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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-11-9, Page 6()fd r'AGKAGE . � �1.a•"i' � a ,. G.fl't?e, , ANE EIGHTH ...il Num,ONTARIO FVA; etwe atiti4•t Hoi1icuItural Exhibition ST. LAWRENCE ARENA. TORONTO Nov. loth to 18th ONTARIO'S BEST FRUIT, FLOWERS, VEGETABLES, HONEY, SINGLE FARE RATE FROM ALL POINTS IN ONTARIO ASK YOUR LOCAL RAILWAY AGENT POR PARTICULARS Vis;; KEEP YOUR STOCK WELL AND T; s'':'WING ALL WINTE With "INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD"— The best known end most retia bre Stock Food on the market Farmers, Stockmen and Breeders all use it and praise it because it gives animals new strength and endurance— purities the blood—improves their appearance—and at the same time, saves corn and oats, and only costs you 3 FEEDS For ONE CENT Por sale by Dealers everywhere, and the price will be refunded if it don't save you money. Write for copy of our " fi 0110 Stock hook"—the most helpful nook ever published for the Farmer and Stockman. Sent free, orfEI1NATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO., LIMITED, - TORONTO. Here Is What One Stock Raiser Says DALY+vn4a Qum Tha raturnanonal Stack 580,100., Toronto, Out. Cenllrnan!— risosa And Doctored nodal not061or 515.00, the amount otrnyaraount. iaavefound Intornanm,at Stock Foal ennullant for my horses and rattle, and pigs. It has uund 00551 w0051 not boy ,,shout present anP le aniaa0d. 1 "Lal1 eo(5 5d, .,. .5 ,SfJnrd) J. V, Serra, 59 LIVING SOARING IN EUROPE. Compensating Outlook for Good Trade in England. Winter prospects in most parts of Europe point to hard weather and soaring prices for food stuffs. But in England there is the com- pensating outlook of trade pros- perity. Some even assert a boom has set in. Though the strike inflicted a heavy loss on the Country, the wage earners came out with benefitsand most industries are now enjoying full activeity. The result is seen in, the pressure at the savings banks, where 'a steady advance in deposits from the thrifty working class is reported by the officials. Another sure sign of prosperity. is the matrimonial mart. When the strike fever gripped the coun- try hundreds of marriages were postponed, but now the early fall has brought, greater industrial peace and a rush to parson and registrar. All round; work is re- ported to be more plentiful, than for several years, and, storekeepers are lying in full stocks in the anti- cipation of abanner season. The most cautious prognostica- tors are the Hebrews,` who fear the revival of labor unrest and the con- tinuance of the ruinous cost of liv- ing that is driving housewives of the Continent to distraction and nipping even those of free trade England. Special measures are being, taken to provide for neces- sitous Jews in the East End of Lon- don, while from Berlin comes the news that a quarter of a million dollars are to be spent on philan thropie and social purposes by the wealthier members of the Hebrew LANDING ST41E SECRETS. Sl'IE8 ARK 'USUALLY CLEVER TO )3E CA.T]GIIT, The • Strength and Weakness of Britain's Precautions Against the Poteign Spy. The foreign spies who infest this country are shaking in their shoes, or, anyway, are feeling pretty nn - comfortable, says London Answers. The reason for their perturba- tion is the new Official Secrets Bill, which reenacts the Official Secrets Act of 1889, together with amend- 1 menta by Lord Haldane. The particular part of the Bill which, colloquially speaking, puts the strangle -hold on the foreign spy" is Clause This provides that to secure the conviction and punishment (three to seven years' .penal ,se):vitude) of an accused person it is no longer necessary to prove that he was guilty of a definite act of spying; or that he actually obtained pos- t session of an official secret. This is a most important point. Hitherto, 'while the identity of foreign spies has'been well-known, it has been impossible to deal with these except when taken red-hand- ed; and they were usually too clev- er to be caught that way. community. All over Europe, apart from tariffs and the raising of the stand- ard of living; the after effects of the drought are -to be seen in the advancing prices of everything grown on the farm or dependant -on agricultural produce far winter keep. To add to the trouble caused by this shortage of fodder, the cold storage companies have shorter supplies or meat on band than far several years. Such is the pressure that many London families are contemplating moving from houses to flats or small coun- try cottages to keep income and ex penditure on the present balance., PIANT MAKES THEM GIDDY. A plant that causes laughter grows in Arabia, and .produces flowers of a bright yellow, with seeds that resemble sma.1 black beans. The natives dry and pul- verize them, and the powder, taken in small doses, makes the soberest person hehave like a, circus clown or a madman, for he will dance, sing, and laugh most boisterously, and out the most fantastic capers and be in an uproariously ridicul- ou,s condition for about an hour. When the excitement ceases the ex- hausted exhibitor of these antics falls asleep, and when he awakes he has not the slightest remembr- anae'of his frisky doings. 3• The average man is a good judge Of human nature -except in his own case, Has anybody stopped to figure out what was done with all the. money before people began to bus automobiles It Never Fl ckarq The long wit ings give a wore did chance fo elnbroid; sae STATE DOCUMENTS. Now, like a certain class oferim- inal, the spy may be "run in" on suspicion, or run out of the coun- try as, an "undesirable alien.'' Further, the Bill empowers the. police in urgent oases to enter the house of a suspected spy without first obtaining a search -warrant. What are "official secrets," and how do we guard them/ Official secrets may be roughly divided , into : (a) documents of State intended for the eyes of the Sovereign and his advisers only; (b) documents of a State or dip- lomatic character intended for transmission abroad; (a) naval and military secrets, knowledge .of which would be .advantageous to an enemy. As regards the former, the, first- class secret documents of State are rarely printed, and they pass through so few hands that the risk of leakage is exceedingly remote. If it is necessary to print an im- portant State document, the work is done at Scotland Yard, though at ono time the chief Government offices had their own printing - presses. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, Secret documents intended for transmission to our ambassadors and ministers abroad are never sent through the post unless meant to be opened by the foreign post - office agents, who regularly "go through" all oorrespondence direct- ed to our embassies, despite sealed bags and so on. They are convey- ed by King's Messengers, who are usually ex -naval and military of- ficers, and always men of proved courage and alert intelligence. They must also have great powers of endurance, for they will often have to travel day and might, never daring to close an eyelid. Their identity is well known to foreign spies and agents, and eery attempts is made to get at them when suspected of carrying import- ant documents. • When a verysecret document is at stake, one King's Messenger is often used as a decoy. He con- trives "accidentally " to give him- self away to the spies who are con- stantly watching him, and draws them over to, say, Calais, while the real messenger has gone by another route. PLAYING A CUTE GAME. Of course, foreign spies are alive to this manoeuvre, but they may leave the decoy alone only to find that after all he was carrying the message. It is a game of diamond out diamond, with victory to him who most successfully divines what his opponent is likely to do. At one time the Foreign Office rejoiced in a King's Messenger who had an exact double in the person of his twin brother, The games those two had with the foreign Secret Service brigade would fill a book, and several foreign agents nearly went crazy, vi. to distinguish between ', and "Tweeds" Teen may be naturalised Bash subjects, but what of that& It i$ worth a foreign Power's, while to recta a skilful draughtsman liege for the five years necessary for naturalisation of in the end he ' $s to be tldmft/tad to the innermost temple of our naval and military secrets, Some of the most dan- gerous epics in tho, country just now aro naturalised .British sub- jeot;3, True, every precaution is taken to prevent 'treachery among the draughsmen. NOSING ROMID, They are only given a tiny part of a secret plea to work in at a time. At the end of the day's work all drawings are collected and placed under safe custody, wbile the draughtsmen aro search, ed before leaving, But a man with a retentive memory can carry away, a faithful impression of what he bas been doing, while an expert can accurately guess a tremeud ous lot from even a fragmentary drawing. Anyway, there" is leak- age from the draughtsmen's de- partments, and there is leakage again when the orders for materials are given out. The spy noses round until he finds out where orders have been placed, and for what amount, and from this information a naval ex- pert can deduce a great deal. PRECAUTIONS TO TAKE. Captains of foreign vessels may come into our strategically im- portant harbors, and take- sound- ings and other observations with- out molestation; and it is estrange fact that, while our shipbuilding yards are carefully guarded onthe landward side by locked doors and barred gateways, the riverward side is invariably left open. In foreign shipyards, canvas screens are fixed round vessels under eon- truction,' but such precautions are seldom or never seen in our own country. Foreign workmen are employed in our naval and military arsenals; secret naval and military books and codes are easily procurable; in short, our secrets of national of- fence.and defence are not properly safeguarded. Hitherto, it has been difficult legally to lay the foreign spy by the heels, but Lord Haldane's Bill gives us a fair grip 'on him. The question is, whether the authorities will use their new powers, or con- tinue to allow the foreigner to come over and glean practically all the secret information he wants about our naval and military pre- parations1 STILL UNSURRENDERED. A story which was doubtless in- vented to illustrate• the thorough- ness of Prussian rule wherever the Prussian black and white has es- tablished itself, is repreated in E. A. Brayley Hodgetts' book, "The House of Hohenzollern." The strict devotion to duty of the Prussian disciplinarian has not always contributed to his popular- ity. The estimation in which he has generally been held by con- quered neighbors is illustrated in the famous joke about the Hanov- erian farmer's wife, --after the an- nexetion, and the inquisitorial Prussian gendarme. - 'Well," the gendarme is made to say, in truly terrible admonitory accents, "are you all good Prus- sians here? No Hanoverian nonsense, eh?" "Oh," the trembling„old woman replies, "we are all good Prus- sians now—all except the hens." "Then hens? What do ydu. mean?" roars the gendarme, •sniff- ing hidden insubordination. "Ah," says the old country wife, "they will persist in laying Hanov- erian eggs, always white and yel- low. I canngt get them to lay black and white Prussian eggs." Blessings often come disguised, but the wolf that comes to your door never wears sheep's clothing. Try This Phlox "Sixteen Ounces of Cough Syrup" A Family Supply for 800, Saving $2. The. Surest, Quickest Remedy You Ever Used or Money Refunded. A cough remetty • that saves you $2, and is guaranteed to give quioker, bettor re- sults than e-sults.than anything else, is surely worth trying. And one trip, Pinex is used 1 and Caned• 'ou -. LOOK MCC ✓'' TH a El LUa 6'AC A ' itge CARCIrOL T ' Ste THAT LABEL- ON PACKAGE IS BLUE. HO OTHER COLOR EVER USED ON OVAL 1f EAST REM OMSER THE CALOR BLUE • G I Li ETT CQ LTD iilgifilETT COMPANY tiHITE' .,N • Ort To,o aiA MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS erre MORTGAGES SAFE, OUT THIS NOT SO. IN TOWNS AND VILLAGES. Villages and Towns Often Stagnant Small or No Demand for Property In Case of :Foreclosure -A Recent Example -Guaranteed Mortgages. • The articles contributed by "Investor" aro for the solo purpose of guiding pros. peotive investors, and, if possible of sal. tug them from losing money 11,rTaah placing it is.'wild-cat" unterpriece. The impartial and reliable eharaeter of the information may be relied upon. The writer of these articles and the publisher of this paper have no interests to 0015. In ccuneotion with thio matter other than those of the reader. What has been Bald about farm mart. gages is in a general way true of mort- gages generally.. But, of course, there aro ooveral differences which aro worth noting. While mortgages on farm land, when carefully chosen, aro safe as regards principal, :the oamO cannot be said with• out Qualification with respect to village and town property. The great danger. of investingin mortgages on property situ. &tad ina town is that there is, is a rulo, no very pressing demand forland of this Claes. For example, if it became 110o00 - Barr to foreclose suoh a mortgage it would not be at all an easy matter tofind a purchaser. Nor would it bo mucheasier to dud someone torentthe place. Then, -again, there isalways danger that a small town will decrease in size. Anyone who has glanced over the census returns published last week cannot fail to note that the rural and village population of many parts of this province has materi- •ally.deoreased innumber during the do. code. The result to an investor would be, of course, that there would be a very good chance that theproperty on which. he held a mortgage would be one.ofthe many, that one maysee in almost any Ontario' village, that has lain vacant for Years. The very fact that the loan and mortgage companies will not accept as security mortgages- based on such pro. perty is a conclusive proof that thero must be something wrong with that sort of soourity. 0f warn, if one could bo surethat the town or village in which tho house—or whatever the security may be—is situated is in a fair way to grow, there would not then be the same risk. Even at that, there is, however, nothing inthis form of investing to attract any careful iu. rester. Only a short time age a friend of the writer found it necessary t0 take a mort- gage on: soma town property in payment of a bad debt.. Re tried to sell the inert. sago. Ile was informedby ono company that theymightbuy it if the rate were right. This they : placed at no less than ten per cent. The rate was made ten, as euggeetod, but, oven then.. the: manager cf the company would not touch, it—nor would anyone oleo. Then the insurance ratewas also ten per cont., and, as the security, without the insurance, was very "insecure," this .ten per cent. was prac- tically a drat oharge on tete income of the unfortunate mortgagee.. And this, mind you, in a growing town'. The mort. gage was only for a short term and will be, payable in a few months; but the chances that it will be paid ole arevery, very slight. And hero comes Lu: the per sone element. Tho two parties to the mortgage are friends. The holder of the mortgage would be most unlikely, under any oiroumatandes, to foreclose, and even if this were done, there would: be no ready market ter the place. Altogether, Lt is a very nasty situation, and one that nor would do Well to avoid. city property there 'ideration to be he first place,, the tae have been growing tiring the past decade. ral result of this growth of land of various °lessee hes piSrensed, eves a .vory substantial -equity. c 000111157 on which the meet. td, and so the luvostor in such has pot stood to lose anetifing past few year,.. Tho incrons• in, a -.. have also resulted not demand for dwelliitgo, itlt of the increasing in tiro necessity tor td, consecitie ttly, a demand iu the shopping distrets. Otis is, of course, that any ,.,:.un{ler a foroolpsed rcad1b' o 1d, " mortgage's go, Mono based property le .a growing s55fo: The;/ do not, a9 to : a reset int.raa ,id ret there is 'lt,greater oortainty that Ole interest will be paid, i• ¢ to t average A very great drawback the 6 man who dosiro0 this form- of mortgage is that thouo on really desirable property are usually require so great an amount of money that it is quite out of the Ques- tion for him to invest therein. Asa re. suit, they usually fall tothe lot el finan. pial and mortgage institutions, purl only the loss desirable are open. to 'tete small investor. -Nor should it be fdrgotton-that there is as much necessity: for a' careful valuation and porupulous attention to laourauoe, titles, etc., in oily, as there is in the 'ratio of farm mortgagee. - - Before leaving the eubjeot of mortgagee, the "guaranteed mortgage" should, of course, be mentioned; although it has not yet reached here the same popularity as in the Statoe.. This mortgage is ono of the usual kind issued, in the ordinary manner, but bearing on its tape, in some form, the .guarantee of. a :company that the Interest and principal would bo paid infull when duo. Thorp aro many ad. vantages In this form of mortgage. Tn the first place, it obviates the usl•al woe• ries over the small, but :important, do. tails ofinsurance, valuation, collection at interest, oto. Oh tl18 other hand, l,r their trouble .and tho guarantee, the trs,n pony charges -a certain part of Lha 1n terost,usually about a quarter. tis result,- therefore,- tho rota !gage rztarns you scarcely more than ihn average in. dustrial bond without; however, Ito die - tinct advantage in being readily saleable. IN DARKEST LONDON.. " That Sober City Will Permit No Great White Way... '.. If you desire to put up the small- est lamp -either gas, electric or oil -with the avowed purpose of at- tracting:customers to your place of business, and that place of business is within the boundaries of the City of London, you must first of all obtain a permit from the Corpora. - tion and then abide bycertain 'laws. I In the case of outside lighting, you should be careful that the underside of the lamp be not less than twelve feetfrom the surface of the footway, and, if fitted with a high-power light, not less .than twenty feet from the footway level. You must also be' sure, says the Strand Magazine, that the external dimensions of your lamp do not exceed five feet in height and three feet in any other direction. It must not project more than four feet six inches from the front of the house where the .-pavement permits,, orless than two feet from the carriageway. 'You may put an advertisement on the sides of the lamp, ;but not on the bottom, which must bo of clear glass. And when you have once erected your lamp you must keep it lighted from sunset until the establishlitent is closed. If you desire to have your name in electric lights over your door, these must give a steady, not 'an inter- mittent, light. Flashes are not permitted under any circumstances. Occasionally some nervy trades- man or advertiser within the city limits will erect an electric sign of a mechanical or moving character, but it is very' soon spotted, tno en- terprising business mail 'is warned, and the sign immediately disap- pears. Here's the biggest can of easy -shining stove polish on the market, tl'd ?sit—easily applied—and Ricca a br11U'atttly black polish that goodaffected by the Leat, *quail for stems, pipes', grates sad good iron work. fl your dueler does tot carry "Black Knight"9tovo Pollsh,sendne his atone and lite. attrlwe wilt vend a full slsc leu by Settle,151115, sG Tits P. V, OAtt nY CO., lAlln"PttD, Oat Vaken of n,iii6lmhr tir shoe ration. SliYETLA D'S TAME GULLS, lThUdrep Malin Pets of Them nod They aro I!'t:il Reguiiu1y,. There are many .shall v1ilages in the world that have only one etreiit; but Lerwick, in Shetland, besides having only a single street, possessoe only one tree, anti, it is uat.a very tall one, either. There are no birds there, not seven aspen row; but the seagulls are plentiful, The inhabitants of Shetland; are very proud of their tree and very' kind to t'he gulls, of whom the children make pets. Children who lare brought for silo first time to see the wonders of one-dtreeted Ler- wick are always shown, as a great curiosity, "the only tree in Shet land," The seagull's are the sparrows of Lerwick; and as .sues they have a greater share in the town's life than the sparrows of London, In the morning you note that a will seagull sits on every chimney pot. Seagulls swoop and hover over every roof in town, The air is full of then• strange, high, plaintive, haunting cries. • Every house had its own familiar seagulls and every street its own band of them, But according to the Fruit Magazine, . they never mix. The children in each house clave' a petnamefor their :own' particular seagulls; and having called them by those names they feed them every.. day. .. Each seagull knows what is meant for hire. No bird attached to. one 'house ever seeks to eatthe food: scattered from the house next door. He 'does not dare to do so. So all day long' the seagulls hover and call over the roofs of Lerwick. The people of, the town if they come across alittle pile of rico laid upon the roadway step over it with care. They know,thatit has been placed there for some seagull. And at night the seagulls leave their ap- pointed ,chimneypots and fly 'grace- fully away to their 'resting places on the rooks of the' Isle of Noss. COREAN SUPERSTITION. Twelve Blind Men to Drive Away the Wicked Spirits.' 'Viscount Min Yunhui, living in Kyodong, North Ward, who at one time vice-president of the Oriental Development Company, was -recent-` ly taken ill and grew worse day after day,. says the Japan -Advertis- er. He sent for an old • woman reput- ed to be the hest fortune teller in Corea for consultation and was told that: his malady, was the result of some wicked spirits attacking his body and - soul. The 014 woman further told the afflicted Comm nobleman that in order to recover his health it was necessary todrive away the evil spirits by holding 'a. religious ceremony on Walmi Island near Chemulpo for three days, the ceremony so be conducted by twelve blind men, Viscount Min at once caused twelve blind men to be collected and led by the old female fortune teller these men went down to Chemulpo some'days ago. They then proceeded to Wolmi Island, where they prayed to the gods for three days and nights by beating drums and otherwise making a great noise. 'The Chosen . Shimbun does not tell us the effect of their prayers, but let us. hope • that Viscount Min is now quie well. NOBLE' PENSIONERS. Great Britain Melds Ont a Great' Many Pounds. :.Many' members of the House of Lords receive salaries or pensions. They vary in amount from the 220,- 000 a year, which Lord Aberdeen receives as Lord -Lieutenant of Ire- land, and the 27,000 a year to be paid to Lord Isitohener• as British Agent in Egypt, down to the £7 re- ceive by the Bishop of Ripon: as Clerk of the Closet. In recognition of the serviees `bf his illustrious ancestor, Earl Nel- son draws 115,000 a- year, as does also Lord Halsbury, in recognition of 'us judicial services. Next comes L'ord,Peel, a former Speak- er of the House of -Commons, with £4,000 per annum, followed by Lord Wolseley, with £2,ti00, and Lord: Napier of Magdala, . Lord Raglan, and Lord Seaton, each of whom draws :82,000. As Usher of the Order of the Thistle, the Bar] of Mansfield iltrns £9.7 a year; ,while the Mike of Hamilton 'gets just under £1 a week for performing the duties of'Hered•., itary:Keep"er'.of. Holyrood Palace, As a senior clerk in the Foreign Office, the Marquis of Dufferin re- ceives £1,000 a year,. or 2500 a year 'less . than is, paid from . the public funds to the Ring's private secretary' Lord Stamfordheian, his, Majesty's other secretary, gots &DO. And there are others` --London An, meta. IN RUSSIAN CITIES. The color sense feat been inditig- od fn all 'Russian cities. Building exteriors areplaster to protect the bricks front the 'rose, and (leery year thsitti 't.re ' repaired and re- painted, and red, blue, buff, preen, White and gilt diversified with inosites mit ttticeestslisily ereployeal., yet etor ,