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Hoanrls ‘Are‘ .3, W ham! to SlaverY . 3:38:23 3;: ‘ s A young man Shocking gufividence' [Which Moved Dominion Governmenfto Take ' A story from Toronto to the York World says: tions have joined nanus m u....., i me‘ ing pleasure to bear out}!!! govern- ’thea of the problem. ;math, The scheme whip]: the various gov.- i trien ernm-ent intend to follow in thrashing .he 0 out the white slave problem is not “8'0 yet far enough adVaneed to give in in t1 detail. One of the first steps Will proâ€" tom 173th be to appoint a. representative whose duty it will be to place atl various ports of entry persons whose i H duty it will be to look out for pro- < cnrers of their participants m the and Moral Reform, which in the last year or tWo has been devoting spe- cial attention to this problem. More recently the Presbyterian and Angliv es. TIRre willralso be a watcli cn big centres of population. including, particularly, employment hgen‘cies, with a' View to detecting any atâ€" tempt to carry on the traffic. Par- ties suspected will be placed under SW'W will be prompt. 1y" arrested, and if from one of the thirteen countries in the mmpact, will be deported at the expense of the country Irom which he or she com; from - information with the various 5 _........1 mfnl'm agencies which have“: collected, there is no denying the fact that procurers and others inter- ested in the flame are not idle. The evidence which was placed before the government included innumerable in- stances of securing girls for immor- tg‘l nun-noses. all well authenticated. râ€"rv" fi In response to a newspaper tisement ,3 young girl from 1 Ontario came to work, as sh led to The young man med that mssus‘ ter had died from that house and had been buried some weeks before. An attractive young agent spent sometimeataleadinghotelin a Canadian city. She professed to be greatly attracted by Canadian girls, and advertised tor a number of them to fill positions in one of the cities of the United States. She succeeded in inducing four young women to' go with her. Three of them have not been heard of since. The other was found in a den of iniquity, and :re. turned home broken in health: ‘ A. graduate of Toronto University inquiring for Mrs. M's , store. The men on the street laughed at'him, and finally a. person out of pity informed the young man taint Mrs- M’s was a house 0! prostitution and she“ came to Toronto under. a;- rangements to meet' her employer. Her friends, not hearing from her, followed her to the city, to find that the address given in the letters was a. vacant lot. The young lady has never been heard from since. A young woman went to the city of Boston to visit a friend who was replied to an advertisement for a travelling companion. By correspon- to meet her alt the railway sta- tion. She was not met, as she ex- pected, and a well dressed woman of- feredtodirect hertoagood-board- ing house. The young woman accept ed the ofier only to discover before midnight that she was in one of the worst places in the city, where be- cause one man had not lost all sense of chivalry, she was saved from degâ€" radation, and on the following day he. with great difficulty, rescued her. A Toronto young girl was on her way to New York. A fashionably- dressed wamn on the train paid her was going, professed to be an inti- mate friend of her relative in New York, and ofiered to drive her to the home: of that relative. They left ‘ the railway station ‘ in New Ydrk ‘ “in' a handsome carriage which was driven attention, and, learning '18 .7 Her family grew anxious afloat and her brother came to the where she was suppomd to be. PEA Action found it employer. , punish- New I 3A1 yqnng W99“ Eowa‘flibznw" town came ..‘1fi-”1§6ronto @6539“? 313' L aunt- anin-g been magnify _ before [she did notnofiiyheraunt‘ armat- nd hm' relatives" absent; ' An vat- !tractiv‘e looking woman a, few doors awzy made enquiry and learning the fyonng woman's disapnoinhnout. in- vited her into her house to wait un- til her aunt returned. to remain for tea. andvto stay an night. In this case again the‘ young ‘anan discovered to her "w; to- remain for tea and“, night. In this case again the‘ young woman discovered to her horror that she Was the unsuspecting victim . oi the White slave traffic. ' The runaway marriage is one the - favorite devices of the slaver. Two sisters went from an 0n- tario town to the city of Winnipeg. A ‘What eflect has intemperanee upon the economic value oi a citizen ? In German and American scientific lab- oratories a. scientific answer is being foundastothe eflectoitheuse of alcohol upon the citizen as a worker, which means upon h_s power to con- trihute to the common good. This evidence which has been furnished has led President Eliot of Harvard: to become a. total abetainet. utter the very moderate use of in- . The evidence stands about w. uu'v-v â€" 7 the friendship 'cont‘rnued. One evming the sister went out with the young friend of the young woman. um. he could find her, .and, gong to Chi- cago, he went from- house to house, ' ' ' ’ until he ‘p Brockville. Aug. 7.â€"-Theycharge of perjury preferred a 'week ago by Rev. Thomas Leech, Anglican clergyman of Lansdowne, against Rcbert H. Sate, vice, proprietor of the Island View House, Rockport. was taken up in the Police Court yesterday. 1The Qcharge ‘ ' " A N! no .nmifla ,, L minution of power; taken with othet food, only the diminution of power is shown; alcohol decreases the rate of ‘ performance of habitual activities and decreases the rate of improvement in gaining facility in repeated tasks. The more complex the mental acts the greater the evil eflects are found to be. the dose repeated from day to day has a cumulative evil eaect and the rate of ordinary memorizing is retarded. All this can only mean one thing to the factory and office. It is conceded that the power of endurance is reduced by the use of alcohol. . Lord .Raberts’ march to Candahar furnished evidence which has made him ever since an opponent Brockville. Aug. 7.â€"The [charge of perjury preferred a 'week ago by Rev. Thomas Leech, Anglican clergyman of Lansdowne, against Robert H. Sere vice, proprietor of the Island View House, Rockport. was taken up in the Police Court. yesterday. The charge was that On March 13 last Service made an affidavit in which he accused the plaintifi oL'openly canvassing vote ers in: the polhng booth to cast their l...l‘l-a_ :n tunnr' nf ‘Mfil ODtion 0n u ull~ 1. It was shown that the clergyman had twice entered the pollin booth in a private residence during t e day. on one occasion just to get a glimpse of those inside and on the other at a time when the poll was about to close and all the votes in. No one heard him canvassing and Plunkett, the man he is alleged to have openly canvass- ed in the booth, swore that Leech spoke to him concerning a relatiw who was ill. - ~ Magistrate Murphy considered the evidence suficient to send Service for trial and accordingly committed him. Bail Was fixed at $2,000 and promptly balldts in J an. '4. Divorced In New York. New York, Aug. 7.-â€"â€"Mrs. Alice Montford was yesterday granted an interlocutory decree “of divorce by Justice Crane. The action was uncle;- fended. The defendant in the suit is William Sidney Montford, a wealthy manufacturer of automatic photof- graphing machines. Named as co-res spondent is Miss Anne McLean. the private secretary of the defendant. . Mrs. Montford testified that she married the defendant in Toronto; Canada, Feb. 23, 1888 and that there is one issue of the marriage, a daugh- ter Edna, who is now 19 years of age. Because of the facts that she had ascertained concerning her husband's conduct she separated from him last February. furnished. Brantford, Aug. 7.â€"Principal Gent has been dismissed by the Paris ‘pub- lic school board as a result of dis- satisfaction among the trustees nver alleged misconduct during school hours. ‘ _ _ Mr. Gent stated that he would hold the trustees responsible for his dis- missal. His letter was filed by a vote of 6 to 5. The principal is said to have Dlaced his feet on the desk during class hours, His dismissal was not unanimous among the trustees, a number of whom have regarded the results shown as most satisfactory. , . ~ Chink lumen an um. Frankfort, Aug. 7.â€"The murder at. a white woman by a Chinaman,‘ some«_ what similar to the murder of Elsie Sigel in New York last June, occurred in this city yesterday. ‘ Tien Yon, a Chinese merchant, of Berlin, actuated by jealousy, shot Hfldegard Hoflman, a music hall sing. er, and then turned his revolver on Both died within a few minutes. Cassidy, aged 25 years, of Prescott, employed as a waitress at Alexandra Bay, attempted to drown herself at that place. Crazed with a toothache, for which she could get no relief, the young woman went to the Cornwall dock and in full view of scores of people threw herself into the river. She was Train Kills Twelve Cattle. Brantford, Aug. 7.â€"â€"Thirty head of cattle belonging to a’ farmer named Simona, wandered through a defec- tive fence on _the farm between St. George and Pans, and bunched on the Grandka track for the nm A freighteruhed in‘ them, .k‘ ' ‘12 “11â€" :_-__-A 3-..- Waitress Jumps Into River. Put Feet on "an.--” â€"v - ,,, favor‘ of local Option The Commercial Value of the Sober Citizen time. and this is followed by a di- minution of power; taken with dthet 1! alcohol be taken upon an empty stomach, it acts as a. food. and in- to the use of alcohol in the army. The unusailable figures of on: me insurance tables show that there is a reduction of vital power through the moderate habitual use of alcohol, and cesses and reduces his general relia- bility. We know the too Iteqnent of fact it has on thrift.mora11t7. happi- « ness and purchasing power. We have heard repeatedly from judges on the . bench, from wardens of prisons. and from students of sociology the stateâ€" . ments as to the amount of crime which is chargeable to drinh. as to worker. The wen known power of alcoholic drinks to reduce a man's inhibitory power by which he regulam all his impulses, leads to unintentional ex- this mp3 a. decrease of the rate and length 'of time of production of each man serving the‘ state as a personal habit may be. who takes an interest in his country’s welfare. and who believes that business pros- Pel‘ity rests in a large part on more! conditions, to acknowledge that here we have a national problem of great importance. Mr. Eugene Smith, in speaking for the National Prison As- sociation or the United States. as- eertsthat $20,000,000 a year is spent in New York for the detection ‘ and punishment of crime out 0! a total tax of $90,000,000. Crime in the same way is estimated to cost the whole United States $200,000,000. which is $61,000,000 more than is paid for edu- cation. If but one half of our crime is due to drink. ,what answer should the business world find to this na- tional problem 7 We tind large corporations are put- ting into force prohibitory laws..as far as their own employees are con- cernefl. on amount of their loss of time through the “Sunday drunk" and the Monday “lay 01!.” the waste of property and life through avoid- able accidents. and the general de- crease of energy and reliability. The fact is that no man can be known to take alcoholic drinks without (becom- ing a. suspect. The question may well be asked, “Should not a nation, as a business partnership, say that the loss of economic values is too great, and that the nation cannot aflord it T” The whole question as a nation- al one Should be dealt with primarily as a businese~ proposition. The Dominic: "cal 00.; of Sydney. C. B., lose heavily every year, as do many other business concerns. through the fact that a large num‘ ber of men are absent from work the Monday after pay day. On June 15th. the first Monday after pay day, 819 \men in the diflerent colleries were on wank. There were at the time no out- side attractions, such as picnics. games, etc. From Ja’nnaty let to the last day of April. the company claims to have lost 45.0.00“ olran output through thaw W8 themselves. This w0uld be at the rate of 130,000 tons a year. The'loes “I v .Vâ€"' through th; mm mg was. This would be at the no matter vihat his power for a short take an illustration of the local option “we” _ home. local option nearer home. The town of 0111113, while not strictly under local opflon has this year no licensed hm- On' the authority of a. large favorable to local option, we told that his; employees are all to work on Monday morning, and the morning after pay clay. whereas such was not the ease previous to passing The total amount spent in Cu (or drink is $76,867,000 annually. total national and provincial n not! from the traffic amount to force, the working energy. and use moral stamina of the nation and in; creases the percentage offlloes through Thirty 1" our Were Arrested u.u.w. Picket: man In by Em- v plays: of Mines. Glace Bay. N.S.. Aug. 7.â€"With the exception that more men are reporte mg for work there is little chunge in conditions at the collieries. Another batch of men from Montreal were landed Thursday night and were tut- en to the mines. " ‘The output on Thursday amounted to 10,468 tons. at which 5,900 tons came from the collicrics. the rest bev rug from the banks. The cases brought by the Dominion Coal Co. against some of its temnts for eviction are still being head be. fore Judge Finlayson. “Yesterday morning the court. ted an order for the eviction o! A exander Biol-Each: av. w... v.â€"....__ e ten and Alexander McLeod. both of Reserve mines. and of Frail: Baker of New Aberdeen. Thursday night 34 men were arrest- ed at No. 2 Mine. charged with loit- ering on the~streets. These men were at the time doinf picket duty for the U.M.W. The po ice committee of the Town Council. being all employee 0! the coal company. appointed 5 ol the coal police as special town police. These allied forth and “tested the the . and that is what we S‘B‘fis‘ EfiEQI-"wm be finished, completing the double track on Montreal and Smith’s Falls as Will Not Use Whole Lfino. a thorough ‘0! crime 7 Surely a In? :yearnohoengtflhh Cold hority of a. 1080; On 3°! was tumult not' w Mon, VG told will have are In to Vin be 4 01111112. Ind the? progucts .- 8m. Word no received yaw:- theWells’ four thousand are spent one matinee threemilea south of here, 0‘ 1°” one flat wheat. cgmng will begin on Aug- the Vital mt 8.1tilc9expected that the crop and the will runforty-fi ve bushelzetp the acre. nhot anti {c.N.R.‘Gnin Agent Acheson Thinks 3” in Illiion Mk Will Cover the mâ€" - Destruction by Hail In tho’vlest mt. M Day: of Juli Will Pull 9" Fruit 0109 Above the Aver- . '0‘? up of ' Previous Years. In- :en om". Aug. 7.â€"T‘he report of the to Depcmnent of Agriculture on the fruit cop for Jul is not so encouraging the: products, but will likely export game {to huepe on .ccount of hxgh pncee. 4...! Think: Damage ls Sikh}. Econsidered low. One POT cent. dun- 3*.“ considered 7317 light in com- , puma with other gens. . “Of course.” acid r. Acheson. "the ‘bnnine' communities generally 'i“ gnog. ted such : slight loan. At Specmc ; u where the most damage has . done then will be 3 slight de- _....:._ .1... 1h- Imxinem men. but Fm amp Suffers as Result of . a” July Weather. does not anticipate arm-bins seriou- Since the beginning of the season Hr. Acheson has kept faithful rem «mam-sewsmfinzminsmd the mm. covering the three 1889 ,_ ., . AII ,4- __J Drydock for League Pointo. Montreal. Aug. 7.â€"C. C. Bailnntyne, harbor commissioner, Arrived home yesterday after mixing engagements with an. English shipping firm for building a floating drydock at Longue- l Pointe. Built Ham's-X Shot by EM. . Lacuna“. as. 7.â€"‘l‘homas Mul- ,_,preudeptoftheshtebsnk.m ”hot. killed here Thursday night by Gus W. a farmer. who then shot and killed himself. It is believed hnd been mentally unbal- sono time. He had threat- enedtokmotherpmonq. c” ~ 2% syndiede. Word we: received yester- hom the Wells‘ {out thousand tum. three miles south of here. wheat gains will begin on Aug- 3, It is expected that the crop minty-five bushels to the acre. M m elevators are twinge"?!ed éfifiés Quebec Timbcr Changes. Quebec. Aug. 7.â€"At the next sr-ssion of ‘he Legislature the Govenunent's new timber policy will be introduced; Hon. Jules Allard. Minister 0! Crown Lands. declared Thursday that. the stumpage duties would be con- siderably increased :nd some action .vrv__ 7 7, has decided to 3pm the title'ot king on the oecumn of the 50th an- niversary of hu accession. which will occur on August 14. 1910. Vi'nno. Ant. 7.:â€"Enrope next year will have 3 newjmc. According to a report: Prince ‘Nichohs of Montenegro _A-__- AL- AlAI- A‘ Belleville, Aug. 7.â€"Newa has been received here 0! the death to! Barry Backus, a former Belleville boy. who was killed at! M 13‘“. 13.9, by a 3.1:. which he cut down tau: .He left here 11 you: :30. Killed In British Columbia. E’ifi'is'prom' - Sundny Work Legal. 3, Aug. 7.â€"In the Appeal nerds. Judge _Lgve{gqa d2- L‘ S‘ WHEAT DAMAGED '. LINDSAY. mu: '1 Manual Herald: In tmi‘ animus possess” d ‘ ‘ am and an OVe: ”we” need not‘throw the coin :W gut, too soft-hearted to a“ ta the manner of the an, the collection nhh 3. Banks Will Take It 1. 'IE _ men! Gum“: gun-'- hat. the nigger m; 4 ah counter, or the buy , 1 m 0‘ disposing of it. |_j itgto a bank, and then" without breach of any W in exchange for it reed“ per cent of its face Value, . ly worn coin will be ”well, I" As a result of negotm » the Finance Department Ii flanks. the government fill h v. ‘redeem, through the 11th, < ted silver coin at twenty“: tdia’count. an ordinary can"! l mmdoneinanattm- from circulation the m plugged and worn silver “at: dingy man wxll not b- M the change. Not 0111ng h 7‘ still sufficiently strong to am persm) from hm god quarter or fifty cent ”S Bank at twenty- five per Mb 1y. but also few people rah posing a plugged coin in. punishable under the Cm So tear does not deter that“ As for legitimately Worn 0‘. may people now reject a knowledge that it can be it redeem at any time at pi, i persuade people to acuptiui new regulation will only um it in circulation. To (tutti have accepted at par numb plugged or very badly m 1 little plugged silver, hows? (lend to the tellers. may m at mutilated sum “â€"1 big corporations. The big corporations, M4 ployees are constantly tin small change. and who m d any tooled into accepting M rency will be favorably M" the new reguIations. The pet from them large WW plugged coin. Five and ten cent pieces at? coins tound in great!“ I"! '0". beyond recognition. M pieces are seldom found m. cm plugged About an and! be; of plugged and W quarters are Passed M U The greatest number 01 H quently In any case we val-l " reudy to take your pluggd‘ silver at the conditiw‘ Thursda: St Catharines American crooks demandin forum 3 a 011-in that country of n Cretan affairs. The Canadianh HOW their line between QueM,‘ real on the 21an the “it: in and out of the C-H' station. Following published a 1- 4- Mama-o 1‘1:in sued last nigh: Education. The London T gilférence. t is announcvd that 111 53'? tm1, who got within south Pole. has acce “on to lecture in C81" Uniped States. . valued at 51" ceded in bales again!“ ' b61115 mnding a form: m6 mnnfrv Of ashe can worn smooth. my case the b: to : can pass it ..‘.. few people My. Eoins to!!!a d plate