a ‘- & 3 Ly . - = Muda ee ~—s - : ae pa ae a iat Saal ae 1 BS Market Report . aie ~~ Weekly ' Breadstuffs, Toronto, Jan. 20.—Manitoba whea -~No, 1 northern, $2.80; No. 2 north- or $2.77; No. 9 northern, $2.78, hid Sum A short review of Canada’s position before the war and its progress dur- ing the war will be found interesting. Canada before the war imported much more than she exported. Or as one financial writer has expressed it;— “The salient, features of the econo- c position of Canada shortly before the war were the enormous predomin- ance of imports over exports, the fail- ure of the exports of the country to @xpand in proportion to the immense © amount of external capital which was | being borrowed and upon which in- | terest had to be paid and the conse-' quent shortage of cash and liquid .as- | ie : ? t : : oe 9 oO ene °° mary of Canada’s Financial Position . : ' t @uebec is ‘the sole producer of asbes- tos. 'A British Columbia smelter has discovered that there will be a large market for zinc, Perhaps the . most. attractive pros- pect in the way of export isin pulp and paper, in which Canada now hélds an execedingly strong position. > Pitts industry has had a remarkable expan- sion.in Canada. Tn s1890. the exports amounted to $120. At the end of March, 1919; they: amounted to $99,- 259,165, and this-industry, it may be stated, is got one which has been | Bos unduly stimulated by the abnormal } pe ate SF a es conditions of war. The demand, es-| ' Sr hs i 3 Hets in the treasuries of corporations, | pecially in the United States, will con- 4 es BR ee oe ey a in the vaults of banks and the purses} tinue to increase rapidly and sub- Bees reo aoe of the public.” i stantially. Well on to $175,000,000 : This tendency the banks had set; have been invested in the pulp and gut with some success to combat! paper industry of Canada, the pro- gome time prior to the war. Canadian} duction of which “in' 1917 was valued imports for the fiscal year 1913-14| at approximately 100,000,000. amounted to $618,457,174 and exports “Revival of Business Activity. Game to $455,4387,224. A similar pro- There {gs another question which portion had existed.some years be-! uct be a large-factor in the attua: fore, Canada was borrowing heavily! tion win the big industries be able from Great Britain for federal, provin-| 5, carry on with undiminished force, celal, municipal and railway purposes, | now that war demands have ceased? and immense sums of British money The following opinion given by 3 were being invested in Camadian en-) gyanoial expert is probably as good” sepeprises., British: Anasoial xperies an coutd be offered on that point:— had called a halt in that respect, little “Holders of securities of Canadiap- dreaming that Canada was soon not i) austrial corporations which produce only to send her sons to help tho} +44) cement, lumber, bricks and > .y,,, Motherland, but to lend her credit a3 | (iyo, building material,-ind holders a well. | of real estate scuritiew should realize that duffsg the next few years the {In so far as thé balance of trade is | housing problem in Candda will be a concerned, at the -end of the fiscal | very difleult-éne and will necessitate year 1917-18 imports amounted to | construction of much new building ac- $962,543,746 and exports $1,540,027,788. | Commotion, thereby “creating a Of course, the war is responsible very | strong demand for building matertals. largely for this remarkable reversal.|'In common with those of other coun- Wor the calendar year 1919 Canada’s | tries Canadian railway and transpor- favorable agegy jee of trade was ver tation companies, which normally are $800,000,000. Moreover, Canada as a| heavy buyers of steel rails and rail- nation has ceased’ to borrow money | way equipment, will find it necessary from abroad, or practically so. to purchase largely in order to re-es- Canada has successfully floated her! tablish plant efficiency, which has gixth loan of $€00,000,000, which was | suffered materially during four years -Grer-subscribed by about $400,000,000, | of war. - Many Canadian tndusttial as were all the preceding loans, and public utility enterprises have Although a difficult thing to arrive | postponed large construction work at even approximately a careful sur-| and extension during the war, first on ey of Canada's wealth--what might | patriotic grounds, and second because @ termed productive value of realiz-| the costs of material and labor have able assets, independent of undevelop-| bean so high, In addition to Cana- ¢d natural resources—gives a total of | dian demands, there are the recon. 718,000,000,000. Placing the prospec-| striction and food necessities of tive debt at $2,000,000,000, Canada| urope to be taken Into account ag has assets nine times greater, Figur-! wel] as the substantial world demand ing the population at 9,000,000, the! for agricultural and animal products, average wealth per citizen is about | for nickel, asbestos, lumber, pulp and $2,000, or quite equal to the estimated | paper and other products for the pro- average wealth per head in the United | duction of which Canada possesses States. facilities second to none in the world. One of the best indications of pros-| When the conviction: once becomes perity and substantiality in Canada is | firmly grounded that present price the savings deposits of the country. | levelg are likely to be maintained for Notwithstanding the large sums raised ! some time to come, we look for a in war loans, the savings deposits in| strong revival of Canadian business chartered banks on May 31 were $1,- | activity, 107,993,070, as compared with $663,- 945,750 on the game date in 1914. Ag & large number of depositors are of the class who subscribed to the loans, this result is really remarkable. There Was no advance made in the deposits in the Dominion government savings banks. ~ Nevertheless, in 1917, more than $14,000,000 was deposited. a sum greater than In 1913. A new and interesting commercia] use, of the Xsray whereby defects ih materials like steel and timber may be disclosed was discussed at a re-} cent mesting of the Faraday and Ront-! gen societies in London, according to “Commerce Reports,” a government anitoba Oats—-No. 2 C,W., 91%¢ publication: ae No. 8 C.W., 87%c; extra No. 1 feed, “It is claimed that one obvious -ap- | 87 %4c; No, 1 féed, 85%; No. 2 feed, ¢, , Pini: anitoba- Barley—No. 8 O.W,, plication of the X-rays is to the ex-{ 82 amination of: metal castings. for de. ; Soe fects, such as blow holan. which can- | $1-72%; No, 4 C.W., $1.47%; rejected, on sae ibe! we o — 3144 not be revealed by external inspection | 91-34%} feed, 1.82%. gt Feeney PF ils, 81% to 32% Ontanio Wheat-—F.o.b. shipping ‘cate 31 @ See if} » Sane! ound points, ‘eo to freight—No. 1) PTIns, : : ety ler -_ ae =~; a vial pral., $4.28; per 5 imperial galsy _ $4.00; a os! 29 to 300, ee 3 Provisiens—Wholesale, Smoked meats—Hams, mediw to 86c; do., heavy 29 to 300; co a to B00: ros, 80 to Sic; breakiaay bacon, 40 to es backs, plain, 49 ta — 51c; boneless, 58. to 55¢. fle Cured paekes Lene ees bacon, 31 5 ee dpe nares -+ and yet may seriously impair the strength of the finished article. I¢ | 2° : : ' tierces, 27% to 28e; tubs, 28 to 2844a¢ #3 es Rhian -the-castings are not\too large each of Sond ison Pak RP ails, 28% to 28% ¢} prints, 29466 BS RRs 3 Gd 7 Soak rae eR are te them may be subjected to routine ‘OQ. Nr gs. ‘ee Oc. : Bae A hittin Oe. pga on a ; ee 1.99; No. 1-9 cae $2.02 to $2.08 Montreal Markets ee ey MERE Sepa se ea testing by the rays and blow holes o¢- o 2 spring, 81.8 to $2.05; No. ntre - . * Se eee ee curring at regular spring, $1.95 to $2.01, a : rob ae ven ra ae ats, ire * : ated. | American Corn—Prompt shipment, vy ? 1 Ab Le 18.6 Ro led. oats, “Mr. Schneider, at whose plant much No, 3 yellow, $1.78; No. 4 yellow, | 8 "bo ibe, $4.98 to $5.25. Brant work in/radiometallography has been | $1.76 4538 Shoe a6 0 o8 x : No. carried out, suggested that if a num- Peat ln Oats—-No. 8 white, 98¢ to er ton, car lots, $26 to $26 . Chees is ~ cr, intervals elimin- tn gh> x. -— retin, ber of carbon. steel and tungsten steel according to freight. FRESE «OS a BUN Bh oy» einer: eee eR Oe Be bars had been acciden tay enh yt lars AW; inter, fa Fore" g ; av tae tw dua, * Buttery NSE. they might-Wet-4,. an + shiomont. O +| choicest creamery, 67¢ to 67%; do, | they mightBe quickly sorted. by means | #88, Prompt shipmen overnmen re $3 , Oat : a of XGys, the radiographs obtained | S@2dard, $9.65 to $9.85, delivered at pig espe ty “BB; a oS , Ta gioco :: j ere t + . .| 0. : ; ‘ « with carbon being blacker than with | Montreal, and $9.85, delivered at To. : jungsten-steel, because the rays pene-| Barley--Malting, $1.75 to $1.80, | tatoes, per bag, carlots, $8.78, - trate the latter Jess freely than the 2, $140 to $1.42, Buckwheat—No, Live Stock Markets. former, owing to the lighter atomte Manitoba. Mour— vernment stan- Toronto, Jan. 20.—Choice heav weight of the constituent tungsten, |dard, $13.25, Toronto. : steers, pee to $15; od heavy At present only a few inches can be| Peas—No. 2, $2.76, 2 aes 18 to $14; butchers’ cattle, . penetrated, but great improvements|. Rye—No. 2, nominal; No. 8, $1.80 on $12.25 ib rae ag. good, $11.00 , have been made by the Coolidge X-ray | © one ade Werinta Ne i Maxey bo $12; do., me Hom, $ “ au tube, and further advances may be!_.:- $26 ‘Straw Be 1 a 3] 450 ae gers te ee, BOR do. 4b edium’ looked’ for not only in this portion of to $16.50. : Pee choice, § 011.505" do., ‘4 the apparatus, but alse in the methods HOF ee ACL do seh a8 empleyed for detecting the rays after Country Eroduce—W holeeale. Baty bos ped. S095 ty ‘$10.25: da, they pass through the material under) ~Butter—Dairy, tubs and rolls, “48 to medium, $8.78 to $9.25; do., common, investigation,” > ; '; 44c prints, 48 to 650c. Creamery, fresh $7.00 to stockers, $7.50 to $10 eee ee NE ate ee solids, 60 to 61¢; prints, 62 to feeders, Furs Worth Fortunes. 4 50 10 es $11.50} canners an - icutters, $5.25 to $6.50; milkers, goo Eegs—Held, , The statement recently circulated Re Ub: Boo. about a woman who wore a sable jace 52 to Bde; new lald,' to choice, $110 to $173; do., com. med., $66 to $75; springers, $90 to Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 176; sheep, $7.50 to $11.50; sprin 26 to 32c; roosters, 26c; fowl, 20 to atbs, per owt. $18.50 to $19.50} ket worth at least $10,500 is not so 25¢; geese, 28 to 80c; ducklings, 30 calves, , ad to ai ce, $18 to $21 extraordinary as it seems, for good | to 82c; turkeys, 45 to 50c; squabs, }, and watered, $17.25; da, dark single sable skins will almost al- 50; : | ways fetch from $100 to $200, and a : f doz., $4.50, lwelghed off cars, $17.50; do., f.0.by kive poultry—Spring chickens, 19' $16.26; do. » to farmers, $1 robe of real sable, such as Russian | to 20c; roosters, 20e; fowl, 20 * Montrea “princes used to wear, may easily cost $5,000. : to 25c; Pte SNe eese, 22c; ducklings, 22c¢: Milk and Bread Only Rations But the nobles of the province of turkeys, medium, $10.25 © $11.50; common 7 to 40¢c. | |$8 to $10; ‘butcher helfers, goo Cheese—New, large, Pai to 820; $16.50 to He meiium, $9.50 to $10.25 For Month and Half. Kherson presented to the late Hm.| tWins, 82 to S24gc. "triplets 50 her _A despatch from Quebec says:-—-) press of Russia some years age an.er- The lighthousekeeper’s cow saved the| mine mantle which was valued at $50, 388 to common to 26; butcher co 33 tec; Stilton, 34 to 85¢: old, lar r good $9.50 to $1 wt ir $6 3344 to 84c: Do., twins, $4 to ibe. $9 5 $8.5 . Belle Isle colony from starvation| 000. . Silver fox skins are even dearer while it waited relief from the out-| —at any rate, the price of a single m™m ners, $ to Beans — ete hand-pi | bs 78 ie sae buteher b bushel, \ $5.26 to $6.75; pri 4,28 Som, $6.00 ily sommon, 36 side world at the lonely island off| skin in Paris was at one time $1,250— | the Labrador coast. As long as there} and a famous explorer has recorded mes to $4.75; Japans, $5.50 to 35,78: alle. Ay fornia Limas, 17% to 18%¢3 Mada-| Good calves, $16 t $17; $16 to $17; me ; $1 to was feed for her the cow. supplied] how, ‘in Eastern Greenland, he met a $7.50 to milk, which, with bread, provided the| gitl wearing a dress composed wholly ascar Limas, Ib., 15; Taped Limas, Sheep, $9.80 to complete menu of the colony for a! of silver-fox skins. At Parisian prices a bos e, BT to Bhey 10k, than $8 to Baty) BND lambs, good, tins, 27 to 28e; 10-1. tins, 26 to baie LHD month and a half. When the cow| this must have been worth quite $75,- HIER, TSR RO cue Te se “Hog . Feo the United States claims this year a| feed was finished the cow was killed| 000. tins, 18 to 20c; combs, 16-02., 38,00 to i “CAP . $6.50 doz.y 10-oz., $4.26 to $4.50 doz. | $18.50; lights, $16 record production of field crops. The} and the beef and bread kept the| There are said to be handkerchiefs Maple products—Syrup, per im- to $18. value placed on it is $15,000,000,000. | colony alive until the ship Seal reg-| Fr rare lace in existence worth $1,000 | « Se ee This includes cotton, corn, tobacco,| cued the members of the colony. each, and real “cloth of gold, made of MADE BOLSHEVIST But there are in the United States} “We lived one month and a half] Dure gold drawn into fine wire ‘pha Y I RVENTION about 7,000,000 farms of the same/| 0” bread and milk, dnd if help thad| then woven by hand, is only nowadays B NTE 3 average acreage as in Canada, and {| come some weeks later they would| obtainable in Sumatra at $200 a yard. ; 3 U x a the* value of the crop production per; have found the entire colony dead ora All Russian Parties mit Against Foreigners. farm works out at about $2,160. Con-| from hunger,” said Raoul Bergeron, Lord Mayor of Cork is A despatch from London says:—~ sidering the great advantage of a} one of the refugees who has reached Victi eS; Fel A kk ds apa Juebec with his wife ; eet ictim oF Sinn rem Attac larger variety of crops, made possible| @ ith his wife and two chi : Lord Whar’ th: 4 Setter to Pha teak. don Times on Bolshevism, says:— by southern fruit-growing, and warm| aren, and William George Wyatt, who climate crops, Canada’s farmers are ae with him at East Point, Belle “The Bolshevist army ts now the holding their own fairly well. The Isle. | 3 United States Secretary of Agricul-{ The coleny, he said, had been with- ec ie " tice a Sage eed ture claims that United States crop| 0Ut supplies since last November, are hath obbled ee avd’ tha Cah. production per farmer is more than| When the supply ships failed to reach nd Od Lg pers ing Rol- twice as. much, in value, as the Ger-| them because of the ice and storms, gpa od: ere eee s° : ‘ : shevist, added to which our thrifty rulers have now given the Bolshe- Canada a Credit Nation. RE-OPENING OF LOUVAIN UNIVERSITY Belgian workmen fixing up new copper tram lines outside of ruined library. The Germans took’ away the copper wires when in occupation of the town. . : Facts About > ° Canadian Agriculture ‘COW SAVES BELLE ISLE COLONY , 20-—Butcher steerg, There are in Canada about 667,000 farms, with an average area of Seventy-five acres growing crops. Much additional area is devoted to pasture and ranching. . The value of the field crop per farm is, therafore, . $2,174. If to this is added the aver- age value of the dairy, meat and fruit production, andther $1,000 can ‘be added. The dairy production ‘of Canada is at least $300,000,000, and the meat production probably. more, | It is rather interesting to note that! d voal, 3 ETAss, ee ewes, $9 to $16.50; — common, weights, select to $18; sows, $1 teens veer ms = wargmnrmeeneensewnee | Bits of Information. Dew is only found on vessels within thirty miles of Jand. Lusitanta was originally the nam of a large portion of a whole ton o water, One grain of indigo is sufficient affect the color of a whole ton o water, Thunderstorms are more frequent in Java than anywhere elise on tha globe, ~ One California town has provided its fire brigade captain with an sero- plane. | More varieties of fish are found in —aiTA .o A despatch from. Cork, Iveland, says:—W. F. O’Connor, the Loni Mayor of Cork, was attacked by a party of men while returning from a meeting of demobilized soldiers, The Mayor was knocked down and assaulted. A couple of former gol- dierg rescued him from his assailants, CAUCASUS ARMY HALTS RED RUSH Advance of Bolsheviki Odessa Stopped. on man, British or Belgian production,| Chances of hunting and shooting more than three times as much as| Wild game were lost because of con- Now taking conditions as they af- fect industry the labor situation can- not be described except as disquieting verywhere, but it is remarkable at fn present time that Canada is prac- feally free of strikes. The Winnipeg strike in May, 1919, threatened. to he &® trial of strength in Canada of cer- fain labor elements. It was a triumph for the better elements in trade union- fam and good citizenship, Since then, as the result of industrial conferences and wise leadership in the unions, nee is much better feeling and cer- ‘alnly much. more friendly relations. As regards wages, they are closely allied to commodity prices and there A despatch from London, says:— The British Military Mission with Gen. Denikine at the latter’s head- quarters in Ekaterinodar reports that the Caucasus army, in the line behind the Aksai River, repulsed, the French and more than six times! the Italian, That may hold well! enough, so far as comparisons with European countries go, but Canada’s \in heavy fighting, five frontal at- | tacks, in-an attempt to turn its left! flank. The report of the British Mission | says the advance of the Bolsheviki' on Odessa has been stopped. I¢ also states that the report that Gen. Den- ikine has; been superseded by Gen. Wrangle or any other. commander ig untrue, The statement. says the Don army holds the line of the Don River from million farm workers are producing | an average of $2,000 each, This | compares very favorably with the' average wage of the Canadian factory | worker. The 1917 census showed that. the average factory wage was $775, and even if it now is $900, the much | higher cost of living in the cities’ leaves the comparison as to net pro- fit from labor clearly with the farm worker. . | Seen 2 ee Oe tinued storms, and the colony faced starvation against the slim hope that a ship would ‘get through to them, Morty barrels of fish which in. an emergency might have seen the col- ony through the winter were washed into thé sea.by the storms and lost, The gales were the worst in fifty years, and part. of the concrete land- ing station that had been built by the Government at the island was washed away. ht Enver Has Become Threat to Britain The attack. is attributed to the Mayor's opposition to the election policy of the Sinn Fein organization, Lloyd George ¢ Gets Legion of Honor A despatch from Paris says:—On | the occasion of the ratification of the | Treaty of Versailles, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor was bestowed upon Premisr Lloyd George of Great Britain and Premier Nitti of Italy. | noe Oi a eee meee ney Easily Arranged. Two Cornishmen starting from ope vist armies the vast and goodly sup- ply of guns, tanks, armored trains, locomotives and airplanes previously squandered upon Denikine & Co, “What invarlably happened before has happened again. : coaistory.tells..us everywhere ‘that foreign intervention invariably. unites all parties, “Imagine the effect.of the French army landing at Dublin to help us coerce Treland, “We should all become Sinn Fein- ers, “That ig exactly. what we did in Russia, was not Bolshevist we made Bolshevist. ~ the Nile than tn any other river in the world, . A man's hair turns grey five years earlier than a woman’s, it has been, estimated, A lemon will yield nearly twice as mueh jules if warmed slightly beford Squeezing, | pieces of glass and crockery are bros keh oh each voyage, Music as a curative power was ems ployed by the Romans fn cases of gout and sciatica, A dog attains its tuli growth at th age of two, is old at ten, and seldony lives more than 20 years, On a first-class HMner about 8,000 - Buckingham ‘Palace servants hav@ revived their football club, his Majesty providing the necessary kit. Nightcapa of cotton or wool Aare Tee commended by a French docter as Safeguards against colds in the head, A’ shark 6 feet long was recently aught by a girl fishing with an ordin. ary hook and line in Bude Bay, Corn. wall, e The largest coral reef in the world, the Great Barrier of North Australia, does not appear to be any valid rea- aon for anticipating an - immediate downward movement of any tmport- ance in Canada or elsewhere. At the | time the war broke out and for some | ime hefore-also for Ai time ‘Siter- | hy “dition it tx stated. unemployment was manifest in all | small parties of cavalry. ] parts of Canada, The war itself dis-| . 4c aia deanain ius. cated industry. and business reneral-| > Sf aa tay Say Pia : ty . ithe init ookattions soon nad ene or oh dag “ ie , holding the line from Nikopol juated Ahemselves, The manufacture | Melitopol, north of the Crinies ‘ , 1 ra ‘ + ‘ae sy + | - 4 “the of munitions, .together with . enlist. . ; “Bolshevism is an You can’t bottle it up. “The great war took out the stop- per, and the determination every- where for freedom, too long pent up, solution. | 48 was the French revolution; has | burst out and suffused the world. “All big things have execesses, even Labor.” atmosphere, Alberta’s Old Horses Wanted for P.E.I. Foxes posite places wore to travel to dif ferent destinations past a common point, They wished to know who would arrive there first, but could not think how to decide this. At last Jack had the “Thore’s a stump there, ain’t theré "Pnry?”’ “There is,’ said ‘Wnry. “That's where we turn and go in opposite dl- rections.” - “T ’ave it,” announced Jack, “if you ) Is 1,000 miles long and 80 miles wite. get to the stump first, you puta stone = The latest speed record for a flieht on it, an’ if I get there first, I'll knock See aa (in an aeroplane is a distance of 171 it off.” : : | miles in Qne hour, flown at Monte Sh eR act | Celio, Italy, /eteran. ; Ba Se Ns - sso ee A | ‘he tour ‘ef the Prince of Walesa in ae enc RRERREN Canada and tho United States was ofs Aclally filmed, 15,000 fést boing re ing required for the Canadian visit « | alone, A despatch from Geneva, says:— Enver Pasha, former Turkish Min- ister of War, who was recently elect- A despatch from Calgary says:—|ed King of Kurdistan, has started ‘would Fox ranchers of Prince Edward Ig-| 8 Bolshevik revolution in Turkestan, except for land want to purchase some of Al-| Afghanistan and Baluchistan, accord. ecause the berta’s old and worn-out horses to, ing toa telegram from Baku. Enver | feed the foxes. iis. said to have many ~-followers: and be|}-' One rancher frc rgies against Bri- to, has written to George Hoadley, M., tish prestige in Southwestern - Asia, | P. P., of Okotoks, asking for informa-, the ultimate aim being India. Large ments, brought into requisition every | oo ee MO Sept ter ae = | aor pS ae supply ashi co 8 | pa nu ee figccte: § ee available person, including MODY 'WO- |" sree eineacerrcesreee oe I ee ie rancher writes that Sev-| pas ‘ vee re ee 2S pete, NION e . men, and from almost the ve Bas . . eral 10xepreeders. ar ready for..an| 4overnment in Moscow, wares beran to net of about 100 | is ages ETE, steadily PE aaa | BS SA oy Nantes 5 oy PaPEEy. of old horses | : tically readjustment- of wages Resse oy Pe a ce Lake Rp ga ns fir J ran °@- Maward Island hag been | has beet upward. The rem 3 | fact that the -ineredse’ in the deposits of the: banks has bi Si 0 alien ae aes | $500,000,000 in four years is proof, too, | J# rit han cgheneoat See Pig be ete ; ; ro 6G : r i: that a very considerable percentage of | Ee AO ide Ditton ht naa; ACES wages saved was put out at interest. | Canada has n6t figured in the past | a8 a country-exporting manufactures | fo a large oxtent.. The war has xia- | terlally altered that and the Dominion | as reasonable prospects of getting | : . Preise trade fa cites than Seideat: peeiene en Hpuree complied. by products. Canadian agricultural im.- | 8 one vital Statistics branch’. of the plements will find a market not only tk Provincial |Health Burean, In Australia And Great Britain, but | throughout Wurope. A leading cotton | ‘Complete Independence ompany, as an example, has. booked Of Armenia Recognized | 6,000,000 of orders ror Roumania. eS LADY DOROTHY CAVENDISH her lar®e firms lave also booked ¥ery considerable orders in varioug Whose 6ngagement +o Capt. Harold Macmillan, A.D.C.,:is apnounced. She Mnes required in the dévastated areas. he immense investment of capital is the third. daughter of the Governor - General, its junction with the Aksa to its. mouth, and that the Reds failed to force the passage of the river at any of the five points where this was at-| tempted. Crossing the river | . ‘ s | | ee diyvan ~y ae Te wD past vnse little island, Ig Ut = citing nis eile few we eee meiomens, —— es ne Gulset | have since, Prace ; : immediate aes Eee ere ascent and ice Py re S| 1G yay , A Humbte -\ advanced evar OVOory In an Irish courthéuse an old man was called into the witness box, and, | being confused and somewhat near- i sighted, he went up the stairs that led | to the-bench instead of. those that led to the box. The judge sood-humorgdly said, ‘Ts | lt a judge you want to be, my good i man?” ; +4 Mee | ‘ter : Pia TEP at een ‘XNSAUSTAO CHa i OT aims 4, RCO A CNR ch FINE 1 , ate... ‘bioeee ot i: ‘ 4 ee | . ' uel ’ ; » oe fi i] + é * 1- ‘ e-LF - She a) et Vings — eee" en about. 2229 ony 8 ad a. i SS es te y re UuCcnewan Now ett tr eee Oy ot he et eet A. despatch “from Regina, Sask., | SAys:—Saskatchewan’s population is | now. 838,267, accordin to an an= nouncementMmade in the Legislature by Premier Martin, who’ baged his Reclaiming the Zuider Zee. Holland has once more taken up the | task she set herself some months prior “Ah, sure, yer worship.” was the re- ‘to the war of draining and reclaiming ply. “I’m an old man now, and mebbe| |: ‘ “| | the Zulder Zee. It is a gigantio task it’s all I'm fit. for." . : sen BR os | | but one which Dutch engineers fe eae Pe ; es 5 | competent to accomplish.. They are | & “ambitious of reclaiming what centuries | ago was dry land with welkpopulated _towns and villages, ‘The project, When carried-dut, will enlarge Holland by more than 500,000 acres, of which it ig believed 486,025 will he suitable for farming, ! Work hes already been started on the dam or embankment Which ts to span the north end! of.the sea from Wieringen, in north Holland, to Plaa Friesland, This embankment, whieh) Signajling by /Radio., Successful “tests of railway signal- ling by a new system based on radio telegraphy \recently were carried out in France. nnn OY me renew ante F Pi ‘ he Nt A oma 9 Saab oe kee eh ed oh MISS CAROLINE\CASSELS, Toronto, who has been appointed a member of the Board of Moving Picture Censors for Ontario. A. despatch from Paris says:—Ac- cording to°the Temps, the Supreme Council, at one of its recent sittings, decided to recognize . the “Georai a S Shovel or Axe, The edges of a recently patented shovel are reinforced and sharpened so they can be used to cut roots or buried wood. tts NELSON PARLIAMENT Speaker-designate of the Ontario House. mining and smelting In Canada fn elf insures a large export, while wee — + ee Lots of men would be rich but for the hole in the top of. their pocket, ee Will be nearly fifteen miles long a i will take nine years to complete, is | ss Fe 3 . carry a double railway and a road for MARY -1 WANT YOU TO HAVE ordinary traffic, affording aaeess be- AN EXCEPTIONALLY MICE | tween North Holland and Friesland, a IT'S FIDOS BIRTHDAY: ; at A THE VERY BEST LAM INNER “ITS TORE A -; AND 1 WANT THE LITT and communication with the N "ALL ABOUT ; ss SURPRISE - JUST SET Lae Sea will be by means of two locks and . HOpS- DARLING TO HAS . eh | 1 CHOPS . IT FoR ONE - | coonttinee : thirty-three sluice gates, 1 fi P HH | ey a} | e ‘ tg iglesias n completion of the embankment, ve , Hy ab ys , , rK ae Ms by | Der ; the four areas within are fo ba drained NS 4 BY ZOLLN , . | } and reclaimed (yielding some 897 , WE ARE GOIN” square miles), and the Yssel and other TO HAVE A rivera will flow into the remaining FINE FEED- ; water and thus form a reservoir which Wh will supply the needs of the surround: f {ing country. It is estimated that the scheine will take thirty-three years to complete, and that the reclaimed land, which will be the property of the gOy- ernment, will vield a yearly net return | in rents of at laast $2,500,000. 2 ee ae A ninety pound woman can work more mischief With her tongue than _ & 200 pound man can with his tists, independence of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. re etna eaenineniasibans b& GING UP FATHER HELLO AS THIS BIFFANY'S WELL: WILL You SEND, DP-THAT GOLO CHAIN { OROERED RIGHT AWAy- noms reir MAGGIE 1S PHONIN® YES -SEND SOME Fine } WONDER WHAT iT LETTUCE - TURNIPS AND ity Py ’