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WESTERN BANK ROBBERY David Walters and Alice Davis Taken into Custody at Palmar House, Toronto A despatch from Toronto says : Clever work by Detective Richard Tij.N.ii, assist-ed by other members of the Toronto Police Department, resulted in the arrest at the Pal- mer House on Saturday night of David Walters and Alice Davis, who are believed to be members of the iwig of safe-blowers who stole more tlwiu $350,000 from the Bank of Montreal at New Westminster, B. C., on September 14, 1911. Walters' right name is said to be Walter Duvis. A search of the personal ffects belonging to the pair re- sulted in the recovery of $2,020 in bills of the se -ies taken from the bank. There -.as also $7,185.50 in bills, gold and silver, making a to- tal of $9,20i.jO, all of which the polio* believe is part of the pro- ceeds of the big haul. From re cords in the detective office it ap- pears that Walters had previously been arrested in the United States under the names of O'Day and Fer- guson. Some time ago the police received a tip that some of the stolen bills were being circulated in Toronto. Accordingly Detective Tipton sent to the bank for a complete list of all the money missing. These lists were ent to the hotels, cigar stores, theatres and other places in the city where a large amount of money is handled, with instructions to re- port to the police in case any at- tempt was made to pass bills of the series described. PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS IPORTI FROM THE LEADING THA 01 CINTMIS OF AMERICA. of ottie. Grain, Chun and Olhef at Horn* and Abroad. BREADSTUFF8. Toronto. Aug. 13. Floor Wlntr whoat, W pr cent, patents. t J 80 for new, at n fa- board. and at $385 for homa consump- tion. Manitoba flours (these quotation! ar- for Jut bag*, in cotton bags lOo nu>re> : First patent*. 15.70; eooond pat- fata. $5.24. and strong bakera'. 15. ou track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat No. 1 Northern. ! !2, Bar i>oru; No. 2 at ll.M. and No. 1 at II. M. Bay port*. Feed wheat nolle at 62 to Me. Baj ix.ru. Ontario Wheat No. 1 whit*. rd and mixed. W to 98.-. outiida. Prat -Nominal. Oat* -Car lots of No. I Ontario, 42 l-2o, euid No. 3 at 41 l-2c. outside; No. ! at 45o. on track, Toronto. No. 1 eitra W. 0. fend, 41 l-2c. Bay ports, and No. 1 at 40 1-Zc, Bay pom. Barley --Nominal. Corn No. 2 Aoirloan yellow. 78o, on track. Bay port*, and at 82o, Toronto; No. 3. Sir, Toronto, and TTc, Bay ports. Rye Nominal. Buckwheat-Nominal. Bran Manitoba bran, IU, In hags, To- ronto freight. Shorn, |M to |2&. COUNTBY PRODUCE. Batter Dairy, cbolre. 21 to 25ot baker*', ! Inferior. 20 to 21c; choice dairy, tnbs. 22 to 21c; creamery. 27 to Me for rolls, and lie for tolidi. Kegs -Case lots of new-laid, tto per doi.j Cbvse-New chrese. 14 M to 14 1-2o for larg*. and 141-2 to 14J4o for twins. Bean* Bud-picked, W P*r bushel i prime.. 2 25 V. 12.90. Honey Enrutod, In tins. 111-1 to 121-2n er Ib. for No. 1, wholesale i oombs, 1225 to , wholesale Poultry Wholesale prices of choice rir-<l toiiitrv <'hlrkni, 18 to 19o per Ib. : hni, 13 to Mo: duckling*. 1C to He. Lire poultry, about Ze lower than the MOW. Potatoet- Canadian, new, ll.tt to 11.50 pr bushel. PROVISIONS. Baron Long clear. 131-1 to 14c per Ib., in case lot*. Pork- Short out. $24. M to 125; do., mem, S20 to $21. Ham Medium to light, 171-2 to l$o: hoary, 161-2 to 17o; rolls, 13 to 131-Zc; breakfast baoon, 18 to !bi:. barks. 20 to Zlc Lard Tinrre*. 13o; tubs, 13 l-4o; palls, Ul-Zo. MONTREAL MARKKTB. Montreal, Aug. 13. Oat* Canadian Went- rn. No. 2, 45 to 451-2o; do.. No. J. 44 to 441-fr: turn No. 1 feed, 45c. Barley- Manitoba feed, 63 to 64c. Flour-Manito- ba Rprlng wheat patent*, finite. $5.80; do., seconds, $5.39; strong bakers', *5.10; Win- ter patent*, .-liolce, $5.25; itralirlit roller*, 4.85 to $4.90: do., bags. 25 to $2.30. Rollod ate Uarrels. *505; bag*. 90 Ib*., $2.40. Bran $22; shorts. $26; middlings. $27; moullllc. $M to $34. Hay No 2, per ton, oar lot*. $16 to $17. Che-sn Finest Weit- rn*. 131-4 to 133-8c: flnfwt EaH'.orns. 121-2 to 127-8c. Butter -Choice*! rreumiry. 261-4 to 261-Zr; tm-ond*. 26 to 26 Mr. Kgfs-He- lecbfd, 28 to 29c; No. 2 mock. 21 to 22o. Po- bag. car lot*. $1.60. LIVE STOCK MARKETfl. Montreal, Aug. 13.- Ween Bold from 14 to $6 M per 100 ll.it . cow* from $3.50 to $5. Few (food bull* were offered, and on the. common run tha price ranged from $2.50 to $3.26. hi,,-. ,, *old fairly steady at 4u pound and liirnhs brought 4n for com- mon and 61-2r for good. Hogs were about 75c lower than a week ago, select* celling at $8 50 per 100 In*. Calves brought from $3 to $10 each. Toronto. Ang. U. Cattle Eiportera, choice, $7.25 to 1750: hull*. $4.50 to $5.25; now*. $5 to $5.60. Butcher- Choice, $7 to $7.36; medium. *6 to 16.75; cow*, $5 to f;.- tO Cnlve* Htendy. $7.50 to $8.50. Htocker* Hte.ulv. $5 U> $5.35. Rhii>i> Light nwna at $425 to $4.75; heary, $3 to 13.50; spring lamb* at $5 to $650. Hog* f4elect*. $818 f.o b.. and $8 60 to $8.79 fed and watered. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Mlnneanoll*, Aug. 13. Wheat Sept., flJ-8 to il!-2c; Den., Me: May. 96J-8c; No. i bard, $l.W7-8c; No. 1 Northern. $1.03 Mr i Ho 2 do., $1.013-8 to $1.017-8. No. I yel- low cnrn, THI No. 3 whit.- oata, 37 to 39o. Ho. 2 rye. 631 2 to Mo,, Bran. 19 to $19 -A flour Reading Incal patent* In wood, f. o b, VlnneapoliH, $6 to $531: other pat- ent*. $4.75 to $5; flrst clears, $3.50 to M - 76: *ocond clear*, $2.40 to $2.70 Duluth. Aug 13 Wheat No. 1 hard, !.- 043-$; No. 1 Northern, old, $1.033-8; No. I Northern, old, $1.01 3-8; Aug., No. 1 North- ern, MS* . Sept., 25-8c bid; Dec., 93o bid. MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS WHY BONDS FLUCTUATE IN MARKET PRICE. Their Value li Governed by Law of Supply and Demand, Like That of Everything Else-Unpopular Bonds Often Steady In Prlo* Owing to Narrow Market Ollt- Edged Securities Appsar to Have Reached "Rook Bottom." The articles contributed by "lnTe*tor" are for the sole purpose of guiding pros- pective investors, and, if possible, of w ing them from losing money through placing it in "wild-cat" enterprises. The impartial and reliable character of the Information may be relied upon. The writer of these articles and the publisher of thi< paper have no Interests to serve in connection with this matter other than those of the reader. (By "Investor.") A man who bad never Invested was talking the other day. "If these bondu are such gilt-edged sucurities, why is it they fluctuate ill price. Here a few years ago Toronto dulwutures old at a price to yield only 33-4 to 4 per cent., and now you can buy them at a much lower price, whore the return U 41-4 to 4.30 per cent. Then, perhaps, in a year's time tfie price will have Rone up again, and you will be lucky if you can get them where the ro- turn is better than 4 per cent." The value of almost evurything i* 'gov- erned by the law of supply and dvmand. If more people want to buy than there are those who want to sell the price goes np. If, on the other hand, the buyers are fewer than the sellers the price goes down. There is nothing particularly mys- terious about It. Moreover, the number of people who want to buy or sell high- grade bonds depends on the loaning value of money. When money Is very cheap they buy the eipenalvu, low-yield bonds. When money 1* dear they turn to thote of higher yield. Consequently, wnon money Is dear low-yield bonds tend to de- cline In price until their yield approxi- mates the more nearly the loaning value of money, while when money Is plentiful and the average rate low the reverse taku* place. At thn present time money 1* command- ing a hign rate, and. as a result, tbe price of high-grade bonds has declined. Fur- thermore, the i'.i"i year ha* Men a large number of email flres, houae*, factories, warehouRoa, etc., and the UHiil number of large ones, nevnral town* having been practically wiped out by fire. The result ha* been, of uour*e, that the Insurance companies have had severe lo**o*. Now, when an tnnurauce company has a loan they in", -ith T pay It np In canh n noon an the amount has been proved or frighten all thrlr iHilloyholdurs into can- cellation, loiiiug tneir good name and consequently their mean* of exl*tlng and making an income., or mine tho money promptly and pay off the losses. To raise mouny It is often neooxnary to Roll Rome of their iuvenlments, and as the high- grade, low yield bonds always command a ready market tbene are *old, sometime* at priros onu or two points bolow the market in order to facilitate a ready aal*. Tim. of cour*e, tends further to dpri* the market for high-grade bond*. It i 1 < mean* thnt thnno companies are tni|H>rnrily put of tha market for bonds during a period more or less prolonged, In which tnr>r are calehing up the usunl amount of cnfli reiiprve they consider it prudent to carry. Thin ha* happened this year, and no a very sub*tantlal buying power hrm been removed from the market for high-grade bond* temporarily. Everything conniderod, the bent judge* of the bond market are of the opinion Di.it the price of bonds ha* about reached "rock bottom." Money 1* phowlnaj an un- mifttakubln tendency toward lower price*, and while England 1m* been out of the market now for a conxiderahle, period any reHUmptlon of buying from that quar- ter, not to mention our own flre insur- ance eompaniei, will cause hlgh-grnde bond* to re*ume their former height* or at least movo up from the very attrac- tive prices they now command. It I* easily een, then, thnt fluctuation* In bond price* are natural. A *tattonary price often infer* tho narrow market that is nmially the lot of unpopular *ourl- tle*, nobody wanting to buy nnd holder* hesitating to sell for fear of breaking the market for their own security. AT WIFE'S TEA. Wife "John, which will yrm have) Iced tea, bouillon, cold oof- fee, grapo-julce or lomonad ?" Hiwrband "Neither. Haven't you got soniothing to drink?" OVER ONE HUNDRED KILLED Explosion of Black Damp Caused a Disaster in a Mine in Germany A despatch from Bochum, Ger- many, ya : An explosion of black damp and coal dust on Tliumday morniDK in the Lorraine Rhaft of the coalfield in the village of Oerth*, four miles from Bochum, cost the lives of 103 miners, accord- ing to tlia Hi. 1.1 1 report. Two oth- ers were severely and twenty-three slightly injured. Death was prac- tically instantaneous in all cases. The canoe of th explosion has not yet been definitely ascertained, bnt it. is thought that a Mant reaehml a big pocket of gas. The day xhift of OAO men had just defended into the working* and were dititributing themselves along tho various levels, when a erions firo damp explosion occurred. The detonation was heard at the surface, and the offi- cials on duty immediately formed rescue partins of the men belonging to the night shift, who rushed back to the pit mouth together with the villagers. Tbe rescue crews, which did in h L....I.I work at the time of the French mine disaster at Cour- riereg, near Lens, on March 10, 1006, whnn 1,230 miners were killed, arrived here early in the afternoon, bnt were unable to penetrate the gnlleries, owing to the flames and tin- poisonous gases. 11 Elm NIUUPliTHE ILLUSTRATION FARMS HAPPENIN08 FROM ALL OVEB THE GLOBE IN A NUTSHFLL. Canada, the Empire and the World tiKkCeneral Before Your E?e. CANADA. The Postoffice Department will issue stamps in roll form. HydVo-electric power in Hamilton is reduced to $17 per h.p. Montreal doctors and other citi- zens are promoting a hospital for infants. Rev. W. J. Mortimer, formerly of London, Ont., died in the Methodist mission field in China. The Grand Trunk terminal, situ- ated in Brockville since 1855, is shortly to be removed to Prescott. The Wreck Commission found the Empress of Britain responsible for colliding with the collier Helvetia. Several nurses have left Bock- wood Hospital, Kingston, for Ot- tawa to assist in attending typhoid cases. T. G, Meredith, K.C., London, Ont., was appointed Corporation Counsel of Toronto at a salary of $15,000. A natural gas explosion at Leam- ington wrecked a large house being built for Canning Company em- ployees. Mrs. Geo. T. Tuckett, wife of the head of the Tuckett Tobacco Co., Hamilton, died after a few weeks' illness. J. H. Driscoll, former manager of the McClary Manufacturing Co.'s branch in Winnipeg, was killed by a street car. Miss Rose Zaibe died at Hamil- ton as a result of eating candies. Four others were seized with vio- lent convulsions. The Montreal Harbor Commis- sioners will this fall begin building their new elevators, each of 2,500,- 000 bushels capacity. Lake and ocean going vessels will be required to have wireless equip- ment as a result of the recent In- ternational Congress. Between $20,000 and $28,000 dam- age wan done by fire to Peck <fc Wills' sash and door factory and other buildings in Belleville. Dr. David Robertson, Registrar of Halton, and eome years ago its representative in the Legislature, died suddenly at Nelson, B. C. Allan Williams, seven-year-old Ron of John Williams, physical in- structor at Ridley College, was drowned in Twelve Mile Creek. Dr. Daniel Meagher of Montreal WAS found dead in the home of a relative he was visiting in King- ston. Heart trouble was the cause. Montreal workingmen will erect a monument to Mr. J. A. Rodior, founder of the Trades and Labor Council in that city, who died two years ngo. Twenty-five thousand dollars' worth of Cobalt silver was shipped on Friday by the Teutonic to the Bank of England to be mined into British coins. Police Sergeant Abraham Nash, a member of the Windsor force for twenty-six yean, and distinguished for bravery, has been appointed a Provincial detective. GREAT BRITAIN. Premier Borden may pay a visit to Germany beiure hi return. Two suffragettes were sentenced to five years' imprisonment in a Dublin court. Sixty M.P.'s and a number of Peers witnessed the military aero- planes in flight on Salisbury Plain on Thursday. Mr. Asquith announced that a commitUxj would be appointe*! to inquire into the atrocities in the Peruvian rubber districts. The Master of Elibank, Chief Liberal Whip, has been raised to the Peerage and resigned his seat in the. House of Commons. The Unionist candidate, Sir John Randies, was returned for North- west Manchester, rendered vacant by the- resignation of the Liberal member. UNITED STATES. President Taft vetoed the wool tariff bill. Seventeen Detroit Aldermen have been arrested on charges of brib- ery. Governor Woodrow Wilson ac- cepted the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Col. Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for the Presidency at the Progressive National Convention at Chicago. The U. S. Senate passed the Panama Canal bill, retaining the provision exempting American ves- sels from tolls. Two U. S. battleships, the Ne- braska and Connecticut, met with serious mishnps during the fleet manoeuvres on Friday. The United States Senate ap- proved of the House provision for control of the-Pnnama Oanal by the President of the United States. GENERAL. President Leconte of Haiti was killed in an explosion and fire at the Palace. There wan a serious earthquake in Constantinople on Friday, many In iu sos being damaged. Commission of Conservation Will Send Experts to Guide the Owners A despatch from Ottawa eays : For the purpose of demonstrating to Canadian farmers how they may get the beet out of the land in the most economic manner, the Com- mission of Conservation has chosen a number of farms throughout the Provinces for illustration purposes. In each case the Commission has chosen farms whose owner agrees to be guided by the agricultural ex- perts provided. These are F. C. Nunnick, the Commission's agri- cultural expert, and John Fixter, formerly farm superintendent of Macdonald College. The illustra- tion farms have already been chosen in the eastern Provinces, and both Mr. Nunnick and Mr. Fixter are now in the west arranging for il- lustration farms in the Prairie Provinces. In Ontario there are eight farms, in Quebec six, and New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia three each. The Ontario illustration farms are as follows : Lanark county, farm owned by W. Hands of Perth; Es- sex county, farm owned by Nelson j Peterson, Ruthven, and farm owned by R. F. Taylor, Essex; Norfolk county, farm owned by A. M. Cul- ver, Simcoe ; Waterloo county farm owned by Paul Snyder, Elmira ; On- tario country, farm owned by Tho- mas Hall, Brooklin ; Dundas coun- ty, farm owned by Whittaker Bros., Williamsburg. Meetings will be held from time to time at these points, and will be addressed by experts. TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE WHAT 18 TRANSPIRING AT THE HUB OF THE PROVINCE. The City's Hotel Accommodation Figuring on Who'll be the Next Mayor- Harvester Excursions. Attention lg being called to Toronto's lack of hotel accommodation. Complaint made that we are losing tourist busi- ness, conventions and other gatherings, which bring business to the merchant*, because we do not provide places to sleep and eat. Certainly in the last aeven or eight years itinco the King Edward Hotel was completed, in a period when this city has increased in population by over fifty per cent., there has been comparatively little increase in tho hotel accommoda- tion. The quBtion has cent becanite Inter- twined in it is the nroblom of liquor licen- ses. No doubt tho liquor men are making the most of the lack of accommodation. They say it is due to the inoeourlty of the license situation. Not only do they criticize- such radical propoBalK as Mr. Kowell'B "Abolish the Bar" platform, but local option and license reduction cam- paigns are alao to them an anthcma. Even if the bar is not abolished at one fell swoop they fear that one of these days we may have a local option campaign in Toronto, and they are not sure what the result would be. HOTEL CAPITAL SET. Every little while a story U circulated that some one is prepared to spend a million dollars or more in a new palatial hotel, but that they are prevented from doing so by the instability of the license situation. There ii an excellent site for a hotel at the corner of Bay and Front streeU, unbuilt upon since the flre, and opposite the aite of the new Unioo Sta- tion. With the retail bu*ine*s moving up Yonge utreet there would seem to be an opening in that district. While the extreme north end. with Ha increasing railway bu*ine**, also looks attractive. But the hotel men's capital la timid. Temperance people dmlare tbat hotel* blr hotel* in big cities- can be made to pay without liquor licenses. The be*t examples in support f thin theory are, perhaps, to be found In Atlantic City, al- though. It is doubtful if anyone needs to go dry in Atlantic City, even if he is staying at a temperance heuae. No doubt, some of the big Toronto hotels make big money out of their liquor licemws. Ac- cording to rumor, the profits of the King Kdward bnr are almost fabulous, and some of the others do a running trade. In other*, *uch as the Queen'n, the operation* of the bar are more incidental. But in Hi.' va*t majority of the 110 licensed ho- tel* In the city the bar is the chief in- 1 duHtry. They provide only rooms and meals to kce>p within the law. In fact, In Home you might always find all the room* "full." and if you asked for a meal you night not be refused it, but you might liavo to wait an hour for it. There is admittedly a lack of middle- class hotel accommodation. In this To- ronto suffers like all big oitle*. The man II..MI the avorage home nnds when he travels that ho either ha* to pay for luxury that he does not want, or that he lia* to put up with uwomfortable rooms and distasteful food. WHO'LL BE NEXT MAYOR? Though tho municipal elections are still almost five month* away, mayoralty can- didates are already jockeying for position. It has been assumed that Mayor deary will not again seek re-election. He has i i-l three years of it, which, under or- dinary circuuiutaiKcn. i* suppoaed to be nnough tor any man. The last two terms lie has had on easy term*; last election tie had no opposition and the year before no really HerioiiB opponent. But the Mayor's chair ho attained In tho first lilace only by hard struggles. The first nine he wns a candidate ho offered him- self a* a lamb for the daughter. That was In the historic Qght that Dr. Bcuttie Scsbltt made for the position. Nesbitt's >ppoiient was Joseph Oliver, a Liberal. S.- hut was beating the party drum for ill he was worth, and would certainly iinve beaten Oliver in a single contest. Recognizing this, influential Conservatives who did not relish the idea of Nenbitt in the city's chief magisterial position in- lueed (leary to run. with the almost opeu- ly avowed purpose of splitting the Con- servative vote, so that Oliver would be Iccted. The plan worked, and it Is O. K. Henry Toronto ha* to thank for keeping Dr. Neshltt out of the Mayor's chair in tho dya when the Farmers' Bank was just getting under way. TIIK UOCKEN-OKABY FEND. Borne might have been afraid of the loss f prestige which a defeat would bring, MII it did not work out that way in [leary'a cage. When Oliver relinquished tha ofBoe, Controller Uocken aspired to tho succession. Under other clrctimstanc- >s, Uocken might have beaten Geary, for bis NOtiroea of strength in the Conserva- tive party were mui'h the same, and ap- parently about equally as strong aa [loary'a, and he had many influential friends among the Liberal*. Hut the Lib- erals who don't expect mtiny of the sweets )t office In Toronto remembered Geary's service to Oliver and there is little doubt that in the strenuous struggle that re- sulted Llbvral votes decided the issue. That was threo years ago. Aftur a year's absence from Council Mr. llocken returned to the Board of Control. He did not again essay to defeat Qeary, though tho animosity kindled between them hns never died out, and not infrequently blazes np at hoard meeting*. But all the time Controller Hooken has regarded him- self as the logical sucoeiKor of Mayor (leary. And at the moment he probably expect* that in tho year of grace, 1913, It will be Mayor Hocken. His chance* are, undoubtedly, good, but t-here art* several possibilities which have to be reckoned with. In the first place. ! [leary ha* not definitely announced that i lie will not be a candidate again. During the present term hi* name has been fre- quently mentioned in oonnootion with : permanent clvlo and other ponitlons. But ihould he seek a fourth term as Mayor, Controller llocken may give him another fight, and unless deary completes the year more aggressively than he has be- inn It Hocken might on*t him. CHURCH A NEW ASPIRANT. But, probably, the darkest ibadow aorosi Controller Hocken's mayoralty aspirations is cast by Controller Tommy Church. Many people do not take Church seriously, but he gets votes. During Mayor Geary's absence in England he has been acting mayor, and has been stirring things up in a way that has drawn some favorable comment, even from his critics. He is erratic, is handicapped by a serious deaf- ness, and lacks stability. But he is en- ergetic and hail fellow well met. He is strong with the Conservative organiza- tions, with the Sona of England, tbe Orange association even as Contro 'f r Hocken. While, not being is eit;rome as Uocken, who is editor of the Orange Sen- tinel, in his anti-Catholio pronounce- ments, he might get mo-it of th Catholic vote. Hocken is strong with the 'lurch vote, Church would appeal to "the boys." So that In a straight contest between the two it would be .ird to o'Ck the Winner. And then there would be the danger cf a third candidate. Perhaps K'ine aark horse Consi- a"ve or mayne a I ii.rral. J. J. Ward, Controller fcr many yeir- bnt defeated last .January, a Roman Catholic Liberal, has long had aspira- tions to be Mayor of Oranse (V nservf.f've Toronto. He wanted to run when Geary and Hocken were tight ug it out, 1'Ut us bis expectation of r'cotion waa ha&d on purely partisan support, leal. 03 Li'cHiuls who wish to keep partr poli'ioB out of civic affairs as far ag possible, counselled otherwise. He sacrificed hope then, f but he might not do so again with Hocken and Church as contenders. Altogether the mayoralty contest fills year promises to be one of the most in- teresting In many yeirr. THE CALL OF THE WEST. The days of tbe harvester excursions to the Northwest are with us again. It is an Interesting sight to lourncy down to the Union Station and see one of these excursions get under way, for, of course, Toronto is the chief concentrating point for eastern Canada asd most of the ex- cursionists begin their main journey from here. There they are by tie hundreds, representing, before tbe season is out, nearly every municipality and school sec- tion of old Ontario. The majority are men, mostly young men, but there is a goodly smattering of women, too. In re- recenfyears they are not as in the old days, all Canadians, but often half are new arrivals from the Old Country, who are glad to take advantage of the phe- nomenally low fare to get as far west as they can. The 'farm life of the prairie appeals more perhaps to the Scotchman than to the Englishman, into whose blood the virus of city life has often entered and who does not warm up to the idea of going away off a thousand miles from anywhere. For the most part It Is a serious-minded crowd. Sometimes a few young bloods make trouble and give the whole party a bad name. They are not out for a frolic, but to most it is a serious business. Ca- nadians are a pretty serious people any- way. Some have their plans all made to remain in the West. But the majority are modern Joshuas, going to have a look around, and come bark if they don't like it. As Ontario knows to her coot many of them find it a land which promises "milk and honey" in a figurative sense at all events. And they never come back at least to stay. Fifty thousand of them are wanted this year. Tbe job of finding that number devolves, not on the government in either of the western provinces, or the Domin- ion, but on the railways. The railways put the problem up to their district pas- senger agents. Each one is expected to tret no many. And so the country is flood- ed with poster*, station agents are told to get busy,, the newspapers are loaded up with free notice* and the restless one* re- spond. 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The satisfaction which our goods give, places the usera under an obligation to you. which wins for yon the same respect, esteem, and In- timate friendship given the priest, physi- cian, or pastor, and you will make more money from your snare time than you dream of, besides a host of friends. This Is your opportunity for a pleasant, profitable and permanent business. Ad- dress, The Home Supply Co., Dept 20. Uer- rill Building. Toronto. Ont WOMAN CUT BY BIND Kit. ll.rsi-s Started While She was Standing In Front of It. A despatch from St. Thomas say : Mrs. Archibald Donn of lona Sta- tion, met with a serious accident Friday evening. \Vhilo she was ^landing in front of a self-binder, the team started, badly lacerating her leg just abovethe ankle. YOUXG GIRL'S BRAVEBY. Though Unable to Swim She Saved Uer Little Brother. A despa/tch from Brockville says : A second brave and successful at- tempt at rescue from dro-wning here within two weeks took place on Saturday afternoon. Alfred Mas- sey, aged three years, son of Daniel Massey, Water street, was playing on the platform of a launch house. In attempting to reach some brush and pull it from the wat: the little boy fell in. He was going down the second time when hit> sister Nellie, aged fourteen, attracted by his screams, ran to the dock, and with- out waiting plunged into the water, which at this point is fifteen iV. c deep. The young girl cannot swim, but secured a hold on her brother and managed to keep htsreelf and him afloat until the father, learn- ing of what had happened, rushed to the scene, jumped in and landed his two children safely on the boat- house platform. OTTAWA OFFICIALS. Suspended Pending Inquiry Into Waterworks Affairs. A despatch from Ottawa saye : City Engineer Newton J. Ker, and Assistant City Engineer Parsons were on Saturday suspended by Mayor Hope well from all connection with the civic Waterworks Depart- ment. Engineer Win. Storrie of New York, who has been here in connection with the plans for tha city's filtration with the plans for the- city's filtration system, was temporarily placed in charge. The Mayor's action was taken in view of the coming inquiry to fix respon- sibility for the break in the new waterworks intake, which resulted in the recent outbreak of typhoid fever. WOOD 1TLP AND PAPER. AYill be Admitted Duty Free to tho V. S. From British Columbia. A despatch from Washington saye: Wood pulp, print paper and paper board manufactured from woods of British Columbia, from which tho export restrictions were recently removed by the Legisla- ture of the Province will be admit- ted to the United States free of duty under the one operative clause of the Canadian Reciprocity Act. YOUNG WOMAN DHOWNED. Canoe Upset and Companion Tried Vainly to Ilewuc Her. A despatch from Victoria, B. C., says : Through the upsetting of a canoe in the Gorge here on Sun- day night, Bessie Friend, aged 22, a recent arrival from Glasgow, was drowned. Her companio (, a young man named Ransom, dived in an effort to rescue her, but finally be- came exhausted and clung to the canoe until aid arrivexl. CANADA SECURITIES CORPORATION, LIMITED INVESTMENT SECURITIES P. H. MANLEY Central Mani*r. DIRECTORS. Robert llokirdlk*, Esq., M.P., . PrMldint. Sir RodolphB Forgtt, M.P. Vice President James Carruthers, Esq. Vice-President. Hen. Clifford Sllton Lt.-Ool. E. M. Maodonald, K.O., M.P. Paul Qallbert, Esq. Edmund Irlstol, K.O., M.P., FranH Carrel, Esq. 4. s. Irvln, Esq. c. o. Warren, Esq. col. James Mason 0. P. HIM, Esq. w. Grant Mordn c. A. Barnard, Eeq., K. C. MONTREAL TORONTO LONDON ENG. ,