, CL CES.CE Pendant, le Or Hair el © Ornament, 2 $168.50.Square, London, W.C., England.of taffetas, Louisine, Shantung- what you will, frilled, pleated, tucked, tailored, and sewn, smart usefulness personified.How can we escape from the thrall of the blouse ?XB RE te Fascinating Types for the Decoration of the Hair.For the decoration of the hair we have more fascinating types than ever.Plumes of Indian marabout, that ideally charming smo- ky-grey fluff tipped with black \u201c\u2018hairs,\u201d\u2019 or of marabout dyed in ~ 1 The darker glove is a welcome guest after so long a reign of pure white kid and suede, none too becoming to those whose hands are not their strongest point.A most attractive faney is that which matches the long kid or suede glove to the furs it accompanies, or the neutral-tinted gown.Thank goodness, no self-respecting English gentlewoman would descend to the horrors of blue and green and red gloves, no matter how frequently they make a tentative appearance! But the mushroom shades, the browns, the greys, and BEAUTIFUL PARISIAN MODELS\u2014The Standard, by special arrangement with the celebrated photographer, Henri Manuel, of Paris, is enabled to present, weekly, to its readers, the newest creations in fashion, posed specially by famous Parisian models.Unlike the illustrations in fashion magazines, these reproductions are from life.is from Maison Ney Soeurs, Paris.in Princesse effect.The above afternoon gown The skirt is of London smoke cloth It is trimmed with three bands of moire ribbon.The sleeves are of three-quarter length, A little coat of Point Gaze lace, with flowing ends at the back, finishes the waist.pale colors, a soft rose or sulphur cloudiness; attractive, sparkling details in silver and gold tissue and spangles, roses or double dahlias of tulle or silk muslin, with a diamante dewdrop here and there ; sprays of Parisian bows and knots of velvet or gauze; combs of all types, small and light, large and severely Spanish, carved, inlaid, Jjewelled, plain; gems set with fairy-like lightness in loveliest of modern as well as antique designs, simple single blossoms to adorn the debutante\u2019s curls, garnitures of Madame costing the price of a whole gown\u2014are they not to be had for the asking?(and the paying!) And yet, elaborate as is La Mode this winter, sweet simplicity is appreciated.the tans of all sorts and deserip- tions, are most alluring.As for veils, you please yourself! They are still worn as draperies behind some hats if you wish it; they are worn over the face, full and soft, or short and perky, to suit whichever type of hat you may affect; you can swathe yourself in tulle illusion, net, chiffon, lace\u2014or you may omit them altogether.Fashion is in a pliant mood in several diree- tions, and what suits us best may be seriously considered first of all.This is as it should be, is it not?And should please everybody but the tiresome person who finds \u201c\u2018Life extremely flat, When there\u2019s nothing whatever to grumble at!\u201d\u2019 \u2014 RRRRRRRTRRRRRRRR æ æ Hints to Lady Readers.æ RRRRREUTREERERRRKT lg) White gloves have so receded in favor, that they are being sold at greatly reduced prices, and women of thrifty and frugal minds buy them and have them colored the exact shades of their new costumes.FX BR Re The newly invented shoulder forms, which can be slipped in between the coat and lining,give just the correct shoulder line, and aid much in the setting of the sleeve.A skirt measure has been invented which the amateur and home dressmaker will appreciate; it marks exactly the correct hang of the skirt when it is being tried on the wearer.BR RR et Empire combs are much to the fore, with tops narrow in proportion to the size of the comb, the top being the medium of artistic work in gold inlay and jewels.ee Lo *% Hand embroidery is a mania in Paris.Bd Ei XR Antelope grey, with a brownish cast, is the latest approved shade in swelldom.ee ee XR A soft shade of peacock blue is natty, and there is a popular grey blue like that worn by the \u2018\u2018Chasseurs d\u2019Afrique.\u2019\u2019 XR X% XBR The lace gowns exhibited now are gorgeous enough to satisfy the most exacting.RY X% 2e À rare tourmaline brooch, that can also be used as a pendant, shows a short bar of the translucent stone shaded from emerald through white to an exquisite rose pink.The setting is of filagree silver studded with diamonds, and partially suggests a double heart outline interlocked at top.lle.> RRR BAY IARRBRRRRRRRARR *% Pointers for the Gentlemen.# 2 æ RU RKERUE®SR The waistcoat with or without a collar finish is purely a matter of preference.FR de te Trousers are a little bit narrower, but not noticeably so.X% RP ete It is only by a comparison of periods that one really appreciates changes of fashion in men\u2019s dress.ee XR XBR But while standard in general character, a change, whether from old to new, or from new back to old, is constantly going on, and it is a quick observance of this that constitutes fashion.XR REP *% As an example of bad style to which the fashion has led some men is the placing of the scarf-pin half-way down the necktie.RE RB RB Black Derbies, as usual, are in more general use than brown.RR Ze TR Shirts, save for some few new fabrics, are exactly the same as last season; the wing and fold collars show a wide stitching .de XR RE Four-in-hand ties, often in the bright colors, are the most generally fashionable.XR REP RR There are several styles of the Ascot, of which one is in large puff shape, of heavy silk, in deep old- gold color.RR XX BR The outside breast pocket is again the general fashion,although perhaps not absolutely essential to correct finish.NELSON\u2019S Fur-Lined Coats For Ladies and Gentlemen are the very Acme of Style and Refinement \u2014 QUALITY UNSURPASSED ALEX.NELSON & CO.304 St.Catherine Street West 380 Notre Dame Street West a, Scene from \u201cGirls Will be Girls,\u201d the attraction at the Academy of Music during the week beginning Monday, Dec.3rd.bout the Stage and Chings Cheatrical HEN you go to the threatre Qa and see some of the spectacular plays that are constantly being produced, you are not surprised to learn that small fortunes are spent on the dresses of the principals and supers alike, In some historical plays it is not unusual for a single costume to cost £100, and on occasions the dresses of ordinary chorus girls have amounted to as much as £20 or £30 apiece.No Imitation Used.Twenty years or so ago the embroidery, gold lace, and armor was made of cheap imitation material, but nowadays AL.LEECH, with \u201cGirls Will be Girls,\u201d at the Academy of Music during the week commencing Monday, Dec.3rd.everything must be real and of the best.In these times of long runs, too, the best material is cheapest in the end, as the hard usage soon wears out a dress, and the costumes will be renewed again and again.As soon as they show signs of wear they will be sold, for the lower ranks of music hall MRS.H.FETHERSTON-WARNER, formerly contralto soloist at St.Paul\u2019s Presbyterian Church, Montreal, and who is now leading contralto soloist in the Washington Heights Baptist Church, 145th street, New York.performers do not despise them, and companies touring the small towns and country fit-ups or travelling in the colonies find them useful.When a Run is Over.When a run is over the dresses will be carefully overhauled and repaired, and then either stored if there is any likelihood of a revival of the play, or if they consist of dresses of good material, which come in useful in another production, or they will be sold at once, Uniforms and old English costumes or dresses which have been used in Shakespearean plays will be put away for future use, as nearly every theatre wants them at some time or another.Ballets are not so often revived, and when one is withdrawn the dresses will perhaps be sold outright or stored for a short time, and then sold.Pantomime dresses are dealt with in the same way.After the run is over, they are carefully overhauled and repaired, as the smaller provincial theatres are only too glad to purchase a whole wardrobe which has been previously used at one of the first-class houses.\u201cJuliet\u201d in Hoops and Flounces.It is difficult to remember that almost until modern days players dressed in the costume of the day in which they lived, whatever period the play dealt with.Julius Caesar, in a full- bottomed wig, and Juliet in hoops and MORIZ ROSENTHAL, pianist, who will give a recital in the Stanley Hall on Monday next.Net flounces,seem startling to modern ideas when museums are ransacked for costumes which have actually figured in the events with which the play deals.It has actually happened that a play has been written round a particularly fine collection of dresses.For instance, a play was brought out at Surrey, especially to show off two fine suits of fourteenth century armor, which afterwards figured in the Lord Mayor's Show.Coronation Robes Hired.The writer believes that it has not been publicly stated that some of the Peers\u2019 robes which figured at the Coronation came out of a stage wardrobe, Several Peers hired the robes in which they appeared on that historic occasion, and a well-known theatrical costumier was applied to among others.In his stock were several costumes which had been used in \u201cTolanthe\u201d at the Savoy Theatre.WHEN YOU ENTERTAIN Your friends in the evenings, their last impressions are of .the refreshments you serve.The ideal drivk for this, and almost every other social function, is Juctard) (SU: SHAR'S) ) COCOA.Its flavor is simply delicious.Suchards have succeeded in imparting to it a delicate richness and velvety smoothness that please even the most fastidious.It is a true \u201crefreshment\u201d; not a stimulant, but a real, vitalizing, strength-giving food.Suchard\u2019s Cocoa is especially suited for an evening drink, as it soothes the nerves, and gives a healthy night\u2019s sleep.Try Suchard\u2019s next time.Agents: Frank L.Benedict & Co., Montreal LIST] = \u2014 es > ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT Che Standard SECTION NUMBER TWO VOL.II.No.48.MONTREAL, CANADA.171 ST.JAMES STREET.Burns, Great Scottish Poet, Found to be Intimately Connected with Canada \u2014 BURNS AND CANADA\u2014The late Sir Hugh Allan, of Montreal, founder of the Allan Steamship Line, and one of the first of the merchant kings of Canada.Sir Hugh, on his mater nal side, was a descendant of the old Browns of Ayrshire, of the same mother of Burns.HAT did Burns know about Canada?What connection has Canada with the great Scottish Poet?Recent research has thrown a flood of light on the subject, and has established an intimate relationship between the immortal Burns, his life and work, and the great country of the 20th cen- tury\u2014Canada.The Standard to-day is enabled to present the story to its readers, and the world generally, for the first time.Mr.William Drysdale, of this city, lectured before the Burns Club of Montreal recently, on \u2018\u201cBurns and Canada,\u201d his paper displaying remarkable evidences of research and erudition in the lore that has gathered around the great national poet of Scotland.At first it would seem that Burns had little connection with Canada, since he never was in this country, and also seeing that his work is so intensely and so characteristically Scottish, both in subject and in language ; but Mr.Drysdale surprised and delighted his audience by showing in a clear and able manner that between the poet and the land in which we dwell there are not a few connecting links, some of them of an altogether remarkable kind.Mr.Drysdale said : Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, was born in January, 1759.In September of the same year, General Wolfe captured Quebee.It is now 110 years since the bard passed away, in 1796.The centennial of his birth, as well as that of his death, have been duly celebrated ; also, yearly anniversary gatherings have taken place.And it has taken the people of Canada all this time to think about erecting suitable memorials or monuments to perpetuate the memory of one who, as the late Professor Wilson BURNS AND CANADA\u2014Statue of the Poet at Fredericton, N.B.and that by a picture which gen- That,\u201d will endure while the lan- ius, inspired by piety, could alone guage lasts.I cannot help but have conceived, a picture\u2014how think that were our young men to tender and how true!\u2014of that [study Burns, that we should hear happy night in which, by some less of the franchise being barter- sweet transition, the working- man |ed away for a few dollars, but ra- ) is prepared for the hallowed day |ther would such study teach us to of God\u2014for that day on which a prize the privilege so sacred, and heavenly calm is breathed over the which cost our forefathers so | ZI i a \u2014 family as that of Agnes Brown, the of the Poet\u2019s birth.much to obtain.asked was a fair chance for the individual in life.He sang his fervent snatches against tyranny and tyrants: BURNS AND CANADA\u2014Mrs.Jean Burns Brown, a grand-daughter of the Poet, and her little daughter, Jean Armour Brown, both of whom once resided at Guelph, Ont.\u2014From a photograph taken while both were living in that town, and now published for the first time.Here\u2019s freedom to him that wad write, , earth that is nowhere seen or felt (So purely as \u2018mong those who inhabit the hills and dales of dear | # auld Scotland.Personally, I hold ; that such sentiments as these afford a justification of the works and character of Burns, both moral and intellectual, that should place him beyond the possibility of detraction, and amongst the very highest orders of human beings who have benefited their race by expressions of noble sentiment and glorious thought.We cannot but love him for his independence ; we love him because of the sunshine which he threw around those occupying the humblest (of Noetes Ambrosiane fame) walks of life\u2014not by representing said: \u2018\u201cAmong those who are re- the poor man as an object for pity, garded as the benefactors of their but by showing that there was race, none can deny that Burns is truer nobility to be found in their entitled to hold a distinguished ranks than the greatest philoso- place.He it was who reconciled pher ever dreamt of\u2014purity, de- poverty to its hard lot, who light- votion, true piety, and affection ened the burden of care with his are nowhere to be found more than musie, and even with its charm re- among the tillers of the soil.\u2019 coneiled grief to its grave; he who, Burns is the poet of freedom as by the immortal song, has sancti.well as beauty.His song of the fied forever the poor man\u2019s cot, Bruce, his \u2018\u201cMan\u2019s a Man for a\u2019 BURNS AND CANADA\u2014The Poet as he followed the plough \u201cin glory and in joy upon the mountain side.\u201d | 1 cd A du pra Vahorta nasil Hof / 6 0, - VA .ot nel =m iin mich Aux uf « | Ad format, qe and \u2018dltog share, | VAN AN feat wil A [sip Jf ce Leyland Je Ampli ANNA Lo Vio po i, Wma enor much ref clin A in : it esky Board Fish ms < 4 _, d TA re, gén Sil of a \u201c- dea il med, A Frag v Lf 4