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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-9-19, Page 6• FRUIT SHOI LD BE GRADED Special flarket Commissioner at Winnipeg Says Care Must Be Taken. A despatch from Toronto says: Competition. far the fruit trade of Western Canada is so keen that Mr. James Parnell, Special Market Commissioner at winnipeg, in a re- port issued on Thursday, warns On- tario shippers that only the very best must be offered if they expect to control the market; Ontario fruits are acknowledged to be bet- ter quality than British Colombia shipments, but •shipments from the Pacific Province and the western States show excellent stock, well graded and packed, which reaches the market in a splendid oondition. Mr. Parnell suggests that prices for apples are likely to decline. Good sales are reported in the country, but city buyers are mak- ing light purchases in . the hope of cheaper prices later on. "With the keen competition between east and west it looks as if the growers will have to take lower prices. Strip- pers (should exercise great care in packing their apples,. as there is an extra staff of inspectors on, who are examining carefully each ship - meet, and all shipments should come up to the 'fruit market act.' "Many of our Ontario growers are shipping out fruit that will hold its own with the best of quality, pack and condition on arrival. -In other oases, however, too little at- tention is being paid to grading and packing, some varieties of plums and peaches being shipped here that will not hold up and are arriving in bad shape, whioh has a tendency to lower the prices of fruit coming i'P_ right." Mr. Parnelll states that the mar- ket has been crowded all week with foreign fruit, - which has caused quite a drop in prices. MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS LONDON'S APATHY HAS REDUCE® PRICES OF MUNICIPALS. Prices Lower than for Many Years -Like- lihood of Further Reduction in Opinion of Experts is Remote -Many Bargains on Market. The articles contributed by "Investor" e re for the sole purpose of guiding pros- pective investors, and, if possible, of sav- ing them from losing money through placing it in "wild -eat" enterprises. The impartial and reliable eharaoter 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.) The apathy of the London market for f Canadian municipal debentures has con- tinued all summer, and now with the be- ginning of autumn there appears to be no improvement in the slleatiou. The result has been that each municipalities as have recently come on the market with bonds have been foroed to sell them at abnormally cheap prices or have had to seek temporary relief through financing 'yy means of short-term notes or treasury bills. Investors, therefore, start this fall season with numerous opportunities for purchasing cheap municipal debentures or occasional chances to purchase securi- ties maturing from eve to twelve months of fairly high yield, but secured by the assets of excellent imuniuipalities. Just this week, for example, one haulm is of- fering one year notes of a suburb of Van- couver at a price to return the investcr five and one.he1f per cent. on his money. Many of the larger cities of the middle West are net?' returcing from 43.4 to 51.4 per cent. -a fact that has not, taken peace since the bad year of 1907. The question that many investors are. ••• - as,,,k:n is ,not whether debentures are H -<+ •-e�s'ited.v '�'t .priisairt•� batty �, $zhpr o;•*. not they may, not -become oven ohoaper.. This question is not easy toanswer and ca only >1m . only express an opinion based on ,Hifi 4-e•Tsi,srotiinfans of many of the,-inosi;,..oxpert bond men in Canada. Bute while their• opinions are well worth leteee they are unfortunately hampered by not being gifted with prophetic pavers and their knowledge of the future is only that based upon probabilities. Whee they think is this: The market has now reached a point where debentures are returning as high a rate of income as they Stave within the past ilfteeu years or more. General conditions are excellent, and prices are unquestionahla, attractive. Therefore, although Londen may not again come in. to the market for some time to come the absorb:,ive power of Canada and the States will prove suifloien.t to keep the uiareet from going any lower. is, eoureed with, the faot that municipalities will considerably moderate their financi- al requirements for the next few months will probably keep prices at about the present level. any resumption of buying on the part o.. London, however, will soon IF YOU HAVE MONEY TO INVEST write for our Sep- ' tember List of HNVESTMENT SECU,BITJES and our free Book.. legit: "What a Bond Investitlent means,".. They lnay help.you. • • CANAOk SECURITIES ITIES CORPORATION R LTD. D. • tiomtntee Xpress Bldg., Montreal McKinnon et:110nm terento 14 ftornhlil, - Londot;, Eng. ,exhaust the present supply of securities and the result will be a beginning to an upward movement that will tend to replace prices somewhere near the levels of a year or eighteen months ago. It cannot be said that this feeling was general a few months ago, but so far as I can learn the above reflects prettywell the general opinion now. Municipal de- bentures are cheap and there is a fair demand for the 'bargains. Should the de- mand follow the usual course and come up to the average enquiry of October and November there should be no question of the stability of the present level of pric- es and possibly even an advance in some oases. . At all events, if one has money to in- vest at the present time there are many unquestionable bargains in municipal de- bentures. and the likelihood of these bar- gains falling further in price is remote. As one hard-headed investor remarked the other day It is only a beginner who expects always to buy at the bottom and sell at the top and this is near enough the bottom to suit me." TRIBUTE TO DEAD EMPEROR. • Nogi, - Famous General, and His Wife, Commit Suicide. A despatch from Tokio, says: General Count Maresuke Nogi, Su- preme Military Councillor of the Empire, and his wifethe Countess Nogi, committed suicide on Friday night, in accordance with the. an - dent Japanese custom, as their final tribute to their departed Em- peror and friend, Mutsuhito. The taking off by their own hands of the famous General and his wife was as dramatic as it was sad. The Gen- eral cut his throat with a short sword and the Countess committed •pari-kari. Following the Samurai custom., the couple ,had carefully rfor killing prepared their . plans g themselves -and timed 'them son that they would lee, coincident withthe 'departure; forever from TokigeOfthe dead Emperor. CHILD KILLED IN ELEVATOR. Attendant in Halifax Building Fail- ed to Close Car Door. A despatch from Halifax says: Enid Griffith, a three-year-old girl, was killed in the elevator shaft in the Metropole Building in this city on Thursday. The child was in the elevator with her aunt. The eleva- tor boy omitted to close the • door as the elevator went up from the third storey. The child had hold of the grill work on the edge of the sAiaft. The elevator going up, left the girl hanging by her hands. In a moment she dropped to the bot- tom and was killed. ' ME NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH HAPPENINGS PROM ALL OVER. TIIE G1LOI3E XN A. N 1IlT;5H1+'rLL. Canada, tho Empire and the World: In General Before Your- Eyes. ourEyes. CANADA. Many Toronto children died from whooping -cough last month. ' Fred. Staples, G.T.R. yard help- er at Belleville, was crushed, to death between cars. Sir Hugh Montague Allan has re- tired from the Directorate of the Allan Steamship Line. Heland Wright, afarmer of Glen Sutton, was killed by a train near Sherbrooke, Que.,. on Friday. Over four hundred students are. taking supplemental examinations at the University of Toronto. The Department of Education an- nounced the establishment of a four-year course in agriculture. Judge D. J. Donahue, Senior Fudge of Renfrew county, died at Homewood Sanitarium, Guelph, on Friday. Archie Ferguson was caught on the belt of a feeder and drawn to almost instant death on a. fa,rm in Athol townshiip. Rev. Nicholas Boodles of Galicia bas been appointed Bishop of the Ruthenian (G -reek) Catholics in Western Canada. George Goodn.ow suffered fright- ful, and possibly fatal, burns in en- deavoring to prevent the explosion' • of a gasoline .tank at Belleville. Chas. F. Walsh, a Curtiss biplan- ist, had a narrow escape at Halifax Exhibition, when his machine crash- ed down on to a cattle shed. Thos. Fitzpatrick was killed when a water turbine at the Shawinigan Company's. plaint, Montreal, burst and flooded the building on Friday. Fiftythousand dollars' loss was caused by the destruction of the Patterson Manufacturing Com- pany's plant and stock by fire art St. Boniface, -Man. GREAT BRITAIN. Lloyd's Bank agreed to advance China $50,000,000 for forty yearns at 5 per cent. interest. Truth announced that Sir George Murray has been engaged to reor- ganize the administrative depart- ments of the Canadian Govern- ment. In a 'triangular bye -election con- test -in which Laborites opposed the Liberal oondidate the Union- ists won the Midlothian seat for- merly held by Gladstone. UNITED STATES. Loiterers on the "Great White Way." New York, after midnight will be •arrested. Wild rioting took • place in Du- luth on Friday, wherethe street car service is suspended owing to a strike. • Heavy damage was caused by lightning and hail during a violent storm in eastern New York and western . Conne•cticut. GENERAL. The imposing funeral rites over the remains of the late Mikado were carried on with old-time cere- monials on Friday. FATAL DERRICK' ACCIDENT. Three...lIon Killed, Five Injured, Some of Whom May Die. A despatch from Halifax says : Three men are dead and five are in- jured, njured, .as;,a result of an accident at the Woodside "Sugar Refinery, on Thursday morning A derrik•'nrm snapped in -two, precipitating a number of men' teertf'feet 'i;o the grouted amongst a 'w'hirl Of' 'flying "etee1, wood and other material. Three of the men were instantly killed. Their names are James Hitchcock, Daniel Young and James Dougan. One or two of the injured may die. ' 014 AMERICANS STILL COMING. 175,000 Will Have Crossed Into Canada by Enol of Fiscal Year. A despatch from Ottawa says: According to W. J. White, who re- turned on Wednesday from an •in- spection of Canadian immigration agencies in the United States, the A.inerican'infiux to the West is con - tinning at a rate unpreeedented. Mr. Whiteestimates that in the. current fiscal year 175,000 people will cross the border. They are not settling in' pnrtieular localities or any one province, he says,'. but ate scattering ;everywhere that good land is available. Mr, Whits speaks optimistically of the crop*. SHIPBUILDING PLANT. PRICES OF FARM PROM REPORTS FROM THE t.EAniNiy TRAMS CENTRES Of' AMERICA. Prtoee of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Produce at Hans and Abram*, • BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Sept. 17. -Flour -Winter wheat, 90 per cent, patents, $3.75 to $3.80 for new, f.o.b. •mills, and at $3.90 to $3.95 for old, f.c.b. mills. Manitoba, flours (these quo- Cations are for jute bags, in cotton bags 100 more): -first patents, $5.70; second Patents, $6.20, and strong bakers', $5. on track, , Toronto. Manitoba Wheat -No. 2 old Northern Quoted at $1,10: to. $1.101.2, Bay ports. Feed wheat, 65 to 66o, Bay ports. Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white, red and mixed 97 to 98e, outside; new wheat, 93 to 94o, outside. Oats :New No, 2 oats quoted at 41 to. 42o here, and old at 451.2 to 46o, Toronto. No. 2 W. C. oats, 47o, Bay ports. Peas -Nominal. .Harley -No, 3 nominal at 60 to 65o, out- side. No. 3 extra, 68o, and No. 3, 65e, out- side. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, �84o, on track, Bay ports, and at 88o, Toronto; No. 3, 87o Toronto, and at 63o, Bay ports. Rye -65 to 70o per bushel, Buckwheat -Nominal. Bran -Manitoba bran, $22 to $23, in bags, •Toronto +freight. Shorts, $26. COUNTRY PRODUCE. .. Butter -Dairy rolls, choice, 26 to 26o; bakers', inferior, 21o; choice dairy, tuba, 23 to 24o; creamery, 27 to 28o for 'rolls, and 26 to 27o for solids. Eggs -Case lots of new -laid, 26 to 270 per dozen; fresh, 24a. Cheese -Now cheese,. 141.4• to 141.2o for large, and 141-2 to.•143.4o for twins. Beans --Hand-picked, $3 per bushel, primes, $2.90. Honey -Extracted, in tins, 111.2 to 12 1.2o per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; oombe, $2.25 to $3, wholesale. Poultry Wholesale prioes of choice dressed, poultry Chickens, 16 to 180 per lb.; hens, 13 to 14c; ducklings, 14 to 160. Live poultry, about fe lower than the above. Potatoes -90o per bag. PROVISIONS. Bacon -Long clear, 14 L2 to 14 3.4e per lb., in case lots. Pork -Short rout, $24.50 to $25; do., mess, $21.50, Hams -Medium to light, 17 to 171-2o; heavy, ie 1.2 to 16o; rolls, 14 to 141-2c • breakfast bacon, 181-2c; backs, 20 to 20 lac. Lard -'Pierces, 131-2o; tubs, 13.3.4o; • pails; 14o. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 17.- Oat8-Oanadian Western, No. 2, 4912 to 50o; do., No. 37'48 to 481-2c; extra No. 1 feed, 49 to 491-2c. Barley -Manitoba feed, 60 to 65o; malt- ing, 76 to 80o. Buckwheat -No. 2, 74 to 76o. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $5.80; do., seconds, $5.30; strong bakers', $5.10; Winter patents, choice, 95.25; straight rollers, $4.85 to $4.- 90; 4:90; do., in bags, $2.25. to $2.30. ljolled oats -Barrels, $4.80; bag of 90 lbs.r $2.271.2. Millfoed-Bran, $23; shorts, $27; mid- dlings, $28 to $29; mouillie, $30 to $34. Hay -No. 2, per ton, oar lots, $15 to $15.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 14 to 141-80; do., eastern, 131-2 to 13 7-80. Butter -Choicest creamery, 27 to 271-4c; seconds, 251-2 to 26c. Eggs -Selected, 28 to 29c; No. 2 stock, ,19 to 20c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, 75 to 80e. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Sept. 17 -Wheat -2 -September, 85 3-40; December, 881-20; May, 931-8 to 931.40; No. 1 hard, 89 3.40; No. 1 North- ern, 871-4 to :881-4o ; No. 2 Northern, 831.4 to 86 1-4o. No. 3 yellow corn, 72 1-2c. No. 3 3o. ite Bran, 3 $20 3' FlourNo. Fist ypatente $4.35 to $4.65; second patents, $4.20 to $4.55; first• clears, $3.20 to $3.50; second clears, $2.30 to $2.60. Duluth, Sep. 17. -Wheat, No. 1 hard, 901-8c; No. 1 Northern, 891-80; No. 2 Northern, 871.80; September, 88'1-80 asked; December, 881-4o; May,931-Bo asked. LIVE STOCK 'MARKETS. Montreal, Sept. 17. Prime beeves about 63-4; medium, 43.4 to 61-2; common, 3 to 41-2. Milch cows, $30 to $70 each; calves, 3 to 63-8; sheep about 4 cents; lambs about 6 cents; hogs, 81-2 to 8 3-4c. Toronto September 17. -- Choice - Choice butcher, $6.50 to $6.75; good medi- um, $5.60 10 $6.25; • common, $4.50 to $5; cows, $3 to $5.50; Mills, $3 to $4.50; can- ners, $2 to $3. Calves -Good veal, $8 to $8.50; common, $3.50 to $6. Stockers and feeders, 500 to 900 lbs., $4.25 to $5.60. Milk- ers and springers; $50 to $75. Sheep and Iambs -From 25c to 50o lower; light ewes, $4 to $4.50; heavy ewes. $3 to $3.50; lambs, $5 to $6.25. Hoge -$8.75 fed and watered and $8.35 to $8.40 f.o.b. .. •NEW ZEALAND LEPERS. Condition in Cook Islands Officially Reported as Deplorable. • A despatch from Christchurch, N. Z., says : Ali official report from Cook Islands says leprosy is preva- lent to a gnat extent. The lepers live in the most disgraceful condi- tions and the general health of the islands is deplorable. Drastic mea- sures are necessary to save this po- pulation. 'w To Build Sailing Vessels at Cequit- lam for London Trade. A despatch from Vancouver says: Real work on the new $500,000 ship- building- plant at .Coquitlam began on Wednesday. According to speci- fications, it will be the moat com- prehensive on the mainland, ; for, although ships of `from 300 to poo tons will be the principal output at the start, the officials expect to enlarge the plant after the open elle . of the Panama Canal. Eight and one-half acres ,have been se- cured, NO SMOKE, NO WORK. -Strike Because Shoe Operatives. St like Bo s Refused Leave to Stroke. A despatch from Quebec says ; Because they were not permitted to smoke at work, operatives in the -folio shoe hoe factoy have gone S factory on - strike, The men made application nto smoke, and it for permission s was , refused.. They even offered to ac - a less Capt twenty-five' emits week 1 ill wages if the privilege vas grant- ed them. T `: concession nob be- ing sweep - e was called. 1 JUMPS FROM HOTEL WINDOW.' Well -Known Resident ...of Quebec Ends His Own Life. rk A despatch from Quebec says: Jumping from a window of the third fiat of the Mountain Hill House, Ludger Beauregard, a well- known Quebecker, committed sui- cide on Wednesday morning. 'Mr. Beauregard formerly was purchas- er of right-of-way for the Transcon- tinental Railway Commission in the. district of Quebec. He was living in Defosses Street with his four daughters. . •1:. TWO OUTLAWS TO DIE. Floyd and Claude Allen Sentenced to the Electric Chair. A despatch from Wytheville, Vir- ginia, says: Floyd Allen and his nephew, Claude, two leaders of the gang that , shot up the Hillsville courthouse, were, brought into court here on Thursday and sen- tenced to be electrocuted on No- vember 22nd. They were found . e guilty of murder:in the first degree several weeks ago, THANKSGIVING, OCTOBER 28. omit airbytatee- Aed Date. iliac e 5 -pertinent for This Year. A despatch frown Ottawa says; the formal Order in Cour- Althougho ire thet forTanks `vin cil.fix da a h g81 g Day this fa11 has not yet been pass- ed, it is understood that the" date recomtnended by the' Siete Depart- ment ioi Meeday, October 28th, and a proclamation will be issued short- ly. • TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE SOME INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM THE QUEEN .CITY; The Minister of Lands and Mines -North.. land's Possibilities -Trades Linton Movetnent-Exhibition Criticism. While Provinoial polities in general are enjoying a rest considerable public .et tention is centered on the work and per - Banality of •Nie newest member of the Cabinet, Hon. Mr, Hearst, who, a few months ago, succeeded Mr. Cochrane as Minister of Lands and Mines. Tho other day when Sir Jellies Whitney was : asked to address a public gathering he contented himself with a few words and introduced Hr. 'leant in his stead, "one of my young men," ^the Premier desortbed lien, Mr. Hearst took Northern Ontario' as his text and delivered an important - address. on its possibilities. Coming from Sault Ste. Marie, where he is a leading lawyer, the subjeot is close to his heart. liir. Hearst does not resemble his photo- graphs. They do not reproduce his sandy complexion or his almost fiery, hair and moustache. In manner of speech Mr. Hearst is not unlike his leader, Sir James Whitney. He has the same downright- nese and something of the same force of deliverance. Assuming that those quali- ties in speech reflect similar qualities 9i. the head, it is not difficult to understand why the Premier selected him out of his large following for promotion. SILVE2t CAMPS REVIVING. All the news from the northland serves to strengthen the optimism that has been developing during recent years. T,he known agricultural area is widening. In- stead of 16,000.000 acres in she clay belt the figure has now risen to 20,000,000 'acres.. Settlement isslow, but the' point is rap- idly being reached when it will be cheap- er to clear New Ontario farms than, it will be to buy prairie lands. Then it ought to be easyto divert the westward stream of immigation to the north. The mining industry is making progress. The news from Porcupine continues to be en- couraging in a moderate way. One mine is understood to have. produced a quarter of a million dollars of gold up to the first of September. But the feature of the summer's work has been the revival of the silver camps. In Cobalt twenty- three properties have been reopened. And in Elk Lake and Gowganda, operations are under way in twenty-two Damps. And, doubtless, there will be a fresh crop . of wild cats for the unwary. LABOR UNIONS IN ONTARIO. The annual meeting in Guelph of the Dominion Trades and Labor Council, held in Ontario for the first time in several years, has served to call attention to the progress and present strength of the Trades Union movement- in this province. While the organization is strong numeri- cally and has secured in some trades an almost .masterful position it is not with- out its weaknesses. It would be more exact to say that it has not yet taken advantage of its opportunities for the improving of the condition of the great body of workers. Up to the present in Canada, the great objective of the trades unions has been to increase wages, and the one weapon they have used for this purpose has been the crude and often -dangerous and cruel form of warfare known as the strike. In innumerable cases strikes or threats of strikes have been successful, and it would be impossible to estimate the ad- vances in wages the unions haveto their credit by this means. Possibly in . many trades they have doubled the rate of pay they . would be receiving if there ' were no unions. In other trades they have failed, and the curious fact ie that in the strong- ly unionized city of Toronto many of the largest industries are absolutely non-un- ion, or open shops. The employers in some of these industries have no objection to. high wages. and voluntarily pay the union scale or higher, but it is also unfortu- nately the case that some of the others pay absolutely inadequate wages. There are many competent workmen in Toronto to -day, working 10 hours a day, receiving not more -than $10.00 a week. If there is a family of any size, with no other wage earners in it, this means, with rent and the coat of clothing and provisions what they are, that these people are on the ragged edge of penury. Compare such wages with those that prevail iu such a trade as the printers, who are at present negotiating a, new •scale and have refused to accept a minimum rate of $21.00 a' week for an eight-hour day. WORKINGMEN POOR POLITICIANS. Some of the labor leaders are coming to realize that the question of wages, while of vital importance, is but one of many things which are of the utmost importance to the working classes' ' ma- terial condition. The question of land values in its relation to rent is one of these. So is the question oi- publics owner- ship of natural monopolies. So is the question of taxation, including that most powerful and all embracing engine of taxation, the tariff. These things affect the earning power of the workers just as much as the rate of wages he receives. But the strike is useless as a weapon to grapple with them. And so far the labor unions of Canada, knowing•only the strike as a weapon, have done practically no- thing toward grappling with these prob. lems. The labor man needs a new wea- pon. Ile scarcely knows yet what it is. He realizes clearly only that there is need of something, that conditions . are rapidly stratifying into a form which does not bode best for the classes gener- ally. Some day he will see that what he needs is political organization. But. -at present the efforts in the Province to or ganize a workingman's political :patty have fallen flat' That party's dependable strength in the city- of Toronto is pro- bably not more .than a few hundred 'vot- ers. KIER RARDIE SCENTS TROUBLE. Kier Hardie the`' powerful but somewhat intemperate 1'3ootch socialist labor leader, a former collier, but the match in mental equipment for political leaders anywhere, has been telling his Canadian brothers some plain facts along these lines. He declared that in some respects privilege has' already become entrenched in Can- ada in a way that it will take genera- tions to rectify, if it can ever be recti- fied. No doubt one reason organized labor has been slow to agitate in political ques- tions is 'that well organized labor has been so sueoessful'in keeping its wages up to a good standard, that it has thought the other matters were of trivial import- ance. Besides, on some of the most im- portant issues. labor men are by no means united in their opinion. A good example' is the tariff question. At the moment some of the roost forceful men in the un- ions in Toronto are free traders, or, at least, low tariff. men. • But while the union men of the city would follow these leaders over a precipice if a strike were involved it ire doubtful if more than a email frac- tion would follow them in a free' trade campaign. Judging by concrete results the labor men of Toronto are strongly protectionist.,.... One result of the Canadian labor men's large attention. to the question of 'wages has been to arouse against. him some re- sentment on the part of the great army of other workers and salaried people gen- erally who are disposed toaccept the statement that 'Much of the high cost of living must be charged to the, unions with their unending demands for bigher wages. As a Matter o4 fact, the interests of the union man, the farinor, the store- keeper. the clerk are largely in . common. The problem is to find a basis for ,united action. , (1Rinds OF THE 'I#IG Sii0W. Now that the Exhibition is over, loyal critics who would not say a word while are rais- ing was in the balance,. t success is 'their voices in protest on ccount of the de artm nt . conditions 'in Homo of e p e has s Pair The chief- ecmpla;fnt, is that thea been, losing its agricultural character. It is a eignifioant.fact that the entries in live stock this year were',much below those of previous years in point of num- bet, and no satisfactory ext lanation, has been forthcoming of why this was so, The live, stock sheds and accommodation gen- Grant for this class of exhibits are far MANY brands of Baking Powder contain alum, . which isan injurious acid The ingredients of alum baking powder are never printed on the label. 11l M'Hl1ESi U6H1f5t • Magic Baking. Powder - contains no alum and is the only baking powder made in Canada that has all the ingredients plainlyP rinted on the label, - 11. MIS ,r. eAMOROWILA IS COMOOSUNIFil4 roU.owrtla INCMEO) EN1SAI MIK MIK fmtnm+lLAt AAs• orattersermao EWGILLBTT COMPANY LIMITEU TORONTO. ONT..;� twW . p WiNNiPEO MONTREAL,•.sc•ot• . 4/%L. ° .- ooryTAlNs No a, uM ESTIMATE OF WESTERN CROP G. T P.'s Report Shows 179,828,000 Bushels of Wheal, 'Half of Which is Harvested. A despatch from Montreal says: According to figures compiled be' the Grand Trunk Pacific the west- ern wheat crop this year will reach 179,828,000 bushels. Their report shows that an . average of over 50 per cent. of the grain had al'aaily been harvested, but the work has been greatly delayed from one end of the prairies to the other by heavy rain. , In several places it is re- ported that the early out grain has begun to sprout, but in the major- ity of districts no damage has y e t been done to it. Thrashing has riot yet commenced, and in some places it is feared that unless the weather clears a promising crop is going to 'be badly•damaged There as keen no' frost to hurt. The yield gener- ally is a .large one. Estiviates', carefully prepared by experts for the company place tile' total crop as follows:. Wheat, :10,- 584,000 acres, at 17 bushels per. acre, 179,828,000 bushels; oats, 5,245,000. acres, at 42 bushels per acne, 220,- 290.000 bushels; barley, 1,500,000, acres, at 32 bushels, )ler acre, 48,- 000 (00;. flax, 1,111 000 acres. at 11 busjiels per acre, 12,210,000 bushels. The total wheat crop last year was 177,109,000 bushels, so that this year's estimate places the yield at between two and three million bush- els in excess of thatof last year. below what they ought to be and no doubt before another year a great change will be shade in this regard. Those in charge of the Exhibition, realize that if the Fair is to be truly representative of National, as it is termed, it must not be allowed to beoome lopsided. TURN YOUR TIICIE INTO MONEY. There is a firm in Toronto who -give hun- dreds of men and women an opportunity to earn from $250.00 to $1,500.00 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, stove, furniture and metal polishes, in all over one hundred preparations that every home uses every day. Just one person in each leo/elit' can secure exclusive right to distribute these preparations to their neighbors. They pay 100 per cent. commission. to their agents- Write and secure stile agenoy be- fore it is too late. Address The Rome Supply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Building, To- ronto, Ont., for full particulars. .14 LIFTED BY BLAZING BAFLOON Aeronaut, 2,000 Feet Up, Cut Loose Just in the Nick of Time. A despatch from Toledo, Ohio, says: Hundreds of terrorized spec- tators on the county fair grounds on Thursday watched the fight against death made by Frank Arm- strong, an aeronaut, when he was carried 2,000 feet into the air by a blazing balloon. Armstrong was preparing to make an. ascension and was straightening out .his para- chute rigging when the balloon caught fire and his helpers let go. Fighting to release his parachute, the aeronaut was carried up in a tangle of ropes. He aaeoeeded in cutting loose a moment before the flames reached the parachute, and the blazing • balloon collapsed. Armstrong made a successful drop, landing inside the race -track. q. OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS. Sir Percy Gironard Tells How Peo p ,. le.Abroad. Regard' Canada. A desasetclh'from Montreal says Sir-Perc ,Gi.rouaid, far alerly Gov dix or of $shish' "East Africa, is in Canada on a visit. "I am afraid Our Lady of the Snows is a, back number so far as, the popular imagi- nation is concerned. A great change has come over opinion ..abroad 1n regard to Canada," he said in an interview. "People no longer think of it as a polar country. They now regard it in the true light, as a land where there are greater agri- cultural opportunities than any- where in the United States, and as a country .with one of the finest cli mates in the world." CONDOR CHARLIE. Lord Charles Beresford is still prophesying .the crack of•doom, and ' .. is as firmly convinced as ever that there is no hope for the navy unless things are done exactly es ,he de- sires. Lord Charles is the second son of the Marquis of Waterford, and his earliest ambitions were direct- ed towards the navy. On the boy's thirteenth birthday, the Marquis called his son into his study, and emeleeleieeleeeee Lord Charles Beresford, asked him whether- he had any de- sire to • enter a profession. "I'm going into the navy 1" he replied. "And why the navy 1" inquired the Marquis. - "Because I'd like to be an admir- al like Nelson." • "PshaV ! like Nelson," exclaim- ed bis fatheee ..`Elft'' even if you join the navy, why, do you think yoiaiIl betome an admiral i" ,r`:Becat " T` mi 4ii to'1'.'. 'replied f young- Beresford. NEW STEAIVIElt BRITANNIC. Titanic's Successor Can Float With • Six Compartments Flooded. A despatch from. Liverpool says: The White Star Company an- nounces that its new 50,000 -ton steamer 'will be named Britannic. It will have a complete inner skin, and the bulkheads will be increas- ed. It will be capable of float' with six compartments flooded. BRITAIN BEST Exports of the Dominion to the United Kingdom Last Year Worth Over $igo,ouo,000. A despatch Ottawa says s: s h from Ot p Corrected customs for the year end- ing Marsh 31, 1912, show that the the l trade of r agg egate f n orag country was $874,637,794, made up of exports, of $315,317,250 and im- ports ,of $559,320,544. . ''he 'total duty collected was $87,576.,036, as compared with $73,312,387 in 1910. The United' Kingdom was the best taking151. - Canada, eustomer of $ 853,413 of her exports. The United States took $120,534,634. Other countries to which Canadian goods were . exported were; West Indies, $6,900,940; South America, $4,* 825,030 Newfoundland, $4,284,313; Australia, $8,947,015; Germany, $3,814,914; Belgium, $3,732,222; Ti France, $2,123,705. <'Canada bought most heavily from the United States,imports that country being from ii$356,354,478; those from Great Britain were $116,907,022, while those from other countries' were: France, '$11,744,- 664; Germany, $11,090,005; South America, $10,533,310; West Indies, 8 490878 Switzerla d $3.458,008; $ ti_ Belgium, $3,686,419 ; Chi.n.a and .J414• l- `� he duty pan, '>$3;118982.° -'Oft d y cc lected $49,1'77,584 enure from • the United States and $4367,069 from Great Beltaan. The percentage of duty on all goods itnported for con-. suniption was le. r:. An exceptional opportunity for the investment of savings in a high-grade Municipal Security Yielding 5s-/2 per r cent. We offer the unsold balance of $1,200,000 One Year Notes, dated 'Ist September, 1912, of a Western municipality. They are' in denomina- tions of $100 to $5000 and especially suitable for the investment of small savings or money which is now eerhllni only 3 per cent. or less. COMPLETE DETAILS ON REQUEST 0Ordin1011 L,COmi Compa) Limited Toronto Montreal Vancouver London, Eng. FRUIT SHOI LD BE GRADED Special flarket Commissioner at Winnipeg Says Care Must Be Taken. A despatch from Toronto says: Competition. far the fruit trade of Western Canada is so keen that Mr. James Parnell, Special Market Commissioner at winnipeg, in a re- port issued on Thursday, warns On- tario shippers that only the very best must be offered if they expect to control the market; Ontario fruits are acknowledged to be bet- ter quality than British Colombia shipments, but •shipments from the Pacific Province and the western States show excellent stock, well graded and packed, which reaches the market in a splendid oondition. Mr. Parnell suggests that prices for apples are likely to decline. Good sales are reported in the country, but city buyers are mak- ing light purchases in . the hope of cheaper prices later on. "With the keen competition between east and west it looks as if the growers will have to take lower prices. Strip- pers (should exercise great care in packing their apples,. as there is an extra staff of inspectors on, who are examining carefully each ship - meet, and all shipments should come up to the 'fruit market act.' "Many of our Ontario growers are shipping out fruit that will hold its own with the best of quality, pack and condition on arrival. -In other oases, however, too little at- tention is being paid to grading and packing, some varieties of plums and peaches being shipped here that will not hold up and are arriving in bad shape, whioh has a tendency to lower the prices of fruit coming i'P_ right." Mr. Parnelll states that the mar- ket has been crowded all week with foreign fruit, - which has caused quite a drop in prices. MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS LONDON'S APATHY HAS REDUCE® PRICES OF MUNICIPALS. Prices Lower than for Many Years -Like- lihood of Further Reduction in Opinion of Experts is Remote -Many Bargains on Market. The articles contributed by "Investor" e re for the sole purpose of guiding pros- pective investors, and, if possible, of sav- ing them from losing money through placing it in "wild -eat" enterprises. The impartial and reliable eharaoter 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.) The apathy of the London market for f Canadian municipal debentures has con- tinued all summer, and now with the be- ginning of autumn there appears to be no improvement in the slleatiou. The result has been that each municipalities as have recently come on the market with bonds have been foroed to sell them at abnormally cheap prices or have had to seek temporary relief through financing 'yy means of short-term notes or treasury bills. Investors, therefore, start this fall season with numerous opportunities for purchasing cheap municipal debentures or occasional chances to purchase securi- ties maturing from eve to twelve months of fairly high yield, but secured by the assets of excellent imuniuipalities. Just this week, for example, one haulm is of- fering one year notes of a suburb of Van- couver at a price to return the investcr five and one.he1f per cent. on his money. Many of the larger cities of the middle West are net?' returcing from 43.4 to 51.4 per cent. -a fact that has not, taken peace since the bad year of 1907. The question that many investors are. ••• - as,,,k:n is ,not whether debentures are H -<+ •-e�s'ited.v '�'t .priisairt•� batty �, $zhpr o;•*. not they may, not -become oven ohoaper.. This question is not easy toanswer and ca only >1m . only express an opinion based on ,Hifi 4-e•Tsi,srotiinfans of many of the,-inosi;,..oxpert bond men in Canada. Bute while their• opinions are well worth leteee they are unfortunately hampered by not being gifted with prophetic pavers and their knowledge of the future is only that based upon probabilities. Whee they think is this: The market has now reached a point where debentures are returning as high a rate of income as they Stave within the past ilfteeu years or more. General conditions are excellent, and prices are unquestionahla, attractive. Therefore, although Londen may not again come in. to the market for some time to come the absorb:,ive power of Canada and the States will prove suifloien.t to keep the uiareet from going any lower. is, eoureed with, the faot that municipalities will considerably moderate their financi- al requirements for the next few months will probably keep prices at about the present level. any resumption of buying on the part o.. London, however, will soon IF YOU HAVE MONEY TO INVEST write for our Sep- ' tember List of HNVESTMENT SECU,BITJES and our free Book.. legit: "What a Bond Investitlent means,".. They lnay help.you. • • CANAOk SECURITIES ITIES CORPORATION R LTD. D. • tiomtntee Xpress Bldg., Montreal McKinnon et:110nm terento 14 ftornhlil, - Londot;, Eng. ,exhaust the present supply of securities and the result will be a beginning to an upward movement that will tend to replace prices somewhere near the levels of a year or eighteen months ago. It cannot be said that this feeling was general a few months ago, but so far as I can learn the above reflects prettywell the general opinion now. Municipal de- bentures are cheap and there is a fair demand for the 'bargains. Should the de- mand follow the usual course and come up to the average enquiry of October and November there should be no question of the stability of the present level of pric- es and possibly even an advance in some oases. . At all events, if one has money to in- vest at the present time there are many unquestionable bargains in municipal de- bentures. and the likelihood of these bar- gains falling further in price is remote. As one hard-headed investor remarked the other day It is only a beginner who expects always to buy at the bottom and sell at the top and this is near enough the bottom to suit me." TRIBUTE TO DEAD EMPEROR. • Nogi, - Famous General, and His Wife, Commit Suicide. A despatch from Tokio, says: General Count Maresuke Nogi, Su- preme Military Councillor of the Empire, and his wifethe Countess Nogi, committed suicide on Friday night, in accordance with the. an - dent Japanese custom, as their final tribute to their departed Em- peror and friend, Mutsuhito. The taking off by their own hands of the famous General and his wife was as dramatic as it was sad. The Gen- eral cut his throat with a short sword and the Countess committed •pari-kari. Following the Samurai custom., the couple ,had carefully rfor killing prepared their . plans g themselves -and timed 'them son that they would lee, coincident withthe 'departure; forever from TokigeOfthe dead Emperor. CHILD KILLED IN ELEVATOR. Attendant in Halifax Building Fail- ed to Close Car Door. A despatch from Halifax says: Enid Griffith, a three-year-old girl, was killed in the elevator shaft in the Metropole Building in this city on Thursday. The child was in the elevator with her aunt. The eleva- tor boy omitted to close the • door as the elevator went up from the third storey. The child had hold of the grill work on the edge of the sAiaft. The elevator going up, left the girl hanging by her hands. In a moment she dropped to the bot- tom and was killed. ' ME NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH HAPPENINGS PROM ALL OVER. TIIE G1LOI3E XN A. N 1IlT;5H1+'rLL. Canada, tho Empire and the World: In General Before Your- Eyes. ourEyes. CANADA. Many Toronto children died from whooping -cough last month. ' Fred. Staples, G.T.R. yard help- er at Belleville, was crushed, to death between cars. Sir Hugh Montague Allan has re- tired from the Directorate of the Allan Steamship Line. Heland Wright, afarmer of Glen Sutton, was killed by a train near Sherbrooke, Que.,. on Friday. Over four hundred students are. taking supplemental examinations at the University of Toronto. The Department of Education an- nounced the establishment of a four-year course in agriculture. Judge D. J. Donahue, Senior Fudge of Renfrew county, died at Homewood Sanitarium, Guelph, on Friday. Archie Ferguson was caught on the belt of a feeder and drawn to almost instant death on a. fa,rm in Athol townshiip. Rev. Nicholas Boodles of Galicia bas been appointed Bishop of the Ruthenian (G -reek) Catholics in Western Canada. George Goodn.ow suffered fright- ful, and possibly fatal, burns in en- deavoring to prevent the explosion' • of a gasoline .tank at Belleville. Chas. F. Walsh, a Curtiss biplan- ist, had a narrow escape at Halifax Exhibition, when his machine crash- ed down on to a cattle shed. Thos. Fitzpatrick was killed when a water turbine at the Shawinigan Company's. plaint, Montreal, burst and flooded the building on Friday. Fiftythousand dollars' loss was caused by the destruction of the Patterson Manufacturing Com- pany's plant and stock by fire art St. Boniface, -Man. GREAT BRITAIN. Lloyd's Bank agreed to advance China $50,000,000 for forty yearns at 5 per cent. interest. Truth announced that Sir George Murray has been engaged to reor- ganize the administrative depart- ments of the Canadian Govern- ment. In a 'triangular bye -election con- test -in which Laborites opposed the Liberal oondidate the Union- ists won the Midlothian seat for- merly held by Gladstone. UNITED STATES. Loiterers on the "Great White Way." New York, after midnight will be •arrested. Wild rioting took • place in Du- luth on Friday, wherethe street car service is suspended owing to a strike. • Heavy damage was caused by lightning and hail during a violent storm in eastern New York and western . Conne•cticut. GENERAL. The imposing funeral rites over the remains of the late Mikado were carried on with old-time cere- monials on Friday. FATAL DERRICK' ACCIDENT. Three...lIon Killed, Five Injured, Some of Whom May Die. A despatch from Halifax says : Three men are dead and five are in- jured, njured, .as;,a result of an accident at the Woodside "Sugar Refinery, on Thursday morning A derrik•'nrm snapped in -two, precipitating a number of men' teertf'feet 'i;o the grouted amongst a 'w'hirl Of' 'flying "etee1, wood and other material. Three of the men were instantly killed. Their names are James Hitchcock, Daniel Young and James Dougan. One or two of the injured may die. ' 014 AMERICANS STILL COMING. 175,000 Will Have Crossed Into Canada by Enol of Fiscal Year. A despatch from Ottawa says: According to W. J. White, who re- turned on Wednesday from an •in- spection of Canadian immigration agencies in the United States, the A.inerican'infiux to the West is con - tinning at a rate unpreeedented. Mr. Whiteestimates that in the. current fiscal year 175,000 people will cross the border. They are not settling in' pnrtieular localities or any one province, he says,'. but ate scattering ;everywhere that good land is available. Mr, Whits speaks optimistically of the crop*. SHIPBUILDING PLANT. PRICES OF FARM PROM REPORTS FROM THE t.EAniNiy TRAMS CENTRES Of' AMERICA. Prtoee of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Produce at Hans and Abram*, • BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Sept. 17. -Flour -Winter wheat, 90 per cent, patents, $3.75 to $3.80 for new, f.o.b. •mills, and at $3.90 to $3.95 for old, f.c.b. mills. Manitoba, flours (these quo- Cations are for jute bags, in cotton bags 100 more): -first patents, $5.70; second Patents, $6.20, and strong bakers', $5. on track, , Toronto. Manitoba Wheat -No. 2 old Northern Quoted at $1,10: to. $1.101.2, Bay ports. Feed wheat, 65 to 66o, Bay ports. Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white, red and mixed 97 to 98e, outside; new wheat, 93 to 94o, outside. Oats :New No, 2 oats quoted at 41 to. 42o here, and old at 451.2 to 46o, Toronto. No. 2 W. C. oats, 47o, Bay ports. Peas -Nominal. .Harley -No, 3 nominal at 60 to 65o, out- side. No. 3 extra, 68o, and No. 3, 65e, out- side. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, �84o, on track, Bay ports, and at 88o, Toronto; No. 3, 87o Toronto, and at 63o, Bay ports. Rye -65 to 70o per bushel, Buckwheat -Nominal. Bran -Manitoba bran, $22 to $23, in bags, •Toronto +freight. Shorts, $26. COUNTRY PRODUCE. .. Butter -Dairy rolls, choice, 26 to 26o; bakers', inferior, 21o; choice dairy, tuba, 23 to 24o; creamery, 27 to 28o for 'rolls, and 26 to 27o for solids. Eggs -Case lots of new -laid, 26 to 270 per dozen; fresh, 24a. Cheese -Now cheese,. 141.4• to 141.2o for large, and 141-2 to.•143.4o for twins. Beans --Hand-picked, $3 per bushel, primes, $2.90. Honey -Extracted, in tins, 111.2 to 12 1.2o per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; oombe, $2.25 to $3, wholesale. Poultry Wholesale prioes of choice dressed, poultry Chickens, 16 to 180 per lb.; hens, 13 to 14c; ducklings, 14 to 160. Live poultry, about fe lower than the above. Potatoes -90o per bag. PROVISIONS. Bacon -Long clear, 14 L2 to 14 3.4e per lb., in case lots. Pork -Short rout, $24.50 to $25; do., mess, $21.50, Hams -Medium to light, 17 to 171-2o; heavy, ie 1.2 to 16o; rolls, 14 to 141-2c • breakfast bacon, 181-2c; backs, 20 to 20 lac. Lard -'Pierces, 131-2o; tubs, 13.3.4o; • pails; 14o. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 17.- Oat8-Oanadian Western, No. 2, 4912 to 50o; do., No. 37'48 to 481-2c; extra No. 1 feed, 49 to 491-2c. Barley -Manitoba feed, 60 to 65o; malt- ing, 76 to 80o. Buckwheat -No. 2, 74 to 76o. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $5.80; do., seconds, $5.30; strong bakers', $5.10; Winter patents, choice, 95.25; straight rollers, $4.85 to $4.- 90; 4:90; do., in bags, $2.25. to $2.30. ljolled oats -Barrels, $4.80; bag of 90 lbs.r $2.271.2. Millfoed-Bran, $23; shorts, $27; mid- dlings, $28 to $29; mouillie, $30 to $34. Hay -No. 2, per ton, oar lots, $15 to $15.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 14 to 141-80; do., eastern, 131-2 to 13 7-80. Butter -Choicest creamery, 27 to 271-4c; seconds, 251-2 to 26c. Eggs -Selected, 28 to 29c; No. 2 stock, ,19 to 20c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, 75 to 80e. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Sept. 17 -Wheat -2 -September, 85 3-40; December, 881-20; May, 931-8 to 931.40; No. 1 hard, 89 3.40; No. 1 North- ern, 871-4 to :881-4o ; No. 2 Northern, 831.4 to 86 1-4o. No. 3 yellow corn, 72 1-2c. No. 3 3o. ite Bran, 3 $20 3' FlourNo. Fist ypatente $4.35 to $4.65; second patents, $4.20 to $4.55; first• clears, $3.20 to $3.50; second clears, $2.30 to $2.60. Duluth, Sep. 17. -Wheat, No. 1 hard, 901-8c; No. 1 Northern, 891-80; No. 2 Northern, 871.80; September, 88'1-80 asked; December, 881-4o; May,931-Bo asked. LIVE STOCK 'MARKETS. Montreal, Sept. 17. Prime beeves about 63-4; medium, 43.4 to 61-2; common, 3 to 41-2. Milch cows, $30 to $70 each; calves, 3 to 63-8; sheep about 4 cents; lambs about 6 cents; hogs, 81-2 to 8 3-4c. Toronto September 17. -- Choice - Choice butcher, $6.50 to $6.75; good medi- um, $5.60 10 $6.25; • common, $4.50 to $5; cows, $3 to $5.50; Mills, $3 to $4.50; can- ners, $2 to $3. Calves -Good veal, $8 to $8.50; common, $3.50 to $6. Stockers and feeders, 500 to 900 lbs., $4.25 to $5.60. Milk- ers and springers; $50 to $75. Sheep and Iambs -From 25c to 50o lower; light ewes, $4 to $4.50; heavy ewes. $3 to $3.50; lambs, $5 to $6.25. Hoge -$8.75 fed and watered and $8.35 to $8.40 f.o.b. .. •NEW ZEALAND LEPERS. Condition in Cook Islands Officially Reported as Deplorable. • A despatch from Christchurch, N. Z., says : Ali official report from Cook Islands says leprosy is preva- lent to a gnat extent. The lepers live in the most disgraceful condi- tions and the general health of the islands is deplorable. Drastic mea- sures are necessary to save this po- pulation. 'w To Build Sailing Vessels at Cequit- lam for London Trade. A despatch from Vancouver says: Real work on the new $500,000 ship- building- plant at .Coquitlam began on Wednesday. According to speci- fications, it will be the moat com- prehensive on the mainland, ; for, although ships of `from 300 to poo tons will be the principal output at the start, the officials expect to enlarge the plant after the open elle . of the Panama Canal. Eight and one-half acres ,have been se- cured, NO SMOKE, NO WORK. -Strike Because Shoe Operatives. St like Bo s Refused Leave to Stroke. A despatch from Quebec says ; Because they were not permitted to smoke at work, operatives in the -folio shoe hoe factoy have gone S factory on - strike, The men made application nto smoke, and it for permission s was , refused.. They even offered to ac - a less Capt twenty-five' emits week 1 ill wages if the privilege vas grant- ed them. T `: concession nob be- ing sweep - e was called. 1 JUMPS FROM HOTEL WINDOW.' Well -Known Resident ...of Quebec Ends His Own Life. rk A despatch from Quebec says: Jumping from a window of the third fiat of the Mountain Hill House, Ludger Beauregard, a well- known Quebecker, committed sui- cide on Wednesday morning. 'Mr. Beauregard formerly was purchas- er of right-of-way for the Transcon- tinental Railway Commission in the. district of Quebec. He was living in Defosses Street with his four daughters. . •1:. TWO OUTLAWS TO DIE. Floyd and Claude Allen Sentenced to the Electric Chair. A despatch from Wytheville, Vir- ginia, says: Floyd Allen and his nephew, Claude, two leaders of the gang that , shot up the Hillsville courthouse, were, brought into court here on Thursday and sen- tenced to be electrocuted on No- vember 22nd. They were found . e guilty of murder:in the first degree several weeks ago, THANKSGIVING, OCTOBER 28. omit airbytatee- Aed Date. iliac e 5 -pertinent for This Year. A despatch frown Ottawa says; the formal Order in Cour- Althougho ire thet forTanks `vin cil.fix da a h g81 g Day this fa11 has not yet been pass- ed, it is understood that the" date recomtnended by the' Siete Depart- ment ioi Meeday, October 28th, and a proclamation will be issued short- ly. • TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE SOME INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM THE QUEEN .CITY; The Minister of Lands and Mines -North.. land's Possibilities -Trades Linton Movetnent-Exhibition Criticism. While Provinoial polities in general are enjoying a rest considerable public .et tention is centered on the work and per - Banality of •Nie newest member of the Cabinet, Hon. Mr, Hearst, who, a few months ago, succeeded Mr. Cochrane as Minister of Lands and Mines. Tho other day when Sir Jellies Whitney was : asked to address a public gathering he contented himself with a few words and introduced Hr. 'leant in his stead, "one of my young men," ^the Premier desortbed lien, Mr. Hearst took Northern Ontario' as his text and delivered an important - address. on its possibilities. Coming from Sault Ste. Marie, where he is a leading lawyer, the subjeot is close to his heart. liir. Hearst does not resemble his photo- graphs. They do not reproduce his sandy complexion or his almost fiery, hair and moustache. In manner of speech Mr. Hearst is not unlike his leader, Sir James Whitney. He has the same downright- nese and something of the same force of deliverance. Assuming that those quali- ties in speech reflect similar qualities 9i. the head, it is not difficult to understand why the Premier selected him out of his large following for promotion. SILVE2t CAMPS REVIVING. All the news from the northland serves to strengthen the optimism that has been developing during recent years. T,he known agricultural area is widening. In- stead of 16,000.000 acres in she clay belt the figure has now risen to 20,000,000 'acres.. Settlement isslow, but the' point is rap- idly being reached when it will be cheap- er to clear New Ontario farms than, it will be to buy prairie lands. Then it ought to be easyto divert the westward stream of immigation to the north. The mining industry is making progress. The news from Porcupine continues to be en- couraging in a moderate way. One mine is understood to have. produced a quarter of a million dollars of gold up to the first of September. But the feature of the summer's work has been the revival of the silver camps. In Cobalt twenty- three properties have been reopened. And in Elk Lake and Gowganda, operations are under way in twenty-two Damps. And, doubtless, there will be a fresh crop . of wild cats for the unwary. LABOR UNIONS IN ONTARIO. The annual meeting in Guelph of the Dominion Trades and Labor Council, held in Ontario for the first time in several years, has served to call attention to the progress and present strength of the Trades Union movement- in this province. While the organization is strong numeri- cally and has secured in some trades an almost .masterful position it is not with- out its weaknesses. It would be more exact to say that it has not yet taken advantage of its opportunities for the improving of the condition of the great body of workers. Up to the present in Canada, the great objective of the trades unions has been to increase wages, and the one weapon they have used for this purpose has been the crude and often -dangerous and cruel form of warfare known as the strike. In innumerable cases strikes or threats of strikes have been successful, and it would be impossible to estimate the ad- vances in wages the unions haveto their credit by this means. Possibly in . many trades they have doubled the rate of pay they . would be receiving if there ' were no unions. In other trades they have failed, and the curious fact ie that in the strong- ly unionized city of Toronto many of the largest industries are absolutely non-un- ion, or open shops. The employers in some of these industries have no objection to. high wages. and voluntarily pay the union scale or higher, but it is also unfortu- nately the case that some of the others pay absolutely inadequate wages. There are many competent workmen in Toronto to -day, working 10 hours a day, receiving not more -than $10.00 a week. If there is a family of any size, with no other wage earners in it, this means, with rent and the coat of clothing and provisions what they are, that these people are on the ragged edge of penury. Compare such wages with those that prevail iu such a trade as the printers, who are at present negotiating a, new •scale and have refused to accept a minimum rate of $21.00 a' week for an eight-hour day. WORKINGMEN POOR POLITICIANS. Some of the labor leaders are coming to realize that the question of wages, while of vital importance, is but one of many things which are of the utmost importance to the working classes' ' ma- terial condition. The question of land values in its relation to rent is one of these. So is the question oi- publics owner- ship of natural monopolies. So is the question of taxation, including that most powerful and all embracing engine of taxation, the tariff. These things affect the earning power of the workers just as much as the rate of wages he receives. But the strike is useless as a weapon to grapple with them. And so far the labor unions of Canada, knowing•only the strike as a weapon, have done practically no- thing toward grappling with these prob. lems. The labor man needs a new wea- pon. Ile scarcely knows yet what it is. He realizes clearly only that there is need of something, that conditions . are rapidly stratifying into a form which does not bode best for the classes gener- ally. Some day he will see that what he needs is political organization. But. -at present the efforts in the Province to or ganize a workingman's political :patty have fallen flat' That party's dependable strength in the city- of Toronto is pro- bably not more .than a few hundred 'vot- ers. KIER RARDIE SCENTS TROUBLE. Kier Hardie the`' powerful but somewhat intemperate 1'3ootch socialist labor leader, a former collier, but the match in mental equipment for political leaders anywhere, has been telling his Canadian brothers some plain facts along these lines. He declared that in some respects privilege has' already become entrenched in Can- ada in a way that it will take genera- tions to rectify, if it can ever be recti- fied. No doubt one reason organized labor has been slow to agitate in political ques- tions is 'that well organized labor has been so sueoessful'in keeping its wages up to a good standard, that it has thought the other matters were of trivial import- ance. Besides, on some of the most im- portant issues. labor men are by no means united in their opinion. A good example' is the tariff question. At the moment some of the roost forceful men in the un- ions in Toronto are free traders, or, at least, low tariff. men. • But while the union men of the city would follow these leaders over a precipice if a strike were involved it ire doubtful if more than a email frac- tion would follow them in a free' trade campaign. Judging by concrete results the labor men of Toronto are strongly protectionist.,.... One result of the Canadian labor men's large attention. to the question of 'wages has been to arouse against. him some re- sentment on the part of the great army of other workers and salaried people gen- erally who are disposed toaccept the statement that 'Much of the high cost of living must be charged to the, unions with their unending demands for bigher wages. As a Matter o4 fact, the interests of the union man, the farinor, the store- keeper. the clerk are largely in . common. The problem is to find a basis for ,united action. , (1Rinds OF THE 'I#IG Sii0W. Now that the Exhibition is over, loyal critics who would not say a word while are rais- ing was in the balance,. t success is 'their voices in protest on ccount of the de artm nt . conditions 'in Homo of e p e has s Pair The chief- ecmpla;fnt, is that thea been, losing its agricultural character. It is a eignifioant.fact that the entries in live stock this year were',much below those of previous years in point of num- bet, and no satisfactory ext lanation, has been forthcoming of why this was so, The live, stock sheds and accommodation gen- Grant for this class of exhibits are far MANY brands of Baking Powder contain alum, . which isan injurious acid The ingredients of alum baking powder are never printed on the label. 11l M'Hl1ESi U6H1f5t • Magic Baking. Powder - contains no alum and is the only baking powder made in Canada that has all the ingredients plainlyP rinted on the label, - 11. MIS ,r. eAMOROWILA IS COMOOSUNIFil4 roU.owrtla INCMEO) EN1SAI MIK MIK fmtnm+lLAt AAs• orattersermao EWGILLBTT COMPANY LIMITEU TORONTO. ONT..;� twW . p WiNNiPEO MONTREAL,•.sc•ot• . 4/%L. ° .- ooryTAlNs No a, uM ESTIMATE OF WESTERN CROP G. T P.'s Report Shows 179,828,000 Bushels of Wheal, 'Half of Which is Harvested. A despatch from Montreal says: According to figures compiled be' the Grand Trunk Pacific the west- ern wheat crop this year will reach 179,828,000 bushels. Their report shows that an . average of over 50 per cent. of the grain had al'aaily been harvested, but the work has been greatly delayed from one end of the prairies to the other by heavy rain. , In several places it is re- ported that the early out grain has begun to sprout, but in the major- ity of districts no damage has y e t been done to it. Thrashing has riot yet commenced, and in some places it is feared that unless the weather clears a promising crop is going to 'be badly•damaged There as keen no' frost to hurt. The yield gener- ally is a .large one. Estiviates', carefully prepared by experts for the company place tile' total crop as follows:. Wheat, :10,- 584,000 acres, at 17 bushels per. acre, 179,828,000 bushels; oats, 5,245,000. acres, at 42 bushels per acne, 220,- 290.000 bushels; barley, 1,500,000, acres, at 32 bushels, )ler acre, 48,- 000 (00;. flax, 1,111 000 acres. at 11 busjiels per acre, 12,210,000 bushels. The total wheat crop last year was 177,109,000 bushels, so that this year's estimate places the yield at between two and three million bush- els in excess of thatof last year. below what they ought to be and no doubt before another year a great change will be shade in this regard. Those in charge of the Exhibition, realize that if the Fair is to be truly representative of National, as it is termed, it must not be allowed to beoome lopsided. TURN YOUR TIICIE INTO MONEY. There is a firm in Toronto who -give hun- dreds of men and women an opportunity to earn from $250.00 to $1,500.00 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, stove, furniture and metal polishes, in all over one hundred preparations that every home uses every day. Just one person in each leo/elit' can secure exclusive right to distribute these preparations to their neighbors. They pay 100 per cent. commission. to their agents- Write and secure stile agenoy be- fore it is too late. Address The Rome Supply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Building, To- ronto, Ont., for full particulars. .14 LIFTED BY BLAZING BAFLOON Aeronaut, 2,000 Feet Up, Cut Loose Just in the Nick of Time. A despatch from Toledo, Ohio, says: Hundreds of terrorized spec- tators on the county fair grounds on Thursday watched the fight against death made by Frank Arm- strong, an aeronaut, when he was carried 2,000 feet into the air by a blazing balloon. Armstrong was preparing to make an. ascension and was straightening out .his para- chute rigging when the balloon caught fire and his helpers let go. Fighting to release his parachute, the aeronaut was carried up in a tangle of ropes. He aaeoeeded in cutting loose a moment before the flames reached the parachute, and the blazing • balloon collapsed. Armstrong made a successful drop, landing inside the race -track. q. OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS. Sir Percy Gironard Tells How Peo p ,. le.Abroad. Regard' Canada. A desasetclh'from Montreal says Sir-Perc ,Gi.rouaid, far alerly Gov dix or of $shish' "East Africa, is in Canada on a visit. "I am afraid Our Lady of the Snows is a, back number so far as, the popular imagi- nation is concerned. A great change has come over opinion ..abroad 1n regard to Canada," he said in an interview. "People no longer think of it as a polar country. They now regard it in the true light, as a land where there are greater agri- cultural opportunities than any- where in the United States, and as a country .with one of the finest cli mates in the world." CONDOR CHARLIE. Lord Charles Beresford is still prophesying .the crack of•doom, and ' .. is as firmly convinced as ever that there is no hope for the navy unless things are done exactly es ,he de- sires. Lord Charles is the second son of the Marquis of Waterford, and his earliest ambitions were direct- ed towards the navy. On the boy's thirteenth birthday, the Marquis called his son into his study, and emeleeleieeleeeee Lord Charles Beresford, asked him whether- he had any de- sire to • enter a profession. "I'm going into the navy 1" he replied. "And why the navy 1" inquired the Marquis. - "Because I'd like to be an admir- al like Nelson." • "PshaV ! like Nelson," exclaim- ed bis fatheee ..`Elft'' even if you join the navy, why, do you think yoiaiIl betome an admiral i" ,r`:Becat " T` mi 4ii to'1'.'. 'replied f young- Beresford. NEW STEAIVIElt BRITANNIC. Titanic's Successor Can Float With • Six Compartments Flooded. A despatch from. Liverpool says: The White Star Company an- nounces that its new 50,000 -ton steamer 'will be named Britannic. It will have a complete inner skin, and the bulkheads will be increas- ed. It will be capable of float' with six compartments flooded. BRITAIN BEST Exports of the Dominion to the United Kingdom Last Year Worth Over $igo,ouo,000. A despatch Ottawa says s: s h from Ot p Corrected customs for the year end- ing Marsh 31, 1912, show that the the l trade of r agg egate f n orag country was $874,637,794, made up of exports, of $315,317,250 and im- ports ,of $559,320,544. . ''he 'total duty collected was $87,576.,036, as compared with $73,312,387 in 1910. The United' Kingdom was the best taking151. - Canada, eustomer of $ 853,413 of her exports. The United States took $120,534,634. Other countries to which Canadian goods were . exported were; West Indies, $6,900,940; South America, $4,* 825,030 Newfoundland, $4,284,313; Australia, $8,947,015; Germany, $3,814,914; Belgium, $3,732,222; Ti France, $2,123,705. <'Canada bought most heavily from the United States,imports that country being from ii$356,354,478; those from Great Britain were $116,907,022, while those from other countries' were: France, '$11,744,- 664; Germany, $11,090,005; South America, $10,533,310; West Indies, 8 490878 Switzerla d $3.458,008; $ ti_ Belgium, $3,686,419 ; Chi.n.a and .J414• l- `� he duty pan, '>$3;118982.° -'Oft d y cc lected $49,1'77,584 enure from • the United States and $4367,069 from Great Beltaan. The percentage of duty on all goods itnported for con-. suniption was le. r:.