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RALPH (REV. CHARLES W. GORDON), a Canadian author, born at Glengarry, Ont., 1860. He was edu- CONOID CONRAD great Emperor Frederick II., and like him was excommunicated by the Pope, King of the Romans in 1237, son of the great Emperor Frederick II., and like him was excommunicated by the Pope, Innocent IV., who set up a rival emperor in William, Count of Holland. On the death of his father, in 1250, Conrad marched into Italy to recover the towns which had declared against him. He took Naples, but could not get the inves- CONRADIN.
Pope. He died in Italy in 1254. See CONRADIN. cated at the high school, St. Mary's, Ont., Toronto University, and King's College, Toronto. He was missionary to miners and lumbermen in the Rocky Mountains, 1890-1903; and representative of Cana- dian Western Missions for the Presbyterian Church in Great Britain, 1893-1894. ian Church in Great Britain, 1893-1894.
He took an active part in social service work, and during the World War was chaplain with the Canadian forces at the front. His works include: "Beyond the Marshes," "Black Rock," "The Sky Pi- lot," "Ould Michael," "The Man from lot," "Ould M Michael," "The Man from Glengarry," "Glengarry School Days," "Breaking the Record," "The Prospector," "The Pilot of Swan Creek," ist, of Polish birth and ancestry, born in "Gwen: The Doctor of Crow's Nest, 1856. His full name was Joseph Conrad "Life of Dr. James Robertson," "The Korzeniowski. When his father died, Foreigner," "The Angel and the Star," "The Dawn by Galilee," "The Recall of Love," "Corporal Cameron." etc.