Isit nothing ? Is it to be neg- tected until it leads to that terrible scourge consumption? Peps stand hetween winter coughs and colds, aud serious consequences. are tablets made up of extracts and medicinal essences, «+ which when put into the mouth twa into healing vapors. These are breathed down direct to the lungs, throat and bronchial tubes not swallowed down to the stomach, which is not ailing. Try a & box of Feps for your cold. your hb. ba itis or asthma. All druggists and stores of Peps Con, Torouto, will suppty Peps tat Nt att, me (r--T BUILDERS !! Have You Tried GYPSUM WALL PLASTER? It Saves Time P. WALSH. Barrack St. abi ------------ FHERABION 122 reat SUCCESS, CURBS CHRONIC WEAKNESS, DISC TORONTO. WRITE Fe M20. Co, HavERS TOC ARE KEW DRAGES 1TAST THERAPIOI BRIE. GOVE. STAMP A FFLERN Ta LEIS GRAND TR \ SYSTEM Local Branch Time Table. IN EFFECT MAY 30TH, 1915. Trains will leave ard arrive at Clty Depot, foot of Johnston street. * FREE » * EAD, LOND * RaASY SAFE . CURE. » 15 ON .® FNUINE PACKETS TING aPlON Ar 2 No. Neo No. No. Neo: No. WW eo - Sen vw weppp ¥ TEPER B BRPEBG P a ween Plot i. v] No No. No No, No. No 16 2685am. 32 Fast Exp. .. Local to Brockville §-~Mall ......12 Intl. Lad, . 1 2¥lacal to Brockville 65Spm. 7 Nos. 1, 6, 7, 13, 14, 16, 15 19 run dally. other trains daily except Sunday. Direct route to Toronto, Jeterboro, Hamilton, © Buffalo, London, Detroit Chicago, Bay City, Saginaw, Montreal Ottawa, Quebec, Portland, St. John Halifax, Boston andl New York. For full particulars apply J. P. HAM. LY, Railroad and Steamship Agent cor. Johnson and Ontario streets X15 am. 20 pm 0% p.m. 0 care " woe xed oY vrs 8 BEB BBQ - New Afternoon Train ------------------------------ Smoker, Conch / and HuaWet- Library = Observation-Par- jor Car, wih Braller Sec vice, leaves Torvante Union LAR pan Kingsten 540 p mm. vis LAKE ONTARIO SHORE stopping all important Perth, Smith's Falls, aud MNempt- CENTRAL STATION Sparks St, Chatean Laurier OTTAWA Descriptive Folders from F, Con ¥, Clty Ticket office, cor. neess and Welllngton Stn. Phone 1197. THE "YORK™ pom, Lv, Ottawa 1.15 RAS ----m-- REVENUE FROM MOVIES -% PROVINCE 'AND DOMINION PRO FIT BY GREAT NEW INDUSTRY Contribution of Film Business to the Coffers of the Dominion in Duty Alone Amounts to Nearly Eight Thousand Dollars a Week--Fro vinces Also Get Handsome Fees From Licenses. : HAT the motion picture busi ness has become a great in- dustry is well known. But probably few people are aware of the' amount which that business is respeasible for con- tributing to the coffers of the Do" minion, and of the various Pro- vinces--exclusive of the license fees paid by each motion picture theatre and which go to swell the Snances of the Province in which the particular motion picture theatre Is situate, That amount, exclusive of these li- cénse fees, is probably very largely in excess of $10,500 a week or $500,000 in a year. How is this huge total ar- rived at? The largest item is, of course, that in respect of the duty payable on the reels of film that come inte this country--practically all of them from the United States. On every such reel there is a duty payable of $26.50. What are known as the 'feature photo-plays usually consist of four, five, or six reels, and each pays ac- cordingly im duty either $106, $132.50, or $159, as the case may be. The smaller phote-plays usually con- sist of one, two, or three reels, and each pays accordingly $26.50, $53, or $79.50, as the case may be. From en- quiries made by The Toronto Star Weekly it appears probable that, at a low estimate, duty is paid, on an average, on something like 300 films weekly coming junto this country. Thus, with each reel-paying a duty of $26.50 these 300 reels are regpon- sible for the payment between them of the very large sum of $7,950 a week in duty. Nor is the duty on the reels the only duty of which the carrying on of the motion picture business necessi- tates the payment. In addition duty has to be paid on what is called "paper" coming inte this country. This includes photographs and all ad- vertising matter from a half-sheet to a 24-sheet, to use the technical terms. This duty is at the rate of 483% per cent., and, it is said, amounts at least to $450 a week. Then there is the duty payable on the new projecting machines which come into the country. A projecting machine is not a very long-lived thing. And it is stated that probably duty is paid on something like seven of them per week. This duty also is at the rate of 42% per cent. And as each machine costs on the average some $300, the duty on seven a week would be, roughly, around $1,000. So far the amounts payable being all in respect of duties go to the cof- fers of the Dominion Government. In addition, each reel has to be censored in each Province in which it is ex- hibited, and a fee of $1.50 has to be paid to the Provincial censors in re- spect of this work for each reel cen- sored. It is only possible to make the roughest kind of estimate of what the amounts payable as fees for cen- soring amount to. Bu' if it is as- sumed that balf the 300 reels a week which come into this country are censored in two Provinces--say in Ontario and Quebec---the cemnsoring fees for that half would amount to $450 a week. And if it is assumed that the other half of the 300 reels are censored in three Provinces, the censoring feex for that half weuld amount to $675 a week. We thus get a total of $1,125 a week, whieh, in the form of censors' fees, goes to swell the revenues of the various Pro- vincial Governments. The-variors duties and fees which the motion picture industry has to ripay may then be summarized as fol- lows, the amount in each case being the estimated amount per week, and the first three items being payable to the Dominion, and the fourth to, the « Provincial, Governments: D:ty on films Duty on "paper" Duty on projecting machines Censors' fees .... . As there are 52 weeks in the year it follows that for a year these duties and fees amount in the aggregate to no less uw sum thai $547,300. The amount of employment which the motion picture industry furaish in this country is a good deal larger than many people realize. For one thing, it does quite a lot to keep other ar. Winnipeg 3.50: ; Thuredag, and Munday Connecting a De GQ. T. P. train leav! 6. > daily for Regina, Saskatoon, - wonton and intermedinte Timetables and all information Qrand going-- firms that furnish s._ plies, for instance. - Then there are at least 40 film exchanges and branches in the Dominion, and the pay-roll of each of them will be any- thing from $100 to $300 a week. Af regards the motion picture thea- tres the employment which they fur- nish is of considerable magnitude, It would be difficult to estimate the to- tal number of "movie" theatres in the Dominion. But in Toronto alone there are 85 of them. And the weekly payment of these varies-from some- where around $75, in the ease of the . to somewhere around $1. 500, in the case of the largest house. There are well over 1,000 persons employed in the motion picture thea- tres alone in Toronto. Mascot for the "Pats." "Towser," the mascot' of the Prin- ceéss Patricias, who bas seem life in the trenches, arrived in Montreal re- cently. wotnded privates, altho 'tions forbid dogs being Ca Telephone 201 Auto Livery P sage back to ble in The branches of the Mississippi have an aggregate length of 15,000 miles, $ The Connecticut, the orincipal stream' of Néw England; is 450 miles in length. se om about He returned with over 100 | 2 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1915. SHRAPNEL'S GRANDSON, lesterdant 2 Famous Soldier is an Artist in Victpria, B.C. an inexper tf fortv wit need girl meets bald head she looks "upon him as being was the Impression the he day she took her first son from Edward Secrope A. R.C.A., 1578 Clive Drive, ¥, Victoria, B.C., formerly of i taff of Ontario Ladies' College, Whitby A few weeks ago, hearing that my teacher was still in the land of the living, I had a keen desire to meet him once more, seo started out to look for bhim,"" says Belle Dobie in the Canadian Courier. After numerous directions from the man on the tram-car, and several pedestrians as well, I found the artist and his family comfortably housed on Clive Driv>, a very romantic spot, such as an artist would choose. I did not find a man "ninety and feeble," but one just seventy-two and bright as a dallar. Needless to say, the after- noon was spent in college reminis- cence, with reference made to the practical joker of that time, Angie Beaudry, of Quebec, who one day amused the class by painting a sun- flower on the professor's bald head. This ke took much pleasure in re- calling. Strange to say, as I approached the home, I noticed the professer and a photographer busy getting a pie- ture from a large portrait, which was that of his father, Major H. N. 8. Shrapnel, to be reproduced later with that of his grandfather, General Shrapnel, inventor of the shrapnel shell so much in use to-day in .war- fare. These two pictures, with those of the artist, and his son, A. P. Shrap- nel, of the 88th Fusiliers, Victoria, appeared the following Sunday in a Victoria paper, illustrating an article on the "descendants of the deadly shrapnel shell." 1 must not forget to mention that the artist who paint- ed the general's picture was Mul: ready, a well-known portrait painter. After an hour's chat with the artist and his wife tea was served in "old style" manner. Their home is a very hospitable one, so much so, that the visitor is reluctant to leave. Their daughter, Mrs. Davie, wife of the late Dr. Davie, of Victoria, and a son, Mr. A. P. Shrapnel, expects to leave short- iy for the fromt. Mrs. Davie has offered her services as a nurse with the hospital staff then going forward with {its .equipment from British Columbia. Miss Gladys Shrapnel, the youngest member of the family, now in Victoria, was six years in Brussels studying under Caesar Thompson with the violin. She has many friends there, and naturally is anx- fous about them. Mr. E. M. Shrapnel left Whitby twenty-four years ago to live in Vie- toria. He was founder of the Van- couver Art Association. In those days he made weekly trips to Vancouver to teach his pupils. He is known far and wide in Canada, having taught hundreds of boys and. girls to study nature by means of drawing and painting. All those who chance to read this will be more than pleased to hear of their former teacher and friend who still does splendid work for the interior of the Government Buildings, Victoria, B.C., and looks to-day as if he were good for another twenty years, time is so kind to him: This is a family Canada might justly feel proud of--the family of Shrap- nel, the word originating from the name, almost a household one to-day throughout the world. £ Mormon's Sons. The proudest Mormon in Canada is undoubtedly R. Savage, of Glen- wood, in the Mormon colony south of Macleod, in Alberta. This man has no less than three husky sons fight- ing for Britain on sea and land in Europe and Asia. R. G. Is ar under officer of H M.S. Kennet, stationed somewhere near Hong Kong, China. He wrote some time ago that his vessel had had a brush with the Germans, and added, "Don't worry, we'll see the Germans off all right." This is net this sail- or's first experience in maval war- fare. He was in a scrap with the Arabs in the Persian Gulf some years ago. Harold Savage is but 19 years of age, and is stoker on HM.S, Lord Nelson, a battleship cruising the North Sea. The lad (is a member of the Salvation Army, and writes his father: "I'm all right dad; if we are blowa up, I go straight to glory." Edward was a resident of Glen- wood when war was declared, but being a reservist, it didnot take him long to entrain for England, where he joined the col He bad had military experience at Woolwich and Aldershot, and was made, on his re- 'turn, & driver in the Army Service Corps. Robert Savage, the father of the boys, bs been in Canada five years, during which time be has conducted a at Glenwood. - He has been a in all patriotic movements inaugurated the Mormon people in Canada: rs, Savage also resides Dreamed His Fate. The death in the trenches of Bugler Walker, whose parents reside at City View, near Ottawa, is another of the curious episodes of the great war. Bugler Walker was in Edmonton when the war broke out and soon after enlisted for active service and trained at Valcartier and' Salisbury Many times in seeking advice we secure trouble. pd - Idieness is one of the greatest bad Jer Putty, Sir Theens Shaughnessy Never Takes Business Home With Him. "I make it a rule of my life never to take my business cares home with me. The busiest man should be able to do his work in business hours, and have his evenings free for home and family." Thus spoke Sir Thos. Snaugunessy president of the Canadian «Pacific Railway Company, who has been ap yointed Organizer of Munitions in Canada. Ang€ Sir Thomas is a man whose business maxims should hit} and stick, for he knows the secrets; of success. Of humble parentage, he started life in the office of the Mil waukee & St. Paul Line, and steadily rose until he achieved the distinction of becoming president of the Cana: dian Pacific, the largest railway ino the world, at the age of 46. The C. P. the greatest trans portation system in exigténce. It operates on land and sea in America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Besides being the largest landowner in the} world, it owns mines, express com- panies, 70,000 miles of telegraph wires, several huge hotels, mines, lumber works, fleets of steamers, an emigration bureau, and employs something like 70,000 hands, Sir Thomas has been a railway worker -all his life, among his great- est assets being his genial character, his willingness to befriend and help, and his readiness to listen to sug- gestions from subordinates. And has the saving quality of humor. On Qne occasion a train, conveying sev- eral well-known people, was snowed up, and one of the passengers tapped the telegraph wires and sent the fol- lowing message through: "We are snowed up and have only three bhis- cuits and one egg sandwich among 40 people. What do you recom- mend?" In about an hour'the an~ swer came, "Prayer and patiefice.-- Shaughnessy." In a clever character sfudy of Sir Thomas, one who knows him intim- ately has written: "Only a man who is a concentrated extract of high ten- sion power--canned, compressed, and electrified--ecould swing enormous organization. And Sir Thomas is that man. His commands are obeyed by 70,000 men, on the! Jump, too, for Sir Thomas wants things done bing-bang. Just like that. He is quicker than a wireless wave, speaks words that have all the corners cut off, and - knows every- thing/on your mind after you have emitted about a dozen syllables." Sir Thomas was born 62 years ago, and bis sire, to again quote the afore- | mentioned friend, "was a helmeted | copper." And to this son of a police- man the Dominion owes a railway which has made Canada a nation and linked up practically every town in that vast continent with commerce. ON HIGH COURT BENCH. L. T. Marechal, Prominent Montreal Lawyer, Receives Appointment. L. T. Marechal, the 'well known Montreal lawyer and prominent poli- tician of the metropolis, who for the last couple of years has been fre- quently m-ntioned as a candidate for a cabinet position in the Borden Ad- mjnistration, and has now been ten-" dered and has accepted a position on the High Court bench of the Pro- vince of Quebec, is a splendid speak- er, eloquent in both languages, and has been noted for some years as a political campaigper in the Montreal district. He is a man of ideas as well as eloquence and a sound lawyer. He belongs to a noted family of the Montreal district which bas given a vicar general to the Roman Catholic Church of the diocese. Judge Marechal was born at St. Heari, near Montreal, in 1864, and was educated at Montreal Jesuit Col- lege and Laval University. He was called to the Quebec bar in 1899 and made a King's councillor in 1903. He has been very successful in his pro- fessional career in the metropolis, and be has been recognized for a con- | siderable period as one of the lead- ers of the Quebec bar. He is a di- | rector of the Provincial Association | for the Protection of Fish and Game, and be always has been a strong Con- servative of advanced views. He un- | successfully contested St. Mary's di- | vision of Montreal for the House of Commons at the general election of | 1904 cid the same seat at the general | election of 1908, each time putting present day, and his retirement from public life by taking a seat on the Superior Court bench has. been re- gretted by many of his admirers who hoped that he would yet take a posi- tion in the Borden Cabinet and be- come ane of the Quebec French poli- leaders. The average man géts, angry ev- ery time he is in the " wrong and knows it. I The man with a diploma may slso may be & rank failure. sue an Pay when you purchale iz 3 good 'business principle, he Sin 5 SEED CENTRES. § Movement in Aid of Canadian Farm- ers a Great Success. During the past tem years special :fforts have been put forth 'through: out Canada to increase the produc: tion and to facilitate the distribu! tion of high class seed of our ordin: ary farm crops. To: this end the Canadian Seed Growerd' Association was organized in 1904, . with head: quarters a' Ottawa. Until récently the membership of this association was made up of individual farufers, each of whom was required to oper- ate what is known as a "Hand- selected seed plot" each year, and to select from this plot twenty-five to thirty pounds of typical beads, pods, ears, or tubers, as the case might be, and with the cleaned seed obtained to sow a similar plpt the following year. After several years' experience, it was found that the number of farm- ers whe would take this'care in improving and maiftaining the purity of their seed stocks was com- paratively small, with the result that the amount of seed originating from these spécial selections was much below the démand. In order to in: crease this supply the Seed Centre idea was launched in 1913. By this system suitable districts are located for the production of a, given kind of seed, and a number of farmers are then encouraged to adopt certain variety and to grow it according 'tg a prescribed system, so that their product may be offi cially recognized as "registered seed." Instead of each of these men having to operate a seed plot, they choose one of their number to do this, agreeing to pay him a certain price for a small supply of so-called "Elite Stock Seed" for multiplica- tion next spring. This means that with {" 3 exception of the special selector, are simply propagators of high class seed grown under special supervision, their work being in- spected each year during the grow- ing season and the seed they are offering for sale examined later, No regular centres have as yet been organized in Manitoba and Saskat- chewan., By way of explanation it may be pointed out that in these pro- vinces the need for centres is not quite so great as in the East since grain growing is conducted in the West on such a scale that it is pos- sible for an individual farmer to pro- duce several carloads of seed. In the East on the other hand the surplus grain produced is relatively small. The results to date on the whole are most encouraging, and those closely associated with- the wmove- ment look forward to seeing the whole seed question revolutionized. By moans of this system buyers will be able to purchase in carload lots and directly from growers if. they so desirg. This should make it pos- sible for cvery farmer who has to buy seed to obtain seed of a. known variety which is true te . name, of high vitality, and free from weed seeds. To seed of this class the term "registered seed" has been ap- plied, - and farmers are gradually coming to understand that this class of seed is mot beyond their reach.-- L. H. Newman, in Agricultural Ga- sette. these growers, A Montreal Brigadier. From private in the 3rd Victoria Rifles of Montreal to Brigadier-Gen- eral of the Canadian Army and OMi- cer Commanding the 4th Military Divisicn, with headquarters at Mont- real, is a long, long way. that is the career of E. W. Wilson, who Joined the Victoria Rifles on the 27th of January, 1882, as a recruit, and who was promoted Brigadier-General by Sir Samuel Hughes on October 14 last. The promotion was not unex- pected for since October, 1914, the officer has beem in charge at Mont- real with the rank of Colonel. Whea E. W. Wilson joined the Vie- toria Rifles thirty-three years ago it was with a love for military work, and an ambition to become more than a private. He won his sergeant's Stripes and then his commission in the regiment where he had been a member of the recruit class. Through every grade in the regiment he rose until be retired in 1903 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel: Three years later he was in command of the Ca adian Bisley team---the year marksmen brought home the Kola- His rank as Colonel he be the hub around which the commerce {of the ns ity 0 to build oe a © --Iland | in ull Directions EE ny that is nothing less than a Joun otean, with another-that Tan Rei. Men--here's real shaving relief! ERE'S a way to end "razor pull," sting" and all Use this new and entire- ly different Shaving Cream. It results in a Quicker, cooler, easier shave with no bite and sting attached. "after ther shaving nuisances. You can prove this by this novel test. 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