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The Brussels Post, 1912-9-12, Page 6MY MILLION_AIRE LODGERS A LONDON LANDLADY TELLS OP THEIR ECCENTRICITIES. Rig Price for Rooms — Russian Nobleman Turned Night Into Day. A lady who occupies a house in one of the wealthiest pests of May- fair, London, England, rented at $5,000 per annum, and who has been engaged for the past fifteen years in letting apartments to very well-to-do people, recently give a Londou Answers' representative some details about millionaires as lodgers. "You know," said the lady, "people who let .apartments to very well-to-do folk in this neighborhood don't put up cards in their win- dows, or even advertise. A lodgers come to me as the reslaliltmei some personal recommendation. I only take bachelors, young or old. My first -floor has been let to a mil- lionaire, a, sleeping-partnee in a big financial business in the City. He has been with me for the past seven years, and pays $150 a week for four rooms. A STICK WORTH THOUSANDS. "He lives a good deal abroad, but the rooms must alsveys be ready for him at a moments netice. He /lever takes any breakfast, and al- way.s dines out, so he is not a trou- blesome lodger. His valet gives all the attendance he requires. He has a collection of walking -sticks, which includes five sticks each of which was given him by a. crowned head. One, an ivory and gold mounted stiekwas a gift from the present King, and a carved cedar stick, with a handle of blue diamonds, was a gift from the King of Siam. This •stick, I believe, is worth sev- eral thousands of dollars. "Among other distinguished visi- tors who called here to see my 'first -floor' lodger were the late Xing, the King of Spain, and the former German Ambassador in London. "The son of another millionaire occupies a set of rooms On any se- cond -floor, His father allows him $100.000 per annum. This young gentleman spends most of his time, when in Loden, playing polo in the daytime and bridge at night. He has an enormous correspondence, but he rarely opens a letter him- self. He tells roe most of his letters consist of invitations, which he ne- ver accepts, and applications for loans and subscriptions. Once a week a secretary comes to go through his correspondence, On one occasion his secretary found a, bank -draft for $50,000 in a letter that had lain unopened for two months in his young employer's pocket. ROSE AT 7 P.M. "A very wealthy old gentleman, who used to occupy this young gen- tleman's roorns, told Inc he had a fortune of half a million, and was going to give it all away before he died. He must have been a cause ef considerable disappointment to a great many *heritable institutions, for he was always getting into cor- respondence with some of them, and premising them immense dona- tions, which he never gave. He died intestate, and his fortune, which was nearer a, million than half a 'see million, was divided among his next-of-kin. "I had a Russian nobleman here last summer who was in London on some political mission. He never used to get up until seven in the evening, end then went out to din- -ner, returning at about five o'clock in the morning. One night he went out and did not return. I got a let- ter from him, posted from Bucking- ham Palace, telling me he had to leave Englind at once, and asking me to send on all his things to the Russian Court, and enclosing ,me at the same time banknotes for the rent he owed me." DARING PETER. The rector was sitting in his stitcly. hard at work on the follow- ing Slintlay's sermon, when a visi- tor was announced. She was a tall, muscular woman, and when the minister set a chair for her, she opened fire somewhat brusquely: "You are Mr. Jenkins, ain't you?" "I am," he replied. maybe you'll remember o' marryin' a couple o' strangers at your church a month ago?" "What were the nemes?" asked the clergyman. "Peter Simpson and Eliza, Brown," replied the woman, "and am Eliza Brown." "Are you, indeed?" said the min- ister, "I thought I remembered seeing your face before, but—" "Yes,'' interrupted the visitor, "I'm here all right, an' I thought, as how 1 ought to drop in an' tell you that Peter's eecapeall" A gueSs is equal to good judg- ment if you happen to guess right. If a woman's husband always lets her have her own way she'll, give him oredit for haseng poor slidg. Ment. WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR A PORCH -CLIMBER WHO BE- CAME AN ALDERMAN. Was Illaelunalled Into Resigning, the Position and Fled Prom Philadelphia. It is a remarkable story that has come to light in Philadelphia of the thief who reformed, won a place in respectable society, was elected a "reform" alderman of the Common Council, and finally was black- mailed into throwing up his position and leaving the eity. The incidents have all been used by novelists, and no doubt other mon have been in almost exactly the same position as William Burke, but his story has aroused a great wave of sympathy, and there is no doubt that he could go back to Philadelphia and be le - elected.. Human nature is usually willing to give a. man another chance, or another dozen chance, if only the proper appeal is made to it. For the time being Burke has disappeared. It is thought that he has joined his wife and child whom he sent out of town as soon as he made up his mind to run away. According to his own confession he means in future to admit his iden- tity with "New York Slim," and &Olt his battle for rehabilitation in the open. He has learned the les- son, "Be sure your sin will find you out." A STREET WAIF. Burke's blackmailer had drained him of almost every dollar he pos- sessed, and the money for his flight was secured by selling his confes- sion to a Philadelphia newspaper. In this remarkable document he says that he was born in New York, but that he has no idea ef his real name, nor of hie father or mother. He WAS brought up in the streets, and the first money he earned was by selling newspapers. Having no home, he naturally spent his spare time in "hanging round the dorners on the East Side." As he grew older his associates were thieves, and as he was a bright boy with no particular scruples, he was found useful by one of the gang. Under the pretence of looking for work he would gain admittance to places that promised a reward for the in- dustrious burglar, and when they succeeded in breaking a safe the gang would usually hand him a few dollars. Later on he drifted into association with a gang of pick- pocket,s who reach a specialty of emptying women's handbags. YEGGMAN AND BANK WORKER His next promotion was to mem- bership in a band of "yegginen," the most dangerous of criminals, men who dynamite safes, and are ready to kill on the slightest provo- cation. He travelled through the Western States, as far as San Fran- cisco, and apparently prospered, for he escaped arrest and finally came back East with plenty of mon- ey in his pockets. He disported himself before some 1)f his old com- panions in New York for a time, and did no active work. It was in this peoird of idleness that the gam- bling habit, got possession of him, and his patronage of rou/ette, dice, poker and the home races soon made it necessary for him to go to work again. He turned sneak thief and porch climber. One of his spe- cialties was sneaking bundles of bills from bank tellers' windows while another member of the band would engage the teller in a violent altercation about some supposed mistake. This was in the days be- fore the 'bank windows were as well protected as they are to -day, and Burke and his associates made many a rich haul, on more than one occasion having $20,000 to divide among them. A CHAMPION poncH CLIMBER Gambling, however, kept him poor, and he concluded that he would break with the gang and go into business in another city. He located in Boston, and specializing as a porch climber entered and robbed nearly 300 houses, with no assistance save a bunch of skeleton keys. These were halcyon des, and Berke rolled in wealth, Un- fortunately for him he had acquired the opium habit, and one day, when partly under the inlinence of dope, he tried to sell e stolen neeklece, and was arrested. This was the first time he had ever been in the hands of the police, but he received a sentence of seven years' impri- sonment. He went to the Massa- chusetts State Prison at. Charles- town, and lie says that the punish- ment cured him of any desire to resume a life of crime on his re- lease. He left the prison at the end of his term, having learned the trade of hardwood finisher, arid located in Philadelphia. 'TETE BLACKMAILER APPEARS. He found employment easily enough, and worked in one factory for three years. By this time he had sexed up enough money to buy a little cigar shop, and it was while waiting upon his customers that he got Interested in local poli- tics, lIc worked through a couple of elections, and at length, his sbore hexing become a sort of district headquarters, he was invited to stand as an alderman, He aid so, and eampaigned for the whole Re - r DEVELOPMEIVT OF CANADIAN RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION :,.....,,,r[s:,::::::;,41:.c,AKE:::::(0 v4,1 ,--- ..:,,,, 7. ,' igirreg:':',. Pgrahagi°' .. F011OW1110INGRIDI. : MIS/CI 1:0[011117. 4ktij;2i4L. .0c, C§I'2,,,_Vi° CONTAINS NO P(.8 1 'CM=MMStIZZSt This monster locomotive is one of 90 being built by the Canada, Foundry Company for the Canadian Northern Railway, especially for the wheat belt and aro the largest operating in the Dominion. The total length of the engine and tender is 05 feet. The large water tank, which occupies half of the tender, will carry 0,000 gallons of water, and this is sufficient to allow the engine to drag a train of wheat cars from the prairies to Fort William with but few stops. The big driving wheels are 63 inches in diameter. form Ticket that elected Mayor Blankenburg at its head. Burke WAS elected by a handsome major- ity, but shortly after his election he met on the street a convict who hacl"done time" with him in Charlestown. The blackmail began from that day. The old convict was a "dope" fiend, with nothing to hope for himself, and with no sym- pathy whatever for Burke's ambi- tion to live respectably. He threatened him with exposure un- less Burke "came across" with most of the profits of his store. Finally the alderman sold his store to satisfy his old "pal's" exactions. Driven half insane by the use of drugs, his persecutor did not sea- lize that the limit had been reach- ed, but persisted in his demands, threatening to sell the story of Burke's double life to the newspa- pers. At last the day came When Burke forestalled him, sent his wife and child out of the tity, resigned his position, and fled. WHITE OAK EXHAVSTED, Spruee Rapidly Supplanting Elm in Canadian Cooperage. Although etre still leads among the woods used for slack cooperage, spruce is rapidly supplanting it. In the total output of barrels in the Dominion last year, there were used, according to figures compiled by the Forestry Branch of the De- partment of the Interior, 80,016,000 pieces of elm, in staves, .headings and hoops, as against 31,704,000 pieces of .spruce. There were, how- ever, over 11,000,000 more spruce staves and 9,000,000 fewer elm staves reported for 1911 than for 1910. In time, elm will probably be used only for hoops, as it is the best wood for the purpose, the sup- ply is fast diminishing, and other species oan be usecl to advantage for staves and headings. The ulti- mate substitute for elm will proba- bly be birch, which is comparatively plentiful, Sleek cooperage is of vastly greater importance than tight Coop- erage in Canada. This is because the majority of Canadian products are (if a rough and dry nature, such as lime, potatoes, apples, dry fish, flour, cereals, etc., and because Canadian woods are best suited to slack cooperage. White oak, the only wood which can be used for container's of alco- holic liquids, has been practically exhausted in Canadian woodlands. In 1911 only 2,768,000 oak staves were cut, while 7,293,000 were im- ported. A rough estimate on the part of the Forestry l3ranch places the minimum amount of material used• in the manufacture of all classes of cooperage as 62,353,190 board feet, made up as follows Staves, 29,367,- 714 feet; heading, 24,466,666 feet, and hoops, 62,383,190 feet. QUEER counonogs. Collectors gather together arti- cles more or less interesting, but probably few go in for such bulky objects as those chosen by a dis- tinguished Britisher. Old doors are the object of his desire. His doors 003110 from old houses, cas- tles, and abbeys of historical inter. est. Some time ago he obtained, at considerable eost, a door through which, during the French Revell - don, Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Corday, Denton, and Robespierre passed on their way to the guillo- tine. Lord Petersham, a noted man in his day, had a hobby for acquiring various kinds of tea and snuff. The Dowager -Queen of Italy as a collection of the foot and headgear s:li Royal personages of different perfects. It is said to in- clude a sandal worn by Nero, a pair of white slippers that belonged to Mary Queen of Scots, shoes worn by Queen Anne and the Em- press Josephine, and gloves that were once the property of Marie Antoinette. A THOUGHTFUL THIEF. • A man who was remanded at the North London (England) Police Court on a charge of breaking into a club was said to have dropped his insure -nee card, bearing his tame and address, during his visit, This led to his serest, and he admitted that he had taken 5s. from the club. A FA1IIOLTS WATERWOMAN. Ann Glanville and Her Crew Beat a Crew of Frenchmen. IA the boat -races that have from me. tiimmemorial been rowed on the Hauesaze—the estuary of the Tamar and the Tavy that forms part of the harbor of Plymouth— the women of Saltash have not been behind the men in plying the oar. In "Around and About Saltash" Mr. P. E. B. Porter tells of Ann Glanville, whose fame as an oars- ranond19,n travelled throughout Eng - Some sixty or seventy years ago. the Arew of Saltash women was of- ten seen not only on the Harnoaze, but whenever aquatic sports were held It was net often that Ann and the crew that she stroked were beaten in a match—never by other women. They competed for prizes at Hull, Liverpool, Portsmouth and Dartmouth ; and it must not be sup- posed that a crew of men ever yielded the palm out of masculine courtesy, for, as a matter of fact, the men did not at all relish being beaten by a "parcel o' females." In some of these contests, Mrs. Harriet Screech, a daughter of Ann Glanville,—who had fourteen chil- dron,—rowed with her mother. As .she was the youngest member of the crew, she pulled bow -oar, the least arduous post in the boat. Once this crew, rowing a match at Fleetwood in the presence of Queen Victoria, gave the menViotoria, so sound a beating that her Majesty asked to have Ann presented t,o her. How- ever, the most famous event of Ann's life, took place in 1850, when Russell of H.M.S. Brunswick sug- gested to her that she and her crew go over to Havre to the regatta there and challenge the French- men—a proposal to which she readi- ly assented. When the Frenchmen heard of the challenge from les Anglaiees d the Saltae, they shrugged their shoulders, for they hardly regarded it as serious. And- when the wo- men appeared in their white frilled caps prinked out with blue ribbons, in their short petticoats and white dresses, with blue neckerchiefs tied over the shoulders and crossed be- hind the back, they looked puzzled.. The ohallenge • of the English- women oreated a stir not only in Havre, but for miles along the French coast—and for many leagues inland, too. And in Eng- land the greatest interest was aroused. When the day of the regatta came, there was a vast concoerse of people to witness the contest. Every quay, hilltop and housetop from which a view of the course could be hael was crowded. Every one was on tiptoe with expectation. Before the start the Salteshe crew had a pull round "to show themselves." Their steady stroke, the way in which they bent their backs to their work, and the per - feet ease anti grace with which they pulled, made the French open their eyes. Ann anti her crew had not the beat start possible, nor at first did they have the advantage. Five min- utes after the start, six boats were ahead of them. But they soon test- ed their opponents' nerve, Ann, who had the stroke oar, gave the wa'13r`de:nd your backs to it, ineidens; and hurrah for old England!" One, by one, with a cheer from old Ann, they passed the six boats. At last they drove their boat, with the British colors flying gaily at the fore, into the lead. It was a long course and a hoed pull, hat they soundly thrashed the Frenchmen, Ann and her "maidens" beat them by one humbled yards. The members of this famous crew were Ann Glanville, Harriet Hosk- ing, Sane House and Amelia Lee, A man acted as ooxwain. Mrs. House was mo elated at the victory that on rectehing the com- mittee boat she plunged into the water, dived under the vessel, and came up with dripping and droop- ing cep on the opposite side. Ann Glanville died in 1880, at the age of eighty-five, dignified, vigor- ous and handsome to the last, Her character was summed up by a neighbor in these words: "Her was honest to a farthing, clean as a smelt, raid kintl-hearted 85 91 queort." MAKING SAFE INYESTIIIENTS AN INTERESTING COMPARISON OF BONDS AND MORTGAGES. The Experiences of Two Mon, One of Whom Invested In Bonds and the Other in Mortgages—Conds are Readily Negatt able, Mortgages aro Not. The articles contributed by "frivestor" are for the sole purpose of guiding pros. Peotive investore, and, if possible, of say. 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 this paper have no interests to serve in connection with this matter other than those of the reader. (By "Investor.") A few years ago—it was in the panto Year of 1907—a man possessed a mort- gage which he wanted to sell and couldn't —next tried to realize on it by using it as collateral seeurity'•at a bank for a loan. Now, under the Bank dot, banks are wisely prevented from, loaning on such fixed security as mortgages. You see, a bank's business is essentially a cash business, and its assets have to bo such as may be readily turned into °ash. They may, therefore, buy bonds or loan on bonds Or stocks, but not on mortgages. So, of course, the bank couldn't loan this man any money on the mortgage. At one bank, however, he knew the general man- ager, and knowing that the mortgage Was a good ono and the man honest the banker loaned him the money on his note, taking his verbal promise not to use the mortgage without paying off the note. That is one of the greatest drawbacks to loaning money on a mortgage—it is so difficult to cash it in if one requires the money unexpectedly, or even to get a loan on it, Dm•ing the same year a nian had some bonds which he had bought as an in. vestment. Now, 1907 was a year when, as everyone will remember, money Was ex- ceeding/y seam. As a result he had to raise some moileY, and to do so he went to his banker with the bonds. "Certainly," said the banker. "We can loan YOU up to 90 per omit. of the value of those bonds"—they . were bonds of fairly well. known municipalities—"or you can, of course, sell them and got about 98 per cent. of what they cost you." This man didn't want nearly 90 per cent. of the value of the bonds, nor did he particularly want to sell them, so he borrowed what money Ile needed andput up the bonds as security. So soon as the stress was over he paid off his loan and put his bonda back in hie strong box. Mortgages are. without doubt, a very excellent form of investment and one 311)1011people, with lots of money and with no occasion 'to have to realize on them at short notice may purchase if they use °are. They are of course, in manyways a nuisance because they involve a whole lot of attention to details. Insuranee, titles, valuation and upkeep are matters which require more or less attention and the best legal advice is necessary in draw- ing them up and searching the titles. But for those with lots of time to attend to such matters they are satisfaetory. On the other hand bonds, carefully ehosen, involve no more bother than the cutting off of coupons every half year and depositing them in the bank. Of mune, anyone buying bonds must look into the matter very carefully. Bonds carrying bonuses of common stock are necessarily speculative and should be avoided by those who cannot afford to take changes. On the other hand, in the ease of indus. trial bonds, the assets should amount to at least twice the bonds issued end the greater this proportion 15 the bettor. Earnings, too, should be over twice the amount required for bond interest. If a company issuing bonds has outstanding shares on which it has been paying ,1t,.(lends all the better; for the bond's inter- est comes before the stockholders' divi- dends, whether they own preferred or common stook. A careful investor, how- ever, will not buy a bond of a company which cannot show at leant earnings for the past three years which average Well in excess of the amount required for bond interest, In municipals one need not be so exact. ing. No villagee and small towns bo avoided—one may buy with confidence. TURN YOUR TIMID INTO MONEY There is a firm in Toronto who give hun- dreds of men and women an opportunity to earn frOm 8550,00 to $1,600.O0 every Year With but little effort. This firm maitufac. tures reliable family remedies, beautiful toilet preparations and many neeeseary musehold goods, such as baking Powder vaehing compounds. stove, furniture and metal poliehes, in all over one hundred preparations that every home uses every day, Just one person in each Ioaality oaa SO011re excInsive right free to, distribute thesens preparatioto their neighbors. whey pay go per cent. 0011IniOalOO 10 their agenta Don't you think you bettor in- crease your 11100tne /f so, write The Home Supply Ce., Dent. to, Merrill Build- ing, Toronto, Ont„ .for full particulars. FOX A JAPANESE, HORROR. In Japanese legend the fox is con- sidered. a wizard of the blackest type, wielding demonic:Mid pewees, master of all the evil tragic that can do herrn to man, Foxes enter into demoniac possession of human be. ings and work all the wickedness, and more, that was ascribed to the witches and warlocks of the Middle Ages in Europe. They live for many centuries, and at the age of 1,000 years they become white, acquire nine tails and have enormous pow. OM Every fax is to be dreaded but the worst of ell is the menfox, which can assume the appearanee, voice and manner of Any hurnan be- ing at a moment's notice. The de- terminetion of all such creatures was m sacred duty of every knight errent in ancient fable. SWIMMING LEARNER EASILY. To guard against alum:in Baking Powder see that all ingre. clients are plainly printed on the label. The words "No Alum" without the ingredients is not sufficient. Magic Baking Powder costs no more than the ordinary kinds. Full weight one pound cans 25c. lEW.GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO, ONT. WINNIPEG MONTREAL ZEZZIMMEM, *t* A One -Hour Lesson Should Mahe One Competent. You can teach yourself to swim and you can do it in an hour or less, 8475 a writer in the Christian Her- ald. I know persons who have done it by following carefully these di- rections:— First and foremost, fix this thought clearly in your mind :—The water will bear you up. It is fear and struggle that invariably send a person to the bottom. The best way to acquire confidence that makes for courage and fun is :—Go squarely and reasonably at it., Be- gin in still water; the old swim- ming pool on tile farm is just the place, Wade out until your shoul- ders are cevered, squat a little and get yourself wet all over. Don't be the least atom afraid even if a little water does get into your nose and ears; wade out a little further un- til you are up to your chin, anal now your toes will begin to leave the bottom of the pool. Do not be alarmed. This shows you that you are a little lighter than the water. Now lift your chest and with the muscles The total population in Kildare is of your stomach breathe deep, now 96.627, which shows a large in - stretch your arms out to form the crease. letter T of yourself, stiffen your backbone .and hollow your back as though suddenly you were a very important and dignified person. Your toes have come up to the sur- face now. Lean your head back freely as far as you can, keeping your mouth shut. Lie back with absolute confidence, and there you are floating. Keep your backbone stiff, gently paddle with your hands, and you are swimming. Make toward the shore, of course. Then try it all over again. This time kick with your feet very gen- tly; strong strokes might turn you over and frighten you. Keep your balance and practic,e two or three times in straight suceeseion. The next thing that you will be learning is the "V" stroke. Kick out until both legs aro like the let- ter V, shut them together like the blades of a pair of scissors (which gives a strong drive ahead), then draw them up sidewise like a frog and kick persistently out again. Then try making your legs go as if you were climbing up stairs. Al- ways remember the water will bear you up, and the great and only difficulty about, swimming will he out of your way. FROM ERINS GREEN ISLE KEWS BY NAIL (110111 IRE. LAND'S SHORES. Happenings in the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish- men, A. full grown black seal has been caught on the shore at Warren- point. A boy named John McCarthy, aged six, was accidentally killed ae Bainden. Moses Hillis, aged sixty-five, was found dead in bed at a hotel in Bel- fast. A woman named Goggins was fined at Strokestown for selling adulterated milk. The rainfall at Castle Lough, Nenagh, for the month of June was 5.90 inches, A woman named Byrne has died through her clothes catching fire in Dublin. ODDEST, SLAKE Water Turkey Is the Most Curious and Intereating. In the Indian River region of Florida are to be seen islands green with mangrove bushes down to the water's edge. The scene is ani- mated by the presence of many wa- ter /owls—pelicans, gallinules, wa- ter turkeys, cormorants and fish crows—feeding ou the isla,ncis, to- gether with smaller numbere, of guile, teens, vultures, ospreys and man -o' -war hawks, swooping, skim- ming and sailing in the air above, In all this array of bird life there is no ,more curious' and interesting creature than the water turkey, which is sometimes called the snake illvdsea queer snake wriggling out.es As the strenger gazes upon this scene he is sometimes apt to think he of the water several feet into the air. If he grabs his gun and fires it is probable !that a pert of the sup- posed snake will drop upon the wa- ter, while the other part takes wing and flies ewa,y. The stranger wonders whether the snake dropped the bird or the bird the snake. The explanation is quite simple. A .snake bird, or water turkey (Piotus anhinga), swimming. with its long neck only out of the water, had the snake in its bill and the snake was dropped when the gun was fired. The water turkey has been called the /nest preposterous bird within the range of ornithology. "I -le is not a bird," .says one authority, "he is a neck, with such subordi nate rights, members, appurtee eanees and hereclititraents there- unto appertaining as seem neces- sary to that end, Ito has just enough stomach to arrange nourielt- Mont for his neek, just enough wings to fly painfully angle with Isis neck, and just big enough legs to keep his neck from dragging on the ground ; and his neck is light- colored, while the rest of him is Isesaemaniereseseaennee A farm steward named ll/favoy, at Drogheda, fell off a load of hay and was killed. Mrs. Mary Touling, West Drown, near Castletownbere, has died ab the age of 106. The much-dreeded "Isle of Wight" disease among bees has been discovered in Dublin. A man named 7. McGrath res- cued a baby who had fallen into Bullock Harbor, Daltrey. A large farm some miles from Cerrickma,cress ha.s been the scene of a large cattle drive. Judge Fitzgerald congratulated the Maryboro grand jury on the peaceful state of the county. £57 was paid by Mr. Moore for an acre of land belonging to Miss E. Shaw, of Baltinglan. A band of roughs attacked a num- ber of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart from Lisburn School. Thomas Carey, a bailiff, was found guilty of causing the death ,of 7. Kelly near Kiltunagh, Mayo. The Hon. 3. Beresford Caanpbell has been appointed Deputy -Lieu- tenant for the county of Galway. A pig caused a fire at Foxford by wandering into a kitchen and over- turning some paraffin. Coobehill Urban Council has se- cured a lean of $7 000 for improve- ments, under the Working Act. A potato blight has 'mete its ap- pearance in patches in the district of South Riding of Tipperary. Miss Macdonald of Texas, U.S. A., has sent £500 toward clearing off the, debt of, the Neury Cathedral. Mr, Henry Donate Tyttoke. has been a,ppointed an Assistant In- spector General of the Irish Con stabulary. Mr, T. Kidd was presented with a purse of sovereigns on his retire- ment as manager of the Cavan Branch of 51% Provincial Bank. Three youths named Wm. Davey, Finless- Cully and Hen ry McClean, have been charged with breaking into a jewelry &shop at Belfast. Patrick Webb was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment at Roscommon for breaking a pane of glass and going into a house he lost in bankruptcy. ausrawroannaleaMMINSIMPICOM 1.16•4•114Nit OUR SEPTEMBER LIST 010 INVESTMENT SECURITIES now in press. We will be glad to forward copy on application. CANADA SECURITIES CORPORATION LTD. Dominion Express afflt, Montreal McKinnon Building, Toronto 14 Goreli111, - London, Eng. 4 ; A