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EXCe1111011S 111 Toronto
Fro following Woollier by Juane Street was
st • gm'atera 1880, and at the itheizes 'held In the
eentenearto be hanged on Dea le, which
Hentenoe, was carried into effeet On Feb.
to 1908---27 Have Suffered .90.euratar and murderer.
(Torento Telegram.) previously, by elating her throat In
The deeth on Vie gallowe of John flit" Pisces'' evidenee was en-
tiroly eireutustantial, but the medical
at the jeil is the twenty-seventh came evidence was vent* strong, it snowing
tion Nvhich has occurred Imre since the
that the wounds received by the
city was founded. One of theee was for
woman could not poesibly bave been
forgery, two for: high treaaon, end the
self inflicted, Keno protested his in.
eemainder for murder. (An itecouut of
nocence to the Met, yet there wee no
tne mentions in Toronto is given in.
Robertson's "Landuntries of `loroutoa' one evho did not think he was guilty of
the crime imputed to him and of wbielt
Vol, p.; 257.) he had. been convicted.
The first exoution to take place M
the town of York, now the city of Tia Another Double Hanging.
rent*, was that of John Sullivan, a On the morning of Mara 4th, 1859,
young Irieh emigrent who was hanged William Fleinieg and John O'Leary
(act, 11, 1798, for having forged a were executed at the same thee in
ptoulissory note for three shillings and front of the old jail on Front street.
num penee, Halifax currency, 76 eeets alerting's case excited A great deal of
of our money. 'Pie execution took interest on Account of the youth
piece al the yard Of the fine jail, a log of the culprit, who had bon convieted
building, on, the south side of King of having atabbed to death a compan-
street, nearly opposite Toronto street. ion of his, one Thomas Maddigan, with
Nineteen yore elapsed. before their ' whom he had just previously been car -
another executian Yek, as it ()using in Weleli's Tavern, on the corner
was not till Aug. 10, 1810, that a far- of Welliugton and Bay, streets,
liter neenea Elijah Dexter wee hanged ,01,,eary's erime was of course else
for the murder of a neighbor, James that of murder, of a /nen utimeci Hugli
Vanderberg, That hanging also took Kelly, of the township og Georgina,
place within the precinets of the old log with wbom he had had a quarrel re.
jail, lating to. a lawsuit in Which both' heel
been interested.
One Instance of Lynch Law.
Four years passed by before another
'execution took place in Toronto, then
On lafareh 10th, 1862, James Brown was
hanged at the old jail for the murder of
john Sheridan Hoga,n, M. P. P., on Dee.
1st, 1859.
The Hogan Murder.
Mr. Hogan had Inen murdered at the
Don bridge on the date named by being
struck on the head by a stoue tied in a
.handkerelaef, which 'shamed. aim; he
was then robbed and his body thrown
into the river.
Brown was first elaced• on trial for
the crime in April, 1861, arid founa guil-
ty, but his counsel, the late Mr, James
Doyle, succeened in obtaiMng .new
trial, when he was again found minty
A Double Execution. , and sentenced to death. Brown protest-
ed his innocence to the last and with
ouch earnestness that the clergy who at-
tended him, among whom were the tate
Dean Grasett and Archdeacon Boddy,
expressed their belief in las innocence.
He NVILS executed at the old jail befere
an immense coneouree of people, whom.
ho addressed as follows:
"Tais is a solemn day for me, boys.
hope this will be a warning to you
against bad company. I hope it will be
a lesson to all young people, old as well
,as young, and rich and poor. It was
On •Feb, 15, 1819, the only instance
of lynch law in the Annals of Canadian
justice occurred, the occasion being the
summary execution by some -of the
reeidents of York of a man named
Benyon, who had tied a boy, who
had been working for him, up to the
stump of a tree, and there by lighting
a fire near hint literally roasted him, to
death, Newa of this terrible set at
once. almoat. reethed York, with the•
result that a party of the townspeople
soon made their way to Whitby, and,
finding De Benyon, brought him as far
as the Don bridge of that date, and
there hanged him to a tree growing
conveniently near the river.
In 1828, Charles French and Jemes
Christie were hanged in the second
jail, the former for the murder of a
,companion of hie named Thomas Jos -
lin, the latter' fok having enticed a boy
.named Charles Wood to leave a wagon
he was' in charge of and enter some
adjoining woods on a supposed squirrel
hunt and there shooting him The
jail where the hanging :took place was
on the southeast corner of Toronto
and Court streets, and a portion of the
building is still standing.
Nine years pased over, then on Dee.' that brought me here to -day to my last
14, 1837, Julia Murdoch, a young woman end; though I am innocdiat of the =tr-
ot but twenty years of age, a servant der I am about to suffer for. Before
maid, was hanged for the deliberate ram. any God ana innocent of the murder.
der of her mistress, Mrs. Harriet Henry, know nothing of it. I am going to meet
The murder was a peculierly revolting my Maker in a few miuutee; may the
one, as it was acconiplished by putting Lord have mercy on ray soul. Amen."
poison in the food the mead intd prepared
First in New Jan.
ter Mrs. Henry to eat. In reportieg
the execution the Christian Geardian A little more than a year later Robert
remarked: "It was exceedingly revolting Coulter was hanged for the murder of
to see among the spectators a large num. James Kenny on the night of November
ber of females." 18, 1801. The execution took place at
the new jail on June 1st, 1863. He was
• In Rebellion Times,
a powerfully built man and died hard,
In April, 1838, occurred the execution having made no confession. BetWeen
of Samuel Lount and James Matthews two thousand and three thousand people
for the crime of high treason, though witnessed the execution, a much smeller -
every possible effort had been made crowd then that -which 'attended the
by their friends to obtain a commute- hanging of O'Leary and Fleming.
tion of the sentence. After the sad John Traviss was convicted. of the
scene was over the bodies of the two murder of John Johnstoxf on November
unfortunate men were delivered to their 23, 1871, near Queeneville, in the Town..
friend:a who gave the remains Ohristiam ship of East Crwillinebury. He was tried
burial in the cemetery on the north side Ja,nuary 11, 187a, found guilty and on-
o of Bloor street west, known ea Potter's
.Field. tenced to be hanged on February 23rd,
follovving. Traviss made a full confes-
In the autumn of 1843 Jame .MeDer- sion before he died.
mott suffered the extreme penalty of On...november. 30th, 1877, JOlan Wil -
the law for -the murder of Thomas leans, of Weston, was executed at the
Kinnear, a Scotch gentleman of good
family who lived. near Richmond Hill, win)
new jail for the brutal murder of his
on Yonge street. lefeDermott's exe-cu- •on the night of September 2Ist pre -
tion wee carried out at the jail on the viously. Williams died extremely pent -
bay front at the foot of Berkeley street. tent, his last words being: "I am happy
that I got a fair trial, and I thank the
Self Convicted Man. public at large for what.they have done
Turney .was executed in Tor. for me. I am also deeply gratefnl to my
onto in 1847, just four years leter clergyman. That is all."
than the MeDertnott case. Turney's
crime was the xnurder of a storekeep• Hon. George Brown's Murder.
era clerk, named Walter MoPhillips, One of the most sensational crimes
and the probehility is that if Turney ever committed in .Toronto was that of
had. not been so fond of letter writing the murder of the late Hon. George
he would never have been eon- Brown, on March 25, 1880, which was
vieted of the crinie. It was wholly expiated on July 23, 1880, by the. exe-
through a letter written by Turney to cution of George Bennett, who wes
his wife in which the crime was re. also known under the alias of George
fenced to that brought about his eon. Dickson.
Action. The evidence was wholly dr- Bennett shot Mr. Browp down in bis
euinstantial and the crime could not office, from the effect. of Nvhich shot he
bave been brought home to blm if it afterwards died. Bennett maintained
had not been for the incriminating that the shooting was on the iiripulse of
letter. the moment, but a very strong feature
Robet Hamilton was hanged on the in the evidence against the prisoner as
scone date and at the same place as to felonious intent, was a letter found
James Turney for the murder a a fann. with others on hiza at the time of the
er in Toronto Township named Noan arrest, in, which he said he intended to
Eaton. The crime was one which had kill Banks And his let° master for fan.
nothing but robbery as its motive, and eied ill-treatment, and to eoraelete the
little or no sympathy was felt for the tragedy by comnaitting stiaide,
cotideraned man. When on the scaffold Bennett remark. -
A Soldier's Crime. ed quite -coolly, "1 ani prepared to die,
All I have to say isi May God have me -
On November 14th, 1849, Robert cy on my soul."
Smith, a private in the Rifle Brigade
Killed Prison Guard.
stationed at the Old Fort, vas hanged
for shooting one of his comrades Robert Neil was executed at the pre.
nitmed Richard Eastwood, 'the whole sent jail on Tuesday, Reb. 10, 1888, for
trouble having aris.en through a very the nutraer of John Rutledge, a guard
trifling quarrel between the two men. at the Central Prison. On the inorning
Smith took offence at some slighting of jan. 13 preiously Rutledge had en -
remarks Eastwood had addressed to te.red Neil's cell for the purpose of re-
hire, and brooding aver the trivial oc- moving a bucket, when Neil suddenly
eiwrence, watched his oportunity, and
plunged a broommaker's knife into his
when it came shot Eastwood delta. abdomen, Rutledge dying two days after -
Smith wins non the scaffold neither wards from the effects of the wound.
blanched nor quivered, but looked meta The crime was committed oe. Ian. 13.
like a soldier on parade than a man
Neil was brought for trial at the assizes
about to face his Maker.
on Ian. 26, and was hanged for his exam°
Wife Murderer's Fate. on Feb. 28, 1888. In hie case; at any
Ori Monday, December 4th, 1854, rate, retribution soon folleved the crime,
Martin Richard Itches was hanged Thomas Kane was onvicted of the
for the murderaof his wifeecin July 30th murder of his wife on Saturday, Nov,
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. More than ten years weet by before
there wag auother hanging in Toronto
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it not ailing elan: April 4, 1000 tha
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• Harry Ne. alums paid with los IITO
the wilful inurdee of john Eawerd Vat
coe, a, grocer, on queen street east, air
ing the night of Nov. 4, 1899,
Williams on the. night named,. with
companion, broke into Vulvas store
then when they were diecovered, in th
scuffle which followed, Williams drew
pistol, shooting Vareoe, wounaing
so seriously that ha died. very shortl
. afterwaras. Williams went to the scaf
foal most conectiyely; frem the ver
first he was Apparently: resigned to hi
fate, es, after ids corenctien in aeissie,
senteuce Chief Justice Meredith ilia hel
,
**41P-Ort....+1441!+.***-*++++ meat be ware I believe AM -eine should
be betWl. Preed th" 1433ietellfeere; A Great octor Spealis
At 103 YearS no Says V.1,1lig 7,1._lt:.'1,4%, wieve
"Don't Worry" is Snret zba.t . ireny muela o.f a Great -Remedy
ao good Mr tt to go to Japan.
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• •-• • • • • ., ••- • -- a • - for 1 think the Japaneo are the load
tribe of Israel, This belief is Nosed ou
philologice .grontelis. Tbe name of the
Japcincae ruler, Mikado, 1 have fermi.
in my Tahanaie studies to be an Iraule
word meaning "Who le like Vicar Jan
are is also derivea frein en triune w.or
Meanina 'bidden/ "
alarlY marriages mut large famine
ere advoeteted ateongly hy Rabbi Tra
- ger, Throngh his seecinci marriage he ha
four children, three of WhOTO an living
They ere Mrs. Visaneati, with whom It
lives; Mrs. Gerfuekei, of No. Wes
110th street, awl Is•blor Tregee, Os
tiller, of Citicinnati, He has twenty-fiv.
grandechildreu, am" thirty-three childee
call Min greet-greitafather.
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Herald.)
r
e There is great dela of truta in the
etatinnent recently lasuta by the lier•
een of Vital atatistice that worry
a Worming the death rate from heart
disease izi New York," Gatti the Rev.
e Abraham leime Trager, 103 years old.,
a as he fitekecl the ashes from a cigar yes-
terdey, "1 have never worried in. my
y life, end to that 1 attribute in great
measure iner long. life and exeralent
• aealtli."
leablei Trager laid. aside copyof the
g • TO;11111 d lied bon reading, witholit
eoglierflvele'atIale li'esomleevoietwettlitei,ainate'VeTtitri:
eveattentifisalong life. He tares with his
daughter, Mrs. Bethel Visaeskii, at No.
'488 St. Nicholaci avenue, and, wIdle he
n 'aas retired from- active business, tale
T centenarian bas not by ,any means given
z up an active interest m all that goes
r in the world outside nee in the pate
e times and enjoyments tied younger por-
e eons indulge in.
r sinokes ineeseantly, reade many
newspapers in both English and alebrew,
eontinues Telmudie studies With RS
much eitengy aa when he was stuaying
fee the rabbinate in ROSela, men than
three-quarters of a century ago, anel
only reeently Yom Kippur lee deliv-
ered a sermon lasting an lam,
Althotagli he proartaly is the oldest
. person in New York he keeps up oor.
respondence with Mends in America. and
Europe, and at. weddin ceremonies,
will& he likes to perform, he is said to
be a witty and delightful after dinner
aPieltebri. Trager is no mollycoddle, Ile
is a neat admirer of President Reese -
vele :Id believes in most of the thine
the President edvocatee. In bie youth
he was an athlete and famous swimmer,
with a- record of having dived under
the ice •of the Volga River and savee the
lives of two peasant women who had
gone under, In his eincreasing Tears he
has kept *himself in perfeet physical
tenn by much walking. At tbe age of
one heindrea he made daily visits to the
Montefiore Home, although the trip in-
volved walking; up more than one hun-
dred steps reading to Washington
Height's.
Throughout his life he has indulged
himself with tobacco, alcoholic thinks
Tina coffee. He alas, however, that he is
as temperate in their use ae his system
demande, Now three years east the cen-
tury mark, he emokes several -pipes and
many black cigars every day and often
arisee at midnight to soothe himself
with a smoke. In former years he smok-
ed cigarettes, but he has given those up
because they do not satisfy him eow.
Old residente of New York remember
Rabbi Trager as the man who founded
the first Polish orthodox congregetiou
in the city. This was the eongregatioa
Hamedrash Hagodal, in Chambers etreet.
He founded tints synagogue alter hie ar-
rival in this country from Russia, about
1855. Tragera memory for . datee is a
little hazy.
"King David said man was meant
to live seventy or eighty years," Rabbi
. Trager told a visitor who melted him
his a gae,"nornfw ebrd emfw cmiwypp
his age, `and it is well for one to count
his years. up to three sore and ten but
after 'that the years are gifts of 'God,
and the recipient ehould not count
them. •
Sixty-five years ago 'this ,venerithie
father in Israel was living in Pales-
tine, near the eity of Jerusalem, where
he had gone with his first wife and
their cbildren from Wilna, Russia. He
- was born in Wilma and was educated
there for the ministry.
Like many other rabbis in Russia, he
took up business, along with his prieit-
ty duties, and became a oontractor and
tavern' keeper. He. left Russia because
of the persecutions visited on his race.
During a residence of two years in Pal-
estine he was engaged in missions of
charity, At one. time he fell a. victim
to Turkish robbers and was robbed and
almost "killed. His first wife and her
children died in Palestine.
Rebbi Trager then returned to Rus-
sia, where he merried a second time.
Meanwhile_ he had travelled Turkey,
Austria and Germany, learning the Ian-
guagee of those countries.. To -day be
speaks Russian, Polish, German, Turk-
ish, Arabia and English, and, of course,
reeds Hebrew. His English, which he
learned when more then fifty years old,
is excellent.
When Rabbi Trae,rer first came to Am-
erica .he lived in NeNv York and engaged.
in basineese The deoline of the hoopskirt
and crinoline fashions ruined him fin-
ancially, for he manufactured wire
hoops, but he feced ruin with the same
freedom fleet worry that characterized
him and set about finding new employ-
ment. He moved to South Carolina. and
became a cotton planter shortly before
the civil war. He lived near Columbia on
his plantation until seven years ago.
One of his most precious pooessions is
an army rifle presented to him in per -
eon by, General Sherman when the v.i&
victorious. -Union army captured Colum-
bia, Rabbi Trager's son, Louis was an
officer in the federal army under Gen-
eral Grant and on that account, al-
though he was a slave owner, the fa.
ther's plantation was spared the devas-
tation visited on some of his neighbors.
Trager was C011ell.Lat Boulegne, France,
under Peesidefit Geant, „
While living in Columbia. Rabbi Tree.
ger organized the oonunimitiee of Char-
leston Red Cleiniebia, and as tae
shechet in the district provided theni
with kosher meat, At the age of ninety
he travelled about the. Smith olleeting
funds for a synagogue at Columbie.
Neitrly the militia community of hie
people in South Citrolina an point to
him as their Moira and Messeder-Ked.
testae.
"Having tasted the eweets of freedom
hi thie country," Rabbi Trager said, "I
eent for all my relatives and brought
them here, I have taught them to honer
and love this country end respect. the I
greet men who have made it Asa Pre-
serVed it."
This INA -Oldie reference reminded the
aria -lent eebbi of the 'anise of the bat-
tle ship fleet to. the Puffin. He said he
had read every line printed the Her -
tad abont the cruise and ems greatly
inteested in its iniesion
"t ana a man of peace," lie said, "War
leacialtorrent to mehbut as long as theta
out no hope for mercy,
Constable Boyd Shot,
Frederick Lee Rio was hanged o
July 18, 1002, for having shot Count
Constable Boyd, who was in a 11140k
charge of Rice himself, and, two othe
prisoners trained, respectively, Routiedg
and Jones, conveying them to jail, whin
they lied been committed to takes thei
trial for burglary committed in Aurora
sometime previously. The crime wee a
most seusational one, as the pistols with
which the shooting was effected were
thrown Into the back in which the
constable and prisoners were, travelling
bY a third person, whose personality has
never yet been discovered. The three
prisoners ell °lune to an untimely end
Jones was so terribly injured in the
fight for liberty which 'took place be-
tween the. constables and their cbarges
that he died in the General Hospital
a day or two later. Routiedge coin -
minted suicide in the jail two days
efter Boyd was shot, and Rice, per-
haps the •least ,guilty 'of the three,
perished. on the scaffold,
The last man to be hanged at the
jail was Alexander Martin, who had
been convicted of the murder of his
infant child by striking it on the head
with an oar while he and his wife
were in a boat on the bay; he then
threw the dead body into the water.
When Martin was brought up for trial
there was practically no defence, and
the jury had no difficulty in finding a
-Verdict of guilty.' Martin was hanged
on the morning of March 10, 1900, his
last words being that "he was an inno-
cent man." Until the execution of Boyd
this morning that was the last execution
which took place in Toronto.
When a Kansan Stops His Paper,
About two months ago one of our
farmer friends dropped in and stopped
his Farmer. He said he couldn't afford
to take the paper, and just had to do
without, it. He dropped en again last
Saturday and planked down $1.50 for a
year in advance -and then heaved a big
sigh ed relief. Everything had gone
wrong since the Fanner ceased to visit
him. His chickens refused to lay, his
cowa got on the alfalfa and died, and
his hogs got the cholera. The rats gnaw-
ed holes in his granary and his wheat
ran OUt And the btrds ate it up. His
windmill blew over and killed a horse,
end his best shepherd dog got a bone in
his throat and choked to, death. His
children got the measles and his wife
•mashed her thumb in the wringer and
couldn't do aey housework. Thieves
broke into his smakehouse and stole his
winter's guppy of meats, and fire de-
stroyed several stacks of his alfalfa. He
bought groceries of a travelling .fakei
awl never got them, while his neighbor
escaped. because he read in the Farmer
to watch out for crooks. His days were
filled with naisfortune and. his nights
with bad dreams. He stood it two
months, and then gave up the unequal
struggle. -Osborne Farmer.
THE WINDS OF THE WORLD.
Fight Between the Monsoons -Local
Breezes and Some of Their Effects.
Being credibly informed the other
day by a queer old man of the sea-
faring persuasion that the southeast
common was still fighting the north-
east moneoan to see which would
cenver, and the information being
followed by a dissertation on the fail-
ure of the last sea sports owing to the
same pereersity of a veteran lagging
superfluous on the stage when he
ought to have left the boards empty
for the keen, rotheeeter, it occurred
to me that there was a considerable
amount Of information to be obtained
about winds Without diseoursing on
windiness.
Until one actually experiences it
there is a lot of romance hanging
around the outskirts' of the world
Monsoon, We speak of the monsoon
being late or early, of the east coast
being practically closed, but unlesS
we go down to the sea in ships con-
tinents of India and Australia, how-
ever, the breaking of the rains is a
matter of real moment, of general'
interest to everyone, of painfed and
keenest anxiety to many, and in such
cues the word is fraught with a mean-
ing which is greater than ever book
conveyed to the mind of man.
Apart from the winds of . regular
habit there are the many local Winds
Which °One he different parts of the
world and are generally unkind *in
&erecter. Ot such may be mention-
ed the Simoon, Siroeco, Harrnattan,
the Puna of Peru, the bitter notth-
easter of Britain, the Mistral of Mar-
seilles and that coast, the Paenpero
of the Andes. With all these local
breezes, though in feet they are of-
tentbnes gales of some velocity, many
curious effecte are coupled, and one
of the most noticeable of these is Matti
the, blowing of the genuine noe'eaeter
at home is always coincident with the
greatest number of deaths from con-
sumption and btain diseese.
Thee is here opened up a wide field
f most interesting researeb. for the
urine in weather study and human.
ty lore, for the effeet of wind on gen-
lent beings nert been tie deeply
Onsidered as• It might be. Thus in
th 1 a
ari distinctly affected by winds, and
partieular cats, as any one will
remember if they consider the peoule
iarities of eats When high winds are
blowing. Cattle, tho, are suseepte
°
Grikie or Influenza, whichever you like
to call it, irz one of the most weakening
diseases known.
Scate's Zmutrion. which is Cod
Liver Oil ancl Ftypophosphites hi easily afi.
gested form, is the greatest strength.builder
known to medical science.
It is so easily digested that it sinks into
the system, making new blood and new fat,
and strengthening nerves and muscles.
Ernattiort after
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Influenza.
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BREAKING IN A LOCOMOTIVE.
I.,••••••••••••••••••,
Tried Oirst in die Yards and Late
Sent Out on Repair Runs.
Few pereons outside the reabn of the
°printing depertment of rearmed knew
eaniyi;t1111.iituiges oafmathneotofitiregesuevIztoiemeirtsilipige.,
ly intelligent eapers of •a locomotive
when Laing "broke" to its mission In the
world. Each taew epgine must undergo a
set training or test before it is put into
actuel service, and each. locomotive
which has gone through the shops for re-
pairs is given a certeiraworking out am
fore it is returned to its erstwhile duties.
Sonte loomotive manufecturing com-
panies complete their engines ready for
Aetna). service before sending them out;
others ship them to the destination in a
partial "knockdown" state and. they are
completed in the shops of the road to
widen they are •delivered.
When a new engine is taken into a
shop it is turned ever to a mechanic
whose duty it is to fit it up and make
all connections and adjuetznents of the
interior mechanism. This complete, the
engine is tureed over to a fireman, who
steams it up and blows it off in order to
remove any grease that might have accu-
mulated in the boiler or any emir foreign
substence as might cause a boiler to
"foams' while in service. The engine is
then turned over to an engineer, whose
duty it is to "break" it tn. The engine
is eteamed up again, and if it will run
is talcen for a little try -out about the
yard.
The science of locomotive building has
been developed to such a fine point that
there is little danger now of an engine
"bucking" on its first trial The mein
feature in the test is to see that there
is no heating in the journals or rod
brasses. If there is no heating the en-
gine is run about the yards for about
half a day and the steam is again blown
from the boiler.
The engine is then steamed up and
taken for a long run on the main line.
If during this test there are no capers
cut the engine is sent out for its first
trip with about 500 tons to draw. If it
runs all right the tonnage is gradually
inereesed to 950 tons. The tonnage de.
pends greatly upon the size of- the ene
gine. The agerage engine of te-day Nvill
draw about 050 tons on a mountainous
road and from 1,200 to 1,500 tons over a
level haul. The tot speed is from 1 to
20 miles an hour.
Heating is one of the principal dis-
eases of an engine, and it is gliS feature
the eegineer looks to more then anything
else. The mechanical sense of the engin-
eer is so developed that he can detect
the least defeat about his engine.
John Miller, who is the "locomotive
buster" for the Nashville, Chattanooga
& St. Louis Railroad Company, breaks on
an average twenty engines each month.
He has bon breaking engines for this
company for the last five years. -From
the Chatteneoga Times.
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SLEEPLESS BABIES
ARE SICKLY BABIES.
Well babies sleep soundly and wake up
brightly. When little ones are restless,
sleepless and cross it is the surest sign
that they are not well. Probably the
stomech er bowels is out of order, or it
may be teething tronbles. .Give Baby's
Own Tablets and see how quickly the
child grolas web and Inippy and sleeps
soundly and naturally. Not the arugged
sleep of "soothing" medieines, but the
natural sleep of health. You have the
guarantee of a Government:analyst that
this medicine contains no poisonoue opi-
ate or. narcotic, end you can give the
Tablets just as safely to a new born
babe as to the well growe child. Sold
by all medicine dealers, or by mail at
25 cents a box from the Dr, Williams'
Medicine Ca„ Brockville, Ont.
SEA BATHING ON NEW YEAR'S.
Annual Dip in San Diego Bay Aston,
ishing to Easterners. .
While the waters of the East where
during the •summer months, youth 117141
old ago delight to swim or row, are
frozen over end provide only a field for
the invigorating winter eports af skat-
Mg and. mining, the bays and ocean
beetles of the Southwest aie the scenes
of all sorts of acquatic pastimes. Little
does it matter if the calendar does say
the day is NeNNr Year's or Ohrietmas.
Memorial day or the glorious Fourth. It
is all the same to the" swimmer, the
oarsman, the owner of a yacht or the
fisheiman of California. This is partic-
ulaely true in the great bay of San
biego, at the extreme southern end of
California, where headland and pettin-
tally, afford a vast spao of :still water. -
One of the rceerular annual features of
a rowing -club, eays, Tile Travel Maga-
zine, is the New Year's day dip in the
bay, when seems of the members get
into the water at the mime dines making
pieturci which. is a source of aston-
ishmett to the' "osterners" Nvho may
be down on the water -front, Hut this
s not the only day in the winter when
the boys have- their swine in the °pet
eater. Indeed, the membere may be
sten any arin in the year taking an ill*
Atiorating Outgo.
- • ea t
ibb to winds, attd possibly more to "
the premanition of wind; while the
blowing of a nor'wester -will exhilarate
some temperaments irt a manner not
quite the same as artything eIse
-From the Singapore 31'ree Prole. ,
• the Pour Men,
Men ate four:
Its who.knows not, and knows not he
knows not,
Ile in a fool; ehtm him,
Ile who knows not, and knowa he
kneWe net,
The is' eimple; teeth him.
Ite who knows, and kite*? hot he
knowe, •
Ire 18 4E46(4); wake hitn.
He Who kfiertee, and knowe he knotee,
• • Ili is wise; follow him.
-Arabia' Pro/orb,
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hue t, os.
l'oens%0S
WoMen Defied Church Rule.
six splendidly clad youee wetnen, net the
tenet of their grandeur being roPreeented
by the latest exam/dee Of millinery art,
sweet Into the leir,st Presbyterian Church
last night and seated themselves le the
meet advantageous seats of this the most
ealeeted house Of worship in the eity. The
six diet not VeSerAbte eonepirators bent on
revolutionary sed rebellious teak's, but
they were and they won their point.
"Ladies will please remove their hats,"
corawatitled the nov. Dr. Matthews, when
itta calm glance over his congregation re,
venial the feet that one of the standing
rules 6f the ehureh was being violated
right under the ntinisterial nose.
There was no reeponsive ection on the
part ef the eix. The reenest was repeated
in a still firmer tone, but the rebele sat
Dent, and After a pause of a minutes's. thin.
Mien the divine bogne his sermon while the
Six set streiglit with their enrolee netiatite
a mean of victora-nottio Timee.
Wankel,
"notet it maice yeti angry to 'tee a pretty
girl waste a kiss on tt Teddy beart" asked
the tell young nunt.
"trideed it deem." replied his ehum.
"And it le AIWAYS a bashful girl,'"
"Sure A eta. too shy tO beer a ides *Di
ides bettr.",-Chleago inert.
or caloro.sis, but also in. easels of ileums.
thenia. and the like,"
°Signed) Dit. GIUSEPPE Ln.PPtaNI,
Vie del Gracchi 332, Rome."
trieifTL•tethr re te reyn egialecei. neat' otaLeoill eool eft Pi:oil:
girls whose development to womaehood
ia terdy, and whose health, at the period
of thet development, is so often imperil-
led. His opinion of the value of Dr.- Wil.
lianas' Pink :Pills at that time is Of the
highest scientific autlioraY, and It con'
firms the many published cases in 'which
Anaemia and other diseases of the blood,
its wen ae nervaus diseases-, have been
cured by these pills, which, it need hard-
ly be mentioned, owe their efficacy to
their powee of making new blood, end
thus acting dirotly upon the digestive
and nervous system, In all cases of
anaemia, decline, indigestion, and all
troubles due to had blood, and all affec-
tions of the nerves, as St. Vitus' dance,
epoalii'lainleorsuidseaandtoloctohme optuol;
talriee
greater confidence because they have the
strong endorsation of this great physi-
cian.
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EVERY NIGHT SEES ITS
UNARY IN MONTREAL
4 -*11-6-.10-00-4-4^4.1.4-4-4-44-40-4, 7 I 4 1 ; ; ; ••••••••-0-4. " - 1,4-4++++++++.44
. (Montreal Herald.) From a promineet agent of one of
.
No one but the police has any idea the burglary insurance companies,
• of the enormous number of crimes working chiefly among the smaller
against property committed in the city store -keepers, and getting ill a large
of Montreal. Within the last year the amount- of new business, comes the
increase in this class of crime has been statement that very many of these
phenomenal, though not greatly more thefts a,re of the most, amateur char-
- so than that of • the ciao of crimee ante, the work of boys ef tender year's
against the person, chiefly of robbery who are tempted by the deliea,cies of•
or attempted robbery, with viulence, on the grocery store, the cigarettes and
the public thoroughfares. canclies of the drug establishments,
Few of these cases get into publicity and so forth. But they seem to acquire
unless the offender is detected and very rapidly a knowledge of the kinds.
comes up in court. The police, for verY of goods that can most readily be die -
proper reasons to some extent, make no posed of without deception.
announcement of crimes reported to "I attribute these crimes very large -
them until they are on the track of the ly to therreading of sensational Mere -
criminal. ture and the witnessing of sensational
The numlier of burglaries which thus plays," said. this authority. "The pain -
reach the attention of the public is in- fulness of the situation is not so much
significant compared with _those Nvhieh he the gravity of the crimes as they
actually occur. Many of these are re- are to-daytabut in the fact that every
ported quietly to the police, no trace is crime of this kind has the effect of
found -of the criminal, and nothing more starting or hurrying someone on the
is 'ever heerd of the ease. downward path that ends in making
One way of estimating the number him a hardened criminid. The ' fact
of burglaries is, bowever, to take the that such a lane number of these
number 'of claims for compensation crimes go unpimished makes the begin -
made to the burglary insurance corm ning of an evil life frightfully easy and
panies and -admitted by them. tempting."
These are, of course, only a small part On the other lutnd, the American
of the 'losses really caused by this crime, Fidelity and Guarantee Compaey,
for the burglary insurance business in which has a sliding scale of rates fay -
this city is only now beginning to reach oring the large insurer and specitaises
a measure of popelarity. Two or three on big risks reports a remarkable in -
years age a few people except the big crease in the' demand for insurance by
waaehousemen and important private lime such as have nothing to fear ex -
residences had a policy on their proper. cept from courageous expert bungars.
ties to afford them thci safety which is "We heye heA applications in the last
pgoennecie•a.11y supposed to be supplied by the
houses which never carried burglary
month or two from ten large fur
It is hard to estimate the proportion insurance before," said the manager of
of burglary victims who carry policies the Montreal branch of this concern
and make claims under them. .At an yesterday. Owing to its particelarity
outside estimate they would not be more about the class of risk undertaken,
than half the totel, and probably a good this compauy has not had a very
deal less. The cost of a burglary policy lengthy list of losses for the past
to the small storekeeper, whose business quarter, though for a company whieh
premises are so small that nobody oc- has only beer* doing business here for
cupies them at night, is quite sufficient two years a, list of eight losses ranging
-about $11 per annum is the smallest from $25 to $1,500 is hardly a tribute
premium and covers only $1,000 worth to the, excellenee of the city's prate°.
of goods on a fairly good risk -to make teen.
him hesitate very long before taking The "rato charged by this company in
out a policy. The immense number of a.fontreal are about the same as
cases of loses in the last few months those ex force in other American cities
and the prompt settlements by the in- foaletilihteiessamfoer size, though if the present
surance companies have, however, done burglary continue there
a great deal to popularize the business. is likely to be an advance. "There in
The Guarantee Company received and going; to be a big burglary here in one
admitted forty-eight claims for loss sus- of the jewelry gores in seine house
tained by burglary in Montreal during which can suffer a loss on something
the months .of October, November and of the same scale as a jeweler," re.
December. This is at the rate of eight- marked the manarrer in the course Of
een burglaries every thirty days. The a conversation on the outlook' for
amounts are not always large, and the crime. When that occurs there is like -
damages are often only those caused ly to be a general raising of the rates 4
by forcible entry;. but the total is very for the higher class of burglary Maur- t
formidable, and in many cases hundreds anag
o
arid even thoueands of dollars have been Thus at appears that the inerease of
paid -to the claimant. crime is not confined to any ono
An like of the elass of business most branch or part of the city. High-clos t
abfef eheatde dfihoymtltileisceibi Butrgolia ell% sgsmeitt may residential properties are seeking fm ,
trlYed by • surance to a surprising extent, for not e
this company since October 1. Drug- - a few of the heaviest losses have been t
eg,ilortray, Navnhaosue ngtor ao de es aablee, ear alien aflanveo, rilitgeh tviteo. I
also coming into the field, but these f
in this branch. Suburban houses are e
tims, and next to them come tailors. In ; do not appear in the list of alorareal
point of value, however, the fur .dealers • barglaries. The times for residential b
would easily head the list. These are : burglaries is always the summer, 50 1
Ptlaieritii'eugloaordlYs leuilainevraealusabiale
e .: i o
Mt tonnat r eettals,yantdo a n 0
just at present.
that there is no special ectivity in that b
dispose of, while theyehave net as yet •
t
adopted the precautions possible in the ! alakieg a Business of Benevolence.
i
case of other valuables. The jeweller, i
for instance, locks tip the niost precious It takes a practical. mind to make a b
part of /iis stock in a safe when he fortune, Men have often said in. my, t
closes his store; but the furrier :los not hearing: "Oh, how I wish I were rich!
like to bandle his goods every night,
and leaves them undisturbed where any If I had 1 h Id cl thi • t a'
a
money a ou o s glee
ork or that." Vow, those men will
one who gets into the building can walh: w S
off with theta Nvithout trouble. Almost never be rica. They havelat got the pur if
11
The drowning omen noW fairly op-
ened. The ice ie treacherous, Take no
undue risks.
The dreadful. bolveaust at Byertowin
Pa.; whose se warty enema lo•t OOP
lives .by fire In a theatre, at:ether el
,Itose tragedits which vent. from. time
to time, and width seem. to LW beyund
the power of man to prevent,
The "Coital Statee coming figuree shew
that there ii18 been ft prOgreSiimly more
raw: inetease in insanity than in pope-
lat•ion in the United Stones. There were
40,402 innuttea of asylums M 1880; 74,0a8
in 1800, end 150,151 in 1000, says the
Philadelphia Record, %hese figures, how-
ever, may only prove that tlie State le
looking better after those thus afflicted.
Tito Japanese Government is to
a grand exhibition in the city of Tokio
in 1912, It e ill be open fram April 1 to '
•Oetober inehisive, of that year. The •
site of the exhibition will eomprise
202 :tees, All foreign governments end
peoples are Melted to participate in
this .exhibition. All artielea importea
from foreign countries for the eol-e per -
pose of exhibition mina used for •corn-
u Keehn purposes 12.1 that coe lay, arid all
materialelor the buildings of feeder:xi gov-
ernments, 01' IApe-eial exhibition build-
ings and decorations thereof, will ell
be admitted free of duty.. Ail abonrd for
Toki o.
Sh011hi the temate help of a hotel be
elven the exclusive use of a parlor to
entertain their gentlemen friends? The
London girls anewered the question in
the affirmative. • One of the. proprietora
thought differently, with the result that
twenty-five gala aro looking foe jobs.
This ie queetion, n•ow, that _requires
inore than the say-so of any one hotel
proprietor.. It is a question that might.
wen be discussed by our young mon's
unionise There's a big principle at stake,
as well as the girl'a comfort and conven,
ieeee. If she eannot entertain her beau
in the Parlor, where is the hotel girl to
entertain him?
During the reeen-'t in the 'United
8eitlitotrems oltliosnerxdtbeign.1oof resti2r77070,0reotot,ehaeodeot
-Mg, to a computation made by the Na-
tional City Bank of New York. Now
that the panic is over the tide has turn-
ed, and the saving4 banks of New York
especially are doing an enormous busi-
ness. In the eight business days since
the beginning of the New Year the de-
posits bad reached $30,000,000. Almost
all the savings banks are now paying 4
per cent. interest, and persons of moder-
ate moo having investments in India. -
trial and stock corporations paying that
amount of intereet or less, or no divi-
dend, have sold their holdings and put
the pro:reeds in savinge benks. We may
uow conclude that we have heard the
lest of the financial panic of 1907,
There are someilidri:g like d,o0o physi-
cians in practice in Canada, and. there
are loud complaints in many localities
that the field is overcrowded. Hardly a
rural village is to be found in which
there is not keen competition, ard tb
cities are swarming. In Hamilton there
are perhaps 100 physicians, about. 450 la
Toronto, and still they come. The maxim
that "There is always room at the top,"
is evidently receiving wide acceptance,
and hope continues to spring exultant
in the breasts of the 2,000 -odd students,
who are this year attending the medical
at Toront -C7 •
stool' oboel sn oolfvotitenteirvoftelFsitiltri gyy,. 6352T05112eittretew ItQlinuaee (el/ate:08d:
25 at McGill, 100 at Halifax, 100 at
Ilipeeg1V, estern (London), and 100 at Win -
The public will endorse the action of
he directors of the Sovereign Bank in
eciding to retire from business rather
han carry on the same at a loss, to be
allowed perhaes by disaster in the near
utute. The action of the associated
anks in taking over that, blink's husi.
less iaveale two things -one that the
ank's affaire aro in fairly 'good shape
✓ they would not have touched it, and
hat the public can rest assured that the
nterests of ell parties will be protected
y the banks concerned. The passing of
he Sovereign Bank need not be taken
s an evidence that our banking affairs
re in an unsatisfactory conditioe. The
overeign has had a somewhat stormy
. brief career, and the conditions sur -
minding it were unlike those of any
ther Canadian bank. Its going out of
xistence may not be an unmixed evil,
it checks a tendency to multiply banks
eyond any special need. The fact that
either depositors nor note holders need
orry, andatleat the shareholders are ie
jeopardy of losing their holdings nre
atters for nmeh congratulation.
English Politiciatas Bute Wife.
The wife of a prominent politician de.
ribed to the writer a typccal day of
✓ life in temdon dining the season.
aving at 8.30, before breakfaet,
whieh meal she digested the news -
pee, she attended to hei honsehold
aka, read with the children for half
hour, Mei an Italian Ieeson 511(1
eerie; lesson.
Then in a fast motor sped to a tom-
ttee meeting for the clieseininteilmt ef
ee tee ge literature. A harried lunch -
ti pree %tied n leAure on Plato aet rush
the :leiter of Commons to hale
ea. on lea husbanda poliey, and his en-
,,Itirled home in the molar, ele;
tiew for a hasty Nieit to the nursery
1. semnibling into her elothes for A
the sole protection to the farrier is the pose and practical bent of mind for it. ,
dwitifliceiui,lt‘yvhioifo gneottti rihge aavNyv,aya r Nov itdho c igdoeoddlys
- out the struggle. I fear it is necessary 0
They think of the fruits of victory with- I
bulky; but experience shows that in to fix the mind pretty firndy upon the e
gnng ef thieves to load a cart with their plan its sendbig.
Montreal it is not at all hard for a good
I remember dearly b
making of money before it is possible to if
Palltivallydelrviitilh ittliNevitalei:idit seof namigehhbasartadsagleut- so -of my life was formed, It• waa out n
when the financial plan -if I may call it
tatiou from a guardian of the peace. in Ohio, under the ministration of a dear Vc.
Frotn these to the grocers Is froni old,mitister, who preached, "Get money; n
ono extreme of the erime busieces to
the other, . The groter's losses are al. get it honestly, mild,. tillriax giiitvAeitbNovoiske.ly.1" m
I wrote that dow
'ways iiisignifieent, unless he is fool have the little book yet, with that writ.
nerligaltiltg.h titeetleabvuergilaiteraye3finfasutehlei tsitlolreelsreirs. money hontatly and give it wisely."
ing in it. I have triea ever sinee to "get
almost a daily °eminence. It is laegelY There is it great deel of folly shown in se
1 • la . T I' b the distribution of benevoleace, If sub- he
and hiding in a .eellar or :storeroom stance is si, trust, then it is very serioue Il
during the evening are the favorite
One can't simply got rid of it and have a pa
business, this Matter of dispensing it, at
almeotheaddaa.magTehetotlitilaibeastorgeelatenrdallsYtodek° free coliecienee. .A responsibility at- di
than they do themselves good. TheY theltes to the distribution. I have an an
are hardly ever eau Alt vitae t when . t porn , o le e ect: 4et die
the proprietor happens to ome beek
gtoottahtevasytorei mitacneyhdenstainlalynt
bsteoferleleetplelefe -John D. Rockefeller in Leslie's Week- fr
tn.: Ilniaznettgbeo Ituilviaolbetinstintersusstosi-i)eetpvoorlaotioson.,s, mi
make A predict Of conatig to the store ie.
te
Po
a week, rio ris to )et Ow burglarious
at irreguler nights, perliaps two nights "-
But She Doesn't Last AS Well, ta
*rd.
fraternity know that ,the place is liable The modern girl is east iron. She can se
tie len visited at tirty time.
rtarn Mr. /Isadore Crepeau, manager could live the life the ordinary society 1..
do everything a man ean do. igo man Im
of tho Commereial Burglary and Plate woman leads and not be a wreck itt, the bi,
Glass InsUrallee Co., it was learned
that the increase in the demand for "a °i "'I'm first' seas"' CertainlY " mfin i"
could run the risks the average woman
!store insurante had been most remark- runs in the mere matter of health end tie
Able in the last few months, The not become a confirmed invalid on the elt
etenpary lied to be extremely eareful spot.- Ladles' Ilea
what kind of property it insured, as if
w(
7 dinner, where she naturtally arrived
te Ana breathless.
A few Tubber% of bridge, then a poll-
ei party ,and finally a ball -al which
e ditteed vigorously until ti tn.--
dy Randolph Churehlli in the tIentie-
mien.
the precautions ftgainst burglary taken Ttledds---#014 Irardhart 1116
by 'the OW11011 were at all lax there Of A bearding -house elticken.' Slobbs-
was inetiettlly no aesbitanee tO be look- 'Mew to?" Illobbe---alle hasn't lain Id
ed for from the polio. det epot tot AN/hotly," ti
WIgge lijotiee is ttbsolutely blitkl to
It own Interests. Wagg----Ves; rye no-
eed he is *twos looking for trouble.
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