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_ BEAUHED THE SOUTH POLE WEEKLY lfllllllfl llllER BBUAMIBED WAG": '- WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE HUB OF I l ‘1. THE Pnovmcs. Ontario Legislature Consider Law Gable From Captain Amundsen Says He , , Edward Blakeâ€"Number of Jews In the Attained the Goal December 14th. A despatch from London says: undoubtedly profit from it. Cap- Captain Roald Amundsen has dis- tain Amundsen’s expedition, which covered the South Pole. Definite has now ended successfully, was news has been received in London, originally planned for the conquest v1a Christiania, that he reached the.of the north pole, but hearing the. Pole between the 14th and 17th of December. December “14 to 17” is taken to mean by experts that when he reached the. geographical Pole Amundsen waited three days, taking noon observations so as to accurately determine his position and exclude uncertaintyâ€"that’is to say, to establish proofs that would be incontrovertible. . The London Chronicle adds: England will wait most anxiously for news of the Scott expedition. Though robbed of its crowning glory, geography and science will lnews which Peary brought back, Amundsen showed his resource and promptncss of decision by at once lsteaming south to the region'which still offered a similar prize. He has won that prize. To England the .glory of discovery neither the north nor the south pole has fallen, but in the story of the exploration of the great ice. continents this country played a splendid part, and we can join heartily with the whole world to-day in offering to the conqueror and to Norway a meed of praise which is so well deserved. The lprize has been finely won‘. It has “also been grandly lost.” ' New picture of Capt. Amundsen, who reached the South’Pole. FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY Where the Winters are Gold and the Snows Deep. Writing from the vicinity David Harum made famous, 11. man says that he was an habitual coffee drinker, and, although he knew it was doing him harm, (Tea is equally harmful, because it contains caf- feineâ€"the same drug found in cof- fee) was too obstinate to give it up, till all at once he went to pieces with nervousness and insomnia, loss of appetite, weakness, and a “generally used-up feeling, which practically unfitted him for his arduous occupation, and kept him on a couch at home when his duty did not call him out. “While in this condition Grape- Nuts food was suggested to me and I began to use it. AlthOugh it was in the middle of winter and the , thermometer was often below zero, almost my entire living for about six weeks of severe exposure was on Grapeâ€"Nuts food with a little bread and butter and a cup of hot water, till I was wise enough to make Postum my table beverage. “After the first two weeks I be- gan to feel better and during the whole winter I never lost a trip on my mail route, frequently being on the road 7 or 8 hours at a time. “The constant marvel to me was how a person could do the amount of work and endure the fatigue and hardship as I did. on so small an amount of food. But I found my new rations so perfectly satisfac- tory that I have continued themâ€"â€" using both Postum and Grape-Nuts at every meal, and often they com- prise my entire meal. “All my nervousness, irritability and insomnia have disappeared and healthy, natural sleep has come back to me. But what has been perhaps the greatest. surprise to me is the fact that with the benefit to my general health has come a remark- able improvement in my eve-sight. “If a good appetite, good diges- tion, good' eye-sight, strong nerves and an active brain are to be de- sired, I can say from my own ex- perience. use Grapeâ€"Nuts and Pos- tum.” Name given by Canadian Post-um (30., Windsor, Ont. ' Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason.” Ever road the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuln0,truE,and full of human Interest. Ift______- Minister of Justice proposes _to re- tire Justices Dugan and Craig, of the Yukon, on full allowance. 'ills of little ones. In EXGELLENT memoir FUR. ALL LITTLE ONES Mrs. Ovila Lamarre, Malvina, Que, writes: “I have found Baby’s Own Tablets an excellent medicine and would not use any other for my little one. I think all mothers should keep the tablets in the house.” Thousands of other moâ€" lthers have the same praise for the ltablets. They are absolutely safe â€"being guaranteed by a govern- l‘ment analyst to contain no opiate l'or other - break up colds, expel worms, cure harmful drug. They constipation and indigestion, in fact they are good for all the minor The tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Wil- liams’ medicine Co. , Brockville, Ont. _.__»x«_____ SIXTEEN WERE INJURED. Broken Rail Caused Railway Wreck Near Durham. Cityâ€"Toronto's Water Supply. I»â€" (We have arranged for a weekly letter about Toronto affairs, which, we believe, Wlll be of great, interest to many of our readers. These letters will be from the pen of one of Canada’s foremost journa- lists, a. man who has covered some of the world's greatest happenings and now oc- cupies a. leading position on one of the Toronto dailies.) The passing _of Edward Blake, in many respects Toronto‘s most distinguished citizen, curiously enough leaves little gap in the life and activities of the city. The announcement of his death came to most people as an echo of the past. It was as if one was told that John A. Macdonald or Oliver Mowat was dead. This arises from the fact that while Blake was not an extraordinarily old man, being only in his seventy-ninth year, it is now more than twenty years since he has taken any active part in the affairs of Toronto or of Canada. Ile had long ago withdrawn from every office or position in business. educational, church and social organiza- tions. Since he suffered his first attack of paralysis five years ago he has been living at his home in Jarvis street so quietly that probably not one citizen in a hundred knew he was in Toronto at all. He saw only members of his family and occasionally an intimate friend of by- gone days. SEVERELY SIMPLE FUNERAL. By his earnestly expressed request, the funeral ceremonies were severely simple. The newspapers were not permitted to announce in advance even the hour, which was fixed for nine o'clock Sunday morn- ing. Ono enterprising newspaper photo- grapher was on hand at that hour. hop- ing to get a historic picture to illustrate the closing chapter in the life of a. great man. But he was disappointed. Station- ing‘ himself in. a favorable position near the residence he waited for the corfege. Presently an undertaker’s wagon passed. He paid no heed, waiting for the hearse. But it did not come. On inquiry he found that the wagon had borne the remains and that the mourners had proceeded to the cemetery by another route. THE JEW IN TORONTO. A matter which has not been discussed A desPall-’Ch from Durham: Ont-3 to any-extent openly, but which is caus- _531y.5:'.R0 L; Stevens: 0f Strathrqy) ling considerable anxious thought, is the 15 lulured Internally and may dle: §rapid increase in the Hebrew population three other men are wounded, seven more are less ser1â€" Senouifly iof the city. Ten years ago there were not in all Ontario more than 5,000 Jews. To- ous}y hurt: and many Others badly day there are in Toronto alone not less Shaken up 3'5 the result Of a day lthan 20,000, and some estimates place the coach rolling over the embankment, owing to a broken Grand Trunk Railway at Varney, between Durham and Palmerston on Friday afternoon" at 3.05 o’clock. List of the injured :â€"R. L. Stevens, Strathroy, traveler, spine hurt, ribs broken and internal injuries, pro- bably fatal; E. W. 'Pyke, traveler, London, ribs broken and collar- bone fractured; J. A. Cole, Lon- don, cut about head, face and hands; W. P. ' Lindsay, Toronto, traveler, hip and back injured; W. Wilson, Fergus, back badly injured, suffering from shock; John Boyd, Flesherton, head and face bruised, back apparently injured, shock; J. F. Simpson, St. Mary’s, right thumb cut and right shoulder inâ€" jured, left leg bruiéedj E J. Cos- ford, Woodstock, left hand badly out, two. fingers injured; J A. Hunt, Elbow, Sask., slight scalp wounds, and side of face scratched, right shoulder bruised; Mrs. J. A. Hunt, slight scalp wounds, baby, seven months old, .- unhurt; R. Wollcott, West Moncton, left hand out, right shoulder hurt, right knee bruised; W. Totten, conductor, bruised 9n back of head; â€" Small, brakesman, cut on back of head, right hip injured, and generally shaken up; Charles A. Sanders, Frank Warner and M. E. Horne, all of Durham, badly shaken up. _â€"JX4 GERMAN FLEET:S_BASE. .â€" ‘Warships to bc Transferred From Kiel to Wilhelmshafcn. A despatch from Berlin says: The Tasglich Rundschau announces that a cruiser. fleet of six small ships and four Dreadnoughts are to be transferred in April from Kiel to Wilhemshafen, and will be per- manently stationed in the North Sea. The journal explained that the transfer has nothing to do with An- glo-German relations, declaring that Germany is only following Eng- land’s lead in concentrating her naval strength in those waters, “under the prudent assumption that in the wars of the future the Imost important decisions will fall in the North Sea.” .._.._If< A new cure for cancer is reported number as high as 25,000, in itself a. city 1'31]; on the of respectable dimensions. The immigration of Jews into Toronto in recent years is estimated to be upwards of 1,500 a. year. In addition, the natural increase is very large, Hebrew families being quite as prolific as French-Cana- dian. Families containing twelve chil- dren are not uncommon. and six is re- garded as a small family circle. Now the invasion promises to take on an even more serious- aspect. Since the United States has increased the severity of its regulations governing this class of immigration. GREAT MONEY GETTERS. Many of the European Jewa arriving in Toronto come from conditions of inde- scribable overcrowding and poverty. But they do not very long remain poor. Their natural acquisitiveness is wonderful to behold. If the Jew makes only 50 cents a day heisaves some of it, and his sav- ings he puts into a business, or into real estate. There are probably twenty-five Jews in Toronto who are wealthy, that is, whose property runs into six figures. These in clude such men as Jacob Cohen. a prom- inent politician and now a police magis~ trato, "Judge" Cohen. as he is admiringly called by his fellows; Sigmund Samuel, head of a large wholesale hardware firm; Frankel Bros, dealers in scrap metals; 8. Frankel. the jeweller, and many others. The splendid residence of‘ the late Dalton McCarthy on Beverley street has been purchased and is now used as a club by wealthy Hebrews. The Jews do not assimilate. and this, is a. thing which causes food for thought, now that they are getting so numerous. They stick to their religion. Several of the churches have maintained missions to the Jews in Toronto for years, but it is doubtful if all told there are 100 converts to date. upon by their fellows as renegades. TORONTO'S WATER. Pretty nearly every visitor to Toronto during the last twenty years has been warned to leave “Toronto’s water alone." The supply was, in some cases. commonly supmsed to come from the polluted bay, and at some periods >it has been bad enough in all conscience. hoped that the days of bad water are about over. Indeed, civic boosters now declare the supply to be the purest to be fo'und anywhere on the continent. The ‘from Russia. which is said to have acity's waterworks plant as it stands to- lettnined a measure of success. day. has cost not less than $10,000,000. and they are probably looked ' It is to be Enforce Use of Broad Wheels ' i It is the aim of A. M. Rankin, M. P. P., for Frontenac, to have the proposed broad-tired wagon law take effect in Ontario on Jan. 1, 1914. The bill which he has intro- duced in the Legislature states that on and after that date, a wagon, dray, lorry or cart having iron or steel tires and used for conveyance of articles of burden, goods or mer- chandise, shall not be sold or of- fered for sale in Ontario for use on a public highway, unless the tires conform at least to the following widthszâ€" Fourâ€"wheeled vehicles, With capacity from 2,000 to 4,000 So if purity has not been secured it is not from want of trying. The latest ad- dition is the erection at the Island of a filtration plant, a huge structure costing over $750,000. And as a further precau- tion, the water is subjected to a chlorin- ating process, which is death to all germs, though it leaves an unpleasant odor and taste if applied too generously. The filtration plant is a concrete struc- ture which has just been the subject of a. rigid judicial investigation. There has been some suspicion that it might prove to be so faulty in construction as to greatly impair its efficiency, and the Judge himself has expressed some doubts. The tremendous nature of the task of supplying water for been laid;- and there are 76,601 individual water services in the city. effect on the caged songsfer. From the tips of his plumage to the heart of his song lt glves brilliant, sparkling vivacity. A cakc of this Treat comes in every package of Brook’s Bird Seed and in Brook’s only. Be sure you get Brook's. This splendidly balanced ration of clean, imported seeds, with Brook's Bird'l‘rcat for dessert. will fit your bird to render his purest, richest song. I We want you to find out how beneficial Brook's Bird Treat will be for your bird, and will send you 2. full-size. cakes of the Treat if you will mail us the coupon below. NICHOLSON 8: BROCK 9-11 Francis St., Toronto. For this coupon, please send me, free of charge or obligation on my part, two full-size cakes of Brook's Blrd Treat, and oblige. 48 u-uooâ€"Io-n-I- NAME .............. 12,- _. ,io ADDRESS .mond Vale Toronto may be'~ judged from the fact that on some days the consumption of the city as measured by the waterworks pumps is as high as 50,000,000 gallons. The average for 1911 was over $5,000,000 gallons a day.. To dis- tribute the water to the houses no less than 3,999 miles of water mains have . ' 3-,. ‘ ' pounds, 3 inches; 4,000 to 6,000, pounds, 4 inches; 6,000 to 8,000,“ pounds, 5 inches; over 8,000 pounds, 0 inches. On two-wheeled vehicles;‘ the tires shall be five inches wider: for capacity of 2,000 to 4,000 pounds and six inches for over 4,000 poundsg Wheels having a diameter of 4 L1 inches or less shall be one inc wider in each of'the above casesigl In addition to stopping the sale 0 narrow-tired rigs, the bill state further that on and after Jan. 1 1918, no vehicles of narrower tire than are prescribed above shall b driven on Ontario highways. c. \ CAPT. SCOTT, R. N., who head- ed the British expedition to the South Pole. ' A EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR MEN. Ten Others Imprisoned in Mino Near Vancouver. A despatch from Vancouver, B.C., says: A gas explosion on Thursday in the mine of the Diaâ€" Mining Company, at Barrett, B.C., ten miles northâ€"east of Vancouver, 13.0., killed four men and imprisoned ten others. Rescue apparatus has been sent. It is diffi- cult to get news from the mine, which is situated in the Nicola dis- trict, on a branch that runs from the main line of the Canadian Paci- fic. 'Is Homer Wilson of Windsor caught, .his foot in the railway track while; working in the C.P.R. yard and was, run down and kill-ed. ' All fence looks alike in the store. The test comes in year- by-year service under the sky. of tho galvanizing. Lock that. built to stand more. cannot touch this fence. for complete information. canted districts. ""5 Frame & flay Only The Fence Maker Knows What’s underneath The Galvanizing You cannot tell offhand what gauge or what quality of wire was used to make the fence you look at in the store. cannot even be sure about the goodness faithâ€"and you can safely put your faith in Leader Fence This is the fence of 9-gauge, tested hard-drawn thickly galvanized .and set. together with tho wonderful THREE-grip insures springlness that lasts. than you'd dare stretch an ordlnary wiro fenceâ€"it will stand it, because it is LEADER Fence lasts! LEADER Fence has the one lock that clamps verticals and cross-wires firmly and lastlngly together without danger of cracking the galvanizing. Thus. rust If you do not know our local agent, write direct to no Agents wanted in unrepre- erte for proposition. FENCE co. LIMITED, We could cheap- cn LEADER Fenre quality a fourth â€"and you'd nev- er notice it till you'd used it. You You must buy on smoothly and LEADER. Stretch LEADER Fence tighter steel wire. Queen St, STRATFORD. ONT. l i l l l l