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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1911-08-17, Page 3Aust iTth. 19II• Ctiaton. Non.Record 3 , THE UN ENP TIIE IARTINLI U[ow: the 1eelpreoity Connpnct Would Break Down the British Pretereaee•. Por the past thirteen years. Canadian trade has been carried on on the basis: of Preferential duties in favour of Great Britain, In 1898 a preference Or , reduction of duties to the extent of 25 per cent. was extended by Canada to the I,Mnited Kingdom, and in the year 1900 this preference was increased them 85 to. 333 per cent. The e;tisting Canadian tariff, (that of 1907) while it does not every where grant r# pfeferential duty of exactly 33 1-3 per cent.. lige a schedule er duties. which. vary from article to article, but in which the general principle of the reduction of duty by one third, in favour of Great Britain, has been observed. This sytem since its first establishment has met with universal approval, It was supposed to carry with it the assertion that henceforth the Dominion Of Canada proposed to. Quite itself in special trade relations with the British Ties, and to cut itself free from any entangling alliances, in the commercial sense, with countrtes outside of the British Empire. Preference in fact, was looked upon as the negation of reciprocity. The system, met With a general approval, for the reason that Its economic basis was perfectly sound. It was feltoa all sides that the time was still • far distant when the. Dominion and .Great Britain could be on terms of absolute free trade with one another Canada could not afford to dispense with its manufacturing and industrial system, which had been built up with somuch pains and effort, and the effect.of which is seen in the growing weatlh-of our cities, and in the general prosperity of our country. In as. much as the costs of manufacture. owing to low wages, are very much less in Great Britain than they are in Canada, it was felt to be unfair to ask the Canadian manu- facturer to stand in competition, on even terms, with the British. producer •whose business could be carried on at a very much lower cost. The safe- guarding of home industries therefore, and the creation of what could properly be called a national system was recognized as the cardinal principle of Canadian trade policy. At the same time it is necessary and desirable that Canada should obtain from outside a great number of things which either cannot be supplied at all "by Re hoiue production, or cannot be supplied in sufficient quantities to satisfy the entire demand. Therefore, since Canada is obliged to buy from our fellow citizens of the other parts of the British Empire. Every well made bargain brings a double benefit, There is a profit for the buyer, and a profit for the seller. If both halfs of the bargain are made' within the British Empire, then the whole profit of the bargain stays within the Elnpire, hence the establishment of preferential duties represents properly speaking, the of Canadians to encourage e their own manufacture as necessary to establish and keep among us the great essential 'industries which every well equipped nation must have, and for its purchases tram outside, to encourage the citizens of Canada to dea;1 with the British Empire rather than with the forigner. If this policy is not sound, then the sooner it is done away with the better. The reciprocity.compact would certainly have thiseffect, and if the .preferential system e e ys tem under which we have now been trading for thirteen years has been a national error; reciphocity may be welcomed as a first step in another direction. But if onthe other hand, the Preferential System rests upon a sound, national, and imperial basis, then, the Reciprocity Compact can only be regarded as a dangerous interferencewith one of the main supports of our present imperial system' - . There can be but little doubt as to the facts of the question. In the first place, the reciprocity compact admits practically the whole range of •natural products of duty,. both from the United States and Great Britain, into the Canadian market. Until now a duty had to be paid on imports ofthis class from Great Britain, but a still higher duty was paid on imports coming from t:he•United States. Hence although the British exporter can now send in goods of this class free of .duty, he no longer finds himself in a favoured position as compared with his American rival. it. is an open business question whether it is not better to be compelled to pay •a duty and to have one's rival pay a• still higher one, then to finch oneself placed on a footing of, absolute equality - It is true that the bulk of natural products imported into Canada come from the United States but it is an error to suppose•bat• there is no such import to .our market from Great Britain. The statistics given by the•Canadiani..govern- me at showr an import of natural "products -from the United States included under the first schedule of the reciprocity compact for the year 1910 of the value of $32,913,823. But the imports of this class from the. United Kingdom. for the same year amounted to $6,394,638; Moreover there is another, part of the Reciprocity Compact which lowers duties in favour of the United'States and the twelve favored. nations without ,entirely removing them. In this case the British duty stays exactly where it is, or if the proposed tr- 'reciprocal rate is lower, it is brought down to. that, level. In, these cases therefore the preferential adyantage is either considerably lessened or eyen .disappears altogether. The following table will show at a glance the way in which the preference suffers by the lowering of .duties in favour of the United States, quite apart from the cases where both the American and/ :ritish products are put upon the free list. . Value of Imports from Present General, Proposed Great United Preference e•-' Articles Preference Rate. Rate ,Barley, pot and . pearled . . . 20 p.c. 30 p.c. • 1/2; cts Pease 10 " '15. " 1/ Paving blocks ' 221/2 " 171/2 " .Antiseptics . . 20 171/ " hath Tubs, &c. . 35 " 321/2 - Vegetables . . "' 30 h 25 Sweet Biscuits • . " 271/2 . " . 25 Biscuits - unsweetened 15 Biscuits & ' Confectionery 221/2 I•'ortland Cement' 8 Coal 35 Canned fruits . 11/ Plate glass . . 15 -Motor vehicles 16 Clocks and watches 20 33 "hhartlery 20 30 Musical instru- irents, cases, pocket books . 221/2 " 35 " Brass band • instruments 15'y'y p.c. Feathers . . . 10. " Pickles, &c. . . 25 " Lard and Compounds 11/2 cts Meats fresh and salted . 11,4 " 'Meats, canned and extracts 171/2 " 271/2 p.c. 121/2 ,.. 121;2 " 20 " 15 1712 • 25 20 dt 35 " 321/ 121/ " 11 63 " 45 2% h: 2. 271/2 p.c- '25 • 25 '221 "". ,4' u Britain States Reduction • 15,772 1,399 9,615: .35,406 65,057 . 73,706 40,060. 69,785 31,611. .198,567 93,385 . 863,715 96,029 7,905 10 p.c. 5 21/2 "t 21/, "• 6 ",.. 21/2 " 18,912. - • 18,686 5 " 426,505. 130,623. •21/2 " " 99,291 48,977 1 ' c. " 91,212 1,144,129 8 cts cts 36,002 55,012 14 " p.c. 144,604 2,615 .21f p:c. , " 106,126 1,569,227 22 " 27/ „ 271, • " 43,376 310,063 , 21, ," 223,854 32,403 ' 21k " 321.. " 118,398 349,330 21/2 over 25 " 221/2 " 11,000 15,134 •- 21/2. 15 121/2 :' 43,431 41,723 ;21;:". 35 ae ,e " 392,039 .80,818 21 2 cta 114cts 26,468 .1,410,806 .1, et. 2 " 111, ' • 1/ Ott 69,933 2,113,746 20 eta .. 10 p.c. ", (,,1 I1')'I: N, O3'' CA N"\ DA. Tingara Alone Can Supply the T ole of Canada with Fruit. There are in' the Niagara Peninsula about 350 squaremiles of land cn watch fruit can be well grown, not collating such districts as Ancaiter• and Dundas. Between Toronto and Hamitten there is another 100 square intim; in all at least 258,000 acres. . • Not alt of this is peach land, not even probably .20 per cent. or it. But ery little of it is of no use for any fruit. Much can be made fine peach 1anr1 by drainage, or good apple, plum 0 r grape land; some is 'only' .good for berries, but all, of it is in a geed fruit climate. Tlte•unpianted land is whitest; t ., orquadruple „ oc:oubeitiv slur ry i 1 eilei t"r the t c market demands " e ands more t. It may be assumed that the vaiue of this land for general ,farming is not over $100 per acre, and that for fruit purposes it. Is worthi.$500 Per tore; although much of the fiearh land is wort!; $1,000 per acre; andthat w i.r re is has to be drained, draining will average about $20 per acre. It tan further be stated that, peach land at $1,000 per acre -is known to ray a good return on the investment in the hands.of practical growers. ' If we take the very low estimate of 1,000 00 acres planted at 8500 per acre we have a value of $50,000,000 for the orchard and berry lands. Now as OUT' home market grows, and in our home mar]ret• we have no cen'rotiticn, every acre of this 288,000 has pOtcntially the seine value, and fully half is unpainted. There are in Canada about 8,000,000 people, the 'United States e!stra 133,000.000. 'However that maty be, our present soft fruit acreage is fully e"1 :ai n It i in Canada. is sat 'a12,000 t supplying etc saythere r(+Overn r� b o pp Y l e Is not - , c c. f peaches to Eastern Canada. If this supplies 8,000,•000 people it would tete 150,000 acres to supply 93,000,000 people, but there are 180,000 •acme of peaches in Georgia atone. The Nears -Record to any address in Canada for the remainder of 1911 for 25 omits. . British Tariff commission Gives lis Opinion of Reciprocity, .An important document has just been issued by the British Tariff • Commission dealing with the problems Of the Imperial Conference and in particular with the present Trade po- licy of the various parte of the British Empire. The eommissioners evident- ly share the opinion of the American president to the effect, that Canada is now at the "parting of the ways!" They express the conviction that the reciprocity agreement, if it should be carried, would very seriously Impair the commercial integrity of the British Empire and prejudice itsfuture con- solidation. But the following passage in which the commissioners sum- maries the situation rtiaY be quoted: "The reciprocity aareoment` for the first time in history, would establish n discrimination in a foreign country in favour of one State of the Empire against the United Kingdom and the rest of the Empire. Such discrimi- nation hasalways been, declared to be incompatible with Imperial unity. In view of the Reciprociy. Agree- ment with the United States. ft is clear that, unless the United Kingdom takes action on the lines of Colonial policy, Canada will be compelled to eclapt herself to American Continental rather than the British Imperial ands. This would make inevitable the ac- ceptance of the American rather than. the British interpretation of moat- favoured -nation -treatment, and compel her ,withdrawal from the imperial systm of commercial treaties under which she must exteact to a large number of foreign ,eosa.trios the con- cessions granted to the United States. On the other hand, under a system of Imperial co-operation in trate, Canada would be able to maintain the national and imperial policy which . she has pursued for thirty years, and which has brought her unexampled prosper- ity. This co-operation would lead to a Osten) of joint negotia- tion with foreign countries in which Canada and other Dominions would ' greatly increase their bargaining power, and as full partners in the Im- perial treaty system raise their status among the nations .of the world. But a system of joint negotiation requires theadaption of a tariff and prefer- ence by the Mother Country." Sll[[P AND S%VI.NE. Canadian and American Prices • Compared. •Prices of sheep are rnuch lowerin the United States than in Canada, duo to„th fact that. Ontario speciaalicr s on pedigreed .flocks, asappears tater on. In the United States 'they range from $2:90 ;per head in 'Texas to $5.30 in Illinois and Iowa, while in, Canada the range is from $4 in Nova Scotia to $7 in Ontario, Manitoba, and .Sas- ka.teltewan. Prices of swine are slightly bigher in Canada than in the UniteStates. In the eastern border States, Maine, New. .klampshire, Vermont, and New ,fork,. they range from $10. to $11.50 a heart; and in the 'central border States ' the range. is about the same. ll the western border States the range or prices is from ,$10.40 to $11.10. In. the great agricultural' States of In- diana; " Illinois,* and Iowa, prices. of swine, vary little from those already quoted.' In eastern .Canada the range of swine prices is froizi :$10 to $13 and in western' . Canada; from 412 to $13. The highest American price is $11,80 a bead in Wisconsin, as against the highest Canadian price of $13 a head, Which : is quoted for Quebec, Manitoba, ah,c1 Saskatchewan. , . • The. federal .government of -Canada lies expended $427;000,Q00 on railways and canals to, develop trade• in our, own country,, The .provincial, govern- • ments have expended $36,000,000.•tnore,. and the •municipalities $18,000,00'O more. 'Furthermore, the federal and provincial governments have •guaran- .teed bonds for railway' construction in Canada :ainounting • to.. $129,000,000 "lucre. Tn 1910 Great Britain . took of our rinirels and their products. $42,000,000 out of $54,000,000 which were ex- ported '.equal to .77 per cent: Of oor a ricul'tiirai products she took 871,- 900.000 .out of $91,000,000, equal to nearly 80- per cent. In the same year the .United States took of, the first 21) per cent, and of :the , cecond 9 per cent. . I)1N(alill • Press; ent` Taft's policy must re- ceive an impetus, and.nuincrnns othe • offers will be made to 'Meade tend the other Domiolons by foreign coun- tries, The Crown will become a party to en eXtensive and-eomplicated net- work.of commercial,treaties inimical •n British unity, reducing the pre- ference enjoyed by British producers in their most promising markets, e "n:r:)y, the -Dominions; and setting of the lfing's Dominions Could not up an extensiveseries of discrimi- nations by foreign countries in favour f dilfcsent States of the Empire and against,the United Kingdom. The malty long survivesncif disruptive condi lions. (Report of the British Tariff Commission 1011.) Breathes there a man with soul sa devil, Who Amer to himself bath said: "Oh, but I'm sick of baker's bread?" hfauy tummer resorts Should be last rezone Cor it man seeking a rust, At a dinner given by Duke Henry err iirunswick in 1541 he was seen to every new and then consult a long Slip of paper, which reposed at the side of his plate, One of the duke's guests asked what the paper was for. He explained that it was a sort of a programme or catalogue of the dished he had commended from the cook. "To the ifitent. that if some deiicticy Which especially appealed to his ate petite were marked for a later stage In the repast, he might carefully rem serve his appetite for R." 'i'he shit,. Welty and utility of the idea at once took the fancy of the duke and the lnenu card front that moment became an tnetitution. The flew fashion wag ao mueh admired It travelled far and near, and was adopted in 'Snglattd and Omuta at alar... 131rINGING SACCIIAR. RISSA TO REASON. By 'nary ,llatliewsou. "What On earth does the .girl want,. do you suppose?" grumbled Sacchar- rissa's father. "Londale's a decent chap as you'll find in a day's march, straight, and well groomed, an' -an' all that, with a good income of his own, too, What does she expect?" lie glared indignantly at Sacchar- rissa's mother. "She says she: doesn't love him," said that lady placidly. "Love! Boshi ,Childish nonsense! Well, of course, I don't mean that ex- actly"' = he had the grace to blush a little as he caught sight of his wife's. face. Then he laughed rather con- soloualy, as he,bent forward and pat- ted her hand, a hand as pretty and as white as Saccharrissa's own, "I was, six months younger when you persuaded me to marry you. - without bridesmaids or anything," began his wife, and I cnuckled to my- self, for their runaway marriage had been the romance of the neighbor- hood nth • my early boyhood, and the glamor of it seemed to cling to them even yet. "No." he' asked in evident surprise, "were you really?" "Do you Mean," I struck in incre- dulously, "that you were six' months younger than Saccharrissa is now when you ran away?" "Shut up, Jim," said Sinnett,' eyeing his wife's blushes with tender amuse- ment.- "You don't understand. She had an old termagant of a father who wanted her to marry-" "A very decent fellow with an in- come of his own, too," interrupted Mrs. Sinnett, with dignity, • "Quite so, only you preferred .me." "But six months younger. than Sas- charrissa?" I interrupted their re- miniscences e inis ences ruthlessly. m e t y. And they disappeared by one door as Saccharissa entered by another. She stopped when she saw me, with a • blush, Then she came forward with a saucy smile. . "Where's , my marble -hearted par- ent gone?" she demanded, with a gig- gle. "Don't t be ridiculous, Saccharris- sa," ccharris-sa," I answered sternly. "You know very well that your father only de- sires that you be happy, and -and all that, Marble -hearted, indeed. He's much too soft, I think-" "Oh, oh!" in a would-be shocked voice. "I'll tell him you said so. •To his own daughter, too. I'm surprised at you, Jim." "Go on," she said. "Get it over. They've told you to give me a. talking to, I know." "Saccharrissa," . I said impressive- ty, "I want to bring you to reason: But •I can't," I went oa desperately, ?'while .you sit loolcing at me like .that," "Then I'll. get down," she respond ed'amiably enough, as she did off the. table b e a nd stood a little. Awa off ip fa ring me: "blow, what, is it you want to `say?", "What's - what's the matter, with :,ondale?" I- blurted out as-:aw.kward- ly as any schoolboy, "that ' you can't--" "Mr. Londale? Nothing that I .know of, He was as right as a ninepiece. when he left 'mejust now," with the air of innocent surprise. "What should be the ?natter with him?" "You know very well what I mean," I stammered miserably. "Why won't you -your father has. 'asked me don't you think-" "I think," said Sa.ccharrissa with most disconcerting dignity, "that my friendship with Mr. Londale is no business of. yours, Mr:. Fenton." " "I knew • i" should put :my .foot into it," I. groaned dismally.. "Only here, girlie,` I have known you • since you were a baby almost,. and -and L'm sure you'll believe that I am anx- ious for you to be happy andprosper- ous as if I were a relation -your un- cle, say---" • "Why not say grandfather?" inter- rupted Saccharissa. ."You are . quite twelve years older than I . am, I am sure." ' "Never mind that. It isn't a mat- ter of years: I've had' centuries more 'experience, and you can'talte it -from me that exceptionally good fellows. like Londale are scarce.: He's riche• you' know, and -and your father and mother-" Oh, why had I been suck a fool as to undertake such a job of this kind? I't was getting dusk; but I could see that her face had gone quite 'white. "I had a letter from a man yester- day telling me what a good turn Lon - dale had done him. I'll show it to you, shall I? 'It's a regular testimon- ial in its way. , I look it out of my pocket -book and turned over the contents hastily. My hands were 'shaking absurdly, and be- fore I knew it the book had slipped to the floor and the contents were scat- tered in all directions; There was a folded packer in that book: that I.. valued more than any- thing else in the world. "Have you got them all'?" she ask- ed presently, in tones of icy polite- ness. "I 'ni afraid not,". I answered, turn- ing the papers this way and that on the floor. "There was a little folded packet -of no value to anyone but the owner." I laughed nervously; "It scents to have disappeared. Can you sec it? You know what a short- sighted hat I am." "I do," she said, meaningly. Then she stooped and picked up something that was lying near her feet. It had fallen open, I could see. She bent and looked at it, and there fell a silence that seemed to me to last for hundred years... At last Saccharrissa turned, and said with sobbing intake of breath: "Why -why don't you speak for yourself, Tim?" After a minute's hard battlingwitb myhungrily, coflscietce, I held out my arms You deserve 10 be shaken instead of kisser!," she said. But the words were snuffled from tae fact that I was holding the dear head so close to my heart, I suppose. ry "PLondaleretendin,g youindeedw."anted .me to mar- ' "I didn't: I didn't. I should have drowned myself if you had. But bow could 1 dream you'd care for 'me? I'm s0 much older and I haven't 111111 his money." I answered in the deli- cious delirium that conies only once in a lifetime, "Toll me, darling',." 1 said"presently, "how slid you guess Sc quickly from that?" Pm' "that" was just a plain piaci of' paper, containing the words. "Burnley Woods, June 18th," and tiny pleee of heatherbloom ,;withered "13ecause"-"beau a --well. look e this." There .ti" .. x t'w.'a tut c.lt n : Chain' around fief neck, an a *liken bag was brought to view, warm and fragrant. She opened it and showed me 8 folded piece of paper. 'Burnley Woods, June 18th. Ile loves me,'' were the words it contained, and a tiny sprig of withered heather. Of course, we had exchanged the little tokens, I knew; but it had been done laughingly and carelessly on her part, "for luck," ai d I had deem- ed it lost long .ago: "Well, l)`enton, what luck have you had?' said Sccharrissa's marble- d parent from behind us. "A million times better than I •ex• i.ect.ed," I answered. But I'm afraid you won't think I've brought her t,, reason, air, I've only-" "Brought her to happiness," ate awered Saceharrissa, "And that's the best thing in the world," said her mother, folding het. in her arms; and looking at me will shining eyes over her daughter' head, POOR MEN'S LIVES, (By H, W, Darden,) "He was very kind to me once, the old judge," said the guard. "He. Jumped into my van one afternoon Just as the train was moving out. He says to me,, 'Dull weather, guard.' 'Dull times all. round, sir,' I says. My little girl was lying dead in the house at the time, and I was rather fed up with one thing and another.. "I don't know haw it come about, but it finished up with my telling him all about it. Believe it or not" -- in the sweep of his eye the guard in- cluded me --"that man spoke to me as kind as if he had known me all my life.. I had never seen him but once before, , and then he was in his eig and gown in court. "One thing I remember. •`AhI' he says, when I told him about my lit- tle girl -she was only four -`You've got others,' he says. I had only one, and she's gone.' When I see the news in the paper this morning I says to my wife, 'Mother,' I says, 'a friend of ours is dead.' " The guard .raised Itis chin and showed a. black •'tie: "That's why . I'm wearing a bit of black," he explained. "It was his losing his own girl, Bili that made himmdc•r a t stndin . €' glow .you was feeling," said the driv- er "I had a lad of tiny own once---" The driver stopped short. "There isn't any doubt about it,", went on the guard, after a thoughtful glance at the last speaker; "children do kind o' soften a man; ' do him good all round, 41i a' manner of speaking•."• "They're like a good many other things," raid• the •driver, "they're all right when they are. all right. Take George, my fireman; he's 'ad five. The eldest boy is doing well -tants of coming home for a holiday in the Army -reckons he'll be ' Sergeant be- fore the year's out. The eldest girl's at the dressmaking. •None of 'em have ever given him any particular trouble that I. know of. But it ain't always like that. Look at poor old Mark : Bone, .the night watchman." "Ay, • that's a case --you're right," interjected the guard. "Has'. he heard anything about' his dapghter?" "I don't ,suppose' he . have;" the driver replied, "though , I haven't. mentioned it lately. The last. time I ,asked him he says to me, 'George,, don't • speak about it. We don't `even speak about it at. home. - We can't he says;" ' "What's iiia boy doing now? spoke the tapper for the first time. "The oneas lost his leg on the line?" (The tapper nodded gravely.) "Last time I see him .he was helping old Ogilvy on his coal•ro» nd: Ile was a bright lad, that. • Mark's ,a changed. man." . "Ah, he's been through :it, Mark has," said . the tapper. He turned his glance . once more to the' floor: "It's mostly always the same," he went on; "The man as has children has' Iron - hie 'with 'em, and . the : man without ''em makes trouble because •he ain't got 'em." "I. caught his eye. "Any yourself, Tapper?" I asked. "Not me," he replied; and turned away. Childhood evidently had no particular appeal for the tapper. The 'train was already in the long tunnel beyond Meltham. The full churn of Milk rattled and banged, and the damp underground air rushed in' pnpleasantly through theperforated sides of the van. Then, with a long • shriek, the engine emerged and slow. ed down as it neared the villago. The guard pulled a handful of waybills from his pocket and began to check the labels on the great cans: Thp driver, who lives in the, village, was preparing to get down. .The 'tapper. turned to me, end dropped his voice. "I .don't know as I might not have • °been' married," he said gruffly. "Ther was a young woman. . . .We'd :ort of made up our •Minds, .really." "But you changed there again, Tap- per?" I said. • • "Welt; not exactly that," he re- plied. . • He pulled himself upright from the wailof the van, and drew his should- ers together uneasily. Then, ;with •Las face hard set and looking stolid- ly tolid-ly, before bit, he added, in a ' voice that was made to seem dasual: "The young woman I was speaking 'about cited:" He sighed at the end, and, as we Slowed down into the junction,.. took up his greasy leather.-.bag.."Per- haps, after all, T am better as I am," he said. - Utilizing Waste as keel. The greatest work which has been carried on by the British in Egypt, since their occupation of that country has been the construction of darns along the Nile for the purpose of pro- viding water. for irrigating. the Nile Valley. .As a result of this work vast areas, previously 'waste, have been brought under -cultivation and the out- put of the country vastly inereased. Another.enterprise, of little less im - Ycstance is now under way.- This i$ for the purpose of utilizing sudd, a thick tangle of wa'.,)r plants in the Nile bed. This growth has for goner- atians seriously interfered with the navigation of the Nile. It has recently been discovered that it can be :altitized a:4 a fuel. The new fuel is known as sttddite. The New Boarder 'Again, 'Tor ten eyars, " said the new board- er at a Montreal boarding-house, "my halite were as regular as clockwork. I rose bat the stroke of six; half an hour later T sat dowa to breakfast; at seven I was at work, dined at twelve, ate supper at six, and was its bed at nine -thirty; ate only hearty food, and hadn't a stele day in all that time." "Dear enol" maid th edeacon in sym- pethetie tones, "and what Were you lit for?" Ait awfull,, silence ensued. JFBI'ClIE'X.8 PrBLWC Otte ('ave«like Vaults Re'nulea 1 loth B .incl Lerel. There aro public bakeries in .ler usaletn. The dough is kneaded at home and :carried in great ]umpa tc the public ovens. 'These ate to be found in almost every street. The,' are eavc-like vaults, running down below the street level. At the bac* of each vault is the oven. with a :sort of well before its nnetu door. In the well stands the baker, with a long " paddle in his hand, noon *bleb he puts in and takes out the loaves. The oven floor is marked out In blocks, so that the baking of each family is put on a separate block. The loaves, which are about an inch thick,. are of the size of a tea plate and have a, hole in the centre, The baker makes them from the dough, bakes them, and returns them hot from the oven to the customer. He receives two cents for each half dozen loaves, or he may instead take a toll of one loaf for each dozen. Before atarti ug the baking be greases the floor of the. oven with olive oil. • Without Nihilism in Russia Siberia w c uld be unnecessary. The very faults which Nihilism seeks to remedy ,are kept alive by its existence. If it wore eradicated Russia Would take its place among the Liberal nations of the world, An expert states that all one needs do to put out.a.gasoline or kerosene fixe is to put foam on it, He, docs not say so, but we presume Jho gen- tlencan meansto imply that it is always well to have a mad dog around the house to supply the foam, We Told Yost', Sot baba is Lager Now Perfected' The best o>ni the. •mar et! eZ;At74(9-614,,,7 LI.T�N'S ThA OVER 2 MILLION PACKAGES SOLD WEEKLY phis furnace means that I can.: sell when 1 want to and realize on m`J investment • The successful real estate manes knows through experience that the SOU: VEN I � FURNACE R (New Idea Series) is the best on the market. No scrap or cheap pig iron ever gets into it -that is the basic reason for the long life of the Souvenir Furnace. Add to this .skilled` workmanship, under. the supervision of experienced .h e at i n g 'engineers, and you can readily account ,.for -the superior qualities_ of the Souvenir Furnace. Ask your dealer to: shore you inside reasons - to explain..firepot, grate and heat diffusion, and you'll buy. -the Souvenir. Get our new booklet. The Souvenir Furnace is made in Hamilton, the stove centre of 'Canada, by The Hamilton Stove & Heater Co. • 11 ' Succes.ors to Gurney -Tilden Co. Limited Every buyer of; a Souvenir Furnace is presented with a legal bond. on. date of Purchase, guaranteeing fire - pot against cracks or breaks of any kind for 5 years, Start �%l thh " L a dollar Surely you can spare a dollar or two: from your pay envelope this week.: Open a savings account and get 3% interests payable half -yearly. } ee u the savinghabit,and you will soonhave loo or ore, when du can bu • our debentures and get 4% on y g your money. Issued for $loo and upwards. Terms one to five years. Do this with a safe and well-known.,' company -7. -with the only loan com- pany in Canada having a reserve Hind equal to its paid-up capital. Incorporated 1864. ?C'de .Coal ane Savings Co. \ London and St. Thomas. Over 13 Million in Assets 80 The News.Reeor"d leads for town and township news.