E-- IT Housewives approve M L 2 G84 Floorglaze because with it . Sa Sg shabby furniture and all iy woodwork --nctonly flcors ~~are made handsome anew. They find it fun to apply this quick-drying, glossy finish that far excels varnish or paint. You should try ML O0rg. Has a hundred uses about the house, and out, Costs little--a gallon coats 500 square feet. In tins, 17 colors of solid enamel, 7 pretty Lacs to imitate hardwoods, also M L Transparent for natural finish. Good paintstores sell M L Floorglaze. Write us®or name of one nearest you, and receive Free Book that will interest, Imperial Varnish & Color Co,, Ltd., Toronto Recommend and for Sale by--- W. A. MITCHELL, H. W. MARSHALL, J. B. BUNT & CO. THE DAILY BRITISH THE INDIAN'S PASSING FEW POOR THOUSANDS" ARE ALL * THAT ARE LEFT. Phe Wilds of the Northwest and Brit. ish Columbia Make Up a Large Part. of the Aboriginal Population ~Reserves Are Usuaily Much Lar. ger Than Their Inhabitants Would Justify--Victims of Tuberculosis. Three centuries ago the Indian population of Canada, though never dense, was considexable. enough to present a very real hindrance in the settlernent of the country by Euro- peans, writes Emily P. Weaver in London Graphic. What the troops of 1 savages lacked in numbers they nade tup in extraordinary mobility, and Jin {ferocity weakened by no sentiment of pity even for the most helpless of non. combatants. Thus to the pioneers it seemed that their name was "Legion." Yet neither their fighting qualities nor their almost unexampled powers of endurance could save them from the {ate that awaits those unable to readjust themselves to new conditiqns. The white man's firearms and 'fire. water" hasteped the destruction bes gun by their own fearful feuds, and to-day there are in the Dominion only "BEAVER FLOUR?" is the unfailing friend of the housewife. It saves her the trouble of keeping two kinds of flour--one for bread and another fof pastry. Being a perfect blend of Manitoba Spring wheat and Ontario Fall wheat, it gives to bread the rich, nutritious properties of the former and the lighter qualities of the latter, making a large white loaf of delicate texture and exquisite flavor. Pastry, biscuits and cakes, made with BEAVER FLOUR cannot be excelled. Ask your Grocer for it today. DEALERS--Write for prices on Fesd, 107 Coarse Crairs and Cereals, The T. H. TAYLOR CO. Limited, Chatham, Ont. Think of Last Suminer- You can remember days when the heat inside your Kitchen was so great {fin could hardly bear it. With the right stove you would have made a better hostess. Save your health, Don't put up with the drudgery of a coal range. You can have a clean, cool, pleasant kitchen. The New Perfection ©Qil Cook-stove does away with all drudgery of cooking, Why should you be a slave to a coal range when you can have an Of! Cook-Stove that is cheaper than coal, cleaner than coal, doesn't "smell," doesn't smoke, lights instantly, ean be put out instantly, leaves no ashes, and doesn't heat the Kitchen. With ane of these stoves you can bail, bake or roast the most elaborate dinner. You can change from a slow to a quick fire, or the other wey about, by simply turning a wick. Apply a match, and in- stantly the heat from an intense blue flame shoots upward through the tur- quoise - blue enamel chimneys to the bottom of pot, kettle or oven -- but no- where élse. The stove has every conve- nience that can be thought of : Cabinet Top with shelf for keeping food and dishes hot, drop shelves to hold coffee or teapots, towel rack; in fact every convenience possible. The nickel finish, with the bright blue of the chimneys, makes the stove ornamental \, and attractive. . Made with 1,2 and 3 burners ; the 2 and 3-Durner stoves can be had with or without Cabinet. Every dealer everywhere. 17 not at yours, write for Deseriptive Cirenlar to the nedrest agency of the The Queen City Oil Company, Limited, > * Toronto. , Cautionary you get this stove -- see that she name -plate reads "New Perfection." And Get the Hest The grocer who gives the greatest number of pounds of granulated sugar for a dollar, naturally won't give "the best Montreal granulated." The otily way you can be sure of getting the best, is to insist on having / The analysis of Prof. Hersey, Government Analyst, shows that "St, lawrence Granulated" contains 99-99/100 to 100 per cent. oi pure eame sugar with no impurities whatever. The St. Lawrence Sagar Refsiag Company Limited, Moureal. | 111,043 Indians Nevertheless, taking the Canadian Indians as a whole, their numbers are not now decreasing. The latest census shows some excess of births over deaths, and a somewlmat larger |# neral increase accounted for im part by immigration, and additions to the *itribes by marriages. On the other hand, besides the Indians so-called, there are"ln Canada many half-breeds There are also others, of mixed blood, who have been absorbed in the white population representing the savage hordes of old time are divided into a multiplicity f tribes speaking different languages, such as the Micmacs of the east, the 3 Nation Indians of Cmtario (des- cended from the redoubtable Iroquois, who proved such a scourge to the early French settlers) and the Crees and Blackioot Indians of the western plains, As might be expected, the vast wild province of British Columbia contains 'more than a fifth of the total Indian population of the Dominion, but (what at first sight is more surprising) the old long-settled provinee of Ontario contains nearly. as mary. The _ex- planation is that immediately after the American Revolujion large. "'re- serves' were set apart in the newly yrganized provinee (then ealled Upper Canada) for the Indians who had proved loyal. They were not.permit- ted to alienate these lands, or there is little doubt that they would have been despoiled of them long ago, for they have never been a provident people The reserves are often of great ex- tent. The Six Nation Reserve on the Grand River, near Brantford (with a nopulation of 4,276 persons), consists of about 444,000 acres, whilst some cf the reserves in Saskatchewan and Al- berta, sét part for comparatively small bands, comprise from fifty to a hundred square miles. The Govern- ment has: generally respected the claith of the Indians to the soil, and it has been customary, as a prelimin. ary to opening a district to settlement, for the authorities to make treaties with the Indians, to set apart reserves for them, and to give them compensa tion in the shape of annuities, rations, grants for education, ete. Quite re- cently many bands in the west have (thus entered "into treaty," and now scarcely one-fifth of the total Indian population (and these chiefly in the extreme north) retain their old status. Whether under treaty or not, the Indians to some extent receive from Government a kind of paternal care as "the wards of the nation," and are subject to 'variolis-special laws, such as that, for instance, which absolute. ly prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquor to an Indian. Doubtless some of the race find these benevolently in- tended restrictions galling. A few of the more able and industrious, by ful- filling certain conditions, gain their enfranchisement as ordinary citizens, but the agents who have the over. sight of the reserves describe the In- dians as generally lacking in am- bition As of old, the intermittent activities of hunting and fishing are more at- tractive to them than steady labor, though in the more settled districts they are obliged to turn to other oc- ing, making tubs and baskets, and fancy art®les for sale to tourists), and the agents report a gradual improve. ment in their methods of work and mode of life. In the west, the red men still depend for their livelihood mainly upon hunting, fishing and trapping, but instead of wearing the furs of the animals they kill, and shel- tering themselves in tents of buffalo skins, they dress in manufactured goods far less warm and durable, and make their tents of cotton, too thin to keep out either cold or damp. Tuberculosis is very prevalent ambngst them, and in some tribes the death-rate from this cause is extraor. dinarily high, but where they live un. der fairly favorable conditions they show no signs of dying out. The more civilized Indians have lost the picturesque (and terrible) characteristics of their ancestors, who turned the early history of Cinada into pages of wild romance and blood- curdling tragedy. Chiefs in bearskins, braves in war-paint, tomahawks, peace-pipes, and belts of wampum heve been swept from the scene. In tneir place we have soberly clad farmers, respectable housewives, little wooden houses, churches, schools, and on some reserves even agricultural societies and temperance leagues. Only now and then (as, for instance, on market day in Halifax, when one stands before a group of lank-haired basket-sellers, erouched on the ground with an air of stolid indifference to any ible purchaser) does one real. ize that even yet the Indian is not quite one with the white communities which till his old hunting grounds, x The expert accountant who is called ia 10 balance a set of hooks figures on having a steady job. Hove is... excellent thing to have 2.it w one of the things a 'pawn noker will not advance anything om. % 5 - fhe few poor thousands of Indians, | cupations (such as farming, lumber- | Tow hidden by the springtime grass "Till April's chilly Fm pass, Sleep the dandelions. } Their tender forms--as by a shield-- | By green cloaks' close-drawn folds concealed, "Till May-bells' gladsome note has Prudent dandelions! Then, when the southern breeze has stirred . By welcome tinkle--long deferred, Happy dandelions! Awake, alert, with smiling face, Each smooths her robe with dainty; grace, Bach tiny petal turns in Lovely dandelions I greet your advent with delight, From first brave scout to last small wight Of dandelions. What joy those walks with you in- sure! You beauties! tipped with gold dust's ure, i as suns in miniature, air dandelions! Some call you common--just a weed! E'en be #4 so--'tis true, indeed, y lions { But why their scorn? The sun's clear, ray i Is common, too; but can they say Tis not most precious, priceless? Nay, Dear dandelions! Does this old world a surplus hold Of beauty, brightness, joy enrolled-- Think dandelions !-- That it should frown on any flower Whose mission brings such gracious dower sunshine-spreading As thine -- of Loved dandelions! power? "We love to share our sunshine wealth. ' Take as you will, nor offer pelf For dandelions. : | We bloom for beggar maid and thee Alike, proud connoisseur, and we Care not which plucks more lavishly," Say dandelions! Norris Barrymore. Haultain and the Easterners. Thanks to the bad tangle in Alberta rovincial itics, the name of Mr. Fr Ww. G. ultain is once more com- ing to the front, and a movement is reported to be on foot to find a seat for him in the Alberta Legislature with a view to securing bia sasigiance for the Opposition in e present crisis. An. Alberta member of fhe House of Commons the other day re- lated a story which illustrates a con- spicuous feature of Mr, Haultain"s disposition. Some years ago three eastern. men crossed the continent together. Ome is a lawyer who has held high publie office, one an Ottawa business man, and the third a newspaper man of national reputation. The Pullman was almost empty on that trip with the exception of a couple of ladies. The only other passenger was a quiel young fellow, apparently an educated and traveled Englishman. They got acquainted with him, and the long days were passed in éards and con- versation. Politics formed a solid basis of discussion. The stranger ask- it a Se TT e lawyer give him a of Cana ian politics, the others lending occe« sioi assistance. For two days thel the easitpery that Juungl man on science, practice, unwri ten law, and incidents of Canadian ® Wen 1 ; ¥ 5 CFs 4 3 Canada--o prove this, I cent tins. A $20, TIL IR SS ROT 00 Doss Mooney's Sugar Wafers re Dessert Your Guests Will Like Mooney's Sugar Wafers are made with double layers of crisp, spicy biscuit crusts. Each layer is a delight--between is a rich delicious cream, a combination of sweets that can't be duplicated. This luscious cream is made in many flavors--from real fruits. At luncheon or dinner today instead of serving the usual dessert try Mooney's Sugar Wafers, Let their delicious taste today decide your desserts of the future. You can get this dainty dessert in dust and damp proof wax- paper-lined tins at your grocers. 10 and 25 either natural or artificial gas. litics, particularly on that part re ating to the Northwest, The tical | requirements of that part of {1 inion were dwelt upon at length. No tning was omitted. And all the while the young man listened earefully an EO oan Re ans They 1 over y ook- ed at the card and sank speechless in< to the velvet seats of the smoker. For| the young man was Mr. Haultain,| who was, and had been for ten years revious, Prime Minister, of . thel Northwest Territories, The Very Best Epitaph. Guelph Herald "Marse Henry" Watterson, mous southern journalist, speaking to the Canadian Association at Foronto, described King Edward as the "most useful figure in the entire world." Than which there could be no better epitaph. the fa- Press BRONCHITIS Colds, Coughs, Catarrh and Throat Trouble. 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Doctors, hospitals, sanitariums --all say that for those who suffer from ble we , for those who are prodisposed'to dptarrh, lung } Sxonibile, deafness or bronchitis, no ment is so indispeneable as Cat- | For certain j hour, use vapor descends | search throughout tne room was AN ECONOMICAL FARMER. Bed of Sick Wife Used as Incubator for Chickens. Chatham, May 25.--A new idea in incubators Harwich recently When a Blenheim physician was called to attend a woman suffer ing with 'high fever "he heard the "cheep" of newly-hatched chicks. A was disclosed in un- availing, when suddenly, to the dix tor's surprise, several newly-hatched chicks emerged from under the cove let of the bed. The farmer, having heard that high fever ran three weeks, and eges taking the same time 10 hatch, 'conceived the idea of utilizing the fever heat for hatching. A general clean-up disclose ; pie of ey in the. bed. | Turned Joke on Landlady, Montreal Herald Mark Twain, when he worked in Ne vada on The Virginia City Enterprise, inserted in the news a good Y boarding house jokes, In revenge, the humorist's sensitive fellow boarders in Virginia City 'decid- ed to put up a game on him. They enlisted the landlady's help, and at the Thanksgiving dinner at the boarding house, Mark Twain, by a dexterous piece of slight-of-hand, was served, ap- parently direct from the fowl with a Jturkey leg of painted wood. "You've changed your poultry deal er, haven't vou, ma'am?" "Why, no, Mr, Clemens, vou think so?" "This turkey," he answered, giving the wooden drumstick a ttle whack with his knife; *it is about the tender est 'morsel I've struck in this for some months." many What makes house Government by Commission. Peterbore Examiner Municipal government by commission is, not an untried system. In Galves. ton, Texas, it was introduced to trv to bring order out of chaos; and it did it. There the commissioners were appointed by the governor of the state, a method of selection that has not been followed. In a wumber of ci- ties in the United States, and in dif- ferent states, the system has been ' a- dopted, the commissioners being elect- ed by the ratepayers of the munis- pality. The idea is gaining ground, and every vear more cities aré adopt- ing this method of government, somes of them adding provisions for the "'re- call" of the commissioners by the el sectors and some providing for an ini- Ont. tiative by, and referendum to, the +l. ectors, ES LEE TY TY A Wonderful New Range Go to the nearest McClary agency and see the wonderful new range that burns coal alone, wood alone, gas alone--and coal or wood and gas at same time. The Champion Interchangeable has four burners on the top of stove--the same number as a good gas range. It also has oven and broiler burners. Champion burns Two ranges in one at about the price of a good steel range. Saves space in the kitchen. Won the gold medal at Yukon-Alaska Exhibition at Seattle last year. Cooking with gas and coal at London, Winnipeg, Vancouver, St. John, N. B For sale by J]. B. BUNT & Co., Kingston. Knitted into its Perfect Shape---Not Siverchad Long after it is purchased ~after numerous trips to the Laundry--Pen - Angle ? A Underwear still retains its graceful, ect glove-fitting shape, and looks as if it. were donned but yesterday. Ask your dealer to show you Pen-Angle, Examine it--feel it, note its soft, smooth texture ; stretch it, and see its wonderful elasticity--it cannot shrink, Pen-Angle Underwear is vastly different. It is knitted, not woven--comfortable, not irritating. Pen-Angle is an individual, exclusive Un derwear creation. It is knitted into its snug, perfect shape-- not Stretched. The variety of styles, sizes and weights (for any climate) is almost unlimited. 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