Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 16, 1907, Page 22

CANADA‘S GOOD TIMES.) The Immigration During 1906 Was 216,000. While it is well to heed every word of caution from the leaders in commerce and finance and to avoid all speculative ventures that lack a solid business foundation, it is clearly evident that there is no conspicuous weak spot in Canada’s present era of prosperity. The Toronto Globe says: “The Dominion has in a commercial sense plenty of money, and our lead- ing financial institutions are in a po- sition to lend freely in the United States. The chief productive enter- prises of Canada are not buoyed up by an era of dangerous speculation, but are following substantiat _ busi- ness methods and finding safe and continuous markets for their goods. We are not bolstering up any indus- tries by extensive export bonuses that must impoverish the people as a whole, and ultimately lead to col- lapse through the failure of the arti- ficial aid. There is no extreme pro- tection in Canada such as would cre- ate great fortunes for a few at the expense of the general public and lead to disruption and catastrophe. The prosperity of Canada has no ar- tificial foundation being based on a healthy and substantial expansion of trade and industry, with a proportion- ate extension of productive settlement to new areas. it is true that we are borrowing extensively for railway construction, but every line will bring new terri- tory within the limits of profitable vccupation, and will create prosper- ous settlements to bear the burdens repay the outlay. We are not usting mineral resources, for it quite reasonable to assume that, although mineral wealth is never permanent, ours will during the measurable future develop a_ far ter productive capacity than at ent. Our timber wealth can be de continuous by a judicious pol- And agriculture, the real foun- ion of our prosperity, is expanding h every new expenditure on rail- y construction. We are not in flush of a railway mania that ould bring its punishment through the useless duplication of lines. The gigantic railway enterprises that now stimulate every line of business in’ Canada will create a new Domin- ion, and thus render easy the heavy burdens of debt now freely assumed. Canada’s era of prosperity has been unprecedented, but there is no sign of weakness and no cause for lack of confidence. While our growth is normal and healthy, we need have no alarm at its rapidity.” This article might have gone on to relate the great growth that is taking place in Central Canada, where thousands of Americans have made their homes during the past few years. The past calendar year has given to Canada by importation an addition of 216,000 to its population, Of this the United States contributed 63,781. The agents of the Canadian government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere, say that this number will be largely in- creased during 1907. 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Reversing the copy-book maxim, In- spector Tokely determined to take pleasure before business, and to flut- ter with envy the bosoms of his former acquaintances. Therefore he put up, with some ostentation, at the Chater Arms, and took his expressionless face, with its dependent tuft, into the bar of that hostelry when some half- dozen village celebrities were assem- bled in it. Old Betty Siggs, being busy at the moment, and not having set eyes upon him since his boyhood, fail- ed to notice his entry, or to recognize him other than as a casual visitor. The inspector, looking down from his height of superior importance and criminal experience on the mere hinds on whom Mrs. Siggs was attending, coughed vigorously to attract her at- tention, and dropped his portmanteau with a bang upon the floor. Mrs. Siggs, smiling and pleasant, came across, and civilly inquired what she could do for him. : “IT shall sleep here for a night—pos- sibly two or three,” replied Tokely, in a loud voice, and with a side glance to note the effect of what he said upon the mere hinds before mentioned. “I am here upon—upon business.” “Indeed, sir,” said Mrs. Siggs, brisk- ly. “It ain’t many commercial gents we gets down to Bamberton, sir—cept by accident. Would you wish to have a meal prepared, sir? P’r’aps you'd be so good as step this way, sir,” “I should like something to eat, cer- tainly,” replied the inspector. “And I am not here on commercial business; quite the contrary. My business is connected with the—the law.” “Lor!” exclaimed Mrs. Siggs, as she led the way into the little parlor; this | exelamation not being intended as an echo of the inspector’s last word, by any means. “I ’ope we shall be able to make you comfortable, sir, w’atever your business may be. This way, sir. P’r’aps you might like to take a little something afore your meal, sir?” Inspector Tokely gave the order for the “little something,” as well as for the meal, and then turned to Mrs. Siggs as she was leaving the room. “One moment, my good woman,” he said. Mrs. Siggs hesitated, with her hand on the doorknob, and looked at him curiously—not at all prepossessed in his favor. The inspector, leaning against the table and putting his head a little on one side, conveyed into his hard features something as nearly ap- proaching a smile as he was capable of. “You don’t know me, I suppose?” he said. Mrs. Siggs shook her head slowly, after looking him up and down for a few moments in some perplexity. “I see you don’t,” said Tokely, grim- ly. “Do you remember a lad—a lad of superior intelligence, I might say— who used to be a sort of under-keeper up at the Hall, by name Tokely?” The inspector smiled a little more. Mrs. Siggs, after a moment or two of frowning contemplation of the floor, looked up at him with a brightening face. “To be sure I do,” she said. “When I was a gal about ’ere—remem- ber ’im well, I do. Let me see now”— Betty Siggs, immersed in recollections of the past, lost sight of her visitor for a moment completely—‘“chuckle-head- ed chap ’e was, with a taste for spyin’ out things wot didn’t concern im.” “He was nothing of the sort,” broke in Tokely, very red in the face. “He was a lad considerably above the aver- age of rustic intelligence—and he made his way in the world, ma’am, I should like you to know—got his name in the papers more than once.” “Ah, lots o’ folks manages to do that without meanin’ it,” said Betty Siggs, with a little Jaugh. “I’ve knowed a man to do it by breakin’ a winder.” “Never mind about that,” said the inspector, tersely. “The young man Y’m talking about got on in the world by sheer merit. Iam that young man, ma’am”—the inspector tapped ‘himself dramatically on the breast—“now In- spector Tokely of Scotland Yard!” Betty Siggs went a little white about the region of her plump cheeks, clasp- ed her hands, and faltered out, “Of— of Scotland Yard!” “Criminal investigation department, ma’am,” went on the inspector, tap- ping himself on the breast again. “Have the goodness, ma’am to shut the door.” + Mrs. Siggs put a hand out to do as she was bidden, never taking her eyes for a moment from the face before her. Indeed, after shutting the door, she stood with her hand upon the knob, as though ready to pull it open in an in- stant and scream for assistance if necessary. “Now, ma’am,” began Tokely, wag- ging his head and a forefinger at her, by way of caution, “I want to ask you a question or two, and I'll trouble you to be very careful what you say, oF what you don’t say. I have been com- missioned to inquire into a case touch- ing a certain female of the name”— he pulled a pocket-book from his coat and dived into it for a moment—“of the name of Patience Miller. Now, this same Patience Miller——” “Betty Siggs suddenly threw up her hands and clapped them over her ears. Performing a species of little dance, entirely on her own account, with her two feet, she shut her eyes, and called out, “Stop—stop; it ain’t no use! If you puts me on the rack, and draws me out till I’m as thin as the four-ale over the way—and there can’t be any- thing much thinner than that—you won't get nothing out of me. I know no more than anybody else—not so much, in fact—and what I does know I ain’t a-goin’ to tell.” “So you defy the law, do you?” roared Tokely, for, Betty Siggs still keeping her hands tightly pressed upon her ears, there was no other way to make himself heard. But Betty Siggs did not wait to hear an account of whatever terrors might be in store for her; watching her opportunity she wrenched open the door and dart- ed through into the bar, where—judg- ing by a confused murmur which pres- ently sprang up of heavy rustic tongues, leavened pretty strongly by her own shrill voice—she immediately began to stir up war against Inspector Tokely. Nor did the inspector see her again for some time. His meal was served him by a very pretty black-eyed girl, who—evidently secretly instructed by Mrs. Siggs—returned evasive answers to his questions, and remained in the room as little as possible. The in- spector, having refreshed himself at his country’s expense to the very best of his ability, sallied forth again into the bar, with a general view, as he would have expressed it, of “keeping an eye on things.” There was no one in the bar; but glancing through a side door, Tokely had a view of a very snug inner room, where three persons were seated, in the glow of a small fire, very com- fortably. One of these persons was Mrs. Siggs herself; the second, the black-eyed damsel who had waited upon him; and the third, a map of some sixty years of age, with a réund, jolly, innocent face, half hidden by an enormous gray beard and mustache, and faintly illuminated by a pair ot sleepy, good-tempered blue eyes. This man was reading a newspaper, following the words and sentences in a sort of low, comfortable growl, like the purring of a huge cat by the fire; Mrs. Siggs was stitching away busily, in a sharp, energetic fashion, which denoted that her temper had been rut. fled; the girl was sitting with her eyes pensively fixed on the fire and her hands clasped in her lap. The room appeared so very com- fortable, and the inspector had so clearly made up his mind to devote the remainder of the day to pleasure, Jeaving the more serious business of his visit until the morrow, that he ad- vanced his head a little into the room and inquired whether he might come in. “You look so very cosy here, you know,” he said, “and I’m quite sure you couldn’t be hard on a lonely man who has nobody to talk to,” he added, ; in an appealing tone. “Depends a good bit on what you want to talk about,” said Mrs. Siggs, | quickly, without glancing up from her work; “we don’t want no law ’ere, my friend.” The man who was reading the paper glanced up mildly and pushed his chair back a little from the fire. “Them as comes in the way of trade, my angel,” he said, as slowly and heavily as though he were spelling the words out of a newspaper in his hand, “‘as a right to come where they will, if so be——” “Oh, I dessay,” interrupted Mrs. Siggs, wrathfully. “Wy don’t you ’ave the ’ole Noah’s Ark in to tea wile you're about it, an’ ’Am to cut the bread and butter for em?” Inspector Tokely, feeling that he had received as much encourage- ment as he was likely to get, passed into the room and sat down. After a few moments he ventured to suggest a little refreshment for himself and his host—even delicately hinting that Mrs. Siggs might be tempted to par- take of a glass at his expense. Mrs. Siggs, relenting a little, passed into the bar to get what was required; and the visitor, feeling the necessity for ingratiating himself as much as pos- sible with them all, turned to the girl. “Your mother, I suppose, miss?” he asked, edging a little nearer to her. The. girl glanced at him for a mo- ment, nodded, and looked again at the fire. “And a fine-looking mother, too,” went on Tokely, feeling that it was more uphill work than he had.antici- pated. “You, sir’—he turned to the man with the newspaper—“ought to be proud of such a wife and daughter.” This at a venture, for he knew noth- ingeof the relationship they bore to each other. “W’en I fust drawed near to Betty, tother side the earth, there was a matter of nine men, one on ’em nigh on to eighty, a-makin’ eyes at ’er, an’ even goin’ so far as to sleep on ‘er doorstep. I polished off as many as { could get at, and spoke words of kind advice (as was throwed away on ’im) to the old un’, an’ drove ’er nigh a *undred mile to see a parson. An’ she were then as fine a woman, or finer, than any in them parts.” He laid down his newsndper, picked it up again, and finished his remarks. “W’ich so she are now.” It was at this moment that Betty Siggs came in from the bar with a lit- tle tray, on which stood some glasses and a jug of water; but she no sooner entered the room than she stopped dead, uttered an exclamation, and let fall the tray and its contents. Inspector Tokely had his eyes fixed upon Mr. Siggs, so that he almost faced her as she came in; yet he could have sworn that, in the half glance he had of her, she had been looking straight over his head. Turning swift ly, so soon at least as he had got out of the way of the flowing liquids, he saw that, at the spot to which her eyes had been directed, was a window part- ly shrouded by a curtain. Looking at Mrs. Siggs again, however, he came re- luctantly to the conclusion that he must have been mistaken; for that ex- cellent woman, with much laughter at her own carelessness, was picking up the glasses and rearranging them on the tray. “Theré’s a butter-fingers for you!” she exclaimed. “Never knowed my- self to do that before. ‘It’s tryin’ to do too much at once, that’s wot it is. | Howsever, it ain’t no use cryin’ over spilt milk, or spilt spirits; an’ I’m a- keepin everybody waitin’ for their liquor.” In a moment she bustled out again, appearing to be in a much better tem- | per than before—indeed, quite desir- ous of making herself pleasant to ev- eryone, and propitiating the guest as much as possible. On coming back she was careful to a nicety about mixing his drink, and even suggested he should taste it, to be sure that it was to his liking, before she proceeded to mix the others. Yet there was about all her movements a certain fluttering anxiety which had not been there be- fore. “Pon my word, Clara,” she exclaim- ed, suddenly, “I never see such a girl in all my days! gas, an’ never drawin’ the curtain even; wot could you ’ave bin a-think- in’ about?” She bustled across to the window and pulled the curtain sharply across it; yet seemed to look out of it for a moment, too, the inspector thought, before doing so: She came back to her seat—a seat which faced the win- dow—and gaily pledged the two men with her glass. But immediately after- ward she got up and moved toward the door. “Toby, old boy, I wish you’d come and see to this ’ere tap for a minute,” she called out; and Toby Siggs got up heavily and followed her. Immediately Inspector Tokely rose also, and strolled—quite casually, as it seemed—across the room. Coming to the window, he said—apparently for the benefit .of Clara—‘I wonder what sort of a night it is,” and jerked back the curtain again. Outside the window, however, was nothing but black darkness; after a moment the inspector turned away, half making up his mind that he must be mistaken, and resumed his seat. At the same moment Mr. and Mrs. Siggs came in—evidently on the best possi- ble terms with each other—from the bar. Now, it was a curious thing that Mrs. Siggs, after one glance at the bared window, made no further re- mark about it; nor did Mr. Siggs. Fur- ther than that, Toby Siggs suddenly developed an extraordinary liking for the inspector, and a mad desire to be convivial with him, quite out of keep- ing with his general character. For he slapped that respected man upon the back; forced his glass upon him; ran out into the bar to fill it himself the moment it was empty, insisting that it should be at his expense; and altogether woke up wonderfully. More than that, the inspector, after sipping his renewed glass, pronounced it to be mighty good stuff—but rather strong- er, he thought, than the last; however, he drank it, and it seemed to loosen his tongue in an extraordinary fashion, (To Be Continued.) JUST “ANNOYING.” She Had Dropped a $10,000 String of Diamonds. During the performance of “Marta” at the Metropolitan opera house, says the New York World, at a time when Caruso was caressing the top of the proscenium arch with his liquid notes, something like a flash of white light shot from one of the upper boxes of the orchestra. A lady in the box from which the flash seemed to have started languidly piaced her hand to her throat and said to a gentleman at her side: “How annoying!” The gold fastening of a diamond necklace she wore had parted nd the string of gems, probably a score ot them, worth $10,000 or more, had fall- en into the lap of a lady in an orches- tra seat and thence to the floor. The gentleman in the box, when the situa- tion was. explained, calmly arose, stepped to the rear, called an usher and whispered some instructions to him. In the meantime the lady upon whom the string of diamonds had de- scended was following the perform- ance and the music. To her came the usher, after an ap- propriate interval. He inquired if any- thing had dropped from the boxes. The lady drew aside her skirt and pointed to the necklace on the floor. The usher picked it up, carried it back to the box and the incident was closed. None had been disturbed save the direct actors in the little side event, and they made no noise. It was simply an incident in life in New York. It couldn’t happen anywhere else. Some girls who think they can sing ought to patronize a correspondence school of thought. Fancy lightin’ up the | In Minnesota Ng \g State News ot the Week Briefly Told Carl Finstad died at his home in Frontenac from blood poisoning re- sulting from cutting a corn. Hans Peterson pleaded guilty to the charge of larceny at Rochester and was fined $10, He stole a fur robe. Gustave Brinkman of Sylvan died at Brainerd of rabies. Brinkman was bitten by a dog about eight months ago, The village of Kenyon is to have a public park. S. A. Bullis of that place has given a tract of land for this\pur- pose. John Daggett, living five miles west of Dodge Center, was killed while at- tempting to board a moving freight j train, |. The unprecedented price of $11.50 per'1,000 has been bid for the white | pine on the Fond du Lac reservation |near Cloquet. The Albert Lea Hide and Fur com- |pany at Albert Lea suffered a heavy |loss by fire, the origin of the blaze be- [ins a live electric wire. Gen. M. D. Flower, postmaster of St. Paul and president of the Union Stock Yards company, died after an illness of less than four days. John P. Quirk was sentenced to fif- teen years in prison for the murder of William A. Dowell, former city editor of the Minneapolis Tribune. Nick Barten, a farmer residing north lof Nelson, died from the effects of a fall down a stairway. In the fall he re- ceived a fracture at the base of the skull. An unidentified Swede was picked up on the road between Nashwauk and Keewatin in a badly frozen condition. It is thought that both hands will have to be amputated. Two men, George Kirkmeyer and Sam Valentine, carried out a suicide pact in a Minneapolis hotel by inhaling gas. Both men were laborers and have been out of work for some time. C. A. Smith, the millionaire lumber- man, lost between $4,000 and $5,000 as a result of a fire at his home in Min- neapolis. It is expected that the in- surance will about cover the loss. Rabid dogs which have been roam- ing around St. Paul attacked several people in the vicinity of Dayton’s Bluff and Arlington Hills. Seven persons were bitten, two of them seriously. Ernest Hansch, a laborer, was found in his room at St. Paul in a serious condition from gas poison and died a few hours later. A tube connecting a gas stove had accidentally become loose. George Harris, colored, was found frozen stiff in a room in a lodging house at St. Paul, where he had been employed as a janitor. The coroner expressed the belief that he had died of heart trouble. The will of the late Judge B. F. Web- ber has been: filed for probate in Brown county. Under its terms his son, Benjamin F. Webber, Jr., an at- torney of Franklin, Minn., is the chiet beneficiary. All told the estate amounts to about $75,000. A case‘of accidental shooting occur- red in Kilkenny township, a few miles west of Faribault, when a son of Louis Maguire shot his small sister with a shotgun. The full charge entered her thigh and made a painful wound, al- though not serious. The epidemic of rabies in St. Paul, concerning which many people have been more or less exercised for some time, has reached a stage requiring energetic action. Police will be sent out with shotguns under orders to kill all unmuzzled dogs. William Fischer of Winona, accord- ing to his wife’s story, raised a rough house at his home, and after kicking his wife just to show his authority he went to bed. After he was in bed she hit him over the head with a club, then called the police and had him ar- rested. He was put under bonds to keep the peace. : Gov. Johnson has issued an appeal to the people of Minnesota on behalf of the millions who are suffering in China. Funds are being solicited by the Minnesota branch of the National Red Cross, of which Gov. Johnson is president. Contributions should be sent to Kenneth Clark, treasurer, St. Paul. Elysian village, Le Sueur county, has put on the lid. Because the vil- lage marshal was somewhat lax in en- forcing the closing laws the council summarily removed him from office, and then the councilmen increased the liquor license from $500 to $750 with- out‘a dissenting vote. Touston Heggerson died at Red Wing after an illness of several months. 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