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HE $ E DAILY WHIG, HE WAS BORN COLONIAL LORD ELGIN, NEW COLONIAL SEC- RETARY, NATIVE OF CANADA. Comes to the Office by 'Right of Birth =QOn Both Sides He Springs From Statesmen Who Have Rendered the Empire Distinguished Services In the Colonies--Colonial Crisis on at His Birth. Of Lord Elgin, the new Secretary of State for the Colonies, it might be sald that he comes to the office by right of | birth. On both sides he springs from statesmen who have rendered to the Empire very distinguished servict in the colonies, and he himself was born in the chief colony. His father was that Lord Elgin whé was Governor- General from 1847 to 1854, and his mo- ther was Lady Mary Louisa Lambton, daughter of that Bar] of Durham, who held the office of Governor-General and High Commissioner of British North America in 1888. Tt 4s impossible to exaggerate the value of the work thus done for Canada and the Empire the present Earl of Eigin's father and SALE OF IRVING RELICS. 'Fancy Prices Paid For 'the Noted - Actor's Belongings. The sale of the late Sir Henry Irv- ing's theatrical relics, art works and library was begun at Christie's in Lon- don the other day. The Actors' Bene- volent Fund, for the benefit of which the sale is being held, is likely to pro- fit largely from the strong interest dis- played by the theatrical profession es- pecially to possess some memento of the distinguished actor. It was an un- uspal crowd which gathered to witness the disposal of the collection. It in- cluded almost everybody of note in ' the theatrical world, besides other prominent persons, like Alfred Charles de Rothschild and Ashmead Bartlett Burdett- Coutts. A note of pathetic interest was sup- plied in the presence of personal friends and relations of the actor, many of whom hoped to secure.some memeén- to for a trifling sum, only to be dis- appointed: To almost every one of the 254 lots offered some history or per- sonal aaocistion attached. The bidding was of the keenest, both on the part of dealers and of private buyers, and a total sum of $12,750 was realized. This represented an amount far in excess of_the value of the ar- ticles. American dealers are said to have secured many. of the best lots, and several dealers, it is understood, Granbys "are ous carriage Tires, and almoest-2s elaslic as rubber bands: Thal means mere than wear. Il means thal-- | GRANBY: RUBBERS holds Their shape as long 2s you wear them. GRANBY RUBBERS "WEAR LIKE IRON 4 § by his maternal grandfather. The lat- were buying on commissions from ter's penetrating mind went to the real jeaders of the profession. The pic- cause of the rebellion, and in his fam- tyres and the library will be offered . Loe ous report, which the Imperial Gov: ater, a = discharges, inflam ernment in part acted upon, he laid the A Malacca cane which 'had belonged = is 3 irtitations or ul foundations of responsible government ¢; Garrick fetched $210, and a plain NEE Ls , o Prevents Contagion. Painiees, and no here. If to Lord Durham is to be giv- gold ring worn by Garrick was sold for EVARSCHEMIGALDD. gent or poisonon en the credit of prescribing the princl- $515. The sword Irving wore as Rich- : Sold by Drug ples of responsible governme and ga,4 IIT. went for $155, and a flintlock having them establiihed by the Mot of pistol, used in the character of Peter Union of 1841, to his son-in-law is 10 the Great, was knocked dowirgj the be given the credit of p g these game figure. Another ring owned by BE EAE Ai i 7 hl : i : § £2. Lie {Fl : o3 88:28 bis . "residence mpon DN FOR PATENT Lhe of aA : nt Suc-Ageat or we | pixies, at the wa. of his intention be g i ig BN si itit oF i i E Fg gf g ry y i Fass 7 1 Se 4 feel | She oe to firm} A had ago wy aie was further enjoined ere seated around the fire at the me, watching the operation, the per- son who bewitched the animal would look upon them. The remedies resorted to by the Witches are exceedingly curious. For fits they have been known tc advise some one of the opposite sex A plece of lead from the church during divine ser it into three pleces, so 'worn round the neck by As a cure for warts there to some witches, nothing » Which has to be placed 0 affected, Toads are included in the pharmaco- poeia all witches who profess to @ of sores, All they do In is to tle a portion of the sore. To cure an adders have been told to catch an adder, fry It and put it on the affected Ei Sheep's Tor, the rugged eminence which rises at the back of the tiny village of Sheepstor, about six miles 42 | from Tavistock, is still 'rosides 8 pointed out as land | the home of the Devon fairies, or pixies, - home as they are locally termed. The cre as vice in the broken granite of the tor which fs sald to be the favorite hunt of these ereatures of fancy is called the pixies house. * It Js formed by several massive rocks Which rest slantingly against the side of the tor, and even to this day super stitious local folk are in the habit of dropping a pin, as an offering to the entrance of the crevice when passing or visiting it. The people say that the pixies' house is a "critical" place for children to enter after sundown. Ask them to describe a pixie and they will say that Never has one been seen. But many are ready to tell of pixy influence, and the man or woman who goes ast: on Dartmoor, or who does any eis Bn thing, will declare that the pixies are ; '| to blame, "Pixy led" is the term given | To i in of such unusual conduct. pixies are a race "invisibly Small," but all the same there are peo- ple to be found in this part of Devon 'Who will declare that they have heard Little pixy, fair and slim, is $5, . + Without a rag to cover him, I out in force on dark ni rai 2) ghts, ng the a8 | horses n ng farmers and m | pounding cider within their rocky of erals stored among that grains n't be frightened; we shall get along all right together; I take all pon, the wooden club, Unique Military Band. There is a wholly unique military band attached to a Surrey regiment of the British army which other Brit ish paring to copy. | cession to th - , The Savoy regiment's band, which was a Sen-govertment. 1ored Saly recently, is Samposed en: tirely of performers on mouth or-| giong the lines followed by Mr. Cham- gan, All these musiclang are members | perjain and Mr. Lyttelton. These two the First East Surrey regiment, and | statesmen showed a recognition of the efr fuiiction consists of relieving the | jmportance of the colonies such as few regular Nsimental bua while on the march. The effect gin can be trusted to be duly consider- seems to be a good deal more stimu- # 3 lating than that produced by a drum ate of the dignity W"the sell-govern corps, and the new idea appears likely to be extensively imitated throughout the British army. Thus future heroes To-day Mr. may march to battle to the inspiring wheege of the harmonica ihstead of to clarion and fife, et ------------------ The Bone Didn't Fit, their playing the man of meat, with a grin. of uncommon difficulty. Lord Dugham found a remedy for the ills that produced the rebellion. It was for Eigin to apply so 'much of that ¥ as the British Parliament had adopted. Bern During Colonial Cri Lord Elgin's efforts to admi country in the spirit of the new tution brought a storm about his and the late Loyalists were ince to something of the violence the rebel had shown. Elgin held unwawvi ly ta the principle that the majority t rile, no matter how little 'he it sympathize with ite pelicy or its S. When he gave his assent to the Rel fion. Losses Bill the {fidignation of al who had opposed the idea of indemni- fying men who had taken up arms against the Sovereign broke out. On his way from Parliament House ia Montreal to his home the Governor- General was pelted with rotten eggs, mud and stones. On the same ht the Parliament Building was attacl and burned. All this, of course, w: the work of a mob, whose excesses the leader of the Oppbdition strongly con- demned. 'The -outh: oi ri | latute was assembled, Lord' Elgin again assalled, and' "Mc suburban _ . resi For weeks he did t leave his house, It was in this trying time, on the 16th of May, 1849, that his eldest son, the present Lord Elgin dnd the new Sec- retary for the Colonies, was born. "An Queen she expressed & | oyoellent picture of the lad, stan arms. Baw- 1 t a beside his father, Is reproduced Prof. George M. Wrong's "The Earl of Elgin," from a photograph taken in 1869. » Almost a Toronto Man. The Secretary for the Colonies nar- Sawade reluctantly placed the snarl- | rowly escaped being a Toronto man. ing cub in the Queen's arms, when it | After the destruction of the Parliament instantly subsided into the gentlest of | Buildings and the further démonstra-: purring; but when Sawade was taking | tions of the pulace, it was decided it away its claws suddenly shot out, | that Montreal Should.ng longer be the fastening in the sleeve of the Queer's| sedt of Gover nts The remaining codt, and the trainer had to pull sharp- | sessions of the ing Legislature ly to get it loose. The Queen only smil- | were held in Toronto, Lord Elgin, we ed, though, as Sawade said, if the tig- | learn from Mr. John Ress Robertson's er's claw had reached her face she | "Landmarks of Toronto, arrived in would have been scarred for life, that city by boat on the Sth of October, 1849, and was rather ill received. Here he made his home at "Elmsley Villa," which stood on the site now octupied | wae mate 'was wisnany 8 Jotent by the Central Presbyterian Church. TE poaac: JrEinating loubliess | In his "Toronto of Old" Dr. Scadding It was an es | mentions that Lord Elgin was a regu- | lar worshipper in Holy Trinity Church sential Yani Aa kuignts Sosguter during the time of the rebuilding of For ready convenience it was hung at | St. James' Cathedral after the fire of his saddiebow. Says an ancient poem: 1849. During the earl's residence in And with his heavy mase of stele Then he Save Xe kyag ls dee. a July 2, 1851. Montreal being the city forms of the mace. The mace used on of his birth, and Toronto the city of horgeback was a small weapon usually his early infancy, the Secretary for the That used on foot was much Colonies should have a warm place in longer and commonly of wood, with his heart for them, in spite of the fact head armed with iron rings and spikes. that in the middle of last century they It was carried by the escort of magis- did not see eye to eye with his father. trates and others as a ready protection against violence. As society quieted t - down and its original use fell into abey- de ghia a lg Ton. ance the thing assumed the ornamental | ( ohoar Both hi afath th appearance it now has, it being now ngear, 3, Eran(iather, the carried as a mere honorary form. Toronto the present Normal' School was built. He lald the corner-stone on Colonial Policy. Earl of Durham, and his father, the Earl of Elgin, were leaders in the de- centralizing movement, which has gone on until the great colonies are now practically as free agents as if they were independent States. Their great- ness is largely the result of the con- From the new Secretary we shall ex- pect an administration of the 'colonies of thelr predecessors showed. Lord El- ing colonies, Commercial Views. : Chamberlain himself does not take more advanced ground on the trade question than did Lord Elgin's father. Writing to the Home Government, the latter acknowledged that there was "something captivating a|in the project of forming this vast youngster to a butcher who kept a shop | British Empire into one huge zolive- in a busy suburban thoroughfore, "and | rein, with free interchange of com- she's Sent me to show you the big bone | modities and uniform duties against brought with the piece of beef this| the world without; though perhaps D's Tor Is sald i8.be rich fa min< |' the boulders andl | Crags by the pixies, and it is certainly ha without some Federal legislation it "Tell your mother the next time 1! might have been impossible to carry it | ~kills a bullock wihout bomes in it Tl out" make her a present of a joint" il tions had then to be provided for, and But actual and pressing condi- the colonies 'had not yet reached the principles into working order; task Garrick, set with a topaz, which was presented to Irving in New York, was sold for $215, The Waterloo medal worn by the actor as Capt. Brewster ir the "Btery of Waterloo" . brought $150, while its real value was mearer $7.50. The same might be felated of many other lots, Among the most notable items were a bronze statue of Irving as Hamlet by Onslow Ford, 'the original of 'the marble statue now in the Guildhall, . which went for $1,625 to an American dealer. A carved ivory eruecifix, which always hung in the actor's bedroom, which sold for $130; Charles Kean's ta- ble, which brought $325, and Eugene Adam's lamp, which was knocked down for $86. J ------------ YFIONA MACLEOD." Death Released 'the Secret of William Sharp, the Author. The announcement has been made upon behalf of Mrs. Sharp, the widow of William Sharp, news of whose death in Sicily was received at London re- cently, that her husband was the au- thor of all the works of prose and poetry given out duripg past years as written by "Fiona MacLeod." The an- nouncement cguses no'astonishment in literary Londang for it necessarily was known to a number of persons and guessed at by many, and more than once suggested; in the public prints. In the outset Mr. Sharp assumed the pseu- donym of Miss Fiona M; d because he was not convinced thit..the public would redejve kindly certain writings he wished publish. To be ociated with them he fan- cled 'might discredit his known works, and injure his reputation. Later it is sald he found it pecuniarily profitable to preserve the pseudonym, because the constant questioning in the public mind as to 'the identity of "Fiona Mac- Leod" and the frequent suggestion that he and "Fiona" were one and the same person tended to make a demand both for his acknowledged works and those he was suspected of writing. The actual statement as to the iden- tity of "Fiona MacLeod" was made upon behalf of Mrs. Sharp by her hus- band's friend, Mr. Richard Whiting. \ London Loses Famous Host, London soclety has lost a great en- tertainer and the turf a notable sup- porter in the death .of Lord Ilchester, at the age of 58. Ilchester played a prominent part in London society life for many years. Possession of Holland House, with its crowd of famous memaries, almost would cempel the owner to entertain, but he almost may be said to have liv- ed up to the best past of the most interesting historical house in London A new ballroom was added by Lord Il- chester, at a cost of some $150,000. A masked ball was given fn it some years ago, and the 'numerous garden parties, for which invitations were so eagerly sought every season, are quite worthy the eighteenth century fame of Holland House. Lond Iichester lived, however, much in the twentieth cen- tury, and automgbiles and telephones were to be found in his house. The most Interesting of his seats was, perhaps, Abbottsbury Castle, near Dorchester, with its wonderful sub- tropical garden, on the windswept Dorchester coast, A swannery and 'de- coy ducks here were the favorite hob- bies of Lord Iichester. Tame ducks kept in the pond soon were joined by wild ducks in search of food. The former then led their visitors into a series of carefully constructed tunnels. Five hundred wild ducks have been se- cured in two days at Abbottsbury. A Yankee Quidone. A Yankee passenger in a train the other day was wearying his fellow- travelers with his "tall" stories, and remarked: "We can start with a 12- storey hotel one month and have it finished the next!" This was too much for a burly Yorkshireman, who sat next to him. "Man, that's nowt" he replied. 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Entrance on Ba Telephone, 608. - rmi------------ ARTHUR ELLIS, ARCHD fice site of New Drill Hal ner of Queen and Montrea POWER & SON, ARCHITE chant's Bank Building, co and Wellington streets. '} HENRY P. SMITH, AR etc. Anchor Building, Mar 'Phone, 345. a ------ MEDICALS. I a ------------ JOR. McCARTHY, OFFICE occupied by Dr. Ryan, ¢ treal and Brock streets. OR. WILLIAM GIBSON, PI Surgeon, ete. Late Resi Surgeon, Kingston Genera Office--232 King street, op of Montreal. "Phone, 43. compliments," continued | Status necessary for the arranging of and 25 ination revealed the' pres- JAS McPARLAND AGENT the boy, "and she says next time you | Such a commercial partnership, The °0°° dn a pine aa pigeon's nest with . . 3 ) find a bit of sirloin with a shoulder of | relief that seemed likely to be the most fo to find To h its nest the bird | : 339 and' 341 King St mutton bone In it she'd like to buy the | instant was reciprocity with the Unit had te its way through a six-inch ° . IVERPOOL. LONDON AN whole carcass as a curiosity!"--Lon: | ed States, which Lord Elgin succeeded ameter pipe--horizontal, for six feet, Phone 274. 3 Fire Insurance Company, don Telegraph. fn bringing about. The Elgin treaty Nd Pending sharply into a sixsfoot which the "policy. ho) \ of reciprocity held from 1854 to 1866, | Perpendicular. : = NIE ---- -- SLR which the policy. holde a tial el Ee, pt H. POWELL| Abe, pos fan a MONEY AND BUSIN -- -- rity the unlimited lial Nl - ° : - : - 3 the stockholders. Farm w i, Sli | ofa seamen [S000 ok br gel THIS 18 Stock=taking Time | gris : Y : 0 ! 8, s best when us & 9 ne AND JOBBER ths ending Oct r 31st last those a John aad Sou's "Three Sunlight way. Buy Sunlight he Turn your old Dross, Stereos, Electros, Type, Brass, Copper and other 3 & St A e in Se 3 in . ee. ows" Tri iskey, famous for and follow directions. ; 8 = Stre ot wy huilding 550.000 tone of shipping rE Smtr. ot higheat standard! 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