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few hundred miles to the still turbulent Atlantic gi 'dence of the battle the sea won. are all that is left of the La also a British freighter, which went "down with her captain and 25 men. # + The Roosevelt completed her task ~ early Thursday morning, by the light ' of a moon which came out propitiously ull in the 90-mile gale. + An open boat from the Roosevelt com- ~~ manded by Chief Officer Mil'er took the last 13 men off the Antinoe. + They were exhausted from hun and battered by the waves. Earl "Captain George I'ried, of the Roose- " velt, had wirelessed of the rescue of the first 12 of the crew, : others had to be ieft aboard "because Florio. PRINCE OF WALES ~ + IN SECOND ACCIDENT _H.RH. Hes Collar-bone Frac- - tured When Horse __ Somersault. but said the crew of the patch from London says:--In his second hunting accident - within two days, the Prince of Wales suffered '.& fractured coliarbone on Thursday when thrown from his mount while bunting with the Fernie -hounds, at Little Shelton, Wednesday his favorite hunter fell 'dead under him, but he escaped 'with "It's my collarbone. taste of that before," said the Prince as he was helped to his feet. - An exciting chase was under way and the Prince tried to take a tall, stiff heldge, at which most of the rid- ers balked, The horse turned a somer- sault in the air and Wales was thrown "heavily. Other riders dismounted and ; helping him to his motor car, 1t# feet away, in which he was taken to Market Harborough. The fractured -left collarbone 'was set by the local doctor while the Prince waited for a train. finished he telephoned his secretary at York House in London, making light When that was An epress train was stopped for His mess, and. he was brought to 'He walked to his car and reaching York House, retired to bed. Says Music in Church Has - Important Place. Music 2s the handmaiden of religion, was the theme of a sermon delivered - by Rev. Canon Plumptre in St. James = ,~Toronto, ata service held In commemoration of St. Cecilia's Day. The Church, he declared, was built on © music. It was a power which might lift man to the throne of God. It had said that if we could not {sm with argument with a song. Special 5 ranged for the service, ~~ ¢hoir, under the direction of Dr. dead. party. longer. Though the gale had abated a little _ Though the heavy sweila. $508 waved wan were running, and Roosevelt launched its sixth lifeboat. succeeded. : A little later her wireless operator to the home office lines, saying they | sputtered a message of the United States webe - "on the way to Cherbou: again, regretting. crew who were ious menace to navigation." The general manager 'of the United States lines in New York immediate- iy sent the captain a message of con- So did Captain Paul Grenig, from London. Captain Grenig ger, was in command of the President { Harding, a sister ship of the Roose- ; velt, two months ago when she effected +a similar rescue ot the captain and Italian' steamer Ignazio gratulation. ---------- | WHILE BLIZZARD RAGED SOO BLOCK BURNED Loss is $40,000--Fire Chief Injured and Tenants Had : Narrow Escape. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.,, says:--Shortly after' three o'clock Thursday morning, when the temperature was hevering around 21 degrees below zero, a fire of unknown origin completely gutted the business and residential Noble Block on Queen its wake, and causing approximately $40, Capt. Robert D. Clarke, of No. Two Fire Hall, who sipped off the roof at the rear of the block, falling one storey to the ground, is in the General Hospital suffering with a east, destroying everything in 000 loss. broken leg and a broken arm. The block, occupied at the time of the fire by C. Cliffe, book store; Joseph F. Bruder, harness company, the 'Miron Cafe, Wiliiam Greer and fam- ily, and W. Gordon Greer and fami.y, | was owned by Mrs. Ruth Noble, of Toronto, and Mr. William Grear. Its value-was estimated nt $18,000: Theré was $14,00Q, insurance. The Cliffe logs will be $0,000 stock, only $4,000 insurance. Bruder had a stock valued at $6,500, on which he carried $3,000 insurance. The Greer families, occupying the upstairs of -the. block, suffered total damage, as they carried very little in- surance. They escaped in their night clothes. Three firemen narrow.y escaped be- ing seriously injured, and probably killed when the brick wall on the east side of the-block collapsed: rm ----p rrr. Prime Minister of Japan is Taken by Death A despatch from Tokio says:--Vis- count Takaaki Kato, the Premier, is 5 & Viscount Kato was taken 'ill last The latter | Man. svheat--No. ast , 82 to : : No. 2 North., $1.65; beaktast basen, 3 "to 89c; backs, an. oats--No. 2 CW, nom Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 50 No, 3, 51%c¢; No. 1 feed, 49%¢; , 48° estern grain quotations, | 20 on track, bay ports. ro Am. corn, track, Toronto--No. 2, yellow, 94¢; No. 3, yellow, 92¢: 'bags included: Bran, per ton, 1.25; shorts, per ton, $32.25 to 2S | ld ings, $39.25 to $40.264 good feed flour, A= { do, good, $7.25 to $7.50; butcher |either an improved or unimproved Ont. oats--48 to 45¢, f.0.b. shipping steers, choice, $7 to $1.65; do, good,| farm. or Bo $6.65; butcher heifers, choice, to 70 Ibs., ; 70 to 90 lbs. $20.50; rolls, $39.50 tubs, 19 to 19%e; , 20 to 20%¢; | each provinee: Pint to 14%c; tubs, 15 to fr pails,| "To the land secker three different 15% to 16¢; blocks, 16% to 17c. opportunities are presented. He: may Lr and Ont. good milling wheat--$1.42 to $1.44, f.0.b. shipping points, according Barley--Malting--65 to 67e. Buckwheat--No. 8, 70c. Rye--No. 2, 90c. Man. flour--First pat., ronto; do, second pat., $8.6 flour--Toronto, "90~ per cent. » per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, .20; seaboard, in bulk, $6.20. Straw---Carlots, per ton, $9 to $9.50. Seroenings--Standard, recleaned, f. $ o.b. bay ports, per ton, $20. ; triplets, 22¢; Stiltons, 22¢, Old, large, 28c; twins, SOc; triplets, 30c. creamery prints, 47c; No. 1 creamery. 46¢; No. 2, 44 Dairy prints, 41 to 42¢. Eggs--Fresh' extras, 46 to 47c; fresh extras, loose, 45 to {46¢; fresh firsts, 39 to 40c; storage 26c; storage firsts, 83¢; stor- pd Lh i M LAL Lda pe at & LE Ad LRT rg" 168s of two of the ned in 'an earlier 'attempt to reach the Antinoe and 'eav- ing the freighter still afloat, "a ser- oR ed \ _ Ld Lut A moving picture machine concealed in the court while Judge Brennan, of Detroit, announced that Irene Przybyia, aged four, would go to an institu- ton, decided for him that the child should be awarded to its foster parent, | Mrs. Irene Goosen, rather than to its natural mother, The film showed that | ®&° Mrs. Goosen (shown with the child) reacted more to the announcement than ! ib did the mother. Cardinal Mercier. Cardinal Mercier became a world figure when he issued his famous Christmas pastoral of 1914,.denounc- ing the Germans for the burning of 'the Louvidin library, the destruction of Malines, the defiance of 'Belgian sov- ereignty and the denial of personal freedom. The country was stirred to Dressed poultry--! ., 32¢; hens, over 26¢; do, 3 to 4 Ibs, 22¢; roosters, 18¢; ducklings, 5 lbs. and up, 80 to 82¢; a shapeless mass of scrap-metal. could take it out on the inanima ject, but he could not stir the i able churchman, his inv The apology for which Von Bissing clamored never came, though he in| voked all the resources of Germany to' | hand-picked. 1b., 6¢; te ob- primes, 5 to He Maple produce---Syrup, eterate foe, | gal, $2.40; per 5- 48%ec. oney---50-lb, tins, 11% to 12c. per. .; 10-1b, tins, 11% to 12¢; 5-Ib. tins, 12 to 12%c; 214-1b. tins, 14 to 14%e. Smoked meats--Hams, med., 27 to Naturally, the man who wrote this 29¢; cooked hams, 42 to 45c; smoked chapter ofshistory for his land and f 22¢; cently issued by thé above very interesting summary of the situgtion in thé three Prairie fnces is given. Under the heading per "Opportunities for Settlers" is the rd--Pure tie 18% - to 19¢; | following, and it applies equally to SFE A an : ef barrel. sid Ibs. lls, in rints, 21 to 21%c; shortening tierces, Heavy steers, choice, $7.75 to $8.25; select a free homestead, or purchase i $7.50; do, Free Homesteads--The free home- a . 75 to $625; do med, 35 to 505" do, Stead policy, Ya Juafified Bor com., $4.50 to 70; butcker cows, | Son may acquire a -section ol choice, $6 to $5.25; do fair to good, land by the performance of certain 3 tosTao0; huteher bu ia, Evo, 4.75 | residence and improvement duties, } i . canners ard cutters, = | springers, -choice,r $85 to" $100; good province except in- the southern por= milch cows, $70 to $80; medium cows, [$45 to $60 a :$6.60; do, fair, $5 to $5.50; stockers, portion of the province, suitable lands food, $4.78 to 1350; dor Jains 3450 20 availble A a ugtend entry are 75; calves, choice, -50; | practically exhausted. re is very tdo, good, $11 to $12; do, grassers,! little free land left that is clear, open 3 lo $29; 200d lig! 4 to $6.60 prairie. Practically all the free land Buda ave $13 ya = $050; now available is wooded, the forest 4 10.50 to $11.50: do, bucks $9.50 to] cover being mostly poplar and willow. $11; do, culls, $10 to $11; hogs, thick| At the same time a lot of it is too [smooths, fed and watered, $18.35; do, | heavily timbered to permit of economic if.0.b., $13; do, country points, $12.75; clearing at the present time. do,off cars, $14; select premiuni. $2.67, E it i $2.95 to $8. stiil applies to the public lands in the tion of Saskatchewan. With the ex- ; feeders, good, $5.76 to ception of the northern and central ht sheep, $7 to Purchased Farms--With improved Nr agricultural conditions, better trans- Oats Ca ONTREAL, oc. Cw, |Portation facilities, rural telephones, No. 8, BSc; extra No. 1 feed, bbc. and good markets, the opportunities | Flour, Man. spring wheat pata., firsts, | for success in grain growing, mixed $9.10; seconds, $8.60; strong bakers, farming, dairying, and poultry-rais- $8.20 to $8.90. Bran, $30.25 to $31.25. | ing are better than ever before, even Shorts, $32.25 to $33.26. Middlings,|if free prairie homesteads are almost $89.25 to $40.25. a thing of the past. The greatest op- Cheese--Finest wests, 21 to 21%ec. tuniti ie i Butter--No, 1 pastovrived. 43% io portunities lie in the vast areas of unimproved vacant land held by ab- Eggs--Storage extras, 85c; storage | 8entee land-owners; railroad compan firsts, 80c; storage seconds, 2dc; fresh | ies and others, These are scattered extras, 43 to 4bc; fresh firsts, 40c. throughout the whole province and Potatoes, Quebec, per bag, car lots, | have the advantage of being sand- unchanged. wiched in between the improved lands, the depths by this document, which Von Bissing and his aides spared no effort to suppress. Cardinal a prisoner in his palace for four days, though the Kaiser had the effrontery to deny to the Pope that mankind was honored by the world. The Cardinal vaunted not himself. He remained to the end the patriot, the public servant, the devoted shepherd of the flock that he had been from the start of his career. country has a monopoly. They belong Black Cat Luck. There is no "good luck" portent more | generaily= belleved in than that con- nected with black cats. the house it must be driven away. we meet one in the street the omen is good, and if it should come and rub it- self against us our luck is right in, Promptly we steop and stroke it--to make quite certain, If that is your custom, do you know They made the Of such men ne To the day of the Armistice the Cardinal personified Belgian patriot- ism and was the voice of democracy militant against all that German auto- cracy represented. He won the devo- tion of the 'and, the admiration of the world, without reference to creed. was in the Teuton interest to show that he far exceeded the traditional concept of pastoral care and the "cure Too Much Statistics. The head of an Oriental town, a Mo- hammedmn, being asked by the gov- ! that you are propitiating the Evil One? ernment to reply to certain questions | Your ancestors in the Middle Ages relating to his city, sent in the follow- | hated black cats. | them as being inhabited by Satan him- Question--~What is the death rate 9elf, or, at any rate, by one of the evil : | spirits. So when they stroked a black Answer---In my city it.is the will of | cat it was not to bring good luck but Allah, that all. must die; some die old; | to avert {ll-luck. By pleasing the cat "| per thousand in your city? er ---- | thus giving their purchasers the ads they turned the devil from his wicked | Y20tage of roads, schools, markets, purpose. If you condemn the notion as silly and superstitious, why do you and the like enjoyed by older settlers. The, average man who has heme- .. - continue it? steaded will tell you that, provided he . ---- a had 'enough means to warrant the Sentence Sermons. underteking under present conditions, If You Have--Friends no financial | he would buy vacant land rather than Question--What is the annual num- | Canada from Charlottetown, P.E.I.--Tourist trade ber products exported to the United ing water sufficient and of good was worth over $800,000 to.the Pro- States from.the Saint John consular : | vince of Prince Edward Island during | district-during the quarter ending De- | the year 1925, according te the annual | cember 31st; 1925, showed an increase | report of the Island Tourist Associa~ {or more than $200,000 over the cor- The traffic, the report states, | responding period of 1924. The total is rapidly growing. During the 1925 | for the period was $048,328. The com- summer holiday season about 47,000 modity shipped in the largest quanti- people visited the Island, compared | ties was wood pulp, with soft wood with 86,000 people during the corres-| and laths well up in the standing. ponding period of the previous year. Twenty-one hundred cars crossed to | British families are waiting to sail for the province in the summer of last | Canada in the spring, having been year, compared with 1,400 in the sum- | accepted by the Canadian Director of mer of 1924 and 800 in the summer | Migration as suitable settlers under the scheme to establish 8,000 families School lands, purchasable from the Halifax, N.S.--An entirely new in th8 Dominion, according to word re- | Dominion Government, offer special ceived here from the Overseas Settle- | inducement to the settler. Sections Answer--We-don't know; only God ! Question---Are the supplies of drink- | Answer--From the remotest period no one has ever dled of thirst. Question -- What hygenic condition of your city? Answer--Since Allah sent us Mo is the general tion, world with fire and sword, there has 'been great improvement. my lamb of the West, cease your ques- toning, which can do no good either to you or anyone else. Montreal, Que.--Over six hundred to be 60,000,000 Years Old A despatch from Winnipeg says: --| Experts at the University of Mani- toba who have examined a fossil dis- covered at a depth of 20 feet in the can imagine the blind fury of Von !Tyndall Quarries, Manitoba, estimate its age at 60,000,000 years. The fossil, | which is known as the "tribolite," is a long-extinct water creature, ! thing like a crab, that craw'ed bottom of the large sea that c the prairies millions of year: market for the consumption of Nova Scotian fish in its fresh state has been ] v opened up in England, and already orities in London confidently antici. | veyed township in the Prairie Pro- pate that 300 mere British families will be ready to leave for Canada by| for the purpose of education, and are v a 3 : CARDINAL MERCIER 'Saturday with influenza. While his ®es------ ANSWer physicians sald his' condition was not could | serious, they were watching him close- music| ly and would not permit him to attend "the the sessions. of the Diet. On Tuesday, 0, Jonged absence from the Diet, the "| Ca ment Committee. The Canadian auth-| of souls," Of course he did; it; was his glory and that of his flock, which was all the nation, that he did so. One { several large shipments have gone | forward by various ocean liners sail- ring-{rom this port. The fish are being | the middle of June next. shipped in chilled air space and they are stated to arrive in England in excellent condition. some- 'exporters there is an excellent demand at the in the Old Country for these fish and overed the price received is considered very S ago, satisfactory, Saint John, N.B.--Lumber and lum- Toronto, Ont.--During the year 1925 a total of 1,342,742 United States | _ .* automobiles entered the Province of which area 1,600,000 acres have been Ontario - through" sixteen ports ES a at the average price of $17.50 par". Bissing when; 11a pastoral letter of the Lenten season, 1916, the Cardifial "Prepare 'your plans, place to act as: your batteries, co-ordinate your move- "iments" In apopiectic rage, the Kai: , leader of the Kensekai ser's shadow in Brussels threw his floor and kicked it into ' Scientists say. ; According to the binet appointed Reijiro Wakatsuki, | advised: rt Minister of Home Affairs, entry, of which over 200,000 remained | i Premier temporarily. for a period of from one to thirty] RH days. It is estimated that this trafflc| In addition to the homesteads and ny resulted in $40,000,000 worth of new ! vacant lands, further opportunitics are Winnipeg, Man,--Gredt progress, proved farms which can,be purchased has been made since the establishment at a price that in the opinion of many of the Manitoba Provincial Savings |land authorities is better buying than Bank. The number of depositors has | is that of vacant land. During the Increased from 2,241 to 80,412. posits have increased from 684,220 at, a tendency ou the it of Bay farm- November 30, 1920, to $11,908,459 at |ers to go e nto cereal crops. April 30, 1925, states the annual re- Within the past ow | Jeatsy Sawever, port recently issued. there has n a i change in Moose Jaw, Sask.--Experiments | this respect. The farmer is now seek- -{ carried over-a-number of years by the ing to varsity his- pw Mowchenko Brothers, of Ardill, Sas. |" : SL0ck anc. katchewan, In the growing of selected | With & consequent reduction of his seed and - crossing one variety with plang susqage: As a resu't, much im- another, has resulted in the produc. | Proved land may be purchased,in well. tion of a very fine type of water melon | Settled districts, and close to markets, and musk melon, which can be grown | at very reasonable prices. successfully any' season in this pro- vince. Experiments along these Hines have been carried out in the irrigated | remarkable su sections of Southern Alberta during settlers. Homesteaders who recent years and have been compar- atively successful Lethbridge, Alta.--The oil refinery at Coutts, Alberta, close to the Mon- tana boundary and the Sweet grass oil fleld, will soon be operating with a staff of 15 men, and with a handling capacity of 2,000 barre's of crude oll daily. g 2 Port Joint organ. 1 King-Farris panic can make you poor. repeat his homesteading experiences ~--Money, you haye not yet achieved | Were he called upon to decide again. 2 happiness. On such locations as these the new- \ == ~--Work; you have an opportunity to | comer finds himself launched at once prove your divinity. | into the midst of a flourishing settle- --Misfortune, do not pity yourself | ment and his pioneering is free from for then no one elge pities you. hardships and loneliness. Neighbors -~Enemies, learn to treat them bet- | #55ist him in erecting a house and get- 5 ter than they treat you. ting a start, in return for which they ha ~--Critics, perhaps they can teach [are glad of his help in harvest tinge you something. before he has. a crop of his own. In --Faith In God, you are strengthened | 'ike manner his land is quickly broken; 'against any disaster. crops are soon being harvested, and e------ - ~wemres | often such men pay for a farm before Sis a homesteader gets his patent. Prices Coast fo Coast for vacant lands are very reasonable, 1 all things considered, and will never be less. There are many millions of acres of these fertile lands lying idle in set- ted districts and within 10 and 15 miles of existing railways. The total acreage of privately owned, unoecus pied lands is estimated at 14,000,000 acres. The Natural Resources Intelli- gence Service of the Dept. of the In- terior, Ottawa, issues lists of such lands, giving brief particulars, such as location, prices, terms and owners' o names apd addresses. These lists aro = | available to the prospective home- at seeker and purchaser. y/ eleven and twenty-nine in every sur- vinces are set apart as an endowmant designated school lands. The area of school lands surveyed in Saskatchewan to Jan. 1, 1928, was 8,942,000 acres, of acre, This leaves about 2,440,000 acres of surveyed school lands unsold. for Ontario. | afforded the homesesker in many im- De-{ period of high grain prices there was on, going ~~ dairying, The history of development in the Prairie Provinces is replete wi o ccesses attained: Lumber Co,