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[Signal) J. Y. aMTTli ,4114.:1600 w13@F 09 PORCUPINE VS, PANTHER SMALL CREATURES THAT SLAY LARGE ONES. A. Lion Paid With Its Lie For Its Foolishness in Attacking a Poroupiete. Someone has called the porcupine the biggest self -advertiser in the woods. 1t is perfectly true. A more bumptious creature does not exist. Where other animals steal so silently tarough the jungle that not even a rustle is heard nor the creek of a dry twig, the porcu- ine stamps along, grunting as it goes, and rattling its quilled tail as though it owned the country. Even in the depths of winter or the desolation of a long drought it is the rarest event for other ani- mals to attempt to kill and eat the porcupine, and when they do they seldom, if ever, succeed. For the quills of the porcupine are not only extremely hard and sharp, but they have the property of coming away easily front the hide of their owner. Being slightly barbed, they work deep into the flesh of the animal that has been foolish en- ough to attack the porcupine, and a well-known sportsman gives an instance of a lion paying with its life for its foolishness in attacking a porcupine. One of the quills worked into the brain ani killed it. There is another case of a lioness losing her eyesight in similar fashion, .and several of leopards and panthers being killed by cruel- ly -sharp quills. UNITED THEY STAND. The small wild pig of Central America, white is known as the peccary, caresas little for enemies bigger than himself as does the porcupine. No panther, nor even thehuge brown or cinnamon bear, dares to attack the peccary. The peccary relies not on quills, but on the power of co-operation. If one member of a drove is at- tacked, tho restinstantly ,00mbine and go for the attacker. It does not matter if a dozen are killed. The pack never lets go until their enemy is pulled down and reduced to shreds no larger than a knuckle- bone. Yet old trappers say that a man may sit down close by a feeding "THE FORT GARRY" HOTEL, WINNIPEG. Adjacent ea the ruins of that his- toric monument "Old Fort Garry," memorable in the early history cf pack of peccaries and watch them all day. They will never meddle with him, so long as he does not touch them. For pure pluck, the big weasel, known in the North West as the fisher, has no superior. It weighs about has pounds that is, the same as a good -size fox-terrier— and is provided with very powerful. jaws. Once let it get a hold en• any other,creature, and it will no more let go than will a bulldog. There is a case on record of a fisher kept in a menagerie break- ing out of its cage into the next and killing a young leopard _exact- ly three times its own weight. NEVER KILLED BY MAN. Another weasel -like animal, the Indian mongoose, is not the least aeraid of poisono�us snakes three to four times its ow11 weight. Tho mongoose is not, as many people have alleged, immune to snake poison. It owes its safety entirely to its extraordinary quickness. The strike of a snake is one ef the swiftest things imaginable, but the mongoose is quicker still. The second the snake has struck, mas- ter mongoose has it by the neck, and'all it over. Speaking of snakes, the king snake, which is comparatively small, will kill the largest rattler. The King snake is not only amaz- ingly rapid in its movements, but has more strength and constricting power to the square inch than any - other of its tribe. Once it gets its coils around the rattler, it is all up with the latter, and for this reason the king snake is never kill- ed by man. QUICKLY STOPS COUGHS., CURES COLDS, N0ALS THE THROAT AND LUNGS. 20 CENTS Women are afflicted by trifles; but they are also consoled by trifles. The love that survives six months of married life may be the genuine article. When you can see throug:l a man it doesn't necessarily mean that he has a clear conscience. "Do youthink women should pri- poset" asked the passe lady. "I don't know," mused the ,Dung thing. "Have you tried everytaing else 1" Canada's now Western metrun ohs is being erected "The Fort Garry," truly representative of greater llin- nipeg—a magnificent edifice — to rank with the world's finest hotels, embodying in its constructionthe most advanced; scientific and archi- tectural ideals. rchi-tecturalideals. Located in the very heart of the city, to which all lines of traffic converge, it is readily ac- oessible to the railroads and elec- tric car lines and within a radius of a few minutes' walk will place one among the largest and most pre- tentious of the great !cores in the center of the shopping d stricts, or enable one to reach the great new terminal station of the Grand Trunk Pacific. "The Fort. Garry" to bo con- structed by the Grand Trunk Paci- fic will be built of the finest of Ca- nadian granite and buff limo stone, in the style of the old French Chateaux of Normandy and roar - eine and will rear its stately heights to fourteen stories. The building is to have approximately three hun- dred and fifty sleeping chambers and will be richly furnished in fault- less taste. All its bedrooms are to be equipped with every approved modern appointment. Nothing that would in any way contribute to the comfort and welfare of its guests has been overlooked in the pre- paration of the plans and interior arrangements. The main entrance of the hotel faces on Winnipeg's most beautiful thoroughfare, "Broadway," and opens upon a spacious and imposing rotunda, which will suggest in its decoration and refinement the cheer and oomfort provided within its walls, and from which ono may on. ter the spacious dining, tea rooms and cafe. The central feature of the main floor is the circular tea room of impressive and beautiful design, unbroken by column, lofty in heighth, and finely lighted by broad windows and circular domed ceiling. The ball room, banquet hall and foyer have been located on the sev- enth floor. These rooms are of the richest of the public rooms, and have been so arranged with'separ- ate kitchen service, reception and dressing rooms, so as to in no way interfere with the privileges of the guests of the hotel. The ball room is designed intheLouis Quartorizc period, and will be beyond all quem- tion one of the most strik'ng of its kind in Canada. • The building, as a whole, will form a fine example of what mod- ern science can do in ;he elimina- tion of fire risk. Every girder, beam and rafter is to be of non -expansive steel, every partition of terra cotta; every floor of marble tile or ce- ment, and the stairways of iron. It is to be absolutely fireproof, and while every precaution has been taken to insure absolute protection to life and property, an equal mea- sure of attention has been devoted to its sanitation and the safeguard- ing of health. The bathrooms are to be models of sanitation and simplicity and are to be equipped with porcelain fit- tings and finished in exquisite tile work. They are of comfortable size, and so placed as to be in direct communication with every bed- chamber in the hotel. There is not to be a dark or unin- viting chamber in the entirebuild- ing, and comfort and spaciousness have not been sacrificed to secure a maximum of accommodation. Large closets have been provided in every bedchamber, and in the suites there are commodious clothes presses equipped throughout with every modern device. MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS SOMA FEATURES OF INVESTING IN MUNiCIFA4 BONES, Safsty of This Form of Security, 008ery. 0dly Popular In Canada, le very High Claes-Banger only in Communitlos Whore Population Is Decreasing—legal Investigation Necessary, But This Al. ways one by Purchasing Bond House— Western WWI 153063 are Sato, Tho articles eoutributed by "Investor" are (or the sole purpose of guiding pros' soavelelastute, aid, tf polfslble Pt ear' ing then, from toeing Lumley, tt natal placing It in "Ivan -eat" ant0rprt007. 'INte impartial and rollable eharaoter of toe lutormation may be relied upon. 'rho writer of time articles. and the publisher of tni0 paper have no la termite to servo lu CUa0Oetlen with this matter other than those of tho reader. By theme' who value safety plume .01 other investment qualities, Canadian municipal boud0 aro held- iu vary (and demervodly) high esteem. Xu all the history of Canada 01000 have boca so few 00.000 of repudiation of municipal obligations that this danger—always present in tho naso of 'United States oitie0.—may be en- tirely ignored. The great safety of municipal 'bonds has naturally resulted in these returning a small ylold, and so Wo have the 00. ouritios of the City of Toronto calling to -yield the investor loss than four,por cont. -a price well above that at which New York oily bonds sell, - A municipal bond, however, cannot be pun:hestd with. safety by ono entirely un- aecuminted with the bend bu0lnoss. The primary investigation into an issue of any municipality is, of course, to 000 whether or not the - - town or city -. has power to issno snob bonds, and tbon it. is necessary to determine -whether all the necessary legal formulae have been fol lowed 1n' passing the .neoes,ary by-laws, etc. .These investigations are -usually car- ried on on behalf of the purchasers by a lawyer skilled in this sort of work, and are a very necessary feature in order to prevent doss; for were, the bonds issued illegally it is quitepossible that by the time they were due rho mistake would have been discovered and then it -would bo illegal for the municipality to redeem them. Of course, in most instances, the . necessary legal machinery would be • op• erated to' overcome this difficulty, but it ha en that. in Borne oases the mlgh"t pp citizens. would bo glad of an excuse.. for not paying the bill. Hence .the care aid ways. exercised. It is for this reason that in' all circular advertisements. of municipal bonds you will note, under each issue advertised, the words, "Legal opinion of a Lawyer," which moans that the said lawyer has passed on thelegality of the issue. Municipal bonds are 'secured by the taxable property in the municipality - thoy aro. in fact. an indirect first lion upon such property. The tutored and final repayment 10 met out of tazee, and the obligation of the municipal bond is legally enforcible before all other mort- gages or.other lions. It is this thatmakee the bond so safe, for it is only in the' ease of the utter destruction of a muni- cipality, or its diminution in -population toa vanishing point, that there is danger of. loss. Tho ,only recant oases of this sort oocurtbd when Campbellton, N. B., and Cochrane, Ont., were wiped Out by Ore, But the, respective provincial Governments stepped in and prevented loss to the bond holders by guaranteeing the interest for a sufficient time to enable these towns to get on their feet once more, Thereforo,. as regards safety, the Cana- dianmunicipal bond that is legally 10' sued, and, of course, for a .proper pur- pose, stands in an exceptionally high plane, provided. of course, it is not it sued by. a communitythat is rapidly de- clining' in popUlation or -as to the ease of a mining town -one in which this may occur at any time. In the case of eomo western rural cum• munitiesand growing towns and villages there 1s a strong tend0007 to over -esti. mato rho town's future, sothat there le Possible a danger ef °ret valuing the pro- perty of tho tows and so "boosting" the THE ANGLER'S PASSION. Disciple of Izaak Walton Tells of His Experience. The lure of the woods and streams has been caught and happily em- bodied in certain chapters in "Log the North Shore Club"—a story of "Paddle and Portage on the Hundred Trout Rivers of Lake Superior." In the following passage the reader segs the trans- formation of the ordinary.. citizen and man of business into a disciple of Izaak Walton, lost to all sense of . the importance of 'anything but fishing. I knew that we must be gutting Pretty close to the rapids—the roar told us that. Fred parted the bushes and began capering on the log. There was justification for the tapering. .a At our feet was a dee�11"' cet pool with a little rye"' mpass-'),. yr of the rapids, with such a din all about us that we had to scream in- to each other's care. There was a sort of granite backbone through the center of that mad water, and we fished from that, casting some- times over into the torrent on the far side, sometimes ever the brink of a precipice. Jim -joined us—to see ;why we were delaying the departure of the expedition. He Dame to chasten alid to hurry us. He took just o 0.e oast, and then was loet to all sense of duty to the flight of time, His lordship followed Jai. He came to tell us—what Jim, some hours before, had come to tell us -e that our thoughtless stop was de- laying the departure of the expedi- tion. He was joie, as indignant and logical and right in his op. Lenten as Jim had k�oen. ee . r resset :„fit ' �.. m. IK, Ng1V SZYtELA NEVER ANY FAILURE OR DISAPPOINTMENT WHEN rtep,�^ iS USED. CONTAINS NOALUM. COSTS NO MORE THAN THE ORDINARY KINDS. RADE CAUDA assessment. Moreover,., many ofthe o towns are in the mining camp stage— n danger of being vacated by the popnla- tion.. ifsomething more promising tutee up elsewhere. These issues, however, are small - and seldomhandled byreputable bond dealers, as bond dealers are very Jealous of their :reputations. In the case of Western Canadianschool districts the ecourityis in no such pos- sible danger. The security is farm land and the issue, like all municipal issue:, is limited to a email proportion of the value of the taxable property. In the ease of the school district bonds the limit of taxation is usually but a few cents an RCre. INVESTOR. (Next wools Investor will deal with other featnree of muuieipal bonds.) —•t LONDON POLICE THE BEST. Chief of Police' of Cleveland Awards the a aim to Them. Fred Kohler, the "Golden Rule" Chief of Police of Cleveland, Ohio, has concluded his health trip to Europe. He visited Paris, Ber- lin, Vienna and other' big (Dentin - oriel cities, and his British itiner- ary embraced. Liverpool, Edin- burgh, Belfast; , Dublin, Cork and Cardiff. "I firmly believe London has the best uniformed' policemen in the world, but the detectives. of America are by far the beat of any I have coma into contact with," he says. "A detective is born, not made, and theAmericandotootive has greater natural aptitude for the work. He is shrewder, 'out- er' and quicker to act than his kind in England or on the con- tinent. "The 'police in England and on the Continent, however, are helped in their work by, the absence of alt' politeial influences that bear on the police in the Status.- Politics and the policeinEngland are as wide- ! ly divided as the poles. The Lon- don police handle the people bet- terthan in any other city in the world. Tho policeman can regu- late traffic with a wave of the hand. Ho can clear a -crowd without trou- ble because the English people are taughttoobeythe police, and the police are supported by the courts. "In the natter of detailed police work and system I should say that Berlinisthe nearest to perfection. The moment you enter Berlin: pint mbe ss atmosphere and the appearance of WHAT . WE PAY FOA IOSY1 8,000 f' 1RSQNS KILLED, OVF 27,000 INJURED. Heavy' Depth Toll the Cosh os Tac Much. Speed—Better Laws Needed. We take pride in the wealth of our natural resources, our general rle- velcpment, the enterprise of tui people, anal' the extant of ' thee prosperity. We boast of our time. saving methods, rapidity of action and of our American rustle, says the Monetary 'Times We observe John Bull plodding along slowly, doibuble the time 1t takes' us to do 1± 1n short, woapparently are spoedaongusinessr and3n wedo. are proud to be first-class exponents of that North American art, hustle. What price do we pay for the boast, Hereat a glance is a section of" the bill of cost. In four years Trilled by: Steam railways, 2,049 persons; electric railways, 301; industrial accidents, 5,293; fires, 1,072; total, 8,718. Injured by steam railways, 7,344; electric railways, 8,296.; industrial accidents, 10,444; fires (estimated). 1,908; total 27,992. 45,428 IN FOUR ' YEARS. In the past four years there have been killed an. injured in Canada 45,428 persons on our railways, by industrial accidents, and by fires. This is at the rate of 11,357 per an. - num. In other words, every day during that period six persons have been killed and 19 injured, about one killed or injured every hour of the twenty-four. This appalling record too, applies to only the few oases mentioned. If statistics could be obtained ofallfatalities and injuries in the Dominion, the bill of cost would have a still more serious appearance. CAUSED BY CARELESSNESS. 0.k o Bad Gough yamsare struck by the clea'1 ss of the thestreets-and thio same sorb of Many, if not the majority of these accidents, can bo traced to carelessness or selfishness. The desire to achieve big results in the 'shortest possible time at the ex' pense of efficiency le a national trait whish the country may well take immediate steps to obliterate, The evu of dollar and dividend hunting, regardless of destruction. in its wake is a menace to Canada's progress and credit. The writer heard .an engineer admit that a certain 'structure which had been criticized "might fall in three years' time," with pos- sibly serious loss of life. Railroad contractors wore laying new stet recently at a record-breaking pace, while a big °rack in the concrete abutment of a bridge was allowed to wait, despite the fact that -work trains used the bridge daily. Care- lessness with live wires, reckless driving of automobiles—in a thous- and ways we violate tho first prin- ciples of a civilized community. FETTER LAWS NEEDED. The reasons for the existence of such conditions are due largely to individual, corporate and logisia- tive 'carelessness. We need 0. stere laws for the protection of 'li-,. an property, and the striot enforc, meat of such laws. If the Intprria, Board of Trade, for instance, had to deal with the question of oil railroad fatalities; as they do in Great Britain, their action for re- form would be drastic enough to startle us in no slight degree. Wo oan therefore afford to emulate John Bull in his thoroughness of work and his regard for life, Ulti mately his results: are better,, safer"' ' and more durable than oars - American hustle takes the vitalit, out of the nation and in mor senes than one. AFTER. THE HONEYMOON. , Quickly—or Money Back T.h.s Qulokest, Surest Cpugh Remedy r Used. r . ''ftp' ".': ,t v :'^. thing is found In the police systole. "1 confess I was agreeably sur- prised by the eoatness and cleanli- ness of the police in. Ir Fesnd and rphav or of tl,o ergwds JNO t'h',.'{e01n0 [ll le Che f;trl the t ,.W,)ti"d, only policemen in J' stay approve of the Lid.' there is always :'the local man' being influence. cemcnare much harder an European police. We cry largo foreign element, ting many nationalities, t makes the trouble." Wetten is mild and innocent, 'grit always grows up .to be a eat. zy,Many ,a fellow is afraid to pro- iposo to a girl for fear sbo night ,9av veil. Successful mon &ondem hand t le t brant, of advice they use themselves. "I forgot something,"' said the husband, as he retraced his steps. "Yrs," pouted the wife, "you for- got to kiss me.” - `That may be, but what I came '0' APPROPRIATE. "She dyed` her raven hair." "Possibly . to 'go' with crow', feet," Young man, never make the Luis telco of telling a girl that yes are unworthyof her. She may marr" you and remind you of it. - Warden --Soo betel What ale you laughing at! No. 999--t)11, 1 _ just happened to remember that I've got a note coming duo to -day, "You say Mr. li'lubson has great executive ability 2" "Yes," replied the cynical officeholder, "What makes you think eel" "Because be manages to Hold it job without be- ing eompctent to do any kind of rein work:" When a pian sings his own praise ho seldom voices popular sentiment. "It's hard," said the sentilneetal landlady at the 'dinner enble, "to think that this poor little lamb should be destroyed iu its youth just to cater to aur appetites." "Yea," replied the'etutu, boardc', serug- aline with his poi;ion, "it is [tough." -