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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1910-05-13, Page 69 i a� .. m- � H. Leslie Coombs, of ht, John, N. 13., TERSELY drip Electrical Storm in Nova Scotia Kills Child. Whiskey Drinking Falling Off in Britain. St. Thomas Man Found Dead Under a Bridge. The 10 per cent. primage for fine goods carried on fast Atlantic teasels has been reimposed. Four hundred beaver skins will be sold by the Department of Lands, Forests and Mines on May 16. The trustees of the Northern Congre- gational Church, Toronto, have been au- thorized to sell the church. Fifty-six Japanese of prominence, in New York, on a world tour, have ex- pressed wonder at America. They say, however, American women are too small. .An application on behalf of Frank Ma- tbuisic, alias Bates. who escaped from ouretody while under sentence for forgery in Missouri for a writ of habeas corpus was refused to -day by the Kings bench. London. The journeymen plumber; of Guelph are out on strike. They have been get- ting twenty-five cents per hoar, and are asking, an increase to thirty cents for a. nine -hour day. The orders at T1r:ti,h dist.lileriee con- tinue to fall. Many men have been dis- charged. Increased priee- ::re making. the whiskey -drinkers adopt beer. 'To- day the brewers announced higher prises also for beer. Mr. Edward Daval, formerly e',ief clerk to General alauager Bury of the C. P. R.. Winnipeg, ltas been appointed to the position at C'oonry as aperin- tendent of Terminals under (General Sup- erintendent Price. Toronto barbers are campaigning to secure shorter hours. A petition is in cir- culation for •signature by all the em- ploying barbers to have all shops close at 8 o'clock every evening except Sat- urdays and the eve of holidays. One hundred English girls arrived in Paris yesterday, having been brought out from England for work in the Pen- man mil's. The Penman factory has ask- ed for railway connections to the Holmes dale and will erect large extensions. A report of the i'ttited States Bureau of Labor tells that men in the Beth!e• hem Steel Works are compelled to work from twelve to thirteen hours a day for seven day a week. while many of them receive only 121-.2e an hour fur their work. The T!arki,h Chamber of Deputies reversed its reeent action and voted to make the usual grant of 2,160 pounds (Turkish; to the husbands of the Iniper- iai Princesses. In consequence of to. day's derision the llinieters have tvith- drawn their rreignitione. In a little room partitioned off from the shop in which he had made and re- paired wagons for years at 337 Queen street west, Toronto, Felix Corr, aged seventy-five, passed away, tearing be- hind him a fortune estimated by himself on his death bed at $30,000. It is thought that 1h•. Sheard, of To - late assistant managing director of the D'Israeli Asbestos Company, was arrest- ed there on a charge of misappropriating 95,700 owned by site eotnpauy hearing was begun before Judge Ritchie,. and the evidence of Alexander 1'Tarre11, auditor Of the company, was taken. Officers of the American Fcderatioe of Labor axtd of the different farmer organizations in convention in St..Lollls continued to -day to discites a plan of co-operation. A new organization, to be called the National Farmers' Scientific Co -Operative Society, probably wills be the result of the deliberations, As a direct result of the Cornwall fire disaster, the Loudon license com- missioners have ordered a special thor- ough inspection of fire-esea_pa facilities in all local hotels. Inspector Galpin and Fire Chief Aitken, with a firemen, will go into every roam of every hotel and ]Hake a test of all appliances. In less than fifteen minutes' time the U. S. Senate yesterday considered and passed the pension appropriation bill, carrying about $155,000,000. Senator Scott, who was in charge of the bill, stated that henceforth there would be a rapid falling off in the amount required for the payment of pensions. 13e said that 31,000 pensioners had died last year. John Curry, aged eleven, created a sensation in East Toronto when lie at- tempted to "lick" 1'. C. William Sander- son. The boy, who comes from Peter- boro, had escaped in the afternoon Min St, John's Industrial School. and when the policeman saw him he was engaged in a fight with other boys. The western weekly c'oe report of the C. P. R. is of a highly satisfactory nature. The wheat seeding is reported practically completed at a number of points. and in nearly all districts; the average shows about 03 per cent. 'Wea- ther condition; are grain ideal, and much benefit is reported iron the last snow and rain. Two foreigners, John luchkovosky and Jacob hronipngrr, are under arrest at Brantford charged with circulating spurious coin, For some time bogus fifty cent pieces have been circulated in this city. TJie police seepect from the large number of pieces which have been ga- thered in that a counterfeiting gloat is in business. "1 believe that fifty per cent. of the seats in the United `;totes ,Senate can be said to have bern prat leaky purchas- ed." Thie statement was merle at Chi - 'ago by farmer United States Senator Wm. 1s. 1Aicesun in the course of an in- terview in withall he area] the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. Shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday af- ternoon a fatal blasting accident occur- red at the City of Cobalt mine, in the long crosscut about a thousand feet north of the shaft at the 200 foot level. Oliver Martel, aged 40, married, . from Capelton, Que., was instantly killed. Ho leaves a wife and small family. Martel was a machine runner. At the Peel County Spring Assizes at Brampton, in the ease of Gaunt vs, Can- adian Pacific Railway Company, the jury returned a verdict hi favor of the plaintiff, Robert Gaunt, awarding him $1,765 for the death of his son; also for the death of a hnise and destruetion of wagon and 11erne*e. by a train in Aug- ust last at the level crossing at Streets- ville, ,lnzeplt Fels. replying to Mr. Prety- nlan'o protea!, against hi: agitation on the land question, says that 40,O03,0t0 people in Brita'rt are c'ontlemning the system by nWelt the lend ie- nrr�ned by acne tnii1:00. Ili' will help to elthetit.itte a better system. It was not the first time, he said, that Britain hie taken g)c,d i eas Irani foreigner•. �' ronto, may accept the offer of (i:BO,eto,l a tA h year recently made to him. Ile is in Now iron York now in connection with it. The ea offer i from asyndicate in New York r now establishing a health restoring and at rest eure hotel at a great runt, Reports were received at Ilankow of au gats agitation by natives in the Province of l Kiang -Si. It is stated that 2,000 unan- Ree hare crossed the border from Hu - Nan Province and made their way into Iiupeh Province, reaching Tayeh. The situation is declared to be serious. The site of the fish batc10 ry to be eatablished in Brant county by the cnrte- rio Government has igen changed to the twelve -acre farmof R. ieJ1 wen, et.innt Pleasant. Inepeetor 'Holden and assist- ants have been stakin out the property, which is considered an dell One. Jas. Norris, proprietor of the Ottawa Hotel, which was one of the three tav- erns in Kingston to be refused a license, will apply to the Ontario 'Board of Com- miasfoners to grant itis house a license. The Ottawa house is a leading farmers' hotel, and its proprietor has never vio- lated the law. John hic'ieivie, of Moncton, N. Be was 104 years old an Wednesday. Tie came to Canada some five years before Queen Victoria ascended the throne, and was in good health until a few weeks ago. Recently he received et letter from a brother in Ireland, from whom he had not heard in 60 years. Mr, .Nelson It. Butcher, Toronto, leaves for The Vague this week, having been placed in charge of the British official reporting of the north Atlantic fisheries& ease before the peace Vague tribunal. Mrs Geo. Simpson, Parliamentary report- er, Ottawa, will accompany hint as asso- ciate British reporter. Two enthusiastic general meetings tragic incident took place during voyage of the Alan liner Ionian t Glasgow to Montreal. Two youngpie. bound for the west, George Rose Agnes Brown, became acquainted the etart of the trip and became en- d, intending to get married on their vat in Canada. In mid oeean '.he died suddenly from heart failure her body was buried at sea. to practice of carrying liquors into north country in defiance of the or licensee act has practically ceased, ar as the trains are concerned, ac- ing to the monthly returns received he Provincial police for April. There been n remarkable failing off in seiz- , deepite the feet that an increased e of officers report exceptional vigi- e. illlant 1'. Walker, the former Bart- . Conn., hanker, wk's is serving a enee in the State prison at Walters - for embezzlement from tiie New din Saving, Rank, has heroine editor e Monthly peered, gotten tip by the meta. Walker, se a eentributer, has en a nuuther of stories of procpect- for gold in lower -California, At nt he is learning "the case" in the n's printery. e Kingston Board of Trade has ed these officers: President. C. A. pherson; First Vice -President, Dr, ted Ryan Second `ice -President, D. iraidlaw; Treasurer, W. B. Dalton; aril, C. Bermingham, Ti. J. Carson, Chown, Elmer Davie, T. 11t. Farrell, R. Givens, John .Ifcwton, Francis , J. A. Dlinnes, It, .1. McKelvey and Richardson. Milan despat;ch to London with re- ce to the Italian-Canaclia.n nenotia- enys the Italian silk, skin and trade is suffering in consequence to FraneorCanadian treaty. 1t was xnced 10 the Chamber of Deputies Engla.nd's intercession in the crisis been invoked but without success. se Canada eide lay comes to terms is resolved to strike a crunhin. at Canadian smoked fish. arra girl and the liqu so f cord by t has it res fore lane ford sent field Bri of th prise writt big Nesse?prise Th elect Mac Edwt (Y, Swot G. 1 '`'G'. King 1-1. A feren tions glove of ti armor with an attendance of more than 4,000 that each, and seven lively section confer- had enees, marked the progress of the na- Viae tioneii laymen's, missionary convention at Ttaly fibieaize on Wednesday. Speakers at the 'blow he Gar. en ,.... ..m.j. It is not wise to select seeds hap- harard• While there ars a. great many varieties ; of the different vegetables,' all of which are good, some of them are just a little better than the rest, 'yen, no doubt have afters h people who have been unsucces in their garden efforts attribute •lack of success to the seed, "The was 40 good" they trill say. This is r ly, i.1 ever. true, if they have purch the seed ,o,f a reliable dealer. Great care is always taken by men that the seed they offer for sal rel:iablo. In most cases samples of seed you' are, buying this year planted last spring and tests made these. tests do not prove the seed t oughly reliable it is not put on market. If, therefore, the seeds you h planted do not produce a crop -seenfault lies at your -,n door, and ure is due either to lack of knowle of the preparation of the soil or caret Hess in the handling of the plants a they are above,. the ground. Dig deep, manure well, buy se of a reliable firm. Keep the surface the soil' loose and free of weeds. Fol instructions closely as to planting, tra planting and *inning out, and if season prove a good growing one y success is assured, The following selection aid to those who are not the different vartet;rs: Lettuce—Lettuce seed may be plan in the open as soon as the ;round workable, as light frosts will not inj it. Growth must be vigorous and ra in order that it may be crisp and to der. Therefore ground that has carefully dug, fertilized with well ted manure and fairly moist should Elected. For first crop there is nothing bet than Nonpareil, It matures quickly if well thinned out or transplanted new ground herds up well. Cos, or celery lett-tow, is a mootleafed variety. When transplanted new groand (set eight or ten inch apart) it forms a grand head. The 1 outside leaves must be gathered at t top and tied together with some so material in order to produce the bes results. if this is done it will pradu a crisy, white, tender head of delicio flavor. Do 'not plan?; to much lettuce at time, as it is liable to become bitter allowed io grow slid. Better to pia a small quantity fortnightly. Radishes. —Radishes require Ughtach, mellow soil in order to produce best results. If sown early in a positi sheltered from she north, in deep, d well-mauured soil, which etas been ca fully raked and prepared, a good cr should be secureu:' Ilhdisbes must gro quickly, otherwise they become fibro and tough. Early Scarlet (turnip or olive shaped or French Breakfast are good. White Iciole radishes aro rapid grow ors, crisp and tender ,and will grow t 3i to 4 inches in length in less tha a month's time. Sow radishes every two weeks. Onions—Plant onion seed as early a possible in the bast piece of groan available, which should, properly spec ing, he prepared and well manured th previous fall, Sow onion seed in drill about a quarter of an inch deep. Drill should be about a foot apart. It is wel to sow fairly thick, as maggots evil likely attend to the thinning process fo you, Giant Prize Taker (silver), Globe Dan vors (yellow), Large Viethersfield (red) are all good. Take your choice, Duch Sets.—To produce early gree onions and also for an early winte crop, Yellow, Dutch seta may be planted While not so profitable as onions gro from seed, they are a great deal les trouble, and if- put in early, not so li able to attack from insects. If -planted fairly close together they may be thinned out and used as greens. Place about an inch apart,.and later pull every second one. Those remaining will then havo ample room to grow and will produce an excellent winter on- ion by the end of the season. Should you have any fairly smallomens left over from last season, place them in the ground. They will grow rapidly and produce an excellent green onion long before seed or sets. Peas.—As soon as the frost has left the ground and it has become fairly dry, prepare the ground for garden peas. Peas should be sown in drills and eovered to a depth of three or four inches. Drills should be about two feeet apart. A good pian, however, fs to plant in double row about six inches apart, leaving a space on either side not less than two feet wide. This will enable pickers to pais through between double rows, piek- ing two rows as they go. This applies to dwarf varieties. Tall growing peas, which should be trained on brush, will. require more space between the rows. In cbwarfs, American Wonder and Knott's Excelsior are hard to beat. Improved Stratagem and Gradus are both climbers, and fn consequence of their having to be supplied with support are notch more trouble to grow. They arc, however, worth the extra effort. ti pinaeh.--Spinach seed cannot be in the ground too early. It is easily grown, flourishing in almost any kind of soil. Giant Flanders and Long Standing are our choice, Spinach should be renewed every two weeks, Cress --Cress or pepper grass is easily grown and makes a tasty green. Plant early and at fortnightly intervals. Beets—Beets do rest in l'ght leanly cruel sful their• seed are- ased aeed- o is the were . If hor- the ave the fail- dge ess- fter eds of low as - the our may be of familiar with tis lire pid n- bee rot - be ter and to h - to es lo he ft t ee tis one if nt t, the on de re-• op w US 0 n a A e s 1 1 r n r wn s or titell nianurecl, .Plant in drills 12 inches apart and cover to a depth of 1 melt, Beets may be sown fairly thick, tis the tops and small roots males an ex- cellent green when boiled together. These pulled in tate thinning may be us- ed in this planner, Try Early Flat Egypt:an or Early Blood turnip. Sweet Pea Experiment, --Last April we planted three lots of Sweet Peas, Lot 1 across au open space at the back of a large flower bed. Lot 2 within a foot of the eolith side of a wooden building. Lot 3 against the north side of the hc use. All these lots were planted in the fol- lowing manner: A trench was dug to the depth of about 15 inches. The trench was filled to within about four incites of the top with a mixture of well rotted nlanimre, leaf mould and sail levelled off and trampled. Seeds Were then scatter- ed over the surface and covered to the depth of about one and a half inches with well pulverized soil pressed down with the back of the hoe. first to make their appearance, grew most rapidly, -flowered profusely for a fair period, and then withered. Lot 1 was a good second, Ind did not grow either as tall or bloom as profusely as lot 3. They continued to bloom for a much longer period, however, and in the aggregate undoubtedly produced more bloom than lot 2, Lot 3 though not a complete failure, were, indeed, a sorry looking spectacle. Slow to germinate, they struggled for a long period before theer was any sign of bloom. What bloom they finally pro- duced was of a small., delicate variety and lasted but a short tithe. All of which goes to prone that the trench in the open is undoubtedly the best method of growing sweet peas. This is not always possible, however, and it is most satisfactory to know that almost as good results may be obtained when peas are trained against wall or fence, pre viding there is ample sunshine, which was not so in the case of lot 3, as de- scribed above. if you prefer quality- of bloorn to quantity in sweet peas thin to about two inches apart. This will very much im- prove the size of the bloom. Sweet pea bloom should be removed before it has had time to go to seed. If tlk•aed to do so the bloom will very g•on cease altogether. Lawn clippings scattered thickly around the roots of pea vines help retain the moisture and prolong their blooming, period, A small quantity of commercial forth lizer scattered over the surface of the trench will also greatly add to the pro- ductiveness and life of sweet peas. FISH POACHERS. The Vigilant Captures U. S. Tug in Canadian Waters. r Lorain, 0., despatch: Defiantly lifting his nets until the Canadian vessel had circled about him, Captain Dave Popper - well, in command of the fishing tug Sprudel, owned by Roger & Warner, of this city, attempted to run away when too late and was captured three utiles over the international line off Cleve- land at 10.30 o'clock this morning by the Canadian scout ship Vigilant. The report of the capture was brought into this port to -night by Captain Adapt Wicket, of the tug George Edwards, also owned by Boger & Warner. Captain Wicket saw the capture, and tells the :=tory of Captain Popperwell's defiance. "I can't understand why he did not escape," says Captain Wicket. "1 saw tate Vigilant when she was ten or twelve miles off. 1 suppose Popperwell saw her, too. 1 saw him lifting his nets through the glasses and wondered at his coolness. IIe could have escaped if lie had run when I saw the Vigilant." With Captain Popperwell aboard the Sprudel were an engineer and four fishermen. All were taken aboard the Vigilant and a prize crew put aboard the tug. The Sprudel was built in 1891, is of wood and valued at ,$'2,800. It was Captain Popperwell who was in command of the fishing tug Gray Sam when that boat was run down and overturned by the Vigilant on June 5, 1908, with a loss of two lives by drowning. Gilbert & Rosen, of Lorain, owned the Gray Sam. Me captain is a daring fisherman. He lifted his nets to -day and then tried to run, but too late. "Th e Vigilant came up and had eireled around him before Captain Pop- perwell started," said Captain Wicket "He had to surrender then. He could have escaped if he had not lifted his nets." TO UNITE. Tilbury Methodists to Join Presby- terians to Save Expense. Tilbury despatch: There is econsider- able talk of a union being consum- mated between the Methodist and the Presbyterian congregations in Tilbury, and there is every likelihood that the Idea will be carried out, Bach congregation is small, and the expense of maintenance is heavy at present; in fact, is a trifle too much for either to bear alone. In- stead of two struggling organizations, the union would devolve a strong congregation, capable of paying its way with ease. And money counts in church work as elsewhere China Must Be Converted by Chinese, Says Lady, Accounts of Work in. Industrial Schools and Hospitals. Toronto despatch: "1f China is ever to be 'Christianized it must be by tite Chi- nese," was the statement of Miss McIn- tosh, a returned missionary from Henan, China, at the annual meeting of the fres- byterian Woman's Foreign Mission So- ciety in Knox Church yesterday after- noon. She spoke glowingly of the great revival that is sweeping Ronan end declared that tltere were over2,000 Chinese Christians in that province. The women were much harder to reach than the men on account of the peculiar social conditions, but work was going ahead favorably. ?Alias Campbell gave a bright address about tb.e orphanage at Neetuueh, India, where site had been engaged for so long. The children at the home were those who had been left alone in the world at the time of the great famine some years ago. There had been 350 taken in at that time, but about half of them had grown tip and ]eft the institution. There were naw only 180 remaining. Mrs. G. I3. Robinson, in presenting the report of the Ewart Deaconess' and Missionary Training School, said that during the year it had sent out two graduates to India, and there were now four students preparing for for- eign work. Mrs. Robinson made a strong appeal to the women to help wipe out the big debt under which .jhe school was laboring. Of en original total of $25,000, only some $4,000 had been subscribed and the rest was needed bad- ly. Miss Caren gave an interesting paper on the work of the mission bend< in the afternoon, and in the morning Miss Bessie McMurchy pre- sented the most encouraging report in year; of that branch of the society. There were 70 new bands organized during the year, making 471 altogether, with a membership of 11,366. The am- ount raised by these bands was $11.263. The morning session was given over largely to the 'tearing of similar re- ports. There are 949 auxiliaries, of which 43 are new, and their total con- tribution was $63,284. The total con- tributions, from all sources, including the above, the contributions of s teres helpers, •of" Iife mem and various collections and do is given as $78,014.05. With the hal ince en hand of $3,858, this totals $81.872.43, 0f this $25,230 went to India, $2,325 to Formosa, $5,129 to North Henan, $16,350 to the North- west, $4,884 to British Columbia. Mis- sionary Training School, $700 to the Jewish Missionary, $354 to Traveling Field Secretary, and $1,415 to expenses of management. :nine interesting remarks were made by the field secretaries for the different diritricts. Mrs. Robertson, in reviewing the work in India, stated that 19 Presby- terian missionaries were being weppm-red by Canada. Educational, evangelistic and medical work was being done in Indore and large hospitals were conducted at Dour and Neemuch as well. The edam- tional work eonsisted of girls' schools, colleges, widows' ]tomes and Zena,na visiting. Formosa was manned by six missionaries, who spent a great deal of their energy in training nal',•' mie ion- aries and in conducting the large girls' boerding school The feature of the ropers of atrv. Henderson; concerning the work in China was the account of the indus- trial school for women a.t Hwai T:iug, Over 75 women had applied within a month to learn sweeping, embroidering and the veu'Ions branches of house work teiight. Miss Craig read a report of the work of the forty-four niesionaries in the Northwest, and :firs. C. Clark gave an eccennt of the work in 'British Cols unibin, where there are nine missionaries n t ri 01'h, GOOD TIMES. President Corey Looks For a Prosper- ous Year. New York, May 9.—Wm. B. Corey, president of the II. S. Steel Corporation sees no clouds on the financial horizon and thinks, we are in for a most prosper. ous business year. The president of the steel corporation sailed for Europe to- day on the steamship George Washing- ton, and before departing said: "There is nothing in the business situation that would warrant pessimism. Underlying conditions of the counter in general arc, sound, and with fair average crops the current year should be ono of the most prosperous in the history. Recently there has been satisfactory improvement in the steel business And the steel mills of the country should be kept active for the rest of the year. Prices for steel are holding firm and from present In- dications we will obtain average prices this yearr, which will assuretnanufactur- ere A reasonable margin of profit.'