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Sollowhon oral election results in Canada since Confederation. The results of the con-[ tests of 1026 and 1921 are shown by | Provinces. It will be noted that the total of membership in the 1926 House is given as only 244. This is account- ed for by the resignation of Premier Meighen a few days prior to dissolu- tion, nec: sitated by his acceptance of the Pren >rship: \ 1925 Lab, Con, Lib. Pg. Ind. RE... RE Nowa Scotia ..... vi 33 British Columbia .. 10 oe The Yukon : 115 101 24 4 One vacant. Total--244, - 1921, Con. Lib, Pg, Lab. eee 21-8T M4 "os uke 8B... Suis 'rasa sane oe bh 3, aa say 36 5. ir OLY Saiviee . 2.32 sath Sav 2 03 rea 100, British Columbia . 37 sesnsens +e 1 117 50 66 8 Total 238. Laurier-Liberal .. .. 1911. Conservative ........ 188 Liberal 86 Independent ........ 2 1908, Liberal a ams irene 7188 Conservative ......c.e.es 85 Independent ...... saan nds 3 1904. Liberal ..... Sains sun's vue . 139 Conservative ......--... 15 1900. Conservative Conservative .,.... viva aorio 13 Liberal . 9 Conservative ...... savas 2139 Liberal ..:. 0.00 somes 1878. Conservative ............. 137 Liberal ........... sass . i 09 1874. 1Aberal Lv eons 183 Conservative ............. 18 1872. FAMILY WIPED OUT BY LIGHTNING BOLT Mantle, of Snow Covers the Prairies, Damaging Crops-- Price Advances. threshing for a period of ten days to three weeks. Some reduction in grain values is also feared. The uneeasonable weather has brought about a sharp advance in grain quotations. During the past week the price of wheat advanced 8% cents on the Winnipeg Grain Ex- Winnipeg, Man.--A toll of four deaths and damage to ungarn-| ered crops, the extent of which wil! not be determined for some time, were left in the wake of enow, rain and hail storms which have swept West-! ern Canada. F. Wills, a farmer in the Rama! Distrlet of Saskatchewan, his wife and | two children, were killed when a light-| ning bolt struck their home during the | height of one of the worst electrical storms experienced in that district. The farmhouse was in a mass of flames when neighbors reached the scene. They were unable to check the! fire, 'and the frail dwelling burned to; the ground. The bodles of the four! victima, charred almost beyond recog- | nition, were later recovered from the ruins, The unusual woather disturbances. brought "the first touch of Winter to] Alberta, parts of Eastern British Co:- umbia, and Western Seskatchewan. In' several! sections of Alberta the SNOwW- | fall reached mid-Winter proportions, | the maximum snowfall being reported | from Edmonton, where it reached a depth of one foot. In other parts of the province the mantle of snow var les from one to six inches. A sharp' drop in temperature, with seven de grees of frost in the Edmonton dis. trict, accompanied the snowfall. Practically the whole of the Prairie |, Provinces have been denched by rains |' during the past two days, and grave concern is felt over the continued de- lay of harvesting operations. The grain is reported to be sprouting in the stooks in those localities where intermittent raine have prevented NINE STATES ADDED TO LEAGUE COUNCIL; GERMANY REPRESENTED would promote the settlement of the!' Geneva.--The new Council of the League of Nations, enlarged to 14 members by election in the Assembly, and having present Dr. Gustav Strese-' man as the representative of the Ger- man Republic, began its proceedings with an act of homage to Woodrow Wiison as founder of the League. This homage took the form of sc- cepting in advance a bust of the ex-' President which will be presented to to League by Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Cald- well of New York, | The States chosen for the non- permanent seats inthe Council are Poland, Roumania, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Chile, Salvaddr, and China. Though the Irish Free State had anounced its eapdi-! dacy for a seat to represent the Brit- ish Dominions in 'the 'Coundil, it re-. 'charities generally, and would devote | change. Charies 8t. John Whose death in his 82nd year removes the last white survivor of those who accompanied David Livingstone on his "African Expedition, ---- rma. In the Right Place. Little Girl (in furniture store)-- May 1 see a time-table, please?" Clerk--"Are you suré you're in the right place? This is a furniture store." Girl--"Yes. You see I've saved up to buy my mamma & clock, and I want one to put it on." " 2 Armenian refugees in Erivan when the necessary $7,000,000 was subscrib- ed by Armenian ofganizations and the League organization to helping the Another Royal Romance Prince Leopold, heir to the Belgian FATE OF ITALIAN Nothing Has Been Heard of Them Since Steamer Sank as Result of Collision. lenia gank to the bottom of the ocean become of her crew remains a mys- tery. The first report to Lioyds that all hands were lost appears to have been premature, for the steamer Hom- eric, which rushed to the rescue of the inking steamer, reports the possibil- ity that the crew were picked up, as rumerous fishing craft were in the vicinity, but no word has been heard of them as yet. The Homeric was five miles from Ellenia when the distressed vessel sank. Twenty-five minutes later she appeared. There was considerable wreckage, but no member of the crew was seen, A wireless message from the Hom- leric by way of Valencia to Lloyds: | "Numerous sail and fishing craft land one steam traw'er wera in sight.' | The weather was fine, with slight sea. Presume crew abandoned ship and | were picked up." | The commander of the steamer | Olympic, due at Cherbourg, wire-' i lessed the White Star Line by way | of Queenstown: "Have been alongside | Ttalian steamer Eilenia which is ask-' ing for assistance. Captain doesn't wish to abandon; have called other] steamer tc stand by and 1 am proceed-' ine, " { The Belgian steamer Indier reports finding an empty ifeboat, The disaster was due to a collision between the Ei'enia and the British steamer Induna, which, although dam- sged, was able to continue. Ta Londoners Play "Good Semanitan" to Jobless Mysterious "Good Samaritans" re- cently made a second flying visit to the Thames Embankment where the jobless congregate and played hest to the avatlable derelicts at a nearby coffee house. The unknown benefact- ors drove up in motor cars at 3 o'clock in the morning, rounded up everyone in sight and instructed them to order "All you can eat" in the restaurant, and them paid the hill, refusing to give their names, After the meal each guest was given a package of cigar ettes. in te em © project of a national home. London.--The entry of Germany | into the League of Nations is the = greatest single step toward European 5 peace since the foundation of the! League, according to Lord Grey of] Fallodon, who as Sir Edward Grey, 'was British Foreign Secretary when "the Great War broke out, in a speech at the opening of the Libzral bazaar at Alnwick. He added that the entry! of Russia into the League would do| something of great importance, and: | that the door for its entry was open, #8 soon. aé the Government of: only ten votes. «Colombia re- had pmsred th ceived 46 out of a total of 49, | stage and was 'ling to-accept the Dr. Benes's plea for ootcord; sin-_ obligations of the © League Covent work for peace, not trouble. The pact and the entry of 1 the League," he con- arma : tinued, "have made it more remote and more improbakie--I would like even to, say impossible--tha t there should be ~y war between the three countires, the crowded Counci: Chamber. After extending a warm welcome to Ger- hans over has Germany id Arete, There! i CREW IS MYSTERY London.--The Italian steamer EI- | off the British coast, but what has | was over the spot where the ship tis- _| used for that purpose in these coun- N In 1922 the Natura! Resources $1.11 Intelligence Service of the Canadian "| dminary of many. others. 'Inlet, Baffin ed to Princess Astrid of 8 Sweden, niece of King Gustav. The young couple are shown above. It is sald that the affair is a love match, as both 'had been offered other royal hatches re peatedly. Prince Leopold will be, twenty-five next December. Princess throne, is Teported officfally bethroth- Astrid is twenty. i Natural Resources Bullefist. When we gaze on a great forest tree it is not easy to visualize it in terms of rich cloth and silkén raiment. cotton, wool, linen, and a number of lesser sources of clothing material, | now employs wood for the manufac. | ture of the latest of the textiles-- artificial silk, or rayon, as it is called by the trade. The basis of all arti- ficial silk is ceiulose, and cellulose is the principal constituent of wood. As long ago as 1889 Count Hilaire de Chardonnet produced artificial silk commercially, but it has taken many years of incessant labor to bring the various processes to that stage of per- fection which is essential to commer- cial success. That the industry has now become a great undertaking is shown by the fact that the world's pro- | duction in tons has arisen from 7,500 in 1909 to an estimated 100,000 for this year. PRINCIPLE OF PROCESS, The general principe underlying the manufaeturing methods is the treatment of the cel'ulose with chemi- cal re-agents to give a - gelatinous 41m \ Baffin' Island, were re-provisioned Hi rived at North Boothe. bd the expedition, "which left North Syd-* ore. wi wi of the 8.08, the Beothio a8 Pro ney on July 15, Mr. MacKenzie stated gy Me: at ie with ul possible depateh to the Island; Dundas Harbor, Devon Island; Craig Harbor, Biles- mere. Island, .and C. D. n the 'record time despite the prevalence of had | 108 and heavy ice, which made naviga- tion at times a difficult and hazardous matter. Returning from Bache Penin- !sula, now the most northerly police detachment in the world, Buchanan Bay was filled with heavy Kane basin lee, the only outlet being a narrow lead between 'the grou 'and the rocky shore, through which the vessel visited all the Eskimo settlements, where the heaith of 'the natives was found te be good. At Pangairtung, the last port of all, Dr. L. D..bfvingstons;-who 1s under | And yet man, not content with silk, | ed rammed and blasted her way at ocon- siderable risk, on one occasion only three and a half fathoms being sound- Few vedsels have penetrated Buch- taking gnedical work in 'Baflin Island during'the Winter, and Dr. L. J. Weeks and M. H, Jaycock, geological survey, at eight 'p.m. on the 28nd of August, steaming thromgh ice all night, and left ithe ship, which weighed anchor | anan Bay and beyond, according to clearing the:pack by noon the follow- Mr. MacKenzie, owing to ice condi ing day in a heavy southerly, ground tions, and present Bache Peninsula'gea. To make matters worse, & gale detachment was only established after | sprang up which dasted for 30 hours, four efforts made in successive years. ' forcing the ship to lay head to sea for On arriving at Dundas Harbor, the ten hours, 'two boats being washed flag at the police detachment was half-! { overboard: On the 25th the gale died ed that Constable Victor Maisonneuve, Sydney. » Gan Canadian is Honored by London University London.--It hos B been announced here that Philip Joseph, who gradu- ated in law from MeGill' University in 1924, has had his thesis for the in Canada by Canadians. This i is still one more reason why everyone should do his best to protect the national her. itage of forest wealth from the rav- ages of fire. |ed by London University. The work { for which Joseph will receive a doctor- {ate is a 500-page book on the diplo- | matic policies of al the great powers with regard to China, entit'ed "solution which can be forced through | a number of minute nozzles: into a| i bath of solution (or in one process | into air). This solution causes the, coagulation of the liquid emerging from the nozzes and thus creates the' actual filaments of artificial silk,! though the material has to pass | through several other Stages, varying | with the process, before it firally em- | erges. as that glistening .transparent ! gossamer to which we are now so ac- , customed, but which would have amaz- Ted many a nineteenth-century grand- mother, The Possibilities for rayon manu-| facture in Canade, with her vast pulp- | wood areas, are enormous. The coun- i tries which were first to develop the industry, however, . were not_-those | which possessed much raw' material, but these which already "had the organization, the equipment and the markets for a big textile industry. Thus, shortly before the war, Pramce, aready predominent in the manufac- ture of natural sik, took the lead, fol- lowed by Switzerland. Now the big. producers and exporters are the Un-| ited States, Great Britain and the countries of Central Europe that are prominent in the natural silk trade. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CANADA. For a good many years Canada has supplied much of the sulphite puip, tries. Dept. of the Interior published a re- port drawing attention to the unusu- artificial sik manufacturing in its This would' appear to-be but the pre- ian Celenese, Ltd., capitalized at $7,000, ; 000, is now constructing a iarge plant at Drummondyil: le, , and the How- | ard Smith Paper s have. formals a subsidiary com adian Cellulose ; erated at Cornwall fo Und gate be op-| "Ont. jc hina's Fin De Siecle." He was also , | admitted recently to membership 'in 'the British Institute of International j Affairs. He is now in Canada. In | October he will be admitted to the | English Bar, Cy Fast Airplanes to Drop Mailbags by Parachute Wayside stations where alr liners {can drop bags of mail without stop | ping or slackening spéed are being planned for Continental airways. Ex- | periments under way have evolved a | | Judged at First Exhibition George BE. Cork, 24 Woolfrey Ave.' method of dropping mafl bags 5,000 Foronto, remembers the Exhibition 48 feat without damage. g years ago. He recalls comtest @is-| The device is secrct, but: it is fin- plays no 'anger sen, such as boes and' derstood that it Is a parachute oper- honey, rakes, hces, harnoss, »agons ated by clockwork. The bags fall un. or buggies. | I within fifty feet of the ground, then ------ i the parachute opens automatically Very True. {and the bags land gently. The sta- Teacher--"Now, who ¢an tell me: tions will be clear spaces. in the coun- which month has 28 days?" tryside reserved for the reception of Johany--""They =} have!" mall bags. \ TORONTO. Cot Donsy $240 bo bk r-do 'meats-~Haows, pe pny |84¢; cooked 48 to b0c 50; moked rolls, 28 to 80c Man. wheat--No. 1 North. $1.66 No. 2 North. $1.47; No. & "Noi th. | 30s: reakfast a 38 Man. oats--No. 2 CW, nominal; No. 88 40; backs, e boneless, 41 to fo aa 1 feed food nominaii No. to 70 e., $28 sas; 0 to hate nominal; 20 $22.34 tions in c.if. ports. is RE : Ei entirety. The following year Cour- on Cah i Tovl No. 2 Hy ot tauds, Ltd., largest manufact in yellow e Te ; a La arent manufacturers I Xe teens rol, taba, 173 to 18; pall, 18 to 18%; n Kingdom, gent engineers to -~ t da. 10. investighta > ugey included: Brin, per ton lag, | 24 me 1 to 10%; Oana investigaly these represen. IT om SLED mh ngs 4 to 15c; tubs, 18 to 16%e; tations, with the result that a plant HE er feed flour, or | to 16%c; blocks, 17 to 17 was éstabiished in Cornwall, Ontario, Ont. onts--42 to 44c Ripping Heavy steers, in 1924, at a gost of $2,500,000. { points. oor aiding dor San $7 to $7.25; AN wheat--$1.20 to to 75 to 3 $122 8. shipping points, secording $6.50; a BE Maltin, 56 to Ble. ; a mast, and shortly after it was discover- out and a quick run was made to North | ¥ | degree of doctor of philosophy accept- ped doors.with a is,{ Don't try it. Wakes alr is a fine thing z i £3 3s 2 ~ implement firm sold 110 tractors since last SpHng; 70 per cent. of which were in spot cash. ANa--Four hundred woo sand additional acres in the province have been signed up during the pres- ent year, to an announce- ment Fade by officials of the Alberta Wheat Pool. The Pool expects to handle sixty per cent. of this year's crop: Victorla, British Columblar--Tt 's estimated that the Pilchard catch on the west const of Vancouver Isiand Lthis season wil reach 10,000 tons of fish meal and 1,750,000 galpna of of ~ entre fertoe Know the Ins and Outs of Managing Your Furnace. . Whether olf burners, coal or coke; type of heater, there 1s a law" of phy- sics to observe. It is the law of cir cuit, The water supply, our tele phones, our electric light, our gas, yes, even our food supply comes off the circuit of'supply. We got them as they go by. The closed circuit gels yOw-nothing. So it is in heating your home. The steam condenses as it cools and runs back to the boller so more hot steam may enter the radi tors. s The hot water keeps in ciruculation \ if the house is kept- warm. The warm air Sas demands the same circu: "Warm alr rises and crowds 1d gi out. 'Cold air must continual enter the heat jacket of the furnace k _the_circalation. You can no more. pour warm.air into a closed cold room 'than you can pass hot water windy with warm sir should be very tightly built, You ean not compete ik @ from your home: 'whether steam, hot water or warm aire Sse { Rye--No. 2, Man. flo ?! but rather expenstvo to heat at pre- nd oil. ' Li Si ¢ extras, 89¢; do, a: th FL Rn