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Durham Review (1897), 31 Mar 1921, p. 3

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f the Many Roads to Inâ€" ndent Wealth in Westâ€" ern Canada. JOHN T. HENINGER 7 AN IN SMALL WAY. f SOUTH ALBERTA U.3 ie in Western diversified. One e, another speâ€" her grows caly distributes his inltaneously in : appear to be ollower of one ‘other it is in Ith beyond huâ€" y that follows led a sheep rg« t suc» and really / way "y demonâ€" y personal apled with Mr. HMenâ€" Mcant beâ€" ze sheep and on c as the inch, and theast of sive, only his m d to it Ov 1 to beâ€" ne un but 1@ he h h )out le d 1@ me the it the Or tunate in becoming familiar with the Garrellâ€"Dakin _ methed _ of wound In the fall of 1917 she entered the War Demonstration Hospital, New York City, which at that time was a branch of the Rockerfelier Foundaâ€" tion. At this hospital she was forâ€" Dr. White‘s Tubercular Sanitarium, and this work covered social service work amongst the poor of the city. Leaving Pittsburg, she spent three years in the Baptist Sanitorium, Dalâ€" las, Texas. This experience was folâ€" lowed by a year in New York City, where she took & course at Columbia UMiversity, and at the same time lecâ€" tured to the nurses in Bellevue Hosâ€" pital, where she resided. Miss Emma M. Wood of Sarnia, Ontario, â€" Superinterdent _ Canadian Hospital for Tubercular Children, Constantimople. Miss Wood is a graduate of the Training School for Nurses, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. Since gradwating she has had quite a varied experience. A year was spent in Pittsburg, Pa., in connection with Miss Wood‘s home is at 221 College Avenue, Sarnia, Ontario. Miss Mcâ€" Quade is a nmative of Charleston, West Virginia. Â¥ room, the workers removed six cans of gasoline. The blaze was finally exâ€" tinguished after it had caused a loss of two hundred dollars." "The workers were aroused early in the morning by the smell of smoke, Miss Wood gave the alarm and the fire was finally located in the store room. _ Courageously entering the "Only the quick work of Miss Emâ€" ma Wood and Miss Frances McQuade, its managers, saved from total desâ€" truction the Canadian Hospital for Tubercular children at Yedi Koule, Constantinople, built by Canadian funds, when the building was recentâ€" ly damaged by fire. Canadians are especially interested in their own workers in the disturbed aroa of the Crovs Reads of the Near East. The following has been receivâ€" ed at the headquarters of Armenian Relief:â€" No big outbreak is thought probâ€" able, but the Caily guerrilla warfare against the troops and police and the individual shooting of policemen and men suspected of having deatings with them are considered not Vikely to be seriously checked by any Govâ€" ernment measures yet taken. A sensational rescue of Irish priâ€" soners took place Wednesday evening in County Roscommon. A military party was proceeding toward Longâ€" â€" _ Fyery man executed vengeance io anticipated, and as the Government has incustodymymenhbbtofin death peralty, and is said to mean to carry out executions, the piling up of deaths on each side is considered here as inevitable. MWn AP y Cns dudoric s ~uackccs d Crown forces, Sinn Feiners and civilâ€" fans, total 63 killed and 67 wounded Sixty -Sevamwma;cmme.lnelugecm Forces, Sinn Feiners and Civiliansâ€"Sensational Rescue of Prisoners. the CASUALTIES IN 5 DAYS OF IRISHREâ€" _ BELLION TOTAL 63 KILLED, 67 WOUNDED No For in Ireland, comprisng _ the and Armenia. A despatch from London says:â€" Messrs. Dewar and Webb cf London, the consignees of the big wheat shipâ€" ment received from the prairie proâ€" vinces v.a Vancouver and the Panâ€" ama Canal, which arrived in London last week, have reported that never was any shipment landed in better concition, and that the millers on the Corn Exchange bave said that the wheat was about the finest which had ever been received from Canada. ‘ A â€"despatch from The Hague says:â€"The Dutch Indian mail steamâ€" ers have just been equipped with floating safes large enough to conâ€" tain all of the ship‘s valuables and registered mail. They "look someâ€" thing like a cross between a floating buoy and a submarine, and are equipâ€" ped to ring bells, shoot off skyrockets, flash light and blow horns. The safe, if cast overbcoard in event its ship went down, would go floating about the seas attracting attention to itself until its clockwork machinery, set for thirty days, ran down. Wheat Arrives in Fine Floating Safes Send contributions to Mr. D. A. Cameron, Manager, Toronto Branch, Canadian Bank of Commerce, King Street West, Teronto. After a rest of three months, she engaged with the Near East for serâ€" vice in the Caucasus and, with others, sailed for Constantinople in March, 1920. The journey was made into the Caucasus, but on account of conâ€" ’ditions there, the nurses ‘were taken back to Constantinople last summer. At this time, arrangements were beâ€" ing made to open up the Canadian Hospital for Tubercular Children at Yedi Koule, and Miss Wood was apâ€" pointed Superintendent of the hospital and delegated to oversee the renovaâ€" tion and equipment of the hospital. She is still the acting Superintendent at Yedi Koule, and from the tone of, her letters, one would infer that she| is very much in love with her work. I In France a couple of â€"months was spent in Red Cross duties, and then Miss Wood, with other nurses, left for Poland to help in the fi%t against typhus in that country. She remainâ€" ed in Poland five months and during this time had a very harrowing exâ€" perience in the Polish town of Biola. At the end of the five months she reâ€" turned to France, sailed for America, and arrived back in Sarnia in the middle of December, 1919. treatment, Dr. Carrell, himself, being in the hospital. Miss Wood remained with this hospital until March, 1918, when she sailed for Palestine with the American Red Cross Commission to Palestine, which was sent out under Colonel John Finley. Her duty to the Commission was that of surgiâ€" cal nurse, and she acted in this capaâ€" city in the American Red Cross Hosâ€" pital at Jerusalem. She remained in the East until the spring of 1919, when she sailed for Paris. cutions could occur in the face of the court‘s order, which would be directed to Gen. Strickland and the officers of the courtâ€"martial. corpus in behalf of six prisoners) ns . ot;u:-t-mrbhled at Cork on the charge Commons Resolution Would of levying war. The application was fur *2¢ & made on the ground that the courtâ€" Divide British Columbia. martial had no jurisdiction. Attorney| _A despatch from Ottawa says:â€" Comyns, in making the application,! The formation of a new Province of said that the execution of three of the Canada consisting of "all that portion men had been fixed for Saturday. The of British Columbia which lies to the Lord Chief Justice said that no exeâ€" north of the 52nd parallel of north town. Capt. Peel of the Ninth Lanâ€" cers and four soldiers were shot dead and several of the soldiers, including Lieut. Temant, were wounded. The Irish attacked from both sides of the road and when the troops were overâ€" come the prisoners that they had with them were taken away. \ In the Court of the King‘s Bench on Wednesday the Lord Chief Justice granted a conditional order of habeas ford in two lorries when it was amâ€" bushed by Irish forces near Strokesâ€" Condition Via Panama For Mail Steamers & «s A ; x4 aâ€" Avo â€" M LÂ¥ o â€" BPHFâ€"£ _ n =4 ds f 1 S <f 372. ' . Gat ’~ A dospatch from London says:â€" British war widows are reâ€"marrying so rapidly that the Chancelior expects to be able to reduce pensions approâ€" priations in this year‘s budget by £10,000,000 sterlirg. _ This, however. i« only ome of the factors contributing to the anlicipated reductions, but it is stated that thousands of women made widows by the war have again become wives and thus have automatically taken their rames off the pension list. The pensions granted to widows of soldiers who died in active service are withdrawn when the widows remarry. SEAPLANE USED IN WAR ON DRUG sMUGGLERS. When the Empress of Russia arrived at Vancouver from the Orient, she was met half way between Victoria and Vancouver by a Government seaâ€" plane which scanned the path of the liner for miles around in order to detect any small craft that might be used by smugglers, to pick up drugs thrown overboard. _ "(5) Whercas, the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific created a natural political divisionâ€" Widows‘ Pensions Budget Lower in Britain "(6) Resolved, that a new Provinse be formed consisting of all that porâ€" tion of British Columbia which lies to the morth of the 52nd parallel of north latitude, and including the Yukoen Territory, subject to the apâ€" proval of a majority of the electors of all the territory mentioned as deâ€" terminad by a plebiscite." ‘ "(4) Whereas, it is fully expected that the census to be taken this year will show sufficient population to warrant the erection of another Proâ€" vince; and, "(2) Whereas, the matural resourcâ€" es of northern British Columbia and those of the Yukon are of a similar character; and "(3) Whereas, these resources are buing developed and as a result the population of this territory is rapidly increasing; and "(1) Whereas, it has been the policy of Canada to establish new Provinces as the country develops, as was done by the creation of the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta; latitude and including the Yukon Terâ€" ritory, subject to the approval of a majority of the electors of all the territory mentioned and determined by a plebiscite," is being moved in the House of Commons by Col, C. W. Peck, V.C., and seconded by Dr. A. Thompson, Yukon. Col. Peck‘s resoâ€" lution reads: > TO FORM A NEW PROVINCE OF CANADA OxXFORD SCULLERS They are heve seen getting in form for the famous Oxfordâ€"Cambridge annual races REGLAR Good seeds are uniformly bright colored, whereas seeds that have been exposed to moisture or that are dead are duller and darker in color. The River St. John, in New Brunsâ€" wick, 400 miles long, is called the Hudson or Rhine of Canada because of its scenic beauty. This departure is in accord with the wellâ€"known democrat‘c policy of Onâ€" tario‘s University. Its design is to make the advantages of higher educaâ€" tion available throughout the Univerâ€" ’sity’s entire constituency. This :s no "cheapening" of university education, for university teachinge and examinaâ€" tons will be maintained at the tradiâ€" tional high standard, but it does hrmg‘i higher education to the people‘s doors â€"especially to the doors of those adults who have, for any reason, failâ€" ed to avail themselves of youth‘s opâ€" portunity for learning. To obtain a B.A. degree will involve just as much work as it ever did, but the extraneous obstacles have been removed. It is such innovations as this, along with the notable work that has been and is being done in the regular way, that entitle the University of Toronto to the most generous suppert of the Provincial Government. i the subjects of the first year being English, Latin, French, algebra and geometry (one paper), trigonometry, and science, and those of the second, third, and fourth years being English, French, science and any two of hisâ€" tory, _ psychology, and _ political economy. ; Eishment of what may be virthally loâ€" cal colleges affiliated with the Provinâ€" cial University. The course thus offerâ€" ed is the "pass" or "gemeral" course, l For years the University of Toâ€" ronto has had special arrangements to enable teachers to secure higher academic qualifications and the degree of B.A. without giving up their teachâ€" ing positions. Af the March mecting of the University Senate these arâ€" rangements were extended and adaptâ€" ed to meet the needs of people ergaged in any ordinary employment. With dhly certain absolutely indispensable regulations as to size of classes, conâ€" trol of staff, suitable equipment for scientific subjects, and with only ordiâ€" nary university fees prescribed, the opportunity is offered for the estabâ€" Wherever, in any part of Ontario, twenty or more persons wish to proâ€" ceed to a University degree without discontinuing their employment, facilâ€" ities to accomplish their ambition are offered by the Provincial University so far as its finances and the size of its staff will permit. 3 A Startling Innovation. Maple productsâ€"Syrup, per imp gal., $3 to $8.25; per 5 imp: gals. Beansâ€"Canadian, handâ€"picked, bus., $3.50 to $3.75; primes, $2.75 to $3.25; Japans, 8c¢c; Limas, Madagascar, 10%4¢; California Limas, 12%c. . Butterâ€"Fresh dairy, choice, 48 to 49¢c; creamery, No. 1, 58 to 61¢; fresh, 60 to 63c. Margarineâ€"29 to 31c. Eggsâ€"New laid, 38 to 39¢; new laid, in cartons, 40 to 42%c. _ _ Cheeseâ€"New, large, 33% to 34¢; twins, 34 to 34%c¢c; triplets, 34% to 85¢c; old, large, 34 to 35¢; do, twins, 34% to 35%c. _ _Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $12 to $12.50, track, Toronto. _ Hayâ€"No. 1, per ton, $24 to $26, track, Toronto. Maritoba flourâ€"First pat, $10.70; second pat., $10.20, bu‘k, seaboard. Ontario flourâ€"$8.50, bulk, seaboard, Millfeed â€" Delivered, Montreal freight, bags included: Bran, per ton, $37 to $40; shorts, per ton, $35 to $38; good feed flour, $2.25 to $2.50 per bag. Ryeâ€"No. 2, $1.45 to $1.50, nominal, according to freights outside. _ _ Buckwheatâ€"No. 8, $1.05 to $1.10 nominal. Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 Winter, $1.80 to $1.85 per car lot; No. 2 Spring, $1.70 to $1.75; No. 2 Goose wheat, $1.65 to $1.70, shipping points, acâ€" cording to freight. Peasâ€"No. 2, $1.55 to $1.65. Barleyâ€"Maiting, 80 to 85¢, accordâ€" ing to freights outside. _ ‘ Ontario oatsâ€"No, 2 white, 43 to 45c. All of the above in store at Fort William. American cornâ€"96¢, nominal, track, Toronto, prompt shipment. Manitocba barleyâ€"No. 8 CW No. 4 CW, 70%e¢; rejected, feed, 58%4¢. Manitoba wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern, $1.89% ; No. 2 Northern, $1.86% ; No. 3 Northern, $1.82% ; No. 4 wheat, $1.74%. Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 CW, 47¢; No. 3 CW, 42%¢; extra No. 1 feed, 42%c; No. 1 feed, 40%¢; No. 2 feed, 37%%c. Manitcba barleyâ€"No. 3 CW, 81%¢; No. 4 CW, 70%e¢; rejected, 58%¢; Many young men are willing to start at the bottom if they may go up in the elevator. t Au“‘"‘c;-mehnnl o rex, Who succeeds Bonar Law as leader, in the British Commons, of the Coaliâ€" tion party. * A despatch from Cardiff says:â€" Nearly 20,000 sheep have been killed recently in the Vâ€"le of Clwyd by a disease known as "fluke," according to a report to the Welsh Agricultural Council. Experts say the point of atâ€" tack is in a certain class of snail, and that better drainage of the land is the best precaution against the disâ€" Sheep in ty‘nd Toronto. Die of "Fluke" Weekly Market Report ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO _ Calves, $8; ewes, $7 to $8.50; lambs, good, $12,50; common, $11 to $12. Med. light hogs, $16; heavies, $2 less than selects; mixed lots containing heavies, $15.50 to $15.75. Sows, $12. Cheeseâ€"Finest easterns, 290% to 80c. Butterâ€"Choicest creamery, 57 to 58c. Eggsâ€"Fresh, 41c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $1 to $1.05. Montreal. Oatsâ€"Can. West., No. 2, 64 to 65¢; No. 3, 61 to 62¢, Flourâ€"Man. Spring wheat pats., firsts, $10.50. Rolled oatsâ€"Bags, 90 lbs., $2.35 to $3.40. Bran, $36.25. Shorts, $36.25, Hayâ€" No. 2, per ton, car lots, $24 to $25. _ Choice heavy steers, $10 to $11.50; good heavy steers, $8.50 to $9.50; butâ€" chers‘ cattle, choice, $3 to $10; do, good, $8 to $9; do, med., $6 to $8; do, com., $4 to $6; butchers‘ buils, choice, $7 to $7.50; do, good $6 to $7; do, com., $4 to $5; butchers‘ cows, choice, $7.50 to $8.50; do, good, $6.25 to $7; do, com., $4 to $5;feeders, $7.75 :o $8.75; do, 900 lbs., $7.25 to $8.25; do, 800 lbs., $5.75 to $6.75; do, com., $5 to $6; canners and cutters, $2.50 to $4.50; milkers, good to choice, $85 to $120; do, com. and med., $50 to $60; choice springers, $90 to $130; lambs, yearlâ€" ings, $10 to $11; do, spring, $18.75 to $14.25; calves, good to choice, $15 to $16.50; sheep, $5 to $9; hogs, fed and watered, $15.50 to $15.75; do, weighed off cars, $15.25 to $15.50; do, f.0.b.,! $14.50 to $14.75; cdo, country points, $14.25 to $14.50. i Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 27 to 28¢; clear bellies, 26 to 27¢. Lardâ€"Pure tierces, 19 to 19%¢; tubs, 19% to 20¢; pails, 19% to 20!4¢; prints, 20%4 to 21%c. Shortening tierces, 12 to 12%¢; tubs, 12% to 18¢; pails, 13 to 18%¢; prints, 14% to 15c. Honeyâ€"60â€"30â€"lb, tins, 22 to 22¢ per lb.; 5â€"2%â€"lb. tins, 23 to 25¢ per Ib; Ontario comb honey, at $7.50 per 15â€" section case. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, med., 35 to 36¢; heavy, 27 to 29¢; cooked, 50 to b5¢; rolls, 31 to 32¢; cottage rolls, 83 to 34¢c; breakfast bacon, 43 to 46¢c; fancy breakfast bacon, 53 to 56¢; backs, plain, bone in, 47 to 50¢; honeâ€" less, 49 to 53¢c. ‘ $2.175 to $3. Maple sugar 22¢, A party of sixty British farmers with £35,000 for investment in land have sailed for Canada. The majorâ€" ity are bound to the Lloydnrinster disâ€" trict in Alberta. The Germian note stabed that Belin could not accept the Reparations Comâ€" mission valuation of its payments, that Berlin estimated 20 hillion marks had been paid, and therefore it owed neither the one biltion asked for on March 23 nor the eleven more asked for by May 1. The note says Gerâ€" many is ready to prosent further arguâ€" ments that it has paid up. Officials of the Reparations Comâ€" misgion state that the commission was sovereign, and that its figures stood. Therefore, Germany is in the position of refusing to fulfill the treaty. months ago Germany announced she had paid 20 billions One month ago the Reparations Commiss‘on completâ€" ed its valuation and announced that Germany had paid eight bilkons, and thus owed 12 billions more, and on Manch 15 sent Germany notice to pay up before May 1. Under the treaty Germany was pledged to pay 20 bilion marks beâ€" fore May 1 when and how the Comâ€" mission of Reparation should decide. Against this sum Germany was to be credited with deliveries of property to the allies after the armistice. Several A e Farmers who are inersted in keoepâ€" Maintains That She Couldn‘t ing their boys and girls on the farm P.'.‘A""’â€"Ul'“ v«uddo-elltocinnoremdymd h 1 attention to the use of better farm ‘n‘cbinery and the introGuction of A despatch from Paris says:â€"Inâ€"‘ modern conveniences in the home, stead cof the ome billion marks gold There are too many people who seem which it is demanded that Germany to think that education is the soluâ€" pay before Manch 23, the Reparations tion of the problem, and they have in Commission has received a long note mind an education that will carry the â€"in German. â€" This note said three boy and girl to the agricultural eolâ€" things: lkge and then back to the old farm, Firstâ€"Germany did not owe the contented for the reost of their lives, money asked for. ' Boys and girls who are brought up Secondâ€"If she Gid owe it she on a farm where most of the bard couldn‘t pay it. Iwork is done by hand and where but Thirdâ€"However, Ber‘in wou‘d taik few modern conven‘ences are in use, it over with the allias. , can see but little need of a technical The Reparation Commission drafted| education that will teach them the a reply to Berlin saying Germany | great things to be done on the farm could not questicn the figures of (he;wd how best to do them. Send boys commission and had not met the d": and girls from such farms through the mands to fulfill the treaty terms. The Public school, on through high school, ccmmission sent to the allied Governâ€" and then to the agricultural college, ments notification that Germany had and they will in all probability propare failed to fulfill the reparation terms themselvos for some other profes=}on of the treaty, and advising action. I.thnp that of farming or agriculture wy l i 4g5 un‘ a in 5. sBk k. w k 4 Thirdâ€"However, Ber‘in would talk it over with the allias. The Reparation Commission drafted a reply to Berlin saying Germany could not questicn the figures of the commission and had not met the deâ€" mands to fulfill the treaty terms. The ccmmission sent to the allied Governâ€" ments notification that Germany had failed to fulfill the reparation terms stead of the onme billion marks gold which it is demanded that Germany pay before Manch 23, the Reparations Commission has received a long note â€"in German. â€" This note said three DEBT IS NOT DUE, 19 10 | _A rich man purchases food and | lowers and the gervice of an orchestra lâ€"'he purchases the presence of others ‘-M his feasts and dancesâ€"but he canâ€" ll\ot purchase society, for society is not a matter of gorgeous and costly entertainment; it is an affair of conâ€" genial and cordial affiliation. You may have far better society at a fireâ€" | side in a woodland camp or among !pflmi&in nomads than in the sophistiâ€" :catad air of a rich man‘s palace, {! . Personality is one of the treasures !0‘ life that are worth more than ropes The first instinct of the soui in the presence of delight is to share it, and by the sharing to enhance it. A picâ€" ture or a book, a sermon or a play, |or a,symphony, is less to us in the 2irzsntian than in the communication ’to a kindred _ epir. H you do not feel like wharing it at once, the *# you have is less precious to you, The first inspiration of a true professor of religion is the feeling that what he has is so precious that he muust not hug it to himself, but pase it on. The Aamst Oiin p‘s OPFME! Aretnhet %ee want to give away. The things that are enjoyableâ€"litâ€" erature, art, music; horses and dogs, golf and baseball; the sheer delight in a day of n glorious sky and a beautiâ€" ful earthâ€"all these things are twice ms much to us when we divide them with another. Personality is one of : of life that are worth mo: of pearls. We are so cor we look to others for th not find within ourselve heart againgrom the «h from the glowing word o er. Weâ€"read of some o up and struggled on in all hard conditions and w all hard conditions and we say, "If he did that, I can!" First among the finest things of life let us set down the good influence ons human being may have upon another. . That is fundamental to all e‘se. What are the finest thing=" ( tbainly not those that any one can | for money. You cannot buy a fri« You cannot buy the goodnoss : greatness of human fellowship â€" the inspiring social contacts. ;‘ in its true sense. On the cther hand Ibon and girls whose impressions in .| early life were gained on a farm wellâ€" . equipped with laborâ€"saving machinery _ and in a home where modern converâ€" , iences were used will take an active | interest in a technical training, in maâ€" _ chinery they can control and become supreme master of; something which | holds their interest in the mysterics ‘of construction alang with the power _of accomplishment. It is the satisfacâ€" _ tion that comes from driving a truck ‘lor tractor for work, or from dcing |rome particularly fine piece of meâ€" chanical work in the tool shop that | sends a thrill of power through the | nervous system of the most phiegmâ€" | atic boy., If hydro power or small powâ€" er plants are at the disposal of farm ‘homes the girls would find more inâ€" terest in staying at home and attachâ€" ‘int the motor to the sewing machine or churn than they do in the home where theso conven‘ezces are not in use. Both boys and birls take an interâ€" est in doing good work and after they ; have acquired an education and trairâ€" \ing they find it more difficult than ever to return to the farm and take up the old order of things. There is not room in crowded lif~ for everything, and one must choose. HMarder than the distinction betweer bad and good is the differentiation botween the good and hbetter, or the better and best. Whoen one has seen and kmown the bost, one is less likely to be tempted into acceptiny the Farmers who are complaining about their boys and girls leaving the farm can do much to improve conditions by introducing â€" laborâ€"zaving machinery for the farm and modern converiences for the home. If they can have these things right at home the boys and girls are not going to the city to look for them. The strongest factor in the life of a boy or girl is the things they do because they have an education or the power at their commuand. The boy or girl on the farm given the mastery of machinery an4 modern convenâ€" bences, trainod to efficiency in their management and use, made to feel that every operation in the conduct of the farm is scomething to call for the best technical and intellestoal treatment of which they are capable, are going to feel that a kingdom lios at their feet waiting for its ruler. Mastering Farm Machinery, The Finest Things. h 64 tuke )re U y nd W

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