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Exeter Advocate, 1913-11-6, Page 7fele Notes -of Interest as to What Is Going on All Over the World Canada. L011(1011'S population ie now 55,- '026. Hamilton wards are to be re- arranged. St, Catheriees ratepayers earried two Hydro -electric by-laws by huge majoritiee. North Frontestac and Addington county teachers have formed an .association. • Menitoba, Collegeis closed while •an enquiry is being made into the hazing of freeles. A Federal Department of Health was, recommended at aa interpro- vindal conference at Ottawa, , Iridian seal hunters in Qaeen Charlotte Islands claim eompenese tion to the value of $1,500,000. I3erlin ratepayers defeated at by- law to provide $35,000 debentures for purchasing property for a, civic square, " The Marine aid Fisheries Depart - meat eentradicts the report of lees to the salmon industry in British • Columbia.' Fire did $130000 damage to Bel- anger & Company's dry goods store and Le Soleil. newspaper in Que- bec on Friday. Mrs. J. Rothschild ef Wesemount, Montreal, fell while alighting from . a eere and was decapitated on Sunday evening. Belleville Cheese Bead passed a strong resolution declaring the need ssf cold -storage plants on steamers and at, terminals, Col. L. R. Carleton, D.S.O., of the Essex Regiment, England, has 'been appointed Commandant <if the Royal Military College, Kingstan. Premier Borden hae gone south 'for six weeks' rest, on the order of his physician. Bon. Geos E. Foeter is to be acting Premier in his ab- sence. ' Stumbling over a tree root, Hen- ry" Thibault, a 0J? 1. conductor, of Delorimier Avenue, Montreal, was shot and killed by his own rifle in some unexplained way at Mont Laurier, Que. Because of the corapetitien of ' Baltic woods from Russia„ and the • poor equipment for ,handling lum- ber in the harbor of Montreal, the export trade of lumber from this .country to Great Britain is decreas- ing. Roberto' Imperial trophy in Eng- land. ' The largest purchase of radium ever made in Biitain was effected by a London Institute. Premier Asquith and his daugh- ter were whipped by militant suf- fragettes in So:Alexis:1 on Saturday. Paderewelci won his ection for libel 'against a London coneert ageet, who 'advertised another pitenst as equalling him, but will not press for damages. , Queee Mary sprueg a surprise on the public by attendieg the New- market reces, Her appearance at the rasie eourse has hitherto been confined to such official occasions as State visits to Ascot and Good- wood: Ring George, being disseeisfied with the biogra,phie,s of King Ed- ward so far published, has consent- ed to the preparation of an author- ized biography from State papers and recolleetions of intimate friends, under the gen.-ere super- vision of Viscount Knollys, the late King's secretary: Lord Res,ebery will be invited to ,write the biogra- phy. Great Britain. The Canadian team. won Lord United States. A rat 'infected with bubonic plague was caught in the heart of Seattle. A British •synslieaibe has purchased immense bituminous coal fteldss in The United States Attorney -Gen- eral rules ageinst the rebate on goods carried in American slips. Ernest McCoy, aged 64, a farmer - near Pelham, N.H., is alleged to have shot his wife, aged 71, two weeks ago, and to have kept the body unburied. It was found on a lounge, fully dressed. General. Remarkable experiments are be- ing made in France with an armor- ed aerial craft. The foreign diplomats in Mexico are urging intervention and Cen- sure the United 8takes The Austrian special committee has practically exonerated the C.P.R. in the emigration case. The thre,e daughters of the late King Leopold of Belgium have ac- Cepted a compromise offered by the Government to settle their father's estate, and will each receive $1,- 400,000. 102 BILLED .BY AUTOS. • -Ten Months' Awful Record in New • York City.- • A desIxtteh, from New York saya: Vehicles on New York's streets have killed 227 children glade Jana- •.ary 1 lest, awtomobiles being re- eponsible for 102 of the deat,bs, , Thirty-three children Met death under the wheels - automobiles • during the month of October, an in- crease ,of 9 over October, 1912. In , this city children were the victims of 60 per cent. of the traffic fatali- ties, while in other parte of the , state the peroentage of child vic- tims wae.oisly 13. • BROITITERS DROWNED. O'ne Went to Rescue of the Other, • arid Both Canoes Capsized. A despatch from Huntsville, Ont., •says: Bert Slatter, a young man in a hunting party at Toad Lake, neer hem wee drowned ETiclag, and in an effort to save him, Harry, eie brother, was also drowned.. 1908. Queen Ainelle. A new picture of Queen, Amelie, of Portugal. Revolution may re- store her fasially to their royal posie tion. DROP IN THE BIRTH ltA.TE. 'The Decrease in Ontario Is in Line with Trend of Past Few Years. Harry leaves a wife and ten ihil- dre. Their father is a well-known resident of 'Huntsville. During the fateful 'moments the remaining nielehere of the party stood, on • shore powerless raider any aseis- twice, SAFEBREAKER ARRESTED. Pollee Have One of the Men Con- / • cerned in Dynamiting. A deerpatch from Winnipeg says: Winnipeg polies made an important capture sem. •Saturday night when they arrested one of the men sup- posed to have been connected with a number of •safe dynasnitin'g jobs here this fall. Krafeneko, the man held as a suspect, was arrested in the red light dietriet, and Aen searched had two guns and a sup- ply of dynamite. He has figured in a number 'of cases in the West, and ha's seeved a three-year term for highway robbery. He also figured as a witn,eee for the defence in the trial of Hicks for the murder of Lennox in a C.P.R. sleeping car in THE CANADIAN NORTHERN Big Line to Be Finished Early Next Year .and Trains Running Through Mount Royal by August A despatch freen Toronto says: Canada's second completed' traits: • continental railway wffl be in oper- ation early next year. Sir Donald Mann mad e the statement •on Thursday evening in an inteeview .i which he emphatically disposed of the report thee the Canadian Northern Railway were seeking from the -Dominion. Government a. further guarantee of bonds to the amount of $25,000,000. The Canadian Northern line from ocean to ocean Will be 'carrying traffic, aecording he the big railway builder, by the early summer of 1914. Speaking of the early completion of the Canadian Northern trensoon- tinental, Sir Donald stated thet he • estimated that by Dotember 15 work en either end el the tuntel at Montreal wouhl Meet" and tlio excavation be completed, The widening of the tunnel is already one-third oompleted and by next August thetwo tracks will be aper - siting thiNough it, Some time about the end of the present year he esti- mates thee, the line betweert Sud- bury and, Port Arthur will be eon- nected up and ready for opera,tion. He etated that all the grading on the Trenseoneine,ntal fromi Quebec to Vancouver has bece eempleted but forty miles between Pembroke and North Bay, and fifty-three miles between Kamloops and Yel. lowbead Pass in the Rookies had been completed, and over these two short stretches grading is partially accomplished. "By early spring or stumier, at the latest the first -train will run over the completed lino," declared the railway builder. "That, ,is how close we &re to the finish, 'Under such circumstances there is no San why why we should call •upon the Government for any further assie- tanee, „Dor has sueh a step Veen even 'co Mem p I a test!' illE WORLD IN REVIEW • A despatch from Toronto 'says: The little, scantily-elad gentleman known as Cupid spent a busy 12 months in 1912, his efforts in On- tario bringing an increase of 3,038 marriages, or at the rate of 0.9 per thousand population; but in spite of this fact the provincial birth rate continues on the down grade. The report of the Registrar -Gen- eral shows a birth rate of only 22.4, the lowest since 1903, and two points below 1911. The responsi- bility for Ontario's declining birth rate apparently 3.'ests with the cities and towns. The cities with a record of 22,929 marriages were able to report only 15,917 births, while the rural municipalities of the Proviece, with but 10,910 mar- riages, had 32,028 births, or a con- siderably better pereeatage. The total number of births in Ontario was 50,870,with 28,845 marrieges. The province is still making pro- gress in the reduction of ita death rate, and now has a, rate lower than most of the leading countries of the world. During 1912 there were 32,150 deaths, a ratio of 12.4 per thousand, or .2 lower than in 1911. The saddening pert of the report, that dealing with illegitimate births, shows an increase of 168, bringing the rate up to 21,3 per 'thousand births. The cities of the province contributeel,.e2 per cent. of the illegitimacy. The records show less marrying between Protestants and Roman Catholics, 820 men and 1,096 wo- men of the Catholic Church marry- ing outside their faith. Alteest twd- thirds, of the marriages are con- tracted between the ages of 20 and 30. A number of uneseal marriages were recorded, one men of 25 max- ryieg_aesvoinan over 70: Three wo- men under 30 years of age -married men over 70. The, fight ageinst _the "white plague' Is roa,king steady headway, although the reduction in the death Tate teonevehis dieease was lees in 1912 than in destteal yews previoula The death list was 2,250, a decrease of 103, end a reduction in ratio of .05 per cent. At the present time about seven per cant. of the dea,ths in Ontario are due to tuberculosis, and the heaviest toll is taken upon young people of between 20 and '30. It will astonis.h some people to know that one oat of every 10 chil- dren born le Ontario dies before reaching five years of age. Ii1912 8,230schildren under the age of five years died, 6,494 of them before completing the twelfth month, a rate of 110.3 per, thousand births. There were 200 less deaths from, diarrhoea than in 1911, the rate from this dangerous infant trouble being the lowest in six years due largely to the .greater iniere,st taken in child welfare and in edu- cating young mothere to take more intelligent care of their children. • , a , SAULT MAN KLLLED. . Met •Death 'With Two Detroit Men, •In an Auto Amides* A despatch frent Bay City, Mich., says : Three men are Cletta as a re- sult of an automobile eccident here • on Saturday. The machine, 'carry- ing three, women and five men, wee wrecked when the driver lest eon- -bre] ef his steering wheel, Marvin Luke and George Janes, both of Detroit, w,e,r,e thrown under the ear and killed, and Alexander. Turpin, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., lived only a short time. T.enArrEns 1XIS SIN( Three Are :Believed to Have prOWIle ed in Northern Lake. A despatch from Dryden, Ont., says: Three trappera, Thigh Nich- olson, Janice Parker, and a man named Lewis, are missing, mat it is feared they :have been drowned in one of the numerous smell lakes in the distriet, Seerehing parties have been eeekitig them for a week. Their boat Wata found drawn up at camp, and their rifles were nearby, Beet Shertege, It is afar:n.0:1 that everything point) to a world-wide alerts:go of beef oatt,/,e, and, anieee something ie done to remedyemu- ditione, the shortage willbeoonao 541U0anpek d the e of xaeat wile mount, tibial higher. At the reeent ceneettion of the A.Meriesea Meat Paoketh, t wee deeided to expend 2600,000 flaring the next fivo. yeare in ealuoating the tenders t,hroughout tbe Heated States in rogare to tee raising of eettle. It was pointed out time 11 every Small farmer wolild raise at least two beef steers a year the fear of hurtage would soon be a thing of the east. The aeaeoietion ale° wont on record against tile "unneoeseare elaughtering of heifer calves ap a step in a oampaien of eaueation to prevent a further obortage in the country's meat, eupelY." A.nother recommendation made was that legiehetion be oaacted preventing t,he killing of ealvee for veal. It is estimated that 9,000,000 are elaughtared in the TInited Statee eaeh year whila if these calves were allowed to reach the age of three or four years, the Rupply •bet would be incresteed 9,000,000,000 pottude. - 'Canada elaould profit by these recolto mendations, Farmere should raise more cattle and go in for mixed farming in- stead of confining their eels) efforts to the growing of grain. Ag far ae Onterio a,nd. eastern Canada is oonoerned, it would seem to be wisdom to g5 extensively into cattle raising owing to the removal of the American duty with the coneequent greater demand from that country for beef cattle. Baseball a Civilizing Force. Grain, Cattle and Cheese Prices of These Products In the 1,eading Markets are Here Recorded Breadstuffs. Toronto, Nov, 4. -Flour --Ontario -wheat /lours, 90 per ()exit., made of new wheat, 73.46 to sea. seaboard, and $3.56 100511y. Manitobas-First, patents, in Jute bees, 75.30; do., seconde, 74.80; strong bakers , in Jute bags, e4,60. Xeuitobee -wheat-No, 1 new Northern, 08 1-50 ene treacle. Bay ports, and No. 2 at 87o, 4 Ontario wheat -New No. 2 wheat,, 81 to 82e out8lde, Oate-Ne. 2 Ontario pets, 33 to 34e, out. side, end $60 on trek, Toronto. weatorn Canada old oats, 38 3-4c for No, 2 and at 37e for No. 3, Bay porta. Peas -Nominal at 03 to 85e, outside. Bailey -Good malting barley, 67 to 68e, outside. Corn -No, 2 American corn. 74 1-4o, oi.f, Midland. Bye -No. 2, 65e, outside. Buokvaleat-62 to 53o. Bean -Manitoba bran, $22 a ton, in bags. Toronto freighas, fiberte, $74, Torgato. During the American occupation of the Philippines conditions; ia the isaland have greatly improved, even thouglt there may Yet be mueli to athompligh, Numbers of the nettivee who a few yeare ago Were living ae savages now build houses and cultivate plots of ground, The physique of the young men and boys has become more robust. Diseaese has been leseened, There is less viesious pastime, and moral- ly, mentally and phyeioally the natives have benefited through that change. What has brought about the improvement? Re- ligious worker% doctors, health officers, tem:horse All have helped, of course; but first among the civilizing before, eaye Mr. Frederick Chamberlain, the author of "The Philippine Problem," have been base- ball and other athletic sports. Comparing Budgets. M. Rene Daunt heel recently given some interesting comparisons between the na- tional expenditures of Frame and Ger- many. Many attempts have been made to ascertain the exact average amount an taxation per bead of the population paid in each country, but the result:3 are too contradictory to make it possible to ac- cept them without reserve. M. Y. M. Gob- let puts it at 165 francs in Germany and 142 francs in France. M. Jules Roche, again, estimates that the Prussian pays 69 frames againat 98 frames in France. The Bulletin. de Statieque et de Legislation Comparee makes the amount paid by each person in Gezenany 51 francs, and the writer thinks the laet two eitimates near- er the truth than that of it. Goblet. Much depends on the way in which the amount is reckoned, the items included. and the different article:3 taxedin each country. Railways in Germany,for in- stance, form almost a state monopoly; in France tobacco is a monopoly. Military expenditure in Germany ie higher than in France, but. compared with the popula- tion, it is less. Germany spends more than France on fereign affaire, but less an eolonies. Public Pewees and adminie- tratiou, justice, eto., oast more in Ger- many, or, at any rate; in Prussia, than in France. The expenditure on educe, tion seems pretty equal in both countries. France sacrifieee more on behalf of own. 1118TCO -and public works, and Prussia =Ore for agriculture. Food Faddists. The public who eat, and they aro largely in the majority, have become alarmed at the campaign of the food faddists and have come to regard with suepicion the most harmless artieles of diet A bullet- in recently issued by the United States de- partment of agrioniturea -will Jeid in re- newing a waning tonfedence. "some of the advocates of freak diets are eittore, but are themeelves deluded." says the warning. "Others are fakers who eeek to make monetary gain by advieing peculiar By -stoma "Zif. diet. Neither ohtes can offer truiptivorthy advice. In , meet of the re- e.otinnendatione of these Bell -established aexiierte' there is hardly a ehadow of reaeon, though theyfluky seem plausible. One of their method e of reasonieg is to use isolated end often upeelated faete of aoibtuie ae evidence that their Deadlier age - tem le of valtie. They completely ignore statements in current historical and eoien- Mac literature which could negative their contentions. MiiqOl 90 tnew beintle)1191a. 4fligerlprireleinstirilecalladyylicte- tle more than folklore. A. great many of the stateraente which are used .fts argte meats; haye been tre,eed by thc goTara- Meat spieialiSts sad fottne 6o"Zama from works on diet, written so long ago as to be no longer coneldered of value except to the) student of the history of diets. The truth of the matter is, legiveyeir;" add& the statement, "that inane chalices bf health are best when he eate with mo- deration a diet made up of clean, whole- some, ordinary foods, well prepared in the usual ways. Proper cooking sterilizee food. If the deduotione of many food faddists accepted as facts were really operative, 16 would be diffieult to explain how- the human rate had survived." The department adds a warning against the danger of alleged niail cures sold by "dietic experts." Fox Farms in Alberta. Country Produce. Butter --Choice dairy. 22 to 24e; inferior, 20 to 21o; creamery, 27 to 28 1-20 foe rolls, and 26 to 26 Lao for eolide. Eggs -Case lots of new -laid, 36 to 374) per dozen; fresh, 32 t,o 33o; and storage, a to 290 per dozen. • • Cheese -New oheeee, 141-20 for large and 14 34 to lth for twine. Boans-Hand-pieked, $2.25 to $2.35 per bnehel; primee, $1.75 to $2. Honey-Extraoted, in tine, 11 to 12c per Ob. for No. 1 combs, $3 to 03,26 per dozen for No. 1, and 72.60 for No, 2. • Poultry -Fowl, 12 to 14o per lb.; chick- ens, 17 to 19o; ducks, 12.10 1.4e; geese, • 12 th 1,3e; turkeys, fresh. No. 1, 21. to 220. Potatoes -Ontario, 80e per bag, on track, and New Brune:viols, 90o per bag, on track. • Black fox farms are now being started In Alberta. • There is one near Edmonton which has already been in existence some menthe. The Indians are getting wise to the big profits that are being made out of blaek foxes, and are conteniplating raise in the price of the valuable ena- mels which, they trap, and which they have hitherto been selling for a eiong, Even the Indian Trill turn, It seems that there are victims of wildcatting in black foxes just as there have been victims of wildcatting in real estate, and will un. doubtedly be victims of wildcatting i"IThere a,re many more however of • tonnolypoioztenbaeivne.ssinegosteou,enotmetopir.eeheenindiesv,s, ! itihnesroeuiwidernoliellidg,ht ayndeaat'isx'afgen. oil. Only in the first cites the victim 14 males blind out of every ten thou- sand. The figures now are 4.8 and 4.1. There are just half as many deaf and dumb as there were in 1881, six in ten theueend as against twelve. Women are a little the less unfortunate in both eases, It is interesting to note that of men afflicted with loss, of sight three more are married than have re - rimmed single, while 285 are now widowers, Blind women seem to be unfortunate in losing their bus - bends -239 still haere spouses, 429 no longer have, while 618 never had. There are forty more blind people in Quebec than in Onterio. Therad elottfotr and C.:(at,11,111))tnot 4aisl 4, 5:4.. The much married, 'seven oub of ben lotb malt) and female reniaining ut a state of single blesseclueSs, Out of 4,584 with this infirmity, 1,410 are residents of Ontario, two hun- dred less •than Quebec. Any wife with an insane husband has 1,768 ',slaters to sympathize. If he is idiotic he Ilea only 165 mar- ried equals in Canada, which is three 'leas than the number of idiot Provisions, Bacon -Deng *leer, 16 1-2o per lb., in ease lota. Pork -Sheet out, $28,60; do., mess, $24.50; haane, medium th light, 20 to 20 1-201 heavy, 19 to 19 1-20; rolls, 15 1-2 to 160; breakfast bacon, 19 to 200; backs, 22 th 24e. Lard -Tierces, 14e; tubs, 14 1-40; pails, 14 1-2e, Baled Hay and Straw. Baled hay -No. 1 at $14 to $15 a t,on, on track here; No. 2 quoted at $12.50 to $12,25, and mixed at $12. • Baled straw -$7.75 to $8, on traok, Te. ronto. Winnipeg Crain. Winnipeg, Nov. 4 -Cash prieese-Wheat --No. 1 Northern, 82 3.80; No. 2, ao., 80 3-80; No. 3, do., 78 3-8e; No. 4, 73 1-20; No. 1 re- Jeoted seeds, 77 1-50; No. 2, do., 76 o. 1 red Winter, 83 3-4o; No. 2, do., 81 3-4e; No. 5, d9., 79 1411. Oato-No 2 C.W„ 33 3-40; Ne. 3, do., 3e 1-2,e; extra No. 1 Nod, 3103 No. 1 teed, 32 1-2e; No, 2, do., ale. .&arley— No. 3, 430; No, 4, 494); rejected, 37 1-20; feed. 67 1,-2e. Flax—No, 1 ,le.-W,C, $1,16. No, 2 csw., 5194; No. 3. de„ $1.03. Montreal markets, Montreal, Nov, 4, -Corn, American Noe 2 yetow, 80 to 81a. Otetsa Canadian West- ern, NO. 2, 401-20; No. 3, 39 to 39 124; ex- tra No, 1 feed, 40e, Barley, elan. feed, 48e2 do., zaalting, 66 to 740. Buckwheat, No. 2e 55 to 56c. Flonr, Man. Spring wheat, pat- ents Amite. 75.401 seoones, $4,90; otrome balers', $4.70; Winter patents, choice, $6; straight rellere, $4,60 to $4.75; do., bage,, 5205.to $2,10, Relied oats, barrels. $4.40 to 74.50; bage, 90 lbs., 5210 to $2,12 1-2a Bran, $22, Shorts, $24, Middlings, 727., Moaillie, $28 to $32. Hay, No. 2, per ton: car lots, $13.50 to 715, Cheese, fleet west - [ns, 13 to 13 1-4e; fineet easteens, 10 5-8 to 12 3-4e, Butter, choicest creamety" 271-4 to 77 e-th; eeconds, 26 $-4 to 27c, Eggs, fresh, 40e; selected, 32e); No. 1 etook, 280; No, 2 stock, 22 to 23c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 70 to 700. United States Markets. Mir:nee:Tolle, Nov. 4.-wheat-Deoember, 03 6-8 to 83 3-4c; May, 88 3-4e; No, 1 hard, 870; No. 1 Northern, 84 3-4 to 85 1-2e; No. to Northern, 82 34 84 1-20; No. 3 wheat. 80 3-4 to 821-20; No. 3 yellow corn. 68 1-2 to 69o. No, 3 white oats, 36 34 to 37 14e. Bran, 720 to $20,60. Floes, unehanged. Duluth, Nov. 4.-Linseea, $1.39; October; $137 1-4; November, $1.37 1-2;; Deeersberi W6 1-2 asked; Ray, $1.41 7-8 asked. Cloae --Wheat-No. 1 hard, 876-80; No. 1 Northe ern, 86 5-8c; No. 2 Northern. 84 5-810 85 1-8e; Moatana, No. 2 hard, 847-80; December, 84 7-80; May, 850. Live Stook Markets. Moutreal, Nov, 4.-Braall bulls sold at about 4 cents per po-u,nd, ,and stockere at 4 to 5 1-4e. Mach cows, 735 to $70 each. Calves, 3 to 6 1-2. Sheep about 4 1-4e" Lambe about 6 1-2o. Hogs, 9 1-4 to 9 1-2e. Toronto, Nov. 4. -Cattle -Choke export) 57.25 to 57.75; choice butchers, $6.70 to 57,45; good, medium, 55.75 to $6.50; common. 54 to 54.50; canners and cutters, 52.50 to 73.75; fat co-ws, $4.50 to $6; COM115.0II cows, 83.60 to ; butchere' bulls, $5.75 to $6.50. Calves -Good veal, 08.76 to $10; common $4.75 10 fo r618.1br,1>felieol 1161-11feeXis-cilltalit; 60 800• lbs., $ to 76,25; light Eastern, 400 to go lbs., $4.50 to 56.50; light bulls, 73.E0 th $4. Sheep and lambs-Light'ewee, 54.56 to 55.25; heavy, $3 to $3.60; bucks, $3 to 53.50; spring lambe, 57.40 to 57.60, but with 750 per head deducted for all the bnal lambs. I40gs-58.80 f.o.b. to drovers, 0910 to 59.25 fed and watered, off ears. C.P.R.'s RECORD. Moved 49,000 Cars of Grain in Two Months. A de'spaitch from Winnipeg seys: In the month of October the Cana- dian Pacific Railway moved 28,003 freight ears from. Winnipeg. to Fort William, the greater portien, 01 which contained gratn. To date, since September. 12 there ha2:v.e been loaded on the Canadian Pacific Railwa.y lines tn the, We,sit, 48,960 cars of grain, 31,514 of which were loaded with vsheat. • The fatal 'grain, moved this year from. September 1 to October 31 was '70,000,000 bush- els. Eighty-three million bushers of grain were marketed et stations on the Canadian Pacific Western lines since September 1, three- fourths of it being wheat. • In the Arne• period ist,st year 40,000,000 bushels, Were marketed. -• DARING ROBBERY. Thieves Break Window and Got $1,000 Worth of jewelry. • A despatch from Toronto says: One of the most daring eleylight • robberies that has ever •been per- petrated in the city took place on Se rsda,y morning, when thieve smashed ehe front window of Ellis', jewelry store at 88 Yonge Street and captured a tray eontaining al - meet one teiousa,nd (Jailers' worth of diamond rings and brooches, The thieves made good their escape, and though the polios have been on the lookout no arrest has been made. BANK CHA_NGES RUMORED. Mr. It. B. Angus, President, to lte.' tire, Mr. Meredith to Succeed. A despatch from Montreal says: Itis understood here that R. 13; Angus is soon to retire from the Presidency of the Bank of Mona real, and will he succeeded by H: V. Meredith, the Vice -President' and General Manager. From the same source it was stated that Sir Frederick - William Taylor, at pre-, alit Manager of the London, Eng, land, breach of the bank, will take the place now occupied by Mr,; Meredith. Official announcernept 91 +ea aloeleet will not be made , „,- public -lintel the genera,1 meeting. ' Boner Law, speaking at New, castle, said the English Unionists would even fight for Ulster. DENIED SUNSHINE OF LIFE Pigures Show That Number of Blind and Deaf and Dumb Has Decreased In Dominion A despatch from Ottawa sa.ys: The number of people in Canada •who are either blind or deaf and dumb is shown byth'e latest census bulletin to be* less than at any time during the past thirty years. dealt ways and vain tricks of the whit mall. The Pace of the West. Tbee following little. 00e:il1at1on may be commendeel to those -who think the west le making too fa.et a pace. We owe it to Mr. S. T. Hastam a well-knewn westerner. The cash velem of the 1913 crop for wheat, oats, flax and barley 731a3, be put at 7123,- 639,900. The indebtealeese of the farMers Is estimated at 7125,000,000. . Of this $60,. 000,000 is owing to mortgage companies, $36,00,000 to inateinere cotapanies, soos 009,000 to inertehants, and about 00000,000 othea debte. If, the western farmer were to take one-seventh of hie crop each year, Mot ea outafebaway proportion, thinks the London Canadian Gazette, to pay off 'his debts, he would be clear in seven yeteree and economically vastly better off teen anyfarmer in the world. BEEF TRUST IN AUSTBALIA. The Commonwealth .1Ias Ample Power to Fight It. ,A despatch from lvtelbottne, Aus- tralia, says: The Government has decided to make full 'enquiries with referenoe, to the Beet Trust's ap- pearance in Queensland, The , At-' tovney-General has ruled thee .the Commonwealth has ample powers to fight the trtise if Amoricen Meths ods 2171 reproduced. wives. There are 1,251,468 married women. in , Canada; of these 2,494 are regarded by the census bulle, tin as insane. There. are also 3,731 women who are insane without be- ing married. There are, all told, 1,500 more men than women whose mental machinery is recorded as out of shape. But on pereentags basis the men come off best. Twenty-seven less Men than women are of unsound mind in a million of each, the matter of oeigin, the French lead, for of Gallic, ea -trac- tion are 4,000 of the 14,500 insane people and 2,000 of the 6,000 icliets enumerated in the census. Then come the English, the Irish and the Scotch. Two-thirds of the mentally unsound wero born in Canada. Prince Fedwevd Island 'shows the highest proportion . of unsound nunds-4l are defective in every 10,- 000. Ontario is credited with 8,831 es against 6,499 for Quebec, Most of these unfortunates, have no oecu- pation, but of those who do work, 'one in every three is employed en farm. The total mether of all dee;- tics at the timo of the last cenees vas 23,611, of whorls , 10,530 Were ynales, relliis moans an irtcvease ot 260 cithe's in len yeaes. The, number of &Naives per 102000 ha's dropped in the status length of time from et males to 40 and fronl 46 females 'fa 38.