ial reciprocity was proposed, but no decision was reached in this matter. The first true Imperial Conference, composed of the prime ministers, and officially called together for the dis- cussion of empire problems, occurred iii conne tion with the Queen's Dia- mond Jubilee, in 1897. 'At this meet- ing Joseph Chamberlain was the pre-| siding genius. He frankly desired an Imperial customs union, annial colonial areiibutions to the British exchequer, complete free trade with- in the empire; and a pertianent im- perial government. The Colonial premiers demurred to these plans. In 1902 at & conference, the prefer- thing sccomplished, was a promise of naval aid from Australia and New Zealand. In 1907 a fifth conference was called when the idea of an im- perigl pariiament failed. In 1911 an~ other conference dealt mainly with peace and commercial issues. In 1922 ence idea was promoted, but the only | ones have been closed, while few railway lines have been laid, along which the trassportstion needed fo: the works is carried on. Steam dig- gers which remoye = tom of earth st esch movement are making =| pew canal. Quarries are busy blas!-| ing stone, which «is then carted away at top speed to the specially constructed mills, to be turped Into, concrete. Everywhere there Is evi-| dence of Titanic ectivity, 'and yei; not far away the sections of the river. which do not come into the scheme are flowing sérenely along amid scenery of pastoral beauty. ------ EDITORIAL NOTES. -- Where do the old autos go? To the same place as pins and razor blades. There is nothing more certain than that the people of Ontario are de; FIP AEIEt tree RItee THE DAILY BRITISH WH eee ee $9049 E0202 200% , A SUNDAY THOUGHT. *ee A Morning Prayer. 0 Thou, who haus gemimed ithe heavens with round, ve- wivicg worlds. EPP 008 end 2% and i in oil," and dene Lond, through the snd the convincing Me of Thy dear Soa; d Through the divine wich Thou eet =m within us; 1} i \ IG " __ ---- BIBBY'S THE YOUNG MEN'S SUIT AND OVERCOAT SHOP THIS WEEK WE AREAEATURING Suits and Overcoats $3750 5 High grade tailoring, fine quality English, We have just received a 'small shipment of ~ KEILLER'S SUGARLESS AMS AND ARMALADE Specially prepared for * diabetics. Jas. REDDEN & CO. - PHONES 20 and 990. ¢ That we ought fot to neg & the gift that %» In us] @ To this end wilt Thou # us t3 de pure, brave, faithéul ¢ end strong, that we may Min 4 & the good fight end win + # orown of righteousness. cidedly resentful at certain taxes, and thelr removal would be a popu- lar measure. ' \ Scotch, Irish and French pure wool fabrics. OVERCOATS SUITS are Crombie's British Chinchil- {are genuine English 'Serges, the imperial war cabinet was In ser- vice. The idea of Dominion equality was frequently admitted, and even gloried tn, by. successive British rul- 9%! ors but no legal steps have been Ph th dt dd To keep the wheels running in the Dominion we've got to purchase the .e cireuintion of The British Whis ticated by the Audit Bureau I A ------------------ QHILD SHALL LEAD THEM." | Jittle tot in Ottawa was losi week for two days, and the of Canada's capital was mov: | The Imperial Conference, the ing of the Rumanian queen and big news became secondary to search for the two and a half- lsar-old 1addie who got "Josted. RB what rejoicing there was when fittle fellow was found lying : in some brash, weary and fh and his little bod} chilled. The wa newspapers devoted much of p first pages with big headlines of the recovery of the lost Joy in the capital knew uo . The wee. lad, covered with rain-soaked and mud-en- 4, and hugging a Boy Scout was found. Once again he was p In his own little bed at home, sting from his terrible experi- alone for two days and nights we are reminded by this stir- incident and how it touehed the ®. of what ths Master did v] He walked the earih: "And He filled a little child ynto Him and him in the midst of them." PHE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE, Another Imperial conference has gonvened in London, the seventh jis kind, Between 1830 and 1870 t Britain in the contention of Canadian, of Vancouver, was the spell of the anti-Imperial, scolonial free trade spirit. Lead- | like Bright and Cobden looked up- | the colonies without covetousness; Delfeved and hoped that the day d come when Canada and the dependencies would set up for themselves, and in order hasten that day they worked vall- ly to end the navigation laws and vestiges of the old colonial sys- In the late sixties, however, a came over the British atti- Economic revival, the need new markets and new sources of materials, and, above all, the in- of continental competition, sed Britain to a new interest In | overseas possessions. As store- s of raw materials, and as po- markets for English goods, colonies held & néw and compel attraction. More than that the he tradition of British power the rulers of the Island King- ~ anxious to find means of ening her diplomatic and ary prestige. A strong, united § would contribute . to this this in view the Royal Colon- tute was found with the mot. an imperial custom's union to by military ard naval In 1867 the franchise Lto the lower social fed at 8s a possible and de- 'future development. Lord did, however, suggest that : ould immediately con- ; upkeep of the Bmpire," and with the | taken--except in connection with the | League of Nations--to make this an- pounced equality an actual fact of constitutional validity. The confer-; ence of this year, it is said, will be| the first occasion since 1911 that the problem of inter-Dominion relations will be thoroughly canvassed. The outcome will be watched with marked interest. -------------- THE PRICES OF FURS. The high prices for furs in New | York and Montreal auction rooms will be quite a stimulation to farm | {boys to greater activities next year in the country's creeks and swamps. ht is pleasing information that a big | portion of the furs which tashionable | { women wear are taken by farfn boys. | Perhaps he would not recognise the {lowly muskrat under the name of | Hudson seal, but it is there just the same. Muskrat, rabbit and other lowly furs can, by skillful treatment, {appear under a variety of names and | with a variety of appearances. So the farm boy adds to his pocket money {during the trapping season by setting | his traps for muskrats, skunks, mink | But muskrat forms the 'and coon. {trapper goes after the more valuable { furs, such as beaver, otter, fisher and {so. 1 { STILL NEED BETTER WEATHER. i A month of warm dry weather is nesded by the Ontario farmer to clean up the balance of the work in the fields. The few bright days of the past week have helped, but this will not be sufficient. It now ap- pears that Western Ontario has suffered more than the « Eastern counties from unfavorable weather conditions. In the Western half there are three or four special crops, such as sugar beets, tobacco, beans and seed corn,' which mean several million dollars to the farmer and all of these have been hit. Beans and minch of the seed corn has been ruin- od by excessive moisture, the sugar | boats have grown well but the sugar content 1s low, tobacco also has made excellent growth but it is im- possible to harvest it and cure It properly. There Is still a lMttle grain out, here and there through- out the province, while the bulk of the late potato crop, reported sul. fering from rot, is yet to be lifted. | GARY GIVES A HAND. Judge Elbert H. Gary is a very powerful, a very rich, and a very portentous figure. But the judge! gave fifteen minutes of his time, conservatively estimated as worth a hundred dollars a minute, to a very poor, very young. and very io- significant reporter the othes day. + The young reporter was sent to attend a press conference which the judge was holding. The reporter ar. rived late, coming in just as * the judge spoke his last words. The callow youth was scared. He did not dare face his boss without. that in. torview. ; So the great and rich judge sat himself down, sat the tardy reported down. and repeated the interview 'Which probably expising why the jidge is rich and great and power. ful, Folks who tread others down as they climb upward are not so apt to reach the top first as ihose who give a hand along the way and get one in return, re BUSY ON RIVER SHANNON. Not. much has been heard in this country lately of the gregt schema tor producing electric current from the water power of the River Shannon, the longsst river ia thesa tslands. The carrying out of the scheme, however, is well in hand, and a large party of members of the Institution of Electrical Eagineers of Ireland who visited the works las: 'week have expressed themselves in very favorable terms concerning ¥ them. In the immediate area where the works are, the whole face of {he countryside has been transform. ed. A series of little towns have § opened for vehicular traffic and old The prospective employer was not sat- corded at Cordova, Maska. output. This can be easily done if Canadians will set their minds to the undertaking. Thomas A. Edison, discussing re- cently the merits of the radio and the phonograph, declared that so far as music is concerned radio is a fall- ure. Pay your money and take your choice! An applicant for employmert said he had references from ~ clergymen. isfled for he asked: 'Haven't you one from somébody who has seen you at work on week days?" n-- * + Je sess tsaterttbeny Quebec Viewpoint Le Canada insists that the Quebec liquor system is more conducive of real temperance than is the prohibl« tion system of the United States. "Since prohibition has been In| force in the United States quite as| much alcoholic liquor has been con- sumed and drunkenness has consid- erably increased. In.the provinee of Quebec, under Government control of diquor, crime has decreased ap- preciably. The Volstead law is ams- Ontario has a special interest in Manitoba's ¢elebration of the first ex- | port of Wheat fifty years ago, says the | Toronto Globe, because that wheat | was used as seed in this province | owing to a crop failure. | { -- No matter what power, what, wealth, what success they achieve,| most men ask for little else at the | end of the road but a hoyse and gar-| den, chickens, a shady walk, a library | and a little work. | ---- | An up-to-date hotel, to-day, is the | basis of his income. The professional a: olty 3 ! earmark of a progressive city. King i ince of Quebec. ston is in a fair way, following ob- stacles and difficulties, to have its] needs met by the activities about the | new Randolph Hotel property. The girders and brick going skyward pre-| dict a splendid hostelry. The electors of Belleville, will probably be asked on the first Monday in December to state their opinion on the question of the triennial term for alderman, that is the question of elec- tion for a three year period, one- third of the aldermen retiring each year and two-thirds remaining in ot" fice. St." Louls is turning flipflops this week and the Mlsgissippl river is run- ning backwards. Something that two generations of fans have hoped for has come home and the flag of vic- tory proudly floats over the roman- tic old city. It is a popular victory with the fans. They wanted St Louis to win because St. Louis had never won before. sn----. What has been accomplished from a handful ot corn planted in the earth. This is the fiftieth anniversary of the | over, our pot enjoy the measure of prosperity handing out first shipment-of wheat from Western Canada to Ontario. In the passing half-century, the meagre shipment of £00 bushels has grown to-day to the gigantic total of over 300,000,000 bushels in 1925. And Canada's grain resourced are still in their infancy! ---- Canada's tobacco production in 1925 was about thirty million, pounds, of which Ontario supplied twenty and a half millions, Quebec eight qn half millions, and British Columbia, in ita first year to show any com- mercial results, eleven thousand. Three and & half millioa pounds were exported, of which the United King- dom purchased about two and a quarter million pounds. The balance was worked up in Canadian tobacco factories. Sight eanthquake shock was re- approved by a majority of the social organizations of the United States, whereas the Quebec law has been ap- proved publicly Dy clergy and tem- peranhce societies, for the parties all gee in it an excellent means of put- ting a curd on alcoholism. More- law, as decreed by the Taschereau Government five years ago, has been copied by several other provinces of the Dominion, and we = have no doubt that it will be adopt- ed by the United States, too, when they Timally realize that their system is carrying the people the wrong way. There can be nothifg but praise for the gituation in the prov- | We have ' a law | which gives satistaction to evepy-| body, which encourages temperance | and hampers the liberty of nobody. And. besides, , it is an important source of revenue for the public | treasury." $ News and Views. Not Until Then. Boston Transcript: Uncle Sam will jearn that Canada wants political' union with the United States about ths time he gets a fina} report oun who struck Billy Patterson. Need Busy Industries. Farmers' Advocate: Farming can- | it has earned until the industries of the country are running full time, las and Cheviots; O'Brien's | French 'All-wool, fancy Worst. Irish Cheviots; Boaunpe'y va Scotch and English Fancy French Brushed Cherlots. Tweeds and Cheviot. We fit all types--Stout, Slims, Shorts and Regulars. : BIBBY'S KINGSTON'S ONE PRIGE CLOTHING HOUSE | BUCKWHEAT NO. For Spencer and Newport Furnaces, $9 per ton delivered. Pea Coal, $12.50 per ton delivered. All Sales for Cash. SOWARDS COAL CO. TELEPHONE. 155 UPTOWN OFFICE: McGALL'S CIGAR STORE. 'Phone 811. -------- Nr Tools For Everybody No mechanic consi- ders a job hard to per- form when his tools work right. And re- member that perfect tools are the only kind we sell. Any kind of a tool at reasonable prices. See window display ! Stevenson & Hunter 85-82 PRINCESS STREET. TINSMITHS AND PLUMBERS. pay envelopes week and hoistering up the buying power of the other half of the com: munity who dive in towns and cities Canada Has Trump Card. Los Angeles Times: A Canadian |i report shows that in the dominion |} the last fiscal year there were no |i fewer murder cases recorded than || in the previous period. In all there |}j were fifty-four. This is hardly a lil good week's record for Chicago. But {| the joke is that in Canada a con- |fi viction means death. And in Canada | i they convict them without' brass bands, - American beauty roses or || sob sisters. ire . Canada's Mission, London Observer: The ten millions | |i of Canadians, it they will, can wield |} under the old flag more influence |{i than any equal number of people | elsewhere. . Above all, Canada | amongst the self-governing nations |i of the Empire has a position and a | mission 1'ke no other. For three thousand miles her open frontier || marches peacefully with that of the | American Republic. If she can rise | to the highest view of her destiny she will work deliberately, steadily, to harmonize her intimate neighbor- hood to the United States with her membership of the British Empire; and to draw the two systems into a working fellowship which would lead « SR MAIURE What the sharp-shinned hawk Is to the small birds, the Cooper's hawk. is to these of larger size and to the half-grown chickens on the farm. Differing from the agile and highly efficient sharp-shin chiefly ia size, this hawk fills a siche in na- ture"s plan not occupled by aay ether species. Cooper's hawk, like prey, differs sexually in® size, the males) being the smaller. Now it happens that the smallest maies of Cooper's may be mearly as small as the largest females of the sharp shin. Thus their roles are supple- mentary, and any species that caf- not quite be managed by the sbarp- Shin is fair prey for the more power- birds of Cooper's. "pe destructive habits of these. Lover. it may be told hy ils more the world. protection has been denled them. Bouniies offered for the Cooper's hawk often have heen paid for the beneticial species, and, what is much worse, we have deprived ourselves not only of whatever benefit might have been derived from /their good offices In destroying pests, but alse of the inspiring sight of our larger soaring hawks, a privilege now af- forded chiefly in memory. The Cooper hawk shares with its smaligr relatives, the sharp-shin, most of its adroitness in the pur-| suit and capt of living prey. It} is of slightly heavier build, rela! tively, but is by no means easy to | distinguish, especialiy at a little dis tance, when the difference in size fs usually lost. Sometimes, how- : predators have long been known and rounded tail. Plain and frimmed, Rich appearance, W. F. GOURDIER - 78-80 BROCK STREET Oet. 20/Nov. IT Nov. 3 How Thor | | Pubic Librry Bulletin Boys' and Girls' Library. Senior Story Hour be- gins Wednesday at 4.30 p.m. The Children of Odin, paid the mountain giant his wages We are mow taking orders for Scranton sad Virginia Asthracite dteve, Nut and Pea Coal Ales Black Gem and Pocahontas Semi. Hard. Our Coal is all weighed on the city scales. You get twenty huss dred of coal for a ten. Let us have your order for your winter Coal. AYLESWORTH BROS. Or 'phone U. R. Knight, 1795.w, Memorials Before placing your order for Monuments call and inspect our stock. Cemetery Lettering a specialty J. E. MULLEN TELEPHONE .417. Corner of Princess and Alfred ° Streets. The Fastest Film Made, Fresh supply. All sizes. ou will save money dealing with us. ' | Scranton Stove, Chestnut and Egg, | $15.50 per ton, delivered. {| Dalperan Anthracite---a wonderful hard coal--$13.50. Genuine Pocahontas Stove Coal «-- $11.50, ; Solvay Coke--812.50. Slabs, cut--$3.00 per losa. Dennee & Morris 'Phone 2444. 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