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'J‘hr French, who like to mufm' awards and docoratinns on any oxâ€" rusr whatowr haw burn giving spuâ€" rial rrwards of uwrit in farmurs who can prnw that lhrir families haw cullivalml the same snil fur more than a hundred years. In lhr coursr 0f thr nrcussary inwsligalimis our family was found that could lrure its undisturbed occupaiiun 0f tho same farm hark in 1023, forty years and mum l‘ml'ure William of Normandy rrussmi the! rhaunol In runqurr Eng-i laud! Is there another family any- iwhern in the world that, can equal Iihat? Probably not, unlrss it is in 'I‘hn “City of David." which con- tainod tho ancivnt citadel of Johns, tho palace M King David and tho tumhs nf thv kings of Judah, lay out- sidn tho wall'é 0f the present. city of .Iorusah'm hntwvon thv pm] of Si- lnam and the southern wan. It Is now anmmnm‘d that thn Palestine administration has invited archaeoâ€" logists Of England. Franco and the l‘nitmt States tn undnrtakn chava- tions on that interesting site and has Radio messages can pass through the earth as well as through tho. air. Tho nthvr day a private car c‘quip- pm) with a radio instrumont. and runningr on the tracks of the Now Yurk subway fifty {get underground, picked up message's broadcasted from as far away as Kansas. ()1? cnu'rsv anuttwr explanatitm is that, somn air must haw, gut into the sub- wav. In Vlf'\V of the preposal that has been made for'the grouping of the llinited Slates railways into a score ’of regional combinations it is inter- esting to learn that Great Britain has carried such a scheme into ell‘ect. One hundred and twenty independ- ent companies have been combined into four groups, the Southern, the («treat Western, the London, Midland and Scottish and the Northeastern. It is expected that the step will make possible great economies. the beginning of which appears in a reâ€" duction of passenger fares. A rates tribunal composed of representatives of the railways and of the public has been established to keep rates of U‘RHSDHNQUOII fairly adjusted at all times. Sun Yat Sen is back in Canton; General Chen is in his turn an exile. Chen still has an army in being, but apparently it is not. equal to the task of maintaining him in author- ity. It remains to be seen what Sun’s next move will be. It is re‘ ported that an old alliance between him and Chang, the “tuchnn” of Manchuria, has been renewed. There is little for China to hope from that combination or from any other com» bination in which Chang has a share. ery other business activity in the occupied region disorganized, the immediate prospect of large pay- ments on the raparation account does not seem bright. The French, however. continue to hope for good results from their policy. They think that Germany will find it too costly to itself to keep the mines idle; and they think that they can get what coal they need even if Gerâ€" ‘man industry has to go without. It *is whispered that the French are really looking forward to a course of events that will split oil' the Rhinelainl and the Ruhr from the rest of Germany and set them up as an independent .state, and that it is rather the dism‘emberment of the old. empire than the collection of repar- ation at which M. Poincare aims. That is probably not wholly true; yet no one can doubt. that the divi-I sion of Germany would greatly re- lieve the minds of French statesmen. Meanwhile the Germans and others who criticize the French policy de- clare that.the only result of the oc- cdpation will be to consolidate Ger- man sentiment and strengthen the national consciousness. l recardiiildmfmmyfiEifiofitfififig purchamg ‘0!er Whmww STANDARD BANK INDEPENDENCE (Al Nizam. Eggvpt.l If we admit for the. sake of argu- ment. that Egypt is now as independr ent in its Foreign Afl‘airs as Japan or France and can appoint its own Ministers and Consuls, we. do not see the good of doing so, so long as we have no constitution and no Parlia- ment. Those who claim the apâ€" pointment of Ministers and Consuls seem to fancy that the country is independent in every respect and that all that is needed is Ministers in London, Paris, Home, Washington and 'l‘okio to prove to the world that we are independent in our internal and foreign,afl'airs. We must first have all the requirements of inde- pmdence before thinking of its out- ward signs. HORSE IN DRIFT ALL NIGHT; : EAST wawmosa MAN rmnn I A dispatch from Blyth says that a )hrutal Primo was committed on a poor. blind horse by a resident of .l'last \Vhwanosh a fow days ago. Ho I was driving this horso homo when it. got down in the snow, so rathm‘ th 1m \\ asto the time in holping it he loft it in tho doop sntm \tho it stayml all night. Not being ahlo to son. the horse (‘Olll‘tl not find sholtrr. so. attor tramping around for some ronsiilorahlc time. the poor brute lay down. whore it was found next morning by some of tho noighhors. "l‘ho authorities at Goilorirh receiv- ocl “out and sent outt .onstablc Postâ€" lo“ Zillt‘. \\ ho arrested the omwr and‘ took him to (lmlorirh, where he anâ€" poarml boforc Police Magistrate tiharlos Reid, who imposed a 1in of $10 and Posts. a tea. The l'nited States guvern- meet has planned to prepagate the pearl mussels. but, since it takes t'rnm ten to twelve years fer them in grow, there is little prospect «if immediately increasing the produc- tion. Young mussels, of which there are plenty, produee a pearl button that is too brittle to he et use. The strangest buttons come from the 0M- est mussels that live in the deeper water. Bvds of fresh-water pearl-bearing mussvls are bocnming doplotod in {hp l‘nitod States. 'l‘hn price of $8 a tan fur shells. which was current sump yoars ago, has advacned to $115 A new French process for making imitatinn mm! from eotton effects such a change in the fibre that the cotton burns with the characteristic adm- nf wool, which is owing to pro- tein with which it is impregnated. Some other vegetable tibres besides eutton. when treated with the pru- tein sulntion, take on so many of the characteristics of wool that the, truth can be detected only under the mi- Cl‘Oscnpe. From the roprt made by Dr. Syssin of the .public health commissariat at Moscow we learn that the eating- ated population of the present Rus- sia is 132,000,000. In Russia prOpcr, including Caucasia and Eastern Si- beria, but excluding the Polish prov- inces and part of the Ukraine, the population is actually nine million less than it was in 1914 and twenty million less than it would ha‘. e been had its former normal rate of growth been continued through 1those years. Almost everywhere in {Russiaâ€"and especially in the cities -the death rate is now higher than the birth rate, so that the population is diminishing. In Orel, for example there were in 1921 1,0.“ births and 3.550 deaths. In Petrograd, where conditions are probably the worst m Russia. the death rate is as high as 89.5 in the thousand, and the birth rate is not much more than a quarter as large. By way of Cumparimn it may be said that the death rate of London is about 12.5.- uf .\'e-.~: Yuri; about 11.2. of Paris about Mat and of Amsterdam about 10.3. More than half of the deaths reported are raus- ‘ ed by typhus fever or infectious dis- eases. Many are the result of star; ration or of inadequate nourishment MAKE RETURN RAIL TICKETS GOOD ON ALL CANADIAN ROADS An umvnchnvnl m thv Railway Act which prm'idois that. I'Ptlli'l) tickets. issumi hy um- 'ailway shall 1w guod (m any othvr linv running: to tho samv dl'SlillaHHn, was intmducvd in Hui Commnns aniay aftm‘nuon by S. \V. .lat'nhs (Lihorai. (ivorgv liti- mim- (Liil‘iivl‘ . Mr. Juvuhs alsu in- ti'uducod a hill unwinding (hv Crimâ€" inal Univ :44: as to make it («impulâ€" sni'y fur mmvrs of nmvspmwrs In lilo a chwlai'mmn of 0\\'ncrship with the Sl‘t‘l‘IPial‘}‘ Hf siah'. Macawâ€"Williamsanâ€"~â€"'l‘hat (llvrk is horoby autlmrizod to oxeruto the contracts prosontod t0 sunply vlvrâ€" trir curront'to tho folluiwng rosi- dents of the village of Eugenia : F. C. Graham, G. W. Graham. P. Munshaw. H. Cairns. Mrs. A. Smith. Presby- terian Church. J. K. Jamivsnn. Mrs. J. E. Largr. U. anstm'. \V. [‘2. MOP- gan.â€"«Carrivd. Hogarth-0arruthorsdl‘hat Clark proparv a hy-law tn ammint R. (I. McKnight 'l‘mvnship Enginwr. in ac- cordanuo with his am»licatinn.â€"â€"G:u'. Mercerâ€"«Carin!hvrsa'l’hat an linâ€" ginom' be requested to go over the pruposod (lvviatimn of 130 Sidbmad. 1 and 2 N. 1%.. and makv estimates of the costs and plan of (hp pmpnsml doviutinn. \vlwn conditions aro fav- orablo.--Carriod. Mercerâ€"4V i Hiamflmâ€"Jl‘llal 'l‘rvas- urnr receive frnm the H. 1'). .P. (lum- mission $200. amuunt agmml mum and 0xpomh-d t0 l‘t'pflil' road bvtwm'n Concessions 10 and 11, west of Lot 36. -â€"-Car'ried. Hydro Engimwr waitvd upon the Council in rvfm'c-m'v t”, I'Zugvniga lighting systvm; a hl'gv rpprvsvmaâ€" (ion from S. S. NH. 2 waiu-«l an Hm Council in regard in owning fluvia- tion of 130 siclvrnad. (‘nncvssiuns i and 2, NJC. ' 'I‘lm follmving aveounls may» pass- Pd and ordorml to ho paid : F. Stu- art. refund Hf dug tax. 551’; PI‘HVilH‘ial Treasurer, fur grawl. $22.90; .lnsvph Watson. m-I'uml. $3.09; Municipal World. dog tags. $13.53. subscriptions $6; Wright. 'l‘vlfnrd Birniv. logal servicos, $2. Corrospondonm» mm! from A. E. Amos, r0 municipal lumds: {2. P. 11.. assessment uf 1‘323: R. C. McKnight. C. E., asking ammimmvm as 'l‘mx‘n- ship Enginvvr; Hand Roads Assncia- tion. prngl‘am,t'ul' mnMimr Marvh 1. ARTBIBSIA COUNCIL (loum-il mot un Saturday Hu- 3rd day 0! February. 1923, an: mvmlwrs all prvsvnt. tlu- Hc-ow in ”w vllair: minutes rl‘ad and adnplvd. Council adpnm'nmi. More complain instruclium for handling llm cold framo and the plants mesvlws ai'v contained in Exhibition Circular No. 16, ulnain- able from the Publications Branch, lloparlmvnt of Agriculture. Ottawa. is thou put in position and flvo or six inohos moro mmm-o is shakon in. Good gnrdon soil to tho dopth Of six inchos should now Do placod over tho manuro. and tho sash put on. In Iivo or six days tho hotbod will ho i-oady for tho soods. A t‘hormomotor should ho nsod and tho temperature of tho soil should not. oxoood 80 doâ€" m'oos. The sooding should be done in rows ahnut. t‘our inchos apart. as it. would in tho upon ground lator in tho soason. Whon building the hod. tho man” urn should he shaknn so that the lung and short particlvs are wvll mixml. Tramp \wll as nach layer is added. until a dab”! 0f two tn two and a half font is svcurod. The frame To suppm'l tho glass sash, a simple frame shuuld ho made 01' two-inch planks. It. shnuld he sn (-unstmwted that. it may ho raised if the plants got, too close tn tho glass. 'l‘u provide for tho shmlding of rain. thv hack of tho hwmv shnuhl ht» six im'hos higher than tho front. a «truth of 18 inches and Mr abnut thrmt t'm-t “Mew than tlw tramv so that thmv may lw mum tur banking up uutsidv thv t‘rxmv. 'l‘tu- banking is wry important as it mnsm'ws thv hvat. Hurse' manurv is ”It' lwsl. It slmulcl lw tumwd «men «or twim- and shnuld ho quitv tmt and ready for use in tho 01' six days. HOW 1'0 00.87306? A [07.39 :;l)npt. of Agriculturo Hutlvtinn Hardvn craps such as tnmahws. cahhaun. lattm‘v and rule-r3: can he (rt-natty advanced in ttm Spring by ttn‘ Usv nf tmttn-«ts. (tn ttw farm ”In making nf such a lwd is a simple» mat t'l' twt'aum- ut‘ ttn' pro-svnm- Hf mannr» of a suitahlu kind. Whore-as ttn- grnnnlmnso has tn dolwnd on stoam twatim: fm' ttw nm-ms'try warmth. tlw twat fur a “chmt is sv- mn-mt {rum that arising t'rmn ft‘c‘Sh mamn'v. 't‘hv tmttmt may tw ptam'ut 0n tun of ttn- ground nt' in an vxva- Vation. \Vhit‘tH-Vc-l' plan ’dm'ittmi mmn ttw site ctmsvn stmutd «train an as not tn pm‘mit \Vatvl' tn stand If ttw twtmx gl'unnd plan is aduph mt. tlw suit slmuld lw takvn out t0