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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1912-10-24, Page 3T". x 1 . A. . C, was 1M a,. it •v..� A THfSfAli7CO- J' OIRECTIO? u°d t .., BAH:ille rMi3dit t, ISCONFOOEDOPTHE 'I FOLLOWING IHGR1DI ENUANDHOH110THERt ! 1 t tp� PHOOSR1aTE,e1iRRIi fa. fig,;. csaters3R3ARD STARCH. .F. O0 iso HITEST 1.100 51 Rend the Label 141 Yi Costs no more than the Alum Kinds CONTAINS NO ALL1,111 Y. err razosartiWTI:o...7.--femeososo "1 -for, The only Baking Powder made in Canada that has all its ingredients plainly printed on the Iebel. IT offer the unsold balance of $1975 00 Thefell ele h p<; C npany of Canada Limited FIVE E.... PER,a. CENT. BONDS Due April lst, 1925 PRICE: 101 AND INTEREST We emphasize the following salient points of this issue 1.—The bonds are a first charge upon the whole lines, works and plant of the Company, other than real estate. The real estate is unencumbered. 2.—Value of plant account (not including real estate) $20,531,327.39, or more than three times the amount of outstanding bonds. 3.— Earnings last , six years averaged approximately 4% times total interest charges. 4.—Issue of bonds is limited to 75% of the outstanding capital stock. 5.—Company owns and operates the principal Telephone system in the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario. 6.—Capital stock outstanding 415,000,000. Dividends at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum have been paid continuously since January 1, 1886. SPECIAL CIRCULAR ON REQUEST 8ECDixe . -4'1..1 COI'fj ION UNITE i'iAfltfMJFM01iTREAL BLDG. COR .QUHAI YONGE57'TOROr11 f2-iM•WHITE . ranacEa. Ih1O 1TREAL., QUEBEC t -HALIFAX, G]'_%TAWii LsD tiC10 ea. E.f 1CLLACiia MUCH SUFFERING IN JAPAN THERE IS GRAVE FEAR OF A REV OLUTION. High Cost of Living Troubles Little People of the Flowery Kingdom. Since the death of the Emperor Mutsuhito pertain newspapers have declared that the increased east in living expenses has brought dire misery among the poor, thousands of whom beg in the streets or occu- py the State workhouses or asy- lums, writes a Tokio correspondent. This state of affairs, it is added, cannot; continue, sines the rover- enee in which time populace held the late Emperor has not been tranr,- tensed to his ,successor, who is re- garded in the light of a thoroughly nen-spiritual sovereign, hence may be found the same elements ready to ignite which brought into exis- teece the French Revolution. That these papers do not exalt- gerate the situation, however in fault may be their prognostieations, is gathered from an article in the semi-official Japan Times, which reade as follows : "The cost of living keeps going up ; no one seems to be able to reach out his hand& to .bring the steadily Specially Selected SASKATCHEWAN VALLEY FARM LANDS From tho Land Grant of the Canadian Northern Railway UMI Olean, open, land, good soil and arable by traction plow. Sale eubjcot to iu spection of property, with special rate of transporta- tion. Price anal terms rea- sonable. CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED LANDS, LIMITED gastern Townships Oankllldg. MONTREAL. iro........v.eameamormamrsatialdaviarolotai ascending balloon to the ground; people helplessly watch its counee and gasp. At the same time pover- ty walks about at large and the mis- eries of life increase. Above all, the heads of families of the laboring elass seem to have the worst allot- ment of miseries and tortures. Many. of 'them are daily deserting their wives and families. The la- boring men cannot support their families -with the scanty wages they get. CHILDREN ARE STARVING. "The little storekeepers find it impossible to balance their ledgers with the credit ahead of the debt, and are universally discouraged by dull business. #1t home their wives need money and the}r children are simply crying aloud from starva- tion. The hard-pressed and miser- able husbands go out in the morn- ing to search for work and many of them never return again at night, "Daily the charity lodging houses are crowded by women and children begging e night's lodging, to drift away the next morning, to return again at night starving. Many of them are sick, husbandless and fa- , therless, penniless and homeless. Some of them follow the paths of their husbands to death. "According to further details given, the hospitals are overcrowd ed, and the arrangements for the succor of such poor people are moat inadequate, especially as the Im- perial Benevolence Association, founded by the late Fnnperor, is ac- cessible to only a few of the more fortunate who may be provided with doctor's nominations. GOVERNMENT IS WORRIED. "The general bard times in Japan are making themselves felt in ways that mean increased difficulties for the Government: The heavy in- crease crime means increased eiitlay on prisons and prisoners' food. The number of suicides is also rather alarming, while the per- sistent strikes and threats to strike can 'only ;be satisfactorily settled by the payment of at least living wages. At the present time 20,000 hands at the Kolshikawa and other arsenals aro agitating for raises, "The circumstances in the &vesn- els are rather peculiar. At the end of last year it was ordered that the employes in the arsenals should wear rough uniforms on the West. ern model, .and that these should be commenced from April 1 to be sup- plied by the men thiel elves, Ow - TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE IN.TEREBTINq COSSIP PROM ONTARIO'S CAPITAL, WIth the Sutfragats-Toronto Politics -- Problem of the Churches -00,000 Pee. pie Require Their Coed Moos. Miese1 a utPrn oat, Who Wylie, the English e g confesses to having thrown hricha with the rest of them, to two forme in prison and to leadership in a hunger strike, bee not been making much progress in stir- ring Toronto women up to militant me- thods. o-thods. Toronto has its suffrage associa- tions -many of them --though the member• ship of oath is small and of problemati- cal in fleeing. But the suffrage leaders in Toronto absolutely decline to start out on a campaign of window meaning. There is, for example, Dr. Augusta atone Gul• len, who is president of one of the local aseoelatione, While a woman of strong mentality she is the antithesis of rev°. lutionary in appearance, with n motherly figure built on generous pruporitlons and a kindfly lace. Mrs, Flora Mel). Denison, another leader, seems also well supplied with human kindness. Perhaps the most striking figure of the local suffragists is Mrs. J, B. Loather, who came to Toronto from England some two years ago with ber husband, who is a professor at the University. Physically she has a slight figure, a thin face and the eyes of a dreamer. are is a woman of groat culture, speaks Freneb, German, Italian and Russian and is an accom. plislted musician. Added to this she has intcileotual throe in an unuouel degree. She knows the suffrage question through and through, which is more than can be said of an who talk on the sui,Jeet, either for or against. In addition she is much interested, in all aooial reforms. POLITIOAL DBAIONaTRATTON8. ing to the scant pay the authorities bad to postpone the enforcement of the order until Oct. 1, as it was ab- solutely impossible for the men to obtain the uniforms by savings from their wages. Now it has again been found necessary to permit the men to keep their kimonos until April 1 in next year. Naturally, all the men are ASKING FOR HIGHER WAGES, and it is difficult to know how the Government is going to avoid such a solution. "All these little problems are each as complicate the plans which Marquis Saionji and Mr. Yamamoto have in hand for the reform of the administration and of finances. Their task is further endangeredby the jealousy of the various depart - menta whi•ch are anxious to see any retrenchments. they may effect ap- plied to their own departments, "For example, the •War Depart- ment is glad—nay, anxious—to re- trench on condition that the money thus saved is spent on the two new divisions for Korea. In the same way the Navy Department hastens to audit its books and out off two- pences in order that the cash thus gained may be spent on the naval expansion scheme which is to be put in hand next April. "It is fortunate for the Minister of Finance that he will have satis- factory surpluses from railways and customs, as also from the mono- polies, which will go some of the way tc helping him out of his difii- culkies. SURGEON ANT. In certain islands of the southern Pacific) there is en ant which acts as a surgeon to the wounded native, This ant has very long and poawsr- ful mandibles, and, when a native gets a bad out, bo holds its two edges together with one hand, while with the other he sets the ant's head to the wound. The mandibles of the insect at onus pierce clean through the cut's two lips, making two stitches that bind the lips to- grAther, The ant's head is them nipped off and the mandibles re- melt until the cut is healed, when they are drawnout easily and pain-' le•ssly. Sometimes, when it wound is severe, a dozen or more ant sue. geonsare regeired to saw it up. Sore women aro so clia'ngcable that they never wear the same oom,- ploxlon twice. Tho annual meeting of the Ontario Re- form Association brought to the ei.y some of that party's stalwarts, 1uoluding the Chief himeclt, Hon. Mackenzie King, Hon. Geo. P. GruL•am and a number of othors. These annual meetings are generally pret- ty perfunctory .affairs, but this year it was more interesting than usual by rea- son of the feet that addresses were de- livered by Bir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir. Row- ell, Mr, Iling, who is president of the as- 0oolaAfon, and others. Local politioians have been following with interest the ate Mantes of Mr. Rowell and Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Apparently the country is wil- ling to listen to both, and some of the large crowds and the er:tlutelaem that have bean in evidence have been the sub- ject of much comment. But as to what it means, or whether it means anything, even the change of a Bingle seat in either Dominion or Provincial elections, no one will at this stage predict. WARD ASSOCIATIONS MEET. The Toronto polittoal pot, too, le begin- ning to boil. The peculiarity nbou. the Toronto pot is, however, that it boils only on one aide. T'ne organization of Oka Arthur s occupation as an under - Liberal party is rarely in evidence, and study of the King will be gone. Still erable portion of the masses of the poo• pie remains to to seen. For the preden1 they partake wore or less of the (harem- ter of private clubs, using the church buildings for their stub houses, A. ROYAL UNDERSTUDY, Prince Arthur of Connaught, who went to Japan to represent the Ring at the funeral of the Mikado, must be well accustomed by this time to deputizing for his Majesty. He once laughingly suggeeted that he should add to his visiting cards the line: "Monarchs under- studied on the shortest notice." Most people would be inclined to think that there are worse business- es than understudying monaroha, though, of course, this profession has a certain amount of risk attach- ed to it. Still the pay is good, and the accommodation provided gen- erally first rate. Prinoe Arthur is very popular with his Royal relatives, and is, of Prince Arthur of Connaught. course, a welcome figure in society. When the Prince of Wales has fin- ished his studies, and is thus free to take up public duties, Prince when it te, ineffective is the only word he will find lent to occupy his that describes it. There aro not many plenty py persons who could tell you what it is or what 1t does. On the other band the conservatives have an exceedingly active time, for he is very interested in soldiering. organisation. There ie a @antral a6e0e1- Prince Arthur is a bachelor, and ation and a ward aeaoolation for each in view of his relationship to the of the wards, As the boundaries of the 'wards do not coincide with the boundaries throne much speculation has been of the electoral ridings one might thin there would be some confusion, but the experience of the party is that the ward arrangement is quite effective. The only real political scraps in To. route ooaur when factions in the Con- servative associations get fighting among themselves, And just now, with the an- nual meetings of the organizations ap• propelling, there are rumors of impending trouble. One report is that Mr. A. W. Wright is leading a revolt against Hon. Thos. Crawford in the west riding. Both Province, nMr. well knas lab r leader, oughout the pa• Weal organizer, orator, imperial mle- eien lecturer and good fellow; Mr, Orate - ford as former Speaker of Mao Legisla• tura. It is impossible to say how far the threatened civil war will develop. 11 will not reach the point where the hold- ing of a seat by the Oonsorvatives will be endangered. A CRAWFORD STORY. When Sir James Whitney formed his cabinet Mr. Crawford's friends hoped he would be made Minister of Agricul.ure. tint they were disappointed. Some time later gime one who said he was the edi- tor of the Mail and Empire, °ailed up Mr. Crawford on the telephone to tell him that he had a story to the effect that Mr. Crawford had been using strong Ian. guage about Sir James. The editor said he would like to have Mr. Crawford's ex- planation. According to the story, •Mr. Crawford hastened to the Mail and BM. pita oftloe, whore it was discovered that a practical joker had been at work. Ap. pnrently Mr. Orawford's etanding with the Premier was not affected, for it was af- terwards that he was appointed Bpeakor. A few year's ago. Mr. Joseph Russell led a revolt against the ward association pow- ers -that -be -in the east end. For a time the revolt wee successful and resulted in Mr. Russell sitting in Parliament for ono term. The regulars "Dame bank" het year under Mr. Kemp, but the light there is still smoldering, CHIIROHES' DOWN TOWN PROBLEM. According to Rev. 6. Wesley Doan, of the Fred Vioter Mission there are 60,000 people living south of Mission, street. A largo percentage of these are foreigners and most of the others live in boarding houses. There aro few people anywhere more in need of the good offline M the churches than these, and yet this 10 the district that the churches of Toronto are showing a strong disposition to desert. One after another they are abandoning their buildings, selling their sites and moving into new modern odifioes in the more fashionable residential districts, The latest on the list is Erskine Street $reebyberian, Even Central Presbyterian obur°h on Groavenor street, which Is two bionics north of College has a Proemial under consideration which will take its activities out into the Rosedale area. Taking these church moving° Individu- ally 0185 are easily explained. The ebnrohea were formerly situated in the midst of their respective oougregatlo+ss. But the members of the oongregatione one by one sold their reehlonoes and moved to the newer districts. The new owners of the residanoa0 aro generally boarding house keepers, and eventually the church finds it has to follow its con. gragatfon. For boarding houeae aro net good ohnroligoerspoften supporters go boo or three miles when they can find another nearer home. But meanwhile what are the Toronto ohurchos going to about the city of 60,000 persons who live 000111 of College? 21 is a problem that aballenges solution, RBSTATJRANTS IN CHURCHES. A few of the most 515811nen6 ohurchos. in the city aro making a stand Aetluet the steady movement toward the reafden tial d10tr its. Thera is St. Janco Cntuod- a n Tal with its ancient assert ido s that managoe to bring a coogregatloa to Ito private pews from the ends of the til ovary Sunday morning. The evening sea Vice is a different afore. The Metrapoll. ;tan Methodist ,huroh, out or the most boantiful eltttreh Moues 1n Amerion, tells a Own°what similar story. Se does St. AndrowS Prosbyterinn. And there aro a number of (Wore of various doziominn• pions, 81m10 of them torching very olosaiy the lives of thepeople among whom they are situated. Tho organisation of the Itoman' Catholic church loaves 1141 tloubt the worklb eualo 11 51101031 a inti. Michael'see Cathedral. And, soma of tltaad ehurehre ere not eon• fining their activities t,1 the pulpit or to Sundays. St. James has its pnris a he000, with gY mia0htm, ree:aurant•, end other conveniences open ever, Jay ire;the week. The•Mobr0?olltan 1s do ee n shiner wont. At the mantant tit, Andrews is waling 845,010 on an olttensi0n to he devoted to like"purlioses. Whether these efforts will eventually vault In moiling any (encash aroused from time to time as to his matrimonial intentions. He him- self has declared that he does not intend to marry, so that gossip has, as usual, proved a lying jade. A WONDERFUL MEMORY. Professor Saiti to have Almost Su- pernatural Power. Dr. Addison Alexander; of Princeton Theological Seminary, who died in 1860, ;had a wonderful memory. It was, remarks a wri- ter in the New York Sun, ,not only tenacious of words but of facts. For the amusement of his pupils Dr. ' Alexander would sometimes say: "Now I am going to talk with- out thinking," and he would then pour forth period after period of strange words and incongruous im- ages,.. harmonious and even rhyth- mical in sound. but wholly destitute of sense. If any one thinks this is an easy feat, let him try to suspend his reason and give free rein to his fancy in periods whioh shall be gra- matically correct and yet without meaning. Another of his feats was to sub - nut himself to examination &fid tell off -hand where he was and what he was doing on any day of any year the examiner chose to name. His most wonderful feat was displayed at the matriculation of a class in the seminary. Forty or fifty stu- dents presented themselves for ad- mission. Each handed his creden- tials to the professors, who exam- ined them and, if satisfactory, en- tered rho student's name and ad- dress in the register. When the students had retired the professors began bantering one another as to which one should take the register home, and prepare from it an alphabetical roll—an irk- some task. "There is no need to take the register home," said Dr. Alexan- der, "I will make out the roll for you." Whereupon he took a sheet of paper and, without referring to the register, wrote out in alpha - betical order the full names and addresses of the students, which he had heard once only, when they were recorded. What makes this still more won- derful is the foot that the entire mass of names and addresses must have been present in the doctor's mind while he was selecting each one in its alphabetical order. 5 BELL TELEPHONE FINANCES. Earnings Applicable to the Bond Interest have Shown a Steady Increase Since 1905. In view of the fact that an addi- tional issue of Bell Telephone bonds is about to be offered to the public, it is interesting to note that these securities are a first charge upon the whole lines, works and plant of the company other than real estate. The real estate in unencumbered. The value of the plant account (not including real estate) is $20,531,327, or more than three times the out- standing bonds. As regards the security from the income point of view the following table speaks for itself : Earnings Gloss Applicable Bond Revenue to Bond Interest Interest FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES OP INTEREST FIIJ Ili Ural: BANES AND BRAES. What Is Goin. on in The $igUlanda and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. There was a record shipment oti coal at Leith last' week, tho ,output being 55,319 tons, Owing to the strike of navvies at Rosyth dockyard over two thousand men are idle, A 'turnip' weighing 17 pounds (Golden Ball), was this seamen grown in a Dowaliy garden. Copper has been digoovered in the Island of Burray, Orkney, the property of the Marquis of Zet- land. Dampge to .the extant of $4,000 was done by fire that oaourred at the farm of Mill of Inyerarity, For- far. A purveyor of milk was fined $5 at Edinburgh tor failing to ken the floor and shelves of his shop clean. It is proposed to have one sub- etantial sanatorium: in Bute in pre- ference to two small ones in Bute and Arran. Edinburgh Lands Valuation Court reduced the yearly value of. the Marine Gardens, Portobello, from $10,000 to $6,000. Baillie James Donald, who repre- sented the Sixth Ward in the Pais- ley Town Council for seventeen years, is retiring in November. The death has occurred suddenly of Mr. James Jardine, for fifteen years tenant of South Castlefield, Dumfries, in his 78th year. In connection with the outbreak of smallpox in Kirkcaldy, another case occurred and the patient has been removed to the hospital. At a meeting of Dundee magis- trates it was resolved to ask the Town Council to confer the freedom of Dundee on the Prime Minister. The new school' for mentally de- ficient children erected by the Pais- ley School Board in Renfrew Road was opened by Sir Thomas Glen - Coats, Bart. The total valuation of the County of Perth for the year 1912-13 is $4,220,645. This shows an increase of $12,720 over the previous year. It is a hundred years next month since old Kilpatrick Parish Churob was erected, and preparations are being shade to celebrate the event. Another Indian Mutiny veteran has died at Edinburgh in the per- son of Patrick Francis Cavanagh, who was a lance -sergeant in the 91st Foot. The Duchess Dowager of Argyll presented service badges tothe men of the Argyll Mountain Battery, who have enrolled in the National Reserve. Stirling county hall took place in the Publie Hall, Stirling, and was attended by 150 couples. Herr Iff's band from Glasgow was in-etten,- dance. A rally of boy scouts belonging to the northern counties was held in the Northern Meeting Park, Inver- ness, in presence of a number of spectators. The members of the Paisley School Board have decided to give e mid-day meal during winter, con- sisting of a plate of soup and a piece. of bread at a cost of %d. On his retirement after 37 yeersP service, Mr. T. R. Milligan, senior art master of Greenock Academy, ' was presented with a silver salver and a purse of sovereigns. A WORD TO 1VIOTUERS. Be Careful What Yon Say Before Your Children. 1908 . $4,189,334 $1,135,838 $142,983 1907 . 4,829,657 1,223,767 179,970 1908 . 4,580,606 1,606,724 182,450 1909. 4,949,197 1,651,339 182,450 1910 . 5,510,685 1,729,575 182,450 1911 . 6,476,848 1,657,814 231,879 On the basis of the average re- sults for the last six years the net earnings approximate to six times the total interest charges. The present authorized issue of the bonds is $7,500,000, of which $6,- 649,000 are out. The company has acapital stook outstanding of $15,000,000, whichie valued by the market at 160 per cent. Dividends at the rate of eight per cent. have been paid continu- ously for twenty-six years. Prin- cipal and interest on the bonds are payable on April and October let at the Bank of Montreal. a: The wise wife never sings for her husband as a means of trying to keep him home evenings. "Don't care if you (11(11» he snapped indignantly. "We were married this morning 1" With coal and a new overcoat to pay for the average man is safe in prophesying a tough winter ahead: If you want people to sit up and take notice simply make a noise like a ]nindred dollar bill. +t."�. sec mkaszvsa.,w�una: Let Apples be the Christmas Gift to your friends across the sea. Luscious, rosy, juicy, Canadian Apples I Can you lana- n•e an gift to the dear fines in the old land that would be ore acceptable. Because of exceptional shipping facilities wo canmake you this magnificent offer. We mill deliror FREE OF CHARGE to any address in the British Isles a ease of Guaranteed Select Cana ® ® than App s ]o for the small sum of Wo use standard cases; each, Apple is separately packed, and every precaution taken to ensure safe and rapid t,olivory, Over 5,000 eases shipped last year. Mail $3,00 NOW, stating where you require the ease sent, and WE 1)0 TRE REST. Give full postal direr- tione, along with your own card for onelosure in case. Minn manna n1Bi', an'linNr CANADIAN NADIAN EXPORT COMPANY, A, 1W 1,1130 ST. JAMBS STRRI3T' w MONTREAL Most of us do not credit young- sters with the intelligence of the pot dog or cat. We announce with. pride of the latter, "Re known everything you say," but will calmly talk scandal or discuss the small child to his face, with the con- soling belief that he does not under- stand. The quicker we get 8. wholesale awe of the precocious child the bet- ter for family peace and child de- velopment, No wonder a girl grows up a vain little prig when the has heard from infancy what a beauty. she is, or that a• small son gets un- bearable when his smart doings and sayings hove been repeated con- stantly before him, "Don't tell me vour child doers not understand," said a friend to re doting mother who was heraltlino her little one's beauty and clever- „ ness. "Look at that oonsciou0 smirk.;,' A smirk on a child's face is in- variably imrr]n4ad by the felly of grown-ups. Children may he shy by nature, bet they never have that dioagreeablo look of self-tenecioube, 110510 unless they have hewed thentr selves discussed.. Tf yon 050111ot refrain free: Cello ing of things iamb should net bo heard by small listeners, keep sway From Tem. The mother wile negleety ber children nften dons them less herrn than the adim'ial mother who lets them hang; about end roves nit heed to her tongue, ThThennla•rmf,v. not the . drawing -room, is the place for little isles, and the wise Mother le she who soon that her children do not 'get, a Aimee to listen to foolish talk, whether they take it in or not.