The Brussels Post, 1912-7-25, Page 6TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE
Tt4TERESTfNC NOTES FROM TIIE CAPI-
TAL OF THE PROVINCE,
Laorosee and Ease Halt—et Municipal
Abattoir—Termini's Harbor -The
Late Mr. H. P. Dwight.
Something ie the matter with Canada's
national sport, "Big Pour" ohampiauahiP
Increase games between the best teams in
the world that money can hire draw a
scant 2400 spectators, while mediocre base
ball between eastern league theme on a
Saturday will easily bring together 0,000
to 10,000 persons, Even motor orale stems,.
a newly established sport, or doubtful
staying powers, attracted 16,000 people the
other day.
Some critics say that the trouble lime
with the Big Four" organisation, Al.
will be revivifiedre are rnextrBeason eat nd w111 get
a team In Toronto, probably R. T. Flem-
ing'o Torontos, for the Tecumseh man-
agement and the N, L. U. officials show
no sign yet of burying the hatchet,
ROUGH PLAY THE TROUBLE.
MAKING SAFE ;INVESTMENTS
THE EFFECT OF LONDON 'INVESTORS
ON THE CANADIAN MARKET.
But the trouble probably Iles deeper than
any mere question of league organisation.
In the writer's opinion It dates back sev-
eral years, when brutal play was allow-
ed to play a prominept part in the de -
Melon of the big league lacrosse conteets.
Big crowds attended the games, games"
by courtesy, for many of them were dis-
graceful exhibitions. It is hard to say
why the brutality was permitted. It may
have been incompetent offieisle, or a mis-
taken idea on the part of the manage.
ment that the crowds wanted to see a
ant of Spanish bull fight, or just a
;merles of depravity on the part of the
Players
ofrthesem Fore a period the or a biesttplatrer
arae the man who mould lay out the most
opponents and not get caught at it. The
result was inevitable. A. large proper.
Mon of the decent public got disgusted
and eut out lacroeee. Andeven those
who delight in seeing the gore fly want
to be in decent company. So the attend-
ance fell off, and when the penalties be-
came more numerous the games became
farcical from their one-sidedness. And
the attendance dropped some more.
Therein seems to lie the real trouble
with Canada's national game in the big
leagues. It can be built up again, but it
will probably take some years of hard
and careful work.
CITY ENTERS BUTCHER TRADE.
The City Council has committed itself
to an expenditure of ,.5300,000 for a muni-
cipal abattoir; in other words, a muni-
otpel wholesale butcher shop. and thus
expresses a determination not to let the
meat business of Toronto fall into the
hands of a meat trust, such as dominates
the famous Chicago stock yards, and
through them most of the cities of the
United States.
It will be interesting to see bow the
problem works out in Toronto. Toronto
hoe been in the cattle market Mistime
for many years; in fact for a long time
it had a monopoly in that department.
But it did not take full advantage of its
opportunity, with the result that now the
city cattle yards are altogether too small,
are inconveniently situated, and a big
proportion of the business is going to the
privately -operated union stook yards,
which occupy commodious premises at
West Toronto.
It is .said the Union Stook Yards form a
potential nucleus for a Canadian meat
trust. One of the most active arms op.
erating there is the Canadian bianeh of
the Swift Co. of Chicago. Recently the
two largest Canadian firma. the Harrill
Abattoir Co. and Gunn's, which formerly
bought cattle both at the city yards and
the Union Steck yards, announced that in
future they would buy only at the latter.
And it is said the fourth large firm, Park -
Blackwell, will shortly follow suit.
The result is that the city, to save Its
.. . cattle market, is forced into the abattoir
business. A municipal abattoir will en-
able the small independent wholesale
butchera, of whom there are perhaps a
score, to kill their animate and distrl-
bute to the retail trade economically; and
their business, on the other hand, will
keep the city cattle yards going.
Without the city abattoir, and with the
bis firms buying only at the Union Stock
Yards the business in the city yards would
soon dwindle to insignificant proportions,
the independent wholesale butchers would
be compelled to go to the big fellows for
their .supplies, and the whole business
would be effectually oentrallsed in per-
haps four firms.
Thie is what the City Council wants to
prevent.
A HARBOR, BUT NO PORT.
Toronto's new harbor Commiselon has
not got much to show tor its efforts yet,
But, of course, it has not been on the
job long enough to have had a ohsnce.
As everyone knows, Toronto has one of
the finest harbors, if not the very finest,
on the great lakes. And yet the amount
of shipping it accommodates is practi-
eally negligible. For example, the tem
nage of the Sault canals for the month
of June was 10,700,000 tons, as compared
to 7,400,000 tone in June, 1911. While To.
ionto harbors traffic for the month was
only 271,000 tone, as against 251,000 in
`Tune. 1911.
Relatively, the lake shipping from To.
ronto has been dwindling year by, year
for the lost generation. It Is only eitf.
aeras well on in years who remember when
the waterfront need to be dotted with
eelevators and the docks were al.
ways busy.to
Perhaps the clay of grain tralse by boat
from Toronto is past, but there are plans
on foot to make Toronto again a great
port for other purposes. That's the chief
purpose of the naw Harbor Commission,
Thecity owns a large acreage on the
waterfront, and to this acreage it is
hopedto attract large induotral faatoriee
Decks .and wharves whose cost will total
many hundred theueands of dollars are
being projected. At present when a boat
from the Atlantic works its was, up
through the St. Lawrence canals it cannot
fled a place to dock. But that la to be
quickly changed. The sympathy of the
Dominion Government bag been enlisted
and extensive dredging operatlona are
now ander way. But, of course, the Brest
boon will be the new Welland canal and
the deepening of the St, Lawrenne routo
Then Toronto hopes to be a real ocean
port and also on the highway from the
ocean to the head of the Laker', If the
factory development progresses, as hoped
for, Toronto harbor will change from a
piece of pretty scenery to the centre of a
hive of indestry
THE PASSING OF H. P. DWIGHT.
The pegging of Mr. H. P. Dwight, eye
eident
e-
eident 0t the G. N. W. Telegraph Com.
pan!, removes one of Canada's landmarks.
The oldest surviving telegrapher in Am•
erica, hls• r0minisoeneee went .bash to
. primitive days in Canada. lie "dieoover-
ed" .Hon. George A. Cox, took him into
the employ of the G. N. W. Co as onion
bey, and taught biro: the language of the
wire. Senator Cox was a prominent monk.
tier at the graveside.
Mr. Dwight was one of the mostlikeable
mien. The bent of his mind was well i1-
lnatrated by the ehlot hobby of his later
jeara, It was the loyal Canadian Hu•
mane Society which bad for its chief
purpose the rewarding of deeds of bray.
pry. To hear of a deed Of heroism, no
matter haw unepeetaeular the circum'
standee and reward, the hero wag to source
Of pleasure which never Poet its power,
He teak a keen intoroat in public affairs
tap to his lest days, but never auceumbed
to the modern theories of public Mater -
Ship with which he was always eamewhat
out of sympathy, lid Itet4 fratueut or.
respondent of the animpa:Ara over .the
signature "Dw," hat he wna ;always Med.
orate 111 the expostedo11 of his views end.
ne newspaper declined to publish hle leer
tare, even When they were %limited to the
' tees evotertp ipe setteesWitadsvoeatoe, ere,
The Present Dutlneoe In London Rae Made
Quito a Noticeable Change in the Pet0e
of Several Canadian Munlelpal Cohen-
tures—What London Took From Ua Last
Year,
The articles contributed by "Investor°
are for the sole purpose of guiding pros.
votive lnveetore, and, if possible, of eav
lug them from losing money through
placing it in "wild -oat" enterprises. The.
impartial and reliable character of the
Information may be rolled upon. The
writer of those artlolea andthe publisher
of this paper have no interests to serve
in connection with this matter other than
those of the reader,
(By "Investor.")
"What difference does it make whether
London investors are buying our mini,
ties or not?" a man asked one day. "The
bond houses in Toronto and 'Montreal
alone appear to buy .by far the greater
part of Canadian bond offerings. 'Me
talk of London market affecting prices
appears to me to be all humbug."
Of course, this man didn't know any-
thing about the matter, He was quite
correct (at least he would have been quite
correct) had he said that "Canadian"
houses absorbed a large part of the bonds
offered here, and left out the rest, He
forgot (or never knew) that during 1911
alone our railroads—steam and eleotria-
sold no leas. than 585,000,000 of bowie and
debentures in England without the inter-
vention of Canadian houses.
This one item, then, is a very good and
sufficient reason for watching carefully the
tendency of ;mien in London as a baro-
meter of our -own, Last year 'England
bought no lees than 0208,000,000 of our se.
ouritiee, the greater part of which were
bonds.
Unfortunately, last year, Canadians
didn't take sufficient care In preparing
offerings, and as a result soma of them
disappointed their purchasers. This had
the further unfortunate result of making
the public cautious until now there is
little thence of any Canadian emirates.' gat it,
ABOUT DIE. CANADA LYNX
A DII'EICTJLT ANIMAL TO LO"
CATE STILL HUNTING.
Rune Like a Doer and Fights Like
a Dynamo and a Gang Saw
Together.
"I was treated to a surprise the
other day which had the affect of
apprising me of two things," says a
writer in Outing, "Ono was that
I
had dropped behind the process
sion, the other that my old-time
friend the Canada lynx had grown
into a gentleman of some impor-
tance in the commercial world.
"I have long desired and coveted
a sleigh robe of lynx skims, I have
a Norsk friend who is a trapper
I met him on the street a few days
ago and said to himl 'Ole, I wan
sex , prime lynx skins to make
sleigh robe,'
"'So ho replied, "How much yo
tank das lynx akin cost?'
"'I would be willing to pay fro
$d, to $6 apiece for them.'
"For • answer Ole hauled out
price list of an Eastern fur haus
and showed me where prime lye
skins were worth $80 each, 1 hav
spent some hours figuring out ho
much I world be worth now if lye
skins had been that pride 'tvhen w
feat settled in Idaho, One eprin
we shipped 118 lynx skins and go
on an average of $5 oath for them
and we were tiokled to death t
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being successfully issued in London that
have not the backing of some intermt-
tionally well known Canadian bond house.
Land, and particularly timber compan-
les, have gone a long way to help die.
credit Canadian setnritiee in London, Per.
haps it would be more accurate to say
that the British investor has become very
skeptical with regard to the extravegent
promises of a number of these. More
than a few of last year's issues were
token to London, which were in no posi-
tion to be offered as investments, As a
result the underwriters were loaded ula
with a lot of stuff that they are still
vainly trying to unload on the public.
This has, of course, affected the market
for high grade Canadian bonds, so that
we find very exoeileat municipal isauee
Palling eat on the market. The effect of
this has been marked, A year ago Bran-
don debenturee could be readily sold on
a 41.2 per cent. basis, Now these may
be bought at 43-4 or even 47.8 per cent.
Thin is just a sample of the effect of the
dullness in London on our market here,
What the bond bousee and municipalities
are hoping for is, of course. a reversal
of form in London, and a renewed de-
mand for our municipal debentures. This
would mean that many bonds purchased
during this year will show a very hand-
some increase in price of two to four
pointe. It would also make a very good
demand for many debentures which city
councils have been afraid of issuing ow-
ing to the lack of demand from London.
For though practically all our municipal
debentures are sold to Canadian bond
houses, most of these place the greater
percentage of the large issues in London.
That is one reason why the London
market Is so important, Another reason
is that the English investor is satisfied
with s.' lower yield than the Canadian
and so most of our low yield bonds are
Bold there.
Moreover, our railroads do practically
an their financing in London. Last De.
camber the Canadian Northern sold no
lose than 135,000,000 of bonds in one block
in London at a comparatively low rate.
It would have taken years to have placed
those bonds in Canada. The railroads
need more money to keep up to the great
expenditures they are making on new
eonstrnation. The pesaimiet referred to
In the first sentence had better talk to
some of our railroad presidents before
he persuades himself as to the acouraoy
of his Statements,
GET ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR
NEIGHBORS.
00 you are genteel in appearance and
courteous In your manner. you will be
welcomed In every 1101110 in your locality,
when yon are showing samples of our en -
parlor toilet goods, household necessities,
and reliable remedies. The satisfaction
which our goods give, places the mere
under an obligation to you, 1111011 wins
for you the same respect, esteem, and In-
timate friendship given the priest, physf•
clan, or pastor, and yon will make more
money from your spare time than you
dream of, besides a host of friends.
This is your opportunity for a pleasant,
profitable and permanent bueinese. Ad.
dress, The home Supply Co„ Dept 20, Mer.
rill Building, Toronto, Ont. -
It's awfully hard to quarrel with
people who won't pay any atten-
tion to you.
Flogging in the Army was totally
abolished more than thirty years
ago.
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Save 'Laney and Increase
its Earning Power
WE have issued a Book-
let describing the
" PERIODIC. IA
PAYMENT
PLAN"
for the purchase of
stacks and bonds.
This Booklet shows how
you can create capital
through a small monthly
savings, It also shows
how these savings are
protected and bow they
are available for use at
any time if required.
Writ, to Investment
Department.
THE MET11OPOLITAtN
SECURITIES AGENCY,
LIMITED
coo St. Janos St., MONTREAL
I t Mountain It QURSBC
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"This Canada lynx that hie s
suddenly grown fashionable is a
interesting animal, Naturalists an
pseudo-naturaliets have writte
about him, but there is much yet
tell to men who desire to know
HOW HE LIVES AND WHERE.
"Like his cousin the cougar, th
lynx is a difficult animal to lomat
still hunting; but unlike the large
oat he docs not slip away in th
brush unless he is reasonably sur
ren have seen him first. If h
Imagines himself undiscovered h
will mouth clown on the snow
where his gray body blends eo pe
featly that he ie tee hard to see as
enowahce rabbit.
"Ile 18 more arboreal than th
cougar, too, and once' in a tree h
leas a trick of stretching full lengt
on a limb, his head between Iv
front paws! ears laid back close
hie head, in which attitude it r
quires a keen eye to separate hi
from the bark, what though yo
may almost know that he is 1n th
particular tree. By far the large
number eif our lynx were kille
before the hounds, though the Ate
trate accounted for a?veral,
"The lynx is a atriotly noeturn
animal, So far as any knowledg
extends he never hunts in the da
light,
extends,
most appropriate aim
to start upon 'hie trail is in th
early morning before the front le
by his night prowling has had tiro
to dissipate.
"The favorite location is an u
land larch thicket, whore the sno
shoe rabbits and partridges congr
gats in winter, Those are hie pri
cipal winter food and lie knows fu
well where to find them, On a wi
ter's morning ,you may sec as man
lynx as rabbit tracks around
*epee of this abstractor,
'During the dory the lynx do
not stray fat' from
HIS FEEDING GROUND,
He will be found either in the thic
et itself or in an adjacent gulch b
neath a fallen log 00 the overha
of a cliff or rook. If the dogs to
tho track at all it is reasonab
sure they will start the game wit
in a short run,
"The rapidity with which a ly
takes a tree when jumped depen
largely upon the condition of t
snow. If the snow is dry and po
dery he may run for several mile
while if it is wet and sticky be w
collect balls of it on his hairy fe
and soon, tire, I have known the
to tit down, gnaw the snowballs
their feet, then get up and go agal
"A full grown lynx with the pr
per stimulus behind him is
slouch of afoot racer, His legs a
rather long in proportion to h
body and he covers the snow
long, regular loops which eat
distance like an express train.
"Were he to keep a straig
away- course there is no dog
eau'th that could overhaul him, b
in fact it is almost impossible to g
him to leave his feeding ground,
"In this, too, he differs from t
cougar, who seems to have
ohnice, but will light out for t
other eoitnty as soon as he finds t
dogs on his trail. A sound ly
will fight when he is cornered a
cannot escape, but a wounded ly
is the veritable Spirit of Battle,
ie a power sausaire mill, a gang e
and an electric dynamo all tied
together in a loose grey hide hu
on his frame in such a manner th
he can turn himself around in
without any trouble whatever,
pende largely upon his hind feet for
defence,
"I watched a lynx family moving
out One day, It was an interesting
eights. I was cruising out a moun-
tain road to a plump of cedar timber
that we intended to harvest, and
had no weapon but my oe'uiser's
axe. While creeping eilenbly
through the timber I heard se oat
hewing, I seated myself on a fallen
log juet in the edge of the donee
timber and waited and watched.
Presently I located the sound ee
coming from a fallen hollow cedar a
few rods from where I sat.
"Shortly a lynx appeared at the
opening, looked back into the hol-
low, and called encouragingly. She
was joined by two half-grown kit -
bene that stood blinking at the
bright sunlight. The old one moved
off a few feet and palled to her
brood. They toddled out and join-
ed her, She played with them,
cuffing thecal over, biting at them,
mewing and purring exactly as
tabby does with her family.
"In a short time she moved on
and again stopped and coaxed them
to follow. It took her half an hour
to lead them into the protection of
the forest. My baeo was not an ef-
fective weapon, and had I been
otherwise armed I could not have
brought myself to molest the
thane."
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which is an injurious acid. The ingredients of
alum baking powder are never printed on the label.
Magic Baking Powder
Contains no alum and is the
only baking powder made
in Canada that has all the
ingredients plainly printed
on the label.
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play 1 this they ebb with boiled pota-
toes,
Among the negxo?s of the Guinea
(least as well as afltong those in
'West Africa, the mating of play is
rely oollln}ep, The natives of tho
Sudau dl their favorlee clay from
between Layers el sandstone in the
banks of the rivets, The natives of
Java prepare little cakes of play
containing ochres these are sold in
the public markets.
The "hairy Ainus," the abori-
gines of Northern /apple, mix clay
with their rico and with the loaves
Of varioue planer; whieh they use as
food, In Porgies, varlatiea of clay
aro oonsidored deltaic:ma luxeries
atnotlg certain cloacas, while in the
foothills of the :Himalayas the na-
tives are oonntantly chewing a piece
of greenish Olay, which they believe
has the property of pl'otooting them
against the goitre,
In Finland ea well aa in certain
parts of Sweden powdered ola,y is
mixed with the flour used for bak-
ing broad. This practice is similar
to that of the Apaches, and may
really represent a relic of some early
ceremonial or superstitious obeer-
DILIOLOND STUDDED SHOES.
Would Not Rave Attraotad Atten•
Min In Anoient Roane.
The boots of Boman emperors
were enriched with pearls and dia-
monde, and the wealthier Romans
sported the like decorations. There
were Roman women who ornament-
ed their low ,shoos with pearls and
embroideries, gold and amber,
There were many whose boot soles
wore elf anaesive gold.
Pliny, apoaking of his own time,
says s "Our ladies are not content
to adorn their walking shoes alone
with precious atones and jewels, but
oven the eliplee's which they wear
in their private apartUlenbs aro
decorated; precious stones do not
euiAoe; they must, to be in fashion,
tread on pearls, and crowd their
feet with ornaments like kings."
Julius Onesar waxe high" hoot%
worked in gold and ornamented
with pearls,
1 otic abalus, who never wore a
pair of boots mere than ono?, ea he
Hover wore the same ring twice, had
Isere -iota stones not in them, and
even cameo* which excited the
laughter of the •,ppapulaie, homburg,
no one oonld see distinctly the ours.
nine work of famous artists, But
his mother, who presided over a
senate Of women, forbade women
to wear shoe% adorned with pre-
cious stones, .tee she prescribed the
drewe that should be worn ; ,yet
she wee a woman of wildly free life,
ill oozeparison
Mwith whom the Em -
preen essaliva, was a timid prude,
Aleibiadoa invented a boot that
was named after him and became a
great favorite, but wae aro noir told
whobhor it were luxuriously fop-
pish, What wee° the Sicyonien
shoes that Cicero refused to wear,
thinking then, effeminate, although
he admitted they were comfortable,
Anglo..f3axon princes and digniter.
IoS of the ohuroh wore slum pet off
with gold ; Charlemagne on state
occasions donned .shoes adorned
with gems; the shoos of Henry 71.
of Sicily and his Queen Constance
Wee§ of cloth of gold and bejew-
eled, while the sales of cork were
covered with cloth of gold,
J?llilip $tuhbes 1p 1088 lnveigb»cl
agairlat the "oor1 ed shmoe, puss.
nets., pantaliliea and slippera, some
of them of black velvet, some of
white, some of green, and some of
yellow, some of Spanish leather and
some of English, stitched with silk
and embroidered with gold and :di-
ver all layer the foot with gewgaws
innumerable,"
"A dog gets a lynx by the throat
and gleefully starts to choke the
animal to death, when to his aur-
nri.ee and consternation Oast ani -
mel wh(rle around in hie ]skin and
HANTS TI -TAT DOG A KICK
that puts him out of the running,
perhaps permanently. The lynx
frill itis` his front maws as weapons form of cakes of varmint shapes,
oceasionally and can strike a•pow- I which are sold in the market plaree.
erlulblow with them, but he de- "they also prepare a aatloe /Nib/1 the
USE OE EARTH AS FOOD,
Superstitique Practice Among luny
Indian 'Tribes.
The practice of eating earth, says
the Soiontifio American, i>; Rab con-
fined to any race or region of the
earth. In America several tribes of
Inds ns, of the Northern me weld ue
o. the Southern continent, are
given to lining earth as food; pa:
ferent varieties of clay seem t s ilo
preferred.
The Pawnee Indians used e yet-
lowish clay which they shaped into
little balls that were allowed to dry
in the air and were then slowly
resisted at the open fire. When the
clay attained a red color the balls
were removed, moistened with wa-
ter and eaten, These clay bolls
were especially liked when served
in connection with fish, and seem
to have promoted digestion.
The Timmeh Indians of the Mac-
kenzie River used to resort to the
earth as food in times of famine,
They dug out the clay foetid in the
hollowe along the banks of the
river. Inp1'08per050 years they
chewed the clay as a delicacy, The
Apaches mixed powdered drier into
their meal before baking this into
their rude loaves of bread.
In South America the. Tndiane in
the uplands of Bolivia ate it light
clay that is nearly white in color;
'this they used either rata or 1t1. the
Van00,
In the Ural Mountains the natives
mix gypsum ("plaster of paris")
with their dough. In Styria, in
Sardinia and in Treviso (the Tarvis-
ium of the ancients, near Venice)
cakes of clay are sold in the mar-
kets with other food stuffs,
In parts of South America the
whites imitate the natives in using
clay as an article of dint; but there
they cultivate the excuse that eating
the earth leads to the production
of a fins Complexion„
commendations of the committee
will be awaited with the keenest in-
terests,
WHERE NATIONS GET COAL.
Prance Iles to Import a Third of
Her Supply.
The total coal produceion of the
world for 1910, according to statis-
tics compiled by the British Board
of Trade, was 1,035,000,00 tone. The
chief coal -producing countries con-
tributed as their share, United
States, 447,840,000 tons; Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, 264,430,000 ; Ger-
many; 150,370,000; France, 27,255,-
000 ; Iolgium, 23,530,000 tons.
England produced 6 tons fur each
inhabitant; the United States, 5
tons; Belgium 3% tons; Germany,
21-3, and France less than one ton.
The production of coal in the same
year was by countries as follows:
United States, 434,815,000 tons;
England, 179,960,000; Germany,
130,230,000; France, 54,860,000;
Belgium, 23,850.000 tons.
The consumption of coal per in-
habitant was as follows: United
States, 4.72 tons; England, 4.01;
Germany, 2.03; Belgium, 3.17;
France, 1.40 tons.
The United States, England and
Germany are the only important
nations that produce enough coal
for their own consumption. France
has to import about one-third of its
coal.
PATENT MEDICINES POPULAR.
Over $22,000,000 Sold in Great Bri-
tain in a Year.
The enormous growth' in the popus
laxity of patent medicines was re-
vealed in the evidence of Dr. Alfred
Cox, medical secretary of the Bri-
tish Medical Association, before the
select committee of the House of
Commons, when he stated that it
was estimated that no less • than a
sum of $22,500,000 was spent every
year in Great Britain on patent
medicines. This amount, he declar-
ed, was sufficient to maintain 40,-
000 beds in the hospital.
But of this amount, an authority
explained, considerably over a mil-
lion pounds' worth of patent medi-
cines come from America and Ger-
many. There are in the United
States no fewer than 40,000 licensed
vendors of patent medicines.
So great is the variety that one
firm alone manufactures 115 differ-
ent remedies; which, judging by the
advertisements, should promise. a
cure for almost every ill to which
flesh is heir, It is astounding the
amount of faith that is placed in
well-deserved patent medicines.
Many of the proprietary medicines
are good, certainly, but tare are
others which are placed before the
public with grossly exaggerated
statements as to their curative pro-
perties—which, indeed, as Dr. Al-
fred Cox said, are a fraud on the
public.
It will be interesting to see what
result the insurance act will have
upon the sale of potent or proprie-
tary medicines. It will almost far a
certainty have the effect of dimin-
ishing their sale, as instead of pur-
chasing one or other of the many
thousand remedies now on the mar-
ket the insured person will save tate
expense by consulting his or her
doctor, Another sequel will, be that
the revenue will suffer considerably
by the lose of stamp duties.
The outcome of the proceedings
of the committee, aver which Sir
Henry Norman is presiding, is be-
ing watched with the liveliest eon -
cern, not only by the medical fare -
'silty, but by all those connected 1u
any way with medicine, and the re -
5
FROM FINNS GREEN ISLE
NEWS 13Y MAIL FRO II nul.
LAND'S SHORES.
X appen(ne Ili flop Emerald Tele of
Interest to Trleh•
nlen.
There ie a dearth in Dublin hespie
tal of resident medical students and
clinical clerks,
A teak fight on a large amble has
boon provonted by. the constabulary
of County Down.
At Ballycotton, County Cosk, a
London fisher hooked a halibut
which scaled 135 puuncla.
Tho Bolfa.et Clorporation aro eon-
sidering the iproposal of a universal
penny train fare,
A workman at Colin, Ireland,
found portions of 13 human slrsloe
tone along the edge of the road,
Moesrs, „facobe, cairn and b050611 1
manufaotue'ors, of Dublin, aro iii
emit a larges factory near Liver..
pool,
Tho death is renaounoed of Sir
11Villiarn Thornley Stokes, Bart, the
prominent Irish surgeon, ab Dub-
lin, 1
A. woman named Colter was badly
mauled by a bull he a field about
eight miles fretn Now Ross, at B1i•
leek,
Tho yoar 1008-1909 was the first
year in hall is century that showed
an increase of population In Ire,
land,
Belfast has a low record for seri-
ons crime compared to other coun-
tries, but not fe good r000i'd for
drunkenness,
Three lads, ranging from 10 to 15
years of ago, wore before the Cltil-
dree'e Court, Derry, charged with
boueebrcaking,
,A petibion has been presented in
the House of dominoes against
Home Rule, signed by 1041000 wo-
men in Troland. •
TTttled property vaat
:0102,0nee55 spas boon Mb by thelued Pato
henry de he P06r Beresford, sixth
Marquis of Waterford,
Four ladies were ,sent for 'brial in
Dublin in connection with the suf-
fragette window -breaking scene in
the Irish capital,
Rotten eggs and other missiles
were thrown at the police during a
student riot at Trinity College,
Dublin. Eleven students were ar-
rested,
A lunatic named P, Farrell es-
caped from Mullingar Asylum and
was found drilling a squad of sol-
diers of the Leinster Regiment,
Maryborough.
Mr. R. J. McMorclie, Lord Mayor
of Belfast, said if the Home Rule
:Bill goes through it will entice a run
on the banks that will sweep away
all available capitl.
Summing up to the jury at Dublin
in a 0a0(3 of two men of County
Clare Mr. Justice Boyd said it was
a melancholy thing that there was a
pati; in Ireland where a conviction
could not be obtained,
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WHIZ' FOAM IS WRITE.
The Little hobbles Reflect All the
Light.
No one eats have failed to notice
that the foam along the shore of
the sea or of a lake is white. No
matter how deep the blue of the
water may be there is the same
whiteness of the froth at its edge.
If' the blackest ink in the world is
beaten into foam the foam will he as
white as the froth of milk.
The reason for this is that we see
all objects by reflected light. If
they reflect all the rays, they appear
whits; if they absorb all the rays,
they seen to bo black. When beat-
en into a froth, says Harper'a
Weekly, the little bubbles reflect all
the light from their surfaces, far
their extreme thinness makes them
practically nothing but surface, and
thus they are white,
For the same reason any colored
stone shows white when it is ground
to a powder. Take the blackest
marble and reduce it to small
grains and these will appear,white,
because their surfaces now all re-
flect the same light. If the polished
surface of the same marble be only
a little scratched, as with a nail or
drill point, the effect will be alight -
colored streak.
The same point is illustrated in
the appearance of the tiny parti-
cles of dew on ilia spider's web as
compared with the larger drops sus-
pended from the tips of blades of
grass. All the more shriking is the
difference when the cold has con-
verted dew and water into frost and
lee. The frost speckles from the
innumerahle faces of the metals,
while the ice .shows a uniform Rhin-.
ing surface. Frost and snow are
white because of the smallness of
their particles and the great num-
her of their reflecting surfaces,
A WANT INTERPRETED,
Mr. Molfusgie—•Sir, the howling
of that deg of ,yours annoys me
dreadfully.
Me(uff---Ib do, do it 1 Maybe yea
welt me to got se trained 'baste that
can play oh the flutb
Esrery rase has its thorn ---and the
thorn is still on the job atter the
rote hail withered,