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The Wingham Advance, 1905-01-26, Page 344 +444444+4444+++44444444+4+44444++++4444+444+++++++ in he Murderers!Land. . Since 181.5, when Ruesie made Japan island for killiug a brother officer while (M. Marx ht Waehington Kati the liameian army and wee sent to the flivu .uP the southern half of the lehall, at cards. All the small ehopleeepers.at 1 'the whole of Saghalien hoe been used .the various prison and military pOSte, aS a penal colony for linesien murderers the Caucasian boatmen who swarm the. and other vieione civil criminals. In ell these thirty pare only one ant e, e, naturalized American citizen, horn in Iluesiae---hae engaged in. liminess on the- island, I have just returned to this country after four sinunnere spent in trading aiming the. various prison posts •on the southern tmd. of the island and the mili- tary poets that are seatteree every few miles:. along its western coast to guard the 'sole voad running north and to eeereli the :straits of Votary for ecp- eil. nutking for the mainland in "dugout" or upen loee nate. Saghalien 14 no place for a, trader now. It hoe been mit off from the rest of the world educe the .outbreak of the war between its osther eaul Japan. No trader will be able to make his Balt there until hostil- ities erase, and it hos been decided whe- ther 11,118fila will keep the island or will have to give back to Japan that which ohs teak from the latter in the days of the little brown meit's weakness. During -my mouths -of trading with the military, the exiled 'Peasants and set - tiers, the convicts themselves and the native Gilyaks, Tungus and. Aimee I was able t.o beeome intimately acquainted with many phases of life in what might be aptly termed Murderers' Land, but the 'condition that interested me most eves that appertaining, to the =women criminal. Woman is exceedingly scarce on the island; her number Is about 8,000 to 30,000 men. As a result "her price is far above rubies," and her value is not af- fected by the fact that back in Europea,n Russia slie killed her lover in a fit of jealous passion or put poison in the wine Of the -woman who was luring her hos- harbor during the open season and, of course, the peasants are al ex•conviuts. Many of these released murderers have become commercially pronainent on ihe ieland and in Viadivostock and Ni- leolaevele• tho mainlend, where they nave :waled alter having secured per- niission. of the Government. .And, strange AS it may eeem to the occidental mind, they generally have the respect and con- fidence of the community, though even the wharf rats know thole bloody rec- ords. Two of every three of the fishing fleeta .that put out from the southern ports of the island are owned; entirely by men who would. not luive become wealthy thereby had they not taken life in their home towns in European Rua- sia. Sea -cabbage grows in abundance off the eastern coast of the island and a former convict whose headquarters is Vladivostock has made a fortune of $500,000 by gathering and marketing it in the neighboring Japanese' island of Yezzo, where it is considered a great deliemy and. is, eagerly sought after. One of the principal fur -trading firms in Nikollievsk is conmosed of three mule- derers from Little Russia, and many of their furs come from Saghalien, where exiled peasants spend the winter months trapping the otter, the sable, the brown bear, the fox and the squirrel, all of which abound on the island in. great number% The wealthiest moat in Alex- androvsk is also a dealer in furs, and, like his Nikolsevsle. rivals, has the blood 'of a brother on his hands. These fur merchants have sent many fellow murderer to his death in the wilds of Saghalien. Not that the peas- ant trappers cannot and do not with- stand the rigors of the arctic winter that hand or sweetheart from ater side. holds the entire islapd in its grasp from. Se great is the slemanO for these f e- the last of October to the first of May, male crimiaale as wives and housekeep- but there is a standing reward by the found them honest in trade and 1 would have trusted myself in the depths of the foreet with any eecort. Treat them as 'men, as one of your kind, and they iip- preeiate it and „will reciprocate your kiridnees, AR ilia traders on the leland go on ibis principle, and as a molt le le safe for them to go about with good deal of freedom. They go armed aud secure an escort from the govern- ment merely to be able to cope with the exception that may come along some day to prove the rule. ".""""."""".'""'""*".. MORE OFFICIAL TESTS. Sinee last repert, nine Roistein-FrIesian cows and Delano have been odnaitted to the Canadian Ileeord of Merit on the strength of their official seven-day records, made un- der the supervision of the Dalry Department of the Ontario Agricultural College, in each ease the amountn of milk and butter fat are actual; the amount of butter Is estimated On the basis of 81.7 per cent, of fat to the pound, the rule adopted by the Association of Agricultural Colleges. The most note- worthy record is that of Queen Pieter* Mer- eedes-18.86 pounds of fat, equiValent to ors on tho part of the oonvicts who have servea =their terms and become peasants evith Lend tenures or artizans tho towns that long before a convict ship arrives from Odessa, hundreds of applica- tions for possession of the few score svainen abOard have been filed with the military governor who sits at Alexan- drovsk, the principal prison post. The east ship to reach .A.lexandrovsk before the war with Japan. cast anchor 'lif'the harbor in June of last year. By the time the convicts were ready to dis- embark the wharf was black with claim- ants for the sixty odd. women among the 300 newcomers. Many a peasant, having heard that the ship was soon due, had trudp4eil from the interior over inany miles of forest paths to put in. an appli- cation for a, helpmeet and to look at anon =women than he had seen at one Russian goverrmient of'S rubles for the head of an escaped convict, end =when a Gilyak or an Ainu or a Tungus sees a white man in the forest be straightway endeavors to kill him, He does not first make sure that the white man has a per- mit to roam at large. In many instances he is anxious not to miss the opportu- nity of making 5 rubles easily, and in others lie calls the ;atrocities commit- ted on his people by escaped convicts who were leniently dealt with. The natives make is particularly hard for convicts to escape with any degree of safety to themselves or hope of ulti- mately reaching the mainland. The only route foe an escaped convict to take is through the forest, northward, and then eastward to the Straits of Tartary, in some places not ever five miles wide. But the natives have their villages in time since taking up his few acres of the forests; the military evarn them at land on hie release several years befeire once =when a convict has made a break from prison or hard labor in a logging for liberty; they are skilled in wood - comp or the Goal mines of the nosth. craft; and thrice lucky, indeed, is that Once off the sbip the women were fugitive who manages to elude 5,000 taken to the convict receiving station. The several hundred. applicants for them followed, eaell evidently confident that he would surely be one of the fortunates to be designated by the ;officials as hus- bands to the sixty. They waited pa- tiently in front of the building for eev- era]. hours- in the meantime those -of the civil and. anilitaey authorities who want- ed wives were busily engaged selecting have been captured while out et sea, the the best looking and meet coltured of outlooks in the military posts scattered the women for themselves. along the coast sighting= and overhauling Some twenty of the prisoners were re. them. But the big majority of the fit - served M this manner, and then a minor gitives who take to the forest never official went about among the croevd out , leave it alive. If they escape the head - side and told off the murderers who ' hunting natives they are almost cer- wire to reeeive the remaining forty, for ' thinly doomed to starvation after they , nine out of every ten persons exiled to : have passed. the fringe'of clearings made Stig.halien have the brand of Cain upon . by exiled peesants, who can be depended th,eir foreheads. Theo men were let in- I on to help their fleeing fellow criminals. to the room' in which the women. were I But the peasants have not conquered confined, one at a time. It did not take many miles of the forest, 'and the real trials of the fugitive begin after he has long for any one of them to make a, se- . . left the sheltering roof of the peasant lection; nearly every one was so anxi 0. who has pressed farthest into the for - Ian for a wife that he took the first w est. All roads and even forest tracks man he saw, without reference to age give out after two days' journey on feat or looks. As a result some of the last , from Alexandrovsk. to be let in secured the pick of the . group left by. the oft/es:re. I About twenty-five convicts try to es- ' cape 10 the course of a year. Scarcely In determining who shall receive wives half of this number ever reach the for - the officiate take into consideration the est's edge; the rest are captured before applicant's record since arriving on the , they have enjoyed freedom a day, and island and the propriety of his applica- 1 =h. man is straightway given 100 lashes tion for a helpmeet. Bribery, mrely, if A wife. I with the knout. This treatment either ever, influences the seleetion. cures the convict of any ferther desire hunting peasant or artisan has little en- = freedom or kills him, but once in a ough to live on at all times and nothing I for while a man is found who persists in at all to offer as a bribe except a per - making a break for liberty as often as the opportunity offers. Scuh a man was one Somoff, a mur- derer from' Little Russia,. Ile ran away eight times; eath time he received 100 , pairs of watchful eyes for the two weeks or more that a hunted man muet spend in making his Ivey to a secluded spot on the eastern. coast, where he can fashion a log raft or a "dugout" for the journey across the straits to the main- land. Some few convicts have actually es- caped in this manner; another handful pound e of butter. As will be noticed, three of these cows have made very creditable offi- cial tests, extending over a peeled to thirty dare. 1, Qneen Fletertie Mercedes (5,277), at liy. 1m. Mt of no: mills, 418 lbs.; butter fat, 18.86 lbs.; equivalent butter. 22.00 lba. Thirty.day record:11111c, 1.983.8 lbs.• butter fat. 73.76 lbs. Equivalent butter, 80.'08 lba.; owner, George Ith'e, xmonburg. 2. Adelaide Brooks DelCol (5,378), at 6Y. 10m. 10. of age; milk, 450.2 Ms.; butter fat, 10.03 lbs.; equivalent 'butter. 18.77 lbs. Thirty -day record: Milk, 1,870 lbs.; butter fat. 65.28 lbs.; equivalent butter, 76.17 lbs.; owner, Geo. Rice. 3. Madame Clothilde, 3rd (3,957). At 6Y. 8:33. 26(1. of age; milk, 433.4 lbs., butter fat, 14.0 lbs; equivalent butter, 17.19 '11/5.; owner, Geo, 4, Lady Agnes of Avondale (2,700, at Gy. 8m, 245. Of age: milk, 348 lbs.; butter fat, 14.53 lbs.; equivalent butter, 1.G.96 lbs,; owner, 5.'prince-es ceiamite may wee), at ey, em. eld, of age; railk, 420.9 lbs.; butter tat, iesie cure for all blood and nerve troubles lbs, ; equivalent butter, 10.45 lbs; owner, Wal- Such as anaemia, debility, lung cone DANOEROUS COLDS, *M.,' ...MP.. itemize, Bronchitis, Pneumerda Or Cow gumption Often Pollow a Neglected Cold -Avert the Danger by Zeening the Blood Pure and Warm, Heavy colds strain the logs, weaken the chest, banish the appetite, cause mele ancholy. Pale, weak people, whose handie and feet are chilled for want of rich, red blood, always catch cold. Their luotts are soft, the heart cannot mud out blood enough to make them sound. and strong, nen comes the cold and cough, racking the frame and tearing the tender lungs. The cold may turn into pneumonia, influenza, consumption or bronchitis -a lingerin,g illness or a swifter death. .4.11 weak people Should intelligently end to work u herd a* the business were their own. A battle cannot be won by the skill of the =inlander alone; its ontearea de - ponds largely upon the spirit of the male whom he lead. eslo M inieiante mimeo's lice M the •energy and ability of the men hi the ranka-the managere, superin- tendente, foremen, salesmen and clerks. When, as often happens M thie age of , keen competition, two time are turaing out productof equal merit at the same who deal with the question of cost, and with inethoea, equipment ande 1 N(Feert)tk's high rate of livinge makieg financial etrength of equal merit, th, fight for trade is won by the firm that comperieens of eente and triarket chargea secIunreas iti.,13,.eestienroetvsteieitaibtelerocinollailee7-1-010 the ( here mid in other cities, fail to observe difference M prices that obtain in 2/ilut 1godefatturartsuiannealinlytka:nolaoloinbalirilrir different parts of the city. Notebly M neete began to grew and require the eer.11).eriiiettei and osuillehnliatrekmeot cehrteirireas, and in at11.); m vices of a larger number of en. People . wonederd why. He tad a pzaeteaI mon- go04. mate 004 htapie foode m tins 'Varying Scales of .Prket.:. .New York, . areetee-e-itet-e-efilee-Oesseietelea4-1:4-e-ce*-** opoly of an unsually profi able line. e and =wra.ppers, there is a surprising de- vise Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The ne creme as one pea east or west from had ample capital. He knew every de. Vifth avenue. In the sante manner, if 'red blood they melte strengthens tail of the evork of his establishment heart, and it vends this warm, heal from raw material to finished =product. you Proceed, far enough south or north blood to the lungs, and once again t le lie was apparently nn ideal business patient is acjdrong-lunged, warm-blooded man ----alert, systematic, hard working. from the central part of the city there man or woman. Mrs. Jane A. EeniteuY, Douglastown, Que., bears the strongest testimony to the value of Dr, Williams' Pink Pills in ca.sea of this kind. She says; "My sister a delicate girl, took a severe cold when about seventeen. years old. We tried many medicines for her, but she appeared to be constantly grow- ing worse, and we feared she was going into consumption. Often after she had a bad night with a racking cough, WoUld get up to see if she ho.d. spit any blood, At this stage a friend strongty urged me to give her Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Within a month from the time she began to take the pills site had almost recov- ered her -usual health. Under a further use of the pills she is now well and strong, and I can recommend the pills with confidence to every weak person," Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, are a Certain burn Rivers, Folden s Corners, Out. 6. Canary Starlight Lassie B. (axe), at Se. ietn. eed. of age; milk, 336.5 lbs. butter fat, 14.01 lbs.; equivalent butter, 16.34 'Ibs,; owner, Geo. Rice. 7. Belle Dewdrop (4,083). at 3y. 151. ot age; milk, 408.3 lbs.' butter fat, 13.45 lbs.' equivalent butter, 15:69 lbs. Thirty -day record: Milk, 1,629.9 lbs.; butter fat, 63.93 lbs.; equivalent butter, 62.92 lbs.; owner, George Rice. 8. Jolene, Fairmount 3r5's Albino 3,7271, at 3y, 3m. 205. of age; milk, 311.9 lbs.; butter fat, 11.27 lbs.; equivalent butter, 13,15 lbs.; owner, Walburn Rivera, 9. Daisy Albino DeIrol'a Ib.ichess (4,239), at 2v. 5m. 28d, of age; milk, 248.3 lbs.; butter fat, 8.44 lbs.; equivalent butter, 9.84 lbs.; owner, Walburn Rivers. Yours truly, G. W. crxmoisrs, Secretary Holstehr-FrIesion Association. St. George, Ont. o • s A BOON TO CHILDREN. sonal favor, and that would be very slight, indeed, in most eases. A 'woman convict has never been known to refuse to accompany the man °hosing her as a partner. She me eis lashes. He ts an old. man now; be lives semifreedom, with 'even the lowese of i • quietly in his little hut in Alexandrovsk and is at pease with all the world. But his body is one mass of scars, reminders of the days of his terrible punishments, and because he survived his eight ordeals he is known from one end or Saghalien compense. The four great prisons on the to the other, and his fame even extends murderers, to prison life n Sag a len, where hard. work means the most gruel- ling sort of work for twee or fourteen hours a day, with only soup and blank bread and. frequently the knout for re - plaints, rheumatism) neuralgia, St. Vitus dance, partial paralysis, and the troubles that make the lives of so many women misereble. Be sure you get the genuine pills with the full name "Dr, Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People" on the wrap- per around, each box. Sold by all medi- cine &filets or seat by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. 4 • 0 VALUE OF EMPLOYEES. Right Man Needed for Success in Business. "Give me the right men, and I will make a success of any liminess," says Herbert J. Ilapgood in the introduction With so many of the eSSentiala for sue. cess, why did he fail? lie did not ap- reciate the value of his employees. Do is a. decrease in rates. It is evident that the Fifth avenue shops are conducted.with a view. to the trade of carnage customers, who, as a ;new bow to get results for himself,. i ruas, have their purchases chargcl, and but he did not know the value of men ere slow be paying their Mile. ]for this who could get them for him He sur - or for soin other reason they 'are con - rounded himself with eheap men. and re- tent to pay double what la asked in lose ceiVed. cheap effort. 'When he secured a fashionable establishments. really good man he did not know enough . to treat liiM as a man rather than a FilftthisavPelieruaseansthotp°s, deesaplecinialltybear tahrist servant. Ile failed to get the best tbet season of the year, in preference to the was in him and rarely retained him long. crowded stores in other parts of the He was in niany ways a remarkably ea - town. Whether you are buying flowera rabic man, but be did not appreciate the or fruit, a hat, a diamond Or a dinner, nuportence of the men behind the guns, and his force from top to bottomwleivoeses Y'o°u11 ilaviltihetsileld'ofitnentlsiemaaltitehnuttionexAlul°slivviel filled with iucompetent men, shops a balm to your self-esteem. worth was not appreciated. And so, just when his business ought to have. been Tim salespeople, as a rule - are etluiestolienoenrdso, ill virielthn -news for the "business troubles" col- yuinieindsi..ng big dividends it began to make brought over from London, and have . nisersogetivilanigtligiguitel1Peir- The growing appreciation of the value ferent froni the NeW York way, There of employees among progressive employ- is a hey to open the door for you, and ers is shown by the argument that is a carnage man to help you from your constantly going on as to the relative cab, if you have one; mad you also know worth of different classes .or types of that the label on the box that will en - men. The cudgels are being taken up dose your purchase has a tone that college men and non -college men, men is worth money. In such. articles as colege men and non-oollege, moil, men lingeile and. imported . garments for wo- greatly that these questions can never quality. doubt that you from the country and men from the city. men's wear there is no The needs of employers varying 130 can obtain, also, a superior style and he definitely decided, but the experi- in such small wear as veils, bandker. ence of a great nicely firms seems to chiefs, ruchings, all the innumerable de - show that the merits of young men, col- tails of dress for svOnien, the price alone lege men and. country -bred men are wor- is different. Goods of the very same thy of consideration. quality and fineness and perfection can "In advocating young men," concludes be had in the great department stores Mr. llapgood, "I do not mean to under- estimate the value of age and experi- ence. There are few concerns which could do liminess successfully evith a force composed entirely of young men of necessarily limited experience. °But too many old men are an invarieble sign that the firm is drying up. It is no reflection on the ability of men who have given years to a business, but have al- ready passed the prime of life, to advice that every employer keep constantly on hand. a force of bright, capable young inen whom he may train to take the pla- ces of the older inen when the latter die, resign or cross the narrow line which separates valuable experience from old fogyism. "Every business, changes rapidly now- adays, and the man who was thoroughly competent five years ago may now be out of date. To retain such a man in a responsible position is to add to the time to give personal oversight to. the business a dead weight that is bound to 1 various departments of his business. seriously hancliear it. Many employers Nowadays, however, the large employ- are forced to this course because they er must leve men who can get remits have not had the foresight to keep con - without being watched -men with the stantly in training 0, force of young inclination and the ability to think as men." yowl reproach, the customers as a rule those who leave or telephone their or- ders having things claarged invariably. '''''lli2fire- I Tho prices asked Seem exorbitant to the occasional shopper who may be tempted by some fine quail or squab on view, but the custom of the occasional shop- per is not catered to or desired. Undoubtedly, these imrketmen mini to get a very fine quality of goods and pay high prices in their buying. Market - men in other parts of the city who charge less deride the idea that the Fifth avenue dealers get any better meats or game than the dealers on Fourth or Sixth avenues. In these latter shops the rates keep well up, noticeably in the French markets, where roasting chicieen A medicine that will keep infants and to his series ut artielea in system on young children plump, good natured, "The Value of Employees.". That he with a clear eye and a rosy skin, is a continues, is the statement often made boon not only to mothers, but to human- by the 10011 who built up one of the ity. Such a medicine is Baby's Own country's business organizations; al - Tablets, which pronaptly cure till the though it may be a trifle broad, it does not go too far from the truth. It minor ailments .of little ones, and makes shows the imp.ortant part that em - them eat well, play well and sleep well. ployees played m this particular man's You eau safely take the words of the success, and to empoyers who have thousands of "Pothers who have proved not yet learned the importance of sur - the value of these Tablets; for instance, rounding themselves with intelligent, lo - Mrs. J. R. Standan, Weyburn, N. W. T., yal and entlmsiastie workers, it teaches says: "I have proved the great value oa lesson that cannot be too quickly or Baby's Own Tablets in eases of dine' thoea, constipation, hives and when too thoroughly.learned.Years ago, 211 the days of small teething, and I would not be without things, a man's employees were not them." The l'ablets are equally good so essential to his success, for he had for the tenderest little baby or the well grown child, 'and they are guaranteed free from opiates and harmless. Sold by all druggists, or sent by mail at 25 cents a box, by writing The Dr. Williams leledicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Island have yet to shelter a woman con, viet over night. Much comment has appeared from time to time in various quarters of the world deploring the govermnent's sanc- tion of theee marriages on the ground. that a generation of degenerates will r0- . sult therefrom. BM it is it remarkable fact and one attested to by all who arc conversant with Sanglialien life that not more than 30 per cent, of these unions of eatirderers and. murderesses result in off- spring, and in these instances rarely more than two or three children are born to a couple. The total number of children is small, indeed, in comparison -over to the mainland. Excepting the secret aid they extend to the brodyogas (escaped convicts), the peasants arc recognized as being the most law-abiding class on the island. True, murders are committed among thein, but not in such timbers as in the towns. Alexandrovsk with a popu- lation. of 4,000, has about: fifty murders year and many robberies every day. Still, the town is an exceedingly safe place for anyone to live in except a re- leased convict,: I spent many weeks there, and was not disturbed or threat- ened in any way, and in all that time I: knew of no one other than a. cont • 3311141 less than at the shops more acw, venient to city dwellers. Many of Hew York's old housekeepere still have their days for visiting the city marleets, and they regard the smaller eeteblishments =uptown tut luraa spread. for young and inexperieiaced buyer& There are certain experienced shop- pers whose information should be worth much money to them if they made pur- chasing A profession. They know of odd and dingy little placee th,e part of town where they buy .spaghetti freshly dried, tomato essence in bottles and various foreign pastes used in cook- ing which ere not as a rule obtainable in the large groceries. They discover the best place to go for certain things, - New York Sun. 41 RESULTS OF CO-OPERATION. ranking end itiargettng Fruit -Par. cbasing Supplies, 'or the past three years the Pruit.14- vision, Ottawa, has been earnestly selves eating co-operation, among fruit growers, not only in marketing their producto but la many other Ways as well. They must co-operate in the packing and marketing of their apples if theY desire to be reasonably me of a WO" return from their erchards. The co-operative system of marketing Jim proved. a great suceess in connection with the Calitornia fruit crap, the TeXtee tomato crop, and in many other eases in the United States. It is rapidly gain- ing ground in Canada, and the practical results of its operation at several On- tario points are worthy of consideration by every orchardist, The Walkerton As - etiolation, which started in a sneall way three years ago, established this season a central co-operative packing house. To this central point the members brought their apples m barrels which had been purchased through the organization. The apples were delivered in hayracks, the bottoms of which were well covered. with hay, or in spring wagons, and any found unfit for packing =were returned. The for less money. But at this season of various lots were kept separate, but all the year in the larger stores you evill the apples were graded as they came in have to wait for change and to endure much jostling, while buying on the ave- nue will be comparatively free erom such inconveniences. Fifth avenue bas reputation for its Emu& shops, just as Fourth avenue is known for its antique and carte shops. There you find pretty china and decora- tive glassware, beentiful lamp shades and articles closely associated with the luxurieee rather than the necessaries of • • e. and the proceeds were divided among the members, according to the quantity of each grade they supplied. The expense of packing was from ten to fifteen cents a barrel, which was less than the cost of packing in the orchard. This year eight cars of fruit were sold, including soft apples, like Duchess and Astrachan, and for the entire lot prices ranged from 8/.75 to $2.20 a barrel on board cars at Walkerton. •The cost of barrels, peek - in" etc., bad to be deducted from this. There are whole windows devoted to but without co-operation the apples dinner favors, menu cards and candle would have been left to rot• on the shades. There are milliners who will ground. give up the whole of the white and gold The Forest Assocation. was organized epace behind the plate glass square to last spring and has a membership ' of two or three bats, disdaining to crowd about one hundred. This fall thirty - their wares into view after the fashion eight ears of apples evere shipped to the of cheaper dealers. There are always West and renlized an average of $1.90 people willing to pay for elegance of this for No. 1 and $3.50 for No. 2, on •board sort in the shops they deal in. ears at Forest. The apples shipped were Fifth avenue has a few markets deal- mostly 13aldwins, Kings and Greenings, Mg in such articles as meat, game, but included all marketable verities. The veeetables and fish. The service es be- association appointed its own salesmen to 'handle the fruit in the West. At first shipping from the orchards was tried, but it =was soon found advisable to have two central packing houses. In- stead of buying barrels the association bought the stock' and had them made up, at a cost of about twenty-eight to thirty cents, as compared with forty-five cents charged by coopers. The railroad and steamship companies have been found much readier than formerly to give proper transportation facilities, and the results generally have been satis- factory to members. The cost of peek- ing was about fourteen cents per barrel, but about six cents of this was made up by the sole of culls, all of which were sent to the evaporator. The St. Catharines co-operative asso- with the adult population; in the 23 .being robbed or killed. schools of the island less than 1,000 pu.• 'When a convict is released and be - pilo are enrolled, . collies a peasant or en artisan or what On reaching matuvity the native-born not rations are given him regularly by looys become artisans and the girls usu- the government, just as the American Ally become the wives of officials or af government supplies the Indians with the more cultured totiong the released food. Not content with his share, many ' te The authorities declare that a conviet attempts to rob his fellows. the native Saphaliens are not degener- ate by any manner of means, and itt sub. etentiation they point out the fact that the lel:ma's beet artisans ere the very menborn of these 00111404 marriages. Not only the trades but most of the affairs of the island, outside of the work of administration, are in the hands of former conviets, who have gained their freatiom to the island through good be- ititvior. A teacher in thte. school of Al- altandrovsk was formerly a captain in Quite frequently he succeeds, and not infrequently he either kills in the bar- gain or is killed instead. Where rations result in one murder, vodka anises belf a amen. The stuff is forbidden to be placed on sale any- where on the island, and it is supposed to be obtained et the government stores only in eases of dire neceseity. But there is more than one way to kill a.eta, and vodka is continually finding its way into the Mauls of the populace. Let a mur- derer get filled with vodka and he will probably repeat his erhne, and let hie fellows know that he has e bottle of the liquor in his hut, and they =will kill him if need be to possess it. Men who have had good records for years com- mitted murder for a taste of vodka. Saghalien is the only portion of the en- tire Russian empire where murder is a capital .offence. Many mert are hanged yearly, but inurders are, nevertheless., committed with startling vegulmity. While trading in the island I had to num in 'contact with many eriminals, some with exceedingly brutal mid repul- sive erhnee bade of them. My eecort from tredieg post to tradiog post was a man who had killed another ins a quarrel over a woman. Most, of the em- ployees in my storeswere murderers and perpetrators of other foul erillien. "Yet 1 never lutd One WA tWerliste4 initi 1 Increase ..'"eerieleeseeeeeseee ee-e.eeetee our Income • ,e-af DO you realize how much money is made from poultry raising? Do you know that many owners of Chatham Incubators are earning $320 a year and not devoting more than a half -an -hour a day to it? If you owned a. Chatham Incubator your wife or your daughter could attend to it and add at least $320 to the profits of your farm. That is more than many another department of your farm produces which occupies a lot of your time and represents considerable Money invested. Let us figure it out. A No. 2 Chatham Incubator holds from 100 to 120 eggs. Though an average hatch is eighty per cent we will deduct some to pay for oil and feed and make up for accidents. Say 80 chicks out of 120 eggs. That is a fair average. Suppose you only take off eight hatches in a year. That is 640 chickens. They are worth about a dollar a pair. That is $320.00 profit from a CHATHAM INCUBATOR on which you have not as yet been asked to pay one cent. There is always a big demand for poultry: It is increasing every year. The value of the poultry exported to Great Britain in 1896 was $18,992; in 1902 it had increased to $239,986. One English poultry house say they could handle 36,000 chickens a week. The increase in the Canadian demand has been even greater, poultry exporting firms getting sach good prices here that they didn't need to ship them. The demand for poultry is ever increasing. That means continued god pricerfor poultry raisers. You cannot make money in the poultry business without an Incubator and Brooder. If you would raise chickens for the market you cannot depend on the setting hen. It is absolutely beyond your control, whereas an Incubator is easily controlled by you. Choosing the best Incubator is the problem. With makers claiming so much for their machines you are left in a quandary. We settle all questions by the most liberal offer ever made. If we hadn't the best Incubator on the market and unquestioned financial strength we could not make it. Here is the offer: We will send you -freight prepaid by us -a CHATHAM INCUBATOR and BROODER without ens, cash from vou until October 1st. 1905. We do not ash% you to Mite our word for it. Read these few LETTERS FROM CHATHAM INCUBATOP. USER.S / placed four dozen eggs snider four hens, and must say that the first hon brought out ten chicks out of the 13 eggs, but the other throe never raised it chicken. Now then I took good care of tho four bens, had them all in ono building, and nothing to molest them. I sot them about a week apart. It certainly seems strange that the one lion would do so woll and _the other three do nothing at all. I have since used a Chatham Incubator and mot with good success, hatching 73 chicks out of 88 eggs. I prefer it to tho hens, and all further eggs I buy, no matter bow high priced, I Shall MO the Incubator in 'preforenee to hens. Youra simerolee 31. A.a.exte, Castleton, Ont. Tho No. '1 lath -dor I purchased from you last fall has given perfect satisfaction. The first hatch I got so per cents strong healthy chicks, and WO pa in two turkey eggs Just ono week be- fore we di1 the hen eggs, and both the turkey eggs hatched. Yours truly, Davin Walser, Falcoebridge, Ont. /have received the brooder and find everything satisfactory. Illy chicks came out May 1st and I ant wit. satisfied. Tho only thing I regret is that 1.51(1 not have a larger machine. I 505 (31 eggs and get 54 chicks, and consider the Ineuhntor 0, perfect xnaehini. Yours truly, R. Mooxsy, Bridge St., Windsor, Ont, nave had another hatch in my 60 (=Incubator, and this time I got 4$ healthy chicks Out Of 48 eggs. CALDOEN Gmrsxrix, London, Oa. I boulht one of your No.2 Inoubators and am well pleased with Yours truly, A. n. Genruoitxt, Byron, Ont. On iny first hatch, out a 84 eggs that were fortilej had 83 chicks, one dying in the shell. Out of my second hatch I had 101 chicks out o1124 eggs. Yours traly, W. T.44 Llama, Orwell, Ont. it. I se 106 eggs out of which I hatched. Oi chicks. , Give the Chatham Incubator a thorough test, melte money out of it -the more you melte the better pleased we eihell be. When Ootober. 1905, arrives you should have made sufficient profits to pay for this incubator seVeral tithes over. There is no string to this offer. It is open and tree. We make it to show our supreme confidence in the Chatham Incubator and Brooder. We want every- one who desires to raise poultry for profit to accept it. We want you to send us a postal card with your name and address. We will then give you full particulars. Write to -day. We depend on every machine we put out to adver- tise itself in your neighbourhood -we know it will prove such a good profit -producer for you that you will be pleased to tell your neighbours about it. Merit is the only quality that will do this. Because we know the Chatham Incubator and Brooder possess this merit we are willing to sell it on these easy terms. Remember we do not ask you for one cent of cash until October, 1905, Don't delay. Send the postal card for particulars to -day. Wo 0011 for cash or on ditto as you ticairo. A/elation this pater when writing. The Manson Catripbell Co., Lin-iitecl D.,,,t, 33, ClIATHAK ONTAlik10 :Also Maaufantarers of Campbolt Panning Mitts, and Chatham Farm Soaks Illatrthuting WhroltoueibA al Mentreal. Otto.. trawler*, Man., Calgary. Alia.. New Westmtneter, noCOP Halifax. N.8. Factories tt Chatham. Ont., Dettott, Mich. 11 remains at 30 cents a pound thedation shipped. during the past year 400 through, and. new potatoes and both ye te I as. re cars of tender fruit and. apples. Mem- vegetables are sold by the pound in hors in one township bought a power December. One of the best andhighest priced ! markets itt the city is on upper Sixth 1 avenue in the Fifties. Proceeding clown - town, the sante rates, or almost the same, are charged. Fourth avenue prices are kept well up in the same section, i evhich has been in operation for seven but once. the blocks are crossed leadine The practical benefits have been to Third avenue and. to Seventh avenue. =Years' marketers will find a big drop in prices. very much m evidence there as else- where. This season forty-three ears of Here the shopper has to suffer mueh fruit were shipped to the Weet by the from the hustling salesmen and fruit and vegetable sellers who maintain their above organization. These are by no means all the co - stands at the doors of the butcher ' stores. At many of these places goods operative fruit associalions, but the re- sults achieved go to show that ‚where not be delivered, as the buyers aro all basket customers who select and farmers grapple intelligently with the pays prOblem of packing and marketing their carry home their purchases, always 1 ing cash. fruit, there is no need for it to et,o to Many of the boarding house keepers of ; waste' and a fair profit may usually be secured. Yours very truly, the city .sally forth into these cheaper .A. CLEMONS. sprayer for ca -operative use. AR their baskets, poxis green and bluestone were purchased in the same way and at a con- siderable saving. One of the pioneer co-operative asso- ciations of Ontario is that at Chatham, sections, taking a maid or a boy with them to carry the purchases home. By going early and above all, having a - keen sense of values in meats and vege- tables, they obtain quite as excellent a The Modern Plethora of Books, as Seen quality of food as may be had at the higher priced stores. by Earl of Rosebery. Eighth evenue ranks in price with Sev- In dedicating some days ages ath Carnegie enth avenue, but when Ninth avenue is library in an English town the Earl of style ItooeseerreyomunttoenreLnerepoonseeranigood edeal of reached there is another drop in st and in price. The vegetable dealers aro ever-produetion of books of all kinds. all Italians, some of whom rent their I Admitting that knowledge was power'he shops to which they have graduated_ al- . poituedid out, saes the London Queen, that that dnot necessarily mean book knowl- t el years of stand. keeping. They have edge, which *was only a part of the knowl- Books were and. other delicacies in season and their hothouse vegetables to offer, mushrooms ease constitutes power. undoubtedly excellent things, but a glut - prices et half those of fashionable near- teotneenoyttgogksegeas teat as bader LI snag Ice!, places. These are the shops that the mane excellent people in this world who ly on the Elast Siae avenue toward the see river, for the reason that the esidentsn their days in reading, and who ere of no use to themselves or to any. seem to have outputany of the books of all kinds, which, In .litrt of careful buyer seeks out and finds after spent a much experience. far more than, those of the west side. which LI:eat= nti?mt:reP,lactitila "will° of this section are tiwifty and 'careful, Tee stores here are not attractive in it,- the world in general svould, very . caraltee *l!le tre alsvavs overcrowded possibly, be all the better without. Lord Mseeobterz,i lir elyeemr,ogn t4ret et thetgelhe eoonly ,.. , p pie With AO& aji i rently, tan careful Ger- that reading would not de everything for 111:IA 1,(1.1Si keel: ors continue to buy in them, it being only a partial ata to that some of these old markets of Serena avenue, and show amazing housekeep- IT:M1212 2,I.Alrictlicmi=1 tIlgt Pti'; such staple wares AA coffee, butter, eggs, ing records in the matter of prices for of energy in this world was to atimet the great difficnIty which lay before any Man Going uptown above the Sixties one rtaatete ocbtihr elioraitolPittgenaust 1 i tti potatoes Ana flour, as well as meets g: ignatiou of moons COttld in these days ex. ('00 anybody from not buying Woks, but kets end reasouable prices, There is he distinguish/ ettweeca bait: to bet rd icl'IrigiMbitkt?eke8 gat tWet&i.g f mine a n :Ng° el and p011itry. filidS the combination of first-elaes rear- atch eon:petition) the shops being me they might get rid of front theirostielves in tiTge,t1. along next to tech other on the rtYlgg Veilliv.ZatirotInhr rag' au' vedgralo% boas that were superseded, and which m Principal ilVentleS. Alt ilidieation or the shower of hooky • not a shower like snow, irlrfinte tryter'aat:s: differeneos in price is the eharge for mu bese that meited, bat A ImIld showmer 0.1 half -shell oysters, which ore delivered eg IIT,N,.1 Vinf 13 tlii8 part of the city, ttpened ami they fond ut laA Chat they were hiding pak..kea in ier, for a omit einem+. Fourteenth street, at the good markets,. the forme of great writers of old, who grad- ually disappeared under the suocilgteumhem. Downtown, that is the seetion above The Uptown shors art It Joy to the tilorIPT,IPI grA:e biZOVIA II/OrtIlithtfg trigtri110001t. that in literature there Was muezzin en the tower of the mosque -sone oysters delivered in this way east 13 ' needea ono who should tut the pert ot the and 20 ('01)113 n 31,41131. I1011:46Wire WII0 must provide for a, tun- .Nvtiten vtaoa in danger of being forgotten; gm' family. She gete good quality Ina vinte in,, loam wauLt mar: 010 overtime a 'fair price, Advancing further'Earlein• ,Nilito, byl. tviiiTgjggrertt ever, be re- ward, prices get lower, while the .b -111:w .i1 le -teat of Many hate.' 19.00 Masten, cfa"lAiolg" tingl • places lulaway• between the Tower and, 1.4 larger .0,4 n,,f ,•,0 ',loin!! fr.; jit tit... well, in some dam,er of What argist‘ted In the upper aeet1ous of the town. tbe.e daye. It should, vhow ee r':,.1"1..ed that et lato th.e tag bnt t dowy to repcoduve ss•clborintel and 01944P , 'rhea Ow are the Urge downtown entium of the tad uvinea. but Is slimy mat vegetables are to 40 bought, for rit'ad cares it is te be te,rtea that time metes- rtpeoduetiors Lave reniktat to IS tuerket8 near the Terriee. Where fruits Publication Clerk, • • READING IS NOT EVERYTHING. Quality does not decrease so marked - body else. This is a truism wblob, course, everybory admits, but it does not th doll