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j j .jl i - ' ' -■ -~— jmtH y JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN 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 —.fn ip ~ i|| TO -= -££4 U 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. Gambrel Roof Dairy Barn 1 of. Up-to-DatcMJonst^l ..... ■ ! ~ —'.■•A.T.* •* - .. -f.:— C-- v .;5v v-iMSi..-.:. ■> ™: -TsSJ 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 JcwPenT, ScalfPen y ✓ — jc. — — -j?- ■ I Mi' : If ~ J jj J [ U 7 Fa , rT . A. T J \ \ iE ED ALLEY. - \ n\ 9 WaiIlJ 1 1 J* I" ! i"~ —: ■- bv^b 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.