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AGAIN we &re faced with the importance of.confuting our Christmas giving tag .j
practical. Again we must exhibit true economy in our choice of preaente
mother, sister and brother,.: You should realize that the place to obtain this idnga
in a hardware store -for in our business nothingis placed in Stock that is not a trnbr
article. In this Hardware Shop you will find everything necessary from which to
wise selection for the entire family.
To Make Some roman Happy
Silver Spoons, per
dozen ....$2.00 to $10.00
Silver Knives And
Forks $4.50 to $8.50
Berry Spoons$1.50 to $4.00
Children's Silver
Sets 85c to $3.00
Pie Knives. .$2.00 to $3.00
Pearl Fruit Knives,
per set $7.50
Carving Sets, Shef-
field $4.50 to $10.00
Razors $3.00 to $6.50
Razor Straps ..50c to $2.00
Shaving Brushes..50c to $1
O'Cedar Mops.. $1.25 to $2
Flashlights$1.25 to $4.50
Electric Irons $5.50
Electric Toasters$6.50
Electric Grills $13.00
Scissors 25c to $2.50
Nickeled Tea-
pots $1.75 to $3.50
Nickled Kettles,
each $2.75 to $3.50
Perfection Oil Heaters . $7.75
Note these Helpful Suggestion's
Pyrex Oven-
ware $1.25 to $3.50
Pocket Knives ..25c to -$2.50
Boy Scout Knives ....75c
Scout Axes : X6$1.50
22 Rifle $8.75
Auto Skates ..$2.00 to $7.00
Hockey Sticks .. 50c tq' $1.50
Pucks 15c to 50c
Sleighs 75c to $5.00
Chime Back Bells..: ,!$5.00
Washing Machine ..$19.50
Wringers ....$7.50 to $8.50
Carpet Sweepers ....$6.50
Aluminum Coffee
Pots $2.50
Aluminum Teapots$3.25
Aluminum Kettles,
each $2.75 to $4.25
Themos Bottles, .-
each $1.75 to $4.00
Snow .Shoes. ,$4.50 to $5.00
Tool Grinders $5.00
Food Choppers. $3.50
Copper Boilers,
each $4.50 to $7.50
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GLANDS NOW BLAMED FOR
MANY CRIMES.
One of the latest theories in the
werld of medical science is that the
ductless glands have a tremendous
influence upon bodily and mental
health. It is only lately that science
was able to attribute any functions
whatever to these peculiar glands, the
idea being that they were like the
vermi-form appendix, Those useful-
ness had departed, and that they
fn course of time would depart also.
Now;however, they are considered
of vital importance. It may be
that their function is exaggerated,
as is usually the case in new dis-
coveries of all kinds. Some amazing
claims are put forward by reputable
medical •men. One declares that
as a result of some sort of opera-
tion on a pituitary gland a dense
growth of hair sprouted on the
patient. There have also been
'stories of men regaining their youth
as the result of .having youthful
monkey glands grafted upon them. '
eSlie gland, in the belief of some, is
the real Ponce de Leon fountain. ;
• An authority on the subject is '
Dr: Max G. Schlepp, of New York.
:tile believes that glands and their
eeerebions are largely responsible
for many crimes. They are re-
eponsible for certain crimes of im-
- pulse, and are also for hardened
_criminals. He cites the case of a
'young man named Archie Daniels,
;tvlao shot and killed his young
,sweetheart because her parents re -
Aimed to consent to their marriage
aimd desired to hand her over to
More eligible suitor. He fired
inly one shot and then seemed im-
adiately to repent, for as soon as
bad fired he dropped on Ms
beg and began to scream and
ked 'up the body in his arms. At
.Y.
his trial he made no defence, and
asked to be electrocuted. Instead he
was imprisoned for life. On the face
of it, the crime seemed a common
one, the motive being jealousy. But
Dr. Schlepp says that Daniels was
obviously the victim of his glands.
The theory is that certain of his
glands had .been affected by con-
stant worry. This is the expla-
nation:---.
The point at which the unstable
protoplasm in the mativating cen-
tres of the brain will explode is
determined by the chemical content
of the blood. If there is a dis-
proportion of hormones, as the secre-
tions of the ductless glands are call-
ed, there is a disturbance of the bal-
ance of the explosion thresholds in
the groups of cells in the nervous
system, the secretions acting selec-
tively on such cells. In other words,
if the explosion point is low this
means that inhibitions will cease to
control, and people will do things
that will amaze themselves as well
as their friends. In the case of
Daniels it seems that as soon as the
first shot was fired the tension was
removed and he did not complete his
programme by killing himself. His
action, says the scientists who hold
to the gland theory, was an involun-
tary as a knee-jerk.
It is important to know what
causes variation in the seerebions of
hormones, and it has .been learned
that the glands are affected by
foreign toxins introduced into the
systeiin, and that they are also
affected by one's mental condition,
by such' emotions as fear, anxiety,
anger and pain. Under repeated oe.
continuous nervous strain a vicious
circTe is created, for the patient's
emotions increase the secretion of
hormones, and these secretions,
again unfavorably affect 'the emo-
tions. This process may continue
until the person's explosion point is
far below normal, and he becomes
the helpless victim of his impulses.
It has been discovered, too, that the
amount cifhormones an the blood
can be controlled by means of
therapeutics, and . 'some remark-
able results are sai8 to have been
secured, especially in• connection
with t'he thyroid gland.
Writing in bhe Medical Record,
Dr, Schlepp says concerning
mental patients examined at the
Post -Graduate Hospital, New York,
that chemical disturbances were
found in many, and in more than
half these cases the cause was
traced directly to certain of the in-
ternal secretory glands. This has
been accomplished through only a few
blood tests that have been evolved.
New tests are being worked on con-
stantly, and the hope is to narrow the
field until the investigator can lay a
finger on the cause of all emotional
disturbances. The- treatment varies
with individual eases, but the basic
principles are the prevention of
disproportionate secretion in the
affected glands by the use of vari-
ous remedies and the neutralizing
of .the abnormal secretions already
in the blood by the introduction of
counterbalancing substances. By
these methods the explesjlon paint
of the patient can •• be raised to
normal.
OUR GRANDFATHERS AND REAL
ESTATE.
What hicks our .great -grand -daddies
' were! •
In 1801, Charles Field, of Niagara,
yeoman,. was granted a town lot on
the wester_r outskirts of the village
I of York, at the northeast -comet of
King and Yonge Streets
Point
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1 Pt was a dirty, scrubby bit of
Iground. Several large elms stood on
it, amongst much alder and other
i Mucky' underbrush.
i On the oppogite corner, the north-
; west corner, Mr. Vllliami Bowkett,
r 'abater of a small schooner on' Lake
l Ontario, had been granted a Iowa let
i after it had lain vaoarit seven years
o' I from the founding of Stork, and had
built a Trice little cottage on it; away
from the Itestle. es 1 bustle of bit.
village of; York, as suited" Bhe taste
of s mariner ®chore
Mr. Field *huge town tot .a+an 4rorn
Yonge to Toronto el*eSt ind'ep about';
belf4asy -to Whet is mwi.:'Melitlal.
Street, eolt illittcorniertofOf his Pre
P- in 1808 Yom £25 Halifax duo
or Asset $100, to Kr. laeltua ..liatok,
carpenter.
roar Charles Field, poor Skipper
Bd'wkett, poor Joshua with thy grass
rope bag of tools --could ye but see
thy scrubby corner lots to-dayl
Facture any village you know: re-
call that concession road, that high-
way which passes the village half a
anile away. That was Yonge street
in the days of Mr, Field, Skipper
Bowkett and Joshua Leach. A sand
road, full of loamy begholes at its
lower ends, and running crookedly
upwards to the woods and clearings
north of Queen street.
"Fine location," declared the crown
lads agent down by the Market
Place, as hehanded-over the deeds to
Charles Field and Skipper Bowkett.
"The town is bound to grow out.
this way in time," said Charles Field
PAiNS SO BAD
STAYED iN BED
Young Mrs. Beecroft Had
Miserable Time Until She
Took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
•
Hamilton, Ont. -"I have suffered for
three years from a female trouble and
consequent weakness, pain and irregu-
larity which kept me In bed four or five
dams each month. I nearly went crazy
with pains in my back,"and for about a
week at a time I could not do my work.
I saw Lydia E. Pinl:ham's Vegetable
CompopiiKl advertised in the Hamilton
Spectates afid I took it. Now I have no
- pain and am quite regular unleap:I over-
work or stay on my feet from early
morning' until late at night. 'I keep
house and do all my own work without
any trouble. I have recommended the
Compound to several friends." -Mrs.
EMILY BEECitori, 269 Victoria Ave N.,
Hamilton, Ontario.
For forty years women have been
telling how Lydia E. Pinkham'K'Vege-
table Compound has ,.restored their
health when Buffering with• female ills.
Thi accounts for the encr`prous demand.
for it from coast to coast. If' you _are
troubled with any ailment peculiar to
women why don t you try Lydia: E.
Pinkham a Vegetable Compound? .Itis
made from native rootesnuthel�rr'bs and
containaGltica or itarmhtl,dtluj�ti;.
Forspediak adios tv
write -the Lydia /11;
-Co,, .Lynn pass. The re r t oCYdrty
years eaperrdnoe iitt at,yfiyr•
;Y.
as he cleverly persuaded the careful
carpenter to take the corner bit.
"Twenty -eve pounds is little enough
in any opinion."
And bound it was,. York
spread and smothered time township.
It is spreading over the county. And
the corner bit on the northeast angle
of King and Yonge streets now bears
-the .highest building in the British
Empire, whidh alone houses each day
ten times the number of people that
were in all the village of York that
day Field and Joshua closed the deal.
In some old tavern down by the
Market, by the light of tallow dips,
the carpenter handed over £25, Halifax
funds, to Mr. Field, of Niagara.
And that same piece of ground to-
day is beyond price. IE has no price
for it isn't for sale. The last money
exchanged over it was $74,000i in
1910, to Mr. S. H. 1•anes by a party
not specified.
It is assessed by the city of To-
ronto at $18,250 per .foot frontage or
-£25, Halifax founds, $100, per
square 'nch!
With hie 125 to -day, Joshua Leach
could not buy back enough of his
corner lot to paste a stamp on,
Neither .the registry office nor the
did documents preserved bear any
continuous record of the romantic
growth of the value of these four
earners of the heart of Toronto. From
those days, when they were snered
y
a shabby cross-roads on the edge of
the village of York, till the present,
when laden with , easytio buildings
they carry the peak load of traffic
of a great city, and represent scores
of millions of dollars In land and
buildings, they have changed bands,
dozens of times.
The two south corners remained
until comparatively recent times in
the estates of their original settlers
or grantees, the south-west earner be-
longing to the 33bstwieks and (the
southeast to the Baldwins. -
Even middle-aged men can scarcely
recall what the great canyon corners
looked like before its present eky-
seraipers were erected, though ail
three are scarce a detiade there. Do
you !meal' the Janes Bnildiag on the
northeast earner, ' where the Royal
Rank has stood for eight years?
The !first:irurlding en the northeast
corner WAS John Dennis g frame cot-
tage, white, with rows of beautiful
elms shading tit both on the Ring
street and Yonge street sides. Re-
bind his bottse In the 1820's, lie had
a fine 'garden, wad phi &Y orbhard ex-
tending uti, tower* Adelaide street
In. 688, a trick building WM
erected, hod Was Ridoart'a zan1 vara
Store e ml 1 1888, the James of I
sting wast. 7n 1$87; a..
H.Taava bete* dire corner+, payissg;
$75,921 for the corner and $60,000
enore•in 1892 fora lease covering the
rest of the corner .bot. 'This he sold
in 1810 for $740,000. •
Skipper Bowkett, who owned the
northwest or Grand Trunk corner,
leased it 4n 1882, for 21 years, at $240
per annum. This land was willed to
the iLawlor family, and in 1858 it was
again leased at $960 per annum, and
again in 1874 for $8,000 per annum.
It is now assessed by the city at
$12,750 per foot, at the corner. The
present owners of the four corners
are said to be the C;P.B., the Moya]
Bank, the Dominion Bank and the
Imperial Bank.
It was about 1830, that king and
Yonge definitely became a business
corner. The mercantile district was
on Ring east, as far as the Market.
Various merchants occupied the cor-
ners in succession. About 1850 Bid -
out's hardware was on the northeast
or Royal Bank corner; Betley and
Brown's dry goods on the C.P.R. cor-
ner, and Sutherland's grocery on the
G.T.R. ar northwest corner. Up till
1$60, the stages left these corners
every half -!hour for the Red Lion Inn
at Yorkville, juts porth of Bloor St.
Thee G.T.R. corner was occupied in
.succession by a grocer, a music deal-
er, a paperhanger, then by Dineen's
the furrier, and last by the railway
offices.
There's a moral in this somewhere.
It is probably that our ancestors were
with few exceptions poor judges of
real estate.
COUNT GREGORY, FORGER,
SWINDLER AND CROOK, ONCE
BASKED IN SMILES OF TORONTO
SOCIETY.
IRany a fashionable residence of To-
ronto has entertained the late Count
Gregory. Count Bernard Francis
Seraph Gregory was signed in the
visitors' book at odd Government
House on King and Simcoe streets.
But in the -police records of To-
ronto, New York, and St. Louis, he
was Bernard Greenbaum, alias
Gruenebaum, alias "Count Grpgory,"
forger, swindler, and crook.
The news of the death of Count
Gregory in a prison in Berlin, Ger-
many, brought a flutter to many a
middle-aged feminine heart in Toron-
to. For fifteen years ago the bogus
count, whose shady practices had
temporarily outlawed him from the i
gayest circles of New York, spent
many months in Toronto, mingling r
with the city's fashionable:, particu-
larly those interested in ,horse rac-
ing, and devoted much of-'•liis time
to teaching the ladies of wealthy fam-
ilies to ride, drive, and manage horses.
To the older people, the memory of
Count Gregory is still distinct. His
loud English clothes, his riding'
breeches, monocle, the brilliant check
pattern of his coats, his English cap,
when, caps were not yet worn, his
fancy saddle horses, his high dog -cart
and tandem were striking and unique
features of Toronto's haut monde fif-
teen years ago.
But even though he kept an elite
siding school and made his living as
an ornament to Toronto society, his
habit of .mischief was not restrained
and 4me went down to,the Toronto jail
for sixty days for forgery. That
practically closed 'Count Gregory's
Toronto eareer, althou h .he occaelon-
ally paid a •brief visit Bio the city,',(•
terwards, iris aristocrat and debonair'.
manner unaquedc'hed by his dishpiiprt
The Toronto phase he
.this -u8toa
'kehing rascals career is the '.'aea!st
spectacular of it all. He wee born
the son of a minor servant in the
house of an Ausian nobleman. As
a stable -boy in this house he got to
know the manners of the nobility. He
joined an Austrian regiment, and be- '
cause of hie good -looks, fine manners
and intelligence was made orderly
and confidential agent of the colonel,
Prince Joseph W'indisch.+Graetz, a'
man deeply involved in -gambling,
feminine intrigue, and -fashionable
dissipation, The young orderly,
whose real name was Bernard Gruene-
baum, thus obtained a further insight
into the fashions and manners of the
aristocracy of Vienna.
As a result of a threatened investfs
gotten of the colonel by the Emperor
Franz Josef, .young Gruenebaum, e
dangerous witness, Was given a thous-
and pounds by the colonel to desert
and flee to England. And then the
young orderly, at the age of twenty-
two, took •his first step towards nor-
bility by putting himself up at
Claridges Hotel in London as Baron
Gruenebaum, and visiting Bond et.
for an outfit complete from monocle
to spats.
In London he cut a great dash, wee
put up at clubs by lords gnZeinarquis-
es, played cards "'t1re Prince of
Wales, wh.,,;aEEdward the Bev-
enth.^'wut as he had to subsist by
fraud and swindle, he could not re-
main forever in one place.
He came to America, and broke in-
to the Four Hundred, being on one
occasion the guest of honor at a re-
ception given by Mrs. William Astor:
He was a really accomplished horse-
man, and figured prominently as a
driver of the fashionable coaching
parties in New York. He also show-
ed horses at the New York horse
shows.
:How he obtained money was not
apparent. His New York career was
ended by a sentence of ten months in
prison for forgery. In Toronto, fee
became the protege of'a•Verywdis1V1l'--
1ady. Ile made a most ingenious ef-
fort to compromise this lady for the
purpose of blackmailing her. But the
attempt failed.
This 'method was supposed to be his
principal means of support,.
He .had a gift for making friends.
His aristocratic air compelled the at-
tention of would-be aristocrats, and'
is amiable grand manners fooled
evon police officials. One eminent To -
onto lawyer was Count Gregory's
friend and defender till he died, ut-
terly believing in the count's veracity.
The count's death in a German .pris-
on was preceded by the publication
of his memoirs, which are a complete
confession of all his adventures from
the Prince of Wales to Rosedale.
sweeronCassotBor
News
Bayou esa Promefe •
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"Night and Morales..
REM year EW'ss Mau, dear and Healthy.
Write Tor Free EyeCare Donk.
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The First Bottle of
Carnol Brought Relief....
Here is another letter of interest to all who are m poor
health. It shows how wonderfully Carnol builds up
the system.
"This is to certify that I was for several years troubled with a
run down state of health, often suffering from severe headaches,
caused by loss of appetite, also lack of energy to do anything.
I purchased a few bottles of CARNOL and before 1 was finished
taking the first bottle, 1 felt much relieved. It affords me the
greatest pleasure of recommending it to any one who is in a run
down state of health."
(Name on ;meet).
R N
is the tonic to use at all times when a strengthgiver is
necessary. A course of Carol builfld up the entire
system, gives keen appetite -food is relished and
assimilated properly -the nerves are quie
refreshing sleep.
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