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CHEESE. Regular 40c., Special py SEEDED RAISINS. 12-0z. packages 33c 'Reguiar 15¢ Special 3 for 35c add hl ! i Fi = Emptying Ontario s Jails / { | J ail Commitments Before and After Passage of the ALL CRIMES DRUNKENNESS 1915-20, 337 1915- 6,235 be 1918--13,242 1918--2,595 From for 3 year 1918. 7 Act. Annual Reports of Inspectors of Prisons 1915 and 1918, and : Schedule H. Ropers of the Board of License Commissioners for Ontario any fair-minded should neitl er be repealed nor weakened by Amendments. ed more thian one-third since 1915. 1915, the year preceding the Act, to 2,595 in 1918. ¥ able by ncreased by. over 500,000. Some jails received no drunkards in 1918 at all. "Do you population of Ontario's prisons, jails and lock-ups restored ? ; mark >i in the "No" column after each gusstion. ; Referendum must be answered or your ballot is "spoiled." And "No!" -- Four Times --*No!" Each and t every one of the four questions on the ballot paper in i 3 unless 'youmark X after each question in the "'Nio" column, the Ontario Tem- Act will be spoiled, and years of Terymipne igi Jost. \ctual 'Experience | ~The Ontario Temperance Act is \NTARIO' S experience wil sen under the Omori Tem- peranice Act since. September 16, 1916, has been all the argument man or woman wants, to prove that the Act Jail Consmitments for crimes and offences of all kinds have decreas- Jail Conimitments for drunkenness decreased despite the fact that the Act makes. drunkenness in public places a "prima facie' offence, punish- fine or imprisonment, whether' accompanied by 'disorderli- ness' or not.. A drunken man on the street has | become a rare sight. The number of commitments for drunkenness in Ontario in 1918 was he lowestt in seventeen years, although the population of the Province ; Others show well nigh unb eliovable decreases, notably in the cities and larger towns. vant to see the taste for alcoholic beverages revived, and the oh eB you are convinced that drunkenness is undesirable in this Province El io Referendum Committee ~ °D. A. DUNLAP Treasurer ANDREW 8S. GRANT Vice Chairman and Secretory 5 (1001 Excelsior Life Bldg, Toronto) Jail Ccgnmitments for drunkenness alone dovioated from 6, 235 in o {yet of : the 'er Vere taraels 1 Ry Dur- ing the War. rile worked wonders in liy nd potentially the nee of the world. 3 yhlishod productive activ- wa losi thelir pre-eminence. : any flax and the aon ! fing linens. North EY TY oe ir way to come into of this very profitable Yor. thanks te steps taken dnion Department of the farnit:s are being i every way to ge in for v oiinin of fax. The manu- aud i600 is baing promoted. inn believe they can make ive u endirely independent of fax, snd they are equally ni that projected fae- it make it possible for them ntly ahd of the very their fax fibre in- #0 sinall that ee The year after he gan therk was planted 1,409 acrés throughout ; and breadth of the Dom- "len, fast year the area devoted 5° this cron amountéd to. 18,000 pes, and during 1919 the! fields have 0 20800 acres. According to a few weeks ago by us of For eign and Domestic 'there were only nine sentching mills in operation in and these plants were scattered a restricted region in south- atario. They were the s remaining of a larger num- rly engaged in the industry ch were gradually 'forced to uspend operations because of the 'ompatition of Russian grown fibre nd the cheap labor available abroad. linee 1915; however, conditions have nproved and new scutching | mills on roe ree, ahr i 843, :dve been established. In 1918 there o forty-seven plants in the Dom- ston. Fibre ig being grown in On- "iio superior to any quality of the lussian product and egual to the % her continental standards." ? dome millions of dollars are. now voted to developing linen weaving 2jiis in Canada, and it is determined 3 increase these establishments and wake the Dominion a great linen An Agent In New York. Col. Jchn A. Cooper, of To- who recently réturned from 5, has gone to New York to pen a publicity office in that city at rhe Dominion Government. = For ; time .such a move has | 'been plated by it has been falt that Can- ests in the United States leity: repre- and even ¥ alia is opening Sooper iz a president' of dian Press Association, and ged in editorial work Vy. years For some aditor of the Canadian and: later was one of'-the :s and first editor of: the n Courier. He was the first ut of the Canadian Club of He his kind of: work. The New York office which Col. a will open will handle: Cana: 1 NEWS despatches and al§o he a nigient source of information for ted States news agencies, editors sal writers on magazines and publications. : ver . the wiil LI pass ea a Canada's representative at Washington when one i§ appointed. Canada draw hier fresh supplies of capital from American sources., This makes it necessary that the latest informa- tion about the progress of this eouns- agriculture, financial, and com- shall always be promptly LY, mareial, available to the reading public of the United States. Col. Cooper is thus undertaking a work of' considerable Davgaa importance. , Indian Calm. "You can't feaze an Indian," said Indian 'Coiamissioner Malcolm Mec- Dowell. *'You can't Tuite an Indian's calm dignity. : "I. once had the sa viataction to point out to an Indian chief an air- plane gailing across the sky. It was the first airplane he'd ever seen, and 1 had fond hopes that he'd show sonle excitement, & "Thera!" I said. you think of it? nary?' "The chief looked up at the air- plane calmly; and then he looked ecaln ily at we. 'But it was built to'do that, was- n' ve it?' 'he said." "There! What do Isn't] it extraordi- Kirst Safety Bicycle, The first of the safety bicycles was pitt on the market in 1880. In this tlie high front wheel was reduced and the rear wheel was about two- thirds the height of the front one. The. machines with wheels of the s size appeared in 1885. Bicycles 3 in to be popular about 1891, and ze' reached its height about 1845, when wheels had become low fin price to be within the 3 of the multitude. Py | Maopy Wanted the Prince. i shew word was received that the Prince of Wales would visit this .con-| ent started among fierce war tenders of New Vork 'and w, who wished to haveithe entertaining, him. The authorities were somewhat , but the situa tion was would act. as host. to the PRINCE OF WALES EpaTHERS. Throne. of Wales' hopeful. '""Never heard of them," answered one member of the family. "Something to do with the Battle of Creey, 1 think." chimed in father. ' Of course the mest natural thing to do was to look it vp and find out what 'the authorities about the matter, seem to difier theories. i} The three ostrich plumes are the badge of the Hei» Aprarent te the thrope of England * The ostrich feathers must not be confused 'with . feathers?" The authoritiss slightly in their 'Wales which is an entirely different insignia altogether _ The popular: belief ie that the! ostrich feathers Philip of Valois at the Rattle of Crecy when the Black Prince =0 gallantly served his father Edward IIT and his eountry by defeating the French. id An authority. on heraldry, Charles Boutell, maintains that there is no foundation for. tha belief that the feathers were won from King Philip of Valois.. The 'theory, he says, is not. supported by. any contemporary. The first time the feathers are men- tioped in any record is In a docu- ment which was dated A.D. 1388. The Battle of Crscy was fought 'in A.D. 1346. In 1369 'the three feathers were grouped together by Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII. The plumes appear to have the authorities at}: Wn could not | i is thus well- -equipped is the sscond best cus-| tomer for United States exports and | ° for gome time to come Canada must | been encircled for the first time with a coronet by Prince Edward who afterwards became King Edward Vi, but who 'never really was Prince of Wales. Edward 111 used 'the ostrich feath- ers. as a badge with his shield of a and the feathers were also rw 34 Queen Phillipia, hig wife, as a heraldic 'device. in" F370. The ostrich feathers 'appear .on some, but 'not on all seals of the Black Prince and} 'werd omitted "from some of nis Seals gtter the Battle of er The: teathers were, also used by all the * other sons of 'Edward 11. ., but pres "a: 'wish 'that two armorial shields - bearing. the: insignia' of the feathers with c "I¢h Dien," I serve, ; played: in, the procession immediately preceding His remdins, "Lun pour la "guerre de 'nos. ames enteces .quartelles," and. the dther for peace, ' "'et."'autre' pour: la paix de nes bages des plumes d'osiruce." He further appointed in his. will that his | Canterh ry. Cathedral ed, 1¥ 'various places with: 'his 'Coat '0 Arms. and. likewise with the hadge, of; "Ostrich Feathers. An old Lngtisas poem. writes Bois "Thers < , "+ chivalry Plumed | of his os Tooke as! the ensign Bt his victory. ; hie he did after weare and ever a hig Which. Kdwa=d" first 0 win by con- ; Guest' 'there Gd 'from'a totally different source. 'asserts that they were 'the insignia of 'the Prince of Wales 'during the 'independence of Walse. prior, to the 'of England os Princes of Wales con- tinued the 'badge ensigned with, a corgnet With the motto "Ieh Disa" to 'expres . the 'sentiment 'that al- though of paramount; dignity in that country they still owed allegiance to the crown of England. Richard - 11 adopted the ostrich feathers. and they were placed on either side of his crested helm in the heraldic: sculpture of Westminster -honor to his !cousin, Thomas Mow- bray, Duke of Norfolk. Henry Stuart, eldest son of James I established the arrangement of the three ostrich. feathers within a prince's coronet iu place of the scroll. Ostrich feathers were also worn as a badge by 2ll the sons of Henry IV, and by the Beauforts, and were heid in high esteem by both the rival houses of York and Lancaster. . It is also redorden that the white ostrich feather with its pen golden ig the King's; with the feathers en- : tirely" white, OP prince's; the feathers ing its pen Company is the Duke of Somerset' 8. Ff 3 x A Military: Review. When King George and Queen Mary; then the Duke-and Duchess of York, visited Canada just after the trom all nts of the rie ws zing that only Presi-§ 7 4 his stay in fis ZepaLlie.. £08 % : ot 'contain one ow the ca88, Badge. Worn by Heir to the British 1 "What is the origin of the Prince asked young ; had to say: the Coat of Armg of the Prince of | | OXDRIFT, ont. were won from) © met { pe PRS invasion of: the Er.glish 5 After this. 'event the eldast son of the Kings: Hall. They were also placed on his Royal Se nd were habitually used for decoration and: heraldic display. 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