wrwvwevrtrvVrvvv Vw Pee ey ae ee i eer ee ee tish Columbia. STRING RELIIOUS SECT COLUMBIA, chewan. -- . flour mills, and Ritiahle Information About These aval Strange People--Their Reli- geious Tenets, In 1908 a good deal of surprise was occasioned in Nelson, the prin- cipal town of the Kootenay dis- trict, in the south-east corner of British Columbia, by the news that the Doukhobors had bought a tract of 2,900 acres of fruit-land beside the Columbia River, some 30 miles west. of Nelson. and 3,500 acres at Grand Forks, 75 miles farther to the south-west, and intended to pleat them with orchards. People egan to ask one another--'"Who are the Doukhobors ?' they come from?" 'What are they going to do with all that land?" And in allusion to certain some- what disagreeable rumors which had attended their coming the fur- ther questions were occasionally heard--"Ts it true that they about without any clothes?' Don't they ever marry?' "Are they dangerous religious fanatics ?" "What do they believe, anyway 1' In a little while certain items of reliable information became known about the newcomers, writes J. T. Dealby in Chambers's Journal. Originally the Doukhobors were a religious sect which sprang up 170 pe ago in the Government of harhoy, one of the provinces of the southern part of Middle Russia. Their religious tenets are in several respects akin to those of the Quak- ers. THEY OBJECT TO BEAR ARMS for any cause whatsoever. The pre- sent leader of the community in British Columbia, Peter Veregin, was exiled to Siberia for 15 years for refusing to join the colors when called upon in the usual way; and his brother, who is also in British Oolumbia, was sentenced to 11 years' exile in the same part of the world for the same cause. Ait one time this tenet seemed likely to lead to trouble when the recent Canadian census was taken. The people who settled at Brilliant, the Doukhobor colony beside the Col- umbia River, refused to give the authorities any information what- ever. Their leader, Peter Veregin, ably backed by his lieutenant, John Sherbinin, tried his utmost to per- suade them to comply with the de- mands of the census officials. Ne- vertheless they quietly but firmly resisted his authority; and yet the deference they habitually pay to him is very great, and every man who meets him invariably raises his hat in greeting. The ground of the revolt was the fear and suspicion was any form, while an exhib ality of these world-beater. hobors are an 'Where do LAW-ABID The progress ed at Brilliant in all. ing, flour-mills. and men. At and their own the spring of jam-factory in for the fruit, b dependent upo is it dear, but obtain. body of trained service to the eral. During the the Doukhobo in fighting the that the Canadian Government| able to send out quite a wanted to enroll them for military service. SMALL ARMY OF MEN Another of their distinguishing at: the shortest notice. and in. tact traits is that they refuse to eat the did so on more than one occasion. flesh of any animal which has been They are strong, sturdy men, and killed for that object, and to wear accustomed to hard, muscular work its skin or hair or wool. To the out- from their youth up side world their most noticeable 7 ee 3 They live in peculiarity is that they own all Havens property in common; there is no private property. Their houses even stand two together, one being occupied by the women and the other by the men. THE WOMEN work one week in the fields, woods and factories, and in the second week do domestic work in the houses. They are simply but neatly dressed, the women wearing shawls over their heads instead of hats, and aprons over their gowns, and the men being dressed in jerseys and woollen head-dresses. They are clean in their persons, and wear an air of contentment and prosperity. Their food consists, of course, of fruit and vegetables, with milk and bread. : After suffering persecution on various occasions from the Russian Government, and being moved from one part of the empire to the other, a large body of them, numbering several thousands, settled in the district of Yorkton, in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan, in the year 1899. In making this move they were assisted by English and American Quakers, and by Count Leo Tolstoi, the well-known Rus- sian writer, who was a very close personal friend of Peter Veregin, the Doukhobor leader. Indeed, peo- ple who know the latter state that he is himself a very remarkable man, long-sighted, a deep thinker, and a man of lofty ideals. In 1902 and the following years part of their body occasioned the Dominion authorities a certain de- gree of anxiety. They became pos- sessed with the idea that the Sec- ond Advent of Christ was immi- nent, and they insisted upon set- ting out to meet Him, taking with them no food, and rejecting their own clothing wholly or in part in order that they might appear be- fore the Lord divested of all adven- titious aids to any claim upon his high ceilings dows." They people, partly supposed to be was felt that ti self-contained come to live. made to break provincial the attendance which exist in Province. have expressed which they are selves. Time does exist any about them. One tendency men have left. and after worki count have beg. them and plan movement towa pronounced, is ful to Peter Ve his behefs will exercise, approximately 11,000 acres in Bri- Brilliant numbers about 1,500 - ae ple, ote' aod e Grand Forks ne: . E DOUKRO : y 500. In addition, there are sti BORS IN BRITISH 4,000 left at Yorkton, in Saskat- In Saskatchewan they have seven wheat warehouses. principally in agriculture, and are said to be good farmers. lived five weeks amongst them quite recently says:--"'I watched during my visit to see if I could find a} frown or a discontented face, and I unable to discover one. cleanliness they are superb. There is no liquor drank among the Doukhobors, no tobacco no profane language, is impossible to find. And the mor- people, good neighbors, and most Saskatchewan is marvellous." In British Columbia it has been equally marvellous; although it is only three years since they began operations they have already clear- of land, all of which is planted with fruit-trees, these numbering 60,000 But they include within the range of their energies many other trades and crafts, represented in the following: House-building, saw- milling, planing-mills, bee-keeping, sash and door factories, brick-mak- jam-factory, and in Saskatchewan twenty-three threshing machines with full complements of engines also constructed a hospital; a huge concrete tank or reservoir 150 feet long, 70 feet wide, and 13 feet deep ; At Brilliant they possess 50 horses, and in Saskatchewan no less than 700 teams and 600 span of oxen. In not only to pay the market price own pickers to gather should prove of immense advantage to all those fruit-ranchers who are living during the time that their or- chards are growing up and before they come into bearing, The high cost of labor is a real handicap to the grower of small fruits. Not only Hence the advent of this of the fruit-growing district of West Kootenay is likely to prove of great great assistance to the local govern- ment fire wardens of the Province fires which broke out. 'large, tage-roofed buildings, ber sawn in their own mill, and veneered with bricks made in their own brick-kilns. At first there was a certain amount of prejudice against these with the rest of the population. It held itself aloof from the rest of the people amongst whom they had exclusiveness b} tation which should call upon the government to enforce children at schools similar to those To this the Doukhobors conform, and have even invited the Board of Education to furnish them Me with proper teachers amongst them they are at pains to keep it to themselves, and none of it is evident to their able, which cannot but be disturb- ing to their leaders. of land here and there, and clear pendence, which as yet is not at all to discourage it by all the means in his power short of force, which SOMETHING ABOUT CHLORINE TREATMENT aS WATER GIVES GOOD RESULTS. ew Mr, Joseph Race Tells How It Was First Adopted as a Disin- fectant. Mr. Joseph Race, in an article in the Canadian Engineer, discusses the use of chlorine for purification in part as follows: "The use of chlorine ag a disin- fectant developed within the 19th century, and its general use follow- ed directly in the wake of the com- mercial preparation of bleaching powder. This substance was after used in the early part of the cen- tury for the disinfection of sewage and water, and as early as 1854 its efficiency was so well recognized that an English Royal Commision recommended the use of this sub- stance for deodorizing the sewage of London. "Tn 1885 a special committee of the American Public Health Asso- ciation stated that 'taking cost into consideration, hypochlorites in gen- eral were the most efficient disin- fectants available.' '"' | MANY EXPERIMENTS. "During the nineties many ex- periments with bleach and soda were made by Traube, Lode, Sick- erberger, Kunzmann and others, with the object of obtaining practi- eally instantaneous sterilization of 1905, during the typhoid epidemic troops in the field. Electrolytic processes were developed in 1889, when Webster in England and Woolf in America produced chlor- ine solutions from sea water and used them for various purposes. "In 1897 bleach was used by Sims Woodhead for the sterilization of the water supply to the outbreak of the typhoid epidemic. In 1904 and water for the use of travellers and at Lincoln, a solution of sodium hy- pochlorite, commercially known as 'chloros,' was used to the extent of approximately one part avail- able chlorine per million. This was carried out under the direction of Drs. Houston and McGowan, and was entirely satisfactory. A mawk- ish taste was, however, the subject of many complaints, and this was thought to be due to the action of alkaline solution of chloros on the organic matter present." Mr. Race says that at the present time chlorine treatment of water in sewage is recognized in England and on this continent as a process capable of yielding excellent results at a very low cost, but owing to a certain disadvantage inherent in its use, it cannot be applied indiscrim- inately to all disinfection prob- lemss. f six elevators or big They engage One who In used in ition of bad temper good people is a - . . . The Douk- extremely honest ING CITIZENS. they have made in a total of 1,000 acres , linseed-oil mills, a Brilliant they have telephone system. 1911 they started a Nelson, and agreed ut also to send their it. This n small fruits for a it is also difficult to workers in the heart community in gen- hot summer of 1910 rs proved of very HOW IT WORKS. "The general principles regard- ing the action of hypochlorites," he says, "'are fairly well understood, but the details differ in every case and must be determined, as a full knowledge of them is essential to successful and efficient operation. The active constituent of hypo- chlorites for disinfecting purposes is chlorine, which liberates oxygen in a nascent condition when these substances are mixed with water. Nascent oxygen in small quantities inhibits reproductive faculty of micro-organisms and in large quan- tieties kills them. It should be re- membered that the results of chlori- nation are largely judged by the bacteriological results obtained and in these the enumeration of the bacteria present plays an important part. The methods of counting the bacteria at present in use are de- pendent upon the ability of the organism to reproduce at such a rate as to form a visible colony within the period of incubation. Any substance which prevents the appearance of a colony during the period of incubation would be re- garded as a disinfectant, but this does not imply that it kills bac- teria. All substances known as dis- infectant probably act as antiseptic in small quantities and as germi- cides in larger ones, the line of di- vision being imperfectly defined." many bush or forest They were frame, or wooden, two-storied, cot- with fine and plenty of win- are built from lum- because of what is their refusal to fuse hey were creating a community which An endeavor was down this spiris of y getting up an agi- ef the Doukhobors every part of the their willingness to for schools building for them- shows that if there religious fanaticism SUN TO REPLACE COAL. Ttalian Scientist Offers Solution of Future Fuel Problem. The possibility of using the ener- gy of the sun as a substitute for the failing coal supply was the subject of an address by Prof. Giacomo Cinmician, of Bologna, at the In- ternational Chemists' Congress. The speaker said that since the earth's supply of coal is limited, it ig not too soon to consider the pos- sibilities of getting power from other sources. He outlined a plan of putting the sun's rays to work by a chemical process after the maniner of plants. He said :--- "Tf we should become able to utilize the energy of the sun in the way I have described, the tropical countries would become conquered neighbors is, however, notice- Several of the their communities, ng on their own. ac- in to buy little plots t fruit-trees. This rds individual inde- extremely distaste- regin, and he seeks not permit him to consideration. It was with CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTY that they were induced to turn back to their homes, after being es- corted for some distance by the Royal North-West Mounted Police. In 1908, as stated above, their Yeaders bought 6400 acres of land in the Kootenay district of British Columbia ; and these first purchases were quickly followed by others-- namely, 1,100 acres at Slocan Junc- tion, about 15 miles west of Nel- son; 2,500 acres at Pass Creek, a few miles farther west; 50 acres on the opposite side of the river from their settlement at Brilliant, part of this being an orchard in bearing ; and finally, in September, 1911, they bought the Crescent Valley nch, only three to four miles from Slocan Junction, comprising 1,200 acres, a ranch which had been cultivated for some eight years by a prominent citizen of Nelson. In this way the Doukhobors now own constant stream railway stations popular, A man sitting he kept glancin person, RUDE TO REFUSE SALT. 4 Traveller Learns This on Alexan- dria to Cairo Railroad Trip. On the railway journey from Al- exandria to Cairo, says a writer in the Christian Herald, we passed a children walking along the canal banks, or on donkeys--occasionally a whole family on adonkey! At the great variety of flowing robes of many colors and gaudy skull caps or turbans came to the carriage 1% windows with fruit, sugar cane and cakes of all sorts. Eggs were also two eggs and a little salt. He offer- ed me some salt, which I declined, and all the rest of the way to Cairo thought me a very ill mannered Mh. by civilization, which would in this manner return to its birthplace. "On the arid lands there will spring up industrial colonies with- out smoke and without smoke- stacks; forests of glass tubes will arise everywhere ; inside these will take place the photo-chemical pro- cesses that have hitherto been the guarded secret of the plants, but that will have been mastered by human industry, which will know ~-- . = rag bear even cette - {abundant fruit than nature; for mon: 0K. 'boys' 40 [sane ie tot in a hurry and man- kind is." of men, women and To man it is said, you do not live for yourself.' If you live for your- self you shall come to nothing, Be brave, be just, be pure, be true in word and deed; care not for your enjoyment, care not for your life, care only for what is right. So, and not. otherwise, it shall be well opposite me bought g at me as if he [ GIRLS ON BATTLEFIELD. _ Maidens Render Valuable Service to Foe of Italians. SS What greatly increased the fierce, fanatical enthusiasm of the Arab warriors in the sandy deserts of Tri- poli and Benghazi is the presence of a large number of girls, the so- called "Amariyehs" (Menders), as well as of whole regiments of half- naked valiant Arab boys. _ According to the sacred writings of Islam, neither the very old nor | the very young must be excluded from warfare, especiallly when it becomes necessary to meet an infi- del invader or when the Moslem faith itself seems in danger. Thus, in the Arab camps of Tripoli and bers of old men of about 80 years of age and of male children not ex- ceeding the age of eight. , Both of them fight with admirable courage. Many a grey-beard has put to utter shame much younger warriors through his exceptional knowledge of war tactics and through their complete disregard of difficulties and dangers. The vehe- ment fanaticism of the old, too, is a most formidable weapon, frequent- ly more deadly than the vigorous courage and endurance of the young. Every one of the boys has a rifle. It is rather amusing, say those who have just arrived from the field of battle, to see such a little fellow carrying in a most warlike spirit his rifle, which is longer by far than himself, : With regard to the "Amariyehs"' or Menders, these are young Arab beauties, girls between sixteen and eighteen years of age. They derive their name from their office. Their duty is to 'mend" the courage of the failing, to rebuke the wavering and to inspire the brave. This seems to be an old Arab custom much in vogue in North African dis- tricts. The Menders have also other du- ties. They bring water for the thirsty into the foremost ranks of the warriors. They help to transfer the wounded to the ambulance hos- pitals. They snatch the dying from the battlefield that they may not fall into the hands of the enemy. Many an Amariyeh has fallen a victim to her splendid vocation. A pathetic story is told of an Amariyeh who had accompanied her lover onto the battlefield. Both of them were assigned to a com- pany of warriors near Tripoli. They all swore that they would "tear their hearts out of their bosoms" rather than yield to the "Maca- roni." The latter proved, however, much stronger. The Arab fighters fell, one by one. The lover of the Amariyeh was mortally wounded. When the girl saw that there was no escape she laid herself alongside | his expiring body. She did not com- mit suicide, but when the enemy came he found the couple dead, en- twined in the last desperate em- brace of the eternal farewell. Benghazi there are at present num- ye SOME INTERESTING GOSSIP = QUEEN CITY. -- land's Pessibilities--Trades Union -- Movement--Exhibition Criticism. While Provincial politics in general are enjoying a rest considerable public at- sonality of the newest member of the Cabinet, Hon. Mr. Hearst, who, a few months ago, succeeded Mr. Cochrane as Minister of Lands and Mines. The other day when Sir James Whitney was asked to address a public gathering he contented himself with a few words and introduced r. Hearst in his stead, "one of my young men," the Premier described him. Mr. Hearst took Northern Ontario as his text and delivered an important address on its possibilities. Coming from Sault Ste. arie, where he is a leading lawyer, the subject is close to his heart. Mr. Hearst does not resemble his photo- graphs. They do not reproduce his sandy complexion or his almost fiery hair and moustache. In manner of speech Mr. Hearst is not unlike his leader, Sir James Whitney. He has the same downright- ness and something of the same force of deliverance. Assuming that those quali- ties in speech reflect similar qualities of the head, it is not difficult to understand why the Premier selected him out of his large following for promotion. SILVER CAMPS REVIVING. All the news from the northland serves to strengthen the optimism that has been developing during recent years. The known agricultural area is widening, In- stead of 16,000,000 acres in the clay. belt the figure has now risen to 20,000,000 acres. Settlement is slow, but the point is rap- idly being reached when it will be cheap- er to clear New Ontario farms than it will be to buy prairie lands. Then it ought to be easy to divert the westward stream of immigation to the north. The mining industry is making progress. The news from Porcupine continues to be en- couraging in a moderate way. One mine 8 understood to have produced a quarter of a million dollars of gold up to the first of September. But the feature of the summer's work has been the revival of the silver camps. In Cobalt twenty. three properties have been reopened. And in Elk Lake and Gowganda operations are under way in twenty-two camps. And, doubtless, there will be a fresh orop of wild cats for the unwary. LABOR UNIONS IN ONTARIO. The annual meeting in Guelph of the Dominion Trades and Labor Council, held in Ontario for the first time in several years, has served to call attention to the progress and sent strength of the Trades Union movement in this province. While the organization is strong numeri. cally and has secured in some trades an almost masterful position it is not with- out its weaknesses. It would be more exact to say that it has not yet taken advantage of its opportunities for the improving of the condition of the great body of workers. Up to the present in Canada, the great objective of the trades unions hag been to increase wages, and the one weapon they have used for this purpose has been the crude and often-dangerous and cruel form of warfare known as the strike. In innumerable cases strikes or threats of strikes have been successful, and it would be impossible to estimate the ad- vances in wages the unions have to their credit by this means. Possibly in many trades they have doubled the rate of pay they would be receiving if there were no unions. In other trades they have failed, and the curious fact is that in the strong- ly unionized city of Toronto many of the largest industries are absolutely non-un- ion, or open shops. The employers in some of these industries have ~ objection to high wages, and voluntarily pay the union scale or higher, but it is also unfortu- nately the case that some of the others pay absolutely inadequate wages. There are many competent workmen in Toronto to-day, working 10 hours a day, receiving not more than $10.00 a week. If there is a family of any size, with no other wage earners in it, this means, with rent and the cost of clothing and provisions what they are, that these people are on the ragged edge of penury, Compare such wages with those that prevail in such a trade as the printers, who are at present negotiating a new scale and have refused FROM THE | | The Minister of Lands and Mines--North- | tention is centered on the work and per-- Fis to accept a minimum rate of $21.00 a week for an eight-hour day. WORKINGMEN POOR POLITICIANS. Some of the labor leaders are coming to realize that the question of wages, while of vital importance, is but one of many things which are of the utmoat importance to the working classes' ma- terial condition. The question of land values in its relation to rent is one of these. So is the question of public owner- ship of natural monopolies. So is the question of taxation, including that moat powerful and all embracing engine of taxation, the tariff. These things affect the earning power of the workers just as much as the rate of wages he receives. But the strike is useless as a weapon to grapple with them. And so far the labor unions of Canada, knowing only the strike as a weapon, have done practically no- thing toward grappling with these prob- lems. The labor man needs a new wea- pon. He scarcely knows yet what it is, He realizes clearly only that there is need of something, that conditions are rapidly stratifying into a form which does not bode best for the classes gener- ally. Some day he will see that what he needs is political organization, But at present the efforts in the Province to or- ganize a workingman's political Party have fallen fiat. That party's dependable strength in the city of Toronto ig pro- bably not more than a few hundred vot ers. KIER HARDIE SCENTS TROUBLE. Kier Hardie, the powerful but somewhat intemperate Scotch socialist labor leader, Now in house properly. three miles. y, vat MOON IS NOT ROUND. Pictures Taken During Eclipse of Sun Prove It Oval. That the moon is not round, but oval, is the conclusion reached by Prof. Castadilobo, of Coimbra Uni- versity, Portugal, the whose observations during the re- THE DUCHESS OF LAND, Canada, who declares that wives should be able to keep cent total eclipse of the sun was read before the Academy of Sciences. He took cinematograph pictures of the whole of the eclipse, and was rewarded in finding from the films that at the time of the maximum obscuration the moon, while com- pletely blotting out the sun at top and bottom, did not quite cover it on the right-and left. From this he concludes that the satellite, like the earth, is not a sphere. The difference between the greatest and least breadth is, how- ever, estimated by him at less than . a former collier, but the match in mental equipment for political leaders anywhere, has been telling his Canadian brothers some plain facts along these lines. He declared that in some respects privilege has already become entrenched in Can- ada in a way that it will take genera- tions to rectify, if it can ever be recti- fied. No doubt one reason organized labor has been slow to agitate in political ques- tions is that well organized labor hag been so successful in keeping its wages up to a good standard, that it has thought the other matters were of trivial import- ance. Besides, on some of the most im- portant issues labor men are by no meang united in their opinion. A good example is the tariff question. At the moment some of the most forceful men in the un. ions in Toronto are free traders, or, at least, low tariff men. But while the union men of the city would follow these leaders over a precipice if a strike were involved it is doubtful if more than a small frac. tion would follow them in a free trade campaign. Judging by concrete results the labor men of Toronto are strongly protectionist, One result of the Canadian labor men's large attention to the question of wages has been to arouse against him some re. sentment on the part of the great army of other workers and salaried people gen- erally who are disposed to accept the statement that much of the high cost of living must be charged to the unions with their unending demands for higher wages. As a matter of fact, the interests of the union man, the farmer, the store. keeper, the clerk are largely in common, é The problem is to find a basis for united action. CRITICS OF THE BIG SHOW, Now that the Exhibition is over, loyal critics who would not say a word while its success was in the balance, are rais- ing their voices in protest on account of conditions in some of the departments. The chief complaint is that the Fair has been losing its agricultural character. It is a significant fact that the entries in SUTHER- report of next day. with you.--Froude, NIGHT BANK FOR LONDON. Institution Will Be Welcome to Houses of Entertainment. An all-night bank is to be estab- lished in London, England, in a short time. A company has already been registered, and the scheme has met with strong encouragement from business men. The new institution will be espe- cially welcomed by houses of enter- tainment of all sorts, which at the present time are compelled to keep their nightly takings under strong guard until the banks open the The eighteen hours during which it is impossible in London to either deposit or withdraw money often form a very awkward period for people who either have too much or too little money for their comfort until the next day. live stock this year were much below those of previous years in point of num- ber, and no satisfactory explanation hag been forthcoming of why this was so. The live stock sheds and accommodation gen- erally for this class of exhibits are far below what they ought to be and. no doubt before another year a great change will be made in this regard. 'Those in charge of the Exhibition realize that if the Fair is to be truly representative of National, as it is termed, it must not be allowed to become lopsided. OEY : TURN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY -- There is a firm in Toronto who give hun- dreds of men and women an opportunity to earn from $250.00 to $1,500.00 every year with but little effort. This firm manufac- tures reliable family remedies, beautiful toilet preparations and many necessary household goods, such as baking powder, washing compounds, stove, furniture and metal polishes, in all over one hundred preparations that every home uses every day. Just one person in each locality can secure exclusive right to distribute these preparations to their neighbors. They pay 100 per cent. commission to their agents. Write and secure sole agency he- fore it is too late. Address The Home Supply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Building, To- staff at a local hospital the boy is An exceptional 0 of savings in a hig We offer the unsold bal Year Nofes, dated ist Western municipality. flons of $100 fo $5000 for the Investment of % Yielding 5'/, | small savings or money which Is now earning only 3 per cent. or les COMPLETE DETAILS ON REQUEST per cer ance of $ September of They are in denon and especially sui ie, AS a Toronto Montreal Bominion Bond Company, Limit Vancouver ss Lendon, 'THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY) INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 29. XIII.--Review. Text, John 6. 63. PRACTICAL LESSONS. Lesson I.--On a day of sunshine I went into a room absolutely dark. The occupant had drawn the cur- tains down tight. Christ was the light of the world, but he could not bring light to those who loved darkness, Lesson II.--The Word is a living seed. Plant it amid favoring con- ditions and you have the miracle of spiritual life, just as when you plant a seed you have the miracle of plant life. Lesson III. -- Spiritual growth, our Lord tells us, is like plant growth--first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. The blade may be very small and the harvest very great. Lesson IV.--Like the disciples we would put an end to wrong-doing, here and now. But in trying to root out wicked members of church and Sunday school we may do more harm than good, "like striking a heavy blow at a fly on a Venetian vase.'"' Lesson V.--"Put God first?' is a fine motto. When the sun was put in the center of our system the astronomers were able to bring or- der out of chaos. They would have stayed in the dark forever if they had insisted that the heavenly bod- ies move around the earth. "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven," said the Master. Lesson VI.--Our hope lies not in the absence of storm, but in the presence of Christ who is able to control the tumult--not only that Lesson Golden WAKING SAFE INVEST PRICES OF MUNICIPA Prices Lower than for Many Y tihood of Further Reduction In | of Experts is Remote--Many Bargali Market. : -- i neh am : contributed ' pt i ere for the sole purpose cf g ng. pective investers, and, if possible, of say ing them from losing money throu lacing it in "wild-cat" enterprises. T mpartial and reliable character of information may be relied upon. writer of these articles and the publish of this paper have no interests to s in connection with this matter othet those of the reader. : ---- (By Investor.) The apathy of the London market Canadian municipal debentures has tinued all summer, and now with : sinning of autumn there appears to_ bi no improvement in the situation. -- Th result has been that such municipal as have recently come on the marke bonds have been forced to sell ti abnormally cheap prices or have hi seek temporary relief through finan by means of short-term notes or trea bills. Investors, therefore, start this season with numerous opportunities Duvenasitg cheap municipal debentures occasional chances to purchase seour ties maturing from six to twelve month of fairly high yield, but secured by tl assets of excellent municipalities. | this week, for example, one house i fering one year notes of a suburb of couver at a price to return the invest« five and one-half per cent. on his mone Many of the larger cities of the West are now returning from 43-4 to ; per cent.--a fact that has not taken p'aot since the bad year of 1907. The question that many investors asking is not whether debentures -- cheap at present, but whether o they may not become even cheaper. question is not easy to answer and only express an opinion based on opinions of many of the most e bond men in Canada. But while opinions are well worth having they a unfortunately hampered by not gifted with prophetic powers and_ their knowledge of the future is only that bas upon probabilities. What they thin this: The market has now reached point where debentures are returning high a rate of income as they have with the past fifteen years or more. conditions are excellent, unquestionabl attractive. e alchough London may not again come to the market for some time to come absorbtive power of Canada and the '* + of wind and wave but that of trou- bled soul and mind. } Lesson VII.--Jesus in restoring | the daughter of Jairus to life' proved that the soul does not die' with the body. Death does not end all. : Lesson VIII.--If people should think to put out fire by tearing down the firebell we should call | them exceedingly foolish. When the people of Nazareth rejected Jesus they were rejecting their Physician, their Joy-Bringer. Lesson IX.--John's success lay in the fact that he preserved his man- hood untarnished amid great temp- tation. No man's life is a failure who is himself a moral success. Lesson X.--Christ always uses men to reach other men. He sent out twelve men and not twelve an- gels. The children of Israel were brought out of Egypt by a man-- Moses. In military hospitals it has been found that the best nurses are soldiers who had been wound- ed. Lesson XI.--Capernaum had a great advantage in Christ's person- al teaching and miracles. We are responsible for our advantages. We expect the steamship to cross the sea faster than a sailing vessel. Have we not had greater religious advantages than Oapernaum ? Lesson XII.--Jesus conferred a great privilege on the disciples in making them the agents of his bounty when the five thousand were fed. He could have rained manna from heaven, or summoned angels to help, but he chose a lad with his lunch, and his twelve disciples. Deliverer, their ey TAR HELD BABY A PRISONER, Lost on a Roof for Sixty Hours, Child is Held by Tar. A remarkable story of the loss: and recovery of a child from one of the small streets on the riverside at Southwark is reported in the "South London Press," of London, England, The eighteen-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Evans, who was miss- of a year or eighteen months ago. demand for the bargains. mand follow the usual course and com up to the average enquiry of October a November there should be no question the stability of the es and possibly even an advance in 80) cases, vest at the present time there are many unquestionable bargains in municipal bentures, and the likelihood of these b gains falling further in price is remot As one hard-headed investor remarked the other day:-- "It is only a beginner w expects always to buy at the bottom a sell at the top and this is near enou the bottom to suit me." 3.7 below the mean birth rate States will prove sufficient Paper market from going any lower, 'hi coupled with the fact that municipaliti will considerably moderate their fina al requirements for the next few mont will probably keep prices at about t present level. Any resumption of buyin on the part of London, however, will soo exhaust the present supply of securities and the result will be a beginning to an upward movement that will tend replace prices somewhere near the level: ie It cannot be said that this feeling wag general a few months ago, but so far as. I can learn the above reflects pretty wel the general opinion now. Municipal bentures are cheap and there is a f. Should the le ip present level of pric At all events, if one has money to ----__"k OURIOUS "LAST REQUESTS Under the headline, "Many Me of Many Minds,' a Paris (Fran paper refers to the last wills of ty of its citizens. One Pere Hyacintl Loyson requested that ministers o: the various faiths attend his funer and that they appear at that fun tion in their clerical robes, other Parisian said: 'I wast priest to say the usual things atm funeral, which must not take pl uM in a church, but if a priest wish to speak on that occasion in garb of a citizen and without ar church insignia, let it be done,' -- na MOST WEDDINGS IN LONDO In every department of vital tistics the United Kingdom has up records for the past year, second quarter of 1912 registe below the mean death rate, and below the mean marriage rate, three representing a record for quarters. Proportionately sp ing, Durham is the most and_ sex the least probable scene of infant's birth. London stands fj m one respect; it is the place w the proportion of marriages -- highest, ; ed on Sunday afternoon by his parents, was found on Monday on the roof of model dwellings, which is used as a drying-ground, He was lying on his side, and was held a prisoner owing to his frock, pinafore and hair having be- come embedded in a coat of tar} which had been softened by the heat of the sun, The child was discov- ered in this position by a neighbor, who went to the roof to hang out some clothes on Monday morning, and besides being in a very ex-| | hausted state from want of food, the child was severely blistered pactes exposure to the tropical eat, . The child had been lost for two nights and a day, during which the police had made every effort to find it, even to the extent of dragging the Thames in the vicinity. -- Under the care of the medical ronto, Ont., for full particulars. now making satisfactory progress. 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