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The Herald, 1910-05-20, Page 6!ORLLYS ICLriS TRSftY TOLD London Gigarmakers Talk of Going On Strike. There Was No Explosion on the Flagship London, The Toronto Presbytery accepted the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Milligan. Mr. WiIlianr Stone has been elected President of the Toronto National Club. It is thought that Kent county has be- come the centre of the rabies epidemic. There is a movement in Toronto to in- crease the membership of the Board of Trade to 2,600. Hon. William Templeman is preparing a bill to provide for a Government test and examination of explosives. The Railway Commission le sitting at Winnipeg, the chief business being the investigation of telegraph rates. Mrs, Sarah Lindsay, of Hill street, London, was struck by a car, and taken to Victoria hospital in a serious condi- tion. dcGilP„ projected reunion of all the graduates of the faculty of medicine has been postponed for a year, owing to the death of King Edward. Dr. F. W. E. Wilson has resigned from the Niagara Falls General Hospital Board. Ile has been a member since the bospital opened, four years ago. Reports from the agents of the Can- adian Pacific Railway, received at the Winnipeg office, indicate that rain is needed generally through the West. The military camp at Barriefield in June will be in command of Col. Sam Hughes, with Lieut. -Col. Chinie, of Otta wa, as C. S. 0., and Lieut. Col. Young as D. A. A. G. Sixteen hundred passengers have ar- rived in Montreal in five steamers of four lines, and of that number a. major- ity are destined for northwestern and western Ontario points. The flagship London, of the British Atlantic battleship fleet, on which an explosion was reported te have occurred, arrived at Dover on Wednesday night. The explosion rumors are without foun- dation. Mr. W. K. MeNaught, M. P. P., has been chosen trustee of the Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives and Ding Ed- ward Sanitarium, filling the vacancy caused by the death of the Iate H. C. Hammond. H,eriman Foregren fell under a moving train at North Bend, B. C., yesterday, and was instantly killed. Leaving a. lunch counter, he made a run for the coach, missed the step and rolled under neath the cars. is their only resource, as the employers. have refused their demands. Hon. Geo. A. Cox has presented two young made lions to the Riverdale Park Zoo, Toronto. One is a black maned. two-year-old whose father cost $1,400, and the other is an imported cub, eight months old. The pair are in New York, and will be here in a few days. Mr. Cox hos presented all the lions in the Zoo. C. A. Holden, keeper of the Moose Club, a Winnipeg gambling joint, was convicted of keeping a gaming house and fined. the limit, $500, and given a scathing setting out by Magistrate Daly. Holden has cleaned up to small fortune in the past two years and always got credit for having political protection. The contract for No. 6 section of the Trent Valley Canal has been let to the Bishop Construction Company, of Montreal and Toronto. This' contract takes in the section of about four miles from Crowe Bay to Healy Falls, the "missing link" of navigation from Camp- belford to Georgian Bay. Because this is corn planting time and nearly every juror summoned for ser- vice in Circuit Court for the May term is a farmer, Judge Knappen at Kalama- zoo, Mich., excused the jury for two weeks. There are only a few criminal eases on the calendar and the Judge said corn planting is just as important as justice. Mr. Edwin Forse, C. E., who died at the Toronto Hospital for Incurables, was one of the best known railway en- gineers in the Dominion when a paraly- tic stroke laid him low about 8 years ago. He was a member of the first en- gineering staff engaged in New Bruns- wick upon the construetion of the In- tercolonial Railway. The delegates to the New England Ar- bitration and Peace Congress had a busy day on Wednesday, with meetings in the morning and afternoon. Addresses were given by Edwin D. Mead, director of the International School of Peace, Boston; Rev. Walter Walsh. Dundee, Scotland, and Professor T. B. Kilpatrick, of Knox College, Toronto. The Conservation Commission will be represented at the International Associ- ation of forest experiment stations at Brussels, Belgium, by Dr. B. E. Fernow, bead of the Department of Forestry of the University of Toronto. Dr. Fernow will also .represent the commission at the International Congress of Geology to be held shortly at Stockholm, Sweden. While on his way from the poet -office, Curtis Ross, aged 18 years, was killed by taking hold of a live wire at the Domiion No. 2 colliery, Cape Breton. Ho was arguing with a companion as to whether the wire was charged or not, when, to prove his assertion that it was uncharged, he took hold, and received a severe shock. He died about twenty minutes afterwards. From reports received through the farmers of the locality of Guelph it is learned that the crops are in a much bet- ter state than was expected. The heavy frost of a week ago affected the barley to some extent, but not sufficient to hurt it. The crops have revived after the severe wet spell, and from present indications the grain on the ;high lands will not be affectee in the least. In the low-lying sections water is still lying on the fields in some places. —e -P® 70 POUNDS OF MILK PER DAY The body of the unknown man taken from the Detroit River at Windsor last Sunday has been interred at the expense of the city. Scores of people crossed the river to view the remains, but they were apparently those of a total stranger. Grand opera singers took away al- most a million dollars from New York tbis season. Caruso sailed on Tuesday with $200,000, while Tetrzzini took $120,000. Five hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars went abroad on one steam- er. A verdict of "guilty of stabbing" was returned by a jury in the Toronto Ses- sions on a charge against Giuseppe Sam - pia, an Italian. Sampia denied any knowledge of the stabbing. He was re- manded for sentence till the end of the Sessions. The Canadian Northern Railway will keep pace with the great development of the west and over six hundred miles of track will be laid in the three prairie Provinces this year, according to D. Mann, the first vire-president of the company, who arrived from the east to- day. Mrs. Sara A. Nevilis met with a pain- ful accident yesterday afternoon at her home, 71 Taylor street, Toronto. She was walking through the kitchen with an armful of clothes Wien she wont too close to a gas jet, and the clothes caught fire. She was burned about the face and arms. The difference between the manage- ment of the Canadian Northern Railway and the men over the wage schedules has resulted in the boilermakers, helpers and earmen and steamfitters each applying for a Board of Arbitration, their de mead for an increase being refused by the company. After five days' operations, the Trak - isle troops, with a loss of ?00 killed or Wounded, have cleared 4,000 Albanians out of TehernoIova Pass, near Pr•isrend. The insurgents still occupy Ipek and D}al ova. Further large Turkish rein- forcements havd been called for by 'lenge, Pasha. ;William Ogg, a farmer living in the vicinity of TT amesford, was probahly fatally injured while assisting at a barn• raising on the farm of W, McMillan. He was standing on the rafting of the .barn when he was struck by a joist and fell to the ground, a distance of 35 feet. His spine was injured. The London cigar manufacturers have decided te fight against all interference, 'They claim that the lnereased..pay .de - mended by the men, instead of being 10 per Dent., a:moants to from 20 to S5 per taut. The union men claim that a strece In this busy age when Canada is mak- ing a name for herself with big things, water powers, timber limits, railroads, real estate deals and so on, it is perhaps as well to remind ourselves that the or- dinary farm operations occasionally show very big things. We hear now and then of poor cows and low yields of milk, so we need constantly to bear hi mind that huge things are accomplished by the proper combination of the brainy dairyman, good feed and the selected cow. We have plenty of good cows in Canada, some that give 10,000, 15,000 and 20,000 pounds of milk in a year. One or two big records were made in March by excellent cows, one lot of six in one herd giving n total yield of 9,388 pounds of milk, and some giving as much as seventy pounds of .,its: fn one day;• think of it, enough to supply the needs of 56 ordinary people at the rate of one pint each. Such cows are not picked up every day; they are not average cows, but they are an indication of what is be- ing accomplished by brain work, applied intelligence in dairying. We need to realize that it is perfectly feasible to do a good deal more raising, not only the much needed raising of the general stan- dard of the average cow, so that the 3,000 pounder is no longer "in our midst," but the raising of a good many more cows of at least the 10,000 pound type. Dairy records of milk produced and feed consumed will soon show which cow in the stable of the average dairy- man is not worth keeping, and which will respond to more liberal feeding so as to produce milk in abundance. Cow test- ing associations will help every dairy- man to success; join the nearest to you or assist in forming te new one.—C. F. W. CHILD BREATHED. TO GEORGE Roosevelt Will; Be Presented On His Arr'val in London. Overflow M orial Service Will Be Hei in New York. li London, Mai 16.—Mr. Roosevelt will be presented a fling George soon af- ter his arriv ;,n .London, early next Monday morn, g. Arrangements to this end have been at the wish of His Majesty. The King hie personally extended, through .Amba ador Reid, his thanks to President Tait lend the Government and people of the:', nited States for their many tokens ' condolence and sympa- thMr. Roosevelt, upon his arrival here will proceed to Dorchester house, where he will remain quietly until after the funeral of Ki Edward. Official not: ,cation of Mr. Roose- velt's appoin cat as special American Ambassador to the funeral of the late monarch, was 'ved et the Foreign Office this mo ing. NEW YORK EMORIAL SERVICE. New York, May 16.—British Consul- General Bennett announced to -day that the demand foretickets for the memorial service on May 17, for King Edward VII. is so gr. that not one in ten of the applicants ' who have sent in re- quests for tickets can be furnished with seats. Under these circumstances Dr. Manning, the Rector of Trinity, has kindly consente.el to have an additional service at Old Ct. Paul's Chapel at the samo hour as the Trinity service, to ac- commodate those who cannot find places at Trinity Oharch. The service at St. Paul will be open to all without tick- ets. NST TH 11G DID Took Britain t of its Splendid Iso- lation nto Friendship. Brantford Baby's Death Caused by Strangulation, Brantford, Ont., despateh: to the in• quest here last night into the death of the infant daughter of Lizzie Hill, the Iteyear-dld Indian domestic, Drs. Pal- mer and Marquis, who performed the au• topsy, swore that the death of the child was due to strangulation, and that the child ,had lived. The doctors ;stated, however, death might have been acci- dental' under' the circutnetenced. 'rhe inquest was adjourned a ,reek. Former French Minister of Foreign Affairs On the Late King. London, May ,10.—Gabriel Hanotaux, who was French Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1804 to 1898, contributes to the Daily Main a striking appreciation of King Edevark in the course of which he says: "It Amy bo confessed to -day that at the close of the unforgettable reign of Queen Victoria Britain was en- closed in her splendid isolation, no long- er as young as sne was, a• eountry held aloof, somewhat hautily and arrogant- ly, though, to be sure, there was much virtue and some stiffness as well in this attitude of middle-class severity. It was King Edward who 'thawed the frozen hearts of old England. Hebroke the ice in political relations and in poli- tical customs. When Edward VII. be- came King he asked England to descend from the pinnacle on which she was placed. and persuaded her to enter into relations with the rest of the world in obedience to the example set by his own accessible and human character. "And it was time the works of the political machine were well oiled. King Edward did it nimbly, without seem- ing to be about it, in his habitual way. We do not not know how it was done, but it was done. We saw the conclus- ion of the war in the Transxaal. We saw mattera settled between Russia and Japan. We saw the embitterment in the relations with France lessen, and Fashoda turn into the entente cordiale. No one doubts, that this sudden change was due to the dircet influence of King Edward. "It is an eetablished fact to -day that when King Edward. resolved to pay his famous visit to Paris, which was de- cisive for thenew orientation of al- liances and friendships, he announced his intention first in person to President• Loubet, and, that the Governments of the two countries heard of the project only afterward: Nor was the sentiment which animated him thus to act limited to the relations of France and England. King Edward infused it with a whole scheme of international polities, and thus rendered invaluable service not only to the two countries, but also to the rest of the world: A true arbiter of elegance. he introduced into Europe the rule borrowed, I may say, from the code of men of the world, that there are things which are done and things which are not done. "I do notenture to affirm that he was able to wake this rule triumph in his own lifetime. If it ever becomes generally adotsted, it will base 'peace on the manners and customs d good so- ciety, and welhave not, yet reached that point. But he did help to revive the rule at a time when it was generally forgotten, and once more to spread it abroad in the world. "Emperor William and King Edward have sometimes been placed in opposi- tion .'to one another. I think this wrong. There are more 'similarities than dis- edmilarities between the uncleand the nephew; Penh are of the blood of the Englishwoman of whoa Bismarck was wont to speak so bittee e. Theveritable antagonist of King E. Ord ,s not Wil- bern, it is Bismarck. . • •odigious realist that he was, Bismarck epic nothing into consideration but his c en interests, his own passions, his' own prejudices. Ile trampled on everything else, Awl had his method been perpetuated the world would, have rapidly returned to intol- erable dissension and inexpiable ven- geance. "Can nations be managed' by a con- quest of brass, as people are impris- oned in a cage of iron? Is the law of the strongest to be the last word in history? We were not far from think- ing so in the closing years of the nine- teenth century. "We wo net think so quite as much to -day in this reign of King Edward, which, worthily opened the twentieth century. It was enough for him, with his exquisite sense of good taste and good tone, to point out "Ce la tie se fait pas' (That is not done)." ALFALFA. A Splendid Crop For Ontario Farmers, Ontario farmers who have gone into alfalfa experimentally have proved be- yond the shadow of a doubt that this is the best paying fodder crop that an agriculturist can grow. Alfalfa has been known since 490 B. C., and was successfully grown in Greece and Rome nearly 2,600 years ago. In the State of 'Kansas, where in 1891 $0,000 acres grown, while last year near- ly a million acres acres of alfalfa were under crop, resulting in untold financial benefit to the farmers of this State. There are five different varieties, viz.: American, Turkestan, Arabian, Peruvian and German, but for Ontario the Ameri- can variety is best suited. Alfalfa, unlike many other crops, en- riches the soil rather than empoverishes it. The roots 'extend into the earth from five to twelve feet, reaching down and bringing to the surface nitrogen and other valuable mineral plant food. It has been grown continuously on a farm in one of the counties of this Province for nearly thirty years, and still pro- duces good crops. It can be grown sue- cessfullo on sandy, heavy clay loam or on nearly any variety of soil properly drained. Successful experiments with it have been conducted on a Iimited scale with success in nearly every part of On- tario both with and without a nursing crop. Spring sowing has given best re- sults. If sown with a nursing crop bar- ley at the rate of one bushel per acre is an excellent one for this purpose. Eighteen or twenty pounds per acre of alfalfa is the proper quantity of sees. From three to four crops can be harvest- ed in one season and the average height of a plant runs from fourteen to twenty inches. 'hien about one-third of the crop is in bloom is an excellent time to start cutting, as it then possesses its greatest food value. The cuttingshould be done in the forenoon when the dew is off the grass and the tedder should fol- low immediately and be kept at work until late in the afternoon and the crop left in windrows. This process should be repeated the following day and the hay put in coils and left for several days. It should not be cut too close to the ground, as the plant may be injured thereby. The yield per acre of green crop is about 20 tone, and of drybay five. It should not be allowed to remain too long in the hot sun as the leaves are liable to become dry and break off, and they contain most of the nutriments. Seat is produced best from either first or sec- ond cuttings and averages five bushels per acre, although it sometimes runs as high RS ten. Alfalfa hay contains about 50 per cent. more digestible protein than hay made from red clover. It makes a splendid pasture for horses or hogs. but care is required when sheep or cattle are turn- ed in as there is a tendency to bloat if allowed to eat too much, especially when the grass is wet. An• application of about twelve loads of barn yard manure per acre every four years has proved very satisfaetory. Fertilizers containing phosphate have given the best results. When a field of alfalfa is plongbed down the surface soil is completely filled with roots rich in fertile elements. It is to be hoped that every farmer in Ontario, who bas suitable, wen drain- ed soil, will put iu a field of this most desirable crop. J. Leckie Wilson. TO MEET JUNE 8. Parliament Will Take Up Civil List and Some Unnamed Bills. London, May 16.—Mr. Asquithee an- nouncement 'that the Commons . will meet on June 9th gives the Mini eters a badly -needed extension of holidays, and accords with the general desire that the conetntutional controversies should not be resumed in the earlier days of the national mourning. the Premier's outline of the business tobe taken* up—narnely, the civil list and some unnamed bills (including, possibly, the bile dealing with the Coronation oath)—means a further pause. The Bud- get. of 1.010.1),.4 clue, of course. Whether It will he Introdueee wiht the Lords' veto still undealt with is one of the com- plications perplexing the politicians here, F FRCM Washington Getting Alarmed at the Exodus to Canada. Washington, May 16.—That ryelema. tic advertising of the country in the lin tercets of immigration is carried on by Canada is shown by official reports re- ceived at the office of Daniel J. Keef, Commissioner General of Immigrdtiou of the United States. The result is that the Dominion gots a largo number of farmers :rem the western prairies. The farmer is fol- lowed by the merchant then by the man- ufaeturer. For the year. ended March 31, 1910, 103,789 people from the United States emigrated to Canada and 57,930 came from that country. During the preceding year 146,908 emigrated to Canada from all countries, of whom 42,780 were farmers and farm' laborers, from the United States. Only 3,268 persons of the same class came from Canada to this country. Dur- ing the same period 2,066 clerks and merchants and 6,001 persons with occu- pations not classified, emigrated from the United States to Canada, while 1,- 634 clerks and merchants and 22,820 per- sons with occupations not classified, came from Canada. Thirty per cent. of the immigration into Canada during the last eight years was English, 8 per cent. Scotch, 33 per cent. from the United States, and 4 per Dent. Italians. The general estimate that each en>1- grant going to Canada from the United States .has about $1,000 in money and chattels. FOREST PRODUCTS Forestry Branch Department of the Interior. "Forest Products of Canada, 1008," is the title of the latest bulletin issued by the forestry branch of the Department of the Interior. It comprises the result of the first year's work of the Dominion forest service in the compilation of sta- tistics relating to the production and consumption of the forest products of the Dominion. Messrs. H. R. MacMiIlan and G. A. Gutches ,are the compilers of the figures. This work was undertaken by the for- estry branch with the object of meeting a long -felt want es to reliable statistics relating to the use of wood in Canada more frequent than the census figures, which are published every ten years. The returns do not profess to be com- plete, but are thought to be reasonably accurate, and at any rate give it fairly exact idea of the quantities and values of material and products in the differ- ent lines. The work was new, botlf.to the manu- facturers and tothe officials of the branch, but in future years, as it con- tinues, it is hoped to .have'much more complete and reliable returns. Copies of the bulletin rnay be obtained gratis by applying to the superintendent of forestry, Ottawa. The total value of the production of lumber, lath, shingles, crossties, poles and pulpwood during the year was $67,- 425,044. The production of sawn lumber is shown by the figures to be in the neigh- borhood of 3,348,170,000 feet, board measure, per annum, valued at 854.338,- 030. British Columbia easily lea is in the production of shingles, producing 724,- 652,000 of the' value of $1,391,308. Its nearest competitor is Quebec, which pro- duced 406,440,000, valued at $840,787, and then follows Ontario, with production of 223,533,000, valued at $461,155. The total production for the Dominion was 1,490,390,000 shingles, the aggregate value of which was $3,101,096. In the manufacture of laths Ontario takes first place with 263,241,000 to her credit, valued. at $012,850. The total number of laths manufactured was 671,- 562,000, of the value of $1,4877,125. The total number of laths manufacturer] was 071,502,000, of the value of $1,487,125. During the year the railways purchas- ed 13,078,416 Bross -ties for which they paid $5,281,0S5, Reports es to the poles purchased, were received from 46 telegraph and tele- phone companies, 151 electric light, pow- er and railway companies and 10 steams. railways owning their pole lines. These represent 66,544 miles of line, supported, by 2,483,245 poles. 41* WAS NO JOKES Ottawa Lad Put Lighted Firecrack— ers Down Playmate's Back. Ottawa despatch: A•young, lad was taken into the police station: yeslierday; charged, with a particularly Eioaa tleae bit' of cruelty. It was learned tliiat he hada placed a lighted firecracker"dowh aa -- other young boy's back, end the explo- sion had eo injured the boy that ho was conveyed to the Protestant Hospital in g}'eat agony. The hospital authorities state that the victim, whose name is given as Letts ant who resides in Roehesterville, wilt be confined to the -hospital for a month. The perpetrator of the act was relearn- ed ott bail until Tlttirsday; when he will\ be trig in the juvenile eouxt.