The most delicious of chocolate confections. They stand. alone in their smoothness, richness and unique flavor. insist on ~TEF DAILY BRITISH WHIG FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1900. bAEAN W DSPTE TO WHOM DOES ANTICOSTI LAND BELONG? Island in the St. Lawrence Purchased shy M. Gaston Menier, the Choco late King, Is Proving to Be a Source 3 Trouble--King of France Gave It Away Some Centuries Ago. It is now some ten years or sa sinée the announcement was made that Henri Menier, the French chocolate ol . Pein ik A WS gman WAM AS AN ATHLETE. | TRAIL THAT GREW. - The Genial George of the C. P. R. Is Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, ls a Warm derful Thereughfare. "Head of an Organization. Someone or other--it really doesn't | One of, the most remarkable high- matters who--once deséribed the greut | ways of transportation in America 18 German poet Heine as the sardonic | Jasper avenue, the main street of site on the lips "of the Almigh!y | Edmonton, writes Augustus Bridle. in when He looked down on the pet'y | The Toronto Globe. In twenty years struggles and passions of mortals. 1 | that splendid dog-leg of a street fol- the same way one might imagine the lowing the kink of the river bank great Power That 1s looking down 10 | has seen three eras of traffic and more more kindly mood, on the doings of | varieties of rig-outs than any other a lot of good fellows for instance, and' higltway in Canada. The huskie dogs laughing out a big, 'hearty, whole | and toboggans went jingling in there sopled laugh, a laugh t was 2!l' from the far-dp posts of the fur lands pure merriment without a drop of | lang before the caravans of the Red bitterness. That laugh would be | River carts. The kyuses 'of Indiaas George H. Ham, George to all the land half-breeds came heifer-skelteritig "bovs ' {rom Montreal ull round tie lin from the shacks and the tepevs. SNOWY Yr nifeness 5 ¥ oie réal beauty of linen lies ia its whiteness. "Tt must come frgm the washing spotiessiy clean. So, naturally enough, it is always rubbed twice as hard, and so wears out twice as fast. . But here is & pew way to wash linen as well as other fabrig--a way that saves half the rubbing and Qoubles _ the life of the garment, This new way is the way of Taylor's Borax Soap. For no other soap saves both labor and garments having COWAN'S. Name and as does this wonderful soap---it saves its own cost : A king, had purchased ihe Island design patented and registered. Anticosti, which, as mest khow, lies Je a tongue down there in the k | Mounted Police filed among the zig- world in any old direction and back again. And now they have gone 10 zag log shacks that hunched up on teasion CC +] edsteads, ¥ OWAN C0. LIMITED, TORONTO. SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY. Dining Room Furaitur: This Week. Buffets, China Closets, 15x- Tables and Dining hairs to match. Bedroows Furniture ow wecialty, Brass' apd Iron Dressers "and Stands, Springs & Mati rasses. t t up house for fall, James Reid's, The Leading Undertaker. Phone 147. ANNUAL WESTERN EXCURSIONS Sept. 16th, 17th and 18th, at Jowing fares from Kingston to City $12.90 Detroit 17.80 Saginaw 10.15 St. Paul good to return CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION TORONTO, Aug. 28th to Sept. 13h, 190¢ | be fssi»d at the until Round Trip Tickets will $4.90 9 10, return Sept. 7, 8 11 good to lickets nop ge Good All tiekets ept, 14th 1,2,3 and 4. Central Canada Exhibition, Ot &~ wa, Oat., Sept. 10th 10 18th Round trip tickets will be issued $14.70, good going Sept. 10, 11 12 15 and 1B, and at $2.75 Good Tuesday, Sept. 14th and Thursday Friday, Sept. 16 and 17. All goody to return on or before Sept. For full particulars, apply to J HANLEY, Agent, Corner Johnson ontario streéts, going before yod on going and tickets and TONG PEMBROK | RAILWAY | : IN CONNOOTION WITH Canadian Pacitic Railway | re Bsns) FARM LABOREWS' EXCURSION ird and 10th TAD a.m { $to0.00 $18.00 ADDITIONAL GOING RETURN | Central Canada Exhibition | 17th. AM tickets good ura' on or | belore Sept. 2011 v | WESTERN EXCURSIONS | nd L110 to 12 yfice CONWAY BAY OF QUINTE RAILWAY. Train Ontaric excepted leaves union station, oot, yom. daily (Sunday Tweed, Sydenham, Napanee, Bannockburn and all points north To secure quick despatch to burn, Maynooth, and points on Central Ontario, route your shipents via 'Bay of Quinte Railway. For further particu lars, apply . Ws DICKSON, Phone, No. 8 ptr for onto, Thousand sand al $1 Lawrence River Steamboat Companies In connection with the New York Central and Hudson River R. R. 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Ca vil 57 Broek St VS fofeleinb effetti COAL! f The kind you are looking for is the kind we sell; + SCRANTON i» good coal and we guar. e prompt delivery. 'Phone, - 2 Booth & Co, FOOT WEST STREET, feefuleofrfrlnfmlofolufafalelnianfulain. gain Dynamos, Storage Batieries, Spark Pcs, Carburetors, Etc, TRY UR DRY BATTERIES. | i Tumba Electrical Mig. Co. | Phosa. ATH: 878 Bagot 8s | OUR ROOS¥ER BRAMND OF T0BACCO Chewing at forty-five fs a good tobacco. Why Andrew Maclean, Bmoking and ents a pound, y eighty-live cents. ntario street. i | "STR. ECELWAT Will start regular trips to Kingston Mills, June 12th leave Urawford's | Whar, foot of Princess sireet, 10 a.m. | return 12 a.m. leave 3 pia, return al sfx. Return fare, 25c. Children hall tare: CAPT. L. WHALEN, : Captain: tPhone, 871; mouth of the St. Lawrence, says & i During the about the island than we ever knew before. The papers weré full of Henri Menijer and his little continent, and nice little pictures were given of his private yachts and his fishing resorts and his inland fastnesses, until we almost began to feel as though we were 'in at the making of a new Ring. In fact, the Union-Jackers were early to the fore with the awesome sugges tion that Menier might be an advance spy of the French Government whose intentiop it 'was to fortify the island and thus be in a position to command the passage of ships up and down the St. Lawrence, when France and Eng- land came to blows. Others resented what they considered the establish- ment of a French principality within Canada. The situation, from a dime- novel standpoini, certainly began to look hopeful. : The only real danger in the situ- ation, in fact, was that Menier and his Canadian peasants, fishermen and seris, generally, might come 10 biows These sons of toil had long made a living on the island, and to be dis possessed of the houses they and their fathers had builded, or to he compel- led to pay rent for the property they had cleared and cultivated, woul certainly not dispose them to regard Menier as a kind, old Santa Claus. The possibility of wholesale evictions was- spoken of, and was followed, probably, by remesentations to the Canadian Government, Somg action was also taken by the heads of re- ligious congregations, and it was sug- gested to pray the Lord of the Isle to be merciful to these poor souls who had been entrusted to his care. Then came Menier himself. and noth- ing terrible happened. For years, now, nothing has heen publish- ed about him and his island. He has not been over again to visit it, ap- parently, and- from all that can be seen he takes no further interest in it Now, from advertisements which appeared in the papers, not long since, Mr. Menier is disposed to part 'with his little principality He may be adverticifig the place for sale. hut end warned all and sundry against purchasing from Henri Menier, It as worth while quoting the advertise ment, itéslf. It was as follows "NOTICE--The newspapers tise that Mr.' Henri Menier the Anticosti Island inform any ong who clined to buy Hhat Meriter, that He will be' obliged 16 support the effects of such a transsc- tion. Mr. Menief, having refused to recognize the heirs of Lonis Joliet and Jacques de la Fontaine, the own- ers of that island, these latter will ap- pose anyone who would make the purchase Mr. Henri Menier, Paris, has ne valuable title to possession of the Anticosti Island, and can't have same only from the undersigned owner, conjomt and ate torney of the heirs »f Jolliet and De La Fontaine "Miche! Parent-Mingan, Seigneur de Mingan und the Istand of Mingan and Anticost adver- will sell would be in- istand- fren, Mr. the King of France did with it, a few centuries ago. It seems strange, that it should be so. but life is chuck full of strange things, so a few more or less shouldn't keep us awake at nights. The away to half a dozen of his trusty Frenchmen. How could a King be ex- pected to remember the map of Can- ada and what he did with this and that island. Suppose the . present King of Siam 'began distributing the Thousand Islands in the St. Law- rence, what an awful mix-up would be a few centuries hence whi the feirs of the recipients began to exercise their right of title. All good Canadians ought to be glad of one thing, however. They ought to re- joice that the good King of France gave the Island of Anticosti away to someone. Think what a loss it would be not to have the island at all. Those old kings builded well, those days, and mightily tharkful we should be to them for such a fine country, of course. Seagram Beaten by the Excise. People up, around Waterloo tell an anecdote illustrating the quickness of repartee in Mr. Joseph Seagram, the well-known distiller and horseman Some vears ago he gave a picnic to all the numerous employes of his establishment and to many of his constituents in North Waterloo. Mid- way in the proceedings the fun com- meneed to hang fire, and Mr. Seagram asked oné of his guests, Mr. Powell, the collector of Inland Revenue .at Guelph, what he lewd better do to liven us matters. The latter suggest- od that he and "Joe" run a foot race. This was agreed to and the word was od around." The .race: aroused interest and the Government official was® an easy victor "Well," Mr. Seagram wiped the perspirdtion from and gat his breath back, "that first time 1 ever was bexten Excise and I knew it passed much said as he vis hrow by Railway Charters. Out of 206 railway charters granted hy the Canadian Parliament in 20 years ended 1908, only 28 have re- sulted in any construction, #6 have lapsed and the others have receive f time axelusive the extensions oi Canadian Pacific Frunk Paci fic and Canadian the ehart- ers granted called for 63,500 miles construction. ' ' of and powder drug and Cleroy suecessiully aby = hair sold at corner Prince Having not a few pufts Prouse's store, streets graduated voung men and women at been ommence to forget what they have learned, FERC IOTE | some | not | someone else laid claim to the island | Consequently I | raga must he sup of | the | I suppose it all depends pon what | King probably gave 1t7 there | was the | the the ' work and made him the president of the new C. P, R. Athletic Associa 't Tast he has an ofhcial ttle. years he has been the most importait man on the Canadian Pacific Liverpool to Hong Kong--in the esti- mation of the "boys" at least--but he never had a title. He was George Ham, the great and only George, cn the rosd--only that and nothing more. Put now he is "The Most High Wor. shipful President of the C. P. Fr. A.A.A" How about that for a mouth- ful? ; George in his inauguration address said that he was convinced the new Association had more chanipions thin any other institution on earth. George was probably right--he always is But he neglected to a just what kind of champi and just what sort 'of athletie they will in- dulge in. Handling beer-kegs ought to be a favorite recreation with youthful -athletes--empty beer-keus, as it is unlikely that they would have a full one. around to be to practice Foss also zosd ! pleasant program "Blowin "high and br "two-pint wl other geniality Te long enough with © it fun, or innovation he from is rol A rst suc fon dine ad jumping over tpn would anes, hay Em ting promot conte vhiat 3 sure----iha , and unde of his beguilin wand to b ver the umnstianees, George cir on with the fara there is b in any old for every member: of jon: Here's wishing it an president luck thers then Satur. Night as persussive lo¢ eloquence {hig 131 4 11 oid ie town any of night the Ax 1 ihe ' one more, oir us lay School Gardens in Canada. The eduecationistz of Canada heen the practical instruction outstanding tures of their earricula \eting the priveiple that any svstem of cation which aims proposes help the people who work on the farms be a system that wil Lely th elementary rural Is, where the future men and ir will get their formal education | gardens were @ ached scl and trained instructors charge to givé instrnetion teachers, as hay akin among pioneers in n at or i must schoo of f wainen the schoo! artsin wer to to Oe i 10018, | put in ! the school the pupils The outcome of these reforms wy demand for trained fe ers, and, that this y Foo STEW Macdonald 'provided, at the Agricultural College at Guelph, well as r specially recognizing two large buildings equipped for this pur | hieh- | pase. There are now severid i class agricultural col and thé ef fect on the country is very meorked In twenty years the produce of On wario laud has practically without "any appreciable increase of the acreave, and much of this im- porveinelit fnust be credited th th teachers and experimenters of th | Guelph College. Ani in Ontario | s0 in other Province Closed to the Public. The Yonge street Arcade in Toronte was barred on Sunday a short pmo and placarded "Closed to the Public." This was the annual legs! formality taken by © the Dovercourt Land and Savings Co. to. maintain the proprietory rights of the owners. as the bars on one side were about six feet above the ground. The pub The annual assertion of land owner- ship in property usually . open traffic to the public is also made gn Beach. : f According to 1he la Tiger to procraim' privateownership for a full year would rgstore.it to the public. Canada's G. 0. M. . v There is no more interesting figur in Canadian politics than Sir Charle Tupper, the last of the "Fathers of Confederation," as the framers of the recently entered on his 89th Bir Charles is the last Premier of Canada. He became Prime Minister in 1896, a few months before behind sat In tith and the Liberal Party since then he has Scotland. He has probably . v . = dian, and some time ago spoke 25,000 words at a stretch. 100 Rural Mail Routes. free. rural mail delivery partment, principally in Western On: | tario, Manitoba, and ither the Maritine Provinces or Que | bee The department establishes | routes wherever they are applied for | | by the residents of a district, provid-¥ ing the application receives the ap- proval of the divisiohgl inspector The people served pay for the boxes Lost Lake Station. | \ new post. recently established by the Hudson's Bay Company. on Lost} Lake, twenty-five miles west of Lake Superior, is 'now a station of the Grand Trunk Pacitie, to which flour and other merchandise is already be ing shipped by the carload. This one timo. wilderness is waking rapidly is already literally alive with pros | pectors, pioneers, settlers, and adven- | turers. ------------ Neither the tough not the dude make what right thinking mén would term good nd useful citizens Measure your words and be sure say will rankie in | m to nothing that the ind of another Bibby's new overcoats are beauties im 1 | the edge ft from | =3 the '* | packs; the bands Ontario | dowbled | tie | lis was not seriously inconvenienced. | for short streteh on the lake front af Kew | w. of usage, neg. { the English tongue Constiution of Canada are called, who year | Conservative | fir Wilfrid Laurier swept the polls] him, | the | shades of Opposition. SirCharles, who | pow lives in Vancouver; is a Baptist | minister's son, and was educated in| made | mores4peeches than any other Caoa- | Saskatchewan | Thére is little Amand for routes from | and | of the old fort down on the Mats. And. the ha thay § eT out straggle of the creaking, honking, | all-woed chariots that made the thou- sand-mile trek from Fort Garry by | the meandering black trail; and up { from Calgary .when the steel went | through. And the four-horse stace went slam-basnging dewn { south bank before there was ever a Strathcona--on to the old cable ferry, and crawling up' the steep to the ropy black trail where the wi- certain shacks were just beginning to mark cut the stent of the street. ' ar the little log town was reaching along 'and the lines .of traffic were going deeper as the town grew and stood still and waited for the railway Sometime somebody named that tr Jasper avenue because the oT. House stood there at the east end where the carts hailed in--the creak- ing, caravaning cars. Up into that jumble of shacks with the trail snak- ing amidst came the OX-carl caravans of. the priests, luggering along wiih goods for the mission at the Cathe- dral of St. Albert én the Sturgeon. So it was, with now and again a wagon, and then more wagons, toil- ing up from: the south--till the day that the Klondike trail sent the world's trail-finders into the i { town. That was the day of the 1 ! freaks -- the unondescript, vagruat things that capricious adventurers rigged up to hit the long trail to t! { ends 'of the earth and the fringes of the north. On that, store-strag shack-lined old Jasper avenue twisting trains of kyuses aud f crawling oxéu and the bgles of hay; the barrel cl jot that some forgotten genius contriv- | ed out of three hogsheads 'packed with grub, axled and platformed and ¢ vased--and it started out merrily r ing to the unknown with the camp- | truck atop snd the \grubstake with- lin, till on a frozen snag the front bar- rel-wheel got a puncture, and the beans came dribbling out. The lum- bering contraption went rolling home, | never to start again. Biggest of all | the pathfinders and most spectacular of all locomotive freaks ever seen on Jasper evenue was the steam sleig! | that some overlander, with his part- rear rigged up from an old: threshing | engine; rigged it with a traction oui fit geared to a spike roller in front | to climb slippery hills and ice-bound slopes into the Yukon with a tran | of toboggans behind. The wander of seventeen nations was hauled out ou crisp, sunny day ol winter; tru ked out by Horses do the midway of-Jas per avenue. There she was fired up and steamed ; the throttle was turned, and the drive-wheel wabbled, and the spike-roller that was made to | climb the steeps of ice, 'burtowed a hole into the frost of the street and budged not a single inch. And the nations haw-hawed to see the first train of Edmonton ignominious!y hauled back by a team to a rear yard | where it lay for vears, (§l soniebud dragged it away to saw lamber, on the Sturgeon Such was the cosmopolitan trafic 'of Jasper avenue before the great awakening; but nine:years before the fathers of a young city paved.it with asphalt and laid the tracks of a street railway, overhung by a spa zl of. incandescent lamps, aOld Jasper | avenue! -earrying the memory and the imagination back to the day when the poplars rustled on lots that sell now for thousands a foot, and when {the lads of Edmonton chased rabbits down the gtreet. There is no street in America like that Jas went ut out A Chance for the Men Behind. | Northwest Rebellion of 1885, tells an amusing stqry cf the Sixty-Fifth Revi ment of Montreal, which is large composed of French-Cunadians. The was an old regulstion thgt no wnt ter what the language and nationality of troops fighting under the British flag, commands must be delivered in The broken dia- lect of some of the French officers was a source of constant amusement to English-speaking participants. One day a company of the regiment was sent out to drive some redskins out of a coulee where they entrench- ed themselves. The French captain gave a command to the front rank to tire, as half a dozen of the foe showed themselves and took pot shots at the troops. The volley was fired, two or three of the foe fell, and the line was mechanically prepared to deliver sa- other when the captain cried ex- citedly : "Stop shoot! Stop shoot! { some for de rear rank.' To Stamp Out Hazing. Leave Up to the present time about 1001 MaeMaster University--has--resolyed routes have | been established by the postoffice de | to stamp out the practice of hazing The new calendar of the university, just issued, threatens expulsion tw any student who interferes with the personal liberty of angther. It will be remembered that last Year some frésh- men were caught by gentlemen of the J second year, who subjected them to the indignity of shaving théir heads The MacMaster Samsons now hive official protection. Value of Trade Schools. Dr. G. H. Locke, public librarian, Toronte, urges upon the people the necessity for trade séhools to elevate the industrial status of the country There is much to be said for these institutions, but their establishment involves, some serious problems. To be useful shey must be thoroughly ef- ficient. Any system of trade s i should be under provincial man ment and should be maintained provincial expense.--Hamilton Times. Christy's, Scott's And Buckley's The new fall styles in these celehirat: ull to be found at Camp- ed hats ar gston's hat hell: Bro store Ihe latest bats $2. Bibby's, the high: jack- { An old soldier who took part 'in the | ETS Here is the Taylor way: Place the white clothes in wari, soapy Water aud let them soak over might. Then draw BY out one by one and rub them light! with Taylor's Borax Soap. When well soaped, 1 them up and lay them in the bottom of the tub under water. Let them soak inthis way for half an hour. Then rub them gently on the washboard, rinse and wring them out, Hang them on a rope clothes lie, for wire may put iron rust spotson the clothes. Scalding is never necessary with this soap, for it re- moves the dict by itself, Ihe borax softens the water, so less soap is reqnired, and much less rubbing. « Colored clothes are washed the same, only they should not be left to soak over night, and never boiled. Follow these simple directions and your clothes.will come out fresh, clean and free from any "soapy smeil." The white goods will be whiter, the colored goods brighter and the woolens softer than ever before, gy Borax not only softens the water, but also softens the hands--it leaves them even whiter than ever befolé: Also it purifies and sweetens--it destroys every germ and prevents the possivility of contagion. ° Don't be satisfied with common soaps that make it neces- sary to rub your clothes doubly long. Such soaps are more expensive than you ever imagine. This wonderful soap costs no more to buy than the ordinary--so why not have the best when you pay no. more? Order a bar today. Said the Mili BEAVER FLOUR is a blend of Ontario Fall Wheat and Manitoba Spring Whea Each supplies what the other lacks. It is as good for pastry as for bread---best At your : for both. grocer's, or prices on Grains and Cereals. LHe iq . 14. Tay Co. A ayithyhadiatbmgostone. put YW 3 } HOY Se by When the paint rubs or wears off your wagons, reapers, plows ,and other farm machinery, the damp- ness gets. into the wood and causes decay. There are a "number of S-W. Specialties, erin / such asBuggy Paint, Wagon and Implement Paint, S-W. Enamel Leather Dress- ing, to prevent this, Ask your dealgr for SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS AND VARNISHES Made in Canada Jar Ssmmw-#11Lins Co Montreal Toronte Wa THIS ONE WHICH 18 CORRECT, COOK WITH GAS? general discussion 1 me widespread, in fact hedds to solve th which expression FVERYBODY STARTS IN ho WB COOK BY GAS OR DO WE In the City of St. Louis a has been stirred up and its interest has beco tigators have put ft up to the learned seem to be an easy matter to settie ramatically speaking we are not going to put ourselves ; this, right here, that the ones who are cooking either "WITH" or sas are well up in the running, while those who fuiled 10 gel the pipes installed in their homes th summer ba better file their application the office of the works, belore it is too to enjoy the benefit derived the above named sentences. Kingston Light, Heat & Power upon the above two sentences of Lhe It SOU pre correct on récerd, hut we 16 is Mein. ot by Department. 0; 0, FOLGER, GENERAL MANAGEM, a . wr