Daily British Whig (1850), 3 Jul 1915, p. 14

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2ACE FOURTEEN Wr i {4 RAI] Builds up and Strengthens Ne, WEAK, SICKLY CHILDREN Bc, and $1.00 bottles - Davis & Lawrence Co, Montrend, Pure Marmalade Crosse and Blackwell Chivers and Son's In 7 Ib. tins 341-3 Princess St, D. COUPER Phone 76. Prompt Delivery. (Coast Sealed Oysters) le KINGSTON CEMENT PRODUCTS Can supply Cement Blocks, Sills, Lintles, Bricks, Flower Vases, Tile, Caps, P'er Blocks, ete. We also manufacture Cement Grave Vaults. Estimates given for all kinds of Ce- ment Work, Kingston Cement Products. H. F. NORMAN, MANAGEK, Office, 177 Wellington Street. Phones: /Oflice, 780; Fhctory, 1904. LAsLLLALLARLLALAARR LAMY, | MARBLE HALL Pure Ice Cream In Bulk or Bricks. Packet and delivered to any part of the city. GEORGE MASOUD, | Phone 980. 238 Princess St. BICYCLE From $25.00t0 $45 AT H. MILNE Phone 543. 272 Bagot St. Cleveland Standard Model Falcon. Every To Packet of WILSON'S When You Feel It Coming. ~--When that old Headache sends its warning that you are going. to suffer-- take ZUTOO, When you feel a Cold coming on take Zu ae 3s sign of a pain--at firstfeeling of sick ness--take ZUTOO, You will be all right in 20 minutes if it's ahead or next morning if it isa cold. Pain all gone; and the whole body refreshed. Don't wait--don't take chances. Get ZUTOO Tablets to-day--and have them ready totake at the first ia of a Head- ache or cold and TAKE THEM. 25¢ a hox--at dealers or by mail postpaid B. N. Robinson & Co. Regd. Coaticook, Q New Hats 35¢." Gentlemen, let us clean and reblock your old Felt Hat. We can save maney for you. | *% We call for and deliver. /j covered a 'rich deposit of copper in n Hat and ts situ- fe A a summer and right in the centre of the best black bass fishing grounds. | W = GODWIN & SON i i | | The Newest N Australia has. prohibited the ini. portation of imitation brandy. A holder for coins fs inserted in a new umbrella or parasol handle. ; All-steel passenger cars are be- | ing adopted on Egypt's state rail- | ways, | Sandstone can absorb a gallon or | more of water to the cubic foot of | rock. i Argentina wag given a populatien | of 7,704,396 by a recent official es. | timate, With 3,000 telephones, one New York office building holds the world's record. An electric oven in a Toronto bak- ery turns out nearly 3,000 loaves of bread a day. Paraffine paper tubes have been | invented to aid the users of bub. | bling drinking fountains. A photographic process for printing textiles or wallpaper has been in- vented in England. | About 900 colors are known. to | dyers, of which only about "100 are made in the United States . | A factory in which radium ig be ing produded has been opened in | Scotland" by a Scotch chemist. To convert an ax into a pick is the | purpose. of an attachment patented ! by a West Virginia inventor. { One of the best grades of Italian | cheese is sold only after it has been | seasoned for at least four years. | Michigan ig the leading state in the manufacture of sand line brick, followed by Minnesota and New York. ! An Englishman has invented a machine which is said to perform | the work done by a hand polisher on furniture. Heels made chiefly of coiled springs covered with flexible leather are a Kansas inventor's footwear novelty. Laws prohibiting the use by paint. erg of white lead or products conm- taining it have become effective in France. Roughened plates have been in- vented to be attached to a man's shoes to keep his feet from slipping on ladders New Zealand has prohibited the importation of cooking utensils coat- ed or lined with lead or amy of its alloys. The census bureau has estimated that the population of the United States passed the 100,000,000 mark on April 24 last. A tuning fork unaffected by tem- perature; therefore accurate under all conditions, has been invented by a Frenchman. ' A holder for a hat, coat and um- brella, intended for use in more or less public places, can be locked to prevent theft, Practically inexhaustible deposits of asphalt discovered in the Philip- pines two years ago will be devel- opad commercially. With a new motor.driven pump it is possible for an automobilist- to furnish his tires with air even while running his car. A new German machine wrench has a pivoted jaw which permitg it to grasp five of the six sides of a hexagonal nut at once, Photographic means have been in- vented for measuring the blows dealt by' flat car wheels to tracks under various conditions. Artesian well drillers recently dis- a region: in, Argentina where nome was known to exist. A Wyoming inventor's can open- er consists of a pointed shaft, to be inserted into the centre of the top of a can, alang which is a whee] with a knife edge to be rolled around the can. Australia has modified its absolute prohibition of the importation of opium to permit the entry of the drug for medicinal purposes. An automatic jack hag been in- vented that lifts an automobile clear of the floor of a garage or the ground as it is run over the device. A French scientist has invented apparatus to determine the percént- age of carbon in steel by burning it in pure oxygen under pressure, What is believed to be the largest .y Russian ministry of finance has oi | otes of Science { 3 | in the northern mining cair- conveyor belt in the world, 893 feet | long by 36 inches wide, has been | made for the Ohio stone quarry. The eyes of a South American | fish are divided into two parts, the | upper adapted for vision in the air! and the lower for use under water ! An almost noiseless gasoline en- | gine featurcs a new electric generat- ing set for residences and places | where noise might be objectionable. According to English figures, the | world's consumption of tea is steadi- | { ly: increaging, and the demand for | British tea far exceeds the supply. A bath-room towel rack made of | pipe to be connected with the. hot- | water system has been invented to insure a supply of warm and dry towels, | For illuminated road signs in Ger. | many an- acetylene generator has| been developed that does not require | attention oftener than once a month, | A'néw electric sealing.-wax melter | keeps the wax at the right tempera- turg and applies any amount desired | to the object that is to be sealed. | A German inventor has patented a method for using carbonic acid in a'l maching to spray mortar er plaster | on a wall to hasten its setting. { Portions of store windows can be converted into blackboards for sign | writing by sandblasting the outside! of the glass and painting the in- | side To prevent waste an Englishman | has invented a mustard pot in which pressure on a piston on top forces a small amount of the contents out of a spout, In a Pennsylvania railroad town trainmen are called to duty by flash. ing 'their names and other informa- tion on the screens of motion picture theatres. King George of England is the in. ventor of a stove that wil] serve as an open grate in one room of a house and.cook meals in the usual | way in another, i For protecting propellers of small | boats from injury there has been in- vented a guard consisting of parallel rods to be fastened, to the stern of a boat A Frenchman is the inventor of a grooved street-car rail with notches! in the side into which paving blocks | fit and make a smoother surface | than ordinarily. | So that motion picture projectors | can have the advantage of a direct | current where only an alternating | current is available is the purpose of | 4 new motor-generator set. To promote the industrial and | technical utilization of alcohol the | | fered prizes totalling about $136. 000 for the best inventions in this | respect, . In Germany there has been pat- ented a method for making paper re- | inforced by cotton or linen, a sheet of the fabric being inserted between | two layers of pulp, with which it] mixeg intimately. | To enable a persom to clean his | shoes before entering 'a house a Ken. | tuekian has invented a scraper above | which are mounted two brushes, | backed by springs strong enoligh to make theni effective. | An English scientist who hag been | investigating the oil-bearing depos- | its of New Guinea has found evi-| dencos of petroleum extending over | an area of 1,600 square miles and has recommended immediate devel. | opment, | A shower bath that can be carried | in a vest pocket, the invention of a Californian, consists of a curved | tube to be inserted into a bath-tub faucet through a cork, water spray- ing out through a slit in the other end. Measuring the current carried from electric wires by streams of water from fire hose, an Italian ex- perimenter found that chemieal ex- tinguishers were the most dangerous fire-fighting equipment to use around live wires. . On the theory that the flavor of the sugar maple is contained in the rough outside bark as wel] as the sap of the tree, a West Virginian has pa- tented a process for making maple syrup that contains an extract from the bark. ~r FIRST FOUNDLING HOSPITAL STARTED IN LONDON IN 1756. Officials Thought It Better To Have Infants Left in Basket Than * Thrown In Thames. Memphis Commercial Appeal. Foundings' 3 itals are sald to have started with the London insti- tution of that name. In 1756 the authorities inaugurated the policy of leaving a basket at the gate, Any person with a newly-born infant to dispose of was invited to place it in the basket, ring the bell and run. It was thought that this would be an improvement over having = them thrown in the Thames. ik It was not by a Jeoad margin. In four years the hosp! go! 15,000 babies. The authorities tried to, rear them im the asylum, and more than 10,000 died Wir roan ing their first bir anniv . Now the policy oars out the foundings in inspected homes. The British royal comm on poor laws that investiga! this subject said of 1,000 children born poor-law instituti- ons forty-five dled within the first week of life, and between 268 and 292 died before reaching one year of years, It said: o "It may well be that human in- fants, like chickens, cannot long be aggregated together, even in the most PR a shrunle' grauch; isn't he?" © "Yes, he's fot he' J Mmemory ig d slab in the church at By.n COMMERCE, NAT AL BANK OF - "A LITTLE QUEER." H End Proved is Eccentricity the Ei His Own Undoing. Rev. Mr. Hagamore, to whose Catshoge, Leicestorshire, England; was "a little queer." If geems that the reverend gentleman died in January, 1886, leaving all of his pro- perty, valued at $3,500, to a raliroad porter, ' This queer old preacher kept one servant of each sex, whom he locked up every night, His last employ- ment of an evening was to go the rounds of his premises, let loose the dogs and fire off his gun. 'He lost his life in a curious mau- ner. Starting out early one morn. ing to let out his servants, the dogs fawned upon him and threw him into a pond of water. The servants heard his eries, but, being locked up, could not renger assistance, so old man was drowned. When the, Inventory of his pro- perty was be te owner of § pairs of shoes, 80 wigs of natural hair), 50 dogs, haa pleut nd ey 30 wheelbar- 0 100 pairs gowns, iri We offer One Hundred Dol or We t Have known F. J Ch vey hr e 35 an Beller im, be : and fi cially able to out any obligations on The | average wage paid, Re- || ward f x tarrh that can- Rov bg rel ates She Sure THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1915. PROTECTING THE MINER. Cost of Compepsation In Northen Camps Is Just Doubled. The Workmen's Compensation: Ae wil double the amount of money tha mining companies have been setting | aside each year to guard agains Hability, Basing the estimate on the actua number of men employed .and the the Compensa tion "Act at the present fixed rate: will cost the mining companies o! Cobalt approximately $40,000 more than when they were insuring witt Brivalp companies, and the Poreu Pine camp $28,760. The old rates for underground ané surface men averaged $1.50 fo every hundred dollars of the Eros: pay roll and 40 cents for every bun dred dollars on the pay roll for mik men, Under the Compensation Aci the companies have been assessec $3 Tor every hundred dollars on the pay roll, and 80 cents for mill men employed in works where heat is not employed for the reduction or refin- ing of metals. This classification will apply to all but a store or twe | of the men employed in the thirtees or fourteen Cobalt mills. That there will be a re-classifica tion under the Act at the end of the year there is little doubt, but foi the present Cobalt miners have beer classified under the two rates only. Thus under the three dollar classi fication there is included all surface men, including ore sorters and as sayers and surveyors. Obviously |-these men do not run the same risk as the man who Is running a drill In a wet shaft, for instance, but te get a trial balance, as it were, the Government has made no difference between them. While it is under suspicion as be ing uaworkable; there is a genera disposition by the mining companies to give the Act a fair trial. Pre viously all risk has been assumed by companies, and they have beem far more - thorough in resisting all claims for damages whether justi fiable or not than the management | of the miners relished. As was quite natural, too, a common jury could be relied upon to give. very handsome damages; and the constant litigation resulting was very disagreeable and bred bad feeling between men and employers. It was seldom possible before the verdict was given to pre- dict whether the injured man was going to get three hundred or three thousand, the sum varying largely 4 according to the ability of the coun- sel employed. It was hoped that under the Aet the amount paid would all go directly to the man hurt, and that such a large percept- ag> of it would not be subtracted for legal expenses. For this reason, al- though the rate is twice as high as could be obtained from private com- panies, there has not been a very determined attempt on the part of the majority of employers against the measure as g measure, Prior to January the Cobalt camp paid approximately $40,000 to in- sure its 3,000 workers; this year, with no further alterations in the rates, it will cost $79,000; last year the gold miners contributed about $28,766 in premiums against $57, 000 this. An Intensive Farmer, That intensive farming is not con- fined entirely to Belgium and France, which are the world-renown- ed centres, but that it is, and profit ably so, practiced in Canada, 1s shown by the record made by Sam- uel Van Tassel, residing om West street road, where if passes through the Kerby tract, says The Brantford Expositor, ' Eleven years age. a machinist, without a particle of knowledge 'of farming or gardening, and even mow of the belief that he does not know either, but that he uses common sense only, Samuel Van Tassel last year, from a plot of ground $89 1-2 square yards, by means of rotation of garden crops, took off products which -at their net market value brought $2370.75. The secret, he says, was in getting two or three crops off each piece of land, and get- ting them on the market early, so that they brought the highest pes- sible prices. The labor on the five plots, for the sowing and attending only, not including the cost of tak- ing out or of selling, amounted to but five days' time. He has ten acres of land, and states that, had be seven acres less he would pe able to make more money, because be could give more attention to three acres tham he now can to ten, R.M.C.'s Share In War. The excellent work of the Royal Military College in eonnection with the present war is shown In the fact that fully 264 cadets and graduates of the college are serving at the front in the capagity of officers In various units. Many of these have distinguished themselves in ucts of bravery, as well as in the best and most efficient military service: The first graduate among the Aus- tralian forces to fall in the fight was Brigadier-General Bridges, who sue- cumbed to wounds received at the Dardanelles, Cadets and graduates who went to the f J he was found to| 3nd |80 into voluntary {for the same period FINANCIAL MATTERS HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY HAS - PASSED ITS DIVIDEND The Oldest Company Doing Businéss In Canada--Land Sales and Fur Business Have Fallen Off. The Hudson's Bay Company, which has just passed its dividend, is the oldest company doing business in the Dominion, It first received a royal charter in 1670, and supplementary charters in 1884, 1892, and 1912. The head office is in London, Eng- land. The Hudson's Bay Company was originally a fur trading concern, but during recent years a large part of its revenue is secured from land sales and ordinary departmental store business. The company has a capitalization "of £2,000,000 of 5 per cent. eumulative preferred stock of which £1,999,745 are outstanding and £1,000,000 ordinary stock, all of which is outstanding. During. recent years the following dividends were paid on the ordinary stock: 1908, 20 per cent. 1909, 25 per cent, and for the four years 1910, 1911, 1012, and 1933, 40 per cent; in 1913 a divi dend of 5 per cent. was paid on the preferred stoek. In the year end- ed 31st May, 1914, the profits from trading account amounted to £86, 636, and from gnd account £400,000. The total assets of the company are £0,151,000, Sir Thomas Skinner, a director of the Camadian Pacific Railway, is president of the com- pany, having succeeded the late Lord Strathcona. The passing of the preferred dividend is very latge- ly due to the falling off in land sales dnd to the lessened demand for furs. Reopening Antimony Mines. St. John; NB; July 2.--There is a prospect of the early reopening of the antimony mines at Lake George, York County. These mines have not been opened since 1909, owing to the low price of the ore. With an appreciable increase in ore prices, a proposal has been made by a syndi- cate to lease the mines for a term of years. The company have also un- der consideration an offer of sale. Carriage Pays Back Dividend. Montreal, July 2.--It is annouced that the directors of Carriage Fac- tories, Limited, at a meeting held June 17th, declared a dividend of 3-4 per cent. on .thé preferred shares of the company, payment to be made on July 15th to stock re- cord June 12th. The dividend is the first since last July, payments having been discontinued when the autumn quarter came around. The stock is cumulative, so the dividend to be paid in July will be for the three months ended October 31st last. That leaves three quarterly distributions still to be made up be- fore the stock can go back on a re- gular dividend basis. Orders for harness and equipment placed by the British War Office, to- gether with some business from the Canadian Government, were respon- sible for the resumption of dividends. Exit The C. G. F. 8, Montreal, July 2.--The Canadian Gold Fields Syndicate, now being wound up. is about te distribute a dividend of 4.43 per cent. to share- holders, payable July. 12th, of re- cord June 20th, This. distribution of the assets is interesting as mark- ing the passing of apother relic of the days when Eastern people's eyes were full of fortunes they were go- ing to make iw the Rossland mines. The C.G.F.8., has not been operat- ing since 1901, but has maintained an organization because it owned a few idle properties and 4,270 shares of Consolidated Smelters stock on which it drew dividends and passed on to shareholders after deducting expenses. The Consolidated gave these 4,270 shares for 640,000 shares of St. Eugene. The latter mine is just about werked out now. Take More Of Preferred Stock. Montreal, July 2.--The directors of Goodwins, Limited, have subserib- ed for $150,000 new preferred stock at 80. When financial conditions are more favorable the shareholders, common and preferred, will be of- fered the balance of a total of $500,- 000, now issued, at the same price. The directors hold about one-third of the total capital stock of the com- pany, and the amount that they have sibseribed would represent about their allotment of the stock. New Power Company. Quebee, July 2.--With a capital of three million dollars and exten- sive pawers, a new company has been incorporated by provincial _let- ters patent to develop hydraylie Owers in the cities of Quebec and ree Rivers, and. also in various Counties in the district. ---- Phoenix Company in Liquidation. Winnipeg, July 2.--The Canadian ix * Insurance Company of Brandon gives notice in this week's Manitoba Gazette that it proposes to liquidation on July Sth. Dividend Payments Up. + New York, July 2.--FY, ied by the New York rsements by railroads, Industrial and traction corporations, banks and trust companies, the national Gov: ernment and the City of New York This compares wi $264,385,780 last year. A ------------------------ . Not His Fault. Sergeant (disgustedly to. Private Jones): "Stop! Don't last bullet. = Nineteen are quite en. ough to blaze away without hitting the target ones Go behind - Established over Forty.one Years THE STANDARD Er] OF CANADA ASSETS OVER $48,000,000 The A, B, C of Banking You Will Find Us Zecalous & Efficient. We solicit your account in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT i Naw Buy Matches as you would any other household commodity--with an eye to full value ! WHEN YOU BUY EDDY'S MATCHES YOU RECEIVE A GENEROUSLY-FILLED BOX OF SURE, SAFE, LIGHTS. 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