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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-12-12, Page 3nneC034404414+440)010.044.0004.400.4444.414rOnenneenaetenefenonnsion I Doings and Sayings in England. 44004444nianeanstna*.Saanrantestaasnolssa eaSeataastoataneaneeneasaeoano'enesatait Mre. Chrissie Price, a former hoapitel gaining distangeositea honors, ha:hiding 1 nurse ana the danghter of it Welsh the Carnegie iteeearelt fellowship in an- Ilethodist minister who was arrested in thropology, wee appointed authropolo. evening dries while at dinner in Dirken- I gist to me Wellcome Research Laborite head, has been sentenced to two years' tories at the Gordon Memorial College, tarantula and went out to the 'Soudan in the autumn, of 1000. Dr. Vitale made two expeditions up tha Nile, penetrating to the remote parte of the lathr-eatehazal and to the bordere oi Altyseinia. On both emulous lie passed through some of the most pestilential regions of Africa, in connection with his investigation; of tropical diseases. He contracted tropical fever, and was 0001 - polled to• return to England. The fever eventually causea his death. imprisonment at Nottingham Assizes on Margo of defrauding local tradesmen. Mrs. Price, who married the son of a Sweets clergyman, has led an adventur- ous career in various parts *of the world, and has described herself, among other things, as a niece of the claimant to the Lovat peerage and estates. The prisoner told a romantic story in the witness box. She deecribed her early connection with Nottingham as hospital nurse, and said she married Frederick Rowan Bonamy Price six years ago, his father being a clergyman and Master 'of Arts, St. John's College, Cambridge. They went to Madeira and kept a private nureing home there for three years. Returning to England, they wont to Nottingham last July, her husband in- tending to start an engineering business. She had money of her own, and also had expectations. Her husband got money freei friends at Shoreham. She intended taking a nursing home in Birkenhead, and she intended pitying far goods she obtained in Nottingham, when she re- ceived money from her friends. Detective Superintendent Farnham in- formed the commissioner that the pris- oner was the daughter of the late Rev. Simon Fraser, of the Isle of Auglesey. In 1898 she was arrested in Edinburgh on a charge of fraud, and aentenced to twenty days' imprisonment. On her re- lease she was rearrested, and at North London Sessions was sentenced to seven. teen months' hard labor f or fraud and larceny. After her visit to Madeira she Tem esented she had £2,000 in the bank at Tunbridge Wells, and succeeded in borrowing n1,500. Subsequently she ob- tained a tooter car from a London firm, -who accepted a post-dated cheque. Mr. Commissioner Atkinson, in passing sentence on the prisoner, who displayed a cal demeanor throughout the proceed- ings, described her as "au accomplished swindler." MILLION STOLEN. A daring robbery involving the loss of 2,000 half sovereigns is .at present en- gaging the.attention of the detective de- partments of the city of London, city of Liverpool and the London and North- western Railway police. The uther afternoon a messenger, with eva innocent looking hand -barrow er- rand at 13 Eastcheap, one of the Meer re- ceiving offices of the London and North- western Railway. On the barrow were four small boxes, some ten inches square, each weighing ehout 40 pounds. Two ette.a standing by casually watched the -.removal of the boxes from the barrow to the office counter, saw eventually a receipt handed over by the clerk, and then went away. The boxes contained gold coin, sovereigns and half sovereigns, to the amount of £4,000, consigned by a local bank to its Para, Brazil, branch. The men standing casually by were de- teetives charged with the safety of the gold until it was in the hands uf the xailway company. Later in the day it eves despatched to Euston. • The same night the four boxes of gold coin formed part -of the contents of the broke van on the Liverpool express. On arrival at Liverpool one 'of the botes was missing, and although a whole week has elapsed, Detective Inspector Murphy, of Old Jewry, and Detective Sergeant Dyke, of the railway police, have not a single clue as to its where- abeuts. The way in which the coin was con- veyed through the streets on a hand -bar- row has drawn attention to the vast wealth which is daily carried threugh London streets. A. banker estimated that the amount thus marled, every day is: Coin, transferred between banks, commercial houses • and railway stations .. 7,000,000 Zewellery .. • ... 2,000,000 Securities and other valua- bles .. . ..... 1,000,000 Total .. .. • ... £10,000,000 Not 'only are hundreds of men employ- ed to do nothing other than guard yam ables in transit, but most banks and wholesale jewellers carry "floating" in-, surance policies against street theft. BRITAIN NEVER SO RICH, A remarkable story of the progress -of the -United Kingdom during the past fif- teen years is supplied in a volume of nearly 400 pages, coaled the Statistical Abstract, issued by the Stationery Of- fice. In fifteen years we have added. to our population more than the total inhabit- ants of the Dominion of Canada ami Newfoundland. nor every sovereign's worth of produce that we sent abroad in 1802 we now send 32s. worth, and for every pound that we then spent for porte we now spend 28s. Our income and our expenditure have alike grown in an unequalled degree. Never before were we so rich. never persons in receipt of relief have liecome more numerotm by an addition of 138,- 000. TWO FUNERALS FOR ONE MAN. porany dece. A wide min Mort gang. boardwas placed from the after bale of the hatchway to the temporary deCla well slanting, anti the captives destined for the lower deck wero placed on tide aud, elia down, when they were packed and aecure, The between-docke was packed, full with nearly 800, end. about 500 were on the temporary deck, There were still 200 or more that they had neither room nor irons for. They might have been dropped into the periaguas and loft to find their way Ashore when they wane to their senses. It was too late; Me periaguas had been cut adrift as soon as they began to secure the cap- tives. Now the anchor was tripped, sail hoisted and the slaver "Caribbee," as she was afterwara called, was milee away before the last were eecured. Masy of these remaining were now coin- ing to their sense% Do you ask what became of them? "They *ere shot and thrown overboard;" such was the re- corde-T. V. Briggs, in Harpern Maga- nine. HOUSE WINS AT JAI -ALAI. Commission of 15 Per cent. on All Bets Made and No Risks Taken at All. Jai -alai, which means a merry party and is the name under which pelota is known in Havana, is the occasion of very heavy betting among the Cubans. It is a winning proposition for the house, which takes 15 per cont. commission on all bets inade but puts up no money. All the wagering is done on the pool system, and the bookmakers who work on the main floor of the fronton aro simply betting one man's money against another's. , It is hard to figure the pro- fits less than $500,000 a season. There are two kinds of games of pelota played, one in which teams of two meet in the particles; the other in which six men play at singles, in what are called guinielas, Occasionally there is a variety m which three men play against two ex- ceptionally strong players. In the partidos the teams play 25 or 30 point matches, and as one side or the other gets ahead a point or so the bet- ting changes. Often a team runs niue or ten straight points and the betting be- comes anywhere from 20 to 100 to 1. Cases have been recorded where by careful watching of the bets those who make them have a chance to win big money regardless of which team wins. In the quinielas the players meet in turn in singles until one man has scored six points. The aporty followers of the game sit on the ground floor where the book- makers, who wear fiat red capes., which make them look like cooks, are bobbing up all the time. The men who sit there are not interested in the game except in the way of betting, and they do not care how much their view may be ob- structed. On the second floor the seats are ex- pensiee being $2 each, but the view is clear. 'Up there they bet in dollars, downstairs, among the sports, in cen- times, a coin valued at $5.50. In the gallery above the third floor the seats are less expensive, but the betting is just as heavy. It is like horseracing in this country. Those who go to view jai -alai as it spectacle are very few. The interest is all in the betting. ' The players get all the way from $500 to $700 a month, and they earn it. The game is a very severe tax on the strength and the crack players do not lest long. There are no men like the professional baseball players in it who have played fifteen or twenty years. The life of the player in the gamt is.bound to be short. Curious directions for the disposal of his remains were left by Mr, John Rob- ert Pringle, of 308 Stanstead road, Cat - ford, and late 'of 14 Gloucester square, Southampton, who died on Sept. 30 last, aged 75 years, leavhig estate of the groes value of £8,049 3s. 3d. The testator di- rected: "After my decease, I desire that it com- petent and trustworthy doctor of medi- cine shall, by any experiment he may deem suitable, thoroughly satisfy him- self that life is absolutely'extinot. carcase is to be cremated, and the res. idteom thereof deposited in two metal tuna, numbered respectively I and 2. On nhe ashes in No. 1 are to be- placed a packet, which will be found in my desk, and my miniature portrait scarf pin, and on the ashes in urn No. 2 a similar packet, which will also be found on my . desk, and my miniature' portrait finger ring." He directed that the urns were then to be soldered down, and No. 1 buried in his -mother's grave at Newport Page nell, and the other in any dear Lizzie's grave" in the• Streatham Cemetery at Tooting. AGITATORS RELEASED. .SIR JOHN FISHER'S PLEDGE. In his forcible and. incisive speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet Admiral Sir John Fisher, the First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, dwelt with legitimate pride on the progress which has been achieved in recent years by the British oavy. In gunnery, as he pointed. 9ut, the effi- ciency of the fleet now surpasses all previous records. The hitting power of 'British warships.bas been doubled in the 'past few years. He spoke in yet higher raise of the "splendid unity and spirit and determination" that have been dis- played by all ranks in the navy in achieving this progress, and he drew at- tention to the great naval manoeuvres which were carried out last month in the North Sea by the combined British fleets, when upwards of fifty large ships were tested under the most trying condi- tions without a single serious break- down. The British Government has released the Indian agitators Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh, who were summarily deported from the Punjab to Buramh in the sum- mer. The step has caused much rejoic- ing in native circles, and it generally release of Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh is The natives generally believe that the endorsed b yall Europeans. directly due to the King's clemency, end Hindu priests are leading singing parties through the streets and invoking bless - tugs on the King. There is a general feel- ing in the air that the unrest will pass rapidly away. -The Bengalis are greatly struck by the dramatic collapse of the extremist party. • _ MARTYR TO SCIENCE. 'The death occurred on Tuesday, at the age of '28, of Dr. A. Mettler Pirrie, a brilliant young scientist, who, after ;kk s,‘ \Alt 4-(4- "nritqa., Doininion Departtnent of Agriculture, Branch of the Dairy and Cold Stor- age Commissioner, Some of the recent average yield in the associations organized by the Dairy Division, Ottawo, are: Henryville Qize.,. 14, Oct., 103 eows average 408' lb. nolk, 4.2 test, 17.4 lb. at. Wareava Ont., 12 Oct. 181 cow* aver- age 470 lb. milk, 3.8 test, 18.3 lb,. fat. Pine Grove, Ont., 17 Oct., 130 cows, average 479 lb. milk, 3.8 test, 18.2 lb. fat, Sheffield, Ont., 17 Oet. 181 cows aver- erage 447 lb. milk, 3.9 toot, 17.8 lb. fat. St. Armand, Que., 19 Oct., 134 cows, average 343 lib. milk, 4.5 test, 12.5 lb. fat. ' Last and by no means least, North Oxford,. Ont,a 21 Oct., 111 cows, aver- age Oa lb. milk, 3.0 test, 23.0 lb, fat. Dixville, Que., 17 Oct., 104 coma, aver- age 410 lb. milk 4.1 tett, 17:4 lb. fat. 13. C., 5 Oet., 133 eows average 503 lb. milk, 4.0 teet, 22. 0 lb. fat. Bridging the Ether. (By A Banker.) All down the a!ges, until comparative- ly recent times, man has failed to make practically any advance whatever in tlm faculty of preeeing the forces of nature into his service, • the earlier pert of the eighteenth century being almost on a level in that respect (with the excep- tion of the inarmer's compass and of gunpowder), with the antediluvian age. But with the advent of the nineteenth century the knowledge of these forces, and the power to utilize them, has ad- vanced by leaps 'and bounds; steamships, railways), telegraphs, telephonest mot- ors, electricity for lighting purposes and for motive power, photography, sub- marines to navigate Me depths of the sea, the X rays, so valuable in surgery, with inawnerable other inventions nud discoveries so conducive to our well-being and to our enjoyment. But perhaps the most wonderful dis- eovery and invention of them all is that of ivireless telegraphy now brought to such perfection that a regular commee- cial installation ie in full and complete working order between, Ireland a.nd Ametica, every tap of the little Morse somider given at Cape Breton in Canada being recorded with perfect distinctness at the receiving litation on the Trish Coast more than three thousand milee distant. And truly startling and marvellous is the apparatus vehieh set up those elec- trical vibratioae, w.hich pulsate in iess than a seeond of time across the broad Atlantic and are recorded there the saatte instant they are given. In the centre of a large shed is a huge coil connected by cable* with a great series of metallic plates, forming a gigantic battery, charg- ed by. powerful dynaince and having such intensity that it is dangerous to apptotteli nearer than six or wen fora 13ut the sending of a measage is aril more startling. At first a deep growling roll of rending thunder reverberates frem the battery, and then, as each spark passes, the deafening uproar is in- describable; crash-crashe- crash-ae though a violent skirmish were taking place between two opposing pickets of soildiers; now firing volley after volley, or now arregular file firing; until tho niessage cOmpleted, the uproar aeases and again all is calm, And who know; whether or not those pulsating Vibrations reach our neighbor Mars; for the void of space can offer no resistance. 13ut this we no know, that in the Groat Hereafter, when earthiet- ters are thrown aside and mortality has put on immortality, those who by pat- ient continuance in well doing and by faith in the trucified .Son of God, who by suffering in their stead has opened the gates of the glory land to all be- lievers, have become inheritors of that ming will be eine, like the angels of Godon the flash of a though to traverse the gulf between earth and heaven. But alas there are others for whom is resell - ed but the blaokness of darkness, LOADING AN AFRICAN SLAVER. The king, queen, royal family, chiefs and people were invitell on board, They had • previously been treated somewhat spariogly with liquors. In the meantime all the water casks ane filled and most- ly stowed in the lower hold aft, together with all the stores and goods, on plat- form resting on the keelson. A very large supply of irons had been taken on board at Cardenas. The trading had been proceeding on the mpper deck, and a large supply of the various articles of food laid in, and now all was in readi- ness. The afternoon of the 'entertain- ment had arrived. Two large puncheons were placed on the upper deck and the heads knocked in, and about tiventy-five or more gallons of strong rum put iuto each puncheon, also a hundredweight or so of sugar and a bushel of cut limes; to these were added ti; specir quantity of a certain drug which would presently produce a prolonged stupefaction. The between and lower decks were swept clean, and all was in readiness for the company. They came -king, queen, roy- al family, chiefs and people -to the number of about 1,500: As fast as they mime on board they were plied with the druggea punch; many.. soon became stu- pid. or helpless and were placed below to make room for others. When they Were all on board and most of them stupefied, they were seized, ironea and passed ne- low.. The first row were seated with the knew! drawn up close to the side of the vessel, one arm put through the becket, and irons *clapped on., In the next row another arm was put through the same becket, one bolt end becket thus answering for two persons. It will be remembered. that the main hatchway was partitioned in the middle, and the after part enclosed between decks, giv- ing a separate connectien with the tenn iiiiiiii446.440-444-44.44-11111444.464446 4, Nursing baby? It's a heavy strain on mother. Her system is called upon to supply nourishment for two. Some form of nourishment that will be easily taken up by mother's sysiem is needed. Scoit'a Ematsion contains the greatest possible amount of nourish- . ment in easily digested form. Mother and baby are wonderfully helped by its use. AIL toltUGGIST8s 80e. AND $1035 0 •a• 411 aro ec• cro 0 ity and germination, grows by the ea- . hibitor. The above trophy will not beeonie the permanent property of any grower until won by hien three times Between ex- hibitions each trophy may be held by the last winner until permanently won. The donators of these valuable tro- phies deserve a great deal of credit, for the interest they have taken in the work ana for tho spirit they have shown, and it is to be hoped that Me example which they have set may be fon lowed by others equally Interested in the publie good. Session on Seeds -On Dec. 11, begin- ning at 10 a. me it session dealine.with the problem. of crop raising and ot sue- ciTssful seed growing will be held in the lecture room of the Fair bailing. The programme is as follows: Wedneeday, Dee. 11, na, Seeds -Address, "The lin- provement of Ontario's Best Pasture Crops," by 0, A. Zavitz, B. S. A., pro. feesor of field husbandry, 0, A. 0, Guelph, Address, "Adventages of the Speeial Seed Plot as a Source of Seede' ey John McCallum, Shakespeare. Ad dresss, Selection of Heed Potatoes," by T. G. Raynor, IS, S. A., Ontario Re- presentative Seed &anvil, Ottawa, • • - . THE CAMERA ON MARS. Cowlohan, B. b., oct. 14, 173 cows aver- age 499 lb. milk, 4.3 test, 21.5 lb. fat. Ouo herd of 10 cows has an average of 819 lb. milk. B51101Ville, Que., Oct. 21.-142 cows aver- age 474 lb. milk, 4.2 teat, 20.3 lb. tat. Best individual yield 340 lb. milk. Woodburn, Ont., Oct. 26.-104 cows aver- age 401 lb. milk, 4,2 teat, 17.2 lb. fat. One herd of 18 cows averages only 833 lb. East and West Oxford, Oct. 27.-100 cows average 621 lb. milk, 3.6 test, 22.1 lb. fat. One herd of 22 cows averages 692 M. milk. Batley Centre, Que., Oct. 27.-110 cows average 331 lb. milk, 4.2 test, 14,0 lb. fat. 'With butter fat at No per pound, these cows are returning 92,40 each loss to their owners than at East and West Oxford during one month. Where is the margin of profit? Rockford, Ont., Oct. 80.-101 cows average 641 lb. milk, 3.3 test, 21.2 lb. fat. ln ono herd ot 20 COM the average yield la 888 lb. milk. St. Edwidge. Que., Nov. 3. -Furnishes other contrast, 149 cows average 343 milk, 4.4 test, 16.2 lb. fat. Highest yield of any one cow is 770 lb. milk. New Glasgow, P. E, I., Oct. 31.-123 cows average 422 lb. milk, 16.1 lb. fat. Spring Creek, Ont., Nov. 1.-191 cows aver- age 478 lb. milk, 20.4 lb. fat. Rot herd aver- age. 13 cows, 862 lb. milk, 30.8 lb. fat. Jonouleres, Que., Nov. 6.-106 cows aver- age 323 lb. milk, 4,9 test, 15.9 lb. fat. The largest herd of 14 cowa averages 281 lb mllk. Culloden, Ont., Nov. 6.-241 cows average 497 lb. milk, 4.0 test, 20.3 lb. fat. One herd of 63 cows averages 539 lb. milk, 23.7 lb. fat, Henryvlile, Que., Nov. 13.-106 COM aver- age only 327 lb. rank. 14.8 lb. fat. Highest individual yield from any one cow is 716 lb. milk. The official premium list for the On- tario Provincial Winter Fair, to be held at Guelph in December, gontains a splen- did offering of prizes for the various de- partments embraced by this rapidly growing iustitution. The development of this Fair has not been a one-sided oae, but has taken place along all lines which conduce to promote the general agricul- ture industry of the Province. Of all the various departments perhaps none had a more humble beginning than did the seed department, yet no department has had more rapid growth in the degree of intelligent interest taken in the canee which it champions. This speaks well for the far-sightedness of the live ;Stock men of the Province, who are quite cog- nizant of the fact that while the live stock industry of the country is relative- ly the most important, yet the amnesia of this industry really depends upon our ability to successfully grow suitable and adequate grain and fodder crops. The losses that arise from Rowing mixed and inferior grains and the 'lon- ger from sowing weed seeds are Notting to be recognized more and more each year, and as a result the seed depart- ment at the above Fair, as an institution designed to assist in alleviating the pre- vailing difficulties, has an huportant place to fill. This Ilepitetment contains two general divisiona. One division pro- vides accommodatioe for exhibits of- or- dinary farm seeds, which has not receiv- ed any particular attention apart 11'0111 What any up-to-date, intelligent serower would aim to give. The other ditheon provides for the exhibition of "speeleily selected seed, which has been'groven and selected according to the regulatione of the Canadian Seed Growers' Asepciation. 'This latter exhibition is desigteid chiefly to give publicity to the work which the various growere are doing by way of ap- plying improved methods of seed -growing. The prizes in this division are given by the .Association, while tho-se for the first division are provided out of the gen- eral funds at the disposal of 'the hair 13oard. This year a number of special prizes, each valued at about goo, a7e of- fered, as follows, viz.: The Hodson Cup -A handsome silver cop offered by Mr. F. W. Hodeon, ex. Live Stock Commissioner, Temple build- ing, Toronto, to the member of the Can- adian Seed Growers' Association making the most creditable showing of selecte.d seed for the whole exhibitions. This cup will not become the permanent property of any grower until won by hint three times. The Klinek Cup -Given by Prof. L. S. Klinck, Macdonald College, St. Annes, Que., for the best 25 ears of Dent corn, any variety, grown in Ontario in 1907 under the rules of the Canadian Seed Growers' Association. This beautiful sterling silver cup was especially design- ed •by Johnson Brothers, of Montreal. Its linos, while simple, are particularly pleasing, and. render the cup graceful and substantial in appearance. The hand -Chased stalks, leaves and ears re- presented are a work of art, and com- bine with their artistic qualities an un- usual fidelity to the subject. The coet was $140. This trophy will not become the permanent property of any grower until won by him three time% The Bate Cup --For the best 23 ears el' Flint Corn, any variety, grown in On- tario adcording to the rules of the l'ana- dian Seed Growers' Association, nil.. '1'. O. Bate, of It N, Bate & Co., Ottawa, will give a cup annually until three sups have been won by the same grower, when such grower will teeeive, without fur- ther competition, a beautiful trophy as ie grand sweepstakee prize. The Steele, Briggs Trophy -A trophy valued at $100, given by the Steele, 13riggs Seed Ca., Toronto, for the beet bushel of alsike clover seed of highest Government standard in respect to put - Some of the Many Difficulties Over- come in Achieving Success. Important as it was to secure observa- tions of Mars of all kinds, it WM evident to the writer that photographing was most likely to lead to success. To de- cipher the afartian features requires training as well as an acute eye; that is why skepthiism persists. Forgetting that there can be no merit, because there is no difficulty in. detecting what the first -comer can see the inexperienced ad- vance confidently ti3 the attack and. see- ing nothing, conclude that Ill'ars has miffing to show. Much of importance therefore, was not likely to accrue from visual observatious to any one without long experience in that kind of study, and such a one it was not advisable to send, as not only would valuable time be lust in going and cooling, but the installation of the instruments could not in many respects be as perfect as at home. To secure photograph, however, seemed more feasible aud of greater edu- cational value for professionals and ama- teurs alike. A photograph can be scan- ned by. everybody, and the observation repeated until one is convinced. Skilled experts were needed for taking the photographs; for the only process by which they could be secured was new, being the outcome of special research here during the last fora years and brought to successful issue by 'Mr. Lamp - land. It depended upon a careful study of atmospheric, optical and photographic properties combined. Failure properly to appreciate the effect of any one of the factors in the process was bound to baing failure in the result, as was the ease at another large observatory, where an attempt was made to copy a new de- vice of the -Writer without adequate knowledge of all the principles involved. Success rested upon securing the ut- most possible definition. For a defini- tion far superior to anything hitherto attained in photogranhing the- moon, stars or nebulae was necessary to catch the canals at ell, and such definition was to be got only by a most careful comb'- . nation of atmospheric and instrumental circumstances. What the needful defini- tion means, the reader will perhaps ap- preciate when told that the whole disk of Mars is at best only 1-5020 of that of the moon, and the breadth of a canal is only 1-280 of the diameter of the Mar- tian disk. Or, to put it differently, 'on the retina of the whole disk of Mars prior to magnification occupies a space only1-11000 of an inch across. Mean- while the general attitude toward the subject was that of Dr. Johnson toward. the musician who, when informed that the piece just played was excessively dif- ficult, replied that he wished it had been wholly impossible. Marvelous case of Leo Corrigal which shows that skin dneases here- tefore considered hopelese can be cured, Since childhood, Lco Corrigan bad been tortured with the burning agony and itchiug of Eczema. His parents liad spent a great deal of money in con- sulting physiciane and buying inedieinee -but all to no purpose. As he grew older he sought other doctors -some of them specialists. He was eleven, weeks in a Toronto hospital - eight weeks in bed, At times the irri- tation aud pain caused by the Eczema were so severe, life was a burden. He would get so bad he could not walk, Several winters he could do no weak, Nature's Fairy -Week. Tim largest and most beautiful of the underground caves of Germany has, it IS said, just been discovered while blast- ing a calcareous quarry near Aatteridorits in 'Westphalia. There ia inagnifieent hail hong with the most beautiful and delicate stalacite eurtains as white as :mow, and in parts not even te eentimetre thiek, some of them shining with all the eolots of the rainbow. The einlagmites .aro also very beautiful. The "side chap- ele," niches and (heirs number from fifty to sixty, aml they are nearly all of im- maculate whitenese, " Britainn; Lord Chancellor, Lord Lore. - burn, is now in Canada This is the first ion on wine!' a Lent Chancellor ha* 010110100000001101001600166*)60.0 bleltsthe United Eingioni. He wrote, on February zo, 8%4: "In November, mc5, I had another attack, :tad was advised to use Mlra Ointment. (I thought this would be like the other remedies I hacl tried, and of no use to me). But, to my great delight, a few hours after the first application, I felt great relief. I have useti it, now, two end a -half months, and unhesitatingly state that it is the best remedy I ever used. It has worked wonders for me. Since using Mira Ointment I have been able to work every day -without irritation or pain -no stiffness of the limbs or soreness. 1 feet new person. "From a state of great irritation and some- times excruciating pains to freedom from all such, being capable of doing hard work every day, is a marvelous change. Mira Ointment has effected it. "I strongly recommend any person afflicted with this terrible complaint-Bczema-to use Mira Ointment." What this wonderfully effective Oint- Ment has done in this extreme chronic case, it can della other seemiagly incur- able conditions. If you suffer from any form of skin -disease, don't delay.' Certain relief and cure is waiting you in Mira Oihtinent. Get a box to -day. sc. -6 for $2.sp. At drug -stores -or from The Chemists' Co. of Canada, Ltd., Hamilton -Toronto. 15 0 TRADE MARK REGISTERED. crowdea and there Were }mutates of men aesese..........,atii...,...„.......,atia .....e. in genie . degree of quiet. But Met weren't quiet Mis day. The rail way ,,,,%,,,i atanaing around on the platferm etepe and they were all ehouting. "They'd lean over tho railing till I thought some of them would break them- selves in two on it, as if they were try- ing to get as close as they could to the men on the other side they were shout- ing at, and as a num howled he'd raise ais right hand with his nrm as high up in the air as he could raise it, and with more or less of his fingers extended straight, and then he'd bring that hand Is Noise What You Want? down with a savage sweep at the man on the other side he was hollering to as if be was trying to hurl a bale of cotton, or a thousand bales, at aim, and then the other man and this one would stop a second or two and each write some. thing down on a pad he carried in his left hand, and then they'd both start in again hollering again with the rest. "1 couldn't understand a blessed word they said, except that every now and then you'd see somebody shake his fist wildly and hear him howl 'January!' and then maybe you'd Bee somebody raise his hand and hear him shout Tab- ruary I' and there was another man that stood at the ringside end screamed 'Oc- tober!' These were bids for or offerings of cotton for future deliveries, I sup- pose, and they were all the words 1 could make out; for the rest thei•e was just that continuous swinging of bends in. the air and that continuous din of voices, with the telegrapb battery play- ing away on the other side of the big room. "There was one thing here that we couldn't see, we being in the visitors' the exchange, and this thing I speak of the 'exchange, and this thing Ispeak of being out of sight under us. Looking elown we could see below a long row of electric lights with a long reflector over them throwing light somewhere, we fan - •4•4•4444 4-44+0 •444,4•444.444•••÷4• "They may make more noise on the StockgExchange-why shouldn't they? There's more of 'em, buta' said a strati - ger who is enjoying himself seeing the sights of the city, 'I'd almost be willing to bet there's no fifty men on the Stock Exchange that could make as much up- roar as fifty picked Men of the Cotton Exchange, and if you don't believe that you ought to go down and hear the cot- ton men holler. "You don't knoW about that? You've never been in the Cotton Exchange? No, 1 suppose not. That's the way with you New l-erk folks. "You've been to Europe and the Rocky Mountains and Alaska and Ilong Kong, but you've never been much arounsliyour own toWn. Well, I've been down To see the Cotton Exchange myself, and I like it. "Big room, 150 feet long or thereabouts, and maybe 60 or 70 feet wide. Desks along across one end and scattered around, and along a stretch of one side a battery of telegraph instruinents with operators always busy. If there's ever any let-up in the hollering on the floor you can hear the telegraph chorus com- ing in, for the men at the keys are al- ways pounding away. "They don't have trading posts scat- tered around on the floor here like they do on the Stock Exchange, but here they do their trading around what they call the pit. The pit is formed of a stout brass railing set in a circle in the middle of the floor and having running around it, outside, an anitular platform. The railing makes a circle about twenty feet in diaMeter and is very stoutly braced so that people crowding against it can't push it over, "They don't get. inside the railing to trade, 'but stand around outside of it. The annular platform around the pit is three steps high, that is to say, there are three steps up to the top of it from the floor outside, and then three steps down on the imier side, which is witain two or three feet of the rail. The brokers stand around close to the railing and look across to the man oppo- site or anywhere around it, and on busy days when there are more men on the floor than can get to the rail they staud on the steps of the railing platform, where they can see over the heads of the men in front and so down into and across the pit, and' when you get the pit crowded in that way with men all hol- lering as loud es they can and that tele- graph battery firing continuouslit'filling in in the chinks, why, you get a clamor that for anybody that likes that sort of thing is nothing less than exhilarating "One thing I didn't understand at first sight was a little heap of closed camp stools lying on the floor in tne clear space in the pit within the railing, but I discovered about that later when I saw a man pull out one of those stools and sit down on it at the rail. So I infer they must have days when they sit arouod the pit railing, comparatively f ew in man who was the equal o' mysel'," number, and talk across to one another Brains and Bedslats. (From the Chicago Inter -Ocean, Nov. 21.) It is impossible to enumerate all the different kinds of blithering idiots who are running around just now with their mouths open, but here are a few of man who regards it as "only a flurry in Wall street." The man who asks: "Do you think we're going to have a panic?" The man who says that "it has cleared the atmosphere." The man who says "it's looking better" since those "crooked banks" shut up. The man -who argues that those "New York' swindlers" ruined themselves to "get even with Roosevelt." The man who is sure that "Moegan, Rockefeller and Harriman just did it to scare Teddy." The man who suspects a "bank con- spiracy" to hoard currency and "squeeze up all," while "they buy cheap stocks with our money." The man with the amethyst sing and nickel -headed cane who announces every- where that "they can't bluffaredderai and "he's got the Wall street gamblers go- ing.", The man who proclaims that "it helps the situation" to "smash the rotten banks," ann. that "Teddy's got the f in- ance villains on the run.' The man ewho borrows $10 and then tells yem "it'll be all right in a few days, because there's just as much money in the country as there ever was." The man who sits at the pie connter and tells everybody that it is a "good thing" to "smash every bank in the coun- try," and save the `common people" from "slavery" to the "money joteer: The man who says "it had to come anyhow," we''' "ere going too fast"; "Roosevelt is the greatest President we ever had," ande"ought 6 have a third term" or "as Many more as he wants:" Perhaps these men have brains, but they sound as if they had only predi- gested. bedslats under their hair. How have then lived all these years in a great city without being run over by the cars? The Lord only knows. 'BEI US UL. si • • EF That which some of us who are poor do not find easy is this: To feel we may be of use, or that it's worth while to Inv to be made so, when, in reality, we have so little to offer to friend or ac- quaintance. Some of us have to keep saying to ourselves: "Everyone has something to give. There's a way for each to be useful." For instance, 1 may be able to make it better buttonhole than you, but you may be able to write a better letter, I may know more about canary birds, you about gardening, Yon may know beet what a child needs with eroup, I May know the best way of menaging bookworms. These things, then, being so, why. should. 1 not be useful to you about buttonholes, Mary birds and b. o..._..ok_rms. You certhinly gardening and the cure of erolip.---liar- are of great use to Me. aboot letters, per's Bazaar. • Tho saddest thing in life PI the hope - Mae bath again. -Vlorbia Thues•Union. lemmas of yostprdayt to That Druce ease should furnieb the plot for a very good. story. Prices of meals have Wien in :111,sigo, hut there is no decline hi the ale stinter's bills here yet. Tin Czar will remain the antoerat of Ruseia. And, of com.se, conetitutional government must be,a elrana orenee -EsTglitiuge le becn deems a tell by King Edward with the ineisena iir Lb, orler of Merit. Ann she is worthy of it. • The New aerie Herald urges the Wash- ingtoe lloverument to establish Govern - meet savinge banks, Comae can give Undo Sam some Wine on banking. In the year ended June 30, 1907, there wp et, 7,432 derailments on railroaci4 a., United States, resulting in the death ef 513 persons and the injury of 0,693. Something like a battle record, isn't it. • • • There are 0,200 bliva pereons In New York State, and 2,300 in the city alone. Fort una t ely blindnese is decreasing, owing to the greater care taken with in- fants by physkians and nurses. This promises to be a hard season for the actors, about 3,003 of whom are out cied on a blackboard under us on that of engagements in New York city. It is side of the room, where they posted alio sal 1 that 80 per cent, of the new prices and sales and bulletins. There leave attempted this season have proved was apparently a platfor there in front of this board; we c occasion- ally see down there andel row of electric lights the head of what appeared to be a young man moving along there with entire calmness and putting things down. on the board, calm and easy through all the uprbar on the floor. "Then, suddenly, at five minutes to 3 o'clock, a gong high up on one of the pillars of the big room began clanging claihorously and that seemed to excite everybody around the pit . Whereas a moment before there had been some men thre not howling or shaking their fists and there had been two or three men even sitting down, now everybody howl- ed and everybody shook his f ist, and there was one man that I thought would sure now break hiinself iu two on the railing, and there was one man that now began hurling cotton bales with both hands; and so they stood 'there around the pit ecreaming and howling and gesticulating louder and wilder than ever for five minutes on end,. till that gong set up its clamoring again at 3 p. m., and five minutes later the big room wee quiet. "You say. you've never been to tbe Cotton Exchange. Well, a Minn it would pay you to look in there some day when the market is lively. Vm going there again, myself, before I go away.' - JUST KICKED -AT A CAT, Cure for Rheumatism Discovered by a Jersey Freight Clerk. A clerk in the Pennsylvania Railread freight office in Jersey City suffered from spasmodic twinges in his right leg, winch he aitributed to rheumatism, He coneulted a physician and spent a good deal far medicine, but oontinued to grow worse. One morning recently the office tom- cat in a epirit of fiendlineos arched his back and rubbed against the afflicted <self. The clerk gave a vicious kick with his bad leg and a gray streak shot through Me air. He hobbled to a chair and .sat down with a few stirring re- marlcs about cats and rheumatisni, A few minutes later he gritted his teeth hard and arose. He shook his leg and feebly smiled. Then be walked like grain will speedily relieve the situation a drum major across the floor and bois- terously shook hands with himself. The hara- It is a time for cheerfulnees and sharp twinges had dieappeared and there caution, but confidence is unehaken. has been no recureence of pain. llostiin is making it unpleasant for the automobile scorchers. Since September 1st there have been 229 prosevutions for violations of the mdtor laws, and in except 1 our cases -and 11 continued to other terms of court -there luiv been convictions. The fines range from to be failures. The New York Journal of C'ommerce tabulated list of 178,800 employees of industrial, mercantile and other concirn; dismissed since the financial stringency began; and it thinks 200,000 a moderato estimate of the total. ' The Grand Trunk Pacific will build tarrugh the Yellow Head Pass, and fon low the Nechaco and Bulkeley Valleys. The region is rich in coal and the rail- way will open a vast agricultural and glazing eountry. -se A recent rear -end collision, thought to be due to the sudden death of a mo- torman on duty, has caused much dis- cushion in New York, and the proposal is made to have two motormen on duty at all time's. And three motormen would still further securesefety-if they aidn't talk polities or religion. Uncler the new insurance law of Now York State it is said to hake.ast----Wneen'a"---a 000 for the first election of directors at which the policyholders voted: In the cases of the two big compaoies the ad- ministration was sustained. There should be a cheaper way of learning the -will of the policyholders. 4 • Uncle Sam has spent $48,285,110 on the Pamuna Canal since he took hel,11 of it, and the apprepriatiera autumns to wee peal for the French company's ;Liam ;;.30,.0011,50(1 nearly $80,000,00O. rights. It will 'furnish p:cUse for high taxation for some time to come. 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During the last six months there have been 737 prosecutions in Roston, and the fines imposed have amounted to $6,71e. uncle bant'S army cataTei him worry. The Secretary of War finds it hard to get native recruits. He says the pay doesn't attract them, and discipline and restrictions on their personal liberty lead to numerous desertions. He says: "If. present conditions continue, there will be nothing for the Government to do but to meet -the competition of private em- ployers by materially increasing tho soldier's pay, or to evade the competinon altogether by a resort to conscription." The native American is not enamored of holiday soldiering. I The total immigration into the United. States for the ten Months of this year is 1.029,168, breaking all preview; re- - cords. On the other hand, the statistics for August last (the latest official date) show that '22,200 immigrants returned home in that month. 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