RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 15, 10 September 1912, Page 5

RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.

o (Received 10, 11.30 a.m.) Ottawa, September 9. Sir George R*eid is consulting Mr Foster and other Government mem

hers regarding closer trade between Canada and Australia. Mr. Reid addressed the Canadian Club, dealing ,vich Australia's great future and the aeed for consolidation of i*ie Empire.

The salary of the President of the United States is now 75,000 dollars a vear (£15,000). When Cleveland was '.resident he was paid 4166 dollars GO cents a month. So accurate is bin-

treasury system of book-keeping hat the salary cheque of the President was drawn, for 4166 dollars 66 cents one month and 41GG dollars G 7 cents for the next two months. At ;he end of the term it was found that Uioro was still due to President Cleveland the amount of one cent, so a cheque for that amount was drawn in .;is favour! That cheque lias never >oen cashed, but is one of the souvenirs cf the Cleveland home in Princeown, New Jersev.

A cable from New York to the Sydney 'Sun" slates that American surgeons are much interested just now in the cr.se of John Yammick, a wellmown Pittsburg baseball player, who is possessed of something in .h:> nature i)f an impenetrable skull. Whatever the bhicknoss of Yammick's cranium ; .s. it is apparently bullet nroof. lleoantly he was (tailed up and robbed by some highwaymen, who fired three shotn at him, each of which struck him on the head. To the amazement of the doctors by whom he was subsequently examined, the bullets, instead of ploughing their way through the victim's head, had simply been flattened one against the skull." The surgeon; declare that the caso is the most remarkable one of the kind on re- >■ ord.

The specialist is the one to-day who stands at the head of any profession or business. Herberts are specialists it ladies', children's and infants' needs. We've made these our particular study; we have the finest range, the newest styles, the lowest pricos, which are unequalled ia this town.