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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-02-11, Page 64. +tot+041.le#+Ot+G+#+i+O+tJu 1•#+O+1+1O +00:1l+1RNCt0:11+3:t+040 31) 1 lit i +f` ck+f.ttGFftt5:ittk 0to.ii+0i+*+*to+fa+gt+*+#0:41101+A+33 .. 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.