TO FGHT INVASION STEEL COMPANIES SAID TO BE MERGING FOR ACTION. - ° dmalgamation of All the Independ- ent Concerns in the United States and Canada is Said to be Under Wa¥ With a Capital of $1,100, Hamilton, Ont. Jan. 13.--Much e- excitement was caused here by des- patches from Boston to the effect that all the Canadian steel con- cerns, including the Steel company of Canada, were merging with inde- pendent companies of the other side, including the Bethlehem Steel com- pany, Youngstown Steel Tube com- pany, the Midvale Steel co npany the Pennsylvania Steel company, and the Cambria Steel company, to fight the invasion into Canada of the United States Steel company, which is planning to build a $20,000 000 plant at Sandwich. . The toal capitalization of the new Canadian merger, according fo the Boston despatches, is $1,100,000, 000, as compared with $1,490,237. $00 of the United States Steel cor- poration. = Robert Hobson, general manager of the Steel company of Canada gave out the following statg- ment: - "You can say that the story that the Steel company of Canada is 'an on this scheme is absolutely without foundation. We have not had, are not having anf! will not have any- thing to do with it." He Turther said that his company was not worrying the least about the invasion of the United States * Steel corporation into Canada. Seats Decline in Price. New York, Jan. 13.--S8eats on the New York Stock Exchange are grow- ing less in favor. A saie was made to-day at $53,000 as compared with a price of $56,000 month. This is the lowest price at which a sale has been consummated since 1908; it compares with $73,000, the high price of last year, and with $96,000, the highest price on record. That was touched in 1906, A Bonus Last Year. Montreal, Jan, 13.--William Me- Master presided at the sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Montreal Telegraph company. The com- pany's assets amount to $2,307,582, of ich $2,151,000 is operated by the Great North-Western Telegraph company, which guarantees a divi dend of eight per cent. 'The com- pany paid a bonus of $5,000 during the year. First Dividend i 18 Yeurs. Toronto, Jan. 13.--After naving failed to pay any dividend for thir- teen years the Muskoka Navigatéyn company, Limited paid a dividend of five per cent. Hugh C. McLean Corporation common stock are nbw held in England and France, L Grand Trunk earnings for the first week of January were $850,889, an inttease of $115,001 over the corre. sponding period of 1912, The Baltimore & Ohio railway company has decided to create -an issue of about $64,000,000 four per cent. twenty year convertible gold bonds. ' United States Steel unfilled tonnage is against 7,852,883 last increase of 81,000 tons. The gross earnings of the Cana- dian Pacific railway for the first week of the new year from Jan. 1st to 7th, show an increase of $538,- 000. It is anticipated that the Grand Trunk Pacific railway intend making an issue of £800,000 four per cent debentures. The statement that the province of Alberta will guarantee the Grain Growers' Association for $1,- 000,000 for the construction of six- ty elevators in the province was made without authority. { The Canadian Pacific railroad in the first five months of its present fiscal year earned 9.79 per cent. on its common stock issue, Which works out at the rate of 23.49 per cent. per annum. Vice-President Hanna of the Can- adian Northern railway, has signed contracts with builders of rolling stock all over Canada for $7,000,000 worth of railway equipment, to be delivered during 1913. The output of 'the Angus . théps during 1912 consisted of 248 scars of all kinds for passengers and bag- gage equipment; 16,693 for freight equipment; 119 for maintenance of way, and 297 locomotives making a toal of 17,357 vehicles. Corporation 7,932,164, morth, an BROUGHT BOY UP AS GIRL, teen in Dresses. Victor, Colo., Jan. 14.--After nas- querading since childhood as a girl, Irene Moynahan, eighteen, until Christmas a student in the Victor High School has been found to be a boy and ® now on his way to join his father and brother in Bisbee, Ariz. Mrs. Timothy Moynahan, Irene's mother, refuses to give any reason for the deception, other than that she "wanted a girl." The father and brother, according to the mother did not know anything about the decéption and they were to be informed for the first time in a leter that Irene was taking with him to Arizona. " The fects in the case were first discovered by Marsha: A. Weincke of La Junta, who arrested Irene on a train on the suspicion that he was a fugitive trying to get out of the state disguised as a girl. After sat- isfying himself by inquiries concern- ng the family at Victor he provided Irene with boy's clothes and let him continue his journey. p Irene walked and talked like a boy and always played with boys; Colorado Mother Has Lad of Eigh. A GREAT CONVENTION. Salesmen and Managers Foregather at Halifax, The annual convention of the salesmen and managers of Brand- ram-Henderson, Limited, was held at Halifax just before the end of the old year: It was attended by the firm's representatives - east of the great lakes, but not by those from farther west. TQ have brought the far ° western men to the seaboard would have meant absence from their homes at Christmas times, and this would have been unfair to their families. ; Previous sales conventions held by Brandram-Henderson have always taken' place at Montreal, but it was thought well to come to Halifax un the occasion referred to and for sev- eral reasons. Many of the Queber and Ontario travelers had never been in the province, and i} was felt that they should have a ¢hance to hezome acquainted with the progress section of Canada is making at the present time. Ajzain there was the fact that Halifax is the place Brandram-Henderson started Lisi- ness, and it was felt that a visit to the original office and plant would i this returned to their respective THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14; 1018, -- ROBERT LORAINID, "Man and Superman," at the Grand on Thursday, Ja-. 16th. of the article they make, and as it is at the Halifax branch that their wholé supply is produced, there were impressive. educational features in- volved in having! the salesmen ip- spect the factory. Two days of the convention were given to discussions of methods on increasing Brandram-Henderson sales for 1913. The year 1912 had been the largest in point of turnover in the history of the firm, but if pos- #fble 1913 should be still better, and after careful deliberation a policy was framed which embraces souie very strong sales features. The con- vention in detail, and as a whol», was a great success, and at its close the firm gave the visitors a splendid banquet at the Halifax hotel. At this banquet soma very fine spexcnes were made, and later there was some good - music, for on the Brandram- Henderson staff there is great ver- satility of talent. The visitors all expressed their great delight with the entertainment received and all terri- tories strongly resolved to sell moe Brandram's B. B. Genuine White where| Lead, B-H "English" Paint and oth- er B.-H. products sn 1913 than had ever been sold in Wny one year be- fore, ! CAN AFFORD TO RETIRE HIM. This is the View as to Sir James Whitney. Ottawa Jornaul (Independent . Con- servative). f Sir James Whitney is going to maintain his" present attitude against tax reform, we think that the province can afford to retire Sir Jamies Whit- ney from power. Only in the minds oi more partizans is any man or any party necessary to the progress of civ- lization. Tne conservative party in Ontario can, if need be, get along without Sir James, but if it | could not, Untario anyway could get along without the conservative party, if, the conservative party jis going to stand in the way of both tommon sense and civie rights, ; The liberals in Ontario have had a sharp lesson now ahout the foolish- ness of rotten politics. They have a good man and clean politician ut their head. They are as much sup porters of the Hydro-electric policy as the conservatives are, and we see no conclusive reason why Ontario need hesitate to put the liberals in again, if the conservatives wis stand in the way of progress. At any rate, so far as the Journal is concern- ed, this newspaper does not feel in- clined to worry much: whether the Whitney administration continues ot not, if that administration proposes to maintain a policy of stolid stupid- ity on the question of tax reform. It is too bad to have to talk this way ab6ut what has been a good gov- ernment, but it is not our fault, Irrt------ EARL GREY'S TRIBUTE. Compliment to Grand Trunk Window Display. Situated on one of London's busiest thoroughfares, and facing the world- famous Trafalgar Square, the Euro- pean traflic offices of the Grand Trunk 'railway system have an im- portant mission, - not only in adver- tising the resources and possibilities of all Canada. Only a few days ago Earl Grey, the late governor-general of the dominion, passed by these offi- ces and was so impressed with their attractive display that he took ocea- sion to drop in personally » and com- pliment Frederick C. Salter, European trafic manager, upon it. At the pre- sent time one window is decorated with British Columbia apples inter- Woven with autumn tinted leaves; an 'oil painting of the Chateau Laurier at Ottawa, and the company's new machine for showing colored lan- tern slides, which is the only one of its kind in Europe, forming" a back- ground. The other window is entirely taken up by the large Grand Trunk il- luminated map that has attained con- siderable celebrity in England. 1t is said to be a unique example of cera- mic art, from the of mize and finish. It is formed of a number of superimposed transparent glass, a different plate be- to on map, and for each form of line work and lettering. . ------ Died in Dentist's Chair. Sussex, N.B., Jan. 13.~Mrs. Harry wer maple point of view both plates of Ing 'necesSary for every color on the MORNING OF MANHOOD LIVE PURELY AND HOLD WO. MEN IN HIGH HONOR. Read and Think Out Loud, and Write Down Your Thoughts--Ad- vice to Young Men by Rev. G. I, Cumpbell. The talk to young men - ® the Y.M.C.A. building on Sunday after. noon by Rew. G. I. Campbell on the "Morning of Manhood" was full of intense interest and splendid ad- vice Mr. Campbell found the Sugges- tion for his address in Proverbs XX in the lines, "The glory of young men is their strength and the blauty of old men is the gray head ne In the morning of manhood we are gathering strength. It is the time when we are mixing our cup of life. We should be careful to put into it those things that tend to strengthen and not to dra, down our manhood. L There are four main qualities in a well tempéred life--a good sound body, a cultured mind, good morals and religion. "The time is coming" said Mr. ! Campbell, "when much of our as. sumed modesty must be thrown to the wind and we will have to talk much more plainly of the things that are wrecking the lives of our boys and girls." He spoke particu- larly against the evil of self-abuse. He warned men against quack doc- tors, and their injurious advertising literature. These men make for- tunes by fraud. the fact remains, however, that in our asylums, 22 per cent. of the insanity can be traced directly to this cause. Noth- ing in life was so surely tearing down manhood as this evil. . "Live purely, young men," he said. In your cup of life, purity, and not only to yourself, but in our con- duct toward girls and women. Most of us have wives, most of us have sisters, all of us have mothers. For their sakes, we cannot hold woman- hood too high. Let us stand on our honor and put into our cup of life purity toward women. Cultivate your minds in this re- gard. The speaker laid down two rules as invaluable to the cultiva- tion of the mind Think out loud and write down your thoughts. ----- THE STANDARD ARTICLE « SOLD it, TH TIE helo S fH RL JE BA Sinks So If df iy , } il rains ranajor i EW.GILLETT COMPANY IMITED "TORDNTO.ONT. "PUG" PRAYS IN PRIZE RING. Champion Also Touched Rosary on Ankle and Won. Johnny Summers, the welterweight boxing champion of England, who re- tained Lord Lounsdale's belt symbolis- ing that distinction by defeating Syd Burns at the National Sporting Club, is a devout Catholic. Just before the fight began Sum- mers knelt in his corner, bowed his head reverently and made the sign of the cross. Then he sprang to hig feet like a panther, dashed at his man and {with both hands did his best to ham- mer the sense out of him. At the end of each round Summers turned down his left soo® and touched a rosary that wis wound around his ankle, and at the call of the time to start cach bout he dropped on* one knee and passed his right hand across his face. When the fight was over and he had conquered on points after twenty fierce rounds, Summers again dropped to his knees in his corner. Although in such a place and at such a time the actions of the "pug" seemes utterly incongru- ous, there was not even a titter from the assemblage of sports and fighting men. Indeed, not a few present werg was re-elected president of the com- pany, and-the other officials were re- tained; iy w A -- Financial Tips. 67,000 shares of Dominion Steel Tea and be an inspirasion for the salesmen starting Sip another big "year. But 'there was still another reason. BrandramgHenderson are ufacturers of varnish: splefidid obviously moved hp the simple faith he had no girl friends. . | and courage of the man. Vv, nw a ' ; The young woman was having some teeth extracted. * An anaesthetic was admifistered by a physivian snd the operation carried through, but Mrs. Seely failed to rally afterwards. Seely, of Markham near here, iid hed 51% Houtist's Friday Thd widower, being a man lagge man-| perience is they have a|ing house th reputation for the quality ---------------- Laurel' A. Bamford, a. mason, Ca- nanogue, and Mildred Miller, Water- town, N.Y., 320, Mechanic street, were married on Thursday. of ex- apt to dodge the board- at advertises all the com- forts of home. Perth, 'lost ome of its finest old citizens. by the death, on Monday, !of Mrs. William Hicks; who had reach- edd the octogenarian period. The. fa« mous Hicks House was gamed after her hushand, who died a decade 'or more ago, In November last, on his hirthday, Harold Vandervort, Belleville, aged three years, was presented with a little - wheelbarrow. Next day in crossing the road he fell over it in- juring his skull and died on Wed nesday evening last. The 'congregations of Calabogie and Horton Methodist churches united in giving their pastor," Revi Mr. lowering, a coon coat for @ Christmas gift. Reduced in Fiesh Sleepless Nights Kidney Disease and Crave! Caused Keenest Suffering --Cured by Dr, Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills. " FOXHALL KEENE, Only son. of he late financier .and premier Son gels all his wealth ames Keene turfman Lhe -------- : The Unity of Life, Protoplasm--the literal transla- tion of which means "the first man | made" --was the name given by a German scientist in 1846 to the shiny "granular, semi-fluid contents ot" vegetable cells. It looks like the white of an egg, and it can be an- alyzed into four chemical elements-- : carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydro- gen. It is now recognized as the 3 ' fundamental basis for all life; the : : fou i smallest particle of it go. throug "OVER - EXERCISE' HEART. what is hy as the eacle of fre free motion, feeling, feeding and re- production. When in some uncon- scious way it grows a membrane for a covering, or a little nucleus, a ker- "nel somewhere within it--science calls it a cell. "These cells are the same in plants, he explained, have no nervous systems, they have *'in- stinctive movements." In analysis of instincts, he bound together, in the cell common: to them, the plant and the worm at the root of the plant (as ;some day, perhaps, the tree of life and the serpent may be bound); and hé called their reflex » actions "tropisms."" Then he pointed out that tropisms-are mechanical acts-- the moth and fly and ivy leaf nove, in spite of themselves, in chemical subjection .to light, heat and odors (which the. scientist calls" emana- tions." )--Metropolitan, . OF Very Plain in Some People. aminers and Physi- Tea causes the same ) 'ause it contains caffeine the drug found in coffee. . If you have " Coffee Heart " you can't get life insurance and you can't: "go in for athletics " --not much, But--thousands of former "Coffee Hearts " now beat regularly, supplying the body organs with pure blood in normal amount, are insured and enjoy life. They have wisely quit tea and coffee ¢ drink the wholesome famous food-drink. POSTUM *\ Made of clean hard wheat, Postum contains no tea or coffee 'or any other harmful substance, It does not scourge,. it nourishes. It does not. cause over-exercise of the Heart; it supplies nutrition to that organ and to the blood-stream whet feeds and - preserves the whole body. hen? Ri " » "» ~~» "There's a Reason Postum now comes in New Form called INSTANT POSTUM It is regular Postum in a concentrated form, nothing added Place a level teaspoonful in a cup, pour on beiling water, stir, add sugar and cream to taste, and it is ready instantly. No bother--flavor always the same--delicious. Sold by Grocers everywhere. a 45 to 50-cup tin, 30c--90 to 100-cup tin. 50c. Fhis produces what Life Insurance Ex cal Trainers term "Coffee Heart." effect on the heart, be Normal exercise is healthful. Over-exercise is harmful. Exercise, 'up to a certain degree, increases the pulse rate, causing ample 'flow of nourishing jblood to all the body organs I That is normal exercise. Physicians ald Physical Trainers know this, A great many people go on suffer ing from annoying ailments for a long time before they can get their Own consent to gve up the indul- gence from which their trouble arises. An Eastern man describés his ex-- ' Derience as follows: "I became satisfied some months ago that I owed the palpitation of the heart, from which I surered al- most daily, to the use of coffee--I had been a coffee drinker for 30 years. (Tea, also is injurious be- cause it contains caffeine, the same drag" fotind ln coffee.) = "I realized" that I must give up the harmful indulgente .in coffee but I felt the necessity for a hot table' drink, and as tea is not to my likfing, 1 was at a loss for awhile what to do. Over-exercise urges 'the Heart to "excessive 'action-- * flooding the body organs with blood. The after-effect is Siagnation and decomposition in the tissues--as in the low- lands after a Spring freshet ; and toxins (poisons) abound. These toxins are reabsorbed into the blood stream: and, - passing through the Heart, poison that organ with the rest. Over-exercise also causes strain. » Architects know. what * strain " means in buildings and n Just as Doctors Sond Trainers know it in the Human Stracture. : : = When "strain" p to weaken--slowly dis-organize. - So with the Heart. : It can stand so much "Strain "--more or less, 'in different TSC Beyond the individual limit--look out ! : Witen the Heart is compelled to over-exercise and cop- vey a blo filled, with toxins--it is serious, in the bro he This SE increases the Heart's action--even while the at rest. The habitual use of tea or coffee, threu or more times dail ntirely and now War. "President Taft discussed gloomily the otljer day," said a Washingtonian, "the térrible Turkish war. He pointed out the 'awful horrors of the cholern. He said that war was an ugly, wile thing, and he would always regret the defeat of his arbitration plans; "He said that, when' he heard any talk about Beroism or self-sacrifice in war he always thought about old Col. Gore. 'a'Uh; Col, Gore," a young lady orice eried, 'they tell me that in one of your hatties an enemy died to save your life. Is that true" ** "Quite true, ma'am,' said the Col- onel, strokifigehis great military mus- tache. © * Oh, how beautiful! Tell me how it happened, said the young lady. " 'Well, ma'am,' 'it happened bhke this his gun pressed against my temple 1 ran my bayonet through his stomach." ""--Mmnespolis Journal. "One day I ran across'a Yéry sen- sible and straighpforward, presenta- tion of the clai®l8 of Postum, and was so impressed thereby that I con- cluded to give it a trial, and I have used it evér since. "The effect on my health has been most salutary, = The heart palpita- tion from which I used to suffer so much, particularly after breakfast, is gone, ani I never bave a return of it except when I dine or lunch away from home and drink, coffee bacause Postum is not served. I find that Postum cheers and invigor- atés while it produces no stimula« tion" ' Mr. W. Smith. That diseases of the kidneys cause the greatest suffering is well known, and when stone or gravel is formed in the bladder the torture is almost beyond human endurance. he disease should never be al- lowed to reach this dangerous stage. Pains in the small of the back, pain or smarting when passing water, fre- quent urination. loss of flesh and weight tell of the need of Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills to regulate and in- vigorate the kidneys and restore these organs to health. Mr, W. Smith, Part Daihousie, Ont, writes :--"For some years 1 was af- flicted with kidney digccase and sravel in its most severe form, having ofted a stoppage of water accompanied by the most dreadful agony the dis- a certain limit, the structure begins » How noble! won't you? ; : said the Colonel, - .. The enemy had OVER-exercise of thé Heart "whip " they contain in the form of the drug, "There's a reason," and it is exe rlained in the little 'book, "The, Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A AeW one appears from time to time. They are genuine, tune and full of human interest. A ease wore on me I became redieed in flesh and passed sleepless nights doctor was able $0 do mur and 1 used many medic obtaining more than tem My attention was directed to Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills. and by using this treatment the digease was eradicated from my system in less than six months. 1 have gained In weight, sleep well, and feel better than I have for twenty years. Or. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills, one pill a dose, 25¢ a hox, all dealers; or Edmanson. Bates & Co., Limited, To ronto, With the beginning of this S. McCammon commenced his fifty- first year as municipal clerk of Gananoque, having served in , that capacity through village and town - continuously since 1862, The Mexico railway machinists strike, which begn Dec. 26th, has been settled. The men are granted a ten per cent, increase in wages, but no reduction in the ten hour day. year sry relief. ly, forces the Heart to over-exercise. Canadian Postum Cereal Co, Ltd, Windsor, Ont. @