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I got twd boxes and within two weeks I had improved wonderfully sod after finishing the fourth box I was completaly cured. They are the greatest pills I over used and I can recommend them te all sufferers. * 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, invigorating the nervous system, and acting as a f for the blood, improving its quality, mak- ing it rich and ved. Price 50 cents per box or 3 boxes for $1.25 at all dealers, or mailed direct om receipt of price by The T. Milburn Go., Limited, Toronto, Beaver Flour Makes More Bread because it is made of the Finest 'Wheat, Manitoba Hard and Ontario. 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 Flour mikes BETTER IT IS TO THE ADVANTAGE OF EVERY IN CANADA TO USE / WADE FOR OVER 50 YEARS. (ssvasusnEo 1082) 9 ha Sr EPPS'S ren down I was unable to walk across the | G. PYKES LETTER Accuses Writer 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 percolate through a newspaper and that the British Whig, with the late lamented Dr. Bill Teeples as commentator. Dur- ing all the subsequent years, 1 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 luscious 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, but what of the good fellows of that time? 1 am sure that "Thompson Hunter and Dan A'Hearn would still give up their | 'last chew" 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, 1 do not know who Grant Pyke is, but 1 | know what he is and will whisper it to you later 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- araling influences of a few scotches and sodas. Some of those articles were amusing and others made one '"'swear- tin' mad." I do not associate 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 your 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 pilow (lunch basket filled with mother's own make), and a smell in reach the car that would to heaven, a smell akin to stale sauer- kraut or a gasoline engine or both. These conditions are invariably com. ducive to bad dreams. Grant Pyke says: "I 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 69,900 farmers are living in misery in this country ? Of course, you do not, it is too absurd. (2) 'New settlers 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 heen knocking to and fro in this coun- try, and I have never seen a bin of wheat in a field yet, except in the threshing season. But suppose Nr. Pyvke'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 is 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, T have been four times over the line between Daysland and Winnipeg, within two months, and I have not seen half a dozen dead ani- mals, neither did Mr. P'vke. The fol- lowing statements [ will combine : "Settlers regard buying potatoes, ' as waste, they have no place to keep them. The best they can afford 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 Laborough, 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. 1 will admit that there are a large number of neo- ple, who are peor and who will al ways be poor, for the reason that they were not worth a brass button before they got here, and never will be. It 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, I will ask you to in- terview D. A. Cays, of Kingston, who was my guest in -Daysland, Alberta, for two weeks during this winter. Tm- mediately afterwards, 1 spent some weeks in Kingston. Ask Mr. Cavs and print the answer . yourself, which of these 'winters he prefers. It is true we have had, in some districts, an alarm- ing condition regarding coal, but this ia a very large country, and settlers are coming in by the thousands, so it is difficul4 .for the railways to keep un with the procession. It'is also true that- there is marge amount of grain nwnmoved in the ntry, 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 seuttle of coal is quite on a par with the rest of his statements, Now, 1 cannot sav that IT like the brutally frank man, who ifsists on ealline a spade a spade, it is frequently vulgar and invariably coarse, but 1 know of ao othér means of expressing what T° believe and know to be a fact, which i Grant Pyke is a "knocker" THE DAILY WHIG, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1907. Washburn, March 8. (To the Fdi- tor): Huving read the hard hits which have been given Nr. Pyke by our western friends, 1 will now give atlit- tle of my | . Four years ago 1 sold my able home, and, like many , rushed to the glor- ous west to make 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- tho! we can make tie money we hough the Porton sins. The west is certainly a fine place to make money, but a poor place to live. Mr. ('Riclly is one of the three per cent, of which Mr. Pyke speaks. Why should not a man who hasliv- ed in a country twenty-eight years, as John O'Rielly bas, be comfortable, that is, if 'there is such a thing - living comfortably in the west.? Be- 1 believe John O'Rielly had a fine sum of money to start with twen- ty-vight years ago. He says thero is not a = **gpen-bin" in. Manitoba. This is anything but the truth, as there are thousands of bushels of grain piled in the open in Manitoba every sear. y 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 families in Manitoba living in sod houses, and, worse than that, in single-boarded ones. 1 wonder would our eastern readers consider this living comfott- ably # No family, in my cstimation, lives comfortably on the plains during the winter. ey may have fine housc® and well appointed, but this does not proteet them, while hauling their produce, and doing other out- door work, where the thermometer registers thirty to sixty degrees below rero, and the wind blows almost con- tinually. 3 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, anl Nr. Pyke tells nothing absurd, as Mr.. Rielly would have believe, when he says the bread [recs almost as soon as taken from the oven. Nr. Pyke may have exhggerated a when he said thousands of threshing mackines were to be seen in the fills, but it is the truth that the majority of the machines are without Helter. This does not apply only 0 ilireshers, but to all machinery. Fastirners who have comfortable homes should .con- sider what Mr. -Pyke has said, and go and see what the west iz before they sell, for it must be remembered the real cstate men, and all whe are financially interested -have boomed the country: bovond all reason. I think John O'Riclly must be a real estate #grent, or, at least, broker for H, . Richardson, of James Rich ardson & Sovs, The west is cereainly a great place, but the new settler must endure ter- rible hardships the first few years, and the plains will never be a plea- sant place to live during the winter months.--A ONCE 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 attace to a cutter. When on the ice between Picton and Deseronto, Paylen accidentally drove into a hole and the horse disappear- ed. 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 ahd walked the remaining distance, Foes! 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, iting in Beamsville, the guests of Mr Smith, M.P. Mr. Beringer is there to 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 TT. FE. Owens, on a business trip to her sister in Petrolea: -------- : at ick headache Will positively cure Carter's Lit- d prevent its return. te Liver Pills. This is not talk but wuth. One pill & dese, See adver tisement. Small pills. Small dose. Small price. y A large number of the relatives and friends of Mr. and 'Mrs. Thomas Rich- ardson, who reside at Big Jalund, Prince Edward: countys, on, Thursday, assembled at their home to: celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. Up- wards of seventy-five were préient from Picton, Belleville, Napande and various places in Prince Edward county. Lomlon has 100,000 - night workers. Get Your Bowels To Move. Now see here a mini my friend; You ought to know t you can' cure on in the head, or heartburn and shooting pains in the stomach with headache powders and liniments. That stuff you rub on doesn't remove the caude. You han ot vig go down where. the trouble is. at you. wan to do ik to get your bowels to work. Take three Hutch to-night. Take one after each meal. Tt takes out these pains by stopping the fermentation of the food. It is easily taken, better than elixirs, sarsaparillas, iron and acid rations. Don't lose time J. F. Deringer are vis- | 4 attend-the annual meeting of the can- |' Beamsville. Mrs. John Bett is visiting LAMENT HIS DEATH A VALUABLE AND PATRIOTIC CITIZEN WAS G. K. MORTON. © -- Was Identified With Many In- . dustrial Concerns in the City --Held in High Esteen. St. Thomas Times - {endal Mordon, who Mary dence, "The Larches," was a gentle man of remarkable business capacity, cloarpess 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 seemed never to even think of. 'Mr. Morton was a son of the late George Morton, Ormerly of Brock: ville, a gentleman of great enterprise and energy, who in later life establish- od a settiement in Manitoba, where his other three sons, Louis, Andrew and John, brothers of the deceased, now reside. Their sisters are Mrs, Jo- seph Power of Kingston, Mrs. Jones of New 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 trainimg in busi: ness in a large wholesale house in Montreal, and the bank guickly . re cognized his ability as a financier by promoting him from the managership at Morrisburg 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 erected. 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 yn- 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 ol 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 accomplishments, a refined taste far music, and was a leading member of the committee which procurad for St, Thomas its first large pipe organ-- 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 na 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 leaves two sons. Harold, of the Imper- ial Bank staff in this city, and Fran- cis, who, with their mother, will have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. The eity has fost in Mr. Morton a good and patriotic | Morton | A Refreshing Stimulant -- FROM ADULTERATION. ERT 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 mast nourishing and appetizing meal. BISCUIT for Breakfast and TRISCUIT for Luncheon Ensure Comfort. All Gressrs--13¢c. a cartem, or 2 for SBe. 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