Daily British Whig (1850), 18 Aug 1911, p. 9

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Yet in some of our Canadian centres these nefar- Sheiz clutches, it is an almost hope- less struggle. They use an elaborate system of spies to get their victims. ies everywhere! Spies who are well-dressed and spies who are ill dressed! Spies who look like gentle men and spies who are obviouSly not! And the clever moneylender knows exactly whether he can "fleece" hid customer, whether he can safely lend him money or not, or whether the transaction is likely to turn out » bad bargain. These spying touts work on a com basis. Bome of these money: lenders' spies move in good society One hears that an acquaintance if hard up and wants to borrow somé money. In casusl conversation he lets it be known that he can oblig¢ his acquaintance with an introduc 4 Li0n-10-a-1Bone ---As-a-mattes of "business" he hints "at a8 commis shon, which is willingly granted by the impecunious one. A letter having been drawn our and signed, the spy, who, of course, knows all about hi scquaintanee's finances, makes his way to his moneylending em;loye: from whom he gets another commis gon on the loan: The tout gives the moneylender a full account of his prospective client his family, their position, and the likelihood of his being able to "touch" the father if the son should refuse ol be unable %0 pay up. And it is sur prising what large sums parents pay in order to keep these matters quiet! Buppose the sum borrowed is $2,000, The spy gets anything from $300 Ww $400 out of it, all of whieh, of course, the unfortunate borrower has to pay by way of interest. He signs a prom- issory note for $3,000, and in retary gets about $1,000 cash! And the $3,000 has to be repaid in three months! Bul sometimes a man comes into the office straight away, with no such introduction, and asks for a loan. That is never a very pleasant busi- ness when one has to face an experi enced moneylender. You relate your biography, your debts, say where you are employed, what salary you are getting, and, in faet, lay bare half the secrets of your existence. You go out feeling jaunty, for the oblig- ing gentleman has told you "if every- thing is all right you will get the money to-morrow." Here steps in another grade of spy. He is not welldressed enough to pass as a gentleman. He loafs after you, | verifies your address, gets into conver- sation with neighboring tradesmen, laud even has a chat with your ser. vant whenever it is possible. He sees you then as other people see you and not from your own sell. satisfied point of view, which you have given to the moneylender. If you have a reputa- tion for being slow in paying your bills, for dodging your just debts, and 20 on, the spy knows it and your loan is refused. In order that the spy's expenses shall be found in any case; you will probably have already put something down as a preliminary fee. Needless to say, you never see that fee again. The spy is as wide awake as they make them, for if you manage to beat him and get a loan when you are not capable of paying it back, it is the spy who suffers, and so he takes very few chances. Now and then people who get into the clutches of the moneylenders are pressed into his service as spies. He is merciful to them as long as they can introduwee new custom. It a friend, who is alto on his books, con- templates a "moonlight flit,"' then the usurer knows it and the borrower is surprised to find that his new address is perfectly well known, One class of moneylender deals chiefly with married women. Leans are apparently willingly lent them, but not without an inguiry * before hand by the ever-useful spy as to the status of their husbands. These women are harassed right and left 3] the spies when they canned pay up. ey are followed abomt with all sorts of memaces and insults, under threats of Meir husbands. They will call house, they will meet her lhe streets, and everywhere all times she will feel that she their grip, and will make the uw sacrifies to pay extortionate keep things t. Many a home been ruined in this way. There of course, many moneylenders are straight and who do make things as easy as their clients. But there o to put u to rh: d i i i by : this aysietn of backmail is done a treal Standard. - & pe Oe seen represented Yankee in the Revolusonary War pulling down the Union Jack and s wow ious persons still flourish. Once in | ANTRAL FANCIES. = i THE LAST OF THE PATRES." | Friendly Relations Le Lead 3 Strange | Sir Charles Tupper Showed His OW | ! Adoptions. | The cases in which cats snd dogs | | have formed e¢lose friendly relations | are, of course, too numercus io mwen- | don Lies, ee ag. | an a Ee Shatiad 0 animal friendships so strong and Tasting as that between dogs | when onoe it is formed. It is well | known that mothercats when depriv- | ed of their newborn progeny will adopt | | puppies, rabbits, monkeys, or almost any other tender young creatures that may be handy. t there has recent ly come to light a case for which there | is mo such apparent explanation. A eat and a Tene fox-terrier, which had brought into the world | their progeny at about the same time, deliberately swapped their young, the a taking the FoPpics to to bring up, the dog the kittens. The ex- oy was satisfactory, and both lit ters were brought in health to the weanable stage. obody knows what led to such abnormal conduct. A somewhat similar case is report ed from Montreal.' A householder there, having a female cat and a fe- male dog with families of young, felt that his house was in danger of be- coming a sort of Noak's ark, and took away and drowned all the kittens. The puppies found favor in hiy eyes. Deprived of her little ones, the cal began to "spell" the female dog in taking care of the puppies. As soon # the mother-dog left her nest the "bereaved Mmother-cat crawled into, it and nursed the puppies. Nothing loth, the puppies took all that came to them, and throve prodigiously. The cat licked them and took care of them as she would have taken care of her uwn, A certain cat, the story of whose career is vouched for by s cat el adopted a litter of Young rabbits nourished them well he cat was, for that matter, very sociable and in- clusive in her likings. One year her constant companion was a chicken. The two ate habitually out of the same dish, and slept every night in the same enclosure, There is an authentic story of a male and a female cat in Halifax that jlived on terms of perfect amity with all the animals on the place--dogs, chickens, and what not. It so hap- pened that a hen which had a brood of seven chickens was killed accidental- ly. The cat, which some two weeks before had been deprived of her kit- tens, appeared to observe the predica- ment of the seven little chickens. She crawled into their nest, and the chie- kens, looking for warmth, nestled into her warm fur, peeping gratefully. The chickens, fed by their owner, throve perfectly, and every day the strange sight was presented of their following the mother<cat about the premises, as if pxpecting her to find them food ait ter the manner of a hen. A Bright Boy. In most regular lines of work the old hands usually try to play some joke on vach new boy that starts in at the business., That bank clerks are no exeeption to this rule was indicated by a joke played on the new "junior" in a Pak in Collingwood. The youngster was sent out tp a merchant to collect two dollars on a draft, and he got back to the bank with two Amexican silver dollars. "Where did you get those cart- wheels?" asked the collection clerk. "Don't you know that they're worth only forty-eight cents each?" The boy looked badly scared. "Better take them to the account ant," said the collection clerk, with a wink at that official. "But I guess he can't do anything for you." "No, only worth forty-eight cents sach," said the accountant. The boy was still more frightened, #0 he took the big silver pieces home, intending to turn in two' bills if he tould persuade his father to let him aave the bills. Next morning the youngster turn- dd in two Canadian bills. He had a %ig parcel under his arm, and he proudly exhibited to the clerks a treat collection of ties, stockings and sther things to wear "Say," he said with a smile, "I put i good one over on that storekeeper jown the line. I got him to give me iwo dollars worth of stuff for those Md cart-wheels." Blaming the Reporter. There is a certain kind I humor which wins its way more surely than iny other policy. Bir John Macdon- ild was a master in its use, and jeldom resorted to it in vain. On one jeccasion Sir John delivered an ad- ress, which, for *some mysterious reason, wae slightly incoherent. The ollowing day, 8 newspaper man salled on him and diffidently showed nim certain notes which he had taken of the speech. Sir John surveyed the notes for a moment and then turned to the re. Jaret in a kind and fatherly man- he Young man, will you let me give you a word of advice?" "Certainly, Sir John," said the lattered scribe. | "Well, don't ever try to report one of my speeches unless you are sure {hat you are perfectly sober. Now, I'l tel Jou what I really did say. And th# young reporter was wise enough to say "thank you." Woodpile and Discipline. The All Saints troop of scouts at Calgary, who went into camp recent ly, has adopted an entirely original method of discipline. It should ap- peal to most Scoutmasters and big troops of scouts. In these discipline is strictly enforced, rough- house of the wars} sort will develop. The Western will nip al a the bud. The All Baints Sroups wil not have a se, but a Ai pile, which is far more effeci.ve. A the scouts will each day passed punishment =, he of woodpile. line can be ted than lS and the wo the peer of work _{ tion week, Here in this very Form at Coronation. Sir Charles Tupper was in the thick | | of be coonation Ygeadtiy in Lea | The veteran Runtian. Nu iastic of ng a | George to the crowning. The Empire | en fete--in what a host of 3 emtion } | and Suaghey Tw i baronet must have inal he i few days. Sir Charles k 2 Ja i with dozens of faithful henchmen from overseas, who helped Am s his battles in the i days; he read in The London Times of the seventeen Premiers in Imperial discussion in fathered street; he viewed the crowning of sn- other 'King--who is as much King of Canada as he is of England. Indeed, in one month in London, Sir Charles saw the modern machinery of the reat British Empire exposed; ne abt as he wa the smooth-run- ning of the parts, this great Cans dian statesman felt the pride of a workman, conscious of the efficacy of his contributign to the whole. One inciden nation week in which Bir Charles was the central figure. That was the unveiling of the memorial in memory of Canadian Confederation at the Westminster Hotel, in the very heart of London. It was in a sense one of the most dramatic episodes of corona EIY_T00M, Mir. | most half a century ago Tr a group of men who emoothed away the final obstacles, which threatened the federation of the Canadian provinces into the Dominion, 'which is the won- der of the twentieth century. The Fathers of Conlederation to- day are but a cherished memory. The old picture of them gathered about a table, the mural pride of many a Canadian farm house--well the mod- ern Canadian school-boy needs a key to pick them out. Sir Charles Tup- per is there. He and Senator A. A. Macdonald alone of the Fathers re main to us. No doubt he has chang- ed since the picture was taken--but in appearance only. Sir Charles Tup- per is now an old man, In years he is Rinety. But in spirit be is the same old Dr. Tupper of Nova Scotia.' Those who were so fortupate to hear him at the Westminster Palace the other day will never farget the scene. Around him were sea the leading men of the Empire. Sir Charles arose to speak. The flash of the warrior was there in his eye, the same chal. lenge of the! "Bluenose" was in his voice, as in vehement, deelamatory sentences he declared his faith in the future of the Canada be had helped so much to build. Sir Charles Tupper is the aristocrat of Canadians. He is one of the last tof the Patres. Tu his work as u con stitution builder, so fittingly comihem- orated at the Westminster Palace, let Sir Wilfrid Laurier's words bear tri bute: . occurred daring .coro- | "Sfruction, as weil as facilities for control and readiness. "During the forty-four years since i Canadian. Confederation, there has been { portant character, and that came with- | out friction aid to the satisfdetion of | everybody, 1 say ¥ Sir Charles Tup- {per, in your name and mine, | done, good and faithful servant'. Of course eminent | both political parties 'were ! audience which witnessed the unveil. ling of the tablet. But these men for- got for the moment that they were Liberals or Conservatives; they re. wembered only that they were Cana- dians; that they honor the Canadian Constitution and its founders. Sir Wilfrid eulogized his old political foe, The Hustling, Bustling West, Easterners visiting the West have before now commented. on the fact that despite the "hustle" which is talked so much about, it takes about twice as long to buy a cigar of a neck- tie out there as it does in an eastern city, pnd that the gentlemanly clerk is ide willing to detain the strang- er with talk about his town's pros- pects, no matter how many other cus- tomers may be waiting. A Toronto financier who is now in the Wet must have had the cup of his bitter. ness filled to overflowing, for this is the postcard he sent to a friend from one of the flourishing smaller cities of thé new provinces: "Arrived here 6 a.m. Now 10 a.m. Barber expected. down--shortly. Bar opens 9 a.m. Bartender begins the morning papers; intends to serve drinks when he finishes sporting page. Evening paper offices. not yet open for business. fishing. Bustling West! Hell!ll-- Saturday Night. Sleeping In. A couplet men, who don't get down to work till nine o'clock, were talk- ing the other day shout, the Sguble of getting up in morning, and one of them: told 'hat he considers the funnieyt : remark be had heard coun- cerning that trouble. It appears that one cold morning last winter in' a barber shop'in a west. ern Ontario town, a man who looked pretty tired said, "Say, I tell you 1 felt like sleeping in this morning." t time do you usually get up?' was asked. 'Fm a milkman," he said, "and I usually get up at 4.30." The idea of a man who Shas time on a winter ho gen atbing of "sleeping in" struck the man who rises late as being ty tunny. ones. petore tail i bout |) a day longer ore ng about 'sleeping in," " he said.~Courier. -------------------------- Plenty of Coal. 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