Daily British Whig (1850), 10 Sep 1909, p. 7

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HE ENJOYS HIS MEALS NOW | For Hé Kaepsa'Little-Digester". Handy Mr, Glassco, of Toronto, wrote us on May rath last: Tun Corman Maepicing Co, 9 Church St., Toronto, Dear Sirk, -- I wish would send me footiics box of + 'Little Digesters", All the members of my family have been using them and have obt ined the most satis- ¢ factory results I congratulate you on your success in putting up a tablet for the cure of Indigestion, "I suffered for years and tried ever thing that was recommended to me vthing gave me relief, until I was persuaded to try 'Little Digesters" Now I never suffer from Indigestion. I enjoy my meals and am not afraic to eat, becat I know a "Little Diges.- ter' alter meal will digest my food. I recomm them to all my friends who Indigestion and would Jurthier say that Jou may publish the ahove if you wish." 1'Know {liere are thousands of people suffering from Indigestion who will be glad to know there is a safe and syre cure for them, Yours very truly, (Signed) E. S. GLASSCO, " Little Digésters "' opste25 cents at your druggists, or by mail from Coleman Medicine Co., Toronto, 25 Ca ler fr Get Well First CN SSUTCRSERS SORES Don't risk even a penny--until health first returnas. And I mean just exactly that - 1am the one physician who says to the vax "1 will. out of my own pocket, pay for your medi. - eine Hf it fails to bring you help !™ And for 20 years Dr. Shoop's medicines have been u hamlet in America. They are positively stand. ard in every community--sand everywhere. 1h n why pay the cash, and at your risk, for other r unwarrented and uncertain medicines? nds upon thousands have in the past y used Dr. Shoop's Restorative. When the Stomach nerves, or the Heart or Kid. ney ws fail, these sick ones know how quickly Dr # Restorative will bring them back to healt ain. But best of all, they positive I take no money risk whatever. They know that when health fails to ref rn, Dr Shoop will himself gladly en: the drug: gist for that And for fiat te wt a full 30 day treatment is fair granted. But write me first for ah order. x will save ¢ y and disappointment. URRISLS Dr. Bhoop's Restorative and Dr, A cumatic Remedy, but all are not au. tho! rized to give the 30 day test. Bo drop me a line please for 11 oy a appol an honest and re- sponsible dru Fist in almost every commun. fy. everywhere, to issue my 'no a help, no pay medicines to'the sick. Tell me also which book yon need. The books below will"'surely open up new and helpful ideas not well. Besides you are perfect. Iyf to consult me just as you would your home physician. My advice and the book below are yours --and without cost. Perhaps a wond or two from me will elear np som us ailment. I have helped thousands upon »" sands by my private pres personal advice fia eS st - 0 fort is surely worth your si ble request. 80 write now, while have it fresh in for tome Jo ow never comes. Dr, Shoop, Box tacine, Wis, Whieh Book Shall I Send You! No. 4 For Women No. 5 For Men No.1 On Dyspepsia No. 2 On the Hears No. 2 On the Kidneys Dr. Shoop's Restorative ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Cenuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of : Sle FoTro Soo FPac-Slmile Wi wpper Below. Very si "Nad anvesy tostaki,, "wegar, rr ro | TOR HEADACHE. CARTERS FOR DIZZINESS: FOR BILIOUSNESS, WER FOR TORPID LIVER. PILLS FOR "CONSTIPATION, * {FOR'SALLOW SKIJ(' CURR sick HEADACHE. PTON PTON ; da CROM Is on | Mg It me Latest] S Ww ear fog Y : : CE 16c. A GALLON Put 'in Your Tank at Our Dock. Garage Autc 3 promptly elby & Youlden, Ltd, Ontario mobiles ar attend: » S | STORY.. OF |THE i + where the lights of welcome along the | =r for=witho sthe-wispsteams- od and recommended in every city and | No. 6 On Rheumatism. | i: Ji FOR, THE CGMPLEXION | | hensive description | to | that THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, A c. P.R'S BIRTHDAY, A TERRIBLE C CALINITY SARISH IMM... GRANTS AT GROSSE ISLE. . LE the Early Days. Thé CPR. did not mark in any, special way the twenty-third annivert | . sary, which occurred the other 'week; Ten Thousand Prospective Irish Set: | inental train across the At the same enfs tlers Were Buried on St. Lawrence th. schievements of the last Ywenty- Quarantine Island During the Years | three years, thetoffjcial breast was in- 1847 and 1848--Set Sail in 'Coffin | clined to swell a little 'with satisfac- : | tion Ships" and Fell an Easy Prey to It is twenty-three years the Fever. a last lines of the great transcontinental In the eystem . were put together, making broad Bt country's water gate in the \ one long whole out of ieny disjoint. Lawrence below Quebec, | ed parts The head offices were then on Bt | James street, facing Place d'Armes | Bquare. Lord Mount", Stephen was presifient, and Bir William (then Mr. Willihm) Van Horne general manager. The offices themsélves were small AFA STONY. AN" Was in the formative stage. The sense of stability had yet to be impressed upon the system The grperal mannger could be found in his shirt sleeves," Sir Thomas Shaughnessy was then purchasing agent of ths company... Mr. Me¢Nicoll acted as general passenger agent. Business was dove, but it was dope shores twinkle at night {om hundreds of humble dwellings, says "od Yor ston in The Montreal Standard ; + here he sailors, weary with deep-sea | whe eagerly peer.into the gloom | fhokerme {above the water rows, there stands to-day on the top of & rocky islet a! { tall granite column in the shape of a Celtic Cross. - In summer," when the seaman gets abeam of Grosse Isle on his journey up the river, he sees a prospect most romantic. The island is covered with vegetation and is fairly well wooded. | | oo 40 ditions. 'Running along the channel skirting The staff Il. and the thous- its rock-bound shores the spruce shows | 2] employes now at pleasing against faint blue pencilings | were not dreamed of of the coast beyond. Huge mountain men. were then in the outlines make a magnificent back- highest was accessible. | ground to the picture as thé haze gen- rable to propitiate the | tly enwraps them And y™ there is myséery in every vard of the islet as wes ~drap along with the tide or steam stowlygpast. Like the Spy Glass on Yreasge Island, Telegraph Hill is the highest elevation. And on its rocky Reights, far above the swiftly- | flowin@river, is now perched a mighty granite which tells a story of human suffering unequalled in the annals of the New World Stand with me by this eros towers aloft fron its rocky bed are high above the level massive base, and beyond in | Lawrinece the ships sail out There 18 the little schooner-huilt craft as she ripples down the tide on her way to harbor hamlets on the Gaspe coast, There is the deep-laden collier as she sullent plunges through the tide, beating her way with throbbing BOPOWS ; there iz the big liner with decks crowded with immigrants full of hope for their future home in the rew world. Far across the river the neat white-washed dwellings and the carefully-cultivated gardens and fields of the French-Canadian farmer The potato crop had failed. There sorrow and suffering and death in Ireland'; 'men, women and children: in the years 1847 and 1848 struck out blindly for the New World in an at tempt to save their lives and fortunes At home the people were dying of | starvation; abroad,'in the new lands beyond the Western Ocean, they would seek better conditions--wouid seek a home and enough to eat. 'In rags they started In scores of wood- en ships--coffin-ships they were named they left their native land In droves and herds they infested the ships. There was no v.* food and water were searce; tion was unknown. Sick and many of them started There we Kms mor eri head office t railway The desi slight, time used visible ts were and the loeel cartoonists of the to poke fun at the C.P.R. trying, with the aid of Mr. Clouston, the general manager of the Bank of Montreal, and 1 lighted eandle, to find a surplus in he vaults of the bank There wag the old Dalhonsie Square tation, which. sufficed for all the rng defined. Able men took but when any enthusi- spoke of dividends, he with an indulgent smile. be that everybody TLL Cross hnginess o Little wa ff th astic person 1s greeted can which ci r coats, Aa the to sen sea Et 8 said huatled \s Sir William Vah Horne has many times said {o the writer, in go- ing over the past, "we literally took ff our coats to work." I'he offices were removed to Victoria Square, to the building formerly oec- cupied by the Co-operative Associa- tion. The annual meetings were then held in secret, and it was a sight to see the local newspaper men holding up Sir William Van Horne after the meeting was over The tone of those meetings was astly different from that which pre. ails at present. A tremendous under- aking had been espoused, but the 'future was dark. merely a name vague, distant. business had to be made Such growth, however, manifested itself in the course of a few years that it was deemed necessiry to have a West End station and general of- which the company itself could control In the early years the earnings of the company varied from $5,000.00 to $10,000,000 per annum. They are now something lke $75,000,000 per annum. Even after the new station and few doctors or nurses. The scenes at | #¢neral offices were.taken possession parting {rom _iheir. native land: "are | 06 there were days of darkness to be harrowing The travelers, weeping encountered; and it became neces bitterly, kiss their relatives and |5ary for Lord Strathcona to come friends as the hour of farewell draws | Over to reassure the pessimistic stock- near. The husband leaves his wife vlders, many of whom openly la- and children to the care of friends | mented that they had put their money and goes forth. trusting soon to bring | into such a doubtful enterprise. them to a better home bevond the 'An enterprise," said His Lordship, seas. A terrible wail of grief goes up | "which, nevertheless, will, in the as the hawsers are cast off and the course of the next few years be one ships roll forth into the Atlantic on |©f the best dividend-earners in' the their long journey to America { Dominion." 3 The event proved the correctness of At sea the horror deepens. The ! | fover spreads among the passengers. | Lord Strathegna's prophecy Frames weakened by hunger and pri- vations cannot resist disease the | passengers di thousands In ten of the vessels that at Montreal in July, four from and six from Liverpool, out of passengers, 804 had died on the pas- awoke ) | sage, and R47 were-sick on™tr ar. 1 prefer I rival. The "Larch." on Augukt 18th, A voung man came to Osgoode Hall reported from Sligo, sailed with 440 | Hla was J. A. C. Cameron, and like passengers, of whom 108 died the { "ther wise men, he came from the | passage, 150 were sick The He hailed from Cornwall, to suc- ginius' sailed with 596: 158 died the late Neil McLean as referee [the passage, 186 wers Fick rk J the Masior.in-Ordinary; | remainder landed feeble and irred to him that new office mate and crew xere wonld be a good th FN yf, the captain. xp 1 all siek. The Black Hole of Gateutta IMPFOVEd ventilation He hold Then he asked for a tele- was a mercy compared to | of thesp vessels And | deep with their tering the Si At Grosse lsle th Quarantine Sta- | tion, in the St, Lawrence, these las goes of dying immigrants were ifdia- i RY eriminately dumped. Wenk and sick, | £00d®, | the passengers were set on | phone Some were scarce able ie greedy tide, and gasped J eron innovat came t | miserable lives upon the § | fleciiioy by the Government to equip coast the various offices with telephones. Upon this barren isl torian, 10.000 of Irizh consigned to the grave-pit ing to the death roll, ther burred, between the 16th and Tune, 487 Irish immigrants names could not be asgertained." July, 941 were thrown name! | graves: and in Aug AR were | ed in the register under unknown | were interred from the 16th of Tune the closing of the quarantine for that year 2905 of a Chita people whose names could not | amidst the confusion and fatal summer. "In the vear, 2000 additional vic entered in the same name or trade of any they we OF Whence Thus 5.000 of or, are Was The fices, "dying | were Telephones at Osgoode 'Hall. Osgoode® Hall, Toronto, slumbered ved | fer half a century or more, (ork | telephones and: other 4.497 | ment were concerned or was awakened, by Arr modern equip- and then it whichever on "he nd It oc furniture kt gost phi sana otter We wi 'm fe Why, ps irath he was told "That's all right ' nally " "It's a go Mr. Cam=on's business hello was installed at Osgoode, Law Society the 80 we. ste tha ships. rolling aple will bother vou to cargoes of death, en he answered, d thing to be &tirred telephone, the machine in 0s. There were three but they belonged hen, after the Lawrenee shore to escape tie oe th rock boy ion wor A Difficult Task. eel a story told. of Rev. Dr ore { Fipprell, pres lent of Columbian Col- th of | 178 New Westminster, B.C and a {great exponent of Methodism on the {n | British Colum! Dr. Sipprell "i silver tongue, and 1 sermons and of Methodist hearts | On a--reeont-- trip--thromgh | Roe: ies, returning from a vigit swetor was enjoying, for the first grandeur of the Canadian He was talking to a little admiring friends he said rapturously, oratorieally toward a 'What would to the tain? ng julate 1 a brakeman rethark, 'You'd of hard work." his savs the the race \e good vhose 1a coast : possessed of the his flowers are the pride into ust enter the compre There the east, the, « { time, { mountains ore of GAR arm al pile friends, wer tom of 3 nw 'Humph who overhear! find a th bw hseoverad carnage of 1 follodwn ware { hou! who waving i g 1" collos. ims is register wit kind to tall they h the total imply of rock we fy ful irive bot re i nid mour : re ad com number ved out f victims were « 'unknown descrit ys Place For "Dullards, Admiral Kingsmill, advocates. iz { Canadian navy been it will provide | places for our dullards His theory has all the aut that antignity can lend it, ar jor It prompts { The Kine ardine Review to recall the t of the captain who was receiv- he new middy 1. boy, the old story fodl of the family sent "Oh, no, ir," piped the boy, ail altered since your day." er------------ His Boycott. or to ses? - We valids handle al sizes of rubber for carriages and baby go-carts y rubber all wheel H used Bagot agent so'far as | road- +9-23- Years of Age=Tates of Eastern Province of the sending of the first transcon-| Dominion. | ol , in looking back to | | { { lives long enough to find ent. since the | ros 8 | pointed to as a marvelous example of | RITI HERS. re* Long on >" wy» yr Wea ive LONG-L est Inhabitants and Creyheards. The fir Product of the Maritime Provinces not their superior po- tatoes, or the Malpeque oyster, their bramy: ans It is green I age. Traveler old peaple of Acadia still apply name only to Ontario and Quebee- wonder if they ever die down by and certainly, no one outside ever Every potitic sea, or | frons Canada>the | that | the | row and then. Sir Charles Tupper is | active old ¢ He is 88, and every year he crosses the Atlantic and the continent, submits to interviews, and writes for the magazines. But the old Cumberland war-horse is just ary for a Nova Scotian. He is not really very old, and he is not active. ordin- | It is rather a shame for him to have | retired. Now, there is Pilot Lahey BE Tst "Sepreniiber, and ST the PR. Prec: steamers into St. John Harbor all winter, did the clipper ships of 60 years ago. "How old are you,. Lahey?" asked an old Glasgow captain, as the old pilot brought his vessel up the nar- row channel past McAvity's dredge one evening last antumn. "I'm sixty," was the gruff reply. "Well, you dan't look it," rejoined the Scotchman. My Christmas pudding last writes a correspondent, was made Hy just as he | year, | a New Brunswick woman of 85,"who, | thinks her daughters too inexperienc- ed for such special cooking, and who occupies her leisure with books and needlework, announcing that she will not take up bridge until she is an old | woman. I have before me a small flimsy handkerchief, hem-stitched and | trimmed with English thread lace. | There is nothing remarkable about its appearance, but my wife tells me it was made by another New wicker, a lady of 98; that she No. 200 thread and took up every hole, and that she doesn't wear glasses. Bruns- | used | Of course, death does overtake some | of them. Senator Wark; for instance, of Fredericton, and Mrs. Blizzard, o Grand Lake, were just over 100, and Joseph: Wade, of Annapolis Royal, was unfortunate enough to catch a bad cold at 102, which proved fatal On. his 100th birthday, his family unto | the fouxth and fifth generation greet- ed him w* breakfast, and one rather Pumptious ¢ «phew, a lad of 60, asked nm "Uncle Josie, how do you Teel upon commencing your second century? "Well, my boy,' said the hero of the occasion, "I think | fe€l a good deal strénger than when 1 began my | first.' ' A Toronto Boy's Voice. . Much is being said just now in the The Northwest was | 'merican papers of Wilfred Morrison, | the 13-year-old boy singer of Toronto, | eyes open and se who is to be paid the remarkable sum of $500 a week by a New York con- | | | tions, | | | cert company for a tour of-the United | States from New York to San Fran- cisco and thence to Australia, the trip | to occupy a full year. That a boy | singer should receive such 'an enor- mous salary is a notable event even in the theatrical and operatic world, where large salaries are not uncom- mon. In spite of his extreme youth, Wilfred was engaged to sing at the Julian Walker testimonial benefit at Carnegie Hall, in New York, récently, and he made an excellent showing among fifty artists of high rank. Whether or not the boy's voice will retain its «sweetness and power for many years to come is a matter of conjecture, but experience has shown | date | | that such rare soprano voices as that | possessed by "Canada's greatest boy soprano" do not usually endure long | beyond the lad's present age. . © Wilfrid, who is well known in To- ronto, of course, has the type of face | posses by most boy singers. It is wounger than that of the average boy of his age, larly childish. little of spirituality in them. New Tree Pest. A new tree pest, which attacks spruce tinber, has been discovered on the Gatimeyu, says Senator W. €. Ed wards, in a letter to Hon. Frank Cochrane, Minister of Lands, Forests | and Mines, for Ontario. The Dominion Government entomo- his mouth~ being particu-'| His eyes have not a logist has made an inspection, and in | his report he states, in térme incom- prehensible to the lay mind, ia a lepidopterous eaterpillar and scientific name is tortrix fumiferana The practical lomberman will recog nize the disturber as the spruce bud worm, which has wrought a great deal of damage to the spruce forests in the State of Maine. So been done, but the department blr ide ae { | Three | far little harm | : advised #11 rangers to keep their | '¢ If any timber has | been affected. he definite | |'ings are mu lent | Breton. 1ddresses | « Realistic Photo Experiment. One of the * Saying men," whose do "in the air" at pres is ProfeSyor Alexander Graham Bell, whose motor-driven kite is now being' experimented with at Cape Recently he was approached by an interviewer, who wanted infor- mation about a report 'of the inven- tion of a gyroscopic monoplane that balanced in the ° air automatically. That" was a fa'se alarm," said professor. the | "Science is full of false | } Ta You know. when photography | was first invented, before the days of | | the drop shutter, we find a French experi- | menter was reported to have caught | a bullet in its flight. Science, how. ever, was not much advanced. experimenter had caught it in leg." his New Freight Charges. | The Canadian North Atlantic West Bound Freight Conference has issued | a new circular fixing charges for land- | ing. sorting, and piling goods on | I suppose | wharves at brought by } trans-Atlantic ordinary merc on sailing Montreal, steamers rorts are from 6d to 6d. a ton, with special rates for extra heavy goods. The work has been heretofore done by the servants of the consignees., goods 100,000,000 Passengers. The Toronto Railway's. annual re- "that's [ Port is expected to show that the com- pany carried no fewer than 100,000,000 rs during the twelve months. passeng The | | Asphalt Roofing the | from | The charges on | | Barrack St, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1000, co EE -------- scribably deli try McCormick's Maple Lal Biscuit--a delicacy revelation. A ayérof soft; enticingly palatable Maple Cream, smothered with 'twa , wholesome Maple- flavored Biscuits | of Maple Synopsis of Canadian North-Wes\ Land Regulations. person who is the sole head of's family, or any male over 18 years old, may homestead a gquarter-section ot available Dominion land in Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta. The appli cant must appear in person at the Do minion Lands Agency or Sub-Agency f the district. Entry by proxy may made at any agency, on certain condi by father, mother, son, daughter brother or sister of intending+ home | steader. Duties. --Six months' ana cultivation of the land in three years. / hiomesteader | within nine miles ofl his fomestead on & |tarm of at least BO acres solely owned and occupied by him or by his father, mother, son, daughter, brother sis | | ter. In certain districts a | good standing may preempt a section alongside his homestead. Price $3.00 per acre. Duties--Must. reside six months in each of six years from 'of homestead entry (including the | time fequired to carn homestead patent) |and cultivate fifty acres extra. A homesteader who has exhausted his homestead right and eannot obtain a pre- empiion may 'tube a purchased. hpme- stead in certain diStriéts. § Price $3.00 ber acre. Duties--Must, reside six months , in each of three years, cultivate fifty acres and erect a house worth $300.00 WwW. WwW. OORY Deputy of the Minister of tha Interinr N.B.--Upauthofized publication of this advertisement widl not be paid for. ANY residence upow each of may live ar homesteadoer \r quarter « All that's new and up-to-date is to be found in our swell new Young Men's Shoes for fall, The finest product of FIVE of the largest and best American factories, besides the best that Canada produces. . ; . They Are Here Awaiting Your Inspection. We will be pleased to show you these swell _ new shoes. H. SUTHERLAND & BR. 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