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Railway Statistics Showed Remarkable Increase in Every Phase.fort 1912 TRANSPORTATION FIGURES ed &4 Fan ad ortat HERE S AN ANTISEPTIG LAOY _Scientists in Paris have for some time been considerably excited over the discovery of a woman, who, they are now convinced, can preâ€" serve vegetable and animal tissues merely by laying her hands upon them. ' They call her ‘"The Antiseptic‘ Lady,"‘ and declare that she pos-l sesses a hitherto unknown property of human effluvia, or emanation of some preservative power from her hands. The name of this woman is not made public but Drs. Clarac and Liaguet of Bordeaux have madel many axneriments with this remarkâ€" Preservative Powers Are Said to a&nd L.\ many able w they < C d hi. Satcrs bebley in the s pmc-l kKills Bacilli of Decay. ing their entire belief in the pOWeTs| 1; is known that some people posâ€" the woman h{h L‘i' . qhanada both | gose in a small degree the pnl;wer of ve{:‘rt flw ant: #FLENSE maller. ikilling bacilli by the touchâ€"that is, These Doctors Experimented. iby actually touching bare tissues These doctors have known the woâ€" | impregnated with the bacilliâ€"but man nearly five years, and during that a person could kill them alike that time have known that she kept | in vegetable and animal matter by her various plants, vegetables | through thick fur, heavy scales and and small animals, all porfectlylthe like is considered a most reâ€" preserved and free from the least| markable thing. This woman, the ign of decay or putrefaction. doctors say, preserves objects by “fit‘hoy themselves selected a variâ€"\her powor of killing the bacilli of ety of objectsâ€"roses, branches | decay. bearing leaves, a 'mbe. !nome un s cleared fish, a number of oysters, s E““"“ aud wike. Th':;o t::‘); 07 MILES OF 1\.117 C.P.R. LILNES rought to the woman and wate 7 Ti sew Kr-,-u-elulhr. Her hands wel'0|ms .,L!‘,I?‘a_lfi_.?-‘__'o: '_V‘V.esterll mIOn. During the sh> up® the her â€" carefully W Ready to Serve Direct From Package C Handy A dainty dish of toastâ€" ed Iadian Corn, brimful of swoeet flavor and subsianâ€" tial nourishment. Post Toasties in the pantry mean many deliâ€" cious breakfasts. Post Toasties Direct to your table in sealed, air â€" tight packâ€" ages. hed by them to make certain had no sort of preservative n them. Some of the objects, at â€" hbidding. she handled, others Sold by Grocers everyâ€" where. espatch from Ottawa says: mary of railway statistics for ir ending June 30, 1912%, comâ€" ~ J. L. Payne, Comptroller tistics for the Railways and ; Department, and tabled in nmons by Hon. Mr. Cochâ€" zives many illuminating facts the recent remarkable transâ€" on development of the Doâ€" Canadian Postam Cereal Windsor, Ontario The Memory Lingers‘ €l« l.enerous Public Aid. : the twelve months coverâ€" ie report, 2,953 additional railway were put in operâ€" th 1,738 miles more reportâ€" for operation, and 10,000 der construction. All told xay mileage of Canada is r 30,000, exclusive of sidâ€" ibleâ€"tracking, etec. Eliminâ€" »vernment lines, the total liability of Canadian railâ€" June 30 last was: Stocks, .351 ; bonds, $818,478,175, a Emanate From Her U DbOCTORrs ARE EXCITâ€" ED ABOUT HER. $1,588,987,526, or $350,832 (On this capital investâ€" dends were paid last year $31,164,791, equalling 4.04 on the total stock issue. d growth in net earnings rauged from the fact that vidends totalled only $12,â€" man »F l DT I elopme fous plants, vegetables animals, â€" all perfectly m Breakfast ative power name of this iblice but D: f Bordeaux nents with th and while th ask to have pted until 0 Hands. and cream the year. The number of pcssen-‘ gers carried was 41,124,181, an inâ€" crease of 4,026,463 over 1911. The number of tons of freight hauled was 89,444,331, a gain of 9,560,049. The traffic increase is reflected in the gross earnings, which totalled $219,403,753, a betterment of $30,â€" 670,259, or a little over 16 per cent. In ten years the gross earnings of Canadian railways have more than doubled. Operating expenses last year amounted to $150,736,540, or $19,691,494 more than in 1911. Net earnings were $68,677,213, an inâ€" tcrease of $10,978,504 over the preâ€" ceding year. Net earnings per mile Iof line l‘ut. year were $2,570, as compared with $2,272 in 1911. Equipment Improvement. The equipment reported in use on June 30th last shows substantial improvement during the year. New locomotives totalled 2653, passenger cars 433 and freight cars 13,760. These figures will be greatly betâ€" tered by the end of the present fis cal year. Oil appears for the first time in the official reports as fuel for locomotives, the consumption last year being 1,729,577 gallons. Accidents Increase. Railway accidents also show a considerable increase during the year. The fatalities totalled 568, an increase of 73, and the number inâ€" jured totalled 3,780, an increase of 451. One passenger in every 872,â€" 835 was ki]fi::! and one in every 84,â€" 792 injured. Of the total killed on railways during the year 47 were |\ passengers, 215 employees and 235 | were trespassers. Passengers inâ€" | jured numbered 485 and employees | injured numbered 1,606. Collisâ€" iions were responsible for eighteen passengers killed and 73 injured, ‘while 203 passengers were injured | by derailments and ten were killed and 51 injured by falling off trains. The number of railway employees grew during the year from 141,224 !to 133,901, while the increment in | wages was $12,685,001. she merely passed her hands over without touching them. o These objects were then carefully wrapped in paper and locked up in a laboratory where no one could see or touch them or even get in the same room with them. At the end of ten days the ros had dried, but every bit o‘ its color as natural as when picked in fuw bloom, was preserved, while th leaves were bright and green an adhered to the twig with the sam tenacity it would while growing. Wine at the end of twelve days had not fermented in the least. The woman had dipped her fingers in. Oysters she had handled dried completely in thirteen days without the least sign of decay. Two dead specimens of fish, not cleaned, had dried in three days with no decay and the eyes were as bright as when taken, and the color of the scales quite as brilliant. . 3 About the same result was obâ€" tained with a dead bird and a dead rabbit. After she had handled the rabbit, which was dead, its blood was drawn off. Twentyâ€"eight days later the blood had dried, but a microscopic _ examination â€" showed that the corpuscles had not disinteâ€" Big â€" Undertakings _ for Woestern Canada are Eatered Into. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Contracts were awarded on Friday morning by the Canadian Pacific Railway for 807 miles of new lines to be constructed in the wegt durâ€" ing the present year. The men to whom these contracts have been awarded will not consider the agreements binding until they have been formally ratified by the Preâ€" sident, Sir Thomas Shaughnessy. There is but little doubt, however, that they will receive the Presiâ€" dent‘s signature. countries. These figures show an increase of 14 per cent. as compared with the number of arrivals in the corâ€" responding months of 1911, which were 185,151, and 107,365 from the United States, making a total for the nine months period, last year, of 202,516 persons. l NEARLY 400,000 ARRIVED Of These 145,859 Were British and 140,143 Were From the United States A despatch from Ottawa says: During the nine months, April 1 to December 31, 1912, 334,083 immiâ€" grants arrived in Canada, 113,798 being from the United States, the remainder coming in by ocean ports, from Britain and all other During the month of December this year there were 13,025 arrivals, ",262 of them having been at ocean ports, and 3,763 from the United Kills Bacilli of It is known that sot THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPK The Home Bank of Toronto takes over La Banque Internationale of Montreal. HAPPENINXGS FROM ALL OVEB THE GLOBZ IN A NUTSHELL Ontario butter brings a higher price in Toronto than New Zealand butter does in Vancouver. Canada, the Empire and the World in General BRefore Your : The nineteen cadets just graduâ€" ated from the Naval College are to be trained aboard H.M.S. Berwick. The annual militia report says that the general scheme of mobiliâ€" zation when needed is progressing favorably. Postmasterâ€"General Pelletier, in the Commons, promised early acâ€" tion in the matter of introduction of parcels post. x Hon. Thomas Ashburrnham of Fredericton, N.B., succeeds to the title and estates of his father, the Ea:il of Ashburnham, who has just 100. Wm. Gauthier, a farmer, aged 65 years, inflicted terrible injuries upâ€" on his wife and then committed suiâ€" cide at Orient, Russell county, on Friday. a new gas. The Marquis of Anglesey was present on Thureday at the marâ€" riage of his brother, Lord Victor Paget, with Olive May, a Gayety actress. _ The Marquis‘ wedding gift is understood to be the settleâ€" ment of ore thousand pounds a vear on the bride and groom. ' In old England, before the law | was passed which prohibited "cruel | and unusual forms of punishment,‘‘ \murderers were often condemned {h,) death by boiling. In such cases \the victims were chained in large \kettles of cold water, whichâ€" were | gradually heated until it caused \the flosh to drop from the bones. ; The last English vietim of the "boilâ€" ing death‘‘ was one Rouse, a cook, lwho, it was alleged, had killed sevâ€" The Carnegie Hero Fund Comâ€" mission announced two awards for brave Canadians. M. Poincare wae elected Presiâ€" dent of the French Republic. The interior of Mexico is cut off from the capital by the rebels. The Czar‘s brother was deprived of the Regencyâ€"designate on acâ€" count of his morganatic marriage. Yriginal Way of Washing by Naâ€" tives in Jail. (One of the humorous sights of India is the daily bathing parade in a native prison. In the one we witnessed were youthful habitual criminals, varying in age from 9 to 15 years, taking their daily dip in Agra jail. While the governor watches proceedings from the shade of a tree, the prisoners, each man fettered and carrying a bowl of beaten brass or stcel, are led out in double file to a stone pavement, on each side of which runs a shallow trough of water. At the command of a native warder bowls are washâ€" ed. At a second order the prisonâ€" ers scoop water over themselves and then sink smartly to their haunches, one behind another, in parallel lines. Again comes a snappy order from the warder, and each man begins vigorously to rub the back of the fellow in front of him. When the warder judges the "massage‘‘ is complete his voice brings the two lines to a smart rightâ€"aboutâ€"face, _ still on their haunches, and the vigorous rubâ€" bings begin again, cach man doing for his fellow what his fellow did for him. The process, while comiâ€" cal, is & genuine illustration of the saving, ‘"‘You scratch my back and I‘ll scratch yours,""‘ except, of course, to the prisoners whose fate brings them to the head or tail of the line, where they receive only half the "treatment‘‘ of their felâ€" lows Comparing the calendar year 1912 with 1911, immigration figures are as follows: 1912â€"British, 145,â€" 830 ; American, 140,143 ; other counâ€" tries, 109,802; total, 395,804. 1911 â€"British, 144,076; American, 131,â€" 114; other countries, 75,184; total, 330.3748 enteen persons. Varying the comparison, we have for the same nine months: British, 127,875; United States, 113,798; all other countries, 92,410; total, laa«,- dses. &rresponding months of the preceding fiscal year: British, 120,â€" 137; United States, 107,365; all other countries, 65,014; total, 292,â€" 516. IIUMOR OF INDIAN BATHING. States, as aga ber last year, at ocean port United States Sir J. J. Thomson of Cambridge, n@.. announced the discovery of as against 10,624 for Decemâ€" t year, 4,945 of whom were a ports, and 5,679 from the Death by Boiling. Great Britain. United States. Canada. General, Current Interpretation of the Red and White Stripes. The origin of the barber‘s pole is usually traced back to the fact that the barbers were originally also surgeons, and the red and white striped pole is supposed to have represented the white bandage and red blood (bloodâ€"letting was one of the chief remedies applied by surâ€" geons) incident to the latter callâ€" ing. But this does not explain the pole itself. May it not have been used as a pun on poll? The word poll was in constant use for head down to the seventeenth century, as we can read in Shakespeare‘s plays. All the crafts in mediaeval and Tudor times had signs illustraâ€" tive of their industry, which they displayed in their pageants, in the market, and often in the quarterc in which they lived. In the larger towns all engaged in an industry lived in the same quarter or street. The barbers may well have been puzzled for an appropriate emblem, and in those boisterous, mirthâ€"lovâ€" ing times may have hit on a punâ€" ning device as we have suggested. A pole was the more appropriate, as "‘shaving‘‘ was very little pracâ€" tised, except amongst the monks ‘and the clergy, and they probably !shaved themselves. Doubtless, however, the current interpretation {of the red and white stripes is corâ€" | rect. » Minister of Agriculture Moves Apâ€" propriation for Ten Years. A despatch from Ottawa says : Hon. Martin Burrel on Tuesday moved the following resolution : "‘That it is expedient to provide that a sum not exceeding ten milâ€" lion dollars be appropriated and paid out of the consolidated revâ€" enue fund of Canada during the period of ten years, beginning with the year ending March 31, 1914, for the purpose of aiding and advaneâ€" ing the farming industry by instrueâ€" tion in agriculture, including the work carried on by veterinary colâ€" leges." * DEFENCE IN MURDER CHARGE Brutalities of Husband Drove Wife to Desperation. A despatch from Paris, France, says: A wife‘s right to shoot her husband in selfâ€"detence after he had made her life a torture was successâ€" fully raised on Tuesday as the deâ€" fence in the Seine Assize Court to the charge of murder brought against Madame Lhoste, a handâ€" some woman, who described her married existence in bitter words to the jury. Daily brutalities, said Madame Lhoste, were followed by his proposal to give herself up to a shameful life. The jury acquitâ€" ted her in spite of the «leclaration of the public prosecutor that "no woman possesses the right to kill her husband whatever his faults." Crushed in House in a Bad Fire at Edmonton. A despatch from Edmonton, Alâ€" berta, says: Fire in the wholesale district on Thursday night took the lives of several Italians. The blaze started after midnight from an unknown cause in the fiveâ€"story brick block of the Canada Rubber Company, which was completely destroyed in less than an hour. Two bodies have been recovered from the ruins of an Italian boardâ€" ingâ€"house, which was crushed by falling walls. One is that of a woâ€" man, probably the wife of the proâ€" prietor, and the other that of a child. It is believed that there are two more bodies in the ruins. Catarrh Branas You An "Undesirable" So Loathsome is the Disease That Few Will Associate With a Catarrhal Victim. Poor remedies have given Catarrh the reputation of being incurable. Rut it is curable, easily and quickâ€" ly. Snuffing a powder or ointment up the nose won‘t cure Catarrh, neither will tablets, douching, or stomach medicines cure. _ These treatments fail because they only affect local conditions, they do not remove the cause, which is germ life established in the lungs, bronâ€" chial tubes, and nasal passages. Ordinary remedies do not reach these remote parts, but Catarrhoâ€" zone does, for it is breathed through the inhaler into every air cell in the lungs, into every air passage in the head and throat. _ No matter where the Catarrh is Catarrhozone will reach it. It kills the germs, heals sore spots, clears the nose and throat instantly. Universally used ; pleasant and clean; guaranteed to cure or money refunded. _ Don‘t be an object of aversion to everyone you meetâ€"get Catarrhoâ€" zone toâ€"day and use it regularly ; it will cure your Oatarrh, Bronchitis, Throat Trouble, epitting and gagâ€" ging. Large size 50¢c. All dealers or the Catarrhozone Co., Buffalo, N.Y., and Kingston, Canada. $10,000,000 TO AID FARMING. Is Your Trovuble Catarrh ? THE BARBER‘S POLE. TWO LLIVES WERE LOST. 3ib ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO PRIGES OF FARM PROOUGTS ports, No. 1 northern, %1â€"4¢; No. 2, $ 34¢; No. 3, 9114¢c; feed wheat, 650. _ _ _ No. 3, 9114c; feed whea;‘niso. Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2, to 93¢ for car lots outside, ranging down to 70c for poor grades. Ontario Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 33¢ to Mc at western points, 37c to 36c on track, Toâ€" ronto. _ Manitoba Oateâ€"No. 2 C. W. oats, 411â€"2%¢; track, bay ports; No. 3 C. W., 400; No. 1 feed, 40c, for prompt shipment. _ % seronts rrom THB ceapino TRADY CENTRES OFf aAMERIGA _ Cornâ€"American No. 3, all rail, Toronto, December .shipments, 57¢. _ sAt % _Keu-No. 2, $1.15 co $1.20 car lots outâ€" side. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, 5ic to 5%e. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 70c, nominal. Rolled Oatsâ€"Per bag of 90 pounds, $2.â€" 221â€"2; per barrel, $4.70, wholesale, Windâ€" sor to Montreal. Barleyâ€"Good malting barley, outside, 63e to 65¢. Millfeedâ€"Manitoba bran, $19.00; in bags, track, Toronto; shorts, $22; Ontario bran, $19.00, in bage; shorts, $22. Fyarke Prices of Cattie, Crain, Cheese and@ Dthst Preoduse at Home sna Abrca& Manitoba Flourâ€"First patents, $5.30 in jute bage; second patents, $4.80 in jute bags; strong bakers‘, $4.00 in jute bags. In cotton bags, ten cents more per barâ€" rel _ Ontario Flourâ€"Winter wheat flour, 90 per cent. patents, is quoted at $5.95 to The following are the latest prices ronto wholesale men are asking of trade :â€" ‘aâ€" ie Eggsâ€"Coldetorage eges, 2e to 2o in case lots; fresh eggs are selling at 2%¢ to Sie; strictly newâ€"Jaid at 3e to 35¢. Cheeseâ€"Twing, new, 14346 to 15¢, and large, new, at 1412%¢; old cheese, twing, 1514c to 151â€"%0; large, 15c. _ aits Butterâ€"Creamery prints, 3c to 3%¢; do., solids, 2%¢ to 306; dairy prints, 2¢ to 27e ; Inferior (bakers‘), 22¢ to 23¢. Honeyâ€"Buckwheat, % pound in tine and 8c in barrels; strained clover honey, 121%¢ a pound in 60â€"pound tins, 125i4e¢ in 10â€" pound tins; 13¢ in 5â€"pound tins; comb honey, No. 1, $2.60 per dozen; extra, $3 per dozen; No. 2, $240 per dozen. Poultryâ€"Live chickens, wholesale, 10¢ to lic per pound; fowl, 8c to 10c; ducks, lie to 13¢; live turkeys, 15¢ to 170; geese, 96 to 10c. Dressed poultry, 2e to 3¢ above live quotations, excepting dressed turkeys «t 20c to 2c. _ _ + 3 m tne Beaneâ€"Primes, $2.50, and $2.60 for handâ€" picked. Potatoesâ€"Ontario potatoces, 85c por bag; car lote, 75¢; New Brunswicks, $1 per bag, out of store; 90c in ear lots. Spanish Onionsâ€"Per case, $235 to $2.40. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€"Rollsâ€" Smoked, 14340 to 15c; hams, medium, 170 to 171â€"2%c; heavy, 151â€"%0 to 166; breakfast bacon, 18¢; long clear bacon, tons and cases, 14126 to 14 3â€"4c; backs (plain), 21 1â€"20; backs (peameal), 26. _ _ . to Wholesale dealers «are selling trade as followe:â€"â€" . . .0 >,0 EOmE ay P Oe it Green Meatsâ€"Out of pickle, 1c less than smoked. Porkâ€"Short out, 8% to $28 per barrel; mess pork, $21.50 to $22. Lardâ€"Tiorces, 131%¢ to 1334e; tubs, 1354c to 14e. Hayâ€"No. 1, $13.50 to $14.00; No. 2 $9.50 to $i0.50; No. 3, $8.00 to $9.00. Straw, $9.â€" 50 to $10.00. Montreal, Jan. 21â€"Cheesoâ€"Finest west erna, 13¢; do., finest easterns, 121%6 to 12346 . Butterâ€"Choicest creamery, 29120 Toronto, Jan 21.â€"Manitoba Wheatâ€"Lake to 2934¢; do., seconds, 256 to 27c. Eggsâ€" Frosh, 45¢; do., selected, 296 to 30c; do., No. 2 stock, 20c. Potatoesâ€"Per bag, car lots, T5e to 85¢ Minneapolis, Jan. 21.â€"Wheatâ€"May, 89 34c to 89 7â€"8c. Cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, 431â€"2%¢ to 4Mc; No. 3 white oats, 3ic to 311â€"4c. Rye, No. 2, 57¢ to 60c. Bran, $19 to $19.50. Flour unchanged. 1 c e ce wl m Duluth, Jan. 21.â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, 8%¢; No. 1 northern, 88%¢; No. 2 northern, 86¢; July, 9138c bid; May, 90e asked. Live Stock Markets. MontWSal, Jan. 21.â€"The best steers sold at $6.2 to $6.50 and the lower grades from that down to $4, while good butchers‘ cows and bulls brought $5.25 to $5.50, meâ€" dium from $4 to $5, and common $3 to $375 per 100 pounds. Good demand for lambs at ©7.23 to $7.50, and sheep sold at from $4 to $5.2% per 100 pounds. _ Calves from $3 to $12 each, as to size and quality. Hogsâ€"$9.25 to $9.50 per 100 lbs. for selectâ€" ed lote, weighed off cars. _ & Toronto, Jan. 21.â€"Cattleâ€"Choice butcher 86.50 to $6.90; good medium, $5.15 to $6.40; common, $2.75 to $3.15; cows, $4.75 to $5.65; bulls, $3 to $5.25; canmners, $2 to $2.75 Calvyceâ€"Good veal, $7 to $9; common, $3 to $3.2%5. Etockers and Feedersâ€"Steers, 700 to 900 pounds, $5.25 to $5.50; feeding bulls, 600 to 1,000 pounds, $2.75 to $4.25; yearlings, $1.15 to $3.50. Milkers and Springersâ€" From $50 to $80. Sheep and Lambsâ€" Light ewes, $4.75 to $5.25; heavy ewes, $3 to $3.50; lambs, $8 to $8.75. Hogsâ€"88.50 fed and watered and $815 f.o.b. A Flood of Petitions for Damages are Pouring In. A despatch from New York says : A flood of petitions for damage through the loss of the steamer Tiâ€" tanic, filed on Wednesday, includâ€" ed one from Mrs. Irene Wallach Harris, who claims $1,000,000 for the loss of her husband, Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager. This is the heaviest of the 279 claims so far filed. Mrs. May Fuâ€" trelle of Scituate, Mass., asks $300,â€" 000 compensation for the loss of her husband, Jacques Futrelle, author. The claim of Mrs. Lily B. Millet, widow of Francis D. Millet, the artâ€" ist, a Titanic victim, is $100,000. United States Judge Handy exâ€" tended the time for filing petitions on claims to February 11. The claims amount to more than $10,â€" 000,000, but the White Star Line contends that its liability is limited LLABILITY FOR TITANIC LOSS. under the United States statues to less than $100,000, the value of reâ€" covered records and passage money. J. A. MACKAY & COMPANY Spemtion means risking or ambfling your money, while rnvutmont is defined by safeâ€" ty of principal, combined with a fair interest yield. When we try io interzse you m bonds, We offter you the highest dlass of investment, where safety of principal is assuredâ€" and 6% earned on your money. We offer bonds in $100, $500, and $1,000 denominations. Guardian MONTREAL Montreal Country Produce. SPECULATION INVESTMENT United States Markets. Baled Hay and Straw. Country Produce. LIMITED Bidg, Royal laoi Bidg, AL TOoRrONTto Provisions. Â¥8. of the to the HOME RULE BILL PASSES Majority of 110 On the Third Reading Closes a Memorable Fight A despatch from London says: After a long, stern battle the home rule bill passed the House of Comâ€" mons on Thursday night by a maâ€" jority of 110. It was later read for the first time in the House of Lords. There were two divisions in the lower House. Mr. Balfour‘s motion for its rejection was deâ€" feated by 258 to 368, while the third reading was carried by a vote of 367 to 257, one member of each side baving left the House in the interâ€" val. The result of the division was too much a foregone conclusion for a tremendous demonstration, but the Irishmen inside and outside of the House did their best, and, asâ€" sisted by the Liberals and Laborâ€" ites, gave the measure for which they had waited and worked so long a good sendâ€"off on its way to the House of Lords, where its fate is certainly sealed. Series of Brilliant Speeches, The division was preceded by anâ€" other series of brilliant speeches by the political leaders, among whom wers Frederick E. Smith and the Solicitorâ€"General, Sir John A. 8iâ€" mon. two of the cleverest among the younger members, and the vetâ€" erans John E. Redmond, Timothy Healy a~d Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary {for Ireland. The House was crowded throughâ€" out the day. The Nationalists were only one short of their full strength, Joseph P. Nannetti being CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER OF SERVIA. King Peter‘s second son, who was the nominal head of the victorious army. Used as Food for Man and Beast and for Other Things. The beet beats all. It is one of the most valuable of cultivated plants. The sugar beet is a main source of sugar and alcohol. The large forage beets supply an excelâ€" lent food for cattle, and the red garden varieties provide savory table vegetables. The usefulness of this valuable food has now been increased by the production of an edible flour from sugar beets. The dessication of sliced sugar beets is practised in Germany on an extenâ€" sive scale, but the product is emâ€" ployed exclusively as fodder for cattle. In Belgium a meal is made from dried beets. It is entirely free from the distinctive flavor of the beet, and is suitable for cakes, pudding and pastry. As it contains about 65 per cent. of sugar, it can often be substituted with advantage for sugar in somewhat larger quantiâ€" ties. The processes of dessication and grinding not only cost less than the extraction of sugar, but preâ€" serve all the sugar of the beet, part of which is rejected in the form of molasses in the process of sugarâ€" making. An excellent device against slipâ€" ping on your front door steps these icy mornings is to cover them from top to bottom with your last sumâ€" mer‘s sofa cushions. These, suitâ€" ably placed, will prevent your fallâ€" ing and chipping the brown stone or granite steps with the back of your celluloid collar. THFE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL Civil Service Salary List Amounted to $4,798,534 for Past Fiscal Year A despatch from Ottawa says: The first volume of the Auditorâ€" General‘s x‘:rort for the past fiscal year, tabled in the Commons on Thursday night, contains in its thousand or more pages of detailed expenditures a few odd items of special interest. The cummfi of expenditures zi the year, totalling $131,046,764,, which $97,615,003 was on Eap:f:l account, shows that the civil serâ€" vice niuy list amounted to 04,- 798,534, and thus the Government‘s payâ€"roll is over $13,000 per day. The members of the Commons cost the country for indemnity and traâ€" gllins expenses $809,401, and the nators cost $319,243. The genâ€" eral election cost $428,392. The Militia Department spent $7,558,2856, and for arts, agriculture and statistics the expenditure was $2,771,636, of which $1,204,614 went to the Census Branch, For the MREYT THE BEET BEATS ALL. An Excellent Device. hls prevented from attending by @% paralytic attack which he suffered on Thursday. Several of the older Nationalists who are seldom able to attend came over from Ireland at division. The Liberals and Laborites, too, turned out in force, and the Unionâ€" ists were not far below their total membership. The galleries likewise were filled to their capacity, those occupying seats including many dignitaries of the Church and the Bulgarian peace plenipotentiaries. Memorable Scene in House. When the figures were announced the Nationalists waved hats, handâ€" kerchiefs and papers, and cheered lustily for Premier Asquith and Mr. John Redmond. The latter, who is usually impassive, was carâ€" ried away by the enthusiasm of his followers and entered into the spirib of the demonstrations as effusively as they. Sceenes in Belfast. A despatch from Belfast says: Thousands of Orangemen and memâ€" bers of Unionist clubs held demonâ€" strations outside the City Hall on Thursday evening and burned a copy of the home rule bill. There was much firing of revolvers, mostly blank cartridges, but one man was shot in the back and is in a critical condition. There were no further disorders, but bands paraded the streets until midnight. The Third Big Fire in Montreal in Fifteen Hours. A despotch from Montreal says: Several firemen were carried out, choked into unconsciousness by smoke, District Chief Mann es caped death by inches when a great plank came crashing down upon & ladder on which he was standing, and damage aggregating nearly $100,000 was caused by a fire which broke out on Thursday morning on Deviscer Street. The premises are occupied by the Canadian Tungâ€" sten Lamp Company, and the Mcâ€" Cormick Biscuit Co., of London, Ont., the plant and stock of both of which concerns vwere injured by fire, smoke and water. This was the third big fire in the city within fifteen hours, most of the firemen having been on duty for 24 hours. They got a muchâ€"needed meal from the biscuits found in the McCorâ€" mick Company‘s factory. Decembor Record Shows Industrial Unrest Diminishing. A despatch from Ottawa says: There was a marked decrease in the number of labor disputes in exisâ€" tence in Canada during December as compared with the preceding month. The department of labor‘s record of strikes and lockouts shows there were thirteen disputes in Deâ€" cember, and, while the number is greater by five than that of the corâ€" responding period of last year, it represents only about half as many as were in existence in November, when twentyâ€"five were reported to the department. Man Gets Six Months‘ Hard Labor for Neglecting His Children, A despatch from Montreal says: FEmery Longpre was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in jail with hard labor for neglecting to support his children. Three little tots were found lying on straw in an empty house on Dufferin street. In pronouncing sentence the Judge told the accused that he was a disâ€" grace to society. . SEYERAL FIREMEXN CHOKED. Don‘t Cut Your Corns, This Way Better It‘s a fool trick to gouge out corns, and dangerous too, . Don‘t wear loose bootsâ€"remove the corn by applying __ _ Putnam‘s _ Corn _ Extractor. naval service proper, including maintenance of the cruisers Niobs and Rainbow, the Training College 683. â€" Public works expenditurs chargeable to income was $10,290,â€" 9853, although the vote was over eighteen millions. On capital acâ€" count the expenditure of the deâ€" partment was #$2,948,9022. The Government‘s advertising bill to newspapers throughout the country totalled #446,183, while nearly a million more was distributed for printing and lithographing at Halifax § ind th¢e upkeep of the Dockyards .:nmm.'iz and Haliâ€" fax, the total amount spent was #1,523, 450. x sk"% the year was $222,020, of which $415,697 “{3 r the militia penâ€" nloss ant ", The largest single item of expenâ€" diture was for the National Transâ€" continental Railway, viz., $21,110,â€" FEWER LABOR DISPUTES. DISGRACE ‘s total pension bill for To soOCIETY. ofwhith