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1 a ""The Town was Burned Three Days Later" : i gska ii + r te , PP. to the burning by Wolfe, with very beautiful and rare interior ot -~ - P. of the world seem to have been created as slates for the pencil of history. On slates the copy once written has been stand for a little, and then expunged to for fresh text. On others the original text such import that Time has only served to : e HH £1 when painters of old varnished their pictures to Th colors and "fix" them. is not a reader but can bring to mind @ slightest effort on his part dozens of such Canada. 'A million romances . . . to run each an entity in itself . . . might be earth-slates of the Dominion on to the and still leave & million more untold. 80 it is that we learn to come back to the , the land itself, with its endless tales. best short stories of this year and every year, past, t and to come. prone tiny slate is the little Silage of Saint Joachim, a few miles from Quebec city. water-reeds, lush from the toying waters of the Lawrence takes a couple of steps upward and spreads out into a plain on which some scattered far of ancient habitant type and a church have been flung as if way of illustration. Then the plain steps up y into a low bench and the bench in turn spreads out levelly for a little way and then suddenly leaps with vim into giant Cap Tormente, two thousand foet high, its Read jn the clouds and its feet eternally abathe in the mighty river. History had a mind to write a little six hundred word story here at the time she made up her mind to compose that greater romance in which she changed the text, on a slate of continental magnitude, from French to English. So she set to work at once. And being herself all absorbed, like any modern business by the larger work in hand, she dictated her Joachim communique to her Secutiey, General James Wolfe. Now the Wolfe pen was in the be- ning 8 clean-cut sword that grew in passion as the unfolded to a torch, as military romances in olden time almost ev here did. In order that there. may be no comeback from the rear that might spell disas- ter to the larger work when the sword had put to route the villagers, the match was laid to the scattered farmhouses, and when the smoke cleared two only femained. And they remain to this day. Jrought into greater prominence by their age and the fact that they survived "when Wolfe burnt the place." Thus do nt day disasters, rubbed and po Br He ean ar rushed and polised by fnestimable vate diliih more indelibly, the "scene" more vividly, | t beging ju 2 si here a m these eyes three da: Joachim. the Monsi, pre of the vast seigneurie belonging to the eminent "The people were deeply troub) hands oy to happen to them." old manuscript in Time's own hand illuminating er days later." his troops at Saint Joachim, Aptronid of it In the main, but thought that he himse| f might add a line nd there which would add to the picture as a h you may not think it, the touches that ded are the human interest touches. He tells that one of the houses, the low white one with the tall and stately Lombardy poplars, resemblin in front, was " leaves it to us to screen in its doorwa scarlet-coated, lace-ruffled, powdered and bewigged soldier of that day, who for all "The pomp of power," which he knew by heart, war's necessity for the torch, watching the then even more than bundred-year-old farmhouses at his feet, going up in flames. Froch had heart no doubt to regret too, here at Saint Joachim, Time brings out a oil painting of Saint Louis de Gonzaque and inting to the eyes, as were seen to fall ore the burning of Saint e picture then hung in the workroom of r La Saint Joachim at that time being val. "On seeing those falling ," Time says, ed, wringing their saying that something terrible was going And, there on the margin of the riting is the "And the town was burned threg | SILK HOSIERY Newest Shades for Spring 98¢ Heavy weight, pure Thread Silk Hoe fery--seamed back, reinforced heel. 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Miss Eina Steele sang a solo, as did also Mas- ter Johnson ' Forsythe, a trio of young girls sang and recitations were, given, a missionary pageant was splendidly given 'by several young girls of St Paul's, and Rev. rector,' contributed a 'Lantern slides were HSE, | sleeves. Sizes 16 to 40. RIMITED JACKSON-METTVIER IM PRINCESS STREET throughout the world and some pic- tures of the different hospitals where cots are maintained by the efforts of the little missionary workers here in Canada. It was a very profitable evening spent by old and young. Easter services were enjoyed in ail churches on Sunday and special Eas- ter music given. The Baptist church will hold ser- vices here next Sunday in the after- neon and in the evening services will be held in the Phillipsville church at 7.30 p.m. This will be done once a month, 2 Frederick Burt and family are leaving to reside in Torontd. Percy Gifford and wife, Oak Leaf, spent Sunday in the village. Gerald Phelps has returned to Brockville after be- 9) ing at home for a few days. Miss] Pepall, of Toronto, is with her sister, rs. William Burns, for a week. Mr. . M. Kilbourn and Mrs. D. Kelsey a children spent a day with Lynd- rst friends. a "William Baker and Mr. Verden Burns Howard contributed two lovely vio- lin solos, and Miss Lorraine Phelps sang a solo, "It Was For Me." Miss Phelps also played several musical numbers. A pleasing feature was the presentation of a life member- ship certificate of the Women's Mis- sionary Society to Rév. Mrs. Keough. This is valued at $25 and Mrs. Keough kindly thanked the ladies for the gift and the spirit that prompted it. A dainty lunch was served. Mr. and Mrs. F. Lawson spent a few days fn Brockville. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shaw of Athens spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. George Hazelton recently. Master Davison Topping and Glen Sweet are spend- Ing a few days with the former's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Top- ping, at Elgin. Little Miss Dorothy Denbigh and brother, of Brockville, are with Mr. and Mrs. J. Sexton through the holidays. Miss White and sister spent a day at 'their old home in Elgin, J. W. Russell and Mrs. Russell are expected home from their trip the last of April. Mrs, Russell's mother, Mrs. Brown, who lives here is not enjoying good health these days. Baster visitors included: Clovis and Cldra LaFleche and Miss Weav- er, of Watertown, N.Y, at C. La- Fleche's; Wilfred Slack, Toronto, at Arthur Slack's; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Russell, Toronto, at Hilliard How- ard's and William Russell's; Miss Elsie White, Montreal, at J. White's; Miss Jean Russell, Ottawa, at home; Miss* Anna Irwin, Ottawa, at A: Ir- win's; Miss Dorothy Keough, To- ronto, at the parsonage: Mrs. Gale, of Syracuse, and Mrs. Nellie Den- bigh; Brockville, at Mr. and Mrs, J. Sexton's; Misses Barr, Westport, at H. Steele's. John "Eaton's condition is very low at the time of writing. 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