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THE BARRIE EXAMINER TRO RR FOAL TRIN NR NASER ng : aa ~~ Page Eleven ; WORKS Tablets FOR QUEEN AND Through the courtesy of F, W. Grant The Examiner has received several articles deuling with the story of the Fenian In- vasion of 1866, As these: are of consider: able general interest and also intrortuce the namex of a number of men well known m Simeoe Co, some yeurs ago. The Ex miner purposes reproducing them. The first of these is us follows 1 "Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are marching; "Cheer up: let the rebels come: "For benéath the Union Jack 'We shall drive the Fenians back "And fight for our Royal Canadian home." Canadians to the core were the boys who fought for Canada in '66, A true hie ory of the part they played would stir the blood Barrie of young Canadians. Yet between the un-| Ing coun- semi covers of British Columbia schoo! | The Ex- histories this epic is dismissed wich two be done or three brief parugraphs Well migh> the Canadians who repelled | the Fenian invasions demand that history should do them justice, This is the first | 'of series of articles which deal wich this unwritten chapter of Canadian history, | er bout St. Helen, Pat was a Roman | Catholic und an Irishman, The St. Helen hil put into Belleville the morning tha! | the bugle called the soldier boys to the} market square to maker ready for eventual ities, Pat Ward stepped ashore. The Captain said to Par Ward. "Stand by. me bhoy. We sail in fifteen minutes." "Go to bell," said Pat Ward. "I hear the bugles blowing ane Tm going 10 shoul: | der x murket ond fight for my country Get some-one else to tuke the wheel." | There are veterans of che Fenwn Raid now fiving in Vancouver who heard Pat Ward muke his declaration of loyalty and who followed him to the recruiting office | and Inter served heside him in the regim | ent Up in West Zorra in the county of Ox ford lived a colony of Highland Scots From nearly every family a young 'man bail enlisted to.figh' if needs be for Canada There wox vn old Mighland Indy whose fother had served at Waterloo who anxious: Iy awaited news of the invasion. It was splendid pioneer who said when a r reached the se'tlement that General * had crossed the frontier ut Niagara, attacked and-oeeupied Hamilton and) was marching on to Toronto. "Weel, the Fenians may tak Hamilton, y may tak Toronto and théy may tak Ia. but they'll nae tak Zorra!" Fortunately O'Neill and his army of hoodlums from the slums of Buffalo and New York did pot take Hamilton. But there is no doubt fhat the Highland lady was but put'ing into words some idea of the determinution in the bearts of her people when she declared that come what may Zorra would remain unconquered by the alien foc. But the milk snd water histories used in British Columbia's pub: ie schools slmost forget to mention 'any thing ubout this stirring period in the life 'of our pountry ! "British Columbia's school histories do nai_give that great Canadian, Sir John A. MacDonald, any meusure of pfaise for his work for Canada during the period of the Fenian attucks. Sir John's treasury was depleted gnd times were hard. There was no adequate military organization. The men who came out ax volunteers were | in many cases without even uniforms. In those days there was no northwest to draw upon for men and money. and British Columbia was not a part of Canada. Can- iada's cfedit was poor in the markets of the world. And it is a question whether some British statesmen would have worried very much if Canada had passed outside the Enipire. But MacDonald "carried on during this difficult period with n united Canada be- hind him. The Highlond Scotsmen ayd Irivh Catholics and the sons of Old Eng- Jand stood shoulder to shoulder in the poor. Jy drilled volunteer reziments organized to defend the coun \ 'There were the Irish patriots type of Pat Ward of the good ship St. trains aud cipal duy P service . any Grang orc, & Passenger EY Phone @ AcupofOXO fe- is both freshing and invigorating. Ready in. « mi Bte--the minute Pat Ward was a wheeleman on the riv- ith jon, La of* the |) 'CANADA IN '66 The Story of the Fenian Invasions. 'From the Vancouver Daily World) | felen, and there were the Irish putriota of the type of Thomas D'Arcy MeGhee. later foully murdered, who played his part in the duys'of 66 for Queen nnd coun ty Sir John Maclonald was questioned in 8 public merting uw to the expendi*ure of certain monies during the Fenian Raid. He was challenged to tell what had become of {$500.00 "twon't fell." said the Premier. 'The t has hal averet opera'ive mt Canada and the Unit oll "heir names or the nami 1 to whom the money was paid lism, wernle be stabbed or ins | J thut Sir Job» had been | covering up these expendi a thi When 'he dead hody of McGhee was found people remembered Sir John's words und then more fully reslized the seriousness of the crise which had con fronted. the or und hie stutesmanship iy mee ing the situations which had arisen, Aside from the more serious phase of the ryents surrounding the Fenian Raid there umerous side. This was brought hebted discussion at a Fenian veterans} meeting in Vancouver the Royal Canadian beat soldiers in the world." suid Comrade Buchanan in the course of a speech. 'omradesGolding Allen, Seventh Battal. niton, Ont.. veteran of the Raid andoan old regular army mun, wax quick to resent the remarks of Comrade Buchsn- an. "T pprotest."" chouted Comrade Allen, rising to his fee", "against any such exper. against the regular army. I grant you shut the Cynadian is a great soldier. but in every time T have yer to aee where your British Tommy needs to take n hack seat." Comrade Allen would have' doub less de: manded an apology. from Comrade Buch ann if Comrade Namilton Weeks, McGill. College Cadets, 1866, had not taken the floor to sct at peacemaker. "Tet, me point out,' said Weeks.) "that whilet it may have been porsib that he Canadian volinteers were frst on parade thaé morning. that the Brit- ish reeulare garrisoned at Kingston were men who had been through heavy cam- Comrade y wished to do so within the bounds of- discipline. On the other hand," continued Comrade W pouring oil,upon the troubled waters. Canadians were ll boys like Comrade Buchanan here. They were up and doing early in the day and were no doubt anxious for blood."" When old veterans get together thers is bound to be controversy over dates and de- tails of the long ago. Comrade Weeks brought about an agreement between the enthusiastic Canadian and the loyal Eng- Fishman, slthough Comrade Cochran al- most started the row up sfresh when he shouted that Buchanan was right for to use Cochran's own words. ""T war there with the Enst Durham's, the Forty Sixth and know that we beat the English regul- ars to the paradé 'grounds,"' Among veterans who attended thie Van- couver mégting were the following: Capt. Ben Wilso®, served with 7th London Light Infantry. now living at $30 Nicola street ; J.P. Thompson, 15th Belleville Argyles. foyal Mansions; J. W. Manley, Owen No, 1 Co., 2418 Brunswick street; icnzo Volunteers, Haro street; iy Lye. "Chi a 'w Reales 858 Burrard «rect; J. es { 28 rai h_ East Durham Battalion, Viotgria Driye; George Ball, 35th Bat: tali Cornwall street; W. L. Fair- baign, dist Battalion, Perth Rifles, 1956 Eighth avenue. west; Geo. Griffith. 44th Welland. 832 Conlova street; W. Buchan- on, 16th Prince Edward County Battalion, Hudson Hotel; James Tuson. Ist Ontario Rifles, 1851 Third avenue. west: FE, H. Moran, 22nd,Oxford Rifles, 34 Twelfth ave- nue, west; 'Hamilton Weeks, MeGill Col- lege Cadets, 1866 Tenth avenue, east; Gol- ding Allen, Seventh Battslion, London, On- tario, 31 Abbott street; W. O. Black. 35th Simeoe Foresters. 1140 Comox street, There ix a ceneral ides that the Fenians being: an Irish Catholic organization that Trish Catholics in Canada were in some eas- es sytnpathetic with the invaders. At the meeting these gentlemen attended," some light was thrown upon this phase of th invasion, - Comrade W. 0. Black, well-known for his Orange sympathies, said this: _ When the enemy came, there were no divisions of race or religion. The men of Canada were as one in repelling the invader, Th is nob--tge ever will be--division, in | against it. THE SUNDAY H SCHOOL LESSON JANUARY 18: THE BOLDNESS OF PET ER AND JOHN.--'"Ac. 4:8-21. » (Read Ac: 4: 1-31; Ps. 124). GOLDEN TEXT.--"'Stand fast in, the faith, quit you like men, be strong." 1 Cor. 16:13. TIME.--A.D. 30. EXPOSITION to the Sanhedrim, 8-12. The Jewish Sanhedrim wus the great court of the Jewish law, composed of ev en y-one leading men of the nation, Caia: | phas, the nominal high priest by Roman appointment, Annas, the real high priest, according to the Jewish way of looking | at things, were both there. It was # very wugust assembly. composed for the most fart of Sadducees. Peter and John's br ing brought before it, and their treatment | by it wae an exact literal fulfillment of the prediction of Jesus (Mat. 10:17). Their attempt to hinder the preaching of the) gospel really gave wings to the gospel. | Peter had seen this hody together once | before when Jesus was tried and condemn: | ed. On that occasion he was thoroughly | frightened and cqwed and played the pol: | troon bur now MR is calm und fearless. | 'The resurrection of Jenus from 'he dead | and his own baptism with the Spirit has | wrought this great change. The Jewish and other wonder workers were sccus'ained to perform their marvels by the power of | some name (at eg.. the name of one of | the Patrinreh. or the name of Solomon, or the unspeakable nune of Jchovrh). so the PLACE.--Jerusalem Peter's First Answer couneil very naturally asked Peter and John "in what name" they had healed the lame man, The real object of the ques tion wes to trap them into an answer that would be the basis of wecusation und rondemnytion, Just at that momen' the Holy Svirit_ came upon Peter and took possession of him and "filled" him. Jes: ts" ever. grecious promise for kuch an em: ergency us 'his wae fulfilled (Mat. 10° 19, om: ef. Iu. 12 11, 12; Ace 13° 8, 9 an service und testimony. Peter had olrendy heen fille] wi h the Spirit at Pen. teenst (eh. 2 4', and will be again a little further on iv Al). Tk wax very clear then that che films with the Spirit is nat} ame hive thet nccurs once for all, but Is to be repeated with each new om- ergeney of service, Hersin lie the need of continual prayer for that which w= al ready powem Peter's anwwer is wonder fully skillful, But i's wisdom was not due hut gentle and courteous (Gal, 5: 2! But before he closes his one tremendous overwhelming sentence. he pointe at the | man standing right there. livine tes' ninny to the power of Jesu' name. and adds "thie man stands whole." indiered and condemned hic ndvantage und drives his charge hon the serintures (vo 11; ef. Jer. 29: Pa. 118: 22), If the Acts of the thie cannot be fie-ion Poter closex with an appeal ty There is salvation for no one outside of it, The couneil were in 2 «il- emma, Peter and John refused to be in. filled man timidated, They wanted to punish Peter and John, but could not. for the people were glorifying God for what had ren Hone. 'The couneil therefore had to content themselves with threats, Tl. The Council were in a Dilemma, 13-21 Peter and John declared that it was in the name of Jesus that the deed had neon done. and there the man stood right before | their eyes and they could ray nothing They marveled at the fear- lest frankness of men who had never en joyed the teaching of the rabbinical schools and naturally would be overawed in #0 august and learned an assembly ax their own, Holy Ghost boldness in untutored men is slways @ perplexity to mere schol asties. Peter's sermon and bearing prob- ably led ultimately to the conversion of | some of his, hearers (chs. 6, 7). The only solution they could give of the puzzle was that "these men have been with Jes- us." That is the solution of many mya teries. Companionship with Jesus maker inary men extraordinary. They were ee |ada when our liberty and our hearths are threatened by the foe." This was roundly applauded by the vet- erans, Comrade Manley alo paid tribute |, to Trichmen gencrally for their part in| offering to defend Canadian soil when at- tack from without was made, Comrade W. Buchanan told how ax a| mere boy he had made his mind up to go| to the front if need be the csll for rec- ruits was made, "My mother didn't want me to go."| said Ae, "and when my father came home, | she said to him that I was to stay at bnme, that I was too young for service. * 'Weel.' said my father, 'the Inddie | may go if he likes. There was never a| Buchanan yet that wouldnse fight for the Queen!" And so I was allowed to go. T went to. Kingston and drifled with the roldiers, b ssw the little gunbosts in the herbor, tiny little ctait. I mounted guard | in my turn on the towers at Kingston | and I'm a proud man today that T did| all T could at that time for the defence of the country. / Others spoke during the meeting of their experiences during the raid and sev. eral referred to the fact that British Col- umbia school histories give no fitting ac- cofint of the affair. The Vancouver vet- erans of the Fenian Raid will themselves tell the story in, The World. Each veter- an promised to "make 1 contribution that 'will carry in its ps a true and full rée- ord of the memorable days when young: Conadians were first called to the. colors' to defend their bomes and hearths." > = -- _A Never-Failing Record EMORY may fail: a receipted bill may be jost; a household record may be open to dispute; but a paid cheque is a lasting, absolute proof of the payment of money. H. A. SIMS Manager Any person wishing to place personal affairs on a business basis, may arrange for a checking account with this bank. THEBA NK°F TORONTO Capital $5,000,000 Reserve $6,625,623 . owski A Piano Talk No. I | Just lisen to the master pianist. Pader- When a child of three yeurs he | played to» party of children for dancing. When he was seven he wrote his first music al composition. "A Set of Dances."" When Puderewaks became renowned Some critics werr very hurd on him and Iny his [great charm to hypnotic | has a magic power that holds both the mus He certainly ieally educated and the iguorunt Lot us invest where this magic box the piano came from and how it got here The Lute You may have resd about the lute and the duleimer, the Inte of the fifternth and sixteenth centuries was very papular The body was They unker men" tion a tnfk do to be saved?" re before you| the fae The scene hax changed--Peter. | were unwilling to adn the sceused, hae become the accuser; the |the expedient of tr couneil had become the culprit at the bar. | port of the fact, Peter follows up | John (x Soene ar-sbaped with a neck Foe a aie itt ro the [OF fingertourd, nnd acrow the frets on thr eee ene eee a a famous {Finger board vte stretched eixht strings Fete Peter mean eatremely. deferen. /uned in pair like » mandotin and plucked renee curtems. He acknowledge? the {ith a pick held in the right hand, high Wwsition and withorry of his inter: | The Virginal rogatories The Holy Snirit does not ogee | An instrumen' ealled the Virginal is rhe inen He» contents rude and overbearing, | like a big lute with « key-hoard a tached; t|when a key ts pressed down » mechynical ~ late on parade chat morning in) of 44,8. 9) Yet Peter was bold, fear: | pick inside pluck= the string, but with the IS6H when General O'Neill at the head of |..." frank and ou'spoken. There was no | virginal ech key operates one string only-- the Fenian army started aero from OF | cinjyromiaine of tho truth, no glassine ovr |and the toue is very weak. The virginal seen with the intentions of taking Kink: |p heir guilt. The council had spoken | was very povular und fssbionable for young bl : : ev ani the thing done as simple | ladies to play upon Queen Elizabeth was Coniiriils (W... Buebiana, Heletah Bets liner teen ond discomforting | quite » proficient performer on the virgin: talon, Prince Falward County. who woe 1ineust nf Peter in hue renly te sev. if You | al + in Canada's citizen arm ; 4 ength | r tefer to a good des! tone tna & rength The Hurwichord O'Neill tried to plant a rebel flug on Can-|re (impotent? mon' lef d=, 10-32).| aq improvement op the virginal ix the adinn sil, maid that the Sixteenth was |i council doubtless winced. Then -wihe| A" iP a {fall five minutes head of the regular] oot hevtation Prter tile them that it +a on parade 7 ' : erage 7 Bi ' the name of Jesus Chriss, the 0 v [just like the averse tnodern skeptic who, Te shove wthat.. thes Clmmainn ciel had crucified, the one whom jwhen he comes up against facts be can army wae equal 10. if not abeud. of the Vane her hand had raised from the | not explain away. dodges the question "What shull we do with these They should have put the ques differently What «hall we Aa they could not deny ower of Jesus' name and tit, they bit upon to silence all re- The unswer of Peter and 19) 1s both crushing und inspir- Read it over and over aguin un'il of the with a swinging blow of God's hammer. | you get the iron of it into your own blood. | While the e postles is | world's history Fetion ite author is a master hand; but {ful witnesses of the Lord Jesus. common it is plainly the! people cecorl of the deft utterances of a Snirit- | dune." te pre rm clesius.ies, wx 40 often in this tried to silence the faith: 'glorified Gort for that which wud A SERIES OF TALKS ON MUSIC By C. C. Laugher, Mus. Bac., Bowmanville, Ont. f hurpsichord. The key board is similar but has two and sometimes three strings to euch key. Dr. Burney deseribes the tone as "'a serateh with a sound at the end of at. The harpsichord sometim hus two and even three key bourds, the upper keys playing on one string only, the lower on two strings Stops were added on this instrument which uttempted to produce some thing like ihe effect that pedals of our piano: furte produce. Some had « venetinn swell which opened and closed, causing a sort wf crescendo and diminuendo. 'The Cluvichord Now the clavichord came next, and in the place of picking the strings it was termed "a struck string™ bus no" like our piodern instruments it is the direct predecessor of the pianoforte. Handel. Hoy don, Mozart. Beethoven and Buch thought + lot of the cluvichord. The first clavi chord had 36 notes but later the number wae increased. The Pisnoforte Then came the pianoforte with struck strings, The inventor of the pisnoforte went buck to the duleimer for the idea uf striking the s rings, the duleimer being | an instrument with steel airings stretched aero a kind of sounding-board. -- The wires were struck by two hammers held i the hund of the performer. Th» first pinn forte was made in 1710 by 4 man namer Christofori, Thix was a crude instrument Johsun Stein improved the xction in the 18th century which wax called the Viennese Action. It would be well for wach piano | student to lift the front of the piano which will reveal action which comprises ers, Bammers and rods, and examine the uecurucy and 'delicucy of its movenient, The first time a pianoforte was used 1 sh accompaniment was a! a 'program of sn Opera called "The Beggar's Opera," t read: "Miss Brickler will sing sccom- 'nied on he new instrument by Mr. Dibdin."' The first. solo unnounced for the pisnoforte was played by J. C. Bach, in London, June 2nd, 1763, Mr. Broad: wood of London invented pedals to be ed with the fret. Mr. John Hawkins of New Jersey mare the first upright piano n 1800. Buch and hia predecessors played wih just pressing down the keys like the gan action bu' it was Lizst who intro- ed the wrist action und produced whut | wo is termied-the powerful school of pianoforte playing. How came the name "Pianoforte'? The piunoforte is the first instrument that gives euxy access to extremes of power. The first part of the word, piano, means soft. The playing of this instrument may be made in an extrome whisper. The second parc of the word, forte, means loud, and with,s competent player the imitation as of a fest orchestra may be made, hence ite name Pisno-forte--cupable of extreme soft- tees and loudness, What 'piano playing now is, is largely ue to such men as the following. They hud been called to other employment, but afterward received the reul exll to musi Ha 8 priest; Handel---s doctor; Dvor- sk---u -- buteher; Berlivz a doctor; § Schumann- The Pisnoforte is the instrument which ia second to the orchestra in ite possibilities, Years of application are necessary to quire the art of playing which will comprise 4 mastery of the "even touch," stscesto ond legato playing and correct fingering. Seck to understand the pieces you play thai you may feel it as conversation or dialogue and not ss the following conver- jon would seem to suggest in this little skit Jones Mice Bungloud is going abroad to fish her musical educstion." Brown: -"Where did she get the mon- ey? ' All the neighbors gladly chipped MAIL CONTRACT LED TENDERS, adilressed to the will be received at on Friday, February Postmaster General, Ottawa until no 1 13h, 1920, for the conveyance of His Maj- csty's Mails, on a proposed Contract for four years, six times per week on the route Nunesing & G.T.R., & RRA (via Eden- le) from the Postmaster General's Pleas- . pext. Printed notices con sining further in- formation ndi:ions of proposed tract muy be/heen and blank forms af Tender may be-ottained at the Post Offices of Minesing, Edenvale, and at the office of the Post Office Inspector: Toromio, Post Office Inspector's Office, Toone Dee. 29th, 1919. Behe A. SUTHERLAND, Post Office Inspector. om the farce that made, the weather famous--"Falr and Warmer,""at the Grand, dan. 1.