: .Aany a.-year. The farmer must wait E i). the Jand 3 dry in order to sow : EE-------------- 1 > ¢ « 81.-NO, 28 -------- AMAT armen [sis rain. Now Messrs, ; min and E | I» TO BLAME [owbia' 5 Shas grain 'can "3 3 ! | sown at this time of the year to FOR THE FLOODING OF LANDS : BY DAMS. A Bell Rock Resident Writes About the Petworth Dam -- Water on « Writer's Land Till the First of ¢ June, Bellrock, Jun. 31.--(To the Editor): 1 wish to say a few words concerning Petworth dam and nature. company claims this aren was always drowned and always will be. F this we can conclude there is al- of water at all times of the year, y is there any need of a dam at Potworth ? To keep back the water in their. reservoir to make it appear it will always be drowned ? Nature caunot be responsible in this case. If parliament had known what damage these dams had done it would have more consideration for the farmer. It doesn't seem possible that in this day and age that a govern- ment would allow a company to drown land to that extent if it really knew what the farmers have to con- tend with. My farm lies at least on mile from the river. I have seen thirty acres of my best land under water till the 1st 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. 1 have seen this with my own eyes. Now, we are human beings as well those living along the Napanee river South of the drowned lands. Ii such a condition prevailed in Yarker, under the nose, of 'the water company their Board of Health would talk different ly. Laws of land will not allow jhe © to spear fish in the spring which would help many a poor man get his living, but allow the eonserva- tion company to kill them by driving them out on the 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 as much stock again as the farmer can winter at the present time. Again, the conservation eompany tlaims it was always flooded, but the oldest residents claim 'that the first roads built across. this district were y and passable any time of the year. The first Petworth dam was built below the rapids. That didn't make the, reservoir large enough, so they re it at the head of the rapids, making this section its reservoir which they say is the fault of nature a fajr contradiction from their own words. .'1 am glad the did residents are sot dead yet else the company would for y The spring freshets last till June 'What a Lady in Ontario SAYS .- " the temperature {ails be- , OF when a show blizzard comes Along, I bring out myOXo0, "and with the aid of a few sods - for sandwiches, and my biscuits atove With the "Rooster" on it. ITER Te £2, Ear au - ' + reach maturity, ds this fair dealing for the farmer? Ask the leaders of the Farmems' Ipstitute who are try- ing to educate the young men of our day in agricultural pursuits. , A year ago last December the road leading from Verona directly south was covered with water and ice. I met a Kingdton undertaker about dark taking a corpse through to Par- ham. He got partly across the ice wiicn he 'was compelled to turn back, drive to Hartington to take the Hinchinbrooke road, a journey of about thirteen mes, instead of five miles, Think of those poor dumb brutes to take that journey after coming from Kingston and a long Journey aliead before they 'reached their destination, » I consider Petworth dam a public nuisance to the land, and to the heaith of the community as it even renders the water in our wells unfit for use. I hppe those who have the power in thelr hands will mete out justice to the farmer as well as to the com- pany. --Wellington Vanmest. DEFICIT OF $6,000,000 Banker Who Placed Canadian Stocks Taken Into Custody 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 Mines, on the markets, was arrested on Saturday. An in- vestigation of his books shows that $400,000 deposits with the firm have been misappropriated The books Faow a deficit of $6,000,000. Among the complainants against Leconte are the Archbishops of Bruges and Alen- com, ni ad "Fatigue Bag." is Latest Boston, Feb: 2.--Beware of the "fa- tigue bug," which is' according to physicians and scientists, about the most invidious and pernicious little de- stroyer of the human system vet dis- covered. Dr. William H. Waters, professor of pathology at the Bostofl University School of Medicine, as u result of in- vestigation declares that not only is dition of 'the system, but that - the longer the fatigue continues the more blocked: becomes the system with the pdison thus. ated, until eventu- ally a genersl breaking down of the entire health ensues, He saym: "Fatigue is the result of excessive amounts of poison tu in- to the system--the y. ¥s suddenly poisoned. 'If we rest the surplus pois- on id gradually carried away, but 'if fe continue to keep our bodies in this hali-polsoped state, in time the whole » permanenily affected sens t ownership and control of he telephote and tele: omas B. Roy, Toromto, who has been practising' osteopathy, is charged with having; stolen money from an aged man w Lie was treating. i A political sensation bas been caus- ed in Great Britain by the revelations 2, fatigue the beginning of a toxic com- | ror A pe pe Ly Postmas al Burleson _ te} submitted to the United Statés ate hig plan for of a pociuia correspondent. | quarters, and killed many of the The Wonder Is They Let Jeff Get Away TRIP ROUND THE WORLD In an Aeroplane -- First Enteant in | Contest. New York, Feb. 2--Captain = as Baldwin to-day was the first en- trant in the proposed round the world aeroplane flight of the Panama-Paci- | fic exposition for which prizes aggreg- | ting $300,000 are expected to bé of-! fered. . i The race will start from tlie 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. "Cartainly the flight around the world, as prescribed in the Aero clubs offer is impossible with the pre- sent construction of aeroplanes,' said he. ------------ WARNING TO DETECTIVES That They Are Liable to Be Arrest. ed. Quebec City, Feb, 2. Hon. L. A. Tascherau, chairman of the com- mittee investigating the charges of bribery of members of the Quebec 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, as wit nesses would be of no value in case jor criminal proceedings under the !federal act .the dominion code pro 'vides fourteen years imprisonment {for bribers and proceedings may be {taken against the detectives by {friends of the accused legislators. Mrs. Caroline Taylor, widow of the late Richard Taylor Belleville, died on Saturday , aged eighty-six vears. She was of United Empire Loyalist stock and born in Belleville. She was dn Anglican, and ig survived by twa daughters, Benjamin Alkerton, a well known and respected resident of Elizabeth- town, died on Friday night at the residence of his son-in-law, David Perrin, second concession of Eliza- bethtown, after a long illness, aged seventy-seven rears. ILL-FATED STEAM Of the old Dominion line, wilich collision with the Merchants' lin The Nantucket rammed the Munrép av ct KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUES»AY, FEBRUARY 3, 1914 Washington, Feb. 2.--By 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- pamies 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 ave, in many instances, lower than those of the parcel post, and mean direct competition. ~The express companies have in the last few months been very solititous for new business, as contrasted with their in- dependent *'come-to-us" policy here tofore observed, Big Car Order, New York, Peb. 2.--~The Union Pa- cific railway bas .placed an order for 5,000 freight cars which will in- volve an outlay of approximately $5,500,000, . Delivery will 'start' in April and all will be turfied over to the company before the crop moving geason beging., Tone American Car and Foundry Co. is to build 2,080 and the Pressed Steel Car Co. the balance. Invested Over Four Millions Montreal, Feb, 2.--During the past year $4,600,000 was invested in the Dominion of Canada by the Metropo- litan Life Insurance company, A. G. B. Claxton, K.C., the founsel of the company, who has just re- turned to Montreal after attdnding 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 45,184 shares of treasury stock. Fach' SHIP MUNROE. was sunk, with forty lives lost, after Nantucket, off the coast of Virginia. midships. just about ims in their births. the 'sleeping Ea said | ». 'Assiduous atiempts are bel {nguram, the stockholdefs js permitted to subscribe in proportion to his holdings. The plan was first submitted to' the state authorities to get their approval. In bowing to the will of the people and submutting its mew 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' surprise. Hygeia Ice Issue Montreal, Feb. 2.--It is expected that a public offering of preferred stock of the Hygeia Ice company will he 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 hoth common and preferred stocks. Financial Notes. Earnings of the Hamburg-American 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 Lto join the federal reserve system. Sherbrooke, Que., has sold $300,000 worth of bonds at 984. 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 Exchange for $35,000, 'an increase of $5,000 over (he preceding transaction, is an additional indica. tion of the trend of events in stock market conditions, The Childs company, which operates a chain 'of restaurants 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. niade to merge hali'a dozen properties on "Tohe-borders of or within' a short dis: tance oi Pearl" Lake," Porcupive. To date 'these "efiorts have not been ' ef- fectual. : The properties to be included in* the proposed mérger are the Ple- the Schumacher and the Mclnt§re, the' Vipond. I A pretty wedding was solemnized in St. 'Edward's chureb,' Westport, last Monday, when Miss ' Margarat | Anna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Scanlan, was united in marriage | to John Dunn Hamilton, 1igin. The clock in the tower of the new post office at Athens was started Leader of Albanian Revolt to Pay Greatest Penalty Aylona, Albania, Feb. '3. --Bekan Aga, the of a revolutionary movément, which began here early in January, with the object of placing lzzet Pasha. former Turkish minister of war, on the Albanian throne, was i, condemned to death after a trial. Nine Turkish officers implicated in the movement were sentenced to im: prisonment of from three to fifteen years. TWENTY GYPSIES POISONED pite Meat Intended to 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, cating, poisoned meat which was intended for wolves that infest the district. re- The death is reported after a very brief illness of Mrs. Grace E. Deni- son, "Lady Gay," for many years ono of the staff writers of Tordnto Sat- urday Night and one of the best- known women journalists of Canada. Bridge Street Methodist Church, Belleville. was rededicated. on Sunday, alter alterations and: improvements to the extent of $26.000, The war office will not give way and allow the aperture sight to be used by the Canadian team at Bisley. | TOWN DEBENTURES TO YIELD 578 per cent. WESTERN SCHOO DEBENTURES TO YIELD 73-4 per cent, WRITE FOR LIST Brent, Noxon & Co. Canada Life Bldg. FLOUR Our Robin Hood brand of Rous has a guaraniée in every bag for good quality, ANDREW MAULEAN 9 Ontario Street. 2 A Guarantezd per cent. Falls, Land Br'tish Columbia, experts. respondence solicited, 8 Per Cent Investment We own a portion of an issue of First Mortgage Bonds of Okanagan alls Land Company, small denominations, for a terin of seven years, yielding" eight payable half-yearly. Company is in the best fruit and we have had its value investh We are offering the Bonds to the pubic Eh 1 own guarantee of payment of both principal and interest. Cor- Limited, hey are issued in gfowin section of ® ted by | The property of the Okanagan | by our | { oO ior Members. Hn 4 Thursday night, With It [= ! | FoR THIS KIND OF A Jon { F. _B. McCURDY National Finance Company, Limi | - (Capital and Reserve, $2,000,000.00. Assets, §6,000,000.00) { Ly fy 10 ADELAIDE ST. EAST, TORONTO. i . ry ¥ = . 2 ow, Re WING to the unprecedented demand which has arisen during the last few days for. municipal .debantures, we 'are compelled tc withdraw our list of offerings of municipal débentures for revis- BCE SL ade Th & CO. + PHONE 1225 Stock Exchange. + By "Bud" Fisher nd Cauticura Ointment. afford a pu thed of | beautifying the skin, scalp dnd hair. For distressing eczemas, z SIR, YoU CANT (MAGINE HOw SORRY TAM | IT WAS PURE AN ACCIDENT BUT THIS HRTS ME GREATLY. IT kKNOw THAT 1 CANT REPLACE TME ABEECTION You HAD For ) | SIR, T'm DEEPLY PAINED ABOUT THIS To REPLACE THE Dok, ©ONG To Cour. THE DOA! TS a-------- L THING AND WILL. DO THE BEST T caw THERE'S. 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