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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1911-10-06, Page 3LETTERS OF A SON IN THE MAKING TO HIS DAD. —Ey REX McEVOY [Mr. McEvoy will write for this paper a series of letters from the west. They will appear from time to time un- der the above heading, and will give a picture of the great Canadian west from the standpoint of a young Ontario man going out there {to make his way. These let - Iters should be full of inteieat f'or every Ontario father.] No. 6. Vancouver, Sept. 21st, 1911. My Dear Dad:— Here I am at the end of my journey. though not as far, west as I intend to go before returning east. It is only four and a half hours by boat from here to Victoria, the capital of the Province, so I shall try and get there for a day or two before starting for home. Uncle John met me at the station when I got in and took me right up to their home in Fairview., for breakfast. Aunty and the cousins were there, of course. and kava me a great welcome. They certain. )y have been good to me, and they have given mo the best bedroom in the house. Leith an. outlook over the - city to. • the }fountains beyond. I didn't see anything of the • Fraser tallest coming'here,"as we passed through at night. I am told that it is one of o best parts of the trip, so I shall ar• Mega to go home by the Toronto Es rress, which Ieaves tho C. P. R. station ere at nine o'clock in the morning and oes through the valley by daylight. By eking this train I shall have seen all he mountains, shall n ius as what I sl al miss on )his train I shall have seen coming out en the Imperial Limited. I like Vancouver fine, what I have seen IA it. The business portion of tho town Is well paved and has some fine. solid. buildings. It has more prosperous stores for its size than any place I have been in. and they have the art of making their windows attractive down to the last word. There are one or two hills and steep streets in the down -town sec- tion. but for the most part it is level. Quite a large portion of the up -town 'Part is out off from downtown by False Creek, an arm of the sea which reaches inland for over two miles. At high tide there is twelve feet of water in the creek, which is crossed by three long bridges. At low tide there is practically no water in the creek at all. and the mud flats are exposed,with only puddles of water ' hero and there. The first time I saw it, it looked quite like a harbor, for there were small boats with rafts of logs ly- ing ying (lose to the sawmills, which lino the banks of False Creek. The. mills all have their piles of lumber characteristic cf this lumber country, and all have great furnaces, as big as houses, where the waste from the mills is burned. Flames aro constantly leaping out of the alien tops of these furnaces. which are 'fed from a sort of spout which projects over them. There is a constant stream. rf splinters and lath -like pieces of wood fai- ling from the spout to feed the flames. To. the south of Vancouver on quite a bill are the residential districts known as Grandview, Fairview, and Shaughnessy Heights. Thom the latter place you get a magnificent view all over Vancouver, and beyond Burrard Inlet, the harbor, to North Vancouver and the mountains. We have heard of the Yellow Peril in the East, and you realize what is meant by it when you get to Vancouver, where there are 11,000 Asiatics out of a total po- pulation of 110,000. Chinaman are here in great numbers,' , They . are employed quite a lot , as house servants. . Often when going through a good residential district„ I. /taco seen, a Chinaman come out of the kitchen door an to the side verandah, 'busy on seine "domestic duty, lehey, go '.about,, some,of them, as'ohax- ' 'Ninon do in the ,Bas, and they get 02 a day for s.:olf work. They aro liked better than the Japaneee, as they seam age). Address Zani-Bole Co., To - 4o be 'better workers. The Jap boy knows onto. the minimum work he can do and the maximum wage he can get, so they say. The Chinese are groat market gardeners, too. and all the vegetable peddlers I have seen out here have been Chinese. Some of them are very well off, and own fine horses and "waggons,''while there are many who carry their goods in baskets swung one at each end of a bamboo pole, just as you see in pictures of Chinese coolies. Of course there are mer- chant Chinese her( who are very well off. Unole John took me to dinner with one of theist who goes home to China every year. He came to Vancouver twenty- eight years ago, and was here when the place was called Gastown. He has taken advantage of his opportunities, and must be worth a great amount. Another section of the yellow peril is formed by our fellow subjects the "tin. doos. These you see everywhere, and they are easily distinguishable by their turbans, which are of all colors, some pink, some red, some white. some yel- low—I don't know what color I have not seen. There were ten of •these chaps in the trolley coming home from New West- minster yesterday. They seemed quite at home and were Laughing and jabber- ing away among themselves the whole way back to Vancouver. I am told that the different colored turbans indicate dlf- ferent castes, and that the men work for the most part in the saw mills. They are very swarthy. and for the most part aro black -bearded men. Coming home from New Westminster 1 saw something that wouldsurprise any- one Prom the East. Passing Hastings townsite, I saw the way they clear the land here when they are in a hurry. They have a. powerful donkey engine, and by a system of pulleys they hitch cables to the trees as they stand and drag them holus-bolusto a pile in the centre of the spot they are clearing: IF the treeis too largo it is out into logs, and the logs are hauled on to tho pile. I saw sone logs two to three feet through. Some of the piles are forty to fifty feet high. When tile pile is as high as they are going to make it they start another, and so get all the timber into piles. These piles are then set on fire. There was one of these piles on Shaughnessy heights,only few blocks from Uncle John's house, and this was set on fire ono night. The spectacle was immense. The flames in a solid sheet leaped about forty feet into the air, and the glare illumined the whole district. -Good-bye for the present, ant.. P. S.—I have opened this to explain that I have carried this letter around in my pocket for a week. You see, I wrote it' on election day, and in the excitement down town that night I completely for- got to post it, and, it has been in my pocket ever since.—J. MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS' NOW THE PRICE OF MONEY AFFECTS PRICE OF SECURITIES. In Coed Times and in Bad. Tiros -!Mow: the Future of the Investment Market is Tending—Offset by Easy Money Con- • ditfons In. London, The articles contributed by "Investor" are for the sole purpose of guiding pros- pective investors, and, if possible of sav- ing them from losing money through; placing it in "wild -oat" .:nterprises. 'The'' impartial and reliable character of the information may be relied upon. ` The writer of these articles and the publlebor of this paper have no interests to serve in connection with this matter other titan those of the reader. The other day an investor asked the, writer ft the present was a.gocd time to' buy securities. This was a very simple question to ask, but rather a largo order to answer. It involved carefully scrutin- izing the influences controlling the price movements of securities, comparing them with conditions in the past and forec;tst- inr^the future. This is a most important question in connection with the investing of money, and almost absolutely essen- tial to successful speculation. Of course in investment a wan need not estimate the future of general conditions in order to insane a steady income awl safety. But by so doing ° he can occas- ionally quite easily choose a time when he can get a better rate of income with equal security, or oven the same security at a lower cost than at some other not remotetime, and so it is quite worth while to attempt this, for while failure to do so correctly involves the speculator in difficulties it merely affects the in- vestor by causing him some disgust at not waiting longer, or at not purchasing sooner. 01 course, +the true investor need not worry over this feature, but—even if -you should intend never to sell' your investment, it is always a source of sat- isfaction to realize that you bought it at a lower price than it would bring at present. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. • An eminent scientist, the other day, gave his opinion that the most wonderful discovery of recent years was the discovery of Zam-Buk. Just think! As soon as - a single thin lay- er of Zam-Buk is applied to a wound or a sore, such injury isinsured against blood poison! Not one species of microbe- has been found that Zam-Buk does not kill 1 Then, again. As soon as Zam-Buk is applied to a sore, or a cut, or to skin disease, it sups the smarting. That is why . childryen are such friends of Zam-Buk. , Again. As soon as Zanieliuk is ap- plied to a wound or to a diseased part, the cells beneath the skin's surface are so stimulated that new healthy tissue is quickly formed. This is why Zam-Buk cures are per- manent. ° Only the other day Mr. Marsh, of 101 - Delorimier Ave., Montreal, called upon the Zam-Buk Com- pany and told them that for over twenty-five years he had ' been a martyr to eczema. His hands were at one time so covered with sores that he had to sleep in gloves. Four years ago Zam-Buk was introduced to him, and in a few months it cured him. ' To-day—over three years af- ter his euro of a disease he had for twenty-five hid is still cured; arid has had no trace of any. re- turn of • the eczema! • All druggists sell Zam=Buk at 500. box,. or we will send free .trial box if you send this advertisement and av lc. stamp to pay return posh There are two thtngt that affect Inc market for negottablo securities -that 's securities whluh aro readily bought and sold. One is the loaning price of money, and the other is the general condition of business. Sometimes these work toget112r,. sometimes in opposition. When welkin together their power is irresistableu• ally,. however; they are in 0 money, generally being"' low ness is bad and high when butane, good. The effect of those renditions is this. When money rates ars low and business bad and likely to get worse. highgrade bonds such as good municipal debentures will advance. The reckon is, of course, that municipal bonds are practically un- affected by adverse business conditions and, therefore, their price is influenced almost entireky by the money market. When money is cheap. that is loaeleg at 31-2 and four per cent. on good security in Canada—it has been many years since this occurred, and will probably be many more before we see it again—bonds yield- ing 41-2 and 5 per cent. are eagerly sought by banks and insurance companies, as they present a return—some ru'n to 11.2 points above 'what could be obtained in loaning on the market—and at the same time the safety of which is not affected by conditions of 'general business, This fact causes the price of the bonds to advance and the yield to fall until the loaning price of money and the return on bonds are approximately equal. Batt middle grade bonds will remain station- ary for bad .business conditions, tending to depress prices of all but best bonds; are offset ,by the effect of cheap money. Speculative bonds whose safety depend very largely on the condition of busi- ness will weaken in market price, as their safety is in danger to such an ax tent asto offset any effect of cheap money. Ou the other hand, when busi- ness le good and money dear there is 'e tendency for high-grade bonds to de• cline; for the banks, can sell them as they only yield a low rate of 4 to 41.2 per cent at such a time, and loan the money at a better rate. Other bonds, yieldiug a higher rate. and becoming the more secure the better the business out- look is, will tend to advance. The present tendency is this. Money it dear and business very good, indeed, in Cauada. Therefore high-grade bonds should ease off. They will not do so to any appreciable extent beoauso,l high- grade municipal bonds are not handled on the Canadian markets, but are dealt in wholly .by private sale. But yon will notice that the prices which good mu- nicipalities got for their bonds are less this year than last. In fact, front all appearances, the prices aro getting down to a level where they yield a return an preaching ;that; on free money. Excellent business conditions, 'however, are caus- ing securities of a lower grade to ad. Vance, because' their eafoty 1s improving and, „because, yielding a higher rate,' the money market is not yet too" litgh to in, fluence theist -seriously. eeer //ilii/ EW61l1ETr' OMPARIO ;/rAIOR ' hq„ TooO„TQ HGd,Pl11AN TT//�},w!(/yam/�// /% / 4:4 - Notes of Particular Interest to Worsen Folks DAINTY RECIPES. Banana, Salad.—Peel and cut ba- nanas in two lengthwise, dip each half in mayonnaise dressing, then troll in nut meats chopped fine; ar- range on crisp lettuce leaves and .put a border of nutmeats around. Two' pounds of beef or meat, sim- mer until tender, add salt and pep-. per. When done beat two eggs ith three tablespoons of flour and two of water, add to soup. and let .two minute's. Serve. Probasco Pickles.—Twelve large cucumbers, peel and take out seeds. Three dozen small cucumbers, one half dozen sweet mangoes, one-half citizenhot mangoes, four little red Wpers, one quart onions, put all :through the coarsest meat grinder, (gran • add 'two handfuls of salt, one y!".cart of cider vinegar, one pint of ''ranulated sugar, boil all together •for onelalf hour, then seal. • LL-wr'eaoh Griddle Cakes—Peel about ge peaches thin. Halve them en shave off in slices. with sugar Beat tsVo 'teen); and add a pint e Add one-quarter cup of ir..n, sprinkle of salt and enough our into which a teaspoonful of baling powder has been stirred to inake the mixture into a pancake batter. Stir the peaches into the batter. Put the griddle on the range and put into it butter or dripping just as you do for frying pancakes. Pour enough in the. griddle for a cake and fry brown. Use all the batter this way. Serve with butter and sugar or sugar and cream. Waffles -Three eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately. Two tablespoons melted butter. Beat yolks of eggs to astiff froth, add melted butter, pinch of salt, one teaspoon of sugar, and one-half cup of sweet milk, Add flour sifted with three teaspoons baking -powder, Lastly add the whites of the eggs beaten stiff. If desired, one table- spoon of rum may be added. - cried Chicken.—Cut up chicken, salt .and flour each pieee and drop into hot batter and lard, brown on both sides, then cover with water and let sinimer about one hour. When done, take up, chicken and make gravywithone tablespoon of flour or 'cornstarch mixed with cold water until a thin paste is . made. If gravy is too thick add hot water. One tablespoon each of butter and lard will. be sufficient to fry chick- en. Chicken will be very tender and very appetizing if cooked this way, much more so than cooked in halves and fried until a hard crust is formed. This reeipe is for sj ring chicken. Blueberry Mullins—Two and one- half cups of flour well sifted, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, three-fourths trip of sugar, one cup of milk. two eggs beaten slightly, butter size of egg melted, large pinch' of salt, one large cup of ber- ries. - Mix sugar, flour, baking pow- der, salt, add milk, then eggs, last add berries slightly floured. Bake twenty' minutes in moderate oven. Pried Chicken, --Take one young spring- chicken. Cut it in pieces, salt it, have nice fresh lard well heated.; flour. every piece separate, then put into the''boiling lard and cook to a nice crispy brown; drain off the fat• for gravy except just a little, add 'one tablespoon of flour and one cup of "sweet milk, add shit and' pepper to taste. You will have a nice, brown, - dream 'gravy. Biscuits to serve with the creamy gravy. ' One pint of flour, one tea- spoon 'of baking powder, one table- -spoon of nine sweet lard or butter t; -.A r A NEVI! RADIUM MST! enough sweet milk to make a soft dough. Bake quickly and you will find them delicious. Lady Baltimore Cake.—One cup of butter, two cups of granulated sugar, one cup of milk, three and one-half cups of flour, three level teaspoons of baking powder, whites of six eggs. Cream the butter and sugar gradually. Sift flour and baking powder three times. Add the milk, and Last add the eggs ; also teaspoon of lemon extract and vanilla. .If this is too large half makes a good sized cake. Frosting for Lady Baltimore cake : Three cups of granulated sugar, one cup boiling water, whites of three eggs, one cup of chopped raisins, one cup chopped nut meats, five figs out or ground. Stir the sugar and water. Let boil till it will spin sugar and water. Let boil till it will spin a thread. Pour over the whites of eggs. Beat stiff. Oyster Omelet.—A delicious way to utilize left over oysters: One-half .cup of systers without liquor. Four. , gs,;• two teaspoons' flout,''oone-third cup of milk, four er five slices of baeon, pinch of salt. Make 'flour and milk into asmooth, boiled paste. Cut the bacon into tiny squares and fry brown in a skillet. Beat whites of eggs to a stiff froth, then add flour paste, oysters, and egg yolks. Beat slightly ; turn in- to the skillet with the bacon, which should be sizzling hot; lift slightly with a knife as the omelet cooks; then fold over and serve piping hot. SOUND SLEEP Can Easily be Secured. "Up to 2 years ago," a ,woman writes, "I was in the habit of using • both tea and coffee regularly. "I found that my health was be- ginning to fail, strange nervous at- tacks would come' suddenly upon me, making me tremble so exces- sively that I could not do my work while they lasted; my sleep left me and I passed long nights in restless. discomfort. I was filled with a nervous dread as to the future. "A friend suggested that pos- sibly tea and coffee were to .blame, and I decided to give them up, and in -casting about for a hot table bev- erage, which I felt was an absolute necessity, I`was led by good fortune to try Postum. "For more than a year I have used it three times a day and ex- pect, so much good,•has it done me, to continue its us'e during the rest of my life. "Soon after beginning the use of Postum, I found, to my surprise, that, instead of tossing on a sleep- less bed through the long, dreary night, I dropped into a sound, dreamless sleep the moment my head touched the pillow. "Then I suddenly realized that all my nervousness had left me, and my appetite, which had fallen off before, had all at once been re- stored so that I ate my food with akeen relish. "All the nervous dread has gone. I walk a mile and a half each way to my work every day and enjoy it. I find an interest in everything that goes on about me that makes life a pleasure. All this I owe to leav- ing off tea and eoffee and the use of Postum, for 2 have taken no medi- cine. Name given by ,,Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason, and it IS ex- plained in the little yule book, "The BEovad trooaWdVtehlevaibloc,e.Lenapp,?gAs new one aep''hrs from Hine to time: They nett genuine, true, and tuts of human Interest. PATIENTS TREATED RAYS IN LONDON. The Kest Fully Equipped Iustltei• tion of DA Kind In the W.or'ld, "SUP' "10-11 and a pinch - of salt, add just The Radium Institution in Rid.4 irghouse street, London, ' England, she most fully -equipped institution of its kind in the world, was opened a few days ago without any format ceremony for the treatment of pati- ents. A niunb.er of cases have al- ready been treated, and though the officials do not claim to be able to work miracles they believe that with their methods they have every chance of success in certain cases of cancer which are not too far ad- vanced, some cases of ulcer, and :ert=ain forms of eczema and othe intractable skin diseases. The in stitute has been established owin to the generosity of Visooun Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel, wh acted upon an idea enamatingfro King Edward - OBJECT OF THE INSTITUTE. The amount of radium in the in. stitute is perhaps half ateaspoon ful, and is probably worth £50.000 The quantity is more than tha possessed by any other institutio in the world. The object of th institution is to treat patients wh probably can not bo operated upo and from other causes require th use of radium. Thirty patients ca be treated at a time. The patients are 'divided int two classes—those who pay and those who are recommended by a doctor for free treatment. There is no difference made between them in the manner of treatment. There is a room that can be dark- ened. This is for the examination of the throat. Electric lights that grow brilliant and dim at will and strange -shaped taps that can be turned to let the water flow with a touch of the elbow to prevent pos- sible contamination with the hands are among the novelties in these rooms. Upstairs, there are twelve rooms where patients undergo the application of the radium rays. '.1HE WONDERS OF RADIUM. Nothing more wonderful can itnagi_ned than. the"ittle square circular trays of metal containing specks of radium in shellac varnis whose rays hold .such vast possibjii ties in the future of mankind' struggle against disease. The tray when applied to the patient are env ered with metal caps or screen which lessen or intensify the powe of the rays according to the flatus• of the disease. Upstairs there is laboratory where millions of dis ease germs Iive in slender glas tubes; downstairs in the basemen is it strong -room holding the larges stock of radium in the world. The scale -room where these tin black specks of radium are weigheu in a broad, lofty,, white -tiled room absolutely vibration -proof. In th center is a stone table resting on solid brick supports which go through the floor to the very found- ations of the building. On this stone table, under a 'glass case, the scales stand, and here the scientists weigh their costly fraction. The scales will register the thousandth part of a milligramme. ADDITIONAL FEATURES. The building has in adidition a fur. ly-equipped mechanical workshop in charge of a highly -skilled technical assistant, and in this shop with its electrically operated lathes, drill- ing machines, etc., all the special forms of apparatus on which the radium has to be mounted for the treatment of various diseases are manufactured, Here too are made the screens of diffenent metals— aluminium, silver, and lead—vary- ing from one-hundredth of it milli- meter to 3 millimeters in thickness. In the basement is a well -fitted carpenter's shop which is constant- ly in use for the making of special cabinets, cupboards, and wooden • fittings generally. It is important for would-be ap- plicants to note that no patient can be received for treatment at the institute unless introduced by a medical man : The medical superintendent and general doctor of the institute is Mr. Hayward Pinch. Avoid society if you would make it study of mankind. "You seem to be rather fond of Swiss cheese,” remarked .the dys- peptic. ."I always thought .cheese with holes in it was indigestible." "The holes are," rejoined the man who had just finished his fourth sandwich, ':but 1 never eat the holes.",