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The Herald, 1912-09-19, Page 6FRO M BONNIE SCOTLAND iNOTES OF INTEREST Man HER BANKS AND BRAES. *hat is Going on. in The Xlighlands and Lowland4 o$Auld Scotia. ,shark has been lately seen in Loeh Fyne. Greenock rates will likely be re duced by 3d. on the £1. Calnbusland poor rate is to be in- creased by id. on the 21. The tower of Rothesay Academy is to be fitted with a clock at a cost of about $1,000. Thomas Loney, aged two, was drowned by falling into a 'tub of water at Denny. Thomas Warrington) of Glasgow, fell dead from his bicycle on the Bellshill to Glasgow road. Edward Moir, auctioneer, of Ed- inburgh, died suddenly in a tram- car on Frederick Street. • Rutherglen's new bridge over the Caledonia Railway on the Glargan Road is now completed. "Foul brood," so much dreaded by apiarists, has made its .appear- ance in Duns, Berwickshire. The employes of the Sanitary De- partment at Dunoon have applied for an increase of wages. St. Clement's Parish Church and halls have been renovated and elec- tric light has been installed. Stranraer Gas Light Co. have in- timated that the price of gas will be increased 2d. per 1,000 feet. Mr. Carnegie will visit Dunferm- line on Sept. 24 and lay the founda- tion stone of the. school clinic. Dr. Little, medical officer for the burgh of Helensburg, has resigned to take up practicein New Zea- land. a- r land. The death has occurred at Ber- wick Barracks of Drummer Wil - hams, who was injured when diving in the sea. The voice of the news vendor was heard in the streets of Ardrossan on Sunday for the first time in his- tory. The death has •occurred of Mr. Jas. Black, manager of Messrs. Finlayson, Bonsfield and Co.'s flax mills, Johnstone. Buchanan Memorial United Free Church, Glasgow, has been re- opened after having been thorough- ly overhauled. ',Deputy . Firexnaster McFarlane; Iensburgla, has been ,preSente ];; with the. Carnegie IeroOei Bate' and ' $50 for saving life. An outbreak of swine fever has occurred in a piggery in the neigh- borhood of Glasgow, and about 250 pigs were slaughtered. Robert Strachan, a well-known contractor, while cycling along Shore Street, Fraserburgh, col- lided with another cyclist and was fatally injured. Additions have been made by the County Council of Lanark to the. electric supply station at Cambus- lang, and the capacity has been doubled. Sergeant John Slesser, of the northern division of the Glasgow police force, has retired after over 21 years service, through being se- verely injured. The Pollokshaws branch of the British Socialists party have de- cided to run Mr. Tom Canning for the Glasgow Town Council at the forthcoming election. Fon AN ANCIENT CRIiME. Yearly Tax or Tribute Endures For A11 Tillie. Seven hundred years ago some shepherds of the Valley of Ronoal, in Navarra, were murdered by shepherds of the Valley of Bareton, in Beare, the crime taking place on the high pasture lands of Arles, in the Pyrenees. It would have been difficult to bring the murderers individually to justice, and the Spaniards were preparing to make war upon the valley from which the French mur- derers had come, when the French village proposed that peace be maintained at the price of a yearly tax, or tribute, to endure for all time, and this proposition was ac- cepted without demur. The payment of this blood-tax— ;originally three white mares, but nater three cows of a particular breed and color—has been made ever .since, the custom—it is noth- �aere--having survived even the n which both France a1 ngaged, and the storm, of te"l*ra ; Nlution. Yearly the ;the two valleys meet ori t' tier, at a certain stone, remote from any town, and go .through the ceremony of presenting and receiv- ing cattle. The order of procedure, • Which is elaborate and impressive, fs fixed by a document bearing the date 1375, though the tax was paid beetedred years prior to that time. An exceptional opportunity for the investment.: of savings In a high-grade Munloitlal Securi Yielding 51/2 per cent. • We offer the unsold balance of $ ,00,000 Year Notes, dated 1llt September, 1912, o Western munlclpailtya They are In. denomlfl tions of $100, to $5000 and.et�peclsfly sultabl for the Investment of small sailings or. inane which Is now, earning only 3 per cent. or les COMPLETE DETAILS ON REQUEST IG RAIN .ROBBERY. l; ltYvin .France Cleared Up Af- r; More Than Eight Months. Ott pt onths of inquiry into the sational robbery` of the Indian 1 train between Paris and Dijon, he night of November 16 last, proved that the extraordinary t, which, it was supposed, only horoughly organized band could oniplish, was committed' 'by a ing maniac, single-handed. The a.press, which ' left the Gare de Lyon in Paris at 8.35 p.m., con- Listed almost exclusively of mail vans, Three of them were broken 'oto while the train was_,going at peed , of 'sixty' or eighty miles an our. About 100 mail bags were ipped open, bonds and scrip of axiom descriptions were stolen, lad certain amounts of cash disap- peared. Suspicion fell on a former postal employe named Bazencourt, who was traced to Belgium, and who was arrested as he was trying to negotiate some of the scrip, on which he had made clumsy erasures and changes. He was extradited, and in the course of the examina- tion it was learned that he had been discharged by the postal authori- ties on account of his eccentricities. • There was a suspicion that he was not entirely sane. The magistrate asked him for his reason for rob- bing the mails. Bazencourt, who had fully admitted having commit- ted the deed quite alone, was proud of his achievement, and complained that he was not allowed to carry out his scheme to the end, which was to buy a menagerie, to become famous as a tamer of wild animals, make a. fortune, and reimburse those whom he had robbed. Dominion Bond Company, Lignite Toronto Montreal Vancouver London, Eng. MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS LONDON'S APATHY HAS REDUCED PRICES OF MUNICIPALS. Prices Lower than for Many Years—Like- lihood of Further Reduction In Opinion of Experts Is Remote—Many Bargains on Market. The articles oontributed by "Investor" ere for the sole purpose cf gaiding prows pective investors, and. if possible, of say ing them from losing money through placing it in "wild -cat" enterprises. The Impartial and reliable character cf 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.) The apathy of the London market for Canadian municipal debentures has con- tinued all summer, and now with the be- ginning of autumn there appears to be no improvement in the situation. 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Many of the larger cities of the`=Si�iddle West are now returning from d 3.4' 5 1-4 per cent.—a fact that has not taken lettee since the bad year of 1907. The question that many investors)! :are asking is not whether debentures are cheap at present, but whether'. or not they may not become even cheaper, This question is not easy to answer and 1 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 tieing gifted with prophetic powers and their knowledge of the future is only that,liastd upon probabilities. What they thialt is this: The market has now reach. d a point where debentures are returni as high a rate of income as they have is the peat fifteen years or more. General conditions are excellent, and prices ;are unquestionably attractive. Therefore, although London may not again come in. to the market for some time to conte the absorbtive 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 financi- al requirements for the next few months will probably keep prices at about the present level. Any resumption of buying on the part of London, however, will soon exhaust the present supply of securities and the result will be a beginningto an upward movement that will tend to replaoo prices somewhere near the levels of a year or eighteen months ago. Itn a n C Otal a b said that this feeling was .neral a few months ago, but so' far as I can learn the above reflects pretty well the general opinion now. Municipal de- bentures are cheap and there lees -fair demand• for• the bargains. Should;; e de- mand follow the usual course, .me at, to th=, axerage. enquiry of. Novembo :;:.4'.,'el .thou] the stab„1� in d ii e .nes es end ' possi .ly .even an advan h 'ai' : oma' cases. At all events, if one has mo .c.• to in- vest at the present time there . many unquestionable bargains in mane.eipal: de- bentures, and the likelihood of"?eesebar- gains falling further in- price remote: As one hard-headed investor re iced the other day:— It is only a beg 'A: =r who expects always to buy at the be and sell at the top and this is nes'.` hough the bottom to suit me." G a. A man dislikes faint praiser. al- most as much as he hates abuse. DOUBLE BARREL GUNS of the • dWArrAPPAC.r.0 No. 115 Royal Damascus steel Barrels, Diana Breech, Front action Locks, nicely engraved, pistol grip wal- nut Stock. Price $11.50 i THE TRUE CAUSE OF RHEUMATISM Due to Acid in the Blood—Can Only be Cured Through the Blood Not many years ago even doctors thought that rheumatism was only a local pain caused by exposure to cold or wet. Now they know that the trouble is caused by the blood becoming tainted nted with uric acid. This condition of the blood caus- es the muscles to contract, stiffens the joints andirritates the nerves. „If . net ; t a e.. tteated-. be stiffs ens :-spire Yof” ,nit „ rip pain grow worse until you are a helpless crip- ple, tortured day and night. If the disease touches the heart it means sudden death. You cannot cure rheumatism with liniments, plas- ters or hot cloths, as so many try to do. You mast go right to the root of the trouble in the blood. The scientific way to cure rheuma- tism is to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, which make new, rich blood that goes right to the root of the trouble. They sweep out the pois- onous acid, loosen 'the aching joints and muscles and bring .ease and freedom where before had been Blain and misery. Miss Beulah Sheppy, Morpeth, Ont., says : "Following an attack of measles I took inflammatory rheumatism. 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The other day when Sir James Whitney was asked to address a public gathering he contented himself with a few words and introduced Mr, Hearst in his stead, "one of my young men," the Premier described him. Mr. Hearst took Northern Ontario as his text and delivered an important address on its possibilities. Coming from Sault Ste. Marie, where he is a leading lawyer, the subject ie close to his heart. Mr. Hearst does not resemble his photo- graphs. They do not reproduce his sandy complexion or his almost fiery hair and moustache. 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 selected him out of his large following for promotion. SILVER CAMPS REVIVING. All the news from the northland serves to strengthen the optimism that has been developing during recent years. The known agricultural arca is widening. In- stead of 16,000,000 acres in the clay belt the figure has now risen to 20,000,000 acres. Settlement is slow, but the point is 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 g to be easy to divert the westward stream of immigation to the north. The mining industry is making progress. The news from Porcupine continues to be en- eburaging in a moderate way. One mine. is understood to have ;produced a quarter of a million; dollars. of gold up to the. xlxst°'or Sittemlfe'r, '13ut, the feature of the ,summer's "work has been the reeival of the silver camps. In Cobalt twenty- three properties have been reopened. And in Elk Lake and Gowganda operations are under way in twenty-two camps. And, doubtless, there will be a fresh crop of wild cats 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, has served to call attention to the progress and present strength of the Trades Union movement in this province. While the organization is strong numeri- cally and has secured in some trades an almost masterful position it is not with- out its weaknesses. It would be more exact to say that it has not yet taken advantage of its opportunities far the improving of the condition of the great body of workers. Up to the present in Canada, the great objective of the trades unions has been to increase 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 been successful, and it would be impossible to estimate the ad. vances in wages the unions have to their credit by this means. Possibly 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 curious fact is that in the strong- ly unionized city of Toronto many of the largest industries are absolutely non-un- ion, or open shops. The employers in some of these industries have no objection to high wages, and voluntarily pay the union scale or higher, but it is also unfortu- nately the case that some of the others pay absolutely inadequate wages. There are many competent workmen in Toronto to -day, working 10 hours a day, receiving not more than $10.00 a weak. If there is a family of any size, with no other wage earners in it, this means, with rent and the cost of clothing and provisions what they are, that these people are on the ragged edge of penury. Compare such wages with those that prevail in such a trade as the printers, who are at present negotiating a new scale and have refused to accept a minimum rate of $21.00 a week for an eight-hour day. WORKINGMEN POOR POLITICIANS. Some of the labor leaders are coming to realize that the question of wages while of vital importance, is but one of many things .which' are of the utmost importance to the working classes' ma. terial condition, The question of land values in its relation to rent is one of these., So is the question oi• public owner- ship of natural monopolies. So is the question of taxation, including that moat 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 wages he receives. But the strike is useless as a weapon to grapple with them. And so far the labor anions of Canada, knowing only the strike as a weapon, have done practically no- thing toward grappling with these prob. lems. The labor man needs a new wee-. non. He scarcely knows yet what it is, He realizes clearly only that there is need of something, that conditions are rapidly stratifying into a form which does not bode beat for the classes gener- ally. Some day he will see that what he needs is political organization. But at present the efforts in the .Province to or- ganize a workingman's political party have fallen Hat. That party's dependable strength in the city of Toronto is pro- bably not more than a few hundred vot- ers. ICIER HARDIE SCENTS TROUBLE. Icier Hardie, the powerful but somewhat intemperate Scotch socialist labor leader, a'former collier, but the match in mortal equipment for political leaders anywhere, has been telling his Canadian brothers some plain facts along these lines., H declared that in some respects privileg has already become entrenched in Can ada in a way that it will take genera tions to reotify, if it oan ever be recti fled. No doubt one reason' organized lab()' hastions beeisn St that low tweo agitate ll inorganized politicallabor quipr ' been so successful in keeping its wa up to a good standard, that it has thongQi' the other matters were of trivial impor' ance. Besides, on some of the most im'i portant issues' labor men are by no means united in their opinion. A good example is the tariff question. At the moment, some of the most forceful mon in the un- ions in Toronto are free traders, or, at least, low tariff mon. But while the union !; men of the city would follow these loaders over a precipice if a strike were involved it is doubtful if more than a small frac- tion would follow them in a free trade ? '' campaign. Judging by concrete results f , the labor men of Toronto are strongly protectionist. ;l One result of the Canadian labor men's large attention to the question of wages has been to arouse against 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 coat of living must be charged to the unions with their unending demands for higher wages. As a matter of fact, the interests of the union man,. the farmer, the store- keeper, the clerk are largely in common. The problem is to find a basis for united action. CRITICS OF THE BIG SHOW. Now that the Exhibition is over, loyal x critics who would not say a word while its success was in the balance, are rais- ing their voices in protest on account of conditions in some of the departments, The chief complaint is that the Fair has been losing its 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- ber, and no satisfactory explanation has been forthcoming of why this was so. The live stook sheds and accommodation gen- erally for this class of exhibits are far below what they ought to 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, ft must not be allowed to become lopsided. BOTH THE SAME. A clergyman on an Atlantic lin- er had to share a state -room with another man. 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