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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-4-17, Page 6TI-. DiO2vII tf , q p INT R(g� 2%T S ,CIT I E ' CO�al,�.9, °»✓ ~'�, ATION L•tITE • ESTAALt$HBD tool HEAD. OFFICE: 26 8(ING ST. FAST, TORONTO MONTREAL LONDON, E.C„ ENG. CAPITAL PAID UP, $1,000,000 RESERVE FUND, 5500,000 Our Quart'erl'y List Just published contains cores, Plate part1QuI its of those vostn encs GOVERNMENT BONDS AND MUNICIPAL DEBENTURES Amount Security Income Yield $ 50,000 .PROVINCE OF ONTARIO about 4 % 30,000 CITY OF OTTAWA, ONT. 4%% 10,000 CiTY OF VANCOUVER, B.0 ' 4M% 100,000 CITY OF VICTORIA, BC. 454% to 5% 200000 CITY OF ST. BONIFACE, MAN. 5 % 50,000 CITY OF BRANDON, MAN 5 % 15,000 CITY OF FORT WILLIAM, ONT 5 % 9,849 TOWNSHIP OF YORK ONT • 5 % 7,000 TOWN OF WELLAND, ONT. , 5 % 17,000 DISTRICT OF OAK BAY, B C 5 50,000 MUNICIPALITY' OF COLDSTREAM, ac.,....' 5 % 15,000 CITY OF NANAIMO, B.C. 5;i% 18,000 CITY OF REVELSTOKE, B.0 5H3% 15,000 CiTY OF NELSON, B.C. 53 % 15,000 TOWN OF CASTOR, ALTA 6 % 27,822 TOWN OF YORKTON, SAS1C 6 % CORPORATION AND INDUSTRIAL ISSUES Amount Security Income Yield CANADIAN NORTHEI,N RAILWAY COMPANY (Equipment Bonds) At Market $30,000 TORONTO 0- YORK RADIAL RAILWAY COY (First Mortgage 5's Guaranteed by Toronto Railway Co.) 5 % 25,000 ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF ONTARIO, LIMITED (First Mortgage 5's) 10,000 DOMINION STEEL CORPORATION, LIMITED (5% Debentures) 25,000 P. BURNS f COMPANY, LIMITED (Packers, Ranchers and Provisioners, Calgary, Alta,) (First Mortgage 6's due 1st April. 1924) 25,000 (First and Refunding Mortgage 6's due 1st January 1931) £2,000 WESTERN CANADA FLOUR MILLS COMPANY, LIMITED (First Mortgage 6's due 1st March, I928)5.60% 025,000 (First and Refunding Mortgage 6's due 1st September, 1931) 5.91% 25,000 WILLIAM DAVIES COMPANY, LIMITED (First Mortgage 6's) 5.7B% 25,000 SAWYER•MASSEY COMPANY. LIMITED (First Mortgage 6's) 5.90% 25,000 DUNLOP TIRE 0- RUBBER GOODS COMPANY, LIMITED (First Mortgage 6's) 6 25;000 GORDON, 1RONSIDE 0- FARES COMPANY, LIMITED (Wholesale Packers, Ranchers and Pro visioners, Winnipeg (First Mortgage 6's) 6 % 25,000 J. H. ASHDOWN HARDWARE COMPANY, LIMITED (First Mortgage 5's) 6 % 25,000 THE HARRIS ABATTOIR, COMPANY, LIMITED (First Mortgage 6's) 6 % 5M%•. 5M% 5M% 5.91% C.ANADIANGOVERNMENTMUNICDM AND CORPOPATIONBONDS ENGLA.ND'S LARGE FARMS. Less Than Fire Per Cent. Have Shown Any Profits. Att David Lloyd George, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, has promised that something shall he done by way of legislation to better the cwtndition of the three classes- the landowner, the farmer, and the laborer -who are supposed to get their living from the land, the Eng- lish papers are printing articles de- scribing the actual oondition•s in the country. It is learned that among the, farms ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 acres less than 5 per cent. have shown an annual profit in the last ten years. One writer in The Lon- don Daily Mail goes into details in regard to a Midland farm of 2,109 acres, valued at £19,772 under the Finance Aot, but which ten years ago could have .been sold for three times that amount. The- receipts from this farm amounted in ].912 to £1,322 75 10d and the expenditure. to £22 Ss 5d, plus that amount. Owing to the general fall in the value of ].and the landlord has lost a large eapital sum since he came into possession. It is calculated that in England the capital value of land fell by over £1,000,000,000 or over £500,000,000• within a genera- tion, .andhis due proportion of the national loss has fallen on this landlord. If put into the open mar- ket the estate would probably not fetch nearly £20,000, but if it sold ' at half this price the landlord would be, richer than he now is by several hundreds of pounds a year. One need not go into his reasons far holding, but it is clear that at present he acts as a sort of agricul- tural credit bank to the estate. Whatever requires capital tobe done he does, When the fa1'mor.s vi'cire in a bad way he minced the rents to a minilnllm. In the eyes of both farmers and laborers, school- s master and parson, who complete the population, he is regarded as A Good Friend. the pivot of the organization. With- out his capital there ' would be chaos, and without his personality much less confidenoe, which is the moral side of credit. MAKING A. DATE. "Brow don't forget; I'll be up to a you at twelve to -night!' CURS "He's one a£ the best friends 1 N�Qil�l'I'J haVe," "Tkiat sa7't tr�reS, even ©h moneit y, he remained after 2 lent him S 1,GNib... G I1 true to tee. OUR LETTER FROG-TOROITO WHAT IS BEING MOSTLY DISCUSSED AT THE PRESENT TIME, Rev. John Coburn at the Star -Theatre Plays aro Censored -World's 131g - gest Cross -Toronto Crowing, When Rev, Jolin Coburn donned whis- kers and heavy dark blue a\rt•otnclta. and bought a seat for the Bode' at the Star theatre the .other afternoon he made a hit with the young sports' who frequent. the burlesque. ]rouses. Even if he hod come to spy on the performance, they ad- mired hie arigtnality and the manner in which he curried out hie plan. Theshow was entitled "Dente's Daugh- ters,' though in reality it was a made. over performance of the 'Darling's of Paris," wllioh got so mush notoriety through the expaenree of Rev. 12. B. St, Clair, Mr, Coburn was .aware of this fact and decided to see the first performance So he donned his disguise and headed fo the gods. His blue glasses wore so (peaau he could hardly see, and he had difflouity gutting up the stairs. The theatre at- tendants put him in the back row and wondered why the box office had sold a ticket to a blind man, as he seemed to bo. Then they got sueploions. They ]:new what Dante It Daughters" really was anti were on the lookout for clergymen epic like Mr. St. Clair, who visited the pro duction last year, They examined their blind man closely, disoovored hie disguise and tried to eject him. But he stood his ground, and they had to leave him for the whole performance. As stated. the crowd admired his ingeniousness and plunk, It is possible the end of the Star theatre is in eight. though it too soon yet to prophecy. An amalgamation of what they call the "wheels," that is the management of the circuits. sending out burlesque per- formances, has resulted in the Star thea- tre, Toronto, being "frozen out," and after the present season it will no longer be able to get attractions of any kind Pram its present source. The proprietor ie try- ing to organize a wheal of his own to include ether cities and Toronto, and he ma be aueeeeefni. While there,. are two burlesque theatres At Toronto, some comment hes been caused by the feet that the campaign for clean - Ina, up the theatrea, which found tui chief inspiration in Rev. R. B, St. Clair's rove - battens and charges, has been almost en- tirely directed against the Star. A Newspaper Censor. as it will be the meet powerful beaten on the lake. the tlovernmentdtotp y tolrttthe ivaintenance, And one can deo the poeei. bility of religious Oontrov,inly whhth will nrlae if the Government i,,ty^a for tho light• ins of a arose for the Boman 1/n.tholio Cinueh, It is 00 easy for thio eouutry to drop into religious eentrovorelee, The Seminary is to 40 open Ra August next, with Rev. Dr, Kidd, who wee coo, rotary to the late Archbishop Monroe, In charge RR President, Dr, Kidd is an On. tarp product, a cativo of Adjaia town - Toronto Still Booming Along, Toronto's growth shows Ito sign of aleck - inane off, Building permits for the tnoeth Of March totalled practically 02,000,000, ns eoinnnrod to 61000,000 in blare'', 1912, The. number was 732, as against 014. April will be another record month. They will include the now Royal Bonk building at the north-east corner. of Icing and rouge *Knots, which is to be 20 stories high and will cost in round figures a cool million: dollars. There will also be -aalew 8300000 theatre, the new Dominion Batik building and other important strueturee, Hon. W. T. White. Toronto peep e, regardless of party - Deities, are following the Finance Minis. r tog's career with the keenest interest; Hon. e W. T. White lea real native son. and he ltas been nmuehing whiskered materna, so why shouldn't they be taking an. interest in him? Be Imo proved for one thong that R previous bo training as cn professional po111-- titcian. And that is a good thing for the country to know. As Finance Mlnieter s he lute not been revolutionary. Avid 'Po- - route thinks that outside Mr. Bordon he is the strongest man in the Cabinet. Signs of the Strain. Since the appointment of Wm. Banks, Sen„ to the position of censor, there have, however, been few complaints. Mr. Banks is a newspaper man of many years' standing, a prominent member of the Globe etaif and foremost in various frater- nal and social organizations, He is a canny Scot of quick perception and shrewd judgment, with a will to back up Ida spin• lons. So when he says something has to be cut out, 1t is cut out, And that's the cud of it. In his work he Is assisted by two other newspaper men, who devote Monday af- ternoons and several evenings a week to visiting the various theatres and seeing that everything is on the level. Much of the eeneor'a work dose not a - Pear on the surface. For example 1t is said that he virtually prohibited tite ap- nearanoe here this season of Gertrude Hoff- man, a famous dander, who reduces wear- ing apparel to a minimum, The story is that he put hie foot down and said If she put on ]ler act here he would put her in jail. Anyway she Hasn't come yet. Mr. O'Keefe's Illness. Mr. Euyene O'Ifeefo, who, at the time of writing. ie stricken with a aerioua illness, is one of the prominent citizens of To- ronto, and possibly tho foremost Roman Catholic layman to the Province. St. Augustine Seminary, •which is now rearing its walls on its splendid site on Scarboro Bluffs, about ten miles eeet from the cor- ner of Bang and Yonge streets, will stand as a monument to hie public spirit and affection for his church, His gift to the protect in 1910 of 6150,000 made the enter. prise possible, and he has aubeequently made substantial additions, This la by . no means the total of his generosity to Mother Church, as he has for years been a generous contributor in all departments. On one occasion he presented a church, namely St. Monica's, valued at some 833,. 000. to the Boman Catholic Episcopal Cor- poration. Chamberlain to the Pope. In recognition of hie eerricea and char- acter he was in 1909 appointed Chamber- lain to his Holiness the Pope. Mr. O'Keefe is . now a very old man, be. lug 86 years of age.. but until hie recent illness he retained unusual activity. In financial circles he is prominent, being President of the Home Bank, but it le the business of brewing that hoe furnished Jahn with his life work Ind has been the source of his. wealth, Originally. a bank clerk, he organized in 1861 the Victoria Brewing Co„ afterwards merged in the present company. Though born in Cork County, Ireland, he hoe lived in Toronto lalma he was Eleven years old. Biggest Cross In the World. St. Augnetine Seminary is to furnish a training institution for the Catholic Church. It is to be surmounted by a huge cross, f6 feet high, with a cross pieoo of 9 feet.: This cross will be 600 feat above the level of Lake Ontario, as compared to the 329 feet elevation of the weather vane on St. 3amee' Cathedral staple. The cross is to be illuminated with eighty strong electric lights and will, no doubt, be impressive.. It to said that it will be the largest illuminated crone in the world. In connection with the lighting of this ernes there may be an interesting con. 10000 ey. It is said that the present plans of the Church are to light it only on cer- tain oocasiaas. governed by the Church celebrations, But there will, no doubt, be a demand on the partofsailors on Lake Ontario to have it lighted continuously, Solves the reakfast Problem A bowl of crisp, sweet Post TA _.� ashes `.hakes a most delicious meal. These crinkly bits of toasted white corn, ready to serve direct from pack- age, are a temping break- fast when served with cream or milk, or fruit. The Toasties flavour is. a pleasant surprise at first; then a happy, healthful habit. "The Memory Lingers" Canadian Partum Cereal Co„ Ltd, Windsor, Ontario. His friends nota with some anxiety that Ids hair is turning grey and that tl"a fur- rows on hie brow aro deepening, Can- ada loads up her Cabinet Ministers with a tremendous amount of detail and at the same time demands scrupulous exactitude in the despatch of each trivial item of business. And the l,oeltion of Minister of Finance to probably the most outstanding illustration of those things in the eouutry. v SPLIT 40 CORDS AT AGE OF 85 Thankful to the Medicine That Gave Hint Ability For the Task. A VERY INTERESTING CASE. Few men of eighty-five .years of aga can boast of ranch else but poor health and failing etrength. And such was the con dition of Mr, Benj, Marsh, who is known to every soul in the neighborhood of his home at Lime Lake, Ont. "Quite unsolicited," writes Mr, Marsh '2 wish to say how I have been bothered for yeara with stomach -trouble. I tried everything I could think of without bene. lit, I was terribly afflicted with swelling and gas, and had much distress between meals. I tried everything I could think of, but without benefit, Thou I was re- commended Nerviline. My, but Nerviline did me a power of good -made a new man of me, so that within the last three weeks I have been able to split about forty cords of stove wood. T will alwaye etick to Ner. viline and will always recommend it, and would like to meet anyone and convince them if in doubt as to what Nerviline has done far me." For sour stomach, nausea, belching of gas. cramps and sudden sickness at night. nothing is more helpful in the home, no- thing aavea so much pain and distress es Nerviline. Large family size bottles, 60o.; small size, 25e., at all storekeepers and druggists or The Oatarrhozone Co., Buf- falo, N. Y. SNAIL INDUSTRY REVIVED. Tillage . of Piddinghoe, England, Sends 'Them to France. It has hardly been suspected that in the past many of the fat snails placed before the Parisian 'gourmet name from England -to be exact, from the Sussex village of Pidding- hoe-and that now there are signs than the industry is reviving. It seems, that at the time of the Franoo-Prussian war, when many French families sought asylum in England, a certain Mme. Dariat came to Piddinghoe, bought a pot- tage and began to raise what the inhabitants called "snegs" for the French fishermen who, landed for diem and took them over to France. The oldest Sussex fisher- man in the place was recently in- terviewed by a London reporter on the subject. "Yes," he declared, "I mind Mme. Doris.* bought a house here and started to keep snegs. She had a little house in the garden where she kept the snegs. Used to get boys to gather them for her, and then keep them till they wets fat enough to send to France." The details of the fattening had slipped out of the old man's mem- ory. "Wasn't it flour she used to Med 'em on?" he asked, and at any rate no one could contradict him. What he does remember clearly is Mme. Doriat's method of ascer- taining if asnail was good and wotth the trouble of fattening. "She used to make the mega climb up a board sloped against the wall. If they stuck on they was good, an' if they dropped off they was 'bad, I've seen hundreds of. 'c.m climbing np ; but 1 never tasted one, and "I ain't going to." ' Mme. iDoriat may be dead long since,. but the snails of Piddinghoe to .this day flourish to het memory. They are fatter than most snails. Narita 300 Years Old. London, England, possesses a curiosity in the Sauthwarlt eel .malr- ket, which is said to have been ,held regularly for over three hundred years. It is little known except in the neighborhood where it is held--- \iz,, near Blackfriars Bridge, bui; now they conte mostly Imre Holland and -Scotland, They are not gold , by weight, as is usual, but by the handfuls, this pike being "four - /mime the grab? FOR MAKING SOAP, SOFTENING WATER, REMOVING PAI DISINFECTING SINKS. CLOSET S,DRAINS,ETC. SOLD EVERYWHERE REFUSE SUBSTITUTES IHISTORY OF '.CEA DRINI{ING. In Sixth Century Well -Known Bev erage Discovered in China. According to the Chinese, tea was discovered by the great Emperor Chinug in 737. This ruler of the celestial kingdom stands sponsor for everything new in the vegetable line, remarks the Philadelphia Re- cord, and so this legend may or may not be true. It is certain, however, that in the sixth century tea was already a well-known beverage in the land of the poppy and the pea- cock. By the eighth century tea was common enough in every part of China and there is a tax record dated in the year 793 showing that Emperor .Tih Tsang was determined to exact revenue from tea. Since that date tea has been regularly taxed as a luxury in every country where it is extensively used, Tea was carried to Japan and cultivation established early in the ninth century. It is quite difficult to establish the exact date when tea -drinking was introduced into Europe. There is no trace of it prior to the year 1588, although other Chinese customs had been im- ported before then. Teo, was brought to Europe by the Portu- guese, who were the most daring of the world's explorers and discov- erers in that distant day. The earliest mention of tea drink- ing in England occurs in a letter from Mr, Wickham from Japan, dated June 27, 1615. In 1656 the English began to- drink tea in society circles, the supply being imported from Java at the coat of $30 to $50 a pound. It is quite needless to arty that the com- mon people did not drink much tea duringthose days. To -day tea is used the world around. - IF "Do you believe that all men are created equal1" "I used to before I was married." "And now?" "Now I find that I can't- begin to compare with other women's hus- bands." Tarred Rope Horseshoes. In Germany many horse's are shod with shoes made of tarred rope. Tho object is to prevent slipping on streets covered with as- phalt or paved blocks. In some of these shoes there is also a block of wood into which stiff bristles have been driven. This is an additional preventive against slipping and strengthens the shoe. They are light and comfortable for the horse and deaden the sound of the hoof. PROFIT SHARING BONDS. Attractive For m of Investment. An attractive folder which will be of great interest to -.capitalists who are looking for a safe investment yielding 7 per cent,, and which of- fers at the same time possibilities of bringing in still farther profits, may be obtained by writing to The National Securities Corporation, Limited, Confederation Life Build- ing, Toronto. This latter Company has been particularly successful in developing and financing various industrial en- terprises. The investment describ- ed in this folder is in the form of profit sharing bonds with interest at 7 per cent., payable semi=annu- ally. Maypole Soap FDYR EINGE Washes and dyes at one operation, giv- ing remarkably clean, bright; Iasi colors. Dyes cotton, wool, silk or mix- tures. ixtures. 24 colors, will give any shade. Colors 10c, black I 5c at your dealer's or poatp'd with let "How to Dye' ro5 from F. L. BENEDICT & CO. Montreal Seed Corn On the Cob or Shelled. Imp. Lemming. or White Oap Y. Dant $1.35 per bushel. Longtellow 91.00; •- Ctampton's .81.60. Freight paid In Ontario on 10 bushels or more. Bats free, Write for catalogue, CEO, KEITH & SONS, Toronto, Seed merchants since 1866.. We have prepared a folder dealing With one of the most attractive 7% investments in the present market. Copy mailed on Requost National Securities Corporation LIMITED CONFEDERATION LIFE BLDG., - TORONTO, ®NT. ON'T SSS THIS A Splendid 10 cent Household Speoialty is being Introduced all over Canada. It is ap. preolotod by the Thrifty Housewife who wants things "Just 71111le Batter," Send Pow Card today. Simply say; - ''Send Package of Household Specialty Advertised in my Newspaper." That'a all -Yon will b0 delighted] Pay if $oblofled-We take tho Risk. address P,O, Box 1240, Montreal, Can, This. Offer expires dune 10, 19 0. Send to.dayl Do not be misled - ASK FOR PER I ;S GLOVES and LOOK for the Trade -Mark. Perrin's'Gloves are famed for their Style, Fit and Finish. Gloves that are .4'07' stamped with either the trado.mark or the ram >'Perrin'sltfake"aro `,tot thegarutlste. 3-rr-1a 1 BRUTAL SOCIETY OF DEATH 0VERN'RENT ENDEAVORING 'J10 PUT IT DAWN. Members of limas ii Leopard Soot. ety Join by Eating Slain Iranian F1osh. It is reported from Sierra Leone that the government has arrested several hundred chiefs of the tribes in the Native Sherbro district, as the beginning of an active cam- paign against the Human Leopard Society. The killing committed by this brutal organization has in- creased at an alarming rate of late. Originally its member'.ahip was limi- ted rather narrowly to the Imperri district and .some years ago the government thought ib had sue- ceeded in oonrpletely destroying the organization. Writing in 1901, the district commissioner of the Sher- bro, T. J. Allradge, said : "Happily the persistent and effective moa - sures adopted by the government have been so successful that I quite believe the Airman Leopard Society is now simply a matter of history." Within eleven years it appears to have spread widely throughout the country and even involved in its toils some if not many of the Chris- tian negroos of the Freetown sec- tion, descendants of the liberated slaves from the West Indies. Is Form of Fetichism. This leopard society is one of the most curious of the many forms of fetichism among the lower races of mon. Apparently it is of recent origin, although simple leopard worship appears to have existed for many years in West Africa. The human leopards, however, if they worship that animal at all, make it an unimportant - part of their nunlbo-jumbo--so far as we know, at least, They have always main- tained the greatest secrecy regard- ing their operations and the natives are so thoroughly saturated with the superstition that they shut up like clams when the subject is men- tioned. Therefore the knowledge pobsessed by the government re- garding their rites and rituals is meagre and by no means beyond suspicion in the matter of accuracy. Here is the substance of what the Sierra Leone authorities think they know about the human leopards : Charm in Cannibal Act. The members of the society aro cannibals, but apparently not be- cause of any love for "long pig." They eat their neighbors, in the first place, because such a feast is a necessary preliminary to becoming a "human leopard," and, secondly, because of a belief that there is pe- culiar virtue in such food -a belief that the eater is protected in 000110 magical way by his unnatural meal. It said that strangers are often tricked into joining the order by feeding them human flesh mixed with other food. Afterward they are informed that they have, un- wittingly joined the club, and few have the courage to back out. The new member's initiation fee consists of the killing of some relative or neighbor for the use of the society. Two Magic Medicines. There appear to be two magic medicines manufactured by them. One is called nessi, is made from human fat and. used as a magical ointment. The other, known as borfima, consists of the heart and other organs, and serves as a sort of ."swearing blocks." The mem- bers are sworn to secrecy on hor- fima, and such an oath is the most binding of any known it the Sher- bro. When there is no new mem- ber to furnish tfie needed sacrifice Lots are drawn for the victim as well as his or her slayer. The erdc is committed in Romo-secret pathway in the jungle, the victim being pounced OD from behind and struck in the neck with a curious three - pronged fork or knife, supposed to resemble a leopard's claw. (Mon- ti/nes the vertebrae are slivered and death is instantaneous. ' Grains of Gold. The great thing in the world is not so math to seek happiness as to earn peace and self -respect, -Hux- ley, Dogs are the best friends; they are always ready with 'their sym- pathy, and they ask no questions.-- G. ot. TheEl mast gladsome thing in 'the world is that few of us 'fall very, low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high, - J. M. Barrie. The beat way to handle the fair sex is to lot them have their own Way. My feelings aro thafi p, �line band in that position :has the lisp pies: han19 -Mr.. Bordon Self l'idge.' Man eau Iah:6', ivtb monlally and physically, far hanger' aitd with far better' effect, at the (task In" , ho takes delight than in ono to which beteg to chive himself under spur of the necessity of earning a diving. -••-Mr, Eloraoo Hutchinson, A girl doesn't necessarily throw' herself at a young man just be- cause she tosses her head at him.