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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-9-12, Page 6SHIPPING PROBLEM SOLYF» Unbroken and, Unbreakable Line Round the World ---Gigantic Scheme of Empire Interest A despatch from London, Eng- land, says The Daily Telegraph of Thursday morning gave proms - nonce to the eomanunication of a oorrespondent whose opinion should +marry some weight and who is in (dose touch with the financial situ- ation. "The financial papers," he declares, "have been. at great pains in endeavoring to explain the causes of the recent fiuetuations in shipping ehar•es, but they have atruok wide of the mark." After referring to Premier Borden's visit, he sane: "It is not necessary for all the chief members of the Cabinet to spend their holidays together without some real reason. We may rely upon this, that the shipping problem between the Mother Coun- try and the various colonies has bean thoroughly thrashed out. We ars on the eve of a statement from some autlhoeitatitve person who will propound a new theory as regards the relations bettween this country and the dependencies. It forms a part of the naval scheme, and has for its ultimate object the linking up of the colonies with the heart of the Empire. "The British Government must control, or nominally control, all shipping whose chief ports are in this country, It is a. gigantic echeme, but when the various amalgamations which have taken place and those which are pro- pounded are fully gone into it will be seen that the shipping of this Kingdom forms an unbroken and unbreakable line round the world, guarded by the greatest navy ever known in history." MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS SPECULATION VERSUS GAMBLING. Speculation In the Truo Meaning of the Word Takes Time -Buying on Tips Dangerous -pew Speaulators-Some Es- sential Points of Difference. The articles contributed by "Investor" oro for the sole purpose of gelding pros - Feather investors. and. if possible, of say. fug themfrom losing + money througb ilacing it in "wild -cat" enterprises. The mpartial and reliable character of the tnformatioa may be relied upon. The Writer of these articles and the publisher f this paper have no interests to serve tot oonnectifon with this matter other than those of the reader. (By "Investor.") The other day a man said to me, "It's all very well for yon to talk about the dangers of speculation. Just because a few men lose money you condemn the whole game. It's just as reasonable to suggest closing all drug stores because a few men buy poison and kill themselves, or to condemn apple pie because some people eat too muoh and suffer as a con- sequence. You're partly right, and in your enthusiasm you condemn whole- sale." In the first place, I do not condemn speculation. Speculation and gambling are tvro entirely different things, yet the word apeculation has oome to have a meaning with the public which is semen nomne with gambling in stooks. In specu- lation one studies the situation, and hay - fag taken the pros and cons into consid- eration, buys some security which should advance in value over a course of a few years. A gambler buys a stock because the market is strong, and it should ad- vance a few points in a few days. The former takes an intelligent business chat e o the lotto ell rev he just am Most ipeople who dabble in the stock market are gamblers, because they merely follow the "dope sheets" and jump in and out, scalping a point here and losing a point there. Such men, in about 95 cases out of 100, eventually lose all they have put up, and sometimes all they have. The average man in a commercial busi- ness is a speculator. He buys something people want and figures to sell it to them at a price greater than he paid for it. But if he were to go along a street and see a car load of lumber and buy it without first examining it to see if it were sound and not all culls; without first figuring on whether he wasn't paying more than the lumber was worth, and without enquiring whether there was any demand for lumber, he would be gamb- ling. And that is just exactly what most so-called speculators do in the stook market. A man looked at the quotations in the paper last year and saw BIack Lake As- bestos preferred stock selling around sixty, let us say. He sees it is a seven per cent. dividend payer. It looks cheap; other seven per oent. shares are selling at about par. Why it's a great oppor- tunity. He buys, and in a few months can't give it away. Had he been a specu- lator he would have studied the situation surrounding that special security, and so would have known that the market for asbestos had. all "gone to pot." That the company was doing business at a loss and the prospects for its earning enough to pay the interest on its bonds were very slim. "But," you say, "to do that takes too much time, and I can't afford to spend much time in that sort of thing." Quite so. Speculation takes so much of a man's time that very few people are in a position to speculate. '?Sometimes a man comes in contact with some large corporation in the way of business, and gets to know all about its business and prospects. He may, from his observa- tions, have reason to believe that the company is growing rapidly in prosper- ity and prestige. B e buys the stook, puts it away and wakes up some morning a year or two later to find that he has made a nice profit. He has speculated, but if he had not taken advantage of his opportunities he would certainly never have found the time necessary for get- ting together all the information es- sential to intelligent speculation in the stock of that partioular company, or of any other. 11 isn't the scanty information one gleans from the financial pages of the daily press that enables one to speculate Intelligently. That amounts to Little snore than scraps of news to egg on the stock gambler. First hand study and hard work are the prime essentials for the successful apeoulator. Few people can give enough of their time to this sort of thing, yet, unless they do, they are foredoomed to failure. "Speculation is dangerous," as the Irish- man said, "because people don't specu- late." They gamble, and that is the height of folly. rI. WHOOPING -COUGH RAGING. Fifty-four Deaths in Toronto in Five Months. A despatch from Toronto says: Whooping -sought has carried off fifty-four children in this city in the past five months. There were four- teen deaths from this disease last month alone : six in July, fourteen in June, eleven in May, and nine in April. In the past five months there have been thirty-two deaths from scarlet fever, usually regard- ed as a much more dangerous dis- ease than whooping -cough. Dr. Hastings, City Medical Health Offi- cer, advises prompt precautions in cases of whooping -cough, which he regards as an exceedingly danger- ous thing. FATAL AERIAL MANOEUVRES. Two More British Army Officers Were Billed. A despatch from Stevenage, Eng- land, says : Two more British army officers lost their lives while flying on Friday. Capt. Patrick Hamil- ton had taken Lieut. Stewart with him as a passenger in his biplane. The two officers had flown for a considerable time, when a strong wind suddenly sprang up, and in endeavoring to make a headway against it one of the wings of the aeroplane collapsed. The machine fell to the ground from an altitude of 25O feet and was completely de- stroyed. The bodies of the two offi- cers were found in the wreck. 44. ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT. Rumored That He May Be•Create.1 Duke of York. A despatch from London says: The Pall Mall Gazette of Friday evening states that Prince Arthur of Connaught will receive asignal honor in the shape of a Dukedom on his return from Japan. It is probable the title, which will carry a seat in the House of Lords, will be the Duke of Kent. AUGUST SHOWED INCREASE. The (ntario Succession Duties Ad- va.need $5,000. A despatch from Toronto says: Succession duties reeeived by the Ontario Government for August this year totalled $49,340.26, which is $6,299.20 in excess of receipts for August, 1911. For the past ten months up to August 31, the dues from succession totals $670,546.41. During the first ten months last year $891,294.37 was , received, showing a decrease in the present year so far of $220,747.96. T. E WEIGH!NG OF CHEISSF Producers Complain that No Allowance is 'lade for Overweight. A despatch from Kingston says: The members of the Royal Commis - Ilion appointed to enquire into the complaints received by the Depart- ment of Agriculture, relative to the alleged unfairness in the methods followed in weighing butter and cheese, opened their session in the A . City Council Chambers on Thurs- day afternoon. Those who appear- ed before the commission strongly advocated the appointment of : an official Government referee to met at Mc areal in cases where disputes arose over short weight. The pre - tent dystenl they claimed,was un- fair to the producer, who was charged far ohe ri&'that was under. ref) weight and was allowed nothing for cheese that was over weight, They invited an inspection of their scales, which the commission said would be made. Some of those who gave evidence could assign no rea- son for shortage in weight, but others said that the shipping of cheese that was too young might be• the cause. Dr. Edwards, who was instrumental in having the Govern- ment appoint the commission,' was in attendance, and explained -that he did not charge dishonesty; in the, weighing at Montreal, but thought that rules wore very unfair. . The eomn fission will niece in. Cornwall on the 10th of :SoPteiriber. and them adjourn for (everaj weeks. ME OF FARM PRODUCTS *0404* REPORTS PROM THE LEA53I2411 TRAPS CENTRES OP AMERISA. Woes et Gatti*, Chain, Cheese and Other produce of H.tma and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Sept. 10.-nour-Winter wheat, 90 per Dent. pwtenta, $3.76 to $3.B0 for new, f.o.b. mills, and at $3.90 to $3.95 for o14 f.o.b. mills. Manitoba hours (these quo- tations aro for jute bags, in °otter, bags 100 more)-I'irat patents, $5.70; second Patent's. $5.20, and strong bakers', $5, on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat -Feed wheat, 65 to 66e, Bay ports. Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, red and mixed, 97 to 980, outside; new wheat, 93 to 940, outside. Oats -New oats, 40 to 420 here, and old at 43 to 440, Toronto. No. 2 W. 0. oats are film at 47o, Bay porta. Peas-Nomival. Barley -58 to 63o, outside. Corn --No. 2 Amerioau yellow 841-2o, on track, Bay ports, and at 89c, Toronto; No. 3, 88140, Toronto, and at 53 /-20, Bay ports. Rye -Nominal. Bu kwheat-Nominal. Bran -Manitoba bran, $22, in bags, To- ronto freight, Shorts, $23. OOUNTRY PRODU0E. Butter -Dairy, choice, 25 to 26o; bakers', inferior, 21e; choice dairy, tubs, 23 to 24e; oreamery, 27 to 280 for rolls, and 26 to 26 1-2o for solids, Eggs -Case lots of new laid, 26 to 270 per dozen; fresh, 24o. Cheese -New cheese, 141.4 to 141.20 for large, and 141.2 to 14 3.40 for twins. Beans -Hand-picked, $3 per bushel; primes, $2.90. Honey -Extracted, in tins, 111-2 to 121.2o per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, $2.- 25 to $3. wholesale. Poultry -Wholesale prices of choice dressed poultry;-Ohiokens, 16 to 18o per lb.; hens, 13 to 14e; ducklings; 14 to 15e. Live poultry, about 20 lower than the above. Potatoes-•Oanadian, new, $1,00 to $1.10 per bag. PROVISIONS. Bacon -Long clear, 141.2 to 143-4c per ib., in ease lots. Pork -Short eut, $24.50 to $25; do., mess, $21,50. Hams -Medium to light, 17 to 17.1.2o; heavy, 151-2 to 160; rolls, 131.2 to 13 3.4o; breakfast bacon, 181-20; backs, 20 to 201.2o. Lard -Tierces, 131-2o; tubs, 133-40; pails, 140. BALED HAY AND STRAW. Baled Hay -No. 1 new hay. $12 to 513, on track, Toronto; N. 2, $10 to $11; clover, mixed, $B to $9. Baled Straw -$10 to $10.60, on track, Toronto. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, Sept. 10. -Oats -Canadian Wes- tern, No. 2, 491.2 to 60c; do., No. 3, 48 to 481-2c; extra No. 1 feed, 49 to 49 1-2e. Bar- ley -Manitoba feed, 60 to 63c; malting, 75 to 80o. Buckwheat -No. 2, 74 to 76c. Flour -Manitoba spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80; do., seconds, $5.30; strong bakers', $5.10; Winter patents, choice, $5.25; straight rollers, $4.85 to $4.90; do., in bags, $2.25 to $2.30. Rolled oats -Barrels, $4.- 80; 4:80; bag of 90 lbs.. $2.271-2. Mfllfeed - Bran, $22; shorts, $26; middlings, $28; mouillie, $30 to $34. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $16 to $15.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 141-8 to 141-4c; do., easterns, 131-2 to 14c. Butter -Choicest creamery, 27 to 271-4c; seconds, 26 to 261.4o. Eggs -Selected, 28 to 290; No. 2 stook, 19 to 20o. Potatoes -Per bag, oar lots, 85 to 900. UNITED STATE MARKETS. Minneapolis, Sept. 10. -Wheat -Septem- ber, 87 7-8e; December, 90 1-8c; May, 94 3.4 to 94 7-8e; No. 1 hard, 90 3-8e; No. 1 North- ern, 887.8 to 897-8c; No. 2 Nortbern, 84 7.8 to 86 7.8c- No. 3 yellow corn, 751-2 to 76c. No. 3 white oats, 30 to 30 1-20. No. 2 rye, 621-2 to 63 1-2c. Bran, 519.50 to $20. Flour -First patents, $4.45 to $4.75; sec- ond patents, $4.30 to $4.65; first clears, $3.30 to 53.60; second clears, $2.40 to 52.70. Duluth, Sept. 10. -Wheat --No. 1 North- ern, 90 3-8c; No. 2 Northern, 87 3-8c; Sep- tember, 90 3-8c; December, 901-2 to 90 6.8o; May, 951.4c bid: Level STOCK MARKETS. • Montreal, Sept. 10. --The best steers were sold at $6.50, and from that down to $4.50 per cwt. The top price realized for cows was $5.50, and from that to 53.50 per cwt. Good bulls sold at $2.60 to $3.50 per cwt. Lambs sold at $6 to $6.25 per cwt. Ewes brought $4 to $4.25 per cwt. The market for good to choice naives was stronger, and sales were made at from $8 to $12, and the lower grades at from $3 to $6 each. A stronger feeling prevailed in the market for hogs, and prices ruled higher at 88.75 to $9 per cwt. for selected lots, weighed off cars. Toronto, Sept. 10. -Medium butchers sold -at $5.75 to $6.25; common, $5 to $6.55; good heavy cows, $5 to $5.50; medium, $4 to $5; common, $2.50 to $3.50. Market closed strong. Hogs -Select lots sold at $8.60 to $8.75; rough at $7.25. Sheep and lambs -Lambs sold at $650 to $6.75; light sheep at $4.25 to $4.75; heavy sheep and bucks at $3 to- 53,50. Calves -Good veal calves Bold at $8 to $9; common calves, $ 3 to $ 4. , 114---•- 1,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS. $2,500,000 Loss by Fire at Ocean Park, California. A despatch from Los Angeles, 051., says • : Fully one thousand persons are hunting homes as the result of the fire which destroyed 150 buildings in Ocean Park on Tuesday night, causing a loss esti- mated at $2,500,000, with insurance of only ten per cent. So far as known, only one man lost his life. The burned area extends, from Ray- mond Avenue, on the north, to Ozone Avenue, on the south; a dis- tance of seven 'blocks, and from the ocean west to midway between the speedway and trolley -way, on the east, everything was wiped out. LIFEBOATS ICOR ALL. British Board of Trade at Last Re- vises Its Rules. A despatch from London were: As an outcome of the Titanic in- quiry the Board of Trade has is- sued revised rules for increasing the. safety of lives at. sea, The rules become effective on Jan. 1, 1913. They provide that foreign -going passenger steamships and emigrant .ships and foreign -going sailing ships carrying passengers shall be required to furnish Iifeboat *decom- 'niodation for all on board. The :lifeboat equipment, which has been *reaped, must be in the boats as soon as the ship leaves the harbor and there remain throughout the voyage. The number of persons to he carried in each boat must be marked on it. THE tEN IN A PARAGRAPH HAPPENINGS FROM 11IaL OVER THE GLOBE IN A l!IIITSII14I.L. Canada, the Empire and the World in Genesi Before Your Eyes. CANADA. Frost and rain have damaged the crops in Alberta. Chemong Park Hotel, near Peter - bore', was destroyed by fire, More encouraging conditions for the crop are reported from Western points. George Drapeau was killed in a collision of rigs on the Beauport road, near Queb•ee. Toronto issued building permits to the amount of almost $4,000,000 in August, making a new record. Geo. P. Phillipe, in Last Zorra, dropped dead just after hurrying in a load of oats during the storm Thursday evening. Fiver men sentenced to capital punishment have been temporarily reprieved owing to pressure of Cabinet Council business. • The British Columbia Govern- ment has voted $6,000 towards a monument to mark the centenary of .Sir George Cartier's birth. The new Imperial copyright bill before the British Parliament is to he redrafted so as to protect Cana- dian authors and publishers. The Hamilton Temperance Feder- ation will draft a petition asking the City Connell to reduce the tav ern licenses from 60 to 30, and the shop licenses from 15 to 10. Thos. Craig, foreman at the Bri- tish -Canadian Power Company's plant at Matabickchoun Falls, Montreal River, was perhaps fatal- ly shot by a workman in a quarrel. GREAT BRITAIN. Suffragettes were ejected from a Welsh meeting addressed by Mr. Lloyd George. The Trades Union Congress held in Wales rejected Ben Tillett's re- solution in favor of the compulsory. -arbitration of labor disputes. UNITED STATES. The United States adopted new Customs regulations designed to facilitate entry of auto tourists from Canada. For the first time in ten years the Republican majority fell away in Vermont, where the losses went mainly to the Progressives. GENERAL. The German Emperor arrived in Switzerland for the review of the Swiss troops. . The Australian Anglican Synod resolved to demand self-govern- ment and freedom. from British con- trol. Ip SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR. The young Sultan of Zanzibar who is having a -hard time of it keeping his 204 wives in luxury. SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS. Complaints Made That Salaries are Not High Enough. A despatch from London, Ont., says : Though the city schools are experiencing no shortage of teach- ers, representations are coming in from the rural districts that threa- ten serious drawbacks to the prim- ary education in this part of the Province, The !teachers complain that the salaries offered are not large enough, but as high as $600 a year is said to (have been offered to teachers who would have ten to fifteen pupils. The trustees have gone to 'considerable expense in bringing their schools • up to date, and will now have fe keep them closed until they can get teachers. /1l CANADA'S FOREIGN TRADE. Exports and Imports Both Show Increase for (,luartcr»Ye,ar. . A despatch from ' Ottawa says Official figures of exports andim- ports for the fiscal quarter of the ourreiit'flscaI year, namely, to hire 30th,- show a total of Canadian trade of $237,712,779, an increase of $55,332,291 ,over the corresponding period of last year. Imports for the quarter, exclusive of coin and bullion, totalled $152,975,545, as against $117,149,627, and exports $76,266,776, as against $54,624,400 for the first quarter of 1911, TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE INTERESTING CQSSiP FROM TN CAPITA. OF ONTARIO. After thq Exhibition -Imperialism at .the, Fair -The Oity's Counsel -The Melo Abbatoir. The week following Exhibition .finds To - routes with something of the "morning after" feeling. The streets, bereft of their flags and bunting. and their immen+e throngs of people seem by • comp i.”117.1 dull and deserted. And there is a notioe- ab1ee reaction in nod lines of trade, both retail and wholesale. Tho two weeks of Exhibition are probably as active in the retail district as any in the whole year, So profitable is every day that many of the largest stores have given up the idea of observ'ng Labor Day, alooh comes in the middle of the fortnight as a holiday. but keep their strafe at their posts to eater to the great numbers who find it a convenient day to shop. Those who cater particularly for an out-of-town trade take care, too, that they offer bar- gains sufficiently valuable to attract fur- ther business duringthe year. Thisof course, doesn't do he out-of-town mer- chant any good, but he has some mea- sure of revenge when Toronto shoppers in turn go off to Buffalo or New York to make purchases, which generally never meet the eye of the customs officials on the border. For the wholesalers the period, too, was one of unprecedented briskness. Many of them kept their offices open day and night. . FARMERS DIDN'T TURNOUT. The exhibition authorities have to ad- mit that this year the attendande of far- mers was not up. to previous records. For this the phenomenally bad weather and late season is made to bear the blame. But on the whole the attendance was re- markable. Jupiter Pluvius did his worst and failed. The Labor Day attendance,, breaking all records on a day which did not have a glint of sunshine, and with the rain sometimes coming down in tor- rents, was particularly astounding. Of course it has to be borne in mind that Toronto, according to the figures of the Assessment Department now coming in, has 35,000 more people of its own than it hmd this time last year. It is difficult to realize how fast the place is growing. The increase of a single year is greater than the whole population of most of the other cities of the Province, and as great as the population of a good sized coun- ty. Whether this rapid concentration of population is an altogether unmixed blessing for the rest of the Province is a question which will bear serious consid- eration, But Torontonians are whole-heartedly proud of their Fair. There used to be a disposition in some circles to regard it rather disdainfully. All that has passed now. And with rigid adherence to the truth it can be said that the Exhibition of 1912 surpassed all previous efforts. In nearly every department there was a noticeable sprucing up, and there were several• new feautres. STRONG ON IMPERIALISM. • The distinctive roto was probably the tinge of Imperialism that • was injected. There were cadets from all parts of the Empire, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Au- stralia, England and Ireland giving daily exhibitions and nightly forming into a living flag. There was the Kings uncle. There were the bands from the mother. land. And the siege of Delhi from India as a nightly spectacle. All this; was deliberately planned, for those in charge of the Exhibition's for- tunes are ardent Imperialists. It cost $40,000 to bring the cadets. The bands cost $12,000 more. And it was probably not by accident that many of the speeches at the directors' luncheons echoed the alarms of war. Those who are not in active sympathy with the propaganda were inclined to ask what was the connection between these sentiments and a purely industrial and agricultural exhibition, which might be supposed to glorify, if anything would, the blessings of peace. A $15,000. JOB A -BEGGING. The resumption of activity in muniof- pal polities after the summer holidays found the most pressing issue to be the question of the city counsel appointment. The refusal of Mr. T. G. Meredith to ac- cept the position hastily offered him left just a little shamefacedness. To have a $15,000 Toronto job turned down cold was just a trifle humiliating. But no doubt the receiving of the offer did not hurt Mr. Meredith. Be has a comfortable home in London, and at sixty a man does not lightly sever the connections of a lifetime. With the ground cleared for a local span, the question on everyone's lips was, "Will Mayor Geary get it?" He himself said no word, but, of course, at the sal- ary, or even half the salary, it is a posi- tion that would attract any young law- yer. The criticism of Mayor Geary's chances arose partly from the fact that he has not devoted muoh time to law. Politics has been his forte. Ott the other hand he had to recommend him an ex- ceptional knowledge of current municipal problems. An arrangement by which Mayor Geary would succeed Mr. Drayton as City Coun- sel, Controller Church as member of the Hydro Electric: Commission, leaving the field comparatively clear for Controller Hocken as the next Mayor, was spoken of as the "deal" that was under way. And people are not generally enthusiastic about "deals." TO HEAD OFF CIVIC ABBATOIR. The proposal of the oity to . spend a third of a .million dollars on a civics ab- batoir and cattle market extension drew a skilful open letter from the Harris Ab- batoir Company, which offers the city a free site and a seat on the Board of Directors if it would abandon its old base of operations and move out to the Union Stook Yards at West 'Toronto. The supporters of the civic scheme were in- clined to regard this offer as simply an indication that the private• packing inter- ests feared the effect of, the city's plan, and wanted to head it off, and it was promptly turned down. Despite the frank statement of low profits on the part of the packing companies it is probably stating the situation fairly to say that in this vital line of food supply the pub- lic regards the private •interests with some suspicion. Oonsequentiy, it is likely that for we'el or for woe the city will go ahead with its antbitione plan for the sake of ensuring competition as far as possible in the meat trade. • BIG MONEY IN SeTBURBAN FARMS. • The prosperity of Toronto is at all events extending some distance out into the surrounding country. A concrete ex- ample will illustrate. Ten years ago a farmer without means rented 100 acres about 20 miles from Toronto. He took a long lease, but at the end of four year%. had made selliciont progress t0 buy. Ho paid $8,000, which. seemed a big price in those days. He devoted himself to .mar. ket .gardening, and small fruits. The la- bor. problem was an obstacle, but he had a fairly largo family that he was able to keep at home, and he was resourceful in getting help, so that often ho had as many as_ fifteen men, women and obi! dren in his fields in the busy season. The wet weather this year has just suited his sandy soil, and he has never had such a successful season. At the mo• meat he is busy marketing his green cern. He has boen selling it since the first of August, but fiat now it is at its beat. On one day he sent to Toronto 1,200 dozen --14,400 care, For the last week his receipts from corn alone were 5700. And cern 1s but one of hie products. 1[0 has refused $40,000 for hie 100 sorbs', a figure, no doubt, fixed by spoaulation, and by the desire of wealthy citizens to se. card country homes, but he ealoulatos 35,000 MEN DISTRIBUTE* More are Needed for Harvest in the West, But the Weather Is Helping. A despatch' from. Winnipeg says : Thirty-five thousand harvesters have actually been distributed over the wheat fields, is the statement made by J. Bruce Walker on Thurs- day morning in answer to a query whether 25,000• harvesters had reached the city during they Harves- ters' excursions "We needed fifty thousand, and the demand cannot be supplied this year. The weather conditions are helping matters oonsiderably, as the crops are not all in a oondition to be reaped. In the sections where the crops are ready the har- vesters are aJl busy, and when the other districts are ready I air going to urge the railroads to provide transportation for harvesters who finished to the points where most help is needed. It is the only way left for ne now in order to save thousands and thousands of dolla•re for the farmers. Of course out of - the large number of men who came from the east on (harvesters' tickets a large number never saw fields, and just took advantage of the cheap rate to the west. Next year we must overcome this in some way and have the harvesters selected in the east before our crop is ready. Just how this'oan be done the fu- ture will unfold." that the farm is still worth more than that • to him as a going concern. aA fair return he has for ten years work, even if it has been hard work. Many men in gold mining cannot show anything like the reoord. It's a pity that all the farm- ers of Ontario have not shared in' this man's prosperity. THE BALL TEAM'S GLORY. With the Toronto baseball team holding on to the leadership in the International League by its eyebrows the Toronto fan -the real dyed -in the -wool kind -was in a querulous mood. Convinced that the 1912 aggregation was the finest baseball team that ever appeared in this league,he thought that their place was far out iu front of the raoe. So, whenever the team lost a game, and particularly on the day it lost both: endo of a double header to Rochester, he was not particularly pleased if . told that the team that played the best ball won. ee - The groat rally of the tear; in the latter half of the season in which they • came from sixth place to the top was a splen- did piece of work; and raised a load from the fans' heart, because he had just about given up hope. It is said that previous, to the rally the owners and management talked to the players in pretty plain terms. This talk, assisted by the acquisi- tion of two or three big league pitchers, Kent, Druck( and Maxwell, seemed to have a marvellous affect, and the team immediately started on its winning streak. But there is not much left of the pitch- ing staff that began the season, and in this respect the early criticisms were all justified. Nor is the play in the field al- ways of the gilt-edged variety. Nor is the team exceptionally speedy on the bases. The one department it has shone in has been batting. Nearly every man he's developed into an old fashioned. slug- ger, and most of their victories bare been won, not by keeping the other lel. lows score down, but by running ' up a swore on their own account. Probably the player- who -has acquired the most popularity during the season is Benny Meyer. For several seasons he has been used as a spare man by various teams, and caste to Toronto in that ca- pacity. But he bas hit like a fiend, run wild on the bases and developed fairly well in the field, so that lie has shade a place for himself among the regulars, • tp REWARD FOR JACK BENNETT. -- Attorney-General's Department Of- fors ffors the Sum of $200. • A despatch from Brantford says: A reward of $200 has been offered for the. capture of Jack Bennett, wanted here for the murder of Em- ily Antons at Middleport a few weeks ago. The reward is offered by the Attorney -General's Depart- ment. SHOT WIFE IN QUARREL.. Peterboro 14Ian. Feigned Sleep • When • Later Arrested. A despatch from Peterboro says : Following a quarrel in their home on Aylmer Street on Thursday morning, William. Leal secured his rifle and shot his wife, the bullet striking the woman in the left cheek. He was arrested in his room feigning sleep. The woman will re- cover unless complications set in. 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