PAGE TEN DEAF PEOPLE snfness and noises In the head can my hearing, years' denfuces, completely cured more than twenty "ot| the Western o 8 ter af 4 Address "Orle ne" Watling Street, Please. m Dare Tord, Kent, nnn ms Fo and Builder W. R. BILLENNESS Specializing Si re Fronts and Fit. tings. Hemodelllng Bulidings of all -~ kinds, ESTIMATES 1: EXPERIENCE Address 272 University Ave. PPPLAAAAAAPAPPPANIAIA VV YY WW CATARRH 3 (ANITA CAPSULES T. Richards, | Eng. | We have Just received our new goods for your Christmas Cake and Pudding, New Peel, New Currants, New Almonds, Choice Oranges and Grapes, Mixed Candies and Chocolates and Nuts. New Raisins, New Walnuts. E. H. BAKER Cor Montreal and Charles Sts, Phone 1263, "Ranks with the Strongest' HUDSON BAY Insurance Company FIRE INSURANCE nesa Ofmce, Roval JPaurance Bldg PEBRCY*]. QUINN, Manager, Ontario Branch, Toronto W. H. GODWIN & SONS AGENTS, KINGSTON, ONT. s FARMS FOR SALE Neart the city, at low W.H. Godwin & ¢ Son 39 Brock Street Phone 424 FRESH LAKE ON- TARIO _ WHITE. FISH AND TROUT All Kinds of Fresh Fish. Dominion Fish Co. ph Fifty wodden steamers of a uni- form size of twenty-five hundred tons will be added to the ocean-going tonnage of Canada within the next twelve months, The first of them witl be launched this fall and on the others good progress is reported. The ships are those which are' be- ing built for the British Governmeént ----. ough the agency of the Imperial abu ious Board, About thirty are in yards on the Pacific coast, and the others at Atlantic or lake ports, From five to nine months is tie time required for completion, Simultan- consly with ships of steel construc dion the various ship building plants are stocked with orders to their full capacity for the coming year, ROYAL YEAST CAKES . Some" women * hold to the idea that bread-maks ing is a long and difficult operation, but this is a mistake, for with Royal Yeast Cakes, light, sweet bread can be made in a few hours. with but little trouble. ~EREE: Our new Roval Yeast Bake Book Ea CE tea SE pr will be mailed = : THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY; DECEMBER 27, 1917. "a We: estern Anniversary aa 3 i z 80 scvenly-n Sieur de and 1¥ the ne at "ha ! vid 11 fhe Fi " his voyageurs paddis dup river and landed at the jamith of the ta tread = report | Assiniboine, first white man prairies Int the Marquis de Beaub or of New France, La Verendrve [ went -to the fork of the $ liboiles (Ascinibsine) on the 1 24th, where I found ten Cree huts { and two war chiefs who expected me, with a quantity of meat, having been | notified that I. was coming. They begged me to agree to remain, to have the pleasure of seeing us and of giving us something to eat, | agreed, being happy to speak them.' La Verend fork' two 5 journey west, one of his to ye remained at 'the before continuing his but left with the Crees men whom they-had -irged to stay. He describes the Assiniboine as flowing from west, 'winding about greatly, wide, with a strong currentoand many sand hars It is lined with finé woods on the banks, and the prairies extend beyond sight, through whose extent are many cat- tle and deer. I chose to go by land, following the prairie; with the use- less people in the.cannes.' He tra- velled across country to avoid the in- creasing distance 'involved by the windings of the river, but he follow- ed its general direction. And when he came to the | place where his canoes could go no further owing to low water, he halted and there built Fort La Reine on the ground where Portage La Prairie now stands. He then proceeded to the Indian Man- dan settlemgnts on the Llissouri, re- turning early in February to the fort, where he gpent the rest of the win. ter. The small fort named Tort Rouge at the mouth of the Agsini- hoine, whose exact site is controver- sial, was built by his eldest =scn La Verendrye belongs to the company of adventurers who, sewer lo (he irresistible call, have gone out on the deep nr inte the wilderness, not knowing whither they went, His mind was on the Western Sea. Though he went out under th nominal aegis of the French Governor, he had practically to create the means for his expedi- tion; and this is why trade with the Indians was .essential to his success. He gave to the enterprise not only himself and his private means, but his three sons. Before reaching the Red River of the North, his many and heavy trials had -iacluded the death of his nephew, upon whom he depended as second in command, and the massacre of his son and of the missionary who accompanied the ex- pedition. He suffered, and his cause suffered, from the malignity of ene- mies at court. Yet he was preparing for a new expedition to carry his ex- plorations farther west when he died suddenly at Montreal in hig sixty- third year. It was not given to him to find the Western Sea, nor éven to see the 'Shining Mountains'--as the Indians named the Rockies---but his two sons were the first white men to travel ag far as the Foothills. We can picture this noble French- man landing down there at the con- fluence of the rivers now between Lhe high in an- dians as he looks out over this good- ly land under a warm ,blue Septem- ber sky. Some. vision must have come to him, some haunting sound of peoples treading westward in fu- ture years. If not on that day or on that journey, then surely in those last 'days when preparation for an- other inland voyage west was stop« ped, when he put out to sea for the better country. For this disco7~rer and man, we are told, was a man of spiritual faith. La Verendrye and Selkirk are the two outstanding figures in the earliest history of that west which is Manitoba, the one a discoverer, the other a colonizer, Both ought to be the men, worthy the best art, worthy the best ideals of the Prov- ince. Safeguard Lake of Woods. On the boundary between the United States and Canada, about midway between the coasts, little known Lake of the Woods, one of the most picturesque bodies of water in America. and one of large economic importance to the United States and Canada, Because various problems . pertaining to the lake and its level have arisen, au internation: al joint commission. was appointed some years ago, and recently, after extensive investigation and hearings, has Tepartef to the two governments concerned. This repprt recommends, among other things, that a certain water level be mdintained. This level is established} with due regard to the water powdr which the commission recognized a of the region. The recommendations provide for the utilization of 'this lake, and others, as immense reser- voirs for power pu While this will damage some farm land it is purposed to compensate fully those who suffer. It is pro- posed also to safeguard fully naviga- tion and the fisheries.----Popular Me- chanics. Good Year for Whale Fishers, Approximately 2,600 barrels of oil have been received at Victoria to date from the whaling fleet engaged "in hunting the big fellows in north- ern waters and from recent reports the indications are 'hat the season will be one of the most successful in recent years. The first shipment of oil was sent north about a month agn, and since that time the stations have sent down large quantities, The oil is awaiting shipment to the east. His satanic majesty never offers to go into partmership with a busy man. CA man has reached the lowest pos- two cities; we can see him in friendly | talk with the eager hospitable In- |g commemorated in monuments worthy | and | lies the | 8 the dominant interest. VICTIM OF APPETITR. Prospector Brings in Story of a Wolverine, A prospector from the try in Northern British bripgs in a belated story of the cap- ture of a wolverine which will. Bear telling even if the wolverine hide now decorates the den of a man who does not kfflow anyihing about matter, says The V ancouver Sun. This prospector was doing a bit of trapping during the .months of snow, and was picking off considerdble fur from various injudicious wild beasts until a wolverine drifted into district and established himself the trap-line of sald trapper. resulted in much solitary by the trapper. The ed the traps regularly, always a few hours before the man could get along. The. unfortufate trapper on This profanity and marten heading for his snares and would follow hopefiilly, only to discover a trampled and bloody patch of snow, a sprung trap, and the fore or hind leg of some fur-bearing aui- mal in the jaws. dined. This went on for a couple of weeks and finally the mid-season came along. At this time the trapper- deal he had in tiew cabin, and went. For the sake of healthful ventilation he left a small opening by the wall, dimgnsions per- haps six or eight by ten inches Returning in two weeks, accom- panied as ever by his faithful hound, he opened the cabin door and was more than shocked upon seeing the havoc therein. A side of bacon had been almost utterly destroyed, a rack of flour was torn opén and half gone, sugar and bread existed no more. The dog, after a preliminary sniff dashed snarling under the bunk in the corner and appeared - with a snarling wolverine at his fighting end. Active co-operation between man and dog soon put the wolverine in the category of fair fur. Resultant investigation produced a most interesting state of affairs. The wolverine had fallen victim to his own appetite, The anilnal, known in a denunciatory way to every 'trap- per, is famed for its gluttony. It will eat until it nearly bursts. This animal when thin and hungry had followed the enticement of the ap- petizing trapper's cabin. Entering with little difficulty it had 'eaten so much that it swelled to such an ex- tent that it could not get out of the opening through which it entered. Perforce it took up quartdrs under the bunk. The skin, a good one and prime, brought the trapper fifteen dollars last spring, and now adorns the home of an eastern tourist. There arguing care. Humanity is more extravagant with anathemas than with praise. isn't with satisfaction in who doesn't much a man soft and persuasive voice. MOTHERS OF CANADA PREPARE FOR TROUBLE ( When a girl bocomes a woman, when | a woman becomes a mother, and when a woman passes through the 'changes of middle life, are the three periods of life when health and strength are most needed to withstand the pain and distress often caused by severe organic disturbances. Jus thousands in this section would estify as do the following: 8t. Catharines, Ont. -- "Over forty years ago I was restored to health by taking Dr. Pieree's Favorite Preserip- tion. It was after medicine and doe- tors had failed to relief. I bad, through overwork, become all run- down in health. I was weak and finally became a nervous wreek. The ¢ Prescription' was recommended to and at the time I started to take it IT had not been able to do any- thing for over a year. I took the Pay. orite Prescription' and the 'Golden Medi- eal Discovery' as well. It took several bottles, but I was completely restored to good health and since that time when I ave felt the need of these medicines I have taken them and always with perfect satisfaction."' -- Mas, Wu. Bakes, 33 Page St. ; Stratford, Ont.~I was all run-down, weak, nervous. I also suffered with severe pains through my back. - I was very miserable when a friend advised me to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite By n Stomuen As speciniist who has spent many Years in the study and treatment of stomach troubles, I have been ved to the conclusion that most Who complain of stomach trou 8 stomachs that are Susadtely ealthy and normal, The Tent LPoubis, di which caus 1 all the' pain culty, ix adil Bh the Dime nda due 10, or wi Sggra gravated by, food tation. Add trritetes Whe deficute Yin ing of the stomach and Jods Seri ates tion causes wisich the stomach ah bloated feeling. | fermentation | | the process oF 5 {aah is Sy freftated these te aE 4 ry after cat with one th tho fuls of Mara ed j doubtless the best | fective antaeid and food in i corrective i known. The acid win c and the Tren instantly, and A once proceed to Teen a healthy, normal mapner, sible depth when people cease to talk | Fabout bm. a eS pms dps aa Atlin coun- | Columbia | the | the i wolverine raid- | would find the trail of lynx, mink, | The wolverine had | prospector had to get out to civiliza- | tion to attempt to arrange a mining | He locked the | left the grub in the cupboard, { sliding | Be careful of the man who has a | me or give = ] PRAISED BY FRENCH. | Fighting Qus ities of Our Boys Much Admired. French correspondents with the British troops have been lavish in | their praise of the Canadians and J thei: fighting at Lens One of the moet--iafluential of the French Pro- | vincial papers i= "Le Telegramme," published at -Beulogne, and the fol- | lowing literal transiation, without comment, of an article on August 23, speaks for itself. It says: "The Canadians at the present time completely hold the limelight in the theatre of war. It is these picked troops that have been given the in- | comparable, the glorious and difi- | cult task of retaking Lens -- Lens, where each house is a fortress; Leéns and its slag heaps bristling with ma- chine-gun and trenches, which the | enemy only manage to hold by con- tinual reinforcement. "This Canadian army, although only raised during the war, is cur- | ious to study for several reasons. Re- cruited exclusively by voluntary me- | thods, it is composed of various ele- | ments curiously' representing the { world crusade against the abhorred | Germans, { 'One meets trappers, colonials, | hunters, men who have lived full lives of adventure, and peaceful mer- chants of Quebec or Montreal, There are battalions that speak only the true Frenéh of the eighteenth cen- Lowry: --- Rome- have -names-like 'Gros Rene," others "Oeil de Faucon," and all these various elements are assi- milated in the great British army, respecter of the traditions of others." These trappers, these hunters, these woodsmen, trained to stand the limit of fatigue by their hard life, are the Rideal soldiers. They keep themselves in condition, even when they are in rest, by their games and sports, which- they practise with fury, but with method. Football and baseball, which they excel in, make them gren- ade-throwers of the finest class. They 'can jump in their competitions five feet six inches, and when the time comes they can do. the same in combat." They have not abandoned their national game of lacrosse, where these talents are necessary. '"THere is one part of the Canadian army which is made up of foresters, who are actually working in Britain and France with their own machin- ery. They can, it is well known, cut down a forest in the twinkling of an eye (clin d'oeil). You have to ad- mire their marvellous cutting while ficed in this way for the country's cause. It would take several col- umns of this paper to relate the splendid deeds of these adventurous and heroic men." The following verses gain their chief interest from the fact -that they were written by a French-Canadian soldier, Signaller O. Lavoie, No. 145163, of the 87th Battalion, Can- adian Infantry, They were composed in captured Gorman dugouts im which Signalier Lavoie was on duty. Signaller Lavoie's mother, Mrs. F. | Lavoie, lives at 92 Wellington street, | Hull, The author's own title is "*'Why I, a French-Canadian, Enlist- ed." Having lcarned through the columns of The Soldiers' Gazette of the keen solicitude felt by its pub- lishers, the Queen Mary's Needle- work Guild, in all matters pertaining to the lads at the front, Signaller Lavoie forwarded the verses to the Guild's headquarters in Montreal, with the suggestion that they might be published in pamphlét form and sold for the benefit of the Red Cross or some other patriotic object. | The verses follow: You ask me why | enlisted, And why did | go to war? Just listen; I'll tell a story Perhaps you have heard before. 1 ain't ne blooming hero-- A corporal or a lance; I'm just a paltry sigpaller Doing my bit in France. I was just an operator And had to work at night, And when this war was started It made mc want to fight. I heard of (Germans in igium, And the horrible deeds they'd done; My blood ran cold with herror At what they called "great fun." The way they treated the mothers, And the little children, too. it _made me join the colors Determined to see it through. For it's up to us Canadians Who came from over the sea To stand up shoulder to shoulder Ti little Belgium is free. What would they do in Canada If they could cross the sea" You know, it is Bill's ambition Lo! the world to "They would treat us like Nurse Cavell, Our homes they's come and claim. If 1 stood and let them do it I'd feel 1 were to blame. There are lads ocean, And slackers who've stayed at home, 1 am a French-Canadian And fought upon the Somme; So we can't all be cowards (No doubt, there are a few), For | am a French-Canadian And I've been on Vimy, teo. Tou can see that the Canadians Have won a glorious name: Wherever they may go to fight They win undying fame. And many are French-Canadian ec fag u! 's beaten 'Who've drossed the lexroe cannot rule the world. Then 1 Will take off the khaki And return home over the sea: And never more cl Thank God, 1 ASHE But helped to savo'mp.h nd conscience free. But ha T ean in alte rs les. In oth rds miles. In othe: twe ERI explored. In the GERMAN Y'S AIR FLEETS. Teutons Are Planning Control "Air Commerce." If this war had never beer, and if Germany, in times of ordinary peace, had establihsed sailings of fleets of geppelins and airplanes across the North Sea to, England, carrying {ons of merchandise, delivering it, re- turning safely, and doing this regu- larly, the whole world would have been astounded. The eyes of the world would have been centered on that achievement. We would have said: "It has come at last, of the air." Germany has done that very thing, except that the' freight has been bombs, instead of merchandise. For the last three years Germany's air fleets have sailed reguairly with their cargoes of tons of bombs which they have dropped almost where they those in England, and they have proved that if it were not for the guns of war there would be little danger in such navigation. Few of the airships have been lost through any cause except English gunnery. England, too, has established a re- gular airplane passenger service be- tween her coast and France, The planes sail almost hourly, carrying army officers to and from the war front, and so far there have been few accidents. We have been so intent upon the war operations on land; and the air, plane battles above the war fronts, and the mere military side of the bomb-dropping in England, have failed to appraise the achieve to the conquest ments of the aircraft in their proper | relation to future trade and trade routes. But the Germans have ap praised those feats at their proper worth and already they are planning air routes for German commerce after the war. , Before the war Germany ized in the manufacture of a number of things that were made better and cheaper there than anywhere else, and Germany had almost a world monopoly on those articles, Among them were a"iong-list of coal tar by- products such as dyes and medicines. Among them also were thousands of different kinds of chemicals and many kinds of delicate instruments. These things are so costly that a million dollars' worth of them take up only a small bulk. The Deutsch- land, a submarine, with not much more cargo space than a big zeppelin airship, would have brought ovur you sigh for our poor trees, sacri-i gq 000, 000 worth of 'his stuff in one A 0; andon, newspaper has startled England with the story that already a German company with millions of capital behind it has organized and been given a charter to go into the airship carryipg trade after the war. It has even laid out the routes of travel and schedules of sailings of its monster airships. It proposes to cross the Atlantic from Ireland to Newfoundland in 16 hours, Its ships will sail from Germany to the west coast of Ireland without stop, and from there to Newfoundland, then to Nova Scotia, and from there to Boston and New York. Other fleets of airships will sail to India and the Orient, and to Egypt and the coun- tries of th¢ Mediterranean. The story goes that Germany is saying: Our flest of merchant ships is captured or destroyed, wé know, and we have been too busy building submarines and airships to replace them. We havc been destroying the merchant ships of other countries, too, and when peace comes there won't be ships enough to begin to carry the commerce of the world. We shall not wait until we have replaced our ships, but will turn our war zep- pelins to the carrying of merchandise at once; and, no matter if the world has tried to build its own dye plants and chemical works since the war began, we shall get back again all of that trade we have lost, and get it at once through our airships. Our plants are intact, we can resume manufacture at once, we can make cheaper than anyone, we can deliver by airship quickly and at low cost. That is the story, Whether there is. enough of fact in it to warrant ita being taken seriously or not, newspapers of England are printing columns about it, and it is interest- ing enough to be retold here. merely as indicating one of the speculative possibilities alter the war. Swapping compliments is a good deal like swapping green goods, RAILWAY MT DREULL SSS LOCAL BRANCH TIME TABLE In effect Sept. 30th, 1917. Tralkg Wi leave and dry) Depot, Foot of arrive at treet. thet we | special-; the 4 emai Seciaan, 3 900 Drops of Dos pb Uh CIEL Exact Copy of Wrapper. The more you know about coffee--and the more part- icular you are about aroma and flavour-- the more you will appreciate "SEAL BRAND" COFFEE. Once you have tried it, your choice will always be Chase & Sanborn's "SEAL BRAND" COFFEE. In %, 1 and 2 pound tins. Whole--ground--pulverized--also fine ground for Percolators, Never sold in bulk. CHASE & SANBORN, MONTREAL. 11] AS KYOUR GROCER FOR Charm Tea IN PACKAGES. 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