The Brussels Post, 1912-8-22, Page 6TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING AT THE HUB
OP THE PROVINCE..
The Olty's Hotel A000mmedatI011—Figuring
on Who'll be the Next MayOr—
Hareaster Excursions.
Attention is being called to Toronto's
lack of hotel accommodation. Complaint
is made that we are losing tourist bust.
nese, .conventions and other gatherings,
which bring business to the merchants,
because wedo not provide places to sleep
and oat, Certainly in the last seven or
eight years since the I{iug Edward Hotel
was completed, in a period when this city
bas increased in population by over fifty
per cent., there population bean comparatively
little increase 111 the hotel aecommoda,
tion.
The question has Rest because inter.
twined in it is the ,problem of liquor limon.
nos. No doubt the liquor men are making
the most of the lack of accommodation.
They say it is due to the insecurity of
the license situation. Not only do they
oriticize such Radical proposals es Mr.
Rowell's 'Abolish the Bar" platform, but
local option and lieenee reduot.ton oem-
Deigns are also to them an anthema. Even
if the bar is not abolished at one fell
swoop they fear that one of these days
we may have a local option .campaign in
Toronto, and they are ,10110100what the
result would be.
HOTEL CAPITAL SHY.
Every little while a story is ciroulatsd
that 00819 one is prepared to spend a
million dollars or more in a new palatial
hotel, but that they are prevented from
doing so by the instability of the license
situation. There is an excellent site for a
hotel at the corner of Bay and Front
streets, unbuilt upon since the fire, and
opposite the site of the new Union Sta-
tion. With the retail business moving ,
uD Yonge street there would seem to he
an opening in that district. While the:
extrenffi north end, with its increasing
railway business, also looks attractive.
But the hotel men's capital is timid.
Temperance people declare that hotels—
big hotels to big cities—can be made to
pay without liquor licenses. The best
examples in support of this theory are,
perhaps, to be found in Atlantic City, al•
though it is doubtful if anyone needs to
go dry in Atlantic City, eveu if he is
staying et a temperance house. No doubt,
some of the big Toronto hotels make lig
money out of their liquor licenses. Ae•
cording to rumor, the profits of the Icing
Edward bar are almost fabulous, and
some of the others do a rushing trade. In
others, such as the Queen's,the operations
of the bar are more inciental. But in
the vast majority of the 110 licensed ho-
tels in the city the bar Is the Wet in-
dustry. They provide only rooms and
meals to keep within the law. In fact, in
some you might always And all the rooms
Pull," and if you asked for a meal you
might not be refused it, but you might
have to wait an hour for it.
There is admittedly a lack of middle-
elaee hotel accommodation. In this To-
ronto suffers like all big cities. The man
from theaveragehome finds when he
travels that he either has to pay for
luxury that be does not want, or that he
has to put up with uncomfortable rooms
and distasteful food..
WHO'LL BE NEXT MAYOR?
Though the municipal eleotions are still
almost dye months away, mayoralty ean-
didotes are already jockeying for position.
It.hao bean assumed that Mayor Geary
will not again seek re-election. He has
had three years of it, which, under or-
dinary circumstances, ie supposed to be
enough for any man. The last two terms
he has had on easy terms; last election
ha had no opposition and the year before
no really serious opponent. But the
Mayor's chair he attained in the first
plata only by hard struggles. The first
time he was a candidate he offered him
self as a lamb for the slaughter. That
was in the historic Aght that Dr. Beattie
Nesbitt mode for the position, Neebitt'a
opponent was Joseph Oliver, a Liberal.
Nesbitt was beating the party drum for
all he was worth, and would certainly
have beaten Oliver in a single contest.
Recognizing this, inituen€ial Conservatives
who dirt not relish the idea of Nesbitt in
the city's chief magisterial position in.
duced Geary to run, withthealmost open-
ly avowed purpose of eplitting the Con-,
servative vote, 00 that Oliver would he ;
elected. The plan worked, and it is G. It. !
Geary Toronto has to thank tor keeping
Dr. Nesbitt out of the Mayor's chair in
the days when the Farmers' Bank was
suet getting under way.
THE HOCHEN-GEARY FEND,
Some might have boeu afraid of the loss
of prestige which a defeat would bring,
but it did not work out that way in
Geary's cavo. When Oliver relinquished
the °face, Controller Hocken aspired to
the encressio1l. Under other oiroumstanc-
se, Hocken might have beaten Geary, for
his sources of strength its the Conserva-
tive party were much the same, and ap-
parently about equally as strong as
Geary's, and he had many inOnentinl
friends among the Liberals. Ent the Lib-
erals who dont expect many of the sweets
of office in Toronto remembered Geary's
service to Oliver and there is little doubt
that in the strenuous struggle that re-
sulted Liberal votes decided the issue.
That was three years ago. After a
Year's absence from .Council Mr, Hocken
returned to the Board of Control. He did
not again essay to defeat Geary, though
the animosity kindled between them has
never died out, and not infrequently
blazes up at board meetings. Ent all the
time Controller Hocken has regarded him.
self as the logical euaceesor of Mayor
Geary. And at the moment he probably
expects that in the year of grace, 1913, it
will be Mayor Hocken.
His chances are, undoubtedly, good, but
there ars several poasibilitiea which here
to be reckoned with. In the first place,
Geary bas not definitely announced that
be will not be a candidate again. During
the present term his name has been fre-
quently mentioned to connection with
permanent cede and other positions, But
should he seek a fourth term as Mayor,
Controller Hocken may give him another
fight, and unless Geary completes the
year more aggreesively than he hoe be-
gun it Hocken might oust him.
CHURCH. A NEW ASPIRANT.
But, probably, the darkest shadow across
Controller Iloeken's 'mayoralty aspirations.
is cast by Controller Tommy Church.
Many people do not tape Church seriously,
but he gets votes. During Mayor Cleary's
absence in England be has been noting
mayor, and has been stirring things up
in a. way tint has drawn some favorable
comment, even from his critics, He is
erratic, is handicapped by a eerioue deaf-
ness, and lacks stability. But he. 10 en-
ergetic and bail fellow well met. He is
strong with the Conservative organize•
Nona with the Sous of England, the
Orange associationeven as Centro 'er
Hocken. While, not being to memo as
Hooker who is editor of the Grange !sen-
tinel,in his anti-Catholio pronounce-
ments, he might get moat of las Catholic
vote. Hocken is strong with the ouch
vote, Ohuroh would appeal to 'the bays."
So that in a straight contest between the
two it would bena.td to u'elc the winner,
And then there would be the clanger of
a third candidate. Perhaps seine mark
horse Gonne' a"ve or maybe s I ii,rral,
J. J. Ward, Controller for many ye ',-
but defeated last January, a itoman
Catholic Liberal, has long had aepira-
tiona to be Mayor of•4range Ot'nsorvsi've
Toronto. He wanted to run when Geary
Itis eexpeo ,tion of 1e r ntton it out,
as
purely partisan support, 1003,ng LI/slain
who with to koop parte politics out of
(MC alfalre as ter as possible, counselled
otherwise. Ite saeriflced hoes then, but
he might not do ao again with lr0eken anal
Ohuretr as contendere.
Altogether the Merlin,ty 3Onteet 1:1110
yearremises to be one of the most ih•:
teresting in many retire.
' THE GALT, OF THE WEST.
The doge et the harvester oxcur0tons to
the NOrthweet aro with us again. 11 to
thrr ihtere811ng eight to 101101107 Hawn to
e 'Union Station 1311 the ens et thew
excuralons get nqder way, for, of course,
Toronto ie the ohier
concenttmtieg polo.
jfor oastel'n 0 nada. aed motlt of rho ex•
ourslonists began thou main jou'ney from
here. There they are by rho hundrode,
representing, before the Benson is out,
nearly orery munloipolity and echool see•
tion of old Ontario. The majority are
men, mostly young men, but there is a
goodly smattering of women. too. In re.
recent years they are not ae In the old
days, all Oanedians, but often half are
new arrivals from the Old Country, who
are glad to take advantage of the Phe•
nomenatly low fare to g6et ee far west as
they eon. The farm Life of the prairie
appeals more perhaps to the Scetehman
than to the Englishman, into whose blood
the virus of oity life hae often entered
and who does not warm up to the idea
of going away off a thousand miles from
anywhere,
For the most part it ie a serioue•minded
crowd. Sometimes a few young bloods
make trouble and give the whole party
a bad name. They are not out for a frolic,
but to moat it is a serious business. Ca-
nadians are a pretty serious people auY-
reinain�iaotheve N'est. ir But theall
majoritoy
are modern Joehuas, going to have a look
around, and come book if they don't like
it. As Ontario knows to her cost many of
them find it a land which promisee milk
and honey" in a figurative sense at all
events. And they never come back—at
least to stay.
Fifty thousand of them are wanted thio
year. The job of iindiug that number
devolves, net on the government In either
of the western provinree, or the Domiu-
ion, but on the railways. The railways
put the problem up to their district pas-
senger agents, Earls one is expected to
get so many. And so the country is flood-
ed with posters, station agents are told to
get busy,•the newspapers are loaded up
with free notices and the nestioee once re-
spond. The job falls on the railways be-
cause if the crop was not harvested they
would be the heaviest individual losers
and besides, the harvest excursions coming
at a time when the western farmer is
counting his money, are the most effec-
tive immigration boosters yet discovered.
And every settler moved to Western Can-
ada means more business for the rail-
ways.
8
MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS
WHY BONDS FLUCTUATE IN MARKET
PRICE.
Their Value Is Governed by Law of Supply
and Demand, Like That of Everything
Else—Unpopular Bonds Often Steady In
Price Owing to Narrow Market—Cllt-
Edged Securities Appear to Have
Reached "Rock Bottom,"
The articles contributed by "Inventor"
are for the sole purpose of guiding pros•
pecttve investors, and, if possible, of say
ing them from losing money through
Placing it In "wild -cat" enterprises. Tho
Impartial and reliable character of the
Information may be relied upon. The
writer of these articles and the publisher
of this paper have no interests to Serve
in connection with this matter other than
those of the reader.
(By "investor.')
A man who had never invested was
talking the other day- If these bonds
are such gilt-edged securities, why is 1t
they fluctuate in price. Here a few years
ago Toronto debentures sold at a price
to yield only 33.4 to 4 per cent.. and now
you can buy them at a much lower price,
where the return is 41-4 to 4.30 per cent.
Then, perhaps, in a year's time the price
will have gone up again, and you will be
lucky if you can get them where the re-
turn is batter than 4 per cent."
The.value of almost everything is gov-
erned by the law of supply and demand.
If more people want to buy than there
are those who want to sell the price goes
up. 1f, on the other hand, the huyera
are fewer than the sellers the price goes
down. There is nothing particularly mys-
terious about it. Moreover. the number
of people who want to buy or sell high-
grade bonds depends on the loaning value
of money. When money is very cheap
they buy the expensive, low -yield bonds.
When money is dear they turn to those
of higher yield. Consequently, when
money is dear Low -yield bonds tend to de-
cline in price until their yield approxi•
mates the more nearly the loaning value
of money, while when money is pfeutfful
and the average rate low the reverse takes
place.
At the present time money is command-
ing a high rate, and, as a result, the price
of high-grade bonds has declined. Fur-
thermore, the past sear hae seen a large
number of small fires, houses, factories,
warehouses, etc., and the usual number
of large ones, several towns having been
practically wiped out by fire. The result
has been, of course, that thin^ insurance
companies have had severe losses. Now,
when an insurance company hasa lees
they must either pay it up in cash as
soon as the amount has been proved or
frighten all their policyholders into can-
cellation, losing their good name and
consequently their means of existing and
making an income, or raise the money
promptly and pay off the losses. To raise
money it is often necessary to sell some
of their iuvestments, and as the high-
grade, low yield bonds always command
a ready market these are sold, sometimes
at prices one or two pointe below the
market in order to Facilitate a ready
sale. This, of course, tends further to
depress the market for high-grade bonds.
It also mane that these companies are
temporarily out of the market for bonds
during a period more or lese prolonged,
in whieli they are catching up the usual
amount of cash reserve they consider it
prudent to carry.
This has happened thio year, and so a
very substantial buying power has been
removed from the market for high-grade
bonds temporarily
Everything considered, the beat judges of
the bond market are of the opinion that
the price of bonds has about reached
"rock bottom," Money is showing au un-
mistakable tendency toward lower prioee,
and while England has been out of the
market now for a considerable period
any resumption of buying from that quar-
ter, not to mention our own are inr,ur-
aneo companies, will cause high-grade
bonds to resume their former heights or
at least move up from the very attrac-
tive prices they now command.
It is easily seen, then, that dUotuations
in bond prices are natural. A etatfonary
price often infers the narrow market that
is usually the lot of unpopular securi-
ties, nobody wanting to buy and holders
hesitating to sole For fear of breaking
the market for their own security,
GET ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR
NEIGHBORS.
ft yon are genteel to appearance and
courteous in your manner, you Will be
welcomed in evees, borne in your locality,
when you are allowing samples of Out FM
eerier toilet goods. household neeeesitiea,
and reliable
g remedies, The satlafaotion
ti der anrobligationivto you, which pvins
for you the same respect, esteem, and In.
itlnate friendship given the pleat, physi•
clan, or pastor. and you will make more
teener from your tante time than yen
dream of, bootdes a host of friends.
This is your Opportunity for a pleasant,
profitable and permanent business, Ad.
draw, The Home Supply C9., Dept 20, iter.
riil Bullding. Toronto, Ont,
ALWAYS SOME DRAWBACK.
"He married the prettiest girl in
town,"
"Well'?"
"Now . he's kicking boom she
can't cook."
OLD ADE IS ONLY A DISEASE
' biographer, in playing with his
friends' children and in listening to
the piano, Even this entertain-
ment he could not support more
than half an hour at a, time.
"He died I think, at 82, so that
20 years of his life was spent in this
MISERABLE FASHION.
"Darwin, about the same ago,
suffered from brain fatigue, and
could not work for any length of
time. He ate, perhaps, too much
meat."
Prof, Metchnikoff was asked whe-
ther he ltad continued his investi-
gations into gray hairs, one of the
signs and premonitions of old age!
His strong Russian face quivered
into smiles. "No, no," ho said.
"I am engaged upon more impor-
tant work. However, it occurred
to me that as, white hairs were
caused by the operations of the
chromophage, or color -eating mic-
robe, the latter could be sterilized
by applying heat to the hair.
"This has aroused considerable
interest in some quarters, and a
dermatologist tells me he has ob-
tained results by a species of
casque or peruke fitted over the
head, the temperature being raised
by trot water introduced into the
covering."
DECLINE OF 31OURNING.
Victoria's Dictum Concerning Wi-
dows N'o Longer in Force.
Queen Victoria always made a
point of royal widows wearing
something to show they remained
always in mourning. Her late Ma-
jesty wore "weeds" including a
wiclow's cap up to the very end of
her life. The Duchess of Albany
has always worn a veil in the even-
ing. Sometimes it is gray, says a
writer in the Gentlewoman, some-
times white, but always there, and
I believe will continue to be there,
though the Duke must have been
dead these eight -and -twenty years
or more.
The mot d'order at the court of
Queen Victoria was "once a widow
always a widow," and this not only
applied to princesses of the royal
house bet the ladies of the court as
well. If these latter ventured to
make a second marriage Queen Vic-
tiria always took an opportunity of
showing her disapproval, while one
lady who held a post tit court, and
had the temerity to take to herself
a second husband within a few
months of the death of spouse No.
1, was never invited to court again
in any circumstances whatever.
Nothing indeed shows more plain-
ly the difference in ideas between
the Victorian age and the present
day than the point of view that ober
tains as to mourning. The cynic%
who said that no one stayed at
home nowadays but the corpse over-
stated his case perhaps in the way
cynics are apt to do, At the same
time, it is remarkable that within
a s'ery short time of bereavement
one meets the nearest relations
mixing in society with the utmost
cheerfulness while all such lugu-
brious adjuncts as widow's weeds,
crape, and the like, are scorned by
all those who aspire to be fashion-
able,
TING GEOB.GE'S PIGEONS.
His Majesty Posseses a Fine Loft
at Sandringham.
The Icing is known as a keen agri-
culturist, a successful breeder of
prize stock, and an ardent phila-
telist, but it will probably Dome as
news to many persons that his Ma-
jesty is interested in horning
pigeons, of which he possesses a fine
loft at Sandringham. Twelve of the
royal birds are to take part in the
Grand National Pigeon Race, flown
from Rennes, France.
The prize money amounts to
£1,000, the Largest stakes yet asso-
ciated with a homing race, and the
King's birds will find themselves
included among some 5,500 competi-
tors, a record entry for the event.
The distance from Rennes to Lon-
don is over 250 miles, but many of
the birds, earning from lofts in the
north, where pigeon -flying is an en-
grossing week -enol sport, will have
considerably over 400 miles to
cover,
Orchards cover 250,000 acres of
land in Great Britain.
MAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO
LIVE 100 YEARS.
So Says Prof, 111etchnilcof, Who
Works Lille a Young Man
at 60.
Prof. Metchnikoff, speaking of old
age, said : "Though I am a Rus-
sian, I have been snore than 28
years in France, and, therefore,
am accounted French." Then he
began to give the personal side of
his life. "When I Was 35 I was
nourathenib. I had pains in any
head that prevented me from work-
ing properly. lily friends told me I
had cerebral anaemia, and doctors
gave me beefsteaks, which made me
worse. I had something wrong with
any heart, too. At the age of 53, I
consulted a specialist in Germany.
He diagnosed arterio sehleresis and
chronic nephritis. That was when
I began to take myself in hand.
"My ambition became to change
my intestinal flora from a natural
or wild flora into a cultivated one.
Only the other day, before my lec-
ture at the Academie des Sciences,
in which I announced my discovery
of glycobacteria for prolonging life,
I was able to prove by analysis
that my system contains practically
no poison.
SENILITY AND POISON.
"Old age is a disease—a poison
-
eaused by the putrefaction in the
-
digestive tract. We have been able
to establish this by artificially pro-
ducing age in animals. As yen
know, my dietary includes curdled
milk. My `point de depart' in this
case was the longevity of the Bul-
garians, who are accustomed to
take. this milk. There are many
centenarians among them."
"Thus by eliminating poison,
through the combative microbe, one
eliminates old age4"
"Yes, to a large extent. One
should be able to live to a hundred
—to a hundred and twenty, per-
haps—without4'iyishing to die. And
when I say `live,' please do not mis-
understand mo; I mean live with
enjoyment of all the faculties and
with sensations of pleasure, for,
without that, mere existence is
nothing. I am 67. Of course, that
is not a great age, but I assure you
I am more active, for my years,
than most men of my 'metier.' A
bacteriologist's life is very exhaust-
ing, making great demands upon
his vitality. Most of us are used
up before my time,
"In many active professions one
is forced to retire at 65, One can-
not continue to be an army doctor
after that time, and men like my-
self, engaged in close laboratory
work, requiring cheep concentra-
tion and experiments of an exact-
ing character, rarely outlast that
time, Now, persoually, I do not
think I am ready yet to be thrown
011 one side." And the savant
laughed in his delightful' way, and
shook his leonine mane,
STILL FREE FROM GRAY,
"I find I can work longer and
harder than many of my younger
colleagues. The assistants Here all
require holidays—a month at least.
After three days I want to start
work again 1 I attribute my energy
to my diet, because, as I tell you,
between 35 and 40 I was incapable
of sustained work, without feeling
malaise. ..
"lf I should die suddenly tomor-
row, it would not disprove my
theories, because I began late in
life. But the man who has barely
reached middle life might, very
properly, begin with every hope of
arriving at the best results.
"My dietary is not purely vege-
tarian or fruitarian, but is a mixed
diet, composed partly of meat: I
think a little meat is necessary. My
wife, who is much younger than 1,
cannot support as great a fatigue.
She follows a strictly vegetarian
regime,
`Intestinal poisons atrophy the
brain. It is a remarkable fact that
Herbert Spencer, at 69• years of
age, could not work more than a
quarter of an hour a day. He had
to spend his time, according to his
A REAL FJ,A'I.'III R i:D Q UADRUITD.
"Can you tell me what is a quadruped, Williel"
"An animal with four lege, Mins."
"Yes. Are there any feathered quadrupedal"
"Yes, Miss—feather beds."
REFORMS THEY PROMOTED'
WIIAT WOMEN HAVE ACCOI11-
1L1SIZED IN FINLAND.
Twenty-nilie fnipol'tant Bills Intro-
duced by Them in Fivo
Years.
"A great deal has been written
about Finland during the past year,
because of the struggles she has had
with Russia, British people have
had an opportunity of looking from
all points of view at the wrong
done to this exemplary little coun-
try by a barbaric tyrant," writes 'V,
Palen -hordes in the Contemporary,
Review. "Bait there is one ex-
tremely important fact in Finnish
history which has never been suffi-
ciently illuminated, and that is the
emancipation of. Finland's women.
FINLAND'S PIONEERS.
"These woolen have secured for
themselves a place in the world's
history as pioneers, and our de-
scendants will find them in their
schoolbooks; but in the meantime a
great many know only a very little
about them, and I meet people
daily who are quite ignorant on this
subject.
"Finland was the first country in
Europe to give women the same
rights as men. Only Norway has
as yet followed her example, and
with the same success. In 1903
Finnish women were admitted to
the Seim (Parliament), and they re-
garded their new rights so seriously
that at the first election, in 1907,
sixty of them went to the poll.
"Up to the beginning of last year
the women brought in twenty-nine
different legislative hills, of which
the Seim passed the following
(1) The establisment of laws for
child protection against ill-treat-
ment
(2) The complete freeing of the
wife from the legal guardianship of
her husband;
(3) The raising of the marriage
age from 15 to 18 yeas%
(4) The organization of colonies
for youthful criminals;
(5) The right of women to assist
in the department of public 'medi-
cine;
(6) The abolition of police obser-
vation over prostitutes.
AWAITING DECISION.
"In addition to this, all the wo-
men deputies brought in a petition
for the protection of women in the
streets from assault, thus indicat-
'ng the necessity for adding a new
clause to the criminal laws dealing
with. this matter.
"Among other women's bills
awaiting decision are the following:
A bill to separate the highest
court of law from the Senate, mak-
ing it an independent institution;
A bill to give Jews equal rights
with Christians;
A universal adult suffrage bill;
A •bill to regulate the relations
between workers, servants and em-
ployers;
A bill to increase the punishment
for ill-treatment of animals;
A bill granting free meals to
echool children ;
A hill. for improving the position
of illegitimate children and for the
establishment of Homes for them.
Bills for :
Maternity insurance;
The establishment of government
midwives;
For giving a wife the right to dis-
pose of her children (formerly the
husband had this right exclusive-
'
,
For the improvement of domestic
economy schools;
For the appointment of woman
as factory inspectors;
For enabling women to serve in
public institutions on equal- terms
with men. .,
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE.
"The deputies have been mem-
bers of all committees of the Seim,
and have taken part in even the
principal one, the grand committee,
which.m elected by the whole House
proportionally, and gives its deci-
sions on the most important ques-
tion of legislation and taxation,
these -questions being worked out
previously in special committees.
On this grand committee four wo-
men assisted—Dagmara Neovius, a
teacher, and editor of a journal;
Hedwiga. Solberg, head -mistress of
a teacher -training college;'. Mimi
Turinen, the daughter of an arti-
•zan, and Ora Kishinev, a dress-
maker."
Celia (gently)—"Yeti shouldn't
have proposed to me. You might
have known I'd refuse you,
George (savagely)—"I did know, or
I wouldn't have proposed 1"
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Andrew Lang Worst, With T. P.
O'Connor Second.
The distinction of being the worst
penman among the authors in Eng-
land, is believed to belong to An-
drew Lang, on whose prowess as a
producer of almost indecipherable
script there were some amusing
comments at the annual dinner of
the Correctors of the Press—which
means proofreaders—in London
last week. Mr. Cecil Harmsworth,
who occupied the chair, remarked
that he always had a great admira-
tion for Mr. Lang, but that his ap-
preciation of him had been greatly
enhanced since ho had the honor of
inspecting one of his manuscripts.
"It is an immense testimony to
Mr. Lang's gifts," he added, "if he
can read his own handwriting."
Then the speaker dwelt on the
case of T. P. O'Connor, M.P. He
declared that when Mr. O'Connor
sent an article to the press, the
compositors wished he had it type-
written, and when he had it type-
written, they wished ho had written
it by hand.
"It is an odd fact," added Mr.
Harmsworth, "that most poets pos-
sess the art of good handwriting.
Swinburne's script was a model for
all literary men, and be has a
worthy successor in Austin Dobson,
whose handwriting is no less lucid
than his poems." Bet .the author
who wrote the best hand of all, Mr.
Harmsworth said, was Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle.
1H
LARGEST FLYING FISH.
TIie largest flying fish en record
was served up for breakfast on the
British warship Ardeola a short
time ago. The Ardeola was home-
ward bound and was off the Canary
Islands when a large school of fly-
ing fish was observed. They were
apparently in full flight from some
deep-sea enemy.epsl.travelling rap-
idly. As the ship met and passed
them several flew on board and
were seized by the crew as welcorn.e
additions to the mess. One of the
fish measured nineteen inches; the
largest flying fish ever seen before,
the Ardeola's catch have never ex-
ceeded ten inches. The big one was
friend for the captain's brealeast,
Flying fish are very palatable and
taste like trout.
FIS
SHE EXPLAINS.
Dr. Dressup—"And an your two
little brothers are Boy Scouts?
Where do they do most of their re-
connoitering 1"
Miss Flasher—"In our refrigera-
tor."
One of the rare humorous sayings
recorded of Queen Victoria was de-
livered over drinking tongs. A
piece of very • modern music had
been played in the Queen's pre-
sence, manifestly not to her ap-
proval. "What's the matter '1" she
asked, "It's a drinking sung.. by i
Rubinstein, ma'am," was the reply.
"Nonsense," said the Queen, "no
ouch thing, Why, you could not
drink a cup of tea 'to that 1"
CANADA SECURITIES COH PCCATIC I, i LIT`O
INVESTMENT SECURITIES
F. H. MANLEY General Manager,
DIRECTORS.
Robert Olakerdlke, Esq, M.P., • President.
Sir Rodolphe Forget M.P. • VW-President.
James Carruthers, Esq. • • Vlco-Prasidnnt.
Rom 01 Ilford 3lfton. Lt. -091. E. M. Macdonald, K.C., M.P.
Paul Gsll bort, .Esq. 01lnl1nd Bristol, et,0., M.P.,
FFank Carrel, Esq, J. 0, sham Esq.
C. D. Warren, Esq. Col. James Fltaso31
0. P. Hill, Esq. W, ant Morden
C, A. Barnard, EaGrt„ K. C.
MONTREAL TORONTO
LOND-.19 ti-ve: •
MOST WONDERFUL TIMEPIECE
A Ff1ENCTIMA l INVENTS A
'UNIAUE CLO CJ.
Wakes Owner at a Given Moura
Lights Landis, and Starts
Machinery.
When a man goes to sleep at
night in calm eonfidence.that the
clock at his side will wake him at
6 the next morning he illustrate*
the faith (occasionally misplaced)
that we of this century put in mo-
chanieal devices.
A French inventor now invites us
to a more sublime exercise of our
confidence in machinery by bring-
ing out, a clock that we may trust
to awaken us at different hours on
different days in the week, to let
us sleep over indefinitely on Sun-
days, and to perform as many du-
ties between times, at specified mo-
ments as our fancy may dieteto,
such as starting a shoe factory 20
miles away at 5.36 a,m, on the 20th
of the month, lighting all the elec-
tric lamps in the City Hall every
day at 7.45, and so on.
If this clock does not exhibit in-
telligence of its own it surely acts
ns a remarkable storage battery of
its owner's intelligence, especially
when we consider that it requires
only a single setting for an indefi-
nite performance of all these pre-
cise tastes. This device, which has
been named
THE AUTO SIGNAL
by its inventor, Mr. Appoullot, is
described as follows:
"Me device rings an electric bell
for 20 seconds at 1 p.m., lights b,,
lamp automatically between 6 and
,. p.m., and finally works an elec-
tric motor on Mondays and Tues-
days from 9 to 10 p.m. These ap-
plications are sufficient to show the -
aim of the inventor.
"These diverse functions are ac-
complished by signographs which,
are set at the hours chosen for the
working of the apparatus and whish
are operated by the hour -hand, es-
pecially made for this purpose,
"The signograph is a sort of disk
movable about an axis fixed to a
rod that is part of a ring turning
about the axle of the hands, but•
having no relation with it. We may
thus change its place on the dial
without influencing the clockwork.
The movable disk, made of several
superimposed plates having each•
its special use, bears three ring-
shaped protuberances arranged
crosswise,
"These are kept on the plate by
a central screw; One receives the
impact of the hour -hand at the mo-
ment of its passage,
TURNING THE SIGNOGRAPH
and closing the circuit of the bell,
for example. If the circuit is to be
kept closed for some time—a few
minutes or a few hours—two signo-
graphs aro used, one to close the
eirenit and the other pointing to
the hour when the serrvice is to -
end, to break it.
"The signographs may be hourly,
daily, weekly or universal. In the
hourly signograph two of the ivory
rings diametrically opposed are,
colored red, the others being white.
They are so arranged that the
white onesare on a radius of the
dial, the point of the signograph
being at the hour at which the ap-
parate4 is to work. When the hour -
hand passes it acts on the white
ring and turns the signograph. The
circuit is made and then broken af-
ter a period of time that varies ac-
cording to the way the device is :et.
If it is desired that the signograph
shall not work, the red rings are
placed radially,"—Literary Digest..
SAMSON'S MODERN RIVAL.
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Woman Swings Her Ifasband
Ilannnoelt from Bair.
Fran Langer calls herself a hair
athlete. She claims to have -the-
strongest hair in the world. At a.
variety theatre in Berlin, Germany,
she has been astonishing the spec-
tators by the extraordinary feats
she performs with her hair.
Among these is that in which her
husband, a man of medium size and'.
weight, slings a hammock between.
a tree and her hair, lies down in it
and swings at his ease. It would
take a strong woman to hold with'
her hands one end of a hammock in
which a full-grown man is lying,
and Fran Langer has to brace her,
self and lean back so as to throw all'
her weight into the pull that stip-
ports the hummock, Women who
know how it hurts to have their
hair pulled will understand what a.
tough scalp she mast have to be,
able to bear anal a strain upon it..
Another of her feats is to place,
her lit le girl in a swing, tie this ;to,
her hair and. let the child swing to,
and fro. Sho has acquired this un-
usual steength in her 1a1i' by many
years of constant praatioe.
There is nothing astonishing
about the strength of Tran Lee
gcr's hair; what is extraordinary is
the strenellt of her scalp. For 1)11-
111(101 hair is, for its thickness, One of"
the rtree frost mate rin)s known This.
female Sain+cn has drilled her scalp
to c 'st .i pull that would leer the
• r•'t-1ry e'omv.o'e hair out by the.
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