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DRURY S Goal and Wood Yard 43, 285 Welltagton St. hw Symington's Packet 'Soups and Gravies Get Them at -D. COUPER'S Phone 76, 841-3 PRINCESS ST. {PERILS OF THE CONGO MR. AND MRS. HARRIS TELL OF LIFE IN BLACK AFRICA. Canadian Missionaryzand His Wife Whose Eviderice Led ty, the Re- forms of the Rubber Atrocities Have Passed Through Thrilling Adventures In Pestilential Marshes and Tropical Forests. Recéntly there arrived back in Lon- don a Cavsdian lady and gentleman who, as they sit together in an office, in the Vauxhall Bridge Road, within sound of electric tramears and the toting of motor-horng and all the noise of modern civilization, have re- cent memories of tropical forests sil gnt as death except for the cries of | BoOoTH & co. FOOT WEST STRERY. For Potatoes Land Plaster will start the plants in- to vigorous growth P. Walsh 55-07 BARRACK STREET. F. J. JOHNSON | THE. LEADING FLORIST 324 KING STREET. Special prices In Cut Flow- ers. See our window display. Wedding Bouquets and Floral Designs. Floral Sprays a specialty. 'Bweet Pea Seed In Bulk Named Varieties 'Phones: Store, 239. Conservatories, 236 Residence, 1212, wwe KINGSTON ICE COMPANY LIMITED. 1912 RATES: Book of 30 et to 26 1bs, each yok of 30 tickets, 45 to 60 Ibs. each Beek 3 $2.78, Ticket books must be purchased at the office before ice delivery com- mences. a2 fie STREET hone G8, Bhone 1138. 838-342 King St anlar dinner froms 11-2 pm. | orders at all hours. Most B ahd finest equipped dining the city. Weuse nothing best of foods. a Sucking rt the latest im- 5 han our table at- nee 1s courteous and obliging. » : A raryone enjoys nieals 3 af nm oy 5 oD. : AT ete, 4 Hum A WiLL CONVINGS. wild beasts, and of great journeys through pestilential swamps, and of adventures among black races to whom a white woman was marvellous. These two people are Rev. John H. Harris and Mrs. Harris, both natives of Ontario, and some days ago they told some of their adventures to a London paper. Both of themeare well known to all those people who helped to overturn the hideaus regime of King Leopold in the Congo. It was purely upon their evidence as missionaries and as eye-witnessespof thie atrocious brutali- ties of the old Belgiag administration that the Congo Reform Society based its great indietment, which triumphed at last over all the enemies of truth and humanity, Now for a year this man, and wile, comradbs in courage and suffering and peril, have been visiting the Congo again to investigate the conditions of the natives in the rubber countries under the new ad- ministration, and to go beyond the limit of those territories in « general exploration of 'the conditions of life and labor ,among the natives of Bouthern Nigeria and other parts of Central Africa. The tribes in the territories explored {by Mr. and Mrs. Harris include the | Aruwim} peoples, famous for their t hostility to Rantey's expedition; the Bangalas, why sufiered from the atro- cious cruelties of Lacroix and Arnold; the warlike Budjas, oppressed by the iron hand of fhe Lothaire's adminis- tration; "and" thé Mougos, decimated by the Abr. They also made a tour of-a wide area inn '$he Kasai territory, where in many districts the natives are in revolt against the present sys. tem of taxation and labor. | Mr. Harris has already published several reports on hig -investigatiens. He gladly admits that under the new regime atrocities appear to have ceas. ed. In territories where King Leo- pold's. agents formerly ruled by or. ganized torture the natives have new hope and a chance for oPdinary hu. man life. Nevertheless, there are still many abuses which call for remedy, and the new system of taxation presses heavily upon people who find it difficult to provide the number of francs demanded by the officials. Yet anything is better than the old tribute of rubber, the very memory ol which still has a terror for the native mind. Mr. 'and Mrs. Harris traveled for the greatar part of their long jour. neys on foot, with a body of native carriers with their stqres and bag gage. They suffered many hardships, and the long marches were a severe test for a lady's courage. For days on end they tram their way through the tropical undergrowth of great forests, where the high trees shut out the light of the sun, and at night they would pitch their camp and 8 in a little® tent, in these soli- t * Mr. Harris, tired out, would sl soundly, but Mrs. Harris, with more highly-strung nerves, would of. ten lie awake listening to the strange sounds that came from the dark forest. "I used to hear," she said, "the cries af birds, which sounded like wild shrieks, or with hamsh and hor. rible notes. Then there would be the bellowing of a hippopotamus, and sometimes the fierce voice of a leg. rd." The natives were afraid of and many a time at night they would abandon their posts of duty round the temt and steal away, be- causd they believed they heard the approach ofsofie of these beasts, leav- ne the open tent unguarded. in one march in the Bangala dis. trict the husband a wife had to walk across miles of marsh-land, so | like The Experience of Two Girls Here Related For The Benefit of Others. Rochester, N, Y,--"1 have a daugh- | Le old who has always been "very healthy until recently when she complained of dizziness and cramps every month, go bad that I would have to keep | her home from sehiool and put her to bed | relief. Wiring her two bottles of Pink 's Vegetable Com- she Ia now enjoying the best of | 1 want every good mother rotate hua dome fof | ange St., Rochester, N.Y. by a tersific tornado. gy that they sank up to the knees. FA frightful sme rose from the rotten Tegotanan and foul water, which splashed them up to the neck, wet ting them to the skin. walking over a prodigious sponge," said Mr. Harris. Wet con- tinvally, they tramped for eight days at the rate of 20 miles a day, and one day, when they had been walking from 7 in the morning until 8 at night in search of a village which they had been told: existed on a tributary of the Baugala river, they were lashed Shivering and soaked they arrived at the spot where they hoped to get shelter and refresh. ment to find that the village no long- er existed. They were without water and food for the carriers, they were exhausted by their long jomrney, they had been cut and pricked in the bush, and now, when they realized that they would have to push on further, some of the tall fellews, who were strong men and brave men, broke down and wept. "It was just The Demen of the Niger. The natives inhabiting the country near the source of the Niger believe Sas a devil lives in the rock from ence the river springs. They are very superstitious aud greatly fear | this devil, who is supposed to kill any person who dares to look at the Wheneve! 3 THE DAILY BRITISH CURED HIS COLD. ------ Queer Remedy That Worked Wonders For Lord Brougham. Lord Brougham's extraordinary cure for. a cold is described in the course of some extracts from a doctor's diary recently published in The London Lancet The famous lawyer and politician was in 1855 a constant visitor to Hel: land House, and en one occasion when he arrived he was suffering from a sore throat and less of voice. He ref to take any medicine, but sented 10 go to bed. The diary coulinues: "Toward two o'clock in the morning I was awakened by a loud rapping at my door, and on opening found Lord B. standing in his nightshirt ith an empty pitcher if his hand. In a voice almost unintelligible from hoarseness he announced that he wanted a can of boiling water, some carbonate of soda and a pot of current jelly. I thought he must be delirious, but as he was not to be put off by argument I thought best to paeify him by compli ance with his strange request. At that time of night, every one being fast asleep, the desiderata were not easily ubtainable. Nevertheless I set out on a foraging expedition. 1 woke up the old man of the kitchen, the old woman of the still room and re. turned with my spoils to the oddest of -men upstairs, Lord B. "He was quite ready with his em- pty washing jug and proceeded to empty the pot of jelly into this re- ceptacle, adding two large tablespoon fuls of soda and filling up the jug with boiling water, The result, a foaming mixture of blood red color and worthy of Macbeth's witches, he carried off in triumph to his room. At 6.30 1 awoke, and, with a guilty sense of having neglected my patient, I' went and rapped dt Lord B.'s door, first gently, then loudly, and receiv- ing no answer, stealthily opened it. On the floor was the jug, empty, as was also the bed. The room was in great disorder and the window wide open. 1 was really alarmed. hastily and, running downstairs to the library, found it untenanted. The floor was strewn with torn up papers, and on one of che writing tables lay a pile of letters' ready for post, all the work of my energetic patient. From @ housemaid who was dusting the apartment I learned that Lord B. had been up since five and was now gone out. 1 met his lordship at the breakfast table shortly afterward and found him perfectly well, his strange reinedy having worked wonders." An Historic London Street. Leadenhall street was so called from the lead roofed mansion of 8ir Hugh Nevill, which the city acquired for a court of justice. Few "London streets possess more interesting literary and historical associations. Here Peter Motteux, the translator of "Don Quix- ofe,'" kept "an East India shop," and p Gibbon's great-grandfather "did not aspire above the station of a linen. draper in Leadenhall street." East India House, where Charles Lamb and the two Mills were clerks, stood on the south side of the street, and 166 and 157 occupy the site where the - little midshipman in *"Dombey and Son" used to hang.~Westminster Gazette, -------- Seventeenth Century Grocers. Shopkeepers in the seventeenth cen- tury were subject to other restrictions than those respecting prices. It was enacted that "any person using the trade or mystery of the grocer should not either by themselves or any third party directly or indirectly, keep more than one shop at the same time." Gro. cers were also forbidden to sell any commodities except "raysons, cur- rants, sugar, spice, sope, candle, mo- lasses, gunpowder, shot, match, tar, pitch, rozen, tobacco and 'pipes, cot- ton wool, cotton yarn, starch, blue- ing, rise, linseed oil, white and red lead, olives, prunes, figs, Spanish white alabaster, alum, almonds, brim- stone, lampblack and candle rushes." ~--London Globe. Labouchere's Jest. Labouchere once said that political audiences generally applauded the sentences that were least intelligible, especially if they happened to be quotations from the classics. On one oecasion, while addressing a political audience, he said, "Gentlemen, what we want is government for the masses by the masses, or, in the words of the old Greek classic, 'Zoe mou sas aga- pol' " There was lond and prolonged Shearing. The por rid refrained rom spoiling the y confessing that the words, being translated into English, meant, "0 life of me, I love hee!" and were the last line of "Maid of Athens.™ Seriously Busy. The Earl of Elgin when he was vice. roy of India was not a good horseman, dud He was always rather and flustered when : "Returning to my room, 1 dressed. | the British Isles, which were only $e WHIG, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1012, "*™ . CANADA'S EXPANSION. The Dominion Is Swiftly Outgrowing | Her Facilities. Canada has long been known as) the Empires granary, and every year that passes strengthens its title to! that proud distinction. How great is the actual and potential capacity of! the Dominion as a grain-producing] country is illustrated by. some strik.| ing figures; based on complete agri. cultural returns for 1911, lately com. piled by The Monetary Times, of Toronto. . During the 'last four years the drea under. crop has increased from 27,500, 000 meres to nearly 33,000000, while the value of agricultural produce has risen from 86 1-4 to 113 millions ster ling. 'Despite the reduction in volume and quglity of last year's western crops, there was a net rise in value over the figures for 1910 of nearly $60,000,000, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta recording gains of $18. 000,000, $36,000,000, and $23,000,000 re. spectively, In 1911 another million acres were added to the area under wheat, bringing the total acreage up to 10,330,000, Wa Since 1901 the wheat area in the Prairie Provinces * alone has grown frome 2,500,000 to nearly 9,500,000 acres. In the decade Manitoba's out put has increased from 18,000,000 to 60,000,000 bushels; Saskatchewan's from less than 500,000 bushels to well over 97,000,000; and Alberta's from less than 1,000,000 to more than 36, 000,000. Saskatchewan is now the greatest single wheat-producing ares in North America. In estimating futyre developments, various factors have to be borne in mind. Only 66,000,000 acres out of a total available of some 225,000,000 have yet been taken up by settlers, and of this area less than a fifth represents land under actual cultiva- tion. Immigration ig hardly. likely to be less in the coming decade than in the last, and in 1914 two more trans continental railways will be complet. ed, and wil] render accessible much new land for settlement. Assuming that the ratio of expansion in the next tén years will be as great as it has been since 1901, it is calculated that there will be in 1920 a wheat area in the western provinces of 34,300,000 acres and a crop of 513,800,000 bushels, At 75 cents per bushel. this works out at the huge total of $384,750,000. In the light of sueh figures, there is evidently ample room for the stren- uous efforts that are being made to improve the Dominions' transport fa. cilities. Rapidly as the railway sys- i tems have extended, they have not { kept pace with the needs of the west, {| where the problem of freight conges. {.tion has lately assumed serious pro portions. In industry, as well as in agricul ture, Canadians confidently look for ward to a steady expansion of activ ity. A prominent member of the | Canadian Manufacturers' Association | places the number of existing indus. trial establishments at 20,000, repre. senting an invested capital of 200, | 000,000 sterling, and turning out fin. ished products of a like value an- nually, These industries are able to employ 500,000 persons, whose aggregate wag: es probably do not fall far short of fifty millions sterling per annum. A- recent survey by the Conserva- tion Commission showed that the pre. sent development has reached 1,061,000 horsepower. This represents but a tithe of the power which can be econ- omically developed as the need arises. Moreover, the great bulk of the coun. try's most important industries, em- ploying a large proportion of the cap- ital invested, are based upon supplies of raw material which lie ready a hand, and for the development of which cheap power is essential. Canada, therefore, it is added, pos. sesses the raw material, the power, and the necessary market. It only remains to secure a sufficiency of capital and labor in order to bring about a great expansion of industrial activity, Imperial Motor Traveling. BEGINNING OF CALGARY, When Marquis of Lorne Was Canada's' Governor-General. "Il remember," said Commissioner 8. J. Clarke in Montreal recently, "when a man could travel from the Rocky Mountains to Winnipeg with- out running much dénger of meeting a white man. There were a few white hunters tifat might be encountered now and again, but the great major- ity of the imhabitants of this section of the country were either Indians or half-breeds. "I remember the. springe of 1881, when Tom La Noze and I were shifted to Calgary. from Fort McLeod bar- racks to take- charge of the old log Fort Calgary, which was then all that existed of the present city of Calgary. You might think from 'Tom's name that he was French. He wasn't. He was as Irish as Paddy's pig, and a corporal in the RN.W.M.P. "I remember that same spring when Constable Beattie and I were detailed to take the Marquis of Lorne, then Governor-General of the Dominion, over the rapids-at the mouth of the Elbow and Bow near the present bar- racks. It was in an old Hudson Bay boat, twelve feet long and three feet wide that we shot the rapids. In those days, right at the mouth of the Elbow there 'was a fair-sized island with good trees on it. been swept away, and-the island is now below water, "I remember that the special diver- sion planned for the marquis was a round-up. Up at the Cochrané ranch, then the biggest in the country, they gathered cowboys, from all the neigh- boring ranches. The piece de resist ance was an exhibition of broncho busting and lariat work on wild cattle. The marquis had driven across goun- try. from Battleford to Fort Calgary. He had a train of 150 teams and a detachment of mounted police as es- cort. We had information of his ap- proach months in advance, "I remember that his advance itin- erary included a trip from Fort Cal ary, up the Bow, to the Blackfoot 'Indian reserve. We set about to pre. pare for this journey, and built a number of boats to take the party up the river. The marquis on his arrival decidéd to alter the program, and his party traveled overland through Mon- tana instead : : "I remember, even further back than. that. In 1877, I built the first log shack at Pinto Horse Butte, 62 miles this side of Wood Mountain. We built the camp for the purpose of watchi: the Sioux camp and Sitting Bull his followers after the Ouster mas. sacre. The main camp of the Sioux numbered in the neighborhood of 10, 000 men. "I remember eamnother takes issue with history. Sitting Bull has been, and frequently is, mention- ed as the head chief of the Sioux. Among the Indians he was no chief, simply head soldier. In that Bioux camp the chief's council numbered 400 men, and Bitting Bull could not attend the sessions excep$ on invita. tion, "I remembér that we left Pinto Horse Butte in the fall of '77 for Fort Walsh, where 1 stayed a few months before ore transferred to Wood Mountain. After a year I went back to Fort" Walsh, and in the spring of '79 I went to Fort McLeod, 'At Fort McLeod I stayed until the spring of '81, when I left with Corpl. Knowles for Fort Calgary to take charge of the stores there. "I remember that during the fol lowing year I left thé force to enter business in Calgary for myself. I have lived in Alberta for thirtysix years, and from the oldest to the youngest my family is composed of genuine homegrown Albertans. "I remember -- Oh, but that's enough," said the commissioner, as he hurried away to a parks board meeting. --Montieal Daily Star, oint that "Squirrels as Tree Planters. Contrary to common belief, the gray squirrels of Canada do not lay up their winter store of.nuis in mass, but bury each one separate and apart from the rest, and for this reason Many prominent British motorists are being encouraged by articles in London papers to bring their cars to Oanada, which has not enjoved a favorable reputation for good roads. Tours through the overseas dominions, instead of the continent, are becom. ing" more and 'more fashionable. So ciety is quick to follow the lead of the Court, and you will have noted dulge in continental traveling as did the late King Edward. \ Another peer who is turning his at Vaio to Canada is Earl Stanhope, who, at a recent lecture, said that he did not pose as an suthority on the subject of Canada, but that in his recent tour around the world, he spent some considerable time in the principal towns of Canada. His whole wip covered twenty thousand miles, he went twice across Canada. was thirty" times the size of one-hundredth part of the British Em. pire. wepe far more possibili- | ties of Canada becoming a rich and rful 'nation than the United ates aver had or ever would have. possibilities were in her exten. wheat flelds, which, year by Jeais wre 'extending still further that the King and Queen do not in. | they are mature's most important chestnut, hickory, and walnut tree planters. The nuts are hidden in the ground, 'often at a considerable dis- tance from ome another, and either by instinct or a remarkable memory the squirrels will penetrate through several feet of snow when in want of food and seldom, if ever, fail to find the hidden treasures. | They do not need or use the ome- tenth part of the provendér they have | hidden away in the ground, and what | they do not consume germinates the next spring, and in this way 'we get our uniform muttree forests, which would otherwise grow in clusters un. der the parént tree where the nuts have fallen. In their burying operations squir- rels often cover a large area of ground, seeking the most favorable spots fer hiding their food; this ace counts for trees springing up in the most diverse places. ' Convenience of Dialect. During his recent visit to Canada, Rev, R. J. Campbell, 'of the City Tem. ple, London, is said to have related a few amusing little stories, for he is an accomplished taconteur. 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