IT HAS WORKED WONDERS EOR | QUEBEC (HEESEMEN. Society Was: Formed About Five Years Ago Béeause of the Poor Quality of Pairy Produce Market- ed in Quebec--Two Hundred Fac- tories Now Sell Under Auspices of the Society. OME five years ago thirty men formed themselves into the Quebee Cheese Makers" Agri .cultural Co-operative Society, "each taking up ong teti-dollar share=--one dollar paid up. The rea-| son given by Mr, A. Trudel, the man-| ager of thie society, for its formation | was the poor quality of cheese made and marketed in Quebec; to put the situation in his own words, "the best cheese paid for the poor cheese." The work of the soclety was to improve| the quality, and By doing this estab-| lish a market for the product that would enable them to pay the farm- ers more for their milk, says The Family Herald and Weekly Star. From: the small membership of thirty the society has grown until to-day it is handling the output of over two hundred. cheese factories and about gne hundred and twenty- | five butter factories. The member-| ship has grown to sixteen hundred, each holding a tem-dollar share. This year it increased its reserve fund by over $10,000, and for the past two -years in addition to paying operat- ing 'expenses, has paid a 6 per cent. dividend. As each factory averages about thirty-five farmer patrons, the: society practically controls the out- put of 11,375 farmers. All butter and cheese received at the headquarters of the society in Montreal is carefully graded by men supplied by the . Provincial Govern- ment, though this is the only help | received from the Government. The society is entirely self-sustaining. | Weekly or semi-weekly sales are held by the manager in Mohtreal, where the society has storage capa- city for 10,000 boxes cheese and 6,000 butter. No products are ex- ported by the society directly, all be- ing sold at public auction. The amount of cheese and butter handled | last year was 83,612 boxes of white cheese, and 14,519 of colored. cheese, which sold for $1,126,223.32; and 39,678 boxes of butter worth $569,- 933.79. | In addition to butter and cheese, | eges Lo the value of $3,335.92 and] poultry worth $3,087.34 were sold by | the society, the eggs and poultry comiftg from twenty poultry societies Scattered throughout the province, Shut are affiliated with the larger: cheesemakers' organization. According to the officers of the so- ciety 'the cheesemakers of Quebet are still suffering for the shortcomings! of the cheese marketed many years! ago. 'Quebec cheese is not favorably | received on the English markets, | even though of late years the qual- | ity has improved. Over there the | cheese is graded according to the to-! cality in Canada from which it comes, | usually as Ontario Eastern Townships | and Quebec. As a result the cheese made in the latter province suffers in price, and though the guality is often | the equal and sometimes the superior of the Townships and Ontario cheese, the p¥ice it commands does not im- prove, It may be that the cheese gift of the provines will help to con-| vince the "Old Country" buyers of the standard of quality now reached | by. Quebec cheesemakers. The following extract from the 1914 annual report of the Society is | evidénde of the improvement wrought by the work of the society: "You will notice that the prices realized this year for butter-and No. | 1 cheese are higher than the prices | paid on the markets of Cowansville, Que., and Brockville, Ont. Before "ythis Co-operative Society came into the prices - realized on these markets were from half to! three-quartér cents higher than those of the average Quebec market. | The prices paid by this Co-operative | Society would be still higher than | they are if the quantity of the pro- | ®ucts received was iarger. This | would be very easy if the society could count on the encouragement of a larger. number of farmers and! makers of butter and cheese." ! The average society prices from May to November for cheese were: white No. 1, 13.76 cents; No. 2, 13.61; No. 3, 13.47; colored, No. 1, 13.83, and No, 2, 13.55. The average price at Brockville, Ont., being 13.65. | Considering the poor opinion held | of Quebec chpese when exported it | Seems. strange that the dealers in| Montreal are willing to pay more for | it at public suction, It is learned | on enquiry, however, that it is not a | difficult matter to take off the "Que- | bec" printed. on the boxes and sub- | stitute "Brockville" or "Ontario," Now that the Co-operative Cheese- makers' Society has made consider able progress in the guantity of produce handled 'and alse In . the quaility, it faces the proposition of finding some means of overcoming the handicap experienced on export markets. The cheese made in Que- bec compares favorably with the best made in Canada, yet the buyers still adhere to the system of practi cally grading by province. There seem to be two methods of overcoming this, the first an active advertising canibaign in favor of Quebec cheese, by establishing agents in Great Britain, and the se- cond, a revising of the cheese grades. As they stand the three grades for white dud colored cheese are all right,' but the name on the box creates the difficulty for the makers in Quebec. Im this case it 'would Seem that there is "4 lot in name" as far as the buyers abroad are cone cerned, though dealers iy this colt try are apparently of opinion, that "the cheest smells and tastes as well," even though the name be changed, Indignant Customer..Barber, why did you drop.that towel on my face? . Barber-- { of this big co 'pute as to jurisdiction. | important Strain their = A BUSY INVENTOR. « Willson, the "Carbide King," Has Entered Codfish Industry. T. L. Willson, the carbide king returned from Newfoundland, where ke Bas just organized a $20,000,000 company which proposes to a fertilizer plant in western N foundiand and Labrador. This well- Known Ottawan with the very busy brain, continually thinking out great progressive ideas, bas for a long time been working on this important pro- ject, which will do more for.agricul- tural progress than perhaps any dis- covery of recent years. He is head ner which has se ed large and import- ant concessions from the Government of the Codfish colony and whieh will be the means of utilizing great quan- tities of water' power and involve the expenditure of a large amount of capital in that country. The lind and water powers grant €d by a recent measure of the Legis- lature of Newfoundland are very con- siderable in extent and will involve a survey of portions of the country, especially in Labrador, over which there may be some considerable dis- i The matter recently excited some ynusual discus- sion in the Newfoundland Legisla- ture, The head of this big new corpora- tion, Thomas Leopold Willson, of Ot- has {tawa, is one of the best-known eiti- zens of the capital and a famous electrical engineer. He is the dis- coverer of dcetylene gas for commer- cial purposes, the inventor of the Willson acetylene gas buoy and gas beacon, the promoter of the Ottawa Carbide Company and the Acetylene Construction Company, &nd he was organizer and president of the Inter- national Marine Signal Company and other big corporations. Toronto University recognized his ability and the importance of bid dis- coveries by awarding in 190% Mr. Willson the first McCharles prize for scientific discoveries. He is a son of the late Thomas Willson, of Wood- stock, and grandson of Hon. John Willson, formerly speaker of the Upper Canada-Assembly, and he was born at Princeton, Ont., in 1860. He was educated at Hamilton Collegiate Institute, and after Jeaving school immediately interested himself in | electrical and chemical questions. He first constructed an are light appara- tus in 1880 and gave Hamilton {js first arc light display. He has been successively inspector of construction for the Fuller Electric Company, and later for the Remington Gun Com- pany and - Messrs. Seward and More- head, of New York. Since coming to Ottawa he has de- | voted his energies to promoting the various corporations with which he is identified dnd in making a number of chemical and electrical discoveries. He is a member of the leading Ottawa clubs and has recent- ly erected a large private experimen- tal laboratory at Meach lake that is | | said to be one of the finest ofits kind on the efitinent. Not Unmixed Disaster. . While the damige to the Omtario grain crop through the recent storms Will be heavy, it will not bé nearly 80 great as was at first surmised. It is probable that forty per cent. of the cut grain was already in the barns. Much of the balance is infer- for in quality, but will not by any means be a 'total loss. The Ontatio farmer does not put all his eggs into one bakket, and a storm which would bankrupt the graingrowers of the West would only put a crimp into a | portion of the Ontario farmers' pros- pects, Right along the * Department 'of | Agriculture has been urging farmers to devote more attention to the rals- ing of cattle, and there is no doubt | that the recent storms, by redu grain to such shape that it can only be used for cattle feeding, will give a decided Impetus to that branch of farm activities in the province. With the present excellent market for meat this Jetslopment may have a very important effect upon the char- acter of Ontario farming generally.: Russians Are the Best. The medical officers who are exam- ining recruits for the Canadian expe- ditionary force say that a much smaller proportion of Russians fail to pass the medical test the native Canadians or Britain, In fact, it that a Russian cannot Their teeth, as a F | will not be forgiven, or lish-speaking Tecruits or Canadians: This is 'probably due the fact that the Fo e work in the 'open air and do not | eyes to the extent that | those Norking In offfoss do. Mam of the Eng! I listed have worked, to Some arent at least, indoors. : 1 1a iE bard ¥ ¥ Hl Because it was hot, sir, ial organization, } Fy THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1015. DRUGS AND POISONS. Popular Delusion.of the Safety of the "Purely Vegetable i "Of all popular delusions as to drugs | and chemical compounds," said a prom- nent chemist, "Perhaps the most harm- ful is that concerning medicines that "are 'purely vegetable' There seems to be almost a universal impression - . - MINTREAL'S QUFER CLUB. The Cosmopaliian is Unknowh to the Public, but is an Active Body. Unlisted among the many social, sporting or professional clubs of Montreal is_the "Cosmopolitan --at least, not the real cosmopolitan club. There may be others that hear that name, but they are not the real thing. Their similarity is in name among even the educated classes that | nly. such medicines as are en- tirely of vegetable ids are on that account harmless, while on" the other hand any mineral compound is of necessity poisonous, "Now, as a matter of fact, not only has the question of whether a medi: cite is vegetable or mineral not the | slightest relation to its. poisonous or nonpoisonous qualitiés, but in practical medicine it would seem that most of the common polsons are vegetable. Look at the polsons most commonly known and note their composition. Take strychnine, aconite, opitm, alco hol, digitalis, hyoscine and cocaine. Every single one of these is 'purely vegetable,' yet most of the deaths by chronic poisoning come from one of these. The most powerful poison | known, 'ricine Kobert. one five-thou- | sandth ofa grain of which will ill a | grown man, is made entirely from the | castor oil bean. "On the other hand, many minerals, so far from being poisonous, are not only harmless, but soothing. Bismuth, & pure miveral, Is given in quite large Quantities even to small babies for the purpose of allaying inflammation, while iron is one. of the most common tonics, - "Soda Is not only one of the most Gniversal and barmless of minerals, but it is also largely used in our foods. Balt is a pure mineral, yet it is not only necessary to life, but one of the greatest cleansers and preservatives known. Without it bacon and ham would be impossible and the luscious di}i pickle unknown, 'Of course, there are minerals that are highly poisonous, such as mercury, arsenic and' potassium in certain com- | bivations, but they are neither more | deallly nor mre numerous than the | vegetable poisons. This also may be | said in favor of the mineral poison. It ! Is considered by many physicians that"| its action 1s much more certain than | ifs vegetable brother; rather, vegetable | poisons are much more uncertain in | their action upon the human system. | Hence death by oyerdose is more likely | to occur from a vegetable than a min- | eral poison when taken medicinally. ! "Just how the public ever got the delusion that the 'purely vegetable' was a badge of harmlessness I do not | | know, but the fact remains that such | {Is the common Delief."--Washington | Star. ; | They Used Charles Lamb. i Franking privileges in England were | greatly abused in days gone by. The | | government employee's friands shared ! {In bis opportunities. In a letter writ- | ten by Wordsworth in 1815. the poet | 'said: "By means of a friend in Lon- | Gon I can bave my Jetters free. His | bame is Lamb, and if you will add an | 'e' to his name he will not open the | letters. Direct as below without any- | thing further, 'Mr. Lambe, India | bouse, London." Coleridge, too, saw | that a postage saved was & postage | gained and made use of the-Mr. Lamb | of the India house.--~Charies Lamb. Art and Nature. Art is the revelation of man, and not merely that, but likewise the revela- tion of nature, speaking through Art pre-exists in nature, and nature is reproduced in art. AS vapors from the Ocean, floating landward and Qissolved In rain, are carried back tn rivers to the ocean, so thoughts and the sem- blantes of things that fall upon Soul of man in showers flow out again } In living streams of art and lose them- | A Roumanian Custom. A strange custom 1s still observed Roumania. When a servant has dis- | ant is told to place them on | which 'Shows that he is forgiv No home can be and troest y in its best # | Farmer's Club. | themselves on | These might be eligible for some | clubs but nob. for this one. | real and only cosmopolitan is a rail | er. I | freights across the continents. They | velop from its infantile days to the | block would do him no harm; in Fact | it might be better for all pgrties. { cial document. i The | of 105,700 men enlisted In the Do-| | minion, although the total has now bden considera : bly increased. *", The figures are as follows: Ontario, Maritime Provinces with a population of 937,955 recruited 7,400 There is only one Cosmopolitan Club in Montreal. No gold laced doorman or other flunkies™-arrayed in a vain attempt to outdo Solomon- in-all-his-glory guard the portals. There are no millionaire's luxurious limousines standing patiently at the door. The various impedimenta of the rich, the near rich, or the would- be rich are *trangely missing." That is because this Cosmopolitan Club is a genuine Cosmopolitan gathering place. Out in the country there is the It meets in the vil- lage store or the blacksmith's shop i to discuss all that goes or does not iranspire in the locality. It is the clearing house Tor all 'goFsip-- local or otherwise. It is always a wonderful success. The Cosmopolitan Club meets daily in the waiting room of the Windsor Btation. Its members are not the thousands who crowd that great pile as they hurry hither and thither across the continent or the curious | peoples from over the seas who come to Canada to make a new home for the vast prairies. For the way man--a time-expired man gvho | has served his country and bis tom- pany foy years on the rail. The Windsor's cosmopolitan club {1 made upsof men who have lived | long years on the rails. They have driven fast expresses and fired slow | have been through the whole round | of accidents that come to a railroad- They have watched the line de- present great status. They are as proud of the company, its lines, its stock, and business as if it was their own. So they sit in the Windsor daily and recall their days, make their re- cord guns daily or more often, swap their "best stories collected in long years in service and relive the glor- fous days when the steel raced them as they sped oh miles and miles to prairie stations, They sit and smoke in the morns ing, the first thing the real cosmo- politan does is read his paper in the waiting room. Then he adjourns to the smoking quarters and while away another hour or so with thé fragrant weed. Then back to the waiting-room hé wanders, for the seats are more cdmfortable there. It may be that when noon comes he eats at the restaurant counter just as he has done thousands of times when out on the line and as his train lay in the statién. It is a poor glimpse of the old life, but he likes it. He was a railway man once; he will never be anything else. Some of thise men, as an oficial remarked, "almost own the road." A story just here will illustrate the point. One Cosmo had stayed around the station so much and so long that some of the C. P. R. officials began to fear he gight claim the place by right of possession if he remained longer. So it was 'suggested to him "tourteously that a walk around the He was furious. To think he had given yéars t~ the railway and then to be ordered to get out, etc. But he went. He was back the next morn- ing bright and early snugly ensconsed in his old place. walk was advised. "I'll not go," he shouted. "You can't make a shareholder in C. P. R. get out. see?" and he flo It was true. The day be had been ejected he Bad purchased with part Of his savings twenty shares of C. P. R. stock and secured forever his seat inthe Club. Alberta Leads in Recruits. Bri estimate is based upon a total with a population of 2,633,274, ro- cruited 36,300, or 1.44 per cent. of population. on of 2- Quebec, with 4 D 003,282, recruited 13,800 or 0.61 per The M or 0.79 : aA ma \ planiths Tod sedate, with 24,000, or & Percentage of 2.18. : + SEAR 3, ST: 255 om .. with population 2 of 374- & with a ! 6853, reeriltod 1% 00, or 3.73 per ability. -to the homeless. to the real salesman, | am bo | have seven-league boots, and | stride over Kingston and Eastern Ontario in a single day. I take messages to 5,000 homes in a few hours' Lam humble, but all-powerful. 1 am diminutive in size, but a giant in 1 bring joy to the workingman, | bring jobs jobless, hope to the hopeless, homes to I send roomers to the landlady, customers estate agent, buyers to buyertand seller. | have but one price for my services, and | . am) continually at your bidding. I Am The Whig "Want Ad." » druggists pr es ret Cd i ipigarion of oh Tet Ae Binding co" Yoronr e struggling Special Sale of Running Outing Shoes KINGSTON CEMENT tles, brick Flower Vases, Tile, Cap We also make Cement Grave Vaults, Estimates ;iven for all kinds of Cement Work, Office and Factory Cor. of CHARLES AND PATRICK. Phone 730. p-er Blocks. MGR. H. F. NORMAN, Blue, low: reg. Me ....:iivaiisiiiiniss Blue, high; red $1.25. ...co... viii 88 Princess Street, Kingston. Housewives who have always used bitter iii the mak. ing of "special" cakes and othér cookery, often have doubts about using Crisco in its place. They feel that there can be nothing so rich and wholesome as butter. And that is true of practically every other cooking fat, SR Sor By % §pnad 130 : . Ris asyito make a yourself to show that Crisco as € ¥ PN White, low; regh $1.25 .................For $1.00 1 White, high; reg. $1.50 ..........::... For $1.25 These are fine when you are on the boat or out Trealgold "Sporting Goods Co.