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Exeter Times, 1912-7-4, Page 6I KATIE SAO PAULO AND RIO SftA1tE. ROLDERS WILL GET ails of the Generous Plum—Danger of ;Being Carried Away by Good Fortune of Others How to Speculate if You are Bound to Take a Chance—Avoid Marginal Speculations and BuyOutright. The artteles contributed, by "Investor* era for the sole purpose of efolding proo peetive investor% and. if poseible. ot sae. tug :Ole= from losing money throtabsb fleeing It in "wild -cat" eitteeprlees, ie ladpertiat mud, reliable character of the information may be relied upon. Tbs weiter of the ,,e articlea and the eabileher of thie Patter have no interests to serve In eonneetioa with One matter other than those of the reader. (y"Investor.") The one topic of conversation in the merhet dexing the past few weeks has been, "What will happen to Rio and Sao Paulo." Now that tine queation 'has been answered and the excitement incidental thereto somewhat lessened, investors and speculatora arc asking theuleehree and everybody they meet juat what the neer order of thinge will briug about. A new company with a utodeat cepital of 5120,000,000 has been formed to be knovrn ale the Brazilian Tramways CompanY, or some similar name. This company is to take over the ehares of the Rio de Janeiro Tramers.y Light and Power Company,. giv- ing in exohange its stook in the ra, o four shares of Brazilian preference shares end four shared; of common for each five Rio shares. The preferred. shares will bear dividends at the rate of six per cent., and tbe directors state that probable, six per cent, wil.1 be paid on the oommort stock. That will mean that Rio share- holders will come oat with a nice- substome tea profit. Dor example, the new prefer - That, in brief. Is the sitaotiOtt. and there Is tea queetion or the eery good fortune of the shareholders. Unfortututtely, there is one 'great drawback. Malay people who know 'little or nothing *boot loctra and general littencial conditions will jump into the stock market in the vain bees) of mak- -ine similar "killing." And in 90 Per cent. of the oases they won't, Now, X have no quarrel ;with people who thereat in fte00k15. InVeatilIM in shares /nee' be done wisely, so as to make a tidy profit, and at the same time take no more thatt an ordirtery business risk, but, those erho do invest in this fashion invest. They do not speculate. No man who heel on mar- gin eau be seid to invest; he sPeenlatere and too nen speculation is just another term for gambling. A man may look around the market at the present time. mud after carefully look- ing at all aides of the question. dee& that a certain company is in good shape, its earninga showing regular increases over a series ot yea.re and a good and growing market for ite product—it may be gas, electric; light, or ploughs. All com- panies, industrial, publio service or finau- cial. should be considered along almost identical lines, with the few variations Pointed out at various tepees in this ocre umu. After deciding that the oompstny's future is bright the next step is to de- cide whether or not the comPanY's shares have not already discounted this future as far as the market is concerned. It the Meek is returning about 61-2 or 7 per cent. on the market value, and earnings Ammar to justify an 1710r0410 in dividends fore long, it Is a good buy. Pay for it t it away until your judg- Then, if pet vett ts orae 0 9, .Sao p of to 111 re. the tort 98. leo for af- nd ad ante ok He ent um - Orb nts per otir et. lio•PO4 fr Hon. W..7. Hanna, Provincial Secretary. is again in the lime light in connection with the Chairmanship of the Dominion Railway Board, it is curious to note how meow positiona Mr. liannaa name has been associated with during the past live vears. Ror a long time there was a ru- mor recurring about once a month that he was going into Dominion polities. Then September, 1911, came and passed, and it was Ur. Cochrane who went. In Demme - teen with this Incident there is an inter- esting story, that Mr. Retina. could 'have been the campaign organizer for Ontario Just as he wee in 1908, and probably sub. sequently a Dominion Cabinet Minister, but that he guessed wrong as to the pro- behle result. But that may be just a yarn. Then, there have been persistent tumors that 'Mr. Foy would resign and that Mr. Hanna, would be the next Atter- ney4eneral. And it has beeu generallY understood that as matters stood he was the logieal eucceesor of Sir James Whit - neo. At one time he was offered the po- sition of Corporation Counsel of Toronto at a gat salary, a position which after- wards went to Mr. Drayton, and in this connection it was interesting to see the other ele-y an interview with Mr. Drayton, as which he told of having declined the liallway Board Chairmanship. But meem- time, Mr. Ranna has stayed on year after rear as; Provincial Secretary - PLAYED WITIL THE 'WAIFS, Mr. etanna's heartiness and good humor are infectious. He loves children. One 'day a group of little waifs were waiting et the Parliament betiding to see some *Metal. Mr. Manna corralled them, took them into his luxurious private oface, to whielt millionairee sometimea impatiently wait admittance, anti had a halthoured good. play with them. As to his raentel capacity, it is doubt- ful if hit preeene position has revealed his treat worth to the public. The continuous Milking np of his name with some new position has no doubt refleeMd a popular notion that he was too big a man for the, position of Provincial Secretary. POVERTY'IN TORONTO. In the midst of bounding prosperity, and of inoreaseng luxury for the elaeses there .jeoprebably mere polite poverty in To - today than ever before. This it merely jt he hiatore of Iaree cities everywhere, but it it discouraging to those who hoped that we in Canada might avoid sonte of the erne whieh have grown up in the old i world, A "Fresh Alt Fund," collecting inonte to give eieniee to ohildree "who evotad mot otherwise be able to have a mingle haliedeya outing on the beach or in tiro country <berate the eanimer," amionnoes text laid 911719419T it was teetotal"' to ace coMmodstte not lose than 5,000 Torouto *Waken, The teistitnemy ot other funds load, phatitize is to the flame effect. Front which 11 tear be deduced that there are aperarde of ZOO families he in teity whose sondition in one approaching, if not al- ready arrived at, abject povertY. There is no leek of work for both men and women who will work. The trouble Sn Droet eases is 4 eesult of sheer ethift- ledeenees tted vice, ohitity drertivennetut. We are deeekreing but proportem of 'atom- plMitibles," the twine 49 old-world eitiert. pespite immigration larm, which are sun - Doted to etelvide ell web, they soinetimee get in. tint the eaddeet feet ie thet mane of them are Clanattiah born and heed. The here of the city attracts the drool 49 P7'011 oft the geld. sente e'en FOR "1101j$INGe Aelteettent with eheritable work, the 'fait lac Nehernee for bowling tbe 030'1ioftsing Probitiro" it 19 Oallsta. io" . 44. a too darotatort word to 10n edeferprine thee, to ratre efIoft tomM , en elpelami howl- ed! di Ow erlettne. arid obila no 4thb4 dot* geed in theft way, it is doubtful if they have accom- plished the end they have been aimed at. Instead of abolishing shims they have imply ellifted their leoation. Now a eointmear of pubiloopirited citi- zens has been organized to lay out a few aores of moeerate-oriced Toronto land. in small homes of model design and 0071. struotion for poor people. It is to be hoped they will aohieve their purpose. Certainly there is need of some relief for overcrowding-. Within the last few days almost indlsoribable condition e have been discovered in several sections of the city. In one house of ten rooms ten fam- ilies were found to be living. In another house of moderate size 77 lodgers were found. And, of 00111130, overcrowding is nearly always accompanied by social vie; for example, in one sznaIl house one ‘40721all was found living with tweritY men. In nearly all these and similar cages the men are foreigners, who left condi- tions in Europe probably worse than those in vrliich thee are now. PASSING OF GOVERNMENT ROUSE. The beautiful old grounds of Governrnent Rouse at the corner of Simooe and King streets are no more, and the last vestige of the Immo itself will soon have disappeared. A. building -wrecker paid $1.800 for the privilege of tearing the plaee down. The grounds have been ploughed up and levelled; a beautiful ra- vine. ithere a creek rippled in the old days before all Toronto's creeks were turned into sewers, has disappeared. The beau- tiful cad elms have been turned into cord- wood, and the whole scene varies not at all from that Which may be seen any- where that a railway is putting lo new aidinge. The building dated only from 1874; before tbat its site was a favorite picnicking ground "out in the country," for the city of that date lay to the east. When it was constructed the adjoining streets. Bay, Simeoe and 'Wellington, be- im/no the fashionable (netted, •just as elierley Park, five miles away, is now baring See boom. MORE EOICOES OF BYGONE DAY. Nearby was the residence of Sir Morti- mer Clark, one of the finest of its day, which now also makes way for the C. P. R. freight yards. For the last twenty years Sir Mortimer refused to follow the Proeeseion to the outskirts, but breved the smoke and noise of eleunting trains and factorleo The resielence of William Caw. there landed proerietor, the riehest tontonian of his des, and feunder of the Cavithra estete, who during the Orimean wee' used to Ulm his depesits—in silver— to the bank in a wheelbarrow, hes been turned into a bank. It stands et the north-east rorner of Bay and King. The late Goldwin Smith.» "Orange" eas been turned into an Att Gallery. The house built in 1822 by Sir William Camp. belf. tliett Chief Oneticeat the corner of Fredariek end Duke, eurveree as part of a. 1101'90,.11411, !eatery. • GET ACQUAINTED WITIII YOUR NEIGHBORS. It you are genteel in appearance aed ceurteous in your maneer, you will be welcomed in every liorne in your leettlitY, when you are showieg samples of our su- perior _toilet geode, household riecetteities, And reliable remedies, The watiefaction whleh our goods give, ;deeps the users ender an obligation to you, which wino for you the same respect, eateein, and tle. timate frieudship given the priest, phyo- vier', or pastor. and you will make more money from your spare time than you dream of, besides a iderst of friends. This is your opportunity for 8 pleasant, profitable and permanent bnainesto. Ad. clredia, The liome Supply 0o., Dept 20, Mor- rill Building, Toronto, Out, "heee, PRICES FARM PRODUCTS fiRPORTS FROM THE eeenttle TRA01,1 'CENTREOP AMERICA, tem., Pr see f MO% eraln, Metes and Other Pfl*1u;e at Horne. and Abetted. 13READSTUFFS. Toronto, july 2.--Floure-Winter wheat. 90 per cont. patenta. $4.20 to $4.25, at sea- board, and at $4.25 to 440 for home eon. sumptiee. Manitoba gourd—First patents, $5.701 eecond patents, $5.20, and strong bakers', $5, on tragic, Toronto. Manitoba Whet -17o. 1 Northern, 51- 131-2, Bay ports; No. 2 at 51,101-2, and No. 3 at $1.07 14, Bay pelts. Ikea ivbeet is quoted at 63 to 65e, Bee verbs. Ontario Wheat --No. 2 while. tea and mixed $1.06, outside. Peas—No. a snipping pees, $1.25, out- side. Oats—Car iota of Ne. 2 Ontario, 48 to 48 We, and No. 3 it 470, outside. No, a Ontario, 51 to 61 1-2o. on trace, Tomtit°. No, 1 extra W. C. feed, 490, Bey ports; and No. 1 at 413c, Bay D0r1;9. 1441•10y—Pri000 11017111191. Corn—No, 3 American Yellow, 70c, on track, Bay ports, and at 82o, Toronto, Rye—Pricea nominal- ituelswheat—Prices nominal, Bran—Manitobs, bran, $52, in bags, To- ronto freight, Shortie $25. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beana—Smell iota of hand-picked $3 per bushel; primes, $2.65 to $2,75. Roney—Exteeoted, in tins, 11 to 120 Per ib. Conabs, $2.60 to $2.75 per dozen. Baled Ray—No. 1 at $19, on track, To- ronto. No. 2 at $16 to $17, and mixed. at $11 to $12. Baled Straw --$10 to $11, on track, To- ronto. Potatoes—Car lots of °aeries, in bap, $1,50. and Delawares at $1.70. Poultry—Wholesale prieea of choice dressed poultry:—Chickens. 15 to 17o per lb.; keel. 11 to 12a; turkeys, 15 to 16o. Live poultry, ithout a° lower than the above. BUTTER, XGS, °REESE. Butter—Dairy, choice, 22 to 230; bakers', inferior, 19 to 210; creamery, 25 to 26o for rolls, and 24 to 26e for solids. Begs ---22 to 23o per dozen. Cheese—New cheese, 14 to 14 1-2c per lb. EOG PRODUCTS. con—Long clear, 14 to 14 1-2e per Ib., In oase lots, Pork—Short cut, $24 to 525; do., races, $20.50 to $21. Rams—Medium 10 liglet, 171-2 to 18o; heavy, 161-2 to 17o; rolls, 13 to 13 1-2e; breakfast bacon, 181-2e; backs. 20 to 21o. Lard—Tierces, 13e -4e; tuba, likel 14 1-2c. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, July 2.'—Oats, Canadian West- ern, No. 2, 511-2 to 52e; Canadian West- ern, M. 3, 49 to 49 1-2e; extra No. 1 feed, 501.2 to 51e. Batley, Man. feed, 6412 to 65e; malting $1.06 to $1.07. Buckwheat, No. 2, $1.05 to e1.10. Flour, elan„ Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80; seconds, $5.30; strong 'miters', $5.10; Winter patents, clioice. $5.40 to e5.50; straight rollers, $4.- 95 to 5500; straight rollers, bags, $2.40 to $2.45. Rolled oats, barrels, $5.05; bags, 90 lbs., $2.40. Bran, $22.00. Shorts. $26. Middlings, $28.00 to $30.00. Mouillie, $30.00 to $34.00. Ray, No. 2, per ton, ear lots, 51900 to $20.00. Cheese, finest Westerns, 127-8 to 131-8o; fineat easterns. 1214 to 12 1-2o. Better, thoieeet creamery, 24 1-2 to 25e; seconds. 24 to 24 1-4c. E,ggs, selected, 25 to 26c; No, 2 stook, 15 to 16e. Potatoes, per bag, oar lots, $1.50 to $L60. 'UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, July 2.—Wheat—Tule, $1.- 0,5-8 to 51.09 3.4; September, $1.04 5.8; De- cember, 51,051-8: No. 1 hard, 51.121-8; No. 1 Northern, $1.115-8; leo. 2 Northern. $1.- 10 14. No. 3 yellow corn, 72 to 73e. No. 3 white oats, 49 to 49L -2o. No. 2 rye. 73 to 74o. Bran. $20 to $20.50, Flour—First pat. outs, $5.40 to $5.65: second patents, 55.10 to $5.35; first clears, 53.80 to $4.06; second clears, 432.70 to $3.00. Buffalo. Inly 2.—Spring wheat—No. 1 Northern, earloads store, 51.181-4; Win- ter no offering& Corn—Strong. Oats -- No. 2 white, 57 1-4c; No. 3 white, 66 1-40; No. 4 white. 551-4c. . • ,LIVE STO0RomARKETe, _et -entree', July 2.--A few top quality beers sold at $8 to 58.25, while the,lower grades sold at from 54.00 to $5.50 per cwt. Inferior butchers' cattle ranged from 52.- .60 to 53.50, while the better grades sold at front $4.50 -to $6.50 per cwt. The top price realized for the best. bulls (leaked was $5.50, and the common sold -from that down to $3.60 per cwt. Sheep declined 60c to $1.00 per ewe, on aecount of the in- oreseed suPP17, and sales( were made at 44.00 to 54.50 per owt. The demand for lambs wos good at $8.00 per owto and calves sold. at from $3.00 to $8.00 eaob, as to size and quality. Hog prices declined 15 to 25o per cwt.. -with saleof selected lots at $8.85 to 59.00. and mixed Iota at $8.60 per cwt., weighed off care . AN AGE LIMIT. Civil Service Commission's An- nouneement. A elesPatch' from Ottawa says: Consternation has .been created in the civil service here by the action of the Civij Berviess Com.naission, which has ruled that pending a de- nite regulation of the Cabinet, to which the matter has been referred, no official of 65 year or up- wards shall be eligible for promo- tion. Til the meantime the promo- tion of nearly a dozen capable men has been held up arid many others who have reached the age limit are on the anxious seat. The statutes of 1870 contain to, minute laying down an. age limit of 60 years, but this has been a dead letter for years, CODIrniSSioner Shortt, how- ever, says the present action of the Commission is not based on this, but on the practice in Great Britain and the United States. The Commission has wide discretionary powers in a matter tsf this kind. Officials throughout the country are affected. eir,r,us TO CURE CHOLERA.. Pasteur Doctors Think 'They May Have Pound Solution. A despatch from Paris says: The Matin says that the physicians a the Pasteur Institute at, Tunis claim to have achieved a success with the new pi:ophylaetic method of treat - lug Asiatic chelera. 13rielly, it con- sists of injection of the comma, bacil- li found it. the intestines of cholera patients. It to said that the blood thereby becomes extremely rieh and render a people immune from the contagion. Three physicians, Ni- colle, Coster and Conseil, expert. matted on thereselitee, end eleo swallowed the. baeilli. Dr. Iteux, in reporting the wetter to the Acad- emy of Stiences, etsid that •O'Vers if the, efficael of the eeperitnents Were net proved, they were interesting delld detOtesed to be followed up, THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH ILA.Plel:ININGS PROM ALL OYER THE GLOBV IN A Canada, the Empire and the World in Geueral Before YOU Eves,, • CANADA. The fire loss at Ohicoetime Que,, is now plizced at $1.32,50,000, A Norwegian lumber vessel is on the rocks off the Labrador coast. Peter Blue aurveyor, was drowned while swi.mming in Perce- pine, Lake. The garment manufacturers in Montreal refused the strikers' re- quest for a conference, W. H. Walsh, famed as a detec- tive in the early Yukon days, is dead at .Vanconyer, aged 47. It is believed that Major G. H. Bake; M.P, for Brame, will be aiP- pointed Solicitor -General of Can- ada. The 13-th Royal Regiment, Hamil- ton, is planning to celebrate its serai-centennial In September. The Maekenzie interests are said to have enquired control of the Do- minion Power & Transmiesion Com- pany,Hamilton, Owing to •the dockers' strike an Atlantic liner returned to Mont- real with the sainc cargo she carried from this side. john Cummings, sentenced to hang at Montreal for wife murder, has been granted a stay of execu- tion until October. Ray Williams was drowned and the freighter Bothnia sank when it collided with the ;steamer Currie in St. Clair River. Census returns show the urban population of Canada, is increasing much faster than the rural. GREAT BRITAIN. Three suffragettes were arrested in the precincts of the British House of Commons, after'smashing door panels. There were disorderly scenes in the British House of Commons when a Socialist member made an attack on•Prender Asquith. The picture known as "Rem- brandt's Father," purchased as a copy, bit declared to be the origi- nal, has been sold for $112,500. UNITED STATES. Edward Skae of Detroit, a native of Canada, was killed in an auto accident. Detroit iiolice believe they have the two men who held up the Royal Bank in Vancouver in January. One had nearly $4,000 in. Canadian eurrency. • GENERAL., A German airship...els:1Th theedeet passengers paackee; nine -hours' flight `oN;er N dith Sea. Col. jose Ramerez, formerly di-, rector -general of telegraphs and telephones, Nicaragua, -was assassi- nated. British troops were despatched from Hong Kong to guard the fron- tier. The city of Oanto.p, is in a fer- ment, "HEARING" TILE LIGHT. The Optophone Is the Invention of Fournier D'Albe. A despatch from London says.: A blind 'man stood in the middle of a large room at the Optical Confer- ence Exhibition in London on Wed- nesday and told, without using the sense of touch, how many windows were inthe room, and how many persons were between himself and the wall. He did it by "hearing," light and shade. The medium of the seeming miracle was the eptophone, a wonderful invention of Mr. Four- nier D'Albe, the well-known scien- tist and Celtic scholar. The opto- phone- makes light' and darkness audible. The invention is, based on the metal selenium's well-known property of being affected by light. Mr. Fournier D'Albe contrives to make the effect of light on the pas- sage of electric currents through selenium appreciable in a telephone receiver, and clock work mechanism can be adjusted eo that darkness is audible and bright light silent, or vice versa. The apparatus is contained in an oblong box about 26 inches long and eight inches deep. HUNDREDS PERISH. Cloudburst Destroys a Mexican City. A despatch from Los Angeles, California, says: The oity of Gu- anajuato, Mexioo, was destroyed and tevereal hundred lives lost as the result of a flood following a :slow:1%111st a few days ago. Des- patches received from the Mexican capital on Thursday give out cie- W,iis. The water rose so quickly that hundreds of peens living along 'the river were overwhelmed. POW h011lea in the lower ,part ef tho oitty were lett intact, and the jarditt del 0ant1tdor, or einging garden, said to have been One of the moat beau - &Ill in the world, was entirely waehed away. together, w4 Wort tham atti private narks s tuated along the beriks of the river at the foot of Mount San Nitholam, LOOK rOPI, MC a LU e PACK Ace, , • CAREFU4T0i SEE THAT LABEL ON PACK AGE: IS BLUE. NO OTHER COLOR EVER USED ON ROYALYEAST REMEMBER THE COLOR SLUE E.W.G I LLETT CO. LTD TORONTO ONT.. 0110114110 COXPETITION Arranged by Department of Agriculture and Fruit 0 -rowers' Association. A despatch from Toronto says: The Department of Agriculture and the Ontario Fruit Growere' Associa- tion have arranged to eseneluot an orchard oompetition in the Province this year. For the purpose the Province has been divided into six -districts, in each of which • prizee will be given, .ranging from $15 to • $75, according to the acreage. The districts are: No. 1, Eastern Ontario, compris- ing Lennox, Addington, Frontenac, Renfrew Leeds, Lanark, Gren- ville, darleton., Dundee, Russell, • Stormont, Glengarry,. and Prescott. No. 2, Lake Ontario, comprising Halton, Peel, York, Ontario, Dur- ham, Northumberland, Hastings, and Prince Edward, • Xo. 3, Niagara, eoraprising Lin- coln and Wentworth, • No.. 4, Lake Erie, comprising Es- sex, Kent, Elgin, Norfolk, „Heidi - mend, Welland, Brant, Oxford, Middlesex. No. 5 Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, comprising Lambton, Huron, Bruee, Grey, Sinocoe, No. 6, Centre Ontario, comprifie lug Victoria Peterbore, Dufferin, Waterloo, Wellington., Perth. In District No. 3 all • the fruits arid grapes will be included in the competition, but in other districts the competition will be limited to apples. SEA. SALMON LANDLOCKED. Interesting Capture Made in Algon. guin Park. A despa,teli from Ottawa says; A remarkable fact has just come to light in the capture of a specimen of landloeked salmon in Algonquin Park. The fish was sent to Ottawa to be examined by Prof. Prince, Dominion Commissioner of Fisher- ies, as many sportsmen at the park contended that it was not a sal- mon but a hybrid specimen. Prof. Prince pronounces the fish a true salmon and one of the finest he hes seen. Its -weight was nearly two pounds. The discovery is an im- portant one for sportsmen in the Province. SIXTEEN DEAD OF PLAGUE. _ lo-r-Witor Wit -charge of Situation in Porto A despatch from San Juan, Porto Rioo, says: American medical offi- oers will take -charge of the situa,- thin here in an endeavor to stamp out speedily the bubonic plague. Sixteen deaths have occurred from bubonic in Porto Rico, Certificates of ,health are 110eir- made compul- sory for persons leaving San 3:uati, on account of protests received from residents of interior towns. EMBARGO ON LIVE STOCK. Guelph Sheep Importer's Trip to Scotland May Be Fruitless. • F MIX CTIVE MA A ZE. Sarnia Electric Plant Was Dos» troyed by Fire. A elespatelt from Sarnia says ; The pla.nt of the 13iectric Light OoraPahar hero was destroyed by fire on Thurs- day morning, and as a reSUlt the town is without light, the Street cars are tied up, an4 newspapers aro having great difficulty in issu- inF their editions, About ten - thirty e'elock Thursday morning an alarin was seat ia to the fire sta- tion thet the power house was on fire, and directly afterwards the' power Was turned off from many I concerns in the town. The plant supplies power to Point Edward, Sarnia, the tunnel, and the botele and beaches on Lake Huron. The thee darted from an Overheat journal on an engine, the ilam rapidly jspreading to the wcsodep floors and roof of the building. Thirty minutes after the alarm. was sent in the building was a total wreck, with a loss totalling $300,- 000. tO - STOP TRAINS BY WIRELESS. Signalman 20 Miles Away Can AP - ply Brakes, Says Inventor. • A despatch front Guelph says: Mr. George Whitelaw has received word that the Canadian Govern- ment has put an embargo on the importation of live stock front the old lands, on account of the out- break of the foot-and-mouth disease there. This will mean that the trip of his brother, who la at present in Scotland after Leicester sheep, will be truitleas, unless he had the sheep on the water at the time that the embargo was placed on. • ' • FRENCH GUN EXPLOSION. . Twenty-three Officers and Men WM Injured. • . 71-ewetele..1 rem toulon, Frenee, says : Du.ring4g -ciar the Freneh armored cruiser Jules Michelet on Wednesday off. Hyeres Islands a premature explokon of a sixteen. centimetre gun occiirred. Three officers and twenty seamen were injured. One of the latter died in the hospital, and four others are in a critical condition The charge was fired as it was, being pushed into the gun. 1,530 DIVORCEES IN CANADA A Blue Book Gives Some Added Inform a tion Covering Population. • - A despatch front Ottawa saye by percentages of population in. 1871 Some additional details respecting the census are set forth in a blue book just isetted. The largest gain in the period of forty years was made by Montreal, being 355,480; the second largest by Toronto, being 317,538; the third largest by Winnipeg, being 135,794. Vancouver's growth was 100,401 in less than 20 years. Males totalled 3,821,067, and fe- males 3,3831771. Males, single, numbered 2,309,- 160, and females, ;single, 1,941,514. Males, married,s'amrriel2518 wer?1:13321: 5641 and Widowers totalled 89,121, and widows 179,508. • Divorcees numbered -1,530. Comparing the four first classes and 1911, Melee increased during the 40 years by 2,056,756, and fe- males -by 1,662,321; single males by 1,185,373 and single feraales by 842,138; married males by 788,527 and married females by 708,843; widowed males by 51,634 and wi- dowed females by 99,703. The number of occupied dwell- ings in the sub -districts of the Do- minion in 1911, was 1,413,913, and teohenaurcinumber with o 1 f f728,2d families, i,w4e183g 8,i3n53s, mp and 1,070,747 families in 1901. The average number of persons per dwelling in 1911 wes 5.096, and per family. 4.841, compared with averages of 5,220 per dwelling and 5.016 per family in 1901. BONDS PAYING 61. INTEREST q The First Mortgage Bonds of Price Bros, & Company at their present 'vice pay 6 per centinterest. The security they offer is first mortgage on 6,00 square miles of pulp and timber lands scattered throughout the Province of Quebec. The timber IS insured with Lloyds of England against loss from fire. The earn. Inge at present are sufficient to pay bond interest twice over, and when the mill now in course of construction is in operation, earnings will be enormously increased. These bonds an be quickly Converted into cash, as there is a ready market for them. From standpoints of interest return and security, these bonds eonstitute an investmertt of eres. comity high order, There is every meson to believe these bonds will considerable Increase 14 valtto, Vtrt will be glsd to sendybe literature further deseribing theft tended ROYAL SECURITIES CORPORATION LtME BANK Or MONTREAL 1OUI1,DIN4 • 4 • VE TONDE AND QUEEN STREETS 85, 551 TORONTO •metOtA1:41C3CO-HALFAX-OTTAWA hfatidiget eteleoe (some) A despatch from London, Eng- land, says: Herr von Kramer, the inventor of the system of cern-meld- eating by telephone frommoving trains, says he has developed an in- vonfion in conjunction with Herr Kapp, -who has ,evolved a sensitive detector, 'whereby it is possible to pick up the feeble currents receiv- ed by a train and relay them up into stronger currents so as to op- erate eleotric bells and hooters and even 'apply brakes. He declares that a signalman from ten to twen- ty :stiles away will thereby be en- able& to stop a train by, merely pressing it button. BIG SPOT ON THE SUN. Phenomenon Under Observation Is 10,000 Miles Aeros.s. A despatch from Pasadena, Cali- fornia, says: The largest sun Spot which has been detected within a erear, 10,000 miles in diameter, is now under observation at the Car- negie Observa.tery, and has been photographed several times since its appearance last Tueeday. The :area; of the sun spot is approxi. mately 78,540,000 square miles, a surface nearly ten times the size of North Arnerita. Prof. Ferdinand Ellerman has headed the work -cif photographically capturing the spot, which is now moving west- ward. MANY MEN SACRIFICED. Italy Lost 645 Soldiers Up to June In War With Turkey. A despatch from Washington says: The casualties to the Italian" army in. the war with Turkey to June 7 were 57 officers and 58B sol- diers dead, according to the an - of the Italian Minister of Wan;iust reoeived by the Italian ArabassaAL,here. These men were killed or died ---Inefirserizrznekeatceived ha battle. In addition, two o e and 325 soldiers were. "lost," and are accounted for in the greater part by disappearances from the Eleventh' regiment of "Bersag- lieri" on October 23 hat at Solara- TWO ACRES DEVASTATED. Fire in Quebec Village..Srept AWay Buildings Worth W6;000. A despatch from Ste. Schola,s- tique Que., says: • Fire, which broke out here at 9 o'ciotic Wednes- day -morning in the bakery of Mr. Max Galant, gained Way so rapidly that in spite ,of all the efforts made to get • ib under control it swept away buildings covering over two acres of the village's area, and for a time threatened the existence of the major portion of the village. The entire loss was not over $30,000, divided between 13 proprietors, but there was very little insurance on any of the property. t54 ITALIAN SENTENCED. Mardoni Gets Eight Years in P iti- tentiary for ifiansktughter. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie says : Guiseppe Ma,rdoni on Thursday morning was sentenced at, the Assizes to eight years at King , - sten following conviction on , a charge Of matslaughter. .He shot Mike Pappa in a west end boarding house during quarrel last Febru- ary, Georges Piarikias and Mike Apostolakes, two Greeks on trial for assault on A. Ohirocoli, receiv- ed three years and ono year re- • spectively. pruitovinF,R sorr Quarrel About Priee Ended it: Res. taurante-ur Being Shot. A despatch front Montreal says: Lotus Gutty, proprietor of a res- teneant on Eas b Lagau eh e tier Street, was shot and killed on Wed- nesday evening at the door of his establishment by Dominic° Bivano, , 4 yotthg Italian, with whom he had Iquatte1204 pver the price of soMe *oft drinks,. The ItcliiaiLlaUe140 and held by others in the' l'est'adit— ant.