if yon start in right now to take Abbey's Salt regularly. A dessert- spoonful, in a glass of water, every morning rids the system of all impuriti working properly-- and purifies the blood. Abbey's Salt is the best spring tonic for young and old. 25¢ and 6oc a os fe *Spring Fever" won't. catch you starts the liver and as wholesore cream The most digestible of nourishing beverages ALE and STOUT Creates appetite; makes meals taste better; brings healthy sleep. Keep it always in the house. Your dealer sells it, or you can order direct. 4 John Labatt LONDON - CANADA a 4% Agent, James McParland, 539-341 King St. E., Kingston. | A Wholesome Food For Growing Children, | below Quebec A regular, plentiful diet of Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes makes children strong and healthy--capable and willing for study and play. Serve it to your children at meal time and after school. Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes is an ideal food that builds up the body without burden- ing the digestive organs. Look for the name on the package. pogd' 2 TOASTED SATE COREN TOASTED CORN FLARE (0 | LONDON CANADA The dock devas | The French | on the | would measure 11. | pert scaler { he could estimate more i od no help for it | poor French-Canadians w ! fluen ! ber company save © | timates and guesses that | self {| of logs contained i being paid for; | civil engineering nt the University « tion. | pressed { has fallen in, vanilla flavor Ordinary extracts are not made from vanilla beans and do not give the true flavor. Why not have the REAL thing? Next time demand Shirriff's. "vanilla" Your dainties will never taste so delicious until you use this peerless extract. irriifs True Vanilla Made from the finest Mexican first- quality vanilla beans--and aged till the strength surpasses all others. CAUTION: A smaller quantity required than of any other extract | Porcupine country. He | ping place on the all-bush road. | he 1s the prospector and prometer of { Father famous and the most p { years | wiry, | This very wint | centre { the railway 4 \ . ad | forty : dle of | mght, ! head of a man of { the old craving f { which French-Canadian: have { been noted. { coureur | Paradis with soncthiag el ! a rupture wit: i face on the coldest RN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, PROMOTER AND PRIEST FATHER PARADIS IS A UNIQUE FIGURE IN THE NORTH. "Canadian Who Was Once a Teacher of, Civil Enginrering .a1 Ottawa Unive sity For, Six Year: Was Also a Lawyer, and His Skil! Bankrupted a Lumber Company -- Owns Forty.File Claims. FE One winter On the Gatineau Riv : a settler ° find' a good, bad cut: logs, writes § H Howard in The of ronto Weekly Star. In those di a settler was entitled to the t "or whieh grew oi his own place, and t wa: the eustom for him t i} pell i is 10 the | river. The ar 4 vay foot, board measure, for lor used to how it i work all winter and ree abor, 10 say logs. He was not himssll. to be in his than scaler ever something mpany compar so much 1 The se: wonder le f.r his | about his no ut umber eo and he mpany's suspected sort been going of th on for 3 ng, k PUTS The se wever, There seen ce education "hecking the ' Approximate fs sounded con ciusive 10 no one but th him But at the same time the settler | knew in hig own mind that he was being cheated; knew that his booms | more and le reemad no 4 settier kn wiio has much wa'king | how far he haz com That Garineap = much put out. He w and to him he tom his susy knew he was being robb could only get s A 1 logs, some one independent of bot the company and } self, then may be he could get justice. But who was there? Whom could he wiil scale your logs You may trust prieat That priest, it seems ame one to trust? . said me ; had taug 1 Ottawa for nine vears. He could aca! } and do a great many other things His name wa: Father Paradis, born mm Kamouraska County, "threc week. the log: measured Father Paradis scaled up this Gatineau habitant them as they floated in the river i side the boom, d found the wor: suspicions fell short of the mark. On his own responsibility he broke the company's seals on the boom, and re placed them with his own Then he altered the company's talie 10 agree | with the true measurements, and lei: word thas in case of any di spite he was prepared to be called upon. He was called upon. The company paid toll price far the logs and sued Father Paradis for breaking ther hoo seals. The reverend father leaded his own case. Law, too, had Jord part of his re arkable eduea- The comrt decided in his favor he lumber company appealed. Again Father presented his own and again he won. There was 5 further appeal. He won in the Supreme Cour The company took case 1 ] Privy Counci!, and the reverend . h er, nothing daunted, zed the A: lantic and fought the habitant's batt! out again in England. Ard sagan bh won, with This, of course, was i he lumber company was done | expenses had mounted to a d's Unlike Father Para . they had not been able to presen: their own case Other misfortunes upon the company. and went bankrupt. Their old mill { the largest in Ontario in and the machinery been taken away and sold Father Paradis figures now in the Owns a stop- and of costs the Ben Trovato. He owns soma 6 claims in the north country altagether The prospector of the Ben Trovato, Paradis, 1= on f the most "uresque per Sixty-two Ag straght, as as an athlets wa kod fron Township Hollinger mire "fiance sonalities I New 'Ontar of age, he is and as: sound it he of Deloro miies south of th odd mil aft » with the t meter down about 40 below! } the the face ar the dress of the north thirty years: ago 'n response wilderness for A wavs and the Fath r ! he d- to do something of Father ies that brought abou: his bishon. Theres was | too much material bu-izess about Father Paradis; the spiritual elemen: was like to be over-balanced Father Paradis has been a priest, a lawyer, a farmer: a missionary, a colonizer, a pfosnectar, a road bui'd- er, & lodging-house keeper, and a pro- moter. He is 82 years of age. but still a3 roung a: a city man in the | prime of his activity. He wears ligh: clothing and doesn't cover his egre or of days "1 stoop," he explains, my breath, and caue a flux of blood 10 thz head." As a scientific method for keeping one's ears from. free! ng. the formula holds tLe supreme merit of simpliony Also it is tynical of tas mind-over matter attitude of the Rev. Father Paradis of the Frederick House Her Own Ticket. "Well, of course 1 don't know how the roung man will urn cut. Mar. | riage i» a lotttery," ! { "Yes, mamma. I know, but a girl i should hardly be expected to let her | mother select ber "'cket" r the onary ne In fe The mii des hos or sire fo be practical, tangible. It was this phrase Paradis' activit "hold The had we do always gets a lap or two ahead of the good we do so far ux publicity = concerned. ! | effective | different tribes a | Legislature, | He wants | archives d | What | the {had no resp cords | ers and fur-traders. It ic sa { Sir ! sense of humor is | a very i heartily | which | spilled | side out, jumped on it, { per { erator in | from the throne referred to the ex. | Government { velopment t considers { explatnnd fis | masic BM le Sills APRIL WESTERN INDIAN BEST. The Horse Indians Always Superior to the Forest Men: In th days of the C. P ugh forests mountains, factor ERATIY irveys, the across plains Ye Aboriz rec) i koned over always a some! and and mes a seripuz on eastern Yrand a educed ta t When not an asiona mink skin furnished a prec a istence And when the came along. the crumbs that { 133 table were despised >: brothers, and they would camp alongside of him and laboriously move along With their well-known instinct of true lantry they would kindly per- mit oe squaws and a small retinue of dogs. never ab sent, fo pack heavy loads of their belongings, while the haughty chieftain strode along in tha ead with nothing heavier carry than a ld musket (Of course, tf las Aborigine principal ¥ persuasion, "eut no i + was simply regard- improvident, dirty, unre n of the forest All Cooper's ity laies away when vou encounter the real Wd of 2 ture, so differen! from the tall, !} savage portrayed A 1 marching along, arrayed in a of fecthers and a coat of red with lovely comsort by whose imp t et. 1nexpet consists of a string « a eoiffure made up with bacon grease. buckskin embroidered mocassins Alas! how a A xretrhed old ragend, sanitary, inset repository ows along your trail now, wrinkled old re-eved Wm breathe not ta fade hunch paint, his sda leggir A The Wn. fol. changed pock-marke | who with his squaw ani picking up toe nes, tells a pitiab! 'shows oniy too plainly the of the redskin. Western niains, of course, re encountered. Hors variably superior ipecimens raight, ups savage might & have i Iew Years g right mind, m yoporting tale, and decadence On the Indians thosa other de Many a fi ng, unreliabl encountered simply in his upon the se'f-s ved cayuse The differen: ver, friendly are it on ago, cloine l ounted little wal - were seidom, if Id days ribes and in the | any plain Indian would kill a Cree on ght The Mountain the Rock { ever Creck 'Black and many "Btanies™ inhabited ranges and seldom ame east of Swift Current then there were "'Sarcees, feet." "Bloods 'Pagans ther hard varieties Archives at Regina. MPP. the Saskatchewan brought a interest: e his fellow-membors a! House the other da his Government to start on sartment. He is righ aver been grea' to sentimenta an has history story of missionaries who went sky-piloting among the redskins. cx nlarers who iv tell the world «i its great herivage: furtraders who proved what the dorers had to sav. Unt very recently Raskatchewen ta temple to enshri her red records. No excuse \ slo, M PP pointed out, tl a House Parl fament | i wal . There is much room building for precious written r the carly days of the Royal Mounted Police, the Hul the piissionaries, explo ato Haultain i 1) of the Legislatur and Opposition, are archives project. Lise in country hus without some history ize gover' Nas 1 vig! stands cence. Northwest son Bay Ce to note that Mr leading members both Government favorable to the ! Courier. Sir Wilfrid's Joke. No one enjoys a joke more than Wiifrid Laurier The Premier keenly deve ored and when anything happens in the House which tickles his fancy, he throws back his head, gives g musical chuekle, and allows the famous sunn smile to shine out. When the jok good one, in addition shove.mentionad performance Wilfrid pokes his desk-mate, Hn William Paterson, vigorously in the ribs. and out of courtesy the veteran Minister of Cnstoms always .auzh whether he sees anything funny in it or not After Mr -hara s~k on the reciprocily ag the man from North the vials of | SArcaim ov Fielding-Teft pact, rnd t in Foster's ip sgnin, immediata'y dealt swift up cut. Sir Wilirid met the "ory the lobby. at the door « hamber. The Premier tapped mm genaly on the shoulder and sad sm ngly "Why think and tha of seam to "~The vou don' reciprocity ! George, much of | Mace in Saturday Night . Would Serve Useful Purpose. On the onening of the New Bruns wick Legislature in 1807 the speech pected developmert of salt wells in the County of Kings, and the mover and seconder of the address spoke the matter in glowing terms Dr. A. A. Stockion, the then leader { the Opposition, congratulated thd on the anticipated do of this important industry, "hecaunse," he gravely announced, es the statements ol honorable members | opposite. generally have to be taken with a good many grains of salt Two New Expressions. Of the making of many new expres. thers is no end. A man whe that "going (0 se a wan about a dog". is out of date, leaving a litile ons galper- ing by saving lesson 0 a Chinaman Another new one shows thai eur navy is beginning lo affect our speech A man whe swore off indulgence 'na strong wet stuff declined a drink, with | the remark, "1'm iu drydock now." It's funny how muck fun n doing things we have to do, Some men would almost ss soon be | i fonsy. good as 10 be caught being had, made man thin 4 wa recently | "I'm going to give a i dice at {for the | queathed by) | tied { her apponen there sn'! 1911, \ \ DESCENDANT OF HERO. Colonel Fitzgibbon Ancestor of Farm. ers' Bank Accountant ose who have f the Farmers ber that the beginni gation owed th end was High at Ont, in three former employes of the bank were prosecuted for conspiracy, but who. were b acquitted In those proceedings. and in ope, a principal witness waa to ck accountant of the bank Fitagibbon. The presiding judge piimented him upon the norahly the his testimony. The witness, said the judge, ought 0 be an honest man from the fact that hie forebear was the hero of Beawer Dam, who, wit cord, ought to be held in th honer. That generous Mr. Justice Harding recalls two markable and very important events in Canadian history, ang one of the most interesting characters of which that history contains an account. The victory at Beaver Dam re. that made Colonel Fitzgibbon famous, is | too well-known to need recia and the memory of that r affair has been renewed by -lketel of Laara Secord pub! ished « du past few months. It wil! be r bered thai, in the early m 1813, the Americans wre sion of Fort George, situaied at mouth of the Niagara Rive: Canadian side. An advance was « made towards Hamilton, but it was checked by the night attack at as C reek in which 1400 Americans were feated by 800 British-Canadian troo -- who captured two generals, four can- non, and 120 mon The American ad vance party then | back the Niagara River Shortly after that victory a British outpost on this | tier was stone house at Beaver Dam, about west of Fort George, held gibbon and foriy-sewen men ed by a number of Indians, tire force of regulars, militiamer Indians making all told 310 Secor whose maiden name was and whose husband was the n his home at Ov Americ itzgibbon here, ner of WIS SE $= oy gersoll, lying wounded ston, hearing that tended to surprise F ed at night alone to warn Fitzgibbon attack. The warming good account. The surrounded, and so become in ti wild surrendered a for Y smaller than tucir own. The heroine of Beaver Dam Laura Secord, but great credit 1 | tagibbon { the manner in w h he made the information carried to him by the brave waman, for the resourcefulness displayed in ng the « and for the courage and dash with h he carried out plan, and whose successful issue made Beaver Dam one of the mos: brilliant events of the war een the the was Americans confused did mess that they e very much of wera they us meet rsd Sure of Mis Planks. The late Sir John A. Macdonald. as all the world knows, rejoiced in a ready wit, and the following dote, which has not yet found its way into print, is typical In the old "N.P.""' days a hot cam- paigit was being waged in Prince Ed ward County. and Sir John had been brought up to speak at a gathering in one of the western townships wher the Grit candidate seemed to ba get- influent Crowds were out the Ol and the groaned lesz in rural human- tng 100 10 fear » OF speech wore on some of thosa e audience #1 the piatiorm noticed that the se n of it, wher on Sir John stood. was getting and motioned anxiously to him to come down. With a gay laugh ever, Sir John sienped nimbly ond, caling out, "It's all right tlemen. Everything's solid where | stand." It is needless to say that the quick fearlessness and the delicate hint of the solidity of the planks in his peli tical platform, won him many votes. SNaxKy how to one gen- Didn't Wait for Question. One of the best of the aquwetly humor ons situations not yet on record « cerns a painter and several young men of a Toronto insurance of fice Squatted on the floor, the painter was doing a little graining on a parti. tion at the rear of the office. "ls that varnish you're putting on" asked a clerk who had strolled away from work for a while. "No," said the painter, "this is a special preparation we use for this kind of work A oouple more clerks happened along and, strange to say. one of ther asked just the same question The paintér smiled and repeated his an- swer Soon there came along the office "junior," a bright lad who sull wors short trousers. The youngster look | on with deep interest but made mm remark. The pamter, however, cam. od quite a laugh by looking up into the boy's face and saying: "This isn't varnish I'm putting on here: it's a special preparation we use for this kind of work." life Fixing the Line. The fourth report &f the Commission, which od on behalf of Canada by King, and on behalf of th States by 0. H. Titiman boundary work has been com; between Natazhat Ridge and the Yu &on River. A line was traced from a point 40 miles north River. the terminus of work. 10 a point about ten mil A of the crossing of the Porcupine , Rix- er, 157 mile: of line project ¥ done. The distance monume 146 miles, and the number of menis placed 49 Alaska manu Dicinig for Legacy. 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