Daily British Whig (1850), 16 Jan 1908, p. 6

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:. PAGE SIX. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1908. Em-- THE STANDARD BANK OF CANADA Head Office * - « = Toronto JOINT DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS may be made or withdrawn by either of the two members of 8 household either membes his form of account is specially suitable for thosa living in the country, as ean attend to the Oe town. In case of death, the money may be withdraws by the survivor without delay or cost. Write or call for further particulars, re Interest added four times a year Savings Bank Department in Connection with all Branches. RINGSTON BRANCH : J. 8. Turner, Manager COR. PRINCESS AND BAGOT STS. + Beesssesesessasescssrssnsesessssesasensesces Keeping T hings- Moving Don't forget that we are giving 207% off all Shoes, Trunks, Valises, Shoe Polish. Everything. And don't forget that if you do not need Shoes now, vou will before long, and 20 is good interest on your money. 800000000 i Ghe Toockett Shoe Store. S00000000000 000000000 0000000000000 00000000 BO000000OCCRCOCORRIORIGOIOOIROOOROTOROTS JANUARY BARGAINS N COATS & SKIRTS. LADIES' COATS--A good assortment to select from, in Black, Navy and Brown Beavers, and Fancy Tweeds, full lengths, latest styles. Prices cut down to the lowest notch. See the Coats we are offering at $4, $5, $6, $6.34 and $6.63. WOMEN'S WARM LINED HALF LENGTH COATS, in Black and Grey, $1, $1.95 and $2.95. | CHILDREN'S AND GIRLS' COATS, all reduced. WOMEN'S ODD SKIRTS, about twenty in the lot, only one or two of a hind, but all sizes, ir. them, from 38 to 43. Were $3 to $5. Your choice, for $1.75. | Millinery at Bargain Prices. - SPENCF' The Leading Mantle & Millinery Store, 119 Princess St. i | | Bargain Sale! --------. ---- -- On Saturday Next, 18th inst, we place on sale $2,000 worth of New Harness, Horse Blan-| kets. Robes, Trunks aud Valises. Bud: -made Team Harness, I inch Double Carriage Harness for - - - - 16 Single Harness, nickle or rubber trimmings, for - $13. 00 20 Single Harness, nickle or rubber trimmings. for - $16. 00, Single Harness, nickle or rubber trimmings, for - $20.00, 1.25 Horse Blankets for - - - 85 ¥ 81.60 Horse Blanktes for J - $i. 25 $1.85 Horse Blankets for - $1.40 $2. 25 Horse Blankets foe i $i. 76 | $13 Bishop Robes for "Wg . ¢ - $10.00 $9 Saskatchewan Robes for - '$7.00| 50c. Rawhide Whips for « ~ Tas A Good Brush and Curry Comb for - 25 will $28.00 $28.00 | The forerunners Trunks and Valises at proportionate discounts. These g in stock. bs Remember it's no trouble for us to show eur goods. Repairing and Job Work promptly attended ta, THE RUDD 'HARNESS co. 148 Princess Street. W. H. NORRIS, Manager. y COUCHES A few left over from our Christmas trade we intend out at a price. Fame Was | it, the VO | age was not in its novelty but in its oods are all new and have just been placed | po (5 VOYAGE OF HUDSON NAVIGATOR "WHO DIS COVERED FAMOUSSTRAIT Thrust Upon Hins-- Mutiny on His Most Trip--Little Personal Known. Henry Hudson was a great man by mature] yet the fawe which he won was 10 great medsure' thrust epon him. It vests entirely on four voy- which were all unsuccessful as their immediate objeet--the ol a commercial passage to and shorter than that Famous History ages regards discovery Chins other ib he Cape of Good Hepe has been described as he nor- { i produc of a greai epoch, ""'Nei- before por since his time could afy man have conceived a project' at reasonable and so unreason- able, so dependent upon sober logic and upon baseless fable, upon newly once s0 | awakened knowledge and old sapersts- as that which urged him again again to penetrate the barriers unknown west for a pathway tion and of an | 0 an impossible east." It was a consequence of the times in which he lived that every known effort of Hudson's life was baffled or al least bampered by the mem who sailed with him. Neither by birth, residence, language nor sympathy was he a Hollander. He was an English- man, whose ignorance of the Dutch language and characteristies impelled the Dutch portion of his crew to actual mutiny on the third and most | famous of his voyages---that under- taken in 1609 at the expense of the Dutch East India Co. This mutinous spirit turned him aside from the prosecution of the plan to which he was pledged, but by the exercise of a fraction of his rightful authority, by the use of such diplomatic skill as he possessed and by the buoyancy of an unyielding hope he effected a compro- mise which enabled him to bring the Half Moon to the North Ameriean coast to discover the mouth of the great river which now bears his name, to sail up ite waters for 150 miles and to make possible the Dutch set- tlement on Manhattan Island which | was to be fraught with such epoch making consequences, His fourth and last voyage, in 1610, | resulted in the discovery of the strait now known as Hudson Strait and the great bay which has received the name of Hudson Bay. Yet it. is a | notable faet that the Hollanders, in | whose service Hudson sailed showed | no appreciation of the value of his explorations, and that neither the | makers of their charts, nor the gov- 'of their merchants deemed his ac ts on the Am- erican coast wo mention an some time after his death. Thus it happens that of Hudson's | personal history nothing is known be- fore April 19, 1607, when he sailed from London on his first voyage, or after June 21, 1611, when the-crew of erning boar | the Discoverer mutinied on their way back through the straits, put him, his | son and seven loyal sailors into a ['shallop and cat (them adrift, The | ringleaders and half the erew perish- wed miserably, but the Discoverer was finally brought home to London, | where the survivors were obliged to stand trial for their share in the events that culminated in the aban- donment of Hodson. Several expedi- | tions were organized to search for | Hudson and gen companions, but they were all unsuccessful. Hudson Bay remains at once his monument and | his grave. Only from fragmentary journals can | the historian piece together the nar-- rative of those four years of wandering. | They suffice to show that Hudson was an intrepid, skillful, persevering explorer, who maintained no novel theories and made no startling orig- inal discoveries, but who was cer- tainly a contributor to the world's store of knowledge and a promoter of enterpriess that have added to its { Progress. It detracts nothing from our esti- mate of this remdrkable man to | acknowledge the explorations and la- bors of others who preceded him. As {| Mr. Bacon, a writer who has recently written a volume on the subject, puts chief value of his third voy- thoroughness and timeliness. "We believe that previous to 1609 geographers had some information concerning a stream that flowed south- ward and debouched into the ocean about the latitude and longitude of Manhattan Island." Mr. Bacon exam- ineg the claims of his alleged prede- cogsors, and decides that among them Verazzano and Gomez probably ae- complished the passage of the Nar. rows before Hudson was born. "We may consent to abandon Hudson the discoverer, but we insist upon doing honor te Hudson the explorer. The merchant, the colonist and posterity are justified in making him the titular hero of the river thai has been named in his honor. His work had the some. what rare merit of being' thorough: of Henry Hudson achieved little that was of import ance to mankind, while his explora tion of the river that bears his name has justly placed him among the im- Canada and Australia. Canada's refusal to renew the Aus- tralian steamship subsidy is receiv | ing mach attention in London, and 1C AND PARLOR CABINETS in a fine ma- hozany finish this week at sale prices. : : - JAMES REID. 147 MAKE OUR FORESTS PAY. American Poet Makes Strong Plea Fer the Indian. Cy Warman, the noted American poet, writer of Indian tales, lover of nature, étc., ete., addressed the Cana- dian Club, Toronto, rec ently on "The protection of the wild," and in his charming manner made a strong plea | for the Indian, as well as the wiid animals and forests Mr. Warman has studied Canada's side of the lumber question to, as. his statements showed. He said "Fortunately for the people of the Republic, Eastern Fates are beginning to protect game he forest, fish and game of Mane yield a rich revenue to the state. Half a million men, women and children visit Mainé annually, leaving fifteen million dol lars each year. z "They go to Maine because the for ests are full of wild life and because one may fish and shoot from early autumn to the end of the year for $15 I am told that ten years ago no dee were seen in. Western Connecticut. To-day as a result of a few years' pro tection, you can pick up the fresk trail of the deer forty-five minutes from Broadway. Lesson For Canacdm. "For you, of Canada, this wind tha put out the wild life of the American West, is not an ill wind, for it ha enhanced the value of your wilder | ness. 'At the sf¥me time; it has taught you, if yo care to have it so, a vala able lesson--to hold what you have. "But first of all you must save the shelter, The forest is the natural home of big game. Destroy your for ests, and your game will go. and desolation will brood over this land that Ged made most fair. "The preservation of the forest need entail no expense to the fate There are forests in Switzerland that have been cut over 400 years, and the annual revenue increases as the years go by. The old saying that you can- not have your cake and eat it too does not hold good here, lumbering you cut out the old trees and encourage the young ones. It would be almost as foolish to let your forests go to waste uncut, as to allow them to be lumbered wasteiully Mark them, and reap the rich reward, but work them up in Canada. . "If an American manufacturer wants to work up your raw material, compel him to come across. The idea used to prevail that the big plant came to Canada for cheap-labor. That is not go to-day. The International Harvester Co. pays precisely the same scale of wages in Hamilton and Chi- cago, and still saves thirty vents on the first" cost of producing a certain machine in Canada. Whatever the answer to this, it is certainly no re- flection upon Canadian workmen. Speaking now as a Canadian to Cana- dians (I'm at least a half-breed), I say let Americans and Ameri tal come and assist in turning count the rich: resources of the inion, and in developing your coln- try, but let them do their developing above the boundary: - "Certainly cut and market your merchantable timber, but the cutting should be done intelligently, and all brush and debris burned as the cutting proceeds, which reduces the danger from forest fires, and leaves the soil fit for new seed. No acre of forest should be mown like a meiidow, leaving only a hateful stubble of stumps. Uncle Sam is cutting one hundred billion feet of lumber annually and growing thirty-five billion feet to fill the gap. Thirty years at this pace will clear his land. "Broady there are two kinds of lands in Ontario--land fit for settle. ment and land fit for forests. All you have to do is to spy out. survey and separate these rich lands will all yield rich returns. The Crown forests of Saxony vield $4.50 per ncre per annum despite extravagant, semi- military management.. Ontario should have at least 50,000,000 acres of {direst and game reserves of these should be game havens, like Algon- quin, some open to the sportsman as Temagami Mr. Southworth esti- mates that 40,000,000 acres of forest sould produce $30,000,000 net annu- Some rp in 'the northwest corner of Thunder Bay, north of Lake Nepigon, south of Lake Joseph and east of the Rainy River district, . lies a. great stretch of wilderness which should be set aside immediately as a forest and game preserve "And when you have ese forest reserves, try to established attract e of the milliors that are spent | is a strong advocate tion of the hunting license He would make it $15 in Canada as in Mdine, so as to induce American sportsmen to come over He also condemns dogs in deer hunt- ing, as a means of drivibg the deer too far north. 1,080 Miles by Dog Sled. Ward has been received at Win- nipeg from Edmonton that James Cornwall, the hardiest mail carrier in the British Empire, has left on his winter trip to distribute the let ters for the settlers ag far north as Fort McPherson, which is well inside the Arctic circle ~He will travel 1,950 miles on the journey, which is made twice w-year, in the spring and just before the winter sets in. Cornwall uses dogs the greater part of the distance. The weight of let. ters is limited to one ounce each. No packages will be carried. Two insor ance 'companies which hold policies | on Cornwall's life have notified him | they will be cancelled becanse of the great risk he takes unless a prohibi- tive premium is paid While going in, Cornwall, whe is an expert fur hunter, sets traps along the way. He picks up the game that is spared on the return trip. In this way he makes the journey one of pro- fit, as the Government does not be- gin to make the hazard worth while of i wr ------------ On the Safe Side. Said the youth, "I love the light,™ And when the maid heard that ordered a bottle of peroxide-- a box of antifat Oysters ma Inspection. | dwal Sold at Ee & Jenkin - Patrick MeNolty bas wardenship of years' servies, le - ¥Oul | him near land he paddled up to him | rivers will dry up, your fish will die | By seientifio capi- | it is good business to | and they | after tem! BLINDFOLDED MOOSE. Guniess' In dian In Lake. a remark. Animals A Cama able story « found thre ae IC $ and killed them all paddled as fast as he o« one of them and threw 8 over the animal's head. one to swim about, he gave another, came up to him coat over its head and swim about too to the third, But if it had not for a fair wind he never would have caught him As it was, he came dp to when within fifty yards of the , The moose was®ired and did not make much headway. Tne Indian him on the nose with his paddle and stunped him for a moment. He then shore gave him a rap on she head and fin- | ished him after a few more blows But it requires very skillful paddling | to kill a moose in the water, and this hunter could net have done it so easily if the poor animal had not been tired out with swimming broad lake After he had dragged this one inte shallow water he turned to look for the others They were round and round in the middle of the lake, for they could not see which way to go. After resting for a while the Indian paddled up. to the nearest moose and turned him toward shore, | always keeping a little behind and changing frem one side to the other, l.according as the moose wandered from a straight line. When he had driven and sérved him as he had done the first, tied hig carcass to the canoe and towed him into shallow water. He then went after the third, which ws gtill swimming, but and despatched him in the same man- ner. CANADA'S CREDIT NOT SHAKEN | than Ever In |. Now Stands Higher Great Britain. Mr. Willian Mackenzie, | returned to the eight months' trip abr6ad He expressed himself as well pleas ed with his success from a financial standpoint and intimated that a large amount of work would be the Canadian Northern during the coming vear. He said that the finan- cial panic in the United States, al- though of course regrettable, had .had the effect of emphasizing the sound- ness of our banking system and the fact that we were quite able to stand alone. Tu fact, we did not feel ie collapse in the States any more than European countries, or, in other words, all the whole thing amounted to was a touch of nerves. The result is that our credit in Europe is better now than it has ever been ! "The eounwy is now, and continue to need capital from outside Tt is very "wnuch like a rapidly grow- ing 'boy: The' more his strength in. creases the more food and clothes he requires." With respect to immigration. Mr. Mackenzie had found no evidence of | any check in the flow to Canada. This | depended chiefly on the reports of the | people already settled, and their ex- | cellent accounts of the splendid land in the west would continue to attract a constantly increasing stream. 'He was of the opinion that British public opinion was in favor of the All-red line if it could be shown that it would pay, and on that condition it would be freely subsidized. Our National Monuments. The eloquent advocacy of Earl Grey should prove a powerful all concerned in the conservation of the Plains of Abraham as a great national forming .an ob- ject lesson for all time. A young country is necessarily poor in statues. History is slow in the making--or, perhaps, one should say, mellowing Our own makes history every session, record has to be sifted so that if Smith, whe sponsible, ever lived to see the in concentration, he would be ap- palled by the smallne.s of that which he fondly thought bulked tremend- ously in the general consciousness. possession, and condensed Iu our haste to make history, we some: | times put up the wrong monument or | statue. We exalt small people, and call them great We commonplace. We beatify We call medioerity--genius, fourth-rate politician is the heaven sent statesman. And about our Par- liament squares we have statues which we will one day want to hide in the cellar. When we get older, we will have fewer statues by the way. That is the law of life and of nations. In youth we make friends without thinking. In middle life, we classify and winnow them. When there is no mentioning, statues to merely wealthy men, as though there were any grace or virtue in dollars. We have stijl- world has still--the bad habit of put f ting up statues to individuals who kill people--by profession. By and by, we shall flagellate ourselves for this iLrime against the race. - We are not to suppose that war will ease for the asking, or that we are "to disband our armies by a stroke, to show humani- tarian principles; but every deifica- +tion of force every statue which ex- presses the glorification of ar, post- pones the millenium. The Fields of Abraham should be conseerated to the national serviee,. not for the pur- {pose so much of telling a military i story, as of teaching the beauty of concord. In this spirit, the present \movement might well be considered educative, in the highest degree. Let us be chary with our monuments, for Hf wh. erdet statues to little people, whe ean offer us nothing but success in politics or in money-making, we belittle thought, which is the omly fthing of abiding value in_ the indi- {vidual or the nation =-8t. Johns News. claptrap history "The wise man knows his own limi- {rations and also how to keep other pedple from discowering them. Ww Woollen stockings, several kinds, $ 23e., ribbed or plain; cashmere, 25 i New York Dress Reform, ¥ Winnipeg asks the Bankers' Associa- tion to loan the city $12,000,000, with i the taxes for 1908 as sewarily, Killed Three Big though. he had no fir He | blanket | Leaving this | chase 0 | threw his | left him to | He then gave chase | been | him only | struck | across a | swimming | EB | a very weak. He ! got him with difficulty near the shore' : | president of | the Canadian Northern Railway, has | Domigion after an done on | must | stimulus to | slow in the | Parliament | but the | was chiefly re- | thing | canonize the | and the | worth | we take to putting up | -that is, the | IGH GRADE COFFEE The best part of breakfast, to most people, is their cup of Chase & Sanborn's Coffee. Perfect berries, careful selection, expert blending, insure the rich color and delightful flavor of this best coffee. . ; o4 TE ------------------ in Our Annual January Discount Sale Now in Full Swing. Big Savings for Those Who Buy This Month for Cash. . ® . It pays us to" ¢lear up qur stocks this month, even if some of the prices mean less than cost, and it certainly pays our customers who have the cash to spare. holds 7 Enamelled Stew Kettle, auarts, X2e. Enamelled Dish or Bread Pan, ! quarts, 32¢ Carvers, pair, 68c. "Wire Boor §59c. good quality, per 14x23 inches, Mats, CC oo] "#9 EY 5 (ee Tea Trays, Wine Strainers, Roast Pans, @oal Scuttles, Carpet Sweepers, Tamps, Lanterns, Raisin Seedets, Food Choppers, Plated Kettles, Fea and Coffee Pots, all come ander our Janu- ary Discount, Make a list and mand see us, of vour® requiréments Le] oo oo] oo oC] oo fT | McKELVEY & BIRCH, 69 and 71 Brock St., Kingston. 1 SS A AA 1 E \ Better Ske Bargains Than Ever Before. tv hiisy week nt ~C HOO! £1.50 | 1.19 BOYS' SCHOOL BOOTS. 8 } ay 13 Regu 81.25 Sale Pricey 8c FINE KID Sale Pride % 1.19 LITTLE GIRLS' FINE KID LACED BOOTS vs 5 to 10 srular Ne Sade Price . " a .69¢c ONE LOT OF pABRY ' 7 .3%¢ BELL'S FINE STRAY 1.09 WOMEN'S LEATHER HOUSE SLIPPER amps Regular 60 . A9 Sale Price . ONE LOT OF WOMENS BOX + \LF gular $175 1 39 Price ----" BOYS, GIRLS, MEN'S AXD Ph = 69 BLUCHER BOOTS 1 19 Sale Price dh LACED' MOCCASINS Regular "0 ONE SMAT IL. LOT OF BOYS' THREE-BUOCKLE OVER SHOES Sizes 1 to B. 1 89 . LDS Regular 8] .50 LACED BOOTS Nig POTS Sires Regular 500 Sale Pri ae a ABOUT - 15 PAIRS LEF] OF J &1 £2 to 8250 Bale Price ABOUT 70_PATRE 0) BOOTS Sizes 7 to i. Re OME N = to 50 PAIRS OF LIGHT WEIGH Sale Pri . is 12 PAIRS OF WOMEN'S FINE KiD Regular 81.50 Sale ost. all sizes ~ Sale Price . J cost all reduced below Barga Shippers are Slippers, don't fail to see the ABERNETHY'S SHOE STORE. PROS AN0000NN0NNNIARRANNEIsERIERssEIROOORRRIR ' . \d iw ® * » - » 2 » » » » » . ® * ° * * . ® " . * ® "» * » " » . ° ® . SLIPPERS. Reg " * * * . * » . * * . * » * : ® * . ° * . * : ® * » " A sasensetconsensrenaatcitaer i Len WB 0 RA 1 OR AIA

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