i i t 4 I i 1 #53 h i i Ez fit oh | ! fink Spel "AN EXCELLENT FOOD, ' adapted to the Wants of infants." Siz Cuas. A. Camron, C.B., M.D., Professor of Chemistry, R.C.S.1., 'the Ri BaPresident of % Royal College of 9 For Infants, Invalids, And The Aged. GOLD MEDAL, WOMAN'S EXHIBITION, London, 1900. DR. BARNARDO says :-- *'We have already used Neave's Food in two of our Homes (Babies' Castle and 1. Village Home), and I have no hesitation in saying it has proved very sati-factory."-- July 27th, 1901. Russian Imperial Nursey. Mamheture JOSIAH BE NEAVE & CO, Ip ee A Kidney Sufferer Fourteen Years. i pik i § fs 8 1 No aaa. left me and I mow feel i tii Hy { right bank of the Peel River, thirty miles from its junction with the Mac- lenzie and seventy miles from the Arctic Ocean. The general character of the country fiom Athabaska Land- ing to McPherson is swampy, with alternate rocky ridges with muskegs between. The timber is spruce, pop-- lar, black and white birch, willow and alder. The country is full of small lakes, and in a few places there 4s arable land. North of the Atha- Laska River there is no agricultural land. The fisheries in Great. Slave Lake are valuable, the most abunddnt be- ing whitefish, lake trout and pike. The trout grow to a large size and often reach a weight of fifty pounds. At Vermillion, on the Peace River, the Hudson's Bay Company have a flour and saw mill. Superintendent +] Constantine was informed that about 10,000 bushels of wheat would be raised along the Peace River that season, and the company hoped to be able to supply the northern posts with flour ground from wheat raised in that district. He thinks that if the present conditions continue the post at Fort McPherson could be withdrawn at the end of another year, and two other posts establish- ed at Fort Simpson and Fort Reso- lution respectively, farther up the Mackenzie. Nickel Indies ious in New Ontario, The mineral discoveries im the belt along the mew Temiskaming Rail- way, which have led the Government to remove the land from sale or lease, are nickeliferous. Some of the ores are unlike any that have hither- to been found In quantity im this Province. For instance, the * mineral miccolite, otherwise known as kupfer- nickel, which contains about 44 J BEEEE El ; $Eo5r> 8 : - g ik 5 g 3 3 i to these, native silver occurs, some exceedingly handsome specimens of which have been found. The value of these discoveries, if they turn out to be extensive, can be ized by a comparison with the famous deposits. In Sud- bury 8 per cent. of nickel in the ore is the average, and 5 per cent. is ex- ceedingly rich. In the new discover- ies the ore carries 44 per cent. of nickel. A much smaller body of mickel, therefore, in Temiskaming will constitute a mine than in the nickel Hervag pyrrhotite region of Sud- i ------------ Some Gretesque Rocks. We find in the West many tes- que rocks standing out yr Al- aska is full of them, They are called 'hermits' up there. Every river has them-great, black, forbidding giants often 200 feet high, with a base not more than three or four feet in dia- meter. In nearly every river in Alaska thelis Ate eddies. These eddies are unlike those anywhere clse. Some of them may be due to rounding points in the river, er to rocks, but far the greater number are due to sub- terranean rivers. Nearly everyone who has gone thro White Horse Canyen knows the "Black Eddy.' It is an immense whirling maelstrom of a place. A log 40 feet long and ar Just thick will whirl several ti it, its speed so increasing that finally it stands upright, -and-- dives. There is no timber anywhere along the Behring Sea coast, yet the waters everywhere are full of "'float,"' ang the beaches are piled these subterranean rivers?--John A. Horusby, in Toronte Sunday World, -------- An Unexpected Objostion. An incident occurred at ome ef Ontario's country schools the other day that shows the average youth knows me such word as DAY, FEBRUARY 13. colonial bishopric of the Angli- It was created in 1787, in 1839, when Newfoundland and were abstracted (rom grown to be, though not The retiring Bishop is a son of the late Rev. Septimus Courtaey, fellow of St. Joba's College, and was born at Plymouth in 1837, London, and his first important charge was in Glasgow. He came to New York in 1876 as assistant min- ister of St. James', and subsequent- ly held the rectory of St. James', Chicago, and of St. Paul's, Boston. On April 29, 1888 (sixteem years be- fore the day on which his resigna- tion is to take effect, he was con- secrated Bishop of Nova Scotia. He is a DD. of King's College, Wind- sor, and & D.C.L. of our own Trinity and of Lennoxville, Quebec. Bishop Courtney will retain the titular dignity ef Bishop, and the use of the mitre, if he so desires it, which is not likely, The crozien being the symbol of actual authority will not remain to him. The resigna- tion of colonial bishops is by no means infrequent, many of the dio- ceses being of purely missionary im- portance, and not to be compared in opportunities for influence with a great modern church, but it is many years since so important a diocese as Nova Scotia has been exchanged for a rectory. It may be moted that Nova Scotia has the unusual record of having been held by beth a father and his son--the first aad third Bis- hops respectively. ------------. Values of Quebes Farms. | The cénsus branch has issued 1 lotin rding agriculture in bec. The area of the province is said to comprise 218,723,687 acres of land and 6,474,874 acres of water surface; 6.60 per cent. of the land is occupied as farms and lots; 93.18 per cent. of the farm land is owned. There are 174,996 owners and occu- piers of farm and lot holdings in the province, an increase in tem years of 150,599. ' Agricultural values have been tak- en for the first time in this census. They show for farms and lots in the province a total for lands and build- ings of $350,550,154; for {imple- ments and machinery, $37,088,205, for live stock, $58,488,457; the crops and animal census year, $85,034,401. For farms alone the value of land and buildings is $349,716,097; of implements and machinery, $26,790,604; of * live stock, $53,647,720, and of crops and animal products, $82,449,488. The total value of farm property is $430,154,421, and of this sum land represents 57.58 per cent., build- ings 23.73 per cent., implements and machinery 6.23 per cent., and live stock 12.47 per cent. Reduced to a farm of the average size (110.82 acres, whereof 57.02 acres is improved and 53.80 unim- proved), the value of the property is $3,804.86, made up of $2,686.86 for land and buildings, $205.88 for im- plements and machinery, and $412.17 for live stock. The total gross value ef farm pro- ducts for the census year is $46,993, - 267 for crops (57 per cent.) and $35,456,171 for animal products (43 per cent.) This makes the of $82,449,438, or $633.46 in the year for am average farm, which is 19.17 per cent. of the investment. ---------- Drying of Peat Fuels. The extensive prespec for peat fuels in the Ontario cting 3 lends great interest to the process for elec- tricat drying of this product, which is being exploited in England. The inventor gave this month at Charl- ton, Kent, a practical demonstration of his discovery. The process was very simple, and, it is said, cannot fail te be a commercial success. The peat, in its natural wet com- dition, is put inte a large perforated upright cylinder, in which there are rotating fans; the cylinder is them set in motion, and revolves at a high speed, throwing out the free water through the perforations like a sharp shower of rein. This takes about ten or twelve minutes; then the electri- cal current is applied, which breaks up the fibres and forces out the lat- ent water, but leaves in all the na- tural oils. This latter process takes perhaps a further fifteen minutes, but 3 soon as sufficient current has passed through the peat to dry it, automatically, se waste of electricity. A 735 ais gu 3 | IN HIS WORK OF EMPIRE EX He was educated at King's College, : HOWHEHELD ON 8 TENSION. g Thrilling Tale of How British Supremacy Was Maintained Against Overwhelming Odds. Mr. ©. Braithwaite Wallis, late Acting District Commissioner of the Sierra Leone Protectorate, tells a story of heroism, resouice and ad- ministrative genuis cqualled by few chapters in the history of the Em- pire, and the stirring events which it details took place no further back than 1898. It was in that year that the re- cently formed Protectorate over Sierra Leone and the Hinterland or back country of West Africa was con= vulsed by an insurrection of the na~ tive races, who reiused to pay the very moderate snd reasonable hut- tax imposed by the Government. It was 4 crisis in our Imperial his- tory resembling in its tragic episod- es the horrors of the Indian mutiny, and it was here in the pestilential swamps of West Africa that in 1898, and a part of the year succeeding, a handful of British troops fought grimly to maintain the supremacy of the old flag, many gallant officers and men losing their lives either by 'the bullets and spears of the savages or by that scourage of this tropical country--the deadly malaria. Here some of the most treacherous and horrible murders recorded in his- tory occurred, preceded by diabolical tortures which the depraved mind of the African bush savage only could conceive. Most impressing is the sublime au- dacity and the iron nerve of those young Englishmen, who, as district commissioners, had to uphold the au- thority of the Government. The au- thor describes one typical scene in which the commissioner of the Karene district calls a '"'palaver." This man was in a district seeth- ing with rebellion, and had with him but a small battalion of Haussas. Yet when the chief came at his sum- mons with 1,000 followers, while 2,- 000 of his people waited outside the town watching the turn of events, the commissioner spoke as if he had a British army behind his back, and when the chiefs refused compliance with his commands, he actually ar- rested them, and sentenced them to varying terms of imprisonment with hard labor. And remarkable is it to learn that his stern courage awed the natives of the district inte sub- mission. One of the most exciting and heroic episodes of this "little war' was the defence of Kambia by Com- missioner Braithwaite Wallis himself, who narrates his adventures with be- coming modesty but ne lack of vig- or. The tetal stremgth of fighting men was one sergeamt, one lance-corporal, and 25 vates, or 28 in all, in- cluding mmissioner Wallis. This little band eof heroes was attacked by vast hordes of blacks on three sides at once, and as hour after hour went by one by one dropped dead under the hail of fire poured into the stockade. It was only a remnant that escaped by boat when complete annihilation was near at band. There were many other such epi- sodes related in this book, and fin- ally such indomitable bravery had its reward, and the pative races ten- dered thelr submission. Besides the narrative of the war, the book contains much: valuable in- formation as to the commercial pros- pects of West Africa. A "Kangaree's Meney " Andrew Carnegie brings each year from Scotland a pew collection of Scottish stories. One of last year's gathering eoncerns an ignorant farm- or. This farmer, over a glass of whiskey, sympathized ome day with the complaints of an old friend of his, a peddler. The peddler said the times were always hard in Scotland; the people had no money there; it was a poor place to get along in. "What you say it true,'" the farm- er agreed. 'Why don't you emigrate to Australia, Tavish? Australia's grand place, by all accounts." 'It used to be,' the other return- ed, 'but it is so no longer. Austra- lia is as overcrowded mow as any other land." "The coast may be,'"' the farmer admitted, "but the interior, I'm sure, is not. Go to Australia, Tavish, and push into the interior." "D----n the interior!' said the peddler. '"There's mothing there but kangaroos. '"* r The farmer thought the kangaroos were some fareigm race of people. "Well, Tavish,"" he said, reproach- fully, "isn't a kangaroo's money as good as any other man's?' A Whistler Joke. An artist, returned from abroad, tells this story of the late James MacNeill Whistler. A group of artists were discussing the manifold perfections of the late Lord Leighton, president of the Royal Academy. "Exquisite musician--played the violin like & yofessional," said one. "One of the best dressed men in London," said another. Danced divinely,"' remarked third. "Ever read his essays?' asked a fourth. "In my 'opinion they're the best of the kind ever written." Whistler, who had remained silent, tapped the last speaker on the shoul der. "Painted, too, didn't he?"' he said. the his Acconnt Book. A firm of masons in am Irish town employ a laborer whose novel method of keeping account of his time was brought to light lately by a queer circumstance. He went ome evening to his employer's home with the sad intelligence that he had lost his account book. He said that the pigs had unfortunately got in and eaten it up. 'What sort of an account book did you keep?" "asked his employer. "Why, I had an barrel, and when I worked a wi day I put in a potato, and when half a day half a VIRTUES OF THE " BLAZER." Their Rough sud Ready Way of Regulate ing Their Community. A "Non-Blazer admirer of that his- toric on, the "Cavan Dlaz- ers," writes an interesting account of the aristocratic "regulating'® work carried on by the members. in the 'fifties. On ome occasion, says the correspondent, "they met the Rev. Mr. Armour (father of the late Chief Justice Armour), im 'the long swamp,' and demanded of him that he should kneel down and pray for them. At first the learned divine re- fused, but rather than remain over night he complied with their wishes and prayed as well for his own pre- servation as for their souls' salva- tion." In those days they had to drive their grain to Port Hope for market. There was a toll gate on the road and although they would pay their tolls on going: through and get a re- turn ticket, they would on their re- turn after 'dark race their teams through the gate so as to give the impression that they had not paid, Just to tease the keeper and have him run after them, and in many cases they would lift him into the sleigh and give him a forced but free ride. When the time came that he meeded a friend, he readily found it in them. He had been dismissed by the Toll- gate Company, and another was sent in his place. He removed to Port Hope, whence the other had come. The Blazers, without making known their identity, at once waited . upon the incoming tenant with their sleighs and said that they had come to take him and his belongings back to Port Hope before any harm was done him, as they had heard that the 'Cavan Blazers" were coming to eject him and demolish his house. He at once complied with their request, and they landed him safely at his former home, apd on their return trip brought back the former tenant, whom they reinstated to his great satisfaction. While they showed no disrespect to Roman Catholics, people of that persuasion gave the vicinity a wide berth, and were never known to settle there, with the exception of one, and when he thought of the fancied danger, he proposed leaving, but they would not allow him to do | 80, as they wanted to keep him for a curiosity. He remained on, and be i came a prosperous farmer, and appre- clated their many acts of kindness which they showered upon him." ---------------- The Woman at the Windew. I used to see her quite'eften as I walked home from the office stand- ing at the window of her neat little cottage, with the baby in her arms, watching for dad. A nice, neat, little body of a wo- man she was, too. Always had her hair fixed and wore a white apron, and the baby was a fat rascal with round cheeks and a dimple. One night, when I was gq bit later than usual, I caught sight of dad. He wasn't much to, look at, his clothes were homely, his hands soil ed, and he smelled of the factory, but you should have' seen that baby laugh and that mother smile when they caught sight of him, and he-- well, he hadn't been walking slowly before, but he just about ran up the steps. Then the door opened and shut, and I could guess the rest. One night, however, I missed her from the window, I didn't see the baby and I wondered. The next day the window was still vacant, and the next and the next, and I wondered still, until one day I saw a stylish rig at the door, and I surmised that a doctor owned it. I knew then somebody must be sick, and I hoped, whether it was the baby or the mother, that whoever it was would get well. So, for about another week and then--well, then I saw something that made me feel a bit choky about the throat, something white fluttering from the front door and the blinds were down. The baby was dead. The little woman has takem to standing at the window again, but her arms look sadly empty. She is just as neat as ever, but the snowy apron matches closely the pallor of her sorrowful face as she waits and watches for dad. Love still rules the little cottage, but sorrow sits there, too, an unbidden guest.--H. D. C., in Torento Star. Sen of Former Canadian Geversor. Mr. John Raynor Arthur, who re. cently died at Normandy Park, Guild- ford, England, at the age of 73 years, was the son of General Sir George Arthur, Governor of Upper Canada from 1838 to 1847, and was born in 1830. Mr. Arthur, who was educated at Haileybury, joined the Indian Civil Service in 1851. During the mutiny he was Assistant Com- missioner in Sind under his brother- in-law, the late Sir Bartle Frere, He was also private secretary to Sir Bartle Frere, when Governor of Bombay. Subsequently he was for ten years collector and district mag- istrate of Satara. His early retire ment in 1877 was due to a severe accident, which incapacitated him from further service in India. Mr. Ar- thur married, in 1865, the Hon Ai leen Spring Rice, sister of the pre- seat Lord Monteagle of Brandon. -------- Sweet Country Cousina A Toronto lady, writing to her cousins living in the country, whose home is lighted with acetylene gas, warned them of the danger of explo- sions from it. This is the reply re- ceived: '"Thanks, dear, for warnings of gas, We never know what danger we rum, but if those geese should keep the lights away and open the windows, there would be no explosion if the thing leaks. But do you know what a terrible mine you are living over-- coal gas, lighting gas, dynamite in hardware stores, electric lights all over the house, falling wires !a the streets all the time, fire engines, run- away horses, trolley cars, trolley Hires, thunder, lightning, and Eat- an's Xx Thy, Ip All the strength of prime beef--that's what you get in Bovril--while the skill in making has produced that rich roast beef flavor which delights the palate and makes Bovril so acceptable to Invalids as well as to the healthy and strong. These two essentials give Bovril the place at the. top. It has no equal. Ld Cuddling around a coal heater to try and keep out Jack Frost's attacks has no charms for the comfort lover. Even the open fire-place which occupies a romantic posi- tion in the love tales of other days cuts a sorry figure in the home of to-day. The cold halls and draughty rooms of our grandfathers are of the past. The builder of to-day who wants the best for the new home or realizes the necessity of remodernizing the heating apparatus of the old home, recognizes that for healthful warmth, comfort, cleanliness and safety the only system to install is the combina- tion of Oxford Radiators with an Oxford Hot Water Boiler. The Oxford Radiator meets every demand of the modern building. It radiates healthful, summer-like warmth to every part. Its use is reduced to an absolute science, being accurately proportioned to give out the exact quantity of heat for a given size of room. Each Oxford Radiator is tested to a cold water pressure of one hundred and twenty pounds, while during operation, the pressure is rarely greater than ten pounds, giving a generous margin and avoiding any possibility of accident. The Oxford Hot Water Boiler is the heart of the Oxford Heating system, and has proved its high efficiency by many years of satisfactory use, It is entirely modern, combining every valuable feature of the latest discoveries of science in this department. Our entire plant-at Toronto Junction, covering many acres of ground, is devoted exclusively to the manufacture of Oxford Hot Water Boilers and Oxford Radiators. We would like to send you some of our booklets about the Oxford Hot Water System of heating--they tell the whole story. THE GURNEY FOUNDRY CQ., Limited Toronto Montreal Winnipeg Vancouver "Your two Sweet Country Cou- rins, who live where the cow-bell rings." --The Globe. Corsets of every description at 25e., 10c., 50c., and up. New York Dress Reform. potato, and the pigs ate them all entirely." Pearson's Weekly. Er own minds until the day after. Some men never seem to know their FUSE WIRE We are the only Canadian Manufacturers. - Hig hest efficiencey guaranteed. 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