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The Huron Expositor, 1930-07-04, Page 2it nl= dal In oven Fence INVINCIBLE farm fence, made of open hearth No. 9 steel copper bearing wire. GUARANTEED RUST PROOF 46c Rod 50c Rod 8 wire even spaced stays, 22" apart 8 wire even spaced stays, 161/2" apart SPOT CASH PRICES Burlington U Posts ................-....45c Each Poultry Frence, 18 wire with No. 9 tops and bot- tom 75c Rod Long handled solid neck shovels $1.25 each Steel Garden Rakes 75c each Full Line of Fence and Gardening Supplies GEO, A. SILLS & SON HARDWARE, PLUMBING & FURNACE WORK SUNDAY AFTERNOON (By Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.) While life's dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread, Be Thou my guide. Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside. Ray Palmer. PRAYER Lord, who art our Guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou guest. In little daily duties to which Thou tallest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience, patience under pain or provocation, strict truthful- ness of word and manner, humility, kindness; in great acts •of duty if Thou shouldst call us to them, uplift' us to self-sacrifice, heroic courage, laying down of life for thy truth's sake, or fora brother. Amen. Christian Rossetti. S. S. LESSON FOR JULY 6th, 1930 Lesson Topic—Abraham. Lesson Passage—Genesis 12:1.3; 13; 7-12; Hebrews 11:8-10. Golden Text—Hebrews 11:8. "Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." In this verse we find God's claim upon the individual life. In it is stated the great providential system under which we live. God comes into a family and breaks it up, separates one or more of the members from all OUT -OF- TCWN CALLS — QUICKER AND CHEAPER THAN EVEN /` 4 r.:"'- f✓r• s sn �-.!ii//,I// e nests \- `se ..b'" • 14 Mt I (+.y ,tri Less than a ticket to the -�� kies %n 1929 we added over 14,000 miles of talking circuits to t,' t% 4•;. Mrs. Mills was thrifty! She would dearly like to talk to her mother back home, as her friend told her she was 'doing every week, but think of the expense— She was astonished when she learned that a call for the distant number during the day would cost only 60 cents, and after 7 p.m. only half a dollar. She actually made her call after .8.30 and it cost her only 35 cents -- the night rate! our long distance Now the weekly 3 -minute talk with her facilities. Over 80 mother is a regular thing. And what a er cenrei# nil -rolls-- joy-iris–both-•-te•--Mrs.---,Mills---and–her... we now completed mother. Both declare it is almost as good while you bold the as a visit ! rine!' Many people are like Mrs. Mills -- they think long distance expensive ! Just run over the rates quoted in the opening pages of your telephone book — especially those for "Anyone" (station -to - station) calls ducting the evening and night` periods ; It will convince you. early nssocliations, frefes Eipeeial erare and lave and sends them out as stran- gers in a Orange land, Even though, unlike Abram„ they m'ay knew whi- ther they are going yet the breaking up of old and endearing associations is enough to fill them with sorrow and possibly dismay, No doubt these same feelings were in the mind and heart of Abram when the command came to him. But all was not to be loss for the call did not end with the leaving of cduntry, °kindred and fath- er's house. Immediately after the command came a great promise:— "And I will make of thee a great na- tion, and I will bless thee, and retake thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that eurseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." Here we are given an idea of the sublime life to which man is called. In God we live, and move, and have our being. We are hedged about by God and what touches us touches Him. We are the temples of the lin- ing God. In this promise we see the influence of the present over the fu- ture; "In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed." The full inter- pretation of this promise is found in the person and work of Jesus Christ who is the Redeemer and Brother of all who receive him by faith into their. hearts; yet an wonder -lying truth is that one family should be a blessing to all families who come within its influence. Chapter 13:7-12. 'Abram went forth in obedience to God's call and in the course of time he became a very rich man. This is the first mention found in the Bible of such: "And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.' When he left his fatherland his neph- ew Lot went with him and of him it is said: "And Lot also, which went with Abram, h -ad flocks, and herds, and tents." Surely living in such fav- orable cand•itions and having• gone forth at God's call there need be no dispeace in their associations. • But we read of strife because "their sub- stance was great, so that they could not dwell together." Abram as the older man, took the matter up with tis nephew and as Dr. Parker says, his words would make a beautiful motto to -day for the kitchen, for the parlor, for the factory, for the church: "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, and between my herdmen and thy herd - men; for we be brethren." Then he made a proposal in which self is not seen as the first consideration. It is beautiful to see in another but hard to do. He gave Lot first choice and was anxious he should be satisfied for there were heathen neighbors near who should not see any reason for thinking evil of their way of life. "And the Canaanite and Perizzite dwelled then in the land." They are still with us. The world 'watches the church and takes notice of the strife and discord and thus is given occasion to the enemy to blaspheme. What choice did Lot make? He went out and looked about him and saw the plain of Jordan that it was well watered everywhere. That he chose and the land of Canaan fell to Abram and they each went his way. But in choosing Lot overlooked one thing. Who were his neighbors ? He pitched his tents towards Sodom. "But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceed- ingly." So we find he had a great estate, but bad neighbors! Material glory, but moral shame! Noble landscapes; but mean men! And men are doing to -day just what Lot did then. Abram received great com- pensation for his generous conduct and concern for his religion. He was told to "Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee." Hebrews 11:8-10. The writer of this epistle, and par- ticularly in this chapter, goes into an extended account of the nature and effects of faith. 'Those to whom the epistle was written were evidently suffering from some form of persecu- tion and his purpose in writing as he did was to prevent them from relap; sing again into Judaism. The apostle describes faith as "the substance of things hoped for,' the evidence of things not seen." Then he proceeded to illustrate its efficacy and power by reference to numerous instances such as Abram. His object was to show that there is power in faith to keep the mind and heart in the midst of trial. WORLD MISSIONS A hundred years ago the East India Company declared "The .;ending of Christian missionaries to India is per- nicious, unfruitful, fanatic. It is op- posed to all reason and it endangers the peace and security of all posses- sions." Some thirty years ago Sir Rivers Thompson, lieutenant -govern- or of Bengal, said: "Christian mis- sionaries have clone more real and lasting good to the people of India than all other agencies combined."— Selected. A GALLANT SPORTSMAN IS • EARL OF LONSDALE One of the most fascinating and colorful personalities' in the realm of sport to -day is Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale. From child- hood days his whole life has been de- voted to sport --sport of the kind %kat rnqulds the figure to that of an ath- lete,thateelelifies_the flesh, steength- ens the sinews t.nrl riraTces tYib "i r is, Lord Lonsdale is not a single sport man; he, is versatility in the flesh. That he is an excellent game shot is a mere prelude to the fact that he has killed grizzlies in the Rockies and brought back from the polar regions innumerable trophies ,of his skilful - gess and cour'ige. As a whip Lord Lonsdale has few tivals, and with rod and line he is one . of the best that ewer 'cast a fly, Hugh Cecil Lowther showed at an early age a decided inclination to- wards 'boot and saddle. What more fitting foretaste them•, for a futute matter of Britain's Most fantails pack of fort hounds, than boyhood gallops behind the eottesmore in the days when biose hard -running hounds there hunted: by his father, the fourth earl? it -5A{;IVAr4 .ala DOCTORS "Anytime t i$i 4 p a: 'Sootbg OrdTR' ePde4dtcbipg In ininnto& g.uteo eoo>a jikt--' '''itnLRareno4. -toesitch,burn,psin i minute, emu' goep�r.good In tow de Okla become clear, MOOD. ,11 Dr The school of experience is one in which all must graduate who intend to excel in field sports; thus young Lowther "took his tosses with the best and with the Worst. Thus was his great reputation made, the reputa- tion of a skilful and gallant horse- man: "To whom naught comes amiss— One horse or another—that country or this— Wlho, through falls and bad starts, un- dauntedly still Rides up to the motto: 'Be with them I will!'" •So keen was young Lowther on fox hunting •that when only 23 years old hVwas engaged upon the same terms as a professional huntsman by the then master of the Woodland Pytch- ley. At a later date, upon comping in- to the title, he became a popular mas- ter of the Quorn from 1893 to 1898; of the Cottesmore from 1907 until 1911, and again from 1915 to'' '1921. Lord Lansdale has always been an able exponent pf that pastime that is so essentially British the noble art of self-defence. Once upon a time he revelled in a set-to with the gloves and still enthusiastically patronizes the professors e the art, as witness his presidency of the National Sport- ing Club. To -day Lord Lonsdale, in his 73rd year, is the doyen and best 'beloved sportsman in Britain. His interest in horses is as keen as ever, and it is almost entirely through his influence and effort that oneof the outstanding attractions this year at the Interna- tional Horse Show at Olympia, Lon- don, is a display by a detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This is the first time in the history of the force that the men have ap- peared outside the Dominion, altho'u'gh a detachment of the old Not:#:hwest Mounted Police took part in the Gor- onation procession of King George and Queen Mary. The Prince of Wales, as honorary commandant of this remark able constabulary, will be at Olympia to witness the men's prowess. In clearing the horse ring between the various classes at Olympia Lord Lonsdale is always ready to lend a hams. At one moment he may be helping to fix up a hurdle for the jumpers and the rext raking up man- ure with the attendants whpse job it is to keep the ring clean. Always in immaculate evening dress or black frock coat, with silk hat and gold - topped cane, and the long cigar of which he seldom smokes more than half, Lord Lansdale is always Lord Lonsdale. Whether in the royal box or down in the horse ring judging the coster "•pearl'ie kings" and th..ir don- keys and barrows, Lord Lonsdale is just the same. There is nobody else quite like him. THE EARL PDOBABLY DREAMS OF THOSE CAREFREE TIMES Albertans generally rejoiced at a announcement from London, England, that Pretor W. Chandler, master of the supreme court, chancery division, after reviewing various claims to the Earldom of Egmont had decided those of Frederick Joseph Trevelyan Per- ceval to be well founded. James Wil- liam Perceval, a North London baker, and Robert Pownall, Lancashire •optic- :ian, the rival claimants, are said to have made an effusive demonstration of undying affection when the master proclaimed his decision in court. Years ago, twenty at least, when Fred was a rancher at Priddis, near Calgary, Alberta, he lived with his late wife (his son and heir was not then horn) on his father's farm, and his brother, George, lived on a ranch on Fish creek hard by. The old gen- tleman, then actually heir to the title, was frequently called the Earl of Eg- mont behind his back by the cowboys and ranchers who looped their bridle reins over the hitching -rail in front of the Priddis genrral store and post of- fice. The sons were variously known as "the Perceval •boys" or Fred and George when taken individually. But there is one lady still residing within a stanesthrow of Fish creek, though further west and right on the border of the Rocky Mountain Forest Reserve, who will think with more than ordinary kindness of the new earl. For the purposes of the story she will be called "Mary." She was just a "kid" when this happened. At the time Mary's folks settled on Fish creek there was, unknown to them, a claim made by some compara- tive old -'timers that the lands were set aside for their exclusive use as haying leases. These old-timers were Irish; Mary's family Anglo -Scottish and de- termined. Quite a feud developed over the affair, the numerous remittance men in those nre-war days generally siding with the Irish faction, while those who actually made their living from the farms and ranches were in- clined to take the side of the good newcomers. The Perceval boys, who were good friends with everybody, remraineo strictly neutral, One night the Irish faction made a mounted raid on the newcomers' stable and tent, let loose the horses, slashed the. harness and dumped the buggy is the creek. It -be-_ For Baby's Bath ' More than that of any other member of the family, baby's tender, delicate skin needs the greatest care and attention. The soft soothing oils in Baby's Own Snap snake it• specially suitable for babies, and its clinging fra- grance reminds (sue of the roses of ,France which help to inspire i. "113 /flee fir yea and Baby too", arae came inecessaa'y. for ¥Vllary's father to. ride a'wa7 for as'ai'stance Prem the oyal Northrvrest 1.Vliolinted Police. Meantime Mary, 'an attractive child, had been encouraged to develop. ;the habit of riding to R'iddis fox`the mail. Here she had met Fred Percelval and an instinctive friendship sprang •up.. between them. The rarleher noticed that,'Mary had no deg. A few inquir- ies elicited the fact ,that the family did not own one—hence the•success of the raid by the Irish faction. Fred was always a lover of fair play. At home he had a litter of pups —almost, but. not quite, of royal line- age, for their parents were a pure- bred collie and a registered fox ter- rier. Without saying anything to any- body else he whispered to Mary one mail day, "I've a nice puppy far you. Ride over soon and get him." (Having obtained permission, Mary did ride over. Her pup, the only "bob- tail" of the litter, was a mongrel, but he turned out a dandy watch -dog and there were no more raids. A REAL NERVE TONIC Is a Bountiful Supply of Rich, Health - Giving Blood. 'Sufferers from nervous debility find themselves tired, low-spirited and unable to keep their minds on any- thing. They are totally unfit to per- form their everyday duties. Doctoring the nerves with sedatives is a terrible mistake. Tho only real nerve tonic is a goo supply of rich, red blood. To secure this rich, red blood Dr. Williams' Pink Pills should be taken. Enriching and purifying the blood is their whole rniieion. Con- cerning then Mrs. Albert Bentley, Bancroft, Ont., writes: "Two years ago I was a complete wreck; in bed for seven months; extremely nervous, had no color: Nothing I tried seemed to help me until I began Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. My condition at once im- proved and today I am wet and able for anything without fatigue or trou- ble." You can get these pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. • A genius is a man who can do al- most everything but make a living.— The Douglas County (Mo.) Herald. NO PEACE PARLEYS AMONG OCEAN FISH Self-defence as a scienoe has been developed to an amazing extent by some of the undersea creatures. The cuttlefish, for instance, developed a smoke screen of its own long before the world war. From a special sac ;t shoots out a dense black ink (used in the preparation of the color sepia) which, mixing" with the sea water, forms a very efficient screen. 'Some of the sea cucumbers, those cylindrical animals about a foot long and of a darkish color, use a method dissimilar from any yet tried in hu- man warfare. They possess special organs filled with, a peculiar sub- stance; this is shot out in the form Of very fine threads, which become ex- ceedingly sticky on coming into con- tact with water. Any animal en- tangled in these cannot escape. Sea anemones, being soft and jelly- like, would have a very bad time of it were it not for the numerous small "guns" they can discharge when at- taoked. These "guns" are long threads, coiled round in special cells which contain a liquid, sometimes poisonous; a small trigger juts out from the cell. When this is touched the pressure inside increases and forces the thread into the body of the enemy. There are hundreds of these "guns" capable of paralyzing other small animals. The su.ocess of this method is shown by the fact that some animals themselves incapable of making weapons, use those of others. In each of its nippers a certain kind of crab carries an anemone. Thus, when at- tacked, it is protected by the ane- mone's "guns." Some sea slugs have improved even on this. They use the weapons of sea anemones they have overpowered and eaten; the "guns" migrate to the ends of their tentacles in an unex- ploded eondition, where they work in the same way as when in their origi- nal owners. CHICAGO MURDERS ilisE TO POWER OF CAPONE We come pretty close to understand- ing what is the matter with Caicago if we believe the statement made by Kenneth Campbell, a staff correspond- ent of The New York World, who says "Al Capone is probably the most pow- erfuI man in 'Chicago." Incidentally, though it throws little light on his sinister figure, we may remark that Capone pronounces his name in two syllables. If Capone is the must: pow- erful man in Chicago it is easy to undertsand why there are so many gang murders there. The question is how did Capone get to be the most powerful man in Chicago? 'the an- swer is that he had two levers. One is a willingness to shoot an enemy; the other is the ability to pare huge sums to those who enjoy his favors. The illicit 1% -mor traffic is at the bot- tom of the ganlgster problem in Chi- cago. The other rackets such as 'blackmailing by fake labor organiza- tions, and graft from gambling and prostitution, are said to be no worse in Chicago, .eonsidering_its size, than they are in New York, St. Louis,, Cin- cinnati or a dozen other American oitie•s. In any event they are second- ary and comparatively insignificant. The tremendous profits made from the sale of liquors and the money in Ca- pone's hands to bribe police, judges and other officials are all the factors needed to a complete und'epstanding of 'wheat is otherwise incomprehensi- ble. It should be understood that Capone has his agents planted in the city government. One ,roan, an avowed supporter, has been nominated as state senator from a Deriltonratic dis- tri+et although he is a 11ubIicanl, It • is token for granted that Caapone's int finance will elect him. Two Capone Men at' aldertnen. ,Nobody has any - N ° EFFICIENT RELt[:1#?.FORADTHMA AND HAY FEVER Ih'+1 C.gQN�I{IF�OSED'OF HERDS WhiIOH. WHEN BURNED AND THE FUMES INHALED ACTS pROAL WILIL.Y ALLCONAY r eALLIRRiTATION, doubt that certain of the police are convention to us. If ill is to Da said in his pay, and only the most innocent of a man surely the time to say it is would suppose that some of his money when he is dead and cannot be injur. is not finding its way to , various ed by 'i't. Moreover, if it is said when judges. How the judiciary works he is alive he may poke you in the may be gathered from some of the re- eye or issue a writ ports of the- Chicago 'Crime Commis- About 30 years ago A. P, Choate,: sion, a fearless body which bas been when financial editor ,of The Mail and trying in vain to arouse Chicago from Empire, in receipt of a salary of $20 its lethargy. This body sends its re- or $25 a week, piled up a fortune of porters to the arious courts and pub- perhaps a million dollars. It is per. lish bulletins of their discoveries. haps true to say that urs to that time - Hut the citizens seem to pay little at- � nobody in the history of that city had ever made so march money so fast... This is evidence enough of the brain. power of Qhoate. He was the boldest speculator ever to appear on the fo- cal market, and no man before or since ever knew more about the stocks in which •he invested. The scene of his operations was the brokerage of - flees of the late John J. Dixon, in the Canada Life Building, where there - was more play on the New York mar- ket than in any other brokerage firer in Toronto. Choate would stride into - the room, glance at the board and be- gin to 'bark orders, either buying or selling, but generally buying for it. was in the great bull market whose end is remembered locally for the - crash of the A. E. Ames firm in 1903 that he piled up his fortune. Choate worked beforethat market. board as a conductor might work be- fore an orchestra, or as a master• might direct a game of chess, with the difference that Choate would maker. three or four moves in a minute. Es- pecially if there were any particular activity in the market. There might not have been a local order given int an hour before his entrance but where he sprang into activity he galvanized/.. 'the other speculators who were eters,- tent to follow him as race track bet-• ters will follow a big plunger who is supposed to have inside information- Wi'th Choate in eruption the rooms.. would begin to fill up, a few content ;to watch with .a sort of fascinations. the display of mastery that Choate would give but most others max -louse to support his lead either in buying. or selling. As quickly as he began he would quit and leave the place mutter- ing uttering to himself. You would see hien going along the street, with an ov- ercoat over his arm, and his neck -tie: riding along on the top of his collare perhaps a smudge of dirt on his pal- lid face, his lips moving, and his neck twitching epileptically, seeing nobody., sunk a mile deep in his own thoaghts. The secret of Choate's phenomenal success as a speculator was his know- ledge of what he was buying and sell- ing. He would take the report of a. railway company and study it until. he .knew as much about the road as the president or the general manager.. Then he would probably come to the' conclusion that on earnings and pros- pects its stock was selling too low. He would proceed to buy. In a few weeks, weeks or a few months the informa- tion that Choate in the hours of mid- night study had dug out for himself: would gradually be discovered by oth-• ers who would start to `buy. B u t. Choate would have been among the first, and his profits, therefore, would- be greater than that of the newcomers- who arrived after the stock had 'begurh to move. There was nobody in his time as an operator on the exchange who had equal ability to analyze a financial statement and make a light- ning decision as to whether a stock should be bought or sold. His abil- ity in this respect amounted to gen- ius. Choate had the qualities which, should have made him one of the out- standing men of his generatiora. He had his share of the callousness' that one often finds in genius. Be".• would not hesitate to advise a friend/ to buy a stock which he himself was • trying to unload and would be great- ly amused when the friend dimes -red the pit that was being prepared for him. Among lYixon's customers was• an elderly man of considerable means; who had retired from 'business and be- come a speculator. He and Choate came into daily contact for years. Thee other man had his share of reverses and one day it came to light that he had been caught in a particularly un. -- expected slump and had dropped as largesum of money. Choate laughe-IL until the tears rolled down his face,.. and gasped "We'll have him cn the• rock pile yet!" The story has been al- ready told of how, after he had made - his million, he invested a certain. amount in bonds, and the rest in cal • loans, intending to retire from busi-• nees. He was then a young man and' he planned to spend three years in. Europe. iHie intended to sail from New - York and the day before his departure he entered a broker's office and savor that a favorite stock was being ham- m•ered. Choate at once answe-ed the call like the war horse that miffed the battle from afar. He called in his loans and eventually he sold iris bonds, and flung the proceeds into a market that was sinking under his feet. Them• he turned in his steamer ticket and. received his money back. When he re- turned to Torodrrto he was about where he had started. Thereafter his career was one of ups and downs, mostly downs, but we are glad to know that he did, .before) he died, see the Eng- • land that he had planned to see a • generation ,before. Mention. an fact, it appears that the machinery hardly exists whereby the wishes of the citizens, if they were unanimously in earnest about a thorough house cleaning co^ld be given effect, so long as there are cor- rupt officials in strategic rositions who could only be removed l:s•, the due and cumbrous process of law. Here are two specimen eases report- ed by the Grimes Commission: "He (a notorious burglar) was par- oled for the fifth time on July 23rd, 1928, and was still on parole when he committed the last burglary. In view of the above record (the record is quoted/ in full), it is difficult co con- ceive of a defendant more habitually inclined to commit crime, particular- ly burglary, than the defendant in this case. "Yet this was considered a prope: case in which to waive the count charging the defendant with being an habitual criminal." Another case quoted from the same source: "On January 15, 1930, Attorney Frank A. McDonnell appeared in Judge William N. Crammill's court- room and requested a contin':ance on behalf of a defendant charged with murder. Atotrney McDonnell stated that the defendant had recently con- tracted a cold and he asked Judge Gammill if he wanted a doctor's cer- tificate. Judge Gammill answered no and continued the case to Feeruary 18th, 1930. It is interesting to note that the case has been pending since December 12th, 1928, and has been -continued sixteen times before six different judges." ,Lingle was the forty-third person known to have been • murdered by gangsters in Chicago this year. Ten were killed in eleven days. Because he was a newspaper reporter whose con- nection with the underworld was ob- viously professional, and because it is reasonable to suppose that he was murdered because he was cons:derei a menace to the gangsters, the' -e has 'been a tremendous outcry tol'owing his death. But there have been other outcries and they have died down in time. The usual hubbub of police ac- tivity has resulted in the arrest of some hundreds of burns who would not have the intelligence to organize a crap game, let alone an alcohol racket or a successful murder. The day following their arrest they are released since the police have no evi- dence against them. In the mean- time the Capones and Morans ride a- bout in their cars, while their lieu- tenants retire to their country homes and drink better beer than they sell, amusing themselves by fishing until the uproar subsides. IMr. •Cam,pbell says there is nothing new in the gang situation in recent months except an improvement in technique. Some time ago it was thought. advisable that gangsters should kill their victims in the open as a warning to others. Now they have hit on the more subtle means of simply making the victim disappear, He Vanishes from the scene. Ns hand is shown. The whisper - has gone about through the underworld that the gangsters have a private inciner- ator outside Chicago where the vic- tims, after having been murdered, are taken and their bodies reduced to ashes which are tossed to the winds. Now and then' the screw of a vessel will turn• up a bloated and disfigured corpse, but as a rule the gangster -is simply missing from his place and is seen no more. It is believed that this method is more intimidating to other gangsters who might contemplate rbe- traying their bosses. Reviewing the situation, Mr. Campbell says, "The facts that are not known are the facts that link the gangs with the city of- ficials and indicate that the rackets that result in weekly murders could not be carried on without the conni- vance of certain men in the city ad- ministration, If you think it is pos- sible to deliver truck loads of beer about the city days and nights with- out having the police know what yo'r are doing, try it sometime. It is equally impossible to run an alcohol cooking plant, a gambling house or a dive without police knowledge and protection, and the fact that these places and practises thrive in Chicago is not denied by any reasonable person in the city." TORONTO'S BOLDEST STOCK SPECULATOR It was not until the obituary notice of the late Arthur Percival Choate appeared recently that we learned that he had •a first name. We had never heard him called anything but Choate in all the years we knew him and shiould be astonished now to hear that .any .•bet members of his bwn. family called- him Arthur or Perciaisal. We considered 'Choate one of the most remarkable persons Vey ever carne in contact with, and reviewing what we actually know of him we nee ast en- ished at the discovery that one can know a man for a great many years and yet know very little about him. As regards Choate we are not Much worse off, we suspect, than other peo- ple who knew him just as long. He Was a lonely meats, and, so far as we know, had neither friends • nor inti- mates. One gentleman who knew him efore he dame to Toronto and later ad business relations with him re- fused to say anything about him, act - fug on the principle :flhdt one should say nothing' xnit good of the 'dead; This fres ral'ways seemed a particularly Ally W, i f-D::E.cl-7",,„liAl;):::: DNoLLtAR 7H f W ti 14,01.