HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-8-29, Page 2BECAME SO WEAK
FROM DIARRHTEA
lied To Quit. Work
Diarrhoea, especially if left to run any
Length of time, causes great weakness;
so the only thing to prevent this is to
cheek it on its first appearance. You
will find that a few doses of Dr, Fowler's
Extract of Wild Strawberry will do this
quickly and. effectively. Mr. Trio. R.
Childerhouse, `' Orillia, Ont., writes: --
"When in Fort William, last summer, 1
was taken sick with diarrhoea, and
became so weak and suffered such great
pain,. I had to quit work. Our manager
advised me to try Dr. Fowler's Extract
of Wild Strawberry, so on my way home.
I bought a bottle, and after taking four
doses I was cured. We always keep a
bottle in the noose. We have also used
it for our children, and find it an excellent
remedy for summer complaint."
Price 35 cents. When you go to get a
bottle of "Dr. Powler's," insist on being
given what you ask for, as we know of
many cases where unscrupulous dealers
have handed out some other preparation.
The genuine is manufactured only by
The T. Milburn Co„ Limited, Toronto,
Ont.
COBBLER GETS A FORTUNE.
Australian Uncle Wills Farm to St.
Mitt's Man—Another Windfall.
A despatch from St. Catharines
says : Two resident2 of St. Cathar-
ines have within'the past few days
received news of fortunes coming
to them. Mr. Robert J. Spratt, a
shoe repairer, has had word of the
death of an uncle in Australia, who
has left him by his will 150 acres of
farm land worth $30,000. Mr.
Spratt is selling out his business,
and will go as soon as possible with
his family to take possession of his
inheritance ; and Mrs. J. H. Benn
has similarly had the pleasant sur-
prise of learning that property in
Toronto valued at $50,000 has been
willed to her.
TO VISIT SCOTLAND.
King and Queen Will be Guests of
Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh.
A despatch from London says:
King George and Queen Mary will
pay a, visit in the autumn to Floors
Castle, the resilience in Kelso,
Scotland, of the Duke and Duchess
of Roxborough. His Majesty shot
142 brace of grouse on Tuesday on
Lord Sefton's Lancashire moors.
The shooting party comprised seven
guns, and the total bag was 792
brace, a local record.
,f.
MANY CLAIM BIG ESTATE.
—
Americans Scramble for $50,000,000
in England.
A despatch from St. Louis says:
The d'soovery that an estate of $60,-
000,000 in Middlesex, England, is
awaiting a claimant has resulted in
the appearance of at least five in
St. Louis, one in Chicago and one
in Des Moines, Iowa. The estate
is said to have been left by Alfred
Page, who died in England in 1833.
It is said to include Weabley Man-
or, one of the most imposing coun-
try planes in England.
—iF
KING HONORS MIKADO.
Arthur of Connaught to Present
Him with Garter Insignia.
A despatch from London says:
King George on Thursday conferrod
the Order of the Garter on Emper-
or Yoshihito. the new ruler of Ja-
pan. Prince Arthur of Connaught,
eldest son of the Governor-General
of Canada, will present the insignia
of the Order to the Emperor after
the funeral on September 13 of the
i.ate Emperor Mutsuhito.
A MUM OF THE
BOER M
TESTIFIES AS TO THE EFFICACY OF
BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS
FOR THE CURE OF
QILS
Mr. D. M. McBlaine, Niagara Palls,
Ont., writes:—"It is with pleasure 1
testify to the sterling qualities of your
Burdock Blood Bitters. After the Boer
War, through which I served in the
lot I. L., I sublimed from boils, con-
stipation, and sick headaches, and
tried many preparations, but got relief
from none till an old comrade of mine
got me to try the Burdock Blood Bitters.
rO say I got relief is to put it mildly It
made •me myself again, viz., a man ilo
knows not what it is to be sick, and who
has been, and is still, an athlete.
"To anyone in want of purified blood
and the resultant all round vigorous
health, I can conscientiously recommend
B.B.B."
Burdock 1.41,iiod Bitters is manufac-
turedE only by The T. Milburn Co,,
f.Oltld, Toronto, Ont.
ESTIMATES FOR CROP OF 1912
Canada's Wheat Harvest Is L`xpected to Reach a
Total of '87,927,00o Bushels
A despatch from Washington
says: Preliminary figures of this
year's produotiob, of the principal
crops of several foreign countries
were received on Friday by the De-
partment of Agriculture by gable
from the International Institute of
Agriculture at Rome, Italy, as fol-
lows:
Wheat—Prussia, 40,472,000 bush-
els; Bulgaria, 63,750,000 bushels;
Canada, 187,927,000 bushels; Egypt,
28,948,000 bushels.
Corn—Spain, 25,984,000 bushels;
Egypt; 76,4148,000 bushels.
Cotton -- Egypt, 844,144,000
pot.?:Ids.,
,Rye—Prussia, 346,444,000 bushels;
Bulgaria, 12,400,000 bushels; Bel-
gium, 22,518,000 bushels; Denmark,
18,038,000 bushels.
Barley --Prussia, 81,125,000 bush-
els ; Bulgaria, 18,373,000 bushels;
Canada, 32, 520,000 bushels; Egypt,
10,845,000 bushels; Denmark, 25,-
05,000 bushels. •
Oats—Prussia, 387,444,000 bush-
els; Canada, 340,022,000 bushels;
Denmark, 52,368,000 bushels;
Hungary, 87,549,000 bushels.
Rice—Spain, 8,564,000 bushels;
Egypt, 14,500,000 bushels.
The condition of cereal crops in
Russia is such as to predict yields
above the average.
A EUGENIC MURDER.
Man Kills His Wife to End Her
Sufferings.
A Viennese (Austria) clerk named
Haas, who' shot his wife dead in a
railway carriage and then endea-
vored to oommit suicide, has just
been acquitted by a jury at Leoben.
He was found guilty. .however, of
carrying a revolver without license,
and had to pay a fine of $1.87 be-
fore being released.
There was no denial of the facts.
The man had deliberately shot his
wife and then turned the weapon
upon himself, inflicting a slight
flesh wound, which, however,
caused him to be unoonscious until
the train reached a station and the
polios came and arrested him. Herr
Haas pleaded, nevertheless, that
his wife was in the last .stages of
consumption, and that he had shot
her because her sufferings had
made him frantic.
Witnesses, including her physi-
cian, testified that this was so and
also that the pair had lived in per-
fect :harmony. Two doctors called
by the prosecution deposed that the
depression caused by the illness of
his wife was sufficient to make Haas
not responsible for his act. There-
upon the jury returned thea verdict
of not guilty, but insisted that he
shSuld be punished for carrying a
revolver without a. license,since he
had himself admitted that when he
purchased the weapon he had no
idea to what use he was to put it,
and therefore at that time must
have been perfectly sane.
TYPHOID EPIDEMIC OVER.
Ottawa's Medical Officer Issues Re-
assuring Message.
A despatch from Ottawa. says:
Dr. W. T. Shirreff, Medical Officer
of Health, on Friday night issued a
most reassuring message to the citi-
zens of the capital, informing them
that the typhoid epidemic had run
itscourse and that he city water
was now fit for drinking. Bacterio-
logical tests of the water supply for
the past five weeks show conclu-
sively that it is now free from all
contamination and fit for consump-
tion without boiling or otherwise
treating it. "The causatise rea-
son for typhoid has now been re-
moved," he states, "and every pre-
caution has been taken to protect
the all -steel intake pipe, which is
now being used exclusively."
SMALLPDX IN MONTREAL.
Thirteen Patients are Now in the
Hospital.
A despatch from Montreal says :
With thirteen smallpox patients in
the Isolation Hospital, and many
houses disinfected and under super-
vision, there has developed in the
city the nucleus of a smallpox scare.
No fewer than five eases have come
in th's week. Eight were reported
last week. The majority of these
are from three families, all of whom
obtained the infection at Les Ebou-
lements, on the St. Lawrence, be-
low quebec. The Provincial au-
thorities did not know that there
was smallpox there until the cases
were discovered in Montreal and
the infection was traced back.
TWO DOLLAR BILLS POPULAR.
Marked Iincrease in Circulation of
Small Notes,
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Returns received by the Finance.
Department show that the circula-
tion of small notes is substantially
larger than it was last summer.
Comparing the circulation of July
31, 1912, with that of July 31, 1911,
there is an advance in one dollar
notes of approximately $500,000, in
two dollar notes of approximately
$800,000, in four dollar notes of over
$360,000; or in all of between $1,-
600,000
1,-600,000 and $1,700,000. In addition
there is the additional circulation of
the new five dollar note, which at.
the end of July was $6,078,000; this
is practically balanced by the de-
«eased, use of large notes, which
are usedf exclusively by banks. In
the three weeks of August which
have elapsed the circulation of
fives has increased to approximate-
ly $8,250,000.
HUNGER STRIKE IN JAIL.
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•
•
Mary Leigh- and Gladys Evans Are
Being Forcibly Fed.
A despatch from Dublin, Ire-
land, says: Mary Leigh and Gladys
Evans, two suffragettes, who were
sentenced here on August 7 to five
years' imprisonment on charges re-
spectively of wounding John E.
Redmond, leader of the Irish Par-
liamentary party, with ahatchet
thrown at Premier Asquith's car-
riage, and of setting fire to the The-
atre Royal, have started a hunger
strike. They are being forcibly fed
by the jail officials.
CHILDREN BITTEN BY DOG.
Sent for Pasteur Treatment, as
Animal was Thought Mad.
A despatch from Chatham says :
James and Isabella Bennie, chil-
dren of Robert Bennie of Leaming-
ton,were seriously injured at the
home of Alexander Farquaharson,
in Tilbury East township on Wed-
nesday, by being, bitten by a mad
dog. The canine attacked them
while they were playing on a swing.
People in the neighborhood assert
positively that the animal was mad,
and the children have been removed
to Toronto, where they will under-
go treatment at the Pasteur Insti-
tute.
BRITISH INSURANCE ACT.
London Draper Heavily Fined for
Disobeying It.
A London despatch says The
first prosecution under the Insur-
ance Act took place at the Lambeth
Police Court, when William Hur-
lock, seventy years old, a promin-
ent Liberal, who has been in busi-
ness as a draper in Walworth
road, South London,for more than
fifty years, and who employs about
a hundred persons, was arraigned.
He had openly announced his in-
tention to disobey the act and was
fined $25 on each of three sum-
monses for refusing to lick stamps
and $25 costs on the first summons.
Permission was given to state a
case for appeal. A number of other
cases are awaiting trial.
AT1TE' PT TO RECK A TRA1T
Section Man Discovered That Spikes and Angle -
Bars Had Been Removed
A despatch from Winnipeg says
The discovery of a deliberate at-
tempt to wreck Canadian Pacific
passenger train No. 108 on the
Stonewall branch at a point two
miles south of Komano was made
by a sectionman early on Friday
morning. The train is due in Win-
nipeg at 8 a.m., and between 6 and
7 o'clock it was discovered that
spikes had been extracted and angle
bars pulled out until they stretcher)
outsidethe ties. Marks indicated.
that leen had been working on the
wreeking job some hours, and the
displaced material had all been car-
ried away. The wrecking crew has
been unable to discover either
spikes or bars. The sectionman
went• north to the nearest wird
point and stopped the south -bound
train. 'If this line hacj,not been re-
gularly patrolled as usual early Fri-
day morning before trains go over
it a disastrous accident would have
resulted, Chief Bell of the Cana-
dian Pacific Police is working on
the ground with a body of men, and
it is hoped that the wreckers will
be rounded up,
` H RE IS NOTHING
FOR THE LIVER
so COOD AS
MILBURN'S
LAXAmLIVIER FILLS
They will regulate the flow of bile, to
act properly on the bowels, and will tone,
renovate, and purify the liver, removing
every result of liver trouble from the
temporary, but disagreeable, bilious head.
ache to the severest forms of liver corn -
Mrs. John R. Barton, Mill Cove, N.B.,
writes:—"I suffered, more than tongue
can tell, from liver troubles. I tried
several kinds of medicine, but got no
relief until I got Milburn's I,axa-Liver
Pills. They are a wonderful remedy."
Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25
cents per vial, or 5 vials for $1.00, at all
dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of
Trice by The T. Milburn Co., Limited.
oronto. Ont.
PRICES. OF FARM PRECIS
Il PORTS FROM TItl1 LEADING TRADE
CENTRES OP AMERICA.
Prices of Cattle, Oraln, Cheese and Othet
Produce at Name and Abroad,
BREADSTUFFS.
Toronto, Aug. 27.—Flour=Winter wheat,
90 per cent patents, $3.80 to $3.85 for
new, f.o.b. mills, and at $3.90 to $3.96 for
old, f.o.b. ' mills. Manitoba Sours (these
quotations are for jute bags, in cotton
bags, 10o more):—First patents, $5.70; sec-
ond patents, $5.20; and strong bakers',
$5, on track, Toronto.
Manitoba Wheat—No. 1 Northern, $1.13,
Bay ports; No. 2 at $1.10; and No. 3 at
$1.06, Bay ports. Peed wheat sella at 63
to 65o, Bay ports.
.Ontario Wheat—No. 2 white, red and
mixed, 96 to 970, outside; new wheat, 90
to 93o, outside:
Peas—Nominal. a
Oats—Car lots of No. 2 Ontario; 411.2o,
and No. 3 at 40c, outside; No, 2 quoted at
43 to 43 1-2c, on track, Toronto; No. 2 W.
0. oats quoted at 441-2 to 450, Bay ports.
Barley—New No. 2 barley, outside, and
No. 3 extra at 60 to 62c.
Corn—No. 2, American yellow, 81o, on
track, Bay ports, and at 85n, Toronto;
No. 3,840, Toronto, and 80e, Bay ports.
Rye—Nominal.
Buckwheat—Nominal.
Bran—Manitoba bran, $23, in bags, To-
ronto freight. Shorts, $23 to $25.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter—Dairy, choice, 24 to 250; bakers',
inferior, 20 to 21e; choice, dairy, tubs, 22e;
creamery, 27 to 271.20 for rolls, and 26 to
26 1-2c for solids.
Eggs—Case lots of new -laid, 26 to 270
per dozen; fresh, 24o.
Cheese—New cheese, 141-4 to 14 1-2c for
large, and 141-2 to 14 3-4c for twins.
Beans—Hand-pioked, $2 por bushel;
primes, $2.85 to $2.90.
Honey—Extracted, in tins, 111-2 to 12 1.2c
per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, $2.25
to 53, wholesale.
Poultry—Wholesale prices of choice
dressed poultry:—Chickens, 16 to 18c per
lb.; hens, 13 to .40; ducklings, 15 to 160
live poultry, about 20 lower than the
above.
Potatoes—Canadian, new, 90c to $1.00 por
bushel.
PROVISIONS.
Bacon—Long clear, 131-2 to 14c per 113.,
in case lots, • Pork—Short out, $24.60 to
$25; do., mess, $20 to $21. Hams—Medium
to light, 17 to 17 1.2c; heavy, 151-2 to 160;
rolls, 131-2 to 13 3-40; breakfast bacon, 18
to 18 1-2c; backs, 20 to 21o.
Lard—Tierces, 13c; tubs, 131.4c; ladle,
131-2c.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Aug. 27.—Oats—Candian West-
ern, No. 2, 471.2 to 48c; do., No. 3, 461-2 to
47c; extra No. 1 feed, 471.2 to 480. Barley
—Manitoba feed, 63 to 64c; malting, 80o.
Flour—Manitoba Spring wheat patents,
firsts, $5.80; do., seconds, $5.30; strong
bakers', $6.0; Winter patents, choice. $5.-
25;
5:25; straight rollers, $4.85 to $490; do., in
bags, $2.25 to $2.30. Rolled oats—Barrels,
$5.05; bag of 90 lbs., $2.40. Millfeed—Bran
$22; shorts, $26; middlings, $28; mouillie,
$30 to $34. Hay—No. 2, per ton, car lots,
$16 to $16.50. Cheese—Finest westerns,
13 3.8 to 131-2c; do., easterns, 12 5.8 to 13c.
Butter—Choicest creamery, 261-4 to 26 1-2e;
seconds, 251-2 to 26c. Eggs—Selected, 28 to
29c; No. 2 stock, 19 to 20c. Potatoes—Per
bag, car tote, $1.15 to $1.25.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, Aug. 27.—Wheat-Septem-
ber, 91 3.4e; December, 92 1-4c; May, 961-2c-°
No. 1 hard, 991.4e; No. 1 Northern, 923-4
to 98 3-40; No. 2 do., 88 3.4 to 96 3-4c. Corn
—No. 3 yellow, 75 to 751.2o. Oats—No. 3
white, 301-2 to 310. Rye—No.. 2, 66 to
66 1-2o. Bran—$18.50 to $19.50. Flour —
Leading local patents, in wood, f.o.b.,
Minneapolis, $4.80 to $5.15; other patents,
$4.55 to $4.80; first clears, $3.30 to $3.55;
second clears, $2.26 to $2 50.
Duluth, Aug. 27.—Wheat--No. 1 hard,
961-2c; No. 1 Northern, 951.20; Septem-
ber, 931.20; December, 921-40 bid; May,
96 3-4c bid.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Montreal, Aug. 27.—Choice cattle, $6.25 to
$6.50; good, $5.50 to $6; fair, $6 to $5.75,
Butchers' bulls, $2,75 to $3. Cows, choice,
$4.25 to $4.50; common, $3.50 to $4. Sheep -
4 to 41-2e per 113.; lambs, 5c to 6o per 113.
Hogs—Selects, $8.25 to 58.50; sows, $6.75,
and stage, $4, off cars. Calves—Milk calves
$2 to 57, and grass calves $8 to $10 each,
Milkers, aholee, were selling from $50 to
$85 each.
Suffered red With
Kerne Trouble
Fall TWO YEA S
IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO SLEEP
Mr. Chas. W. Wood, 34 Torrance St.,
Montreal, Que,, writes:—"For two years
I had suffered with nerve trouble, and it
was impossible for me to sleep. It did
not matter what time 1 went to bed, in
the morning I was even worse than the
night before. 1 consulted a doctor, and
he gave me a tonic to take a half hour
before going to bed. It was all right for
a time, but the old trouble returned with
greater force than before. One of the
boys who works with me, gave me half
a box of Milburn's • Heart and Nerve
Pills. I took them;; and 1 got such
satisfaction that I got another box, and
before I finished it I could enjoy sleep
from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m., and now feel.
good," , .
Milburn's Heart and Nerve -Tills are
50 cents per box, or 3 boxes for $I.25, at
all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of
price by the T. Milburn Co„ Limited
Toronto, Ont.
TIE NEIIS IN A PARAGRAPH
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER
THE GLOBE IN A
NUTSHELL,
Canada, the Empire and the World
in General Before Your
Eves. ,
CANADA.,
Between 50 and 60 miles of new
roads have been constructed in
Northern Ontario.
The Ontario Government will
supply thoroughbred stock for
Northern Ontario,
Kingston City Council is again
urged by the Local Board of Health
to install a filtration plant.
Mrs, Mary Lessard, who died. at
Flinton, aged 87, gave her twelve
children a college education.
Twenty-seven officers and mea
have been awarded colonial auxil
iary forces long -service medals.
A three-year-old child of Staff-
Sergt. Law of Kingston died of pto-
maine poisoning after eating can-
ned food.
Four racing horses died at Mid-
dleton, N.S., from cerebro -spinal
meningitis through drinking pol-
luted water.
The steamer Eric, ashore on Sa-
ble Island, is a total wreck, having
broken up. • The erew were al].
saved, also part of the cargo of
Argentine maize.
The Railway Commission warned
the Grand Trunk and Canadian
Pacific Railways to proceed with the
Toronto Union Station without fur-
ther. delay.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The King had •li, narrow escape
from an accident while motoring in
Yorkshire,
Bramwell Booth was chosen' by
the late General to succeed him as
head of the Salvation Army. The
official document was opened and
read by the Army solicitor at head-
quarters in London.
UNITED STATES. •
Heated recriminations took place
in the U. S. Senate regarding con-
tributions to party funds.
The accused in the Rosenthal
murder case was arraigned in the
New York Criminal Court on
Thursday.
Startling evidence regarding
contributions to the Republican
party in 1904 was given before the
U. S. Senate Committee.
GENERAL.
The colony of Chueng Chow, part
of Hong Kong, was raided by pi-
rates.
Negotiations between Italy and
Turkey point to an early termina-
tion of the war.
French troopsare hurrying to the
relief of the headquarters force in
Morocco, which is hemmed in by
Moors, under the Pretender.
IBRAiIIWELL BOOTIE.
The new General of the Salvatiox
Army.
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BIS DEMAND FOR HARD COAL
Big Companies' Stocks Should be Filling Up for
Winter, But Are Depleted
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Reports from the Pennsylvania an-
thracite field show that the demand,.
in spite of every effort to avoid a
shortage, is likely to be overwhelm-
ing on account of a mass of belated
orders accumulated during the
strike period of the swing. Stocks
of the' big coal compan!es through-
out the country,, which at the pre-
sent time should' be filling up for
winter demands, are 'in many cases
being absolutely depleted.. .Prices
are accordingly rising in Winnipeg.
Pennsylvania hard coal has gone up
from ten and a hall to eleven dol-
lars a ton. Manitoba and eastern
Saskatchewan are dependent on this
supply, though further west it comes
into competition with hard coal
from Crow's Nest.
'The shortage can be judged of by
the following figures of shipments
from Pennsylvania: April, 1911, 5,-
804,915 tone; April, 1912, 266,625
tons; May, 1911, 6,417,362 tons;
May, 1912, 1,429,457 tone. First
seven months, 1911, 32,113,648 tons;
same period, 1912, 22,382,132 tons.
Much of the Canadian prairie
west is dependent for its fuel sup-
plies on outside sources, and these
figures present an alarming pros-
pect. Local coal dealers are anti-
cipating a further rise in prices.
MAKING SAPS INVESTMRRTS
AN INTERESTING COMPARISON OF
BONDS AND MORTGAGES.
The Experiences of Two Men, One of
Whom invested In Bonds and the Other
In Mortgages—Bonds are Readily Negoti-
able, Mortgages are Not.
The articles contributed by "Investor"
are for the sole purpose of guiding .pros•
peetive investors, and, if possible, of sav
ing them from losing money • through
planing it in "wild -cat" enterprises. Tho
impartial and reliable character of the
information may be relied . upon. The
writer of these articles and the publisher
of this paper have no interests to serve
in connection with this matter other than
those of the reader.
(By "Investor.")
A few years ago—it was in the panic
year of 1907—a man possessed a mort-
gage which he wanted to sell and couldn't
—next tried to realize on it by using it
as collateral security at a bank for 21
loan. Now, under the Bank Act, banks
are wisely prevented from loaning on
such fixed security as mortgages. You
see, a bank's business is essentially a
cash business, and its assets have to be
such as may he readily turned into cash.
They may, therefore, buy bonds or loan
on bonds or stocks, but not on mortgages.
So, of course, the bank couldn't loan this
man any money on the mortgage. At one
bank, however, he knew the general man-
ager, and kuowing that the mortgage
was a good ono and the man honest the
banker loaned him the money on his note,
taking his verbal promise not to use the
mortgage without paying off the note.
That is one of the greatest drawbacks
to loaning money on a mortgage—it is so
difficult to cash it in if one requires the
money unexpectedly, or even to get a loan
on it.
During the same year a man had some
bonds which he had bought as an in.
vestment. Now, 1907 was a year when. as
everyone will remember, money was ex-
ceedingly scarce. As a result he had to
raise some money, and to do so he went
to his banker with the bonds. "Certainly,".
said the banker. "We can loa,n you up
to 90 per cent. of the value of those
bonds"—they were bonds of fairly well-
known municipalities -"or you can, of
course, sell them and get about 98 per
cent. of what they cost you."
This man didn't want nearly, 90 per
cent. of the value of the bonds, nor did
he particularly want to sell them, so he
borrowed what money he needed and put
up the bonds as security. So soon as the
stress was over he paid off his loan and
put his bonds back in his strong box. —
Mortgages are, without doubt, a very
excellent form of investment and one
which people with lots of money and with
no occasion to have to realize on them
at short notice may purchase if they use
care. They are, of course, in many ways
a nuisance because they involve a whole
lot of attention to details. Insurance,
titles, valuation and upkeep are matters
which require more or less attention and
the best legal advice is necessary in draw-
ing them up and searching the titles. But
for those with lots of -time to attend to
such matters they are satisfactory.
On the other hand bonds, carefully
chosen, involve no more bother than the
outting off of coupons every half year and
depositing them in the bank. Of course,
anyone buying bonds must look into the
matter very carefully. Bonds carrying
bonuses of common stook are neoessarily
speculative and should be avoided by
those who cannot afford to take chances.
On the other hand, in the case of indus-
trial bonds, the assets should amount to
at least twice the bonds issued and the
greater this proportion is the better.
Earnings, too, should be over twice the
amount required for bond interest. If a
company issuing• bonds has outstanding
shares on which it has been paying divi-
dends all the better; for the bond's inter-
est comes before the stockholders'' divi-
dends, whether they own preferred or
common stook. A careful investor, how-
ever, will not buy a bond of a company
which cannot show at least earnings for
the past three years whioh average well
in excess of the amount required for bond
interest.
In municipals one heed not be so' exact•..
ing. No villages and small towns be
avoided—one may buy with confidence.'
TURN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY
There is a farm in Toronto who give hun-
dreds et men and women an opportunity
to earn from $250.00 to 51,500.00 every year
with but little effort. This firm manufac-
tures reliable family remedies, beautiful
toilet preparations and many necessary
household goods, such as baking powder,
washing compounds, stover furniture and
metal polishes, in all over one hundred
preparations that every home uses every
day. Just one person in each locality can
secure exclusive right free to distribute
these preparations to their neighbors.
They pay 100 per cent. commission to their
agents. Dont you think you better in-
crease your income? If . so, write The
Home Supply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Build-
ing, Toronto, Ont., for full particulars.
HAS FOUND CANCER GERM.
Dr. Odin Also Says Ile Ilas an
Anti -Cancer Serum.
Dr. Gaston Odin, a Paris, ,France,
physician, announces that he has
discovered the microbe of cancer
and that he has succeeded in iso-
lating and cultivating it. He also
declared that he has found an anti-
cancer serum which, whether or not
it leads to a permanent prevention
or a cure, will show with certainty..
if the cancer parasite is present in
the blood.
Dr. Odin, who has been conduct-
ing. his research for a decade,
claims that Professor Matruchot, of
the faculty of science. .and Profes-
sor Lannois, of the faculty of rued!'-
cine, at the University of Paris,
have verified his discovery, which
he asserts has definitely proved the
correctness of the theory of the
parasitical nature of cancer.
ST
Mercantile
F SIIIPS' OFFICERS
Marine of Great Britain is Seething
With Discontent
A despatch from London, Eng-
land, says : The culminating strike
of the series which has crippled the
13ritish carrying business during
the past two years is threatened by
the offieers ,of the mercantile mar-
ine. The movement began on
Thur`sda'y, when the newly -formed
union of 'shipmasters and mates
tried to prevent the Canadian Peel
fic liner Mount Royal from sailing.
The Chief Officer was dismissed,
and the union demanded his rein-
statement. .A substitute was ob-
tained by the . company, however;
and the ves7el left port. The offi-
cers are well orgabized; they are
violently discontented, and they
propose to put forward before the
end of the year what they consider
their legitimate demands. Failure
to meet these on the part of the
ship -owners will, they say, ' be Inst
by a strike, "which 'may starve the
nation."
Inadequate salaries is the fore-
most count in the indictment
against the companies, Masters of
some of the largest passenger .ships
•are paid no more than $2,000 a
year, and most of them have fami-
lies ashore to maintain, . Entire de-
nial of vacations, .:seven days' work
weekly, with long hours while in
port as well as at sio, .nd the lil-
bility to loss of •certifiica:,es through
oneerror of judgment, are some of
the : hardships being discussed,
Other recent strikes have falledZ
largely, because the strikers were
unskilled laborers whose :places
could be • filled. The officers of
ships, on the other hand, are a spa
tial class, and a general strike by
them would leave the owners al-
most helpless: