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45 46 «L {1 p 3 #*+ € + A despatch from Buncrana, Ireland, says:â€"Gold ingots to the value of £1,000,000 sterling have been recoverâ€" ed by salvagers from the wreck of the former White Starâ€"Dominion Liner Laurentic, which was sunk January 28, 1917, off Fasal Light. The Laurentic, a vessel of 14,892 tons, which was acting as a British auxiliary crutser, struck a mine off the north coast of Ireland and later sank. Of a personal of 470 only 120 were saved. $5,000,000 in Gold Ingots Recovered From Wrecked Ship Winnipeg, October 10; Fort William, October 11. Four days at Biscotasing moose hunting. Via Georgian Bay to Toronto and Hamilton, October 18; Niagara Falls, October 20; _ Brantâ€" ford, (Gnelph, Stratford, Woodstock, Chatham, _ London, Windsor, Galt, Kingston, and Brockville. reaching Montreal October. 27. _ The total length of his 70â€"day journey is over 0) SX MONTHS ADRIFT ON ICE FLOE CUT OFF BY MKES OF WATER were made while the party was on the; Was / ice floe, but these will not b> fully dis-' In eussed until Storkersen meets his, that chie!, Vilhjalmur Stefans=son, in Banff | rents and prepares his ful} report. 'ed w Stefansson was taken ill at the last : peare moment, and Storkersen, being socâ€"| alone ond in command, was foreed to take| Ow command ‘of the party and proceed serve without the other explorer. Iclimc‘ Sv, in the Spring of 1918, after all| to th preliminary arrangements had been | The â€" made, he set out from Boder Island the f on March 15 with 13 men, 80 dogs and floe t eight sleds. ; > hi The object before the daring little| lengt party was to stay for one year if posâ€"| width gible on an ice floe and drift during;gulll this time. They wished to detcrmine,while the currents, if any, in Be Sea, to be to take soundings and to di r anyi As new land that might not e benn'much sichted before. ‘ glean Storkersen, Second in Command of the Stcfansson Expedition, Arrives at Edmontonâ€"Proves Keenan Land to be a Myth â€"No Permanent Currents in Arctic Sea. A despatch from Edmonton, Alta., says:â€"Six months adrift on an ice floe in the Arctic Sea, cut off from all civilization by miles of deep waterâ€" such was the experience of Stoker T. Storkersen, who has arrived in this city from the great Northern wastes. Observations of great scientific value were made while the party was on the ice floe, but these will not )o fully disâ€" 41 PRINCE WIWL 1 CAVEL 8,800 th to th th 0 M\ Vilhjalmur Stefans=on, in Banff epares his ful} report. ansson was taken ill at the last it, and Storkersen, being socâ€" ; command, was foreed to take ind ‘of the party and proceed it the other explorer. in the Spring of 1918, after all m with )er 2, Lethbridge, M e Jaw, and Regina, C days‘ duck shooting randon, Portage la I October 10; Fort W n mtb t ay Journey Through| Majority Able to Begin Life on la Includes Many I Western Farms Without Towns. | â€"_»â€" _ Aid of Govt. Loan. They Crow AYI LV W ind 1@ ntinC nd it was f 1918, after all ients had been m Boder Island nen, 80 dogs and The e party went rkersen was , Medicit 11. Octob Id SQLDER LAND SETâ€" AILES TLEMENT INCREASE 5. Qu‘ Prairte M arrive in th m 10 at itiful Ma it vyal ake! Owing to certain phenomena obâ€" eed served by Mr. Storkersen, he was inâ€" ]clined to think that there was land all! to the north of the paint reached. een The reason for this supposition was and the fact that in this six months the and floe turned completely around. i The huge floe was seven miles in ttle length and at least fifteen miles in osâ€" width. Seals, polar bears, ducks, ing| gulls and land birds abounded on it, linei while shrimps and small fish appeared ea, to be the chief food of the seals. iny| â€" As a result of the strange voyage, eeon| much important information was Egleaned. Keenan Land, which was ent supposed to be discovered by Captain ava»; Keenan, was found to be nonâ€"existent. by | At least, there was no land on latitude tled;T-i and between longitude 140 W 52, the| which was where Keenan placed his 74.lfind. Instead of land was water from for| 500 metros to 4,500 metres deep. \’c(ll Mr. Storkersen ‘strongly recomâ€" ape| mended the Government‘s plan of comâ€" Is-‘mercializing‘ the musk ox. his 18 H.R.H.the Prince of Wales has exâ€" pressed the desire to meet some of the Canadian soldiers whose acquaintâ€" ance he made overseas during his stay in Toronto, when he will open the Canadiap National Exhibition on August 25th. He will review 15,000 overseas troops on Wednesday, Augâ€" ust 27th, Veterans‘ Day at the Big Fair. ed missing, 2,818 prisoners of war, 149,709 wounded. The details are as follows: Killed in action or died of woundsâ€"officers, 2,536; other ranks, 48,333; diedâ€" officers, 234; other ranks, 3,706; missâ€" ingâ€"officers, 352; other ranks, 7,767; prisoners of warâ€"officers, 130; <6ther ranks, 2,688; woundedâ€"officers, 6,344; other ranks, 143,365. A despatch Canada‘s war t the official figt partment, is 54 HONOR ROLL OF CANADA‘S$ HEROIC DEAD A despatch from Ottawa says:â€" Three thousand seven hundred and sixtyâ€"eight soldier grant entries have been mande on lands in the Western Provinces under the Soldier Settleâ€" ment legislation of the Federal Govâ€" ernment. By Provinces: Manitobe â€"../..../Â¥....+ /s > ~§08 Saskatchewan ............. 1124 AIBONER : . ......?.s%.cs«vsss 008 British Columbim .~....... 84 There has been a considerable inâ€" crease in the settlement on Dominion lands by soldiers in the past four months. In April there were 346 enâ€" tries; in May, 463; in June, 813; and in July, 941. The Porcupine Forest Reserve was opened in July and about 150 soldiers have already settled there. At the instigation of the Soldier Settlement Board, the Proâ€" vincial Government is building roads into the reserve and constructing steel bridges, and prospects are that by next season the area will be pretty well filled up. A number of the 3,603 returned soldiers who have taken solâ€" diers‘ land entries also have received linancial assistance from the Governâ€" ment, but a great many were able to iinance themselves and begin operaâ€" tions . withoutâ€"the assistance â€" of thel Government loan. land, where they fell in with Captain Anderzon, from whom they got supâ€" plies for the Winter of 1919. The trip was absolutely the first of its kind. No other living man has ever deliberâ€" ately set himself adrift on an ice floe for scientific purposes Taking everyâ€" thing into consideration, the journey was most satisfactory. In the first place it was found that there were no permanent curâ€" rents in the sea. The ice floe driftâ€" ed with the wind and its course apâ€" peared to be determined by that agent rents in the ed with the peared to be alone. Owin# to from Ottawa says:â€" 11 in men, according to res of the Militia Deâ€" 919 dead, 8,119 reportâ€" 818 prisoners of war, _ Live poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 35¢; fowl, 30 to 35¢; ducks, 27 to 30c. _ Beansâ€"â€"Canadian, handâ€"picked, bus., $5 to $5.50; primes, $4 to $4.50; Imâ€" Butterâ€"Fresh dairy, choice, 46 to 48¢; creamery, prints, 55 to 56c. Margarineâ€"36 to 38c. Eggsâ€"No. 1‘s, 53 to 54¢; selects, 57 to 58c. Dressed poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 45¢c; roosters, 28 to 30c; fowl, 37 to 38¢; turkeys, 40 to 45¢; ducklings, Ib., 35 to 36¢c; squabs, doz., $7; geese, 28 to 30c. Cheeseâ€"New, large, 28 to 29¢; twins, 28% to 20%4c; triplets, 29 to 30c; Stilton, 29 to 30c. _ _ F38 Live poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 30 to 32¢; roosters, 22¢; fowl, 26 to 30¢; duck!ings, 22¢; turkeys, 30c. _ Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $10 to $11, track, Toronto. Country Produceâ€"Wholesale. Butterâ€"Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to 38c¢; prints, 38 to 40¢c; creamery, fresh made solids, 51 to 51%4c; prints, 51%4 to 52c. Eggsâ€"46 to 47c. Dressed poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 35 to 40c; roosters, 25¢; fowl, 30 to 32¢; ducklings, 25¢; turkeys, 35 to 40c; squabs, doz., $6. ie i _ Wholesalers are selling to the reâ€" tail trade at the following prices: _ Hayâ€"-No. 1, per ton, $22 to $24; mixed, per ton, $10 to $19, track, Toâ€" ronto. Millfeedâ€"Car lots, delivered Montâ€" real freights, bags included, bran, per ton, $42 to $45; shorts, per ton, $44 to $50; good feed flour, per bag, $3.25 to $3.35. Ontario flourâ€"Government standâ€" ard, $10.25 to $10.50, in bags, Montâ€" real, prompt shipment; do, $10.25 to $10.50, in jute bags, Toronto, prompt yhipment. _ : ~__ ... _ L Ontario wheatâ€"No. 1, 2 and 3 Sprin?. nominal. Barleyâ€"Malting, $1.35 to $1.39, acâ€" cording to freights outside, Buckwheatâ€"Nominal. Ryeâ€"Nominal. Manitoba flourâ€"Government standâ€" ard, $11, Toronto. | E Ontario wheat â€"No. 1 Winter, per car lot, nominal; No. 2, do, $2.03 to $2.08; No. 3, do, nominal, f.0.b, shipâ€" ping points, according to freights. _ Manitoba barleyâ€"No. 3 CW, $1.40; No, 4 CW, $1.35; rejected, $1.27; feed, $1.27, in store Fort William. Ontario oatsâ€"No. 8 white, 87 to 90¢, according to freights outsids. i2 BRXIXNGINQG@ UP PATCTKEHEKEEE Markets of the World Preadstuls. Toronto, Aug. 19.â€"Man. Wheatâ€" No. 1 Northern, $2.24%; No. 2 Northâ€" ern, $2.21%; No. 3 Northern, $2.17%; ]N.'o. 4 wheat, $2.11, in store, Fort Wilâ€" iam. Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 CW, 92%e; No. 3 CW, 91%4c¢; extra No. 1 feed, 91%¢; No. 1 feed, 90%¢; No. 2 feed, 88%¢, in store at Fort William. _ American cornâ€"No. 8 yellow, nomâ€" inal; No,. 4 yellow, nominal _______ BROKEN DOWN:. p Catalog wagons may be all right to look at. But catalog repairs are a different thing. Particularly when you‘re in a hurry. It is then you learn the additional advantage in trading at home. Not only has the home town dealer the best goods that can be obtained, but he offers you HOME SERVICE as well. Your time is too valuable to risk one of these expensive breakâ€"downs. Buy your implements from your home dealer and take advantage of the HOME SERVICE he can.offer you. TORONTO A view of the ruins of the Mystic Rill and Scenic Railway at Doâ€" minion Park, Montreal, destroyed by fire and in which at least seven lives were lost. | _ Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 32 _ | to 33¢; clear bellies, 31 to 32c. e | Lardâ€"Pure, tierces, 36 to 36%c;'§ | tubs, 37% to 38¢; pails, 37% to 38%4e¢;! j | prints, 38% to 39¢. Compound tierces,t * |31% to 32¢; tubs, 32 to 82%c¢; pails,| |32% to 32%¢; prints, 33 to 83%c. Montreal Markets, ' v Montreal, Aug. 19.â€"Oats, extra No.‘s, 1 feed, $1.02. Flour, new standard| % grade, $11 to $11.10. Rolled oats, baf‘ 90 lbs., $4.95 to $5.25. Bran, $42.| 1 | Bhorts, $44 Hay, No. 2, per ton, car| " ‘lots, $28. Cheese, finest easterns, 25c.) 4 Butter, choicest creamery, 54 to 54%¢,.| t« \Eggs, frosh, 62 to 64c; do, selected,| z 58 to 60c; do, No. 1 stock, 56¢; do, No.i P }2 stock, 43 to 45c¢c. Potatoes, per bag,‘ 1 car lots, $2.25 to $2.50. Dressed hogs,‘ re abattoir killed, $33. Lard, pure, wood | t pails, 20 lbs. net, 36¢ ll pails, s. net, 36c. w l Live Stock Markets. Jp; Toronto, Aug. 19.â€"Choice heavy| tc steers, $14 to $14.75; good heavy) j steers, $13 to $13.50; butchers‘ cattle,| choice, $12.175 to $13.25; do, good, $11.75 to $12; do, med., $11.25 to! \ _ Maple productsâ€"Syrup, per imperâ€" |ial gallon, $2.45 to $2.50; per 5 imâ€" perial gallons, $2.35 to $2.40; sugar, |1b., 27c. $11.50; do, com., $7 to $8; bulls, choice, Provisionsâ€"W holesale. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, med., 47 to 48c; do, heavy, 40 to 42¢; cooked, 63 to 65¢c; rolls, 35 to 36¢; breakfast bacon, 49 to 55¢; backs, plain, 50 to 51c; boneless, 56 to 58¢c; clear bellies, 33 to 85c. Honeyâ€"Extracted clover, 5â€"lb. tins, 24 to 25¢; 10â€"lb, tins, 28%4 to 24¢; 60â€"1b. tins, 23 to 24¢; buckwheat, 60â€"1b. tins, 18 to 19c¢,. Comb, 16â€"0z., $4.50 to $5 doz.; 10â€"0z., $3.50 to $4 doz. ported handâ€"picked, Burma, $4; Limas, 15 to 16c. DEATH IN MIDST OF PLEASURE. * A The Cryptic Cable. For smartness the following will be very hard to beat. A wellâ€"known perâ€" sonage in Devonshire had just recaived Cayenne pepper is the best remedy for ants. a cable from his soldier son in Moso-' 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 hlm.x Taking down his Bible he turned up | the Second Enistle of St. John and' read the twelfth verse, which runs as | follows:â€""Having many things to ; write unto you, I would not write with | paper and ink, but I trust to come un | to you and speak face to face that our joy may be full." His son was on his way home! $10 to $10.75; do, med., $10.25 to $10.75; do, rough, $8 to $8.25; butâ€" chers‘ cows, choice, $10 to $10.75; do, good, $9.25 to $9.75; do, med., $8.50 to $9; do, com., $7 to $8; stockers, $8.75 to $11.75; feeders, $11.50 to $12; canners and cutters, $4.75 to $6.75; milkers, good to choice, $110 to $140; do, com. and med., $65 to $75+ spring= ers, $90 to $150; light ewes, $8 to $10; yearlings, $10.50 to $18; spring lambs per cwt., $17 to $18.50; calves, good’ to choice, $18 to $22; x hogs, fed and watered, $23.75; x do, weighed off cars, $24; xdo,,f.0.b., $22.75. xPackers‘ quotations. Montreal, Aug. 19.â€"Choice select hogs, $28 and $24 per cwt, weighed off cars. Choice steers, $12 to $13 per ewt.; other grades, $7.50. Butâ€" chers‘ cattle, best, $8 to $12; canners, $5 to $5.50. Calves, best muilkâ€"fed stock, $12 to $15 per ewt l‘ A despatch from London says:â€" iAppointments ere now being made to Great Britain‘s . biggest warship, HM.S. Hood, which will be completed | abaut the ond of October. This magâ€" | nificent vessel is quite unique, repreâ€" | senting as she does an absolute blend ‘of the battleship and battle cruiser, and bhaving gll the gun power of the | former type combined with the treâ€" | mendous speed of the latter. | Although official details are still lwm\held. she is knownh 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 Elizabeth, and she is almost 900 feet in length. In her hull have been emâ€" bodied all the dearly bought experiâ€" ences of Jutland in regatrd to armor | and underâ€"water protection. Areal obsidian mirror with its strange textile string still attached is in the British Museum now and was used by the Aztecs and ancient Mexiâ€" cans for various purposes and very probably for srystal gazing. It is much the same as the other crystals used by soâ€"called "wizards," so far as its shape is concerned. Even in reâ€" cent years crystal gazing has becn practiced, and it is said by those who have tried it that the mirror or cryâ€" stal seems to disappear into a mist after it has been stared at in complete silence for a great longth of time, and thenâ€"If everâ€"the visions appear. Thus while Japan had in her inner temples mirrors which only the priest saw, and which were always to reâ€" flect the good and the beautiful for the gods, the ancient Mexicans taught that their God Texcatlipuco had a magic mirror in which he saw everyâ€" thing that happened each day in the world. Crystal gazing and the use of magic mirrors played an ijmportant 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 Berlin says:â€"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 armistice and the Treaty of Versailles. L es 7 Mu 9t â€" Her armament consists of eight 15â€" inch gunsâ€"not 18â€"inch as some papers have erroncously statedâ€"which she can bring into action at a speed of about 28 miles an hour. The Hood, in fact, promises to prove quite as epoch making as the Dreadnought, and in naval circles the results of her trials are awaited with keen interest, Germany Has Ceased to Exist as a Naval Power. British Museum Has An Obsidian Mir ror Used by Ancient Mexicans. ‘The resume shows a LOLAI JUS® ** 690 vessels, including 249 subâ€" marines, the exact number sunk by the allies being placed at 178. In detail the battle losses E29°° the destrfction or capture of â€" one baitleship, seven big cruisers, sevenâ€" teen small eruisers, fortyâ€"nine deâ€" stroyers, twentyâ€"one large and fortyâ€" one gmall torpedo boats, one special vessel and one hundned and seventyâ€" eight submarines. The records conâ€" $ 1 F ce Wul in eight submarines. The records conâ€" cerning the latter show eightyâ€"two lost in the North Sea and tlie Atiantic, seventyâ€"two on the coast 0 Flanders, three in the Baltic Sea, sixtcen in the gieditemncan, and five in the Black ea. Of the grand total of 215 lost in combat, 34 were sunk to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy, and 141 are shown on the records merely as lost. In addition, 74 vessels were surrendered urder the terms of the armisticg, and 108 more are to be delivered to the alâ€" lies under the peace terms, In detail the battle losses show Vessels destroyed to avoid cantire include â€"twentyâ€"one* submarines â€"of which ten were sunk in Mediterranâ€" ean ports, four on the coast of Piarâ€" ders, and seven in neutral ports, and six river gunboats and survey vessels. "Lost" craft include twentyâ€"eht mineâ€"sweepers, nine auxiliary cruisâ€" ers, one hundred trawlers and twentyâ€" two auxiliary vessels. The loss of life in connection w 13 these vessels shows a total of 18,854 officers and men BRITAIN WILL LAUNCH WORLD‘S LARGEST WARSHIP AZTECS HAD MIRRORS 178 SUBMARINES wzecen. > â€"#g => _____._ shows a total loss of ' Sir Thomas Middleton has b« pointed a development comini | in the place of Pro#, T. B. Wo | signed. Pte. Frank Edwards, Canadians, a native of Berwick, has been pnresent ed to the King as the oldest soidier in active service with the BEF. A memorial has been erected at St Cuthbert‘s Churchyard, Kirkeudbright in memory of five soldiers whose bodies were cast ashore near there. M John Gunn, a native of and ot one time champion of the Tweed, died recently Africa. _ * _ The death is announced 2t Benhoim Bank, Duinfries, of FP. O Pringle, the oldest public official in the burgh. The War Memorial Committee of Kirkmaiden nave placed an order with a Glasgow firm for a monument of Peterhead red granite. them tenfold. England was Shakespeare‘s land. â€" John Yeats. There was no doubt in the minds of the Hobart family that William Comer Hobart, aged thirteen, was a born orator. _ Uncle ‘Liph Hobart voiced the general opinion when he saig that he considered that Williag Comer was "equal to Dan‘l Webster, o Meveniac® qi u. The Military Medal has been awardâ€" ed to Sergt. James Peterson, of Tanâ€" hawhill, Lockerbie. The Distinguished Conduct Medal and bar have been conferred on Pie J. Milligan, Of Kirkgunzeon. A public institute, to cost £4,500, will be erected by the parishioners of Sanquhar as a war memorial. T R. Carlyle has presontod tw stained glass windows to Watierbeck U, F. Church as a war memorial. * The Marquis of Bute has restored and made habitable the anclont castle of Mochrum, which was in ruins. The King presented the Military Cross to Lieut. R. A. Fyliic, Royal Scots, Dumfries, at Buckingham Pol ace. Â¥ The death is announced Craighead, for many years treasurer of the Galashi Board. Peter Scott, of Norwood, has pre sented a pipe organ to St. George‘ Church, Hawick. _ The London: County Council have r«d plans prepared for the erection of fifteen new schools. The death is announced of W. S. Clutterbuck, who has been town clerk of Reading since 1904. “1â€"1;; new headmistress of Glou« ter Girls‘ High School is Miss F. C less, of Wisbech High School The Boiton Corporation has asked Lioyd George to accept the freedom of that borough. t King George paid a visit to S field and Birmingham last monath. At the Marrylebone Borough «C cil elections, a woman was electe; the top of the poll in each ward, On ‘the farm of T. Drury, No ing, East Yorks, a cat is acti foster mother to a bunch of rabbits. 4 % A baby was drowned whon it fclt off a chair into a bath containing two inches ofâ€"water at Treadegear, Monâ€" mouth. T. K. Bros, who has been registrar of Southwark County Court for the past sixty years, has tendered bis reâ€" signation. Â¥ % George Parratt, a Hor mer, committed suicide b his head in eight inches o suffocating. s The death is announced ; Hall, Sedgicy, Staifs, of J. L formerly Unionist M.P. Wolverhampton. v Tidiogs From Scotland Events In~England The Poet of All Time of Endurance he gave back to @0 was then John Butler at Ellowes L. 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