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A riA EDO! 1.10UNTAINOUS 1VIOTOR CAR TRIP—
A DANGEROUS JOURNEY,
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(Londol' Post.)
"The motor car Ate conquered th
Airs. The Martini has shown tlet
their beautine are fier the metoriet t
enjoy, I should ;never have believe;
thia achievement lad '.1 not witne.ssei
kb with. my own eyes."
So, with elnaraeterietie enthusiasm
said M. Georges Pratte, the most min
neat of writer:3 on matters of motor
ing, as we alighted at the Automobil
Club of France in the Place ne la Con
verde tide afternoon on the completior
of our tonr, ttvo days ahead, of sae
chile time. The etert was made iron
Neuchatel at twenty minutes to 1
Melo* on Seamy, the 20th of June
the toute mapped out among and. ovei
_the Alps being timed to •take la days
no Geueva. Geneva was reached a
quarter past 0 on Frinay night after a
;103 kilometre run from St. Pierre do le
Grande Chaatrewee. The :total number
of kilometres covered among the Alps
• wes thus 3,009, the way including no
fewer than nine -and -twenty big passes,
four of which -were taken twice from
opposite sides to teet the ability of the
can to make 'the ascent equally well
erom either approach.
The fact that many pereons might
cOnceive the notion that the cat was
a special producition for hill -climbing
alone led to the determination that a
smart run shintla be matte from Gen-
era to ,Paris. As the route mapped
out, however, included approximately
160 kilometres from Geneva across the
Jura mountains, and as the strain on
the; driven's tra,d ;been very areat, I ,sug-
geeted that in place of our undertaking
the run in a single day., it ehould be
done in two etages, end times taken for
cull to ehow that the car could. tra,vel
well under .ordinary running eonditions.
Thie was the more really agreed. to in
than we had. to attend cartain fenetions
organized in'houor Of the signal success
of the Swies-built car.
n The etrat was accordingly mane after
a morning spent in attenaing VILTI0119
functions in one honor. We left Geneva
at 2 onlock yesterday, Dijon, 23 kilo-
metres distant, being reaohed. in six
hours thirty-foue minutes, the average
speed working out at 2.39 miles an hour,
including frontiee delays. It snotidl be
ammembered, •too, that fifty kilometres
of the journey WA through hilly coun-
try. •After leaving the regions of the
Jura. mountains the road proved
steaight and'undulating, but bumpy. At
5.30 o'clock this morning Captain Deasy
took his seat at the steering wheel, for
the last stage of this tour without pre-
•cedent in enotoeine annuls. The road
followed was by Irdy of Vitteaux, Mont -
bard, Tonnerre, Joigny and Sena where
we rested during the hottest part of the
day. So far our road. had been through
a succession. of straight avenues of m-
ines, which we found on resuming our
journey extended, the whole way to
Peels. The 540 kilometres from Geneva
to Paris were covered in fourteen hours
eleven minutes aetual running time, in-
cluding slow passages tbroug,h towns
end villages and delays at level cross-
- ings. Thus, though no entempt was
mane at racing, the average speed works
naut•at 24.73 miles an hour, which is an
!excellent performance with an ordnary
dtouring ear, beemiiy weighted, aad to
Fail, mechanical parts Of which nothing
been done for a. fortnight. .
. Gnat numbers of people assembled at
fahe Paris oetroi and.. again at the Auto-
anobile Club de Frarice, to eee the car,
fathich has ocaused quite a tiensetion
;.continental motoring cercles. ,
By Unfrequented Roads.
In order that as many passes as pos-
fsible might be surmounted, that the
tleast frequented roads might be exploit -
Md, and that we might keep always in
;the neighborhood of the mountains, the
fway folowecl was very devious. We have
lbeen where railways are not, and we
:have seen the chamois leap from point
Ito point o'n the dizzy heights still he-
.
,7tgamd those which we dared to climb.
e beam meandered anion the finest
land highest mountain passes in Europe.
ategnons have bee ntraversed where no
mar has been seen before, as, for insta.nce
!the Col de Innis= and the Croix de Per,
meeching out from St. Jean, but the way,
las we found after traversing the eme-
ry/bat dangeroue track for nineteen kilo-
nnetres, was nothing more than an ar-
mow, unmade mule path, culminating in
la cul de ,pac, in place of the govern- ,
iment road. marked on the map, the fact,
Meing that, though funds were granted
mom° time back for the undertakieg, the
mead is tardy in coming into being. ln
la:flaking quite half a dozen ascents we
revere told by the astonished tatives when '
passing by that we were the second party
;to appear among them in a motor ear. ;
:Yet for all this only one spare tin of
petrol was carried, and it was brouglit
into use once.
The nature of the way among the
,enountains caused great differences of .
•tenmerature to be eaperienced within
remarkably brief spaces of time, for as -
,cents must perforce be made in turn
with descents. Hence three most im-
portant parte in the mechanism of a
anotor car :were beim; constantly and
severely tested 'tamely, the carburation,
which was perfect from the outset, at
St. Maize, till the moment of our alight.;
•ing in the Place de Concorde to•day
the radiation winch was so effective that ,
.after the longest climbs the water need- .
;ad to be replenished at the end; and the
nvater cooled brakes that were seldom
manner than the bare hand could endure
;though our tires were frequently 1,30
(het to toneb. It is of interest to note
•that tough mat Lands weer blistered with
'heat, the water in the radiator never ,
,oinee got near boiling point, however.
"no punctures should have tinned daring
:the tour. Though the ear had to poem
over long patehes of newly laid, sharp
hind unrolled etonee with more Mau av.
Orage weight passeegers and complete
luggage equipment. the tires were touch- I
'ed twice only and then simply as a pre -
Cautionary measure. Both covers eould
etillebe used in their present condition. 1,
There would appear to be smile what of
.0 tradition sprieging rip innong motor- e
ists to the °Mot flint all the eon& irt a
.Prence ere good. and that most of them v
in Great Britain are bad. Experience e
1
m lesser known parts .proves otherwise,
it being doubtful if in Great Britain
anything more than many of the Import-
ant military bighwaye about the fron-
tier regione of France could, be met
with,
Sea neVel to MOuntain Summit.
It low been necessary Mr us to take
'' great care ta avoid Malls, but despite
- precautionary measures, mine came un-
4catIted through the tour, the indisposi-
- tion provincl praticularly trying.owing to
the severe plareical strain. Turin, wliere
sleep hatl been imposeible for neat, lias
1 been left at 5 o'clock in the morning
in. the lightest possible attire, Within
three hours the car has climbed like a
' cat up among the white peaks. There
all available wrapping have had to be
donned ann snownalling has had. to be
indulged in to insure good circulation.
Sometimes we hare expeienced bleeding
of the nose owing to the rarefied air at
geeat heiglita .Again, a day spent in
mounting no fewer than six misses of an
average height of maarly 0,000 feet above
sea tiveI ended in a eescent to ice, which
eppeared straugely unpeopled at so fine
a season of the year, but wisely so when
the heat is borne in mind. We have
lunched late in Grenoble, craving for a
breath of cold air, and slightl3r Shivered
as the evening breeze was felt •at the
Lwateret. The most refreshing slum-
bers are those that come when the nights
are spent on the heights, as et the Petit
St. Bernard and St, Pierre de la Grande
Chartreuse, But in the hottest part of
the day it bas been always possible to
enjoy a cool, refreshing breeze even when
not actualy on the heights, simply by
seeking 'out the v,alleys along which the
mountain streams rush repidly.
I have rac'ed at more -than 94 miles
an hour for long stretches in Germany
on the fastest ear yet built, and find.
that the feeling of exhilaration experi-
enced is as nothing compared with that
of naountaineering on a motor ear, In
the ores case there are. air baths and
joltings in relation to the nature of the
road surface traversed and the speed at-
tained; in the other, there is a series of
exercises that run the gamut of the dif-
ferential scale. We have not had a hun-
dred kilometeres of straight stretches
since entering the mountain region, As
a real test fon a touring car, sueh as tlie
Gordon Bennett race is designed to be,
that event is not to be compared with a
day among the mountains, where a car
is.put to work such as in less degree it
might reasonably be expected to work
on any ann every day of the week,
Since seting forth we•have never ceased
to go up hill or down dale. Ifor a test
of skilful driving nothing can equal
these great passes. The three most fa-
inOus sites for hill climbing competitions
on the continent—Mont Cenis, Laffey
and Venteux—have been negotiated,
proving mere child's play in coinparison
with many of the passes we crossed. To
make the desired. distance among the
Alps it has been necessary &cross and
recross our tracks, and pass frontiers
'time and again. Moreover, to insure
the car achieving ascents from the most
difficult sides of the passes some moun-
tains have ben climbed from both ap-
proaches, such as Galibier, the highest
readway in Europe. In every such case
wan foond that- the most difficult
approach was that chosen for the- first
asc'ent.
'When you have all but lived on a
ear for a fortnight it is impossible td
regard it as a mere machine, The
meaning of every sound given forth
becomes II familiar as that of the
spoken word, and therein lies half the
fascination of nmterhig. • As in de -
kenning the ear swings round the edge
of some sharp turn where the track
doubles on itself and the outer side
of the roadway is marked solely by a
sheer drop into space, the tow -toned
stroke from beneath the bonnet be-
eomes slower and yet more slow till
the car seems like a thing of life cau-
tiously scenting its way round the
doubtful corner, which has, often as
not, to be taken by 'reversing and ed•
e-aneing two and three times owing to
the length of the wheelbase. These
points are rendered the more danger-
ous by the path being built with an
appreciable slope toward the unguard-
ed edge of the preeipict. This was
frequently 'noticed during the tour, as
in the descent for the Forclaz into
France. 1Vhen -.there hes been rain
'end slight side slipping tendencies are
manifested the negotiation of such
abrupt turnings becomes somewhat
embarrassing. Indeed, the journey
has riot been devoid of incidents, for,
though there has not been an involun-
tary stop of any sort from start to
finish, there have been times in Italy,
France -and Switzerland where subse-
uent measurements eof wheel tracks
showed that fewer than six inthes sep-
arated the passage of the outer wheels
from the extreme edge of the unledged
way.
Some Exciting Experiences.
Were it possible to ascend a moun•
tain merely by driving up a gradient
cut along its side there would be little
difficulty for the motorist. -But the
tracks are narrow the mountain falls
sheer away at die outer edg,e there
aro more generally than not timnings
too abrept 'to be taken without back-
ing intervals, while there are ends
every few yards round which it is inn
possible to tee till they are actually
taken, and it is the southern eontin.
ental custom to go to sleep when driv-
ing as soon as the town is left. Wo
bid only come six and twenty kilo-
metres from the Barcelonette along the
Col do Valkelaye one- morning, when,
on cautiously rounding an unguarded
bend of the pass a threehorse Min
gown whose sleeping driver and two
passengers had been heedless of our
constantly sounding horn; was on us,
Quick as thought the brakes were ap-
;lied. The car stopped almost instantly
and the reverse was rammed in with
a jerk. The two poles of the vehicle
vere within a foot of charging the
bonnet as the ear began to move-back-
vard ,and around the curve, but
traight toward the sheer drop over the
erge. Happily our 11110110 had awaken -
d the driver mho had applied his pow-
niniaiata....ikaamom•aalwimiailasa*lodiniormamailmnan.
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etp
•ful betakes in time to give us a mat -
r of inches to spare. Happiiy, too, the
aek widened further on, so it was
st possible to squeeze past the dili•
nee, of course, taking the inner side,
spite the French ruledof the road. On
wther oeeasion tt mule took the no-
m of shying after passing the ear, the
stilt being nothing more serious. than
broken mudguard for omaelves. When
emitting the Col de Trees Croix, a
ule that bad -espied no from afar, tame
Mug down the pass Nvith a ear in
rich WitS n woman, The aninisd,whiell
peered tel be lookiug only at the. ear,
ade straight for the etlgt. of the path.
but with the emming of its kind pulled
up dead on the eery telet.. end :stood
Meek Mill for some moments until we,
had passed by. •
Despite the feet that we belle been
driving for twelve and fourten honte
above the traveller until lie knows the
delights of being dwarfed by netlike
1 and of beholding the sky a mere lir-
tery of blue above, are succeened by ser-
pentine nscents giving distant end et
more distant views et every twist ands
turn of the coiling track. We nave
travelled over .paese by which Napo -
Icon Marched ins treope over the Alps
into Italy, following the self -same
track. .After climbing height after
heiglin with scarce a down gradient
throughout the day's journey, tlie night Ceylon #04 is pure, nelieieus and wholeseme, Sold only in eettleti lead paekete.
.
bas been passed thou:sands of feet, Bled:, Mixen er Natural GREEN. Irie all greCers.
lege that sea level in Knee little vil-
lege Unit nestles lit -the basin formed RECEIVED TRE HIGHEST AWARD AND GOLD MEDAL AT ST. LOUIS.
Re ' - -.
se feet on either side of the Atlautic, the
a result might have been different.
CB Yours very truly,
,a • 1 1 , i • W. A. .Clemons,
TO •fann. Publication Clerk.
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between tr. chyle of sineounaing peak
Centles and cataracts lend. life to va
rough bewn, brown mountain side
while the sight of snow capped peal
with &Mere passing between has
charm beyonn the power of words
convey. All menner of towns have bee
visited, too, teem stately' Turin to tl
quaint French villages, the main stree
of winch are overlmng with moveab
sun curtains gene across the way, i
a manner reminiscent of the name,
in Chinese Turkestan,
Such, offhand, are but a few of en
sights and impressions receiven th
course of wbat is the first but assure
y will not be the last water numutai
eering tour, for Captain Deasey and 1W
Maid de Martini have shown that an
sufficiently skilled driver may .get a I
horse power tem anti do 'Browne,
10
Rheumatism -4V hat's the Cause?
ts
le Where's the Cure? —The active. Mi-
n toting cause of this most palnthi Of diseases
113
is poisonous uric acid in the blood. South
te American Rheuntattc Cure neutralizes the
de. acid poison. Relieves in 5 hours and cures
In 1 to 3 days. -400
t FARMERS' INSTITUTE MEETINGS
POSTPONED.
A MOTHER'S PRECAUTI ON.
There is no telling wiren a medicine
y nee ed in homes where there :;ee
young children, and the failure to have
a reliable medichie at hand may mean
ulna suffering, and, perbaps, the loss
of a priceless life. Every mother should.
always keep a box of Baby's Own Tab-
lets in the house. This. Medicine nets
promptly and speedily, cures such ills as
'stomach and bowel troubles, teething
troubles, simple fevers, colds, worms and
other little ills. And the mother has
a guru•antee that the Tablets contain no.
opiate or harmful drug. One wise
mother, Mrs. George Hardy', Fourchu,
N. S., says : home used Baby's Own
Tablets and find them a blessing to chil-
dren. I am not satisfied without a
box in the house at all times!! If your
dealer does not keep these tablets'.
StOCIC send 25 cents to the Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., lleockville, Ont., and yot
will get a box by mail post paid.
DEVELOPING MARKETS
FOR BUTTER,
in the Northwest Territories, so Um
Department of Agriculture,
Commissioner's Branch,
The Dairy Division of the Departmen
'of Agriculture, Ottawa, nas again thi
yeas operated a number ;of creameries in
fanners in districts adapted to dairying apilear to be known to any one not in pos-
t
might be able to obtain a. cash income
from their cows until seen time as they
are etble to carry on the work for them-
selves. Consider:able attention has ree
cently been devoted. to developing new
After &insulting with a number of In-
stitute •speakers, as well as local officers
in different; parts of the Province, the
Supenintendent has (Monied not to holn
any Institute meetings ,mota Jan. 31.
It was the unaohnots ;Opinion noth
delegates mot officers (and a great many
were consulted) thet a political cam-
paign would interfeee very much with
the. attendance 'at aria the succesa 'of In-
stitute nieetinga. No announcements of
meetings had been made for January,
although all lists had been about coma
plated. A re -arrangement of the lists
has been Made; and the same eubmitteil
to the -secreta-ries of the various ridings.
The revised dates will be anneunced in
plenty of time to allow local secretaries
elo the necessary -advertising before
the date of the first meetings,. -The reg-
ular number of meetings for eacli Tiding
wi I be held in all the older sections of
the Province, but the 2101thern dis-
tricts (at. Joseph's Island, Eaet and
West Manitoulin, . Algoma, Nipissing, I
Parry Sound. -and. Muskoka) ttreange-
ments will be made to hold meetings in ;
Jtme or July or the fall months.
Department of .Agriculture,
sEeRNT CODES.
How novernmenta Protect Their Conti
dential Corres,pendenee.
niter/ day messageO of the Most import
aut and secret character ease betveeen te
government at home und our dipleMatie an
agents abroad, Which It Is a mat
ter of supreme Importance should be Imp
abeelutelY Secret, except from tilos° gar whoa
°1177111i Diegii•tegoeya ingit
IOW !Itleeeecatee, --thie) key etdo ukilw°
to very fow persons, and 1n some Inetances
the precaution 18 observed by ehanging
Ode once every six reontes.
erlVenno. Zer:A"'etarre ge"jortfsva"
AanadmiCrealiotyn.lal Offices, the War Office and tile
The code In use at the Foreign ,Qffices is
by far the meet Intricate, aud consist% la
fact, ot two different cedes, which are al-
tered at mast twice a year.
There are two officials at, tbe Foreign
Office Who are continually employed in re
vielkig go codes Flo altering the keys.
cede IneSsaleahaEslig184 adnedspaingli4Maltdotht
two elanglieign °Moo codes are matte out in
Vor instance, supposing a code Inessage
As being dispatched to our Ambassador at
Paris by wire, the first prt of it is trans-
mitted in anon' and is what, is officially
known as the "shell" of the cede.
• The message to tbe uninitiated individ-
ual, reads exactly like an ortlina_ry
eatien relating to the eVeryday bh nese ef
Our foreign affairs, but certain. Vlaelisg of
egoctiveorgssiZr.ms the Ambassador that it is
The second part of the message arrives in
French, and tho two together are then read
bY moans or the key; which tee Atabasba-
,dor or his secreatry holds,
.• If a reply is necessary, it can be sent
lerge ah or tetinentet,pono.
et. it is rarely
that inessr4es of Tearyet'gr°ave importance are
runtasiltyneweelre. except under very speelal
Ono of the King's foreign messengers, of
whom there are fen employed at the Foreign
Office, is generally dispatched to carry a
cote message, and must deliver it in per-
sorensseto, the individual to whom It is ad-
.
For messages of less importance the For-
eign Office uses a cipher code, which is
changed about once in three yearS.
The code in WO tlt the Colonial Office Is
made out altogether in French, and Is of a
very complicated character,
Offieials in the government secret service
are continually at work testing the secrecy'
of the various codes.
Fictitious messages of an apparently
highly important cnaracter are dispatched
to these officials at different places all over
the world in Variene codes, which are pur-
Wisely allowed to pass through the hands of
a number of persons, and it Is the business
of the secret some officials to aseertain 11
there is a "leakage anywhere—that is to.
say if the real meaning of these messages
lan a o••
markets for the butter produced, and the.
results neve been. quite satisfactory. In
spite -of the fact th.at the price ef buttei
in eastern Canatla. has been lower this
year than last, the patrons of the North-
west creameries bave reetived an aver-
age not price of 20.98 cents a pound for
the butter manufaetured from the creron
smeplied by. them, over a ,cent. a pound
more than in 1003 and the highest price
ever -obtained for 'the season's output of
the Government emameriees.
British Colunabia. has naturally been
the chief maaket for Territorial butter
in the past, and still continues to take
tne bulk of the shipment. Freight -rates
and enter expenees are so heavy that a
satisfactory trade with Great Britain
cannot be canned on. et present, but a
considerable export trade is being de-
veloped with Japan and 'other Oreental
countaies. Before the Osaka Expesition
there was scarcely any Canedian butter
sold to Japan, but in spite of the war
some 34,000 pounds have been shipped. to
that country from the Government
ereameries during the first ten months
of this .year. The total consumption of
butter in Japan is not large, but there
are nolications of a decided increase in
demand for the Canadian article at the
close vf the war.
•
?• session of the keys or the different codes.
tThis sometimes happen% and the partic-
ular code to which a "leakage" is reported
is promptly put out Of use until it has been
revised and the key altered.
The code service of this country costs
about ato,000 a year to maintain, and is in-
finitely the cheapest service of the charac-
ter among Ettrogoan nations.
France spends £100,000 per annum on her
id
:
EARN 1,14,
Comfortable Living
WITH A
Chatham:Inoubator
Poultry raising with a Chatham
Incubatoe is a very profitable and
easily managed occupation. Unless
you want to go. into it extensively it
need take but very little of your time.
Government reports show that the
demand for chickens in Canada is
greatty in excess of the supply and
Great Britain is always clamoring
for more. That means a steady
market and good prices for chickens.
You cannot raise chickens sucdess-
.
fully with a setting hen. She is wast-
ing time setting when she should be
laying. While she is hatching and
brooding a few chickens -she could be
laying five or six dozen eggs. Thee
percentage of ellickens she hatches is
much less than that.produced by the
Chatham Incubator.
It will pay you to,own a Chatham
Incubator,
Chatham Incubators contain every
improvereent of importance in Incu.
bator construction that has been pro-
duced. They are made of thoroughly
seasoned wood, with two walls, case
within case. Between these walls
eninedel wool is packed forming the
very best insulation, Each piece of
the case is mortised and grooved and
screwed, making the whole as solid
as a itch. Chatham Ineubators are
equipped with scientifically perfeet
regulators which are an infallible
means of regulating the tempera.ture.
No +cash to pay until
October, 1905.
We will start you raising poultry
for profit with a Chatham Incubator
without ode cent of money from you
until next Fall. That means that you
can take oft seven or eight hatches
and make considerable money ont of
the Incubator before the first payment
becomes due,
'We couldn't make this offer if we
were not certain tbnt if' you Accept it
you Will get complete satisfaction, if
we were not positive that the Chatham
Incubator will pay you a handsome
yearly income.
This is a straighttorward offer. We
make. it to show our supreme confi-
dence in the Chatham Incubator. 'We
want you to aecept this offer as we
are sure of the satisfaction our Incu-
bator will give. n:very machine we
have put out so far has made other
sales in the same neighborhood.
Our offer is to send you a Chatham
Inoubator at once, freight prepaid by
us without ono cent of oath ,front you,
You make your first payMent in
October, 1005. The balance to be paid
In October, 1006, or 1,f a Cash auger
you 'get ft cheapen Oould any offer
im fairer tfr MOM generous 7
thete P1115, ONT.. Nov..tolust leely
The tramlyator foul IltoMer that t bnazlit From 3 oat
WO. nu t 1,51a haw to ia5 whole amount
MI Tali, ir yos tv 51 vita mo .1[5.4,ont, I 5ht vont
'molt plca554 with lkoh Tthailator mid Mulder. nue
awa.1 ant 10 lwaoso T eloatml the
55a5oe. nlotO tho Nerkitot Itroodor eobt Ma •
l'ome tern,n,rtett,15,.. I W ft ALM
Write us to -day rot. ruit partieulars
of our offer and mention this paper.
Donn put it aside for another time sls
this special proposition may be, with.
drawn at any time.
Tlin 111ASISON. CAMPlIPLL, CO. Malted
WO. Mt Citathatu, Cat,
trierri ;eel .
nee= ten 71.; ttfla etahut Ihtft &aka
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The Yukon butter trade is also being
tecorered. for Canada. The total amount :
eonsuthed in that territory annually is
over 500,000 pounds, of which nearly !
200,000 pounds has ehis year been con-
tributed by the Goternment creameries
in the Northwe.st Territories. When the
country was first opened several ship- '
merits of tinned butter sent up by Cana-
dian firms Were found to be very infer-
ior in quality, and, consequently, the
Canadian article got a bad 110,1110 and the
inarkee was practically monopolized by
the United States. Indeed; until 1003
about the only Canadian butter used in
the Yukon was that sent to the 'Mounted ;
Police. A:Mane/1111e the Dairy Division
had been testing variou.s styles of tins
and other packages, and had found that '
a first-class article, properly liacked,
could. be ehipped there at a profit. Or-
ders for 90,000 pounds were received last
year, and. the amount lets been more.I
than doubled this season, net mentioned
above.
There has been some opposition to our
stringent legislation siren as the Dairy
Products Act, of 1893, and. the But-
ter Act, of 1903, which forbid the men-
ufacture and sale in Canada of ndulter-
ated dairy goods, including filled cheese
and process butter. Tbe Hastinge cheese
ease recently reported in the press, has
shown that if our dairy laws liad been
one whit less strict, the Canadian cheese !
trade might have received a bIow from
which it would have required years to '
recover. The case in question is atilt
fresh in the public memory, AL leadirig 1
firm of grocers in Hest:rags, England, '
was clarrged with sellin„o as pure cheese
an article which the Meal analyst al-
leged was adulterated with foreign fat.
Fortunately the Canadian High Com;
missioner and Chief Inspector in Bri-
tain of the Department of Agriculture;
were able to preaent a vigerous nein:tem
backed up by Mdisputable evidence fors
warned from - Canada. by the Chief of
the Dairy Division. It was shown that
in Canada the manufacture of margar-
ine or "filled" enema Was abeolntely
;weblike(' under heavy penaltiee, and
the eouditione of • manufacture were
such that it eves iinpossible for this to
happen Withotit tlie Met miming to the
notice of the authorities. The purity of
the eheese wits ;Omitted and the Mateo
firmlly dismissed, when it was found
that the Cantidiaat contentione were pro.
vets 1;2.. the report of the, Government
analyst, which ;showed. that the sample
in question emit:lined 43 per cent: of
;milk fat end no foreign fat whatever.
The ease lime attmeted almost univer.
Pal attention Great Brit inn and the
triumphant allinieation of tho purity of
Canadian dairy prodneeta will prove a
great :tavern:: ement i -d our goods. If,
however. our dairy laws had been lax,
our depattmental orearlization
£210,000 for the maintenance 'or her code ser-
vice for twelve months.
The Russian code service is the naost elab-
orate and intricate in the world. It is made
out by dozens of experts, each of whom
works independently of tbe other, so that
none of them has the remotest idea of what
the final code Is like.
The work of eadh of these experts is
taken in hand by two official, occupying
high places in the Russian government, who,
between thorn, complete the official secret
language end the keys to it.
The secrecy of the code Is guarded with
the utmost care, and a person suspected of
giving the key away promptly diaappears, to-
gether with the individual suspected of re-
•
Yet, in spite of all the most elaborate pre:
frequently tampered .with than that of any
DI THE' GOOD OLD TIMES;
Facts Which Show Row Much Better
Off We Are To -day. -
Not until February -ef 1812 did the
people of Kentucky know that Madison
was elected President in the previous
Noveraber.
In 1834 one of the leading railroads
of the United States printed on its time
tablet "The locomotive will leave the
depot every day at 10 o'clock, if the
weather is fair."
The first typewriter was received. by
the public with suspicion. It seemed
subversive of existing conditions. A re-
porter who took one into a court room
first proved its real worth.
In England, scene centuries ago, if an
ordinary workman,. without permission
moved from one parish to another in
scar& of work or better wages, he was
branded with a hot irom
When 13enjamin Franklin first thought
of starting a newspaper in Philadelphia
.of his friends ndvised teeniest it,
because there -was a paper published in
Boston. Some of them iloubted that
the country would be able to support
neellvIsol)nat1Preerds. years age, the fastest
ItnwiOiodn tettvel in the world was on the
Great North read in England, after it
bed been put into its best condition.
There the York snail coach tore along
at the rate of ninety nines a day, and :
many persons confidently predicted. di- I
vine vengeance on such nnseernly haste..
'When Thomas Jefferson was ennead.
President of the United States, on Feb.:
ces.sful eardidate for as many Ines as 1
at now fakes hours to transmit the re- ,
sult of a Presidential election to the
whole, tivilized world.
When in 1809 Richard. Trevithick la. I
cautions, the code service of Russia is more
Police the .iiorthwest
YOtIfig Men With a Daredevil DaSh Patroiling
Frontier. e
eninhie+ininn++++444driefe++4441•11444
firet realized that I was getting geanne, Wihrelx prevented any parallel lea
5, Winalpeg newepaper I read thin nee:felt? tithatis 41,listerny free.culaTitau, rue wftt:
the Costly and islesaaefun hallut Ware
close to the picturesque Northweet when
aelvertisernent ; "Wanted----Tweutrlivo ast September, 4 tram robbery 4 NI
were monthly occurrences in the United
States. The desperado of eatery typelleA
a healthy raved tor the Mounted
lieemen, 4.11t1 preferre4 oonebast
busineaa :on United. fitates
Men to je114 the Royal Northweet Mount-
ed Police. Apply in person, ete," writes
correspoudent of the Boistoe. Evening
Tranecript. Thie was sandwiehen be-
tween an advertisement for fifty labor-
ers to shovel gravel on the railroad at
$30 per month and one asking for woods-
men to work in the lumber camps.
Now, the plebeien tresoclatioue of that
call to serve his Majesty -ehocked me, fd
had long conceived thellortirwest mourn-
ed police as about the most picturesque
and in its any the moat ;exclusive, mill-
tary force in the world. had gatheren
from stories- I had heard and read, and
from articles in the magazines, that it
wee recruited chiefly from the younger
sons of well to do and oven titled Eng-
lish families; that it -was an institution
where an English university man could
work off the- bubbling froth of a nrop -of
gypsy Neel before settling down ae need
of a county. family end warden in his
church; that it was in the main a col-
lection of young men for whom ;the- Red
Cods called. too wildly, men with .a dare-
devil dash in their makeup, who had. left
England because they were bimecunious
or because of a row with their families,
or because of something a little .meatt
or :shameful in their past or for sheer
love of adventure. I had read stories
of men wbo gave the recruiting officer
the name of plain John Smith with some-
thing. of a cynical smile, and that it wee
bad form for the reeruitieg officer to no-
tice this smile; men who had a habit
of reaching for a- namoele that wasn't
there, of talking with the correet Lon -
Not only in its efficiency, but in the
pictureequeness of its personnel, the
Mounted pollee has riChly Colored Past.
There wee always a pea half Of wild
Irishmen, with, their country's love a a
fight, old plainsmen and Intlian fight-
ers; quite iully the father half WAS made
up of gentlemen adventnrere of the type
popularly associated with the force. A
few years ago an en -member of the fierce
turned his ealents to writing, tattly Made
ao mean Milne for himself 51.51 a oovelist.
wrote an ' old
For one of tne London ma azines
life. "Of my old conaradee," he said,
died an poverty, 1)— in an
EngliSh workhouse, of fever, K--
cleserted, M— broke Ids neck wlien ids
horse stumbled. J--- went mad, W—
shot himself, 0— was last aeon as a;
frellsP, P-- died of starvation, and le --
was frozen to death, * * * The life
of the force was, a gorgeous romance,
but it had its shadows. Men got bored
and deserted, say one-tenth in the year;
or, brooding over all they bad lost—
love, lame, ambit -iota honor—they would
go awa,y oefetly iato a corner and blow
their brains out, The death rate WU
always high; a number of men were
killed on duty, others agaia fnet tbeir
end by fall from horse or other misad-
venture on tbe plains. The 'Very life was
unsettling; men could not leave it and
settle down to any raontony of cleric,a1
fellow troo
don pronunciation, and thrashing the worle or farming, because adventurers
aro not built that way. The tamest and
per who called attention to quietest -of us have li
the,„fect. And. until very lately this blood runs wild foriulthseP.eol
impresion was quite correct. Any story ilds wfhreeendotralie,
you ever heard of the heir pees•umptive
to an English marquisate patrolling a
five hundred, nine beet along the Arctic
Circle can be Outmatched on the written
records of the- force and in the memory.
of any officer. But sic transit—. The
old order is passing very rapidly in the
Canadian Northwest, and for a variety
of reasons, the- mounted police, as one
is told at every turn out hero, "is not
tevdh tilt ii ite eunsleacin t los baeicie xli ter eanyferlaygeo rmci ionramrty-
turer who had written this, to get bim
when, there is no peace ny day and no
sleep night after nigbt; when one must
be in tbe saddle again or off to sea, or
away to some mining rush, war, 'explore -
tion, anywhere beyond the fences out on
the frontier, One hears again the dip of
the paddles, the click of the trigger, the
roar of tbe surf, the thunder of horses.
Is there any Englishman who will blame
us for making empires r
When the London editor who accepted
this article soueht the retired adven-
young man, and recruits are called. for to read the proof sheets, he could not
be found. H.e had disappeared "In the
direction of Alaska, it was believed."
The break-up of the old order really
came With the South African war. Eng-
land called for the mounted. pollee to
help her there. One-third of them, the
among the "Help "Wanted' advertisa
ments of a Winnipeg daily paper.
But it is only in its lack of pietur-
esquenes and of the robust hardihood
and. reckless daring in its make-up that
the force. is "not what it used to be."
nor the purposes of the thoroughly ere- pick of the lot, went out. Practically
ilized order of the new Northwest it is none of them ever came back. England
a minable and efficient force. The mem- was glad to give any inducement to keep
bees must pass a physicel and mental them where her trouble -was. Many
examination which guarantees that. e were offered commissions, and some ac-
cepted. The force in Canada has never
came upon one of them in a moment of
leisure studying a text -book on the nom- quite recovered its former tone, and nev-
mon law, and he showed me some exam- erTnhnelrle•
=ben questions aduch nnplied that he is one other reason asstgned for
must•know how to conduct a crossmx- flla changed order. The pay is miser-
ably small. ;Tie highest officer, corm -
amination in open court so as to avoid
sponding to-rthe colonel of a regim'ent,
what are known in the law as "leading
be gets but $2,000 a year. The other offi-
oneetions." And any lawyer will,
cers get $1,000, $1,400 and $1,000 a year,
impressed when I say that every mount-
, e from which they must provide their own
ed policeman must know how to take
uniforms. 'nhe rank and file get just
murdered man's (Vine declaration in
50 cents a day. The inadequacy of that
such at manner that itbean be presented :
wasn't so conspicuous in the old days,
as evidence in court. The reason for
when nobody in tEe territory had any
this is that he combines the functione -
of a policeman mith those of a. petty 1 country eof almost feverish prosperity.
money. But to -day the territory is a
magistrate. And right there lies moth- ! Farm hands get twiee as =eh a. day
• f tl f th
mounted policeman. This arrangement, the fever of money making is in the
and then try you himself, and Mealy put police has difficulty• keeping itself intact
you in prison and be your keeper—this or receuiting young men of any intelli-
was all very well in the old days, when gence or enterprise in a eommuniter
justiee was the more desirable for being' evhere business offers to intelligence and
the more summary, and. when the popm enterprise so much greater a teward.—
lation was of a, calibre which 'mane nat-
ural deference to the more intellieent 1 Buffalo Commercial.
el,. •
and more bighly educated mounted pol- "I'd rather lee dead than suffer again
nceman. But the Northwest is rapidly the tortures of insomnia, palpitation and
•being settled by American farmers, who nervous twitching of nay muscles induced br
Iff-ieloiniotynecitootohendiuheiha lobvriellittaritt bmesatt, for , simple neglect of a little indigestion." These
orM. arts the forcefui and warning words of a lady
They resent the combination of Police- , who proclams that her cure by South Amen -
man and magistrate in one. Soon there , can Nervine when everything else had felled
Will be so many of these farmers that , was a modern miracle. A few doses give re7
the Northwest Territory Will lad form- ner.-92
ed into self-governing provinces, just as et. •
• t • . I te.
When that happens, and it 'will within a
few years, the mounted policemen must
take himself off, like the musk-ox and
the fur bearing maiinais than retreat be-
fore the advancing plougli, to the more
sparsely settled Canadian dterritories
close to the Arctic Cirde.
But even in the ahanged present the
Northwest Mounted. Pollee is a remark-
able force. There are 750 members in it.
That, I think is about half the number
of policemen greater Boston. But the
collective beat of the mounted policeman
extends* from the northern boundary of
the United States etraight to the North
Pole. In the other direction. it extends
from the western boundery of the Yukon
te the eaetern boundary of Hudson. Bay.
Roughly, their beat eovere a territory
about as large as tbe United States east
of the Misessippi River. Within that
territory the mounted policeman lute
more ditties and functions than Gilbert
and -Sullivan's Paoli Bali. Primarily, he
eeps etc er. . ia re t Des mely-
of a weak neart; and in the epidemic of
thing that ought to be done and that it
isn't anybody else's duty to do. And pueninpnia. which ravaged the country
last winter an unusual number of deaths
when 'someone else leaves Me duty un -
occurred from failure of the heart to
meet the added strain.
.Althotigh 'various causes have doubt-
less been at work to weaken the hearts
of the present generation, there can be
no question that one potent influence
! as the mounted policemen. Moreover,
whereby the same man could arrest you. ; •
It • Ittl
DRUGS FOR HEADACHES.
Their Constant Use Can Be Avoided—
Remedies to be Employed.
It may be said, with little fear of con-
tradiction, from those who, know the
facts, that if a cast-iron law forbidding
the use of Any drug whatever in the
treatment of headache could be enacted
and enforced there would be much less
anisery for the coming generation than
there is for this.
A. sufferer from repeated headaches
who has found a means of relief in
"headache powders" or other even less
harmful drogs, may dispute this asser-
tion, but the victims of some drug habit
or the friends of one whose heart, poi-
soned by aeetanilid or antipyrin, has Bud,
denly ceased to beat before its time will
look at the matter from another point
of view entirely.
During the Spanish war numbers of
would-be recruits were rejected because
tered the following evords, there were
many who consideren him an insane, a
dangerous person; 'The preseot getter.- :1
Aden will use canals, the next will pre- r
fer x'ailroads with horses, but their more r
enliehtened suceessors will employ -steam b
carriages on railways as tha perfection
onthe art of conveyance."
When Benjamin MILANI first took
UM coach from Philadelphia to New
one tho moonted :policeman takes it
nd finishes at. 'When the mail -mule;
tho covers the country on dog, sledges,
caches -the /nest northern limit of his
oute, the mounted policeman takes the
ags and gees; five hunaren miles further
nerth with them. He puts out prairie lia.s been tne Indiscannnate use of heed -
fires, 1M eonet•ts the customs in places dello Powders.
too email te maintain regular rev. In. all eases of habitual headache de-
mure offieer. he collects statisties as to miming periodically a physician most, of
17, 1801, after one of the Most exciting c
eampaiges one history, the dfl
gratifying news did not reach the sue. :0
rope, and lie sees that the Indians get
tele treaty money. In the lenely little
rapists, far eut of communieatinn with
course, be consulted. that lie may find
the eause--eye strain, nisease of the oleo,
nose, stomach or other mere distant or-
Imethinarters, the mounted polieeman is garis—and remove it if possible. But
liteeelly a protecting father ti his little the separate attacks of headache lutve
cumnineity of trappere and Indians, to be relieved, if very severe; and in
Ann if tit. mounted pelieenianis pee+ these eases it is better not to resort to
ie a little sordid ana 1114 (huge unless the chugs ere talon undet
past ie suffiviently eel:Mous. lie lute clone the 'special guidance ef pliysician. In
'his part to demonstrate that elm, one the congestive headache, marked. by
thing ,on nig earth hmger than the emu- throbbing,. end made wows° by stooping
ier not. arm of Englini justiee. Less or lying down, eold -towel or an ice.
than three years ago a mounted polit.e. nag applied to the head, a hot-water
n in tracked. a Yukon Inurthrer over six.. bag to the spine. a mustard plaster to.
York, Ise spent four nays on the iour-.1
ney. Ide tells ne that, as the old ("trivet,
Jeggeil along, lie spent his time knit:- ,,
firm -stockiness. Two stnge emodies
eight horses sufficed for all the entre e
weree that wag earned on 'between Bee- °
ton and New York, ruin in the winter e
the journey oecupiril emetic.
Nepoleori, at the tenant of big power. I
vaunt not atunreintl onr every dao con- 1
veinenees, smell IIS Ste= heel. running I
water, bath una Remarry pluirtleam gu54,
.geettie railer:ens. eninleette, the
tele:maple tile lel el dif ate, the tile.
11AWSpallaeil. magazlne nen
theuelnel bleesinen eTe
IlOW pert of the :lain' neeeesitiee of overt
niereel laborers.
'Mien the Mee +we lone a entlima
rite veal were Lament( into Philenelplint 1
in 1803, the mina Ranee ef iliat efty. so
the '0(1/4,1.41,4 state. "hied to horn the
Pi off tut et 1.,ntib. tbov
lypoko it op unsi moo 11 wait; “F it."
rem teen ve tee nit ca. f 'el. lieit•ne Shoo -
wiener sold ri,do or tee %ewer I tette id
if tlir alum env. li it tare ;age nee,*
ogee remed fee ha moo n telong I
motley tinder fal-e pretene ,J. 4,:tteetr.
thouseind milee, -caught np wIth him an to the bath of the nook, or to the inner
WNW, brought. Lim back by way of of the thighe. or a hot mustard foot
,Taniaiea and 'Halifax -- avoiding the bath—one or more—will often give re-
IMited Settee soil to premed extradition lief when niftily Mtge fail.
tomplieatious -amid banged him withia In the tteemie form of lu•adaehe awak-
en:Mt of bie erime. There has never been en by pallor, in Whin% the pain 15. made
lynelibm Canaaa. Ind that down to less severe by lying flown, message Of
the emelt; of t;:e mounted NUNN, who am the hetet or tlie applieation of war-ra
Jtvtiee• so satisfactorily eloths to the head and facts wili nften.
that there Was never any incentive for be found gratifying. A threatened bilious
he work. ti be talon np, by private en- he:Wax:he may kimetimes bo wutdea off
.ereinee TilPTC! %Is %over in cantat ouy by it -atve of minim smite, tes May (Oen
eitallel ler the expt•rienee of a vile' lik.e neadaehes flue to "itutodniendentinV
natant -la N. De where, it ie maid, the tout oue due to overnm of the -ere oe
het tworly-fenr ttat5*.f AteTO of mea .03•0 istralit will reentlly, it taken at,
vIzn (1:01 deltlisi. Towards th0 1110111011i firet werninn !,.- tryl • .1 e
Ibliall4 penee maintont a or mitigated lz eloeing .• ;
radition stern eigileure aril jitst von. plot for a nal • —Yonne- •
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