i ¢ | me to take Fruit. to Our Robin Hood Brand of flour a gharantee In every bag for good quality, : ANDREW MACLEAN, Ontario Street. NEW YORK FRUIT STORE "Pineapples, 10 and 15¢ each, 314 Princess St. Phone1405 Fresh Caught Salmon Live Lobster Dominion Fish Co. PHONK 5% Fruit Land ------------------------ Fresh strawberries daily. es, 10c and wp. All _seasonable fruits at low prices. We also carry a choloe candy. -------- er JAMES PAUL 348 PRINCESS 8T. line of Why Pay High Prices? Will Give You CLASS GOODS ! The Style and Fitting will be The Pinsh and Workmanship will be perfect. ¥ The price will be from $2.00 to $7.00 LOWER than you bave been paying RALPH SPENCER 620 Princess Street Opposite St. Andrew's Oliurch 2 1f you are renewing sour beds and" bedding, I can save you money. nh 30: sample 'brass beds re- duced 10 to 20%, Iron beds, $2.50 and up, all sizes. Hercules spring, best made mattress, Pillows, all riges. Ask to see the Dixie 0. 2 tuft mattreps. Best made. : {Strathcona sald: I remember distinetly, says James Oliver ~ Curwood, member o he National Geographic Society of n erica, the day thirteén years ago, when just after I had taken'a 10,000- mile railroad, boat and horseback through western Canada, Lord "Come back into this country.agaln in ten years and see what has happened. You will find a new world." I didn't wait ten years, but re- turned year after year, and some- times twice and three times a year-- uot only into the 'prairie west, but up the Peace and Mackenzie to the Arctic coast. 1 cut trails across the barren lands to the homes of the Eskimo, lved along the coast of Hudson Bay, shot bear and walrus on the Roes Welcome and camped along the shores of the Great Bear and the Great Slave. Those were the days when Frank 8. Cahill, now a millionaire and a political power in Canada, brought a cow. and a one-eared mule over the prairies from Goose Lake and stop- ped in the "settlement" of Saska- toon. There were a few shacks there then, but Cahill and a few other hus- tlers who had unbounded, faith, got to work, and Saskatoon/fow is' a city of brick and iron with 30,000 inhabitants. There was no North Battleford in those days--a single shack marked the site of the present day "fastest growing city in Canada" and its 6,000 inhabitants. Regina, Moose Jaw and Calgary, and even Edmon- ton, were not regarded as coming 'great cities. : Rustling littly cities of to-day, liké Wainwright, Edson and Mirror, were undreamed of. 'Edmonton had 2,600 inhabitants, in place of the 50,000 of to-day. Calgary had 5,000 in place of 60,000. Saskatoon had 118 in place of 25,000. North Battleford possessed a population of four in- stead of 4,000. Eyéh Winnipeg was a small city of 40,000, instead of a great city of more" than 200,000. This tells only a small part of the change since 1901. And In those days British Columbia was "a wall of rock Between God's country and the sea." Six years ago I began going into British Columbia, doing research and. exploratory work, and I Yoiin over the Fraser river an inland ent pire of exceeding richness. It is ohe of the marvels of the ge that Can- ada's prairie country was not discov- ered earlier, but it 18 & ktill greater wonder that British Columbia, the richest 'and most beautiful country on the American continent, should remain an unknown quantity even longer. I am speaking particularly of Cen- tral Btitish 'Columbia, those vast regions of timber, or fertile valleys; of mineral wealth and glorious clim- ate now opened up by the Grana Trunk Pacific. Probably no single state or province inthe whole world has been more talked of in the last fow years than British Columbia, and with the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific early in 1915--the completion of a line of steel that runs from coast to coast--I predict that there will be a rush into central British Columbia that will have few precedents, if any, in history. Already thousands of ambitious pioneers have gone in aledd 'of 'the line of steel, and thousands are going in with the steel. Vast capital stands ready to be put into operation as soon as the railroad is finished. When that time comei central Brit- ish Columbia will be the Alaska and the Yukon of Canada combined, but its wealth will not be counted in minerals alone. In gold, silver, copper and coal its resources are enormous, particularly in coal. But its still greater and nore permanent wealth will be in its almost unlimited areas of timber and in those thousands of square miles of fertile valleys in which grazing, agriculture and fruit growing can be combined as in no other province in the whole of Canada. : Something of the possibilities of the gpuntry canbe gathered from pic- tures, such as those which are on ex- hibition at the land show in the Coll- seym, where the Tramicontinental Townsite company, the authorized agents of the Grand Trunk Pacific 'towns, are showing 'a collection of photographs tiken in 'this _ very srg The deep grasses, the luxuriant vegetation, therwide stretches of up- land lates that now are covered h' grass can be seen. But 'what a cannot 'eee is the fu. fure--the 'and oats that wil vetches, the farm or Pema thé busy to ritty ho ads, "thé busy towns that Serve as carriers of the farm and mine products to the rallways, and in turn bring supplies to 'the tillers and workers of the soil. This is bound to come, and come soon. At the land show you may see samples also of THE grafn "48d "Traits "raised "by the fruit sellers in the country--pro- phetic of to-morrow, Almost without exception these valleys of central British Columbia are easily penetrable, either Tor lines of rail or waggon roads, and into many of them water transportation will be feasible. I foresee the day in the very near future When mil- lions of dollars' worth of timber will be handled in the town of Willow River. : 1 have it on good authority that a million dollars in American capital will be spent In the Willow river dis trict. within 'the mext few months. Hut the people on the Pacific coast Are the ones who most the op- portunities now " and 10,000 persons will go into central year. ! Most of the first rush will go to {| Brow best in the dark. British Columbia within the ' next| tion Aa 3a. the Willow river country But while Willow River is bound to be one of the most important towns in central Brisish Columbia because of its 'loca- tion, it will not be the only place. I look to see the day when Chilako, Vanderhoof, Stuart River and other thriving towns and cities, with Wil- low River as a center, will give to this mountain province a population of a million people. SLAPPED LION'S FACE How Richard Corfield, Lion Hunter, Saved His Life Perhaps the most amazing episode in the career of Richard Corfield, who, it will be remembered, was kill- ed in Somaliland not long ago, while acting against raiding Dervishes, and 4|the story of whose life is told by Mr. Prevost Battersby in a memorial volume published by Arnold, con- cerns an occasion when Corfield was hunting lions single-handed, as was his habit." A lion had charged Corfield, and a scene ensued which provided, "prob- ably, the only instance on record of a football player using his 'hand-off' to prevent his being collared by a lion. The fact that the lion missed his first grip," continues Mr. Batters- by, "and got a poor hold with his second, may have been due to the surprise he experienced at receiving a slap in the face from the man he was chasing, owing to which Cor- field, getting hold of a tree-trunk in lieu of a goal-post, was able literally to wrench himself out of the lion's jaws." Again the lion, which was badly wounded, dashed at him. He fired and missed. "The next thing Cor- field knew was that he was dodging round a small tree with the lion grabbing at him, while he was trying to hand him off. The lion missed him first, only succeeding in tearing his coat, but soon got Corfield's right hand in his mouth, biting it badly through the palm, while pursuing him round the tree." : Fortunately, at the critical mom- ent a comrade intervened and shot the lion dead. Corfield, however, had to spend the night in his zareba, crippled and unable to use his rifle, guarded only by huge fires, while his companion went for the nearest doc- tor. It was not long after, however, that Corfield was out again hunting lions single-handed. Such are the men who guard Britain's outposts, says a writer in Tit-Bits. Where to Place a Home A writer in the House Beautiful argues that the tradition which makes us place our houses exactly parallel to the street and slightly above it, is "naturally false." Trees and surroundings and 'the lay*ef the land," ha.asserts, should influ- ence the flitg of a house. Photo- graphs of French farmhouses oddly situated in relation to the highway, are used to illustrate this novel theory. --Boston Ttinscript. Both mushrooms and wild. oats SE Walked Floor at Night uiet Irritated Nerves Sleep Was Impossible--Suffered From Faintness and To + Dizzy Spells--Great Monotony as well as over-excite- ment is often an unbearable strain on the nerves. And who ¢an say (hat Woman's work in thie homie is not deadly monotonous? Doing the same thing day after day, vear in and year out, gets on the nerves, and after a while the strain is more than the system can stand. You feel faint and dizzy at times, cannot rest and sleep at night, little things worry and annoy, you have no appetite and cannot digest what you eat. If you are a stranger to the mer- its of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food as means of restoring feeble, was! nerves, this letter will be a revela- to you. It brings a message of hope to all who suffer, from diseases 'of the nerves y 3 < - nearest the earth, or about 40,000, |about 30,000,000 milés of the earth, Change Effected by Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. y New picture of the exterior of B.C. Mediators will 'assemble this we peg or Sites and Mexico, also the ballroom of the hotel where meetings will likely be held, and the rotunda, here two or three hun-| dred newspaper writers and artists for a week or so. COST MORE THAN PANAMA ox Signalling to Mars or Venus Expen- sive Undertaking Two noted Héfrofiomers have got into a friendly discussion as to whe- {her Mars is inhabited or not and whether the great necessary expense in an effort to communicate with Mars by signals would be justified. Another eminent astronomer says, in substance, that Mars and Venus are surely inhabited by living being of some kind, but that, the atmospheric conditions of Venus being similar to those of the earth, the probability of its being inhabited are greater than those of Mars. Now, with all this giib talk of sig- nalling to Mars no one yet has got down to "brass tacks" with a plan of how to do it, of its cost, a most im- portant item. But any plan attempt- ed, however, its cost would make that'of the Panama Canal look like the traditional "thirty cents," says the Néw York Sun. Owing to the fact that the orbit of the earth is inside that of Mars any signalling that may be attempted to that planet must necessarily be done by electric or other powerful lights, and at the time also that Mars in its passage around its orbit would be 000 miles distant. Unfortunately for the purposes of signalling, at this time the earth is between Mars and the sun, and would be invisible to the Martians; it would .at the same time be broad daylight in Mars, and the inhabitants of that planet must look in the general direction of the sun to see the earth, which, being dark on that side, gives no light and cannot be seen. The "onditions are such that it is quite improbable that the fifost powerful light that ¢ould be produced or even imagined on the earth could compete with sunlight, and be noticed on Mars, even through the powerful telescopes they are sup- posed to possess. It would, there- fore, be impossible for the earth to signal to Mars by any means we now have. In the case of Venus, however, the conditions are somewhat different, her orbit being considerably smaller than that of the earth. In travelling around her orbit, and at the same time of her inferior conjunction with the sun Venus approaches to within but is invisible to us, a8 she is then between the earth and the sun. We could signal to Venus at siich times by means of a largé white spot, and Mars could signal us in the same way, but we could get no answe: from Venus, nor could we answei Mars, it being just as impossible for Venus to signal thé earth as for the -- Mrs. J. E. Berryman, 35 Bay street north, Hamilton, states:--"'1 was so very nervous that frequently I could not sleep at all, and would be so un- easy that I gould not remain in bed, but would have to get up during the night in order to quiet my nerves. 1 also Buffered considerably from faint- ness and dizzy spells, and, though 1 had doctored for some vears, 1 never secmied to get anything-that did me] any real good until I bpgan the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. It worked a great chaurs ip 'B+ condition al- most immediately, and aftér a regu- lar use of this preparation I believe that it has effected a ' permanent cure." : Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 50 cents a box, 6 for $2.50, all dealers, or Bd- manson; Bates & Co., Limited, Tor- WHERE THE PEACE MEDIATORS WILL MEET ifton Niagara Falls, where the will do most of their news gathering earth to signal Mars; any light either one could produce would be over- powered by the sunlight. Conse quently, if we were to attempt to send signals fo Venus we should never know whether they had been received or' not. Figures show that to cover the 1,600 square miles embraced in this spot would use 900,000,000 planes. A plant of 24,000,000 horsepower would be required to handle the planes. An army of about 2,400,000 men would be needed to operate and attend to it. 'The cost of Sonat pip: tion would be about $20,000,000,000, while the wages of the operatives and other expenses would be about $8,- 000,000 a day. We cannot signal Mars at all. can signal Venus, but "is the game worth the candle?" ZURICH'S QUAINT FESTIVAL Welcome to Spring. The Sechselauten, this time-hon- ored and quaint spring festival, which is particularly characteristic of Zurich, has again been celebrated in that city. Sethselauten--six o'clock ringing it is called, for the actual ceremony symbolizing the spring takes place upon the stroke of six. 3 The festival begins in the early morning, when both the national and cantonal flags are hoisted from the towers of' the foundation dates back to the times of Charlemagne. A procession of over 1,000 school children, many of whom national garb, escorts the triumphal with her attendant maidens. Be- hind follows Bogg, a. huge figure, representing winter, made of wood and covered with white cotton wool. The procession winds its way along the river Limmat to the head of the smiling lake, where Bogg is left be- hind on the spacious square. The forenoon festivities close with a ju- venile ball in the Tonhalle. A most interesting parade by the various guilds in ancient costumes takes place in the afternoon. Scenes from Swiss history pass on an elab- orate scale before the spectators' eyes, thus lending an additional charm to the actual spring celebra- tion. Joy reigns supreme; joy that liberty has been bought by the brave ancestors, joy also that the fair sea- son. of §pring has conquered winter. The first stroke of six is the signal for Bogg's execution; the figure is lit and the old man's doom is sealed. Bonfires flare up on many of the sur- rounding mountain hélghts and fire- works are let off from the numerous boats mow gaily circling around on he lovely lake. Winter has passed nd the arrival of spring is celebrat- ed far into the might. = The festivities held this year were combined with the inatiguration of the city's new university building, and on that account began on April 19th. ' Fifteen hundred persons took part in the brilliant which had been 'arranged third and last Soy and v 0 some wotiderful pictures of the his- tory of seience and learning, dating back to the oldest Egyptian period. ~--Exchange. : , Told the Truth, She--You told me I was the Y Hann Jou ever proposed fo. He--True. . Shé--True, is it? Tve heard that to three wo- you've Leen engaged men | : He--All of them were widows, love. They didn't wait for a proposal.-- Exchange. ! only na Henry's Plural _. Henry was reguired to write a outo. FOR FIRST CHOIUR OF Na smAsons xewasr com. | so NOW ON WAND BEST VALUR IN CITY, Ashby the Tailor: 76 Brock St. 'Phone 1513 week to discuss the troubles | Rugs, all sizes, prices $7.00 to $20.00, latest de- signs. Linoleum, the best English quality. Price, 40¢ - to 60¢ a yard. Tapestry and Chenille Lace Curtains, from 50¢ to $4.00 per pair. All kinds of table. linen, Fall line of Men's and and Shoes. 35¢ to $1.25 per yd. Boys' Clothing, Boots Call and get our prices before buying. We | "Sechselauten" Is the Swiss Town's passing of winter and arrival 'of}" Grotsmuster, whose |. are gressed in the picturesque Swiss} float bearing the goddess of spring} ALE -- STOUT ---- LA PURE -- PALATABLE -- NUTRITIOUS -- BEVERAGES * FOR SALE BY WINE anp SPIRIT MERCHANTS EVERYWHERE 118 LOCAL OPTION-+Residents in' the local option districts *}E28 can' legally 'order from 'this 1 -- 3 GERE brewery whatever they require for personal or family use. Write to JOHN LABATT, Luareo, Loxpon, CAnaDA rey . rT ~ A AIA NAIL ATTY SI TET I BIR PUA I TOE, A NL ad SRK NE Better to be Safe Th a Sorfy ME people, when not i feeling well, think--*'I will wait and see; perhaps I shall feel better to- " morrow. 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