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P hoy way, New York: A; AITERN, Sec'y., I Gi PRRELBE VE, -NewYorkChinese Restau 83 Princess Street The best plac to wet a8 olf round Lunch ia the citys Meals of all "kinds Baglin Triple. tons, pro- St. Thomas amd [ A Living (GHOST! Thal 4 What Her Friends Said About Her Read how Mrs. James Steels, Water ville, Que., was cured by the use of MA.BURN'S HEART AND NERVE PILLS : she writes: ** For the past fourteen months I was nerveus all the time, and became so run down I' was unable to walk across the | 4}, | 'lust chew" mE pany G. PYKE'S LETTER Accuses Writér of Making False Statements and Sets Forth His Side of the Story. Daysland, March 5.~(To the Edi- tor) : It is well nigh unto forty years ago that I, with an ever increasing crowd of neighbors, met at the corner grocery and, for the first time, heard the affairs of the universe te through a newspaper and that the British Whig, with the late lamented Dr. Bill Teeples as commentator. Dur- ing all "the subsequent years, I have never ventured to inflict myself upon that widely read and much respected household necessity, the Whig. 1 should like some day to go over the ground again (through your paper) and bring under review the ups and downs of the youths of my 'earlier days, in and ab- out the village of Inverary, in the township of Storrington, in the pro- vince of Ontario, to wit: Where the sweetest apples and the most luscidus melons ever grew (and the darker the night, the better they tasted), and who could forget those 'sugar off" nights below the hill, when that highly re- spected fellow-countryman, William Ferguson, Esq., was sleeping the sleep the reward of honest toil and a clear conscience. Ah me! those were the happy days indeed, hut what ; of the good fellows of that time ?°1 am sure that Thompson Hunter and Dan A'Hearn would still give up | their to any one of us who had not the where-with-all with which to uy. It was not of such as these that 1 commenced my letter,but of affairs in the Canadian West, with special re ference to Grant Pyke, and his letter to you of February 13th. Now, I do not know who Grant Pyke is, but 1 know what he is and will whisper it to you latér on. I have read many articles anent the Canadian west, many of these historic efforts the data for which, was obtained through the car window and - the "colu'd gennel- man" porter, combined with the exhil- ng influences of a few scotches house without getting gizxy. My friends and sodas. Some of those articles were told me I looked like a living ghost snd advised me to try Milburn's Heart and tin' mad." 1 do not associate Nerve Pills. I got twd boxes and within two. weeks I had improved wonderfully and after finishing the fourth box I was completely cured. They are the greatest pills I ever used and I can recommend them te all sufferera. " Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills act directly on the disordered heart and nerves, and restore them to healthy action. They have no equal for reviving and strengthening the heart beat, invigorati the nervous system, and acting as a f for the blood, improving its quality, mak. ing it richaad red. Price 50 cents per box or 3 boxes for $1.25 at all dealers, or mailed direct om receipt of price by The T. Milbura Go., Ligited, Toronto, Ont: Beaver Flour Makes More Bread because it is made of the Finest 'Wheat, Manitoba Hard and Outario. Beaver Flour has "strength ™ ~takes up water readily--and the dough " stands up " in the oven. Beaver Flour bas * Flavor." Every good Bread, Pie and Pastry maker knows just what that means. Beaver Flouy make BETTER Bread, and @ADE FOR OvER 50 YEARS. (ssvasuieneo tesa) E.W.GILLETT Sura "TORONTO.ONT. S'S A Geticions drizk and a sustaining ood. Fragraut, amusing and others made one "swear- Grant Pyke with Pullman sleepers, but I should say he had a horrible night- mare, the result of several days in a second class colonist car. These cars are dreadful. I have tried them. With vour back humped up on an iron clad seat till your spine is almost broken and your legs hanging out over the iron rail, and your neck twisted hold- ing down your pillow (lunch basket filled with mother's 'own make), and & smell in "the car that would reach to heaven, a smell akin to stale sauer- kraut or a gasoline 'engine or both. These conditions are invariably con- ducive to bad dreams. Grant Pyke says: "l do not think that one hund- red families live comfortably on the plains during the winter months." This question can be answered by ask- ing another: Do you think the balance 6,900 farmers are living in misery in this country ? Of course, you do not, it is too absurd. (2) "New, gettlers are usually forty to fifty miles from a railway." Pick up a map of this coun- try and you-«will find that not one per cent. of the people live forty or fifty miles from a railway. (3) "Settlers raise nothing the first year and the next have several hundred bushels of grain, usually put in a bin in the field." For twenty-one years, I have been knocking to and fro in this coun- try, and I have never seen a bin of wheat in a field yet, exeept in the threshing season. But suppose - Mr. Pyke's statement was correct, let us ask, what would a settler without any available means, accomplish on a farm in Ontario in two years ? Would he have, several hundred bushels of wheat ? From my recollection of On- tario farming, it would be several hundred cords of stone, piled in a heap in the field. (4) "Next spring, he must dispose of his mortgaged grain nine times out of ten, second quality, dirty, frozen and wet." This 1s false on the face of it. Look at.the elevat- or returns in the Winnipeg daily pa- pers. (5) "Thousands of cattle dead on the ranges." Now, I have been four times over the line between Daysland and Winnipeg, within two months, and I have not seen hall a dozen dead ani- mals, neither did Mr. Pyke. The fol- lowing statements [ will combine : "Settlers regard buying potatoes, as waste, they have no place to keep them. The best they can afiord is, usually, old bread, that has been froz- en and fortunes are made by only 3 per cent "of the people." 1 will answer these all together. Did Mr. Pyke visit the Keelers of Lauder, Manitoba, for- merly of Battersea ? Did he visit the colony of Pixleys from Loborough, in the Red Deer district of Alberta ? Did he visit W. Perry, of Portage La Prairie, George Claxton of Gladstone, and George E. Moore of Lauder, all old Inverary boys ? Any one of these can buy out any ten farmers in a row they. left behind them. I will admit that there are a large number of neo- ple, who are peor and who will al wavs be poof, for the reason that they were not worth a brass button before they got here, and never will be Tt ia also true that we had a hard winter, the hardest in the memory of man, but as 1 require to use names to prove my statements, 1 will ask you to in- terview' I). A. Cays, of Kingston, who) whe my guest in Daysland, Alberta, for iwo weeks during this winter. TIm- mediately afterwards, 1 spent some weeks in Kingston. Ask Mr. Cavs amd print the answer yoursélf, which of these winters he prefers. It is true we have had, in some districts, an alarm- ing condition regarding coal, but this is a very large country, and settlers are coming in by the thousands, so it ix difficult for the railways to keep up with the pirocession. It is also true that there is a large amount of grain wnmoved in. the country, but surely that is better than not having grain at all. Grant Pyke's statement that mothers with babies in arms were beg- ging and crying at the station for a souttle of coal is quite on a par with the rest of his statements. Now, 1 ennnot say that I like the brutally frank man, who ifisists on ealline a 'a soade, it is frequently vulgar ; and invariably coarse, but T know t 1 ot | lng. WHIG, believe and. know ee Bt E. W. DAY FAR -- Poor Place To Live. $0 be a (act, which e is a "knocker" in him.--Yours Washburn, arch B.-(To the Bdi tor): Huving read the hard hits which have been given Mr. Pyke by our western 1 will Dow give a lit tlo of . Four years ago 1 wold IT able home; ar like many y-rushed -to the glor- ous west to my, fortune. My wife and I endured the privations and hardships for three years; then decid: ed Frontenac was the place for us, sold out, and were glad to get back where one could live comfortably, al- tl 'we cannot make tie money we on the Portage plains. The west "certainly a fine ip to walks mon a poor place to live. r. hy a one of the three per cent. of which Mr. Fike speaks. Why should & man who has liv. ed in a country twenty-eight years, as John O'Rielly bas, be comfortable, that is, if 'there is such a thing as living comfortably in the weet? Be- sides, 1 believe John O'Riclly had a fine sum of money to start with twen- ty-vight years ago. He says thero is not. a single "open-bin" in Manitoba. This is anything but the truth, - as there are thousands of bushels of grain piled in the open in Manitoba evary year, As for the wealthy, who have the 25,000 bushel granari.s, they leave the entire work to hired help, and live in some fine city; it is ideal; but for the man who goes in with a small sum of money it is a difficult problem, and every word Mr. Pyke wrote is the truth. There are hundreds of fauiilios in Manitoba living in sod houses, and, worse than that, in single-boarded ones. | wonder would our eastern readers consider this living comfort. ably, ? No family, in my estimation, lives comfortably on the plains during the winter, ey may have fine houses and well appointed, but this their produce, and doing other out: door work, where the thermometer registers thirty to sixty degrees below vero, and the wind blows almost con- tinually. It is true, 'most of the old settlers have good houses, and few may keep things from freezing, but in ninety per cont. of the houses everything freezes, and Nr. Pyke tells nothing absard, as Mr.. 0' Rielly would have believe, when he says the bread [freezes almost aw soon ns taken from the oven. Nr. Pyke may have exhggerated a, little when he said thousands of threshing mackines were to be seen in the Cells, but it is the truth that the majority of the machines are without :Helter. This does not apply only 0 iliveshers, but to all machinery. Eastérnors who have comfortable homes should con- sider what Mr. 'Pyke hos said, and go and see what the west is before they sell, for it must be remembered the real ostate men, and all who are financially interested have boomed the country: md all reason. I think John O'Riclly must be a real estate @gept, or, at least, broker for. H, I. Richardson, of James Rich- ardson & Sous, The west is cercainly 'a great place, but the new settler must end ter- CITIZEN WAS G. K. MORTON. does not protect them, while hauling' ---- | Was Ddentified With Many In- | dustrial Concerns in the City --Held in High Esteen. Thomas Times x George Kendal Morton, who breathed his last yesterday mom ing at his Mary street resi- dence, "The Larches," was a gentle man of remarkable business eapacity, cloaryess of perception and unremit- ting industry. Indeed, there is too much reason to think that Mr. Mor ton at last fell a victim to his own fondness for and close application to office work, from which he took no're- spite or recreation, while a holiday he soemed never to even think of. Mr. Morton was a son of the late George Morton, rmerly of Brock: ville, a gentleman of great enterprise and energy, who in later life establish- od a settlement in Manitoba, where his other three sons, Louis, Andrew and John, brothers of the sed, now reside. Their sisters are Mrs, Jo- seph Power of Kingston, Mrs. Jones of Now York, and Mrs. Dean of Mont- real, G. K. Morton came to St. Thomas thirty years ago, as manager of the Molson's Bank. He had had some years previous training in busi- ness in a large wholesale house in Montreal, and the bank quickly re cognized his ability as a financier hy promoting him from the managership at Aor to the charge of what was considered an important branch that of St, Thomas. It was during his occupancy of this position that the handsome west end office of the bank was erccted. Mr. Morton subsequently resigned his position in the bank, and for some years devoted himself chiefly to the management of the large estate left by the late Sherifi Munro, a duty which he performed, we understand, to the satisfaction of all concerned. This naturally led him to private banking and broking, in which he has been largely engaged for many years past. Mr. Morton was, however, of too en- terprising a disposition to be content with the ordinary routine of a brok- er's business. Ho was one of the origi- nators and builders of the first St. Thomas street railway, a _ horse-car line, afterwards absorbed into the pre sent street railway system. He is un- derstood to have taken a leading part in the formation of the Grand Central Motel company, was president of the Provincial Provident Institution, a large insurance society, which was ab- sorbed by the Mutual Reserve Fund Society of New York, and for the past year or two has devoted his great en- ergy and business ability to the ser- vice of the local acetylene gas plant company, which is said to have made a marked advance under the intelli- gent supervision and management Nr. Morton, orders for gas machines manufactured here having been placed by him in several distant quarters of the world. Mr. Morton possessed, among other lish t8, no refined taste lar St. rible hardships the first few years, and the plains will never be a plea- sant place to live during the winter months.--A ORCE WESTERN FARM- ER. SAVED THE MAIL. A Horse Went Through Ice and Drowned. Picton, March 12.--The . mail which left . Picton post office on Saturday night at six o'clock, to go via stage to Deseronto, and thence by railroad, cast and west, was for a short time in imminent danger of landing at the bottom of the Bay of Quinte. William Paylen, in the employ of Charles Smith, Picton, liveryman, who has the mail contract for the late afternoon service out of town during the winter months, was driving "the stage. He drove single attac to a catter. When on the ice between Picton and Deseronto, Paylen accidentally drove into a hole and the horse disappear- el. The animal, a valuable beast was drowned. The opening in the ice did not admit of the cutter and it and its contents remained on the ice." Paylen shouldered the mail bag and walked the remaining distance. Local horse men have been unfortunate this win- ter. Four valuable horses of Picton owners have been drowned. The $700 pacer of B. R. Hepburn, the $300 pair of George Martin, and the one in this last instance. : Mr. and Mrs. J. Fi Deringer are vis- iting in Beamsville, the guests of Mr. Smith, M.P. Mr. Beringer is there to attend the annual meeting of the can. ning factory of that place in which he as secretary-treasurer 'of the Bloom- field Packing company, is interested. H. A. Pearce, Montreal, spending a few days in Bloomfield, - accompanied "by T. E. Owens, on a business trip to Beamsville. Mrs. her sister in Petrolea. ---------- cure sick headache return. . Carter's Lit- This is not talk but Will positively and prevent. its tle Liver Pills. . One pill lose. See adver- rt Butall pills; © Small dose. Small price. A large number of the relatiyes and friends of Mr. and 'Mes. Thomas Rich- ardson; who reside at Big Island, Prince Edward: covutyg, on; Thursday, assembled at their home to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. Up- wards of seventy-five, were present from Picton, Belleville, Napanee and various places in Prince Edward county. London has 100,000 night workers. Get Your Bowsls To Move. Now see here a niinute my friend. You ought to know that you can't cure pains in the head, or heartburn d shooting pains i mith headache powders and liniments. That stuff you rub on doesn't remove the cause. You have go to go down where the trouble is, What you want to do is to got Jou bowels to work. Take thre¢ Hu to-night. Take .one after each meal. Jt takes out these pains the food. Tt is than elixirs, sarss| be 8 acid preparations. Don't lose time + th such things, but start us- utch as quickly as you can. Itd easily taken, better jron and John Bett is visiting ts, music, and was a leading member of the committee which procured for St, Thomas its first large pipe ergan-- the original Trinity church organ. He was churchwarden also of that church for a year or two, shortly after the erection of the church. It was natural that Mr. Morton should seek the hand of a lady of musical taste as a life partner. His widow. whose grand-par- ents were among the earliest settlers of St. Thomas, is an accomplished pianist. Her father, C. D. Paul, is a native of St. Thomas, though now re- siding in New York city, Mr. Morton leaves two sons. Harold, of the Imper- jal Bank staff in this city, and Fran- cis, who, with their mother, will have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. The city has Tost in Mr. Morton an good and patriotic A Re freshing Stimulant THAT IS PERFECTLY HARMLESS BECAUSE IT IS FROM ADULTERATION. A GREEN TEA, : A Perfect Luxury for Japan Tea Drinkers Lead packets only. 26c, 30¢, 0c, 500 and 80c per Ib. At all grocers IT'S NO HARDSHIP TO FOREGO MEAT IN LENT IF YOU HAVE It's a bone, muscle, . and energy producer, Served with hot milk or cream it makes a most nourishing and appetizing meal. 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