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Septernhor 9th, 1909'
SOUTHERN ORMS11 COLUMBIA: -
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SCOnl, of. the Possibilities of the
Im-
m.nss Province.
The agricultural poesibilitiee of
British Columbia,. and especially: of
the southern portzon of the province,
are now attracting wide attention and
every year the area under -cultivation
is being largely increased. The at-
tractions of Southern British Coltun-
bia for homeseekers are -certainly very
great. The elimate is Most agreeable -
and healthy, the soil is fertile and
almost any form of agriculture -grain
;rowing. cettle raising, dairying, fruit
erowing-can be successfully carried
en and made exceedingly proOtable.
The agricultural and pastoral lands
are not restricted to a small propor-
tion of the total acreage, for Professor
Macouu, after personal investigation
an the ground says: "The whole of
British Columbia, south of 52 degrees
end east of the Coast Range is a
grazing country up to 3.500 and a
farming country up to 2,500 feet, where
irrigation is possible." This is a most
important statement and it truth is
being confirmed Iv the practical ex-
perience of settlera who have estab-
lished themselves in the country. As
far north as 55 degrees it has been
practically demonstrated that apples
will flourish, while in the Southern
Belt the more delicate fruits, peaches,
grapes, apricots, etc., are an assured
erop. Roughly estimated, the extent
of these fertile lamis may he.set down
at one million acres, but this figure
will probably be found far below the
actual quantity capable of cultivation
when the country has been thorough-
ly explored. • The southern districts
have already established a record for
fruit raising, and the products of their
orchards have won first prizes in ex-
hibitions not only at horne but in the
United States and Greet Britain.
The increase in fruit acreage has
also been within recent years. In
1891 the total orchard area was 6,431
acres; in 1901 it had -only increased
to 7,430 acres, but between that and
1904 the increase was 'jumped to 13.-
430, and in 1905to 29,000 acres. The
increase during 1906 amounted to over
20,000 acres; number of trees planted
1,000,000. In 1907 over. one million
fruit trees were planted, and a still
larger number in 1908, so that the
acreage in fruit is now considerably
ever, 100,000 acres, The value of the
fruit• crop of 1908 is estimated at $1,-
,500,000. Dairying and mixed fanning
are also being engaged in with mark-
ed success.
Only Exercise. .
Like every other editor in a big
eity, W. H. Greenwood, of' The Toron-
to World, is constantly hearing the
applicationof young men who tire
•anxious to break into the newspaper
business. His invariable' reply to such
applicants is in the form of a ques-
tion;
"What have you done?"
The visitor has, more frequently
than not, done very little but live on
the bounty of bis parents, and hesi-
tatingly says so,
"Go and do something. Go around
the world. Go west as a farm-hand .
for a year, Get a job as a waiter. Join
a circus. Beat your way for a little
while and find out about the world.
Then come back to me and give
you a job," ' .
And in this connection he tells a
little story of a ,university student
-whom he met on one of the C.P.R.
boats on the lakes. The student was
seeing the world as a waiter, and -Mr.
Greenwood happened to dine at his
table. When the meal was over the
newspaperman laid -some silver down
on the table aril remarked;
"Heres something .to ,pay -for the
wear and tear, my boy.'
To his surprise the lad handed back
the money. •
"It isn't wear and tear, air," he
said; "it's only exercise."
A Joke on Larry Piper.
The members of•the Winnipeg base -
'ball team recently put up A little game
em Leery Piper, theToro nto boy who
has Ina& such 'a sigpal success in
the professional ranks in the West,
i
and s tow acting.manager of the
Winnipeg Maroons. The team were
playing at Brandon last week. Some
of the members of the team tried to
get advance pay, but failed to raise
the coin. Larry saw no more of his
team-mates that -evening, but about
midnight he got a frantic telephone
message saying seven of the Maroons
were locked up in the police station
on a charge of disorderly conduct. As
the train for Moose Jaw, where the
team next played, left at 2.30 axe.
Larry tore for the station post-haste.
After vigorous argument with the
thief Of police the ,roembers were
finally released, but Larry had to nut
up $25 of his good doin as bail. The
team left on the 2.30. Now it turns
out that it was' all a little joke framed
up between the Brandon Chief of
Police and the Winnipeg players.
Larry's $25 was mailed to him at
nose Jaw.
As Bad as WolVes.
The dog has made sheen Filleting in
Canada unprofitable. Within the last
week an aged rria;n has been killed at
Ridgetown by a dog frightenieg his
cow, a 'little girl at Alvinston and a
boy at Glencoe hive. been badly lacer-
ated by the lerutesa The Goveremeet
gives a bonus for tbe destruction of
wolves, yet the dog is allowed to flour-
ish in our midst. Thera should at
least be greater restriction en the dog;
muzzle hart, or -buy a guia-Gleneee
Transcript.
NatIonol Route.
The advantage given Cenadian ves-
sels by the opening of the strictly na.
tional route through our own territory
and the etionnous trafeo treated there-
by will soon testore to the Province
of Nova Seotile setae of 'her former
prestige in the matter of ship -building
and ship -owning. -Advertiser, Stur-
geon Falls.
Fotatees Must Be Certificated.'
1 A despateh t� the Trade and CoM-
Meree Department from South Africa
states that the Transvaal Govatnnient
hes passed a regulation prOhibiting
the introductioh int& the colon of
potatoes unless taecotapaniekl
certifieate from the Board ot'Agricul-
ture la the country in whieh they were
grown,
SELL YOUR COLD FOR $1..?
"You surely won't stop at a dollar
%ill to cure that horrid, eniffeling
icold ? Go to the druggist and get
PCatarrhozone" and your cold will be
a thing oJ roe past; There is lmost
Witchery' MI the swift way Catarrho-
zone kills eolds. But when you cute
•sider the penetrating, healing and en-
•tiseptie qualities of Oatarrhozone per -
'haps it's not to worelerful, Sertainly
'there is no remedy half so promet for1
colds end catarrh Cetar.levone,
Ranee subatitute and insist on have
ng only Catarrliozofte"
"SENO OUT POR IT."
Suggeition Regsedins Leinch Wee Not
Followed.
One of the ironclad rules of Sir Win
trid Laurier's office la that all depute.
tions Mast be arranged for in ad.
Vallee, and that they shall be as brief
as poseible in the presentation of
their demands. Most delegations ae.
cept the rule. recognizieg that the
time td the Premier and of his col-
leagues is valuable, especially during
a session of Parliament; but there are
exeeptiona, and some delegations
manifest a most careful contempt for
the value of the Premier's time. One
such case developed not king ago.
when a deputation from one of the
Marittine °Provinces went to Ottawa
to intercede with the Government for
some public improvement which was
considered of vital importance to its
seaport city. It was headed bY a
cbairinan, whom we will gall John-
ston. This particular "Mistalt John-
ston" is a strong Liberal, but he has
the idea that his position as president
of the Board of Trade puts lam above
politics. When he and his co -dele-
gates reached the Preniler's office,
they were met by an M.P. who had
the Premier's eara.nd were told that
they must be brief, that there could
not be more than three spokesmen,
and that the whole interview must
not occupy more than an hour, bes
cause the Ministers had to go into
Council and that they had to have
lunch before the Cabinet met.
Mr. Johnston did not consider that
this arrangement, would give his de-
putation tirne enough to ventilate its
demands, and protested that he must
have at least two hours with the
Ministers, for the Premier was to be
accempaniecl by two of his colleagues.
The M.P. ventured to again trot out
the argument that the Premier and
his etelleagues must eat, whereupon
"the" Johnston replied: "Oh, if we
are not through, let them send out
for their lunch and eat it while we
are talking, arid 111 pay for it!" The
M.11, was staggered at this exhibition
of "lese rnajeste"; but in the end the
Board of Trade man had his way, and
the elipisters beard him through.
But they didn't send out for their
lunch a.nd eat it in the Premier's of-
fice. They went without. And now,
when Mr. Johnson arrives in Ottawa
he is given an hour for his interview,
which le placed along tepee between
meals. .
To Handle Sig Part.
"The Grand Trunk Pacific will ban -
die ten million bushels of wheat this
fall, not to speak, of other products,"
says a high official of the Grand
Trunk. lee
"We handledearethe new line some.
thing like two million bushels last
year, but we have now a line as long
as from Montreal to Omaha, clear,
upon which regular business is being
done.
"That tract 'et the Northwest
through which the line runs is com-
posed of some of the most fertile land
. in the world. It may be said. to be the
guarantee of the success of the Grand
Trunk Pacific.
"We are getting the cream of immi-
gration, too. from the United States,
while the latter aro getting the cheap-
er grades of immigrant from Europe.
We get seventy-five thousand Ameri-
can familiesarth anneht afthrthar ar
can farmers every year.- Every fam-
ily means a carload of effects, and
evedy man $1,000 in =eh. The Ameri-
cans are getting through New York,
a class of people whose worldly pos-
sessions are tied up in a handkerchief.,
Let this thing continue with us; let
us get the cream, aswe are getting it
now, and the next twenty years' will
show a development which will be
double that which we have witnessed
in our hest,times,"
The official stated that whereas in
the spring the Grand Trunk proper
had 6,000 empty cars, they had now
only 2,000.
. War Relic at Petawawa.
One of themost interesting picees,
of artillery in Petawatva camp is a 12 -
pounder breech -loader .gun, which
some Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto
men saved from capture during the
Boer War, There is a special brass
tablet on it on which is this inscrip-
tion: '
"For saving this gun in' the rear
guard action at T..olliefontein, Trans-
vaal, an seventh November, 1900, fol.
lowing honors were conferred: Vie-
toria Orme: Lieut. Coekburn, Serge
Holland, Royal Canadian Dragoons
(Toronto); Distinguished Service Or-
der, Lieut. Morrison (now LieuteCol.
Morrison, of Ottawa). The eon -com-
missioned officer and then of No. 5
sub -division D battery, R.C.A.. on that
day were Sergt, Curzon, Bomb:idler
Graham. Gunner Lambkin, Gunner
Thorne, Gunner Eitehernan, Gunner
Gamble. Gunner Lane, Driver Henry,
Driver Sullivan, Driver Lafleur,
Trooper Haycock."
Cattle In the West.
A herd of cattle on the farm of John
D. Cook, Newdale, Manitoba, shows
whet can be done in wintering stock
in the open in that nroyince. Mr.
Gook erected expensive barns for dab -
ling his stock, and was dissatisfied
with the results. He experimented
feeding in a coulee and leaving the
,cattle,out.all, wioter, and with. excel-
lent success. Be find e that stook that
nth iint all wintet ate healthier and
Put on more flesh quicker when the
new grass •appeaws than those that
have been stabled, and they are ,less
liable to frost -bite. Mr. Cook was the
Drat to put this plan into practice in
re commercial eway, and his shrewd-
ness has proven profiteble to. himself
and a boon to the country.
Sign ef the Times. -
A significant sign of the growieee ap.
preciation by the United States busa
flees men of the importance of trade
with Canada is the publication by a
well-known New York advertising
journal of speeial Canadian numbers
devoted to the great and growing pos-
sibilities of Canada as a market for
United States merchandise. The
whole staff of this advertising journal
has been employed for four months in
a study of the Canarliiie field and has
colleeted a vast quantity of stetieties
on the subject which it will shortly
present to its readers. it has an irti.
!more erray cf forte about the de.
velopment and retoutees of Canada.
Repeat it :-"Shiloh's Cure will ale
ays care my caught aad =las,"
TO Prosecute the Wholetalers.
•Vaneouver, 'B.C., Aug. 21. -Urged hi
retailers, it is understood the Attote
ney-General will shortly telte proceedings against the wholesalers of Brit.
ish Columbia, under the law prohibit
hue conspiracies for the restraint of
trade.
Repeat it ;--"Shiloll's Cure will
al -
'W373 care my &tuella and colds,"
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Moto* Nows.Roord
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-PROSPECTOR WA4 'FOOLED;
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00Wiganda Men Might Ho* Been
Rich To -Day.
There is in every mining camp a
story of how someone, who knew noth-
ing about the business, did something
unusual, and struck a fortune. In
Cobalt they tell about La Rose, the
French-Canadian blacksmith, wile
threw a hammer at a fox and struca
one of the world's greatest silver
mines. Up in the Yukon they :still
tell of the Gold. Hill workings, and
of the miner who struck it rich. Who
ever heard of placer gold, being at the
top of a hill? Nobody; at least, no-
body did until placer was struck on
the Gold Hill.
It happened that an ignorant pros -
pectin' came along one day and found
some men washing gold in a stream.
"Say, fellers,' he said,, "Guess ev-
er,y.tyheisugdz taken us here, eh?"
"Well, where do you think I'd bet-
ter stake?"
One man winked at the .othere and
jerking his thumb over his shoulder
indicating the hill said:
"Go up there!"
"And do you think, get it up
there, really?"
"Sure yon will, go right to the
top
The prospector went to the top and
struck gold. That clay he had a tine
of wild men to the recorder's Othee an4
among them were those who had
"joshed" him, They had :staked all
around the top of the hill.
There is a prospector still working
up in the north country who might
be rich to -day, if he had followed an
impulse based on geed judgment and
observation. It was just about a year
ago he was paddling his canoe down
the west side of. Lake Gowgancla.
Passing a point where the rock slop-
ed gently down to the water's edge,
he saw the Mann party' encamped.
They were cooking a meal over the
fire, and as he, passed he noted they
were strangely silent.
Usually a good deal of conversation
passes between men who meet in re-
mote parts of the north, but on this
occasion the prospector, whom we
shall call Bill Smith, noted that they
were uncommunicative, simply ac-
knowledging his greeting; but making
no signs that they desired him to
land.
Notwithstanding to force himself on
the party, but not before he had not-
ed that Mann party • had built a
table.
"That looks as though they were
here tostay. They must have made a
strike,"s he reasoned.
His impulse was to go ashore and
prospect, but instead, he paddled on
until his mind chaeged.
That day the Mann party had made
their strike, and this prospector miss-
ed his chance -to get ex at Gowganda,
for the country all around him then
was unstaked territory, and is now
the scene of the most extensive de-
velopment in the north.
Great ImperialHighway. •
The • Harbor Cimunissioners of
•Montreal are shortly to. submit a Com-
prehensive scheme of port 'develop-
nient on broad national lines. Such
at least is the announcement they
make in their annual report for 1908.
Although a great deal of construc-
tional work has already been carried
out, further great works must be un-
dertaken to meet the demands of
Canada's increasing business, for the
St. Lawrence: waterway is te be made
the great Imperial highway, of cone
merce on the Northern United Stet=
Continent. During the pest season
the St. Lawrence route was more pop-
ular than ever with grain exporters.
and the trade in full cargoes from the
Port of Montreal is likely to irssuine
large propoitions in the early future:
The belance-sheet referred to in the
hnnual report showed that the re-
ceipts on revenue account were $530,-
000, and the diebursements $651,000.
On the capital account the receipts
were $2,013,129„ and the disburse-
ments $1,619,575. The Port of Mont-
real Is aceessible to all railways on
the same terms where transhipment is
made direct froth shipto car �r vice
verge. The tonnage of the port has
doubled in five years.
' What the Barber Did.
.The next time that Peter Toeivs„ of
Winnipeg, enters a barber's chair he
will nuke certain he won't take' a
nap. He wandered into the tonsor-
ial parlors of a Leonold Violete re-
cently. When he catne to he had the
followieg little bill presented to him:
Haircut. 250.; shave, 15c. ; singe,
25c ; electric shampoo, 50c.'; scalp
massage, 50c. ; face massage, 35c. ;
eye -brows dyed, 75. ; moustache
dyed, $1.00: Meal, $3:75.
To this was added $1 for good
measure. Toews looked at himself in
the glass. It was not the same Peter
Toews 'he knew 'before hie sleep in
the barber's ehair. He pinched him-
self to be sure beewas not still sleep -
There was an altercation which
wound up in the police court. Weis -
trate Daly was called upon to adjurli-
eate as to the bill. Peter. seriously
considered bringing in It eharge of as-
sault when. he viewed his enuetee.
mice; but was finally appeased by hav-
ing his hill cut down to 40 tents.
which he duly paid.
bythent's Big Fern,.
The aggressive ngricultural etiorte
of S. Dynaent,• the lumber magnate of
Barrie, Ont.'dernonstratee how east:.
ern eapitalists are developing South-
,
ern Alberta.
He purchased twelve sections in
Calgary district, seemed three power
plows and with his sixteen four -horse
drills has completed the sowing of
5,200 acres to winter wheat. A large
percentage being through ground of
strong, healthy appearance. Forty
miles of fence eneloses this farm.
Dyrnent is only one of thousands
investing and adding to the wealth of
the Canadian West. It being estimats
ed that the increase in the wealth of
Western Canada this year will be
$330,000,000.
Sir Wilfrid "Painted."
During his leisure moments at Arth-
abaska, where he was spending a
brief holiday, Sir Wilfrid Laurier eat
for his portrait, which is being paint-
ed by Suzor Cote. When finished the
portrait will occupy a protninent place
in the liouSe of Com. ons, Ottawa.
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy the
best and Sutest.
"It affords me pleasure to state
that I consider the prepe,tation knowd
s Chamberlain's Coli, Cholera and
Diarrhoea RemeAry the i‘est and surest
of good results of any I have ever
sett in my family," says P. E. ller-
ington of Mount Aerial, Ky. This is
he "universal verdict of all who use
his remedy. It eures are in prompt
nd effeetual that neonle teee pleas -
in reeoenrottding it. For sale by
all druggists.
OL,11 MASTERS IN CANABA,
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Montreal Man P011eeleeS a FairnOus
Canada izillUnbosenliaeCkainngsfaisist wealth tif
valuable paintings. The superb con
lection at Laval. In itself really a
public .gallery for ell precticul pure
poses, is a too little known example.
Anci it is probably less known that
there are, zn private poseession in
Canada, u very large timber oi the
worke of the old masters of the great-
est value.
/he first perhaps in importance is a
striking portrait, ti specimen of the
matchless work of Peter Paul Rubens,
whose masterpiece in Antwerp, the
"Descent from the Cross," is familiar
to all. rhe picture under notice is
the property Of Lieut. -Col. W. H.
Evans, commanding the 1st Regiment
Prince of Wales' k'usiliers, Montreal.
This.picture Was sold eoine time ago
at Christi's, in Loudon, as the "Head
Of a Monk" and nothing rnore. But
on the back of the pauel is an in-
seription which shOWS tend the pie -
titre is of historic as well as of artistic
interezt. It is a portrult of Henri, Due
de Joyeuse, sometime a Marshal of
France. and a Caprichin Monk. alter-
nately, and a member of a family re -
pawned in the annals of France. He
was born in the year 1507 and becom-
ing a soldier distinguished himself as
a warner,. but he was so stricken by
the death of his wife, Catherine de la
Valette, in 1587, thet he assumed the
robe arzel took the vows of the Fran-
ciscans awl devoted himself to a lite
of austerity, so much ea that he ap-
peared on one oecasion in a preces-
sion of the famous Sainte Ligue, or.
eganized by the Due de Guise against
the Huguenots, crowned with thorns,
bearing a cross and scourged by two
monks. ln the year 1592, however,
he cast away the religious habit and
appeared at the head of certain bands
of religious devotees who were ravag.
ing the Province of Languedoc and
finally submitted to Henri IV., re-
ceiving the baton of a marshal, the
govertunent of Languedoc and an of -
lice in the royal household correspond-
ing in sortie degree with that of the
"Uroom of the Stole" in the British
Royal Household. But ire the year
1600 a sudden impulse took hina back
to the monastic life, and undertaking
a pilgrimage to Rome he died while
on the road. The inscription burned
or rudely cut on the reverse of the
panel runs as follows: "Portrait du
pera Ange de Joyeuse, Capucin, Mare-
chal de France. Mort a Rivoll en 1608
age de 91 ans. . . pint por le guide
Oreniy."
. Of this remarkable character. Vol-
taire wrote in his most, vitriolic man-
ner:
"Vieleux. penitent, courtesan, soli.
taire,
Ti prit, riultta,•reprit la cuirasse et
la halm."
It may be noted thut Lieut. -Col.
Evans also possesses a remarkable ex.
ample of the work of Rembrandt
which he purchased some time ago in
Great Britain.
Professor as Proekeacler.
The lainented. &tette' di 1Vfr. J.. F..
Whiteaves, the assistant director 'et
the. Geological Survey .of Canada in
Ottawa On Sunday last, has elieted
many an interesting anecdote of ,this
really renzarkable man. One of the
beet of them is told of a time when,
years ego, he had charge of the old
museum on Sussex street. An Ottawa
newspaper had been given the tip that
there was 'a news item down at the
museum, and one of' the "cubs" was
Sent e.cross the canal to "get the
item.. He canie back with his 'story,"
and the copy was turned in. Later oa.
in the day, Mr. Whiteaves. Who. wilt
emiscientious . in even small things,
called, in at the newspaper office on'
his way to lunch, and asked if he
could see the proof of the item..
reporter, who did not know much
shout natural. history, had written.
down that among the new acquise
tions of the museum was a red-crestec
deer." Now there isno such thing at
receereeted eletee but there is a red.
crested moose; and so Mr. • Whiteaees
changed the .n tier in proof. But'
what was his horror, when taking up,
the aewspaper later on in the day, to
find that among the recent additions
to • the museum Was a "red -crested
mouse." He then. and there. gave Up
ell idea of • becoming a proof-reader.
His handwriting was too stientifid.-
•And .a further .psrt of the joke is that
.the "cub reporter", of those 'days .is
now not. only an M.P.. but very high
in thecounsels of .bis party:
e. Train 'Despatch by. Telephone.
.The use of -the telephone instead of
the telegraph fot deepatebing trains,
Ons • of the main enhjecte at the De- '
tioit Convention of railway telegraph
superintendents of the Tenited States,
is being, tried on the Swift -Current to
the Medicine Het division of the
Canadien Pacific Ileilwey, a•stretch of
some. 150 miles.' This, although an
innovation in the .West, has
been found so eStisfactory in 'iteare-
suits that., its univereal adoption is
only a matter of time. Canadian Nei -
fie trains will in future carry tele-
phone seta, and in case of a break- .
down communication can at oncebit
enade .with the nearest railway • sta-
tion.• The regular telegraphing staif.
willnotbe minced, as the operators
are wanted for general railway work..
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A Race For a Copyright.
A good deal of interest was manifest
in Montreal recently by the fact that
Henry Savage, who retently bought
the copyright of the play called 'The
Love Cure," put the piece on the
boards there and played it, as it was
learned that others had design on the
copyright.
It was stipulated that It must be
played once in the Empire, so Savage
sent a representative there, got a
scratch company together and won a
victory over all competitors.
Of course none of the actors had
ever been together and few knew their
lines, but the play was gone through
with all the serge.
Captured 'feting Bull Moose.
A young bull moose was caught in
the wiee fence of the C.P.R. about
twenty miles north of Parry Sound a
few days ago. The crew of a passing
train captured the animal and brought
it to town whets it is being nursed
and tamed. It is believed to be about
three months' oId.
Wire' DO WOMEN SUPPER ?
Seeli pain and endnranee the tortard
of nerroue headache when g5t. buys a
sure eure like Nereiline. A feW drops
in, sweetened water brings unfailing
relief. You feel better at ouee, you're
braced up, invigorated', headache gots
awayi-"after one dom. The occasional
use of Nerviline prevent,' indigestion
and stomach disorders -Moe no 'heat-
h and strength. Every woman needs
Nerd' no mid should use it too. In
25e. bottles everywhere.
THAI THAT ORM
Jasper Allahl-i• Edmonton, Is a Won-
derful Thoroughfare.
One of the most remarkable high-
ways of transportation in America is
jasper evenue, the main street ot
ledruouton, writes Augustus Bridle. in
The Toronto Globe. In twenty years
that splendid dog -leg of a street foe,
lowing the kink of the river bank
has seen three eras of traffic and, more
varieties of rig -outs than any other
highway in Cariada. The hutikie doge
and toboggans went jingling in there
from the far -up posts of the fur lands
long before the caravans of the Red
River carts. The kyuses of Indiana
end half-breeds came helter-skeltering
in from the shacks and the tepees.
Mounted Pollee filed among the zig-
zag log shacks that hunched up on
the edge ot the old fort down on the
Rate. And the carts came: the drawn-
out straggle of the creaking,. honking,
all -wood chariots that made the thou-
sand -mile trek from. Fort Garry by
the Meandering black trail; and up
front Calgary when the steel went
through. Anti the four -horse stago
went slam -hanging down the high
south bank before there was ever a
Strathconit-on to the old cable
ferry, and crawling up the steep to
the ropy black trail where the un-
certain shacks were just beginning to
mark out the stent of the street. For
the little 'eg town was reaching along
and the hoes of traffic were going
deeper as the town grew and stood
still and waited for the railway.
Sometime soieebody named that trail
Jasper avenue because the Jasper
House stood there at the east end
where the carts hailed in -the creak -
lug, =ravening ears. Up into that
jumble of shacks with the trail snak-
ing amidst came the ox -cart =ravens
of the priests, legg,ering along with
goods for the nuseion at the Oahe
(11.4 of St. Albert on. the Sturgeon.
So it was, with now and again a
wagon, and then more wagons, toil-
ing up from the south -till the day
that the lelendilie trail sent the
world's trail -finders into the outfit
town. That was the dayof the teen -
freaks - the nondescript, vagrant
things that capricious adventurers
rigged up to bit the long trail ta the
ends of the earth and the fringes of
the north. 'On that store -straggled,
shack -lined old. Jasper avenue went
the twisting trains of kyuses and
packs; the bands of crawling oxen
end the bales of hay; the barrel char-
iot that some forgotten genius contriv-
edout of three hogsheads packed with
grub, axledand platfonned and can-
vaied-and it started out merrily roll-
ing to the unknown with the camp
truck atop and the grubstake with:
in, till on it frozen snag the front bar.
rel. -wheel got a puncture, and the
beans came dribbling out. The lam..
bering contraption went roiling home,
never to start again. Biggest of all
the pathfinders and most spectacular
of ale locomotive freaks ever seen on.
Jasper evenue wee the steam sleigh
tha., some overt:Index, With his pan-
zer,: rigged up from an Old threshing
engine; rigged it with a traction out-
fit geared to a spike roller in front
to climb slippery bills and ice -bound
slopes into the Yukon with a train
of toboggans behind. The wonder of
seventeen nations WaS hauled out one
crisp, sunny day of winter; tricked
out by horses to the midway of Jas-
per avenue; There she was 'fired: up
and steamed; the throttle was turned,
end the drive -wheel wabbled, and,
the spike-toller that was made to
climb the steeps of ice, burrowed a
'hole into the frost of the street and
budged not a single Inc+. Arid the
nations haw -hawed toss= the first
train of Edmonton ignominiously
hauled back by a team to a rear yard,
where it ley for years, till somebody
drageed it away to saw lumber; out
°h$utehhw
e Sturgeon.
'
cosmopolitert trafne
of Jasper avenue before the great
awakening; but pine years before the
fathers of- a young city ,paved It with
asphalt and .laid the tracks of
street railway, overhung by a spangle
of incandescent lamps. Old Jasper
everniel carrying the memory' and
the imagination back to the day when
the poplars:riistIed on ldts that sell
now for thousands a foot, and when
the lads of Edmontoe chased jack-
rabbits .down the erect. There is no
street in Ameriea that,
A Chante for the Men Behind.
An old soldier who took part in the
Northwest Rebollion"of 188.5, tells an
amusing story of the Sixty -Fifth Regi-
ment of Montreal, which is largely
composed of French-Canadiansa There
was an old -regulation that no mat-
ter what the language and nationality
of troops fighting 'under the British
flag, cominands must be delivered in'
the English tongue. The broken
of•soine of the French officers was
a source of constant 'arauseinent to
English-speaking participants. .
Oee day a company of the regiment
eeas sent out to drive some redskins
out of a =Wee -where they entrench-
ed theraseleee. The Prenth captain
gave a command to the front rank tc
fire, as half a dozen of .the foe showed
themselves and took pot shots at the
troops. The volley was fired, two ot
three of the foe fell, and the line was
mechanically prepared' to deliver an.
other when • the captain cried ex.
aitedly:
"Stop shoot! Stop shoot! Leave
some for de rear 'rank."
To Stamp Out Fleeing.
MeeMaster University has resolved
to stamp out the practice of hating.
The new calendar of the university,
Ina issued, threatens expulsion to
any stadent who interferes with the
personal liberty of another. It will be
temembered that last year some fresh..
men were caught by gentlemen of the
second year, who subjected them to
the indignity of shaving their heads.
The MaOf aster Salmons now have
official protection.
Value of Trade Schools,
Dr: G. H. Locke, public libraritte,
Toronto, urges upon the people the
necessity for trade schools to elevate
the industrial statue of the country.
There ie much to be said for these
institutione, but their establishment
involves some Serious problems. To
be Useful they oast he thoroughly ef.
Solent. Ally system of trade sehoole
should be under provincial inabage.
'nett and ahould he maintained at
provincial expense.-aaseilton Times.
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Rifle Club For Kingston.
leingisten, Mtg. movement is
on foot to organize a rifle assoeiation
for eiviliaxis only, arid to have weekly
ehoots. Such sat association, if it had
the required number of members,
should receive support from the Gov-
ernment in the way et rifles and am-
munition. The rifle association had a
-flourishing club here lentil eight years
ago, when condemnation of the tettriefield butts deprived the dub of a
range, but thereitt a new range now.
Repeat it te-''Shiloh*s Cure will ale
ways tut() my eoughe teed eolds."
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FUT PROVED FATAL
Ar hilt* aollarei Diem $.40tfenly at
Chenlong Perk.
Son of Toronto Tobacconist Succumbs
to Injuries Said to Have Been Re.
volved itt a q,tarrell Following a
Dance at Summer Resort -Two
Versions Are -Given of Fight
Which le /Method For Fatality.
Peterhoro, Aug. 28. --Arthur Bollards
aged 19, on of Arthur B. ("Alive")
.Bollard, tobaeconist of Toronto, died
at Chemong Park yesterday afternoon
AS 9, result of an alleged immesh on
Monday night of this week.
There are conflicting stories about
the tragedy. One is that Bollard was
set upon while returning through the
thickly -wooded park to his borne after
attending a dance in the .pavilton.
Aaother is that death is the result of
injuries received in a Oat fight,
CheMong Park is located tux miles
r,orza ux rezeroero on me *boreot
Chemong Lake, end is a popnlar•eunt-
mering place for Teterboro and Tope
onto people, and also, many 'Ameri-
cans. The Bollard family hae Were
idaying at the park for the jSzotk•
month, having rented a e.oitege there.
Arthur eattla front Toronto nearly tine
weeks ago.
From the storieiz told by people lat
the park, it awould Poem that there
was bad blood between Arthur Bot -
lard, and Harry Joppling, a youth
%hose hozne is in the Village 01
Dridgenorth, about half a mile been.
Cheraw* Park.
They got in to a Belt, so it is re-
lated, after a dance at the pavilion
on Monday' night about 10 o'clock"
and Joppling was worsted. His older
brother, Fred Joppling, came to his
assistance, it is said, and a fight took,
place between him and Bollard.
Another version is that Bollard 'watt
waylaid in the park by a number of
yotuag rnen and was roughly handled;
that a Viand of his, Harry Marks. of
Toronto, was walking ahead of Bol-
lard with e young lady, and that he
was held and preveuted from giving
assistatice to his friend. Merits haa
returned to Taranto.
seseseee:t
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an 4 Towel
drier,found
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When a knife' is -dull a
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"steel," She just
walks over to the
emery rod attachment
to Pandora, gives knife
six Or eight pasia over
the high-grade emery,
.which puts on the
limiest kind of .• an
edge.
This combined emery rod
and towel drier is a patent-
ed- attachment. you cannot
secure on any other range.
-lust one of the many im-
provements that go to
make Pandora the handiest
range you can buy.
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