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" . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1918, r pS a000ee0000000es ANCIENT RHINE. THOUGHT | A Canadian HE WOULD DF PAGE FIFTEEN lr ) AT THE HOTEL RANDOLPH ON THURS. In peace, as well as in war the! If there is any one good thing that DAY, & FRIDAY, SEPT, 26TH & 27TH, Mounted Police have served Canada 'came out of that Datitlest Nazarorh, (During the Fair), 4 well. They have given the Northern the Vienna Congress o 15, it was RENW, reaches of the Dominion avorld pre- the pact which internationalized the | DO END S OF TORONTO eminence for efficient ap thorough River Rhine. But that agreement wa administration of law, grotection of put into force more than a hundred life and property, compelled respect years ago, has never had much hold for fhe machinery and the agents of on the human imagination. On the British justice. They have convoyed contrary it is "Die Wacht am Rhein" | and protected settlement--broken up which has held the world in leadine- ; smuggling and illieit whiskey run- Strings, 'One does not think of the | ning -- established and maintained Rhine in terms of an international postal communications--safeguarded river, though its source is in Switzer- railroading and surveys--performed land and its mouth is in Holland. a thousand and one onerous yet hum- One is apt to forget that its bed ble services, and cach of these efi- forms a frontier of Alsace, and to ciently and well. They have fought overlook Napoleon's fantastic claim prairie fires for the settlers on the to Holland as a country built up of Plains parched by the summer sun. Rhine deposits. The fact is that for They have, with equal readiness and ug the Rhine is colored through the with parallel courage, battled great patriotic song of Germany, try against blizzardsandthe winter perils what we may to avoid it; the Lorelei of the desolate mountains, to Pre- is to us a siren out of German myth, | serve the lives of foolhardy and ever- the Rhine maidens guarding the pre- yenturesome argonauts following the tious Rheingold are German women, lure of the Golden Rainbow to {ts and the legends and saga of the foot in the Klondike snows. Rhine have a purely German Impress. It was Sergt. Fitzgerald® who first But, after all, these are but aca- visited Herschel Island mic prejudices which tend to dis- hotior of establis jtort "the facts. © The geographical at (hat far distant pot in the ice- 'argument for internationalization of bound Arctic, the mbst northerly sta- [the river cannot be gainsaid. tion of the world, to whieh twice (hardly needs to be assuréd that the yearly the police dog-teams made Rhine is, in essence, the common pro- their scheduled pilgrimages. It was perty of several nations, that "The Fitzgerald, too, who silently trafled Watch on the Rhine" is an anachrop- Labele, the triple murderer of the |tsm as a German eall to sole wateh Klondike, around the earth, amd ulti- land ward, It fits into neither our mately brought him back to the Scend lage 'nor our modern sense of the of his crimes, to pay the penalty and growing interdependence of nations. demonstrate again 'the foree's work- Its seatiment survives from the per- ing motto ; fod of the Holy Roman Empire, when "We always get our man.' the Hapsburgs ruled over the entire Constable (later Corporal) Con- course of the stream within their radi it was who, while patrolling a ramshackle states, and modern Ger- fire-swept district, heard of a ranch- many had not yet emerged. Most em- er with ten children cut off by the Phatically the Rhine is not and never wind-swept flame. They could not has been a purely German river, and be reached or saved, opinions agreed. its custody rightfully devolves con- | \ They mus. be, sald Conrad. He the nations who own its ------ - GETTING THEIR MAN. : Some Anecdotes of E Riders. of the Why the Germans Seek to. Control Plains, Great River, Homestead dD OGIO HE typical 'homestead of the Canadian prairie js open to the four winds of heaven. It is possible there is a road leading to it, but one should not rely upon that. The ocular evidences of a thoroughfare are Dot everything in this great, level land. It would be safer to accept the friendly guide of a compass than to be deluded by the path which, now beaten, now dim, here wide and there merging into the ploughed furrows of the "fields," may bob up again by a swaaip, or else disappear altogether in the ten- der haze of the horizon line. The homestead can be seen miles away, a fixed ' though minute point; the "road," on the other hand, makes ny pretense to constancy or 'Permanency. The homesteader who. built the house on the treeless, virgin prairie, or who intends to build one, usually hires himself out to an established farther in a kind of preliminary ap- 4 Prenticeship. This hiring is one of "the essential steps in developing his qualifications. He. has to get his hand in, to increase his wherewithal, to acquire the practical knowledge requisite for working his land. As a "homesteader," he has Secured a tract of unappropriated land not ex- ceeding 160 acres, on condition of settlement, cultivation and continu- ous occupancy as a home by him for a definite period, and the $ayment of certain sums. His Initial task is to "break" the prairie, so that the soil can be penetrated alike by sun and frost and transformed into a light, friable mold. So one day, fortified Big Sacrifice In All Our Summer Wear 4 All Men's Oxfords with Jeathe ] er and Neolin soles and gun i metal mahogany calf, Teg- ular $6.00, $7.00 and £8.00, 4 Will be sold at half price. Also all our White Canvas high and low shoes will be sold at Half price. Call and sce thesebargains as they ' must be cleaned out this SC. son. The Model Shoe Store H. Rotgauze. 184 Princess Street. Wy Invite you to their display of the newest ereations in artistic hairgoods. If your own hair Is thin, dun and un- = on becoming, let us de- monstrate just what | can be done to sup- Ply your lack of hair, and how perfectly it Is accomplished. TV ya MA. n Little Bras d'Or, C.B. "I was a terrible sufferer from Dyspepsia and Constipation for years, I had pain after cating, belching gas, constant headaches, and did not sleep well at night. I lost so much weight ~~ going from 185 pounds to 146 pounds--that I became alarmed and saw scveral doctors who, however, did me no good. Finally, a friend told-me to try 'Fruit-a-tives, In a week, there was improvement, The constipation was corrected ; and soon I was free of pain, headaches and that miserable feeling that accompanies Dyspepsia. T continued to take this splendid fruit medicine i==Switches, Transf mations, Chignens, Bte. FOR BALD MEN: --DORENWEND'S TOUPEE. will make you look years younger and improve your health. Light as a} feather and indetectable on our } sanitary patent structure. This display is for 2 days only, Sept. 26th and 27th. Appointments can be arranged at residence if desired. THERE 1S No CHARGE FOR A 2 DEMONSTRATION 4 THE DORENWEND COMPANY, Of Toronto LIMITED. Head Office: --103-105 YONGE ST. Waves dahdukakahak a Vy Ahhh dh 4 4 4 » 4 Go To Robinson and Wiltshire's Garage For Repalyr Work of Al Kinde, Vuleanizing -- Cars Washed We sell gasoline, oils, tires and en, ries, Open Day and Night. 239% Bagot Street Phone 242. and now I am well, strong and vigorous, ROBERT NEWTON, 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25¢. At all dealers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. NEW LAWN MOWERS ARE COSTLY. Jet your old ene sharpened, re- aired or refitted at moderate cost. Parts supplied for all = I ¥ ~N Preserving and Pick- ling Season Requires 'the best and purest vinegar and spices. Our stock is selected with care and will give 'satisfaction. C. H. PICKERING Grocer and Meat Dealer, standard machines. John M. Patrick 149 Sydenham Street. 'Phone 2036J. Whenever yousensea sick headache, or feel a bilious attack coming on, ward it off by the timely use of 400 and 492 Princess St. * Phone 530. License No, S-2152, ee re ese) isn't quite sure of their merit. Even a truthful man can pose as A Successful bait jdigger. L | BEECHAMS Many a timid man gives another credit for his own ideas because he PILLS. Largest of Medicine in the World, laf ART Me 1a boxes, 25¢. by the hard expertence which has helped him to adapt himself to his primitive environment, he gathers to himself some household goods, and probably accompanied and assisted by a wife, treks fer the one spot on the lonely prairie which henceforth, for some years, is destined to be his promised land, His other posses. sions, of the portable kind, have the same practical character, to say the least. He must have a waggon, and 4_pair bf oxen or horses, and on to the waggon he loads the greater part of his future home and what is to 80 therewith. A more incongruous "load" could hardly be imagined, Stovepipes may protrude from the midst of bedding, baskets and lan- terns cling like barnacles to the strange-looking '"'eraft." The walls and roof of the new hoiise may be slung, by means of lashings, to the sides just above the springs, while the lowly domestic broom probably sticks up at a rakish angle above the litter at the rear, as if symbolical of that temper which has made a clean and triumphant sweep of all the so- cial encumbrances of the past. For a4 number of years the homesteader will be called upon to make a sacri- fice of almost everything he holds dear, for the sake of this great ad- venture. The teeming world, the bumble fireside, kith and kin, known and loved ways, have been left be- hind, that he may win his birthright to the soil and gain what, after all, must at times seem to him like a phantom freedom. . 02 A few weeks later his first crude home has arisen on the prairie. There is no architecture to speak of. The shelter is little more than a door fought his way through the fire--at times all but suffocated. /His hat was burned on his head. /His hair, moustache and eyebrows were sing- ed. His clothing time and again was afire. But he won through and sav- ed the settler and his family, "We always get our man." Sometimes the tale is tragic. There is the story of that splendid hero of the force, who alone, sleep- less and vigilant (throughout twelve dreadful days and night brought in- to Fort Resolution =u prospector whom loneliness had transformed in- to a dangerous madman----only him- self to losé his mind a few weeks later, a consequence of the terrific mental and physical strain to he had been subjected. There is another story of a young constable, a man of good family and university education, who did his best--and failed. Despatches had to be sent to a far distant post under weather con- ditions of extreme severity. The con- stable pocketed them and set out. Soon after, a stinging blizzard set in and his trail was obliterated, with all records of man and mission. Days slid into weeks bringing no news of either. The following spring a red-coated rider on out-line patrol duty, acei- dentally entering a secluded coulee, found shreds of a storm-worn uni form of the force, still clothing the bones of the 'lost courier. His ldst moments, as cirenmstantial evidence, haunted rather by the dr concern for his Jointly upon banks, The question of the internationa- Hzation of the Rhine has Just now come up in an acute form through Germany's arch schemes, not only-to bring the river navigation under her exclusive control, serland in a state to her. transference of Alsace-Lorrance Germany, eonsistent endeavor on the part of the Germans to avoid fulfillment of the terms of the treaty. The effect of the treaty was to facilitate free navigation between Switzerland, Ger- many, 'Holland, Belgium, and Great Britain. which | wag 'to make Switzerland dependent upon Germany for her coal and iron, and 'to force mercial and To effect this willtully neglected the navigation of the river between Strassburg and the frontiers of They not only failed to maintain the channel in a proper the construction of low level railway bridges, prevented any but the small- vessels from passing underneath. Germans are ther breach of the Rhine Act, by the erection of great along the banks, between Strassburg, and they seek the written sanction of Switzerland or the project. ] witzerland is, of course, by no plainly Shows ube means inclined to agree to the Ger- a his he man Scheme. y Neither In her own in erests, whic emand a 'navigable should fai in his duty Yhas by od Rhine all the way to Lake Constance, personal safety. Wor (0, in those of international law and ery est The but to place Swit- of economic slav- the forcible to in 1871, there has been a Since The object of the Germans the republic into eom- industrial dependence. purpose, the Germans Switzerland at Basle. manner, but, by now plotting a fur- stations Basle and to obtain power We invite everybody whether they wish to purchase or not, prospective buyers posted in the ~ Our New Fall Designs in Furniture Are Arriving Daily as it keeps latest designs. R. J. Reid THE LEADING UNDERTAKER; MOTOR AND HORSE EQUIPMENT. 230 PRINCESS STREET 13 ee WE BUY AND SELL WAR LOAN ISSUES Phone 577 5 Bongard Ryerson & Co. : Members Toronto Stock Exchange. ~~ 8TOOKS, BONDS, GRAINS AND COTTON Private wires to New York, Chicago, Toronto, Mon- 239 Bagot St. - iw - « Phone 1728 mass of his long- forgotten orders he had painfully scrawled his last message to his su- In the 'sodden Justice, can she openly attach her sig- Dature to such a pact, which would only serve to strengthen the fetiers and a window with some clapboards arranged rectangularly around them. a SPRINGTEX is the underwear with a million little springs in its fabric which "'give and take" with every movement of the y, and preserve the shape of e garment despite long wear and washings, It is the year-around underwear, light, medium or heavy weight, atyou lke, "Remember to Buy It-- You'll Forget You Have Tt On" i Ask Your Dealer UTICA KNITTING C0, Makers Sales Room: 350 Broadway, Now York ce tt irtutgy Capitalize This Asset 'men doubt you have 'best to systematically The Fen Ti girls and women Weaver's shuttle. of to-day are the to-morrow. No often pondered how save a little for a son or marriage each. year, in order to ensure a college dower for a t is be written bl ag daughter. Our Child's wha age. Let us tell you more about it. Manufacturers Life particulars of your Endos- ment Policy for a Ml... 0805 Of Oge. I would lide go save Betis JA a Owing to the race with time and the hurry to conquer the earth, the ends of the clapboards are not sawed off. The stovepipe now stands like a flag- less pole above the humble wooden roof. Water barrels and sacks are littered about. There is a grinding wheel, and a bench, Probably there is a tent to relieve the solitude of the shack. There may be a hencoop and & woodpile. A trail, newly-made, may run left and right from the low- ly threshold and lose itself in the field. But ploughed furrows are sure to be everywhere, to come up to the door and almost touch it, for noth~ ing must run to waste. Where every- thing, the man, his cattle, 'his wife, must yield of their utmost, there is ne room for such frivolities as yards and gardens, or hedges or flowers, or neg d trees. Is not the railroad olily two hours" ride away, the schoolhouse a short twenty miles dis- tant, the big town of the prairies a scant day's journey? It will, of course, be two years be- fore the first crop is garnered, an- other year, perhaps, before the first rude shanty, with some improve. ments, will give place to the comfort able farmhouse with its barn, ma- chine shed, granaries, pig pens, and, luxury of luxuries, the telephone! And another five years after that? The homesteader rests for a moment over his plough as he pictures in his mind's eye the coming town with stores and churches, the paved roads and the political caucus, his election to a seat in the local Legislature and, it may be, his final return to the beloved beaten ways of life which he left when he set out in search of the heritage of the prairies. -------------------- Crazed Cow Causes Panfe. While a herd of eattle was being unloaded at Orangeville recently one of the cows apparently went mad, stampeding through the village streets, attacking everyone encoun- tered. Miss Street and Mrs. John Richardson were gored and serious- IY lured while Miss Eleanor Wil- 1 and Mr. J. B. Irwin had par- TOW escapes. J Ss ---------------------- Sad Ending for Hero. Lieut. Alex. McClintock, of Lexing- ton, Ky.. who went out with the 87th Canadian Battalion, won the D.C.M., and later wrote "Best o Luck," has committed suicid® at New York. EET mm-------------- the. symmer ne thinking over the the fear- ¢ hats might catch fire, - perfor officer and the world: push ahead--have done my best." Noted Canadian. ; Dr. James Douglas, philanthropist, mining engineer, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Phelps, Dodge corporation, died at his home in New York on June 26th, in his 81st year. Dr. Douglas gave away large sums and charitable purposes, but ithe General Memorial Hospital work. work of the National Radium Insti- tite ores, Dr. Douglas was born in Quebec, » and he first to Introduce modern Lunatic Asylum, of which for some James, participated. He left Canada charge of the metallurgical opera- tions of the Chemical Copper Co., Pa. 'where he was first to separate, meials from the copper by the elec- trolytic method of refining. A Slight Error. Sergt. -R. Douglas Pinkerton, au- Sesttish Germans, lady, who was asked to go into a tain New. York store to get and all she it had "To Hell With the F 3 8 ae is real rt a . hy Navned™ at Current Park a chivalrous youth at once the rescue. Lateg he discov. as short his stickpin, watch wallet. ; : ; -------------------------------- a Forty Years an Editor, Mr. H. P, Moore has jyst of 'money for educational | P} treatment of insanity Into Lower [DOL Canada, as the founder of the Quebec | rea the book. When she got to the. store | ti growing demands. ahe found she had forgotten the title, of American-made plantations alone. for Ladies." And she got the right book! | of Rana oti, the fortieth year of PS area at ; 2 the editorial chair in th { Press office. : - of her commer Lost--horse dead--am trying to many. Her obvious course is to up- hold the terms of the treaty of 1815 while awaiting the sole Panacea and solution, an allied victory, which will effect the transference of Alsace-Lor- raine to the French. That a high-speed rifle bullet may erce a man and cause him so little his | Pain nae he is unconscious woun greatest gift was probably made 1s slower bullet | New York of three and three-quarter abl Pain aig grammes of radium, valued at about da ; a al $375,000, to be used for all time in [30d Similar seafches that hospital in oa NEE od ther and responses. The evolution of or. gans has 'ha- | Worked out, tute for years in the west on carna. functions of During the Nov. 4, 1837, His father, Dr. James | Ment of man and his piercing and lacerati Was a surgeon of repute, flicted by encountered, and hence no pain ction against them would evolve, while slow lacerations were most in he mumnagenent tommon, and the usefulness of being ; conscious of them in ke | of pain is most evident. IR 1315 te. 4a Such is tho insensibility of the hu- a |man organism to , {of injury that concern operating at Phoenixvill yy - on a commercial scale, the precious ariven out causing any pain whatever," thor of "Ladies From Hell," war ex- | Sreat periences of the famous London |Shrubs, native to countries. A "corner resim nt plied _h rnp rubber market is now an impossibil- cer- ity as plantations have been so suc- a copy of cessfully developed that the produe- on wil be sufficient for the steadily could remember was that |8crés »" » « " in Sumatra , 3 hair and_Jadiesy ia if. 50 Vast areas exist for the production crude rubber from Mexico to in the Americas; from at tralia in the Rubber India rubber a extracted from a clal slavery to Ger- The Curiosities of Pain. A would cause copsider- shock. Dr. George W. 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