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While his functions week primarily those of an inventor, the bent of Kelvin's SCOTLAND AND CANADA. ideas" was essentially practical. In his own special domain as a theorist, be made great emtributions to the common [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

stock of knowledge, thus facilitating the EDINBURGH, July god. advance of other scientific workers, abd Canada is celebrating its fifty-seventh there is no finer memory associated with his tanie than the fact that through the Confederated nation.. birthday

modesty and generosity of his nature. Scotsmen are drawn by many bonds of the encouragement which he was always sympathy and association to the great ready to extend to others was of enor land overseas. Although the ubiquitouso, if incalculable, valas in stimulat ing scientific research. It has been said Scot is known for the resource and that he achieved as much in this way energy he shows as a pioneer and settler, as through his own personal städies,

Kelvin presents the spectacle of an Eis influence 031 the development of amazing mental activity, and the marvel, Cannda has been conspicuously marked. appears the greater when it is remem Without entering into earlier historical bered that his interests were many-sided. His absence of mind has become a legend, associations-thère is ample evidence of but no man had a broader outicek upon the important part that soldiers and life, A Cambridge be had been a row, settlers of Scottish nationality played ing man: and he was an enthusiastic music-lover. He was a striking an in the early struggle for ascendangy--it

example as any of the truth that it is may be appropriately recalled that, Con the busiest man who can find most tim federation itself was mainly achieved by for those things in which he is interest the wise statesianship of two Caandisast

To our generation this idea of a matri- of Scottish birth, Sir John A. Macdonaldiculated student ten years old ses and George Brown, the former a Glasgow | absurd; but many of the most distin- man, the latter a native of Edinburgh, guished Scotsmen of the Victorian age Later in the construction and comple- began their college life at ages scarcely tion of the great Canadian Pacific | grraters When the system is examined Enve Railway, Scotstuen once again were inti without prejudies, it appears" to mately and valuably roncerned. Sir been wonderfully adapted to the 'circum Sandford Fleming, a Fifeshire man, was stances of the country and people, and One won. entrusted with the task of fading a amply justified by results. route, while to the initiative and asi-ders whether, if Thomson had lived in ness acumen of Lord Mountstephen and these days, ha could have adapted him- Lord Strathcona the successful issue of self to the kind, of course, permitted, by the great undertaking was due. But the officials of the Education Depart notable na such associations as these are, ment; and whether he could have satis- they form only a few of the many that fed the examiners in the trivial scholastic have bound, and continue to bind, Seot-pedantry of the Leaving Certificate. land and Canada From the very These questions one can never, answer; earliest settlement days np to the prea one know is (remarks Prof ET. sent continual stream of Scottish Whittaker) that the greatest man of migrants has added to the human science "India has yet produced actually sources of the great Dominion. In every did come to grief in his school subjsets, sphere of her life, material, intellectual and was not permitted to enter the Uni- and spiritual, they have taken a pro-versity of Madras:"and that since Seat- minent,

dominating, "part even

as Lish education has come under the con- pioneers in the West. It was mainly trol of a Government department. Scot Scottish explorers, Scottish fur traders, land has ceased to produce great original and Scottish pioneers who first pete-thinkers. trated the wilderness, naming her rivers. her mountains, and her outposts with Scottish hames. It is significant in the

That Mr. Razisay MacDonald in early intellectual history of the Dominion that life dabbled in the writing of fiction is all her leading Universities, with scarcely known to most of his friends, but it one exception, and her other higher in seems that he did not wholly abandon stitutions of "learning," were established this, branch of literature, even when he by Sentamen. This fact, perhaps, more ecame immersed in politics. In the new than any other, shows to how great annumber of the Socialist Beriem Mr. extent Canada has been a New Scotland Francis Johnson, who has for many years in character and ideal. In religionslen attached to the headguarters staff development, too. Sosinen have played of the 1. L.P., gives an interesting hint alominating part. And many of the of the Prime Minister's activities in thin trading banks, indenstal newspapers direction. When the Kerier was start- and other institutions of a public naturel, Mr. MacDonald not only wrote the owe their existence primarily to the editorial notes and articles over his own initiative and enterprise of Nectsmen. It signatare; hot was also author ander a serint, which com- is natural, therefore, that Canada should non-de-plume of in have an attractive clain upon the inter-menerd in the first volume, but which eats and affections of Scottish people was not completed owing to a sertion of Almost every day fresh evidence indred the manuscript going up in dames when may be obtained of the success with which the printers had their works destroyed emigrants are finding new homes in her by fire. fruitful territory.

SCOTTISH CHERCH CXION.

RAMSAY MACDONALD" 35 STORY-TELLERS

REWARD OF COURTESY,

A fuß act of courtesy on the part of a number of Peterhead people has had a sequel. Last year, a queue "war waiting at the ferrybait which plys serons man, obviously in the Ugie. when a

The waiting feeble health, approached. queue made way for him and gave him prior place on the boat. The gentleman in question, Mr. Alexander Birnie, of Wellhank, has now offered to defray the cost of erecting a bridge of reinforord concrete at the mouth of the river Ugie. WILLIE PERNIE OF TROON.

The union of the principal Presbyterian Churches in Scotland has taken a long step forward. When the Church Bill was last before the Peers there were signs of trouble ahead. But still it had an easy and unanimous passage through the House A long list of amendments deal ing with the property and eadowments of the Church of Scotland were agrevil In with practically no discussion. This was largely due to the tact and manage ment of Lord Haldane, who had been able to meet all the objections by a corn-

The news of the death of Wille promise with the landorning interest-Fernie, the Troon professional, will be Ma Macmillan, the Lord Advocate had learned with deep regret by golfers in all also a large share in the negotiations

parts of the world. his name was known which ended sa happily. The candour wherever the gate is playa When in with which the Archbishop of Canterbury the zenith of his powers he was reckoned referred to the almost incredible spectacle among its finest exponents Born in of Scotsmen of one creed remaining apart for over 80 years had a powerful, he acquired Wirly in life a fine gol fing style, and for inanys he was one effect upon the House. His speech was of the leaders of the golfing profession. trumpet call to unity, and in the Fernie won the Open Championship în opinion of this great, Scoianian, who has 1883 Musselburgh. The field comprised so long been head of the Anglicans players, and Fernie's winning weare Church, the union which is how well for the 36 holes (four times round the above the "horizon will prove to be of nine holes course), was 159. It was, how- great worth to Sentinti.

The Bill will not be taken in the "Com-ever, equalled by Rob Ferguson, of mens till the autumn session, and while Fernic was. successful. On his merits as Musselburgh; in playing off the tie there may not be the same unanimity golfer Willie Fernie deserved to win opinion there as in the Upper House, the itpulse of Scotland at large towards union will ensure its successful if belated

passage.

THE LOUD KELVIN CENTENARY,"

The centenary of the birth of the greatest mathematical physicist of time. James Thomson, afterwards Lord Kelvin, has been celebrated in Glasgow University, In bis extraordinary mental

more than one championship, but fate was again him. On no fewer than five occasions he tied for second place. BY THE WAY.

An Aberdeenshire farmer deserilus the badness of the fonds in his district in this fashion" If a motor cyclist took

drink of milk at Turi, it would be turned into cream when he reached Fyvie."

An American travelling dö Edinburgh grasp and in the precocity of his geaius,asked a lady in the same compartment Kelvin was the phenomenon of his "age. He was little over ten years of age when what sights be should visit the he matriculated at Glasgow University, romantic town. She mentioned a few Removing from. Glasgow to Cainbridge places, and he made a note of firm. Then at the age of inventen, he published an she aid:

the

he wrote down article in the Cambridge Mathematical Forth Bridge, night visit the Journel almost before he had into

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The caretaker at Abbotsford, tells how residence at the University. There was nothing fantastic, in the light of such one day a splinter lay on the flooring of prouocity, in the ambition entertained one of the rooms, and while conducting both by his father and by himself that party of Americans round he picked he should presently succerd to the Chair it up and threw it in the fireplace. In- of Natural Philosophy in Glasgow Uni-stantly several people rushed to versity and in point of fact he actually grate, "seized the fragment. and divided was elected to the Chair a year after it into minute portions as souvenirs. celebrating his majority. The young As the latest contingent of Hebridean Professor almost immediately launched emigrants was approaching Canada, a upon a course of the most brilliant work-man from Baren was hard rearking to RO brilliant indeed that the first ins Fellow islander, Mai, Dondd, the years of his Professorship, with his re-sea an" the land here are chists natural

arches in hydrodynamics, electricity in as at home! equilibrium, magnetism, elasticity, and thermodynamics constituted the most im portant part of his life. Later, there came his momentous work centring round his share in the laying of the Atlantic cable and the invration of various mea suring instruments for use in connection: with electricity, which were more or less directly inspired by that work; his re- construction of the mariner's can pass, and his various other inventions in the interests of navigation.

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