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' If your druggist has not yet stocked them, send 25¢, and we will mail them. dd NATIONAL DRUG & CHEMICAL COMPANY ee el OF CANADA, LIMITED, MONTREAL. 2 BAB G0 20 0 029 P00 +P 20220200 See Our Assortment | Of Xmas Crackers or Cosaques, containing Hats, Caps and Toys. Prices from 20c. to $1.50. Xmas Stockings at a big reduction; 302 King St R. ow TOYE, Phone 141 P.S.--Cadbury's and Garong's Ol oca'ates in fancy boxes at all prices, ; eee HEALTH IN PURE SUGAR Sugar is one of the best, and most widely used foods. Would you risk your health for the sake of a few cents , ona hundred pounds of sugar? Buy only. EXTRA GRANULATED SUGAR Its Purity and 'Quality cannot hs questioned. Compare it with/any other and note the difference in color. PARIS LUMPS When buying Loaf Sugar ask for Redpatl: Paris Lum, sold in RED SEAL 5 dust proof cartons, and by the pound. Y The Canada Sugar Refining Co., MONTREAL, CANADA. Limited Estahished in 1854 by John Redpath ; Dr J.Collis Browne's Yh [nroV f, // pv / _, THE omiginaL AnD Gwiy GENUINE, Valuable Medicine ever discovered. The best known Remedy for - , ~ CoucHs, CoLps, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS. Acts like a charm in . DIARRHOEA, DYSENTERY & CHOLERA. - Effectuslly outs short all aitacks of SPASMS. Checks asd arrests those too © often fatal diseases FEVER, CROUP snd AGUE. er The only. palliative is NEURALGIA. GOUT, RHEUMATIS). Sy tame, ay uated according to the matddy. wllays irritation of the wervous system when all other remedies fril: leaves 1a dad effects 3 ne Be taken whem wo other medicine can be iolerated. INSIST ON HAVING D-. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S 4 CHLORODYNE. The Most | a bygone epoc | affairs. | lights of country life. {A HISTORIC 'MANOR NOW THE PROPERTY OF E. A. ] ROBERT. J | The Mauwor House of Beauharnois, Que.--The Owner Greatly Enjoys Delights of Country Life. The old Seigniory houses, relics of of Canadian history, | are now the country homes of men | prominent in the social or commercial ifo of the Dominion. 2 : The Manor House of Beauharnois, | Que, is the country residence of Mr. {'E. A. Robert, vice-president of the { Canadian Power Co. and newly-elected | president of the Montreal Street Rail- {-way. Mr. Robert is well known in the ccmmercial world as the head of the . Robert Syndicate that won out in the great | fight between thet organization and the Montreal Light, {| Heat & Power Co., and that once ! again has carried the day in the strug. { gl; for supremacy. in street railwa Although Mr. Robert is the type of man who i; indefatigable in his at- tention to business interests, yet no one enjoys more than he does the de- The rural acres: | of "his manorial abode are his hobby, | and he shows as keen a relish for the pursuits of the poultry-fancier and | the floriculturist as he does for fae- | ing the thunder of commereial enter- | land hig Mr. Robert has shown his zest or competition in matters vther than ecommerce. It has frequently heen stated 1:at the celebrated melons of Montreal cannot be grown off the is- Every summer for the last few years the Manor House garden has produced a patch of melons, many of i which weigh from sixteen to twenty pcunds, and which have all the flavor | and lasciousness of the renowned can- | teloups of Montreal. The Seigniory of Beauharnois boasts the distinction of being one of the re- maining five in Canada that are no! vet redeemed and that still pays its tolls as under the old regime of Seig- neurial tenure. The Seigniory was ceded by the French King, Louis XV, to. Charles Marquis de Beauharnois, April 12, 17%. On January 14, 1750, | the King signed a new deed ceding the Seigniory to Lieutenant de Vaisseau, Marquis de Bsauharnois. In'1763, the | latter tragslerred his rights to the | Marquis de Lobinniere for $8,000; and | | Mr | serves me well, members of the Char- | lotte Street Methodist Church. he in his torn sold it, in 1795, to Alex. ander Ellice, a member of a large commercial house in London, Eng- | land, for 96,000 Spanish dollars. # The present Manor House was built over a century ago; and figured in the events of the war of 1838. Edward Ellice, a young descendant of the first Inglish Seigneur being taken prison. er in the cellar whither he had fled for salety. yo. 1t is fitting thas the Seigniory should have fallen into the hands of Mr. Rob- ert, who is himself a mative of Beau- barnois. He has the town's interests at heart, and has done much for ils advancement, fot only by preserving and beautifying its traditional terti- tory, but by promoting its industrial. welfare. Church and State. There died last month in Peterboro the oldest resideAt, in the person of James Stevenson, ex-M.P. He had lived in Peterboro since 1843. He was a Conservative in politics and a per- sonal friend of the late Sir John A. Macdonald. He represented West Pet. etboro in the Dominion Parliament for two terms, from 1887 and 1896, defeat- ing' Hon. George A. Cox in his first election. # During this contest of twenty-three years ago the feeling ran high on each side, for, altho Peterboro was strongly Conservative, George A. Cox was a poplar citizen. A Peterboro man was recalling the fight, duriog a recent conversation with political friends and remarked: "I remember well the Sunday be- fore the election. Both Mr. Cox and Stevenson were, if my memory They wire entrusted with the dignified duty of taking up the collection. On the Sunday before the final contest they were far more observed than the min- iater himself, who found it difficult to preach a gospel of peace. to a congre- gation intensely interested in a poli: tical fight. "As they approached the altar with their silver-fillad nlates, tae candidates came face to face and regarded each other with defiance. This was too much for the congregation and audible an.iles greeted the return of each poli- tician to the seclusion of his pew." Apple Culls for Cider. That Canadian fruit growers could make good money by using their cull apples for cider, instead of feed- ing them to stock, was the advice given to the Ontario Fruoit Growers' | Convention a short time ago by Louis | Menmier of Paris, France, who is | vonducting experiments on the cider. making qualities of local fruit in Toronto University. He has found - that 10 pounds of culls will make one gallon of éider; it costs 8 or 9 cents a gullon and ean be sold locally at 16 cents. "If the quality were good it would sell for 35 cents in Europe. A barrel of culls should easily net the grower $245 Great Britain "and. South America, he said, would be a great market for a good quality of cider; and the Nova Scotians alone, in Canada, were awake to this fact. To show how Nova Scotia's export trade in, this regard had inere ~he gave res thus: 1903, $810; $9400; 1909, $38 503 te had faund' that the best quality of cider for the European market could be ngade from -a com- bination of Tolman sweets and eraba. ready market in Europe e apple juice, sweet liquor and apple oy in England. In the: latest issue of The Louden Sketch appar: = page of portraits of Beat," and satmong them is Miss Dor othe Campbell of % ex-champion of Great Britain. Anoth. is Mrs. A. H. Cuthell Products from etlls that also found The iicier would sell for % cents per pou "Great Lady Golfers. | nine b, y Golfers Few Men Could of Canada and the United States, and er of the ni foriecly. Mist Rho ted Toronto THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG," THURSDAY, : ---- -------------- . "large party of friends, and they at- | Ms £12,875 616. amilton, champion. 27) AT - % - ST. FILLAN'S BELL. tt Worked Miracles Say Loch Lomond People. A window has just been consecrst- "ed in the Church of 8 Kentigerna, on Loch Lomond, in Seotland, to the memory of the ancestors of the Mac- gtegors of Coirarklet, a sept of the 'great clan that once dominated the country sbout Glen Dochart and Ben More SL ! One might imagine the story of this famous clan is scarcely such as lends itself to ecclesiastical record. Wild | men were these Macgregors! Rob Roy, the {reebooter, was only one of many DECEMBER 15, ---- 19180. CAUGHT THE GOINER. An - Accident Spoiled an Ingenious Counterfeit Passing Scheme. A case which shovs the ingenuity ased in passing counterfeit coin is the following: A tallor, who also was a very successful coiner, had a little daughter who was some ten years old. She was being taught te play the vio lin, and twice a week she went to bave 2 music lesson at a house about a mile distant. little thing carried besides her violin 'case and violin a package cunningly setreted in-the false bottom of the vie- Once a week the innocent as fierce and b'ccd-splashed as Bim- | ig case, which contained some twenty self. They fought with all and sundry +~Colquhouns, Mactarlanes, "Camp- bells -- with any, indeed,. who faced them or dared i> question their ruth- less rule, . i : """In the eighth ecentary St. Fillan, son of St. Kentigeru, was abbot of the mutasiery in Glen Dochart. He was a soldier, acholar, statesman, and - saint. His abbey in Glen Dochart boasted of a bell, something of a won- t der in those days in Scotland. The bell called the people to prayers, and | tolled their knell gwhen they died. Presently it gath . legends. St. Fillan's bell worked strange won- ders, folks believed, Certainly rob- bers and provtine evildoers ~ would | pause in their work if they caught the kweet tone of ite ringing on the wind. Long after abbot and abbey had passed away this bell remained, lying on a stone in the kirkyard. Thither sick folk came, believing that their | © diseases might be charmed away. || Sometimes, indeed, as a special favor (and on the par mt of sufficient money), the bell wo be carried to the sick, instead of the sick comi to the bell. back immediately. If not, it would take its own way--flying through the t air, ringing as it went. Then a pious soul resolved to build a belfry for the bell, a worthy home. for so distingm a blessing. But Shoup the new building was fair and: stately, the ball would mot there abide. In vain they placed it in the tower. Again and again they tried; but al- ways at the next day's dawii the beil, came clanging back. Then the King bethought him that his lace at' Scone weuld be the bitier of the bell; and to Scome it was conveyed. But next day the peeple in the glens and along Btrathearnside heard & curious clangor in the air. It was the bell passing sbowe, but, instead of sound of boon and blessing, angry notes siruck fear imdo the listening' men. Curses, hard words, and bitter' threats . « and after this no one: daretl to move St. Fillan's bell. n the eighteenth century it had disappeased. Iis very memory had beooine legandry,. like that of St. Fil- dan himself. For seventy years no Highlander eould say what had be- come of the bell. In 1888, Lord Craw- jordthad a dinner-party at Dunecht. The conversation tu son ancient Scottish Chiareh history, and some- one spoke of Bt. Fillan's bell. One of he guests remarked that a relative of his own in ire possessed a curious old bell, which an ancestor had brought frem Scotland Jeng be- ore. Lord Crawford, an emthusiestic an-: tiquarian, followed up the clue. Hel found the Englishman's journal re- lating how, when traveling in the north, he had heard superstitious non- jess \nlled about the bell, aud the nds i could keep it se a TS in the ned kirk. Forthwith he was seized with. a desire to prove the falsehood of so ridionlons - yy A He puridised ihe bell, bore it to England, and in Eng- land it remained until.he died --Mol ern Bociety. Wanted Action. A young fellow in England left home and was not heard of for three years. At the end of that period lie returned and said thet he had become an actor--in fact, he had procured a splendid engagement with a gentle. man named Henry Irving. The father was 30 overjoyed that he mustered a | t tended in a y at the Lyeeum, 'which is a tre somewhere in London. The first act ended, but that man's son had not put in an ap- pearance. The "second act ended. Same result. The father was in an agony of perspiration. Toward the end of the third a on walked the son, carrying a gun, but with nothing to say for himself. He was merely a super, Abage father could coming excited, a couple of times. But the stand it no longer. Be. | he leaned over the | balcony and shouted: "For heaviwe sake, Jim, do something! If they 'won't let you speak, shoot the gun Off 1h re Londen Has 7,537,198 Souls. >A kaleidoscopic glimpse of -the vastness of London is to bé obtained in the twentieth annual' volume of "London Statistics," just published by the London County Council In 1902 the population of greater Lonaon was 6,706,770. In 1909 the figures were 7.429.740. This year the estimate is 7,637,196. The annual in- come of London's charitable agencies More than 6,000 additional tene- ments have been provided for the working classes during the last twelve months. In a year 32000 London children are now taught to swim, while more than 7,000,000 free meals dre provided for hungry little ones. Y : - Money In Rubbish. Woolwich dust seem fo be veritable gold mines. A "selector" who appeared before the local police: ! court claimed to earn from $5 to $10 a week, and on the 'magistraie ex- préssing surprise a witness interposad: with the assurance that he knew a wan who made $40 a week in that way in london. BL 4 ens e------ wr Watch Stopped Too. A strange coincidence is Iapariad in connection with the death-of Mr. Geo. Platten, whe died Seah Stort- ford, England, aged 76. His watch, which was kept under bis pillow, stop- med at the exact moment he died. = as, dent. Tall in the street. the bottom of the "case was smaphed, and all the coins, done up-in tissue paper, fell into the street. The child, much mystified, opened one'of the little packages, and This mishap led to > of the tailor, who donfessed, hoping for a light sentence, a hope which was regular work? Lite or more pieces of dounterfeit coin The music master, a rogue who was n the know, found po difficulty in ab- stracting the package unnoticed by the child and in his turn passed it on te a woman "fence," whe again gave it to a male friend, who delivered it safely o the "stterer," a_woman again, at a street corner, the package being this ime concealed in the false bottom of a canary cage. Thus it passed through six bands, and besides the man him- self only the music master knew who manufactured the coin. ! The tailor .was caught by an accl His little girl let the violin case he glitter caught a policeman's eye. instant arrest ot realized. Among the colner'd" n It had to be conveyed stock in trade were dicovered two works on chemistry, fourteen molds, wo batteries, plaster of paris, two la- dles, a melting pot, crucibles and a quantity of chemicals.--Londen Tele graph. aN HENTY AS AN"INVENTOR. eens. The Author's Reversible Boat That Was a Halfway Suceess. \ George Heaty, the author of boys' stories, is described in "Sixty Years In the Wilderness," by Henry W. Lucy, as the warmest hearted, shortest tem- pered man In the world. "Before. he found his true veeation in writing boys' books Henty tried various methods of.supplementing his , #alary on the Standard. One was the recovery of tin from broken or disased utensils. For some months his study was filled with a bad smell and seraps of broken tin. The smell was engen- dered by efforts to melt off the tin from the baser metal with the assist- ance of a chemical 'compound invent- ,ed by the operator. "Tbe next thing that attracted Hen- 1y's attention and filled him with hope of fortune was the building of a re- versible boat, bound to right itself an- tomatically. He took rooms up the river and, with some alaistance from a village mechanic, bullt his boat. To a certain extent it proved an unguali- fled success. At the slightest well @i- rected touch, sometimes without it)\it would turn over, keel uppermost, wi Henty In the river. was, as the French say, 'another pair of sleeves.' . Righting itself "Through some anxious weeks he was frequently ignominiously rescued by a passing boat and walked home, oozing water from pockets and boots. In the end his landlady gave him no- tice that she could not 'De always mop- ping up after him.- I fasey he gladly seized this opportunity of retiring from the boat buiiding business." Stories of the Gravediggers. ~ Grimly bumeorous is the tale of the Scottish gravedigger who complained that he did not get constant work. "But, George," said the minister, "if you were to be constantly employed in | the duties of the office you would soon bury the whole parish." { "That micht be, sir, but hoo am I to | keep a wife and family unless IT get | "Deed, sir, I havena | buried a leevin' soul for the last six | weeks." Harder still was the case of another | gravedigger who was asked to reduce his fee for digging a grave because, He strutied up and down the | 00 ye, James, she was an auld wo- | man and was sair spent." ' -------------------- Malay Houses. Malay houses are invariably buflt on posts so as to raise the floor from four to six feet above the ground floor is composed of bamboo, with in- terstices between sluts, the earth be- neath becoming the. receptacle of the draimage of the establishment. The universal plan of the well to do ha- | tives Is to build the house in two di | visions, the front one for receiving vis- | iters and lounging generally, while the | rear portion is reserved for the wom- "sf dnd children. { The ------------ City Streets. : ! 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