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tothe flowing valuable acreage. "The Sore 08 The deluge 19 now in the Vicksburg area plunging south- toward. New Orleans and the MORE BAD LUCK Flight Plane in Mishap. Paris.--The giant biplane in which Captains Nungesser and Coli will attempt their non-stop flight to New York had a narrow escape from de- struction by fire at 3 o'clock Thursday os when an electric light bulb Tell to the cement floor in the hangar Villa Coublay and instantly ignited litres of gasoline. One lower wing , and-only quick staff. of mechanics which ¢ ; in installation of the in-| $ Sruments saved the plane from catch. ng fire. Rushing to the door of the hangar, the men yelled for help from near-by hangar, and in less than vo minutes the Levasseur machine was wheeled to safety on the landing Heo + --e X DETROIT RIVER PROJECT Higher Bridge to Accommov _date Ocean Vessels is Approved. . Washington. -- Advocates of the «Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterways Sp el iy won a fight to-day, when the war de- t approved a new plan for a Bes 'over the Detroit river at the Detroit. Plans approved call a span of 152 Test instead of 185 8t, proposed by the company con- 'tructing the bridge, s byplay in the long-continued for building the Great Lakes- wrence waterways, has been on for some time. cil of Detroit approved plans for | 185-foot span and everything was 'readiness to erect it. C. P. Craig, : eath of ocean going contemplated by completion of waterways project. The protest 7 that the move was designed nullify the waterways program by navigation was as vicious as if navi- war stand. Jotion were actually interfered .with. | (department sustained Craig's | nati The city the RY nd : ations and having state, recommended ment that applications of natural born Canadians have been natur- alized in the United States, should be tonsidered a3 Syacisl Cases and that special certificates ued after a residence of one year in Canada, in cases where it is shown that the ap- plicants intend to continue residence in Canada and give evidence of this intention, not only by affidavit or statement but by the acquisition of property or otherwise. The number of Canadians return- he to anade last year was about though ority had not A out anal naturalization papers. The new ruling will espe- cially benefit Canadian businessmen sent to establish branch houses or work in branches in the United States. For business reasons they found it advisable to become natural- ized, but when ultimately transferred back to Canada they found they had to wait five years before reassuming Canadian citizenship. There is no provision under the na- turalization act of 1914 and 1920, zation may be issued on a residence of less than five years. The imperial conference is interested because any- becomes thereby a British citizen, The naturalization laws committee of the imperial conference of 1901 re- ported: "We do not think it necessary to 'maintain the distinction made In the act of 1870, section eight, between re-admission and naturalization. A person who has become an alien under provision of the act must before being qualified for re-admission fulfill the same conditions as are required for naturalization. We see no suffi- cient reason for distinguishing be- tween a statutory and any other alien 'and consider that it would tend to the simplification of the law if the pro- visions of section eight were repealed and not re-enacted." There is a p; . for the new ruling, the provision for the re-natur- alization of women who married aliens, Sub-section five of section two of the naturalization act provides that, "In the case of a woman who was a British subject previously to her marriage to an alien and whose husband has died or whose marriage has been dissolved, the requirements of this section as to residence need not apply (the four years clause) and \ secretary of state may, if he thinks fit, grant a certificate of na- turalization, although the four years residence has not been within the last -jeight years before the application," AT TORONTO 3 ' i a------ a * Long Branch and Leaside Sug- gested as Sites for Moor- ing Mast. Toronto.--Considerable interest Is being manifested in the announce- t that Major Scott and Major A. er Sho ahr al subjected to allen n secretary to the govern-| under which a certificate of naturali-' one becoming a Canadian citizen alss mil NN CANADIAN WATERS POUR INTO MISSISSIPPI Even Canadian water is pouring over the central flood area, this illus tration shows, giving a birds-eye view of the immense territory covered by the Mississippi system. The Mississippi is the main stem of the greatest drainage system of the continent and one of the world's greatest. Properly speaking, it extends to within a hundred miles of thé border, but innumerable tributary streams crose the line, The total annual discharge ie 21 trillion oublc feet. This is 675,000 per second. It is over 2,550 miles long. The map suggests these amazing ramifications. There is shown the Chicago drainage canal. The Ohlo river, too, reaches close to Buffalo, [FRENCH AVIATOR _ FLYING ATLANTIC Cape. Saint-Roman Heading ~#krom St. Louis, Senegal, to Brazil. DISTANCE 1,875 MILES. Dakar, West Africa. -- Captain Saint-Roman, French aviator, left St. | Louis, Senegal, at 6.30 o'clock this morning in his attempt to fly across the Atlantic in a voyage to Pernam- buco, Brazil, a distance of about 1,876 es. Advices from St. Louis said that the aviator expected to land first at ont: St. Paul's Rocks, about 540 miles from the coast of South America, before continuing on the Pernambuco. Capt. Saint-Roman passed over Da- LE kar at 7.10 a.m. 'and headed south- |. CR ---------- west over the Atlantic, Xhi On Tuesday the French bureau of White Star Samapeny Sends aer 1 d that official sanction for Captain Saint-Roman's Montreal.--Premier King headed a stinguished group of guests at a flight had been withdrawn because he di was planning to proceed across the banquet to mark the visit of the new Atlantic without pontoons. He sub- White Star liner Albertic to Mon- stituted ordinary landing gear after|treal. The liner, 19,000 tons, is the a pontoon was damaged, and it was largest ever to reach the port. Al- pointed out by the bureau that a berta presented a memorial plaque to forced descent on the sea with such | commemorate the occasion, The pre- landing gear would mean disaster. |mier recalled the fact that 80 years The bureau of aeronattics supple-' ago Sir Wilfrid Laurier and other mented its first an t with! bers 'of parli t, had been the statement that- offictal sanction guests at a similar function to mark for the flight would be given if the the arrival of the White Star line in aviator consented to reinstall pon- toons, | Paris.--The possibility that Capt. Charles Nungesser, the French war ace, will hop off Friday on his at- tempt to conquer the Atlantic in a flight from Parig to New York, is now considered strong. ¥en emadi NO DESIRE TO REOPEN WAR DEBT DISCUSSION British Government So In- formed by United States. Washington.--The United States does not desire to engage in any for mal exchanges on war debts and con-| Premier King said the function was siders the recent correspondence on 'emblematic of advances in trade and the subject between Secretary Mellon commerce and the growth which was and President. Hibben, 'of Princeton to come. University, as & "purely domestic dis- cussion." This information was given to the British government Thursday in re- ply to a note handed to the state de- partment earlier in the day by the British charge d'affaires acting in the absence from Washington of Ambas- sador Howard, which challenged the accuracy of a statement by Mr. Mel- lon that Great Britain's debt pay- ments to the United States would not constitute a drain on British economic resources. The statement of the treasury sec- retary was a part of a letter written by him to Dr. Hibben in reply to the contentions of members of the Prince- ton and Columbia faculties that there should be a revision of the debt settle- Montreal, Charles Hemming of Brantford spoke for the Ontario party and warmly commended the work done by the company, adding that it was in the interests of not only Ontario but the Dominion of Canada because it was helping to make this a greater country. There were three hundred guests, men prominent in the affairs of the Dominion, representatives of the east and west Among them were, Hon. J. F. Lym- Lurn, attorney-general «f Alberta, and Hon, A. C. Rutherford, first premier of Alberta, to express the goodwill of the west toward the east. / 18%c; tubs, 13%e; pails, 1 " Fa Rig tl, Li io $2.25 to 26¢. "in emergency work, loading age on a river steamer at Ichang n the Yangtze river:. LS "Suddenly. Dr. a commotion. Looking up we saw a crowd of Chinese hodlums grabbing at one of the marines. He had a baton and clubbed to good advantage, open- ing up the head of one of them. Then came pandemonium. "Armed with massive bamboo poles, heavy iron piping, and any other weapons they could grab, the mob swarmed into the hold, making for the marine, Lindsay and I sprang in among them, trying in vain to calm them down. Lindsay missed a bad blow only because the weapon was glanced aside by a man with whom | he had been vainly arguing. The mob made for the other door of the hold, and I got the end of a bamboo in the back, fortunately a slight wallop. We got outside the hold, into the narrow corridor on the outside of the ship. A marine grabbed the big sliding door and slammed it to, just in the faces of the mob. The door was stout, and while some went back to the hatch- inside, and soon smashed through a panel, giving me another slight biff, Then we had nothing to do but get out, so we had to scoot over the piles of coal which littered the corridor. I was the last one to leave and I'm not sure how many inches I was ahead of the club in the hands of the first of the attacking party. 1 hadn't time to find out. ! "I made the hatchway ahead of the rascal and got out of distance of his weapon. Then they hesitated for a moment. Later they swarmed up on the other side of the ship from the small boats. From the Chi Ping (a U. 8. boat) side some came over the | edge of the boat with vicious iron hooks, etc., etc. One wielded a huge coal shovel, | "Signals were sent to the gunboats, and armed Tommies with well-sharp- ened bayonets fixed and metal helmets Markets TORONTO. | Man, wheat--No. 1 North, $1.60; No. 2 North, $1.56; No. 8 North. $1.48%, cif. bay ports. an. oats, No. 2 CW, nominal; No. 3, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 60%c; No.' 2 feed, nominal; western grain quota- tions in c.f. ports. Am. corn, Toronto freights--No. yellow, kiln dried, 95¢; No. 3 yellow, kiln dried, 92¢, ; Millfeed--Del, Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $32.25; Shorts, per ton, $84.25; middlings, Ont. oats, 50c f.0.b. shipping points. Ont. good milling wheat--$1.26 to $1.28, f.o.b. shipping points, accord- ing to Treghis, ey alting, 72e. Buckwheat--78¢, nominal. Rye--No. 2, $1.00. $8.40, To- 90. al an. flour--First pat., ronto; do, second pat., $7. Ont. flour--Toronto, 90 per cent., atent, per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, 5.30; seaboard, in bulk, $5.50. Hay, No. 2, timothy, track, To- ronto, $16.55. Cheese--New, large, 17¢; twins, 17% to 17%¢c; triplets, 17% to 17%c; Stiltons, 20¢; Old, large, 20c; twins, 20%ec. Old Stiltons, 28c. Butter--Finest creamery prints, 48 t6 44c; No. 1 do, 42 to 48c; No. 2, 41 to 42¢. Dairy prints, 84 to 36e, Eggs--Fresh extras, in cartons, 85 to 36c; fresh extras, loose, 85c; fresh firsts, 38c; fresh seconds, 29 to 80c 2 Poultry, dressednSeing chickens, 60c; chickens, 5 lbs. up, 40c; do, 4 to 5 1bs., 88c; do, 8 to 4 Ibs., 85c; do, 2% to 8%4e, Bde; broilers, 1% to 2% lbs, 88c; hens, over b lbs, 82¢; do, 4 to b 1bs., 80c; do, 8-to 4.1bs., 28¢c; roosters, 26¢; turkeys, 46 to 47¢; spring duck- ec ca hand-ple $3.60 to $3.90 bushes; pri Feit $3.60. : lo pred yrup, per jmp. to $2.80; per & gal, $2.16 per gal; maple sugar, Ib, 25 Boney--60-Ib;. tins, 18 to 18%e; 10- 1b, tins, 18 to 18%¢ B-Ib tins, 14 to 3c} 5 26¢; breakfast bacon, 28 to 83; Pr Bh vray Wl 90 to 100 Ibs. and up, $18; lig] slept rots ip Basses, $11,507 beavy. } Lary Pure. dierom, 16 to 14%¢; tubs, 15 to % ps, 16% to 176; ning tierces, , 15% to 16¢; shortening 4%¢; blocks ! hoped, in the near future, to enfo its policy of "standardizi; stamping" Ontario agricultural pro= ducts. . 5 "It is being done now with s milk, fruit and wheat," he said, Vand we have for some time ocated a extension of the policy to include all produce. We would heartily welcome suh a move." Lh The standardization policy, he stat- | ed, had been recommended by Ontario - farmers to the late agricultural en- quiry committee. Contending that there was nothing in Premier Ferguson's indicate whether or n the , new policy, the secretary of the In- dustrial Packers' Ass i Todd, declined to discuss remarks. "There has been nothing said about standardizing our products. We have nothing to say, because we can't spec ulate about probabilities or possibile ities." There is considerable opposition from the packers, it is understood from another source, to the proposed standardization. NEW MINSTER ONCE IMMIGRANT. Then the Tommies searched the ship R Re nnipep cous word: that for hidden rascals or hidden ammuni. | Brack incial t tion (in case further trouble on board, © \o¢ken provincial government as should arise). The Chinese crew minister of education. To those who were all brought up to the top deck, | Know the story of Toey it is a most so that anyone found below could be interesting announcement. Twenty summarily dumped out. I went below | years ago he came to Canada, a young to interpret for the marines and to! rish boy, penniless and friendless. see the fun. Not many were found I Six years ago he entered the parlia- however, and after a little run the ment of Canada, one of the most able Tung Wo pulled out downriver. One and promising members of the par- ip liament of 1921. In the course of a of the gunboats, the Cockchafer, which 4 : figured so largely in the Wanhsien in- debate one night on immigration, § when some of his Progressive col- Sident. sscorted Fre Yung No down to leagues were bemoaning the trials and ' : pi hardships of immigrants in the west, "I certainly feel that the British! : marines are using excellent self-con- | Hoey silenced them, and deeply moved trol, They have taken a tremendous the House with a bit of his own car- eer. He did not say that it was his STEAL of Tosult and Bw, from the | own life that he was describing, but idad : many knew that it was his autobio- can maintain this self-control is a graphy that he was giving to the question, K 8ir Charles Madden cceeds Earl Beatty as first, and chiet of the naval staff. tty had been in office nearly Who su sea lord Earl Bea 8 years, in placed swarmed on. One of the officers had his wrist broken. few minutes it was all over. s. "We sometimes hear, so one passage ran, of men living on one meal a day. This particular immigrant lived for four days on one meal. I remember on one occasion he lived for five days on one meal, and in the last six weeks of the year in which he graduated he lived for ten cents a day. "He was denied the privilege of writing home to his parents because he did not have the money for postage. He graduated, and is to-day a mem- ber of the Dominion parliament. He is still in his thirties and by no means a physical wreck." Now this young Irishman, whe washed and stretched hides in Mon- treal for seven dollars a week, and who later worked in Fort Frances for $400 a year, saving enough out of his earnings to put himself through col- ---- ers, choice, $8.26 to $8.75; do, com., $6.76 to $7.25; butcher cows, good to choice, $6.75 to $7.60; do, fair to good, $5.26 to $6; do, com. to med. $4.50 to $56; do, canners and cutters, $2.50 to $4; butcher bulls, good to choice, $6 to $7; do, med. $56.25 to $5.75; do, bologaas, $4.50 to $5; baby beef, $8.50 to $11.00; feeders, choice, $7.00 to $7.50; do, fair, $6,256 to $6.75; stock- ers, choice, $6.60 to $7; do, fair to med., $5.60 to $6; springers, $80 to $110; milch cows, $756 to $90; plain to med. cows, $45 to $65; calves, choice, $10 to $12; do, med. $8 to $9; do, com., $56.50 to $6; lambs, choice 80 Ex. Heavies, $2 gle | Ex "or $8.16 $14 to $14.60; bucks, $11 to $11.50; sheep, choice, $8 to $9; do, Leavies, | $6 to $7.50; do, culls, $4 to $5; hogs, {thick smooths, fed and watered, | $9.76; do, f.o.b., $9.25; do, country "points, $9; do, off cars, $10.15; select premium, per hog, $1.90. MONTREAL. Oats, CW, No. 2, 76¢; do, No. 8, 67c. Flour, Man. spring wheat pats, | firsts, $8.80; do, seconds, $7.80; do, strong bakers'; $7.60; winter patents, choice, $6.90 to $6. Rolled oats, bag o? 90 lbs., $3.40 to $3.50. Bran; $32.25. Shorts, $34.26. Middlings, $40.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14.50. i ve, med. .to good, $7 to $8; hogs, $10.60 and $10.76. Market slow. NEW BASIS FOR HOGS STARTING MAY 9TH The conference held 'at Ottawa on April 22 and 23, agreed upon the fol- lowing method of purchase for hogs. Price quotation shall be on the basis of 'select bacon" and "thick smooth" ades, both quotations to be given. n initial differential in price of 50¢ tr hundred pounds was agreed upon tween the above grades. Prices will be guoted for hogs, com- mencing May 9th, on the weight off car (W.0.C.) basis at the public stock yards and packing plant. For ex- ample, using $10.76 as a basis: Select b: acon, Thick smooth 'under selects. Shops and feeders, $2 per hog, under lects, 50 Heavies, $3 per hog, under selects. per cwt. under se- per ¢wt, 0. 1, $3 per cwt. under se- or $7.76 per cwt. Sows, No. 2, $3 per cwt. under se- lects, or $6.76 per ewt. Roughs, at their value, Si , $6 per cwt, under selects, or $4.75 per cwt. per hog, lects, Sows, Ni lects a -.e World's Deepest Holes. ; and a half into the earth has estab. Hshed a mew world's record in ofl-well A hole reaching more than a mile" lege, and finally entering parliament, has become a minister of the crown. No better example could be offered of what courage and thrift and indus- try can do in this land of opportuny ity. Ottawa Journal. i le rt My Garden. A garden Is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot--- The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not-- Not God! in gardens! when the eve i * cool? Nay, but I have a sign; 'Tis very sure God walks In mind. ice W.0.C. 10.76 ewt.|