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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-7-2, Page 6SPEECH OF Hone. Ie 41, Pa •' . ,CASGRAIN3, Oa Importation of Thoroughbred Mares and Stallions OTTAWA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH 1914. Ilan. 111r,• CASGRAIN inquired: race track in Canada a foreign animal That he will call the attention of the racing there in bond. Government to some iusatisfaotory Yea- 11. The National Record Committee tures reggreing the regulations for the claim that its silt -din is necessary in isnportati the duty free, of thorough order to identify the animals and to bid mar e• and stallions, and will in- build up an ideal system of registra- quire whether -it is the intention of the tion. The country is not sufficiently Government to remedy these condi- full of stock to adopt such a system. tions should they exist? It is questionable whether theirs is Hon, Mr. CASGRAIN—With the per- such or is in any event desirable. Stud •.:(eission of the House I should like to books are only records of breeding ex - bring before it seine objections to periments. In countries where they present conditions regarding duty-free have been most successful the use of iTpportetion of thoroughbred mares them has been voluntary, • Their value ant} ,ztallions. I may say that this is depends entirely on the reputation for e. question which is altogether free carefulness and integrity of those who from any political significance, and no use them. The identification require - Political party could.take exception to merits are clearly futile forthe oaten - . Jt.., if there is, any grievance existing, Bible purpose, or. if there is anything ,amiss, both 12. If the Record Committee's sys- parties are equally responsible, be. tens is true in theory, those who fol- causethe conditions complained of low it should in a few years by the have been in existence for a long time. superiority of the class of animals The contentions of same who are ag- bred by them, demonstrate the advau- grieved are; tage of that system. They evidently 1,. That the Government does not do not like to trust to this or they enforce the customs law as to free import for breeding purposes. 2. That the .Government delegates this enforcement to the National B.e- cord Committee—a body not respon- sible to the public or selected by it, and !toying interests not always the sante as those of other importers. 3. This ebmmittee declines to use eertepio.,pewers, thereby depriving im- porters, 3, This committee declines to use certain powers, thereby depriving im- porters of part of their rights. It be- ing a private body under no legal duty to pertorm any function, there are no legal means to compel it to act. That is the 'reason why I am now presenting the subject. 4. Briefly, the customs law gives us entry, duty free, for breeding stock, leaving the Governor in Council to make the necessary regulations. The Governor in Council .allows free entry, if the animal is registered in the Dan - adieu. Register, or in a foreign record recognized as reliable by the National country at the inception could not Record Committee. But here is the have the system applied to them; kernel of the whole thing. The Na- ('b) The offspring 01 animals tional .Record Committee will not de- brought in since upon which duty is clare that the English, the American, paid are registered without identifies: the. Australjan, or the French Stud tion of their parents; Book are recognized. as reliable. It (e) Obviously, in no event, are the will not pronounce as a public body parents of the identified animals also copld be compelled to, that these identified; Uog9jts are, or are not, reliable. Ani- (d) A mare brought in in foal. may Mats entered in those books, are, how- be rejected and the owner forced to ever, in practice eligible for entry in , pay duty for lack of identification pa - the Canadian Register kept by the pers, but the foal is registered without ' conimlttee;,in fact they are the foun-i any; dation books for the committee's (e) The credibility of those who books. sign the papers can never be tested; 5, The committee thus takes away (f) The series of identification pa - from the importer of an animal rests- pers do not in themselves prove any- tered in the English or American Stud thing and would not make a prima Book, etc., one method of free entry. facie case anywhere—because the ani - It imposes on him no alternative but mal referred to, if it had not some ex. tie. submit to entry in the Canadian traordinary narks, could not be shown Register as a condition precedent to to be the same as that mentioned in free entry—a condition not authorized the papers. . by the customs law nor by Order in 15. The material in the country is Council. Also, it gets into its own poor. The system adopted tends to heads a power to obstruct the impor- keep it that way. It tends to compel ter, for it can make entry into the those erovinces not already provided Canadian Register. easy or hard, slow with breeding stock to buy the culls or otherwise,• or refuse it altogether, from existing establishments -in the 6. To have one's cape considered by provinces that are so provided, or to the committee one must be the owner wnuld:be on the same footing as spy. other buyer in the world. Tilt •Canddian Goyerism'tut nei'only does fiat publiell such nettle hist it 'Itself dons net tse f 1 n decide whether' any such foreign stud or Nord 'boat are reliable, That duty it delegates to the National Repord Committee, a body of breeders or dealers no doubt well"ac- quainted with breeding and dealing in the classes of annuals in which they aro interested, but perhaps for that very reason, not a.body which should be selected to make deelsions. affect. lag the rights of others who may welsh to breed or deal in horses or cattle, The salient point of difference between the American and the Canadian appli- cation of the principle oe duty free entry for breeding stock therefore is that the ono Government publishes a list of the books record in which car- ries with it duty free entry, while our own delegates this duty to what is essentially a private and non-respon. Bible body. Whether it be legal for the Govern- ment to leave to a committee of deal- ers in any particular trade the power to effect their competitors' imports may be doubted. The point to be noted at the moment is that by acts of omission rather than commission, firstly 01 the Government, and second- ly of the National Record Committee, some importers stiffer through the try to drive those who do illegality, if there be one, and are so not wouldanot try them into their sy o exposed without having any legal rem - tem. IE, on the contrary, they believe) nue short of interference by Parlla• as their opponents do, that the system nrent. means that those who follow it must The article of the tariff dealing with end by having inferior stock, their duty free entry for breeding purposes anxiety to force it en their competitors leaves it to the Government by Order is explainable. in Council to give effect to the pro - 13. Paper identification is not poi- vision. The Government purports to Bible, even of animals bearing extra- do this by saying that fres entry shall ordinary marks. A chain of identifica- be granted to animals owned by Brit - tion is always as weak as the weak- ish subjects resident in Canada (a) est link, The animal's parentage de- if the animal is registered in the Can - pends (first) on the word of some one adian register for the breed, or (b) who saw the sire put to the dam, and in any record kept abroad and recog- (second) on the word of some one who sized as retable by the National Re - saw her foal. These things in prat- cord Committee. tice depend on the reliability of the The provislon sounds both fair and people dealt with. The only result of wise but falls short of what is de - requiring transfer documents is to sirable, first in that there is no au - form a basis upon which animals may thoritative publication of a list of be rejected and importers discouraged, foreign records recognized as reliable 14. The following considerations by the Government, second that show the worth of the identification the National Record Committee will system adopted: not recognize any foreign record kept (a) Those animals already in the abroad as reliable if there is a Can- adian record for the breed, and lastly in that being a private body there are no legal means of competing them to Pronounce publicly and definitely on the reliability or otherwise of any foreign record even in the case of one recognized by the United States Gov- ernment overnment and by every other govern - men all over the world. There are Canadian records for nearly all the more prominent breeds of cattle and horses. The foreign re- cords recognized as reliable by the United States Government are broadly speaking the very books which form the foundation of the Canadian re- cords, but by omitting and refusing to certify publicly that they are recognized as reliable by the National Record Committee, the Canadian im- porter is placed in a very different positionitor, from the American compet- Hon. Mr, CLORAN-I would like to ask the hon. gentleman one question. He is asking that the stud books of the United States be recognized in Can- ada. Will the United States or do the United States recognize Canadian stud books to the same amount and degree. buy abroad animals the breeder has Hon, leIr, CASGRAIN— I think I am of the animal tendered for free entry not been able either to sell or to train, coming to that in a few minutes. The That is to say you must have parted They being still in his hands he can American can import duty free an animal registere1 in such reliable foreign record as of right. The Can- adian can only do so after he has got it recorded in the Canadian register, will allow you to get out of them, What the objectors say they want This is the second salient difference 7. Amongst the terms it imposes at is:— between the method adopted in the present are the producing of written 16. We want as good a chance to get I two countries. Pedigreed stock, as we transfers of the animal from the orig- good stuff for the same investment as all know, is imported for two very ' final breeder through every owner our foreign competitors. different purposes and by two classes down to the importer. Such docu- 17. We want the•Government to take of persons interested in different ways. nients are not usual in transactions the responsibility of seeing that we relating to thoroughbred horses, are get it. in many cases not procurable, and 18. We do not want to have our sometimes only procurable by paying business in the hands or power of any for them. The mere demand for them group of dealers or breeders We in many oases would prevent the pur- chase of a desirable animal because foreign buyers do not need such docu- ments and the seller never has them, 8, A Canadian buyer competing with foreign buyers, therefore, labors under several disadvantages: (a) There is the certainty of delay white discussing with the .committee; (h) .There is the possibility of being unable to procure the documents re- quired • (e1 There is the possii. 'i being ties, unable to satisfy the cc nn :: se; That it should in the process of time (1) Whilst the duty fr•-.'a entry (uee- remain so in appearance but have be- tton is thus held up the animal has to come in fact a disguised protective be bonded or duty paid under protest- system for such stook good or bad 1. The result is that an animal un- as may be ie. the country, will at first doubtedly registered in the English or be hardly credited, but that it is so the American Stud Book and perhaps will be seen after light has been Perfectly well known ea the race track thrown upon the practice as applied as a performer, rennet always be im- to the theory. ported duty free into the country, The There are a certain number of stud trouble and annoyance are so great as books or herd books in foreign coup- to .discourage individuai importers. To tries in which the breeders record the with your money and have purchased give the complete transfer documents. the anima) abroad and have so far Even then his word alone makes the committed yourself to difficulties be- only evidence of what the sire and the fore knowing whether the committee dam were. Those who care to inquire into the matter can judge for themselves which purpose the dut;• free entry provision was most intended to help and what interest is in fact most advantaged by .,w er up to the iulporiing'owner n 0'rt be furnished, that is that a title from baud to hand must be obtained in writ- ing. Tills requirement is alleged by the committee to be necessary for the ) uz ose of identifying the animal. al.N ow• for the primary purpose of crossing on' half -bred stock, if the animal can be proved to be entered on a foreign re- liable record, the chain of title is a matter of indifference to the farmer 1f his • legal title be good enough to pre- vent any one from taking the animal from him. That legal title is neither better nor worse because of the chain of documents. Moreover no such Chain of documents covers the real points at which identity is most likely to be lost. The testimony of those who saw the dam bred to the sire or the animal born Is not always available. In many breeds the young are taken from the mothers and raised by hand or placed with foster mothers, The identity can only be traced by the testimony of those who wore on the spot and saw this done. No records or chain of documents effectively cover the risk of loss of Identity at these points, Nor is it desirable that they should be- cause stud and herd books are not books of title but are essentially re- cords of breeding experiments, They have been of most use in those coun- tries where recording in them has been left as a voluntary matter to the breeders. They are of value only as showing the results obtained through the unions of one family with another and only of value in so far as these have been carefully carried out and recorded by people whose reputation is beyond question. The character of the breeder counts for everything. The failures as well as the successes of the breeder of high character are equally valuable to other breeders, The en- tries recorded by breeders about whose character or diligence there is the slightest suspicion do not add in the slightest degree to the value of their stock. No matter by whom recorded there are probably In any herd book quite as many worthless animals as there are_ good ones, The Canadian importer bidding at a sale say in England stands at a disad- vantage as compared with his Amer- ican competitor. Tho latter can safely buy an animal guaranteed to be re- corded in one of the books recognized by his Government. The former can- not. He would like to add some lim- itations, as to say: I will outbid my American com- petitor if the seller will guarantee duty free entry into Canada or if he will guarantee to furnish all the documents required in Canada for duty free entry in excess of those required in the United States, or if he will sell conditionally on my obtaining free entry. But these are points which he can. not effectively raise at an auction. He must be prepared to buy and take his chances of delay and of being refused free entry. This he may do if he has on hand funds sufcient. But if he has only the same sum available as his competitor bids, he must content himself with buying an inferior animal. Suppose he buys, and he must do so before his case will be considered by the committee, he cannot get them to pronounce beforehand at to whether if he purchases such and such an ani- mal, it would come in duty free. The seller not being a British subject resi- dent in Canada, cannot deliver them duty free. Even if he could, he would not do so for the same price as he would take from an American buyer for a straight sale. In .a word, the Canadian buyer must be irrevocably committed as owner before he can as- certain whether he is to get free entry or pay duty. Meantime his animal lands in Canada and he has to pay duty under protest, or is forced to be- come a public warehouseman under bond with sureties. If he buy direct from the breeder in England and hold the animal there as owner until by correspondence he bas made his course clear he may escape some of the risks, but even then if he cannot secure free entry he has cer- tain dangers before him, and in any event is debarred from many of the Better beef the system in vogue . chances to make advautageous pur- want to follow our own course and let, chases which are open to foreign buy - them follow theirs, cattle, finer dairy cows and more en- era, More than forty years ago, the im- during horses are wanted, not in the Take it all in all, a foreign buyer 0 portation free of duty of live stock for show rings, but on the farms. The knows exactly where his government a breeding purposes was a plank in the show ring is the place where what the stands, knows that it means to help Liberal platform, In his Reminisces- farmer wants 1s advertised. No one him to bring in stock duty free. The ees, page 44, Sir George Ross gives can conceive of the farmer knowingly Canadian buyer knows that whatever o an interesting account of its effect on supporting a system by, which .direct the law 'may say, the practice leaves 1 one of his elections. import by him of Stack he needs to him in doubt and he must feel fairly 0 Ostensibly for many years past this cross with and improve his halfbred sure that' the National Record Com- a question I have been discussing has herd is made hard to him and by nsittee's system leaves him at a dia- becotio common ground to bods par- which what stock is available through advantage. Months may, and • do, importation by others is likely to be elapse while he is piecing together either higher in price or poorer in documents required by the committee. quality than it need be if full effect .Meantime he cannot sell the animal were given to the law. and does not know what it to cost No one would grudge free import him ultimately. The keep makes a to those who breed pedigreed stock in big hole iu his margin: of profit. The the country nor object to Government American purchaser of a like animal. keeping their stud and herd books for at the same sale has his purchase them, but probably most people would through the customs without delay. subscribe to the propcsition that hal- His importation is not subject to re- ing these things they should by their gistration in any books kept by his produce show that they were breeding trade competitors. They cannot force as good stock for the price as any one him to record in books kept by them, those of limited means they are pro- births of their animals. Of course it could import direct and duty free. If and with good.reason for except where hibiterye The story of those who have does not follow that animals there re- they cannot show this, surely no one an animal is intended for use in a beats through them tends to deter corded are valuable for breeding pur- would support a protective system for registered herd, recording in such others from attempting to import, poses nor that many not so recorded their benefit for the effect would be books in his own country is of no use . 7,hes, no dpuht, is the underlying ob- are not valuable. To avoid entering that those who desired pedigreed stock either to him or to his country, but feet• on any ground possibly debatable, the to cross with half -bred herds—and the registration being a voluntary mat- te. The Canadlan buyer with a lim- discussion may be limited by assurethey aro the main support of the whole ter, he can apply for it when and as it Red. sum 10 spend cannot buy as good ung that an animal is not valuable for , agricultural industry—would get worse seems to be of any use to him. an''auimai as his foreign competitor, breeding purposes unless so recorded, animals for their purposes and pay a Enough Inas been said to show that `beeauso the foreign competitor bas no Certain of these hooks are recognized higher' p'r'ice, doubts or difficulties before him and by the United States Government as Nov, in the moss important breeds, free intended import beaaffecting fbre breech' eau pay cut the whole sutra, while the being reliable and a list of those so should an intending importer apply. to intended to bred to half -bred herds Can:dlen buyer has to 11011 back recognized is published by thatknow whether say the Percheroa Stud is not given due effect to, enough to pay the duty in case of ernment, goy.Book or the Durham Herd Book 11 re- As to the result of the system hon e need. • . Or, to put it another way, to That is exactly what we would like cognized as reliable by the Govern the Pure bred herds already in the got ,a:,;particelar animal the. Canadian the Government here to do—publish .a mint, he will be told by the committee I country and through them on the tiara buyer has .to have the same amount list of stud books that they would ad -that it is not, and he will be invited to of animal to be bought out of them of available cash as the foreign buyer mit. Surely there must be in the register in the Canadian book far these; me the farmer for cross -breeding, it and in addition enough 10 pay the whole World some stud or herd book breeds, a record inaugurated and dl•; may be pointed out that the only use � to th cunt' of LI It ' � itii1JJ1Il I� o, l id vial til p114111A1iI1umin p ul)uliliill l lino npmn�Alillptl llllnyflutiiL r�iii � a ns 9 ie ,. �(x,tir s at^!; t ',Yil `� r .. ,c¢g$m.. tin's w' c-. ,. Vii,,.. + • � §d ..'; tK .1 " ,jJ a 4'%^ A ii ¢ rif�, #�`�S ';46'.1 A ) � = r , t t' � i i— "i t y� .d .s ,lr m11���1� ,�• ;sal: il;', . ...-.ss N..3 s. ,:?a.r.-b . ; ' BEST •EAST IN THE WORLD. : DECLINE THE NUMEROUS INFER/OR IMITATIONS THAT ARE BEINGGOFFERED \, AWARDED HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL• EXPOSITIONS E.W. GILLETT' COMPANY WASTED: WiNN3F G TORONTO ONT. 2'1oN'rREAI tooted, and this in the face of the d clared policy of Parliament, Thus, since the days when Sir Ge Ross stood for the House of Commo we have swung around to the opposi point of the compass as to the enco agement of free imports. Should not swing back and not only say, mean free -imports of pedigreed stem and see that the farmer gets what t law gives him. No matter is more f reaching than this upon the maters prosperity of the country. A thousand Poled Angus -or Durha bulls in the West bring down ten tin their cost to the shipping points lust of three or four years merely throu the increased weight and quality their stock. Like improvements wou follow free imports of dairy cattle a of `horses. Those provinces most need of better saleable stock suff the most from existing conditions, 0- o. ns to ur- we but lc, he ar-. ai m BS de gh of 11 nd in er That the law is not applied is clear. Why it should not be applied has to be explained. Why a private body oxer- cises part of the functions of Govern- ment cannot be satisfactorily explain- ed, No part of a subject's rights should be taken away from him by a body not answerable to the electors and which cannot through the courts be compelled to perform the duties assigned to it for the simple reason that it is a private body and cannot be compelled to perform any more of the duties than it chooses. A brief review of the circumstances suggests certain modifications as be- ing imperatively necessary, 1. The Government shculd publish a list of all foreign records which are generally recbgnized as reliable. Re- cord in these should entitle an animal to free entry. There is no difficulty in making such a list, The National Record Committee have such a list which they use as the basis of enter- ing in their own books although they will not certify that the books they so use are reliable within the meaning of the Order in Council when the in- dividual importer wants to obtain free entry. Even if they had not such a lint, the list published by the United States Government affords sufficient information. 2. No private body should have any- thing to say as to the application of the customs law to its competitors and free entry should not de„nend in any way on recording in any book kept in Canada. 3. The Canadian stud and herd books should be open to voluntary en- try upon such terms as those who keep them see fit. Their present system is more exacting than is thought neces- sary by many foreign systems. Wheth- er rightly or wrongly so, depends on whether the book is conceived tb be a record of breeding experiments or a history of title. As a i;oluntary matter there would be no objection to their ' following either theory, it is only When they seek to impose their system on others who do not need it that their theories interfere with the rights of others and thereby become of any public import- ance. a If as a result of the voluntary appli ation of their present system of title nd so called identification they pro- duce a still better stock for the money than can be procured emoted, the ountry will have reason to congratu- ate itself. That they hope to do so r believe that they can do so is to ay the least east in doubt by their desire to force the system on others even to the point of refusing them free entry, If they believed as their opponents do that their system and practice tend to discourage the indivi- dual importer and to create a disguised protection for the benefit of herds al- ready in the country, their anxiety to force the-bystem on othere would. be explainable, because by getting every one into the same position the possi- bility of comparing the benefits of their system with what can be done under the system of free imports, would be gone. Until they have shown their value, it would seem that there is no particular reason why their ideas should be enforced at the expense of the country, contrary .to law and to the detriment of their trade competi- tors,. I have done my best to make this matter as clear as possible. What would be desirable, would be' for the Government to publish a list of re- liable stud booiee, and have animals registered say, in one of those staid boosts, either in Europe or the United States admitted duty' free. Theft the impo'r'ter.would be granted entry free, als in other countries. To•tlay if a Can- adian buys an animal ho has no guar- antee that this animal will fulfil all the requirements. duns, le -Sevier). importation into Can, that is reliabla. If the Government of rented by a group of persons already e c iy sun et tis is to sup- ada,)'or a given capital, therefore must the day would do as the government engaged In breeding or importing that.iin the farmer with as be an animal be of an Inferior class, This applies of any other country is doing, and pub- class of stook, a book kept by the Nu I p price and quality as he could ass whether you buy abroad or on the 11511 the list, the Canadian buyers tional Record Committee under their, ofoa andiimal localfcbbreeder Such a class directions upon which body they are r animal he direr only ulua of ' lepi esented, produce under the direct stimulus of 1 competition If that be removed 'and HAS"r INivesTiro ENT fermi) 7 j PER ANNUM yearly since the Soeurities. of dile Corpora ion were pbt"ed on. �ho market 1C ;P'eer's ego. ituelneee t'ltabllshed 22. years,- iaveetniOnt may' he •ithdro.wrr t teed. er whole cane •time after one year, Wetetea nrort gb.' rPcif .ser - Oculars and booklet 'Madly Eu•niulsed on rococo. NATIONAL SECURITIES CORPORATION LIMITED, CORPORATION, t ocommi1n8,8'2'ioN I,IEi1 Srf1Lnnte - toner:11O, OIPT', Bearing in mind that the irtending , it is in part removed by the difficulties importers free entry le thus made: to I in importing direct, then they will 0011 depend (a) on his being a British sub- him something not quite so geodes his foot resident in Canada, (0) on his'American competitor may get abroad awning the animal and (c) on hie be.' at the same cost, ing able to get the National ltelordl The trend of the.ayetom, therefore, Cammittee to record it before he gets on' the whole, is to discourage the in. free entry, it obviously takes but little' dividual importer and to make a semi - to delay, defeator.obstruet itim in his'proteetive, system for the benefit 0P endeavor to obtain dt. I stock already in tate country, 'That Amonget the first *requirements of is free import of the farmer's raw ma. the National Record Committee ]s that tonal is diecou•aged acid interior raw transfers et the aminal from the breed. material already hi the country pro - A. Pawky Proposal. "You've' been courting nee now for a number of years, George," re- marked a girl to. a young :'man, r4and I_ want to make a little leap- year proposal," "I--) em not in it position to m--2-marry juet yet;". stammered ill :vont h, "but---" "Who said anything about mar- riage 9" interrupted •the girl "I was going toprepose that you stop earning here and give somebody elan a chance." FROM ENE SC L OT ASO NOTES OF I\Tbii1EST hliOJi 1I511 RANKS ANI) BRAES. Mal is Going on In the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Ib has been decided that no pic- ture shows shalt be allowed on Sun- day at Buckhaven and Methil. A start has been made with the preservation scheme of the old Church el Buittie, near Dalbeatbie, Milngavie Town Council has senb to the parks committee a proposal to construct an open-air ewimaning pond. Dr. J. I. Craig, Kirkcaldy, has been appointed certifying surgeon under the Factory and Workshop Acts for IKirkcaldy, Mr, James Christie, chief con- stable, Greenock, has recommend- ed an all-round increase for the lo- cal polies force. A serious case of sheep -worrying is reported from the Arrochar• dis- trict, where 16 lambs wore killed by a dog that is still at large. The statute labor committee of Glasgow Corporation has approved of an important scheme for the widening of Stockwell Street, At a meeting of the Glasgow High School Club .i,t was decided to pro- ceed with a scheme for the acquisi- tion of an athletic ground at An- niesland. Builders' laborers at work in Blaelefriaade Street, Carlisle, un- earthed two skulls, which are sup- posed to be those of two "Black Friars." The annual report of the Zoologi- cal Society of Scotland states that there has been a surplus of $7,000 on•the year's working of the Zoo- logical Park at Corstophine. Altogether 1,140 passengers left the Clyde on a recent Saturday for Canada and the United States, e total far below that of the corres- ponding week of last year, A. broker's establishment and villa, owned by G. T. McArthur of Chryston, near Glasgow, were de- stroyed by fire, :and eight inmates had a narrow escape, . At Dumbarton, Henry Brand, a farmer, was fined $lb for frighten- ing a pony by fixing a pail to its tail and causing it to run a distance of four miles along the road. The death has occurred at Arrow River of Mr, James Mitchell, a na- tive of "Hawick, at the age of 84 years. He was the inventor of the well-known Mitchell life boast. By order of the schools' medical inspector, Benwhat School, under the Dalmellington School Board, has been closed for three . weeks, owing to the prevalence of scarla- tina. h OLD A'il'TWENTY Reiurn of Youth with Proper Foal. Many persons who eat plenty ne- ver seem to•be properly nourished, That's because the food is nob' digested and absorbed. Mittel that is eaten is never taken np by the system as real food, and so the tis- sues simply starve and the indivi- dual may, as in a recent caselook and feel old in what should lie the bloom of life, youth. "At twenty I was prematurely old. The health and vigor and brightness of youth had been, as it seemed, stolen from me. I went to worst in .the morning with slow steps and .a dull head. "My worse• through the day was unsatisfactory for my breakfast lay in my stomach lilts •a hard lump. I was peevish and the gas in my stoin- n.ach was. Very annoying, After sup- per 3, usually went to bee to hose half the night from sheer nervous. ness, "Chis was all from indigestion caiteed by' wrong eating. • "Finally I tried Grape -Nuts and I cannot describe the full benefits received from the food, It gave me back my health, It has completely resbor•ed good digestion and my .ail• menti have disappeared. I steadily improved and am new strong and in perfect health.". 'Name given, by O unadian Pesbtim Co,, Windsor, Ont. , Read `The Road to ellville, • its pkgs. "There's a Reason," Evor read the above Ietter? A. stow' ono appellee 2ronl time to time, They pgro V111111110,true, 404 11111 pg human Interest. STRIKES IN THE BREAKING A LONDON DOCKER RECOUNTS A TRUE EXPERIENCE. Terrible Plan Atloptetl, by a Rana - ger to Break a Threatened Strike. I have had a good -many experi- ences one way and another of ssttilscs ,and strike-breakers in my time, but the strike that will re- main the longest fat my mind never came Off, writes a docker in London Answers. This happened when I was working. at a tar works in Chi- cago as a va,b cleaner. A strike was brewing just at the Aline I entered the works, but Pete Perrot, the manager, had the reputation of be-', ung the finest strike-breaker in the States, and he often boasted that he could smash up any strike in less than twenty-four hours. There was no doubt that the men at Jollop's were afraid of hits, Dick Merryweather, a young Canadian, and a giant of a. fellow from Geor- gia, whose name I forget, did +all they could to put some spirit and fight into their fellow -workers, and allies a deal of work managed to get a lot of them ready to :strike when they :got the order to do so. But the order never came. Pate Perrot had, of course, got wind of what was going on, though he prete.ndecl he did not know any- thing. But, outside the work, Dick and the Georgian giant were warned by men who knew something of Peter that there wasn't much he would stop short of doing to put an end to the sort of work Dick and the Georgian were parrying out. Inch by Inch. Well, one morning, Dick, the Georgian chap, and another man who was a great pal of Dick's, named Farmer, and myself were sent :down to clean out the bottoms of one of the largest tar vats, that held about 30,000 gallons of tar. The vat was twenty fent deep, and we went down into it by a rope lad- der slung from the top. The vat was to bo refilled that day, and we were ordered to bo out of it by din- ne r -Mime, Wo wore working like niggers all the morning, and Pete himself came down into the vat, about eleven o'clock, 'to see how .all was getting on. He spoke quite pleasantly to us for a few minutes and then left us. Au hoar later, the whistle out- side blew, which was a sign for us to leave the vat at once - On hearing the whistle, we all wont towards the rope ladder. The big Georgian was the first to reach it, and directly he punt his foot on the first rung the whole ladder col- lapsed and fell into the vat. "This is Pete's work 1" shouted Dick. "Ho unfastened the ladder when he was leaving the vat, and it is by his orders that they are filling it I" The boiling tar was slowly spread- ing over the floor of the vat, and ere long the four of us would die a most horrible death unless we could make ourselves heard by the men outside, or get out of the vat. There was only one chance to save our 1ivos, and that wits to •climb up to the top of the vat by the iron clamps with which the sides were bound. The boiling stuff had al- ready spread right over the floor of the vat when we began this awful scramble for our lives. Inch by inch we went up, and inch by incl2 the tar rose in the vat, How Reparation Came, Dick, the Georgian, and myself were more fortunate than 'armor, Dick's pal, because each of us had started to climb by one of the iion supports that ran from the top to the bottom of the vat, and it gave us something'to grip, but poor Far- mer hocl nothing snore than an eighth of an inch•of item to cling to with his fingers, and when he was about a quarter of the wary' up, with boiling pitch a•]mest lapping at his heels, he slipped and fell back into the vat, Poor fellow 1 He dried without a sound. An hour later, when almost -at the top, I slipped back, but I man- aged to get my hand on the rim of the vat ,and escaped with a fearful- ly scalded foot, which kept nue in hospital for about a month. I had to be earried down from the top of the vat, but Dick and the Geoepian Were able to. go down by the iron ladder outside, and the two went straight off to look for Peter, The manager, however, had left the works ,and gone off somewhere no urgent business, - Whe•n I wine out 6f the hospital, a.montli later, 1: went renal(' to the works again, and learnt that there was a new manager; the old. one had been found one morning out- side his house in the country with •a shot through his braiin. Dick and the Georgian, by the way, have not been heard of since. A Friend. A friend, indeed, is one who you may ask for his ean(licl opinion of ,youreelf with reasonable app \14,111/8 that you o on lb get it. • • •