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The Wingham Advance, 1904-06-30, Page 3LOVE AND FORTUNE. Euglibh eh eirls have, by general minds- eion, greeter pity/fled beauty than the gide mem Ott an ae•erage arum every tsetse •of any other European nationality. Their dispositions nee amiable and allec- Wage; they ineke devoted wivee, kind nietherst, inarvelotia grandmothers, and loyal friends. They lebur, however, undet one serious disadvantage which i. unknown even to the neglected drudges of a savage tribe. The self-evident obligation o. providing evesry daughter with clo3vry is not une tersely acknowledged by lteglieb. par- ents. In aristocretio families the patriarchal rule, no doubt, holds geed, and there are many modem versions of the awry of Rachel mut Leah. The Government, fol- lowing the wise instinct of preserving its soundest class, so juggles with the pay ef tnilitery men and membere of the Civil Service tline, in spite of a. man's pretests, ais daughters are, after a fashion, pro- vide" 'for. Among the landed gentry it ;s considered right that a women on 13er , marriage shall receive sometleng in the way of e : etlement, New end again a membereof the lower middle elesees will give Ids daughter generous 'assistanee if she makes a inatemge flattering to the family pride. But •an air of favor—of doing something supererogatory and su- perb--accompames all these arrange - snouts; the le:sliest peers, if we may trust the private memoire of the legal profes- sion, have shown a certain dyness when t "Treaded oa the subject of large mar- riage settlements for their girls. It is suit en exaggeration to say that in nine out of ten Angle -American mar- riages the quarrels aro fierce, and the disputes a,re painful when a fixed provi- sion has to be guaranteed to the bride by her parents. The American parent is proverbially indulgent and liberal; an American daughter has every wish, wbeee it is pos- sible, gratified, but it is not the custom of the country to make any definite pro- vision for her after she leaves her fa- ther's house to marry. But let it be said to the credit of American fathers that their whole domestic policy is tower(' munificent provision for the comfort, travels, and education of the girls, and an insistence on industry front the sons, Men, in the United States, are the work- ers. .American women are not expected to work; when they do so it is because they &loose to do so, and not because they ere persecuted. Further, in a number of cases, when the American girl does marry she is given a large yearly allowance for her own use; and any amount of handsome presents; nevertheless, the subject is ever a hard one and a shy one; the money is accepted as a horrid necessity, and it is spent with a constant sense of dependence will& robs the spending of nearly all its pleasure: Vtliy should this be the case?' Men are not made to feel that the capital spent on their education represents a paternal burden, a sacrifice • or a mere gift. A boy goes to Eton and Oxford, to Harvard or West Point, or elsewhere as a matter of course; he is grateful, one hopes, to his father, and he appreciates, one- hopes, all the affection he receives, but he is never diiven to think that Tie is an expense, that if he Were not in the world 1118 parents would have, perhaps, one more house, five or six more horses, more motors, and a better time oenerally. This last idea —"a better time generally"—would oc- cur to every_mind where extra houses, horses and motors would be out of the question, Now it is as inuch a duty to give every girl that grows up to womanhood a definite fortune—no matter how small —as it is to educate every •boy for a vocation or trade. And the fortune ought not to be dependent upon the act of marriage; it ought to be given on the girPs attaining a certain age— say, twenty-five. The position of unmarried women in any family is usually unsup- portable. 'They cannot be expected to endure the treatment and indignities to which they are subjected. No wonder they wtsh to break away from such ignominious restraint and gain inde- pendence by entering hospitals, offices, shops or anything that offers an excuse for a little liberty. The poorest peasant in Ireland, and in all countries except England, will consider it a niere com- monplace of his routine as a human being to bestow some property on 'each of his fentale children. The "preeerty" may often seem trif- ling enough. I have known an instance where a chair and a wheelbarrow were appraised as a very handsome dot, and the heiress received bearty congratula- tions on the value of these securities. In Roman Catholic countries a girl who does nob care to marry may enter one of the religious orders, and the dowry whicll she would bring to her husband she takes to the Church. The religious orders are not for over mind, but they certainly met, and std1 meet, one of the greatest difficulties of the human race. The Irish peasant with her chair and wheelbarrow was far happier in her spbere, than many girls brought up to luxurious habits, moving constantly among the idle rich, hearing only of costly amusements, educated on entirely false ideas of domestic ethics, each knowing absolutely that she will be called a burden and a failure—which is unforgivable—if she cannot by some dance secure a num, no matter how repulsive, who ean support her. . And here a curious reflection occurs to Inc. It often happens that when ths bridegroom is rich, parents who would allow it girl barely money enough for cabs will stint themselves in every way to give ber ostentations jewels,and prob- ably a dowry. If the same girl were to choose a man to whom her marriage portion would be useful, she would get bitter reproeches and certainly no help. An English ballroom (I make no dis- tinction now of claim) is, to may student of contemporary morals, the most pain- ful because the most ironical exhibithm of ill-used, embittered, and wasted youth one could see, Here we are shown by the dozen, vivaciou8 enl charming girls with every essential gift for do. inesticity, who are doomed, beyond hope, either to a long, unwholesente engege- meet wearing into middle life, or to act- ual spinsterhood. Let itte beaten to say that, although Lord Beaconsfield has declared that marriage is to the averitge woman what the choice of a profession is to a man, there is learly 110 reason why every wernau should take a husband or feel called upon to excuse herself if she does not. A great 'number do not wish for responsibilities; 'great number prefer to remain single; a great number, for various reasons, would do wrotig to ainatry: there are matters of tempeta- Ment, and 'lo not tench my point. My point is that each girl should have her independence leisured, and every Mart who thinks of marriage Might tO be able to approaelt seine possible'wife Without being suspected of seeking a fortune became; she may have inherited a few thousands, it few hundreds, or less than 0, 'mottled a year. It 18 prepos- terous to (tense ft man of marrying for Money vlien he (looses someone Whose Income 18 probably ftlitalt tilt SalitO ite lile own. 'The ableat Men in the learns. ed professions cannot, by the hardest work and the most arsenious:3 efforts, make P. large income before they are forty', It Is called, and justly called, madness! , —when we realize the expenses of mode ern 1iving-40r a brilliant man to marry for love only at the beginnieg of lite career. At the very p.oriod, therefore,! when a good WOMOR'S litfittelle0 (and it must be an influence that is sympatie die) is as necessary to a Jean's char- ' actor as his own legitimate ambition, he is warned by example and precept to ' avoid the.danger of his best sentiments. I He will be too romantie—while he is young— to marry a tortune; too proud —while he is young -t -to show prefer- I ewe where be inay actually feel it, if the girl happens to be an heiress; too ' sane to risk the consequences of a pre- carious establashment, What is the result? The poor young men who rush blindly into matrimony Avail penniless wives do not do so because they are less intelligent, They have not look- ed ahead, and they are quite unable to bear the reproofs, when they come, of their folly. And 11; must be remember- I ed also that the demande upon a man's purse are great precisely inproportion to his success and reputation. Take the position, then, of an English giri who is known to be an heiress or to have greet expectations; she will read in English action and hear in English stage plays false sentimentality on the subjeet of "being loved for herself alone"; her money strikes the waking note in all her dreams, She may be beautiful, accom- plished and charming; nevertheless, the wholeworld will cowire to make her suspicious of every friendship and every attachment; poorer women, whose mal- ice is merely the meseonence of an un- just insinuation, will insinuate invari- ably that she is admired, or married, for her money and- nothing but her money, Her happiness is visoned; her self -mete dence suffers. and the unfairness to the ' man who marries her, or who may wish tc marry her, is quite outrageous. How many youeg couples have been permanently embittered by unseemly discussioos end revelations over the settlements? Theettmet, from motives of aelieacy, has not dared to ask what the girl is likely to feet. The girl, naturally enough, does not care to say, even when she knows (which is seldom the ca.se), just how much she represents US ne. as- set. In all the favorite songs, books and plays of the day, the question of mone.y is seldom, if ever, raised, Everybody is either immensely wealthy or delightfully peer. The same word "atmosphere" de- scribes both conditions so far as the au- thor or the public is concerned. It is • worse than silly—it is cruel—and as a zasult of this complete divorce between common sense and common romance, the 'saddest faces in England are not the faces of the middlesaged and old, but the faces of the yoeng. They are bewildered, secretive, and crushed; they cannot express the revolt in their 'meets; they cannot understand the contradictions ox chureh and stage idealism with their otvn daily observe- tlons of life as it ia lived; they do not know what it all means, and each one fears that he or she must be a terrible exception to some happy, general rule. Who on.earth wishes to be married for his or her extraneous possessions? Who on earth wants to be driven to life-long celibacy because marriage is too expen- sive? To eheose celibacy is ono thing; . to 'have no choice would embitter the ! kindest mind. On the haud many men who have small but settled incomes would marry if every stir' bad somethir- in the Blume of a fortune .which she could openly claim. The imbecile reserve on the sub- ject is the main cause of the trouble. A farmer in one of the eastern counties married nine plain daughters because lie annotmced as each one was christened teat he would give her fifty pounds down on her wedding day. The sum was not lame. but wooers knew where they were. Better fifty pounds for certain than wrangling over begrudged uncertainties. That feemer, however, had a French grandfather. Another mem When a woman, by any chance, felltses to marry a man of some means, all the members of her family— even when the family is rich—seem to think that she has done them an acute injury. She is made to feel that she has deprived her parents of their due recom- pense for bringing her into the world at all; she may earn her own living; she may be entitled to some share in an in- herited fortune. That does not matter. She has missed her chance, or chances, of bringing glory to her relatives. The richer the parents, the greater often their indigeation• when a daughter refuses to make. for conscientious; *reasons, some match which would be advantageous from the financial standpoint. But, it will be objected, many clerks and small tradesmen have no capital to sink in their daughters' marriages, nor can they all afford to give them more than a little irregular pocket money— which they are always supposed to forego at the first exercise of retrenchment. As for men of the lower, middle and laboring classes—who could ever train them to consider their morel Ilability in this regard 1, It is hard to Inge it suddenly upon them. and it is reason- • able to expect them to welcome any new demand upon their unselfishness. • England, moreover, is of all countries the most forbidding for people with limited means. The ordinary decencies of life eost far too much; tolerable amusements are fixed at prohibitive rates; the climate is against many cheap recreations which are popular abroad, and the mairtenance of the most austere lieusehold represents an annual expenditure out of all proportion to the comfort it brings. Cooks have been taught nothing of economy; shopkeepers, in distriets where the rents are low, are notoriously grasping, dishonest and uncivil. It it a perpetual wonder to the thrifty German and Frenchmah how the British farmer and his family Manage to keep hp so brave an appearance when everything—by law or otherwise— is arranged to make thrift ahnost out of the (Megan, ambition a form of de- lirium, and break in thii regular routine an extravagance. • admit, therefore, that 11 18 ttot plea, - tent to urge another claim upon the pe- at/it taxpayer. Love is not a Intaitieso relation, but housekeeping beyond doubt the very beghining of all eommerce. It muet be considered squarely from every standpoint, end, of all disastrono aietakes, this mistake of not providing for the future wives andenothers oi Is the most ghastiy social evil— the Otte least discussed—the one that lias brought the most unhappiness be- eause it pleases upon the noblest and the most Cent. Much is Reid and written about drunk - fatless; much is said or written 011 0110 o. two other flamboyant topies---but it mg's1 to be apparent that one 33111133 awe of our worst domestic- erimes is to be found in the fact that our women 870 mostly flowerless. They must either ha given money, or they must make it. ' They mutt have !inlet:ling to marry ou or tney must rettedn single. Men of po- sition and means de not oftei . choose ' ' -aSseeseiseet. atseeet • pen brides; Cinderella is a fairy tale; wen of great ability are seldom capital- ists from the cradle. And the deb, bridegroom or the die- tiuguided bridegroom, after all, is who', ly -exceptional. It its my objeet now to consider the common ease. And the cone mon teats ia the most sorrowful ease— became) it is fai cominon. The majority of girls are nether strong enough physi- clay nor philosophic enough mentally to work for their living. Many work well, 1 know i many aro successful, but the strain is always far greater than they will confess, and when the time for no- - eessary recreation comes they are genus] aly too tired to enjoy it. This milversal • employment of well-born and respecta- ble girls in business is the worst thing possible for the ram and it ought to be rigorously coedenmed by "all political economists. Men, seeing their sisters and women friends slaving by their side in the city ana elsewhere, become less and less willing to work for women, less and leas virile, less ani less coura- geous, less and, less good eitizens, less and less chivalrous in their details, The vital distinetione in sex, the disa- bilities of °Belated, the force of the other, are lost et the similarity elt their out- ward tasks; but whereas the man, at the end of his day, is quite ready to spend the evening at some place of amusement, or playing billiards, his weaker associate, who does far more than he for far less pay, goes home to a sloppy meal she is to weary to eat, and a lonely evening too sad to be des- cribed. The very pretty girls drift to- ward dressmaking shops, and the girls with high animal spirits rush toward the "arts." They want to not, or paint, or sing, or fiddle, or strum—a few try to write—but writing is a solitary affair, and mewed spirits soon bound oft from a pile of foolscap by it desolate hearth. On the whole, the girl who follows the arts as an amateur suffers -feast; few women beeeme great artists i11 any sense, but art itself has so much to give Ufa to follow Vie muses even at a great distance is to gain something beautiful at every step. But gifts for music and painting are injured when regarded as so much otocken-trade. To pay well they must be more than considerable— they must be unique—and Ms a, crime to send any girl, on the strength of a merely good. talent, into the arena of professional life. There is nothing for her in that arena; she is not wanted, and the very gifts whiele•she is ettempt- ing to assert will perish in the rapacious struggle with other girls, as desperate and as intelligent and as young and -u eager to enjoy youth as herself. Once I saw a mother, with a child at NILI(VOIUS MODULES. PrOaiptly and Permanently cured by OA Wililanist Pink Pills. 'Mere te no 'tor Lure more 1110110 and intolerable titan 111J11,01011078. 4. nora veleta mare= Is In 4.1. ibitaite t 4.10110/41,111, irritation lee Play and eleeeloaseieta•i bej nighe. The ,eualerer ,starts et every: ode°, t eleaky„ deerdesed, and, attlwegli in a conotantly uatheustett te atilatele to sit or lie still. If '41.10,4 ars nervous or avorriet1 or euf- ler front a conabinaitlou olangour and Irritatioe you need a neforo len- to, and Dr. Wiillaano' Pink Pine aro absolutete stile best thing in the world tor iyiou, You ean only get rid cif nervousness through feeding your nervess with rade red blood, and Dr. WIlliants' Pink Pille actually; make neett blood. There ifi no doubt about elda—fehoweands *an testifyi to the blood -making, neeve-restoring qual- itiee of 'Mese pale. Vitus fiance O110 . or elte .1110'.15 Revere forms of nervouenean, and Mrs. 11. 'Hevener, 10 Graventruret, Ont, tellY hese these pine cued, her Wolfe 'trey. She were: "A't lato age tat eight ney little boy itiese cif 'thaw piths. lat. Vito; dente from swadeli lie :sabered in a. .vevere form. Has merveg twitched, to 811011 an exteat tlea,t he wee almolat help- less% and had to be eonetantlyi watch- ed. Tie ?wee under eexerai doctors at different ;times, hut teats did not help liant, so I decided to try Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pale and these lia,ve completely eared lane nett now not eign of the, trouble remains." • Men you buy these pills always look at tho box and see- that the full Diem's, Dr. Williams' Pine Pine for Palo People, is printed on the wrapper, and reifeee to. take any- thing dee, You can get these pills frank till Medicine dealers or they will he emit byl mail at 00 cent 0, bee, or six box U row 02.501 by „writing The Dr. WIllimme' Medicine No., Brookville, Ont. • , THE BEEF RING. Farmers may Have Fresh Meat • in Summer. Deportment of Agriculture, Commis- sioner's Branch. Although live stook is grown cm almost every Canadian farm, the farmer as a rule, finds it very diffi- cult to furnish his table with fresh meat during the slimmer months. In order to make the use of fresh, meat MR. PERDICAR1S. 17. S. citizen who has been kidnapped by brigands outside Tangier, with the re- sult that three U. S. warships ha ve been sent to Morocco. her breast, penile,°through it vast city crowd to see the Lord Mayor's chariot pass by. At last she reached a front place; she saw the show; she held the child up to the mounted police as a sign of triumph. But the child was deed. I have never forgotten that scene, nor the laugh of vindiotive defiance, nor the terrible cry which followed it. I have often thought since that it was a history of most women who want a place in the front rank on the great highway. They may get the place, but the thing they Jove hest has been opera ficed. They stand there with a dead bur- den in their arms, or it dead art in their souls. To 111011, the storm and strain of ambition or the necessity of bread -win- ning is natural. Moreover, when they fight, they have free arms; whereas a womati's arms are never empty; if she has no children she lets her, mysterieus maternal powers and affections—affec- tions which are so much more subtle and consumingthan the affections of men—her wearing sympnthies, and net, V01.154 organization, winch can bear the most severe occasional strains, but not the eonstant fret of a daily battle for standing room. ll'ohn Oliver Hobbes. Wilson's Fly Pads are sold by all Druggists and &need Stores. WOLVES INCREASING IN NUMBER. Large Amounts Still Paid by Western States in Bounties. The wolf is more dreaded of humanity than any other animal. No doubt we of today inherit that (heed iron ancestors who heel occasion to fear the long -fanged quadruped, for there are few portions of elle world to -day where the wolf is really dangerous to matkind. Dangerous to inan's pocket, to his lards and flocks, he is still to -day in many portions of the country. A rand Montane. or New Mexico may pay many hunclerds of dollars a year for gray wolf scalps. faueli it scalp is cheap at $12 or $15 to the matcher, for the gray robber wouldcertainly have destroyed teeny times that value in calves or colts fron the range. Yet ia spite of all the warfare made upon them, and all the priees put 'upon their heads, these dread- ed, mysterioute ghostlike, terror inspir- he: ereatures till hold their own. Out - costa for taxes, hated, perseented, and without t friend on earth, even among . 0Wfl kthd. Last yeer the State of Minnesota paid over $0,00 a 111013113 in the best of the Wolf season. One day of the month of last March the State Auditor paid $0,- 156.50 in wolf bountiese The total for the few months; precedieg was $36,548.60. fat this basis the (went year will foot marly as emelt rts the two vats pre- ceding, 'Mild caveats to indicate that Brother 'Wolf is holding 10.4 own, even as a matter of commeree. /it teeny parts of the western tattle range the gray v elves are increasing, rather thee de- eretteleg.—Vield and Stream. ,1( cheap cuts during the summer. At the end of the summer the secretary of the organization furnishes each naembar with a 'statement of the YeaT'S Dper0t10119, COMpited from the , letteber's records. As 110 two ani - Imals will have been of the same iewasIght, small halancea will have to change hands In order to equalize Matters. Ao a standard price is al- ways agreed upon at the beginning. or the season, say five or six cents por pound, there are no disputes; at the close. Walborn who have re - cloyed more beef than they supplied pay for the difference at the price agreed upon; those who have put In more than they have received are paid in the same. way. Yours very ctiuer. lytA. , V. . Ct:glooes, Pablteation OFFICIAL RECORD OF HOLSTEIN COWS. The tfolloleting cows have been fte-. °opted for entry in the CanadiaU Iloletein-lariesian record of merit Pince my last report, All the rec. ores ,given wore urado under the of - Dela' oupervielon cif Prof. Deau, of the Ontario egrioulturel College, and all the weIghta and tests are sworn tol by the eepresentativee of tho collcpao tell° conducted elle 'teasts. All are ;or a, assert:al of seven days. 1.1eizzie Pletp Du (2aa7-6) at 6 years d months oe itge ; tom, 098.4 lbs.; butter fat, 1.4.60.• ; equisalcmt butter, 17.05 lbs.; owner, W. IL eam•mons, New Durham, Ont, 2, Little Katie Kent,8ed (2,375),at 13 yeare 9 =patio fa days of age; milk, DM the.; butter fat, 13.01 ibla. ;ere,W. i.s ilivaIlentmbilotelis.ia151.22 !be; ewe aaminia, Cabana (2,694,), at; 5 yeams 22 day's ef age; mIllk, 426.7' lbs.'' butter fat, 1%33 1b9.; equiva- lentbatter, 161.56 Rm.; owner, 'W. H. film'mons. 4. Resale Plotio De %Twin (e,099), at 4 years 13.1 menthe 4 days Of ago; wilk, 401.8 1b:,; butter, fat, 14.02 ; equivalenti lbuttnr, 133.:36 the ; owner, V. H. Sanmene. 5. Daisy Plonks CO( 2,712), at 4 years 6 ratmthe '10 daya of ago; milk, dataet Mo. ; butter fat, 12.81 lbs.; equivalent butter, icon lbs.; owner, sjae. Bettie, afortviele Ont. 6. Jemima, Pesch 01:), at 2 years (3 months tat days af age; milk, 1336.1 lb:s.; butter fat, 9.24 lbs.; 'equivalent butter, 1o.78 iba.; awner, 3j111s. Bettie. , 7. Teethe sfewlel Mochtleale, 2nd, (3,514), at 2 o•eans 6 meatits 8 days adage ; milk, ,362,6 ib.; butter fat, 9.28 lbs.; equivalent butter, lass lies; owner, Jas. Rsettle. 8. Maple Grove Rolle (4,025), at 1 year 9 months as days of age; milk, 023.3 lbs1; 'butter fat, 10.36 lbs.; equivalent butter, 12300 lbs.: owner, H. altellert, Cassel, Ont. Yonrs truly, . G. W. Celeermotnaer, • e y. St. George, Ont. possible in every tame home, even during the summer months, the Live Stock C:ommiesioner, Ottawe, re- commends the more :general estab- lishment of beef rings, which have been sucessfully carried on for years In some sections of Canada. Beef Rings.—These rings are not, as the name might Indicate, "trusta" for the control of the peoduction and sale of beef, but are groups of farm- ers who co-operate to supply their tables with fresh meat during the Bummer. The ring Is usually com- posed of sixteen, twenty or twenty- four memberaalthougb sometimes as many as forty are enrolled. Each member agrees to supply one beef admal during tbe summer,. and in order to give plenty of time for pre- paration, the thembers draw] late the previous winter to the or- der In which they shall contribute animals. After the drawing members may exahange numbers if they find it niutually advantgaeeus. Two emall families; may combine for one tahare. The Animal—The regulations us- ually provide that each member shall supply a steer or heifer under three years old, sound, heal.thy, and In good condltion, dressing Trom 400 to 500 pounds of beef, and grain -fed for at lea,st six weeks previous to killing. If an animal Is not up to the stand- ard it may be rejected and the own- er compelled to supply another, or It may bo accepted at a lower valua- tion. The decision in such eases Is left to the secretary of a duly ap- pointed committee of inspection. Killing and clistrIbutIon.—A butcher Is employed to kill and cut tip the animals, the owner retaining the bead, heart, fat and lade. The amount paid for killing and cutting up a beast Is usually 52 to $2.50, with an ex - tar dollar If the butcher snakes de- livery, which Is not a general prac- lace. Of course it 10 not necessary to employ a professional butcher, but a man ie required who can do. the !work neatly and well, and out up the carcase along the usual lines, and tn the same way each time. The butcher provides a book for ecteli member and hangs thereon the por- tion for each animal as tho animal Is out up. Each member eltould havo two meat bage with 'hie name on, that ono of them ;nay always be at the butcher ahop reedy to receive the weekly portion.In the caso ot some rings •each family gets only one piece; In ethers; a good piece of the land quarter, and an Inferior piece of the fore quarter, or 'trite veralt ; in still °there a member gots a boiling piece, a roast, and a piece of steak mob Week. The various cuts are numberedAnd Stn nceeteitto record lo kept by the buteter of the quality and weigh': of boil received by each mem a In thle wae 11 is possible to area ego for each faintly to receive approeltiette- ly the 841110 weight of meat end the ALUM proportion' of valuable and 11111111i i0 MIMI! 0n 1 11111 II I ilson's Fly Pads are the best fly killers made. CAUGHT A BIG SHARK. On Hook and Line for Hours, bu Yielded to a Volley of Bullets. Recently Harry F. Chamberlain, of -Warwick, Orange county, N. Y., arrived in Mexico by steamer to visit his friend and assocatte, H. II. Warner, of New York. Mr. Warner has been residing her for several months for the pleasures of the climate and city. He and Mr. Chamberlain have it suite oi apartments rt the Gilow Hotel. When Mr. Chamberlain errivea on the shores of Mexico he Ina an adventure such as not one out of fir 3 hundred vis- itors ever hes. Mr. Chamberlain is aa ardent sports- men, and is especially skilled in angling for trout and other game fish. He is also a. fine shot. Whoa Ids steamer ar- rived in the harbor of l•togreso he had an opportunity 'to exercise his skill as :in angler and sharpalseoter in a novel and most .exciting manner. Mr. Cham- berlain said in a recent interview: "When I first saw the beautiful blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico in this harbor I was reminded of the Mediter- ranean Sea. When the steamer is in progress one does not notioe the water so much, but these color depths at Pro- greso were in such marked contraat with the black and foul waters of Ha- vana harbor that they et once eerested my attention. While the ship was un- loading part of its cargo I observed that there was something else in the water besides its charming color, to wit, a peat number of those terrible monsters, the man-eating sharks. I discovered later that the term 'terrible' was not misap- plied: "Seeing these big fellows, with their inseparable companions, the pilot fisb, seinening around so boldly within ten yards of the vesoel, ardised my sporting blood, •and I determined to maks an at- tempt to capture one. I formed. my plans, and with the co-operation of the ship's officers I secured a long line of sisal, about the thickness of an ordinary clothesline. To the end of this I attachea about five feet of strong wire. There were no regul-ar Shark hooks on the steamer, but I secured the largest hook at hand and athletic:1 it to the end of the wire. It was baited with two pounds of salt pork. Tins was tbroWn over- board and allowed tofloat on the sur - ,face of the matter within two hundrea feet of the ship, where the sharks could not fail to see it. "It was moot exasperating and at the same timo pleasurably exciting to stand hour after hour and see those huge inan-ealers sail round and ,round the floating bait, snapping up pieces of wood and other floating objects within a few 1 feet of it, but Apparently indifferent to or unconscious of -the sweet tnersel. For an entire day- they never touded that pork. I thought, however, at night, that, like human beingo who do 1301 like or are forbidden to touch certain articles of food, that desire and hunger would 'in the end overeome their tastes and 'scruples and that the morsel would be 'swallowed. The next morning the bait- ' ed hook was again thrown overboard. Not five minutes hail passed before the nose of a big shark arose far above the sur- face of the water .ftett dropped clown, !seizing the pork in his lingo end gee ,thoque mouth, Welt is far back from i the'ehleltil3 of tlic1 11reellin 'Tvena, fink out of sight, dragging the line swiftly after him. As soon as this fitel beeamo known to the paseengers there was wild excitement on befell. They came rush- ing from their staterooms in pri,ittmal, night shirts end all finals of deshabile, their ere bright with excitement -awl their mouths full of nelviee im to the best methods of landing the big terror of the setts. I "1 had wrestled with too teeny big • trout, notscallotige and bluefish to feel 'mud anxiety as to the end, but I t.,11 you that great ficree, powerful shark taught 1116 a lesson Mit wilI last me a life -time. From 1116 fled poll 1 knew the hook woe well axed. Waded. plat like A trout, dashing to right and left; mak- big a far-off rush, leaping out of the waterp plunging down into the depth% 4 IMPERIAL. BANK OF CANADA Pr0000dlogs ot tho Twonly-dd Annual Gannet WOK. of .tho .Sharaboldors, Hold at the 'Banking Homo of tho Institution in Toronto, on Wednesday, 151h hoe, 1904. The Twenty-ninth Animal Meeting of the Imperial Bank of Canada was held in pursuance of the terms of the Obarterat the Ranking house of the Institution lath. juee, 1904. There were present: T. R. Merritt (St. Catharines), D. B. Wilkie, mum Ilendrie (Hamilton), Win. Ramsay, of Bowland, Stow, Scotland, Blies Rogers, James Kerr Osborne, Charles Cockshutt,i7. L. 131akie, Archibald Foulds, B. jL Temple, W. W. Vickers, Lyndhurst Ogden, David Smith, David Kidd (llauditon), O. A. ripen, Anson Jonce, Alfred Hoskin, Miss 11, M. Robinson, Harry trigeou, Edward. Archer, Alexander Nairn, Rev. T, W. Paterson, Jantes Bicknell, A. W. Austin, R. N. Gooch, Robert Thompson, Albert Thompson, W. (Almon Caseeels, 3. W. Beaty, Peleg Howland, W. C. Crowther, V. If, 111, Ifutchesson, Edward Hay, J 3. Foy, K. C., W. T. Jennings:a -0. F, Riee, C. Holland, Clarkson Jones, David Spry, Alexander Laird, Harry Sintzel, C. C. Dalton, Ralph K. Burgess, J. Gar - deo Jones, Ira fitandiele II, M. Pellatt, la A. Rolph, If. W. Mickle, W. If. Camara, 0. If, Stanley Clarke A. A. McFall (Bolton), Prof- Andrew' Smiths P, R. C. Nr, 8„ J. Eddis; B. G. 0. Thomson, etc. The chair was taken by the President, Mr, T. R. Merritt, and the A.sisistazit General Manager, Mr. B. Hay, was requested to act as Secretary. Moved by Mr. Thomas Wellesley, seconded by Mr. W. W. Vickere: That Mr. Lyndhurst Ogden, Mr, IL IL Temple and Mr. W. •Gibesori Cassels be and are hereby appointed scrutineers.—Carried. The General Manager, at the request of the Chairmen, read the report of the directors and the etaternent of affairs. THE REPORT The Directors beg to submit to the shareholders their Twenty-ninth .Annual Report and Balance Sheet of the affialie of the Rank as on 3let May, 1004, , together with it statement giving the result of the. operations for the year which ended that day. Out of the Net Proats of the year and balance of Trodt and Loss A.ccond carried forward, and after making full provision for all bad end doubtful debts, and for the authorized coetributions to the Pension end Ouarantee Funds: (a) Dividends have been paid at the rate of 10 per cent. per eneum, amounting to $299.194,04. (b) Bank Premises Account has been credited with $25,000. (e) Rest Account itas been increased by :poop% ((1) Carried forward to Profit and Loss Acount, $140;656.56. Tho premium received upon new Capital Stock, amounting to $13,688, has boon added to Rest Account, making thee account $2,850,000, equal to 95 per cent. of the Paid Up Capital. - A. branch of the Bank bas been -opened at Trout Lake, B. C., to whieli has beon transferred the business of the Branch at Ferguson, B. 0. It is with extreme regret that your directors have to announce the death of their late esteemed. colleague, Mr. T, Sutherland Sta,yner, who has been a direc- tor of the Bank since 1890, and. wile has throughout been. constant in his attend - race to his duties as'a director, and to whose faithful seyvice they now bear tes- timony?. The Head Office and Branches have all been carefully inspected during the year, and your directors have much pleasure in,, expressing -satisfaetion oe the manner ie whichthe Officers of the Bank perform stheir respeotive duties. . T. R. MERRITi2, President. : • • PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Dividend No, 57,5 per.cent paid 183 of December, 1903 $149,426 09 Dividend No. 58, 6 percent payable 183 Juno, MI— 149,768 0/ $209,191 04 Transferred to Rost Account.... 213.088 00 Written oft bank premises and furni- ture account 25,000 00 Balance of Accountcarried forward110,008 50 $078-,488 FO Balance at credit of amount 31st; May, 1903, brought forward 8160,386 21 Premium received on Now Capital Stock 13,688 OCI Profits for the year ended 31st May. 1904, after deducting charges of management and interest due de- positors mid after making full pro- vision for all bad. and doubtful debts and for rebate on bills under discount $501,414 33 --- 3678,8es 00 1t11ST AtiCOUNT. Balance as Credit of Amount, 31st May., 1903 $2 636,312 00 Transfer from Profit and Loss Account 213,688.00 Preminm on New Capital Stock $ 13,683 00 From Profits of the year 200,000 00 $2,858,000 00 Twenty-ninth Annual Balance Sheet, 31st 'lay, 1904 Notes of tho Bank in . circulation $ 2,607,746 Deposits not bearing interest $ 4,247.572 11 Deposits tearing in- terest (including . interest accrued to dato) 17,590,910 33 21,844,521 Deposits by other banks in Canada 161,881 Total liabilities to the public .. $24,667,141 Capital stock (paid un). 3,000,000 Rest Account $ %Vac's lid Dividend No. 58 (pay- able 1st Juno, 1901). 6 per cent 119,763 01 Rebate on bills dis- counted 02,573 02 Balance of Profit and Loss Account car. ried forward 140,606 56 ASSETS. Gold and Silver Coin. $ 792,059 30 00 Dominion Govern- ment notes 11867,338 00 49 ent for security of note cireu- Deposit with Dominion Govern - lotion 460.000 00 Nobtaensksof and cheques on other llaclaannacdeadue from other banks in 08 Balance due from agents In the 47 United Kingdom 00 Balance due from agents in for- eign countries 3,029,137 30 3,202,947 82 Dominion and. Pro- vincial Government secerities $1,057,361 82 Canadian Municipal securities and Brit- ish or foreign or colonial securities other than Caned - 5119 1,403,303 81 Railway and other Bonds, Debentures and Stocks 1,672,313 75 Call and Short Loans on Stocks and. Bonds in Canada 2,812,750 13 313,557,328 80 Other Current Loans, Discounts al3:10dInAisdov8a) ices 18,423,182 99 Overdue debts (loss provided for) 1023,805881 91: Real Estate (other than bank Mortgages on Real Estate sold by the ban k 03,383 15 Bank premises, including safes, vaults, end office furniture, at Bead Office and Branches .- 639,838 79 Other assets not included under foregoing heads 11,412 92 830,780,097 09 $30.760,097 09 D. R. WILKIE, General Manager. The usual motions were submitt..1 and carried unanimously. The Scrutineers appointed at the Meeting reported the following gentlemen duly elected Dimes:es for the ensuing year, -viz., T. R. Merritt, D. R. Wilkie, Wm. Ramsay, Robt. Jaffrey, Elias 'Rogers, Wm. Hendrie, James Kerr Osborne,Charles Cockshutt. At a subsequent Meeting of the Dir ectors, Mr. T. R. Merritt was electel President, and Mr. D. 11. Wilkie, ViceP resident for the ensuing year. By order of the Board. "•er.a: Toronto, June 15th; 1904. 1,031,981 28 319,833 Oa 378,559 21 1,291,815 45 3 8,811,500 21 4,122,982 81 D. R. WILICTR, General Manager. The perspiration rolling down my cheeks. and nty arms ached. In the meantime scores of passengers were offering all sorts of firearms to dispatch the shark when it appeared at the surface. After two hours of the hardest work and the the most skilful numoeavring I over did in my life, the shark slowly rose to the surface. I was about played out. An Englishman who was going to Mexico to hunt big game tendered me a heavy calibred rifle loaded with explosive bele lets. I banded the line to one of the passengers, and wit% careful aim sent two bullets into th4 vitals of the huge fish. "Fora few moult:Into the shark made final &eves beneath the surface after every passenger who had it gun had poured a harmless fusaade into his tough hide. When he arose a won't time :Mother volley was fired at him without effect. Tint -when I had scot four more. explosive Welts into him he was done for. As T afterward discover- ed, the first two had gone den through the carcase without exploding. "By the nut of peons and sailors the shitrk was landed on a lighter, not yet , dead, and RR I stood near hita his wick- i i ed little eyes luel ais eepressioe as if he 1 I said : "Young Man, 1 Wislt I had yogi ' in the water for about thirty seconds.' i 1 "The shark was 0 feet 9 inches in ; length, Melt tip to tip, and weighed , ] eearly 1,000 pounds. To taekle 1.000 , I poundo of the greatest, strength awl I 1 activity in the shape of a fish that in - known in the piseatory world, with eateli slender mid improVieed Mafia 11.8 I had,. 1 . gave me .more pleasure than all the oth- er fishing I have done in my lifetime. 1 "1 mid to go on reeved as giving ft. ' positive eoutradietioe to the common!, ' deluoion that, when the shark attacks . 1 hie prey or takes his food, it always . turns upon its back. It does nothing. of the kind. I watded this school of fish for hours. A score of times I taw them thruet their noses high in the Der until the mouth was far above and over the object they intended to seize, and then they would sweep down on it dir- ect, like a bird of prey." — Mexican Herald. IRETTING CHILDREN. ••••••••••••••••• When et, eleld frets and °rice al.. most conehmonely the root of the trouble in nine easel out di ten lies• with elle etanattch or bowels. Fermen- *Aloe and decomposition of the fOOLI means no4tc, bloating and diarrhoea the latter is elpecially 'dangerous and o.ten fatal during the hot wens - thee months,. Beletee Own Tablets are just what ovory insether need/ to keep . her little ones healthy'. These Tate lots wetly, regnkete the bowele, cure, constipation, prevent diarrhoea,. cleanse and eool the slowed!, and promote sound natural sleep. Tito' Tablets can be given with sa,tetyl to. anew born babe. Arra. 3, Mick, Echo' Iles, Ont., dray -i: "I aldnle Baby's Own Ta,basta the beet medielne In ?world for the allittenee of little ones. No mother ehould be without them." ;ASA by ail drug:Moto or sent lby mail at 25 eitneas a boa bp writing ler. Mediate Om, Brockvi 11 te Ont. A BOSSUBT ANIAIVERSAIrt Pranet will celebrate the 200€11. Mid versary of the death of Ilossuet With 'elaborate flourish. Two (dailies of great panegyrist will be 'eroded At Mimi 111341 Theaux the auntie will be 'espeeially latticed. Wilson's Ply Pads will your ht et flies.