3 ------ . IN MATTER OF HANDLING EX. PLOSIVES IN WHOLE WORLD -ar°d Hundreds of Deaths Annually Which Are Preventible~A Much-Needed Law Has Been Held Up (By ernard Mudd Yi ar Mad man, in Torento eeklyi In proportion to its population Caneda uses perhaps more explosives ber capita than any other peaceful touiitry in the world. On railways, in mines, and other con- struction works explosives are very largely employed. In fact, where in Europe, for example, rocks are re- moved from a road by the picks and shovels of a gang of laborers, in Canada where human labor is so costly and scarce, a hole Is drilled in the offending boulder and with a stick of dysamite it is blown to Atoms... It would seem, therefore, all the more necessary for a series of rules and regulations to be enforeed in a country where the use of explosivesds so very common. But the fact remuius that up till the present Canada is a country entirely Without any efficient legislation as tv the use and preparation of ex- plosives. Purthermore, in no country today is the relative loss ef life (roi. ex- blosions so heavy as in Canada. In the metalliferous mines in the vicin- ity of Cobalt, for instance, it has n_ said one man is 'killed every three days. So bad, indeed, is our record in this respeci, that Jacobsen, the Norweglan consul-general of Montreal, through Norwegian papers Under date of August 22nd, 1910, and apparently issued by the Norwe- sian 'minister of justice, warned his countrymen not to work in Canada, and bases his authority for so doing, to a very large exteat, on the use 0? explosives in Canada. One state- ment made that one hundred and fifty men are killed annually by dyna- mite and other accidents has not been challenged or refuted. Yet in Great Britain, where 31,297,888 pounds of all kinds of explosives were used for the year 1912, only; ¢ thirty men were killed in using it.) one in manufacturing, and four in storing this vast quantity. But in|» 1909 in the metalliferous mines ofa Ontario 4.66 men out of a thousand| Gibbon, were killed ,as compared with 1.32] men for the previous year in all the| js And in ac-jpany mines 'of Great Britain. cordance with a statement made byl: the Ontario explosives expert some|o time ago, there is a hundred per|f In 1910 Captain Arthur Desbor-)2 ough, H.M. inspector of mines, was] brought out to Canada, and in con-|} Junction with his advice and the jus-|! tice department at Ottawa, J. G. S.|¢ Hudson prepared a proposed which is printed in the blue book of the mines branch for 1910. Here for the first time in the his-|, find the word '"'explosive' glycerine, gun-cotton, Linsling gelatine, gelignite, f.uimin- ridges, ammunition tiows, and every other whether chemical compound or mech-|imported anical mixture, which has physical|e properties similar substances . above mentioned, every adaption or preparation of tering into a prolonged legal discus-ju sion as to its merits, is based on the|the British Explosives act of 1875, withjhere we seem to have more than our in} fair share of reckless fools or of men de- simplifications and modifications accordance with the conditions of the| wholly For the first time inspec-structive potency of high explosives. powers to in-} For example, in June, 1911, a barge quire into the causes of a disaster {called the Westport with a hundred expertitons of dynamite on board remained can only attend by courtesy of the|for forty-eight hours in the heart of the sanie of explosives imported into or manu-{month of the same year a man travel- country tors will be given whereas now the Dominion local coroner. It provides for a test|t factured in Canada. It arranges for a table of distanees for powder fac- tories and magazines in try. 'The proposed legislation has received the hearty recommendation and co-operation of all the leading explosive manufacturers. But owing to the advent of reciprocity and then of the saval question the bill has not yet b presented to the house. At present there are no rules and regulations for distances from towns to be in the construction of explosive factories and magazines in Canada; although, be it said to their credit, the leading manufacturers oi their own accord consult the depart- ment of mines at Ottawa. But there is nothing to compel them to do so. Yet at the present moment there are as. many at twenty-three factories manufacturing in the Dominion; " Reaches Gas You t want a slow remedy when your stomach is bad--or an uncertain one---or a harmful one-- your stomach is too valuable; you mustn't e it with drastic drugs. unfailing section in sour, gassy stomachs AE ee : and o stom- has made it famous the stomach doctor from 4 drug a large fitty-cent case from drug store and. if anyone should eat ymething wi doesn't agree with formants ARd. sours and Torms uss rs rms gas; causes headache, dizziness and an guaranteed. 0 unders, J. There m fence these being divided PRIM FAMILY 'D AT ST STIQUE, QUEBEC, LASTED MANY YEARS, The nd the dead man's two olumn pictur b w.is wh was sentenced Following a onard et feud L duration I. Leonard MeGibbon, Peter, met John and + with his father, nd a brother, fcGibbon ther branch of the family, ds 'between the two L FOW Over a Peter in the leg ely levelled hig gun i , with' one dis v murder charge almed his father months nd shot of The case wo xplosives, it must _ be tmost precautions various companies. But unconversant with the he city of Ottawa., In SCHOL- two-colomn picture. shows John leGibbon, father of the murdered man, rs. Single Mec- to seven of seventeen which griginated in in com- aged lizabeth cousins and members of the f in the homesteads, a 50, cow which had ceut. increase in these fatalities, disappeared, and John levelled his gun Leonard im- and killed harge, and that he fired in de. lasted requiring two juries, and bill] resulted in a finding of mansiaughter, vp as follows: ight in Quebec, ten in Ontario, four tory of the statutes of Sluads tly in British Columbia and one in Nova 0 Scotia. . Thee new ones are now go defined in section 2 (ad): itg up two of which will cost a mil- 'Explosive' means and includes|lion dollars each. gunpowder, blasting powder, nitro-|ty-six large storage explosive maga- dynamite, zines, of which thirty are in Ontario. ! At the present moment no explo- ates of mercury or of silver, fog and|sive prepared in any of these fac- other signals, fireworks, fuses, rock-|tories can be tested for the safety of ets, percussion caps, detonators, cart-|its Canadian user; and when we con- of all descrip-|gider that «for the fiscal year 1911 substance, lalone 912,498 Ibs. of explosives were in addition to home-made recognized to those of thelthat we are taking big risks or that andlwe are careless of lives. Fortunately as far as the transpor- everything above named." tation of explosives is concerned the The bill in question, without en-jrailway commission insist upon the being taken by even There are also six- PETER THE PACKER. Some Stories of Ireland's Retiring Lord Chief Justice, So far from resenting the descrip- tion of "Peter the Packer," bestowed upon him by the Nationalists, on ac- count of the manner in which he reso- lutely set aside jurors notoriously in sympathy with defendants in cases which came before him, when Mr. Balfour was Irish Secretary and the Coercion Act was in force, Lord O'Brien, who has just tendered his resignation as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, has, on more than one ocea- sion, remarked that the title was quite justified. "I certainly eliminated from the jury-box," he has said, '"'those who were prejudiced. I did so without apology, and would do i' again if in the same position. I ought to have been called 'The Great Unpacker'." It has been truly said that Lord O'Brien has had some bitter political opponents, but fot a single enemy. He is a typical Irishman -- genial, kind-hearted and witty, with a brogue of exceptional strength. He was Queen Victoria's guest on several oe- casions during Her Majesty's last visit to Ireland, and he greatly amus- ed the Queen on one occasion by de- scribing how, when traveling abroad before his elevation, he inscribed himself in the books of the Swiss ho- tels as Her Britannic Majesty's First Serjeant-at-Law. Although the title ture threw the officials of Switser- land into consternation, and they had much to do to decide whether diplo- matic courtesies were not due to this high and mighty personage. A story which Lord O'Brien is rath- er fond of telling against himself re- lates to an occasion when he hired a hackney-car at Sligo for a drive after a weary day in court. He mounted the car beside the driver, and the "jarvey," believing the Attorney-Gen- eral, ag Lord O'Brien then was, to be inside the vehicle, remarked, "That's a bard man inside." "Yes," said Lord O'Brien, "I be- lieve he is 2a man with an indifferent reputation." At 'the end of the drive the Attor- ney-General handed 'the 'jarvey" a gold coin, and the surprised and de- lighted man, looking first at the coin and then at the Attorney-General, whom he then recognized, said:-- "Well, afther all, the divil isn't as black as he's painted." Hidden Money. Among the eccentricities of the rich, the passion for always possess- ing enormous sums of ready cash is surely one of the most extraordinary. a companion-nurse to go to town and get a check cashed for him at the Bank of England. When she was ready to start the old peer sat down and wrote out © check for $500,000, and told her to be sure and see that she got pne note for amount, The check was duly presented, and the bank, having satisfied themselves as to the nurse's authority for mak- ing such a request, suggested that a was strictly correct, {is pompous na A former Lord Dysart one day asked | the whole ut % QUEBEC MINERAL oUTPUT | : Er gaman---- | fucrease ih Asbestos Well Over Three, ' Million Dollars Montreal, Mareh §.--Every year for ten years now the mineral pro- duction of the province of Quebec Aas shown an increase and a prelim- inary report on the production for 1913 shows that it exceeded all pre- vious yeurs. The facts are contained in a report to the minister of colen- ization, mines and fisheries, issued to the Canadian mining institute in ses- sion here. In monetary value the output of minerals during that per- lod amounted to $12,918,109 as com- pared with $11,178,110 in the previ- Jus year. The most valuable output of any one substance was of asbestos,.which totalled $3,855,959, a half-million dollars more than the value of the cement output. Limestone was the third most valuable product, $1,570,- 4506 being the value of it; fourth] place is taken by brick with a total value of $1,272,092. The output of} copper and copper ore was valued at $866,774 and mica, ochre, mineral] water and silver were valued at large | sume, No less than $2,881,480, barrels of cement, 1,656,610 bushels! of limestone, 781,648 pounds of m 136,195 tons of asbestos and 89,24! tons of copper and sulphur ore were produced. An appreciable increase in the! shipments of asbestos from the pro-| ducing centre of Thetford, Black Lake and Danville is recorded, and a, markes made conditions more satis- factory than for several years. There! were no new developments in the| copper and sulphur ore industry but the shipments amounted to a good deal more than those of 1912 The | iro ore and iron smelting industry ir dormant. In the graphite indus- try results have been very disap- pointing. A promising outlook for china clay and the gratifying produc- tion of structural materials are fav- orable points touched upon in the report. During ths year under review 8,996 men found employment in the mines, quarries, claygpits and' ore- mills of the province, and they re- ceived in wages $5,179,895. ALASKA COAL RESOURCES Early Action on the Administration Bill Expected. Washington, March 6.--Early ac- tion on the edministration bill for the development of Alaska's vast coal resources was forecast when the hcuse public Jands committee sub- mitted the measure with a federal report. A committee amendment would limit rights under proposed leases to mining only, reserving all surface rights to the government. The bill would provide that Alaskan coal lands be leased in blocks of from 40 to 2,560 acres, for not more than 20 years, resulting royalties and rentals to go into a fund for Alaskan -development. The government would reserve for its own use 5,120 acres in the Beh- ring and 7,68 aeres in the Matanus- ka field. The purpose is to develop these lands as a source of fuel sup- ply for the navy and, if necessary, to restrain privaie monopoly. Some people would never be happy | unless they felt that they had more happiness than anybody else { MAY GET TO TORONTO. McCord Collection Has To Find Home Soon, Says Owner. Toronto University is likely to have an opportunity of obtaining a collection of antiquities, of natural history specimens and of relics of the early days of Canadian history which is the only one of its kind on the continent. This collection will go to Toronto if McGill University turns. down the offer which has been made (o it of a free gift, and it appears likely that the Montreal university will do so as, for the past several years, the McGill authorities have refused to accept the charge of the collection on the ground that they have no building suitable to house it. The collection is the property of David Ross McCord and has taken years to gather. Part of it was in- herited from his father, Col. the Hon. John Samuel McCord, a former judge of the Supreme Court of Lower Can- ada, and since the present head of the family retired from the active pursuit of the legal profession many years ago, he had added considerably to the collection, notably in the historical department. Mr. McCord has offered this collec- | tion to McGill, accompanying his of- fer of the free gift cf the collection | with an offer of continuing to add to it on the same preseat lev-l and to remain curatcr of its as long us he lives, free of charge 10 the university. | The offer was renewed recently and has been again turned down by Mec- €ill, on the grounds that they had no building in which to house it Mr. McCord states that as a college is the proper place in which to house the collection, he will offer it to To- ronto. "I am very near the three score and ten," he said, 'and no pru- dent man would permit the matter to longer remain unsettled. "Any -universiy with which this collection is associated would at once become not only the historical centre of Canada, but the repository of many of the most valuable articles in the world and a site for pilgrim- age and study. I do not desire to see the collection leave this province, for there is, so to speak, the historical heart of Montreal and of the pro- vince, but my self-imposed obligation will be equally carried out in any part of the Dominion. "I am weary of years of procras- tination. In view of the importance of the gift, there ig an element of self-respect involved in the matter." Mr. McCord has further offered to endow the collection by his will in such a sufficient manner that any institution with which it is housed will have an opportunity of adding to it from time to time, and will also be relieved from any financial 'obliga- tion in keeping it intact and in proper condition. Seven of Them. A despatch to a Montreal paper says Sir Wilfrid Laurier was the only member of Parliament in the present House who was in the Commons when Sir John A. Macdonald was Premier. We beg to add Hon. Geo. E. Foster, Hon, J. D. Hazen, Hon. J, D. Reid, Hon. T. S. Sproule, Mr. David Hen- derson, and Mr. William (Seuth Ontario).--Montreal Mail, The theories that make the most noise are the éxploded ones. Smith | | . 'VWWRITING to the agent entrusted with the purchasing of the stores for the forthcom s ing Imperial T'rans-Antarctic Expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton uses these words : o "1 consider the question of the concentrated beef supply is most important-- it must be Bovril"' Men who trust their lives to their food take no risks, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, planning this expedition with as intimate a knowledge of stores as of ice and snow, has recognised the sciemtifically proved value of Bo Thetmdependent scientific investigation which proved the Body-building Power of Bovril to be from 10 | to 20 times the amount taken was carried out byone of the foremost physiologists of the Kingdom on behalf of a Government Department, and the results obtained | applied to Bovril and Boviil alone. Even were it double the price, Bovril would still be an indispensable article OF all S 1-02, 25¢.; 2:02, 40c,; 4 or Bovwril Cordial, large, $1.25; Johinstan's Fluid Beef (Vimbos), tores, ete economical and in every home. .70c.; 8-02, $1.30; 16.02 , $2.28, oz, 40¢, $1.20, THE T. K. TAYLOR 00. LIMITED, Chatham, Sut Buy a Box of "Sunkist" the coun-jof dynamite ing on the T.N. & O. Railway took with him as hand baggage 300 sticks A ------------------ MEAT WAS CONVEYED In a Garbage Wagon From a Local « Railway Station During the meeting of of Health on Thu ay afternoon, a rather startling announcement was made to the effect that the statement had ;been made that meat had been conveyed from. one of the: railway stations in Kingston, a garbage waggon This 'is about "the limit," as one member of the board put it, if the report is true, and an investigation should be made Hugh MecBratney gave the infor- mation to the board, and his col- leagues were quite shocked to hear it. the Board m 'Typhoid Rare In London. London, March 6.---The registrar general's figures. for the last week; of January furnish additional evi- dence to support the belief that typhoid fever will soon become a rare disease in London. The total deaths from typhoid only numbered six, and during the period only thirty cases were admitted to the London Fever®Hospital. A special: ist in the disease clifws it has be- me as rare in London as typhus came twenty years ago. Many of the younger medical men have nev- er seen. a case, and they flocked fo a city hospital recently when it was learned that there was a typhoid patient there. This specialist = be- lieves that in a few years typho'd, {ike smmallpox and typhus, will be- come st a memory. This result is due almost wholly to proved sanitation. ---------- Notice We, the undersigned, hereby agree to sell a package of five standard gize Sc. boxes of Silver Tip Silent matches for twenty cents. Quality Purdy, C. H, clerk should accompany her and hand the $500,000 note in person to his lordship. After having done so the clerk told the peer that only three such notes were in existence. "One," he said, "we have at the bank, an- other -1 have just banded to your lordship, and thc third. which some time ago disappeared from cireula tion, we have never been able to trace." "Perhaps I can help you" said Lord Dysart, and going to a bu- reau he unlocked a drawer and took out the missing $500,000 note, which had been lying thers for years. Saving Famous Landmark. William Blake's house at Lambeth, London is now in danger of demoli- tion, and ft is hoped that an effort will be made to preserve the place as a museum. The district has aller ed considerable since the time whey the poet-painter made Lambeth his home. ¥ "Hercules Buildings," writes Gil- christ in his life of Blake, '""was then a street of modest, irregular-sized bouses from one to three stories high, with forecourts oy little gardens in front in the suburban style. Blake's was . . . on the right-hand side as you go from the bridge to the palace. It had a wainscoated parlor, (pleasant, low windows, and a narrow sirip of real garden behind, wherein grew a fine vine, . . , Open garden ground, interspersed with a few lines of clean, néw-built- houses, lay about and wear, and 'at the back Blake looked out towards Lambeth Palace and the Thames." 1 Cheese In the Middle Ages. ' Cheese must have beer a rather dear or scarce article of food in 1502, for it is recorded in the "Black Books" of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Ian that at Easter term, 1502, it was "agreed by the gover- nors and benchers this term that if any one of the society shall hereafter cut cheese immoderately at the time of dinner or zupper or shall give cheese to any servant or to any other or shall carry it away from the table any time be shall pay fourpenc: & Som, J. A, Robert anges | |The Finest Fruit Grown--Seedless Tree Ripened Save money --buy your oranges by the box or half- " _ box. 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