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THE VICTORIA CAFE B54 King Street. Siug Lee and Gan Lee, Props, Telephone 762. | had ta, SOOT DESTROYER Eats up soot without injury to the chim- ney--will not injure metals or mortar. No more Stove Pipes to be taken down. "The only Soot Destroyer on the market that has proved successful. Lemmon & Sons 187 PRINCESS STREET pecial Prices on Rattan Furniture Chesterfields, Di- vanettes, Daven- in Tapestry, Ve- Rattan Chairs "in Fumed, Old Ivory, 4 Frosted Brown, Sil- ver Grey, upholst- % fered in Tapestry. | Nature had run riot. | Prospects of real homesteads and of THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG | MAKE GOOD IN CANADA | A LAND GROWING HARD COR) | AND HARDY MEN. | Lloyd George's Description of Canads i --~Some Thrilling Impressions of | Conditions--Undaunted by Flood, Fire and Tempest--Rely Only on | Strong Arms and. Strong Hearts | Mr. Lloyd George's description of Canada as "a land growing hard cors { and hardy men" conjures up in the mind of people who know the) life | of its vast, fertile spaces some thrill ing impressions 'of the conditions un: { der whieh both corn and men are | grown, writes Noel Inchcape in the | Yorkshire Observer. One does not know at which tg marvel most--at the rashness, ignor- ance and optimism with which some men start undertakings of quite pe- culiar and complicated difficulty, or the determination with which, once they discover mistakes or see the real nature of the tasks before them, they "hold down" their propositions until they turn them Into success. Since the war we have heard s little less about the decadence of the British race. Even now, however, there are "superior" people, living in sheltered ease, falling into the habit of speaking and writing mueb &bout the type of manhood the Em- pire needs, as though nothing but thelr combined exhortations could really keep the Empire "up to the scratch." I should like té take a whole ship- ful of those people to Canada Just now and put them in touch with the soldier settler on the prairies and ip the bush. There they would get al tonic decidedly stronger than any they themselves could dispense. They would meet men who seem undaunted by flood, ard, or tempest, Just as they persist until they sub- due the bush, break rough _ soil inte their service, meet loss 'with re- doubled energy, and turn failure to "glorious gain." 1 like the phrase they have got out there. Field Super- visors who act for the Soldier Set- tlement Board say men are "battling through." It is the same in Peace as war--and 'peace hath her victories no less renowned." Take this for victory. Two or three years ago in British Columbia there were strips of bush so dense that nowhere was there space enough for & single log cabin or even a tent. To-day men Who had the pluck to settle there have cleared holdings ranging in size from three to ten acres, and have not only their cabins but substantial expanding prosperity. They know how to solve the housing problem with their.own strong arins. So far from bemoaning the part they have play in answering the chal- lenge of nature, they are thankful for what they feel is life made spacious. That ia the average way of "bat- ting through." First the clearance and that little rude cabin; then the exeprimental cultivation; then the slow adaptation' of means to ends that look fairly sure, and the forging of links with markets; and, finally, the farmhouse worthy of _ woman's pride and art. "I have taken the average case first. Let me now take an epic that represents the more amazing things that can be told of the Great West. I have written of men undaunted by fire and flood and tempest. That was not merely a trick of language. I had wonderful facts in mind. There is a man whose little place was burnt right out by a fire that Swept the countryside. Slowly had he got the home together--nhis hold- ings, furniture, fences round his land and his fields were under tillage. The fire came. Not a stick, not a growing thing was there left to him. I fancy thousands and thousands of men would have utterly broken in spirit by a misfortune so devasting, But this men wasn't, When the field supervisor went to 86 him he was putting out the still smouldering fire on his "holding" and thinking not so very much about the damage the fire had done but a great deal about the fact that it had cleared & large area of Sush for him. So he again, and that land, fertili by fre-ash, 'set him on his foot by producing one of the grandest crops of roots ever geen in that land of big and things. What about that for "battling through?" And what of this? Near Po: Ia rie is a married man with four who bought an unimproved farm of eighty acres. The first winter he cut logs, hauled them three miles, sawed them, and buijt a house, Then thers were three bad Years-- failure of crops, accidents, everything seeming to go wrong. MINISTER OF AGRICULTU RE. Understands Needs of Live Stock Men and Fruit Growers. Hon. J. 8. Martin, who is now Min- ister of Agriculture for Ontarfo, is the owner of a 20/0-acre farm at Port Dover, where he specializes as » breeder of Wyandottes. His knowl- edge of farming is not confined to poultry, for he has a clear under- standing of the needs of live stock men and fruit growers, . Speaking particularly of the mattur of marketing and distribution, new Minister is in favor of a Govern- ment investigation into the problems connected with gelling. He hae inti- nated that one of his first actions, as Minister of Agricuiture, would be to ask for the appointment of sue' & commission. "We need better dis- tribution," he said. "We need a new marketing system, and we need edu- cation. There is a lot of educational work to be done. The growers must be made to realize the value of grad- ing, the value of a good pack, and the urgent need for fruits that wil stand long-distance shipping. Many of the existing problems 'will not be cleared up in a day, but their solu- tion will come quicker than antiel- pated if the growers are educated to the necessity for prompt and drastic action," Mr. Martin algo expressed the opinion that there was room for ac- tion by the Federal Government in the matter of tariff revision. He felt that greater protection was need- ed by the Ontario farmers, who suf- fer from the surplus products of the United States, dumped on the provin- cial markets at a time when the local grower should be in a position to realize profits on local grown stuff. It was his opinfon that the growers should take this matter up at once with the Federal Government and press for the protection which is so necessary if the industry is to thrive in the best possible manner. ---------- Sights on the Great Prairie. A wonderful sight is one of the gigantic self-binding reaperg on the great prairie farms of the Canadian West. It takes--~what 0oks like a whole herd of horses to draw it, and two of its swaths would, 1p width, make a whole grain field for some of the habitants of older Canada. Straw is of no value out there, You see that by the stubble behind the reapers. If there ig anything in a reputed discovery that paper of any quality can be produced from straw, We may see a change in that respect. But at present many of the machines employed almost resemble the "'head- era" employed in some parts of the States which alm at gathering: only the heads of the grain. Self-binding reapers have helped the farmers won- derfully. Many of the grain raigers use gasoline motors instead of horses to draw their reapers. To that, from the sickle of, oseph's day, we have travelled In"fy own lifetime, and _¥ hate to think that I am an old man vet. Is it not amasing. that tiiings should have taken such a start to- ward improvement, all at once as it were, within the past hundred years. Steam, electricity, 84s, mechanical inventions have changed the whole face of the earth within the memory of nearly every grey-headed man! How slowly the world had developed before the last century came along! -- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We shou count time by heart- throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.--P. J. Bailey, Federal ministers report real re- vival of Liberalism in western prov- inces. -- ------ At Christiania, Norway, Halfdin Wilhelmsen, second largest individ- ual ship owner in the world, died. He was an ingenious organizer and Norway's biggest figure in interna- tional finance. A Belgian radium factory has just sold 900 miligrams of radium extracted from Uranium mined in the Belgian Conde. Deliciously Fragrant purchases of lumber {np have been import- Large Roumania by Japanese partially responsible for an ant rise in the currency. Four-year-old Katharine Gates, Sarnia, was instantly killed when the wheel of a heavy truck passed over her head. It you can't find opportunigy set to work and make one. Sammer Cottages Robbed. Prescott, Nov. 20.--A number of cottages at Blakey's Point, threa miles west of Prescott, were broken into during the past week, ransack- ed and a quantity of the furnishings stolen, ------------ Success comes when a man has something to do and does it. 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