\ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1908. -------------- -- EE i NOT IN COMBINATION those concerned came to the counclus- | 00000000 ion that this was ne time to Sorkin on rates. Certainly chartering that 1 . have done, and options that 1 have oetica had, show clearly that they are quot- : ; pri i oat fo enn i € "kid" at figures, but a gallant boy out game, he has arranged the boys and girls and round the girls shall . be left." out or ones 1s not oniy a smart as well, In hi in such a manner counted out, Frank has new county counting ro und shall as a counting round the wight, the thirteenth hoy i= continued--1 up to Ii. IFeavnk's puzele consists in finding order that i and the boy "oat elected 13 number. Counting round and to sirl steps out and the counting the to count boy or girl with whom he must out ald the girls and leave the commenced counting from himself, Mav would Harry and Bessie and Answer, Mon- have stated the count, in For had he have heen the Hrsc out, t hoy mstance, en $92 On, day. We aT Th STOVE POLISH is a revelati~ --ke 't has It means less work, because it'does not get dull or brown. The hottest fire can't burn it off. to housekeepers, Notling ver heen made before. means less work, too, because just a ew rubs bring a bright, brilliant polish that always looks fresh and clean. f It is cheapest, because you get a bigger can for the money \ ~ our dealer does not handle "Black night nd his name and l0c for full sized can. v The F. F. DALLEY CO. Limited, Hamilton, Ont. and Object This brings us suec- >> . Che Main Idea Is to please our customers. cess and makes us friends. LR We do it with our little prices, with our big as- sortment, with our fine qualities and grades. "Our low prices show you how to save your dollars. Mission Dining Room Sett, 8 pieces, early English finish, for $45. Mahogany Parlor Suites, 3 pieces, $25 to 45.00, best silk covering. China Cabinets for $18 to 65.00. . Robt. J. Reid 230 Princess Street. Telephone, 577 When You Eat Them --More is the Answer. COCOA ROLL COCOA CAKE APPLE CAKE FOR SATURDAY. R. H. TOYE,*King St. If you had trouble with &prepared Cake Icing, it was not Cowan's. -- Even a child can ice a cake perfectly, in three minutes, with Cowan's Icing. Eight delicious flavors. Sold everywhere. The COWAN CO. Limited, TORONTO, II SovaNS | SUPERIOR - 4 [ETS Kills without crushing and do es fabrics or injure the highest polis h. ware ==? Grocers. delicate Hard- the most Druggists, soil each, not 10e¢. p-- The St. Lawrence Sugar Refining Co., Ltd MONTREAL | | keep him in close touch with j carriers, and who, in the past has not heen backward ) The discussion going on during the Past few weeks in regard to the TO INCREASE GRAIN CARRY- ING RATES. 4 Denial By the Lake Vessel Owners Grain Carrying Rates Have, Recently Fallen Over One Cent k Montreal Witness. al- leged combine among lake freight car- riers, which was the cause, it was said by our informants, of grain rates making a jump from three and a half or four cents up: to seven cents a bushel from Fort William to Montreal, has caused quite a stir among ship- ping interests and grain men. While many of the latter still stout- ly maintain that such a combine does exist, and by its charges off-sets the natural advantages of the St.-Law- rence route as a grain shipping medi- um, the lake vessel owners just as de- terminedly deny that they are in any al 4 ri In support of this they point to the fact that since the agitation was com- menced in the Witness, the grain rates have fallen from seven cents a bushel to at least one and a half cent lower. "lf the accusations .abhout a combine were true, do vou think we should have allowed such a reduction to have been made, especially at this season of the year when the bulk of the grain movement is at its highest ?" was the remark of a shipping man made on 'Change to-day. The following is a letter on subject from a grain exporter : this a Bushel. one came Kingston. The rate from Kingston to Montreal 6c. here--le. less than the other. They on t a this owner will take jc. less to press to ing different rates to-day. H there is imum price we haven't got own to it yet. Je "Just to illustrate--I have been of- fered tonnage for. early October load- ing at 63c., Lake Superior port Montreal, by one party, and another to along to-day and wanted to now if I would give him 4fc. to t would be is _lie., so tha re offering boats to Kingston for je., later. October shipment. That ate is better still, as the rush will be , and 'I am told on good auw- 'a contract. 'We mo out the first of our new wheat about the middle of September, and' paid' He Since been getting 5ic., Hje., and last week we loaded a big one at 6c., and I ments to Ges equal to then we have ts at" De., several at know of ship- ian Bay ports at 1iec., "That shows pretty plainly that combination to boost up grain rates. |. 4g ng combine--not now y EL ' PRAISES THE ICR. Editor of the British; Colonizer Writes of Splendid Train Service. Toronto Globe, Sept. 22nd. The editor of The Colonizer, an Eng- lish magazine 'devoted to colonization, exploration; emigration and travel was in | recently, and part of his journey was from St. John, N.B., to Halifax, and from thence by the Intercolonial Railway Maritime Ex- Quebec, where he connected with the homeward-bound steamer, of Mogtreal, 1 may s positively tifat and give you preof of same : this, earlier than a bushel, at and did 'so freely. ber, and the of was for even higher rates. from Fort that they can get, is hard rate. The ocean offering his ninepence under freight at Being interested in the export trade ay surprised at the information (if it may be called information) that you pub- lish in regard to a '"'combine" of Ca- nadian lake vessel owners. As to an existing combine I no such thing exists, the following facts i During the month of July, and even Manitoba sold in the vicinity of eighty-five cents which price the foreign buyer was quite ready® to The exporter could engage lake freight at that time at rate of seven cents per bushel for grain to be shipped in September or Octo- ocean freight at a rate sixpence to a shilling higher than he can obtain the same freight to-day. The transaction was then closed, purely a business one. time T offered some of our largest lake vessel owners seven cents, which they would not accept as they were looking To-day the same vessel owners are carrying grain William on the best terms say, five and a half to six cents, and in some instances it work for them to get suffici- ent cargo for their boats at even this steamship agent is also sixpence the rate that have been got, and they also are find- ing it diflicult to get cargo for their steamers, That the British journalist was most favorably impressed with the I. C. R. train servieé is shown by the follow- ing extract from a graphically-written article which appears in a recent num- bor of the magazine : "We left St. John by.the Inter- colonial railway for a twelve hours' ride to Halifax. This railway is own- ed by the people of Canada, and is called the People's line--Canada's All- rail Route to the Sea. Excellent train service is given. "One of the features which we fully appreciated was the most excellent service on the dining cars, Each meal costs 75 cents, and a splendid choice is given. On each occasion we enjoyed well cooked meals, served by! courte- ous and obliging waiters, and were struck by the 'variety of the carte. Af- ter our experiences of the slip-shod meals on other railways. the change was delightful. It is a matter of con- cern to all travellers on long journeys to receive good meals. We have tried dining cars where meals are advertised widely as 'famous,' and unhesitating- ly affirm that the 75-cent meals on the International cars proper are miles ahead in every way and meet the pub- lic needs most nearly. We hope the management will persevere in giving the public that which, with our much- travelled experience, we declare to be equal, if not superior, to that on any railway it has been our experience to use, in either Great Britain, Am- erica, or the European continent." Selections O0000 Ii I Could Touch. William Stanley Brathwaite. If I could touch your hand to-night And hear you one little 'word, i understand your flight Up the star steps, unseen, unheard, and gray skies the bay passionate If through the mists of gold That tint the weary sunset There shone two Stars across That thrilled me like your eyes. If only some small part of you Would speak or touch or rise in sight, Death would be then between us two ' The passing of a summer's night, The Parish Bells. The bells of the parish chime at morn The welcome sweet To the day they feet, And Promises for the day that's born; A hope for the weary with tasks un- done-- A plea for the weak ere the evening sun-- And cheer for the, saddened is borne up- mn The chime of the parish bells at dawn. The bells of the parish at eventide-- 2 nell - sigh For e day gone hy, y Rat died ; er will see the A requiem for the ho A trust that the F th best § The day has borne,r and forget the rest-- A prayer on the wings of the fading 1 1s the knell of the parish bells at night. The Smile Of A Woman. Baltimore Sun. ; The smile of a woman--it 'brings back the sun When shadows drift 'down and the day- light is dome! The smile of a woman--it lifts and it eads The heart that is heavy, the spirit that bleeds ! The smile of a 'woman in world that are dight ; : With garments of winter, wind-driven and white, Dawns down the 'dark valleys and over the hills : Till spring laughs again on the lips of the hills And summer's soft morning comes back to the land With a rose in its hair and a bloom ts hand ! The smile of a woman--it brings to the earth ; The music of morn and the red lips of mirth, The hope and the joy and the dreaming of rest Where Love holds a little one's face on her breast. in Dear Hands. Susan Mary Spaulding. ee AR worn with, ceaseless toil and care, i No perfumed grace, skill had these ; . They earned for whiter hands a jewel- ed ease, And kept the scars unlovely for no dainty their share. : Patient and slow, they had the will to bear The whole world's but power to seize : The: flying joys of life, the gifts please, The gold and gems that others find burdens, no that sO air Dear hands, where bridal jewel never shone, Where on no lover's pressed, Crossed in breast, 2 1 see through tears, your, glory newly kiss was ever unwonted quiet on the Questions For Mr. Hanna. London Advertiser. : There is some discussion over the conduct of Hon. W. J. Hanna in act- I may say that gwhen wheat was selling" at eighty-five to. eighty-seven cents for September and October de- livery some of our traders (from whom no doubt ,yonu get your information) were trying to depress prices still low- er and cause the North-West producer to accept even a lower price than the forcdgn market was willing to pay. Your informants, no doubt, being sell- ers at the low figure, have been com- pelled to pay much higher prices to the drainage referee, an official of the Ontario government, removable at its pleasure. One of these cases calls for special attention. It was a dispute between the township of Metcalfe and the townships of Adelaide and War- wick, tried 'at Strathroy on May 22nd to ing as counsel in several cases before | son and | to speak fill their short 2ales and have been calling out "lake combine' in order to help their low sales out. As for diverting Manitoba wheat to American ports. Up to the present fime there has not been a single clear- ance 'of Manitoba wheat to Buffalo on the new crop, notwithstanding seme millions have already been shipped to the port of Montreal. Judging from vour article it is considered an injus- tice to Canada that any portion of the Manitoba crop should be shipped by way of Buffalo, instead of which exporters look upon it as a blessing that the North-West has that outlet. In about three weeks from the present date Montreal steamship agents will have filled their steamers for the sea- there will then be no outlet of outside of the American port at anything rate ag the quantity that the Cana- dian' railways can carry from the North-West to the seaboard 'is and must be small. Unless an appeal can d be made to Hon. Mr. Brodeur to com- pel the railways to carry grain from the. North-West to the seaboard under cost and to their other trade, which is not a Ikely proposi- d tion. . 1 I may say that since new wheat has d bégun to move the port of Montreal undoubtedly has shipped several mil- lions of Duluth wheat, or at least four tints the quantity that Manitoba far has been able to send for ship- t i I like a reasonable § : n at a sacrilice S0 } ment | beneficial both to thw producer and the ; country. "KING" FLY KILLER | | | | | i well known to the trade.--GRAIN EX- PORTER ; the rate to three to two cents. "The rate on drop mum rate for the carriage of grain on the given to a Witness re presentative, to- | y day, by an exporter, whose activities from our port. So that is we have an iurhange of the carrying products of the sountry the result is 8 t I would just say further that I do not intend to be drawn into any con- troversy on this subject, but just] merely wish to give you the simple facts--about which you have evidently been misinformed. The rate to-day on wheat from Fort William to Montreal I Is five and a half cents per bushel, and the last engagements were at this figure. This being the case you cap at once that the so-called "lake combine" purely fiction. This is t 8 see is . le Another Broker's Statement. As far as I know there is no com- bine in existence now fixing a mini- lakes." This information was P lake in proclaiming his en judgment in which was represented by Mr. Hanna as counsel, and Mr. Pope, of Strath- roy, as solicitor, the township of Ade- laide entered provincial 31,450 goes to Metcalfe, and it is said will scarcely suffice to pay for the ser- vices of Mr. Hanna and Mr. Pope. ations ? of the government ty which was indebted to him for gal services ? need gestion is Dyspepsia Cure. Toronto delivery ginning. But there enlarged judging by reductions, surplus. is ripe for rural mai er public benefits. 25th, 1906. The referee having giv- favor of Metcalfe, A an appeal, but negotia- ions for a compromise were opened, and a settlement was effected, which of $2500, from the Of this sum nvolved a grant government. Did Mr. Hanna suggest these negoti- r ' Did he use his influence as a member to secure a grant rom the government to a municipali- le- An answer to these questions is im- erative. Have Sound Digestion. People who have perfect digestion never worry about danger of i1sease. Sound digestion produces a urplus of vital energy. whenever di- disordered restore it to ormal condition at once with Day's ) ¥ This preparation has gestive, tonic and laxative proper- ies. Each bottle contains sixteen ays treatment. For sale only at Wade's drug store, Rural Mail Delivery. Star sole objection to rural mail ery 1s its expense. For thiz rea- on 1t is wise to make a modest be- is ground for hope ¢ may be developed and *d without burdening' the coun- I'he post-office is nist a Josing The hat the policy ry. but a paying in$titution, und what is more, its financial . position has been teadily improving. In 1896 the deficit was $781,540/000. n 1902 there was a sraali surplus of $5,000. In 1905 there was a surplus of nearly half following Years there were surpluses of more than a million. And time the a willion, In the two all this postal rates werw being reduced-- Canadian rate, the imperial rate, the * United States from *tters has just 'bean cut in two, and, the experience of previous this will not impair the In all public undertalings the sur- lus should be used to extend the ser- ice; and upon this principle the time hy and oth- won, v og The golden circlet of life's, work well done. Set with the shining pearl of perfect rest. y ¥ The Old School. Thomas Burke in London Nation: : Here. where the white ow! swee! aad cries And far hills fade as if in fligh And evening trembles into might, And roads like wavy ribbons rises And hills' encircle, fold in feld-- Her pensive, purple towers logm ; And from a depth of melting §& Leap out her hundred slabs of gold. loom Upon the air soft voices go-- Faint echoes of a lovelier day When life was ours and life w When the first shrinking violets May, ow. And all the sadness of the years, And all the pains of old desire Revive, and, Like a smouldering fire, Burn deeper for, the rain of tears. Yet are the dead not wholly gone ; They bore hor name by land and sea, Their higher parts were hers, and she, When all is done, reclaims her own, So as her ferital windows glow, Within their: castellated frame, Each light becomes the ardent Of some young soul of long ago. flame Recompense. Ella Wheelert Wilcox. Straight thmough this fact to-day By Truth"s own hand is driven-- God never takes one thing away But someghing else is given. I did not kmow in earlier years This law of love and kindness. I only mourned through bitter tears My loss in sorrow's blindness. But ever following each regret O'er some departed treasure My %ad, repining heart was met With unexpected pleasure. I thought it onl happened so, But Time this truth has taught me-- No least thing from this life can go Hut something else is brought me. It. is the law--<omplete, sublime-- And now with faith unshaken Ir. patience I but bide my time When any joy is taken. : Mo matter if the crushing blow May for the mcment down me, Still back of it v/aits Love, I know, With some new gift to crown me. Don't. J. W. Foley in New York Times. A hundred times a day I hear His mother say : "Don't do thatedear !"* From early morn till dusk 'tis all "Don't do that dear !'" 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STRACHAN emma Wm. Murray Auctioneer New Carriages, Cutters, Harness A HINT TO SHAVERS REID & CHARLES. Our store will close at 6 @'clock sharp every night, except Saturday:""" A.-GLOVER. The greatness' HAO I (RRdt Yapon A man is apt to aunoy his neighbors. ! knowledge and ad suspicions in this Sometimes he seems to me still As any mouse until a shrill "Don't do that, dear !'" falls on the ir And drives him swift away from there, So when he finds another spot : "Don't do that, dear !" and he "What 2° jd She J opiies ad cannat say-- ut--"Well, don't do it, anywaqy 1" Buckley & Sons, : : as The largest orchard in the world is 4 LONDON. j sn Colifornia. THE FRONTENAC LOAN AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY ESTABLISHED, 1863. Res Si Riad Siete an received "I am talking of the present remember, because evervbody Manufacturers of the choicest aware, and the association made no REFINED SUGARS [mon J « " by . Granulated and Yellows. Made entirely from Cane |last year, and right up to this sprine. Sugar. Be sure you ask for "St. Lawrence." lug there has been such an outery in ph the papers, talk of appeals to M D. STEWART ROBERTSON & SON, Agents for Eastern Ontario. Brodeur, and so forth, that I py time, was THE BUBKLEY HAT te ? 5 says : For a full of lean purse."