535-03 Page 1■ oem Tells o • •� Few emnmunitie will 10 e,t
Poem Found f Battle at Niagara; �IBeaci i , sal h
mam�s cet of any v:llag^ in Can- /
At Beach We � dada. The village ailing along No.
Reference toThorn Trees Recalls Highway rinoe„ ilan lstocl<and
Hits Tobacco ugcrsoll for e th in t, miles.
These \Here Imported by French Ville fa side street, '!eieli-
vdlc is (sown. C„ its linicstonc
By M. E. Gropp a quarries which have upp,rtol the
In the days when men chewed , By M. E. Cropp Hard by the sheltering grove of so she, and he her bosom village for the last 80 ycan, and
their tobacco. with the inevitable The little thorn trees, crataegus oak he set the holy thorn, wore i which lave produced iro,t of the
oxyacantha, which add their A spike of thorn which every lime used ill Westcrn Ontino dill -
dribbles of brown juice trickling Where it still grows and ever i'V uig the past half ceitmy. Beach-'.�J ,
down their chins, it is no wonder quota of loveliness to our On- _ - morn/ / /
shown c le, iuua pointi ng the ti...i f 50 /
tario countryside, are not native She gathered -nothing more." Ccn<rcvills ha, a popul w m of 550
that societies for the betterment to America. They were imported How sharp the crown of thorn and is oldu than its big ici hbors.
of mankind waged war against by the French. When the British Christ wore for man, reminding While Bois le Grand lay help- Woodstock and Lit,u sell, and cure
-the use of the "filthy weed." took over Canada in 1759 they him what pain for sin was less, the English came. had a larger population than hoth. -
found the trees in the vicinity of borne." The anilmious plan to develop
Here a song taken from a all the old French settlements. I "The palisades are red with ' / Beachville into a pr,glc lac tenvu
book found recently in the / used to wonder why the French War came on, but fire, the ramparts red with u with piouic "vc nvlu ncs `vas
Beachville Public Library-- implanted another tree in this gore. halted i+hui the sponsor 'howue,ct at
Tobacco already forest covered land. Then "Remote amongthe trackless Hali(as eni hi. vcay (�om I nglanrl to
Its brave defenders on the wall
Woods and waters of the west die thickly raise Rinds for this pl ojc ct. 'I; he
What gives my breath an awful I a line Found in Chambers' En- y more and more i
ay
shed possible light enemy had broken yet Niag- 'Mid rack and ruin over. oldest building ba m the villa was
smell, upon the subject. It says, a fer- are's quiet rest ... whelmed, no help above, be. formerly t bl iearaech hap and is h iybb j''
A Elect of swift canoes came ❑ow used i i. >,aci�c Il is located
And hinders me from"feeling • mented liquor which is very in low, on'a sick ti vet and i, tnonght to 1 P 1
well? toxicating is made from the fruit up, all vocal with the song The few remain., not of the be at least 130 veal, old.
one single word the tale will in man Of voyageurs, whose cadences
y parts of France.' slain, /�
tell! I` William Kirby, the bard of kept even time among Surrender to the foe , • „ A 1
Tobacco! Tobacco! Niagara, 1817-1891, published a The dippingpaddles, as they �%'� r yip y� p'6 .�q, ;) 1g
Cho.— 390 verse poem in 1881, called. flashed along Ontario's shore, "The last day eame, and Bole o` `+e+� st®Bali Ce8 er Lilt "" .q iC at
Tobacco's the curse of the land, Spina Christi, or The Legend of Past headlands high and coasts le Grand beheld with misty d
that Beachville Baptist Church
Tobacco's the curse of the land: the Thorns, telling the story of eyes r
the thorn trees growing In mistiness — and bore
Z pledge you, my friend, I g gat Niag- The flag of France run down
A bevy of fair wives who love o
.I'll never defend that villainous ` ai•a. Niagara, of course, means the staff and that of England tl
yr; weed tobacco. Lake. The citizens their husbands more and rise.
" more, BEA wintry
weather
In spite n the formerly attended the he chvil}
44 _ of that worthy town, even today, It was the sharpest thorn of
Who could not bear their ab- =old, wintry weather on Sunday, Baptist church, closed the scr Y+6
What keeps we spitting all the '. rebel at the kite -tail which time all that 'neath his pillow lay. October 10, a large gathering with the benediction.
day has attached. to their' old and Bence, and, defiant of the • • « g therm at-
honored name. roar The fortified Castle and trad-
tended the services held on the Rev., Ward in his addre;.,r'
On fence and wall, till people s " Of forests and of waters, came in occasion of the lam of the cor- chose as his text, Neh. ° •e,
g poet of Kirby's tale, which laying Then I told them of the ha�Ql
say' Whether Kirby's romantic - to comfort and caress the Rousillon Regiment guarded nerstone of the Baptist church now my God which was good upoi+ys
"I guess he'll spit his life legend be founded on fact I can. As women may — and only from 1.750 until it was captured under construction in the village. as also the king's words tiro.,'
sway!" not say.: It starts in 1750, with they — by the British in 1759, is visited Rev.. E. S. Barton, pastor of the had spoken unto me. AndFc I
Tobacco! Tobacco! Man's solitariness." b thousands of sight -seers eve I said 'Lett us rise up and buffo
the departure from Avignon, Y g every United church, gave the invoca- i
a « a they strengthened their ban
France, of the Rousillon Rego- year. Over it fly the flags of the tion; Rev. E. L. Mason of the Bap- this good work." hitI often ask the doctor why went for Canada— The Count Bois Is Grand be- three nations which have oc- tist church in Tiiisonburg, read The s .h
So much of suffering have If came infatuated with one of copied it — France, Britain and selected Scripture portions. eesker showed that hi - p
In one short word he makes "The city walls of Avignon these women —Madelaine — was repeating itself today. Jt It,
the. United States. B. A. Finch and Mrs. Morton the Israelites after the distru e
reply, are built of stone, and high Founded by Rene Robert Todd, both of the Beachville Bap -
Jerusalem rose up and rern
Tobacco.i Tobacco., The houses stand with balconies "A dame of charms most Cavalier, Sieur de ]a Salle, in thelist congregation, placed the me- their
eir beloved city and temply
radiant —' mentos in a copper receptacle and
above the streets that lie winter of 1678-9 as Fort Conti, Beachville is rising up t:0 the q.
.. Dr. F. L. Orchard of First Bat)- then no more my health Around the old Cathedral "And he,.. remembered, not the _..the -triangular peninsula on the p cas!on and rebuilding the Bap
'tist church, Re Woodstock, led- in
abuse, whose sweet bells were ring, thorn he planted by the Grove east side of the mouth of the prayer. Rev. John Ward of the church which was destroyed
'Nor chew this weed nor spit Ing clear Of Paradise, where he forgot,. Niagara River was rebuilt as Ingersoll Baptist church preached fire in April, 1943.-//_ i
in his forbidden love, Fort Denonville in 1687 b Baptists here have had ma
its juice; merry tune, one day in June Y Mar- sermon, basing his remarks on r
I give my pledge to never use OAf seventeen hundred year. The chatelaine of Bois le quis Denonville. It was abandoned Neh. 2:18. discouragements since that thn
Tobacco! Tobacco! _ And half: a hundred years be- Grand, the purest wife and in 1689, and again rebuilt, as Rev. Martin K. Brown, pastor of It is tragic, he said, if a churl
best Fort Nia disappears from the scene.
sides, while crowding far and gars,. by Gaspard Chaus-.Beachville Baptist church, who means that another Christian wit
I tell you, friends, I will be near I Of womankind he left behind, sagras de Lery in 1725-6. Captured presided for the service together ness is gone.
free! Beneath the flags and tapes- And ventured, with the rest, by the British forces in 1759, it with the assistance of - Charles
My passions' slave no more I'll tries, the people loudly cheer To sport with woman's loveif- was held through the American Buchanan, one of the deacons, laid The people, and the pastor, h
ness, as fora passing the cornerstone. Morton Todd, a continued, are to be congratulato
be, The Regiment of Rousillon is P g jest," Revolution and until 1796, when deacon, F. M. Canfield, treasurer, on their renewed hope, land the
And in my mouth no man shall ordered to the war, it was given to the United States. and Harold Kipp and Stanley Post efforts. The church, he conclude
seE A thousand strong, the pick Then one day, while out hunt- The Americans used the fort trustees, received the offering. is necessary for worship, edit' "
Tobacco! Tobacco! among lisp, Madeleine accidentally shot as a base for their attack on The Ingersoll Salvation Army tion'and recreation. The chord
The mountaineers of War." himCanada during the War of 1812• Band abi assisted with the out- here to make non Christians C'
The little book is called _ 14. The guns of the fort com• door service. Rev. Peter Geimen, tiros, and to make Chris: ans/
Trumpet Notes and was the offi- Sailing with the Regiment was "She waited on him night and pletely destroyed the town of from Los Angeles, California who ter Christians,
ml song book of the Royal the count Bois le Grand, who day, plucked off her silken Niagara in 1813. The British -
Templars of Temperance, an or- had been married just three glove again captured the fort In. 1813,
With self -accusing grief and and it was finally ---�` ry
ganlzation aeti:ve m Beachville months. He kissed his bride fare- y returned to l tJ —�- fell. ve ry
/ Then the blow fell. Governor
around the turn of the century. well beneath "the holy thorn of tears lamenting as a dove the United States by the treaty ' Simcoe was recalled. His sue.
Beachville Council No. 191 once the old Celestine," which Bewails her wounded mate of Ghent in 1815 censor refused to sanction is
owned the building now used as sa ,,,s x'^4" ..� e. YF ,�, ,„„ granting of large tracts of land
the library, and had over 200 "Pope Clement brought with " Y MN(* ('' to individuals, especially Ameri-
pledged members, blessings fraught and planted a o• a vim. y u ��' -�,� vt cans. Horner and Ingersoll lost
it between �k s� R;; _ / �: r` • .. ..— 1 their townships, but were given
�pyq_ The wall and wall beside the f,J Z00,edeeds like everybody else.
wa
6 I) JJqq�� r:.. -
/✓/(/C Gross, where he s daily g 06 Ingersoll refused .to stay. Broken
a seen s a; r:< < , • `gy�( hearted, and consid rabl oor-
To kneel before It reverently, -,- �✓ `�.�-qi'. he left the ist to
7� It came from Palestine, 0 �/, ` return. Some of his settlers left
A plant from that which cruelly '' y e a" • ,OJ �....- I also.
l o. With his family Thomas .
the crown of thorns supplied,„ ^A •PA^ •S Ingersoll settled near York "To close the port, and guard Christ wore for me, when V119 where he died In 1812.. From 1799
the fort, mocked was He J^ until 1818 there were no Inger-
And keep it for the king." And scourged and crucified." L I sells in the Beachville district.
e : . I Then James came back to take
Near Niagara .l Then the Count plucked a ,1 1,.,/Yt over his father's farm.
C new e Th
spray from the thorn tree and . a,N/ Government was not
"Count Bois le Grand sought placed It in his hat. The Regi-
'interested in Simcoe's defence
out a spot of loveline ss, was ment marched to Bordeaux, and Ancient thorn trees at BeoChVIIIe, Plans. The settlers got no more
full sailed to Quebec. From there help in improving their roads.
Of sandwort's silvered leaf and I they were ordered west to the tl 1 g w.. Oxford again settled down to
stem, with down of fairy c . Niagara fort, - wait for something to happen.
wool. _..
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