"ted more to the sobriety of the Chinese | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1013. AND AN AID TO ONE'S MORALS, SAYS SCIENTIST. Has Contributed More to the So. briety of the Chinese Than the i Severest Laws--Makes the Body Very Active. : Did you know that tea drinking Is a splendid aid to one's morals? At least that is the opinion of an English scien- tist who not long ago compiled a learn: of treatise to show the beneficial ef- fects of tea drinking from a spiritual, and moral standpoint. A meal in the morning, he says, with tea as the beverage will enable a man to pursue his day's work with facul- ties unclouded, temper unruffled and a saally amiable state of nerves. Be that, it makes the body active, it clears the sight, it strengthens the ap- petite and the digestion and is partic ularly wholesome for men of corpulent bodies and great meat eaters. It vanishes dreams, increases the memory and prevents sleeplessness, It bas been observed that it has contribu- than the severest laws, the most elo quent harangues and the best treatise on morality. But, in addition to all this, he claims for tea a strengthening effect on moral- ity. A man who is stimulated by a generous cupful of tea, moderately strong, will be able to withstand more successfully the manifold temptations that absail him in the business and so- cial world into which he is plunged than the a5: who is not sustained by the same beverage--Chicago Tribune He Served Them. © It is related that one night after an opera ball a gay party trooped into the cafe of Bignon, the famous Paris restaurateur, and persisted in being served by the proprietor himself. The old gentleman was in bed, but he got up and threw the traditional ser- viette of the waiter across his arm. When the bill was sent up the diners were indignant. At the end of a financially much spiced note appear- : "For being served by Bignon, 2.000 trance." He got the money alter many protests and handed it over Ww a charity. The "Dandy Horse." The father of the bicycle tribe, the "dandy horse," was invented in 18I¥ Ly Baron von Draise of Paris. It consisted of two wheels about thirty inches in diameter running one in the wake of the other and connected by a beam of wood, upon which, hali- way fromweach end, was a saddle or , an arm rest in front complet the machine. It was' propelled by kicking the ground with the right and left foot alternately. It was from such a crude affair that the modern bicycle was slowly evolved. : Absentminded. La Fontaine, the famous fable t, was a most absentminded man Le ing one day in a saloon a youn man, he was so favorably Dey his conversation that he expressed admiration for Bim i the most flatteri terms. "But he is, your own son exclaimed a guest in as. tonishment. "Is it so?" replied the poet. "Then I am the more delight ed to make his acquaintance." Corsican Widows. A Corsican widow wears a strip of black material tied on er eyes for a week, and during that yperiod she is fed and led about by her friends. No room in her house is clegned and no! fire lighted for the same? period. 3 BOLS--.PIMPLES--ABCESSES, All Evidence of Impure Bisad and a Run-Down Condition. When the blood becomes thin, poor, devitalized nature cries out through such external and often painful evi dence for help, and the safest, surest and most helpful remedy we know is Viunol. This is becanse it is a combina tion of the two most world-famed tonics--the medicinal curative ele ments of cod liver oil (without the oil) and tonic iron for the blood. \i nol strengthens the digestive organs, creates a hearty appetite, purifies and enriches the blood, creates strength. Mary Lang, of Altoona, Pa., says: "Ever since childhood 1 have delicate, and my blood poor, and devitalized. Nothing seemed help me until 1 took Vinol and it has nll me up and made me strong.' e say positively there is nothing like Vinol to purify and emrich the blood and mild up weak, run-down people. 17 it should fail in your case we will return your money. Malood's Drug Store, Kingston, GATHERING SPONGES. Methods Commonly Employed by the Caicos Island Fishermen. Geographically tue Turks and Caicos islands. a dependency of tae Jamaica Government, form the southeastern most portion of the Bahamas, the Cai. cos group being separated from Turks islands by the Turks Islands passage of about twenty miles extent. Ship- ments of sponges were made occasion: ally from the dependenc; in small quantities, but it was nc. until 1880 that the industry was placed on a commercial basis at what is now known as Dellis Cay, The industry is confined to the waters of the Caicos islands, the bank in which the group is situated being about fifty miles in length and ten miles in breadth. There are several different methods of sponging -- nude diving, hooking. the scaphander or diving dress and the gangava or dredging. In the Cai- cos islands the first two methods are alone employed, nude diving being re- sorted to when the bottom is irregular or sponges are seen in hollows. The sponge hooks are three-pronged and bent out like talons and are attached to poles twelve to thirty feet long while in nude diving wooden spoons are employed to detach the sponges. In every boat is a water glass, or pane of glass inserted in the bottom of a hox or bucket, through 'which sponges are readily detected. Every evening the sponges hooked daring the day are placed root down- ward on the deck of the sloop to drain, exposure to the sun hastening the death of the sponge and the removal of the outer skin and what was the living animal tissue. If after first be- ing taken from the water the sponges are packed together too closely the inner substance does not drain pro- perly, especially in mud sponges, and this causes what is known as dead heat. a disease which renders prolong- ed treatment necessary to prepare them for market. When upon success- ful cruises the sloops have too many sponges to be cused on deck they are taken to convenient spots on land and collected at the end of the week, to be sold at the purchasing stations. Kew's Famous Gardens. Kew Gardens, which has recently suffered a heavy loss by the destrue- tion of its tea pavilion by suffragettes, originally belonged to the royal fam- ily. Jt was given to the nation by Queen Victoria in 1840. The Gardens are a huge kind of botanical clearing-house. There you can get information about any plant that has been discovered, be told how to grow it, how to care for it, what it is worth, ud anything else you may want to know abput it. Letters come from all parts ofl the world to Kew wanting information about this or that plant. Though the very centre of the plant world, Sizange and rare plants that arrive there do not always take kind- ly to the great conservatories. They sicken and pine away and would die were it not for a small, cosy strue- ture known as "the hospital." There they rapidly recover their health and retufyy' to public life once more. 'The great Palm House, one of the principal sights of the Gardens, was built in 1845 at a cost of $165,000. It iz 362 feet long, 100 feet broad. and 60 feet high, and contains nearly an acre of glass. Six hu ovens heat this enormous glass-house. Three are kept going night and day, sum- mer and winter, and the other three in winter only. Over 17,000 feet of hot water piping is used in the palm house. Kew Gardens possesses one of the biggest collections of dried plants in the world, a collection which is con- stantly "being added to by travelers and scientific institutions in all parts of the world. To show how huge this collection really is, one bequest, that of Sir W. G. Hooker, contained no fewer than two million specimens of dried plants. Make Bare Australia Bloom. The new Burrinjuck dam at New Bouth Wales is the second largest dam in the world--second only to the Assouan dam--and although it is not yet completed, it has already come into use. : This great dam is set between two granite mountains that rise from op- posite sides of the Murrumbidgee river, writes a correspondent of Cham. bers' Journal. Forty-five miles of the river are held back by this great wall in the neck of a gorge, and when the dam has risen to its full height of 240 feet, the enclosed lake will be half as large again as Sydney harbor. Two hundred miles farther down the river, at Berembed, another great work is contemplated. When the com- bined system is complete between five and six million acres will be served. Vast tracts of the so-called barren land of Australia could be made to blossom if irrigation were as scientific as in some other countries. The director of the Australian im- migration announces that irrigated farms are now available for farmers in the Murrumbidgee Valley, irrigated by the Burrinjuck dam. £ No Nepalese Old Maids. One must go to Nepal to break the record for early marriages, for there every girl is married in infancy. But, then, the bridegroom is not very terri- ble. She is married with elaborate ceremony to a bel fruit, which is then thrown into some sacred stream. The fate of the fruit being always un- known, every girl is thus spared the disgrace of becoming a widow, while at the same time a second husband is beneficently allowed to her later on. London Standard. The balance of the best Building Lots in Kingstof i Kingston is growing fast and naturally therefore all firét-class well located property is being picked up by keen investors. | © 1 Algo some good valyes in Houses in Kingston. Also one of the best farms i of a well equipped $5 acres, at Township of Kingston, consisting | ount Chesaey. J. O. Hutton and H. S. Crumley 18 Market 8t., TN ARNOLD AT QUEBEC. Reminiscence of I1l.Starred American Y Expedition. An unique literary manuseript book has just recently come into the pos- session of ihe curatur and authorities of the Chateau de Ramezay Museum. Mr. Thomas O'Leary, sist h- brarian, acquired this most interest. ing historical item, und later on all Canadians will have an opportunity of perusing the expense book of the commissary under Benedict Arnold when he was in command in Quebee, after the death of Montgomery. The book is a pocket memorandum, meas- aring three and one-half, by four and one-half inches The entries commence pn the 8th of February, 1773, and end May 17th, 1776. They go to show that large sums of money were disbursed for the purchase' of beef and other supplies, and that, to give the invader his due, he paid his way, to "this extent wt least, and Cid not live at the expense of the inhabitants, as it may possibly bave been assumed. This little book is in excellen§ con- dition, when it is rememberad that it was with difficulty that the American soldiers at Quebec brought even their bodies back. The wonder is that this book should have survived the perils and dangers of that unfortunate ex- pedition. But more wonderful is the fact, that the book should have found its way back to the very locality at Quebec where it had been in 1775 and then to the Chateau de Ramezay, the headquarters of the Continental Army in 1775-76. The following are some of the items in the '"'Expense Book of John Halsted, commissary under Bepedict Arnold, before Quebeu, 1776": Micartie's Acct--Jan. 7-16.--4 loads from Mr. Bondfields; 1 do. to (?); 1 do. from Boudfields; 16, 3 do. from do.; washing woman--Widow Giroud at Renauds. St. Foix, 8th Feb., 1776, received from General Arnold, Three Hundred and Sixty pounds Lawful money or £300 Hx. cur.y The above are a few extracts from the memoranum book which will give the readers an idea of the value ¢ view. This John Halsted must have been very punctilious in his accounts, and to antiqurians and others thia authentic relic of the past will doubt less be of much interest, There is a note written at the end of the entries by a W. Paterson, into subsequently came. It reads: who was connected with the military operations in Canada 1775-76, perhaps in the Commissary department, pos- sibly a John Halsted. There is no mem. to indicate the name." Whistling For a Living. A novel industry has been brought to light by the news that a man who is taking 450 British song birds to British Columbia is an expert bird whistler. It appears that it is no un- common thing for a man who-keeps a bird fancier"s shop to be able to whistle a distinet series of bird notes. At the beginning of each series, says The Daily Citizen, describing the work of the professional bird-whistler, the different feathered tribes whose cages completely covered the walls took up the lay. piping as if their little hearts would break for joy. When the lin- nets ceased the canaries, hearing the notes of the man-whistler, broke into full-throated song. Then when the ex- pert started to whistle skylark notes the imprisoned songsters of the heav- ens forgot their captivity and gave the sun, peeping shyly in between the closed blinds, a melodious wel come. ; It appears that when a bird is caught and put into a age it is very apt to sulk and become miserable. This is where the bird-whistler comes in useful. He imitates the tones of pens to be, and the little prisoner, thinking it has company, forgets all his troubles and breaks into a song of joy. Sometimes the bird-whistler can teach one bird another bird's song. One man taught a goldfinch to sing like a linnet and a linet to sing like a goldfinch. Drifted 18,000 Miles. A gas buoy placed to mark the wreck of the traverse pier at Levis, ice and thought to have been sunk, has been picked up in New Bouth Wales, a distance of 18,00 miles. The most amazing part of it, is that it was never reported as being seen. Tha drifting buoy, could' it be recorded, would break all records for derelicts, caught by the currents of the North Atlantic. Apparently it traveled south until picked up by the equatorial currents and was borne to the south- ernmost end of the continent, thence around Cape Horn to the poin¥"where it was finally picked up. Buys Scottish Estate. The Sutherlandshire estate of 50,000 acres which the Duke of Sutherland has sold to J. W. Stewart, of Vaucou- ver, embraces some of the finest scen- the River Inver, it includes the vil- lages of Stoer, Achmedvich, Inver, and Kylesku. It igclides more than one deer forest, and is a portion of the immense estate of the Lords Reay, which was scold to the first Duke of Sutherland for a million and a half dollars. Mr. Stewart is a native of | Drumbeg, Sutherlandshire, and it was a cherished desire of his to possess a portion of his native land, including the district in which he was born. Home Economics Popular. The number of students enrolled this year in the Home Economics Course of the Manitoba Agricultural College was the Largest in the history (brief yel) of the institution. The second year class has a list of seventeen members. St. Vital's new college has a splendid provision for girls. The residence meant an expenditure of $200,000 and the details of equipment correspond. " One of the fundamental principles of reform is to thoroughly mind your own husiness. : What sou and 1 rightfully may consider a debt' of honor*is often found in the outlawed class. the items from a historical point of | whose possession the book, no doubt, "The foregoing entries would seem | to have been made by some person | whatever kind of bird this one hap- Que., in 1911, was carried away by ery in the Scottish Highlands. Bound. | ed on the south by Loch Assynt and | FINANCIAL NEWS COCHRANE COBALT STOCK TO BE ISSUED SHORTLY. The Company Has Been Incorporated " With $10,000 Capital Meeting of Directors of Toronto Paner Co. Toronto, April 29.- Ope day last week, without any preliminary fussing {the directors of the Toranto Paper (they were in session ot © came the news that the stock had ben plaged 'on an 8 per ceut. basis. The stock had been selling around 8%0 a share, {but mn avout five minutes after the an | 'nouncement was made climbed to | Xi0," which was very gratifying to! those who held the stock, and very 'aggravating to those who didn't. Pay Big Dividends. New York, April 20 companies which make good return large profits to their sharcholders is shown by the compilation of dividends for the Girst quarter of the vear of 114 WINING CONCOTNS. They dishurses in January the amount of 23304520. 1 This compares with the disbursement | of $21,700,390 by 83 companies during (the same period in 1912 aad with $2 SH 19H Niner imeorporas tion the uwbove meationsd companies | have to their eredit po less than ST12,107,042, This is a return ol FIOR,629,680 in excisg of the combined issued capital of the 1H companies, | aud is a record of achievement. &ual | led by bat few industries, That mining Lots of Work To Do. Toronto, April 29. Though Cana dian Locomotive company broke five points last week, We company con tinues to do ap exedlent business. Oh ders for as far ahead as December de livery are, in fact, heing refu od, aw! ing to the volume of th present orders. From thu the first threo uarters vear it is said that at beast 7 perv eat, will! be @rned on the common stock. Tha company's tear ends with June company's | husiness ol ol the A New Cobalp Issue, April 29, Cochran stock will be listed an th shortly Fhe weorporated with Toronto, Cobalt | mining ey changes company has SK tk) cap ital, and a block of this is now being underwritten at £1 10 Phe property 18 a neighbor of the Temiskaming, heen Profits. New . Glasgow, N.S. Apigh 20 marked increase in the earnin pacity of the Nova Steel an Coal company, is assured for the pres ent year, and the net profits will, from the present outlook, amount tol at least $1 300,000, or a quarter of a million dollars in excess of the aver age for the past thie vears. Increase in Scotia Financial Notes, Dominion Sted and Canada Bread | common shares are two indust which have declined pecently. The bumps the Toronto Railway proposition has received have bien re fleciad by the stock, which has fallen | back several dollars a share ; An advance in Si. Law Ca naviga- tion sharis continued until the stock | sold up to 129 its highest point since 1906, { t louis E. Whicker, of the firm of Ball & Whicher, has i seat on the XN York Stock FE change tol C. S. Newman for $15.000. \. D. McDonald has been elected controller of the Southern Pacilie 1 road of Mexico and of the Louisiana | Western Railroad company, hoth sub- | sidiaries of the Southern | pany, | Grant Morden has been olected a di rector of the Collingwood Shipbuild- | ing company, The Mexican government a loan of $7,500,000 for S51, bearing 5 per cent. interest Pacilic com has floated oun Car at | Toronto Street Market! Toronto, April 28... Wheat, bush 95¢ to 87¢; wheat, goose, bust f to 90Ge; oats, bush., 3% to 40¢; bar- 'ley, 58¢ to GO; rye, bush L60¢: | ron, $16 to $18; hay, mixed, $14; straw, per ton, $14 to dressed hogs, light, $12 butter, dairy, 30¢ to 25¢; Ze to 24e; chickens, 1h. 24c to 3 fowl, 1b., 20¢ to 22¢: ducks, 1h. 2he; turkeys, Ibh., 25¢ to 28¢; apples, bbl, $2.25 to $3.50: potatoes. bag, Soc to 20e; cabbage, doz., 40¢ heef, | ferequarters, ewt., . beef, : hindquarters, cwt., | beef, choice sides, cwi $11; beef, medium, Bwt., { $10; beef. common, cwt., $7 to $9; | mutton, light, cwt., $10 to $13; veal f common cwt., $9 to $11; veal, prime lewt. $11 10 $14; lamb, $14 to $15.50; lamh, spring, $8 to $10 New Prison Warden. Capt. Ponsford, the new warden of Stoney Mountain Penitentiary, Mani- toba, who succeeds Col. Irwin, recent ly transferred to the wardenship of Kingston prison, was born in St. { Thomas in 1863 and has always taken an active part in the military life of the city, being an officer in the 25th Regiment for ma®y years, and has n recognized as one of the best drill 'instructors_in Western Ontario. He was tax collector in St. Thowas from 1804 to 1906, resigning to go Ww | El Paso, Texas, to engage in byfsiness { with his brother, where he resided for a few Wears. 4 Capt. Ponsford has also taken a freal interest in all sports, cspecially aseball, being president and owner of the St. Thomas team ®hen it won the championship ang Jie Baileyicup | of the Western Untatio baseball league in 1904. Waited Nine Years For Sweetheart. H E. Martin and Emily Gardner, both of Gloucestershire. England, were married in Fort «William, Ont., , recently. Tl.y were betrothed nine Judes ago in the old country, and artin immediately left for Canada to make his fortune. He settled on a farm near Fort William, and his sweetheart remained true to him un- til he had a home ready for her. ff) -------- A "Horrible Thought! > Mrs. Johnson--If you must send a trained nurse for my bachelor uncle, send a homely one. Doctor -- Impossible, madam? I would do it-if I could, but all the homely ones have starved to death. We own and offer $1,500,000 6 p.c. Perpetual Debenture Stock (Being the unsold portion of an issue of £2.000,000.) of the Nova Scotia Steel and - Coal Company, Limited (Incorporated under Special Acts of the Proviace of Nova Scotia, Canada) This Debenture Stock is secured by Mortgage and is issued in de- nominations of $100 or multiples thereof. Redeemable at 105 and accrued interest at any time after 1st July, 1919; upon six manths' notice (trans- ferable at The Eastern Trust Company, Montreal and Halifax, or at Tor- onio General Trusts Corporation, Toronto). Interest pavable by cheque half yearly, January 1st and July lst, at par ar any Branch ofithe Bank of Nova Scotia or Royal Bank of Caannda. Applications will be received by E. B. McCurdy $ Co., Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Sherbrooke, -- Kingston, - St. John, Charlottetown, Sydney and St. John, Nfld, The Bankers Bond Company, Limitod, Toronto, and also by any of the Branches or Ag- cucies of The Eastern Trust Company, Bank of Nova Scotian and the foyal Bank of Canada. At the Price of 98 and Accrued Interest Applicants are given the opiion of payment by either of the mentioned below, or the whole amount may be paid in full at any time at the issueprice and' accrued interest, when permanent engraved certifi- cates will be issued. Plan A Plan B 5 . on application 23 nc. on application mt 25 p. co. on June 1st, 1913 on allotment 5p. ¢. on Jaly Ist, 19138 con Jug. ist, 1913 Pn Laas 73 nc Th rag p U8 wo. c. 08 p. co. interim Receipts' for payments on account of Debenture Stock will be sued, bearing interest at 6 p. ¢. per annum from dates of payment, In- terest an Debenture Stock will be payable from January 1st, 1813, and in- terest thereon and on instalments will be adjusted when all payments have been completed Legal opinion of Mr. Hector McInnes, K. ., of Halifax, will be furn- shed upan request IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE ISSUE (As (urnighéd hy the President and the General Manager of the Company) modern manufacturing industry, including Mast Turnaces, open hearth steel plant, steel rolling mills coke ovens. etc, ete., the Company owns 831% square miles of iron ore areas at Con- ception lay, Newfoundland, (containing according to the re- port of eminent mining engi- neers 200.000.0040 tons of prov- en ore and over 200,000 000 tons of gre reasonably supposed to exist,) and areas at Cape Breton to con- tain over 2,500.000,000 tons of coal (6) The average earnings of the Company for the last three years (after providing interest and sinking fond on the Bonds) amounted to $723,500 per an- num. equal to over four times the interest on Debenture Stock including this issue 1) A coazervative valuation of the Company's mortgaged as- 8 is $20,000,000, (2) This issue {f Debenture Stock ranks equally wirh $1.- 000,000 now outstanding, and is secured by a mortgage to The Eastern Trust Company, on the Company's assets subject only to an issue of 5 pe. Bonds limit- ed to £6.000,600, (3) After making provision for the Bonds issued, there re- main assets to the value of $14 - 000,000, equal 5 nearly five times the Debenture Stock is- sued. (4) The Debenture Stock is a senior security to $1,080.8600 Preferred & ok (which receives "Rap.c. dividends) and $6.000.- 069 common stock (which re- ceives 6 p.c. dividends). (5) Inddition to a large and rT --ee----=LETTER OF THE PRESIDENT --m-- tegarding this issue. I'resident. of the Company, has written McCurdy & Co, and the Bankers Mr. Robert E. Harris. K. C, the following letter to Messrs. F. B Bond Company, Limited, Toronto. NOVA SCOTIA STEXL AND COAL CO, LTD Halifax, N. S.. March 6th, 1913 Messrs- F. B. McCurdy & Co. Halifax, N. 8, and Jankers Bond Co. Toronte, Ont Lid. Dear Sirs: With reference to the $2.000.000 of six per cent Debenture Stock recently issued by the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, Limited. | beg to point out .that the same is secured by a mortgage upon all of the lands, iron ore and coml deposits, collieries buildings, smelting furnaces mills, and all other fixtures. plant, machinery. rolling stock, ete., of the Company, and ranks pari passu with the $1,000 000 of Debenture Stock previously issued and immediately after the first mortgage bonds of the Company which are limited to $6,000.000 The assets and property of the Company covered by this mortgage stand on our books at $15,670,613.58%, but the conservative estimate of the value of these assets and property exceeds $20.000.000 The avérage annual earnings of the Nova Scotia Company. Limited, for the three years cnded December been $1,003,500 The amount and Coal 1912, have Steel 31st and sinking fund charges on the year, leaving $150,000 on required for interest First Mortgage Bonds of this Company is $330 000 per the sum of $723.500, with which ro meet the interest of $3,000,000, of Debenture Stock, or four times the amount required ln this connection, 1 wish to point out that during the year 1911 alld 1912 the Company expended sims aggregating upwards of $2,300. 0M). on buildings, plant, equipment, ete. and thar much of this expen- diture is ony becoming producive, TRADE ( ONDITIONS, For the year 1913 we have sald a considerably tity of ore at better prices than prevailed last year, the American Iron and Steel products which existed in 1912, has {owing to improved conditions in the United States) practically or entirely ceased, and the prices of our iron aud steel products have therefore ma- terially increased We have orders for the whole of our out-put of iron and steel for the first half of the year 1913 at improved prices. We also estimate that the out-put of an collieries for the vear 1912 will be somewhat larger than 1912 Under these circumstances, | have no doubt whatever that our earnings for the present year will show a considerable increase over any previous year in the history of the Company. PURPOSE OF ISSUE. The proceeds of the $2,000,000 Debenture Stock now being issued. will be used to repay a part of the expenditure on capital account for the past year. and the balance will be applied in equipping a new co: liery. a new open hearth plant, and other improvements and additions ta plant and equipment te provide for still larger outputs, thereby add- ing to we earning power of the (Company (Sgd.) now ---- increased quan- dumping of ROBT. E, HARRIS, President Complete prospectns containing etiracis from a letter written by My. Thomas Cantley, Vice-President and General Manager of the Come pany. and other information, together with application forms will be supplied? by -- F. B. McCURDY & CO. Members Montreal Stock Exchange, INVESTMENTBANKERS, Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal, St. John, Sherbrooke, Kingston, Charlottetown, Sydney, St. John's Nid. Kingston Office, 86 & 88 Brock St. -- At Belleville cheesa hoard the fexings sold at 10 11-16c, Fires destroy hall the business see | tion of -Gretng, Manitobn, -- Tha condition of the Duchess of ons naught is more favorable.