Exeter Times, 1907-10-24, Page 6LBCONI'S GREAT TRIUMPH
New System Is Now Handling Messages
Without Wires.
A despatch from Glace Bay, Nova
Saolia, rit)s: Many newspaper corre-
spondents were present en Thursday
afternoon at learn Mori:'ii when the
conuuereiat! wireic ;, :;crvit'e Lelwt'en
Canada and Ireland was inaugut ated
by Signor elarconl. The messages ex-
changed were sena by Sir Wilfrid Lau-
rier, lord `trathconn. Sir Hiram \titx-
un. the lied Mayor of Londem and
cater notable men.
\la icorli said that over tem thousand
words had been received and .sent on
Thursday and not a single weird had
to be repeated. The inventor said that
he ttad nothing new to tell, and when
asked it he would make a statement for
Il:c press, send le had nothing to say.
It: a few days, he st.id, a pies; service
would be inaugurated between the
te:WerS and ships at sea so that press
messages many be sent each day. It is
possible for \larciue to locate u ship
anywhere at sea, and in a test nettle
by the wireless p:e4,ple for the llrilish
\,ttuiralty a British warship went to
se :( under seated orders, and w title she
rt chained in touch WI111 the Marconi
systeitl the chart of the course she bud
token was made up at the wireless stn -
ten Istat eorresp,mtd exnctlr With that
1 the ship.
NO iN'fCIllir'1'7'ION.
Asked if it was possible for a mes-
t1 ge to be intercepted, the inventor
said i;.i, and even if one was copied
e: a fluke it c•euld not 1e done again
if th • matter Was found nut. as the
ening apparntus of the sending and
.coving station wd:i'.ti at once be alter -
1. Two ntes.,nges laity be received 4. n
Ile one set •11 Wires at the same time.
reed on Thursday Meri. n messages
.were tx'ing received and sent over the
s:eal►e set of aerials.
A wire was sent by the London Daily
.Mail to President Roosevelt conveying
'Mew'. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Fent the
Sings of Canada to the Mother
entry.
The operating room k about twenty
eet king and about twelve feet wide,
and is equipped with three keys. Right
,;t fi'ojt; of that xxnn is the transform-
er room, where 8 or lit transformers are
at work transforming the current up
to a very high voltage. The key is con -
heeled to an ordinary wire, whish
connected with the aerial. A funnel-like
tt:ix' spits Ilautc' whets the operates
14►ue•hces the key. This, in turn, com-
municates to the jump spark. and so
'u the aerials. The noise oti the wire
is like a 11111111.er of whips being crack -
('d. The w hole process is !noel inter-
esting. anti white it Is delieult to get
.any definite demonstration that nres-
sng;t'.t are readily being sent. yet both
\1:tre'oui and Vvyian claim that they
lave been sending enol receiving.
INTEREST IN MONTRl:.1L.
A despatch from \Iomt•eel says: In
.Montreal a great deal of interest was
displayed in the inception of the new
wireless service at ;1lorion, and many
enquiries were addressed to the Marconi
Company's ofllce. Mt'. John I). Opp e.
manager of the (Canadian Company,
when seen, said: "Yes. indeed, this is
:t busy day. Of course, the service is
reels an inaugural ewe, rind the usual
daily service will not commence for a
few days yet. However, there is a host
of press messages .,(feting. and there
seems to be plenty of vorh kr tate op-
erator-."
MESSAGES FROM LAU RIER.
A despatch front London says: The
Daily Chronicle on Friday morning pub-
1skit's the following message (seen Sir
\\'ilfrid Laurier. transmitted by wire -
ss from the \tarce)ni station in Gana -
da; "Greetings to the people of (treat
Britain upon the attninntent between
the British and Canadian coasts of na-
ture's latest greatest triumph over dis-
t. nce."
The Express published the following
front the Canadian Premier:
"\Welcr.rne. By t his bond between
Britain and Canada one more triumph
for the Empire and science has been
achieved."
Tile Daily Mail also publishes a mes-
sage front "Loyal (:attada."
STEMMING THY, FLOOD.
ewer-tntcrican Publications Coming
to Canada.
A despatch leen Ottawa . atys: The
T ,.totlico' Department reports that as
the result of n new agreement to the
t't'.tnd-class postal rates between Can-
tle .and the United States, a ttich went
nto effect last spring. the flood of cheap
rnerican tie erip►ers and magazines.
tat merely as advertising mediums,
as prnetictiHy ceased to pour into
Canada. Until May lust hundreds 41
tens of :ltitericnn newspapers and ma -
paints .,f the cheaper and poorer class
-were carried weekly by the Canndian
'rails. Since the new rate of one cent
for elm d unce: has been in force (here
rot elle pound of this objeetionnble
:ass of American mail matter coming
.t4 Canada for every thousand pounds
fat cntne in before. The congestion
the Canadian snail malice cawed by
e handling 4)f this iiiimet)se mass of
nited Stales publiealt.►ns has been re-
eved. and the relations 1-etween the
t%•o countriea in respect l:) revenue and
pt'nditure 4:11 itttet•nationol names are
en n more equitable basis. A large pro-
Lori'on of the better clam of Felted
States magazine,: and newspapers still
coaling (''to Canada are now being car-
ried by tett' c\pre,ss c4enlpanies instead
(ef ting handled by the p'ostc)Rice as
fit nterty.
G. T. 1'. St It\ L11111': 1)Ito N.
Canoe Struck a Bock in the Ili-cornbe
Rapids.
:1 despatch from Vancouver, B. C.,
says: Three member,. et a Grant! Trunk
1'ncille survey wore dwelled en l eto-
I .er ill► in the Gise enibo Itttpit'r. thirty -
live 'miles itiove Ft.rt George, on the
i'ra,er Inver. They attempted to '1t))(
the rapids in a canoe. but struck a r)"k
and the canto'. broke to pieces. The
drowned illti• \\ illinm Lusby. Harry
Cummings, \\'. Sytttitip:t4►rl. The si.r-
vivurs are iIutierl She11ieeld, .1. Miller,
Arthur Cape. No bodies were recovered.
(:romwell's party fn.nt Felmonton
brought the sure ivors to Quesnel.
Tltl►1.I.Et Celt IIITN t HOUSE.
three Killed and 'i 'er;tl Mutilated Near
Halifax. F:ntg::utt1.
A de,patch from Halifax, Lnglnntl,
says: :1 etsired car which left Snwerey
ilridge, three males from this city. on
\Vednesday, was wreckevl in ns -vnding
A steep hill at Belton Brow. The trolley
lief. the wire and the car ran backward
down the hill to the bottom, where it
left the WI: incl ran into a house. Three
persons were killed end thirty injured.
tee\erel of the latter were terribly muti-
lated. One man hal his nose cut off.
.t.
A AOI 111F'l 1. INI I NI11 tide.
S.11muel Austin (:atts.etl Fire% in CaVer.
hnrS Warchon•e, Montreal.
A ttespatch from \leettr'nl says: Sarn-
1141 Atsslitt, a nineteen-yeare)141-l■)y, ern-
ploye.1 by I'averhill, I.earn>,:nt h cio.,
was arrested on Tuesday night on a
charge of arson. Several fires have oc•
eurrtd at the firm's wareroom during
ttte past few months• which have puz-
rtled the firemen anti the firm. On \Vc i-
nesday Anse'si plenthed guilty and was
' rcmarivad kr sentence.
QUEEN 1'ic'1'OfI:1'S i.F: 111 ERS.
Publis!•.ed by Authority of KY)ig Edward
- An Interesting Volume.
A dt"patch from London says: Tice
London papers on Wednesday meriting
publish elaborate lt' extracts from the
"Letters 4,f Queen \'ic'oria," which finite'
(heir apptar•ance by authority of King
Edward. '1'tteese ietters forms an interest-
ing autobiography which. without re -
reeling; any itml;,ert;int p otitical matters
not already known, present a deeply
absorbing picture of the Queen's life
and character from her own hands.
i:dl'oriallt, the newspapers expt•t ,.
their grateful thanks to the King for
this selection freem nearly six hundred
volumes at Windsor. in Which the
Queen's letters and papers are classi-
fied and indexed.
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(:1.11lNN ill' VANCOUVER LAPS. .
THE WORLD'S MARKETS ' CONDENSE!) NEWS ITEMS
ItF:POflTB /'ROM TOE IF.ADING
TRADE CENTRES.
I'rices Cattle. Grain, (-hrese and
Other Dairy Produce al Horne
and A bruad.
't'omnto. eel. 22. -- Flour - (euteric
%% heat 4111 per cent. patents at•t' gtaote.1 at
*; in buyers' slicks outside for report,
end at :t.11) to $1,20 locally. 111tuiettei
Met !tattle,. $i to $6.25; levant' patente.
,5.111 lu $3.63, and strong hakere', $3.30
h) $.).15.
wheat -New Manil4►ha wheat Is in fair
demand, with p'rie's ea,ier. No. 1 feertIt-
ern, $1.14, litkt' ports. and No. 2 at *1.1G.
Oneiri•. Wheat --No. 2 red wailer and
Ns 2 w tete are quoted at $1.07 to $1.0et
ottlsi,le, and No. 2 mixed at $1.06 out-
side.
Barley -The ntarhel i• tiro►, with de-
mand good. No. 2 (1uotteti ail til to cele
outside, and No. 3 extra at 74; le 78c out-
Sitict,
Oats- No. 2 (inlnrio white oats are
quoted at 57 to 58c outside. Mumitd►ba
No 2 elide sold at rink•. Toronto.
Corn -No. 2 Ai nerirtut yellow, is
quoted at 75%c, '11't.ronto freights, And
N.i. 3 at 74X1•.
Bran --The market is du!} at. $22 to 823
in hulk outside. snorts are tpuoleet at $21
to $25 outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
.\!►1't• s --\\'inter, $3 to 83.71) per !oriel.
livens --$1,$0 to 81.90 [;,r primes, tied
at 81.90 to 82 for hand-jw ked.
Honey -113; to 12 k c per lb for strain-
ed, and at $2.110 to $2.75 [ter combs.
Ilay-No. 1 timothy quoted at $17 to
$18 hero in car lots.
Straw -$9 to $10 a ton on track herr.
Potatoes -Ontario are quoted at 70e.
Fee bag on trade and New Brunswick
a! 73c per 1►til;.
Poultry -Turkeys. dressed, 13 to lie
per Ib; chickens. alive, 7 to 8c; dressed.
9 to lite; duds`, alive, 7 1•o Se; do,
tires ed, 9 to ltk.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Rutter -Pound prints. 23 to 25e, and
large rolls. 21 to 22:'. Creamery rule. at
27 to 28c, and ,olids nt 24 It) 25c.
Eggs -Case lots quoted at 22 ids Vic pet-
dezett.
Cheese -Large quoted at 13',c, and
twins at 13%c.
1106 PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs in car lots are quoted at
$'4 to $$8.25. 13aeon, long clear, 11 to
ll;Sc per !b in case tote; iness pork, $20
te. $21; short cut. 822.50 to 823.
Mannas -Light to iii diuul, 15 to 15},c;
t t. ►, heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls, 11),c ;
shoulders. 10', to lac; backs, 16% to
17c; breakfast bacon, 15% to 16c.
Lard -Tierces, Wee; tubs, 12%c ;
pail!$, 13c.
CATTLE \tARKE1'.
Tor..nto, Oct. 22. -Only a load or leve
of
exporter; cattle Were on the market.
The cattle sold to -day brought $1.31► to
ei.10 per cwt.
Good to choice butchers' steers sold at
81.25 to 81.50, and picked lots br►ught
~..1.,0 t 81.90 per cwt. Medium to geed
animals were quoted at 83.75 to 81:
c•oilmen' to medium cattle sold at $2.50
to 83.111; good cows brought 83.25 to
$3.e.5: and medium cnws brought $2.40
t . 82.73 per cwt. (omnntn caws and
canners we're worth 75s to 82 per cwt.
Prices for light stockers ranged from
r'! to 83 per cwt. Feeders were bold itt
Si to 83.50. and bulls brought 82 .0 82.51)
per cwt.
For good witch cows, $30 to $45 each
was paid.
Good veal calves were wattled. The
prices ranged from 3c to 63 c per tb.
A goeod demand obtained for peel
,hee'p. Ewes were worth 81.25 to See);
culls and bucks. .3 to 83.50: and good
lambs, $4.25 to $5.75 per cwt.
Select hogs were unchanged) at 86.25
per cwt. i.ight and rough ti..g.s were
slow of sale, and their prices ruled from
85.25 per cwt. upw•arckl,
BUSiNE 'S AT \MON TRIM1..
For Damage St: -rained Rs Them During
the Recent Riots.
A despatch from Ottawa says ; Fifty-
feur claims, ranging from one dollar to
cne thousand dollars, have been filed by
inpane3Se residents t,f Vancouver for
damages sustained by them during the
recent riots. The (tnmatge to properly,
e .nsisttng mostly of broken glatss, Is
placed al $2,400. and the damages asked
fee businc`s losses amount to 811.2(10,
slaking an aggregate of $13.600. Noth-
ing; could be m4.re thorough than the
'tanner in Which the clairms are presen-
ted Each case is treated as a separate
Chihli and L. ac'c►rnpnnied not only by
nn nflidavit of the damage. but nk•o by
a photograph of the buildling, sh.►wing
the injuries done by the tool.
CROPS Ittlf IN E111 FIELDS.
!tains Pr•rtent Ilarse,ting in New
Itrine.o irk.
A despatch front 'Toronto says: In the
4►p'init.tt .,f \1r. Duncan Anderson, of
(trillia, nn in'lttute w4,rkcr, wt►o has
written to \Ir. II. A. 1'ulnam, superin-
tendent of Farmer' Institutes, ti►e crop
slid -triage in Canada will amount in valise
to one hundred million dollars. Iliac let-
ter. Written from New Brunswick, states
that in that province the rainfall has
been s•) great that it has been inlpessihle
K. get the crop nn. The bimderi and
ntt►We'rs cannot be used, as they become
b'.gged. The Wheal. oak and tons of
has use rotting in the fichis. The !mite -
ewe, too, are spoiling. 'This is a lean
year for the farmers of Eastern Canada,"
says the letter,
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F'.t1l.1 ItF. 1►F GLItel eN 11.tNK.
Ileat%lest Since 1:4►Ilapee of Lcip.iger
Dank in 1301.
A despatch front Ilaniturg. (;.rtnany.
says: The oldest kinking firm of
Haller, Sochle and Co. failed en Thurs-
day. The liabilities of the firm are var-
Itt'sly stated and It was cstimaitcd early
in the day that they were in the neigll-
borbard of $5,0),(100, but the Hambur-
ger Nae:'hri, hien says that it is Infdtrme'ei
by a tenter e t:o 1s In a position to know
the facts, Putt the liabilities will ranch
$;,5001,000. This will make the colleeso
11 this nran the biggest tank failure in
(; rmany since the famous 1•reaktlown e.f
the Lelp eager Bank. In June. 1101. eti„
assets of the finch have net yst Fenn as-
certained, but in banking circ'es the
capital of the partners is deviated to be
$1,250,000.
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HAPPENINGS fitOM ALL OtL.I TIE
GLOBE.
Telegraph Briefs From Our Ovin and
Other
Countries of Recent
EAeats.
leeN.1D.1.
Captain Bernier hat.; returned Irani Mt'
Polar Seas with ilte steamer Arctic.
.1 Guelph syndicuie has purcla'.ati a
peat plant and w•i11 begin operations at
octet',
lieu. S. J. Farmer pronounces Brant -
hint the most profane and drunken city
Iw was ever int.
'I'ltu► Beltway (:c►tntuis..it)rt has notelet
the railways that defects In their equip-
ment t.f cure Must be remedied.
The Ontario De artnit•mt of Educaliutt
has decidua to prepare a new set of
renders for lilt public: acaroid, of rho
l'rovincit.
Tho shutting of Gans h)• it \Winnipeg;
detective hos aroused considerable in-
kiest. and the Provincial (;ovcrmiiient
will ls,ld a strict investigation.
"Pito properly c►f the Tetuishiitning &
1• rthern Ontario italilwu)• 2,IMN),IXN),
Kris been insured with tint' I.Iti hr; of
:ng;lnnd anti a New York syndicate.
The Asiatic Exclusion i.4ague of \'un-
ce.uwt't has requested the city's repre-
.,t•ntatires in Parliament and that 1 'g;is-
lature to resign as a 'nettled of testing
public feeling on the exclusion question.
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GREAT Btlel'AIN.
Jerome K. Jerome complains that Car-
negie's libraries brave made the writing
of books unprofitable.
1), . Rent, (Mer is taping; an active in
serest in Leidy Abi•ideen s canipaiott
against tuberculoses in Ireland.
ICeir 1htrdie, writing of his tour
around the world, oondertu:e the specu-
lation in land w•itich he saw going on
in Canada.
British railway eompanicss have re-
turned a reply tntfaytn•ahle to the de-
rtarld of 1h_ eir employees for recog ttl-
Ir.)n of the union.
A British Ilett of 110 pennants. a
force greater ihnn that immediately
-available by any two other European
mittens, is nssemipted for manoeuvres
tit the North Sen.
THAT INGONVENIENf INNT(�DjjIUIILAT YUKON ROBBERY
UNITED STATES.
no shunt) in the price of copper has
cit)>:etl a large number of mines in Sal-
til!o. Mexico.
A woman and two children were killed
near Amherst. Ohio, by being caught in
the cattle -guards on t!;e railr4:nd.
Oho • has raised enough wheat this
year to slake a barrel of flour for every
:nen, woman and chikl in the State.
White at:eir 'ting to arrest Gil un-
known man al Peoria, 111., Policeman
l:41% and 1;urret1 was shot, and died an
lean afterward.
For the Iifth year no Stale lax will be
levied in \\'i°cousin during 1917, the
treasury being in such a ptoperous C011-
Passengers
on1'anssengers on the Southern Pacific
teerland trains are having rare snort
liehing frinit the car windows in the Sal-
ton Sen. California.
Seven thousand copies of a new maga-
Sine for the blind, are now in the press
ir. New York city. and will be distributed
to the U. S. and I:anada.
Frank Thompson. serving a sir years'
to cru in prison at "Trenton, N.J., Inas re -
sieved a bequest of 8134)3») from a re-
lative in Manchester, England.
The statement is made at \Wnshing!en
that the Govet•lunent hae for a long time
1,4een losing $1.000 daily through c•rnr,r
rtutl fraud in the money -order system.
Filling from a windlow• ledge of the
fourth floor of a new York building.
\\ illiatn Bay fell directly upon Ittrhard
Prohle. whc was passing. Both re-
ceived fractured skulls ,and Iia)' is not
expected to live.
Montreal, Oct. 16. -Grain --Business in
els on spool was quirt, and prices were
glooted enchanted at 55 Io SSc per bushel
for Ontario and Quel•e'e new crop ex
store; buckwheat was /steady at 63 to Glc
per bushel ex store. Flour--Cla)ice
,piing w heat patents, $6.30; seconds,
x,70; winter wheat patentee, 18: Weight
roller, 85.75; do. in bags. 82.711 to $2.75:
extras, $?.(►a to 82.10. Feed- Mnnitelei
l=ran, in bags. S23; shorts, 825 le 8:s per
iter: Ontario bran. in bags, $21 to 823
elide -1s. 825 to 126: mine.) Ilttntiliie, g2$
to $32 per ton, anti straight groin, 831
t.) 8:15. 1'rovisicins-Berrets short clot
mese. 822 to $22.50: half -barrels do.
*11.25 to 511.75; clenr fat ha^1:[t, $23.50
I) $24.50; l..ng cut heavy mess. 820.50 to
Se1.5o; half -barrels rte). 810.75 to $11.50:
eery salt long clear bncon, 10 to 113yc;
barrels plate beef, $14 to $16: half -bar-
rels do. $7.50 to $8.25; barrels heavy
ales. beef. 810; half -barrels tlo. $5.50;
compound lard. 10% to 10%c: pure lard.
11% to 12%c; kettle rendered. 13 to
13%c: hams, 1231, to 15%c; breakfast
bacon. 1 t to 15%c: \\'incisor Barin, 15
t)
15%e; fresh kiltnl abattoir dressed
hogs. 89 to $9.50; alive, $6.35 to 56.50.
Butler -Townships, 28 to 29c. Eggs --
No. 1 candled and slrnight receipts. 23c
per (Plzen: se'leels, 27c. 1:tieese--Wes-
tern. 23%c; Eastern. 13 to 13 ee.
t•NiTED ST.VI1:S MARKETS.
Milwauke'e. Oct. 22.- Wheat- No. 1
Northern, 81.18 to $1.19: No. 2 Northern,
el.16 to $1.18; Dee. *1 et% beep. itye--
N•,. 1. 1'19 10 $934c. Barley --No. 2.
slily, sample. 78c to $1.11. Corn -Nn.
3, inlet). 65 to 6534c: May. 63%e.
1)ntulh, Oct. 22. -Wheat -Nn. 1 hard.
ei.13 ;: No. 1 Northern. 81.11: No. 2
Northern, $1.11%; Der.. sup. \fay.
$i.lf►.
Minneapolis. Oct. 22.- Wheat -Dee.,
to $line;; May. 81,14' to
51.11'4: No. 1 hard, $1.15%; No. 1
Northern. $1.14 to $1.11%; No. 2
Northern. 11.12. Flour --- first pa-
tents, $66 to 84;.10: se^ond patents, $5,`Li
to $6; first clenr<, 8150 t4) 84.70; second
(leans. nee to $3.41). Bron-ln hulk.
8;x.45 le 822.50.
'I'htee attempts on the life of Miss
Helen Mitihrw son, proprietor of the
fashionable Hershey .trnl, it•►tel, nt lee
Angeles. (:al.. by lamas 4.1 intermit
Machines. tsar.' been male the
past three years.
WEE STReNGE STORIES OF A FA-
MILIA1t F'LU'ID.
teeing Different Glasses of Ink 11115 Been
the .Veins of Crimes Being
Discovered.
A difference in ink:; chiefly helped tt'
Fend Richard Brinkley. the 1.royd4.)1t
p4:isoner, recently execute,' for the titur-
('er of Mr. and Mrs. Beak. to the gal-
lows. having forged a w''I!t:lues signa-
ture to n will, and having. by a trick,
e►Ittained the signature.; '•f IWO WalleSS-
e, to 0, W:len Inti" will was contested
tit inlaey
determined to make away with
wit, of ittu w•ituee.S.4eS who might have
given evidt it c ns to the fraud.
chiefly excited suspicion that the will
was not n genuine doe -intent was the
fact that each of the i;ignatttres 10 i!
%aS ill a different ink to the others.
The difference was n41t noticeable try
the ordinary observer, but perfectly up-
pa.rt'ul to the expert examiner of inks.
1[ the will had been signed ey the dead
woman and by two witnesses at the
same lithe, was it probable that they
would have used three different inks?
\WES1' 11.1\1 Fll.-lUDS EXPOSED.
The ink he has used has trapped many
a forger. It► the case of the recent \Vest
Hain Workhouse frauds the keen eye
er the ink expert discovered) that cer-
isin entries in the wt,rl:hrttlse bewla it'd
tech 1111ered, \\'ere 411,,y merely correc-
tions 'lade at the time of the entry, or
:iltt'ralitttte made afterwards? An analy-
sis of they inks revealed the fact that the
iseeTections were in a different ink from
that used in the entries themselves.
They had not been trade at the same
utile with ink out of the same inkpt)tl
It wr.s a suspicious fact which led 1::) the
di,covery of ttte frauds those ulterati-ins
\*tele meant to conceal.
The study of 'tees has added it new
'titian in the way of the forger of which
ut.iy masters in forgery seem to Le
aware. Not only is there a difference
in the inks of to -day, but the inks now
in use differ enormously from those se
thirty or fifty years ago. That the dif-
fcicnce is perfectly clear to the analy-
tical chemist is u fact that the forger
t►f ancient documents very frequently
fcrgcts.
OLD DATES: NEW INKS.
in the Barking will case, tried in
1,-76, a few words in red ink in the will
helped to settle the question of its genu -
in entss. Barking was a rich and ec-
centric man of whom his relatives had
lost sight for many years. It was
thought by theta that he had "gone un-
der." As a 'tatter of tact, he had Leen
most fortunate, find was quietly amas-
sing a huge fortune. The news of his
death came accompanied by the start-
ling ante}nrna1ion haat he had died worth
seine hundreds of thousands of pounds.
alis excited relatives at once set to work
to try to discover a will, and a docu-
ment, sonlething in the nature of a will.
was at last produced bearing a date
of twenty-five years before, While it
seemed undoubtedly authentic to those
who benefited under it, the persons not
mimed in it looked at it askance and
questioned its genuineness. 1t was
partly written in red ink, and the 'rnk
eeperts called in to examine it prompt -
le declared that red ink was made free]
eosine, a coal -tar product. Now. cosine
had not been discovered at the time at
which the will bore date -
1t MOST AWKWARD FACT.
GENERAL.
The imperial Chinese troops have
.Irtyen the Boxer rebels to the moun-
trtns of Kvaeglung, killing seventy of
them.
!:apt. Amundsen is lowing four big
total- bears trained to draw sleds, and
with their aid will rnirke an attempt to
teach the north pole' in 1910.
E. T. Bethel, n British subject. and
editor of a paper at Seoul tins, has
teen censured for criticizing the actions
of Prince Ito in Corea.
4K FOR DETAILS 011 1►F:NI 1L.
IMtsermnent leincerned (her Deports of
Cannibalism among Indians.
\ despatch (min Ottawa say ;: Sense -
tonal statements ha'.' recently Ise'
published, as coating from Mr. J. A.
Osborne, editor of the Times, of Fort
Frances, Ont.. nt to alleged cannibalism
oil, the part of Indians between the east-
ern sh•tre of James Bay and Labrador.
.\, this era' revers territory larger in
extent than civilized Eumi►e. i1 is im-
p esslblo for either the lad:a►n Depart-
ment or the Mounted! Police Department
1t, rnnflnn or dt'nv the statements white'
have been itnputel'. erroneously, it is
eelieted, to Mr. Osl►nrne. Meanwhile,
letters have been sent to That gentlemen
en behalf of the C►overnmd'nt risking him
fie- details or for denial of the nsser•lions
ctt•tlited, to hint.
11 efl'F)3T OF 7 EliltORISM.
Th.irt) -tour Eel -cations in Russia In
September.
A despntcli from St. Petersburg says:
ThepolicestalistIcs published on Thurs-
da3 regarding terrorism (luring the
month o1 Septentler show that thirty-
four persons were executed, That 207, in-
rli-ding; 73 44f1cials, were murdered, and
Met 172 people were wr.un.ktl in vet -toes
affrays. lite iigur•ces do not include the
casualties in the anti-Jewish riots nt
()nesse, Rosl.,w and Simferopol. The
police also report 165 attacks male by
armed men on estate'. buildings or re -
t.te•sentulites of this auttienticrs and the
.115 -►t erg et 34 stores of bombs and cx•
plotaivc3.
George Kincaid, the Prisoner. Committed
Suicide After Arrest.
A Ilawson despatch says: -"George
Kincaid, head fore,,tutt of the Public
\\ ut ks Department in I tt» Yukon Terri-
tory, with ht•adtluarttTs at 1ntw6(m, ar-
rived on Sunday, iu charge of the p c)lit'e,
:et :Selkirk. ante Itutidrt'd and Set 0111).-
11% -e above Dawson. Ili' was e•!t;u•g.
• �'. with stealing 8111,000 which it,' -le't i-
••al�ly disapp(.ared from the r. ,date re t
mail sack 414.'11\41:M hi 1)aw. n Ju:v 2:o
fro;u Fairbanks by the skatni.'r 5e;aitte!.
Kincaid was placed aboard the -1
r Prclspe••tt►t' on Tuesday 4;n
les way to Dawson and diced Ili h ,firs
before the arrival of the bunt. .1 t ial
supposed tit contain poison was found
lit it::; bunk. Om Monday )tight be wit:;
�. !1 and lite heartily, 1t is I;etieveil
;hail the roan was so overcome with
shame because of his capture that he
4 t:dt'd his lite."
It is believed Ilutt Kincaid svelte fhe
gold from the p►ostoiti••t' when he work-
ed art the Government . etviee. 1!<•' L. t!
ccnh'de►r;ttt';, wtio crirried :may the
s;arks, opened therm, melted the weal',
ti,:'e'tl it welt Klondike dust and sold
:t to the banks. Only it sltia;•l purlion
w ;t, recovered.
1tichard L. 11:11, bookkeeper of the 111.
& N. fade em of Dawson, a former t•csl•
a11 IIs proprietor, wars arrt st,•d ort
ui"dny on a simit•tr chtip;c' to that
41h w 1iicIL Kincaid was held. Hrtll is
ct,nitmt•d in the barracks at Iktw•on. if
is reported that he Jtcs made 11 c efe.s-
ion implicating at number 44 Duws•m-
itcS. '1'tie arrest of llat31 and Kiticni,l
caausetl the biggest tcnsati 41 bore In
)ctw,, {loth Flaying; bccat pr:utinrl►l
K'andikers. Kincaid is a t:::lice '.1
I'clvrls)ro' and went to Dawson in 18'.)&
It- manufacture the proof, and to foist
►tit forgeries on his uneuspecling client-.
The police had reason to be suspicions
of l'air's, anti Mien they pounced down
upon him in connection with anot !I..r
reader it►t y ac^i4l, anally stumbled ; cr, s
evidence of the gigantic fat gerittis he
was erg{ago*I in.
THE FORGER'S BIBLES.
Three bottles of a queer ink ite had
specially manufactured for his nefari-
cui purpose were kneel on his shelves.
and the detectives turned an ince-edit-
Ices ear to Yates' statement that the
fettles contained medicine for neural-
s:' to which he was a victhn. It was
utt!ortunate for hurl that the detectives
also laid hands on on fewer than ten
alit Bibles in his ollice. Ile had 'lever
been noted as a particularly religious
►titan. \\'lien they examined the vol-
umes, they dLscovered in therm entries
ell w:ilten, the atnnly.ats dectnr.•d, in !hat
suspicious "etc -sheltie." 'I'hcy were ett-
Iries of births, deaths, and marriages
which might have proved tttost useful.
if tict'epted as genuine. in securing that
tura hundred ihausart,l pounds. At tine
succeeding bs,f,.r• l'aties, after a ►wreck's
trial, was sentenced to penal servitude
fir life.
Fifteen years later another great will
case came into the I.nw Courts. The
will related to something over a mil -
hon pounds worth of property. Wes
the document genuine? The signnlure
of one of the witnesses --both of them
Laid died before the will was produced
--was in a different ink. Moth the inks
received the most careful attention of
11,e analvlicai expert. 'That sigrnnturce,
declared, was written in a much
More modern ink than it should have
been. 1t was in an ink made from nig-
r.sime-a soluelc fot•rn of black aliline,
r.rtd an ink very commonly in use i.t
the present lime. but unknown eelort'
fht year 1470. But the will purp orte l
to have been signed by that witness
seine ten years before that date!
Two great classes of inks were in po-
lities use in the nineteenth century -
those known as True solutions, and
those which had coloring matter, tteiel,
!n the chemical terminology. "in sus-
een=ion" by guts or some thickening.
The solutions most in use were the log -
wood. 'Pit•' Iogwor►d solutions were
most common till alr►ut the middle • t
tl.c century, when they t egan to de-
cline. Gradually black aniline :yaks
usurped their place. awl after 11170 the
nigrosine became rill the rage.
PEERAGE AT STAKE.
The ink containing coloring matter
was ntnde frim n decoction of nut galls
set with ferric sinlphate. A spot of ox-
alic ac141 applied to a signature written
in Ibis last ink promptly turned it a red-
dish grey. Any ink containing nut
galls, if treated with potassic hteirnte
1)4x� \Wrt-
iurnes a deep reddish brown.
it;g;s In the logwood solutions or in nt-
g;iosine ink have also their special che-
mical tots.
In the great claim to the StirVng Leer -
rig.', when a claimant named Humph-
reys carne forward, bnsing his claim to
this estates upon documents alleged to
te something over a hundred and fifty
years old, it was quickly pointed out
that the ink.s in which the documents
were written were nothing like thoee in
r.sc n hundred years earlier. The decu-
,it'nts had been "discovered" for the
claimant. it appeared. by a French for-
tune-teller, and th•' poor man had really
believed theta genuine till the experts
exposed them in court
A BID FOR £200,000.
BABY ON .t WRECK.
Thrown From the Deck to a Tossing
Boat and Lived.
it ,w an Engl sh baby, sixteen months
old, was thrown front the ixop of z
wracked ship into a lifeboat while a
heavy sea was r):ening. and crow it
lived for a week in an t:dtan camp, was
told by Colin Watson. a strip's appren-
tice, who has been four times wrecked.
end who has just arrived at Dover,
England.
The vessel was the itriti-h steamer
Giencair•n, w reeked off (ape !torn in
July. She went on the rocks in a heavy
gale, accompanied by fog Intl snow.
Two men were drowned in gelling out
the lifeboat, which, after n night of great
anxiety, was successfully launched et
the seeondt-attempt. The captain's wife,
Mts. Nieholts. was placed in the life-
boat with her baby. So heavy was the
sea that the lifeboat could find no
place at which to lana, and returned
to the wreck.
Next day the beat was again launch-
-----
krill after n "function" was asked to
sigh a visitor's book. Iter Majesty
w r�etc' "Victoria i1. and I." Princess
114 my of Itattenberg then wrote "Bea-
trice 1'." The Turn of the local Maayorcss
came next rind she signed "Elizabeth. -
1.114' surname has hastily written in the
renewing day, but too late to prevent
the story gaining currency.
-
T111. PF:.til. Or llll' It1NDS.
Declared to be the french Husband --
But Ile Makes a 1lislakt'.
The Mathes female authority on hus-
bands and wives has t:ow reac'.cd her
1..\‘n country in her studies of inutil-
e oily int various land
She begins with a quotation from the
"irreverent Schopenhauer" : "That in-
• 'uppertable animal that is called
'lady'," and goes on: "In England .ut
Germany. in America and ether place;
I have seen women-wotttelt of fasttit►n
and women of the house, good Womlen
anti hast. 1 have seen great Indies died
even gay ladies.
"But the 'lady,' that product made of
fffe_^iions, conventions and vanity. I
Lave only 'tet with in France. 1t is Iho
1 tench husband with h s en.ftat'ance,
t.i� (el
and hi; ceeurt - t<,ward
h:.; wife who has ciented her.
"Poor French husband!! so caluntnt-
sledl. so slandered by the story looks,
and espe. inlly I►y women's books -what
ingratitude! flush/Inds In the other
cx entries must be knee n in enter to
appreciate his w..rth. this poor hus-
band who is always painted as a rover
in love nftnirs, as tickle, as splenetic and
a despot.
"In r. ality he is truly the pearl i t
husbands, limiting his desires to hie
own hearth. grateful and overjoyed it
`:•• obtains in return for his toil and de-
veli.<,n n meal served at the right mo-
ment and a kindly welcome Intel the
'lady' who presides over his hnbitntion.
"But his misfotlunc is this, his hobby
is always conjugal admiration. an ir-
resistible necessity of always admiring
t.is wife. At any price he must persu-
nde himself and n1I his world that he
has married a woman quite out of IFP
c4►mnu)n.
''This toud'hing but dangerous folly is
the 'lark of (vt'I•y I'reni•tt husband Iran'
ere end of the kidder to the other. '1.e:
roe tell you.' says the nrlist or writer
et's my wife who inspires tae.' The
email clerk is ready to collapse with
ere because his wife wears her clothes
era, Mrs. Nicholls teing lowered into 11
1 y n rope. The captain. Inking Ince
teley, went to the stern. the lifeboat
meanwhile tossing violently a Mlle w•ny
tiff. The second! male Lalanced himself
In the haw with arils olttstretehed.
Sheeting a warn:ngr, the captain threw
his child free' ttw Gien•,nirn's stern.
The baby was Safely caught by the
t: ate, and pinred in the 1 ottont of the
Neil. where it tx'gan a torr or cxplera-
tion among the men's sea boots.
When the shore was reached Indians
vele/oiled tht' refugees and lett 1t►rn1 to
an primitive camp. where they t4enlained
kr a week. The baby was dressed •ti
skins. and the neither carried it on her
back in the belie,' fashion. After en
tr.ventur•,'is je1tll•ney across country.
the party reached a missionary's house,
whence they nrs114e their way to Inca
Grand!.'. sixty miles distant. Punta
Arenas was nt length reached. and all
returned to England on the steamer
Orita.
S1'RN t'siE' NOT 1 SI:i1 ill' KINGS.
Only Christian Names Sii rite, by lla-
jurily tel Members of Royal House,.
The origin of most royal mouse, was
similar throughout Europe. and kings
and their families. sple•nktng broadly.
never had or used surnames. They
signed their Christian names alone,
says T. P.'s Weekly.
5o universally was this the case that
11 became rigid etiquette than a per -:.n
e:f royal birth should not use a surname,
though there have been nuntt.er.c 4 t
case; flf dynnslies, like our own Stuarts,
like the Bernadotte dynasty of Sweden
or like the Bonaparte family, wtto un-
gi,e•stionnl►ly anti indubitably hail In-
herited surname's. But it has always
leen a puzzle why the cadet members
el our own royal house do not sub-
scribe them4e!ves as peers by their peer-
age deaignntiona, u do other peers.
, However, the fact is they do not, but
In 107" colossal .,sa1 forger -e 1.ci,or it Kai not been discovered what are the
named Yates, of Liverpool-oeneested a r:)•es which gc•\Prn their signatures'.
daring series of forgeries to secure the Thetlr,vrrcig;n sign t y the Christian of two hundred thousatnd p*•tutds Herne anti usually adds "R." or "R. anti
lying!; in the court of Chancery. Yates 1 , Princes and prince:iFs sign by their
proceeded on the same plan as did the snettnr' but
French fortunt'•telle•r in the Stirling Chri4tiitn names endm
peerage case. not rtlweys, add the let'er "i'." When
Ire found pere•'n.s who might really or why the; is added 'r omitted Is not
bs the heirs to that fortune. but who kn' wn.
mere not luck enough to !thee;. docu• But the hibita of remyalty lead ethers
,twntery prop to establish their claim into strong•• happenings. There_ was
pro ibe Coveted gold. Yaks proceeded tar. os:astott upon which Queen Vie -
e, well.
"1) .Wn to the most Insignifl"ant Weust'-
%%s e, even to the most uncrnn4iy kitehen
wench. there is not rine whose huseonn
does not centrive to (incl some rare
merit, some mean.; of cunxcraling her
a: n superior %vennan.
"What happens? '('he Wives naturally
believe it. The less true 1t is Ile more
they believe it. I know a cerinin ate
t! or's wife who is convinced that she
writes her husland's novels. The 41.1
[er'a wife thinks in ell god faith that
,he cares his patients. And all wive!
say: 'Whet would this num do with.
out me?'
"Froth this to pnsing as %141111ts, 14
crying aloud over tate slightest pf'cendil•
tc' and making the louse unfit to Iiye In,
so that the poor than is driven. e54'n
rtgninst his will. to seek conro'atiotl
elsewhere, is but a step.
"Unlucky French hust►nn.is, 1 (rthg to
(lo you justice. and if you will accept
ern word of advice let me tell you this:
Take these Indies down from their pe-
destals one you eel P00 haw much
every one will prn!it try the net."
TEN 111'N INttr1\ \F.I).
Fishing
a:du ,mer %him \1 r.•a k el 01
Neo louudiauid Ee►at'I.
.1 41e-.:pnloh .from Wit. J••'►n't,. \;'
says: Wreckage wa-It 4t ashore .t►t the
east roast on Thursday indictees tient
the flshinit alma was kit in
Ilse cereal a►nh' of ith ter etrsv ftf len
men. Lillie hope is entertained the l rine
4,t the men h;is.• .•„•iiikeil. They were «11
Newfoundlander; and the ►mojorIy kayo
famill4's.
•
EAT TO\1.1TO S \\ 1"iii S.1I: f.
There is a foolktt notion that ems•
leve cause cnnc-'ra. 'Ph ei .'',rininly has
Veen proved a fakoho td, though ?sena-
te es do net agree with p••rs-,n- ct, af-
(1►e!Pd. Ilow ever. ihey are a eellent
eir sluggish liver and del wanders wilh
the medlcinnl prfuL►c'rt es. Pr:t Ibis 4o4'1
not mean that torrtaieies 4licom141 (e ink -
et with .,Ther vegetnbit» nod rov4Md
with vinegar. for to tet the re .1 benefit
er.f tomatoes they should be' ellen illi'
15:,11. Selegt a small ripe to talo, dip
13 sell 1114 tel one tvt ry ne rrin j. •