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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1911-5-25, Page 6THE EXETER ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1911. $20,000,000 LOSS BY FIRE Forty Thousand People Rendered Homeless in a City of Manchuria. A despatch from Harbin, Man- cliuria, says: Forty thousand per- sons at IirBare homelees as consequei )f dm reeent confla. ration in that eity. The money this remote Manchurian town WaS 16"7.Sr is estimated at $20,000,000, interrupted, and few details of the don fire 13,230 houses were burned, besides 88 churohes. Reporta freni Pekin told •of a de- atruetive fire at Kirin on May 9, but telegraph eommunication to Four thousand shops, fifteen banks, and 8,357 other buildings were de- stroyed. The fire at Kirin will rank witn the London. and Chicago -Wok, and has a populatioo of 80,- ntlagrations. In the great Lon; 000. ire were la.nown. Kirin is the capi- tal of the Manchurian Province of Kirin, 270 miles west of Vladivoe- TIR FLY SPLADS DISEASE FUN CTION OF ITS POWERS OF LOCOrtIOTION. o Surfaces by 3leaus Claws and Pads Which It Rns n Each Foot. "The fly' e power to spread dis- 'e is a direct function of its pow- ers of locomotion. It can fly con- siderable distances at a high rate of speed, It is quickly earried to manage with sticky feet. Imagine long distances by trains, boats, our plight if the soles of our feet team, animals, and niten. It is Pos..' were sticking plaster, perennially Bible to get a good idea of a fly's renewing their stickiness Who - rate of flight in a number of ways, ever has experienced the sticky Flies come to ships newly arrived mud of certain regions will recall in port 3,CMSS considerable stretch- how the boots ball up and what a es of water. This we know, because conglomeration one drags borne a few hours earlier there were no from a ramble under such circuin- flies an the ship. No canna:Italica- strifaces. To such inconveniences tion has been had with land. The thc fly is constantly subject, and tt flies must have come on their own wings. Occasionally we see a fly follow a team or animal, easily keeping up a good pace. The wing muscles of a fly when weighed are found , heavier in proportion than those of any bird so far examined. It is difficult to tire a fly out. Test this by trying to keep one constant- ly on the wing in a room, and you will soon find.you have no easy task. All this shows the fly to be no mean navigator of the air. "Most of our diseases are caused by invisible germs. These germs may be brought to us from sick persons by whatever is largeenough to carry them and has the opportu- nity. Combine this fact with what everyone knows about flies, and we see at once the tremendous import- ance of flies as carriers of human have access to diseased or rotten disease germs. or foul matter, the transfers thus "The result of this simple piece , effected are dangerous. All sorts of reasoning is so startling that it of minute organisms are spread in is often side-tracked by its own ina- this way, including diseases of man, vortance. It looks so incredible animals, and plants. It is impos- teat we hesitate, distributing our sible to go into details in this place, but it is only right to say that the imagination completely fails to grasp the far-reaching consequnec- es of this transfer of germs and spores on the feet of flies."—Mr. N. A. Cobb in "Natural Geogra- phical Liclagazine. I RAISER S URPRISED distributed along the whole sur face of the plaster. This exPeriimnit, illustrates roughly how the et:4111'Se, iii my illustration you can see juet how the weights release the plas- ter from end to end. It is very dif- ult to make this observation on fly, because the ily's pad is so nail and more particularly because the whole operation takes place in something like the fiftieth part af a second. Wonderful as the fly's pads are, they have their disadvan- tages, for stickiness and locomotion are not always strictly oompatilale STICKY FEET. "MI his grown-up life the flv has is this that has bred in him a habit of frequently preening himself, par- ticularly his feet. These are con- stantly becoming clogged with ad- hering substancee, and this contam- ination the ily must assiduously re- move if his feet are to act properly in supporting him on slipp,....ry plac- es. If this contamination is too sticky to rub off the fly it laps it off, and it then passes off in his ex- creta.` Thus it is that all sorts of microscopic particles are moved from place to place on the feet of flies. These particles are rarely of sufficient size to be seen with the unaided eye. Nevertheless, they are constantly pvesent, and the amount of matter thus transferred is relatively considera,ble on account of the fly's activity. 'When flies -own logic. It seems incredible that men have gone on doing as they have done, and as they are still doing, if the fants are as they seem. he consequences of our reasoning seem so tremendous we fear there must have been a mistake some- where. And so we dismiss the idea. 'One way to disturb this false security is to interest people in the habits and structure df flies. The more we know, about flies the more clear it will become that they are among our worst eeerraes. Everywhere Ile is Acclaimed in the Friendliest Itla,nner. , • . A despateh from London says: The Kaiser is getting in London a THE.AYATOM.Y. 'OF 'A FLY. „-seception that thathifestly, is a sur - "The fly clings to Irough surfaces prise to him as, there is tone of the by Means of its, cla'tys, arid to smooq, prevalent , anti -German. bitterness surfaces. by a' combined. action ` (if directed against - him. .,' He fulfils the claws an,djaads: There are two numerous private' engagements • un - claws and 'pads on each foot. The eerenionial and everywhere he is fly's pads are. covered _with -.thou- recognized and acclaimed in the sands of niiiirifte shOit. hairs, Stidky. friendliest manner. He visited on t the end.. There is:tiostiction----: Thut'Sclay; among o'ller things, the . merely. adhesion. ' zee, 'accompanied by „a single corn - "The action: of•,'a ••fly's pads may pardon., fie: disPlaye'd' an almost be illustrated hy 'means Of a -piece boyish interest, in the animals,' but • of stiel,ing plasterand a Few 'la:reads remained' longest in the -4 monkey- . and small weight. Take a piece house. Nis next longest stay was of sticking plaster half an inch wide' in the lion -house. and mw through ib some short • pieces of thread at intervals of bail INSPECT' OXFORD FARMS. an inc 1, and knot the threads on the sticky sto.c, so chat they cannot Emigration Envoys from' Britain pdII throu'41. • -..tiek the blaster to are Faiall'akly TinpreSSed. 'a dinner plate or other smooth oh- A .despatch from woodstock.says: jeer., and' it will be found • that if a Messrs, :peddle, 'Webb anc1,MUllin, small weight' is attached ,to each rePresenting "the Emigration De -- thread the ,plaster will sustain in ,p•artinent of the British Isles, :sPent this way, a considerable weight---• Thursday in tlie city and vicinit,y hat is to say, the sum of: all the inspecting the farms of Oxford, with mall weights is considerable. a,'View to reporting, to the Imperial '`Now 'remove the weights and department on the Conditions Of' attach all of them t,e, one or two of immiguacion in 'this, section'. They he threads "at one, end. :The 4rtes the House::'.l'of B;efuge farm NVin,pramptly be torn loose 4c. ,c`r other properti the county,. or Lon of the, pi astyf ,ancl• were deer ' res,se,tJ Aights acen ,a; 'not 'aditip PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH HAPPENINGS,PROM A.LL, OVER THE GLOBE IN A NUTSRELL. REPORTS FR Om TRE LEADING TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. Prites of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Produce at Rome and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, May 23 -Flour -Winter wheat 90 per cent patents. at 53,45 to 53,50, Mon- treal freight,: Manitoba Sours -First pat- ents, 55.10; second Patents, $4.60, and s, strong bakers', 54.48, on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern 99e, 13.sy porta.; NO, 2 at 95 1-2e, and No. .3 at 93 1-2e. Outurio wheat --No. 2 at 85c, outside, and No. 2 white 860 outside. Barley -Good to choice malting grades, 65 tea 78e. , Oats -Ontario grades 37 to 58e„ outside, for No. 2, and at 39 1-2 to 40e, on track, Toronto. No. 2 W.C. oats, 39 1-2e and NO. 3, 30e, Bay ports„ Corn -No. 3 American yellow 56 1-2e, Bay ports. Peas -Prices purely nominal. Itre---No. 2 at /5c, outside, Buckwheat -No. 2 at 52 to 55e,„ outside, bran-litanitobas at 522, in bags, Tor- onto, and. shorts 523 to $23.50, in bags. Toronto. Ontario bran, ,822, in bags. Tor- onto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans -Car lots at 51,70 to 51.75, and l;talt lots. $1,90, , . floney-Extracted, 111. tens, 10 to 3lc per lb: No, 1 comb. wholcsaho, 57 to 52,60 per dozen; No. 2 eonib, wholesale, 31.75 'to $2 per dozen. Baled hay -No. 1 at sia to 513, on track. and NO. 2 nt 59 to 51.0.0, Baled straw -56 to 56.50, on track, Tor- en to, Potatees-Car lots 50 to 25c Per Foultry-Wbolesale .prieea of dressed peultry:-Yearliag chiehens, 15 to 16e per 1h: turkeys, 19 to 21e per lb: live, 1 to 2c less. LOCAL DAIRY MARKETS, utter -Dairy prints, 17 to 19c; infer. tor. 15 to 16e. Creamery, 21. to 23c per lb. for rolls. 20 to 21c for solids, and 21 to 22c for separator prints. Eg.gs--Oase lots at 18 to 19e per dozen. C30-Liarge 1404 anti twins 14 1.2e. New cheese 13 to 13 1-2e in a jobbing way, ROG 7'RODU1Z25. Baleen -loan clear. 10 na to lie per lb 10 cue lots; mess por, 520; do., abaft out, 523; melded rolls. 519 to 520- Iisans-Ing2it to aaeuinia, leo; do., heavy. 12. to 13e- rolls 10 1-2, to 110: breakfast bsbent let() Vei books. 15 to 13 1.2e. Lard-TiereeS, 10c: tubs, 10 1-4e; pailS. 0 1-2e. 3317SINESS AT MONTREAL. ttontrea.l. May 23. -Oats Can:WI Western, No, 2, 41 1-2 to 42c, ear lots ex idore; ottra No. 1 feed, 41 to 42 1-2e; No. (1.W.. 40 1-1 to 410; No. 3 local. white, 0 to 48 1-20; N. 3, local white. 39 1-2 to 40e; Ne. 4 loeal White, 38 1-2 to 39e, Flour- ,',^i3102Wbfl, Spring wheat paliorits. 4rst 854; seconds, 500: Winter wheat Pat- ents. 54.5-); stroll balers', $4.60; straight 54 10 54.20; in bags, 51,80 to 51-00; roiled oats. per barrel, 54.35; bags et 981 0 lbs, 52.05. Corn-AMericari No. 5 yel-1 low. 03 to 61c. aillreed-Bran, °ataxia, t22• Manitoba, 521; middlings Ontario. 5204 to 523; atarta, Itstutotoa: 523; mom. ttle, $26 to OIL Eggs --Fresh, 13 1-11 to 19o. Cheese -Western, 11 1.2 to 11 3.4e. Butter -G1.-c1eest, 22e; seconds, 21c. UNITED STATES MARRETS, Bufrale, My 23 -Spring wheat. No. 1 Nor. carloads, store, 51.06 1-2e; Winter, easier; No. 2 rod and. No. 2 white, 96e. Q0:11 --No. 3 yellow, 58e; No. 4 yellow. 36 1.4e; No. 3 corn, 55 to 55 1-4e; No. 4 55 _to 5$ 1-4c, all on track, through tied utwhite,1.20; No 3 .11 * 1 .1t4 7NA; 24 ite* )1, ) le, 7 - e, . wh . c. 3.1inneapolis, May 25 -Wheat -May, 980; inly, 93 5-4e; September, 92 to 92 1.8e; 91 3-4: No. 1 bard, _51.01 1.2e; No. 1 ;3°13' 69 3-44 to 99e 1-2,oc; 51\10.' w?I'eat, 43°I..3-41ertz.O Si 1-3c. Pran-521.50 to 522. Flour -first In.tents, 54.60 to 54.90; second patents, 14 5n to 54.001 first blear,,, 53,20 to 53.65; second clears, $2.20 to 52,35, LIVE, STOCK MAREETS. •. „ Montreal, May 25 -Choice steers . were sold al. o 1-4 to 6 1-2c, good at 5 3-4 to 6e. I fairly good at 1-4'to 5 1-2e, fair at 4 3-4 to 50, and common at 4 1.4 to 4 1-20 per , pound. Cows brought from 3 3-4 to 5 1-2c, ' and bulls - from 3 1-2 to 5 1-4c per pound. Selected lots of hogs were sold. at 56.65 per cwt., weighed off oars. The trade in calees was active, at prices ranging from 52 to 86 each. Toronto May 23. -One load of choice ex - ort steers sold for $6, and good light .ei.fors and steers were worth anywhere .rom 55.50 to 55.80. Medium and common cattle were steady at $4.75 to 55.25. Bulls sold firm at 54.40 to 55. and COWS were stronger at $4.25 to 55.25. Sheep were weaker at $4.50 to 55 for ewes. Lambs, yearling and Spring, were steady. Hogs were reported stronger and 10e higher, the new figures being 55.85 f.o.b., and 56.15, fed and watered. Calves VirCr0 steady around 56 for good veals. I P110 VIN G BATTLEFIELD S. Plans for Avenue From St. Foye to the Plains of Abraham. A despatch from Ottawa says: The battlefields of St. Foye and the plains of Abraham are to be joined by a splendid avenue. The! town of Montcalna will give the right of Way. The Battlefields Com- mission will loan.the town $15,000 for t'hirty years for the expenses the town has to meet. This was explained to Parliament on Wed- nesday morning by Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux in moving the first read- ing of a bill giving authority to the Commission to a.dvanceethe money. .34 AUTOMOBILES BIJRNF D Speetactilar Fire Destroys the Cen- firra-"iabThiernine:In,e0eisntillirielan'gNielvtoGliliCldnaaetnel9Itn'elag'Icr'°i1-e,oalatlyill':{1cFs1.1'isi,asiejeglele(ri'litniliP(ticilau,IgInip,.ca4del'rdela:gVirloarls:s' bcitally destroyed, wi,li its con ,ents. TO IIANG J ULY 21. A despatch from Winnipeg says Forty automobiles, aggregating in value Something like 5150,000, a building valued at 8G0,000 and 1,- 400 gallons of gasoline, went up in Canada, the Empire and the World in General Before lour Eyes. CANADA. . Galt Y.M,O.A. raised $769,548 in three days. Oontraets were awarded for the Completion of the O.N.R. from Ot- tawa to Toronto. The "June bug" is stripping the foliage of fruit trees in Middlesex county. .A. locomotive spark caused a .dangerous bush fire near Parrs- boro, N.$, Welland is to have another pol- iceman to enforce the local option law. A piece of property in Calgary, bought seven years .age for 8895, has been sold for $10,000. Twenty eteamersz with some mil- lion bushels <A grain, ean'1 get ele- valor aceonamedation to nuload at Montreal, ' '.--",04;•'^i'a:srill Ready rot-us;iu =iv` quantity. Useful for five jxuaareci purposes. A can aquala 20 163. SAL SODA. Llroe only the Best. ,For Iviakiag Soap. For SofteningVirater. For. R,etnovieg Paint. For Disinfecting • Si06 Cjoocts,, D raios.etc. ottirr to. ' a-stataValralaysleaaraitlif ANITAITAINEVERYCOE1TY Recommended at Annual Meeting of Anti - Tuberculosis Association. Fire Obief Tremlalay, of Mou A depteh from London, Ont., treal, reports nine -tenths of the eve: At the session of the Cana, apartment houses there unprovided (lien Association for the PreVeriti011 WiNth4tphla'onpieeir sfiell'et sPhroa")tteaotllirw,ounded joife,sTzbyeiienultolsleiS NSH=1-ii,eghiem4ieetan intituto his wife at London, Ont,„ and then here, Dr, .8,,dami, the presi, °lid"' his own life with the ""1"'dent, advocated small sanitaria, le- er, Mrs, $e“ will probably re- eater," in each c4rnmunity ar eourk, ty. rather than a larger sanitarium It has been decided to hold pro- at, a eietanee from the home a the vincial eompetitions for the Earl patient. He eongratulated London GDP'S musical and dranultie tr°- upon its fight against tuberculosis pines, and the best of the provin- as evidencoa by tbe maxamiria, cial cemPanfeswillecnnPet°for the Sanitarium, He strongly advised Dominion trophy, against the German error of estnli- Gitroa,'BRITAIN, I rshin saiemutaergiaelldv4yin thir IN/vtoterkd contres. un Andrew Carnegie has giVell $25,- della, b). the umkeke iestitatioo, 000 to 4)(1141) the Medical. Institute m. 0. 1). paratt, in a pavar of the University College of Lon- don, Feed, stated that the first wsal:it-ar- ium as established in Ontario 14, Rev, J. H. Jowett, formeraly f years ago NW," th are 20 Birmingham, now of Fifth Avenue in Presbyterian Church,* New York, Canada, (44 '"n3 being 4" "IA 'I 7c7 promos. Since 1890 death - rate per hundred thousand LAS been reduced from 150 to 112,. The will be lung George's personal guest at the coronation. UNITED STATES. aim of sanitaria treatment is to provide fresh air day and "and a proper diet, Dr. W, 0. White, of Pitinbar, 'followed with a paper on "Proven - :firm And Treatment of Tabereulo- sia,” Amengst other thingS he ad- vocated school for health officers, after the Iiinnuer .ht the one in In- diana. Consumption was not 44 family curse, as had been believed in past. Educate people along pro- per lines and the diSease will gra- dually be overcome. Dr, `White is a believer in local autonomy and against !argil, distriot institutions. Dr, Hodgetts viiorously criticized tho primitive system of publie " ealth now prevailing in Ontario. Health oflicers were poorly pa' d hence were frequently illogi- c mea. The public should de- ad more attention for health towns and cities tu- on decline, but in is on increase, 013 oral 57 Senator Boot's amendment to ,KILLED ON RAILWAY T S. the reciprocity bill makes free pulp' ........_ and paper an event of the indefinite Nr„ narry Ilebnian Meets Death at future. Valois, Que. GENERAL. A' despatch from Afontreal says: The Finnish Diet has been di- Mr. HarrY lIobmail, an accountant solved by Imperial ukase. I employed by. Dale & Company, this Fr'arice is included in the pro-leitY) was Instantly killed by a posed arbitration treaty nlan of Grand Trunk Itailway train at Va- the United States. lois on 'Wednesday morning,. Mr. Crown Prince Frederick William Holman arrived at the station too and the Crown Princess of Ger- late to take his usual train to the many are visiting the Czar to con- eity, and after taking leave of his gratulate him on his birthday, wife he went to cross the 0, T. R. Countess Szechcni (formerly tacks with the intention of going to Gladys Vanderbilt, of New York), business by the C. P. R. train an has given 850,000 to the poor furia the tracks adjacent. The Vaud - of Bbudapest, and the city will not reuil train, noC scheduled to &ton at Valois, dashed into the unfortunate man as he was erossing, killing him instantly. Mr. Hobrnan leaves a wife, but no thildren. He was twenty-eight years old, a native of Lancashire, England, where his mother is yet living. He came to this country eight years ago. FOREST FIRES ALARMING. establish a street car line near the palace. Colonel Wenljarljarsky ,and his ,step -son, formerly an army ca,ptain, are on trial m St. Petersburg charg- ed with having forged a will where- by they become legatees th the vast estates of the half-witted Prince Oginsky, god -son of Emperor Nicholas, SERVANT BURNED TO DEATH. Clothes Caniht Fire and Flames Destroyed Ottawa Rome. A despatch from Ottawa 'says: The house. of Hector Chau.vin?so- licitor, of Hull, and reSidinge en Rideau street, Ottawa, ,was" birthed on Thursday afternoon. Katie O'Rourke, aged 35, a servant, was burned to death. Her clothes caught fire at a gas stove and she rushed upstairs to the bathroom and thus.set fire to the residence. The nside aof phd house, with all the furniture, was destroyed, $6,000 damage being done.- DIAZ ,TO RESIGN. The Itevolutiolutry Leader -Will Act as De La Barra's Chief Adviser. A despatch from Mexico City says: president Diaz and Vice -Pre- sident Corrall .before Jane ,l, and Minister of Foreign Re- lations De La I3aira will be Presi- dent ad interim, according to offi- cial announcement made on. Wed- nesday. , Francisco I. Madero. jun., the revolutionary leader, will be called to Mexico City to act as De La, I3arra's chief adviser. As viewed by the public, it will be vir- tually' a joint Presidency, pending, the calling of a new Presidential election. EXPELLI]D FRO21 A 'THEATRE. Man an Woitiail' G Yen Danlages 'by Judge Greenshields. , A cieBn'tnii. from Th says: -Iformiclas feandfr e,th :n d ay PtPnife,lni,MarniV21sttty next, Illuch Timber Already Lost in Sec- tions of Now Brunswick. A despatch from. St. John, N.B., says; Reports from provincial cen- tres on Thursday show the forest fire situation in New Brunswick to be alarming, particularly in King's and,York Counties. In the former a tract of lumber land five miles by eight is burned over, and in York every available man of the Government OrOWIl Lands Depart- ment is out fighting fires. Deputy Crown Lands Commissioner Log- gie said on Thursday that if there is much wind, and unleSs ram comes, thousands of acres of valuable lum- ber would likely be wiped out. LIVE WIRE IiILLS TWO. Ottn Caught the Other Falling and • Met Death. A despatch from Vancouver„ B. C., says ....Two '„niee were ,instantly killed on Wednesday by a live wire which had been carelessly left clang- . Jing by workmen five feet from the ground against a telephone pole, Chas. Duprau was climbing into a wagon when his head touched the wire and he grasped it. Thos. Costello saw biin falling and grab- bed him. They fell dead, while third man was shocked. GUARDING AGAINST FIRE. Montreal Controllers Decide io In. A despatch from Montreal says: The Board of Control has decided to insure all municipal buildings,in the city against fire. The value; of the buildings, exclusive of land and furniture, owned by the city is en- tered in the City Assessor's books at $3,827,535, of which $531,800 is put down as the value of the City Hall, sure Municipal Buildings. .14 BRITISg ADMIRAL DEAD, Adiniral Rodney IllacLaine Lloyd Died Suddenly at Portsmouth. A despatch from London says: Admiral Rodney MacLaine Lloyd, R.N.. died suddenly at the Royal Naval Club at Portsmouth on Wed- nesday from angina pectoris. lite was born in 1841, and after service' in the Baltic, China and Egyptian Soudan was made an Admiral. in 1904. As a Rear -Admiral he com- manded the Mediterranean fleet in the summer of 1899. THREATENED THEM A.XE Montreal Man Defied Hospital At- tendants. • A despatch from Montreal says: Swinging an axe about his head, Edward Welsh on Thursday threat- ened to kill the Royal Victoria Hos- pital attendants who had come with the ambulance to remove his 'aged aunt, who lay seriously ill at her hoine, 419 T.,agauchetiere Street west. VVelsh has been remanded to jail for eight days for examin- ation. It is lielieved that he is in- sane. PELIAIN rges A despatch from London, Eng- land, he that the simplifi5ation of sei1ing a half smoked cioar at, the request was a niatter of urgent importance B(,ealise reflised toe:plirii_aiNvoamy of an laitotencl. anti, the Fdrapnhcialii,,s_ d.enianding ckeAxtJauo t cu Theaptarne A despatch front Alontreal says : vately the oreiert Office resolved , and nsted &iin "p• theoarboreig ha ipni tto hle;lohapsilarmiaio,cabyictiaaolpnpF:t9ecafprsildniiiniogsehtttv,eicconorneyn-ddeulo)eta,iti,bn.e: cation Conteience recently held pri- re ureenhg_ ouloy a ,81 anceof Engltihsherien 'relcIs ednes ay it among all ' from Dr. MacKay,of , Nova Scol* that, there be pifogiessiversimultanei- ous simplification of spelling 'with rechrring periods throughout t 6 English-spealcing world. inc1ud4t 1.,liat ne allii ,.tnrieleeawl:;•g:fl,itiitpeleed,e,o'S.,,,,fitta,..:teS. ' Dr.' -Macka37': not propose •that adtibe ltSl,•cl) pelled to adept:.:th.6,•ineffiri•Inetlio ,but nepellingS1 ' nets's ?.i•K.• : .1e'cal rel. en, lon.s.,, -lin_ 4,4 -144. 22 11 lealts1.0