HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-6-26, Page 6CANADIAN ORDER FORESTERS
34TII ANNUAL 111UTTIIiG OF
TUE 'HIGH COURT.
Over 500 Delegates in Attendance
at the Annual Meeting in the
City of London.
The 34th Annual Meeting of •the
Canadian Order of Foresters con-
vened on Tuesday afternoon, the 10th
of June, in the new Masonic Temple
in the City of London at 2 p.m, Dele-
gates are .in attendance from all
parts of the Dominion, every Province
being represented, This order had its
birth in London in November, 1879,
and has on three subsequent occa-
sions, including the present, returned
there for its Annual Meeting. •
The . following officers of High
Court were present at the opening
session:
J. A. Stewart, High Chief Ranger,
Perth, Ont.; J,AA. Brodeur, High Vie°
Chief Ranger, Montreal, Que,; Alt P.
Van Someren, High Secretary; Dr. 7I.
M, Stanley, Chairman of the Medical
Board; Robert Elliott, High Treasur
er; W. L. Roberts, High Auditor; A,
Shultis, Second High Auditor; W. G.
Strong, Superintendent of Organiza-
tion, all of Brantford, Ontario, and W.
M. Couper, Montreal, Que.; N. J. Stev-
enson, Toronto, Ont.; R, T. Kemp,
Listowel, Ont; A. R. Galpin, London,
Ont.; F, IL Davidson, Winnipeg, Mang
Members of the Executive Commit-
tee. •
In addition to the above, John Mur
ray, District High Chief Ranger, Ha-
miota, Man.; D. E. McKinnon, Dis-
trict High Secretary, Winnipeg
Man., and A. K. Berry, District High
Vice 'Chief Ranger, Holland, Man.
representatives from the District
High Court for Manitoba.
The annual reports of the various
officers of this Order are of. a most
satisfactory nature, showing that the
steady progress that the Canadian
Order of Foresters has experienced
ever since its inception in 1879 was
continued in the year 1912, which is.
covered by these reports.
This Order confines its business en
tirely to the Dominion of Canada, and
is, therefore, peculiarly a Canadian
organization. In all its departments
the result of the business of 1912
shows it .to have been the best year
in the. Order's. experience.. The, In.
crease in the Insurance Funds of the
Order amounted to $380,727.15. This
fund standing at the end of the year,
after payment of 506 Death Claims
amounting to $508,951.19, at $3,989,-
976.21, the amount at the present ,time
being $4,108,799.50. The revenue now
derived from the investments of the
Order constitute a very substantial
amount of the annual income. Last
year interest earned' on investments
if Insurance Funds amounted to $167.-
166.16.
167.166.16.
!n Tespeat to the matter of invest-
ments, it is interesting' to know that
the Order confines the use of its
funds to the purchasingbf Municipal
and School Debentures of the Domin-
ion of Canada, and the very advan-
tageous market, from• Die investors'
point of view, of recent years, bas
enabled the Executive Committee to
obtain a handsome return on such in-
vestments, taking into consideration
the undoubted security offered In this
class of investment.
Both the Sick and 'Funeral Benefit'
and General Funds show $larger in-
creases for 1912"than In any previous
year. Interest earned on investments
of Sick and Funeral Benefit funds,
which are of a similar nature to those
made of the Insurance funds, amount-
ed to $12,208.04, and, after. the .pay-
ment of nearly 7,000. Sick and Funeral
Benefit Claims, amounting.' to $166,-
534.30, the sum of $51,783.44 was ad-
ded to the balance in thisDepart-
ment, as the result of the business for
the year under review. •{ The total
amount standing to the 'creditofthis
fund at the present date is:$306,927.03.
In respect to membership also,
substantial progress was- '.made. The.
net result of the year's operations
showing an increase of 4,410; the
membership of the Orderon the 31st
of December, 1912, standing at 87,536.
Besides the benefitsacceuing from
Lite Insurance and the or !nary. Sick
and Funeral Benefit Dep : rtment of
this Order, we note that special pro-
vision is being made for those of its
members who are suffering from
Tubucular troubles of, any kind, a
special grant being made for their
care in any of a number of Sanitaria,
provided in this country .-for special
treatment of patients ,so afflicted,
It is gratifying to note, in a perusal
of the reports of all: the officers, the
tar -reaching benefits that are being
derived by the membership, in the
various directions in which this So-
ciety endeavors
o-
ciety'endeavors to be of assistance
to the individuals whocompose same.
- The -record of the Canadian Order of
-Foresters, as submitted in these re.
ports, is well worth the perusal of
those who have been perhaps too
apt to decry the permanence and sta-
bility of fraternal insurance concerns:
There is every evidence of careful
management and' of well -directed en-
•deavor to conduct the affairs of the
Society in an intelligent and business,
like manner.
A. point of special interest as Indi-
cating the cautious selection of risks,
is the death rate, which for 1912 was.
only 5.78 :per thousand, and over the
Order's e`xperiende` of thirty-three
years, less than 5.25 per cent. per
tbousslnd,
further .that the Superin.
kpil it. of Organfzatien'has been able.
rt the nstftutfdn of -foe forty.
000,
n
o'YCourti; bd ,that every effort pos
el b lei being Made to establish Courts s
:ort A Canadian Order of F'oreetern*.
liy h. new .territory being opened up
tit ii3'3orinidii+of Canada from time
and as the points become
enough to maintain a Court.
it ✓ery constdel,akaie amount of buil:
Bees will be laid boforo the delegates,
and it is eXPeoted that the Sessions of
the High Court will extend over soy -
oral days, probably occupying their
attention till the 18th or 14tH inst,
s•
COUPLE RETIRE ON $1,000.
Living Costs Thom Only Four Cents
a Day—Nine Menu.
Marcus M. Wood, 73 years old,
and his wife, d Webster; Mass.,
have lived for nearly three months
on four cents a day. Weed says he
feels better physically for it. The
couple say $1,000 insures a person
a eordoetablo and healthy living
throughout life, besides a smell
bank account.
To live on the four' cents a day
scale, Woods says; there should bo
obtained"a home and a small pisco
of land on which to raise vegeta-
bles. The Webster couple .raise
their own vegetables, which were
used in • the following menu :
Breakfast—Doughnuts and bread,
fried Indian meal, pudding, butter
and grape jelly. Dinner—Potatoes,
buckwheat pudding, tomato soup,
grape jelly, bread and butter,
doughnuts, ' cracked wheat and
milk. Supper -Buckwheat cakes
and 'gravy, butter, plum jelly,
cracked wheat and tea.
THE FRENCHMAN'S SMOKE.•.
Big Increase in Amount of Tobacco
Consumed.
The figures of the revenue derived
by the 'State from the sale of to-
bacco in France for the year 1912
have just been published, and are
interesting as showing the remark-
able increase in consumption and
revenue over those of 1911. .
In the form of pipe tobaeeo, cig-
arettes and cigars, 86,200,000
poundsof tobacco were consumed
last year, which has supplemented
the funds of the treasury by $107,-
500,000.
As compared with the figures for
1911, this represents an increase of
2,800,000 pounds of tobacco in the
three forms • mentioned, while the
revenue has been augmented by
$5,000,000. There seems every in-
dication that the figures for the
present year will again show an
enormous increase.
HIGH COST OF LIVING.
"Living is becoming constantly'
dearer."
"Welly there's such a demand for
it."
BEGAN YOUNG.
Had "Nerves" from Youth.
"When very young I began using
coffee and continued .up to the last
six months," writes a Southern
girl.
I had been exceedingly 'nervous
thin and very sallow. After quit-
ting coffee and drinking Poetum
about a month my nervouenese dis-
appeared and has never returned."
(Tea contains the same injurious.
drug, caffeine, found in coffee.).
"This is the more remarkable as I
am a Primary teacher and have.
kept right on with my work.
"My complexion now is clear and:
rosy, my akin soft and smooth. As'
a good complexion was something
I had greatly desired I feel amply'
repaid even though this were the•
only benefit derived from drinking
Postum. •
"Before beginning its use I had
suffered greatly from indigestion
and headache; these troubles are
now unknown.
"I changedfrom coffee to Postum
without the alight'est inoonvenienee,
did not even have a headache,
have known coffee drinkers, who
were visiting me, to use Bastian a
week wit',out being aware that they
were not drinking coffee."
Name given by Canadian Postum
Co., Windsor, • Ont. Write for
booklet, "The Road to Wellville."
Postum conies in two forme.
Regular (mutt be boiled).
netant Postum doesn't require
boiling ut is prepared . instantly
by stirring a level tettapoonf in
an ordinary cup of hot water, which
makes it right for most persons.
A big cup restores mote and
some people .who like strop thii'ites
i-.
put in a heaping s Poonf�-fund tem-
per
P
per it with a large supply cf cream.
Experiment until you know the
amount that Demos, your palate
a served h
and have it ed a thee way in the
future,
"There's a'Reveteen" 'for' Postern,
There'e no hope for the man who
doesn't knew r: when to admit that
he doesrl't knovr.
YEARS ON THE NORTH SEA
IritE REMINISCENCES OF AN
OLD TRAWLER.
The Jelly Jfish, Octopus and Weaver
Ai'o the'T'ruwler's Worst
Enemies.
A hardy browned face, tanned by
many a keen "Nor -Easter," yet
withal lit up by as merry a pair
of brown eyes that could he met
with turned to the writer With a
laugh and put out a huge horned
hand, and gave a grip like a small
bear that made the other man
mince, says a writer in a London
paper,
"Yes," he said, in answer to a
previous question. "I've had 17
years trawling and sometimes I'm
'rather sorry I left it, Bough?
Well, p'raps it but at the same
time its a healthy life, A man is
brought up to it hom his child-
hood, i -'started when I was 13,
and kept at it 'till 30. I started
as -they nearly all do, as an appren
kite cook, then I was a deck hand
for some tiros, and then a mate.
One has to have a Board of Trade
certificate for a mate.
(lest Fishing Ground.
I belonged to a fishing fleet from.
Ramsgate. Our best ,ground was
the North Sea, the "South
!Ground," as it was called. This is
the deepwater at the back of the
Goodwin Sounds, and the best
weather is what is called a '`Reef
+Breeze."
There is an old sailor's saying',
"When the sun strikes the water
the fish strike the net," which
means when the sun is sinking, and
on through the night is the best
time to cast our nets. In the day
time I think the fish ane .the net,
and seem to bury themselves, but
come out at night, and we are kept
busy, I can tell you." •
Great Enemies.
The trawler's great enemies are
jelly fish and octopus. These jelly
fish get around the net, and the
great number that attach them-
selves to the net can bo imagined
when it is mentioned that although
the trawling abeam is about 46 feet.
long, the jellyfish are so numer-
ous and so : buoyant that they -will
foat this for a considerable time,
and prevent the net sinking.
"We used to get pretty badly
stung with these fish,'.' he said,
"and a sting from a jelly fish is no
joke. I have seen men walking up,
end ' down the deck raving mad
with pain. The best antidote for
a jelly fish sting is ordinary blue,
and we always used to carry some
with us on purpose for these stings.
The weaver is 'another fish that
gives us trouble. These fish have
a fin that sticks 'np in the middle
;,,sof the aback, and many a man has
'lost a finger from a sting witha.
weaver. I have known men. to be
on shore kr six weeks and over
'suffering from blood -poisoning.
• Be Wary of Octopus.
"That's another dangerous thing,
the octopus. Nasty things they
are. I remember we got one in
"Vire net about 10 mules off the.
French west. Its body .*as quite
three feet long, and some of its
tentacles were over four feet long.
We tried to get 'a shovel under it,
but as fast as we . loosened one
feeler another clung to the deck or
else' round the rigging, in 'fact it
took charge of the deck. I tell you
we had to look pretty slippy,'as'
every now and then one of the feel-
ers came swinging round in • the
air, and . then it was a cede of
'dodge it.' }low do you think we
shifted it?" he asked, and the writ-
er expressed himself as being un-
=able to solve the riddle.
"Wo got some boiling water,"
-he 'explained, "and poured right
aver him. Shift him! . I should
think it did; he simply curled right
up,"
Sting Rays s Liver.
"Ever heard of Sting Ray V' he
suddenly asked with a chuck'lo'
"Nol I thought not; very few peo-
ple have, It's :rather a small fish
'with a whitish brown stripe. The
liver is the finest' thing that can
be got for 'burns. We used to get
the livers out of these' fish and put
them in a large can and cover them
up air tight, and pack them away
in the fo'c's'le. In time this turns
'to oil and it's the finest thing in
the world for burns, and if ap-
plied at once it will take all the
burn out and prevent blister."
Plenty of Smuggling.
"Smuggling?" he winked. "WeII,
sliould say so. We teed to smug-
gle tobacco in the leaf, and cigars,
+Cognac and eau de 'Cologne, in fact
'anything we wanted got ashore in
'the fenders along the side of the
boat'. We used to getaway from
Ostend 'yith any amottnt. of stn •,
and they never used to think .of
looking there, although I think
!they did net ".inlse , a eingle inch
anywhere eleo. ' One'ed'itld get the
best cigars for i%d.,'' 'he sighed.
'"Wish I had genie here now. Why,
Z only used to pay 2 francs for a
boil of the finest cigars I ever
'smoked. Another thing we used to
get was what was known as a
!three pints—good stuff, too, the
best' Cognac, for a franc and e half
!(about 30 cents), No, I never got
caught; and, indeed, very few el
our fellows ever did, ,
Heavy Seas.
"We lied a lot to put up with, I
have done 40 hours straight off, and
!that in heavy oilskins and. sea
!boots; in fact, we never thought
iof taking our things off, but would
'turn in what was kliown as 'all
:standing,' that is, 'with everything
on, even the heavy sea hoots. We
used to encounter very heavy seas
in those parts. I remember once
eve were, running . w.ith single reef,
about 40 miles off the Flemish
eoast,'on what is known as the
`Hinds Bank,' 'We tacked across
the Bank and before one could say
`Jack Robinson,' we shipped a
heavy sea, carrying away our fore-
sail, our boat, and about 16 feet
of the bulwark and rail. I was
down below at the time, and the
shock threw me out of my bunk
dike an explosion.
Gunpowder Off the Goodwin.
"We saw some funny things. I
remember about ]0 years ago some
boat was 'wrecked on the Goodwin
]Sands, laden with gunpowder and..
'nitro-glycerine. We fellows did
not really know how dangerous the
stuff was, Anyway we got a lot
of eases; of course they were wet.
Bo what did we do but put•tihem on'
a• donkey boiler that was ' used to
'work the capstan, to'dry up a' bit,
and then we went up on deck to
overhaul the nets." He chuckled
et the remembrance, "We hadn't
been up there but a few, minutes
when three deck planks went up
in the air and part of the bulwark
rail. ' It was a wonder nothing more
serious happened. Things got so
!dangerous at last that they used
to blow a siren off the pier at
'Ramsgate and not allow any boat
in the harbor until the .stuff was
all dumped overboard. Ever had
any accidents? Yes, I remember
'olie very sad ease. I was mate. of
!the `Alfred' then, and we picked
4ip a quantity of the stuff, and
someone suggested that we put a
can in the small boat at the stern
and Snake a train along a scull and
touch it off. Well, they did, al-
though I tried to persuade them
not to, There was a man named
'Charley Goldsmith in the boat at
the timeand 'we touched off a i0 -lb.
'can of powder. Of course, you can
guess what happened. It blew the
boat to smithereens, and ' poor
Charley. with it. •A11 that was left
was the painter. We made a col-
lection for his widow and did the
right •thing,
"Mind you," he said,' "although
the life is a hard one, in fact, I
doubt if there is a harder, the pay
is good. 1 have gone to sea on
Monday, sold our fish on Saturday,
and gone home with £9 in my
pocket, , We.used to take our fish
either into Lowestoft or Ramsgate,
'wherever we could get the best
market. We used, to get: the, rbest
prices at Lowestoft. I have seen a
box of soles, about 120 lbs., fetch
425.; that's not bad. Most of the
fish we got were plaice, ood, sole,
skate, Burnet, weaver, dubs- and
doreys.
"Yes," ho said, in conclusion,
with another mighty grip, "it's a
grand life, and somehow I almost
wish I was back again, but I shan't
now," and he shook his head rather
sorrowfully and puffed vehemently
athispipe,- lost' again in the recol-
lection of the time when he fought
the mighty deep and risked his life
every hour of the day and night
to provide thousands of people with
the "dainties from the sea."
BRITISH COLONIAL FIRE.
A special meeting of the Sharehold-
ers has been called by the Board of
Directors for the -purpose of making
an issue of $250,000,00, increasing the
subscribed- capital to $1,000,000.00.
The Company has been doing busi-
ness since June, 1912, and at the
first Annual Meeting of Shareholders,
held in February last, an issue of
$250,000.00 was made, and immediately
subscribed.
The balance . of the proposed ;issue
remaining . unsubscribed at a certain
,date will be taken up by a Montreal
syndicate, which has agreed to sub-
se'rlbe all the shares not sold, at a
premium of 810.00 per share.
Thooperations of the Company have
been 'so satisfactory that a certain
number of Shareholders have ex
pressed the desire to subscribe the
new issue.
With the capital of one million
($1,000,000.00) the, "British Colonial
Fire" will rank amongst the most im-
portant companies doing business in
Canada.
Plowing By Motor.
A power -driven plow, behind
which the operator walks, ne with a
horse-drawn plow, is a recent ..in-
vention. The power plant consists
of a two-eyole nine h,p, gasoline en-
gine mounted between the handles
and•geared to two : spiked drive
wheels. The downward pull .of :the
plow cutting its way through the
soil hold's the drive ,wheels to the;
ground and the spikes prevent elfi'
-
ping.
When .the/plow strikes a root,
stump sr large rock the spiked
and themnei an bo
wheels slip an h ns c
thrown out of gear i'n's'tan'tly, It is:
then easily raised • above the ole
struation by,lifting on the hatidle.%
the ens ia thro i into goa
'leiter'. . of btaid
-Uhtt• • is about a fl
inant1tcpla in s r
edts: '.
We unhesitatingly
recommend Magic Baking
Powder as being the best, purest
and ,most healthful baking; pow-
der that it is possible to produce,
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•
OUR LETTER FROM TORONTO
WHAT 1S UPPERMOST IN THE MINOS
OF THE CITIZENS JUST NOW.
New Citizens Aro Flocking In—Affairs at
the University—Toronto's Croat
New Hospital.
Neverbefore hae there beansuch an
influx of immigration from. the Brltleil
Isles into this proviueo a, -during the pro -
sent season, An the distributing centre,
Toronto Sete fleet choice of these fresh
eitizene, *Often in a'stroll'Falong' the street,
one would judge from the snatches of cow
vorsatlon picked up from paesers by that.
outs was walking on a London or Birm.
Ingham thoruugnfare rather. than Can.
adlam
The crowds in the local immigration
015005 arc eloquent of the great migra-
tion. Figures tell the tale officially. Dur-
ing the first ten months of the present
fiscal year, the total immigration into.
Canada amounted to 344,983, a number
equal almost to the immigration o1 the
entire previous year. Of this number
130,109 were from the British Isles and
118,826 from the United States. Bat the
mbar, . significant thing about the figures
is the fact that almost the entire British
immigration, which is so large as to give
the people of Britain serious concern,
appears to be coming to the Province of
Ontario. According to the figures 110 1050
than 155,681 British immigrants esme to
Ontario during the ten month period.
Tito West is getting the Americans and
other foreigners,
Only Farm Help Wanted.
It would be thought that this. influx
ought to be doing something to solve the
"farm help" problem, but it is not cer-
tain that this is the'oaae. Many of them
will etiok at any oity job they can get
rather than go on the farm. A signi-
9eant sign is pinned to the door of the
leading- employment agency of the city.
It reads "No males wanted asoept farm
help." As for females, the demand for
domestic - service soemd inexhaustible.'.
In truth many of the new arrivals
know abeolutoly nothing of Conditions on
the farm. One nearby farmer tells a
story of the other day taking, home an
immigrant. Early in the evening he
showed him to his room and in a few
momenta heard the thud of boots dropped
on the floor outside the now arrival's
door. The new hired man- was putting
his boots outside to be cleaned.
Another who was applying to a farmer.
for a position was asked . if he could
milk. "Olt aye, brawley," wee his re-
sponee. 'I once milked a goat"
No more adaptable are some of the
women. Ono' who took-a„place as a do-
mestic in a home -where' there wore hot
and cold water tape and` all other con-
veniences, wan found by her mietrees an:
hour after dinner .:sitting in the ;kitchen
•beside a dish pan'•full of dishes. 0n
being asked why she did not go ahead
with her:. dishwashing she said that the
water from the hot water tap had been
too hot and she was - waiting for itto
cool.
The sobriety of Canada bothers others.
An employer whohad engaged a number
of Englishmen on .some construction work
was scandalized on going up to the top.
of the -building one day recently, to find
that the new laborers had laid down
their 'tools and were enjoying half a
dosen bottle', of beer.
But these are exceptional oases. On the�
whole the new influx constitutes a great
addition to the wealth of the. nation. .
Polities In University.
Something' of a rumpus hae been stirred
up- in -University - circles, by the.: charge'
made at., the annual' meeting• of. the ;Alum-..
ni Association by Mr. Gordon Waldron
to -the affect that an insidious effort. ie
being made to introduce Imperialism tato
the University. Mr, Waldron did not go
further in support of hie charge than to
say that a :dietinet•tendency was obeer-
able to Introduce Oxford graduate's to
the staff. But be declared that in Uni-
versity College, which is the bailiwick of
Dr: Maurice Hutton, there were ten Os -
ford men. in the whole institution there
wore Ito leas than 25, nine' of whom had
been appointed during the past year. As
towhether these men wore conducting
any political propaganda and if so by
what methods, Mr. Waldron did not say.
Mr. Waldron's charge is in the char.
acter of a oonnterattack to .those who
have been criticising the University.. be-
cause of the recentorganizationthere of
a Young men's Liberal Club. It is'known,
too, that there ie a considerable clique of.
thor,ough-paged Nationalists 'I/1 the eta-
dont body. Semetwo or throe years ago
'inVitatloue were extended to Mr. Dour.
Lana and Mr: Lavergne, the prominent
Nationalist leaders, It is now said thnt
this Nationalism had as its basis a Ger.
tain resentment of the. ultra Imperialism,
'ofoertain members of the staff. '
Prof. Hutton and Mr. - Waldron..
At all events there seems little. 'doubt
that political feeling ig running higher
at the University now than it has for
many years, It is perhaps only a relec.
tion. of Indreased political partisanship
throughout the country,or it may fedi.
tate that the student body is taking a
More 1ustivo Interest In political strains.
Professor Hatton Is a very distinguished
scholia, with strong militarist Deas: It
was lie who at the recent annual dinner
of the Canadian, Press Association aritf-
oired thepress and draw fire from the
representatives Of the newspapers who
responded, •
Mr. Gordon Waldron le a lawyer, with
considerable force of character, though
often thought to be extreme In hie views.
Ile spent many- years in Central Amor.
lea, but recently has been praetioinglaw
and journalism through the. Weakly Sun
is this oily.
Toronto's Now Hospital.
Toronto's splendid new General. Hospi-
tal, -formally opened on Juno 19. is said
by exports to' represent - the -last word In
hospital construction on tho American
continent Many famous '. hospitalsin
other cities have been `kept up to date
by alterations and ndditione, but the
looal hospital as it exists to -day hes the
advantage of being. planned as a whole
and therefore is a model of completeness
and elffcfonoy, At least suoh is the claim
of those whoare responsible for it,. Some
Idea of its size is indicated by the fact
that In all the large centres of popule.
tion in America there aro only two hos.
pitals which aro larger 'than Toronto's
now institution. One of these le in Boston
and one in New York. A famous Bur.
(mean surgeon who a few weeks agolooked
over the new buildings declared as his
parting word, No man can say he has
•seen' -the hospitals' of Americauntil he
has seen this one of yours in Toronto.”
Tho institution ea it stands bas cost tate
enormous sum of 13,400,000. Of this
amount practically one million dollars
has yet to be raised, despite large dona-
tions from the .Provincial Government,
through the University, from the city
and from private aubnariptionn. The in-
stitution -hae accommodation for 670 pn-
tienta, which may not seem a largo num-
ber in view of the amount of money that
hes been expended, but, it hae to be 're-
membered that a good deal of the money
has been spent for laboratories and other
experimentalequipment, a feature which
goes a long way to give the institution
standing. 500 nurses and house surgeons
will be required as a staff, and .there
will bo required as a- staff, and there
ployeee.
A Five Hours' Walk.
To illustrate the arca oovered by tho
buildings, it may be mentioned.. that to
make a complete tourof the various de
partmente taking only a casual survey,
requires at least live hours brisk walk.
ing. In the rear and completely screened
from view are immense gardens which
compare creditably in size with many of
the city parks. Here hedges and shrubs
have been planted and.theee with a num-
ber of fine old trees which have been
preserved, will add greatly to the attrac-
tiveness of the surroundings. Tennis
courts have been provided for the use of
the nurses,
In .planning the buildings the architects
aimed to 0e0ure a maximum of: sun light,
A -novel syetem of ventilationhae been
installed. The commonly accepted idea
of ventilation is to open the windows' and;
doors- and let in fresh sir.: In. a mem.
Seated and. grimy -centre of population
such as that In which the new hospital
is lobated, this systemmight be un-
pleasant and in many oases positively
dangerous. With this in mind the win-
dows are not to be opened in thenew
hospital. Fresh air will be supplied by
a powerful syetom of fans in the sub•
basements of each eeotion. fresh air will
be oonetantly supplied, and to'insure put,:
ity, it will be drawn through a curtain
of falling water, something like a shower
bath. In this way the air will bo liter-
ally washed and duet and impurities ex-
tracted by the water curtain.
Can Accommodate 50 Victims,
The emergency wing is particularly well.
equipped.. "We have accommodation for
the viotimd' of any big accident which
might; injure - as many' as. fifty er 'sixty
;People,", said one of the officials, "but. of
course we obrtainly hope -that such Will
never occur,"'.
' The group of buildings are distinctive
in appearance. being constructed of a
high class brick known as vitreous' brick.
It is said this brick cost ae much as 560.
a thousand as compared with 516 and 518
a thousand paid for the ordinary preened
brick. The notion of tho trueteee in this
matter is defended on the ground that
the ,ordinary pressed brick would have
made the buildings - look like a
group of factories, It was hoped at one
time to have used stems, but this was
found to be too expensive and the vit.-
moue brick is said to have .equal dur.
ability -
Recovering Sunken fortune. ,
All but two . bars;;•.of silver of -the•.
total, valued etr'$688,322, sank ;in
the Ooeana, have been recovered.
The salved silver,sold for ;2569,58$,
the price having risen while salvage
was proceeding, so that the under-
writers actually secured more than
the original price at which it was
shipped. The five divers by whom
the recovery wase made were grant-
ed a bonusof .£1,000.
SEVEN PER CENT.
is assured to the purchaser of • Profit. Sharing Bonds in
successful and well organized Company an
a $' P Y which we can
recommend. • The 'Profit Sharing'feature of
highly
he e' securities enables the bond holder to participate, -ate
t s s P B, as
well, with ,the Company in any further earnings.
Interest Cheques • mailed to investors twice a year.
National Securities Cor oraticn
I.INIITCD
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TORONTO, 8NT.
SOME ANCIENTLAHI CUSTOMS
MANY. CURIOUS SURVIVALS
0k' LEGAL SUPERS`1'ITIONS.
Very Olil Ii'o{'ninlas Wliiolf lfavet
Survived the Days of 'Witch•
craft.
We 'hear much of the silpsesti-
tions pertaining to certain: forms of
religion 'end of their somewhat re-
markable persistence in a material.-
istio if not skeptical age, a survival
that is but incompletely explained
by the difficulty of differentiating'
faith from credulity, or by the ten-
dency -old as the human recce—to
attribute natural phenomena to
supernatural 'causes and to . magnify
both by tradition. Though not so
much discussed, the law also has*
its little superstitions notwithstand-
ing the prevalent conception of that
science as cold, unemotional and se-
verely logical
For instance, what useful purpose
is served by inserting in a bond,
conditioned for the payment of
money, a penal sum of twiee the•
amount of the actual debt? Bonds
have been thus dra-wn since the
days of Lord Coke, and the printed
forms in common nee today con-
tain the ancient, penal' clause. By
the letter of such a bond the obligee
is clearly entitled to recover the
full penal sum on the obligor's de-
fault in paying the sum apecified i'n•
the condition. But has the obligee,
for these 200 or 300 years, ever been
allowed to recover more than the•
actual debt with interest and.
costs3
By Another Common Practice
deeds are made to recite that the
grant is made "in consideration of'
the sum of $i, good and lawful
money, to me in hand paid, the re-
ceipt •whereof I hereby acknow
ledge," or some equivalent formu-
la. The idea that a deed must ex-
press a consideration is in•eradie-
able and equally fixed appears to•
be the superstition that a consider-
ation of $1 is quite as effective as.
a consideration commensurate with.
the value of tho estate granted.
Lawyers learned in the law of real.
property know bettor, of course,
but such is the popular notion. It.
is elementary that es between the
parties a deed' is perfectly valid
without any consideration at all;.
otherwise there could be no such
thing as a conveyance by way of'
gift. '
Why do we begin a will with an
invocation to the Deity and a reci-
tal that the testator is "of sound:
mind and disposing menoory 3"
Does the former aid the testator
spiritually and does the latter fur-
nish anyevidence of his testamen-
tary capacity 4 And why do we so•
often insist on attaching a seal op-
posite the testator's signature 1 Our
'statutes do not require a will to be
sealed, wherefore the seal is wholly
superflous as the law' books have
long advised us.
Then there is the invariable cue, -
tom of writing "ss" after the venue
of an affidavit or an acknowledg-
menk. What legal efficacy do these
two letters poseess?.: How many
lawyers even know what they
mean ? • It is only lately, we be-
lieve,. that
Tho Painstaking Author •
of a very
useful little book
ok succeed-
ed, after much anti uarian ,'re-
dearch
'among 'the pipe rolls' and
other interesting' lore, in ascertain-
ing the original signifieence 'of the
abbreviation, which is "scilicet," or.
"to' wit.". The omission of the let-
ters is now quite immaterial.
Many generations of lawyers
loarned in equity pleading have fol-
lowed the ancient practice of con-
chiding
o'n eluding a bill of complaint with the
solemn assurance, "end thus your
orator will ever _privy,; oto." Ap-
parently no modern lawyer knew
what . the decaudated formula
meant, until recently a swell -known
author ran tho thing 10.its lair
among•,lhiiancient rolls of the court e,+'
of chancery, and 'found' that (before
it lost las tail)' ib was, a prayer for
the health and longevity of the
king r '
These are only a few of the super
stitions that have survived the .days
when the trial by battle and the
criminality of witchcraft were fin-
ally eliminated from that law which
is our proud Heritage and which has
been so fondly praised•as "the per-
fection wof• human reason."
iF
Australia's Big Appetite.
Some surprising stttisties are
given se to what the average Aue-
tirelian eats, Apparently, lie has ..
the beat appetite, if not the best
digestion, of any human being om
the planet, He eats every year 204
lbs. of mea'', which ,works out an
average of two sheep and ono -fifth
of a 1;1:Mock ,for every man, •woman
and baby, in Australasia 1 He eats
mare than twice as reneh meat as -
the w;terage . Englishman, ' three'
times as much as the average
Ies as ienchinan, and four times
mueli es the average German or
a 'out
'_'addition,b
1 I•Ie *mete,
in
Sw ss.,. a
lira
7-
3% etvt'., of wheat, 2/ cwt. of pole. •
toes, and almost 1 cwt, of sugar;
If he is a Tasmanian he eats aquae -
ter of, a;tk4n lilt : dtltti it?a)ff d $ ' ' ,sal,; :z
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