NOW IN HANDS OF U.S, SUPREME COURT. Result Bound Up With Financial Life of the Nation--The Amount at Stake is Over $600,000,000.. Washington, Feb. 2. hould the pupreine court of the Uvited States sustain the decree of the lower courts in the osanaard Oil case, what then? This is an important question to the fmancial world, if it not equally jm- portant to the financial world every: where. The situation will be indeed puzzling, and it will take as very wise man to forecast the results in their entirety. The results that will follow the up- holding of the decree dissolving the Standard Oil company will be more startling than anything that has hap- in the past, if we are to accept the dire predictions of an eminent lawyer who is very close to the Stan- dard Oil Co. and familiar with all its ramifications. - The men at the head of the Stan dard Oil have manifested Yat fhe possess organizing capacity far she of anything of the kind hitherto re co in history, but they will be called upon to display equal if not greater capacity in anothers diree- tion. It is generally regarded that it js easier to tear down than to build up, but it will require genius of the first water to tear down the Stan- dard Oil and segregate it into thir. ty-two independent and distinet 'eor- porations, If they succeed in doing that their hardest task will still be to come. That is, to compete with themselves. Horses have been speeded against their own records but that is nothing ed fo the task which John D. R eller, as principal owner of elev. en separate and indegendent pipe line companies will have in competing with himself in the transportation of his own relined or crude oil. A part of the task set the managers of the Standard Oil com- in case the decree is approved will be that of dividing 54,000 miles of pipe lines into eleven parts. and making each part wholly and ahso- lutely independent of each other, while they willlstill be awned by dxactly the same people. There are four producing companies having direction of thousands and thousands of oil wells in every part - of the world. These will have to be separated sand put to work competing with each other, that is, in getting out oil from the wells and selling it to themselves to be refined in their own refineries, and then compete with themselves in disposing of the refined oil apd the by-products to the ulti- mate consumer, No doubt the compe tition' will be very brisk, They bave about $50,000,000 invest- od in refineries $20,000,000 in ships, $8,000,000 "in tank cars, $17,000,000 in pketing stations, in all their pro- frie about $360,000,000. And all will have to be divided up be- tween the rs, but the pro- must aol 0 t he operated in competition with each other. They cannot divide the territory, and say one refinery shall operate in one section and market its alone in that section, but the competition must be general. 4 lem is one of vast diffieul ties. there must be a disinte- gration, then 5 reorganization. Disin. tegration smnat be ollowed by an abandonment, at'least temporarily, of some of the markets until matters can ) per! a} The test coins are picked indiscrimin- Reliable Treatment for Whisky or Beer Habit Cas you ask More? Can be Given Seeretly. -- ut that ORRINE terrible eravi 1 Land all AntoRIAnty, t you te try it at our ex- wives n the la Rave by rentored rin sons to Hves rns iness. We belleve 3 have failed. so w! of tl becol Try it Je dre xo be readjusted. Possialy there will be an abandonment temporarily of some | of the producing territory, i The abandonment of parts of the producing territory and a part of the marketing territory will cause dis aster to those territories, and dis | asters of that class are never purely focal in their effects, The exports of the Standard Oil company amount te | about 20,000,000 barrels of 50 gal | lons each annually. The abandonment | of this vast traffic, if only for a few | months, would cause 5 disaster and | loss to the commtry it is hard to esti | mate. 94 Wall street and the whole financial | world is waiting with dire forebodings | for the decision of the court. The stock of the Standard Oil company is i now worth 600,000,000, Let" it shrink | but one-half and who can tell the re silt 7 Suppose thé shrinkage should bring it down to par, how many oth- er industries would be forced into li- § quidation ? Who can tell ? Well may | it be asked, should the supreme court sustain the decree of the lower court, what then ? BAD CASE OF ECZEMA Cured by Zam-Buk After Five Years' Niness. Another case of the healing power of Zam-Buk,. in cases of eczema, is to hand from Winnipeg. Mrs. H. Cross, of 176 Meclntosh avenue, Elmwood, _ is the subject, and gives the following facts, with a view to leading other suf- ferers to a means of cure: "For five years,": she says, "I was terribly afflicted with eczema on my legs, and despite all the doctoring and numerous remedies 1 tried, | seemed unable to get relief. The disease first started with watery blisters, which | itched terribly, and when rubbed, burn- ed and smarted very much. The pus- tules then spread and formed sores. These were irritable and very painful. One blister was no sooner rubbed--or I might say touched--than another started, "They soon spread over both limbs, } and | suffered much inconvenience. | tried various remedies, as they wera | Ordinary salves and omiments seemed unequal to my case, } "At last a friend suggested my using | Zam-Buk. 1 acted on this advice and | began. the Zam-Buk treatment. A few applications gave me considerable ease, and the burning, smarting pains were reduced. I persevered with the balm, and in the course of a week tiie disease was under control and the sores healing. From that time for- ward 1 continued to improve, and the sores, too, became less and less trou- blesome, until in a wonderfully short time, considering the seriousuess my case and the long time I had been suffering, Zam-Buk worked a complete cure." Such is the nature of the great cures which Zam-Buk is daily effecting. Pure ly herbal in composition, this great balm is a sure cure for all skin dis enses, cold sores, chapped hands, frost bite, uléers, blood-poisoning, varicose sores, piles, scalp sores, ringworm, in- flamed patches, babies' eruptions and chapped places, cuts, burns and bruis- es. All druggists and stores sell at 500. box or post free from Zam-Buk Co., 'Toromto, upon receipt of price. Refuse harmful imitations and substi- tutes. WILL TEST COINS, -- Assay 'Commission is to Meet in Philadelphia. Washington, D.C., Feb. 3.--Following the old custom inaugurated in 1823, the assay commission which tests and examines coins of the United States will meet in Philadelphia on Wednes- day, February Sth, to perform its an- oual task. The commissioners are re quired to see that coins made by the four mints of the nation are in due conformily with the standard of fine- nvess and weight. "Yhe coins are selected from the vari ous mints and sent to Philadelphia. for ately from each delivery of coins that is made Lo the superintendent of mints by the coiner, One coin is selected from every delivery of 1,000 gold coins, and one out of every 2,000 «¢ cilver coins. From the local mint they are sent to the Philadelphia mint, where they are received by the com- mission. After having been divided into three committées--counting, weigh- ing and assaying--the commission will proceed to count, weigh and assay. Later a report will be formulated and sont to the president, in which the i t of the commission will be found. It includes the reports of any discrepancies found, and may comprise resolutions expressive of the opinions of the commission upon the conduct of the mints. a sr------ , VIEWS OF MAX AIKIN, M.P. United States Has Despoiler"s Hand on Canada's Throat. * London, Feb, 3.-Max Aikin, MP, interviewed by the London Daily Ex- press, said though he regarded the trate agreement as a blow at imperial we, he did not think the mis- was jrretrievable. "I feel cer tain," he said, "that Canadians will come to see the real designs of the United States, and how damaging to the future de dominion. The truth take i THE JOLLY "KNIT From being a whin "r Iments have become a veritable craze. recommended, but could find no relief. | pop notable for the number of knitted coasting, motoring participants in skating, There are warm full len caps and huge muffs to match, an all unwieldy or clumsy, soft colorings like wood brown, ifaw dued' reds. gth coats like CONDUCT OF STUDENTS University Theatre Night Most Dis. orderly on Record. Toronto, Feb, 3.--1t was the annual university theatre night at the Royal Alexandra, last night, and pers who have been p aut ON theatre nights of late years were o phatic in the assertion that the per formance of last night was marked by the greatest amount of disorderly con duct on record. No sooner had the first line of stu dents entered the gallery than the air of the theatre was filled with cb yells, with paper ribhGns, confetti, beans, darts and the strains of a cow- bell.. This lasted during the whole evening. This action was, however, not objected to, so much as the fact that progress of the play itself was interfered with. The first act for the actors, and named, including a few lemons, ev poured on the stage. The situation becama so intense that Edward Terry, who playing "The Magistrat by was constrained to protest. He had played before students in many paris of the world, he said, but nowhere had he been confronted with such dis order as here. He bhesought the tue dents to respect the ladies present. After Mr. Terry's protest, and after President Falconer had upbraided the students -and urged them not to Yring dishonor on their university, things quieted down. Hon. J. M. Gibson, lieutenant-governor of Ontario, w hom the occupants of the "gods" cheered and hailed as "Good old Jimmie," minded the disorder not at all and even went so fap as to stand mp. for the creators of it. Te was a student once himself, and declared that he was enjoying the show in the "gods" as much as that on the stage. Another reprimand from the eloquent tongue of Principal Maurice Hulton Had the effect of producing compara- tively good order during the latter half of the evening. Among the other | occupants of boxes were Mayor Geary, suc was the most difficult the articles above en, was THE DATLY BRITISH WHIO. but are smapy FRIDAY, wem---- TED" GIRL. y of fashion the knitted motor and outing gar: Christmas out-of-town parties woollen togs worn by the and other out-of-door sports, the ofe pictured, with coguettish d these knitted garments are not at tly shaped and come in beautiful n, raisin abd various soft, sub- < J Prof. Ramsay Wright, and Dean Gal braith, ------ Brittany Costumes, In Brittany, wherever you go, the outstanding characteristics of the pea- sant women's attire are wooden shoes, kirts of extraordinary amplitude, and and caps for outdoor as well Once, by the way, as traveller Kalm Canadiennes, of bad the sume aprons as indoor wear. the eighteenth century would inform us, the (huebec and Montreal, idea that they were fot properly dressed without their caps, and this applied to great ladies as much as to humble folk. Breton great ladies, however, dress like the rest of French society dames, and it is the peasant costumes which chiefly interest us, showing within the limits of the geno ral - features 1 have mentioned an al- most bewildering variely of detail, In the Cotes du Nord, about the somnolent cathedral town of 1 reguier, along the rocky coast of Ploumanach and in the districts swrrounding the fisherman's port of Paimpol, the dress of the women is as sombre as the le- gends they learned at their' mother's knees, as dull of hue as the. clouds that so d&ften overhang their goose- fenced fields, and old-world towns and co frequently drown out all life and color from the prospect with sheet of heavy rain. No wonder that the Pre tonnes of this region are almost never geen in public without large stout um- hrellas. for though their dresses ar: as austerely devoid of ornament as the robes of th nuns, and as substantial in material, the rain of Brittany comes, not in light showers, but in a soaking Jong-continned downpour. The full-skirted gowns are generally black. The aprons are black also (or occa sionally dark blue) and the shoulders ard covered with a large shawl or a short round cape of real or imitatior Jambskin, dved black. ~Emily P. Wea ver, in the February Canadian Maga zine, ---- es ---- Mulishvess is not entirely confined to the male. FEBRUARY 3, 1911. | Kidney it Becomes Chronic. Carefully. Package Greatly Reduced. ¢ not remedy v Alsorders. received 1¢ repairs ns » torpid liver heals at the same lime, gEgists Warner's but it uraemie testimo, and tation organs by all Safe Cur only cu ie ndearful uring have B WARNER'S SAF sugar-coated, absolutely tive They do not gripe Sample. 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Within over sixty secured ene of the largest poratibns in Canada time Call or write f« tion H. F. Meteaife, (Limited) in, Canada . S000 P000NOGS THE = AMERICAN CAFE 183 Wellington St. The Up-to-date Restaurant and Eating House. Separate appartments. Well furnished and lighted. full - course dinner, THOS GUY Prop Fail of v Course P Chivers'. Pure Oran or Of Flour is unexcelled for bread pastry. Price is moderate. A. MACLEAN, Ontario" Btreet. OUR BEAVER BRAND Fo Marmalade, Assorted pms and Jellies. Plum Pudding. Pineapple Chincks, Victoria Plums, Dawson Plums. Peaches. or 00000000000000000000Y ® Wood, Lumber, Shingles Measurement. Ow Prices. N. JACKSON, PLACE D'ARMES, Residence, 280 Bagot Street. 'Phone No. 10189. o900000 THE CLUB HOTEL ® % g 2 approach the Club for homeilke su roundings. to principal stores and thoefre, Charges are moderate. Special rates by the week. P. M. THOMPSON, Proprietor. WELLINGTON ST., near PRINCESS. There are other hotels, bul none Located in centre of city and ciose D. COUPER'S Phone 76. od1-5 Princess Street Coast eanled Oysters. Prompt Delivery. The kind you are looking for is the kind we sell, Scranton Coal is good coal and we guarantee prompt delivery. BOOTH & CO., FOOT WEST STREET. Tr or is the best beverage for p---- PERFECTION COCOA (MAPLE LEAF LABEL) % SR ] : you, Madam, and the best for the * children. COWAN'S has a recognized food value, is grateful to the stomach, is easily assimilated and also assists digestion. The rich, delicious flavor appeals to the children especially. By all means, give them COWAN'S for breakfast and supper. en at