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The Brussels Post, 1912-5-16, Page 6MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS DANCER OF CARELESS REAL ESTATE 1NVESTINO. Cot-rich•qulok fakirs covering Ontario at present time—Real Estate wildcatting replacing old fashioned Mining Stook Speculation. The articles contributed by "Investor" are for the sole purpose of guiding pros neativo investors, and, If possible, of Bar Ing them from losing money through placing It In "wild•cat" enterprises. The - Impartial and reliable character of the information may be relied upon. The writer of these articles and the publisher of We paper have no interests to serve in connection with this matter other than those of the reader, (By "Investor.'h I was talking the other day with a bond salesman who had been travelling through western Ontario in the interests of the investment house he represented. Nearly everyone he interviewed he found had been buying or thinking of buying real estate—principally wester real estate. Not isolated instances, but numbers of apparently sane people, were buying land -- or swamp—they had never seen from men theydidn't know, on the strength of drawings and blue prints which might have been borrowed for the occasion, and not only buying but paying out real mon- ey on their purchases. The amount of money which has gene out West—and even to Toronto—to pay for subdivision property and mortgages is appalling. Not since the days when George H.Munro sold farmers and oth- ers Canadian Mareoui shares at 85 a share, whish he bought on the open mar- ket at not over $1„50, has there been so much .foolish eagerness to he swindled displayed as at the present time. Early in this series of articles I gave some particulars about investing in real estate. and showed that nothing could be sf9ensleaeLh lhantsel. No sensible farmer would under any circumstances buy a farm in the next township he hadn't seen unless on the strongest advice of a trusted friend, and yet at the present time many such faremra are breaking this funda- mental rule of elementary investment just because the land—mind you it usual- ly,isn't oven a farm, which could scarcely fail a t to be some good—is situated in the No form of speculation or investment requires more careful thought than buy- ingreal estate. So many influences con- spre to make it valuable or to detract from its value. Means of transportation are particularly important in the rase of city or town subdivisions. As a rule you may be sure that any subdivision proper- ties now on the market are too far away from the centre of things to make it pee - Bible to dispense with some means of ra- pid transit, and if there is no rapid tran- sit there is no value to the property ex- cept as a speculative chance that some day a car line may run that way. However, words and rules will not in- fluence anyone who has gone so far as to be prepared to bury unseen land, and are not required for those who have had ex- perlenee or are otherwise toe discreet to bey under such circumstances. There is one rule you may be quite sure of: If any property is sufficiently a bar- gain to warrant any one buying it as a sound speculation, you may be sure it would be cheaper and much less trouble to sell it to people at home who know all about the place than to peddle it about the country. It is only subdivisions miles away from anything that can be bought at a, low enough price to snake it worth while going toall the expense of sending salesmen through the country to sell on the installment plan. In many instances in the West of cities of not more than 20,000 inhabitants, the country about them has been subdivided further out from the centre of the city than has Toronto, a city of over 400,000. My friend the bond salesman had this complaint also: "I go to see a man and offer him a sound security. I tell him its good points and is bad ones. I offer hint goods that I would gladly buy myself if I bad the money. I have the house back of me with a good many years' reputa- tion, and as I have been on this district a number of years now I am pretty well known and could get the strongest refer- ences from any of the bankers. Can I sell them bonds? Not one quarter of what the wealth of my diotriet would jus- tify. 011, no. Everyone is buying first Marconi, then mining stocks, now land, from men they don't know, who probably would get references from the bankers which would shut them out of business wore they indiscreet enough to ask for them; who have na reputation, no strong house behind them, and whose land not one in ten would tetra a chalice on buy- ing for himself. It doesn't seem right.” I couldn't console him much. "Oh, well," I said, they'll lose their money and learn a hard lesson." That didn't seem to satiefy him, for he was strongly under the impression, and on mature considera- tion I agreed with him, that if they lost alt their money they wouldn't be able to bay bonds or in fact anything else. He's (mite right, and particularly eo when he said that a great many people will believe a "good whopping lie" who are more or less skeptical when they hear a plain unvarnished talk from a salesman who doesn't nerd to Ile to point out the -good points of his bonds. Meanwhile, if you are tempted to dabble in real estate, if necessary spend half your money going to ego the property, and than You 0107 save the other hell; but don't buy real estate on a stranger'ssay so," What's the Use of Cooking When you don't have to? st r� To . sties are skilfully and fully cooked at the factory -- ready to serve direct from package with cream, and sugar if you like. These thin bits of toast- ed corn (sold by grocers) are crisp, delicious, satis- fying and convenient. "The i"lerner' Lingers" in �:ers" � Made by Canadian Postern Cereal 00„ Ltd. Pure Food Fae0ories ' Windsor, Ontario, Canada, DR. JIlIl. The• resignation of Sir Stair Jameson, better known as Dr, Jim of the Jameson raid, from the lead- ership of the Union Party in South Africa, is responsible fur a great many character sketches in the Jt ngiisla papers. The Daily Mail says an part: Of course, his health is at the back of his decision. But something else has weighed with hint too, He tried to save South Africa fonin party polities, He has never been a poli- tician. He is a statesman. He saw, with his statesmanlike grasp of her diidlcultiee. that South Africa after Union needed a period of quiet growth undisturbed by the squabbles of partisans, He tried to give her this quiet time. He offered to servo in a coalition Ministry under General Botha. The Dutch irrcconcilables would have no coalition. "To the victors the spoils" was their cry. Yet "The Doctor" was not piqued or dis- heartened. He is nutclt too big a man for that. He gave, General Botha all the help he could. How much the Premier owes to him will not be known yet. It will be known some day. Whenever it was necessary to make a stand, as on the Language Question, he was resolute. But he took a wider view of the situation than is summed up in tho cheap phrase that it is the duty of an Opposition to oppose. He had no personal ambition whatever. Poli- tics could offer him nothing. If he had followed his own inclination he would have given the whole busi- ness up. He was never well, sel- dom free from pain and lassitude. He could only keep his place in the fighting line by regularly visiting Carlsbad, For the publicity of political We Sir Stair Jameson. he had no taste. He was unmar- ried. so there was nothing in the way of titles to attract him (al- though he did accept ono "pour en- courager les autres," that is, the Dutch). Office meant nothing to him but a wearisome grind. Why did he stay in politics, then? Sim- ply because—though he would ne- ver have phrased it so himself—he felt he had a mission, He felt that he could do for the Union what lay in the power of no other man. He believed he might he able to save South Africa from the, evils, espe- cially dangerous to a young nation, of the patty system, "Dr. Jim" is a man without "frills." His manner is most en- gaging, but not at all impressive. He is not what they call in the United States a "hand shaker."' There is no trace of gush in his character. Yet by imperceptible means he makes everyone feel at ease. Ab big dinner parties there is sometimes a %hade, of boredom on his humorously tired features. But when there are only a few guests, mostly close friends, with a stran- ger from home, perhaps, someone before whom talk can flow freely, then he is the most delightful of hosts. Ho likes to encourage con- versation, playfully egging on the holders of opposite views to con- flict, Then some topic will catch his interest and he will talk, always quietly and with humor, never in an overbearing, egotistical vein, talk with the wide knowledge that can be gained only by experience; with the wisdom won by waiting; with the genial tolerance bred ef a sweet nature, cynical only on the surface, sound at core, He is not much of an orator in public, but his speeches are attrac- tive in their easy colloquialism. ;There are no tricks or tags in them, You feel, "Here is a man who is speaking irecau00 lie has something to say, He is saying it frankly, honestly, plainly, When he hits said it he will sit down." And he always does. q, CHAPTER IX. Ruby Trevalyn looked up into her lover's 'face, and saw b;' the white, bright moonlight that it was great- ly troubled. "You say pelt and papa quarrel- ed1" she gasped, recoiling in alarm. "Oh, Charlie, how could you 1" "Your father forced it upon mo," SAME OLD STORY. Gabe- "Johnson is always broke. What's the matter with him 1" Steve --"Re's always trying to get rich quick." TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM THE QUEEN CITY. Another Bank Merger—Toronto's Baso Ball Fans (We have arranged for a weekly 1 -otter about Toronto affairs, which. we believe, will be of great interest to many of our readers. These lettere will be from the pen of one of Canada's foremost journs• lista, a man who has covered some of the world's greatest happenings and now ac. capias 'a lending position on ono of the Toronto dailies.) The merging of the Traders Bank with the Royal Bank has not been revolved with any great enthusiasm in Toronto, rartly, no doubt, because it m0a115 the loss of the control of it loading finan- cial institution to this city. In recent years Toronto line rather been giving it- self airs as the city rapidly a0snimag un- disputed supremacy tis the banking cen- tre of Canada, while Montreal had the head oMces of the Bank of Montreal, Mer ohnnte'r' Royal and Melr.nn's, Toronto rauld point to the Bank of Commerce, To, ronto, 'traders, Imperial, Domhiion, Met- ropolitan, Sterling, HIome, ami Standard. Now control of the Traders goes t0 Mont- real, and Toronto is not altogether pleased. It was just the other day when the Bank of Commerce invaded Montreal by absorbing the. Eastern Townships Bank, bet now there romps n eerre n,•nr1- ing set -back to Toronto's aspirations Nor does Toronto like to hear Montreal .say anything about the Sovereign, Ontario or Farmers' Banks. all Toronto institutions of late lamented mammy. SIS BANKS HAVE HALF BUSINESS. Apart from this phase of the question, there is some disposition to arfruo whe- ther these bank mergers are agood thing or not. It is surprising to find there are fewer banks doing business in Canada now than there were many years ago, in spite of the fact that new ones ere con- tinually being organized. It is also sur- prising to find that the nix biggest banks now have over half of the banking capital in the country, more than half of the de. posits, and more than two-thirds of the discount or loaning business. This is a striking concentration of the money power. Whether it is a good thing for the country is a question for the economists. There aro not wanting argumentative gladiators on both aides of the contro- versy. BASEBALL TO THE FRONT. The real opening of the Baseball season as far as Toronto is concerned came with the arst week of May. Three weeks earlier the International League ouenod with the Toronto team away from home, but the event was so overshadowed by the 7'itanio disaster that it failed to reach the generalpublic in even a mild degree. With the first appearance of the team at home it was different, The players and a:trials proceeded in carriages, as if in state, through the down town streets to the ferry, thence to the Island to the big grand stand that holds 15,000 people, com- pletely surrounding Oho diamond in an oval. There were plenty of flags and mu. ale and big guns to do the honors. All the players, in uniform, lined up and march. ed across the diamond and bark again to let the fans get a good took at them, then there was the formal "first" ball, and the game was on. MAYOR IS A FAN. There are a lot of fans among Toronto's public men. The Mayor himself is one, Controller 'Tommy" Church is another. ControllerHocken torafhasinal occasionally, the Council slip off to the game whenever they get a chance. James L. Hughes. School Inspector, is a dyed -in -the -weal fan. So are T. C. Robinette, J. W. Curry, and other prominent lawyers. Prominent financiers like It, A. Smith, of Osler k Hammond, and Norman Macrae, of Pel - lett C Co., rarely mise a game, and there are a few clergymen who enjoy an oeea- sional contest. WRECKS FOR TIIREE MONTHS. Forty British Steamships and Eight Sailing Vessels Lost. Some interesting details are given in the Lloyd's register of British and foreign shipping, containing re- turns of vessels totally lest, con- demned, etc., for the quarter end- ing December 31. According to Lloyd's register hook for 1911-151, the numiler of steam vessels owned by the United Kingdom is 8,487, with a net tonnage of 10,519,070. British colonies own 1,41 steam ves- sels, having a net tonnage of 788,- 580. The number of British owned sailing vessels is 847, with a tonnage of 579,989, and the colonies own 694, with a tonnage of 195,193. This gives a total of 11,442 British and colonial vessels, with a tonnage of 12,083,831. MO total number of registered steam and sailing vessels of all nationalities other than Bri- tish and colonial at the same time was 15,574, with a total tonnage of 12,982,219. These latter figures, however, do not include vessels! trading on the great lakes of North' America. The returns do not in- clude Dither vessels under 100 tons net. During the three months compris- ed in the returns the United King- dom lust 40 steam vessels (19 being wrecked, 2 abandoned at sea, 7 in collision. 8 foundering, 2 burnt at sea, 2 Missing) ef 'a net tonnage of 44,374. and the colonies 4. with a net tonnage of 597. British sailing vessels lost numbered 8 (3 wrecked, 2 in collision, 2 foundered, and 1 missing) of a net tonnage of 908. This gave a total of 58 British and colonial vessels of all classes lost, with a tonnage of 49,298. The ves- sels of all other nationalities lost during the same time numbered 113, with a tonnage of 118,936. Of these Norway lest 37 vevsels, and the United States 31, of which 29 V('01.0 sailing vessels, The percen- tage of losses to vessels and tonnage carried is greatest in thei case of Norway, Sweden being second. During the quarter two British' steamers and ewe colonial sailing thine were nbnr,d:,ted nt sea, two British steamers were burnt (one in midi ltlantic u 'ill petroleum, and one sunk h: eEI'dO. on), two British steamers and one sailing vessel were r eperted as having left port and m'vee heard of again. Among the ''telt" resects which for `-`want of snftk-icnt information, etc„ can- not he otherwise. classified," ap• pears the name of a Turkish steam- er, the Donde., of t111 net.tonnagn, with no recited as to voyage or ear- gn, but with the, significant record : "sunk by Italian, warship at Tri- poli, about 9ne1 October,' NEVI PORTRAIT OF EMPEROR GERMAN RAISER AS SOCIAL- IST AND ANGLOPHILE. Responsible for Giving Social Dem- (mracy Free Band 10 Ilas. The Empire of which he is the custodian is cankered with discon- tent, writes Lucien Wolf in aa arti- cle in the London Daily Graphic entitled "The Real Kaiser," Beyond his frontiers he meets only suspicion and distrust. And yet there never was a life more truly admirable, No Monarch of our times has been inspired by more exalted principles, has dreamed nobler dreams, has lived more laborious and self-denying clays, or bas mare conscientiously and cour- ageously done his duty, What is the explanation of this extraordi. nary cl'sparity between merit and reward? The, question is worth a study all to itself, hut I will not attempt it to -day. It will suffice for my present purpose to indicate three aspects in which the world is conspicuously unjust to the Em- peror. Take in the first place the Social- ist uprising in Germany, with its dramatic culmination in the return of Dr, Lisbkneeht for the Royal Borough ef Potsdam. So far as this is a demonstration against the Em- peror, it is assuredly not deserved, for his Majesty' himself is a very good Socialist. Not, of course, a Social Democrat in the sense of Herr Hebei or Mr, Keir Hardie, but a Socialist all the same, of the not less earnest and reputable school of Maurice and Kingsley. It was judged, indeed, in this charac- ter that he, ascended the throne, HELPED SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. He was then a convinced disciple of the Evangelical Socialists, who looked to him to champion the cause of the working classes against the bourgeoise and the Agrarians. Nur did he wholly disappoint their hopes. People forget nowadays the remarkable International Labor Conference he convened in 1890 with the object of securing a basis for so- cial reform in a more uniform sta- tus of international labor. Nor do they remember that it was he who gave Social Democracy the free. hand which has enabled it to con- quer so large a section of public opinion, and that at the cost of Prince Bismarck's resignation. Prince Hohenlohe has told the story in .his Memoirs—how, when the old Chancellor proposed fresh repres- sive measures, the Emperor refused "to begin his reign by the slaughter of his subjects," and declared that, at any rate, 11e would "first make an attempt, to satisfy the legitimate grievances of the workmen and to do everything that was possible to fulfill their justifiable demands." To all this, of course, it may be said that the. Emperor's ideas were never realized. But is the fault wholly his? Have the ` working classes helped him, or have they not rather shipwrecked both their own and his Socialism by insisting on political issues which were not es- sential to either 1 A PACIFIST. Then again, there is the popular conception of the Emperor as the typical War Lord, the wielder of the Mailed Fist --in a word, the, incar- nation of Militarism. Here again, the world is at fault. An a matter of fact, 11e is a, very excellent Padi- fist. M. Jules Huret once wrote of him that his ambition was to be identified with a great era of peace- ful progress in Germany, and to 'go down in history as William the Pa- cific. This is perfectly true, He has reigned for twenty-four years, and has had many opportunities of making war in circumstances which might have establisher the German hegemony in Europe on a More solid and durable foundation than it ever held in the time of his grandfather, but he refuted. And it is now only in the non -making of war that his services of peace con- sist. He has helped far mare largely than the man-in-the-st,rect knows in bringing the pacifi':t pro- jects leto'(he field of practical poli- tics. He corresponded with the late Lord Salisbury on schemes of dis- armament long before the present hisidaofHague Czar .evolved e The Conference, and he always shared Lord Salisbury's dream of a federa- tion or Peace League of the Euro- pean powers. Ask anybody in Ger- many to -day who kept the poses during the recent Morocco crisis; and there will be put one bitter an- swer ; "The Emperor." • AN ANGLOPHILE. Finally, there is the calumny of our own bogey -mongers, who are never tired of picturing the Emper- or ns the settled enemy of England, thirsting unceasingly for the day when he may dethrone her from the snpremaey of the seas. The, truth is thstt the exact reverse of this counts for much among the complex causes of 0110 L+niperor a unpopu- larity in h's own eouptry, The Em- perm. is, indeed, sornotlting more � yy++syLOOI FOR, 1Mit .. • it 0� LU i� PACKA%ly. a E CA. ,E.FULTo' SEE THAT LABEL ON PACKAGE IS BL1) . NO OTHER COLOR EVER USED Old �1.0 OVAL ' ST REMEMBER THE COLOR BLUE, .WG0LL TTa).LTD •'.., TORONTO •- ONT. GUM COMPANY 0119' ..Z.74ONTO, O,nONintA) � than a convinced Anglophile. So strongly has he felt on the subject that it ]las more than once beguiled him into indiscretions which have cost him clear. This was notably the, ease in the matter of the sensa- tional Daily Telegraph interview, the result of which was virtually to put him into constitutional leading - strings for the rest of his life. Nor has his affection for us been a mat- ter of mere words. Daring the Boer war, Professor Delbrueck once said that he was the only friend of Eng- land in Europe. This, of course, was an exaggeration, but, it is, at any rate, a fact that it was due to him that Count IvIuravieff's scheme of a European coalition against us was defeated, and that President Kruger failed to receive in Ger- many the, official encouragement and recognition he received in Franco and Holland. Socialist., Pacifist and Anglo- phile 1 It is an unfamiliar portrai- ture, but, so far as it goes, it is the real Emperor. 'h. MY CHOICE,. Some men are keen for dying rich, I've no such lure; Than dying rich I'd rather keeo On living poor. TEETH WERE SAFE. "Sam Johnson, you've been fight - in' agin. 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TFIE IMPERIAL OIL COMPANY, Limited Winnipeg, Montreal, St. John, Halifax and Queen City Division Toronto THE TRAGEDY OFA RUSSIAN HAS SPENT NEARLY ITALF 111 LIFE IN I'ItISON. M000301' Released in 9111 Age and Again Imprisoned for IDOeds• A terrible story of an eminent Russian poet end man of science, whose reward by a grateful govern- ment has been half a lifetime in soli tary'confinement, is told in the cur- ' rent number of "Darkest Russia," A few weeks ago N. Morosoff, a Russian anther and scientist, wail pub on his trial for a little volume of poems published in 1906, and was condemned to imprisonment in a fortress for one year. Among the prominent scientists mentioned by the London Times as contributing to the glory of Russia, we find (says Darkest Russia) the name ef N. Morosoff at the author of important researches in chemical and physical science. No mention is made of the manner in which he was rewarded for his activities. , Here is briefly the story of his life. The sorb of a oves'clly land own•er,. Nicholas Morosoff passed his ehil'd- hood in the uonintry, and de':e?oped a keen interest in nature a:udies.. At, 20 years of ago, and while a stu- dent in the University of Moscow, he was arrested on a charge -of spreading socialistic ideas among the peasants, and was kept in soli- tary confinement for three years bo - fore his trial, In the enol he was made one of the defendants in the famous "trial of 193" political of- fenders, but tvas released immedi- ately after the trial. WORKED WHILE SICK. In January, 1881, however'; he was again arrested because of his liter- ary activity, and condemned to penal servitude for life. He was at first confine' in 0 solitary cell of the ill -famed fortress of St. Peter and 80. Paul. Four years later he was transferred to the "stone sacks" of the terrible Schlusselburg fortress, where he was kept fur another twenty-one years. Many times during that long per- iod Morosoff nearly became the vic- tim of a deadly elisea.se, and was on the brink of madness, but his in- domitable spirit overcame his phy- sical weakness. His extraordinary kindness and courtesy gained him the hearts even of his jailers, who called ham ",the marquis." From the very first years of his confinement Morosoff had set his mind to the solution of various scientific questions. During the last decade ef his imprisonment he was allowed the use of paper .and pencil, and provided with seientific books. Then this prisoner, his body emaci- ated and feeble, but ]tis brain still vigorous, his intellect burning, be- gan clay after clay, with aniazing and pathetic perseverance, to think out and set down on paper his hypothe- ses and ruse/Sings., to make endless calculations for the preparation of tables and schemes. BACK TO THE OELL. "The greater part of his life was already behind him," writes Mme. Vera Figner, another of the Schluse selburg prisoners, ".and before him was nothing but blank hopelessness and a nameless grave in a little plot near the, walls of the fortress, where lay his friends, once, lake himself, full of energy and strength, but cut off by consumption and scurvy. And yet how he walked! . He never ceased to think and write, animated by the undying hope that Itis ideas Would some day see the light." At the end of 1905. when the gen- eral stadke, had for a moment hold the Russian autocracy under its heel, Morosoff, with the few other Schlueselburg prisoners who were still alive, war seb free. He was then 51 years of age, Of these ho hacl passed twenty- eight years—more than half his life —in solitary confinement. Yet, with unbrulten energy, this feeble malt, made prematurely old, :threw" him- self imself into the world of science, to which he was 50 passionately de- voted, and issued a series of scienti- fic researches in chemistry and phy- sics, and other works, inolttcling the \ - little volume of poems for which he has been again mit to prison. H HIS LAST QUESTION. He asked so many questions that day that he finally wore 000 his mother's patience, "Robert," she cried, '"if you ask ane another ques- tion I shall putyou'to beef without • set:' supper." Robert promptly asked another, and was packed off to bed Later his mother repented. After all, asking questions was the only way he weld acquire know- ledge ; so she tiptoecl•upstairs, knelt beside his bed, and told hien she Was sc110'y. "Now, dear," she sold, "if you want to ask one more ques- tion before ;y001 go to sloop as1.1 it now, and I will try to answer." Robert thought for a moment, then .'/( 14. "Muth.,.,, bow far can 0, Cat spit 1"