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The Brussels Post, 1912-7-11, Page 2YAKIAG SAFE INVESTIENTS WHIT THE SAO MO IND RIO SHARE- HOLDERS WILL GET Details of the Generous Plum—Danger of Being Carried Away by Good Fortune of Others— How to Speculate if You are Bound to Take a Chance --Avoid Marginal Speculations and Buy Outright. The articles contributed by "Investor" aro for the sole purpose of gelding wo3. peotive investors. and, if poesible, of sof, Mg them from losing mousy through Oaalag it in "wiltleiat" enterpriees. The impartial and reliable eharaoter of the Information may be relied upon. The welter of the artleles and the publisher of tide paper have no interests M serve In oonnefition with thie matter other that those of the reader. (By "Investor.") The one topia of pensersation in the market during the past few weeks has been. "What will happen to Rio and Sao Paulo." Now that this question has been answered and the excitement incidental thereto somewhat lessened, investors and speculators are asking themselves and everybody they meet just what the new order of things will bring about. A. new company with a modest capital of 8120,000,000 has been formed to be known as the Brazilian Tramways Company, or some similar name. This company is to take over the shares of the Rio de Janeiro Tramway Light and Power Company, giv. ing in exchange its stock in the ratio of four shares of Brazilian preference sharee and four shares of common for each five Rio shame. The preferred shame will bear dividends at the rate of Mx per cent,. and the directors state that probably six per cent. will bo paid on the common stook. That will mean that Rio Aare. holders will come out witlt a nice substan• tial profit, For example, the new prefer. ence Moires should sell at around 103 or 104. The common shares should also sell around par, for although not so high cease a security as the preference, the common stock has a great chance to take advant- age of the future earninga of the company, whic0i cannot fail to be great. So the holder of ten shares of Rio will get stook worth at least 81,625 -that is eight ehares of preferred worth 103, or 9824, and eight shares of common worth 100, or 9800, In Point of dividends the present holder of ten shares gets 800 a year. In future he will get $95, anti of course more when the dividends are increased. In the case of Sao Paulo the sharsheld- ers. of course, get a larger proportionate slice of the new company. For each share of Sao Paulo a share and a half of the new preferred and an equal amount of common are to be given. Thus, the holder of ten shares of Sao Paulo will come out as follows, figuring ou the probable mar. km prices cited above: 15 Shares, preferred -91,545 15 Shares, common .... 1,500 03,045 Or an equivalent of 304 for his stook in the Present company, while hie dividends will be 9180 a year instead of 9100, as they are at present. That, in brief, is the situation, and there is no question of the very good fortune of the shareholders. Unfortunately, there is one great drawback. Many people who know little or nothing about local and general financial conditions will jump into the stock market In the vain huge of mak- ing a similar "killing." Ad it 90 per cent. of the cases they won't. Now, I have no quarrel with people who invest in stooks. Inveriting in shares may be done wisely, so as to make a tidy profit, and at the same time take no more than an ordinary business risk, but elms° who do inveet in this fashion invest. They do net speculate. No man who buys on mar - CM can bo said to 'tweet; he speculatee, and too often speculation is just another term for gambling. A man may look around the market at the present time. and after carefully look. Ing at all Bides of the question, decide that a certain company is in good shape, its earnings showing regular increases over a aeries of years and a good and growing market for its produet-it may be gas, electric light, or plough& 011 man. patties, industrial, public service or finan- cial, should be considered along almost Identical linter, with the few variations Pointed out at various times in this col- umn, After deciding that the company's future is bright the next MAP is to de. Gide whether or not the company's shares have not already discounted this future as far as the market is concerned. It the stock is returning about 51.2 or 7 per cent. on the market value, and earnings appear to justify an increase in dividends before long, it is a good buy. Pay for it outright and put it away until your Jude. merit has bean justified. Then, if you want to take a profit Sell. At all events Your income will show a very handsome rate of interest on your investment. On the other band, a few yeare ago a man decided just theee points about Sao Paulo. He bought it at 156 and put up a 20 point margin. Then the hard times of 1907 came and 50.0 Paulo went down to 140. Re had only four points of margin left, so his brokers called him for more. He put up another 20 points. Still the stock declined, and at 120 in desperation he sold out. Later the stock sold at 99. At that mire another man who had also studied renditions, bought it and paid for it In full. This year, only four 3 -ears at- terwarde, be sold his stork at 254, and would have made more if he had had patience. These two men had exactly the mute idea. They were both right, but one took the wrong way of obtaining his end. He took a chance and the market went against him. If he had bought outright Ito wouldn't have made as much aft num. her 2. but he would have made 100 pointe and got 10 per cent. dividends -6 66 per cent. on his investment -during the four years. But he was a speculator and lost, There Is a very obvious moral, TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE Chairman the Dominion Railway Board—Poverty in City --Housing the Poor—Echoes of Bygone Days. Hon.3. Hanna, Provincial Secretary, s again in the lime light in connection with the Chairmanship of the Dominion Railway Board. It is curious to note how many positions Mr. Hanna's name has been astiociated with during the past fire veers. Ror a long time there wee 55 ru• !nor recurring about orate a month that be was going into Dominion polities. Then September. 1911, came and passed, and it was Mr. Cochrane who went. In connee. tion with this incident there is an inter. eating story, that Mr. Hanna could have been the campaign organizer for Ontario Just as ha was in 1909, and probably sub. sequently a Dominion Cabinet Minister, but that he guessed wrong as to the pro' bable result. But that may be just a yarn. Then, there have been persistent rumors that Mr. I'oy would resign and that 11r. Hanna would be the next Atter. ney•Clettoral. And it, has been generally understood that as matters stood he was the logical euecessor of Sir James Whit. nee. At one time he was offered the po. sition of Corroration Counsel of Toronto at a fat Wan,, a neeitton which after. wards went to Mr. Drayton, and in this connertion it was interesting to see the other day an Interview with Mr. Drayton. in which be told of having declined the Railway Board Chairmanship. But mean. time, ?Jr. Hanna has stayed on year after Year as Provincial Secretary. PLAYED WITH THE WAIFS. Mr. Hanta's heartiness and good humor are infectious, He loves children. One day a group of little waifs were waiting at the Parliament buildings to see eome official, Mr. Hanna corralled them, took them into his luxurious private office, to which millionaires sometimes impatiently wait admittatice, and had a half-hour's good piny with them. As to his mental capacity, it is doubt. fel if his preeent position has revealed his real worth to the publlt. The continuous linking up of his name with some now noeition line no doubt reflected a popular notion that be was too big a roan for the fotition of Provincial Seeretary. POVERTY IN TORONTO. In the midst of bounding prosperity, and of increasing luxury for the Classes there is probably more acute poverty in To. ronto than ever before, This is merely the history of large cities everywhere. but t It is disemmaging kbonv wbo hoped that we in Canada 'might avoid mime of the elle which have grown up in the old Instead of abolishing alums they have simply shifted their location. Now a company of public.epirited citi- zens bas been organized to lay out a few acres of ;moderate -priced Toronto land in small homes of model design and con- struction for poor people. It la to be hoped they will achieve their purpose. Certainly there is need of some relief for overcrowding. Within the Fast few days almost indiseribable conditions have been discovered in several sections of the city. In one house of ten rooms ten fain. Hies were found to be living. In another house of moderate Mee 77 lodgers were found, And, of course, overorowding nearly always ;accompanied by social vices; for example, in one email house one woman was found living with twenty men. In nearly all these and similar cues the men are foreigners, who left condi. tions in Europe Probably worse than'those in which they aro now. PASSING Or GOVERNMENT HOUSE• The beautiful old grounds of Govern. meet House at the corner of Simcoe and King streets are no more, and the last vestige of the house itself will aeon have disappeared, A building.wrecker paid 22,800 for the privilege of tearing the place down. The grounds have been ploughed up and levelled; a beautiful ra• vita, where a creek rippled in the old days before all Toronto's creeks were turned into sewers, has diaappeared, The Iseau• tiful old elms have been turned into cord• wood, and the whole scetie varies not at all from that 'which may be Been any- where that a railway is putting in new sidings. The building dated only ire 1874; befortt Mint, its p110 MO a favor4 picnicking ground "out in the country, for the eity of that date lay to the east. When It was constructed the adjoining streets, Bay, Simone and 'Wellington, be. came the fashionable district, just ae Chorley Park, five miles away, is now having its boom. MORE EOHOES OF BYGONE DAYS. Nearby was the reeidence of Sir Marti. ram Clark, one of Eke finest of its day, which now also makes way for the C. P. R. freight yards, For the last twenty years Sir Mortimer retuned to follow the procession to the outskirts, but braved the smoke and noise of shunting trains and faetories. The residence of William Caw. bra, landed proPrietor, the richest To. rontonlan of his day, and founder of the Oawthra estate, who during the Crimean war used to take hie deposits -in silver - to the batik in a wheelbarrow, has been turned into a bank. It stands at the ortli.etiet (metier of 1353 and ICing. The late Goldwin Smith's "Grange" ham been turned into an Art Gallery. The house built in 1825 by Sir William Catnp• bell, then Chief Justice, et, Viso eorner of Frederick and Delre, mirvives as part, of a horee-uall factorY. GET ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS. world. A "Fresh Air Fend," collecting money to give picnics to eltildren "who would not otherwise be able to have a single half -day's outing nn the peach or in the country during the summer," announces that last summer it was necemary to ac. commodate not less than 5,000 Toronto bbildrett. The testimony of ether funds and eharitiee la to the Sante egret, preen which it may be deduced that there are epwortie 00 0,800 families in the oily whose aondition is One appteaching, if not O. reedy arrived at, ableof poverty. There ie no lack of work for halt mon anti wolnou who will work. The trouble isa most 00900 14 ft remit of sheer Ain. letterman and vier, chiefly dminkennees. We are develeming our proportion of "unetn. nleyeblee, the 01050 as old -World citiell, negate immigration lewe, which are 0511' 11040(6 to exclude all much, they sometimes get in. But the solidest feet is Mutt many of them are Canadian born and bred. The hire of the eity attracts rho (Defoe as Well es the gold. NEW ran eon "flatinetei," In ftennectiolt with rharitable work, the lateet !,110 Wellemea for bottling the poet, the "limping problem" it is milled. Pet`hane "fad' le it 100 derogatory word 10 apple to AM enterpefee that is alto. !tether dottintendable. 00 England hone. rtecmesareno new <sell'eme, awl WM/6ttngfiagteT506tinthel*03tit in diflOV)vtnn"in511011g10 the end hehave eem:aleledat. If vent are genteel in appearance sod courteous in your manner, you will be welcomed in every home in your lonelity, vtlton you are showing samples of our sit. peeler toliel goode, household neceesities, and renablo remeillee. The eatisfaetion which our rowels 5tVe. OhtneS the mets under an obligation Isa yols, which wine for you the loran respect, esteem, end *nate friendship given the nVinot. PhYtif• eiazi. Or motor, and pent will make morn mottle from your SPRIT limo than pall &earn of, besides a best of feiends. Thin 10 your oineertutilte for a ploaesent, profitable and ttermenerit imeinese, Ail. &mot. The Itome Supply Co., Dept 20, Mar. rill Building. Toronto, Ont. Nearly one-half of the people of Denmark live ea:elusively by egri- tuilute. DIE NEWEST NAVAL WEAPON BRITISH FLEET SEES FEATS IN FLYING, A. Demonstration of Tactics in the Naval Battle of the ruture, The future of naval warfare has been the favorite topic of writers on naval matters ever since their at- tention was captured by the fine work of the aeroplane -s and hydro - aeroplanes during the King's recent inspection of the fleet, writes a Lon- don correspondent. To -day the gun, the torpedo and thesubmarine axe the greet factors. 13attlethip fire in these days would open with the 13.5 inch guns ab a range of about, eight miles. The captains of a squadron of four bat- tleships when they had fired a broadside of forty shells of 1,250 pounds would be disappointed if they did not place thirty of them on the foe. Even at this distance the gunners would particularize in their aim. They would not aim merely to hit one of the ships, but to hit a vulner- able part of one special ship. Twenty years ago the Royal Sov- ereign class with four 13,5 inch guns were regarded with pride. To- day the Orion mounts ten 13,5 ineh guns firing the same shell, but with nearly twice the force, eo that whereas the Royal Sovereign could pierce twelve inches of Krupp ce- mented armor at 3,000 yards the Orion's weapons at the same dis- tance can penetrate twenty-six inches and at 6,000 yards—the range at which she fired her broadsides before the King—the Gan send her shells through about EIGHTEEN INCHES OF ARMOR, The latest battleships carry no greater thickness than twelve inch- es. Home the gun in the present stage of the duel between gun and. armor has apparently triumphed. The torpedo, however, is a men- acing rival. Any ship is in peril from the torpedo within about 434 miles. The weapons now carried by the British ships, battleships, cruis- ers, and destroyers, have an explo- sive charge of 330 pounds -330 pounds of coneentrated destructive force. If the speed of the torpedo when it is discharged from the launching tube, situated either above. or be- low water, is set at twenty-seven knots, this automobile weapon will run with sure aim for 4]-4 miles. The officer will calculate the speed and course of the enemy and snake his aim accordingly, and the gyro- scope, revolving in the torpedo, will see that the currents do not deflect it from its victim. But the combination of submarine and torpedo has made the latter a deadlier weapon than ever. The submarine can approach an enemy submerged, discharge a torpedo and withdraw, still submerged. During the King'e inspection a submarine officer was permitted to practise this mode of attack. Un - 1711 the thud of the collapsible head of the torpedo against the hull of the Dreadnought was noticed no one on board the big ship which car ried the King was aware of the at- tack. Nothing was to be seen o05 the surface of the water. Some mom - ones later far away the submarine rose like a porpoise to the surfaoe, her stern pointing DEAD ON TO HER VICTIM, indicating that if she had desired so to do she could have discharged a second torpedo ab the adversary while retreating after the first blow. So confident are the officers in command of these ships that they handle them now with an assurance which is marvellous. With only the periscope showing above the water, a mere speck, they travel for long -distances, and then further sub- merge their math if need be and proceed on their mission without a ripple being then on the surface of the water to indicate their course. And now comes the aeroplane. Even their brother officers were sur- prised at the exhibition during the King's inspection given by Com- mander Samson and his compan- ions. From their ships they have watched the hydroplane rise from the seater with the ease and grace of a eeagull, cleave the sky in a bold sweep, observing from a great height and with extended vision everything on or under the water, and then sinking again to the top of the w•aves, ready et a word of corn - mend to soar agaisi and survey the Seelte. They have watched aeroplanes sailing among the meta and fun- nele of the assembled men-of-war their naval pilots revealing a conft"- dne* in their craft, whielt is appar- ently as complete as that of the skipper of ft Themes steamboat in 111$ WELL TRIED VESSEL. They have teen the battleship Hi- bernia with her launching platform forward steaming at fifteen knots Against the wind, when suddenly Commander Samson has rieen in a biplane from her deele and soared away ahead of the fleet at a speed nearly twice that *1 0113 swiftest ves- sel ever bulit. They have gear) him sears the ocean entrface, 'observe even the teeks ie ;Mallow water, and then volplane down to the sea egain, his machine resting graceful - * 51 her floats'and tha.dy to be lifted on board for another recoil- noirmanoe expedition. • In the stunner manoeuvres Orion, with their 13,5 inch glint; submarine.s, with their menace, and aeroplanes are to take parts When these manoeuvres are over it is generally thought that a considerable new development will have been merle in tho thienoe of naval warfare. GOOD HUNTING. Instances Where Tigers Have Been Killed With a Club. A wooden club is not a weapon to recommend for hunting tigers; usually you need all the firearms that you can take along, However, a correspondent of Tho Youth's Companion who has lived in S14= recalls some interesting instances in which Master Stripes fell before at- tacks with a club, which succeeded through their mere daring and un- expeutedness—and the good luck that attended them. Although the tiger usually does his hunting at night, he departs at times from this habit, especially if he happens to be a man-eater. In the province of Nam, in the northern part of Siam, a villager and his wife were gathering wood one afternoon in the jungle. Sud- denly a tiger leaped on the man, seized him by the ankle, threw him over its back, and made for the woods. The wife mad with grief and excitement, followed. After going perhaps two hundred yarde, the tiger stopped, dropped its victim, and began to play with him precise- ly as a cat plays with a mouse, The woman, armed only with a, stout bamboo club, stole up behind the beast and smote it on the neck. By great good luck she broke two of the vertebrae, and killed the ani- mal instantly. Then she dragged her senseless husband back to their hut and called the neighbors. The man, although badly mauled, fin- ally recovered. In token of admir- ation for the woman's bravery, the Chao Phya, or governor of the prov- ince, gave her a life pension and a silver medal. A somewhat similar incident once came under my own observation. At a place called Anghin, about forty miles south of Bangkok, a Chinaman and his wife cultivated a small su- gar -cane plantation. The man had been greatly annoyed by having his cane eaten by his neighbors' buf- falo calves. Coming home one ev- ening just at dark, he saw what he thought was one of the marauders at work on the cane. Stealing si- lently up behind it, he struck it a mighty blow with a heavy club, The animal dropped without a sound. The Chinaman told his wife what he had done, and added, "That calf will steal no more of my cane." In the morning he found that the "calf" was a full-grown tiger; he had killed it by breaking its neck just as the woman of Nam had done. And Sohn was so much impressed with his own narrow escape that he took to his bed, and was sick for a week. 94 WHAT WE REQUIRE. The things we actually require are not nearly so many as the things we can do without. We must have sleep and food and air, but beyond these elemental needs, most of the other thinge we think we must have' are superfluities. The millionaire can never make entirely his own the multitude of material posses- sions by which on every hand he is surrounded, and often encumber- ed. His paintings, his books, his pleasure -gardens and his palaces are the property of any who behold them; for we grasp with our eyes as well as with Our hands, and we own just as far as we can see. The best things any mortal hath are those that every one shares, and we all possess in fee simply what Hea- ven has given me,nkind—bhe morn- ing sun light and the evening star, the love of friends and family, the duty and the dignity of labor. Such things as these are the fele simpli- cities we need; the rest are not among the essential ingredients of content. CLEVER ?M—"I've such a, joke oti the eailway." Mike—"Wha,t is it?" Pitt,— 'I ye bought a retrirn ticket, and I'm not tenni& batik.° • 'LOOK./IroRi 4."'" Me 8 1-41 CPACKACe !Eft CARE FU LT0' SIDE THAT LABLON PACKAGE AS BLUE. HO OTHER COLOR EVER USED ON POYAL VIE ST OEM -EMBER THE'COLOR BLUE, E.W.G KLETT a). LTD. *TORONTO O NT. 7.0) '7227. ,,E1'1!1711.ETRTOCNOMTP.A,}11:41-i4111.0,*:5 „, A TOWN WITHOUT THE CASH ROW A. STRANGER PROSPERED • THEREIN. A Writer Tells of the Early Days of the Now Prosperous City of Vancouver. I was once in a town where there was practically no money, Every- thing Was done on credit. Every- body trusted everybody else. If you worked you trusted your em ployer for your wages. And the place where you got food and lochs' ings trusted you till you got your wages, writes Bart Kennedy in London Answers, It was a place where the octupa- tion of the most skilful borrower was gone. The finest exponent of the nobla art of "touching" would be powerlese. And still, somehow, things boomed. merrily along. The sun rose itt th-e east each day, and glared at noonday, and sank clown in the west, after the esual time-honored manner. Night came in the good old way when the Sim sank- to rest. And the beautiful air tve breathed somehow seemed to be quite normal. Water, I may say, was as wet as usual. • No money! No money anywhere! And still we breathed and lived ! THE HOD ON THE NOD. At that time I was indulging in the noble art of carrying the hod. Carrying the hod is toil of what might be called an extremely tcsily nature, and why I found myself in- dulging in it is one of the mysteries of my varied life. Perhaps it was because I was not getting paid for doing it. Human beings are the oddest kind of odd animals. To put it in a elang•y way, I was carrying the hod on the nod. Why there was no money in this town I don't know. Being neither a Rothschild nor a Pierpont Morgan, I am not up in the subtleties of fi•nanoe, but I must bear witness to the fact, as I have before pointed out, that things plopped along just as usual. The difference, if there were any difference, was that people took things more easily. I remember one day, after I had filled my hod with bricks, leaning upon the hod and thinking calmly about the world- and life. THE TONE I RESENTED. "Hurry up with that hod !" shout- ed a voice. It was the voice of the bricklayer who had engaged me for this arduous task. But I paid no heed. I felt somewhat tired, and it had occurred to -me that thought was an easier kind of toil than mounting the steep ladder with my hod of bricks. "Hurry up with that hod!" shout- ed the voice again. The owner of the voice looked clown at me, and I looked up at him. His rude meth- od of spurring'ree on to doing val- orous work -deeds slightly jarred my suseeptibilities. I felt pained. "You'll hurt your voice I" I called up to him. ''Don'e be in a hurry." "If you don't bring that hod up swift you can quit!" sI was thrilled with joy. T had been three weeks working for this man, and I had never aeon the color of a coin. "Am 1 to understand that you discharge me ?" I added, in a 01050 - in -sorrow -than -in -anger voice. "Yes; 1 guess you can understand a, if you don't bring up that "Very well, then," I said, resting my hod carefully against the wall, "Pay me *12 1' "I can't pay 3011 012 now," he -said, "because I can't get the mon- ey till next week hub one." A DOUBLE DILEMMA, "Shut np, then!" 1 said, resum- ing my hod with dignified ease. 1 began slowly to mount the ladder, and as I mounted it 1 1414 17131417 I had this pushful .person in the hollow of my hand. He was building the chimney of the house, and when 3 gob up to the platform I put the brick e clown and smiled. "Do you mean. me to leave?" "Oh, no)" ho said. "I guess, you'll do. You're cloin' very well." We were both of us in e fix. He couldn't discharge me because he could get no money to pay me off, and I couldn't leave him because leaving work without being paid the wages that were coming to me wars. to put it mildly, against niy princi- ples. And so it was that I kept on working in a calm and thoughtful anti easy way. The place where this occurred was in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Canadian Pacific Railway had not yet reached it, and the town was in a roughly -hewn state, No este stole, for the rea,son that there was nothing to eteal, There were houses there and real estate, but carrying off houses and real es- tate is e, somewhat herculean job. Everybody was in deb& to every- body else. How they settled up and inanaged 1 have no idea. But that they did mana,ge is a fact. I lived very well, and I worked very easily, and I was very happy. I had everything I wanted—in rea- son. And when I grew tired of the noble and gentle art of carrying the end I took what was owing to me tett in kind. 1 lived like a prince at the boarding-house—a rough, rude place—where there was plenty of good food to eat. The only criti- cism that I could pass upon the food was that salmon appeared some- what often upon the, menu. WHEN I LEFT. In faot, this rich and delightful fish made its appearance at every meal. And I may say that when I left Vancouver it was a couple of years before I could look upon sal- mon with intent to devour. Good things are good things, but you can have too much of them, At last the time came when mon- ey appeared in the town. It had definitely beeu settled that Van- couver was to be the terminus of the great railway that was being built across the Continent. Before that there had been talk of having Pert Moody as the terminus, Whether this had any thing or not to do with the scarcity of money in Vancouver I clon'b knew. I only know that in time it became possible to be paid for labor when sem did it, But, sad to relate, as the money came. in the great, green, flourish- ing bay -tree of honesty suddenly, so to speak, shrank to a tiny pla,nt. Robbers and footpads and card. sharpers and other adventurous persons threw their shadows upon the scene, I left. 94 NOT SO HARD, There is no period of life at which we ought to say that there are no more glad surprises for us in the future. Life is. hard enough, but not so hard as some would make it, and its rewards come to those who have worked for them more often than many would have us believe, ONE FAMILY OF 20,000,000. . The rapidity with which rate mul- tiply is the main reason why man appears to make 90 little headway -1 their deetruction. It is calcu- lated that a single pair of rats and their progeny, breeding without in- terruption and auffanngno losses, would in thi ree yearsincrease to more than 20,000;000, BONDS PAYING 6Z INTEAEST q The First Mortgage Bonds of Price Bros. & Company at their present price pay 6 per cent interest. The security they offer is first mortgage on 6,000 square miles of pttlp and timber lands scattered throughout the Province of Quebec. The timber is insured with Lloyds of England against loss from flre, The eare. ings at present are sufficient to pay ribei dinterest twice over, and when the mill now 10 course of constructioe is in operation, earninga will be enormously increased, These bonds can be quickly converted into eaeh, as there is a ready market for them. Venni standpoints of interest retort end security, these bonds constitute an investineet demote Hy hIgh "d". Ti tem is every reasoM to believe them bonds will considerably increase In We Will be 5444 1* send you literature further &scribble t14(4 IjOncla SECURITIES R OYAL CORPORATION u rrt b DANK 011 MONTREAL ittItt.tutio . . YoRGE AND outnN STREETS R. M. WHITE moNrnEAL-ourneRcf)-rgenx-ottAWA &lammed. LONDON (SiNar) :TOM MERRY 0111 ENGLANO,, NEWS BY IIIAIL ABOTJT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. ..)ecurrenees 10 The Land That Reigns Supreme in the Coin- , mental World. • In London there aro at least 50,- 000 women ruhoso 'earnings do not xceed three half -pence an hour. The most popular picture in the Royal Academy is said tea bo that inhiortienrg Abbey,tl ie,Oeronation in West- - A modioal officer reported nee 'ong ago that tinned cod dyed to re- itnentoileLleonsdaolmnon was being imported The total tonnage of all ships in the United Kingdom in .1850 weta 9,171,218, as against 21,474,700 in 0890, and 33,525,556 in 1910. The Salvation Army is ab work in forty-seven different countries, and has fifty-five periodicals printec. in twenty -ono languages, Mn, Walter Morrison has given the auto of R10,000 to Oxford Ifni - tensity towards establishment of a professorial pension fund. The fastest railway rue in Great Britain is the 444 miles between Darlington and York—at an aver- age speed of 01.7 miles per hour. Daring the coning hop season in Kent the workers will use.. stilts while tying the vines—a ov.stom which has been in disuse some 3' -ears, William °ashen, the well-known custodian of Peel Castle, Isla of Man, fell dead in the grounds on the 3nd Mat while escorting eome Vi4itkr°.1.G3.,eo. Fellows, 'for many years senior proprietor of the Isle of Wight Herald, and a well-known public man at Cowes, died on the Oth ult., aged 69. London has a new Marconi House with offices ".more ;palatial than hose generally associated with business cone -eras." It covers an rea of over 54,000 feet. The British Government Ilan ap- ointed Sir Rufus Leaums, the attar - e5' general, as a member of the attineb. This is the first time that affibciinaeltbas ever been included in the It is proposed to perpetuate the manory of Hannah Bali, the origi- ator of the first Sunday School in ngland, by placing a memorial ablet in the Parish Church, High ycombe. Th Kilmarnock edition of Burns moms to he offered for sale at otheby's, London, is the property f Miss Gilchrist Clark. This lady also the owner of ether valuable urns books included in the sale. Bleak Mime, Broadstairs, ren- ered famous by its association ith Charles Dickens, who wrote venal novels there, was sold by allrock & Co., in London, on the th inst. to a Surrey doctor for just ver £3000. Through the death of his father, o Earl of Yarmouth, one time hus- and of Alice Thaw, sister of Harry, herits $495,000 in personal pro- erty and considerable real estate. o also becomes Marquis of Hert- ed. Mr. Carnegie reported that his auffeur, John Hill, had died at a. Instead of allowing his body to buried at sea, he caused it to be nbahned, and it was carried on to verpool in the .Celtic and con - yeti to Scotland for interment. Lord Ohaneellor Loreburn, who signs from the British Qovern- ent because it has been going too st, was known as Sir Robert Reid fore he occupied the woolsack, 5 15 a very able, and a very dour an from Kirkcudbrightshire, and lon a lefoorland Scot has a differ- oe with his friends something is 01±0 give way, 2 a p 10 c 01 10 E t W 1 0 is B d w 30 W th in p H fo ch Se be 03 Li ve re fa H 115 W1 011 ap Y UAN'S HARSH DISCIPLINE. Nrery Slight Cause for Beheading a man in ehina. as . Although China has become a re- public, the views of the sanctity of human life that prevail in Western countries are not yet established in that overcrowded land. This story of Yuan Shih-kai, the newly instal- led president, is declared by Ev- erybody's Weekly to be character- istic of the immediate past of that statesman—and so presumably of the present. Yuan began to create an Army on the European model. Hie .liseip- line. wexceedingly severe. There was only ono forin e2 peniehment in the new army—deeth, On olio occasion an Englith official, an eld soquaintance, Visited billl, and Yll- an held a special review in his hon- or. Tho viceroy noticed that a soldier failed to salute the English gueet. FIst talled for the man's offices'. "Have that soldier beheaded at once!" lie curtly ceetimanded. The English guest, hotrified,pie- tested, "It ie 41;1101" lit' 4414),,, "to tA off a mania head bine ne omit- ted te salute Inc." "Please do not interfere," said 'oel(Y7iiyittahnt.te'rnq 1,ettinotitezptitlieletimMilintIohlefterter Je, • with, t blow what I must do rein do sit,' The lyses head mem