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Talk of momentum grades, Chis nameless road can boast of the great- est momentum, oytside of an incline railway or Swiss Funigulaire If it were in any placeth@t such a thing could be, one would suppose that this was a disused spur, but what busi- ness could any civilized, well - econ+ ducted spur e had on the face of a sand cliff and what could. the Watery plunge at the hottom suggest but insanity and suicide Up stream there is nothing but the forest, and the wild things, which make it their home, bave no dealings with freight ¢hipments, spur tracks, or ifdustrial sidings Bay and the open waters of Lake Superior, in short, the whole proposi- tion appears freakish, if not futile. Nor would the visitor's curiosity 8TOW Jess if he came, as 1 did, in the search for an Indian burial mound of reputed antiquity, upon a trailgwind- ing ite way through the woods back of Camp Alexander, the first portage; a trail of tiés half hidden in brambles and waving grass, but still in fair condition and laid for the same obso lete type of narrow gauge the Water shute 12 miles lower down hades of Harriman what | the eaning of this defunet line appai ently starting from nowhere and for The same place?' savs in Toronto Saturday Night The explanation imple While the Nipigon Forest Serve is pene trated. to-day by the continental line the Canadian Northern | in addition to which the rive at a 0-DAY y sO Lo men HOW called would a bound wriier a of *Svysfen oro the point [oF | v land Ww broadens out 3 A | locked arm of Lake iNT. J touches lake Nipigot fr railway to | f was heart "of sting re eal pi which turesque and flourished world erpetia A bore o 1 1 Cu il wi ceded and nemory ted b ands of grown | Desy Lom or adverti Wa for erved as an important of communication for the can' struction armies of both the ( | lanNorthern Railway aud the | These lines, runuing from north, and or west of ing centres, fel wore rapid me hod of [or magtemal and supphgs the { wilderness could afford, Md so the '{pigon Construction Company came Hito being Building a forty-mile railroad does "not uppéar to be, much of a stunt. but the company's undertaking more ambitious than would appear on the rface. In the first place, it sa drop if. 240 feet from Lake Nipigon Like Superior -which mean xe frorthiboind grade of more than I foot ™ a thousand, with: maxi teep iy you please Having HrErovered (HAY THE 6h Tacation {suitable for® their purpose involved a combined rail and water route, the second difficulty presented itself in the method of reaching the Jiver, as hille rise sharply from the water's edge and the formation is generally !the most solid variety of rock Hav ing got over this by the t cut, a final obstacle was presented by the | river itself Nipigon®s really a chain of lakes, varying in length from three to eight miles, situated on gradually { descending levels whieh are connect {ed by turbulent streams that force their aggressive way frougs walls of [ rock with fi. resulting swiftwess of urrent to which reference | ready been made © | Finally, however® in the these and other difficulties i the builders never | which: will now [ known, this first vthe hear! of the pleted, and direct Areer One { ness { line danad N. TR 40 to hundreds of miles nedresi rib the sofk need of {ransporiation | han wa an avers mum as herte has™ al face of" of which complained and certainty never be railroad through Nipigon was com service to the head of the Nipigon lake hy water and frail for a distance of over 100 miles | through the virgin forest was placed {tn regular operation | abi § ®till speak with remin | Operating x few turn of the hel relish « the riment ased to take ope the trucks in info how axles se Let the water and the waiting Hirip- being pade tod more A, by | the aid of sturdy donkey engl We can fancy HES crawling acrass' the treacherous déptbs of Lake Helen with the sunlight blazing on the rug ged. gréen-clad the quaint Indian mission nestling beneath their heights We ca he exchanged wiih 1h rain of clumsy laden trucks jests exchanged breeds and the, of some CNTR the river wings He speed Lhe hills and jests the perched hear too the the half- communi camp as SCOWE On We It wee are polvglot ons®udion { wtuous radows of the ed "at Vamp «© slid onto the walter with the marshy m * Key trucks Indian Reserve Alexander the the rails wi from an emigar level of the 4 fure irain gilenre or suni by 'an important motive. $ delus-on the ctane® A Jot 'of people" hug the that they are brave unt comes to prove it There must be something WwWeong e ewhere whe he somewhere when th ght latch faile i Duttankc a . a 5 to fumble te Down stream are Nipigon! 100° to® | ha way! ALAND CANAL. The | Great | The fakes, Onty €minized veiy quietly for many weeks past 1 lor that matter Peninsula [here ~Will continue ance of giles, concrete : ---- | FOURTH WE Public' Is Forgetting Progress of Work. of the tw is being sol week n the fu Niggura National fourtl: wedding 0 and Erie, this and in the is, 1 0 Iie a= been, large attend donkey en stone crushers to be a shov mixers Eiegm Pessonages, no immediate of the bride, en Erie, or the groom Lake Ontario €Xceplion of half a dozen Low lying frazen in the some of the excavatiops, third, second, and first canals, which look on, as ii were, from a distance, as the ceremony goes on, There are no flowers and fio wedding presents. The bride's cake consists of a stone pile a mile or two long and one layer deep. 1 there were another Igyer. the sky would have to be moved. It is un 'derstood that the parents of the vic tims are spending over fifty million dgljars on the business, shifting six million cubic yards of rock and forty million cubic yards of earth. Thei present to the bride was 2,200,000 yards of best concrete, Pana- ma papers please copy. While Canadians are reading wa: news thé new Welland Canal is push ling rapidly toward completion or | the nine sectioms into which the | twepty-five-mile long job is divided, the four most important and expen sive.are well under way. These are sections one (they number from the . Lake Ontario end), two, tiree, and five." These rections include the new | harbour at the Lake "Ontario end, | and the locks and other heavy pieces of work" The other sections havs not yet been let out to fhe con tractors They: consist chiefly in deepening and widening the present cabal, Section ane, consisting of the Lake Ontario entrance ang lock No !, is well under way The piers of the harbor, formed of the excava from other parts of the work already well advanced when three I wide And a The bottom of and _ the | tion are finished un and will extend for a + mile hall out Lake On tario lock are alreily beginning to loom up in the local landscape I'he wall Which is already- a towering mass has still to have thirty-five feel adq ed fo it Fhe upper and low er entrance of the ] ising rapid | confusion and feet nto No. 1 wall west height walls and the | northern | an, work Hy tak®n out half m h which h; excavation now wav under Axe 1 aval Tilt about VRE Hion cubic ve to | emoved I < section Ihis earth is heiy nkments uot a along to n section Vent 1 little ha ite of lo k hree most heen done or Section ng be-done probably the one actual labour to be On the otber hand, it is the the t respect reqii least of sections in fo distance covered In this 700.400 'cub ard rock bave be and Ho000 Yards of earth. Thi mmedieie task in hand, and although great ex cavations already. appear have been made, they are ditche as compared mains fo be done section of to removed i 8 is the to really what only with re Nickel in Big Demand. Nickel was_a 1915. It supplied an eme gent fac tor to the British Empire. and its allies, the preparedness of its Ontario producers being the greatest (ribute Lo the efficiency of those directing the industry. Whatever gentiment there may be in favor of closer control of the pickel mines, it is conceded that there was no divided loyalty among those Who left nothing undone to as sist the Allies and who refrained from making "war price for. the metal Without Canada nickel under British and friendly American con trol--armaments would be very much less effective, and the central. Eu- ropean afmies migh{ have ovetrun more of France. It was the nivkel of Ontario--apaured aut. in unpreecedent ed quantities to eyery arsenal in the United Kingdom, France! Russia and latterly to Italy--and to any and preciou metal in ,. all of the great steel and armor plate works of Canada, the United States and Japan, which rendered less pot { ent the prearrangements of a | sourceful enemy But for obvioii | reasons the story how | schemes for obtaining nickel 'frustrated and how | were supplied cannot | lated re of werd filly be re Live Stock Trade Prospegs. | ock producers has vear. Warld event established Canadian live d.8 prosperoirs | have tions between disturbed time rela and read supply {and the balanfe ha 1sted itself definitely in favor {The problem of distribution ed the and enterpr the Canadian producer, has been Hf this , country that has of in tried patience andi Thege | | | { and | and about two thousand five hundred | Ravvies, all friends of the offic ating ! relatives | being present with the | puddles, | Welland | | | bary & Lesrons "n .-. m Prepared Especially For This N ewspaper by. Pictorial Peview Youthful In Effect Ny, racetical Home Dress Making] and Very Graceful. 1 is the unusual won frock of simple or strong a he newest fash Deal peal this design of re f contrasting trininiing The neck ma ° be finishad in hifhlor low pound eff busi. Pr THOMAS LEOPOLD WILLSON Canadian Was the brer-of Cheap Acetylene Gas. Phe degth of Mr. Willson somewhat wotimely mit fMoves of eininent Cana dian Scientists from the arena of re and discovery He Princeton. Ontario, and was edu- cated at the Hamilton Collegiate In- Scientist at the of fifty-five one our, ren al stitute, where he displayéd the bias | toward original research that became strongly developed throughout an ac- tive life. His most interesting dig- covery was a method of producing acetylene gas both cheaply and abun- dantly, and of utilizing .it for illum- inating purposes. This discovery was in some measure accidental, bul only a trained scientific intelligence could | have discerned the practical import | analytically produced the | used in comjunction ance of the outcome of an accidental combinatfdn of circumstances. Acetylene sgas had been known as a laboratory product long before Mr. Willsons" discovery, mit when it was compound with water--- , Potassium carbide or sodium carbide | Germany | the allied ~need:r | demand | some measure solved, Two vears ago! the Wilson tariff bill gave free acees for Canada's live stock Pito the great comsuming markets of the sduth, and | now the needy and France asumbers 6 tieg of tlie of 'un added. > and huge Le (Te oun Farge n during ox | ports have the outstanding new { feature of the 'trade'in 1915 The live stock ingustry through a 'critical peniod ducer has had a tas: great export possibilit ft of tr { rn | | 1 | veal Over 8 passing he pro eof the Jusi I tin Canadian produce; oxtend h produ ion to eased Deeds or to. x thu ow fal the to dimin acs for salon of arkets, to Globe. ee cot w------ ' and oul ofyhe sen worid'g m 3 # Usually the man with the chip op his shoulder is nothing morg or less than a big hlufler. A lot of times the bone of conten tien has not suough meat on it to He worsh fighting for quanti Britain ¢ | 1 -was too limited in quantity to en- able the gas to be generated in suf- cient abundance for common use. While using an electric furnace fuse-carbon and calcium for some other purpose altogether Mr," Will- son was disappljnted with the result, which proved to be mot what he ex- pected. He threw the hot fused mass into cold water to coql it, and noticed that gas with the familiar garlic odor of acetyleme began. to pass off the air. This was the necessary hint to the trained thinker and practised experimenter. He discovered that the calcium and carbon separated in con tact with water, and that the carbon of the carbide united with the"hvdro gen of the water 10 f while the calcium of th orm acetviens, © carbide unit- ~ BRAND COFFEE Recognized in all professions and walks of life, as the leading coffee in the best grocery stores of Canada. 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Trugler of the Third brigade, Field artillery dian f6Tces, who is in New York "got too" close to a big German shell in the battle of V lamartinge in Belgium Just before the battle of Ypres, and forgot everything in his life before « JFrusler, who i% from says all he remembers of his twenty - England, and wanted to know why he wasn't-at, the front what his name was, nor where he came from. He was told that he had been entered on the hospital lists as Private Howard Thusler; and it was by 'that name that he went back to the front and" joined another Cana dian artillery company, only to have his left leg shattered by a shell and be sent back to an English hospital When convalescent he was sent back to Montreal, where his papers shpwed | he came from. 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I couMn"t remember ever having seen her,' said Trusler, 'but wrote some of 'the letfers she receiv if I] ed from places I had been, 1 guess | 1 wa¥ all right as a lover." * Canada's Mbestos Tre, Closing of German and Aus trian markeis aud abnormal sea freights adversely affected the inter- Ger many and" Austria could not obtain Russian asbestos. 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