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BIG OPPORTUNITY IT IS A CHANCE LIFETIME. THINKS OF Thomas McMillan, of Huron County, Writes in a Manner That Must Appeal to Farmers, Advocate, The Farmers London It is certainly amusing to notice in vour columns occasionally the expres sions 'of some, who really work 'them. selves up to the pitch of believing that the present reciprocity agreement with our American neighbors, ff cerried in- to effect, will result injurious,y to the Canadian people, and that vour "us disguised friendliness" to the agree ment surprises them. The remarks of Mr. Scratch in vour vecent issue, is a very good sample, although | am pleased to pay him the compliment of dizcussing the question Hpon ils, merits, so far as he goes, which caspot be said of too many of the deliverances, which we notice, MH there is one fact, more than an- other, of which the farmers of Canada should be proud, it is that all the leading agricultural journals of the country have offectively shown' that their management is "big enough to discuss this question from the broad standpoint of the national welfare, and, that, from this exalted point of view, and without exception, they are enthusiastically in favor of ratifying the agreement Take, for instance, my friend's argu ment on the horse question. After tell ing us that the western provinces con stitute the greatest horse market in the world, he goes on to try to make us believe it will be ruinous * to On- tario and the east if this agreement is ratifid and our western farmers can their horses from the south. If that is fand 1 dispute it); what does it mean? It simple means that vur western farmers will be able, then, to get better value for their money in buying horses across the border; and if my friend were a westerner, . he would be enthusiastically in favor of she scheme We, as agriculturists, must realize that the government of this country is comunissioned to legislate for the whole of Canada, not any sectional part of it. According to his own argument, he has shown that this will be a good arrangement for the western farmer. li his argument proves to be true in any sense, it can only apply to the very medium and inferior grades of horses classes of animals which no govern ment should encourage their farmers to grow. What about the best classes the good drafters and gentlemen's fod driving, saddle and carriage horses ? These are the animals which always bring the profitable returgs. He secks to belittle the great horse market of the big cities of the eastern states. If this agreement materializes, Ontario and 'eastern breeders will still have the Winnipeg, Montreal, and other Canadian markets, and, in addi- tion to these, they will also have the groat cities of eastern states, which really is (speaking from the past ex perience of Ontario dealers, and for the vears that are to come) thy great- est market of the world for disthetly high-class animals of these two sorts, wery old horse dealer and breeder can well remember how we always lookea for our beet prices from the "Yankee dealers, as we used to call them; and when these purchasers are agoin allowed the freedom of our mar ket. and can step on the train in the evening,and be up into Ontario the next day, 1 predict (although no pro phet) that they will again be wel come Visitors, Ontario horses, being reared in the hardier climate, and nourished on the muscle-forming oat grain, used to have a distinct preference over American corned horses in their own masvet; and, without doubt, they will mand this preference again. So that, in the matter of the horse market be the two countries, speaking broadly, Canada has everything to gam and very little to lose. Then he talks about fruit, If we only consult the last published trade re turns (year ending March 31st, 1910), we find that 48,272 barrels of Cans dian apples jumped over the American tariff wall of seventy-five cents per barrel into the American market, That shows how the free trade wind will {mtario STOW the best in the world, and the rich bound to have the get 0 com tween blow can apple Americans are best In small fruits and vegetables, prices will be equalized to the general | con sumer hey will get this eacly Ame rican produce before similar Canadian products are ready to market) the duty less than they have to pay for such produce now, and Omtario pro- ducers will have the benefit of the big \ mer wan market later on in the -_n- son. hen we come to high.class beef cat tle, this is the line of which I have made a study. It gives me my bread and butter. 1 have taken a leading American live stock journal, and care. fully watched the trend of prices in both gountries for years. To ome who has done so it is surprising what non- sense is being written and expressed by those who oppose this agreement. Had I been allowed free access to the American market for my season's turn- over of beel cattle for the vear ending September, 1910, 1 am safe in saying that my returns would have been at least an additional £1,000. This ar. ra nent, will, if {elected, prove a Red ad to the Omtanio grower of high-class baby-beef. Every Canadian &tizen, and more particularly every \Ontario ' farmer, should deprecate the turning of the ratification of this agreement into a party issue. This has never been a party question in Wis country, Both political parties hawk most 'sarnestly Thin Hair on Top If Parisian Sage, the hair grower that J. B. McLeod guarantees, will not cause hair to grow w the hair is Shitming out, nothing on this earth w And we say to evervbody, vou can have your money back if Parisian Sage isn't the best hair grower, Bair saver, hair beautifier and dandruff cure on tae market to-day. It st abundantly, or wmoner back. Fille vents for a large bottle: Parisian Sage wakes the hair soft and brilliant and growth, desired it in the past. From the time of the abrogation of the. old fecipro- city treaty mn I866, that great states man, Sir John Macdonald, spent hie life seduloush: endeavoring bring shout a similar trade arrangement His very last appeal to the count: was for a further mandate from the people along this line. And now, when we have it almost within our grasp, why should we allow the professional pohici ians of this country to divert us rom the course ? In. the past, a spirit partyvism has been the greatest cree with which the Canadian farmer has swrounded himself. By it he has made himself the foothall of professional politivians to such a degree that, to- day, he has no effective voice upon the floof of parliament. If he will only profit from the action of other indus trial lines in this country, and give the timely warning that, henceforth, the true interests of Canadiaa agricul sure are his politics, he will at one awaken the dawn of a beter day, which will place the public life of this county on a higher plane, and cuable himself to sufficiently vindicate * the pre-eminence of his position as a mem ber of this all-impdrtant industry This present is<ue furnishes the op portunity of a lifetime to the faruers of Canada, and if they will only fol to of | blinded low the lead of the "big agricultural ournals," they will be guided wisely through the storm, and into the free and open ports bevond, y THOS. WMILLAN, Huron (o., AUTOMATIC SHOPS, Ont, Edison" Predicts They Will Come and do Away With Charity. "If some rich man seeking a worthy outlook for his money would install a series of automatic stores to be locat ed in the poorest sections of our large cities," Thomas A. Eglison in Business, "he could make five per cent cn the investinent and yet accomplish a benefit greater than any produced through the millions given in past, "With the stores would have they erything at wholesale. dispense only the necessaries, put up in penny and five cent lots. We al: ready know what can be done with automatic vending machines, and these could be adapted to the sale of packages of coffee, beans, peas, flour, sugar and all other staple foods, as well as fuel, "At presen. the market for such wares is just the raverse of what it says the purchasing power these could buy Them let them oy lea, 2 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MARCH : MILLIONS OF ACRES A BILLION DOLLAR ARGUMENT) IN. CANADA'S FAVOR. { i Over 300,000 US. Farmers Have! Carried Belongings Worth That | Much Across the Border in the | Last Nine i Arthur Stringer, who is recognized | as one of the best authorities on Canadian subjects, has an article in! the current number of Hampton s Magazine, which is very significant at | this period, pending the conveming of | congress to take up again the matter | of reciprocity with that country In the article, which is headed, "If Can. ada Should Come In," Mr. Stringer tells how an Idaho farmer walked in, | to the office of the commissioner of | immigration at Winnipeg a vear ago, | saviug that he was a stranger in that | section, and timing over tu the com. misdoner Bis old - wallet contaiving ¥20,000, while he went to get a claim located. The commissioner cepted the money as merely an inci | deut of the day's work, for that com. | missioner had come to know certain things. As Mr. Stringer says : "He knew, for instance, that than one hundred and twelve thous | and figures strangely similar to the | one who stood before him had in oue | summer trekked silently across 'the | international boundary into Canada. He knew that each man had brought with Am, on the average, live stock and cash and worldly goods 5 "the | agwunt of over three thousand dol- | Years. i land | ac- | more lars. He knew that in that same sum Can- | from with five | i i mer, on one train crossing into ada at North Portal, settlers the western states carried in them two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in actual cash "He was also uot ignorant of the fact that in this same city of Winni : peg where he stood, two hundred of | the larger business houses were pay | ing their hands with money that came | | | | out of an American pocketbook It did not greatly disturb him, for knew that Winnipeg could take of its own He had seen it emerge, thirty vears ago, from a little Red River fur post to a city of two hun dred thousand, an asphalt paved, sky scraped, many parked and boulevard od metropolis with twenty-three char tered banks, a municipal electric pow- er plant, with a eapae tv of 60.000 horsepower, municipal quarries, and | even a municipal asphalt manuf yetory, | he Care be. The rich, with the ability an {uantity, are able to pur should to buy by the poor, and bv our present meth ods this may not be obviated. "The automatic store--and it just as surely come as will new in-, ventions designed to reduce hand Inher through the adoption of more efficient machinerv--will pot only save through its ability to make quantity pur. chases, but will do away with clerks and cashiers, will in fact demand onh the presence of a single person, whose duty will be that of a general over: sever, "These stores, built of concrete, will demand little if any fire insurance, and must be kept sanitary even in the most congested districts by giving them pn thorough washing with a hose et nighl. Their economical operation, combined with their purchasing power, will make it possible for the man who earns & dollar and a half a day to buy as cheaply as the rich man." The Early Instinct. Boston Traveler After Morgitana, the maid servant of Ali Baba, had poured the boiling oil into the forty cans and destroyed the Forty Thieves, hor master asked her what he could do to show his grali tude "1 want two afternbons. out er * replied Morgiana; "with privilege of entertaining my gentlemen friends in the parlor. Then an hire a boy to clean the windows the rugs, and the washing and ironing must be done out of the howe In addition to tnis vou must raise my wages two sequinettes a week, Ali Baba gasped "Why, we are paying you five sequin nettes now," he said. Morgiana tossed her head "The wife of the cadi offered eight a week only vesterday.' So Ali Raba, realizing how bhaed it was to get good help in Bagdad, came the vou awd; nn terms Scribe Did "Marathon Stunt, The trainmen on the suburban had the laugh on a local "cub," vesterday He was going out on the train to meet No.l mail from the west. Just the other side of the K. & P. crossing he stuck his head out of the door and the wind carried his derby away. The train was moving too fast for him to jump so he had to wait till the «ta tion was reached. When. the train | slowed down he procured a cap from a bystander and hit the trail for the crossing in a way which edipsed Long boat entirely, It iscabout half a mile back to the crossing and the trainmen said he traversed the distance there and back in an incredibly short time, in fact they sav No. 1 blew for King. ston before he left and he was back be fore she arrived. -------- To Prevent the Grip. Laxative Bromo Quinine removes the cause, There is. only one "Brom Qu. inine."' Took for signature of LE. W Grove. Ne. His Wish, chase their foods and fuel at a Jittle fin 1909 it had 'inspected' over eighty more than a fractien of the prices paid Leight million bushels), and such being | brought alligators are diminishing in | 'and eighty {ican friends doubted this, thave "fle had seen it grow into the large est wheat market in the world (even | the case, he regarded it as ouly nn | tural that this same city had, during | will {that same summer, shipped six hun- | taken. dred steam plows into a single colony of Canadianized American farmers, to be used in breaking the virgin prair- | ie. Each one of these plows was able | to break one thousand, five hundred | acres of land, and that meant nine | hundred thousand acres for the hit And from that land, allowing for the low average of even twenty bushels | te the acre, would spring cighteen | million bushels of wheat---not orumary wheat, but wheat which grades hich est at the markets and sells quick est at the mills, No. } Canadian Hard !' "He also knew that five dred thousand American farmers liad crossed the border during the- last nine vears, and that month by meusth the movement was spreading and was gnthering momentum. He knew that they 'earvied with all told, be longings which approached dangerous Iv close to the billion dollar mark, and that this depletion of the Am ! erican west did wot take count of money uvested from the Land o the Free in Canadian stocks bonds He knew his business why those Americans caming to Canada, and he knew the of the country inte which coming, the possible wheat belt what"the rest of America had wont to regard "The Frozen, Zoue, weregated an a of hundred milthon only n i ! l over bun them, and other forat | Were things, He knew | many "was 80 in nature | they vere of | been | one acres, on little actually it remainder les i for the i over Six ] under prpat area wnillion acres are enltivation Fhe virgin prairie hur vr ilowshare, or lev lands awaiting "Had of now gre vither and val- | ol man fertile eo the 3 new-found \ he turned map and out to them the Mackenzie rolling from Great Slave Lake up to the Arctic He have shown that shed, second only that of the made up of one million, and twenty thousand square miles, constituting a country about mine times the size of Fngland and Ire- | land. " { "This is what th: Canadian senate | committee reported, after scientific) examination : "Within the scope of the committee's | inquiry there i a possible area of | 636,000 square miles fitted for the | growth of | Potatoes, 407.000 square | miles switable for barley, and S16, 00 square miles suitable for wheat . ). There is a pastoral area of 60,000 square miles, 26.0% of which 1s open prairie with oscasional « groves, the remainder being more or less wooded." ent any his ny uld | pointed | Basin, | to his rigl Ocean could this gre water. | in magnitude to Mississippi itself, | one hundred vas "Huvler's sweets," at Gibson's "Life ix something of a game afte all," said the eymical person. ] "Perhaps," * replied Mr. Meokton, "but [| wish Heorletta wouldn't regard it as bridge, with me forever playing opposite as dummy." Washington Star. Breaking In. he---So vou're staff artist on the Daily Whirl * Why, I never see your name dn anything. He---0Oh, 1 haven't that far vet. They just let * me make the cross to show whee the accident occurred. -- Chicago News. Undoubtedly True. Heri we could see as far mto the future as we can into the past what world be the result * Don't ery over spilt milk. Give the | cat a chance, "Fresh Huyler's sweets," Gibson's.) | The more style some people put op | the more collectors they put off. i This is One On Us, { But as usual we blame the man who | sets type. The item was made to read | "R130 to 2230.7 wheres: nt should | have read, "X saving of 3130 tn! R250." on every course in stehogra. | shy, is effected by the thirtv-day syl- | a-bic shorthand method, copirighted | by the Moon College, 220.2% Yonge street, Toronto. This error would | have been quite apparent, had he, for | a moment, stopped to realize that not | oaly are the fees reduced by one hall, but the length of study is reduced by from four to five months, and the student thereby carns a salary ust ~ Him--Oh, it probably would appear Just as unsal . wt this much earlier than under anv other {erica ean j countries {from {a few | Howers white; i that | | {sician, introduced coliee int CURIOUS HIDES IMPORTED, Millions of Skins Brought to New York From Latin America. New York Sur smony Lhe any curious be found on the wward manifests steamers trading between this port | and Latin-Amencan countries are dees | ns, of which many thousauds ure) things skins, brought bere annually, The deer skins thus imported athered in Mexico and Central and in the northern countries! of South America, including Brazil in these countries, where deer abou, | th re are many satives who. wake o living collecting deer hides, whic they bring by wuleback or foot to the various pieces where the importers' agents are found. The supply is still large, but with continued Filing the | dex in these countries are less plenti ful than they werd. . Deer skins are shipped dry in dles of a hundred each. i hey are tapn~d this country and used bere! m the ot hight atl me | din for men and wo- men Boar skins come from Mexico, ami the hides of the Mexican peccary, with fur or bristles of a pepper apd salt) mixture iu color, the best being al savage looking animal albve Lik; ueer skins, boar hides are shipped dry the boar skin heavier leath er than deer sin and is used for glove trimmings. Groat skins in large ported from the various Latin inca countries, the West 1 dies; but the great source of world's supply of goat skins China, Russia and the East n the order named. there are imported United States annually millions soat skins which are made into leath- ninety of which i mar ufacture of ped principally to the are brought of alligator mostly from Mexico and i United States of Columbia, with some! from Eeuador These alligators shot or from boats Athiga- tor hides are shipped wet salted I! never could | made are Aw bun: | in manulicture weizht ives eigh gluve makes a numbers are im including Indies | those the of | From mto send Goat er cent mm the skins per shoes ar' s dry From the countries south of the Unised States nally thousands au some hides, the Are speared they were once dried they be softened sufficiently leather To be kept in perfect condition the hot countries the alligator skinned and the hide salted right sway. Alligutor hides are shipped in vackages of seventy-five The supply is still sufficiesfs but in the countries hides are main! to be into in must he which the now There are too many hunters voung alligators number and are too many leather was in ol Formerly gome alligator wed for shoes and boots, but used chiefly the manufacture handbags and suit eases. Occasionally: there are brought manatee Or sen cow which come from Mexic The: are shipped wet salted. The manatee aide tans into a very thick leather, cheaper than walrus leather, but used itke it for the of bufing now m - here ides, p hides munking { wheels for polishing purposes sme a few tanned and made From Mexico also tiger «ub skins, which are { up mito rugs Facts About Coffee, Abyssinia and Arabia to twenty-five feet It's Frees grow fifteen native to | high, Leaves are o ergreen and leathery; beiries, dark-scarlet it does not retard the action of the bowels, as does stromg tea The grounds nutritious people eat them Americans consume are Asiatic over pine pounds 14 vear per capita A cup of coliee combains ninetveight cent. water and two per tritive material Roasted cofies beans contain « and fourteen per vhout six and a hal wl ne per water fat substitutes and three ent ereal er iat. Irees vield first crop wl vield about foriy veags leonhard Ram German per per third year in olf, phy Europe ts for cof lnndet adultern root, Substitutes i foe are roasted root, seeds of sweet potatoes Colles vellow ui allavs hanwer, exhilarates vefreshes, and possibly wear and diminishes apaonnt of Lear the mal frame. One for the Laird, York Sun a recent an New At tL arnegw dinner given b eminent law half way wn the tabb, was ) immersed in conversation with his neighbor, when the host opened np the subject of the Priticsh coinage svstem ver, | and showed sigos of wishing undivided attention. 'Every other civilized na tion,"' he declgimed, "has the decimal svstem, while England adheres to absurd and cumbrous table of pounds, shillings and peace." Rap-rap-rap. The raps were for the lawser, who remained absorbed in his own comver- sation. . "And even farthings,"' continued (ha master. "Is theve anything el finance so vidiewlous as the farth- pot the won m ing Lap-rap The lawyer glanced what impatiently. "Judge G--," Mr out, "why do the their edinage of farthings "To enable the Scotch to benevolence, Mr. Carnegie the lawyer around sone Carnegie called Rritish continue pra 1 ve returre | A Cywical Error. "Your daughter looked very heguti ful at the opers last wight." said Mis Oldcastle. "1 heard seviral people su they thought she was the best dressed person in any of the Boxes." "Yes," ceplied her hoslesgas she hung her S0.000 dog collar over the tack of real Chippendale chair, a | "both me and Josiah could see that she was the sineenre of all eves" -- Chicago Record-Herakd. "Fresh MoConkey's sweets," Gibson's A smart woman who kmows more than her husband is also smart ca- ough not to.dei him saapect it. A grin is merely a counterfeit smile. "Buy infalits' foods," at Gibeos's, swith a light Lan before PAGE SEVEN. 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' 'i t to the crown of the } . nishing b ' ribi 'S Herpicide Makes Elaborate Hairdressing Possible hi Pip \ tle HERVICIDE LES =~0 TRAST TTwsTs asa ase SRA ner aca asacast esses ar CATCHING TINY FIREFLIES, Expert Known to Gather 3.000 in «sapan aR grades dhe privat to an eves Homelimes times e8 are. an social fest garden parties at a they 3 Me released sence of guests th. re are rms employ rand -fapan mg men the lire flies Ar forth hag of mosquito netting a suit@ble water he : strikes the branches, twinkling masects, with his i hus to the gathered sanset the firefly hunter flarts with a long bamboo pole a reachainy growin «of " MAAS reads his wl the them casi: bh) done rapidly cover themse! enough the skilled cateher, te: put them at brands lightly them poke where they are Bat bere ae rs ground, up Very es sp g no Lie to pick them bag ip and Aprow onde uss boti LORS to his them he ean hold hg transier them to ila antl clock in the morning. sects Je the trees the soil. He then changes jus method He Brushes' the suriace of the ground brooss to startie insects into light: thee be gathers thew where holds unbarmed till he 3 MOS, an -s work lasts the ip ve for od af must | Sai dewy | thet An expert has been Rou' Beading of Big Gans Among wrmy and | nowa : muzrk inder the Experiment {| voulid guns of ty feet leng bout four hile buils {the wae ele ir wely of ites temo glace | distortions | have al Sin that has ta OnSaaence op tiles on loa: i wabbis motion, continning yards, and ] ------ gun ap+*io moe probatd Boy Pervaa," wt Giles "ELECTRO BALM" RES ECZEMA