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297.85; 1925, $16,443,665.26. De- : crease, $15,367.90. poe oo Net. earnings--1926;.$1,687,641.65; © 921; 1925, $16,716,458. Increase, $1, mauve garment, beside the family : apleotture: that three farms have point 'of tho land slong that railway. $0 be begun this summer, and the ulti- -- poate result- will either prove or dis- These figures tt A sys- after passing the last eight years - ratio was er cent. in 1924, and 91.92 per cent. n 1928. Sate : THO Sad Sgutes Jor 1925 pared with 1924 are:. ating | -enues--1925, POY eh -- Increase, , -$5,637,148.26. + - Net earnings--1925, $32,264,414.79; 1925, $17,244,251.48. Increase, $15, 020,163.81. - . ' The progress made by the National System under its present administra- tion is shown by the following com- parative figures: Operating revenues--1922, $234, 060,025.06; 1923, $253,185,487.81; 1924, $235,388,182.66; 1925, $244,971, 202.61. ¢ ; Net earnings--1922, $2,886,711.55; 1923, $20,430,649.06; 1924, $17,244, 261.48; 1925, $32,264,414.79. Operating ratio--1922, 98.77; 1923, 91.92; 1924, 92.08; 1925, 86.88. : That the improvement in Canadian National Railways' results is continu- ing is shown by the detailed figures also issued, covering the months of December, 1926, and January, 1926. In December, 1925, the gross earnings were $23,851,670.61, an increase of $4,684,934.06, as compared with Dec., 1924. Net earnings for the month of | Dec., 10265, amounted to $5,348,209.95, | an increase of $2,687,926.60, as com- pared with Dec., 1924. The operating ing Dec:; 1925; was 77 ~ i "68 per cent., as compared with 85.71 per cent. during the corresponding period of » 1924. - For January, 1926, the operating results were: =~ Operating revenues--1026, $18,005,- 879,463. Operating expenses-- 1926, $16,428, | 1026, $272,802.76. Increase, $1,364, 888.89. melee: Maharajah to Feed Holy Fire With Butter at Coronation A despatch from Jammu, Kashmir, says:--At the religious obsgrvances at the coronation of Sir Hari Singh, the wow Maharajah of Jammu and Kash- mir, he will stand, dressed in a plain priest, who will recite the Hindu scrip- tures while the Maharajah feeds the boly fire with. butter 'and sprinkles upon it water from several of the rivers of India. A large number of saffron-robed priests, especially invited from Ben-|D ares, will chant continually before the fire, under a canopy on which is dis- played a picture of the goddess of ith. Experimental Farms for He Hudson Bay Route : -- : A: despatch from Ottawa says:--An Important move in connection with the completion of the Hudson Bay Rail- way is: annouriced by the Dept. of | purchased along the route of that road, and that these farms will be a8 experimental stations to test o y from a farming stand- ations on these farms are likely prove the contention that the railway dan be made valuable from a coloniza- tion viewpoint. 2 n may cent., as compared with 92.68 twenty-one, instead of waiting until -| processions throughout the country, 1926, France, Bermuda, Canada and other] jewels whose valve was estimated at phants. ably better khown to" the world at large as "Mr. A," victim of the famous tried in the London courts a year ago. World's End Expected {| Prof. F. R. Moulton, of the University of Chicago, has fixed the date of the end of the world. But there is no im- mediate cause for alarm. You may figure it out years oid, The Dp 1 f Ta is Govan ine 3 mile abroad. ; 5 | She has come back to England to] | take in the campaign--more| J {peaceful than those which she led] | "years ago--to extend the franchise so, that British women vote at they are thirty years old. "Women's! Week," to be marked by oratory and! will, early in June, push the demand| - for this extension of the suffrage. Mrs. Pankhurst, who has been in parts of the world since she left Eng-|" land in 1917, believes that women have not done badly in politics and other-| wise, considering their difficulties. "Now that we have gained the vote," she said soon after her return, "we stil have to prove ourselves worthy!. of it. Our campaign now must be to redeem our promises and to teach the world that women are quite as cap- able of government as men." Although in her seventy-first year HUGE SILVER NUGGET PUT ON DISPLAY Above is shown the huge silver nugget which has been mounted in the of the Keeley Mine and has just been returned from 'Wembley, where it was on display as the largest and most valuable single plece of silver ore ever produced in the British Empire. It welghs 4,402 pounds. When the govern- INTO OWNHOME King and Queen Occupy Sand- ringham, Willed by Queen Alexandra. of women in general. . ete Robert Hobson, President of Steel Company of Canada, Built Big Organization. A despatch from London says:--| A despatch from Hamilton says:-- King George and Queen Mary have Just moved into Sandringham House, the Norfolk estate of the Windsor family, which has become the personal property of the sovereign by the will of Queen Alexandra. | Sandringham is now the only one of | { the many properties visited each year } by their majesties which is owned by i | Company of Canada and a national | figure in Canadian industry, died on Thursday at his home, 56 West Charl- ton Avenue. He was 65 years of age. | Mr. Hobson played an active part in the development of the Canadian | steel industry. He was a former presi-| dent of the Canadian Manufacturers' | Association, and had many other acti-! vities. - He had a commanding pres | ence and a most genial. personality. | Thousands of workmen held him in warm affection, He was widely dence of King Edward and Queen known throughout Canada and the | Alexandra, as it is with the present United States and in Great Britain. | sovereigngy At Buckingham Palace, His father constructed the St. Clair! !{ Holyrood Palace, Balmoral and Wind, Tunnel under the. river bettom-from ~ [sor castles; the royal family must hoist Sarmia to Port Huron. their standard above the roof and live! Robert Hobson was born in Kitchen- | in the luxury which the state provides, 'er (then Berlin) on Aug. 13, 1861. He | but at Sandringham they live like the was the son of John and Elizabeth family of a country gentleman, with Hobson. His futher was a noted en- | only the cares and freedom of country gineer, and among other of the lat- folk. {ter's engineering achievements was York cottage, also on the Sandring-, the construction of the Jubilee bridge ham estate, now has been left vacant at Montreal. Robert Hobson also be- | "at Gold Plate Banquet by the King, but probably will not be came an engineer after he completed | 5 . allotted to the Duke and Duchess of his education, and worked with his | A despatch from Jammu, Kashmir, | York, as at first supposed, because of father, chiefly at pioneer railway con- | says:--Rarely has India, with all the, the possible marriage of the Prince of struction. For 20 years father and! riches of its princes, witnessed such| Wales, who by precedent becomes the son constructed mies of lines for the! splendor as was displayed when the| householder at the cottage" | Great Western Railway and the Grand new Maharajah of Jammu and Kash-| Sandringham House was entirely re. Trunk Railway. mir, Sir Hari Singh; entertained 150] decorated under the supervision of During the war Robert Halson guests at a state banquet in honor of | Queen Mary before the royal couple strove ceaselessly on behalf of the men! the ruling princes and chiefs of the moved in. The heavy Victorian drap- who went overseas to fight. He was ap Indian States who are here tries and red plush carpets were taken one of those who was instrumental in from all parts of the country for his/ out and modern improvements built {having the then Federal Government coronation. in. This makes the royal home the establish munition factories in Can- The Princes were served on gold|envy of the richer subjects who live ada. In this connection he gave his plate, and the members of their staffs! in the neighborhood. country valuable service as a member the King and not by the state. King Edward bought the country mansion when he was Prince of Wales and wilf- } ed it to his Queen. Sandringham was the favorite resi- 4 i { i Vice-Admiral E. 8. A. Sinclair commander-in-chief of the British forces in China, who finds it necessary to keep a close watch all the time, for. British 'Interests are large and many in that part of the world, wr ---- i Indian Princes Entertained on solid silver. ein of the Munitions Resources Comniis- an. . sion. He took an active part in the Be Tole ere Sui Hn Billion n Gold Francs formation of the Canadian Patriotic great ornate banguet hall of the royal js Hidden in French Socks | Fund, and was Chafrman of the Fin- . ance Committee of the loca lorganiza- A despatch from Paris says:--At, tion all during the war. least one billion franes in gold coin are Wp ------ still 'hidden away in the proverbial Surgeon Gives Sight stocking of the thrifty French- man, according to authoritative cal, to Boy After 19 Years A despatch from Huntingdon, W. culations made th connection with numerous recent arrests for buying Vow aysicBind frombietn Hoveed Cook, 19, opened his eyes, fo.lowing an gold coins and meiting them down for sale. $ ling | Operation by Dr. C. M, Hawes. Pre- Robinson blackmail case which 'was Wi he are pero E | viously the surgeon had given sight to high as soventy or eighty paper francs' two other members of the family, Fay | for twenty-franc gold pleces. In per. and Mayme Cook, sisters, and another | suading the holders to sell 'they :fre- blind sister, Cordie, now is undergoing quently use the argument that the gold treatment in the hope that she also Y ized be. | May see. 2 Salus oy demonetined be: "~All four were afflicted with catar- gold basis. The agents say that even | 8Cts at birth. Young Cook's first' im- ; ision 'was that it seemed at the price of eighty paper francs | Pression of v 2 : f the ay roric it Taper can be | 8 though he had been behind a sheet melted and sold at a profit. which was suddenly swept away. residence blazed with the lights from a total of several million pounds. The following day the new Maha- rajah pr ded to his tion at the head of a state procession of ele- The new ruler of Kashmir is prob- in Few Billion Yeurs A despatch from Chicago. says: -- date of the urself, be said, like The earth is two thousand' million years or 1,000,00¢ prospector Tidal do, , $7.26 to a: oate--40 to 42¢, f.0.b. shipping | steers, xg $7. to $7.50; do, front corridor of the pasltament buildings for visitors to see. Jt is a product | 48¢; No. 1 creamery, 46 to 47¢; No. 2, 80c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 26¢; roosters, 22e; PASSES AT HAMILTON | ducklings, 5 lbs. and up 80 to 82c; Robert Hobson, President Ib.; 10-Ib. tins, 11% to 12¢; 5-lb, tins, any renidertt of the Slee The El trl st, Smoked meats--Hams, med., 29 to 31c; cooked hams, 43 to 456¢; smoked of a miliion words. wiil probably be completed in the late gars Chang, spring, is said to be somewhat in the smateur radio style of his novel, "The New Machias-| ojey, has added new laurels to the velli." : 5 and northern traveler, of Terento, and ¢ Lopes to put'on the Red Lake trail in the ncar future. by yellow, 87%¢; No. 8 yellow, 86¢. Millfeed---Del. Montreal jraphs bags included: Bran, per ton, to $31.25; ton, $32.26 to per "middlings, $39.25 to $40.25; r, 8, Roz $2.30. . tubs, 19 to 19%c; pails, 20 to 20%c; | industriak i rinis, 21 to 313¢; sharianing terces, | aieq furnish profitable och! markets e: tn A i 8 16% to 16%e; blocks, 16% to 178 | TOF faut and garden produce, They eavy steers, choice, $7.50 to $8.25; |8!so form an outlet for surplus labor good, Aiko butcher | in slack seasons or when crops are good, poor. They furnish an opportunity \ ; to $6.76; butcher heifers, choice, | for the settler's children to learn a $19 god milling en Lay sa on Js, do sod $6.00 | trade, and the community organizs- 38, f.0.b. shipping points, acco! : 50; 4 2 ; doy! bd Pe : 'com, $8 to $6.50; butcher cows, | Hon resulting ge Industry pose Pint ' » ry aro re Malting. S330 65. jSholde, 5 | religious and social advantages other- 50 to $6.75; do, fair to good, | Mits educational, Buckwheat--No. 8, 68c. [$4 to $4.50; butcher bulls, i ! Rye--No. 2, 86¢. to $5.75; bolognas, $3.26 to $8.75; | wise impossible in a pioneer- district. Man. flour--First "pat, $8.90, To- eanners and cutters, $2.25 to $3; Both mining and pulp companies are ronto, do, second pat., $8.40. springers, choice, $85 to $100; good |always in the market for wood pro- Ont. flour--Toronto, 90 per cont, | milch cows, $70.to- $80;. medium- cows, | ducts which are orld a8 underground 1 per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, $46 to Joo, Jeadors, good, Jo. 25 | timbering, structural work, firewood | $6.90; seaboard, in bulk, $5.90. { Bd "85 to ar Tg Ae oor and for pulp manufacture. This per- | Straw--Carlots, per ton, $9 to $9.50. | £008, sor d Phong Yr { mits the settler to sell for cash the | | Sereenings--S g 1 calves, choice, $13 to $14;| oh een ng Sahderd, Jacieaned, o, good, $12 to $12.25; do, grassers, | Wood he cuts in clearing his land. He | CheeneboNow' large, 22c; twins, $0 to $6.25; good light sheep, $7 to | may also get a good price for the use £2%ec; triplets, 28¢; Stiltons, S4e. old, ¥ in' the lumber camps and {large, 28 to 80c; 'wins, 29 to 8lc;| for hauling supplies in seasons when triplets, 30 to 82c. | 312 to $12.50; do, bucks, $9 to $10.50; | the farm work is at a minimum. Butter Finer do, culls, $10 to $11; hogs, thick : smooths, fed and watered, $13.40 to Mining, power and paper manufac. $13.50; do, f.0.b., $12.80 to $12.90; do, | turing companies pay direct royalties country points, $12.55 to $12.65; do, to the Crown, thus helping to reduce off cars, $13.80 to $13.90; select pre- | taxes. They place huge orders with mium, $2.63 to $2.65, manufacturers and tradesmen for 8; heavies and bucks, $5.60 to $6.50; | of his teams Jambs, $18.50 to. $13.75; do, med.,! { creamery prints, "46 to 46¢c. Dairy prints, 41 to 42¢c. Eggs--Frech extras, in cartons, to 42¢; fresh extras, loose, 40 to| dlc; fresh firsts, 36 to 37¢; storage Mrs. Pankhurst is as enthusiastic in| ment bought i, the purchase price, at 6434 cents per ounce for silver, was extras 28c: stora Bo: MONTREAL. ' 1 . ' ) » } ge- firsts, 26¢; stor- {equipment and supplies. Lastly they fis cause of women porwr She in $15,616. J {age seconds, 21 to 22c. NOs, San. Jost, og 3 ie] ow. provide heavy and profitable tonnage a in pire yoni fk poh iy - -- yD teed poultry--Chickens, spring, Flour, Man. spring wheat pate rate. { to the railways that have already been cation, whilo promoting the interests] THEIR MAJESTIES MOVE |NOTED INDUSTRIALIST |B 82 tote; hens, over 4 fo § Tha, | 3uiar pean frig wheat pata. firsts, || (3¢ TWIvAys that hve sircady been $8 to $8.20. Bran, $30.25. $82.25. Middlings, $39.25. per ton, $13 to $18.50. Shorts, | them pay, Hay, No. 2, The great clay belts of Northern Ontario and Quebec owe their rapid Chesed, current receipts, 19 to 10 Ke. and successful agricultural ep Htar, No. 1 pasteuriued, 48 bo 43%e. | ment to these factors. The preat firsts, 27c; storage seconds, '28¢; tresh { fining samps of Poreupine, Cobalt, extras, 48c; fresh firsts, 38 to 9c. | Gowganda and South Lorrain, and the Potatoes, Quebec, per bag, car lots, | Paper mills at Iroquois Is, Smooth $2.75. | Rock Falls and Kapuskasing, Ontario, Veal calves $11 to $11.50 per hun- | have to a great extent made the dredweight; hogs, good lots, $14.50; | Northern Ontario clay be't the muc- do, selects, $15; sows, $12 to $18. cessful farming country that it is to- T day. The adjacent belts of Quebec are rapidly being settled as the Rouyn mining area approaches the produc- tive stage. The news that a huge newsprint de- velopment "is" about to be 'commenced on the Kapuskasing river promises to vastly strengthen the position of Northern Ontario a a farming as well as an industrial centre, Its sig- nificance to the federal and provinelal government railways cannot he over. turkeys, 86c. Beans--Can, hand-picked, primes, 5 to Hise. Maple produce-Syeup; r Imp. gel, $2.40; per G-gal tin, $2.30 per gal; maple rugar, 1b,, 25 to 26e. Honey--50-1b. tins, 11% to 12¢ per 1b., 6c; THRILLING RESCUE. FROM BUSH FIRES Hemmed in Six Hours, -150 People Saved at King Lake, Australia. 'vd ipatch from Melbourne, Aus- tralia, says:== ; ' ne and fifty men, women and children, wh ok | raid 3 ¥ foe a in th . i! bull a A + | estimated either, since forest products sad Fe-1n- he post-office-bullding-ati rong, major s0ikes of earn igs King Take WHile the remainder of the| + tnt 4 | 3 even with the present limited dow dope. | town was swept by a great bush fire, | ont of the pulpwood resonrces nf this Ihave been rescued after being sur-| puip a. " | try. s rounded by t} ame rounity, 3 : 3 ded by the flames for six hours: {In this conection. it is interesting to The story the vse is among! Nd [the i or baie ne note the analysis made by the Temis- | . 3 y > =." | kaming and Northern Ontario Rail- Australia. Hemmed in by the flaming " PI { : 11.2: : | way Commissioners as to the tonnage bush, the outlying buildings in the lit- | (about 1%. million yearly) d b tle town' caught like tinder and the! u y y) moved by linhabitants fled to the post-office, the | that road: Jy {most substantial structure in the place, | Forest products .... 41 per cent. Captain Dudley North News of their plight reached| Manufactured and equerry tosthe Prince of Wales, who Queenstown, and a rescue party made] miscellaneous... 32 per cent, Is always close to the heir to tha Bri- ;a wild dash in automobiles over burn-| Mines products ..... 22 per cent. tish throne and who accompanied him , ing bridges and along fireswept roads | Agricultural products 4 per cent. on his recent trip to South Africa and | partially blocked by fallen trees. | Animal products .... 1 per cent. South America. Captain North com-| manded the battle ¢ruiseér New Zea: land in the battle of ITeligoland, Through this inferno the rescuers| One reason that the agricultural i reached the imprisoned company and| Products do not constitute a larger brought them all out to safety, with-| Proportion of the total tonnage is that et ee ree ee tout the logs of a single life. | most of these products are consumed Bad Teeth Prove Greatest |* Despite the gallantry of the rescue, | locally while the industrial and mining Foes of Toilers in Britain | there was no more heroic figure in the! products are shipped to outside points, rn {episode than the postmistress of King| while machinery and other heavy Chronic rheumatism is the worst |Lake, whose name is missing from the equipment supplies are shipped in enemy of the working men and women | press despatches thus far received. | from outside points, : : of the United Kingdom. Throughout the long hours while | The Abitibir Paper Mills supply a It is responsible for one-sixth of all, the town was burning about her, she! total movement over the T. & N.O. industrial invalidity, and causes the Stuck to her post, telephoning to tha lines of seventy care per day including loss of three million weeks' work an- | outside world, telling of the progress |22 cars of finished paper shipped nually among the insured working, of the.flanmles and giving directions for | south daily. It Is expected that the population alone. Seventy per cent of the fire fighters and rescuers. {proposed mills at Kapuskasing will these cases are caused by bad teeth| 'Finally the wires were burned away, supply an equally profitab's movement, and gums. | after which she turned her energies to| in the benefits of which the Canadian deena | the task of cheering up and sustaining | National Railway and the fertile Wells Writing Novel {the courage of those who had taken farming district west of Cochrane will 250,000 Words Long | refuge in the building. share. $ ah ian Coeur oF ch | A despatch from London says:--H. | Britis) 1a a ile Fl T . : ; ers Test Night Service G. Wells is working on a novel, which, Converse Via Ether Waves y . . it is reported, will contain a quarter London-Paris Air Route despatch from Paris says;-- Trial flights to test the practicability of a night air passenger service be- This work, which| A despatch from Vancouver says: -- owner and operator of station ¢6GO, of this | crown of amateur radio in this part of | Although Mr. Wells denied it, the Canada through confirmation of a re. Under way and are expected to extend general opinion was that many of the ent two-way contact between 5GO | OVr month. The tests are made on characters in that novel were thinly- | and ch-2LD, the amateur radio station | the initiative of the French aviation veiled sketches of celebrities, including | of Luis M. Desmaras, of Santiago, | Lord Balfour. authorities and, in flying circles here, there is much satisfaction over the fact that the French have begun giv- authentic reception of bz2AB, the sta- : tion 'of Ta S20 Paulo, Brazil. ing effect to an idea which the British Anather British Columbia amateur, have had under consideration for some a fellow member of Mr. Chang in the ne. first trial was made by a plane American Radio Relay League, 1s the : a : first amateur on the Canadian Pacific | which-left-Le Bourget fieldat 7-o'cloek : + in the evening and landed at Croydon; : t Is b: apy Feeqrd recep ion. of signals by near London, at 10.40. A return trial | eas ig | trip began at Croydon at 6.20 in the 165 Head of Canadian Cattle ovening and ended at Le Bourget at ot > (10.15. M. Laurent-Eynac, under sec- | Die on Board Ship " A despatch from London SAYS I-- retary of state for aeronautics, has The British steamer The Manchester Chile. Mr, Chang has also recorded t | given special financial help for the | inauguration of this service. Producer has arrived at France in tow on the French part of the course--at feted in mid-Atlantie for a fortnight| Le Bourget--were not strong enough, | with a damaged rudder. Of the 418 | Croydon's lights were found to be bet- } head of Canadian cattle with which|ter. No passengers are carried dut- she left Halifax only 253 head are|ing the trials. 2 etill allve. On Feb. 11 a message from the captain of the Producer said that - 70 head of cattle had been lost and a Si : > that the remainder had been placed| 'Phwat are thim buskets for on limited food rations. Ninety-five; (hist in the hall : seem to have died since. of bo ie Taathbrushes have increased greatly: in popularity since 1918, according to} official statistics. i ov TORONTO. ~~. rolls, 22c; cottage, 26 * Mineral and forest wealth and Man, a 1 North, sans fi bacon; on, 82 ta Be; water power have done much to de No. 2 North, $1.00%; No. 3 North, breakfast Bacon, 38 fo ; an agri- K | Befase AR | cultural standpoint. Water powers Man. oats--No, 2 CW, nominal; |, "oo Tbs, $22; to 90 Ibs. 50; ave: permitted the development of No. 3, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 47%¢; gg 1p, up, $19.50; tweight | industry in areas which otherwise No. 2 feed, 45%c; Western grain quo- | poh, 0 barrels, $43.50; heavyweight | Wou'd have remained unexploited. The tations on c.i.f., bay ports. o | Tolls; $30.50 per barrel. forests and mines have supplied the Am. corn, track, Toronto--No. 2,1 "14rd Pure tie 18% to 19¢c; | raw material to feed these industries, ween Paris and London now are | The first trip showed that the lights. of a Dutch tug after having been buf-| Berck, Abbeville, Poix, Beauvais ol : Hy ' 3