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FROM BONNIESTOOD TORONTO
CORRESPONDENCE
OTES OF INTEREST FROM ; INTERETAC OF THE PROVINCETHE CAf?I•
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RANKS AND BRAES.
What is Going on in The Iighlands
and. Lowlands 'CI Auld
Scotia.
It Is proposed i;o erect a Public
'school at Firth.
An epidemic of scarlet fever- has
broken out in 'Buckie. •
A motor ambulance has. been got
for Dundee, at a cost of £548.
Itis reported that smallpox has
broken out at Gl;`engarnock.
It is proposed to have a railway
station at Rosyth Naval Base.
Extensive being car iedout building Berwick Barations e
racks.
Private J. Mcisaac, Peebles, has
been presented with the long,ser-
vice medal
A new postof[iee with improved
acoonimodation is tc be provieed
for Kilwinning,
An out in
row of miners' ousel at broke
Koentia
bey, Crosshouse.
A daring burglary was committed
in the shop of Mr. Wm. Chalmers,
jeweller, ;Kilmarnock.
The installation of motor power
in the fishing skiffs on Loch Fyne
has met with much su•ceess.
The price of household coal at
Edinburgh on the 18 pound net was -
21 to 28 shillings per ton.
Considerable damage was done by
a fire that occurred at the farm of
Little Barras, Drumlithie.
jr. Vernon Roberts, Kincardine
Castle, is to act as chieftain at the
Aucltterarder -Highland gathering.
The municipal bowling greens in
Glasgow had to be closed et times
on account of the unsettled wea-
ther.
Fully one thousand women and
biris are thrown out of employment
y a fire at the Bradford Mill
Aberdeen. s,
117uch• damage was done by fire
that occurred on the premises of a
waste paper merchant in Wales
Street, Aberdeen.
Berwick town council have agreed
to purchase a steam fire engine from
Glasgow Corporation at a cost of
•£100.
.Shipbuilding is very brisk in the
'Clyde district, Last month it ag-
r ega#hd "�i,061) tons, and it prom-
lees to continue so for some time.
James Stewart, butcher', Perth,
was. fined 40s. or 220 days, for push-
ing"his wife into the fire, and as-
saulting his 12 -year-old daughter.
An obelisk in memory of Alexan-
der Anderson, "Surfaceman," has
been erected in front of Kirkeon-
nel ,schoolhouse, Dumfriesshire,
es
FEVER GERMS IN VEGETABLES
Very Scarce Unless Grown Under
Unsanitary Conditions.
Recent experiments showing that
vegetables may act . as vehicles of
typhoid fever sounds alarming, un-
til the whole story has been told,
and then it is understood that while
this is true, the chances of contag-
ion by means of vegetables is so
slight that there is little to worry
about.
Soil was inoculated with fecal ma-
terial containing typhoid germ:~ and
radishes and lettuce planted in it.
Some of these plants were kept in-
doors and sprinkled from time to
time, while others were allowed to
grow naturally out of. doors.
It was found that after twenty-five
days the plants that were grown in-
doors had typhoid germs on the
leaves and stems, while it was thir
ty days before the ;germs were found
on the leaves and sterns of plants
grown out of doors.
AU this was merely by way of ex-
periment and proved nothing, as
`far as danger to the consumer is
concerned, inasmuch as the soil in
which the plants were grown was
first carefully inoculated with the
dread germs.
This naturally would not happen
in the average garden, and espe-
• cially in the great truck gardens
where so much of the produce is
raised for city consumption.. There
is a possibility, however, that vege-
tables growing too near a sink
drain in the country or too near the
stable yards might possibly acquire
some ofs these germs.
There .are few vegetables ever
planted In such localities even away
ba the country, while modern sani-
*ar systems do away with even the
tank drain plots . and the stable
iMrd. So, that while the 'result of
his experiment sounds "scary" at
:est, no one should worry in the
east about dangers of typhoid from
'g'etables, especially since there
eels a thousandfold .greater dangers
of contagion abont us every day, the
cannmoon house fly, for instance, be
ng s• V" . ' 4.. 1.1'''''', .,x:101)14 ,
!ennui and Base Bali—A Municipal
1 eAbattolte-Toronto's Harbor—The
Late ler, H. P. Dwight.
SoTnet
lgis ourcmpda's
natrenasport. "Big e F"haion hip
)aeiosecegames,.between the best teams in
the world that money oan hire draw a
scant 2,009 spectators, while mediocre base
.ball betwe4p eastern league, teams on a
Saturday'wlll easily bring together 0,000
to 10,000 preeps, Even motor cycle races,
a newly • establirilled sport, of doubtful
stnying powers, eatnfaoted 15,000 people the
other day. .
•
Some critics -say that the trouble lies
with the "Big Pour" organization. Al-
ready there are rumors that''etlae N. L. U.
will be revivified next season and will get
a •team in Toronto, probably le.J'at•Flem-
lug's Torontos, for the Teoumseh man•.
agement and. the N. L. U. officials shoty:
no sign yet of burying the hatchet,
ROUGH PLAY THE TROUBLE.
But the trouble probably lies deeper than
any mere question of league organization.
IF the writer's opinion it dates back sev-
eral years, when brutal play was allow-
ed to play a prominent part in the de-
cision of the big league lacrosse contests.:
Big crowds attended the games, "games"
by courtesy, for many of them were dis-
graceful exhibitions. It is hard to say
why the brutality was permitted. It may
have been incompetent officials, or a mis-
taken idea on the part of the manage-
ment that the crowds wanted to see a
,Bort of Spanish bull fight, or just a
species of depravity on the part of the
players themselves, or a combination of
alk of these, For a period the best player
was the man who could lay out the most
opponents and not get caught at it. The
result was inevitable. A large propor-
tion of the decent public got disgusted
and cut out lacrosse. And even those
who delight in seeing the gore fly want
o eill ancefell off, land when the t company. 9penaltien be-
came more numerous the games became
farcical from their one-sidedness, And
the attendance dropped some more.
Therein seems to lie the real trouble
with Canada's national game in the big
leagues. It ran be built up again, but it
will probably take some years of hard
and careful work,
CITY ENTERS BUTCHER TRADE,
The City Council has committed itself
to an expenditure of 5300,000 for a muni-
cipal abattoir; in other words
i-
cipal wholesale butcher shop, and thus
expresses a determination not to let the
meat business of Toronto fall into the
hands of a meat trust, such as dominates
the famous Chicago stock yards, and
through them most of the cities of the
United States.
It will be interesting -to see how the
2 asblbeeennn• nkts heuct attleTmarket business
for many years; in fact for a long time
it But its did not ° ake full in that
advan age department.
of its
opportunity, with the result that now the
city cattle yards are altogether too small,
are inconvenintly situated, and a big
proportion of the 'business is going to the
privately -operated union stock yards,
'which occupy commodious" premises at
West Toronto.
It is .said-xhe Tfneon Stock Yards form a
potential ngcious for a Canadian meat
trust. One bf the most active firms op-
etiag fe7s t Canadian Co. of theChicgRenythe
two largest Canadian firms, the Harris
Abattoir Co. and Gunn's, which formerly
bought cattle both at the city yards and
the Union Stock yards, announced that in
future they would buy only at the latter.
And it Is said the fourth large firm, ParE-
Brelviattfollowsuit. Park-
Blackwell.
that ely, to save its
cattle market, is forced into the abattoir
business. P mnnic:ipal abattoir will en-
able the small independent wholesale
butchers, of whom there are perhaps a
score, to kill their animals and distri-
bute to the retail trade economically; and
their business, on the other hard, will
keep the city rattle yards going,
big lfirmst the buying onlyaatotheand
Unionwith
Stock
Yards the business in the city yards would
soon
o eaheildeendewindle nt wholesale bnt utchers ul
be compelled to go to the big fellows for
their supplies, and the whole business
would be effectually centralized in per-
haps four firms.
This is what the City Council wants to
prevent.
A HARBOR, BUT NO PORT.
Toronto's new harbor Commission has
not got much to show for its efforts yet.
But, of course, it bas not been on the
job' long enough to have had a chance.
Atheefinestyharborswif Tot the very finest
on the great lakes, Anil yet the amount
of shipping it accommodates Is practi-
cally negligible. For example, the tan-
nage of the Saultcanals for the month
of June wart 10,700,000 tons, as compared
to 7,400,000 tons in June, 1911 While To.
route harbor's tratB, for the month was
only 271,000 tone, as against 251,000 in
,Tune, 1911.
Relatively, the lake shipping from To-
ronto has been dwindling year bee yen:r
for the last generation, le is only citi-
zens well ..on in years who remember when
the waterfront used to be dotted with
grain elevators and Use docks were al-
ways biter.
Perhaps the day of grain traffic by boat
from Toronto is past, but there are plans
on foot to make 'l'orr,nto again a great
Port for other purposes. That's the chief
purpose of the new ]iarbbr Commission,
The city owns a large acreage on the
waterfront, and to this acreage it is
hoped to attrnot large indtiet.rel factories,
Docks and wharves whose cost will 'total
many hundred thousands of dollars are
being protected, At present when a boat
fthro,gnt hle thetSt. Lawrencertte canals ft cannot
find a place to dock. But that le to be
quickly changed. The sympathy of the
Dominion Government has been enlisted
and extensive dredging operations are
now under way.. But, of 'course, the great
boon will be the new Welland canal and
the deepening of the St. Lawrence route
Regular it yeleseedormenosarsoestastemesnon
of the bowels is an able:awe neves.,
sity for good health. Unless the
waste matter from the food which
collects there is got rid of at least
once a day, it decays and poisons the
whole body, causing biliousness, indi-
gestion and sick headaches. Salts
and other harsh mineral purgatives
irritate the delicate !Ming of the
• biowe a. ;are Morse's Indian Boot
Pills ` entire'Iy ' Vebio -- regu}ate
the bowels effectively w1tfi tityfeak•
ening, sickening Or griping. UU
Drs Morse's se
ltx+c�lialla� soot P%IlA�
•
Save Nosey and
its Earning P,1.
WE have issued a`
let describing the
"PERIODIC
PLAN"
for the
purchase ofd
stocks and bonds.
This Booklet shows how '
you can create capital,
through a small monthly.,
savings. It also shows
'how these savings are
are
protected
vai able for useand how hat
any time if -required.
Write to Investment
Department,
THE METROPOLITAN
SEC MES AGENCY,
LIMITED
i6o St, James St., MONTREAL
111 Mount,a(n Hill, QUEBEC;
essemesase
Then Toronto hopes' to be a real ocean
oert aoeothe
hLkroIeantthe head the Lakes: If the
factory development progresses, as hoped
for, Toronto harbor will change frome ;a
nieceeef pretty scenery to the centre of.a
hive
of industry,
PRE PASSING OF H. P. DWIGHT.
-The passing of Mr. H. P. Dwight. Pre-
sident of the G. N. W. Telegraph Cori.
pang, removes one of Canada's landmarks.
The oldest surviving telegrapher in Am-
erica, his reminiscences went back 'tee
primitive days in Canada. He "discover-
ed" Hon, George A. Cox, took him into
the employ of the G. N. W. Co as office
boy, and taught him the language of the
wire, Senator Cox wee a prominent mour-
ner at the graveside.
Mr.
Dwight fisne mt lllbmn Theent was
dwas likeable
by the chief hobby of his later
years. It was the Royal Canadian Hu-
mane
purpose Society
which hof of for its chief bran.
ery, To hear of a, deed of heroism, no,'
matter how unspectacular the ' circum-
stances and reward, the hero was a source
of pleasure which never lost its power,
up ttook
l s last days interin est
ver succumbed
to the modern theories of public owner
ship with which he was always somewhat
out of sympathy- He was a. frequent tor -
respondent of the newspapers one : the
signature "Dw," but he was alwaYe, -ntpd
e.
erate in the expression of his views and
no newspaper declined to publish --his let-
ters, even when they were opposed to the
publisher's policy.` tie was possibly pri-
vate ownership's sanest advocate.
DETECTIVE DOYLE.
Sir Arthur' Conan Doyle sat at a
dinner- on one of his visits to New
York beside a lady who asked leave
to consult him about some thefts.
"My detective powers," he replied,
"are at your service, madam,"
"Well," said the lady, "frequent
and mysterious thefts have been oc-
curring at my house for a long time.
Thus, there disappeared last week
a motor horn, a broom, a box of
Sir A. Celan Doyle.
golf balls, a left riding boot, a dic-
tionary, and half a dozen tin
plates,"
"Ah," said the creator of Sher-
lock Holmes, "the case, madam, is:
quite clear. You keep a goat."
A girl expects a man to think herr
hair is naturally curly even when''
she knows that he knows it isn't,..
Keep an eye on your friends eetot
know what to expect from, yetis
enemies. --^
Lemon juice and salt will retrieve
iron -mould from linen without *-
jury to the fabric, Wet the steins
with the mixture and set the
bele in the sunehine. Two or t
applications may . be necessn,
the stain is of leng standin
WOMEN AS LION TAMERS.
ave More. Patience and Meet with
Fewer Accidents.
woman eeenas especially adapt -
for
training animals, both doms-
*nd wild, as her motherly in-
let is all, esential factor; animals,
e children, requiring patience,
sympathy, vigilance, intelligence
and. fineness. In the case of the
Ole women are more seccessf_ui. than
'n
'as trainers and have fewer
oidente.
Claire Hellcat, for nine years
star lion tamer, but now retired,
who greatly loved her twelve lions,
declares that the most potent fea-
tures in the art of animal training
is the ability to impress the fact
that the trainer can be depended
upon to deal kindly with her charge.
She began training 'lions when 22
years old. First she would feedfeedthem with meat from her hands,
then she would sit for days three
hours et a time in the cage with an
iron bar and a whip in her hands,
getting closer each day, In a
months' time she patted their
manes. In four months she taught
them . tricks and then exhibited
them. She had twelve in her group.
She never whipped her lions, only
made believe by cracking the whip
over their heads. Though a Ger-
man, this trainer always spoke
French to her lions, the language
being quicker and thus' more com-
manding. She loved her work,
though finding it hard, and when
she retired kept .some of her favorite
lions to play with.
— 3 _
SALLOW FACES.
Often. Caused by Tea and Coffee
Drinking.
How many persons realize that
tea and coffee so disturb digestion
that they produce a muddy, yellow
complexion'1
A ten days' trial of Postum has
proven a means, in thousands of
cases, of clearing up a bad complex-
ion,
A Washn. young lady tells her
experience :
"All of us father, mother, sis-
ter and brother—had used tea and
coffee for many years until finally
we all had stomach troubles more
or less.
"We all were sallow and troubled
with pimples, breath bad, disagree-
's:0
k? wtastlr in the mOlrth,Poancl all .of
ua'. itriply- so many bundles of
nerves."We didn't reaize
a and
toff a cased theltroub eaut ntil one
day eve ran out of coffee and went
to borrow some from a neighbor..
She gave us some Postum and told
us to try that.
"Although we started to make it,
we all felt sure we would be sick
if we missed our strong coffee, but
we tried Postum and were surprised
to . find it delicious.
"We read the statements on the
pkg., got more and in a month and
a half you wouldn't have known us.
We allwere able to digest our food
without any trouble, each one's skin
became clear, tongues cleaned off,
and nerves in fine condition. We
never use anything now but Pos-
tum- There is nothing like it."
Name given by Canadian Postum
Co., Windsor, Ont.
"Where's a reason," and it is ex-
plained in the little book, "The
Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever road the above letter? A new one
app ars tram time to time. They are
emblem true, and full of human interest.
GRAINS OF GOLD.
Prosperity demands of us more
prudence and moderation than ad-
versity.
If apreacher has anything worth
saying 1�e ban say it in ten minutes.
The sincerity cf aChristian ought
to. be.'per£act and so well known
that every one oan go by his simple
word,
The fact that truth lies at the
bottom of a well is probably the
teasers why the truth is often so
fearfully watered.
There is nothing more universal-
ly r5mmended than a rho day; the
reason id that people can commend
it without envy.
Believe me, the Went of success
la nothing more than doing what
you can do well, and doing well
whir :ewer yon do without a thought
If it come at all it will
e it is deserved, not be-
sought after. And,
re will be no rills -
appointments, tae
excitement, --
n our shop or
ithe street,
the home,
we stood in
great battle
tory for man -
our bravery,
When we do
t of us will be eery-
gret army which
ere of the world,—
ANY brands of Baking Powder contain alum.
which is an injurious acid. The ingredients of
alum baking powder are never printed on the 1
-,.... ,bel.
Magic Baking Powder
contains no alum and is the'.
only baking powder znade
in Canada that has all the
ingredients plainly printed
on the label.
E,W, GILLIETT COl IPANY LIMITED
TORON4b, ON's.
WINNIPEG MONTREAL
?X7WkcacrAg
ISR SHE DIVESTMENTS
THE EFFECT OF LONDON INVESTORS
ON THE CANADIAN MARKET.
The Present Dullness in London Has Made
iceable
Quite e Price
Several otOanadlanh Municipal ange in h Deben-
tures—What London Took From Lls Last
Year.
The articles contributed by "Investor"
are for the sole purpose of guiding pros-
pective investors, and, if possible, of save
Ing them from losing money through
Placing it in "wild -cat" enterprises. The
impartial
information may �beireliie5 upon. of Thei
writer of these articles and the publisher
of this paper have no interests to serve
in connection with this matter other than
those of the reader.
e (By •'Investor.")
Londot
n investors Dare es it buyingake oururseeur
ties or not?" a man asked one day, "Tho
bond houses in Toronto and Montreal
alone appear to buy by far the greater
part 'of Canadian bond offerings. This
talk of London market affecting prices
appears to me to be all humbug,"
of course, this man didn't know any-
thing about the matter. He was quite
correot (at least he would have been quite
correct) had he said that "Canadian"
houses absorbed a large part of the bonds
offered here, and left out the rest, lie
forgot (or never knew) that during 1911
alone our railroads --steam and electrie—
sold no less than 585,000,000 of boucle and
debentures in England without the inter-
vention of Canadian houses.
This one item, then, is a very good and
suffloient reason for watching carefully the
tendency of prices 'in London as a baro-
meter of our own. Last year England
bought no less than 5200,000,000 of our se-
curities, the greater part of which were
bonds.
Unfortunately, last yearee Canadians.
didn't take sufficient oaro in preparing'
offerings, and as a result some of them
disappointed their purchasers. This had
the further unfortunate result of making
publicsthe
ILtlechance of iany Canal anv securities
havbeing e not rthe ub cking- oft some Londinternaon -
tionally well known Canadian bond house.
Land, and particularly timber compan-
ies, have gone a long way to help dia.
credPer-
haps it Canadian
ore
nbe emeeIn aceurateotoo F. say
that the British investor has become very
skeptical with regard to the extravagant
promises of a number of these. More
than a few of last year's issues were
taken to London. which were in no posi-
tion to be offered as investments, As a
result the underwriters were loaded up
with a lot of stuff That they are still
vainly trying to unload on the public.
This has, of course, affected the market
for high grade Canadian bonds, so that
we find very excellent municipal issues
felling Rat on the market. The effect.. of
this has been marked, A year ago Bran-
don debentures could be readily sold on
a 41-2 per cent. basis. Now these may
be bought at 4 3.4 or even 4 7-0 per cent,
This is just a sample of the effect of the
dullness in London on our market here.
are hhopt i g bond his,�uofs andlell arc eversal
of form in London, and a renewed de-
mand for our municipal debenturee. This
would mean that many bonds purchased '
during this year will show a very hand-
some increase in price of two to four,
points. It would also make a very good
der mand
a havben afraid issuing owing
to the -lack of demand from London.
For though practically all our municipal
debentures are sold to Canadian bond
houses, most of these place the greater
percentage of the large issues in London.
That is one reason why the London 1
market is so important. Another reason
is that true Eu5lish investor is Raved
with n lower yield than the CanaddTTan
and so most of our low yield bonds are
sold there-
Mo'eover, our railroads do prietirally
all their
then Cenadian Northern Last
sold no
•
less than $35,000,000 of bends in one block
in London at a comparatively low rate, 1
It would have taken years to have placed)
those bolds in CCa,nada. The railroads I
peed more money to keep un to tha geent
expenditures they are making on new
construction. The pessimist referred `o
In the .first sentence had better falls to
Rome of our rnilroad presidents before
he persuades himself as to the accuracyI
of his statements. j
Mr. Brains is nearly always too
biisy to talk.
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FOLLOWING INOaE01•
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FISHING 'I'RII' TO NORWAY.
Ring George Planning It For Next
Spring,
From arrangements now in pro-
gress, it is believed the first visit
-paid to Northern Europe 'by King
George will be to Norway. The,
time provisionally mentioned is
next spring. The Queen will az-
company him on the royal yacht, ,
and their headquarters wild be in
Christiania waters, whence visits
will be exchanged with the King
and Queen of Norway.
King. George is anxious to make it
a late spring trip, as he wisnes tee
try the sa.hnnon fishing in Southern
Norway. but if it has to be post-
poned till the early autumn a shoot-
ing expedition will be substituted,
Incidentally, there may be a
meeting with the Czar of Russia in.
Saltie waters.
-
GET A.CQVAIN*TED WITTr YOUR
NEIGHBORb".
If you are genteel in appearance and
courteous in your manner, you will be
welcomed in every home in your locality,
when you are showing samples of our six-
leerier
remediesous'2hed satisfaction
Which oar goods give, places the users
under an obligation to you, which wins
for youu the same respect, esteem, and in-
timate frieudship given the priest, physi-
cian, or pastor, and you will snake more
money from your spare time than you
dream of, besides a host of friends.
This Is your opportunity for a pleasant,
profitable and permanent business.
Ad-
dress. The Rome Supply Co., Dept 20, Mer-
rill Building,Toronto, Ont.
A political reformer is •a politi-
cian who doesn't stand in with the
gang.
It is every one's duty to have
books: a library is not a luxury, but
one of the necessaries of life.
It's easy for a man to forgive his
enemies after getting square with
them.
"Have you any references?" ask-
ed the lady of the house, "Yea,
Ma'am a lot of 'em," "Why didn't
you hying them with your
"They're just like my photographs,
ma'am. None of 'ens does me jus-
tice."
77.2
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will be gladly forwarded
on request.
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J Price Bros. and Company Bonds pay 6 per cent on the investment. They
offer the strong security of first mortgage on 6,000 square miles of pulp and
timber lands --which are insured at Lloyds against fire. The earnings of the
Company at present approximate twice the bond interest. The new pulp mill in -
course of construction will double this earning power. Purchased at their' present
price they pay interest at the rate of 6 per cent. The best posted investors itt
Canada and England have purchased these bonds. Owing to the security and
increasing demand of the products of the Company, these bondswill unquestion•
ably increase in value
If you hove money to invest write us for complete information. -
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