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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-8-21, Page 4THE exacr SANDETta & DYER Prop, T$URSDAY, AUGUST ist, 1895 declined all 1 to $0I ler eent jt u recti wayt�yelo'S�beci16uee i i.Va•1111 `rer cent,T( tir4Q-iv A I� 4 �" of the unprofitable eharaeter of the oo- PROTECTION— 4X1) FARMERS. in his speech on the budget, Sir Richard Cartwright remarked rightly enough that the prosperity of Cauada, whieh is chiefly an agricultural country depends largely on the prices of food products, meats and cereals, and he added that " these will be regulated by competition over which we have no control." The view thus expressed is in accord with the principles of the free trade school, and is totally dissented from by the advocates of protection. The competition in neutral markets, it is true, cannot be affected by any Iegislation of Canada, but it is quite another matter with respect ct to the home market. The Government of the Do minion has undertaken to regulate competition in the home market and to promote the prosperity of Canadian farmers by excluding foreign food stuffs by means of high duties, and it has succeeded to a large degree in. accomplishing this purpose. Before 18?9, American wheat, American hour, American oats, pork and beef were argely imported for consumption in this country to the displacement of. native products, whereas in recent years the importation of these articles, has been comparatively light, More- overtit is a fair proposition to state that the prices of Canadian farm stuffs and provisions are frequently advanced to the extent of the duty. Were it other- wise, the foreign commodities would not be brought in. Take =illustration of the ability of a Government to regu late the prices of food stuffs. Wheat is selling to -day in Detroit and Buffalo at 78 cents a bushel, while in Ontario it commands 93 cents a bushel. What causes the higher prices obtained by the Canadian farmer? Clearly the duty of 15 cents a bushel imposed by the tariff, But for the protection thus given Ontario farmers, wheat could be im- ported into this province from American grain centres at a cost not exceeding 79 cents a bushel, and the effect would inevitably be to lower the price of the Ontario grain to the level of the foreign article. This is not a theory, but a fact of which every farmer in Ontario is a ware, and the object lesson of the ad- vantages of the National Policy which the current price of wheat affords is mora eloquent than all the rhethoric of public men on the subject. It is not denied that in certain circumstances a protective duty becomes of no effect, as for example, when there is a large surplus of the home-grown product and when the price is, therefore, regu- lated by the foreign market. At a time like that the operation of the duty is suspended, but assuredly that is not a good reason for abandoning the pro tection altogether. If in only one year out of five the duty operates as a pro- tection to the Canadian farmer and el- evates the price he receives for his pro- ducts, its existance will be sufficient- ly vindicated. The British farmer is a striking test- imony to the influence of tariffs upcn the prosperity of the people. When Mr. Cobden carried on the agitation for the abolition of the corn duties, he had no conception that the consequen• ces of his policy would be the blight and absolute ruin of British agricul- ture. He believed that the English farmer would always be protected by the cost of freight, which he estimated at 10 shillings per quarter. During the past winter the price of wheat in the British markets has been as low as 20 shillings per quarter, and the cost of freight from America has been be- low a shilling a quarter. Free trade in Britain has, in the words of a resol- ution presented in the House of Com- mons last February and defeated by only twelve votes, caused that body to view with apprehension the distressed condition of the agricultural interest, the prolonged depression in textile and other industries, and the consequent increase in the number of the unem- ployed; The evidence taken by the Royal Commission on agriculture in England leaves no room for doubt as to the desperate straits to which that once flourishing interest has been rr dueed by unchecked foreign compete- ion. Since 1874 the area devoted to the cultivation of wheat in Great Britain has been reduced from 8,682,- 800 acres, e whilethe 2 t 2 ac to19 7,G , 300 acres, area of land that has gone into perma- nent pasture has increased from 13,- 178,412 acres to 16,465,069 aeres, Sir Richard Cartwright attributes the de- cline in the value of Ontario farm lands to the protective policy of Can- ada. To what will he attribute the fall in the value of English farm lands? time Miss Williams disappeared. This in- ROnts throughout rural England have ed at a point like Stratford." timate fricncl of Mrs, Helrilee believes caption of farming, made so by the stress of forei.gu competition. If the Goverement eau iuterveun is the case of British agriculture and by the int, position of duties promote the prosper- ity of that great interest, the principle that the state cannot influence prices falls to the ground. NOTES 4 i\ri) COMMENTS. An Illinois man will lay claim to the land upon which the fatty of Loudon is buds. Ile says that the land was own- ed by his grandfather, who leased it in 1798 for a period of 99 years. The lease expires in 1897, and he does not anticipate any trouble in securing the land, Warrants Sworn Out Against Him— Extradition Will Be Asked, HIS NOUS£. OF WONDERS. Iiol,nos Had, ntaily Curious Contrivances in 'IIis. Clricugo ;x►oluieile, But Ile %Yas Not Clever ) uOiiyh to gar. Detection--1iis'wife in Wilmette. Chloago, July `39:—The detectives found inrush to baffle thein on the second and third, floors of the house occupied b' Holmes at Mists -third and Wallace streets. The wildest romance Poe ever wrote, the mysteries of Heade, the imagination of Verne furnish no parallel for the plan by which Holmes constructed on these floors a house within a house. Ostensibly in 1359 he came to this corner to build a largo fiat and store building. . Four years the workmen toiled ou it, and then it Was not completed. Each new financial diffi- culty of Holmes' bred in him some new device by which within the building he Bows �•true. of his crimes. aQ hide all might 1 tel int mysterious in all that he did. A winding stairway led to his awe apartments on the third floor, teeing Sixty-third street. Electrical apparatus cannoctoil with these stairs, and told him of the approach of any one. In his office swung the door of an ap- parently large vault, This door is one of the Diebold. safe pattern, with combina- tion look. Inside of this door were two others of iron, always tightly closed. Hero, Holmes ezplained,he kept his valu- able papers. But a pulll at the inner doors told a different story. As they opened there was seen to be behind them noth- ing but the wall of the adjacent room. The doors we o a blind for the unwary, who sat in that office and listened to the honeyed tales of the schemer. . Ho could step from his office, if he wished to be rid of an objeotionable visitor, and in an in- stant be hidden from all 'finding, unless walls were torn down. Hallways, narrow and dark,crass and recross at every point. Closets are innumerable,many with doors on two sides. If he went into his bath- room there was under his feet a trap door. Be had only to raise it and descend to an- other floor of the building and, thence to the street by one of half :dozen ways. Or there was above hint another door, and he could ascend. Ho could stand in the closets and overhear what might be said by the occupants of the rooms. If his wife came unexpectedly and it was expedi- ent to have out of the way Minnie Will- iams or Ina or whatever woman might be with him, he had but to shoe them into one of the closets with the tic -date doors. They could pass thence to another room, thence to a bathroom, down the secret stairs, through one of the side Balls, and out of doors. Relines used these secret and semi-sec- ret ways for himself as well. Robert Latimer, of 1516 Maple street, was in his employ when the building was construct- ed. He tells of the false mustaches, false beards, complete changes of clothing and hats, which Holmes always kept in his room. The remarkable speetaele was often presented of Dr. Jekyll -Holmes: entering his clrng store—Holmes as he was known to the people of Englewood., He would go up the stairs to his•offiee, enters and close ` the doors Behind him. Twenty,_ niinut 8s later Latimer, at his, duties ia,,the hall, would see the door of the:oflice open and Dr. Hyde -Holmes come out—bat he did not know then that it was Holmes. He looked upon the person as a stranger. To all appearances he was aprosperoilsplant- er from Mississippi. Latimer did not rec- ognize o n the' o nine him until he was slapped g shoulder.. The false mustache was pull- ed off, the beard removed, and befoFe him stood Holmes, who said: " You must not tell anyone I have these things, But this is the way I look and dress when I go to Toronto, When I come back here and take these things off anyone from Toronto would not recognize me. I do it just for fun." With all his love of mystery, his delight in sliding wall panels, of which there are the remnants of three in his building, Holmes was incautious He made con- fidences—fragmentary ones—on all sides. He made Latimer his confidant as to his free use of disguises and his intent of de- ceiving people with these lightning changes. He told a careless woman that he would kill a jeweller, C. E. Davis, and thus warned Davis through Joe Owent in time. He maintained to his wife, the Miss Duncan, of Minneapolis, .whom he had married, that be led a life of absolute purity, yet just across the hall from his office was the sleeping room of Minnie Williams,. the simple Texas girl,whom he either murdered orhad murdered with her sister. In this room there is a window from which Minnie Williams could look out to the Western Indiana depot, from which eventually the trunk was brought by Holmes, Pitezel and Owens, in which, it is supposed the bodies of herself and her sister were conveyed into the,bloek for burial or cremation, The long, narrow halls of the house and the many rooms with but one door and oneouter window' were all strung with electrical wires. The origin of these wires appeared to be in the laboratory which Holmes maintained. In this little den, the floor still acid -eaten, he dabbled with chemistry, the natural sciences, and such concoctions as ho thought might aid him in the commission of a aline. Here the fire which partially destroyed his building started. 4Che coal oil was plentifully sprinkled about the little room and the attic above it. The firemen found the oil all over the upper floors. North of this room straight up from the basement still run the pipes fromthe so- called artesian well. This was the well that spouted water for two years before the city authorities discovered that instead of having an artesian well on his premises Holmes bad secretly tapped the city mains and was receiving his supply from the lake. Another Strong Witness. Indianapolis, July 29,—Mrs. Holmes, one of the wives of the accused murderer nd insurance Windier, left hero for Philladelphia yesterday at the instance of the prosecuting attorney of that city. Mrs. Holmes herself would not talk, but she her most intimate friend, to whaul h confided her purpose, diel talk last night, and says Mrs. Holmes has forsaken her husband.This person was told by Mrs. Holmes that the assertion of Holmes that ho was in Toronto, but was absent %vih en his ' wife when the Pitezel a children disap- peared, is not true; that wherever Holmes was at that time, he was not with his wife, Moreover, 'Mrs, Holmes sayss e' was with bor husband in Chicago at For a town, St. Marys did itself the most credit, in the way of a trades pro cession, of any thing we ever saw. 1t was a dandy." Only for the discord arising of the band eompetitiou the program would have been and "Stone bounded succes, As it is the Stone Town " is to be congratulated in its en- terprising business hien. *** If you start or repeat a bad story to anyone, you are doing a damage that no repentance or shame ou your part can undo. Whisper a slander to your best friend and though you stand on a hill next day and proclaim with a loud voice that the story is not true, you cannot call the bad story back. If you have no pity for those who do wrong, have a little self respect and don't gos- sip about them. In the majority of cases they are as innocent as you are, but some evil-minded person started a bad report that found believers. People who do wrong are punished enough even if there is no gossip about them. **:* The religious census of the United States, now published in book form, shows that the American churches have a total membership of 26,612,606, There are 165,177 organizations, either general or congregational. The con- gregatioual own 142,521 church edifices with a seating capacity for 43,564,863 persons, that is to say, for all the en- rolled members and 22,952,067 visitors. The value of church property is nearly $700,000,000, and there are 111,030 ministers regularly engaged, The most numerous denominations are:— Catholics, 6,250.000; Methodists, 4.600,- 000; Baptists, 4,725,000; Presbyterians, 1,180,332; Lutherans, 1,232,000; Pro testant Episcopal, 540,000 ** D. H. Persons, a farmer, of Red. MW, Arkansas, is the owner of a pig that completely lays all other freak porkers in the shade. It is perfectly devoid of hair, and has a double set of eyes, feet like human hands—even to the nails —one very large ear and a face that looks more like that of a regulation pig. Prom between the upper setsprojects. a proboscis like that of a young ele- phant. This probosic has two holes throng its entire length, and it is through its entire leugth, and it is through them that piggy gets his sup- ply of air, Mr. Persons values the freak at $1,000 and his neighbors say that he takes greater care of it than all fhe rest of the stock on the place. ** Since the famous Athenian philoso- pher, Diognes, started out with his lantern for an honest man, the world has kept up the search. For 2,225 years they have looked in vain. But the publishers of the Cnnailian Grocer claimed to have discovered one. A subscriber recently remitted $4 for two years subscription to that weekly, which sum was due on January 1st, 1894. Beside this, he omitted 18 cents as one and a -half years interest on the sum, He is a grocer living in Wool stock. Here is a deed worthy of being perpetuated in printers ink, and being held up to the world as an example worthy of emulation, He did simply what was just and honest, but there are many times when justice and hon- esty seems sublime, and this one them. So few persons consider that they are robbing a publisher of his just due when they hold brck their subscription that to find one who does in an event. *** Aar. W. H. Hutchins the popular representative for North Middlesex in the Dominion Parliament, who never loses an onortunity of looking after the interests of his constituents, has been giving special attention to dairy- ing interest. Speaking in committee of the whole of the efforts being made by the Government to develop the butter ` trade with Great Britain, he said:-" I notice that in this arrange- ment the Government included only creamery butter, although the dairy commissioner states that the quantity of dairy butter in Ontario is some 30,000,000 pounds whereas the amount of creamery butter produced is only 1,750,000 pounds. In Western Ontario there are very few creameries, con- sidering the amount of butter manu- factured, The farmers themselves manufacture the butter, and in many cases it just as good as the creamery butter, but they have no facilities for handling it, This cold storage is going to be of good benefit to the farmers where the trains will run, but I notice that the London Huron & Bruce branch and the branch from Sarnia to Strat ford have been included in the ar- rangement, istrictS include These rTlnse d g the largest dairyinn Section in Ontario and I think they should be included. I think also if the Government w uld establish cold storage at some pointin the west, say Stratford, and acctimu- lore car loads of butter there it would be a bettor arrangement than carry- ing it in small lots through, to iMontre al. I think it would also promote the quality of the butter to have iJ inspect - she will tell all site knows about her 1111$ bandana] lie a strong WitiIOSS in proseent- ing him. The Wife in Wilmette, Wilmette, 111,, July 27.--11 some to be the general belief of the people of Wil- mette that the wonl0u who has lived in their midst for the past five years as the wife of 1•I. EI. Holmes, and who is now in Pliiladolpilla, bus no guilty knowledge of his deeds of murder, but that leis swin- dling business operations were not un- known to hor,and muoil of the looney de- rived front them foupd its way into her hands. The relevations of his crimes have not shaken her dovotion to 111n1, and she does not show any feoliugs of shame or humiliation. She is daily seen on the streets. ' As is generally known, the woman in Wilmette i, the fourth ''wife" of Ii, H: Holmes. She was married to hien in Min- neapolis, by an Episcopal clergyman, 11 years ago. They have one child, a girl of SIX years. It is not doubted that she had no knowledge of his former life, Her father, John Bolkuap, has led a varied life of 31)isfortnno,-bub is considered hon- est in intention. Re was one of the sol- diers in Randall's division of Oaxoy's. army, and want "ou to Washington." About a year ago ho had a quarrel with Holmes in Wilmette, and was badly boat - en. He disappeared the next day, and nothing was heard of him for months; had been foully but the stories that he all dealt with were set at cost by his re-ap- pearance e-a • p- pearatnce in Wilmette. Re is now a ped- dler of various wares, making tours through Illinois, Indiana and'wisoollsln, returning home titter irregular intervals. He was last in Wilmette seven days ago. 1tot1i�es Latest Statement. Philadelphia,Pa.,July29—The Bulletin today prints the following :—"An entirely naw statement has jest been made by 13. ILL -Raines, the supposed multi -murderer. In it, the 3111113 of many crimes gives in detail his version ,of how Pitezol came by his death last September, and also states his(Holnles) eonnecticn with the tragedy. The statement was given to a close friend ut Holmes in Phi1adelphia,who gave it to the Bulletin representative to -day." Holmes says that on the Satiirday night preceding the death of Pitezol tbo latter wane to his house, on North 11th street, where he was staying with "Mrs. How- ard." Pitezel told Holmes a heartrending story of his pecuniary difficulties, and of the sickness of his daughter in St. Louis. "I must have money," he said, or words to that effect, "to send tomy wife in St. Louis''' Hollnes remonstrated with Pito- zel as to his spendthrift habits, and spoke substantially to him as follows:—"Ben, you have been a good friend of mine. I'll admit I have made lots of money through you; but I cannot keep this thing up. Where is that $50 I gave you the other clay? If you don't quit drinking you and I will have to separate." This conversation is said to have been carried on along 11th street, the men walking north until Morris street was reached. When they arrived at the corner Pitezel,,, exclaimed: --"I am of no benefit to anyone. I will soon get rid of my. diffi- culties. Life has become a nuisance to Ina." Holmes then avers that he jokingly re- marked to Pitezel :—", Well,your body is as good as any •other,but I wouldn't advise you to do anything rash." Holmes accounts for making this re- mark by saying that he and Pitozel had under consideration the defrauding of the Fidelity Mutual Insurance Company. 'Holmes says Pitezel then became angry, 1 T •, H. BISHOP Eiz SAN. S eafol t1. Wilbert Fulton, 1,a3 young boy who was working in Brnacifoot s planing -nail, had his left hand fright- fully jammed on Tuesday- ITe was working at the sander, when his hand got caught in the rollers. Seed Corn, Potatoes. AND LIME, White and Grey. Prices away down. First Storehouse at the G. T. R. Depot. JOSEPH CDOBt,EIiCK, Exeter aucl'again avowed than he -would commit suicide. Holmes then explains that, Pite- zel left him with the intention of going home. Holmes says he gave Pitezel no Money that night, but promised to meet him at the Callow Hill street house the following morning. It was about 10 o'clock the following day, Sunday, Holmes goes on to say, that he went to visit Pitezel at the Callow Hill street house. Wben he reached the place no one, apparently, was about. Holmes sat in the kitchen for almost twenty minutes waiting for Pitezel to tip. pear. The later, Holmes supposed, had gone out for breakfast. Time wore on, and "Ben" was not to bo seen. The conspirator then says that he became anxious about his friend's where- abouts, and began to search the house for him. "As I arose to go upstairs," says the criminal, "I noticed a note lying on the counter in the front part of the house. It was addressed to me. Then Holmes explains that he opened the note. It directed hila to go up to the second floor, and open a closet, in which he would find a large blue bottle contain- ing another letter addressed to him, Holmes followed the directions. Ho found the note in the bottle as described, and was horrified when he road it. It was from Benjamin Pitezel, and ad- vised Holmes that his (Pitezel's) dead body could be found in the house. The letter pleaded that Holmes look after Pitezol's children, and suggested that There would be no difficulty in getting the insurance money from the Fidelity Company now that the dead body of Pite- zel could be produced in evidence. Holmes then told his Friend of the ap- pearance of the corpse, and said that he sat in the room with the body for over an hour. Ile was dazed and hardly knew what course to pursue. He finally made up his mind that 813306 Pitezel had taken his life, there would be no harm in de- stroying any evidence of suicide, so that he 'might be able to get the insurance of Pitozel's life without any difficulty. Holmes has confessed that he thereupon dragged the dead bob' to the second floor, laid the corpse on the floor,pried open the mouth of the dead man with a pencil,and poured in a quantity of explosive chemi- cals, He then,he said, placed a lighted match to the man's mouth, when the explosion, which so horribly disfigured the corpse, followed. To give the more forcible im- pression that Pitezel camp to his death by an accidental explosion, Holmes stated to his friend that he got a pipe of Pitezof's, filled it with tobacco, lighted it, then blew out the Ilaine after the tobacco had been partly consumed, and placed the pipe beside the dead man's body, It was nearly 4 o'clock in the after- noon, Holmes ,states, before he left the Callow Hill street house. Ho put on a hat of Pitezel's to partially conceal his identity,' and placed his own hat, which was of felt, under his coat. The criminal went directly to the Broad street stats station, , so' he alleges, and inquired at what hour the first train left for Chicago. 1 Holmes says he does not distinctly' re- member at what hour the railroad ofg- oials told him a Chicago train would leave Philadelphia, but he believes it was between 9 and 9.30 o'clock at night. He then went to the house where he was staying and made proparatlone to leave the city. 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