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IMUORATXON PROBUMS, I POCt011 tO ,do, 444 the United States
� When the United States, AvIlich has
411 110141119 its 4011ar at $1.20 or more
iiever liad more than a one and a half
simply raises the prices or its goods
per ,cent. Of ImMigr4ti011 to USIA14-
to prohibitive rates for .those wh9se
late as compared With C4nadW,a three
money is discounted. A� A conse-
and a half, finda the current more
Quence buyors take their money to
. ithan, she can stem, and, decides to
the market where It counts Tor most,
.,Shut down, altogether practically for a
and all the I@4uropepm nations and par -
year, there may be material for to-
ticularly Germany are deriving beue�
fictlon, In the Canadian situation as
At from ,this automatic adjustment.
. well. *Varlous proposals lor restrie-
,Canada stands halfway between the
tion have bwn made at Washington.
United iStates and Britain losing as
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,One Is to,linilt the members onter-
much In sending money, -to the Ulittod
. ang ,in Any one year to five per cent,
Staters as it gadua in sending to- Brit-
ot th,o number of any coantry's citi-
ala, ,and ,at course losing trade to
zens, already residing In the United
Britain -and gaining trade from the
States, If 5,000 nationals of any
United States On the ,samabasla. Ger-
-coautry lived du tho United States
many to Said to be doing better In
.then 250 only could follow them In the
,trade -than any oth.e.- European ua-
next year. A popular measure -of
. tion, having settled Idown to thrift
liraltation. Is one of education and
and industry as anecessity, and ha.v-
means, so t , hat only -the best classes
Ing as its c4tef boadleap a sca,rcity
could enter, This frankly abon-
of coal. This difficulty is one, how -
dons .the Idea of the United. Stees
ever, NvItleh other ilations have ecjual�
as the xetugo of the derltitute and op-
,1Y to face. Germany's raw materI9,18
I pressed. There are already more of
are fairly abundant and German Ia-
� n sed in America,
bar appears to -be more -tractable
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then I)ncle Sam cira -provide tor, -He
than elsewhere. A,part from - .the
hab 1,000,0Q0 norw out of Work,' and
military party and the Kaiser and
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lie Is 2,000,000 houses short Of the de-
Pruasda the German people alwa,ys
. . Irapd. To Introduce a further -haven
had a good deal of �oommoa sense and
of unrighteousueDs among these in
oitce,rX of the -Prussian Incubers, It
the shape of a mass of tlio European
would ,not be surprising if -Germany
11 -proletaTiat Infected with Doishevism
as it survives In, Saxou.y, B&Taria,
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I .is more than Uncle -Sam can contern-
Warten burg, Baden , 4 hur,
-k an &T Ingion.
!, . plate with satisfacti,ou, The ireal
made a morerapid recovery than any
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*1 Aifficulty'. It is geasrally r2coguized
other part of Europe, %, The conatitu-
1171 Is -the great moderA city to which the
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Uous of (Bavaria, Baden, Wurtoni-
I helpless and fundless ,Immigrant
� burg date from the years. sucoeeddiig
. -Oli,Ags with the reqsDnless hope Of
the Napoleonic ,campaign and that of
I food and,waxinth and shelter, , it he
-Saxony from IS -31. Thoao'!oountries
I could, be conducted tc� the laud and
had therefore .a -whole generatlows,
I -established there the problem would
start of Prussia In reformed poll-
. be solved, but huge numbers of him
ties, &nd.1t is only In Berlin And the
. are go helpless on a tarm as lie is
Rulir valley ,that ,the German work -
I . anywhere. The only hope for this
man seems Inclined to turn Bolshe-
cla,za Is to be ,placed on a South Pa-
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Tist. The Maxima Socialists W111
oific isle vheX e -even -cotton is un-
have nothing to -do with the bourgeois
necessary, and perennial palms and
socialists and the extremists -are now
.. baria,pas and -crystal springs ,are
lined up With the ,third dntortational.
I 414Dpen day -and night." Wha,terer
Tho first International -Was. founded
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. the -native may do, and the degener-
by .Ivlarx an� &tg&.-s and onded With
0,te native has mo desire to do any-
the ,%vat of 1870. The second inter-
t�hlng, 4ho Immigrant must work.
,national was founded in 1889 and
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Work must be his creed. As he Is
comprised fliq Labor and i8ocialist
loyal to at he will succeed. ,He ,can
radioals in All 'nations, The thdrd
- even, outdistanco the native by strict
International Is at Nvar with ,� r
a if othe
attention to business. Canaft, any
political movements whether -of la-
niore tliau anyother part of America,
bor or Capital, ,and they announce
hai not ceased to be ,the laud of hard
,that -where they cannot takelegaA Ac-
. work, eight-hour days to .the can,
tion, to overthrow ,the, established
,trary notwIthat-miling. Anyone who
system their members must worksec-
will work as -hard, as diligently and
Tetly and ,illegally. It 1.5 specially
. 'Intelligently In, the old aands, as he
pledged agadust the "yellow interna -
will be compelled .to do here will find
tfonal of the Trades Unions founded
. isuccess, as ready to be wooed in one,
at Amsterdam." Instruction Are,
11 places as another. Those Who look
given ,to weed but the personnel of
I for an easy alto during the next gen-
the PUty Organization "in order to
- emblon uve doomed to disappodut-
Oleam the Party VstematIcA1-IY,fi,6m
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ment. The 'war I -has,,lald 6 burden
all the petty bourgeois elements
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. upan. its all that few fully understand,
which 'novitably creep 1nt6 IV, Mos-
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cow will have no ha,1f4ie&rtod S-61-
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,vian. 4=11 bear, his, own burflMll
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shevism and the -collared, the
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,though this. does not interfere with
intWilligent, the benevolent are not
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anyone elso,helping him it he can,
wanted among these 119hinaelitish
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Only thme w1ro are'resolved to bear
lunatics. The -more intelligent iGer�
Last November -a splendid e*lbl- I
,their own, can ever hope to be able
mans perceive thAt -to exclifinge milt-
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I -to assist others, and there Is Justifica-
taxism for this is to jump from thd
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Alon, in this for every national meaa-
frydog-p4n. into .the tire,, -and they are
Yard.
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ure, making tor� on equable distri-ba-
determined -to ,choose a eater -place
Mr.,111aekiis' And the general public
tion, of the load to be borne.
than either. It this stable element
at cost. The luterouts, of the Prov-
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gains control -in Germany there is
I lace of Manitoba were adjusted to
-TRE BOOT ON TIM ,OTIMR ,
some ,hope far laurope, but with the
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the satisfaction' of the prairie -prov-
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93oIshevists on the bno hand and .the
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,,-Surely you realize that the ulti-
Itaiser-lidnd on the other the ele.
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I lations of the -red fox. ,What .the
,I-as;tocbjoct of the independent L.Abor
mon-ts that seek poa,ce and Industry
American shows at Boston, Mass.and ;
.Party, Is the collective ov.,norship of
have no easy rba.� to travel.
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�. . all the means of production, distri-
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-Picked up the receiver irritably.
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. butaon and -exchange," Is the query
THE BAOVETS DEA1.
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addressed by <)no character to auOth�
A musical -buzz answered him, and
Menzies allowed himself an expres .
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A good deal of � opposition to -the
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settlement entered into by .the Gov -
At the same time the furlias been
Industridl Damner and intended to
present the ease of Labor In the form
ernment of the, Kenura Water power
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of fiction. ,1yes,,1) is -the reply,
and the Dngllsh River timber limits
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1�that to the main part of the pro-
have been expressed, but it Is .-diffl-
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gram, All Cie other items are ,only
cult to see what better arrangements
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vallistion.11 This 'Character in the
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atory has turned ,over from "capital-
Government -had solld the Like ,of the
of Ontario and, iQuebee were -consid-
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ored of little value. They were te-
IsIn" to beooiae a tadlea� labor soc-
Woods pulplImit by tender to Mr. V.
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lallst, and the first thing does Is
W. Backus with the condition that
lie would establish A pulp industry al
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to Carl III the editors or the local
,newspapers and notify them Of Ills
I'-- e Mora. Then tho War broke out
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change of heart- "Of' eontse"' 'he
and upset everything. Mr, 'Backus
In Ontario the first change in view
came when -great silver mines wore
says, "you know that I have never
had intended developing the Lake ,of
discovered In ithe 2iorth region and it
dictated to you Who you should. silp-
the Woods r,ower, but ,the Interna-
was .found that these, areas, prdvlous-
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,port in �the canipaign, but seeing that
sq n, decided to
tiOnal J'olnt Comm' `aO
ly considered a wilderness, possessed
I the Zirms I have t1le controlling in-
use the Norman -din! as a ,regulator
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a wonderful, wealth; Then it was
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terest in supplies (sia) the majority
in tontr4DIling the Like of the Woods
learned that there was -a huge cla.y
Of the advertising In, your, papers I
waters and this interfered With his
belt -there that ,offered, wonderful
I -thought that you would be into -tested
development The Like ,at the
possibilities far .the farmer. As 'a
w know tha-t I Was Supporting X111-
Woods limit -proved on-IiLvestl I gatton
result some very fine farms .have
�,,iule David:�,on." Jimmie, is the la-
to be Inadequate to supplying the
been deieloped in the northera On-
bor candidate and Was PORsIbly un-
amount of material required to keep
pulp mill going, Tlx�
ta.rlo districts within the last decade
ttware of wha,t Ilia agent was doing in
all extensivo
dr two. .
The same is trIle of the Th7ovince
contravention of the election laws�
rvoveranient provided fur An in.
of Quebec. Each year Is proving
itot to speak ,of adopting On his ewn
creased Water power fro -la the White
more -conipletely the great ldDort-
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behalf the policy for which ca, Jta,i is
Dog Rapid$, on ,Condition that the db -
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anceof area -that were .thought wortli-
less and almost Impossible until a
alwi,ys ,roundly dOuOunced by Ia,-
Velopment lie carried out at OnC4
st.ort,time age.
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bar; The. editors, however, till Agreed
and that the Government retain Am -
Annually the Governments are en-
to ch,augo.t.heir policy -and to Support
ple contract of the water Power in
the Interest. The English
,deavoring now to :encourage .settlers
junmis Daxfdaon In the campaign,
'no In the Sequel 'Ile Was
publise
River pull) limit was put up 'for teh�
to enter -these districts; Toads ate.bb-
laud ,doubt
This is .An example of
der for three nionths, and four tell-
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elected.
,,,abor fiction And we do �aot'bollovo
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ders Were received, one ,Of $5,000
425,000 emelt and one
Ing up'la the forests. .Ia -the eum-
,that it Will gain admiration for ItS,
either A.Mong labor
bonus, ,two Of
of $So,000. The last Was from Mr.
Mer -the settlers till their farms and.
,clear their quarter sections,- while
ethical standards
the electorate generaly' No
Backus and WAS accepted, Tile' cou-
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men. or
Intelligent 'editor Will 'Consent to ,be
all
tents of the limit ara stated lofficial
ly to be6u, ovor�ostlm4ted by
ment In -the woods in pulp cutting
bull -dozed, end the polley 10 'One
,have
�60 per cent. in itild-ItIft. to
and, So earn thb ,ready cash that Is
essential for the development of
VZrtiso 'O"Co trying to 'Shun.
41)OUt
the bon,% Alt. TAckAs Iiihat 1UT1116h
their new farms. .
A -future ,of great -importance is
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(;ZgXANV AM) LABOR,
4gl;0,000 gliarant" ,thgt 0-s6 work will
'Pt&y a
now being spoken -of very optinil8ti-
eno,y dd
Zx0haaft V9106 i1% 04rr .
be dOX10, *114 he' will So tontfs
140rd tor all #Pruce, (Lad 40. cent$ 'a
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U04 Avr4a wok. out " they tre "*
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cipally caxrlord on as silver fox farm-
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I Nenora will get a big industry, �xud
THE MAiLdEd
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I -among non-partlaans :the deal is e-
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law permits the tntry of lropoi ly rex- I
garded. as a very fair one for the
%tered breedingstock free olithe or- .1
portant. proportions. -0
� province. .Public 4%rnorablp eup-
,Silver black fox Is a peltry that
Last November -a splendid e*lbl- I
porters believe that .the White Dog
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FROEST.
Rapids should have been developed
Late Superintendent of the Crilrninal
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by -the Hydra Power Commission, and
— - partmont of Scotland
Yard.
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the power so, generated distributed,to . I
Mr.,111aekiis' And the general public
,GHA,I?TE:R IX.
It hrid been a triump)i of organlZa-
at cost. The luterouts, of the Prov-
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Menzies, of ftotland Yard.
,tion, and vigilance a -ad Menzies. had
gone back to hea44 ters to arramge
I lace of Manitoba were adjusted to
Punctually at haU-past aix the llt�
,that the histories of'1Trhe. birds he had
the satisfaction' of the prairie -prov-
tle pl4ted alarm clock exploded and
caged should be -ready before ,the po~
ince premler. .
Weir Menzies kicked off the blankets.
lice -court proceedings lathe morning,
I lations of the -red fox. ,What .the
Punctually at seven o?clock -he had
He was struggling Auto his overcoat
American shows at Boston, Mass.and ;
breakfast. Punctually at halfpast
when the ,telephone bell Ta'ag. Re
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seven he dellved end weeded in the
-Picked up the receiver irritably.
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square patch, -of ground that was the
"Hello,"' be said.
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envy And despair of Magersfoutein
Road, Tooting. Punctually At twenty
A musical -buzz answered him, and
Menzies allowed himself an expres .
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past eight he left his semi-detached
sion that should ,be toreign to a.
At the same time the furlias been
house and boarded a ear tdr West-
church warden. Then fax awa7 and
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mInster Bridge.
faint he caught a voice. -That Mr,
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There,were occasions -when ,the Tou-
tine was upset,but, it will be observed
Menzies."
"Yes," he answered, Impatiently.
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-that on the whole Weir Menzies was ,
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,`Spe9.k up. is it? What do
you NY -ant?"
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Until a few �years -ago the great
a creature of liabit. Ile had all that
respect tar order and metliod that has
A prolonged buzz reached him. -He
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areas -at the north of the Province
made Upper Tooting what It Ia.
was conscious Of someone --speaking,
but only intermittently could he hear
of Ontario and, iQuebee were -consid-
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ored of little value. They were te-
'From the hea,vy gold wateh-chain
that spanned 'his Ample wrist, to Ilia
what was said.
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.ga.rded as lands of terrible -rocks and
. much -timber -of great value, but as far
Tubleund -face and heavy ibla.ek mous-
Pretty don-up---1)pz-z—como at
once—bpz-z--it thirty-four—buz--
as places of habitation was concern-
tacho, he wore Tooting .respectability
all over him.
Gardens, F_e,sl,gfoubUZ-2!'
"Number,
-ed, they were -considered valueless,
It Was a ,cause of poignant regret
please?" said a haw and
distinct voice.
In Ontario the first change in view
came when -great silver mines wore
to him that-cireumstances prevented ;
him taking any part in the local gov-
"Blast," Said ,Menzies simply, and
discovered In ithe 2iorth region and it
ernment of the borough. Neverthe-
put down the telephone* This addle -
was .found that these, areas, prdvlous-
less, he ,belonged -to the local Oonstl-
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tion ta forcible language on Occasions
ly considered a wilderness, possessed
-tutional club, and was the highly es-
of annoyance was
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a wonderful, wealth; Then it was
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teemed people's warden at the Church I
to'blin inhis Own reflective moments.
learned that there was -a huge cla.y
of All Saints. The a,cute observer I
tion, now that so many axe to'king up
belt -there that ,offered, wonderful
knowing all this might have judged
LTImmy Hallett's first impression on
possibilities far .the farmer. As 'a
him, as a deserving wholesale iron-
awakening -had been 'that someone
result some very fine farms .have
manger .1
was' swinging -a aledge-hammer frr�g-
been deieloped in the northera On-
And iihe efite -Observer Would have
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ularly on to his temple.* He lay still
ta.rlo districts within the last decade
beea wrong.
.for a little, wondering why it should
dr two. .
The same is trIle of the Th7ovince
Punctually at Iialf-past nine Weir I
Menzies would pass a .flight of Max- ,
be. 3�y -and by he igat up and,tried to
piece togethex the ,events of the even -
of Quebec. Each year Is proving
,up
back New I
Ing. His head aclied intolerably,
more -conipletely the great ldDort-
-row Stone stairs at -the of
.Scotland Yard into the chief Inspec-
and he found consecutive thought
anceof area -that were .thought wortli-
less and almost Impossible until a
torls roam of the criminal investiga-
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'Palaful, . .
It was totally dark, and he could
st.ort,time age.
tion depaxtineat. From his button -
-hole he woi3:A take -the choice blos-
make -out nothing of where he was.
Annually the Governments are en-
som—gathered that day at Magers-
Then the whole sequence of events
,deavoring now to :encourage .settlers
fontein Road, Tooting—place it ,eare-
flashed across his mind and he stag -
to enter -these districts; Toads ate.bb-
fully Ia a freshly ftlied vase ex-
-gered rather -uncertainly to his feet,
ing'built aMd villages
chnd ell-brulshed m6ning
,and steadying himself against the
Ing up'la the forests. .Ia -the eum-
Coat for a -packet of alpaca, place
. wall, struck a ans,tch.
Mer -the settlers till their farms and.
,clear their quarter sections,- while
paper protectors on 'his ,cuffs and
The feeble .ZlIcker showed him a
in the winter they secure -employ-
settle down on his high stool-4he pre-
ferred a high stool—to halt an hour's
blue -papered apa.rtment, tarnished as
a dining -room. He -had, been, lying
ment In -the woods in pulp cutting
corresp9ndenee.
'just inside the door, and now he
and, So earn thb ,ready cash that Is
essential for the development of
- ,7 11t, Weir JAen7les, Church waarden
tried ,the door. It refused to answer
-to his tug, and he Tealized how weak
their new farms. .
A -future ,of great -importance is
of Upper Tooting. was, In tact, Chief
Detective Inspector Menzies, .of the
lie was, -as he all but toppled ,back -
now being spoken -of very optinil8ti-
Criminal Investigation Department,
wards. The n1atch -went out and he
-struck another.
cally for the .- Hinterland of on-
New Scotland Yird. Not that he made
any secret of -It. There was no Tea-
ThOil It was that he noticed an
,tarlo and Quebec, witli Its vast na.-
tural wealth Ia ,farms, ,forest, mines
son why he should. It lr� only on, rare
,electric switch, and -pulled it over. A
rush of light flooded the xoom, and
I and furs, No longer ��a that Section
occasions that a detdctive needs -to
'conceal his profession. I
he tottered to one of the Jacobean
Of Canada -considered a great wilder-
little valu.6.,
� -the residents Of Mager$-
Although
arm-chafra at the ,head Of the table.
ness, of
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tontedn Road, Upper Tooting, knew
The sledge-haminer was still :9wing-
The Government of Prince Edward
'that Mr- Weir Menzies was an ad-
church ,warden, they had I to
lug at his templqs, and things swayed
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dizzily to -and fr�) before his eyes. He
Island has aa annual revenue of near�
ralra,ble.
I made a resolute effort to pull him-
ly halt a million dollars, of which
take his reputation as a detective on
' trust. And being constant subscribers
11 501t ,together- His eyes roved over
$370,000 comes train the Dominion
subsidy. -
to circulating libraries, -they knew
the TOOM, and he -noticed a pedestal
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him,as an innocent fraud.
teleplione-on asm%litableln the car -
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A mant ,something over forty, with
nor farthest from him.
Prince Edward Island spends au-
increasing waig-t-line, and a ruddy
"NATImt WAS -the Maine a the chap
nually more than one-third Of its
,an.
face was obviously agalust the rales
Pinkerton gave me an introduction
revenue -on. education, aad almost
of �11 .the established autharitles It
to," he muttered, -and drawing a buu-
one,-flfth On hospitals, charities and
was only understandable because'ho
die ,of papers from his breast pocket,
public hea,101. � . I
was at Scotland Yard. Everyo o
Sorted -them tillthe envelope -he need-
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' .�n
knows .that official detectives To
I lay at the top.
The' Bureau Of Statistics estimat-
heavy, dull, unimaginative tel
that bad convicted them of hid�ous
er� the total yielld of wheat for the
� always out -of their depths, and can-
.Vlc,OC<4x"3c4,�t-VOK4"ik�M<C<4-�lk
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Dominion In 1,919 at 197i361,000 bush-
I tinually receiving the good-natured
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els. At an avcrag6t, price. of .$2 per
I'assistance of amateurs, by w4oni they
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bujvhol, this means that Canada's
are held In tolerant contempt.
Magerstonteln Road. Upper Toot-
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Wheat crop last 7ear
$400,000,000.
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1 Ing,. Would have Smiled broadly had
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The total area'sOwn 'to Wheat In
tectitrt Inspector Monziesheld ail ift-
'# ,New Scotland Yard, 18. W. IN
Canada, last year was 19,141;337 acres,
tornational reputation—thmt he Was
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. which makes the yield per acts
10.25 bushels. Of this, 18,402,444
held one of the subtlest braftis In -the
service; that he Nvas a man -who had
A:t�",�.'I�,"'2�,V:k'".t'X"IE44t*":*Al�".
acres wore sown to spring Wheat, the
time and again ,tshoWn ,reckles cOur-
.(To be continued).
�.vdid, ircta this being 181,22-Fi,600
16r
age And audacity In bringing off a I
coup; .that ha, in short, had indivId-
-Cauflously the mail be�"an to move
-,tcros�j the heartil-rug towards. the
bushels, the fall wihL,at yielding
'
133,000. The estimates Show that
,rfect knowledge
uality and a pL Of .
1
,
telephone, -Pour shambling step% he
I the total 1919 trop was 7,000,000
busheh, In excess ofthat for the year
every resource at his disposal in
carrying out any purpose to WhIch he
.took, and then, something that had
beon'hidden by the t0ble tripped him
� � "
1018.
%vas assigned.
and he spraVed -an all fours. Ile
—
Ile. looked a, commonplace basineSs
gave a little gasp -of horror, and
I . eq -DrodueOA
The liarle,1110 PrOvinc -
man; lie was aconinioaplac� business
man, with many Of the traits of Ills
steadying himself on his knees , held
,
his liand.j a toot in front of his face,
� 2,284,000 bushels Of wheat last year,
000,00 are credited
.
class. lie hated ,the unexpected, and
lie a
gazing at them stupidly. They were
. �
of which about
to prIM(-.o J1dwaTd Island,
pretested that loathed With
tierce aboinluation, those cast's In
wet—wet with blood, and the thing
that had tripped him was the body of
—
All of Quebec's wheat last 'Yea?
which -lie was engaged -that meant A
departure from ,the Ordinary routine.
a mail.
it wag one thing to -be brought In
was of the spring variety, And
amounted tt) 4,394,000 bushels, at J%
yet there was no Man more capable
of dealing with the Slippery 411trica-
association -at Second hand, so to
speak, with a crime, ,is are doctors,
Value 'Of $8,S00,000. The yield was,
that of 1918,
cles .of Bach Cases than Ile. He had
Journalists and detectives, 'but quite
about 2,000,000 beIONV
<1110 to a much reduced acredge.
the, faculty of adJasting himself to an
emergency, of Tuthiessly destroying
4nothr,r to be so closely identified
Avith it as to be an actor It the ft=a.
—
-
rilho Saskatchewan River forms One
suporrinous red tape that in twenty-
three ra had carriedblin to within
Hallett had seen Vldlentel And
even death Ia his time, -but never had
of 1110 main, drainage systofte ,of
The coantty drain. -
yea
one Tung .of the top of,the ladder.
cold -horror to thrilled him as It did
Western (,
,Znada.
has an area of 165,000 ,square Miles,
It vat shortly before -midnight. '140
had returned from 6 re -1110W suburb,
now. In ordliaw conditions, with
norves. previously unshaken, lie would
l,- .
.
I The greater Part of the Area (Itftin-
a corps of Assistants, lie
where, "With cessful
had no&t, entirely mile
have been little ,more Moved than A
epectator At a -pla3t—V6rhaI)8 eV0A
i ed by .the Saskatchewan RIVer Is,
,composga �Of open ,prairie ,country.]
.tftad6 il
raid upon certain plook-Dockets, Vito
5 to, -tot roallife, ,tragedies Are
IOS161Y well staged managed.
1 The river depends largely upon the
,
and thear �toothllls
had beea too Well ac"Alutea wltu 'tho
. '
;dML d4tettIVOG to ,91VO them any
,rk%T1 t&JJeeS, hoWelt4er, h$LA lbolft-
'C'" S
'11111
home to him t'hb last
awelty MoAt-l"ins
1011anoo.
apirod to bring
for Its Supply of WAter.
11_-_.__-.__1_.._.
94fid�
FUR FARIM00*4100) RMEN'T -1
'
I
STATUS AND FUTURE PRDSPEC, T'S -.
"Fur farming" Is not 6trictly Vor-
. I
both diroctand coIlaterla Jineg, T,hJ$ ,
I
roet -but a .cmvenlont ,term which has
registration m4y be expeotod to I
been appliend wrearing of fur -boar-
Atmulate the bre,eding of a suporlor
ing animals In captivity It Is prin-
I
strain of foxes as podixroad 4talmais I
cipally caxrlord on as silver fox farm-
undwIll naturally be In tra4domAnd �
lug, an, industry of Canadian origin
among purchasers, especially from J
w,41ch has Spread to the United
tka, United states, becauaa American 14
States, 04pau, Russia, Norway and
law permits the tntry of lropoi ly rex- I
�
,other countries And bus assumed Im-
%tered breedingstock free olithe or- .1
portant. proportions. -0
dinary 10 Per kent duty. .
,Silver black fox Is a peltry that
Last November -a splendid e*lbl- I
1 has always bee4 highly -prized and
i
tion of live silver Taxes Was hold at
. has Commanded 0 n1110,11 Wgber PrIeft
Xontreal under ,the auspices of -the �
to," the individual skin -than any other
Comanis,slon, lot V a W It �
,qnser,v tiou, hie
fur. This Is due ,to its rarity and
IntriValo -beauty. It is a deep, ,rich,
IF, encouraging the fur-tarming In- i
i
.
lustrous fur ,and exceedingly , diffi-
.,dmtr3r in the interests of wild life,
,
- �.-"zrvatfoa. Nearly 400 taxes wera
� lealt to imitate, To (lye a Ted a
,shown, divided Into 16 different
, black Is Rjuiple but how -to tip some
;
classes, 4 prizes beluggiven In each
of the black guard LASTS with white Ia
!
class. Trophies were also donated �
nature's secret.
�
by 1 -be provincial, governments of .
Aohiovornonts 0 Fox Rancliem
Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward is- I
The blaick fox is nota, distinct spec-
land and New Brunswick ard -by the !
Sea. Blacks and Silver blacks Occur
Cau2ftu Fur Auction Sales Com. � 1
naturally, but ,only as accidental -vat-
.
.
piny Car a'anual 00111petittam, The I
I lations of the -red fox. ,What .the
Montreal, sh ow was followe(l -by I
fox farmers have achieved Is not only
American shows at Boston, Mass.and ;
to solve the problem of Tearing this
Muskegon, Mich. !
-animal In ,captivity but 41so to breed
Foxes, like -other croatures, have �
it true to type ao, that, no 11thlow-
their ailineats and our knowledge of
backs" -to its red ancestors occu-r. All.
their domesticated congeltvil. the q
trace -of,rustor reddish dage has now
do- does not always apply to the
O' . ,M, .
been eliminated from .the tar 4)9 the
The Health, of Animals )Branch, ot the :
beat, strains Of TP.11clx-bred -foxes.
Department of Agriculture, has ap-
At the same time the furlias been
pointed Vtm J. A. AlleTt, veterinary ..
actually improved, in quality. This
I
expert, -to carry on Investigations � ;
4as been accomplished by Judicious
into tax pathology. As a ,result, an
a various
Improvement ,has alwayo been ef-
parasites, as ,fleas and intestinal
fected % the .control. of vulplue, dW-
worms. Add to -this the fact that
temporr,, intestinal war=, etc. �e�
. — — f mer can always kill his
. ,P*e_wnt Oatlook. .
animals just at the season when -the
fur Is at Its: prime and it will be seen
Par iranching Is now on a sound
that, as between rauther and tmp-
basis. The day of Inflated valIxes is,
per, the advantage lies all with 4he
-put, Breeding ,foxes can now bo
former When It comes -to obtaining a
purchased at, say, §1,000 to $1,600 Ql'
-first class pialt,
pair. As three to four pups, Is Wx
It must not be supposed ,that all
average litter, this price cannot be
the pioneer fox -farmers bad, to do
considered ,excessive, unless fur 'val-
was to Obtain some wild silver foxes
I
ues Slump -far more thaa they can
and put them In a pen. Many diffl-
reasonably be ,expected to 'do. rox
cultles were eavuntered and Some
-ranching could be profitably con -
experimenters. abandoned the ;It-
ducted at *200 a pelt Or even less
tempt, believing t)—t -the alanchlug
and this is very much below the
of -foxes was impra,dtleable. Their
v.%lue ,of the last sales, .
monogamous disposition Was not
-The risk of over-produetion, must,
recognized and the quartering of sey-
of course, be taken Into considers-
eral, pairs in �Dna -pen led to the young
tion, now that so many axe to'king up
being killed. The right -style Of
-the business. There Is the same I
pen and Mesta bad to be evolv�ed and
rii�k -bowever, -in raising any kind of
.the -proper methods of management
IIv& stock, it may be objected, Of
discovered. This was Only achieved
course, that the demand for -the pro -
after many disheartening aetbadksl.
ducts Of cattle, r,'heep, hogs and poul-'
But finally, by the persistent, earn-
try Is steady and Tellable, while the,
eat efforts of eapable breeders like
demand for AiT wraps is subject to
I Dalton, Oulton, and Gordon in Prince
the vagaries of fashion. -The pro-
Edward Island, Beetz In Quebec and
ur -V
duetion. of silver fox f is a luxur. I
Surrowman and )C'ark an Ontarlo,the
trade and .can hardly command the
difftcultles were overcome and IO,v-
stability attaching to the Troduction I
farming definitely established as
of stapleA. On the Other hand, the
practicable,
class that purchases silver fox Is m
Dogged perservance had Its reward.
class whose, Income Is not -seriously
In 1900 Dalton and Oulton, then In ,
restricted by periods of husiness, de -
partnership, realized, $1,900 for a sin-
prmlon. Again as -regaxds the tour
gle Skin at the London Tur sales.
Mat silver fox m4 become too, 'com-
Their neighbors now began to take a I
monthrough over -production, It must
� keen Interest in the buslaess and I
be borne in anind that not every one
� some of them secured a few pairs of I
who Starts In (the business will ShOw
1 breeders. GraduaRy the jealously
an aptitude for it. ,'There Is al -
guarded secrets of proper �ox man-
I
,ways room at -the top" and it is prob- - '
now they are
ably ,that the skilful breeder ,who de- I
! common property.' Meanwhile, the
v Otes Ills attention to the 'raising of
I industry made .steady progress in
high clisspelts need have, aittle fear .
Prince Edward Island and splendid
I
that his business will not pay,
-prices were realized tor sking, About
Not much,progress has so far been, .
1912, the inevitable boom period I
made In the xanching of fur -bearers, .
started ,with its accompaniment of In-
other than foxes. There IS, -how- I
flated values and N�dld speculation.
ever, a, handful of successful, miult
The war brought a sudden, slump and
larmers in Canada. Experiments ,are
an interval of .gTeat uncertainty pre-
being ca��ried on with marten and
valled, Despite this,-morst Of the
f ish er. Ra -coons and Skunks have .
ranching concerns Weathered the
bee)k tried, but liave been found U11 -
storm and have lately enjoyed anoth-
profitable, as the value of their skins,
or period of prosperity.
is not sufficiently high. Good prof -
Recent Progress.
it -4 have been made -from muskrat
Fox farming is still making prog-
preserves, but these are not really ..
m as now -pos-
fur farms, as the animals are not
sible to register foxes In a -herd book
kept in captivity, nor are they fed or
some
eaa,ea for in any way, beyond protee-
years ago a breeders' Association
tion against -onemies. It Is hoped,
,vas, formed in Prince Edward Is-
bowever, in the near future, to broad -
the basis, tar farming by -the
land, but last year Another stride
forward was� taken by the formation
. en of
ranching of more thMU 0110 species.
of an all-0anadian association With a.
In -the work of expetimentatlau which
national register. The requirement
is aoNv going on., the knowledge ga;la
for foundation stock Is -four genera-
ed -by .-tlie lox ranchers 18 aikelY to,
I tions -of pure silver black ancestry in
.
afford valuable suggestion$.
I
.
touch of terror. The'auddon. assault,
_____
I
en, butter two cents a Pound and beet I
the locked room, and now the dead
I
halt a cent a pound, AlIlk sold to-
man. had strung his nerves to a fine
�
-two .cents a gaillon, cheese for one
edge. He could have shrieked aloud.
cent a pound. )
that
He Nvlped his hands on his handker-
i
A Cambridge Student Tecords
-chief, but the stain -still remained.
in 1612r) Ilie paid �1.91 for two pairs Of
Carefully he stepped over ,the body
and Taade his way to the telephone. I
shoes and repairs. Charlotte Bronte,
the writer in 1849 wrote to a friend.,
His imaginatioll Was beginulig to
I
-1 eacl.os� a five -pound note ($25)
work, and he recalled cases whore
perfectly Innocent men had been the I
and will. Viank you to buy a pitout
shower bath and such a boa and cuffs
victims of circumatautial 'evidence
as you can get for the 1110110Y." 91116
that bad convicted them of hid�ous
,-ecelved the articles ,and wrote thank -
crimes.
I
Ing the friend as follows: "I have
The story ol the ,checks thrust up
received the furs %afely,and like the,
him in the tog seemed to him Adicu-
v,,2ble.% very much" and asks the
lously unconvincing. Had his mind
I
friend to bay -herself a present ,with
been less overwrought ' had he been
the change.
able to take a calmer survey of the
inconnes Low Tool
matter, he would probably never have
given his own position a thought. 110
in spite of the prlws, however, it
fingered the telephone book clums-
wan just as hard to got the where-
ily and his mind reverted to the colu- I
withal, -to buy ,the articles, as at pres-
eldenee -that he should .hold a letter of
introduction to one ,of the amlor de-
I
t, al
ent, for the incomes Nvere evu ly,
Mal", Vroia 1200 to 1800 A. D. the
tectives of Scotland Yard.
avorage Nvage for -uii,,I,IllPd Lbor wag
11-QnPer that It Should come In -so
eight -conto v. -day. In fact, Ia V1.47
handy," he grinned foebly, und then
WageR hfttl drOPIK'd to two cc'114,8 -%
NNeakness Overcame him.
day for a lang, d,.iv's worit. but after',
the grrat plagnit� �f the b'a�,,k death
.(To be continued).
Vioy advanced -to five eents, nm day.
� ---
I
r MICES, HAIVI; B.B.72IN GOIXG
.Vanvtlautiiq� to advaue(� Ir'll" thoy
leathpil fifty cents a day Sr. 1800.
'UP 1170..�, A TASMI`,�77D
Thrift and 8avinq Alwaya win.
,
Tile cue thing whi�-,h 1ps rnmainett
� YM, A 37, S. ;
constant has been tho advantage *Z
thrift and t3aving.
The advance in price,.* ,since 1914
Andrew Carnegie said th-%t a. X11111t
has so vital a bearing upon 1he lives
So on lbe -,vay.to .sut.-c2r;a if he can set
of every Individual that nviny have
uside "g;tilarly one dollar out 07
. come to regard the advance as unive
every five dO, ars earned.
in history. on the tolitram prlt,_%
have been eadvanclug for over %)
Inquisitive or,hmigr�, a mouse pok-
,housaidd years. Prices as teVealed I
�
ed its head between the open Shells of
in ,old England '01ronfoles might make Ia
.live *yater In all HInglish fish market
one aigh at; At a fairy tale, yet the I
oconoulic conditiong of those da,Y8 I
one night not long ago, when the Mal-
lus�k i6tamped the sharp eftes of Its
were, Infinitely worso than at ptes-
Elteliq together, killing biM. The
ent. I
mouse was fou"-A� in the ulausm4l U0
No H. C. L. Therl ,
by the proDrIetor next morting.
Posallized Wood corpusieA havoF
in Ihe vaiddle of -the Isth century, .1
bt�en alse6vorc�a In the TeMiLlno of
*ovead, "gs were two cents tL dozeu,
atito-deauvian Monsters In OXTUA�ft.
.% goose cost six tents and a hft two
The U-alng of tiny tMes btv6 0*
cents. SqUgbI3 were,A)z cents a do%-
'been found -petrified in tog MUM