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.. eiIAPTE11 \.XIII.—(Cont'd). as ho spoke. Masters bort it, but
His trip, his care for Dick then, intorruptod expression of the wish
that he would lio down ; and—
was so IIMelt labor thrown away. "Suppose I put you to the testi
He mist keep that feeling, If 1 ask you to marry your girl
that desire to ri.sh at the boy's will you do it?"
throat and choke his worthless life „No 1"
out, keep it down. Nothing would Dick answered with a laugh. De
-
thegained by loss of temper. Ions site tho anxiety of which he was
the cool hammer which wfasthat,ns so full, ho could not resist a feel -
the red-hot iron; he knew that, ingof amusement at the request;
yet did not dare to look at his tom- aded emphatically—
His
"I most certainly will not.
His atylniake; is pen perhapswas nob of Up surged the blood again; an -
being
hestt make; so.The resented ger camp into the eyes which flash -
hem
it & down made
ink the ed so; almost blinded their owner.
papfrom AlthoughtG made a blot on the A step forward, and he sized Dick
existence
edscious z itsob the shouklors; held him so, as
existence he allowed the size of in a vice.
the blot to increase; still he made "Tell me." He was speaking
nosp movement..ohuskily
y thatAt last Dick spoke; from a throat the dryness of which
upfrompohis ske looked made it hoarse. "After the way
did sketch. Tho moment in which you have behaved to her
ho ce (Jhe cried— —tell me why you refuse to marry
"Prince! Good God! old chap, her?"
what's the matter ! Prince! Prince l- Dick looked at his companion
Yen aro ill!" doubtfully; had not a trace of an -
;'I It right
uite well. Sit down; I ger in doingso. Felt that in deal
and all right h� tell you. I wanting with im the truth was the
to talk " y uu' only thing; said—
The !" "Refuse to marry her 1 Why,
Tire boy lookingl in amazeed to his ment at you confounded old idiot, you!
patiently. P Bowe on earth can & fellow marry
the white, drawn expression on his •his own sister 4"
companion's face; continued— "Sister i"
"You're ill. Think I am blind!
Como to the cabin and lie down."
"Sit down."
"Not, for half a second !"
As lie answered he was cram-
ming the drawing materials into
his pocket; continued—
"'If you want .o talk come into
.tlto cabin and lie down. I'll talk
to you there till the doctor
conics."
"Doctor! Don't be absurd! I
ain all right. I want to talk to—"
"Then come right along into the
cabin out of this sun; talk there.
It's my turn to give orders. I'tn
going."
He moved away as he spoke,
throwing a glance over his shoul-
ders; an anxious look. He was
fearing greatly for the man whom
he had grown to love.
1Iasters rose; staggered up real-
ly. That hot black blood seemed to
rise with him, right up to his brain.
Bad the effect of making things
go whirling round and round for
a minute. Then with an immense
effort he pulled himself together.
Better perhaps in the cabin, out of
I"' colt -hot.
Ile must have his talk out with
Master Dick.
UNCLE DICK ;
Or, The Result 01 Diolomaey and Tact.
of astonishment ; showed plainly in
his face ; deception was a thing
unknown to hint. A moment's
wondering silence; thea he inquir-
ed—
"Who's Cracie i How the dick-
ens did you know there was any
Gracie'? Why, she's her kid of
course ; my littlo niece!"
At that the man in the bunk
laughed. Almost his old hearty
TRADERS BANK
PROSPERITY.TIN MERRY OLD ENGLAND'' "My youngest boy, 3 years
It is very comforting to Cana-
dians to review the history of the
past eighteen months and compare
the manner in which their coun-
try has come through the dangers
of the recent panic, with the trou-
blesome times experienced in the
United States and other countries
ringing laugh again. But even yet older but less fortunate from the
it retained a tone of wildness; lio
Tanking standpoint. Tho perfec
cried— tions of the Canadian banking sys-
"Blind ! Blind! Blind! What a tem and the services which it has
crass idiot; what a senseless fool
rendered to the Dominion as a
I have been!" whole and to individual Canadians
Dick scratched his head ; these are not always adequately appreci-
ated by the Canadian people. We
much for him; said— are apt to accept as a matter of
"Well, you certainly are behav- course such unobtrusive, smoothly
ing in first -prize -gold -medal idio-
tic fashion! But the puzzle to rue One of the greatest hanks in
is, how the deuce did you know this very excellent system of ours
anything about little Gracie'?" is the Traders Bank. In fact, in
"Know about her? I actually
point of capital it, is our sixth
know her ! Good heavens I How largest banking institution. Tho
clear it all seems now." reputation of its management for
"Does it? That's all right! I conservative, save progressiveness
may be permitted to remark that
has-been amply Lorne out by the
our ideas on opaqueness would be business of the 24th fiscal year
likely to differ!" which was completed on December
"It was she—oh, Dick, Dick, 31st, 1908.
Dick ! Don't you understand 1" The Annual Shareholders' Meet -
"How can I help doing so—when ing was held in the head office
you are so lucid! You brainless building, Yonge street, Toronto,
old firework, you; let off some on January 27th. Tho statement
more crackers." of the year's operations present .d
"Dick ! Dick l It was she, she by Mr. Stuart Sttathy, the Genet -
who christened nie Prince!"
al Manager, shows a position of
"What! Why, you said it, was exceptional strength and very largo
the girl you had spoken about mar- Profeta on the year's business. The
nage to !" high esteem in which the Traders
"Quite right." Bank is held by the general pub -
Tho idea returned to Dick that lit is evidenced by the large in-
The
must be something wrong, crease in deposits. This is parti-
very wrong --as he put it—in Mas- cularly noteworthy in view of the
tors' upper story. Marriage! With disturbed financial conditions of
Gracie. It was simply too absurd the past twelve months.
for words; he said— Tho net profits of the past year
amount to the large total of $500, -
"You jibbering old idiot, you, 217.G0, after making provision for
what do you meant Gracie isn't bad and doubtful debts and reserv-
five years old !" ing accrued interest. The amount,
"I know! I know! I know! And together with the premium of
$100 on the issue of new stock,
and the balance, :125,361.39, at cre-
dit, of profit and loss account,
brought forward from last year,
gives a total of $525,683.99. This
was disposed of by the payment of
four quarterly dividends at 7% per
annum amounting to $304,699.:0,
Just the one word—he almost et a month ago at Wivernsea I
screamed it—that was all Masters' promised leer, if when she grew up
could utter. Ho started away and she wanted to marry me—which she
won't—that I would."
"Wivernsea I Why, you know
my sister I"
Masters started up. Gripped the
boy by both shoulders and shook
him. Happiness struggled with the
tears in his eyes as he said—
"Dick, just a wee while ago—for-
give Inc for it, laddie—I hated you!
Now I love yen! I love you! I love
you! You've told me just the best
news I've heard for years."
"That's all right, old than."
He shook himself free, and rue-
fully rubbing his shoulders, con-
tinued—
"What that news may bo I don't
know; it's beyond my intellect's
horizon. However, as it pleases
you it's sufficient—so long as it
doesn't hurt me. Don't make nie
black and blue in the exuberance
of your affection. As the poet hath
it: 'It's all very well to dissemble
your love, but why do you kick Inc
d jwnstaira 1' "
"I'm sorry, Dick—really sorry.
Did I hurt you 1 I'm so full of
happiness that I could kick myself
for having been such a fool all this
horrible long time."
"You speak in the past tense.
Seems to nie the foolishness is only
just coining to a head!"
"Stop your chaff, there's a good
fellow. You can use that later on.
Just now it's almost life and death
with me. What's your sister's full
name, Dick?"
"Full Darnel Mabel Seton -Carr,
of course!"
"Of course 1 Of course! Of
course! Didn't Gracie write it in
full in my hook?"
"I'll bo hanged if I know! I
shouldu't think it would add to the
book's sale if she did—with my
remembrance of her pothooks and
hangers. You don't live at Wivern-
sea, do you? I never heard that
there was a lunatic asylum there."
"Lived there for years!"
"Oh! Then perhaps you knew
Mabel's husband, Seton -Carr,
when he was alive?"
"When—he—was—alive 1"
"Yes. Of course ! You blither-
ing old idiot, you; what are you
looking at me like that. for ? You
don't think that I am such an tit-
ter egregious ass as to auggest
that you have known him since his
death, do you?"
"How long, Dick—how long—how
long has he been dead!"
"Nine --ten months now. Be-
tween ourselves there was not.
much to regret when he added his
signature to the big death -roll.
Though it's not customary to speak
truth of a man who can't speak
for himself, is it?"
"'Blind ! Blind! Blind! She's
a widow ! Of course! What a
fool—what a fool I have been !"
"Hear, hear ---large-sized kind!"
(To be continued.)
CHAPTER XXIV.
Dick led the way; Masters fol-
lowed; the cabin was reached. The
moment they had entered, the au-
thor put his back against the door;
~ spoke with a gravity which alarm -
released his bold. Fell bac
agains., the door, in the intensity
of his astonishment, clutching
wildly, unfeelingly, at the panels
for support.
Dick's anxiety rapidly gained
strength; he became more alarm-
ed Mian ever. Formed the idea
now that, this was no passing faint-
ness, but that Masters was serious-
ly ill. Was even afraid to leave
him standing there against the
door, for fear he should fall. Sud-
denly, flinging off his coat, he
cried—
"You're stronger than I am, and
I guess I'll get the worst of it,
but here goes."
He stood threateningly in front
of tho much bigger man, tho light
of determination in his eyes; con-
tinued—
"Will you lie down on that
bunk and let me fetch you the doc-
tor 1 Refuge, and as sure as I
stand here I shall try to make
you.,,
Masters pressed his hands to his
aching throbbing forehead. His
mind was whirling so, that it, waa
no wonder he staggered. His brain
did not seem able to hold the
blend : could not contain so much
happiness and so much condemna-
tion of himself for his unutterable
foolishness. True to his threat,
ed his companion--
"You
ompanion - Dick advanced; Masters warded
"You and I have got to have a jam off -
talk. Plain talk." "Don't Dick! Just n. moment,
Dick's anxiety was evidenced in old fellow . . I don t want a dot
the tree of his voice as ho said-- tor. What you have oat said has
"JA sigh, old son. Cackle for done ins more good than a syndi-
hour . if you like. But I wish to tate of all the doctors in the
goeeiness you'd lie down and see
world could effect."
the doctor first." Iwhere.''
'Rasters disregarded this; con- He laughed weakly, foolishly;
sidered it a flippant, out -of -place by no means a confidence -inspiring
re:nark ; in inconceivably bad taste.
laugh. The mirth, if such it could
Moreover, he was disgusted by be called, and the chane of tone
Dick's evasion ; by reason of it were even more disturbing to the
went hitnself the straighter to the listener.
point--
"We
oint I "What have I said? Hero,
"\We left teff on deck at where Prince, you are going off your nut,
you were talking of your girl. You old man ; that's what's the matter
said you were - were not of the with you! I thought it. when you
marrying kind!"
began this game, but I didn't like
"1•:h 1 Yes, of course 1 said so. to say so ; I must now. Sitting in
It is so. But what en earth does the sun so much has given you a
it 'natter what I said 1" mild attack of sunstroke. If you've
Dick still looked anxious. Was any feeling that you would like to
making all clue allowance for the knock me about, now's your time
fat that literary fellows are in- to indulge it; for I am going to
effused to be cranks. yet. sees try to make your come away from
doubtful whether the man with his that door."
back to the door was not over- s "Dick ! My dear boy! I assure
stepping the limits of legitimate , J ou I am all right ! All I want is
and traditional crankiness. a talk—"
"It matters a deal!" "Talk ! Great Scott ! Have you
Masters uttered those words so done anything else! This has been
- flei•i:ely that—in nu tray relieved— like a tabbies' tea -fight! There's
Dick said._ (been enough chatter to keep a tree -
"Does it 1 Well then. Prince, old full of monkeys going! Talk ! Chris -
fellow, if you're so anxious about topher Columbus! It•s been.a per -
my future as all that, I'll relieve feet Niagara of jaw !''
your anxiety. I can truthfully 1 "There, I'll lie in my bunk if it
tell you that I have never set eyes ; will please you, Dick."
on a girl yet that I should be at` "It's that, or sudden death from
all likely to marry. Wine's been!a a blow of this ought -to -be brawny
my trouble, not women." 'arm! 'Money or your life' was
Once more the black blood surg- 'never uttered more seriously than
ed up ; a curtain seemed to comp .1 nm talking. Tho doctor—"
up before Masters' eyes ; a thick I ''Don't go for the doctor, Dick,
misty curtain blotting things out. please. I don't need him. I am
But he knew he must keep his tem- all right now."
per in hand ; exhibit only calmness. "I've only your word for that.;
He would gain more that way ; for 1 may tell you that your face
the child's sake --for her sake. doesn't lend any confirmation!
"Dick," he spoke with all the You look as if you'd lost. your sev-
earnestness in hint. "Awhile back 'en senses and couldn't say 'Bel'
you spoke of being grateful to nie. to a goose! Arc you better 1 . .
$Jaid you would do anything to— Really Honor bright!"
to please nue." "Yes. Yes. Yes. Tell me. Dick,
"So I would, old fellow ; so I it she is your sister, who is
would. On my soul I would 1 But Gracie?"
1 wish to goodness you would It looked like a tanning of the
lie---" tables! Was Dick's turn to start
Dick's hand was placed snoth• and exhibit surprise. His was the
Ingly on bis companion'a aLuulder, wide-open-oyed-and•mouthed typo
FINED FOR KISSING MOTHER.
Mlle. Trefiloff, the famous Rus-
sian actress, has just been fined
ten roubles for kissing her mother
in a trainees. It appears that
both in Moscow and St. Peters-
burg it is unlawful to give kisses
in public, a kiss in the street be-
ing penalized by a fine of seven
roubles, ten roubles being the fine
inflicted on those who practise os-
culation in railway trains or in
tramcars. A recent enactment
even renders persons who send
declarations of love on postcards
liable to a fine of five roubles. A
rouble in English money repre-
sents about two shillings and ten -
pence.
1
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND 1I1S I'EOl'I.l.
Occurrences in the Land Thal
Reigns Supremo in the Com-
mercial World.
The 2nd Devon Regiment railed
from Plymouth in the Braemar
Castle for Crete and Malta.
A three-year-old child at ) rom-
ley, Kent, died after a bottle of
coal oil had been upset over hint.
There was not a single funeral
in the town of Blandford, Dorset,
during the whole mouth of Decem-
ber.
A dog which fell a distance of
200 feet from the Shakespeare Cliff,
Dover, was found three days later
wedged betweeu two rocks, but still
alive.
No cases of smallpox or typhoid
fever aro now under treatment in
any of the hospitals controlled by
the Metropolitan Asylums Board in
London.
In Islington 1,509 dinners, each
sufficient to provide two days' food,
were given to the poor of- the bor-
ough. 'rho distribution has been
made annually for forty years.
The King has ben pleased to ap-
prove of the admission of officers
of the Territorial Force to tho Con-
valescent Homo for Officers at Os-
borne.
Five ex -members of the Mile End
Guardians, sontenoed at the Old
Bailey in August to nine months'
imprisonment, will, it is reported,
be released early in February.
Eight hundred tons of rags stored
in a warehouse, 1G0 feet long and
two stories high, attached to the
Britannia Mills, Birstal, near
Leeds, were destroyed by fire rc-
ceatly. .
Miss Rhoda Stott, daughter of
Mr. Henry Stott, of Cloth Hall
Mills, Dewsbury, when crossing a
street with a child recently was
killed by a motor -car. The child
escaped.
The new line of six first-class
battle -ship moorings in Dover Na -
and by writing off $20,000 from val Harbor is now complete, and it
bank premises and furniture for is expected that the fleet to be
depreciation and transferring to based on Dover will arrive early
Officers' Guarantee Fund, $5,000, next month.
and to Pension Fund, $5,000, and Mrs. Anne Cameron Eastbourne
carrying forward to Profit and left, instructions in her will that her
Loss, $190,952.49. jugular vein was to be severed 48
The amounts now on deposit hours after her death by ono phy-
have reached a total of $25,385,- sician in the presence of another.
117.02. The liquid assets of tho During 1908 the Agent -General
Bank now amount to over 30% of for New South Wales granted re -
the liabilities to the public, while
the total assets have reached tho
large amount of $34,859,590.
Tho address of the President,
Mr. C. D. Warren, as well as that
of the General Manager, Mr.
Stuart Strathy, reflected an opti-
mism that is most encouraging and
a caution that is admirable to the
last degree. The shareholders and
depositors of the Traders Bank are
indeed fortunate in having as pre-
sident of their institution a man of
the business experience and great
ability of Mr. Warren.
STARVED AMID PLENTY.
Two Old Ladies Found Dead With
Hoarded Wealth.
Two eccentric old maiden ladies
named Nimeas have been found
starved to death in their humble
dwelling near Chatham, England,
while in their room were eonsider
able sums of money and a savings
bank book worth £220. They were
both over seventy years of ago, and
shared a small cottage at the bot-
duced passages from Great Britain
to that colony to 3,090 persons,
chiefly faun workers and domestic
servants.
Able-bodied paupers in Willesden
workhouse have addressed a peti-
tion to the guardians asking to be
allowed to smoke and visit their
wives. The concession has not been
granted.
One thousand destitute children,
gathered from the slums of West-
minster and Lambeth, were enter-
tained recently in the Horticultur-
al Ilan. The host was the Sun-
beam Society of South Australia.
Negotiations between the Meteor-
ological Office and the Marconi trscks and in other ways, the
Company are now practically eom- TOTAL NUMBER OF KILLED
pletecf, and the serviceceof wireless
weather reports froin steamers was 529, and injured 1,300, as
crossing the Atlantic will begin in against 460 killed and 603 injured during the previous fiscal year. ,
A deaf and dumb woman named On the C. P. iL. 283 people were
Racksworthy informed the South- killed and 314 injured, as against
a ark coroner at an inquest recent 218 kil1cd and 110 injured in 1907.ly that her father and mother had On the Grand Trunk 165 wore
been deaf and dumb, and that she killed and 721 injured, as against
had married three husbands, all of 100 killed and 393 injured in 1907.
whom were also deaf and dumb. On the Canadian Northern the
That the days of sailing ships are killed numbered 19 and the injured
123, as compared with 30 killed and
92 injured in 1907.
On the Michigan Central 25 were
killed and 72 injured, as against
29 killed and 12 injured in 1907.
Mr. Graham also laid on the
table the report of the National
old, was sick with fever
last June, and when he got
better the doctor prescribed
Scott':• Emulsion, and he
liked it so well that he drank
it out of the bottle, and is
now just as plump and strong
as any child of his age any-
where ... two bottles fixed
him 0 ;;." -- MR. JOHN F.
TEDDER, Bos 263, Teaguo-
Frec.tone Co., Texas.
is the greatest help for babies
and young children there is.
It just fits their need; it just
suits their delicate, sensitive
natures; they thrive on it. Just
a little does them so much
good and saves you so much
worry. You owe it to them
and yourself to make them as
strong and healthy as possible.
SCOTT'S EMULSION will help
you better than anything else;
but he sure to get SCOTT'S.
It's the best, and there arc so
many worthless imitations.
AI,I, DS:CGGISTS
Trddar has just written nsnnotber Irtterabout
his b,.•th,r•in-law's ohi,dren. Jet us stud ,ou Lis
istsc;s t.ud other ista•nattea on tho rnhieot. A
Po.t Card, wcuti.ainp this paper, la suffu:cst.
SCOTT & BOWNE
126 Wo1iirston St.. W. Toronto
KILLED ON THE RAILWAYS
COMMISSION'S REPORT SHOWS
A. MARKED INCREASE.
The Injured Last Year Were 320 as
Compared With 210 in 1007.
Tho report of the Dominion Board
of Railway Commissioners for the
fiscal year ending March 21, 1908,
laid on the table of the House of
Commons the other day by the Min-
ister of Railways, shows that dur-
ing tlio year tho salaries of the staff
cost the Dominion $28,103, while
maintenance cost $86,504. In both
cases the expenditure was kept well
within the Parliamentary appro-
priation.
According to statistics gathered
by the board, 64 passengers were
killed and 326 injured during the
year, as compared with 42 killed
and 210 injured in 1907. During
the same period 246 employees were
killed and 366 injured, as against
212 killed and 311 injured in 1907.
Including people killed on the
tom of Miller's Court, Brook, a by iso means ended is proved by a
very poor neighborhood. some Passage just made by the Lowestoft
alarm was caused by their not haw- collier brigantine Albatross, which
ing been seen by neighbors for two sailed frons Boston to Stornoway, a
or three days and the matter was distance of between five and six
reported to tie police. luspector
Jones and two constables on Fri-
day night obtained an entrance to
the house through the bedroom win-
dow, and both women were found
dead.
The elder was in bed undressed,
with very little hed clothing, and
the younger was lying on the floor
beneath the bed partly undressed.
At the inquest the names of the
deceased were stated to be Sarah
Ann and Nellie Mimosa. One of the
sisters was eighty and the other
well over rreventy. A neighbor,
Mrs. Harris. said she had known
thein fifteen years, and used to do
laundry work and run errands for
them. She was never allowed to en-
ter their house. They were very
eccentric, and since last November
had grieved over the death of a
nephew who lived with them. Po-
lice Inspector Jones spoke to
searching the house. IIe found
money in various parts. Ten
pounds in gold was wrapped in a
newspaper, Li 7s. in silver in a
smoker's companion, £3 5s. in a
jug, half a sovereign in another
jug, 10d. on the kitchen table. 344t1.
in a box, :i'/,d. on a mantelpiece,
and packed away in a staircase
cupboard, difficult to reach, and
full of rubbish, a tin box contain-
ing 204 sovereigns. There was also
a post -office savings bank book,
showing £200 to the credit of the
nephew who died. The rooms were
in a shocking condition, and the
women's bodies were emaciated.
Dr. Bryan said that death was due
to want of food, extreme cold, and
general self-neglect, and the jury
returned a erdict in accordance
with the medical evide eco. i
hundred miles, with a coal cargo,
in three days.
Power to regulate the routes of
all kinds of traffic in London, to
prohibit eostermongers and street
hawkers, to penalize moving pic-
ture advertisements, and to prevcut
cattle driving and coal unloading
in the daytime is taken by the Cor-
poration in a bill entered for next
session.
A ('MANCE FOR ALL.
There wan little doubt in the
minds of those who were invited
to the wedding of Augustus ('lay
Johnson and Chloe Matilda ]taker
as to the cordiality of the invita-
tion. It was dearly printed, and
read as follows:
You are invited to attend the
marriage of Mr. Augustus Clay
Johnson and ,Miss Chino Matilda
Baker at the house of the bride's
mother. All who cannot come may
send.
se — --
II1H DIGNITY.
Tho prisoner, refectory and ob-
stinate, flatly refused to work in
the treadmill.
The man was brought before the
governor of the jail for dis.obedi-
ence. The governor asked him
what reason he could give for not
following out his orders.
"Me go on the treadmill! ' ex-
claimed the prisoner. drawing him-
self up to his fill height of of-
fended dignity. ''Never, sir! I'd
rather leave the jail first!"
PREVENT TUBERCULOSIS
DISCOVERY Ill' 1)11. R.tNI)LE 0.
HOSES BEIu i:tt.
Philadelphian Finds Gerais Invade
Blood Before .tticctiug
the Lungs.
By official announcement the
greatest discovery in the war against
consumption, since the finding of
t!:e tuberculosis bacillus by Koch,
has been made public.
This is the discovery by Dr.
Randle C. Rosenberger, famous
biologist and holder of the chair
of bacteriology at Jefferson Medi-
cal C'ulleoe, Philadelphia, that the
tuberculi-esis germ '.au now be found
in the blood, before it reaches the
lungs, that it is then in a condition
which makes it readily amenable
to destruction by simple treatment
and fresh air. and that it will soon
be possible to use a perfect anti-
toxin which will state") the disease
out entirely.
By Dr. ltosenberger's discovery,
consumption, from being the great-
est scourge of modern times, may
yield to the most simple treatment.
TESTED 150 CASES.
Dr. Rosenberger has tested his
discovery and his method upon 150
cases, in none of which was there
a failure. He has made known the
results of his experiments to the
College of Physicians and to the
faculty of Jefferson College, and
his whole paper upon the subject
will appear shortly in a medical
publication. Before that Dr. Ros-
enberger, who is a purist in medi-
cal ethics will not discuss or go
into details of the matter.
From other sources, entirely fa-
miliar with Dr. Rosenberger's ex-
periments and his diagnosis, it was
learned that the bacteriologist had
found that the tuberculosis bacilli
make their first appearance in the
blood of the infected person. They
do not first appear in the lungs or
glands, but invariably in the blood.
To varying degrees of time, de-
pending upon the condition and sus-
ceptibility of the affected ono they
course about in the circulation be-
fore settling in the part that gives
them least resistance. While i
the blood they may bo found by
simple test which Dr. Rosenber
has discovered.
ANTI -TOXIN CAN BE INJECTED'
By this discovery an anti -toxin
or virus can be injected that will
render tho human organism im-
muno to consumption. Work upon
this virus based on the new Ithase
of the matter is now in pr gross.
Tho hope of ita perfection is not a
distant one, it was cautiously said.
"If this is all that .is hotted,"
said Dr. Lawrence Flick, president
of the Phipps Institute for Con-
sumptives, "the fight against the
great white plague is won."
The discovery is not confined to
learning the presence of the germs
in the blood. but marks their most
incipient appearance in the lungs
and in all forms of tuberculosis,
such as the rarer forms of Pott's
disease of the spino and tuberculo-
sis of the hip.
The simplicity of the method is
such that it will bo available to
every physician and to the simplest
laboratory.
,t•
DOUBLE GAS BAG IN AIRSHIP.
Remarkable Flying Machine Invent- •
ed by an Englishman.
W. Friese-Greene, a Brighton
(England) photographer, has pat-
ented and is now building the most
remarkable airship yet construct-
ed.
The novel feature of the vessel
n, its "twin construction." It con-
sists of two elongated gasbags,
placed side by side. Should one
Transcontinental Railway Lem- bag collapse there wvill no fear of
mission for the fiscal year. In the accident, and the airship has as its
section devoted to surveys it is balancing instrunment the wonder -
shown (hat during the year it has ful gyroscope.
been found possible, by additional There arc four motors, ono driv-
ing the gyroscope, another the pro-
peller fan and two others for emer-
gency. The gyroscope is used for
steering, its position being altered
by means of steering gear attached
to an ordinary ship's wheel.
The airship can be made to rise
or fall by a movable weight, .:ravel-
ling on an endless band, freta end
to end of the machine. Two aero-
planes are niso used to alter the
angle of the airship.
The main petr„1 driving engine
works a dynamo, which in turn
drives electric motors as an extra
precaution in case of a breakdown
in the petrol engine.
Ina tight• wind tw•o basket ears
can be hoisted up or down within
3e feet of the ground. to take up
or land passengers, but in a heavy
wind the airship will have to comp
to earth.
Mr. Friese-Oreene is patenting
the airship all over the world, and
engineers who have seen it, have ex.
pressed surprise nt the simplicity
and practicability of the machine.
The airship now being constructed
at Southwick will carry one Ivan
only, but later on Mr. Greene will
build one to carry 15 passengers.
Dotty resteeis Neve made great ad• "1 heard your daughter Annie's
antes aa,irintf the peat(c.c.' Vera, not wedding was quite e. lively one,
pee 1/art of •vhtoh Is the triwas of Mr. Junes." "IWeil, it oras chine -
lass iced cream tato po.fr butter• thing of an Annie•ma',ed scone."
surveys, to shorten the route be-
tween Moncton and Winnipeg by,
about thirteen miles.
THE ESTIMATED DISTANCE
now stands at slightly over 1,80.1
mills. Up to March 31 last the to-
tal expenditure by the commission
amounted to $27,057,94-1.
Chief Engineer Lumsden in his
report remarks that some general
charges in respect to over -classifi-
cation have been made. These will
be taken up and considered later
on.
It is noted that a large number
of accidents occurred during the
year, the majority of them being
due to explosives. In district "B"
eight men were killed, while forty-
two were killed and forty-seven in-
jured in district ''F.''. -.These ac-
cidents, the report says, were due
to carelessness in Handling dyna-
mite, and occurred in spite of the
strict precautions which were taken
to protect the lives of the workmen.
Yearling beef has beeomo very p sea -
Isar and there is a growing beiisf
0:74r,it sto-knten that the Hereford
4,111 rank Melo a -s rt quick maturer oet
the sort of beef named.