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Al r __A 111 j Dominion of Canada
Wy" A is to have a Canadian
i L a Hall of Fame In tlio pala-
J&k ti;il new, Foilerul Pallia-
Sc fjSP intuit buildings at Ottawa.
XyV Tlie builders have just
made way for the sculp-
J tors i.i this national
■ pantheon. There is an
impressive marble vesti
bule, 30 feet wide, lending from the
main entrance at the base of the
.300-foot memorial tower and run
ning across the e.'diro building to tho
library at the rear, wliicli overlooks
the “Lovers Walk,” with the Gatineau
mountains in the distance, and the
Ottawa—to which Arthur S. Dour I not
llms sings:
Great river, flowing broad and free,
Around our city's rock-hemmed base.
O, road, that marches to the sea,
In powerful, rhythmic, pulsing pace,
1 hear your voice majestically
Above the strife of creed and place
Chant’.ng a nation's minstrelsy,
O. lyric singer, of cur race.
Hold voyngeurs have braved thy stream,
Le Caron, Champlain, Verendrye,
Discoverers driven by the dream,
A pathway to Pacific's sky:
Immortally your paddles gleam,
In unison you singing cry
Old chansons and the waters seem
Paint echoes when your voices die.
It is planned (lint perpetual light
shall here shine down on the faithful
departed servants of the state and
benefactors of mankind while memory
lasts. The corner stone was laid by
the prince of Wales in 1019. It is
flanked on either side by the house
of commons and the senate chamber.
The high window at the end of the
court is called “In Flanders Fields"
and shows the sons of the Dominion
going Into action at St. Julian, where
gas was first used by the Germans.
A sj>eeinl chamber In the memorial
tower will contain the names of tlit*
(55,000 who lie In Flanders and of
tl e entire Kxpeditionary Forces from
Canada.
The oid Canadian house of com
mons and senate, opened at Confed
eration. In was destroyed by fire
mysteriously In February, 1916. It
was charged that emissaries of the
central powers had sprayed the cor
ridors and floors of the reading room
with an inflammable oil. The minis
ters. speaker and the members had
to rush from the building to escape
cremation. Had the galleries been
crowded, as usual, instead of almost
empty, there would have been a great
tragedy that would have been added
to the long list.
Canadians are proud of the fact
that the material for the great new
structure on Parliament hill was
found exclusively within the boun
daries of the Dominion. The only
foreign materials are strips of teak
wood from India, ebony from Africa
and small quantities of Tennessee
marble and Ohio stone for blending of
colors.
T> e Canadian Hall of Fame will le
opei to industrial lenders and Liven
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tors, as well as statesmen and na
tional heroes. Men of wide culture,
unerring judgment and high ideal will
he chosen to act ns a commission to
decide who shall and who shall not
lie among the llrst to be honored
here. Prime Minister W. L. Mac
kenzie King is much interested and
during his presence at the recent im
perial conference in London made u
special study of Westminster Abbey.
Undoubtedly bis ideals are high for
here are some line lines by his friend,
Wilfred Campbell, now dead, about
the discoverers and explorers of the
New World by which he sets great
store:
They feared no unknown, saw no hori
zon dark.
Counted no danger: dreamed all seas
their road
To possible futures; struck no craven
sail
For sloth or indolent cowardice; steered
their keels
O'er wastes of heaving ocean, leagues
of brine;
While Hope firm kept the tiller, Faith.
In dreams.
Saw coasts of gleaming continent loom-*
ing large
Beyond the ultimate of the sea's far
rlin.
Even a limn of the United States
can give a good guess as to some of
tlie names which will be approved by
the commission. Such a tentative list
Includes Sir Wilfred Laurier, who is
In addition to have n great memorial
on Parliament ldll, Sir John Mac-
Donald. Edward Blake, Sir Will lain
Osier, Darcy McGee, John It. Booth
and William MacDougnll.
It is Interesting to know what will
lie the decision as to several sons of
tlie Dominion who rose to fame on this
side of the border. There is, for ex
ample, James J. Hill, a son of Well
ington county in Ontario, who built
and owned more miles of railroad
than any Canadian who stayed at
home.
And there is Franklin K. Imne—
millions of nature lovers on this side
of the line would applaud this seleo
tion. He was born in Prince Edward
Island and It was for that reason
that many of his admirers on this
sale were wont to salute him a “.Mr
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, OEOROIA.
Presidential Impossibility.’ Mr. Pane
became secretary of the interior in
the first Wilson cabinet. He was the
first secretary with the vision to
recognize the Importance of the na
tional park movement, the first to see
in the national parks a natural re
source of the first rank aiid a vast
economic asset. It was he who
formulated a national park policy and
it was with his co-operation that the
army of nature lovers induced con
gress to establish the national park
service, create new national parks
and pass needed legislation.
And the case of the [tight Honorable
Baron Thomas George Shnughnessy,
recently deceased, is interesting. It is
inconceivable that he should he left'
out. Yet he was born in Milwaukee,
the son of a policeman—“the peer who
made Milwaukee famous,” as the old
joke has it.
Canada’s Hall of Fame should be of
much interest to the people of the
United States. For presumably it will
contain “counterfeit presentments” of
many personages who in a large sense
are Americans rather than “Canucks”
or “Yanks.” These Americans nre
personages of the early days when
there was no United States and no
Canada, when France was striving to
build up a New World empire along
die St. Lawrence and the Mississippi
and England was working inland
from the Atlantic seaboard, when it
was New France against New Eng
land —and devil take the bindermost!
Le Caron, named in Bourinot’s verse,
one cannot place. Verendrye National
monument in North Dakota is the Uni
ted States memorial to tlie explorer
who may hrve been the first white
man to see the trans-Missouri territory.
But there are larger figures.
Take Father Marquette, for an ex
ample. Marquette’s fame rests large
ly on what he (lid in the Mississippi
valley. He was the first European
with Joliet, to travel the Fox and Wis
consin rivers and the Mississippi to
the Arkansas. He was the first to
ascend the Illinois and make the
“Chicago Portage" to Lake Michigan.
He taught the Illinois Indians at
Peoria. He lived one winter on the
site of Chicago. He died in Michi
gan and was buried there.
LaSalle, a great man with the
vision of an empire builder, is an
other personage of the early days
whose fame is based on his activities
this side of tlie Canadian line. In
1682 lie explored the Mississippi to
its mouth, claimed all of the vast
Mississippi basin for Louis XIV and
named it Louisiana. The
States in ISO3 bought from Napoleon
the part of this Louisiana lying be
tween tlie Mississippi and the Rockies.
Champlain is a third historical
personage of the first rank In whom
the people of the United States are
greatly interested. But his cuse is
more complicated. As every well
read man knows, tlie French and Brit
ish struggle for supremacy in the New
World lasted from 1659 to the capture
of Quebec In 1759.
Now, It was Champlain who un
wittingly was in no small part re
sponsible for bringing about tlie final
triumph of the British over the
French. The French occupation of
Canada began with Champlain, who
entered the St. Lawrence in 1G63. In
1609 he explored to tlie south of the
present international line, discovered
the lake that bears his name mid used
firearms on a hand of Indians from
tlie Mohawk valley in central New
York. Thereupon the powerful Iro
quois Confederacy swore eternal
enmity to the French, carried the
tomahawk and scalping knife to the
French and their Indian allies along
the St. Lawrence, blocked French ad
vance southward and for 150 years
was in effect a buffer state In tlie rear
of the growing English Colonies of the
seaboard. The Iroquois Confederacy
was so powerful in tlie Seventeenth
century that it collected tribute from
tribes as far east as Massachusetts
and as far west as Illinois. Historians
are agreed that its geographical lo
cation and pro-English activities made
the Iroquois Confederacy an iro
portnrt factor in the final outcome of
tha Frecch-English struggle f<
supremacy.
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By WILLIAM A. RADFORD
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to. the
subject of building work on the farm,
for the readers of this paper. On ac
count of his wide experience as Editor,
Author and Manufacturer, he is, with
out doubt, the highest authority on all
these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford, No. 1827
Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only,
inclose two-cent stamp for reply.
This a gambrel-roqfed dairy barn
with cement foundation and frame up
per structure and its plan emphasizes
(lie kind of care such a structure
should have in the building. It has
been arranged to insure the best pos
sible light, ventilation and cleanliness
for the cows, the workers in this na
tural food factory, and al§o to make
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Litter
Floor Plan.
the work of the da.iry farmer more
efficient and therefore less heavy.
With its silo it should require tlie
most careful planning from the farm
er, both to have it fit logically into the
farm building group of the farm and
have tlie buildings represent a har
monious and well-balanced- whole, and
also to have It handiest to the feed
lots, the pasture, the wind break and
the lay of the land. The open yard
shown in the illustration should be,
by preference, to the south, enabling
tlie dairy herd to be turned out for
exercising at least some hours even
in tlie winter. Tlie barn itself ought
to run north and south, as this will
give it the maximum amount of sun
light obtainable. And sunlight, we
know, is about the best conditioner,
the best antispetic, any herd can have.
The dairy stable portion is about
9 feet in height. Nine feet is a good
height; on * might have less, in order
to gain tlie greatest amount of mow
space for iiay storage above. Ob
serve that the width is 3G feet. Au
thorities concede that this is an ideal
width, since it provides for two rows
of rtails without crowding, and the
litter and feed alley are left of an
ample width to make work easy. Here
it may he well to observe that 36 to 38
feet is a good barn width. If you
want a higgler barn than the one shown,
the preference would be to extend it
ti e long way, rather than across.
Avery wide barn requires too much
extra foundationing in the shape of
beams, and the framing of it becomes
more complicated, not to mention the
matter of lighting. It would make
the inner row of stalls too dark to be
a y -ood foi the cows or the ones
whose chore it is to attend them. A
very long barn is as much to be ad
vised against ns a very wide one. Mak
ing the barn trun around into an L
or a U shape gets around the difficulty
nicely, and besides lias the added ad
vantage of making a very sheltered
yard.
In this barn the cows face each
other across the central feed alley,
with litter or cleaning alleys at the
sides. The advantage of this is that
sunlight falls on the gutters and stalls
and keeps them sanitary. Then, too,
tlie question of ventilation becomes
more easy when the cows face In
ward, ventilation ducts can be built
into tlie vails and so placed as to be
quickly opened or adjusted to care for
varying drafts.
The usual stall runs from 3 feet 2
i hes to 3 feet 6 inches. The very
rrow stall is not economical or ef
ficient, and the advantage on the scon
•of cleanliness is offset by discomfort
caused the cows. Tire average wij,
stall allows the manure to fall to the
gutter without too much soiling of
bedding -r the stall. Since the gutter
ought to he a little below the level
of the stall—3 inches is a good drop—
tiie matter of draining and cleaning
is fairly well taken-care of, without
too much effort.
There are four, box stalls: the bull
pen, a cow .pen and two. calf pens.
These are, essential t- any. dairy ban,
and the hull pen especially needs a
little thought. It ought to be' made
about 9 feet acro'ss, th : discourage Mr.
Bull’s .efforts to try his strength in
bracing, and often bursting tile pen.
The floor may be of hollow tile; oon-
■ crete, wood blocks or of cork brick.
Tlie silo is placed at one end, in the
most convenient position for easy feed
ing.
Built-In Feature Less
Costly If Part of Plan
Considerable expense can lie saved
If the built-in features of the home
are planned and arranged to be in
cluded in the specifications. It is the
changing from one idea to another in
home building that pyramids the cost
and makes the original figure grow
unexpected size.
The kitchen arrangement show
quire considerable thought and nc
built-in features which make
work easy incorporated in t>iel
and made part of the origm.i -1
cations. This feature is an f
be the wife’s part of home pht ;
it is a unit of the construction "J
should he hers to arrange and P“
as she wishes and of which S l
far greater intelligent understanding
than tlie male end of the firm.
Tlie great advances made .
,„ s , few years In .lie £
convenience of built-in fl '
done much to eliminate wasted ■ D •
augment living comfort and reduce
building cost. The bui H ‘ ,
c t: about the same as thei porta
type and from point of senU.
appearance has set an entire!
standard of excellence. _
The cabinet kitchen with
in refrigerator, work ttUe J
in a single unit is an exceiient
These cabinets are built wi *jV “ ntJ
tractive arrangement of ° ITip . f witi i
Pv flour, sugar, tea, coffee. {O .
convenient dispensing ‘‘ ‘ sfor .
get her with receiving dooi •
age compartments. The ca m >
cupy the least possible &*<*< n
wired for electrical equipmen
complete in every detail.
The breakfast room, or m •
become highly popular am >■'
cepted feature In all raoderi
This room is a great labor sa' e ,
daily where there are chib re • •
can be arranged In the smallest P
sible space with folding a ’ f
built-in seats. Proper arrangement {
wall sockets for electrical eq !
should be considered. . af . lir4
Tlie wall or door bed is
which every home should take - _
consideration. Their installation a
rangements are so perfected ,
affords a perfect concealment, _ _
when used are found to give the p
est amount of satisfaction and
fort.