©. a condition prevailed in Yarker, under [Fhow a deficit Tw | i . n Bellrock, Jan. 31.--(To the Editor): got I when he 'was compelled to turn back, a few words concerning and nature. ; e company claims this area was drowned and always will be. this we can conclude there is al- of water at all times . y is there any need of at Petworth ? To keep back in their reservoir to make it will always be drowned ? cannot be responsible in this liament had known what dams had done it would gonsideration for the farmer. I t seem possible that in this day and age that a govern- ment woul allow a company to drown land to that extent if it really knew hat the farmers have to con- with. y. farm lies at least u mile from the river. 1 have seen thirty acres of my best land under water till the lst of June, when the water would drain off and leave the ground covered with dead fish. The stench of them would constitute a menace to the health of the neighborhood. I have seen this with my own eyes. How, we are npr beings as well those livi slong the Napanee river south of the drowned lands. Ii such the nose, of the water company their Board of Health would talk difierent- ly. -Laws of Jat an not glow the to spear in t sprin; ich would help many a poor ay get his living, but allow the conserva- tion company to kill them by driving them out on thy flats to die. Fish, of course, are a good fertilizer, but this land does not need them. If this land was under cultivation it would produce feed enough to winter #8 much stock again as the farmer can winter at the present time. Again, the conservation eomipany claims it was always flooded, but the oldest residents 'that the first yoads built across. this district were and passable any time of the year. The first Petworth dam was built below the rapids. That didn't make ARS. nenvalr large enough, so they it at the head of the rapids, making this section its reservoir which they say is the fault of nature a con' nm from their own : the Old residents' dre '1 am » the temperature {alls be- 4 Lowy 'when a snow blizzard drive to to their destination. for use. Hartington Hinchinbrooke road, a journey of about thirteen miles 5 instead * five 'of those poor dum wd to Kat journey after ©0 from Kingston and a Journey aliead before they reached I consider Petworth dam a public nuisance 10 the land, and heglth of the community as it even renders the water in our wells unfit 1 hope those who bave the power in their hands will. mete out justice to the farmer as well as to the com- pany. --~Welllugton Vannest. DEFIOUIT OF $6,000,000 Banker Who Placed Canadian Stocks Taken nto Custod Paris. Feb, 2--M. Leconte, a banker and a member of the firm of Leconte and Klotz, which placed a lot of Canadian stocks, including that of Maganese Minés, on the markets, | was arrested on Saturday. An in- $400,000 deposits with the firm have] been mi niated The $6.000,000. Among' the complainants against Leconte are the Archbishops of Bruges and Alen- com, oid. "Fatigue Bag." is Latest Boston, Feb: 2.--Beware of the "ja- tigue bug," which is! according to physicians and scientists, about the most insidious and pernicious little de- stroyer 'of the human system yet dis- covered. : . Dr. William H. Waters, professor of pathology at the Boston University Sehoot ub | he, 08 u result ol vestigation deolates that not only is fatigue the begimning of a toxic com- |" ditton of ' the system, but that - the! longer the fatigue continues the more blocked: becomes 'the system with - the poison thus. suerated, until eventu- 3 King down of the ensues; - } says: 'Fatigue is the result of |¢ excessive amounts of poison turved in- to the system--the p. is suddenly on ig gradua we continue ny keep our bodies in this hall state, in. time the whole Mlf-polasned gg Horn United States § ? , son ownership % telephone and -tele- as B. Roy, Toronto, who has [rictining osteopathy, is charged with having, stolen money from an aged man whom he was treating. A political: ion has been caus- i in by the revelations of a patlismentary correspondent. That Thex Are Liable to Be Arrest Tascherau, chairman mittee investigating the charges bribery of members of the Quebec y legislature by the Burns detectives who put up a "plant" said to-day that the immunity granted by the legis- lature to the Burns detectives, ag wit- nesses would be of no value in case of criminal proceedings under {federal act .the = 'vides fourteen years vestigatiom of his books shows have OF Dribets and proceedings wa be {taken against DOOkS | oon de of the accused legislators, late Richard Taylor Belleville, died on Saturday , aged eighty-six vears. She was of United Empire Loyalist stock and born in Belleville. was an Anglican, and is survived by two daughters. and respected resident of Elizabeth- town, died on Friday night at the residence of his son-in-law, Perrin, second concession of Eliza- bethtown, after a long illness, aged seventy-seven years. isoned, If we rest the surplus pois-1 I carried away, but "if |: HM ){In an Aeroplane -- First Entrant . in 'Contest, ! New. York, Feb. 2--Captain Thom- | . as Baldwin to.day 'was the first en- trant in $he proposed round the world The race will start from the exposi- | tion grounds in May 1915 as now planned,and must be completed-with- ing ninety days. The announcement of the~--Aero-| club of America offer, tremendously ! interested Claude Grahame-White to- day, but the English aviator was skeptical of any one winning the prize. "Certainly the flight around" the world, as prescribed in the Aero clubs offer is impossible with the pre- sent construction of aeroplanes," said ne. Sr -------- dR WARNING TO DETECTIVES ed. Quebec City, Feb, 2.--Hon. L. A. of the com- of the dominion code pro- imprisonment the detectives by A ---------------- Mrs. Caroline Taylor, widow of the She Benjamin Alkerton, a well known David TLL-FATED STEAM Of the old Dominion line, which collision with the Merchants' liner Nantucket, off the coast of The Nantucket rammed the Munroo amidships. just quarters, and killed many of the victims in their births. aeroplane flight of the Panama-Paci- | fic exposition for which prizes aggreg- | 1 ating $300,000 are expected to be of- fered. Washington, Feb. 2.--Bv the terms of the recent interstate commerce or: der, the new express rates, ' which went into effect to-day, will 'be ap- proximately seventeen per cent. low- er than heretofore.' The express com- papies report a reduction of over twenty-five per cent. in their volume of business since the introduction of the parcel post. The new express rates are, -in many instances, lower than those of the parcel post, and mean direct competition. The express companies have in the last few nionths been very solicitous for new business, as contrasted With their if- dependent "'come-to-us' policy here- tofore observed. Big Car Ordgr. New York, Feb. 2.--The Union: Ia- cific railway has placed an order for 5,000 freight cars which will in- volve an outlay of approximately $5,500,000. Delivery will start" Na April and all will be turned over to the company before the erop moving season. begins. Tne American Car and Foundry Co. is to build 2,000 and the Pressed Steg] Car Co. the balance, Invested Over Four Millions Montreal, Feb, 2.--During the past year $4,600,000 was invested in the Dominion of Canadg by the Metropo- litan' Life Insurance company, said A. G. B. Claxton, K.C., the counsel of the company, who has just re- turned to Montreal after attending the annual meeting in New York. Standard Oil Bows to Law San Francisco, Feb, 2.~The Stan. dard Oil Company. of California to: day offered to stockholders of record 45,181 shares of treasury stock. Tach SHIP MUNROE. was sunk, with forty lives lost, after Virginia about the sleeping ws to merge half 'a dozen properties . on "T'ehe-borde Ni stockholders is permitted to" Subscribe in proportion to bis holdings. The plan was first submitted to' the state authorities to get their approval. In bowing to the will of the people and submitting its new financing plan to the State Railway Commission for its approval, the Standard Oil Company of California sprung a big sensation in the local financial world. In fact, California street has not yet recovered from its surprite. Hygeia Ice Issue ' Montreal, Feb. 2.--It is expected that a public offering of preferred stock of the Hygeia Ice company will be made shortly, 'The company is capitalized at $1,500,000, evenly di vided between common and preferred stock, and %400,000 bonds. There will be issued £200,000 bonds and £500,000 of both common and preferred stocks. Financial Notes. Earnings of the Hamburg-Améiican line for 1913 were $15,000,000, an in- crease of $2,000,000 over 1912. The quarterly report of the United States Steel company showed net earnings of $23,036,349, or about what had been expected. Directors of the National City bank, New York, the largest financial insti- tutiob in the Unites States, voted to join the federal reserve system. Sherbrooke, Que., has sold $300,000 CONDEMNED TO DEATH ---- Leader of Albanian Revolt to Pay Greatest Penalty Aylona, Albania, Feb. '3. --Bekan Aga, the | of a revolutionary movement, which began here early in January, with the object of placing Izzet Pasha, former Turkish minister of war, on the Albanian throne, was con to death after a trial. Nine Turkish officers implicated in the movement were sentenced to ime prisonment of from three to fifteen years. TWENTY GYPSIES POISONED pite Meat Iutended so Catch Wolves In Northern Spain Madrid, Feb. 2.--A despatch ceived 'from Becerrea, in Lugo pro- vince,' says that twenty' gypsies have died in horrible agony as the result of eating, poisoned meat which was intended for wolves that infest re- the district. a . The death is reportéd after a very brief illness of Mrs. Grace E. Deni- son, "Lady Gay," for many years one of the staff writers of Toronto Sat- urday Night and one of the best- known women journalists of Canada. Bridge Street Methodist Church, Belleville, was rededicated. on Sunday, after alterations and: improvements to the extent of $26.000, : The war office wil not give way and allow the aperture sight to be used 'by the Canadian team at Bisley. > A Guarantead 8 Per Cent Investment WRITE FOR LIST AM FLOUR Our Robin Hood brand of Rour bas a guaran in every bag for good quality, ; ANDREW MAULEAN ~% rm-- worth of bonds at 983. The deal has | just been put through and . the. pur- ! chasers are the Dominion Securities | Corporation, Limited, od Montreal. | The sale of "a seat on the New | York Stock Fxchange for $35,000, 'an increase of $5,000 over the preceding transaction, is an additional indica: tion of the trend of events in stock market conditions. The Childs company, which operates a chain of restauravts through - the United States and Canada, reports that earnings last year were smaller than in 1912, : A. J. Ferguson, of Hanson & Fer. guson, purchased a seat' on the Montreal Stock Exchange at $26,250. The purchase, it is believed, was of the seat held by Richardson & Co. Assiduoys attempts are being made re 'of or withing short dis: tance oi Pearl" Lake, Porcupive. To date 'these "efiorts have not been ef- fectual. 'The properties to be included in' the proposed 'merger are the Ple- Lhauram, thes '| cork . the Mclutyre, the Schumacher and the' Vipond. ' A pretty wedding was solemnized in St. 'Edward's chureb,' Westport, | last Monday, when Miss ' Margaret | Anna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Scanlan, was united in marriage to John Dunn Hamilton, Bigin. The clock in the tower of the new post office at Athens was started Thursday night, We own a portion of an issue of First Mor age Bonds of Okanagan Falls nd Company, Limited. hey are issued ip small denominations, for a term of seven years, vielding per cent, payable half-yearly. The property of the an: Falls, Land Company is in the best fruit: .gfowing otion of British Columbia, and we have had its value inve t| by experts. We are offering the Bonds to the Pubic DARK our own guarantee of payment of both principal and interest." Cor- respondence solicited, 3 National Finance Company, Limited (Capital and Reserve, $2,000,000.00. Assets, ye 16. ADBL ALDI ST EAST, TORONTO, WING to the unprecedented demand 0 which has arisen. during the last few days for. municipal debentures; we are co tc withdraw our list of « Offerings of municipal debentures for revis- SITE |) : sa mde RRA SR a be & CO. Stock Bahl THONE 1588 rig Manager. : F. B. McCURDY Members. H.W, 'Wonder Is They Let Jeff Get Away With It By "Bud" Fisher TM Ten, SOFT HEARTED FoR ™IS KIND OF A Joh REPLACE THE "R SIR, YoU CANT (MAGINE HOW SORRY TAM | fT WAS PURELY AN ACC (DENT BUT THIS WARTS ME GREATLY. T)kNOw THAT I (ANT ABRECTION You HAN For a wd x g :! | Bl LY Cz adr ONL To COURT. THE. DOG! SIR, Tm DEEPLY PAINED ABOUT TH THING AND WILL. DO THE BEST T CAN To REPLALE THE Dok, THERE'S. NO NEE HERre's#50 For OH, THAT'S ALL RIGHT T WAS Just ARING HUA DOW THE ROAD To SHooT HIM MYSELF