AMPLE OF ee. Saskatchewan Fumishes An Excellet Test WHAT IT HAS FOUND UNDER THE NEW SYSTEM OF NO LIQUOR. Recently Three of The Twenty-three Beverage Dispensaries Were Closed By Popular Vote, It is, perhaps, unfair to say that katchewan offers an example of what prohibition can do at its best, says The Toronto Star Weekly. There have been in operation in that Pro- vince 23 dispensaries where liquor could be bought for beverage pur- bones. Recently three of these were closed by popular wote. The other 20 are still in bperation. Men who really want drink can procure ft. Nevertheless, the partial prohibi- tion which does exist has produced marvelous results, which perhaps cannot be expressed much more con- cisely than was done recently in an article in The Moose Jaw Times, which said: Drunkenness has decreased fully 75 per cent. in Saskatchewan, accord- ing to official statements made by magistrates in centres where liguor Stores exist. Data furnished the di- rector of prosecutions for the three "months of July, August, and Septem- ber for the year 1914, and the same period for this year show an actual decrease of 79.1 per cent. in seven places where liquor stores, estab- lished under the Sales of Liquor Act, replaced the hotel bars, These seven Places are the larger centres of the Province and liquor can be produced in each of them. Four cities, Saska- toon, North Battleford, Prince Al- bert, and Swift Current, which were asked for figures, have not yet furn- ished them. The figures are certified by the magistrates and takén from the records of their courts in the following places: 1915. Decrease Humboldt ... Estevan 19 4 4 The decreases' as shown by act- ual figures above are a direct contra- diction to. charges which have been made public that the new legisia- tion was a f: , that Government officials were not sincere in their ef- forts to enforce the law, and that conditions had become far worse than they were previous to July 1. Said a prominent business man- when asked for an opinion concerning the operation of the law. He remarked that in the figures submitted, the fabt must be well borne in mind that the convictions of 1915, reported as above, were secured from places there exists a liquor store, significant of the fact that liquor can be purchased in these TOBACCO IMPORTS CUT. Britain To Admit Only One-Third 1915's Supply. London, May 18.--The Board of Trade announces that owing to the increasing sho of tonnage the proposal to grant li f6r the im- portation of tobacco purchased be- fore February 15th has been with- drawn, 'but that licenses will be granted for the importation of to- bacco between June 1st and May 31st, 1917, not exceeding one-third the quantity imported in 1915. OSTRICH FARMERS LOSE, Nearly Half a Million Birds Turned Loose When Prices Drop. To say that a man has a stomach like an ostrich means nothing. In stead of living serenely on spikes cactus, hairpins, and alarm clocks the ostrich requires regular feedings of alfalfa and corn. Deprive him of that sustenance, turn him into the veldt to forage for himself, and the ostrich dies, as about 425,000 of them have done in South Africa since the war a The truth about the ostrich was revealed recently by Lewis Richard- son of Pert Elizabeth, Cape Colony, who owns 654,000 South African acres and has been producing and exporting . wool, hides, and ostrich feathers for thirty-five years, or since his emigration from Birming- ham, England. He arrived in Ameri- on the Chinese Prince after thirty on the water. sald that before the war South exported about $15,000,000 of ostrich feathers a year. the European market cut off, of the plumes tumbled m $100 to between $5 and $10 a t the same time the price and corn shot up to a made feeding the birds except at a dismal loss. who had alfsifa sold it to the British army for forage and ostrich owners opened their fences and turned the birds loose. "Without food, and beset by their natural enemies, the beasts of prey," said Mr. Richardson, "the ostriches dH § E84 ih! i tion, the ostrich is a delicate bird, and even with the best of care the death rate is 20 per cent., which in normal times js more than offset by & 30 per cent. breeding increase. "At the present prices for plumes there is of course no money in ostrich farming. 'When the war ends the supply will be far short of the demand, and prices are likely to be trebled. But the farmers, with their lands mortgaged, were unable to hang on and walt for betfer times. Many of them are bankrupt." Mr, Richardson wants to see an increase in trade between South Africa and America. He said that London and Bradford, which former- ly controlled the export market for wool, hides, mohair, and ostrich fea- thers, are trying to prevent direct shipments to this country. He added: "We need capital and people In South Africa. The climate is admir- able, and all that is needed for de- velopment is men and money." Recently Mr. Richardson started raising oranges, and found that they could be exported between June and October, a period in which groves in other parts of the world are not pro- ducing. Empress Eugenie"s Pen, The Empress Eugenie possesses an eagle's quill pen with historical as- sociations. Henry Greville notes in his diary on March 3, 1856, that "the Empress, having expressed a wish to possess the pen with which the plenipoten- tiaries are to sign the treaty of Paris, the Emperor ordered that the finest eagle in the Jardin des Plantes should be plucked of its best feather, which being cut as a pen is to be used on this occasion and them handed over to her majesty." Four days later Greville met Count Cavour who "told me that the eagle's feather had been used for the sig- natures of one or two copies, but that the plenipotentiaries raised ob- Jections against employing it for all, as in that case they would never have got to thevend of their labors." Gladstone and e Montenegro's destiny is linked for- over with the name of Mr. Gladstone. When the great statesman lay dying in the early spring of 1898 the Prince of the Black Mountain sent him a telegram whith, read to-day, after the lapse of 18 years, takes on a sombre color: "Many years ago, when Montenegro, my beloved coun- try, was in difficulties and danger, your eloquent voice and powerful pen successfully pleaded and worked on her behalf." Prince Nicholas was able to add that his country was, thanks to Gladstone, "vigorous and prosperous, with a bright future." The dying statesman replied, and every heart will to-day echo the prayer, "that Montenegro might prosper and be blessed in all her un- dertakings." Canon Liddon and Cats. Canon Liddom, like Archbishop Whately, was a lover of cats. His biographer relates that a little niece ah t cata?" niece, when be is not talking "Bishops," replied the If SE ------------------ ae wo nters and Politicians. r. Winst urehill is British satesmen. rh | New id, and has the pictures- MATTHEW ARNOLD, Poet and Essayist, Always Fought With Courtesy. "Matthew Arnold," Stephen says in his "Studies of a Biographer," "had that Obvious Sweetness of nature which it is.im- possible not to recognize and not to love. Though in controversy he took and gave many shrewd blows, be always received them with a courtesy, indicative not of mere pol- fey or literary tact, but of dislike to inflicting pain and of incapacity for hating any tolerably decent antagon- ist . He was on excellent terms with the classes whose foibles he ridiculed most unsparingly, and even his own foibles were attractive. | He had his vanity; but vanity is a quality to which moralists have never "done Justice. As dfstinguished from | conceit, from a sullen conviction of your own superiority, it often im-| plies a craving for sympathy and al confidence in the sincerity of your| fellows, which is in the main, as his | certainly was, an amiable and attrac-| tive characteristic. If it just savored | of intellectual coxcombry, it was re- deemed by a simplicity and social amenity which showed that his na- ture had resisted the ossifying pro-| cess which makes most of us com- monplace and prosaic in later life, "At his best Arnold reaches a felicity of style in which Tennyson alone, of al! eur modern poets, if! Tennyson himself, was his superior. | The comparison, much as I dislike comparisons," the writer says in! speaking of Arnold as a poet, "may indicate at least, the question why Arnold's popularity is still, as I} think it is, below his deserts. One| answer is obvious. I cannot doubt | that Arnold fully appreciated the Sreatest of contemporary artists. But certain references to Tennyson in his essays are significant. Arnold inei-| dentally quotes Tennyson's great, broad-shouldered, genial English- man," by way of illustrating his fav- orite proposition that this ' broad-| shouldered personage was a 'barbar- | ian,' and conspicuous for insensibil-| ity to ideas. He refers with a certain scorn to the self-complacency implied in the phrase about freedom broad-| ening slowly down from precedent to | precedent, Though Arnold does not | criticize the poetry, he evidently | left---what, to say the truth, I think | must be admitted---that Tennyson in- | terpreted the average--shall I say, the Philistine or the commonplace English sentiment?--a little too | faithfully; but it may be inferred, | though Arnold does not draw the in- ference, that the extraordinary popu- larity of Tennyson was partly owing to the fact that he could express what occurred to everybody in lan- guage that could be approached by nobody. Arnold, on the contrary, is, in all his poems, writing for the cul- tivated, and éven for a small class of | cultivated people. The ideas which | he expresses are not only such as do | not commend themselves, but some- | times such as are rather annoying, to | the average reader. The sentiments peculiar to a narrow, howeyer refin- | ed, class aré obviously so m less | favorable to poetical treatment." Sir Leslie | Oldest Living Actress. Whatever she may be In spirit, | Miss Genevieve Ward is the oldest well-known actress still on the stage in point of years. She has just been celebrating her 78th birthday. i Born the year after Queen Vie- | toria came to the throne, and ten | years before Miss Ellen Terry, Miss | Ward, who is at present playing a | leading part in "The Basker" with Sir George Alexander, has been act- | ing since she was eighteen. | Italian grand opera was her first | love, but after some years as an | operatic singer she strained her voice | #0 badly during a tour in Cuba that | she was forced to abandon this work. | With that indomitable courage | that has always been characteristic | of her, Miss Ward turned to the "re- | gular" stage. The first important | part she succeeded in securing was | that of Lady Macbeth, but it is for | her performance in "Forget-Me-Not" | that she is best remembered. | | She has played the part of Ste- phanie in this play over 2,000 times, touring 50,000 miles with "Forget- | Me-Not." | By right of marriage Miss Ward is | the Countess Cuerbel of Russia, but she has never used the title. A Brassey Story, Lord Brassey, despite his great age, is very keenly interested in the | | yacht, Sunbeam, to the Government | of India for hospital purposes. = Al- | ways noted for his love of an out- door life, Lord Brassey in his young- er days was an enthusiastic amateur cricketer, and many a game was played on bis estate. On one occa- sion, the players being short of an umpire, one of his lordship's foot- asked to fill the position. During lord Brassey's innings a swift ball came and took the bail off neatly. "How's that?" he asked of the footman umpire. "I am afraid, your lordship," said the man polite- ly, "1 must say that you are not at home." "Not at home!" exclaimed the noble batsman in "What do yoi1 mean?" "Well " turned the footman, with a neat bow, "if your lordship must have it: you are hout!"" _Society Girl's Romance. Lord Plunket's eldest daughter has just got engaged to an officer in the Grenadier Guards who hails from Eh ------------ | Bank, which has a subway, | encounters it broadside {uel Butler and Sir Peter Lely and war, and has presented his famous | rrr LAW JOURNAL WANTS SUBWAY B:tweea the Temple And Law OLD PROECT REVIVED FEW PEOPLE IN LONDON USE x SUBWAYS, The True Londoner May Be Known by His Refusal to Be Hurried In Crossing thie Most Congested High- way. . The Law Journal has taken the matter in hand. There should be a subway between the Temple and the Law Courts. The Strand, at this point, is one of the busiest thorough- fares in London, almost as bad as the or the corner of Tottenham Court road and Holborn, which hasn't. It was part of the original scheme, the Law Jour- nal tells us, when the site of the courts was chosen, and the project has frequently been revived by the | benchers. The trouble with subways, in Lon- don at any-rate;"i% that sq few people, comparatively, use them. Your true Londoner may be known by his re- fusal to be hurried in crossing the most congested highway. Even the advent of the motor bus bas brought about no change in this respect. With an air of leisurely unconcern that ut- terly declines to be hurried, he sets out on his journey when and where he will. If he is of true descent, he ignores "islands." He will perforce stay to let a motor bus pass him if he on, but he can gauge a distance to a nicety, and as he goes, he thinks naturally and calmly in inches. And thus he passeth on his way, Unhurried in his stride, His object? 'Tis, as one might say, To reach the other side. All this being so, we have a shrewd suspicion that the regular habitue of the Temple would still continue to make his journey to the courts above- ground, be the subway never so in- viting or never so loud in insisting on its presence. = = But to return to the Strand. The street has always held a fascination for the Londoner, and indeed for Englishmen everywhere. Other streets specialize, as it were--Fleet street in letters, Lombard street in money, Whitehall in martial glory |! and much history of kings and other people of high estate; but the Strand is just the common meeting ground of all---soldiers, sailors, tinkers, tail- ors, rich men, poor mén, and so on into the region of the quiet undesir- able; all claim the Strand as their right and just rendezvous, and do walk, in large numbers, continually along its pavements. It is related of a countryman that having attained, |! by ways and means which he could |i never afterwards recall, to the Tem- ple station, and having made his way to the Strand, he took refuge in a' doorway. After waiting there a full hour by the clock he ventured, at last, fo ask a passerby when he thought the procession would have And so from the low Temple arch- way, the site of the projected sub- way, we may take out journey west, past St. Clement Danes "where John- son used to worship"; 'past Essex, Arundel, Norfolk, and Surrey streets, all named after sundry palaces which .great lords of such title had hereabouts at one time; past St. Mary le Strand, where Thomas a Becket once was priest. And so on to Somerset House and Waterloo bridge. And over the way is Covent Garden and Lane. The place is full of history. John of Gaunt and Wat Tyler rub shoulders with Bishop Berkeley and Geoffrey Chaucer and think little of the mat- ter. The poet Marvell and the painter Turner forgather with Sam- think less of it; whilst Samuel John- son and Inigo Jones meet point- blank and think nothing of it at all. N ---- Premier Borden, at the request of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, has cabled the Imperial authorities regarding what has happened the petition of Parlia- ment for the extension of the term until October of next year, Sa EES -- \ #4 i NI 5 be | 2 Wm ror fo of millions of pounds that have no one to claim them. a bank tion that has not in its nobody claims, or, in many cases, is at ail likely to ask for. eighty fat volumes bristling with fig- ures, amounting in the aggregate to millions of pounds, all of which re- ers a ings; others and cannot be traced, and in other cases the dividends have been over looked or forgotten altogether. Goschen introduced his conversion scheme it was found that the un- claimed consols almost reached the stupendous total of £8,000,000--in- cluding £10,000 each, £187,598--for not a penny of which a claimant could be this enormous sum of derelict gold is only about one-third of the aggre- gate sum deposited and lost sight of in English banks alone to-day. the custody of the Court of Chancery awaiting those who have a title to it. Fabulous tales are told of these dor- mant Chanvery funds, and the hun- dred or more millions they are sup- posed to represent. sober fact they barely exceed £1,- 900,000, and are made up of some 3,000 sums, not one in which is within nodding distance of £1,000. cane, India, Mr, Mathieson, a director of the Manufacturing Confectioners' Association, remarks, this such an extent that "from about 2,- 300,000 acres only the same number of tons of sugar, and that very in- ferior, is produced. much as twelve tons of sugar been made from the growth acre of cane, and the average may be put at four or five tons. from three to four tons of sugar may be reckoned as the production of an acre of cane in average years. Even if the present miserable output were | On sanitary grounds there is every- but doubled, and that should be easy | thing to be said against it. if any real attention were given to | small boy is not a fastidious or a the subject, India, instead of being | cleanly animal. an importer of sugar, as she is now, should be able to fill her own needs | rubbing it with the front of his hand, and fully supply Great Britain be- sities. is cheap and on the spot, and even | He thus prepared the slate as a éul- the bags for packing are largely pro- | ture ground for microbes. if he hap- duced in India. economical production are says Mr. Mathieson, train." nearly as well known as a lecturer as an explorer, has, in his formar capacity, had many amusing exper- fences. at a town in Scotland, and his ex- penses in connection with hiring of the hall were fairly heavy. the cabman to wait for him. hall he found an audience of five people, two of whom were children. Wishing to add to the number of his listeners, Sir Ernest and asked the cabby hear the lecture. sir, I'm all rights here," man's reply; so Sir Ernest"went in- | side again and manfully gave his | lecture from beginning to end. the close the audience had increased to twenty-five people. Ernest was sorrowfully recounting his experience to his wife, five people at a shilling a head," he | said, 'makes £1 58." "Oh!" exclaim- ed his wife, "you must deduct two | shillings from that, dear. cook and one of the maids!" '1 bury's coll PACES 8-12: HUGE SUMS UNCLAIMED. Bank of England Has Eighty Vol umes of Them, In England alone there aro scores There is scarcely or a company of any deserip- books dng ligts of sums which, year after year, At the Bank of England there are pregent dividends for whieh the own- not forthcoming. Many of them have died without leaving a record of the stock hold- have left the country When, a good many years ago, Mr. forty holdings and exceeding one fortune of found. And Another "buried treasure" fis in As a matter of twenty of Indian Cane Falls Off. The original home of the sugar has allowed cultivation to degenerate to In Hawall as have of an In Java The climate is suitable, labor All the elements of | there," | "and it only | acks statesmanship to set things in | Shackleton's Crowd. Sir Ernest Shackleton, who is He was once giving a lecture He drove n a cab to the lecture place and told In the outside come and no thanks, was went to "Oh, At "Twenty- I sent the Germans Must Close Shops. An order has been given for all German and Austrian commercial establishments to be liquidated at once, says the Cairo correspondént of the "Near Kast." year many people have often won- dered how much longer of toleration in this matter was go- ing to be continued. instance, there were Diemers, chief bookseller; Hackh, pianaforte dealer; * Weinrich, the chief hairdresser; Stein & Co., Tiring & Co., Meyer & Co., linen-drapers and ready-made cloth- fers, not to mention other more or less prominent enemy establishments in other parts, all plying their trade apparently just as in the piping times of peace. these establishments have had an of- ficial controller appointed, and that it has been stated unofficially that the companies are being worked for the fit of th: Entente sharehold- ers an of their Entente creditors. During the past the policy In Cairo, for the the 'chief the leading It 'is true that most of the other concerns for that Halsbury Never Quits. Lord Halsbury absolutely refuses to give up work. He is nearly 91, and yet almost any day you can see him walking to the House of Lords, Mp orth the important question of enemy trading. Three of Lord Hals- es at present sitting with him in the Howsé of Lords were not born when he was first called to the Bar 65 years ago. the | Next day Sir | FAMILIAR FACES GONE. Many Types Ince Seen in London Have Passed -With the War, it is tradition itself which has been most hardly hit by the war. Where are the traditions of London, the traditional institutions of her streets and taverns, writes a London correspondent? "All, all are gone, the old familiar faces!" '--gone either to the front to fight the Germans or to the munition factory to feed the firing line. Thus the streets of the metropolis would look strange to the eyes of a rejuvenated Johnson or Lamb. The absence of the organ-grinder, who, Italian or English, has largely de- serted the streets for the trenches, they would naturally dot notice. But the organ-grinder is only one of the many more or less picturesque characters fast disappearing from our public places. Here is a list of some others: Costers, crossing sweepers, shoe-blacks, beggars, match sellers, hawkers of pirated music, coffee-stall keepers, apple women. The last-named ladies, it may be noted, have probably found more profitable, if less picturesque, em- ployment in one of the many men- depleted factories. Then one misses the eloquent-tongued itinerant toy hawker, of indubitable Cockney ori- gin, whose place is now being taken by swarthy little Japs with soap- stone ornaments to sell. Another personality whose loss one bears with more equanimity is that of the charity canvasser=-usually a long, lean, cadaverous, and be-spec- tacled gentleman of clerical collar and untidy cuffs--who once knocked gently but persistently at our doors, Return of the Slate. The increasing expense of paper these days of militancy has led to the reappearance of the school slate in some parts of the United Kingdom. However the slate and slate-pencil makers may rejoice in the prospect, sanitary science will most certainly oppose the use of the old-time slate. "Medical authorities rise up in in- dignant protest at the very thought, and condemn the slate with hot breath as the most malignant of all disease transmitters," says a Scotch paper. "Those of us who go back to the slate epoch will freely admit that The By choice he "clean- ed" his slate by spitting upon it, and and no rules precribing the use of a sponge could break him to this habit. pened to be possessed of any, and the amiable trick of writing upon one another's slates injurious remarks about the owner or the teacher ef- fected a free exchange of germs." And yet, though I am by no means a reactionary, I really wonder whe- ther there is less sickness among school-children, less spreading of , contagious diseases than there was when we all used slates? It«is a marvel, scientifically speak- ing, that any of us lived through | those days of half a century ago! Will the elderly people of 1970 speak in the same terms of their youthful days? And will they live happier, longer, and be more free from disease ! than are we who live in this year of | Brace? Salmon in New Zealand. Systematic attempt to establish the quinnat salmon in New Zealand waters was first made in 1899. It was decided to concentrate efforts on one river on the east coast of the South Island--the Waitaki River. For several years after that large importations of ova were made, and in 1907 it was found that the fish were returnifig from the sea to spawn, Since then their numbers have been found to be Increasing yearly, and the inspector now states that the number of running fish this year was much greater than since the commencement of the experi- ment. It was also found that there was a large run of fish up the Ran- gitata River, about seventy miles north of the Waitaki, and some had | found their way even farther north, The largest quinnat salmon yet caught in New Zealand weighed over thirty-two pounds. The Clan Grant, The Clan Grant, whose chief, the Earl of Seafield, has been killed in Flanders, hes within the last hun- dred years been called together by fiery cross in defence of its head. It was in 1820, during an election in the city of Elgin, where lived the 6th Earl, a man of weak intellect: His sister, Lady Ann, fearjng danger from the excited mob, sent to a youth who afterwards became the famous Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, this message: "Young as you are, rally the Highlanders, and come to the rescue of your Chief." He received it coming out of church in Crom- dale, and there and then started with three hundred men down Strathspey for Elgin, a fourteen hours' mareh. Meanwhile he had sent the flery cross into the remoter glens, sum- moning the Grants In them to follow with all speed. 'Why the Prince Hid. Lots of stories, old and new, have been told about the Prince of Wales at the front. This is really a true one, says The London Mail. Some SECOND SECTION This is the cas In ¥5,1 and 2 pound cans. Whole -- ground --pulverized -- also Fine Ground for Perco- lators. 166 What to Do to Get Fat and Increase Weight. The Real Cause of Thinness Most people eat from four to six pounds of good solid fat-making food every day and still do not Increase in weight one ounce, while on the other hand many of the plump, Fhunky folks eat very lightly and keep gaining all the time. It's all bosh to say that this is the nature of the Individual It isn't Nature's way at all Most thin people stay thin because their powers of assimilation are defec- tive. They absorb just enough of the food they eat to maintain life and a semblance of health and strength. Stufing won't help them. A dozen meals a day won't niake them gain a single "stay there" pound. All the fat-producing elements of their food just stay there in the intestines until they pass from the body as waste. What such peopls need is something that will prepare these fatty food elements so that their blood can ab- sorb them and deposit them all about the body---something too, that will mui- tiply thelrred b los and in- crease their blood's garrying power. For such a condition it Is well to recommend eating a Sargol tablet with every meal Sargol is not, as some believe a patented drug, but is simply a careful combination of slx of the most effective and powerful as. similative and flesh building elements known to chemistry It 1s absolutely harmless, yet has been wonderfully ef- fective and a single tablet eaten with each meal often, accordin to reports of users, has the effect of Increasing the weight of a thin man or woman from three to five pounds a week. Sar- gol is soM by all good druggists every - where on a positive guarantee of welght increase or money If you find a druggist who Is unable to supply you, send $1.00 mney order, or regis- tered letter. to the National Labora- tories, 74 St. Antoine St, Montreal, and a complete ten days' treatment will be sent you postpaid, in plain wrapper. A a A a | Look and Feel Clean, Sweet and Fresh Every Day Drink a glass of real' hot water before breakfast to wash out polsons. Life is not merely to live, but to live well, eat well, digest well, work well, sleep well, Took well. What a glorious condition te attain, and yet how very easy it is if one will only adopt the morning inside bath. Folks who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when they arise split- ting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, can, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy by opening the sluices of the system each morning and flushing out the whole of the internal poison- ous stagnant matter. Everyone, whether ailing, sick or well, should, each morning, before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of lime- stone phosphate in it to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bow- els the previous day's indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous tox- ins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of hot water and limestone phosphate on an emp- ty stoinach is wonderfully invigorat- It cleans out all the sour fer- mentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast. = While you are enjoying your breakfast the water and phos- phate is quietly a large Yolume of Xater from the. and getting ready for a of all the inside 2 ocongh: The millions of people who are bothered with constipation, billous &pells, stomach trouble, rheumatism; others who have 'sallow skins, blood disorders and sickly complexions are urged to get a quarter pound of lime- stone phosp! the drug store frightened of?" Tommy, "He'd seen So gue