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The Brussels Post, 1912-9-26, Page 31 J lePo e An exeoptions l opportunity for the investment of savings in a high-grade Municipal Security Yielding WA per cent. We offer the unsold balance of $1,200,000 One Year dotes, dated 1st September, 1912, of a Western municipality. They are In denomina- tions of $100 to $5000 and especially suitable for the Investment of small savings or money which Is now earning only 3 per cent. or less. COINPLETE DETAILS ON REQUEST itON0111111021 Bond CoMpa y, Limited Toronto Montreal Vancouver London, Eng. TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE SOME INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM THE QUEEN CITY. 'The Minister of Lands and Mlnes—North• land's Possibilities—Trades Union Movement—Exhibition. Criticism. While Provincial politics in general aro enjoying a rest considerable public at- tention is centered on the work and per - tonality of the newest member of the Cabinet, Hon. Mr, Hearst, who, a few mouths ago, succeeded Mr. Cochrane as Minister of Laude and Mines. The other day when Sir James Whitney was asked address a public gathering he contented imeelf with a few words and introduaod Mr. Hearst 1n his stead, "one of my young Men," the Premier described him, Mr. Hearst took Northern Outario as his text and delivered an important address on its possibilities. Coming from Sault Ste. Marie, where he is a leading lawyer, the subject is close to his heart. Mr. Hearst does not resemble his photo- graphs. They do not reproduce his Bandy complexion or his almost eery hair and mouetaohe. In manner of speech Mr. Hearst is not unlike his leader, Sir James Whitney. He has the same downright- ness and something of the same force of deliverance. Assuming that those quali- ties in speech reflect similar qualities of the head, it is .not difficult to understand why the Premier seleeted him out•of his large following for promotion, SILVER CAMPS (REVIVING, All the newe from the northland Serves to strengthen the optimism that has been developing during recent years. The known agricultural area 1s widening. In- stead of 16,000,000 acres in the (lay belt the figure has now risen to 20,000,000 aores. Settlement 18 slow, but the point- a rap- idly being reached when it will be cheap- er to clear New Ontario farms than it will be to buy prairie lands. Then it ought to bo easy to divert the westward stream of immigation to the north. The mining industry is making progress. The news from Porcuptua continues to be en- couraging in a moderato way. Ono mine is understood to have produced a quarter of a million dollars of gold up to the first of September. But the feature of the summer's work has been the revival of the silver camps, In Cobalt twenty- three properties have been reopened. And in Elk Lake and Gowganda operations aro under way in twenty-two °amps. And. doubtless, there will be a fresh crop of wild eats for the unwary, LABOR UNIONS IN ONTARIO, The annual meeting in Guelph of the Dominion Trades and Labor Council, held in Ontario for the first time in several. . Years, hes served to call attention to the progress and present strength of the progress Union movement in this province. While the organization is strong tumor'. ea ly and has secured in some trades an almost masterful position it is not with. out its weakuceses. It would be more exact to soy that it has not yet taken advantage of its opportunities tor the improving of the condition of the great body of workers. Up to the present in Canada, the greet objective of the trades unions has been to immense Wages, and the one Weapon 'they have used for this purpose has been the crude and often -dangerous and cruel form of warfare known as the Strike. In innumerable cases strikes or threats of strikes have beau successful, and it would be impossible to estimate the ad- vances in wages the unions 'have to their credit by this means. Poesfbly in many -trades they have doubled the rate of pay they would be receiving if there were no unions. In other trades they have failed, and the carious fact is that in the strong. ly unionirod city of Toronto many of the largest industries are absolutely non -un• ion, or open shops. The employers in some of those industries have no objection to high wages, and voluntarily pay the union scale- or higher, but it is also unfortu- nately the ease that some of the others pay absolutely inadequate wages. There are marry competent workmen in Toronto to -day, working 10 hours a day, receiving not more than 810.00 a week. If there is a 'family of any size, with no other wage earners to it, this means, with rent and the cost of clothing and provisionswhat they are, that these people are on the ragged edge of penury. Compare such• wage, with those that prevail in such a trade an the printers, Who are at present negotiating a new scale and have refused to accept a minimum rate of 821.00 a week for an eight-hour day. WORKINGMEN POOR POLITICIANS. Some of the labor leaders are coming to realize than the question of wages, 'while of vital I'm ortenee 1s but one p of 'manythin Ilii im things .,the which aro of the utmost'a, importance to working classes' men. aerial condition. The question of land values in its relation to • rent is one of these. So is the question of public ownor- abi of natural monopolies, n Bo Pis the .question of taxation, including that most powerful and all embracing engine of taxation, the tariff, These things affect the earning power of the workers just as much as the rate of wagon he receives. But the etrike is useless,as a weapon to grapple with them. And so far the labor unions of Canada, knowing only the etrike as a weapon, have done practically no. thing toward grappling with these prob- lems, The labor man needs a new wea- pqn, Heenamels, knows yet what it is: He realizes clearly only that there is need of eo/nothing, that conditions are rapidly stratifying into a forth which •duos not bode best for the classes getter. .ally. Some dry he will see that what he needs is political organisation, But at present the efforts in the Province to or- ganize a workingman's political party have fallen fiat, That party's dependable strength in the city of Toronto 18 pro. bably not more than a few hundred YOt. Rra- &IIIR LIARDIE SCENTS TROUBLE, (tier Hardie, the powerful hot eomeWhat intemperate Scotch socialist labor loader, a former collier, but the match in ]Dental 'equipment for politicalleaders anywhere, has boon lolling his -Canadian brothers some plain facts along these lines. Ile declared that in some reepoate privilege ban already become entrenched 01 Can. oda in a way that it will take genera,. tions to rectify, if It can ever be recti. fled. No doubt one reason organised labor has been slow to agitate in political mime. tions is that well organized labor has been so suoeessfnl in keeping its wages up to a good standard, that it has thought the other ]natters were of trivial import: alrco. Besides, on some of the meet im• portant tssuee labor mon are by no moans united In their opinion. A good example to the tariff tlnM:41on, At the moment some of the meet forceful mon in the um,' loos in Toronto are free tradere, or, et leaet, low tariffmen, But while the union men of the city would follow these leaders over a precipice if a strike worn involved it le doubtful if more than a small frac • Mon would follow tion in a free trade campaign. Judging by concrete results the labor men of Toronto are strongly protectionist, One result of the Canadian labor men's large attention to the question of wages ha, been to arouseevilest him some re- sentment on the part of the great army of other, workers and salaried people gen- erally who are disposed. to accept the statement that much of the high oust of living must be °barged to the unions with their unending demands for higher wages. As a matter of fact, the intermits of the union roan, the farmer, the atom - keeper. the olerk are largely In common. The problem is to and a basis for united action. ORITICS OP THE BIG 8100W. Now that the Exhibition 1s over, loyal critics who would not say a word while its success was in the balance, are rola ing their voices in protest on account of conditions in some of the departments. Tho chief complaint is that the Fair has been losing Re agricultural character. It is a significant fact that the entries in Live stock this year were much below those of previous years in point of num- her, and no satisfactory explanation has been forthcoming of why this was so. The live stook sheds and accommodation gen• erally for thle class of exhibits are far below whet they ought Eo be and no doubt before another year a great change will be made in this regard. Those in charge of the Exhibition realize that If the Fair is to be truly representative of National, as it is termed, it must not be allowed to become lopsided. TURN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY There is, a firm in Toronto who give hue.. drede of men and women an opportunity to earn from 0260.00 to 01,600.00 every year with but little -effort. This firm manufa0• tures reliable family remedies, beautiful toilet preparations and many necessary household goods, such as baking powder, washing compounds, stove, furniture and metal polishes, in all over one hundred preparations that every home uses every day. Just one person in each locality can secure exclusive right to distribute these preparations to their neighbors. They pay 100 per cent. commission to their agents. Write and secure sole agenoy be- fore it is too late. Address The home Supply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Building, To. ionto, Ont„ for full particulars. '3, WELLINGTON'S CONCEIT. Had Long Experience and Always. Felt He Would Succeed. "I hope to God," he said one day, "that I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing to be always fighting. While in the thick of it I am too much occupied to feel any- thing; but it is wretched after, It is quite impossible to think of glory. Both minds and feelings are ex- hausted. I am wretched even at the moment of victory, and I al- ways say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained." , The expression. of his face, which was lit up by an intensity of feeling, gave those, sim- ple wordsan eloquence which went .straight to the listener's heart. 1 was that listener, "It is experience," he said an- other time, "that gives me the ad- vantage over every other ofiroer. Nothing new clan happen to me, and I alvaye feel confident that I slhail succeed. The droops feel the same tonfiden•ce in me. Far that reason I firmly believe that if anything had happened to me at Waterloo the • battle was lost. I told Lord Uxbridge so. . Soon after a ball hit him. It must have passed over me, or my horse 1 But the finger of God was upon me."— Diary of Frances Lady Shelley. TO EXCAVATE ROMAN CITY. Scientists Rope to Tia bate of :First 1 I`I st British Occupation. The work of 'excavation of the Roman. city of Uriconium, which" lies buried on a site of some 170 acres six miles south of Shrews- bury, under 'the shadow of the Wre- kin, a noted hill in Shropshire, England, is about to begin, 1t will be very important and will extend over ,several summers ata cost of about $2,500 per annum, Little is known of the origin and early history pf the place. The name is evidelntly aloin to Wrekin and its site W108 probably deter- mined by the existence of a ford on the Severn. Tho excavation, it is hoped, will determi,ne the exaet date of tho first Roman occupation., Evidence .already available eloarl puts it within the first century A,D. It also confirms the tradition ad i,•i ou th e the eity was stormed and burn,; urn,I and its inhabitants messaar'ed, Coins found on the, site clearly bring the history of the occupatio9l down to the end ci the fourth coil tury only. The town surrounded b9 a wall and ditch, The only Roman masonry now above ground i3 a massive wall which formed part of the south wall'. of the basilica ad- joining tie public baths the rains of which were •e:veavated from 1869 to 1861 and 11re. '*At '6 gassed to view A STRANGE RELIGIOUS SECT THE DOLTII[OI101IS IN BRITISII COLUMBIA. Relluble Information About These , Strange People --Their Reit. pious Tenets. In 1908 a good deal of surprise was occasioned in Nelson, the prin- cipal town of the ICootenay dis- trict, in the south-east corner of British Columbia., by the news that the Doukhobors bad bought a treat of 2,900 acres of fruit -].and beside the Columbia River, some 30 miles west of Nelson, and 3,500 acres et Grand Perks, 76 miles farther to the south-west, and intended to plant them with oreherds. People began to ask one another—"Who are the Doukhohorsi" "Where, do they corns from?" '`What are they going to do with all that land'" And in allusion to certain Some- what disagreeable rumors which had attended their coming the fur- ther questions were occasionally heard—"Is it true that they go about without any clothes?" "Don't they ever marry?" "Are they dangerous religious fanatics?" "What do they believe, anyway?" In a little while certain items of reliable information became known about the newcomers, writes J. T. Dealby in Chambers's Journal. Originally the Doukhobors were a religious seat which sprang up 170 years ago in the Government of ICharhov, one of the provinces of the southern part of Middle Russia. Their religious tenets are in several respects akin to (those of the Quak- ers. THEY OBJECT TO BEAR ARMS for any cause whatsoever: The pre- sent leader of the community in British Columbia, Peter Veregin, was exiled to Siberia for 15 years for refusing to join the colors when called upon in the usual way; and his brother, who is also in British Columbia? was sentenced to 11 years' exile in the same part of the world ,for the same cause, At one time this (tenet seemed likely to lead to trouble when the recent Canadian census was taken. The people who settled at Brilliant, the Doukhobor colony beside the Col- umbia River, refused to give the authorities any information what- ever. Their leader, Peter Veregin, ably backed by his lieutenant, John. Sherbinin, tried his utmost to per- suade them to comply with the de- mands of the census officials. Ne- vertheless they quietly but firmly resisted his authority; and yet the deference they habitually pay to him is very great, and every man who meets him invariably raises his hat in greeting, The ground of the revolt was the fear and suspicion that the Canadian Government wanted to enroll them for military service. Another of their distinguisating traits is that they refuse to eat the flesh of any animal which has been killed for that object, and to wear its skin or hair or wool. To the out- side world their moat noticeable peculiarity is that they own all property in common; there is no private property. Their houses even stand two together, one being occupied by the women and the other by the men. THE WOMEN ' work one week in the fields, woods and factories, and in the second week do domestic work in the houses. They are simply but neatly dressed, the women wearing shawls over their heads instead of hats, and aprons over their gowns, and the men being dressed in jerseys and woollen head-dresses. They are clean in their persons, and wear an air of contentment and prosperity. Their feed consists, of course, of fruit and vegetables, with milk and bread. After suffering persecution on various occasions from the Russian Government, and being moved from nparthempire 0 o of t e to the oilier, , a large body of them, numbering several thousands, settled in the district of Yorkton, an the Canadian Province of Saskatche ata w n the, year 1899. In making thuis move they were assisted by English end American Quakers, and by Count Leo Tolstoi, the well-known Rus- sian writer, who was a very close personal friend of Pater Veregin, the Doukhobor leader, Indeed, peo- ple who knew the latter state that ha is himself a very remarkable man, long-sighted, a deep thinker, and a man of lofty ideals. In 1902 and the following ,years part of their body occasioned the Dominion authorities a certain de- gree of anxiety: Th�eybeea�'e pos- sessed with the de that the Sec- ond Advent of Christ was immi- nent, and they insisted upon set- tingout to Him,taking with theno food, and rejecting their own clothing wholly or in part in order that they might; appear be- fore the Lord divested of All stdven- titions .aids to any claim upon his considcr'atien. 1t was with CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTY that they were induced to turn il'Aelc to their ]tomes, after being 00- eorted for sine distaltoe by the llnvnl North-West Mounted Police, :In 1008, as stated above, their 1,ftlxlers bought 6400 acres of land in the Kootenay district of British Columbia; and these first purcllasel were quickly followed by others— namely, 1,100 acres at Slocan Juno - tion, abut 15 whiles west of Nel- son 2,500 acres at Pass Creek, a few miles fsu•ther west; 50 acres on the opposite side of the river from thear settlement at Brilliant, part of this being an orchard in bearing; and finally, in September, 1911. they bought the Crescent Valley Manch, only three to four mile. from Slocan Junction, comprising 1,200 aeres, a ranch which had been cultivated for some eight years by a prominent citizen of Nelson, In this way the Doukhobors now own apprexhmartely 11,000 acres in Bri tish Columbia, The settlement al Brilliant numbers ab. ,tt 1,600 pee pie, and that at Grand Forks near- ly 500. In addition, there are still 4,000 left at Yorkton, in Saskat- chewan. In Saskatchewan they have seven flour mills, and six elevators or big wheat warehouses. They engage principally ins agriculture, and are 'said 'to be good farmers. One who lived five weeks amongst them quite recently says :—"I watched during my visit to area if I could find a frown or a discontented face, and I was unable to discover one. In cleanliness they are superb, There is no liquor drank among the Doukhobors, no tobacco used in any form, no profane language, while an exhibition of bad temper is impossible to find. And the mor- ality of these good people is a world-beater The Douk- hobor.- are an extremely honest people; good neighbors, and most LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS. The progress they have made in Saskatchewan is marvellous." , In British Columbia it has been equally marvellous; although it is only three years since they began operations they have already clear- ed at Brilliant a total of 1,000 sores of land, .all of which is planted with fruit -trees, these numbering 60,000 in all, But they include within the range of their energies. many other trades and crafts, represented in the following: House -building, saw- milling, planing -mills, bee -keeping, sash and door factories, brick -mak- ing, flour -mills, linseed -oil mills, a jam -factory, and in Saskatchewan twenty three threshing machines with full complements of engines and men. At Brilliant they have also constructed a hospital; a huge concrete tank or reservoir 150 feet long, 70 feet wide, and 13 feet deep; and their own telephone system, At Brilliant they possess 60 horses, and in Saskatchewan no less than 7t'.) teams and 600 span of oxen. In the spring of 1911 they started a jam -factory in Nelson, and agreed not only to pay the market price for the fruit, but also to send their own pickers to gather it. This should prove of immense advantage to all those fruit -ranchers who are dependant upon small fruits for a living during the time that their or- chards are growing up and before they oome into bearing. The high cost of labor is a real handicap to the grower of small fruits. Not only is it dear, but it is also difficult to obtain. Renee the advent of this body of trained workers in the heart of the fruit -growing district of West Kootenay is likely to prove of great erarvl. service to the community in gen- During the hot summer of 1910 the Doukhobors proved of very great assistance to the local govern- ment fire wardens of the Pr'ovin•ce in fighting the many bush or forest fires which broke out. They were able to send out quite a SMALL ARMY OF MEN at the shortest notice, and in fact did so on more than one occasion. They are strong, sturdy men, and accustomed to hard, muscular work from their youth up, They live in frame, or wooden, houses, "large, two -storied, cot- tage -roofed buildings, with fine high ceilings and plenty of win- dows." They are built from lum- ber umbel• sawn in their own mill, and veneered with bricks made in their own br.'ick-kilns. At first there was a certain amount of prejudice against these people, partly because of what is supposed to be their refusal to fuse with the rest ofp population, o ulation, It t was felt that they were creating a self-contained community which held itself aloof from the rest of the people amongst whom they had come to live. An endeavor was made to break down this spirit of exclusiveness by getting up an agi- tation which should call upon the provincial government to enforce the attendance of the Doulch•oboa•s children at schools similar to those which exist in every part of the Province. To this the Doukhobors have expressed their willingness to conform, and have even invited the Board of Education to furnish there with proper teachers for schools wh0cih they are building for them- selves. Time drawsa th t if there does exist any religious fanaticism amongst them they are at pains to keep it to themselves, and (tone of it is evident to their neighbors about them. One temlency is, however, notice- able, which cannot but be disturb- ing to their leader's, Severe] of tihe when have loft their oolmmunities, rind ober working on their awn ac- count have began to buy little plots of land here and there, and clear them and plant fruit -(trees. This movement towards individual inde- i �Q ebeetheareeceeeereectsenereelttereeree ANY brands of Baking Powder contain alum, 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. w,eOma®me11 ENV.GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO,ONT. WINNIPEG MONTREAL k I10gaNl.ale � nhieCjtON r THIS 0A1005'eWOoo •' *COMPOSER MP fOLLOWIOG 1800011 PRAM/ 8Ontornte: rne001A11,050155 MAW MOM .' PARCH M CONTAINS NO Ate -,Y• pendence, which as yet is not he all pronounced, is extremely distaste- ful to Peter Veregin, and he seeks to discourage it by all the Means in his power short of force, which his beliefs will not permit him to exercise, MAKIN SAFE INVESTMENTS LONDON'S APATHY - HAS REDUCED PRICES OF MUNICIPALS. Prices Lower than for - Many Years—Like. Ilhood of Further Reduction In Opinion of Experts Is Remote—Many Bargains on Market. The articles contributed by "Investor" ere for the Bolo purpose cf guiding pros• pective investors, and, 1f possible, of sae, Ing them from losing money through placing it in "wild -cat" enterprisee. Tho Impartial and reliable character of the information may be rolled upon. The writer of these articles and the publisher of this paper have no interests to serve In connectionwith this matter other than those of the reader. • (By Investor.) The apathy of the London market for Canadian municipal debentures has con- tinued all summer, and now with tho be• ginning of autumn there appears to be no improvement to the eituatiepm. The result has been that such munieipalitiee as have recently 0011111 on the maxim: with bonds have been forced to sell them at abnormally cheap prices or have had to seek tempora, relief through financing by means of elyiorL-term noted or trea0nrg bills. Investors, therefore, start this fall season with numerous opportunities for. purchasingcheap municipal debouturee or occasionalchances to purchase securi- ties maturing from six to twelve menthe of fairly high yield, but secured by tba assets of excellent municipalities. Just this week, for example, cue house is of- fering one year notes of a suburb of Van. couver at a price to return the investor five and one-half per emit, on his money. Many of the larger cities of the middle West aro now returning from 43.4 to 61.4 per cent:—a fact that has not taken place since the bad year of 1907. elngisatotther easaignthat many r cheap at. present, but whether or not they may not become even cheaper. This question is not easy to answer and I can only express an opinion based on the opinions of many of the most expert bond men in Canada. But while their opinions are well worth having they are unfortunately hampered by not being gifted with prophetic powers and their nowledge of the future is only that based uprobabilities. pou What they allied is this: The market has now reached a point where debentures are returning as high a rate of income as they have within the pant fifteen years or more. General a0ndrtiona are excellent, and prices are unquestionably attractive. Therefore, although London may not again come In- to the market for some time to come the abeorbtive power of Canada and the States will prove sufficient to keep the market from going any lower. This, coupled with the fact that municipalities will considerably moderate their f nanci- al requirements for the next few months will probably keep prices at about tho present level. Any resumption of buying 013 the part of Landoll, however, will soon exhaust the present supply of securities and tho result will be a beginning to an upward movement that will tend to replace prices somewhere near the levels of a year or eighteen months ago. It cannot be said that this feeling was general a few months ago, but so far as 3 can learn the above reelects pretty well the general opinion now, Municipal de- bentures are cheap and there is a fair demand for the bargains. Should the do. mend follow the usual course and come up to the average enquiry of October and November there should be no question of the etability of the present level of prin. is and possibly oven an advance in some oases, At all events, if one hes money to in- vest at the present time there are Many nuquestionablo bargains in municipal de• benturen, and the likelihood of these bar- gains falling further in price is remote. Aa one hardheaded investor retnarked the other day:— It is only a beginner who reefs always to buy at the bottom and sell at the top and t111s is near enough the bottom to snit me," CHINA'S PRESIDENT. Yuan Shi Tai a Mao of Great Abil- ity, but Lazy Physically. A sketch of Yuan Shi Kai, Presi- dent of the Chinese Republic, says that it is something of a marvel to find in him a straightforwardness almost unknown among Orientals combined with a capacity for poli- tical chess playing sufficiently great to beat any European statesman of to -day just as easily as Talleyrand could boat those of his generation. Iia is nob a very big man physi- cally, but he is thick set, with very determined features—a Chinese bulldog in fact. Rio wide open eyes watch the questioner closely, but never craftily. Yet it is well to understand from the outset that those• eyes are seeking bout to un- derstand the question thoroughly and to discover precisely what lies behind it ---an art very imperfectly known in Europe, although lawyers think they possess it. When he has got the ]weaning of the motive—which he does as vapid- ly as a dog snaps up a bone—he an- swers at once bluntly and deter- minedly; and then, settling himself, waits patiently for the next bone. I'1e ten work through a whole ear- eats of questions without the :slight- est sign of atigue—he sits there squarely and finishers you off until the last bone is gone. The thing is immense and fascinating, a new ex- perience in a world of wornout experiences, something to be re- membered for many a. long day by those who have matched wits against him. It is a curious fact that Yuen Shi Kai is physically extraordinarily lazy. Like all Orientals, he feels not the slightest need for any sort of exercise or fresh air. Since the attempt on his lifelie has gone out as seldom as possible, and his se- dentary life has now so completely won him that he always goes up- stairs in a sedan chair borne by four bearers. And yet this carious mac has a plhonomenonal appetite—a wolfish appetite. In strong contrast to the rest of the ofrioial class in China, NOW are almost always delicate and only care for delicacies, Yuan Shi Kai eats like the veriest peasant from his own agricultural province of Henan. Bowls of macaroni, hard baked native bread called po-po, pork and mutton—all are grist to his mill, while such friandises as sharks' fins and beehe-de-mer and birds' nests soup mean nothing to flim, He has twenty -.six sons and slaughters, and whenthe family moves it requires almost a regiment to escort them. Like most strong men, he is bluff in his family man- ners; he does not care a button what people think ; he lacks that peculiar decorum which the eour-` thous East decrees. Such in rough outline is the outer man who largely controls the future of China—who indeed is the only man big enough for the situation. •F "nIII WILLIAM RAMSAY. Distinguished English Scientist. RUDE TO REFUSE SALT. Traveller Learns This on Alexan- dria to Cairo Railroad Trip. On the railway journey from Al- exandria to Cairo, says a writer in the Christian Herald, we passed a constant stream of men, women and children walking along the canal banks, or on donkeys—occasionally a whole family on a donkey! At the railway stations men and boys in great variety of flowing robes of many colons and gaudy skull caps orturbans came •o the carriage c t g windows with fruit,sugar al oar came an g cakes of all sorts. Eggs were also popular. A man sitting opposite mo bought two eggs and a little salt. He offer- ed ffcr-ed me some salt, which I declined, curd all the rest of the way to Cairo he kept glancing at me as if he thought me a very ill mannered person, F YOU MA VE MONEY TO INVEST write for our Sep- tember List of 1NVESTMEIT SECURITIES and our free Book- let; ook-let: 'What a Bond Investment means." They may help you. CANADA SECURITIES CORPORATION LTD. Dominion Exeroae Sldg., Montreal mammal Centime, • toroeto. le Oernhlll, • • London, Eng. -9. SWISS ARE 'A S0 INQUIRY (NGS Britain and A hind, B The Swiss published the res it hasbeen making past into the Savin people, and the m their disposal. It the savings banks to formation required, S out of a total of 1,004, ref' comply with the Government' quest, but the, other 1,0470B1 in full particulars of thotf47 Everywhere it is apparent thrift is very much on the ince For instance, in the 'ten years; 1897 10 1908 the average se Ings banks per head of {1 population rose from 309 franc. Switzerland, from Ings bank standard, is the nation. Next to her co mark, with 391 franca .y head of population, and long way behind, THE GERMAN EMPIRE, with 291 (Prussia 308, Bavari Saxony 405, and Wurtemherg Norway 270, the United States. z� lila 211, Sweden 197, Hun' 159, 1ialwae.,733, Belgium 129, G Britain 122;'^ 1y 108, the Ne° lands 89, and R ..• 'M,e„fa,: 01 course, it Lu membered :how many forms of ings exist; and it is doubtful ther life insurance, for instars as common in Switzerlar;d ,a America and England. Swi. land, as yet, has no post -office' Ings bank, and no penny eav bank, although thirty -Hiner savings banks will open an a for a sum of one 1o'ano 0 while only three require Q or more as a deposit. Th Government is naturally' ingly anxious to promote f±li;rl every possible way, and to thi_ nothing is considered -better ±i the often-discussed.r elan of tb_c tee:W.0 lox 41 'lost-ofiiee batiks -on th h the end of] lion, the banks to jests am lion fr quite A 0 son the. more words, the ! old saying as all their eggs 11. Valais appears IRELAND OF S Although it has imps in the matter of thick still appears to save any other Canton, savings bank books pe y y population, and an 2 next avere 48"'frml.nes in savings per f, comes Glarus and Be' with0000 francsper inhabit It le clear from the tiger� the Roman Catholic cafi on of the whole, less thrifty than the testent. At the. hettom of the. come Ticino, Fribourg, the sons, and the Valais, Fri coming so low down is an ur'i instance of the sharply defined cal peculiarities still persisting Switzerland, for Catholic Fo'iboria is close to Berne—over the hedg as it were --anal, Berne' is .Prete tont, and, as has been o' saving, The interest allowed on deihos by Swiss savings banks varies BOD what in different cases, but is go erally about 4 per cent. The nurl ber of savings bank books for t11 entire country is now more tit 1;900,000--a very high number sur sidering that the population is HU1 over three. and a half millions:, BODIES MU—ND BY R/READr, Occasional] , one reads that vh t t 1 , human bodies are thought to be rivers and cannot be fou1d, "a lel of bread has been floats down tl stream. But very few pegqpie hav the least idea what counectfbs.ther is between bread and the find'," bodies, When the . river etas' oe dragged without result, a loaf bread is cut in two, a place 11011011 ed out in the middle, and a qua. tity of quick -silver inserted. Th two halves of the loaf are then fa toned together again, and the bre is then tlirown into the water In t , place whOth'e the body i,a suppo' to be, Without fail the loaf flo along until it reaches the vie' of the body, and tlhen. quickly, hovering over the 'BAC'ILLI TN PERS A new view of the bcrculosis is given ]French experimenter cry of tubercle bao]d Lion, In five out cd pulmonary Wholed out of thirteen 011.010 beretilosi's the infea WAS : found end capable of'' g ivin ease. The neem disinfecting Ill' jet -es hen lecl eTtti..