= 4 ee oe 7 eee "SIX MONTHS ADRIFT ONICEFLOE CUT GFF BY MILES OF WATER ; 'Storkersen, Second in Command of the Stefansson Expedition, Arrives at Edmonton---Proves Keenan Land to be a Myth --No Permanent Currents in Arctic Sea. _ A despatch f-om Edmonton, Alta., 3ays:--Six months adrift on an ice floe in the Arctic Sea, eut off from all 'tivilization by miles of deep water-- such was the experience of Stoker T. Storkersen, who hag arrived in this eity from the great Northern. wastes. Observations of great scientific value were made while the party was on the ice floe, but these will not be fully dis- eussed until Storkersen meets his chief, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, in Banff ard prepares his full report. Stefansson was taken ill at the last moment, and Storkersem, being sec- nd in command, was forced to take| command of the party @nd proceed without the other explorer. 4 'So, in the Spning of 1918, after all preliminary arrangements had been made, he set out from Boder Island - on March 15 with 18 men, 80 dogs and eight sleds, - The object before the daring little 'party was to stay for one year if pos- sible on an ice floe and drift during . this time. They wished to determine the currents, if any, in Beaufort Sea, to take soundings and to discovey any new lend that might not have 'been sightec before. Four months after the party went adrift en the floe, Storkersen was taken ill with asthma, brought.on by the extreme cold, and it was decided to return to shore. The rest of the party then being at latitude 74, * A land, where they fell in- with Captain Anderson, from whom they got sup- plies for the Winter of 1949. The trip was absolutely the first of its kind. No other living man has ever deliber- ately set himself adrift on an ice floe for scientific purposes Taking every- thing into consideration, the journey was most satisfactory. In the first place. it was found that there were no permanent cur- rents in the sea. The ice floe drift- ed with the wind and its course ap- peared to be determined by that agent alone. , Owing to certain phenomena ob- served by Mr. Storkersen, he was in- clined to think that there was land to the north of the point reached. The reason for this supposition was the fact that in this Six months the floe turned completely around, length and at least fifteen miles in width, Seals, polar bears, ducks, gulls and land birds abounded on it, while shrimps and small fish appeared to be the chief focd of the seals. ( As a result of the strange voyage, much important information was gleaned. Keenan Land, which was Keenan, was found to be non-existent. At least, there was no land on latitude 74 and between longitude 140 W 52, which was where Keenan placed his find. ~ The huge floe was seven miles in} supposed to be discovered by Captain Instead of land was water from ~TALUIES SUNK | 173. SUBMARINES Germany Has Ceased to' Exist. as a Naval Power. A despatch from Berlin says:--The | utter helplessness of Germany as a naval power is demonstrated by a | survey of the official records of the vessels lost during the hostilities and under the terms of the arniistice and the Treaty of Versailles. The resume shows a total loss of | Events In England : The Bolton Corporation has asked Lloyd George to accept the froedom of that borough. P 3 ss The London County Council have hud plans prepared for the erection of fifteen new schools. oR The death is announced of W. S. Clutterbuck, who has been town clerk -- BROKEN DOWN. But catalog repairs are a different thing. of Reading since 1904. Fi {690 vessels, including 249 = sub- The new headmistress .of Glovces+ | marines, the exact number sunk by/j ter Girls' High School is Miss F. Care the allies being placed at 178. « less, of Wisbech High School ee = Of the grand total of 215 lost in King George paid a visit to Shef. -- combat, 34 were sunk to keep them | ficld and Birmingham last month. a from falling into the hands of the; At the Marrylebone Borough Coun- enemy, and 141 are shown on the; cil elections, a woman was elected at records merely as lest. In addition,| the top of the poll in each ward. 74 vessels were surrendered under On the farm of T. Drury, Munkeel- the terms of the armistice, and 108; ing, East Yorks, a cat is acting as more are to be delivered to the al- tdster mother to a bunch of young : lies under the peace terms. rabbits, ; In detail the battle losses .show! A baby was drowned when it fell the destruction or capture of one) off a chair into a bath containing two battleship, seven big eruisers,-seven-| inches of water at Treadegear, Mon- "ad teen small cruisers, forty-nine de-| mouth. e stroyers, twenty-one large and forty-| T. K. Bros, who has been registrar -- one small torpedo boats, one special) of Southwark County Court for the -- vessel and one hundred and seventy-| bast sixty years, has tendered his re- eight submarines. The records con-| Signation. : > cerning the latter show eighty-two Sir Thomas Middleton has been ap- | lost in the North Sea and the Atiantic,| Pointed a development commissioner _ seventy-two on the coast of Flandvrs,| in the place of Prof. T. B. Wood, re- three in the Baltic Sea, sixteen in the; Signed. : : & Mediterranean, and five in the Black! George Parratt, a Horncastle far- ee mer, committed suicide by thrusting Vessels destroyed to avoid capture] his head in eight inches of water and include twenty-one submarjnes--of | suffocating. a3 ; which ten were sunk in Mediterran-| The death is announced at Ellowes' meus when |€2" Ports, four on the coast of I'la1-| Hall, Sedgley, Staffs, of J. L. Gibbons, sg _ Catalog wagons may be all right to look at. ders, and seven in neutral ports, and| formerly Unionist M.P. for South longitude 147 W:, started again for the American Continent and arrived at Cape Halkett on Nov. 7. From Cape 500 metres to 4,500 metres deep. Mr. Storkersen strongly recom- mended the Government's plan of com- mercializing the musk ox. Halkett they proceeded to Boder Is- PRINCE WILL _ TRAVEL 8,800 MILES Seventy-Day Journey Through Canada Includes Many Towns. The Canadian itinerary of his Royal Highness the Prince of .Wales, so far -as it can be definitely announced, is as follows: Arrive Quebec August 21; ° Toronto, August 24; Ottawa, August 27; leave capital. September 1st;.~visit North Bay, Cobalt and Timmins, returning SOLDIER LAND SET- TLEMENT INCREASE Majority Able to Begin Life on Western Farms Without Aid of Govt. Loan. A despatch from Ottawa says:-- Three thousand seven hundred. and sixty-eight soldier grant entries have been mande on lands in the Western Provinces under the Soldier Settle- ment legislation of the Federal Gev- ernment. By Provinces: Manitoba 858 you're in a hurry. It is then you lear town dealer the best goods that can be obtained, valuable to risk one of these expensive pbreak-downs. advantage of the HOMH SHRVICH he can offer you. n the additional advantage in trading at home. put he offers you HOMH SERVICE as well. Your time is too Buy your implements from your home dealer and take Not only has the home Markets of the World Breadstuffs. A Toronto, Aug. 19.--Man. Wheat-- No. 1 Northern, $2.24%4; No..2 North- érn, $2.21%; No. 8 Northern, $2.17%4; No. 4 wheat, $2.11, in store, Fort Wil- liam, Manitoba oats--No. 2 CW, 92%4c; |No. 3 CW, 9114c; extra No. 1 feed, '914@e; No. 1 feed, 905c; No. 2 feed, '88l4c, in store at Fort William. | Manitoba barley--No. 3 CW, $1.40; i No. 4 CW, $1.35; rejected, $1.27; feed, | $1.27, in store Fort William. | American corn--No. 3 yellow, nom- Lard--Pure, tierces, 86 to 36%4c; tubs, 37% to 38c; pails, 37% to 38%c; prints, 38% to 89c. Compound tierces, 3114 to 32c; tubs, 82 to 82%c; pails, 82%4 to 32%c; prints, 33 to 33%c, Montreal Markets. Montreal, Aug. 19.--Oats, extra No. 1 feed, $1.02. Flour, new standard rade, $11 to $11.10. Rolled oats, bag 30 Tbs., $4.95 to $5.25. Bran, $42. Shorts, $44 Hay, No, 2, per ton, car lots, $28. Cheese, finest easterns, 25c. Butter, choicest creamery, 54 to 54%c. Eggs, fresh, 62 to 64c; do, selected, 58 to 60c; do, No. 1 stock, 56c; do, No.| 2 stock, 48 to 45c. Potatces, per bag, car lots, $2.25 to $2.50. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $33. Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 Ibs. net, 36c. TO SAVE BRITISH COLUMBIA FRUIT Trainloads of Sugar Rushed to West to Preserve Big €rop. © A despatch from Ottawa says:-- Immediate relief in the difficult sugar situation in the West may be looked for as a result of a conference berween representatives of the British Columbia Fruit Growers' Association and Eastern sugac refiners with mem- bers of the Cabinet, held at the invita- "Lost" craft two auxiliary vessels. officers and men. 3 . ALBERTA HAS COAL Field' in the World. six river gunboats and survey vessels. include « twenty-e' ht mine-sweepers, nine auxiliary cruis- ers, one hundred trawlers and twenty: The loss of life in connection w ra} these vessels shows a total of 18,354 FOR 9,009 YEARS Also Possesses the Biggest Oil} A despatch from Calgary. says:-- Dr. A. B. MacCallum, Chairman of the Wolverhampton. : Sarah Hincks, aged 88, and one of Florence Nightingale's nurses, wags accidently killed at Islington by being knocked down by a /dog.. Charles Arnold, a west end butcher, while on his way to the National Sporting Club, fell from a motor om- nibus and was killed. = The Chiswick District Council has 'purchased two hundred acres of land from the Duke of Devonshire for an embankment and promenade. FATE OF U-BOAT BREMEN DISCLOSED Council of Scientific and Industrial British Submarine Sunk Giant : 'inal; No. 4 yellow, nominal . 1,124 | Ontario oats--No. 8 white, 87 to 90c, Nipigon, where he will fish for trout.| Alberta 1,702 | according tomfreights outside. British Columbia 84 | Ontario wheat--No. 1 Winter, per Port Arthur and Fort William, ict inal: No. 2, do, $2.03 t September 8; Winni , Septemb There has been.a considerable in-; cat lot, nominai, 0. 4, dO, pao LO ptem innipeg, September i | $2.08; No. 3, aa: GunicaL Pabe cay 9; Saskatoon, September 11; Hdmon-| crease in the settlement on Dominion | °* 'iid, according $0 freights ton, September 12; Calgary, Septem- 'lands by soldiers in the past four 7 pans ja bas eo Nees : act ; ' Ontario wheat--No. 1, 2 and ber 13. Four days will be spent in} months. In April there were 346 en- Spring nominal. Calgary and its vicinity, including a tries; in May, 463; in June, 813; | Barley Malting, $1.35 to $1.39, ac- visit to the celebrated horse ranch of ;@nd in July, 941. The Porcupine | cording to freights outside. George Lane. Leaving Calgary on | Forest Reserve was opened in July | Buckwheat--Nominal. September 17, stops will be made at | and about 150 soldiers have already| Rye--Nominal. Banff, Lake Louise and Field, in the settled there. At the instigation of} Manitons Ce haa stand- ¢ i i the Soldier Settlement Board, the Pro- ; 2% > +oronto. Pog Gan eee ee teeming! vincial covenant is pulldine antes Ontario flour--Government stand- 'Field including a visi Oo the peautliiul : i L ard, $10.25 to $10.50, in bags, 'Mont- Yoho Valley; Revelstoke, September tion of the Canadian Trade Coramis- F Research, said at the recent meeting sion. of the Industrial Congress that Al- berta's -coal supply would last only five thousand years with the present population and two thousand years with a population of twenty millions. Canada needed an organized institu- tion that would direct the develop- ment of her natural resources. Bugene Coste said Alberta had the biggest oil fields in the world, 1,600 ;miles by 300 miles wide. Hun Boat Near Kiel Canal. _ A despatch from Washington says:--Light was shed to-day on : Saskatchewan ' to North Bay, and thence to "Soo," Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Aug. 19--Choice heavy; The net outcome is that sugar, lit- steers, $14 to $14.75; good heavy crally in trainloads, will be sent for- steers, $13 to $18.50; butchers' cattle,: ward by special arrangements with ae Aes fe = ge at food the refiners and the railways. No ; ; o, med., : ) : - : 2 $11.50; do, com., $7 to $8; bulls, es doubt exists that the supply will reach $10 to $10.75; do, med., $10.25 ¢o\ its destination in time to save the, $10.75; do, rough, $8-to $8.25; but-! British Columbia fruit crop from being chers' cows, choice, $10 to $10.75; do,' wasted. good, $9.25 to $9.75; do, med., $8.50, It was reported that there are at to $9; do, com., $7 to $8; stockers,| present in British Columbia 10,000 $8.75 to $11.75; feeders, $11.50 to $12; tons of preserving fruits, chiefly eanners and cutters, $4.75 to $6.75; pears and milkers, good to choice, $110 to $140; | Plums, Pee peaches, do, com. and ried., $65 to $75: spring-| erabapples. These fruits are not ac- fate of the German submarine Bre; | men, sister of the merchant U-boat _ Deutschland, which mysteriously dist -- appeared on a proposed trip fro Bremen to New London, and the lo of which was recalled the other da by a report, afterwards officially com tradicted, that the crew of the Bremet had turned up at Hamburg. Representative' King, recently rex turned from Europe, said this versior 2 a BRITAIN WILL LAUNCH into the reserve and constructing steel i 90, and Vancouver, September 22, re- turning to Vancouver September 29, motor to New Westminster through Southern British Columbia, Penticton | bridges, and prospects are that by |next season the area will be preity well filled up. A number of the 3,603 returned soldiers who have taken sol- 'yeal,. prompt shipment; do, $10.25 to $10.50, in jute bags, Toronto, prompt | shipment. Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont- 'real freights, bags included, bran, per shorts, per ton, $44 ers, $90 to $150; light ewes, $8 to $10; : yearlings, $10.50 to $13; spring lambs, | per cwt., $17 to $18.50; calves, good, to choice, $18 to $22; x hegs, fed and: watered, $23.75; x do, weighed off cars, tually preserved by the Fruit Grow- ers' Association, but are shipped fresh to the Prairie Provinees, where they are bought by the consumers, usually in-case lots, and it was customary for omen A despatch WORLD'S LARGEST WARSHIP from London says:-- Appointments are now being made to of the disappearance of the Germag merchant submarine was told him by Lieut..Commander Storkbridge, U.S. N., who said bis information. cam¢ from Lieut. Langley, of the British diers' land entries also have received | ton, $42 to $45; financial assistance from the Govern- 2 ee feed flour, per bag, $3.25 ment, but a great many were able to | '0 ,20-99- ; g Hay--No. 1, per ton, $22 to $24; finance themselves and begin opera- a : : ENS 'To. tions without the assistance. of the gh Sangalo bac Mu cnacth es $24; gf.o.b., $22.75. xPackers' | xd01g navy, commander"of the British under quotations. water craft that destroyed thé Bremen. "Lieut. Langley, according to the story, Lieut.-Commander Stockbridge Great Britain's biggest warship, F1.M.S. Hood, which will be completed about the end of October. This mag- nificent vessel is quite unique, repre- senting as she does an absolute 'blend September 29, and steamer trip on Okanagan Lake, Nelson October 1, through the Crow's Nest Pass, Mac- Jeod October 2, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw, and Regina, October consumers to purchase the required Montreal, Aug. 19.--Choice select Preserving sugar at the same time.) hogs, $23 eae $24 per cwt, weighed | Distribution of the Eastern supplies 'will be undertaken by the refiners' adko: off cars. Choice steers, $12 to $13) -* Niagara Falls, 4. Three days' duck shooting. Qu'- _ Appelle, Brandon, Portage la Prairie, Winnipeg, October 10; Fort William, ~ October 11. Four days at Biscotasing moose hunting. Via Georgian Bay to - Toronto and Hamilton, Octeber 18; October 20; Brant- Guelph, Stratford, Woodstock, London, Windsor, and Brockville. reaching October 27. The total =, t1ord, Chatham, Kingston, Montreal length of his 70-day journey is over | of the Mystic Rill juSb previous to the - 8,800 miles. Se Se ws $5,000,000 in Gold ingots a Recovered From Wrecked Ship A despatch from Buncrana, Ireland, says:--Gold ingots to the value of £1,000,000 sterling have been recover- ed by salvagers from the wreck of the former ' White Star-Dominion Liner 8 Laurentic, whichgwas sunk January ~ 28,41917, off Fasal Light. me The Laurentic, a vessel of 14,892 * tons, which was acting as a British auxiliary. cruiser, struck a-mine off the north coast of Ireland and later sank. Of a personal of 470 only 120 were saved. 2----_--_----- ROLL OF- CANADA'S HEROIC DEAD. % HONOR A despatch from Ottawa says:i-- Canada's war toll in men, according to the official figures of the Militia De- partment, is 54,919 dead, 8,119 report- ed missing, 2,818 prisoners of war, 149,709 wounded. The details ave as follows: Killed $n action or died of wounds--officers, ' other ranks, 48,333; died-- - officers, 234; other ranks, 3,706; miss- - ing--officers, 352; other ranks, 7,767; : prisoners of war--officers, 130;° other ranks, 2,688 ; wounded--officers, 6,344; 25536; Government loan. 'was brought out in evidence that | twelve persons had boarded the boats tragedy. Up to the present, clues showing that eight had lost their lives had been found. A long list of wit- | nesses was subjected to close question- ing, and his conclusion at the end of the inquiry was that passengers, in going through the Mystic Rill, had "been responsible for the fire through /smoking. No witness was prepared | to state that the fire was of an incen- 'diary nature. The Fire Commissioner | adjourned the inquiry sine die, and stated that full investigaton into the origin would be continued. --__s-- ANDREW CARNEGIE BURIED - _AT TARRYTON ) A despatch from Tarryton, N. Y., says:--The body of Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philanthropist, was laid to rest at 5.30 o'clock on Thurs- yad afternoon on a hillside in historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, overlooking 'the Hudson. : te H.R.H.the Prince of Wales has ex- pressed the desire to meet some of the Canadian soldiers whose acquaint- ance he made overseas during his stay in Toronto, when he will open the Canadian National Exhibition _ on August 25th. He will review 15,000 overseas troops on Wednesday, Aug- ust 27th, Veterans' Day: at~the Big Fair. 4 : MONTREAL FIRE TRAGEDY . ° CAUSED BY SMOKERS A despatch from Montreal says:-- | Fire Commissioner La Tulippe has lopened his inquiry into the fire at Galt, | Gominion Park on Sunday last, and it Straw--Car lots, per ton, $10 to $11, track, Toronto. Country Produce--Wholesale. Butter--Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to 88c; prints, 38 to 40c; creamery, fresh made solids, 51 to 51%4c; prints, 51% to-52c. Eges--46 to 47c. : Dressed poultry--Spring chickens, 35 to 40c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 30 to 82c; ducklings, 25c; turkeys, 35 to 40c; squabs, doz., $6. : Live poultry--Spring chickens, 30, to 32c; roosters, 22c; fowl, 26 to 30¢;! ducklings, 22c; turkeys, 30c. Wholesalers are selling to the re- tail trade at the following prices: Cheese--New, large, 28 to 29c; twins, 28% to 29%c; triplets, 29 to 80c; Stilton, 29 to 30c. Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 46 to 48c; creamery, prints, 55 to 56c. Margarine--86 to 388c. Eggs--No. 1's, 58 to 54c; selects, 57 to 58c. Dressed poultry--Spring chickens, 45¢; roosters, 28 to 30c; fowl, 37 to 28c; turkeys, 40 to 45c; ducklings, tb., 35 to 36c; squabs, doz., $7; geese, 28 to 30¢. : i Live poultry--Spring chickens, 35¢; fowl, 30:to 35c; ducks, 27 to 80c. Beans--Canadian, hand-picked, bus., $5 to $5.50; primes. $4 to $4.50; Im- ported hand-picked, Burma, $4; Limas, 15. to 16c: : Honey--Extracted clover, 5-lb. tins, 24° to 25¢; 10-lb. tins, 23% to 24c; 60-1b. tins, 283 to 24c; buckwheat, 60-Ib. tins, 18 to 19¢. Comb, 16-0z., $4.50. to $5 doz.; 10-0z., $3.50. to $4 doz. Maple products--Syrup, per imper- jal gallon. $2.45 to $2.50: per 5 im- nerial gallons, $2.35 to $2.40; sugar, Th., 2%: : ~ . Provisions--Wholesale. Smoked meats--Hams, med., 47 to 48c; do, heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 63 to 65c;. rolls, 85 to 36c; breakfast bacon, 49 to 55¢; backs, plain, 50 to 5ic; boneless, 56 to 58c; clear bellies, S8eto-SbG os Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 32 j to 33¢; clear bellies, 31. to 32c. per cwt.; other grades, $7.50. chers' cattle, best, $8 to $12; canners, $5 to $5.50. stock, $12 to $15 per cwt. i ies COsT OF AID TO RUSSIA --- { A despatch to London says:--Bri-) which have been shipped from Eastern tish expenditures' for naval and mili-' refiners in the last few days. tary operations in Russia from the| date of the armistice until the end of | July amounted to £70,000,000, accord: | ing to an official "white paper" here to-day. These expenditures in-| on the southern front. But-| agents. Other shipments will go forward in Calves, best milk-fed| due course, but it is certain that the present prompt action | what had become a serious deadlock in the sugar supply. This arrangement £70,000,060 SINCE JULY | is entirely in addition to supplies in lexcess cf the Cayenne pepper is the best remedy issued | for ants. It will cost the Canadian National cluded assistance given Admiral Kol-| Exhibition over $25,000 in salaries, chak, head of the Omsk All-Russian | transportation charges and board to Government, and Gen. Denikine, com-| bring the British Grenadier Guards mander of the anti-Bolsheviki forces} Band out for the two weeks of the Big Fair. of the battleship and battle cruiser, and having~all the gun power of the will relieve: former type combined with the tre- | mendous speed of the latter. Although official details are still withheld, she is known to be by far the largest warship in the world. Her displacement is. not less than 40,000 tons, 12,500 tons more than the Queen 'lizabeth, and she is almost 900 feet in length. In her hull have been em- bodied all the dearly bought experi- ences. of Jutland in regard to armor and under-water protection. Wer armament consists of eight 15- inch guns--not 18-inch as some papers have erroneously stated--which she can bring into action at a speed of about 38 miles an hour. The Hood, in fact, promises to prove quite as told me, cruised in the direction of the Kiel Canal one night. Coming ta the surface at dawn, the British craft saw a huge German 'submarine not fifty feet away. ; "It was the work of a few momenta to land two torpedoes amidships, Lieut, Langley explained. He describ< ed the giant submarine as splitting in the middle as the result of the terri< fic explosion, with both ends rising high in the air. The British com< mander said he read clearly along the bow the word 'Bremen' in large let« ters, and then both ends plunged be- neath the waves." normal consumption sree Eas ---- AZTECS HAD MIRRORS. --_-- , mene epoch making as the Dreadnought, | British Museum Has An Obsidian Mir and.in naval circles the results of her : ror Used by Aneient Mexicans, trials are awaited with keen interest. \ Crystal gazing and the use of magic mirrors played an importante part in religion and wizardry In the past, and though almost every nation had its own method these did not vary as much as it would be supposed. A despatch from Edinburgh says:--| Thus while Japan had in her inner Ballantyne, the stowaway on the R-34/ temples mirrors which only the priest on the voyage to America, on his re-, saw, and which were always to re- turn to Scotland has been terribly! qect the good and the beautiful for punished by the British navy. the gods, the ancient Mexicans taught He was not. court-martialed, but,| that their God Texcatlipuco had a placed before the officers, was lec- magic mirror in which he saw every- tured on the danger he had incurred,| thing that happened each day in the -- and informed he would not again be) world. oe ke ee permitted to act as one of the dir-| A real obsidian. mirror with its igible's crew. strange textile string still attached is He said he would have preferred a|in the British Museum now and was year in solitary confinement. used by the Aztecs and ancient Mexi- cans for various purposes and very ~ probably for srystal gazing.' It is much the same as the other crystals used by so-called "wizards," so far as ~<te-- DIRIGIBLE STOWAWAY PUNISHED BY BRITISH NAVY OS ices one Siig Be oasis ILRU. sthe Prince of Wales will DEATH IN MIDST OF PLEASURE. _ A view of the ruins of the Mystic Rill and Scenic Railway at Do- minion Park.' Montreal, destroyed by fire and in which at least. seven lives were lost. spend an entire day inspecting live- stock, agriculture and manufacturing products of Canada at' the Canadian National Exhibition, Wednesday, Angust. 27tha é its shape is concerned. Even in re- cent years crystal. gazing has been" = practiced, and it is said by those who have tried it that the mirror or cry- stal seems to disappear into a mist other ranks, 143,365. £%, % r BRINGING UP FATHER ye after it has been stared.at in complete silence for a great length of time, and : 2 GAN - DR-KILLUM +10: LIKE. TO SEE YOU "JF DON'T FEEL RIGHT?. TAIN NOUR UNTIL Lf: ~ ey A BAGS! UHAVE A HORRY CALL nO. BAL 4O INTO THE HOUSE - THE BABY WILL ENTER- 1 | FOR Hi yy NO. BABIES FOR MINE NLL WAIT OUT 1B = = aN "VLL GO IN- hl ae oe HERE HE COMES-NOW | OH! PARDON ME- WHO ARE YOU? BAGY "MAY TASIK WHO ; NOU ARE? I'M A FOOL AN' JOST FOUND IT OUT: - then--if eyer--the visiohs appear. mel The Cryptic Cable. For smartness the following will ba very hard to beat. A well-known per sonage in Devonshire had just received a cable from his soldier son in Mesa- potamia which contained only three words, "Two John twelve." At first the receiver was baffled by the mys terious message, but after much puz- zling the meaning dawned upon him, Taking down his Bible he turned up the Second Epistle of St. John and.s read thé twelfth verse, whick runs ag" follows:--"Haying -many things tg write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink, but I trust to come ule to you and speak face to face that ou es joy may_pe full." His son was on hig © way honie!