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Breadstuffs.
Toronto, May O, --Manitoba. Wheat
do, tom, $10.25 to $10,75; bulls,
choice, $1.1.75 to $12.50; do, meds,
$10,50 to $11; do, rough, $8 to $3.50;
butchers' cows, choice, $12 to x+13;
do, good, $10.50 to $11.50; do, need.,
$9,25 to $10; do, com., $8 to '$8.50;
-No, 1 Northern;, $2.24%; No. 2 stockers, $8.75 to $12; feeders, $12
Northern, $2.21%; No. 3 Northern, to $13.50; canners and cutters, $5 to
$2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.11%, in .$6.75; milkers, good to choice, no to
store, Fort William. e $150; do, cam. and med., $65 to $75;
Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW., 73%c; springers, $90 to $160; light ewes,
No. 3 CW., 70%c; extra No. 1 feed, $13 to $15; yearlings, 1112 to 14;
70%c; No. 1 feed, 68%c; No. 2 feed, choice lambs, $18.50 to $20; spring
65Yer, in store Fort William, lambs, $12 to $15; calves, good to
Manitoba barley ---No. 3 CW., choice, $14 to $15; hog, fed and
$1,0611;. No. 4 CW,, $1.00%; reject- watered, $22.25; do, weighed off cars,
ed, 94e; feed 94c, in store Fort Wil- $22,50; do, f.o.b. $21.25.
liar, Montreal, May 6. --Choice select
Aneeriean corn -No. 3, yellow, hogs, $22 per cwt., off cars. Calves,
$1,77; No. 4 yellow, $1,74, nominal, $7 to $11 per cwt. Steers, $11 to
track Toronto, prompt shipment. $18.50, according to quality. Butcher
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 72 to cattle, :17.50 to $12,
74e, aceordi'ag to freights outside, ea.w-
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per SEAL RING AN AN`SIGIUE.
car lot, $2.14 to $2.20; No. 2 do, $2.11
to $2.19; No. 3 do. $2.07 to $2.15, f.o.
b, shipping points, according to They Wore Them in Rome in the Days
freights.
Ontario wheat -No 1 Spring, $2:09
to $217 • No.
2 do $2.06 to $2.14; Bio
of the Empire.
The seal ring worn by the modern
3 do, 32.02 to $2.10 f.o.b, shiping business man and ocasstonally used. to
points, according to freights. seal important letters and documents,
Peas --:azo. 2, 42.05, nominal, ae- had its origin in the early empire and
cording to freights outside. c has conte clown through the centuries
Barley -Malting, 98c to $1.03, virtually unchanged.
nominal Eaeh ring bears in intagllio the coat
Buckwheat -No. 2, 31.15, nominal.
Rye -No, 2, 31.68, nominal.
Manitoba flour -Government stan-
•r
dard, $11, Ta• zuto.
'Ontario taSiovernmeet sten- vittatiee and conquests and reflect the
Bard, $9,65 too a9,r.i, in bags, Toronto succesdive graduations of the early
and Montreal, prompt shipment in
jute bags. , Romans from the summit of world
Millfeed---Car lot:-, delivered Mon power to decadence. 1+`or instance,
treat freights included. Bran, $42 per the passion for eugraved gems was
ton; shorts, $44 per ton; good feed pluinly stimulated atter Poinpey's vie-
flour, $2.65 to $2.75 per bag. torics in the East, The conquests of
Hay ---No. 1 S26 to $28 per ton; Greece and Etruria are plainly reftec:"t4
of arms or crest, duplication of %,itch
by auy outsider constituted a erime.
These jewels show plainly the Mile -
ewe af'tiauc>s and conditions; trace
.:mixed, 320 to $'.f l per ton, track To-
ronto.
Straw -Car late. ,+10 to $11 per
ton.
--
Country
-
Country Produce -.-Wholesale,
butter- Da.iry,. tubs and rolls, 33 Jewels ate held to possess the advent -
to 40c; prints, 40 to 42e, Creamery, age of color and strength in design
fresh made prints, 58 to Bila. and wart manship. Its claaraeteristie
Eggs ---New laid, 43 in .4c, raptures were broad surfaces, m eaivo
Dressed poultry---Chicaens, 10 to eoileteeetian land the use of large
3.4e; roosters, 25e; fowl, .10 to 3:1. :tortes.
ducklings, 32c; turiceye, 45e; squabs,
Under the Iloman republic the use
doz., $6. + fowl,
22 of precious stones was proh feted ex -
Live poultry . P.o teere.
28 to 33e; duci.la w . 11'., 35e; tt:rkeys coat in ring:;, but in iruperial tinges
35c; chickens, 27e. : they were worn in sueh lavish profit-
Wholesalers ere sea=ling to the re- shad that successive laws were made
tall trade at the following price.: in au effort to correct wild extravag
Cheese -New. large, 28 to ..8.,;c, mice. .Pliny describes a gireavho at
twins, 28% to Mr; t"aplets. 29 to her betrothal ceremony was covered
'1193irc; Stilton, ';l';: to '30e; ofd, large, tlitlt pearly and emeralds :from tread to
31 to 32c; twin 32 to 32tee,et
Butter -Fresh daisy, choice, /10to feItetiectir,g than decadence of this
52e; creamery, ;al +1, , !;n to ale; •
prints, 62 to 64e. :period is the fate. that rings were worn
Margarine -34 to Th'.by .men in senseless profusion. Ater -
Eggs -New laid. 47 to 48e; new tical speaks of an exquisite who wore
laid in cartons 49 to 50e, 1 six on every finger, and had different
Dressed pot cry--C'hic•kcns. 40 to sets for winter and summer..
45c spring chickens, 75 to 80c; roes` , Ilraueletaa wore also worn in large
tors, 28 to ;10e; iaatvl. '17 to 33s; t.urk ul+tnlcne, the design of a coiled ser--
eys, 4o to o0e, rtuckl-ng;, lb., 'sfi to
38c; squabs, doz..$?; geese, 2t1 to
pent being; very papular. This v-. be.
30c ; hawed to have been an importation af-
Live poultry. ---Spring ehicl:ezas, 60 , ter 1enema `s. Oriental conquests.
to fisc,
ed in the infusion of delicate handi-
craft and altruscan artists, taken cap-
tive to Rozne,
Compared with the jewelry of other
ancient n'ttions, the distinctly Roman
Potatoes --Ontario, f.�ob., track; Relic of t e Romans.
Toronto, car bate'31.70
to 31.65. 31.70 to $1.75; on
track outside, 31.60There L4 a a;howcuse in the British
Beans --Can.. hand-piel:ed, bus.,,alumni that is proving very interest -
34.25 to $1.50; Trines. $3 to 33.250 ing to soldiers who are waiting fpr
Imported, hand-picked, Burma or In -1 their discharge certificates. It is a
dian, 33.50; Limas, 12e. I case in the Roman British section con -
Honey --Extracted eloa er; 5 ib, tainiug the dischaeg,e certificates given.
tins, '25 to 26c 11).; 10 lb time, 24% to' to soldiers in Britain in the time of
25c. 60 lb. tins, 24 to 25e buckwheat, 1 the Romans. The bronze certificates
60 bb. tins, 19 to 20e. Comb: 16 oz,,
$4.50 to 35 dos.; 10 oz.. `33.500 to 34 are gnaintlly worded, and record the
dol. 1 tact that the holders, "discharged hon -
Maple products ---Syrup, per im- - orably after 25 years of service," are
perial gallon, 32.45 to $2.50; per 5 grunted Raman citizenship if not al-
imperial gallons, 32.35 to 32.40; ready held, "and the recognition of
sugar, lb., 27e. ; their marriage with those who are
their wives, or, in, case of unmarried,
Provisions -Wholesale. any wives they may subsequently
Smoked meats -Hams, medium 37 marry, provided they only have one
to 39c; do, heavy, 33 to 34c; cooked,' each. " The last sentence, in particu-
52 to 54c; rolls, 32 to 33c; breakfast lar, amuses the khaki visitors.
bacon, 43 to 47c; backs, plain, 46 to,
47e; boneless, 52: to 55c.
Cured meats --Long clear bacon, $ ! Great Britain to Exchange
29 to 30c; clear bellies, 28 to 29c. Prisoners With Bolshevists
Lard Pure tierces, 32 to 32%c;
tubs, 321,S to 33c; pails, 23,a to 33ai ; i A despatch from London says:
prints, 33' to 34c. Compound ,
tierces, 26 to 2Gy r.; tubs, 26% to The British Government announces
27c;pails, 27'r to 28e; prints, 27%that the Bolshevist Government has
to 28c.made - a proposal to exchange tl
Montreal Markets.
1Vlontreal, May 6 -Oats -Extra No.
1 feed, 83c. Flour -Spring wheat new
standard grade, 311 to $11.10. Roiled
oats -Bags, 90 lbs.. 33.90 to $4.00.
Bran ,$44. Shorts, 345 to 346. Hay
---No. 2, per ton. car lots, $32. Cheese
--Finest easterns, 24 to 25c. Butter
-Choicest creamery, 58_ to 59c. Eggs
-Fresh, 49 to 52c. Potatoes -Per
bag, car -lots, 31.90 to 32.25. Dressed
hogs -Abattoir killed, 330.50 to 331.
Lard -Pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net,
33c.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, May 61 -Good heavy
steers, 314.50 to 315.50; choice but-
cher steers, 314 to $14.25; butchers'
cattle; choice, 313.50 to 314; do, good
313 to 313.50; do, med., 312 to 312.50;
SnT TI IAT MRS. VIiyN E
GARia'S DAUVOITER?
tri
members of the British military mis-
sion to the caucus for certain Rus-
sian subjects now in the hands of
the British Government. It is a1•so
announced that negotiations are pro-,
seeding for the exchange of all Bri-
tish prisoners in the hands of the
Bolshevists.
TWO BILLION FRANCS
TO GO TO BELGIUM
A. despatch from Paris says: -The
Belgians have asked the Council of
Three for a first advance of two
billion francs on their share of the
German indemnity, according to
French eietcles, and it appears that
they have received definite and sat-
isfactory assurances.
YES • ISN'T SHE,
'CUTE AND
ger. AWFULL'1,
SMART -AO AN'
`TALK TO HER-)
.441
Wiz) .1.)-/fAM/ /01,.,Ek 47O, ' J7A,Y f,,4Ys,
r'i:.t? THE 5'41?1,1.e/P °l.rd;'�% 7//c. ".:S a 'I
r r,
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arifkrcha. r rarzv-r4.e
THE POWER
Consider the POWER of a Ten •Dollar Bill when it is spent AT HOME. It is like MGIC. It CIRCU-
LATES, LATES, It pays oma IIFNDRFD obligatiens. It (reates BUSINESS and plats people to WORK in our
P corn r
n uni-
ty. But the ten dollar bill that is sent away to the out-of-town house does NOTIiING for OUR town. It be-
comes DEAD to US', it is out of commission forever as far as 0138 town is eoneerned. We NEVER see it again.
I.et US, then, give POWER to the money we SPEND. i.et us remember that our BEST investment is that
POWER -MONEY that we spend at HOME. m
OF A TEN DOLLAR
BILL
3ROM SUNSET
ai'IIAT THE WESTERN PEOPLi3
ARE DOING.
Progress of the Great West Toe
in a Few Pointed
Paragraphs.
Calgary School Board will spend
half a million dollars this year.
Pincher Creek is going to enforce
its curfew by-law.
The Great War Veterans at Victoria
have endorsed the attitude of the In-
ternational Longshoremen's Associa-
tion and also a suggested agreement
that veterans be given preference for
positions in tiie mills.
The British steamship Cyclops, af-
ter several years' absence from the
route and braving the dangers of sub-
marines, has returned to Victoria in
command of Captain W. C. Lycett.
Alderman W. A. McAdam of Duncan
has been chosen as publicity commis-
sioner for the Victoria and Island De-
velopment Association.
Nanaimo and Ladysmith City were
the winners in the preliminary games
for the McBride Shield, emblematic of
the football championship of B.C.
Vancouver Island Indians are pro-
testing against the settlement of Great
War Veterans on the Indian reserves,
claiming that their own men also
helped to crush the Germans.
Robert Kyle, who has recently re-
turned from orerseas, has been given
his former position. as foreman car -
muter by the School Board under
Building Inspector i3arrs, at Van-
couver.
The total amount of the increase in
the Vancouver teachers' salaries for
the present year =.mounts to $17,362.
Lieut. J. H. lMIcKenzie and Major F.
W. Boultbee, of Vancouver, have re-
cently returned from overseas.
By the time the Manitoba Parlia-
ment Buildings are completed six mil-
lion dollars will have been spent.
A resolution before the Mantoba
Legislature urges the Federal Gov-
ernment to fix soldiers' pensions at
not less than 31,000 a year for total
disablement, with proper provision for
wives and children.
The B. C. Manufacturers' Associa-
tion have passed a resolution to give
financial aid to the Returned Soldiers'
Club.
The first buttercups of the season
LITTLE. ONE -DO
1'OU KNOW WHO
Z tow, l AM o
YEP -'roUI --HE
SICK MAN Ti1AT
PAPA ALU\" 'SATs
uP wiTH
""
were gathered at Grand Fork on t
Sunday. Marcel the 2,3ra1.
There have already been several
bush Ores in the vicinity of South Fan-
CQUVer,
That the people of British Columbia
must display considerably more co-
operative effort and initiative if they
are anxious to see the province de-
veloped, was the message conveyed.
by James Ramsay, eating president of
the British Columbia Manufacturers'
Association., during the course of hie
addrees at the annual meeting.
It is aououneed that the proceeds
of the concert recently given in Van-
couver by the French hand exceeded
the guarantee 'of $2,0011 necessary to
secure the services of the band by
3600, staking a total contribution of
$2,6011 from the city to the relief work
of the stricken districts of France.
Two hundred and eighteen munition
workers, women and men, with about
forty children, arrived in Vancouver
from overseas, and were given a warm
welcome.
Trout llshing opened In Vancouver
en March the 26th, and a number of
anglers celebrated the occasion. Mea-
suring 42 inches in length and tipping
the scales at 27 pounds was the re-
cord steel -head trout.
Assuming full responsibility for the
returned soldiers after they have been
released by the military authorities,
the Deopartment of Soldiers' Civil Re-
establishment at Vancouver has re-
gistered, up to February 22nd, 715
inen, 106 of whom have been placed in
positions.
FORESTS TO BE PLANTED
England is Preparing for Task at
Gest of $17,000,000.
Two hundred thousand acres of
-forest land in Great Britain are to
be replanted at a cost, for planting
and maintenance the first ten years,
of 317,000,000, according to an an-
nouncement by the government. The
trees will replace some of the heavy
timber cut down during the war and
provide additional foresis, so that
the country ntay be independent of
other timber sources in eases of
emergency.'
Foresters are being ,trained and
the necessary saplings are being pre-
pared. If the experiment is success-
ful it is proposed to increase the
acreage of reforested land to 1,770,-
000
,770;000 acres within the next forty years.
ICI NZ,
r'M JUST EIGHT `tEF'RS
Oleo /ere I G,o TO 'O' IDOL•
1M AT THE HEAD OF MY -
TIN STOCKINGS.
—
..-lvera e comment among the a ereail-
Maety Persona Wear Them Unocal- les eit,r'n-. and, although the hostile
t coiously-Disnuised With Silk, displ;.ty wee,limited to i°r;ilunged hiss -
1,, We have adopted many foreign Ideas ing and hooting, M. Itom aille, tyke)
at comfort or utility, but no one has has charge of the polite arrange-
sangltt to introduce the wooden shag , mcnts, Nave the indiscreet soup
from I-Ioll.:nd. The tin stacking is . hunters a severe warnhig against
even less suggestive of luxury. and i roaming beyond the immediate sur•
yet many of us wear them. Of course ' roundings of their billets.
a 'Demon could not wear a eoek of ; <y
:'•eighteon•carat" tin and be uncon- •t;F.P ati1 AAV iklll'«a TO BE
r srionas el It. but if the tin is aticryed , r l`I`E l 't NG E' -
and disguised with silk he can weal• a lll5'1"12II1L < 1 .A.10. x ALLIES'
considerable amount of it wlthtant fate- j A cleapat, h from Perls crtys:- The
pec: ting• R. ; f,4, ~ rtnn 11a . t is not to be destroyed.
In cutting round tops and Irtttoms ! but it will be distributed, Final de-
° out. of tin sheets in the nartaauficeture deem has just been reached on this
of tin (tans there remains a cert din pi int. Great Britain, which at first
eights figuring tha maximum number nt oY sc'rap. Alen have sat tap was inclined to oppose the plan for
1 nightthe elimination of the German craft
of such pieces of various size Haat can
1as war anachines, shifted its position
be cut from .a sheet of tin, and still
there is the waste Ieft over that can- I and came to the : ;ipport of France
not be worked into sheets again. Re- and Italy, which had desired the par-
' lief Is found in the demand of the titian of craft among tip allies.
manufacturer of slit, who needs some , The American peace delegation op-
substance to weight his goods. A silk; theedzhz plan of destruction from
CANADA BARS
UNDESIRABLES"
Order-i11•Couucsl Prohibits im-
migration. of Doukhobors, Men-
nonites and flutterites.
.A. despatch from Ottawa says:-
Until further order, immigration of
Dnukhobors, 1Tutterites and Mennon-
ites is prohibited. An order -in -coun-
cil to this effect was signed by the
Governor-General on Thursday. It
was passed under the provision;of
the existing Immigration Act which
gives authority to this end.
The order recites that "owing to
conditions prevailing as a result of
the°-a•ar, a widespread feeling exists
throes -area the Dominion. and more
F .rticul.,rly in western Canada, that
steps chouid be taken to prevent the
entry into Ganda of all persons who
may be regardca as u a eeir ah':ee be-
eau::e, owing to their peculiar eus-
tems, haaits, modes of Beale; and
methods of holci.`n e property, they
are net likely to beeenne readily as-
sit:ti:ate.l or to assume the duties
and responsibilities of Canadian
eitizcnehip within a resconable
One
T i'e or -kr wale, that numeroui; 're-
presentations have hem/received that
Deekhohers, Ilutteritce and Mennon-
ites are of this class and character.
GERMAN DELEGATES AT
VERSAILLES BUY UP ,a.0:11:A despatch from Versailles sa'st--
Germane's peace delegates passed
the best part et their first (layhere
blaspheming the weather, in cotnznon
with other residents in titin rainy,
windy, chilly tore The soaped.preoceupution of piker of them. from
Count von Ilr oekdnrr•-Rantzr.0 down,
t
was the cru .:titin of soap. The
barber shops rear the three hotels
where the Gerincns are clu.crt.ere3
were empthnl of their stocks of soap
before noon. In searh of the pre-
cious suirtanee a pasty of Derr: as
newspaper eurrespondents st "t1el
far alien. Their =apeearan a e+:. tted
garment hangs and fits and holds its.
shape better if weighted. Everyone .
knows how soft and light are t1i' tin-" Palace .Along Lake Geneva
I weighted pongee silks. So the menu-'
facturers of tin cane and of silks co
operate. One disposes of his tin waste
1 .and the other converts the metal into
tin chloride and works it into the wo-
ven silk. Virtually all the waste of
tin -can factories is put to that use. `
Some silk stockings contain as much .f
as thirty per cent. of tin. The use is
entirely legitimate, since the trade de -
mends a silk that is firm and heavy
for certain garments for which the
purchaser desires a perfect lit.
Silk waste, such as worn-out and
cast-off garments, becomes in turn a'
source of tin worth attention. Rag
pickers give little heed to silk rem
nants, but carefully collect linen and
wool. The rag -pickers' union, if there
is such a body, might well ta.,ke notice
of this information. 'fhe tin chloride
lin the silk is easily converted into tin'
1 oxide by burning the material, acid'
! from the oxide the metal can be re -
r solved.
incurable.
Professor -"f went to the railroad
1 office to -day and got that umbrella I
left on the train last week."
His Wile ----"That's good. Where is
it now?" j
Pro"essor -"Eh? By Jove, I -really,
my dear, I'm afraid I left it on the ,
train."
WELL -CAN
`f0U TELL elE
WHAT Maty HAS
DONE MORE FOR
THIS 000111-fre
eatgi THAN ANY
OTHER
MAiY?
As Permanent Seat of League
A despatch from Geneva saes. -
palace far the permanent seat of the
League of Nations will be- construct
ed on one of several beautiful sites
along Lake Geneva near the city.
In the meantime the city authorities
will place the Palate Eynard, near
the Unlversity, at the disposition of
the debegates.
Losses Imposed on
Germany by Terms of Allies
A despatch from Paris says: -The
terms presented to Germany include
a loss of seventy per cent. of her iron
ore, a third of her coal deposits,
twenty per rent. of her potash, and
between 7,400,000 and 8,000,000 of
her pre-war population.
GERMANY MAY JOIN LI:AQ: TF
AT EXPIRATION OF ONE YEAI$
A deepateh from London says: --
The Reuter correspondent at Paris
says it is expected that Lord Robert
(:evil will be appointed British mem-
ber of the organizing committee of
the League of Nations, and that Ger-
many will he admitted to the League
after a period of probation, probably
one year.
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03$ 11
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