> »~g white, baturpay, gi Pe OCTOBER 21. 1916. 16TH CENTURY FRENCH HPS | --- Have Been Discovered in the St. Lawrence i > By Toronto Skipper ARE NOT PHANTON GALES "mor SOLID, HULKS OF WHITE Just cut off the OAK WELL FASTENED corner of the carton and pour out the pure, clean, extra "FINE" crystals of Lantic ar Ribs Taken to Toronto--How the To- ronto Discoverer Located the Ves. s¢ls Which Lie Not Many Miles Be- low Kingston. Toronto Telegram The yawl Blue Peter is back at her Toronto moorings from a St. Law- rence river cruise. Her forepeak is adorned. by a Jump of water-soaked white oak, four feet long and a foot wide. It is apparently just an ugly snag of timber, but money could not buy it from the Blue Peter's owner. The only thing remarkable about it the round augur holes bored THE DAILY BRITISH ber and staves and forming | them into rafts for Montreal and | Quebec mariets. : i "In 1831, in the schooner St. Lawrence, with Capt. 'John Vorse in the schooner Ohio, lay windbound at the head of Ascertain Island, and improved rt of the time examining the two old French vessels sunk and filled with gravel and sand, as noted in the map below." i Hera follows a "Map of part of | Ascertain Island, laying in the St. Lawrence River, thres miles below | Suchaport, "in Jefferson ' County; N.Y." The chronicler is occasion-| ally astray from the striet gramma- | tical path, but never out in his! geography. To be candid, neither] Ascertain Island nor Suchaport are | the lames he gives in his note. They | have been substituted for the real] places for protective purposes, | i | The Rediscovery, { The Pouchot quotations were read | by a Jarvis street Collegiate school | boy when they were first published | in the Landmarks in 1896. For some | reason they stuck in the baek of his | head. Last winter--having mean-| time gone into business, grown up, | and acquired a yacht---he happened to browse into Capt. Van Cleye's) manuscript and came across the | references quoted... He was able to | put two and two together. In faet, | he added another two, getting a total | of six; the last "two" being hig re- | collection of the pictures of the French -and English fleets on Lake! "The All-PurposeSugar " 2 and 5-1b cartons 10 and 20-1b bags Send us a red hall trade-mark for o FREE book of Preserving Labels Atlantic Sugar Refineries Ltd. | Power Bldg., Montreal 5 through it, and the fragment of a trenail or wooden pin, fast in one of i them, i The fragment is one of the how timbers of the war schooner Iro- XV of France on Lake Ontario before Wolfe captured Quebec. That the French ever had a fleet of war vessels on Lake Ontario is a fact know; to few. That remains of these war vessels are to he seen to this day is a fact known to still fewer. But it has just been proved. ~~ The Time to Save | +. Your Hair is Now GOING ING GONE 111 5 7 NEWBRO'S HERPICIDE is the one re on your t's shelves may always de- pended u . Instead of complaining to your riends mourn; friends pai, ing over your call upon your cal a NERO PICIDE. " It is the first and original remedy for dandruff, iginal germ Whiere They Arve, Where Father St. Lawrence begins to gather up the waters of the five {Great Lakes for their final journey {to the sea lies an. island--and 999 { others. This island of the Thousand is more than two hundred.and less than three hundred miles from To- ronto, It is 'big enough to support seven families all the year round, be- sides summer cottagers of the mil- lionaire brand of the U. $§ A. But its present claim to fame is that it is the last resting place of two warships of the old French lake marine, sunk one hundred and fifty-seven years ago, but still visible. At any rate, they were visited this summer. These French war vessels were craft about the size of the smallest coal schooners now afloat on the lake --like the little Lizzie Metzner, or quois, which flew the flag of Louis | Ontario in the J. Ross Robertson | collection of Canadian Historical Pictures at the Reference Library, College street. These pictures were | from originals drawn by Pierre Bou- | cher de la Broquerie, who made a| map of Lake Ontario in 1767, and | decorated it with _portraitd of the | vessels of the hostile flegts, Like] Pouchot, he knew what he was talk- | ing about, for he conknanded a| cruiser himself in 1756 and\in 1769 | probably commanded the "Outaou-| aise." | All that remained for the yacht | owner to do was 'to get a United | States War Department map of the! St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, ! establish the location of Capt. Van | Cleve's = '"Ascertain Island" and | "Suchaport," and go there and see for himself. Which--as Jarvis street Collegiate compositions used to say | to the great horror of that sound | literary master, George A. Chase-- he did. > | It was not hard to locate the island. | Remnants of gigtantic chimneys | marked the great stone fort com- | pleted by the British after the! French conquest and demolished | later when the island was ceded to! the Americans after the War of In-/| dependence, Capt. Van Cleve's draw-| ing in his manuscript had charted the spot accurately. There, at either side of the mouth of the little bay where he lay windbound seventy-five | 1Rate Eccles, or William Jamieson. Indeed, they were smaller than the schooners just named; nearer the size of such stonehookers as the Newsboy, or Madeline, or Maple Leaf. is now. it is NEW- may be obtained at the " shops and hair dressing It is guaranteed by The Herpicide Co. One of the sunken wrecks, re-dis- covered this summer, meéasured six- ha ty-two feet ag she lay, crushed and CARPETS mauling of waves and ice. She would measure about seventy-five feet when intact. They had raised quarter- decks, for officers' cabins had these French schooners, and they were square- rigged aloft. They carried ; ten cannon--twelve pounders, wit You will be delighted at a range of about a mile. the restoration of your carpets and rugs by a new ahd exceptionally thor- ough process of cleaning. We have every wo? facility for dyeing carpets of every without "What Can Be Seen. The wrecks to-day are almost cove ered with the limestone that was heaped on them when they were scut- tled after the conquest of Canada. But their broken ribs, packed close together, their water-worn planking, thickly studded with spike holes, their heavy fastenings of square iron bars and round wooden dowels,' the stem, sternpost, garboard strakes, and parts of the deck all protrude years ago, the two'wrecks lie, plain to be seen in the clear, green water of the St. Lawrence; at least; one of them is very plain, with an aver- age of fourteen feet of water over it; and the other can be glimpsed through the ripple, under the shad- ows of the opposite bank, although, it Hes in much deeper water, SI. VITUS DANCE Rest Alf That is Needed. Many a child has been called awk- (ward, has been punished in school for not keeping still or for dropping things, when the trouble was really St. Vitus dance, This trouble may appear at any age but is most often met between theages of six and fourteen. = The most frequent cause from the stonebed which overlies the body of the hull. It is a pity that either the United States or Canadian | Government does not undertake the Fralning and restoration of .these | wrecks, as was done with the U. 8. | flagship Niagara, of 1813, at. Erie, Pa., four years ago. It would only take an appropriation of a few thou- sand dollars to do the job. How Ships Were Found. To being at the beginning: Robertson's Landmarks of Toron- to, Vol. I1., page 818-829, give exten- sive extracts from the 'Memoir Upon WI a | BURNED ON BABY a 5 Pe = 5 -------- nd English in. North America, 1755- | author. whose reference to the Seven EEE Le, A at Healed by Cuticura PARKER'S DYE WORKS LIMITED "© 69 Princess Street, A gon, Oatario. 8 Year War as the "late" one reads quaintly in these stirring times, was a commissioner of the Marquis de Vaudreuil, governor of Canada in the last days of the French regime. He had charge of the building of ships { for the French fresh water navy, and controlled their movements after. of the diséase is poor blood, aggra- vated by indoor confinement, or men- ital strain at school. Under these conditions the blood - fails to carry { nourishment to the nerves and the child begins to show listlessness and ! inattention. Then it becomés "rest- | less and twitching of the muscles and | Jerking of the limbs and body follow. fA remedy that cures St. Vitus dance and cures it so thoroughly that no trace of the diseasé remains is Dr. Williams Pink Pills, which renew | the blood, thus feeding and strength- jening the starved .nerves. This is { the only way. to cure the trouble, and parents should lose no time in giv- ing this treatment of their child seems nervous or irritable. Mrs. Wm. A. Squires, Cannington, Ont., says: "My only daughter, now fourteen years of age was troubled for several years with St. Vitus dance. She was 50 bad that at times she would lose 'control of her Timbs and her face and eyes would be contorted. We had medical advice and medicine, but it did not help her. In fact we thought the trouble growing worse, and final- ly we had to take her from' school About a year ago we n giving her Dr. Williams' Pink ' | Land by the time she had taken five boxes she was completely cured, and is now a fine, healthy \ owe this to Dr, Willi In believe we * Pink Pills and are very grateful for her restora- tion to perfect health." * You can get these from any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 a box or six for $2.5 |of the British War Office CAN. BE EASILY CURED A Tonic For the Blood And Nerves With, awl THE ACTIVITIES 1 OF WOMEN 1 1 | Chirnside, England, has a woman | blacksmith, | British golfers now use girls as| caddies. : Women voters-in Denver ber the men, Chicago has a suffragist'w years old. ? Jepnette Rankin is Congress in Montana. } Russia has over"2,000,000 women | agricultural workers. i Women have replaced men in till- ing the soil in Italy, { Woman physicians in Russia just as prominent as the men. A ngmber of women are known to i ussian infantry regi nents. n number one-fifth of the factory Workers in Pennsylvania, The Italian Red Cross has over 40,000 women enrolled as nurses. | War marriages have been specially abundant among British servants: More than 62 per cent. of the school teachers in Russia are women. | Women are now largely employed | as film censors in Great Britain. { Over 1,000 women are now en-| gaged in carrying the mails in Berlin. | Mrs. Mary Woolsey, aged 22, of! Omaha, is the mother of seven sons, Tavernkeepers in Scotland are ask- | ing permission to employ women bar-| tenders. . ! One of the most attractive person- ages encountered in Corea is the| singing girl. | Four women to every five men in| Russia are employed in the state and public service. Uruguay is the first country in South America to recognize women oni the same basis with men. Few Kansas merchants pay their women workers less than $6 per week, except for novices. A new club has been started in New York for women over 60 years of age, which already has a member- ship of over 130. The Berlin Arms Manufactory has reduced the working period of its 4,000 woman employees to eight hours daily. Miss Dorothy Dent, a Washington (D.C,) designer, recently won a $1,- 000 prize in a Chicago contest in gown designing. Mrs. Nellie Fablyn, of Geneva, 111., | outnum- "- i ho is 113] running for| are ~ From the frozer: north to the blagisg tropics | Bakers coa is known for its purity and high quality THI an > E E] ba H Walter Baker & Co.Limited ESTABLISHED 1780 MONTREAL.CANADA - DORCHESTER, MASS. | condition to stand the still greater. privations threatened on account of the number dependent on the Fund. Anything is one of the most successful women |' { dairy owners in the United States. Mrs, Russell Sage celebrated her 88th birthday by giving away over| $40,000 to Syracuse institutions. i Mrs. Frances Axtell of Washington is one of the several women who are running for Congress in the west, For the first time in the history women have been given full recognition for heroism. ' _ Miss Kathlyn Williams, the mo- tion picture star, wears overalls when working in her garden just out- side of Los Angeles. The new Jasper county almshouse at Carthage, Mo., was built as a re- sult of a 'campaign started by the women of that county. In Lombardy," Italy, women have raised a great mumber of rabbits on their lands in order to supply furs for the soldiers. Of the 12.000 conspicuous posi- tiohs, larrely of an administrative character, in the United States, over 2,600 are he" Ly women. The first Japanese women to re- ceive the de~rce of bachelor of sci- ence was aclong the recent gradu- iter of Northern University at Sone} FAPan B lary Wohlford, a Stratford Unive ty g'7l, is taking a course in electriec! eng neering and has just bid on a big gas plant at Escondido, | California, Woman campaigners for Charles E. Hughes, Republican candidate for President of the United States, will visit 31 states during the month of October, Mrs. Alga Bryant has been em- ploved to dive Jor the thousands of Allied shells which went to the bot- tom of New York bay in the recent Black Tom explosion. The Misses Irene and Inez Mason, daughters of a large insurance broker who died recently in New York, are syecessively carrying on the extensive business started bv their father. The only profession which Nor wogian wamen carnnnt enter i= the rmy and diplomatic service. athey wise there is no domain of work where they are nat lewfly entitled to compate with men. While mortality among' women is lighter than among men, insurance companies have found risks on the lives of women unprofitable and write policies on their lives for limit- ed amounts only. Sip The Duchess de Choisenl. formerly Miss Claire Coudet of New York, who | sinee the outbreak of the war has! daily risked her life attending troops with infectious diseases, has been awarded a gold medal by the French government, : A recent survéy of 800 college women in secretarial positions showed 80 per cent, connected with suffrage, social and religious orgami- | zations; 14 pér cent. employed by | schools and colleges, 8 per cent. by publishing houses, 8 per cent. by public officials, 7 per cent. by busi- ness firms and ba 7 per cent. be lawyers and 6 per cent. by doct- 0 18 'orders in spite of everything. Gas 'dead, cooly directing the battery to - | Germans are here." gnawin a month in elief cigar less a day--a ? ine ands of the a night missed from : Belgian A refreshments '89 ST. PETER STREET, $2.50 Feeds a Belgian Family One Nout. SALLOW SKIN of the greatest foes of eas It Je quickly dependable remedy "Eyes of the Guns' A Dangerous Job. London Dally Mail. Lastly comes the forward observ- ing officer. His is undoubtedly the most dangerous and exciting. The British army instituted him at the first clash of armies in 1914, and he has been at work ever since. The "F.,0,0." conceals himself in the front trenches with a telephone and from this close proximity to the German line keeps the guns informed as to the result of their firing. When the powers of Germany and Britain aré united in one stupendous effort to hammer the hostile trenches out of all recognition his place is no sine- cure, as can readily be understood. But he sticks there and gives his| may sometimes shift him, as one cannot telephone through a respira- tor. But the bayonets of enemy in- fantry have often found him, the last man alive among the shambles of wipe those bayonets out of tence. For the eyes of the guns mudt serve their masters as long as they can see. That is the law, They have not been waiting upon the hungry giants without perform- ing epic deeds of heroism. They live a hazardous--if interesting life. They die a very lonely death. The stories of voices gasping along the humming wires a last message: "My God, Bill! They've got me! A bomb"--and then sobbing into eternal silence are too numerous to repeat. We have most of us heard the story of the obsérvation offi who fell at the telephone during the Great Retreat. His last words were: ""Do- not obey any further orders from here. The Ladies Attention! Now is the time to look over our new fall styles. We have a choice stock of new goods on hand. Come and place your order before the rush is on. Prices reasonable and satisfaction guaranteed. New York Skirtand Suit Co.,, 203 Wellington St.