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fo. b> * -» . of Nations, representing Italy; Signor. gorgeous ceiling of the Pilot and Marquis Medici, nr Suc hall in. the Foreign Office, the |°f the Italian delegation; Dr. Luther, s the German Chancellor; Dr. Strese- ries of seven European |i ann {he German Foreign Minister, signed with golden pens the'and Herr von Schubert of the German eaty of Locarno and its subsidiary | Foreign Office. "treaties, which optimists believe, will! At the end of the table, facing Sir bring to Europe a golden age of peace. | Austen Chamberlain, sat Herr Kemp- from Lohdon SAYS :-- for the ceremony, those bidden to at-| M. Rolin of the Belgian delegation. "tend began to enter the beautiful For-' On the side of the table at Sir Aus- eign Office hall. They ipeluded ten's left sat Mr. Lampson of the statesmen, diplomats, the wives and. British Foreign Office; the French 'Long before 11 o'clock, the time set 'ner of the German Foreign Office, and | daughters of -the signatories, scores of newspapermen. hall were reserved for British and | "foreign newspapermen, who totalled : foie than 150. Ranged before them | two rows of seats were the official stenographers. The signatories entered with others who were to sit at the green table in: - the centre of the room. First of these . to appear was Foreign Secretary | Chamberlain, now Sir Austen Cham- berlain, with the German Chancellor, Luther, and French Premier, Briand, on either side of him. the table in the following order: Mr. Chamberlain took the head of the table. On his right sat Premier Baldwin, and on his left Sir Cecil Hurst, legal adviser to the British delegation at Locarno. Ranged on _ tha side of the table to Chamberlain's right were Signor Scialoja, head of the Italian delegation to the League MATTAWA FIRE LOSS TOTALS $150,000 Several Families Homeless, Five Stores Destroyed in Blaze Starting in Grocery. A despatch from North Bay says:-- . Seven families are homeless, four dwellings and five stores are burned to the ground, while a number of other buildings are damaged, according to reports received here of the fire which broke out.in Mattawa early Wednes- day morning. The total damage is approximately $150,000. started in the grocery store of K. C.| McDonald, who was-in North Bay at! the time, and when it was noticed at 3.45 in the morning it had gained too much headway to be checked; The flames spread to a fruit store owned by N. Karan, an Assyrian, to a hardware store owned by J. A. Fink, | "to the drygeods store ef Mr. Monsour . and to the customs office. An apart-' ment building tenanted by H. E. Gil- beau and Mr, Gignac, the C.P.R. agent, was destroyed, as was the resi- dence of I. Mosseau. The Gignac, | Monsour, Guilbeau and Sarazin fam-! flies, who lost everything, were saved in thelr night attire by the fire fight- _ ers. They had slept through the early portion of the fire. To the fact that there was no wind the people attribute the fact that the flames did not sweep through the whole town, which is largely composed of frame buildings. Following the alarm nearly all the male residents of the town turned " and Premier, M. Briand; M. Berthelot, 3 In fact, | Permanent Secretary of the French armangements for giving the press a! | Foreign Office; good view of the proceedings vied Benes of Czechoslovakia; with those made for the movie men. | Minister Skrzynski of Poland; M. 'Almost all the seats on one side of the | : Przedziecki, "members of the British Cabinet and The distin- | guished group seated themselves at' Excited Public Trafficking in The blaze ! Foreign Minister Foreign his fellow-delegate from Poland, and Premier Vanderveldo. of Belgium. In a long row behind the side of the table where the Germans were seated a number of diplomats and at- taches grouped themselves. Behind Premier Baidwin and Foreign Secre- (tary Chamberlain the distinguished imen who took seats included Lord "Balfour, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, and the other numerous ladies. x Proceedings were opened by Sir Austen Chamberlain," who read a message from King George welcoming the delegates, expressing satisfaction because London was. chosen as the place for signing the Locarno Treaty, and regretting that the death of Queen Alexandra prevented celebra- ting the occasion by special functions, as had been originally intended, SPECULATORS CAUSE FLURRY IN WHEAT conferred on her the title of Dame of ference. The above photograph shows and two sons, POPULARITY BRINGS Royal Ranch, Lamed and Exhausted by Admirers. A despatch front Chicago says:-- Futures in Winnipeg Pit. A despatch from Winnipeg says: -- It begins to look as if the wheat mar- ket was off on another mad ride. the last four days, since the - opening | of, the Fairies," owned by H.R.H. the, on Monday morning, the price has! Prince of Wales, which was also grand jumped ahead 18 cents. "The advance | champion at the Royal Winter Show on Thursday alone was 7 cents. |at Toronto this year, is now the prop- Speculators are pouring into the mar- erty of Frank C. Baker, Kansas City, ket, and it"is apparent that almost Mo. This famous bull was sold for, every town and village in the country | the astonishingly low price of $1,050 has its group of citizens taking a flyer | t the auction shle of Shorthorn cattle in wheat. [at the Exposition. Last year an orgy of buying by the! Mr. Baker admitted after "King Public shot the price up until early in | of the Fairies" had become his prop- | February it had reached the record "erty that he had come to the sale pre- of $2.21. This was followed by a; ! pared to pay a' much higher price, if [break that took it back to $2, then necessary, to: secure. the bul for 'his "down to $1.70, and later to as low as farm near Kansas City. $1.45. Prior to the bull being put up for The price of December 'wheat on | sale, Professor W. L. Cariyle. Man- "Thursday was higher than onthe same, ager. of the Princes ranch at Pekiska, date a year ago. December closed at! | Alberta; announced to the crowd in | $1.60 5-8, compared with $1.58 3-4 a: the sales building that the reason for, Cd ago. The May and July options, | the "King of the Fairies" going on owever, are not quite as high as a the auction block was that the Prince year ago, being $1.61% and $1.59 8.8, lof Wales intends to bring out another FL Vely ssompated JEL 65 and pure-bred Shorthorn bull from Britain on as The wheat pit at Winnipeg on Pe Popularity Was the! Ligon oR highly exciting: Nai { principal cause for the low price, for oh es td Ere He Ee since the arrival of "King of the by the local public, higher cables from ! Faities! ion mask Saou Hivrgsl and news of bod cop cn | ing Lo Sian up contami an erefore when it entere e to send prices soaring. Although | cores ving on Thursday the bull limps wheat has shot ahead, oats, barley, | k d i f exhaus- flax and rye are all considerably lower | Sand SY sano A than a year ago. CANADA'S DOWN PRICE OF BULL| HIGHER IN NOVEMBER | to "King of the Fairies," from Interest Chargls "Form the The wife of Sir Austen Chamberlain was signally honored witen the King Grand Cross of the Qrder of the Bri- tish Empire, recognizing the important part she played in the Locarno con- Dame Chamberlain with her daughter .T DEBT NEY Largest Item of Ex- penditure, A despatch from Ottawa says:-- In The champion Shorthorn bull, "King: Canada's net debt. increased by $22,- 594,074 during the month of Novem- ber, according to figures issued by. the | Finance Department. The net debt of the Dominion now stands at $2,382, | 616,888, as compared with $2,360,022, 809 on the 31st of last October. Dur- ing the month of November of last "year the net debt showed an increase 'of $35,405,272 at the end of Novem- ber as compared with October. The net debt-of -Canada on November. 30, 11924, was $2,411,754,847, so that there i has been a decrease in the year am- ounting to $29,137,464. The largest item on the expindis | ture side of the sheet is that covering gi;rage seconds, payments of interest on' the public, 'debt, For the eight months it amount- 1b. 80¢; {bold report is. contest he dg fixed as zero hour. "Had | attacked the losses certainly 'have reached hundreds; which reveals as causes of the con- tier guard Sen in the Balkans and ; TORONTO. Man, wheat--No. 1 North. $1.67; Nout 2 North, $1.68%; No. 8 'North., a: oats, No. as CW," nominal; No. A Sie; No. 1 feed, ddc; Nord] eo Am. corn, track, A 2s yellow, 98¢. Millfeed--Del., piacniresl Er Bo; De ha, per shor! . $38" good' feed Joo ae per bag, oh, oats--40. to 43¢, f.0b. shipping pein Ont. good milling wheat--$1.30 to $1.33, f.0.b. shipping points, according to freights, Barley=Malting, 67 to 69¢c. Buckwheat--No, 8, nominal. Rye<HNo. 2, 80c. Ont. flour--Toronto, 00 per cent. Eo per barrel, if carlots, P oronto, 20; seaboard, in bulk, $6.20. Straw--Carlo per ton, $9 to $9.50. Screenin, ndard, g Heaned, 1 ob. bay p bay veri, per ton, New, a d ¥ oh ®. 2a3%e1 Swine, 24% to ge; or im s i arge, ns, 20¢; triplets, 80c. TE Stiltons, 27¢c. Butter--Finest creamery pHints, 48c; No. 1 creamery, 47¢; No. 2, 46. to 46c. Dairy pri prints, 41 to 42ec. Eggs--Fre s, in cartons, 78 to 80c; rg ph ras, loose, The; fresh firsts, 60 to 66c; storage extras, 46 to 46¢c; stor: firsts; 42. to 48¢; 8 to 87c. Dressed poultry =shickens spring, hens, over 4 to bl 24 to led to $101, 917,664 as against $103,- 280; do, 8 to 4 lbs., 22¢; a 18¢c; 543,508 in the eight months of the 'ducklings, b Ibs."and up, 28 to 26c; last fiscal year. { the expenditure column is that of $21,- "830,642 for penstons which is some- what higher than in the eight months y, Hone The second item in turkeys, 36e. Beans, Can. handpicked, 1b., 6c; orien, ; my Sh bs, 11% to 12¢c b. tins, 11% to 12¢; 6-1b, lof last' year when pensions totalled 12% 12%e¢; 2%-lb. tins, 14 to Whe $20,064,144. nam ste 'Rich Asbestos Find is Meade in British Columbia A despatch from Vancouver, B.C, says:--Asbestos nearly equal in qual: ity to that of the famous deposits from which Quebec supplies the world has been found at the head waters of Quoicek Creek, off the Fraser River, 'across the street were badly scorched. ~ says:--Three Drumheller miners, con- ~ six months' suspended sentence. out to fight the fire. So intense was the heat that the fronts of buildings| heat marketed to date in the West totals 265,000,000 bushels. tr London Buys Heavily of Canadian. Wheat A despatch from London says:-- The London wheat market has been very active during the last few days and large purchases of Canadian wheat have been made. As many as 16 cargoes, mostly of Canadian and Australian grain. were bought at prices, which represented advances of from one shilling to one shilling and six pence per quarter over the closing, quotations of Wednesday. The Lon- don market "is still waiting definite | news of the crop conditions in Argen- tina and*in the meantime, millers are securing - Supplies Sie from North America. . Mattawa is a town of about two _ 'thousand people, situated about fifty 7 jmiles east of North Bay, at the junc- tion of the Mattawa and Ottawa Rivers. It is in the heart of the lum- bering district and logs floated 'down "fhe two rivers are ordinarily held over there. <5 mmmm----r-------- Striking Miners Sentenced ; Ae. Ye Year in Prison A despatch from. Calgary, Alta., victed by a jury on a charge of unlaw- ful assembly, were sentenced to a year's imprisonment by Mr. Justice Boyle. A fourth, in 'Whose" case the jury recommended leniency off the ground of extreme youth, was given a. I MUTT AND JEFF--By Bud Fisher. JEFE, BEING THE DiRecTOR GIVES ME THE AUTHORITY TO ENGAGE ALL THE ACTORS POR THIS FIVE REELER, ROAD AND AS (IT a War amo daha OR 10 SCENE oNE ATRL CAB 1S SPEEDING DOWN THE 2 under A TREE IA WHICH Nal Wap A NS A BL Rn NN T-- near Lytton, it wis learned at the British Columbia Chamber of Mines, on Friday. A 'box of the asbestos fibre sent on by one of the owners of the property is admitted by mining men to be one a e------ Scientist Gives Life for Cause of X-Ray A despatch from London says:-- After 28 years of suffering from der- matitis, caused by experiments with X-ruy, Reginald G. Backell is dead in a London hospital. He was a pioneer in that branch of service. A co- | worker says: "I doubt if in the whole range of martyrs to science there could be found a more striking case. He was only 44 and suffered half his life. Although toward the enil he en- duted agony, he never comap'ained, and retained. his. e:dhusiasm for' science, keeping up with developments. With fb th arms ge, he still worked as acviser, when able." Two years ago a newspaper raised a small sum "for him, and it is now hoped there will be help for tha widow | who went to New from the 'Carnegie Fund who went to the United States. property. \ although soft, is strong. rg Britons Leave for Canada at Rate of 3,000 Monthly A despatch from London says:-- British figures show. that during the first nine months of this year, 26,817 emigrants of British' nationality pro- | ceded to Canada. is compares with Zealand, and 14,668 | THEN 00 Ty wit We CHAUFFEUR 'AND THROW IM OFF THe TAIL TLL AVE TD "Show You How PASIES fs Ma, produce---8 is r. imp. gal 2.40; per gal "$2.80 per gal.; maple sugar, lh., 25 i 26¢. of the best that has ever been i in Vancouver from a British Columbia a ie y The fibre, is long, and the material,! do, com, $4 to $4.50% The vein has been traced for sev- to $6.25; d eral miles, it is stated, and has been | com., $8.78 to found to be of considerable width, HY $6 to Smoked meats--Hams, med., 26 to 28cs cooked hams, 40 to) 42¢; smoked Vast bacon 86c; special brand breakfast 2 0 38 to 89¢; 'backs, boneless, 80 to 37c, Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 60 to 70 ibs., $02; 70 to 90 lbs, 520.80; 20 Ibs. and up, $16.50; lightweig! rolls, in barrels, $48.50; rolls, $39.50 per barrel. % 2 Lard--Pure tlerces, 18 "to o 18%] tubs, 18% to 19¢; Se en 19%e; | 0g i 20 to 20%¢; shortening tierces, | M She; ios, de; pals, 14%c; blocks, "riciry steers, choice, $7.75 to $8.60; good, $7 to a choice, $6.75 to $7.60; do, good, ; do, med., $4.75 to $6.60; "butcher heifers, choice, $6. Bn to $7. 25 ; do, good, $8.15 0, med 0 to $5 $5.25; do, fair to: to $4.60; butcher bulls, good, | to $5.75; bolognas, .$8.25 "40, Sanfiess and a 125 $15 i spr! ngers. choice, 10; goo Soum3% to $85; medi 50; do, fair, $ $4.50 to to $5; d, $4.75 to $5.50; do, fair 4.50; calves, choice, $12 0, 'good; $10; do, g 17,708 who went to: Australia; 7,743 t0'80; od nt sheep, $6 {heavies. adie cks, $4.50 to * | fambs, 314 flames of a war which could not easily | have been extinguished. . The Rum- |; an extenslye jlacument, A hogs, rol ots, $12 a 1s, 22; =eotiage, 25 to "252; 'breaks | et butcher to $4. Li "butcher owkip h; pT tom Athens the but flict the 'inherent defects in the fron-|imme fii cars, it Tt he oh % MONTREAL. sn ow, No. 3, \ Fa rts. i No, dal he Te Sh IE 26 to nae, | ues , por ton, car lots, |' Pe .26. Hay, No. Chéese--Finest west, 21% io Butter--Naq. 1. Pas No. 1 creamery, E "43%c; ae sec- onds, 42 to 42%e. 3, storage x: tras, 46; do, stora oF dlc; do, storage "seconds, 86c; do, fresh cials, 75 to Sos do, fresh extras, 70c do, fresh firsts, 65¢. Potatoes, por bag, car lots, hy $2.76. Good Yeats, $11; medium ones, $10 and $10.50; grassers, $4.76 to $5; 90, ae selects, |. $13 to $18.25; sows, $10. Fa 4 | --pe, ~~ KITCHENER CHILD. - SWALLOWS POISON Dies from Burns Caused by : don has Er Din Cresaline, Twice trong as Carbolic. A Ont, Dec. 6.--Gloria Sutheriand, the one-year-and-ten- i; months'o'd daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | 'Allister Sutherland, #8 Courtland. Ave,, died in Bt. Mary's Hospital yes-| terday afternoon at 2 o'clock from' terrible burns sustained when the child swallowed a quntity of cresoline, a' x | poison twice as, strong as carbolic ; | acid. The child was downstairs. playing, and Her mother being up , when ' she crawled up and got the cresoline from a shelf. A few minutes later "at the mouth and: hospital, where she "ul! ] ) LE i! the mouth and lips, while 'ap; some of the poison had spills t | the containet; for her breast was bad- ned." arshal Joffre Has Written A 'despatch from Pa sAySi-- Marshal Joffre ed he of or { the ti has not Memoirs of Great War | nd Cross of the ith of the British Empire. Thus ¥ 11 the part played bye woman in assist- husband the diplomats = hands of that an English subject can a Sir Austen, as the new 10. 20 Knight "of the Garter must perforce be known, takes precedence among the - great in 'the' lend., -{ Hunt for Bed Warmers ~ a8 Relics Increases | Hs ks antie hunters ) have carried ac lati old-fash-- {i Bi Se warmers 4 ned 2 of rd a in Lon- ' bled in recent months, The bled fn rose. warmers a8 Ei eng i ign a lace or.to use as chestnut roast- ors, or corn poppers. Tho ordinary warmer is about the size of a wash : basin, with a lid and a three- handle. In its hey-day it was fi 4 with live charcoal and thrust be- tween the sheets at night to take off. the chill. These warmers were part of the winter equipment of almost 'ayery' English home until the arrival, some forty years agd, of the stone hotwater bottle, sald to have been conceived by Mrs. William E. Gladstone, wife of the famous Prime Minister. 'The Grand Old Man used' to wake up' thirsty during the night and drink the water nearest him, usually that.in the stone bottle beside him. To give him Something more palatable hisiwife filled the bottle each evening with 'boiling tea, sweetened. Stone bottle Warmers, although' replaced by. rub-. ber articies in the cities, ave still used in English country districts, where" y| they are known as "Gladstones." nt don says:---= n, Jack and. the Beanstalk; . Alice™in Wonders d, Cinderella<and i 'sore of other f England are in rehearsal at Christ- 'mas bills in the English theatres. One 'feature of the Christmas-panfomimes fol i oT h has Te Tepthod Hoch t a z Sovereign the highest = Price from London says: --So i and plays this will be a general oid Bagiah no