T OF 7 THE jpermanent, and a return to greatet ac. RE IRECTORS [Uvity will certainly be seen, although » I am not" going to venture to p 1 OF THE the date. In the meantime, we consider | i that it i= eminently satisfactory under such circumstances to see a substan- | tial increase of £8,000 in the total * BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA "#5520 Thm In general business, the year 1904 was not without its vicissitudes. The ter 19034 was of exceptional sever- so that traffic by road and rall- was only carried on under great IFcat lice Presented to the Proprietors at their Sixty Ninth way quality and ulties and expense. This inter- age i d with the shipment of produce lined pack. Yearly Genera Me eeting, and the distribution of merchandise, nl m-- agriculture in Eastern Canada. The The annual EB prietors of oe America was held on Tues x { the office of the the Bank of pFitish | 2ron my colleagues the necessity of a Prosperity as during recent yeals, {Proper banking house in that city. | chiefly) owing to a diminished demand the United Kingdom, which was mm going to add that it has been well March 7th, @ spent The site, which we purchased partly compensated for by the No, § Gracechurch Stre in October; 1902, is one of the best in consumption. of the United ration "A. Hoare, presiding , | (+ business part of the city, and it is The dairying industry, which ndor 3. Wallis) | Werth a great deal to-day th { such growing importance in the | ary (Mr. A. G A eal more to-day than '% ving my ance he Et notice and the audi- [}t Was then The building which we Fast realized considerably less money having red have erected upon ft is not only well fOr the producers than in 1903. and had tors' repor ald: afore making jduapted. to all our banking require- It not been for the good harvest 10 the The atiman i rb sheet | Ients, but js also an ornament a he' West, we should probably have sem a guy _ referent Sur hands, to-day, 1 must '€ity, which is rapidly, increasing in P I set-back In the growing pros whieh a wards respecting one pur tance, population and wealth, and Perity of the Doininion : h In the report Issued with the A had been influenced chiefly THE WHEAT CROP graph ot of June 30th last wa thotives of economy in this nat t Nit n the palance-sheet, Of June TED UT50 nas dPould have made a great mistake AL Aturally, the itogress of Lhe clips then sald: TC ll he profits of the | Toronto we have carried out extensive Manitebe and the Northwest peen set aside out of HE Fr ion tn isternul alterations, whereby ke _not~ J YAS hiched by au mJ Pelt-year to meet the x d in the United Kingdom with the bank's investment in Domigign of ©Obly secure first-class banking accom e be iety for the success or otherwise which will herthiter Wedation, but also warn a considerable Y : Y r otherwise of Canada rs at 97." Having rental AL "AMtawa r building was Ihe har big 3a Shu ng re ' Sony y Pig stand In ' 6 a right enough. but the situation' i a question of merely loca n- bliged in December, 1803, fo sel 4 'Mie shiualtion was oy, ., cert PLE 1 count been obliged I LEC Cin of £9.000 NTONE and it wax necessart to mak t1n cenaip pans of 8 hes aside out of pre 2 Challe oF lo be forgotten. so we. HI¢ Crops were dnmaged hy rust. and to provide for depreciation=in our Con- 2 in consequence of this the grade of that It was rather hard | ade the change, and this was tin sols, we felt wheat was net so high os the hopes of Ss further appropriation in re. ituviest item ad to build ge farmers had led them to antiel- hat pe our Canada bonds should be age deinand I a yy Mies. | pute The crop was, however, boun= cessary, but you no doubt under- 5 © hat. it ttm Ries Lis 0 tiful, heine astimated at sixty million stood perfectly well that it was ren= 5 on To fol ! le ain st Pa sible fOr bushels: while the teriority in quilt dered necesgary by market fluctuations' 5 tion. en or AR edrbit Sat wae more than made up by the higher aloe; and that, as the quotations on anit Gail quite Inte price, obtained: and it 1s estimated. that ES SICK the Stock Exchange had fallen, i nS et - 'ot bus ness H Hitt th lone will realize forty mil- ---------------------- necessary for us to write dow y nenoy. of which 1 Lod ge ho 4 Influx of setilers nt to that level, Lough s a a, Toe 2 n eur co ues, many still com- vou will come and 00 worth to * bheundary, and bringing with then not restr ! PLE WELL Ag 21] aware that on its Pemiulon of Canada bond en a i tha « ge yh more to-day lo ever it has be n je hn Ahsan 3 only nit But valuable experience 2 e It ie satisfactory to be able to lear Sigh New ands ar eing constantly t RING TIME ro that a recovery in values has al- a a ena ' ur, © while: farmers Iready i -------------------------------- ready taken place, and that our invest building, where we might conduet our 1B und ding o th ment is to-day again worth par { bu holdings i weak wpot The bank at Vic- will now pass on, and make some = | toria ba ART racticallv rebuilt nd: 2 the ww, encouraged hh vations on the balance-sheet to De- ha } practically rebuilt. and,' py: yn st Seasons. wha Eox er 31st, 1904. Deposits and .cur- githo ugh 1 are i ih 1 Dative seeing t nd steadil 1 rent accounts, compared with Decem- | goin mie buildi hy There ip peen 'RIC loabt many ha iderful Cu per 1903. show an increase of £311,000: 0p "oy anditure at other brancaes, Deh emi res = 77 per cent. of this increase is in the | pus nothing of tance. 1. + than their § 1 savings bank department, which is op 0 SOME h on thi price of land sho iva n favor in. Canada ble a tha liabilities show that You grouehly natural; but there is rea- » of WOO, This decreas Tor hat tha speculator has #lso rE 1imost entirelh hy the bl Ln to ! ro ent, and which are £550,000 ¥ Biel the ol for specul pa; hy 0,01 at this time last year. This redue tion diminution of the of the wooden Backs does not signify any value. in f countr It is ¢ ard Fuh, pank's business generally, but it is the t ish voticeable that the pumber of commer- i ret reflection of a long period of inactivit at. $0 high oint cial failures in Manitoba ind the fn New York, to which I shall have °° 2 poll . Northwest Territories has increassd to refer Tos when 1 speak .of our PROFITS FOR although tlhe tota EDDY'S profits. Notes in circulation show an Pi v I ma hur not increased in ke proportipn -- increa of - £32,000 compared h this naliy, 1 t dificult for us who remain at = Ep oe ry gt. year But here 8 vx. | profits this ye ; or perhaps pay an occasional i gures a ace gt | provis or all ) 1 a} } - on that the figures at Dec nber 31et | F . he 7 ms. his » the West to realize the amour 3RE { it do not represe NEC this or in any year consider to Ve in the least doubtful. of elf-restraint that, is necessary in [na point af ur circulation. amount 000. e of those ty, , communities business e months of October and No- % 80 sly allow jo (4 he kept on a safe basis, (he po- \RE \ AL vember, when the harvest is being ite for the beneflt of the tentialities of the country are so Re moved, that the circulation \ i th £38.000 in 19 mense. the genuine opportunities maximum, and by Decemb extension are so fre and 18 partic ularly sat la new market open and also had a serious effect upon | eneral meeting of (he !l am "myself responsible "for urging lumber industry did: not enjoy, so wuch , wintry from across. (he 1 constant stream of wet. retards the of suca liabilities TEE =~°1LY WHIG, TUESDAY, APRIL 4 er ---- CANADIAN A THEY ARE POPULAR IN THE MOTHER COUNTRY. Causda, MIhertd theat has ban sib. ject to a duty of 25 per cen. , There has Deen wo alteration in the law, but there in in existence a law by wilich the United States Treasury may per- {mh a "drawback" Of 5% per cent. of the duty paid on raw materials used in manufagturing articles intended for axport on In future. wheat Is 10 (by includ amongst such raw mate rials. 1 do not intend to wander on to the debatable ground of fiscul ques- {titions, but this acti by the Cnited | States Treasury ma, ' at present contempla grower in the West | beneficial, inasmucth price of his produce higher that that to wh accustomed. Those pursue this interesting subject further stould refer to the Commercial Sap. plement of the Thme { Vebrupry 6th and 20th, or to the vdian Gazette of. February 9th 8 + the harvest the weather has bee mun {able for farming. oper:'ions seen it stated that the Land under plough for next season acres in excess of 1 1 Inet vear, and that VEC timate of the land under whea is 41 Willlon acres MINING INDUSTRIES Passing on westw the 'mining tadustries of British Columbia have shown cofsiderble 1904, and a. rough by the Provincial the mineral output at shows an increase of 000,000 over the prod: 1903, but just falls the output reached 3.040.000 This fucreased pro hag no however, been &ccony 1 hn better results fir t shurcholdess Ir eith:r the Canady yn i thove established in t 1 doin, and in all alike existing at all, have bes the extreme Efforts oe be made by influential pers Cavacle the United Kinga eh Lng * of the princlh panies in th. Rossland Camp, to g abot \ amalgamation of inter " 1 wild these efforts meet with success 1 shoul? be brighter cuy © Jong I the Yukon, on the the hand, the output of gold showed furthe minution, barely res: g 310.000.0090 1904, compared: with $11.000 000 eceding year The popuiath Devoon is also consid t set) ft wus a year ago but this is ¥ means surprising, for placer mi ny camps as the. al « i Rrour is worked out the miners move on te more attractive fields of boy 8.0 it has been in this eo, the to the goldfields of Tanana and banks having. béan on a4 large son Apart from fresh discoveries that m be made, either of alluvial or quuvix the future of the camp appears to Ae pend chigfly upon an ade supply, and 1 understand are being nfade towards Lair ment of thie object Ww) ALover mas win efforts be the output for the future dt Is Iv teresting to look back « the results of the camp, since it first came pro minently imo notice seven years ago tye during this period the 1e of gold recovered has certainly n been les than £ 20,000,000 These figures must ely ontitle It to rank amongst the allhiest placer mining camps in the w LONGER asin eo t ave alrewdy 1u world, On the Pacific Coast the can -tide has AgUN and Very ¢ i is 80 com pr to Ans MONEY ah tae 3 egun and stated. the vear 1904 was one df inac- on Himat oy oF Pr aucive 0 u yan ning Industry met with poor results f A : SEH in tivity in New Fork AS you are awa pine Ade * . ron. + cateh belug small, Last autumn h or : ADDITION TO RESERVE FUND VAY in N OPK. 48 Yoh Rie AN vinced that the true development of hs catch DEINE eer visited Towia > r | F . By an addition of £20,000 to our call ind short 10th in th a) the Tutus 8 depentie; yd invitation of the { Fo: s fund the total is raised and during 1904 ihe average POT, the prudence of these wha Hi ere o ' Basins ete s Jojve fund the sola] Ie 5 and during 1904 the average (p, power of granting or witholding | 57 matters which hv 4 3 i» ais y e | By All whole of this sum has be , Lop Credit and we fully recognize our own (FU Le Goluable: we avalled our DY'S MATCHES. fd of profits, while the res re of this responsibility ves of the 'Opportunity of frequent Dealers of our friendly rivals hav THE U. 8 "DRAWBACK consultations with him. which we trust . - Kingston. sagmented by the premiums obta ner Which ve no control. | No reference to the Northwest would | may be productive , of good in the from the issue of new ct a. On the and the result was that the contribution ba complete without some mention of | future other side of the aceount, cash and +of profit from that office was largely the new departure lt £67,000 less than this reduced. That need not trouble you at of the United State last year : but cash at call and notice If '£ r. $0 that total under these two headings sh an increase of £57,000. The « specie is 37 per cent. of our im Nabliities, while the two ite gether amount to 35 per cent nn reads Sitlained, now stand it 97 py nd Current Acce 17 887.704 44 $11,580,902 d of 100. Other securities, at 1, Notes in Circlat 3.017,607.30 By Investment 3 000, show a decre Ase of L 14.000 To Bilis Payable and other Liabilities, including Pro Consols £ megs In Canada, as In the United Kingdo vision for Contingencies . 10.979,817.33 | National War Loan £350,000 the values of all high-class securities To Rebate Account : 80,287.90 oN 3 continued - low during the half-year To Liabilities on Endorscments $1,122.26 57 Exchequer Bonds, £15 00 but a strict revaluation of t ese se- ' -- . 1.290, 161. 6 eurities shows that they staud in « To Profit and Loss Accour Baiaa e | Dominion of Canada B nds, L11000 & 9 50 8 a0 books at less than actual v luce. Bills brought ard frinn Mh June, 1901 176.87.12 Other Securit ' £50,142. receivable, loans on security ahd, other piv} paid. October, 1964 148,981.40 | 1% accounts show a decrease of L£322.000 GP -- { By Bill Receivable, Loans on Security, and other Ac x3 compared with this time list year . op . 8 mraz 1 count a 2,863, 78: ut 1 have nothing special to ee prof fin sall-year ending t By Dauk Premises, otc in d at the : 10thi recs )y tate. after deducting all current c Branche 877.580 % 8 'g these es, which are not 294 58 for manufacturing HOLLOW Sree Hog these lgyfos. Whie} are. no and providing for bad and doubtful debt 298,527.83 By Depoisit with Dominion equited by te prices whiel I 1 any other cause than the o - Act of Parliament for General Bask ' Hel. will enabl dinary fluctuations of our business Deduct $3 320344.0 Note of Circulatior 150,86: or Brick, and more handsome : #' KEW BANK PREMISES Transferred to Bank Premise | Note. -- The latest monthly Heturn received from ne Here are a few adva Bank premises show an increase of Account $48,636.84 | Dawson City is tral of the 30th November, 1904 tesidences, Factories, Chur £21,000 during 'the year. Our actual Transferred tp Reserve Fund ., 97.3300 and the figures of that Return ar troduced into I Silos: the sav ] expenditure has bee 41.000. but. ag Transferred to Officers' V this Account. The balance of the irausactions for i he sav ing in, cost of you have wy Bl £110 Ca or nd Orphans' Furd 2500. M | December with that Branch has been carried to a prool; Insurance is less thar profits of the half ERT 0 Siig tf ansferred to Officers' Pension uspense account. pending the t pt of the De nin winter ne mer 10 ee HN ng ¢ 2511.30 emaber 8¢ ¥ A 3p win ' and e wl in sun £10,000 in reduction of this account Fund . id 151.771 29 ember account y one, saving dost of la At December 34st, 1801. our premises Balance available for April . st elaborate designs . account stood £120.000 so that . dps---- 175.073 66 n the city, T will be these three vears we have spent re es. 000. Had it heen possible, we gladly have avoided this large fn the account, but 1 have no he £19,084, 157 80 with reference the Government | A vote of thanks to the Directors, | General Manager and Staff was unani- all, for trese conditions will not he to the importation of wheat from | ously passed THE BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA total abilities to the public fnvest- 1 Dr. Balance § heet for the Half:Year Ending 31st December, 1904. Cr. ments, so fur as regwvrds our British a Tv 4 Government stocks, show no change, [10 labial i : Frages $1.596.666.66 | Dy a A and 8 erie at Banker ih a R 0.000 £50 cach, fully paid Yun while our Dominio f Canada bonds, | 4 244.000 00 By Cash at Call aod ghort Notice 9,064,157 "WHO SO FINDETH A WIFE s Tote ETC. T0 THE 'PUBLIC : SEVEN TIMES A BRIDE \ : itd i > wl hid AORCHASED ; THE BUSI. And She is Ready Tc Try An {The usands of Applications For | Cleans Up Sha rds 1750 Pairs Ex ss W oe: 5 on, it is my purpose to make some other, Tinie Women Homésteaders. of Socks In 'xpress Waggons, Carts, * saanges of very Dxigea interest to con St. bam Vi. Apr Bonesteel, S.D., April 3. Thousand Portia te. April 12-0) ter pril 1st r milk an i hE 1 stiers fro ¢ i ; a ¥ ! ; cream will aly 'be "Pastorized." and , times Mre. Mamic Leech ha Yon lead * OF letter Jrom candidates for matri lo. "dumberinck walked. into Card . Ted to Customers in scaled bottles |a blushing bride to the altar, and she oy all parts of the United States } the other da ing 1,700 pair Cards, Pitt, Loss Heir, § fe ced, by the bent wuthor. | wil expresses faith in mankind, aud Sv Cota so Somng © United gloves ani en LED puis an U Katch, Checker . asterized and that it should be deliver. | may wed again, She is still compara ates' Land Commissioner Keller, of | socks and } ree pounds of : od in sealed oa Si ; Bonesteel. The writers whish photo " . com bottles. We hope by a ltively voung, remarkably good look I bacoo oards, % rteous service and strict attention to a : oh graphs nam addresses and other 34 . qualit | ing. and is a widow of both I He offered s for sale at cers ] di s on to ort oJbcral patronage | und ed't apiety : a | information concerning the 121 young | out one four dip valu rs ar \ ingston SOC ariety % ee MEL £lo ne fo o, and wa : Pp iniers, Bon-Bor 0) THE XiNcsTON MILK DEPOT | Mrs. Leech had been married to bf A tend A po drew fine arming homes | qrvested or n. He protested te ter Plates, Vases, Salads, pidge first husband but a short time when i hy mY spening of OV | the police (} came into poss ar and Cream Sete, Celery . Phone 587. rock Streets. {he was killed in an accident. Her SE ne gy on ath ploschud ndian | gion of tl honestly When = h second husi swroved to be a big ET vail South Dakota " ¢ de t e Wo s, etc. » = POLLEY - Proprietor | ne _ hain J n ved 3 he a biga The letters are the result of a wn prasmd, v thas x o ---- mis ant Tr marr 0 no We 1 de i 2g Ae un ro . { at, al ) i" ** yeently published interview, in which | her ods J i ' : | Mr. Keller mentioned that over 100 of . 3 . | side 4 mth after the cere: | Ivey oO Oles 1 b been in a for Decorating %s 5 NOTICE. ee i tg. | the lucky homesteaders were Young | we DE at hard The Yarmber ony sr Lushan ied her to a bec 3 ' Ww 0 nar nths. se Yard : : Ww. G | pout. where he Kept. her on. broad and 3 Some aid_intimatel What pany. okfdnoks recvived oney while in Bananas, Pine-apples, . - OS I o | water for a fortmight. It didn't take cars of the are » » help lake | woods, but expected to wait ly. ' Proprietor of the % | her long to wet a divorce , | The postmaster and other officials of until they ret 0 Soren lot t * Number four whs not quite ax bad | Bonesteel have al Yeceived h dred pay. At the 1 wv "store," in aes Low ave also received hundreds . aod r . CITY STORAGE ° | they could not wet along: anoth- | 05 Hy LE SEE ore are | goctle, the Md get such art; C . » | er divaree. The fifth husband was tak-| from college graduates cles au they de however, having O 'K. 3 dete" fo announce that he has com- | ©n With asthma immediately after his | € them charge «t their time . A 3 modern elevator, one of the | marriage, and the end came in three | copdingly. ti used merchandise A wForaitury. Busing So. Piatioy ots i months. i Phone Girl's Awiul Death instead of of thir gam 9 ied ¥ith care. amon, | Number six proved a Tartar. Hebe | St. Joseph, Mich., April 1.-Phys Oleson., wai ed in good luck SOE i ») ive an prorimen are Toady to re. | came what Mrs. Leerh calls "obstrep | cms are tuztlrl over the euse. of Jand in one. g where socks were Ow nine | ait Minder Jit class jobs of eros," and one day, alter an elteroa- | Miss Mabel Rigney of this city, who the stakes bh TT8gpagrs of the not : i tion, he shut her in a room and kept | died last night in great agony from gery on tl The Ther man " i 1 : ? Phone 524, {her on bread and water for five | an affection of the heart it in said held a tro of We i . 299 Queen Si. { weeks, One nicht she managed to esd tht while she wa orking as an na game.) tens, (loon am FO | cape, and a divorce followed, The sev { operator in a telephone exchange she the Kimi Mii gh, and in thre LATES ! | SAI BE i wth husband proved a bigamist | was a frightened by sa flash of light hours of pla i | uiftons or "" | ining that her heart was displaced tor supply a ry t of soldiers i t iw stor re Like . Ce 'Rominy House"! Acts Like Magic, | For the last two weeks she was iu || Hie stor Ta colates, tie finest o THE RESIDENCE OF MRS. AGNEW Peck's Kiduey Pills are simply | tense agony, her heart beats grow « Was relens 40, and "'cash n A eck idney : : 8 a ya oF Round. by oiind Siraet. Will be offered far sale | r, they uct like magic n the IE more rapid. until just before | SHeqUe ho Jay of uction on THURSDAY, Ue fC Kidn 1. | death 152 pulsations a minute were Avril next, at twelve o'clock j enre of kidney and bladder troubles. | I ln } egistered te - of Macdonnell & | For lumbago, pain in the back and | © anterer rence stree! w : trot " hey . } frontass Auctioneer. The Be TAs iitiam | | all urinary troubles they are unequal ing Chocolates, 3 pack- ------------------ Hon in saying that we had no choice We hate examined the above Balar with the books in London, and the cer tified reiur rom the branches, we were to retain our position in A and find it fo present a true iatement of affair a The bulk of the morey has DWIN WATERHOUSE Of the firm of mn spent in Winnipeg® and although os o 6. NEATH tice. Watethouss & Co London, 3rd February. 150 Auditors Chartered Accountant IS -- A A 2 -- ee . -- " [ QUEER WIN AT POKER The Truth Will Out of 100 : led. They cleanse the kidneys and al Talk about a man fussing about the That is why Putnam's Corn Extre , a de feat on Barrie street d | Je nd : Z about t . 'rincess t oped Jost "8% low them to purify the blood, instill: | family bills ! You should hear a coun. | tor has such an enormous' ale S georves 0 a into the entire'; (g¥-wor who makes b k good wre cur "3 ' = MACDONNELL & FARRELL. jing new io nl 250 at We ade . drag] her Ser Ent v ar ofl Br tit te. | or ho go this oo Vendor's Solicitor system n z F 1 ip mie her hutituts sn havieg 22nd day of March. 1005 store, Money .- - E = - S if mot satisfactory | eream. nam's only. OUR UNEXPLORED WEST. x -- British Golumbin Has Vast Tracts Not Yet Shown on Maps. In no part of the "world excepting In Alaska has there been more raph pro- Kress in geographical exploration in the past few years than in British Colum - The latest facts cohcern a num- bet of new passes through the Rocky AUTHORS. Cracker - Think of all the good kinds oF gickera you ever tasted. Statement of a Well Publisher -- Better Postage Rates a Great Need. Some readers may be surprised that - there should be anything left in Bri- is that the Government surveys a yet for from covering the larger The fine a ar onical work that a missionary has. retently been doing shows that there are still opportunities for discovery in thi¢ part ada and Englasl are ing needs of the day, der Williams of the great London pub- lishing house of Hodder & Rtoughton, at Toronto the other day ent rutes form a heavy and unfair hans dicap on English journals and maga- zines, as a result of which the Canadian Beious eating of the fifth, Then see how we've com- | Father Morice, whose mission station is on the shores of Lake Stuart, nearly in the centro of the Province, has been traveling many hundreds of miles in a canoe, mapping all the streams, lakes, tains and valleys in the upper ba- n of the Netchukhoh River. A fine map of his discoveries, which has just been published by the Neuchatel Geograph- Society of Switserlund, shows many detalls that have been seen on, no previous map. Lake Morice, for ex- ample, which Is not found op the latest atlas sheets of British Columbia, is 59 'malles long and 777 feet deep. The new passes in the Rockies have been studied by Trunk Pacific engineers who have been engaged in the work about a year.' newspaper has reported that this party has discovered the 8moke River, Por- Wapiti and Pine River passes, but this statement Is not getting its news and reading through *Thix story has been told often, repeated until {ts lesson is Canadian publisher who comes (o Postmastor-Geners Europe calls on the al to urge this reform, to judge of its necos- Cream So Conjure up your your perfect cracker--and you'll find it in Mooney's Pere fection Cream Sodas. Canada 18 for the » work of Canadian authors for purpose of securing thelr forthcoming works These goods may be, the following grocers : J. 8. Hens derson, E. W. Mullin, J. McCulla, Kelly and W. J, Driver, that y ve y more mt you have not many more All' these great passes through the Rockies fo the north of the Canadian Pacific Rallway have been known to exist for some time, but the engineers have been the first to study them in and they now report that they dre all available for railroads, that the gradients on the east are very gentle, and that some of the passes are wide enough for double tracks. The scheme of the Canadian Pacific Railway was laughed at as imphracti- cable until the great gateway through Kicking Horse Pass was discovered. It is now known that further north there are several other passes those which the Canadian Pacific uses, and that they will amply suffice for all of Canada's railroad needs through the and Ralph Connor's Prospector had a field for authors of Diamond Hudson Bay and the pioneer days great wealth of material can be gath- the mingling of the Scotch Highland Scotch In Canada than there in Scotland now, and I can assure ¢ Is room In England for Canadian books along the lines Spring Announcement, E ate ready to under Spring Dyeing Work. "Of course," admitted Mr. Williams, talked Canada and preached Canada in The British Week- ly until I am afraid I have become a But matters are improving now. Explorations of the past show that the old ideas of the heights of the leading peaks of the Canadian skies were much exaggerated, Peaks still appear on some of the maps as from 15,000 to 17,000 feet above the » Dr. Hector recently wrote that probe ably none of the mountains of British Columbia rises above 1 , Collie and about n dozen whtor more men traveling Canada from Eng- lish houses to-day than ever Wo. Color and Renew all ken some years ago, Is being restored. "As British publishers, we are mak« years ascended many of the high peaks of the Canadian Rockies and made obs Garments and Wearing tain the Canadian market pared to fight the American publishers The result ls a decided decrease In the previously accepted altitude of a nums ber of the highest mountaine of these fur Young and Old, AND GUARANTEE SUCCESS '40 cents will secure tho services and business combined, and we won't be beaten easily." ------------------ Fact About Canada. The aren of Canada is 3,619,000 square miles of land and 125.966 of walter. | The population is five and one-half Ramble in the Far North. Rince the historic day when the Un« country in the far north, with the pe- Our exports of hams have Increased . have loomed largely 000 pounds, to 135,000,000 in Diamond Dyes In 1890 we exported less than $2.0 form an integral part of our vast Do- increased from $9,372,000 to $24,- Breakfast Table complete without EPPS' rable food, with ak ualities intact, Btted to build up and maintain CTR nter's extreme a valuable diet for children. COCOA The Most Nutritious and Ne~nomical, thr own on the wrod Arctie of gold has Increased In from less than one op of Alaska, delivered a locture on "A than 60,000 to #65000 tons Wao produced 85,000 pounds of lead In After speaking of the ancestry of the total was 15,000,000 and to resist production has increased in thirteen years from 4, The first discovery of nick- old Greek Church st and a beautiful Madonna making a cutting ness Sudbury in "83 000,000 tons, In 1874 to 8,000,000 tons in of coment has Increased They seem so low down Postoffice Savings Bank deposits increased from $32.000.000 in The deposite fu chartered banks grown from $66,000,000 in * The freight carried on Canadian rail has increased from 6,332,000 tons 1876 to 42,276,000 tons In any other purpose instead of washing 115,000 barrels in Our exports of wheat has valued at Jess than $7,000,000 Muskrat News From Essex County, wera fond of sending are porte fur fil through the houses civilized folks give | tion, and are ofit looking for som. thing and are killed in the fields boy kite d with a Jon 17 In order that white GLY rf you buy them ones you will' abk Aetawuits Echo, and many oh killed about the stables Then it is sald that the Your dealer sells without their usual foed. Not in forty + the muskrats been in such Muskrat suppers will |SANITARY PLUMBING 1 1 need of phmibing or following notics has been posted in several places tu the new Hotel Nor from Arabia tell of a there, called the Inughing plant, on account of the pe- culiar property of is, weed. r 21 years of age will be the bar-room or wold will be. considered a , knowing a young man wd to be tha very best for estimates on plumbing or eaten, the effects arising therefrom aro similar to those produced by the ex- cessive use of Mquors, The Consumer shouts, lnughs, and performs wild an- 1 exhaustion sets in, and he falls Into & Seep Sleep, from wolicited and prompUly JAMIESON FOR REAL ESTATE OR INSURANCE Consul with Geo. Cliff before tbuying at 95 Clarence street, will report same at the office" | telkeepers should make the same examined for life insurance action of Carter's Little Liver i milk! and natural y gently "stimulate the liver, | regulate the bowels, but do not purge y sre sure to please, Try them, doctor was examining my fortunately got to thinking it jumped sgpacthing aw