The Brussels Post, 1912-8-1, Page 7TORONTO CORK :SPONDENCE
INTERESTING BITS OF QOSSIP FROM
THE QUEEN CiTY.
In the Happy Summer Time—Where To.
rontenlans Spend 'their Holidays
-Visitors From the States.
70 midsummer holiday time Toronto
mule scatter to the ends of the earth.
There is no 000 place or locality or dis-
trict that can be described as Toronto's
summer resort, Ho many plates are avail.
able that the no utotioi seeking rust and
00010Otion gets diffused in a way that is
unusual, even for the largest cities.
For the mos' nnrt they stay in Canada,
though an incronsing number 'have the
time and motley to take an ocean voyage
and European tour, and a number of
othere seek the mouutnhis of New England
or the seashore of Maitre, Couneoticttt or
New Jersey. But the popular r000rts fox
theta) who wish to stay within striking
distance of tho pity aro hake Simaoe,
which ie becoming surrounded by mettle•
mento. of Toronto summer visitors, Germ.
titan Bay, the Muskoka Lakes, the Lake
of Baya district, the Itawartha Lakes and
the other localities et central Ontario,
which aro honeycombed with lakes and
streams.
THE REALSUBURBANITES.
A population of aevveral thousand And.
summer houses along the north chore of
Lake Ontario, so close that the men folks
can get to the city for business by train
every day. -These settlements extend al.
moot as far a0 Hamilton on the west and
.a similar distance to the east. Some of
these enthusiasts 'have hunt residences
suitable for all the yawl habitation, but
the winter "suburbanites" have not mul-
tiplied fast as yet. Still othere erose oho
lance to the Niagara and Grimsby die.
inlets, and smaller ermine emitter all over
the Province. Scarcelya town but has
its tuota of Toronto irolidayors.
But they nearly all get back in time
for the Exhibition, and Toronto le haunt,
if they only bring all their summer
friends with them.
COTTAGES -OORT $600 FOR SUMMER.
Toronto Island, deserted to the east
'rinds andmountains of ice in winter, is
itself the center of 'a dense summer po-
pulation. It is only a sandbar which,
while providing a delightful beach gives
e`.
little encouragement to vogation.• But
it remains tremendously Popular, no 00.
denoted by the. fart that comparatively
small, Tough finished frame oottagee oem-
mend. telltale of 6500 and more for the
summer months.
CITY F12OF VISITORS.
But TorontoL'L "dhows no signs of quietness,
even in the dog days, for it is itself a
.summer resort. Tra)fio on all the down.
'town streets is as dense in July as it le
in April. It is only when one visits the
better residential streets and sees long
rows of houses with the blinds drown
anti no sign of life anywhere visible that
•one realizes that the 'holidays are in full
swing.
Every day American visitors •throng the
retell districts. Many of them Dome by
boat from Niagara. American rollwayo
from all over the States run •excursions
to Niagara Palls and from that point
thousands dally make a ono -clay trip
•aoross Lake Ontario to Toronto. The
•crowd at the foot of Yongo street after
the arrival of a boat often mune to he
•oompooed entirely o't visitors from Ben-
tudky, Tennessee or other aouthorn pointe.
'They are ensily disttnguiohod from bright-
oheeked 'Oauadiano by their sallow cont.
nloxiona, and the little peculiarities of
their rlothes, and when they speak, by
-their delightful southern drawl.
GETTING A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW.
If their visit is but for the day the fa.
'vorite thing to do 'is to take a sight-
seeing motor bus, and have a "joy ride
,around the city. The guides give them a
lot of so -milled Information about men
and places, most of which will ooarroly
boar examination. 'But they go away
happy 'because they at least thin they
'have learned a lot about Toronto and
Denude. and there is no people tinder the
sun more deeirous of ouperflaial know.
ledge than the Americana.
- But 'many of them stay more. -than a
Any. and perhaps make further exopr-
atone into -Canada. The traffic to 'ineroas-
ing -year after year, which indicates that
those who romp must marry back 'favor-
ab'le impressions.
DANGER OF FLAG INCIDENTS.
-one thing that continually threatens to.
mar the visits of our American mulles
is the ever-present danger of a flan 'in-
cident cropping up. Perhaps It is an
over.sealons Yankee patriot, or it may
be a materialistic Canadian merchant
• seeking customers, who invitee trouble
by an improper rise of "'01d Glory." The
trouble le that we on this continent have
not yet learned the etiquette of flag fly-
ing. The universal rule le that if it is
desired to display, the flag of a foreign
oonntry, the flag of the soil on which it
stands must ton it on the mast. If this
rule were universally followed there would
be no reason for anyone to teel insulted,
and no reason for nnv complaints.
"HERB" LENNOX'S PICNIC.
"Herb" Lennox's picnic in North York
hoe becomean annual midsummer insti-
tution. It is announced that, now that
Tammany Hall of Now York bas gone
out of the picnic business, "Herb's" is
the greatest political picnic in America,
No disrespect is intended by the use of
the nickname "Herb." That's what be
fakes to be called, and the name under
which be advertises the Menlo. It helps
to make votes, and besides he really likes
It.
North York is one of those constituencies
which sheave more loyalty to men than
to parties. This is illustrated by the fact
that it is nearly the same riding that
now gives Lennox a thousand of a ma-
iority that used to give Sir William Mn
look a four -figured majority nearly every
election. "Bill" had his own ways of
keeping in torch with his constituents,
the Menlo is 'Herb's" way—one of them.
It also gives him an opportunity to show
a lot of his pity frionds the beauties of
Lake Simaoe. The farmers and their
families come In thousands. There Is
dancing and sports and a gond time gen.
orally, with a suitable seasoning of
Speeches for the more serious-minded,
epeeohes which,- it does not mood to bo
added. contain only good Conservative
doctrine.
A HYDRO -ELECTRIC LOSS.
There le general regret at the retire-
ment of P. W. Rothman from the chief
englneorship of the Hydro -Electric Com•
rel5elon to go into private practice. In
his profession Sotliman is regarded akin
to a genius. By birth he is Danish and
talks English onlywith a decided, but
very attractive, anent,
lila bobby to airships. He has designed
more then one, ,and has construotod, mod.
qts. Mn,v times have his reporter Mende
Mended with him to lot them print an
airship atony about him, but he always
refused, He was too busy working for
the Government, be said.
Heckman 008d to be very shcrt•oighted,
Than when on a bier engineering job in
Liberia he .mot with an accident which
tbrouR i 1 is hndy.a Ice wase of knoelcod tsense•
less and badly.sca,'red by the barns, but
his'ahortrsilrhtedtiess vanished.
He applied to tiro H4dro•T.lootrio Com.
mission thtougb nn advertiooment in a
New York engineering paper, And it
1158 0 Snoky day when he Came to flan.
ado, He pronosee to 'stay here.
LIFE AT A DUTCiT COURT,
Queen Renfro Bible to Her House -
hell Every Morning.
A peculiarity of the Dutch Court
is the morning Bible class, which
)troop Wilhelmina established some
trine back, The members comprise
hlr entire h•otuseholdparticularly
the lower-class servants, The read-
ing eammeneB5 at )fine a,m. daily,
and continues for e quarter of an
hour 01so. The Queen, who per-
sonally teleets the chapter he bo
a
read, does the reading in a °leer,)
iiigh-pitched voice,
The Dutch Queen loads the sim-
ple life. She rises at seven a,m,,
summor and winter alike, and, af-
ter taking her Eau de Cologne bath,
makes a hasty toilet, She then
goes into her writing -room, looks
over her letters, and reads through
the chief Dutch and foreign news-
papers, Wilhelmina does not be-
lieve in clippings. She wants to
have the whole newspaper, so that
she oan read as much of every arti-
ale es she pleases.
From two o'clock on she is et
home to the Ministers of State, with
whom she does. not 'hesitate to en-
gage in lively arguments if a pro-
posal does not suit her, Dinner
takes place at seven p.m., and is an
elaborate affair, usually consisting
of eight courses, Like a true Hol-
lander, Queen Wilhelmina retiros
to rest at 10,30 every night.
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AKING SAFE INVESTMENTS
A RECENT AND ACCURATE DEFINITION
OF 'THE TERM "INVESTMENT."
A Couple of Examples as to WhY It 50
Incorrect to Call Even the Most Censer -
vat Ivo Common Sharps investments
When Using the Term Inn its Strict
Meaning.
The articles oontributed 'by "Inventor"
are for the sole purpose of guiding prop-
pective Investors. and, if possible, of sav-
tng• them from losing money through
placing it in 'wild -cat" enterprises. The
impartial and reliable oharaoter of the
information may be relied upon, The
writer of these articles and the publisher
of this paper have no interests to serve
1n connection with this matter other than
those of the reader.
(By "Investor:"1
Some or the writers on tnvoetment,
wh000 opinions are most respected, claim
that putting money in shares is not in-
vesting it. This definition of an invest
went is something which one may Pur'
chase in the shape of a negotiable eacnr-
ity which involves the payment of inter-
est and the repayment of the capital at
some fixed time in the future, or under
certain definite conditions. In other
words, an investment is always a loan,
and any •seouratioe which Bo not repro.
sent money loaned are not, according to
their definition, au investment. True, they
bay, some securities almost fulfil all the
requirements of nn investment that are
not loans, but-stridtly speaking they are
not investments.
There is a good deal to bo said for
their position, for undoubtedly that de.
soription comes very close to a general
definition. Unfortunately some mortgages
cannot bo considered investments, nor yet
some shares cannot be accurately de-
scribed se 'speculations. However, it is a
fairly accurate definition, and pretty well
on the safe side.
Take such a seonrity as Consumers' Gan
Company of Toronto shares. These are
used as an illustration became) the Com-
pany is so situated that the hypothetical
oases which 'I shall suggest cannot take
place in connection therewith. i make
this statement to reassure any holders of
Consumers' 'Vas stock, who might other-
wise feel uneasy at reading these sug-
gestions.
Now, Consumers' Gas -stook is as nearly
a true investment as it 3s possible for a
stook to be. It 'has no speculative aide.
Its returns are 'limited 'by law to 10 per
cent. on the par value, which represents
about 51.4 per cent on the present mar
kat price of the shares. Its aarninge have
been steadily growing, and it is well
managed. It commands a ready market
with very few 'fluctuations in price. its
assets are substantial and valuable• Ap-
parently it is a pito quibble to say it is
not an investment,
Suppose, however, the rodent annexe.e,
tions to the City of Toronto required a
sudden expansion in the company's eye -
tem of mains and in its plant. A loss
substantial company would find it ewes.
miry to issue securities more attractive
than ordinary stook to raise tho money,
and conceivably the Consumers' Gas
:Company during some ouch period of
stress as occurred in 1898, 1902 or 1907
might find it necessary to sell 'bonds to
raise title money. These bonds would, of
worse, Dome ahead -of the common stock,
and that stock world, by the issue of
bonds, become leen satisfactory no an in.
vestment. Indeed, it might happen that
as earnings are limited to a sum -suffici-
ent to pay 10 per cent..on the common
stook, that in order to pay tho bond in.
terest it would bo necessary to out the.
return .on the junior security.
Or, moose, under stroma of a .coal
strike 00 some other nnforsoen contin.
genoy the Company's earnings fell 'be-
low the 19 per cent. mark. It would be
•neoe0sary to ant the dividend in order
to keepwithin the earnings.. But a bond
in -a similar position couldn't be denied
its interest. In a period of etrees such
n, company could raise by means of a
loan from its bank enough money to
take caro of ouch a temporary contin-
gency. But the law and the ordinary
principles of good business would pre.
vent the directors taking similar steps in
connection with the dividend In such a
case.
That le why a stock should not be called
an investment. Many people will find
fault with this attitude, but when we come
right down to facts nothing can be de
visci which will come ahead of a mort
gage—and therefore of bond, which Is
steered by mortgage; but if a- contin-
gency arisen it is a very simple matter
to slip in a couple of bond !sones and
all desariptiens of preferred stook be-
tween the common stock and the oeoot8.
And even if thorn is nothing between,
the nommen shareholders has no right to
demand, or expect to got his money back.
Ho is.merely a partnner in the enterprise.
GET ACQUAINTED WITTY YOUR
NEIGHBORS.
1f you aro genteel in appearance and
courteous iu your manner, you will be
welcomed in every home in your locality,
when you are shelving samples of our su•
porior' toilet goods household neoceoltiee,
and reliable remedies. Thea eatiefaotion
uvitloh our goods give, planes the users
nutlet an obligation to you, which wins
for you the same respect, esteem, and In.
Minato friendship given the priest, physi.
Men, or pastor, and you will make more
money from your spare time than you
dream of, beeidos a host of friends,
This is your opportunity for a pleasant,
profitable and permanent business. Ad.
dross, The Home Supply Co., Dept 20, Mar.
rill Building, Toronto, Ont.
VACCINATION DID IT.
With regard to smallpox and vac-
cination, it is interesting to learn
that more than 10,000,000 people
leave been vaccinated in the Philip-
pines without a single death occur-
ring, and smallpox, which had been
prevalent since the occupancy of
these islands by the Spaniards, has
practically ceased to exist, In note-
worthy
to other diseases, it 1s o
worthy that the results obtained by
substituting unpolished rice in in-
stitutions of the Government of the
Philippines have been all that could
be desired, tor at present beri-bora
is an unknown disease in all these
institutions,
ELUDING THE EVIL SPIRITS
0111110115 MITES AT PARSEE
AND CHINESE FUNERALS.
Mourners Bang 'i'rays, Ileal Gongs
and Play Weird Musical In-
struments.
In most Chinese funerals profes-
atonal ,mourners are employed.
They cover their heads and faces up
and yell and sob and scream and
groan at the top of their voices, not
with the idea so much of allowing
grief, as with the intention of driv-
ing away the evil spirits from the
soul of the departed.
A precaution taken is that the
funeral cortege passes over running
water before the dead is actually
buried, as this may be the means
of throwing the pursuing fiends off
the seent.
At the graveside a precaution is
taken which is typical of the inge-
nuity of the Chinese mind. A large
packet of thin rice paper contain-
ing ing some hundreds of leaves, writes
a Hongkong correspondent of the
Westminster Gazette, is stamped
all through with seven peculiar slits
like those made with the nib of a
pen. The whole mass of paper is
burned and the ashes scatterd
around. When, therefore, the
fiends arrive, presumably very ex-
hausted with their efforts to catch
up with the Chinaman's soul, they
find to their dismay that they have
first of all to piece together all the
scattered ashes of paper, and then
to go in and out of the seven holes
in .each individual sheet of paper.
As you can readily understand,
even a very snick fiend finds this
rather a tedious task, and by the
time he has accomplished it the
soul of the' departed has arrived in
THE LAND OF THE BLEST.
There is little or no ceremony ac-
tually at the• grave, -but food is
cooked in the carcase at a sort of
altar, and is left for the deceased
in ease he may feel peckish, and a
quantity of joss sticks are left burn-
ing
urning round the grave.
Another important point is, if
possible, to bury the deceased in his
or her native village. When we
were waiting for the harbor mas-
ter's launch to take us home by wa-
ter we found on the wharf a poor,
shabby coffin laid out alongside of
a roasted ox, over which friends
and relatives had mounted guard,
and were moaning and playing mu-
sic, which din and tumult had to be
kept up until the boat arrived to
take the wanderer home. Directly
the boat started, water having been
crossed, the spirits would be done
and the efforts could be relinquish-
ed,
The Chinese are never in a hurry
to bury their dead it is only the
Government regulations which force
them to do so. The other day a
Chinese party, con'iprising husband,
wife, several children and an- old
mother, started off for a short holi-
day trip up the river by steamboat.
On the way the mother died, but do
you think this put an end to the
jaunt or made the party leave the
launch at the next stopping place?
Not a bit of it.
They just screwed tip the old lady
in a box and took her around with
them, determined that at any rate
she should be given the opportunity
of enjoying herself; and so it con-
tinued for eeveral days till the cof-
fin fell overboard by mistake and
they lost it.
A CURIOUS DIFFICULTY
.often arises on aeceent of the an-
cestral worship of the Chinese, and
has caused much litigation. Many
rich Chinamen die leaving four or
five parts of their estate for the
purpose of ancestral worship, and
when this is disputed the courts have
to settle whether the gift is or is
not wholly for "superstitious uses,"
as the legal phrase goes. As it. rule
the court is rather inclined to wink
at such bequests. After all, a good
deal.of this worship consists of hav-
ing money set apart so' that a cer-
tain number of joss sticks may be
burned every moon, and there is
also a ceremony which takes place
on every anniversary of the death.
of the ancestor, when all the clans -
and have gifts for the departed, ands
also propitiatory offerings on bis
behalf. On the other hand, a good
deal of money set aside for ancestral
worship is actually applied for edu-
cational charitable and other re-
cognized purposes.
Shortly after my arrival at, Hong-
kong I attended a Parsee funeral.
Most of the followers attended in
ordinary "whites" and tepees and
colored ties, only the chief mourn-
ers wearing the conventional fruck
coat, tall hat and black tie,
The curious thing about the
funeral was the number of other
funerals we'ran across that day. In
fact, when the coffin was being
borne en the shoulders of the Par-
see mutes into the cemetery (all of
them dressed in white, with white
gloves and little round white caps)
followed by the motley assembly of
"mourners" drawn in rickshaws
BY SHOUTING COOLIE BOYS,
we got hopelessly mixed up with a
Chinese funeral which was making
for the Chinese cemetery adjoining,
and a good deal of offence was
caused on either side.
The English, Chinese and Parsee
cemeteries all lie together in what
is called "the Happy Valley," and
this is also the place where the
steeple chase racing takes plates,
When we and the Chinese cortege
had at last got sorted out, the
ceremony proved to be a very short
one, the two officiating priests sing -
Bonged along, chanting away to-
gether at a breakneck speed and
then suddenly dapped.
The coffin was clumsily' lowered,
the two sons of the deceased threw
handfuls of earth on it, and their
example was followed by the other
Parsee mourners, and then every
one gradually drifted off across to
the golf club and the raping course
--the last solemnities were at an
end. The coffin still remained ex-
posed, save for its sprinkling of
earth. The abrupt conclusion
seemed to make the whole service
empty and hollow.
FORCE OF THE SEA.
Sometimes Beyond Human Power
to Estimate.
A pond troubled by a pebble gives
a comprehensive idea of the meoh-
anism of the perpetual motion of
the ocean—now slow, regular and
majestic, now rushing in ungovern-
able fury against the land. When
a pebble falls in a pond it produces
a fine circular line, which widens,
multiplying until stepped by its
boundaries. Just so is produced
the surging of the sea.
When a wave, whatever its
strength or its weakness, meets a
solid obstacle, whether that obsta-
cle be a Pocky cliff or a ship, the
swell rebounds to extraordinary
heights. Lighthouses are often
swept by the sea from base to sum-
mit. The length of waves is be-
tween twenty and thirty times their
height. A wave sixty feet high is
between a thousand and twelve
hundred feet long. When a cyclone
is in action the sea runs wild .with
tierce beyond human power to esti-
mate. Blocks of granite weighing
e thousand tons aro caught and
rolled like pebbles to distances of
three, hundred feet and more.
A wave ' from thirty-three to
thirty-five feet high and six hun-
dred and twenty-five feet long—
such a wave as the sea produces
every eighteen seconds—represents
power of about 1,350 horsepower,
steam, per square yard.
HE GOT IT.
A lady, a baby and a bright -
looking nurse -maid entered the
railway carriage. The lady pre-
pared to go "nap," the baby pre-
pared to bully the maid and the
maid prepared to defend herself.
Every time the little villain scream-
.ecl because he couldn't kick the
maid, the mother, with closed eyes,
said, "Don't tease the child, Mary;
let hila have his way l" Suddenly
a wasp sailed into the carriage and
the boy made a grab at it. "Willie
mustn't," said the nurse, Willie
screamed, "Let the child have
what he want's," ordered the sleepy
mother. "Bu -k, xna'am—" "Let
him have ib, I tell you!" Willie,
thus enoourageoi, made a splendid
capture, and then delighted the
other passengerswith his scream, of
men of the dead man assemble at agony. "Lot him have it, Mary,
the grave and roast meats and snapped the lady a@,tain. "Ma'am,"
cakes and chant and say prayers, said Mary, "he's go.b it,"
A L f G1PIMAT1i TIT P011. ']'AT
• husband--"Wlty don't yeit do your hair the woty you maid to
Wife --"Why don't you 1"
BENEFIT OF MEAT DIET.
Ducklings Reached Maturity Twice
as Quickly as Vegetarian Birds.
Two eminent members of the
French Academy of Sciences have
just hit the theories of the vegetar-
ians a hard blow. M. Magnan has
spent many years in studying the
influence of different kinds of food
upon the different organs of the
human body; consequently he has
been much interested in the theories
of vegetarians and determined to
put these to a very practical test.
The result of this test has just been
reported to the Academy through
Edmond Perrier.
Nl,
Magnan selected ducks as his
subjects. He took the ducklings as
soon as they were hatched and seg-
regated them into groups. One
group he fed exclusively on river
fish, another group received nothing
but grubs and the larvae of insects,
a third group was kept on a gener-
ous vegetarian diet consisting of
bread, Indian meal, cabbage, nuts,
anything purely vegetable that
birds could be induced to eat, The
fourth group received a meal of
day and was
butcher's meat every
allowed to eat other things besides.
esides.
M. Magnan weighed his ducks
once a week and kept a careful re-
cord of their variations.. He estab-
lished a perfect curve for each
group of birds, showing every
change of weight from beginning to
end of the teat,
Ten weeks after they were hatched
the meat -eating ducks had attained
an average weight of 53 ounces; the
grub -eating of 39 ounces; the fish -
eating of 32 ounces, and the vege-
tarian ducks of only 21 ounces.
At the end of fourteen weeks the
meat -eating ducks were full-grown
adults, weighing on the average
four pounds and a half. It took the
ducks of other groups from five to
six months to attain this size, the
vegetarians being the slowest of all,
From which M. Perrier and M.
Magnan draw the deduction that a
varied diet, containing at least a
certain amount of meat, is physiolo-
gically beat for man as well as for
duck,
Before you sympathize with the
under dog make sure that he didn't
start the scrap.
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you are wasting the other fellow's
time.
No, Cordelia, going up in an air-
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undertaker a job.
Save Money and Increase
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as PERIODICAL
PAYMENT
PLAN ”
for the purchase of
stocks and bonds.
This Booklet shows bow
you can create capital
through a small monthly
savings. It also shows
how these savings are
protected and how they
are available for use at
any time if required.
Write to Investment
Department.
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PERM . NE p' T Inc-'
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where there is theg reatest
per capita wealth, Bonds
form the largest item in the
list of investments. Bonds are
considered the most desirable
method of investment from
standpoints of safety, income
and convenience.
• The purchase of the fust
pond—whether $ic1o, $500 or
$i000—forms the basis of a
permanent and independent
income, The satisfaction in its
possession stimulates the desire
to own another.
We can aid you in solving
the problem of making your
money earn+ more money—
making your savings grow and
Earn a constantly increasing
income.
The man of small capital
should consider the safety of
his investments. He needs to
know about bond investments
because they offer the highest
possible return consistent with
absolute security.
We have excellent bonds in
denominations of $b00 and $500
as well as $100o. The security
of these bonds is established
by expert engineers and expert
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NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOUN
BULL AND 1118 PEOPLE.
Occurrences in The Laud That
Reigns Supreme in the Com•
mercial World.
John Garbutt Imeson accidentally
shot his sister at West Hartlepoo-
John Brown, a famous rat-catcher
so£uicide, West Houghton, has committed
William Eldridge was sentenced
to a month's hard labor for clew
orating graves.
Mr, A, Giles, electrical engineer,
osf Blackburn, has been shot by
strikers in Liohon,
Prince Arthur of Connaught
opened the new buildings of the
Ronal Academy of Music,
A 000katoa ninety years( of apps
has died at the cottage homes at
Hornohurch, Essex.
Four persons were injured in la
motor car smash on the Bath Road,
near Taplin Station,
Mr, W, Bromley,
Mayor of Dover
was knocked down by a bicycle and
y
sinjured,
nured
A Huntingdonshire mushroom iq
reported as weighing two pounds
and 42 inches round.
Four were killed and twenty in-
jured in a wreck in the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway,
A youth named Oliver Wendell
Holmes wee accused of setting fire
to a hedge at Hathorne.
Mr. W, Thornton, the chief cop, '
stable of Gravesend, has been pre-
sented with 293 on his retirement,
John Eason was injured in 0n cis.
plosion in a telegraph junction box
in Buokingham Palace Road.
Four men were charged at Croy-
don with stealing and receiving
thirty-eight dogs, valued at 2100,
A London General Omnibus Co,'s
motor omnibus crashed into an of-
fice window in Leadenhall Street.
Forty-seven persons, thirty-five of
whom were children, - occupied 0
nine -roomed' house in Marylebone.
A boy aged seven has bean ,com-
mitted to the Maclesfield Industrial
School for thrashing his father.
Dr. Purtsell of Durham has died
through losing oontrol of his cycle
and running into a railway bridge.
William Wilson was fined £5 for
trying to kiss a girl in a train be-
tween High Wycombe and Padding-
ton.
Tram cars under the "pay -as -you -
enter" system, the first of the, kind
in England, will run at Eate>Fhead.
Frederick Walker, a Paddington
racing tipster, was sentenced to two
months' hard labor for stealing 210,
Mr. W. D. Johnston, the young
aviator, has died in Munster In-
firmary from injuries received in a
motorcycle accident.
Whilst entering the Mersey the
schooner Alice and Eliza struck a
buoy and sank immediately.
Guests at a wedding at Shaebnrty-
ness wore buttonholes of radish,in
honor of the bride's father, known
locally as the "Radish Ring,'
An action at the Wandsworth
County Court was terminated by
the announcement that defendant •
had dropped dead when summons.
was served.
DOCTORS DISAGREE.
Some Say Typhoid Vaecine Will
Give Typhoid to Those Treated.
Prof. Metchnikoff has started an-
other rumpus in the medical world,
The famous advocate of sour milk
as a preventive of old age recently ,
lent the high authority of his nacos -
to a method of vaccination against
typhoid fever. in which the living
microbes of the disease are injected
into human beings.
This was discussed at a recent
meeting of the Paris Academy of
Medicine, to which an extraordi-
narily large -crowd of physicians
was attracted by the title of the
principal paper "Note Upon 5,000
Cases of Anti -typhoid Vaccina-
tion," by Capt. Vincent. of the
Val -de -Grace 'Oita IT Medical
School, Capt. Vincent is the inven-
tor of the common anti-typhgid.
vaccine, now used in almost all the
armies of the civilized vorld, His
vaccine is made from the dead ba-
cilli of typhoid, sterilized, and pos-
sessing all the virtues of a living
vaccine without its dangers, }Ie
poi !lied out that Prof. Metehnikoff's
vaccine possesses the grave danger
of giving real typhoid to hint who is
at'ei-ln g immunity therefrom', and in
addition 1s very likely to Create dis-
ease, bear contagion about and
communicate it to others.
After Cant. Vincent hos described
the universal success of his method,
Pref. Chantemesse, whose anther-
itv ranks with that of Prof, Meteh- '
nikeff, says
"Never.under any Cl roll nista .nos
would 1 infect the living,bacilli o}
typhoid ander the pretext' o7
entat1on. 1 shall never consent TO
fallow a method that, may be mut-
domes," '
Cant. Vincent's method of anti-
typhoid vaccination received its
most thoran h
beet in Algiers ers attd
Morocen, whore it virtually render-
ed the Trench army immune from
that disease, It is tised by the
American Army and the National
Guard of many States. end there Is
rot much likelihood of Metchni,
koff's system replacing it,