HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-1-15, Page 2EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1924
R
-Duu put year total revenues ree
ived br Canadiae Government
rom eneteMe and exciee dutiee am-,
°tIlltod to llin,.473,813, es eomparedi
ith $262,377,4.68 In the previous
Loreer Cecelia IVIthister of Jus'
tee, resigns from King Government
on walla a in health. Third pro.
vincial political party formed in
Ontario to be known as Progres-
sives.
4. ---Seale on inner tomb of Tutank-
hamen ttt Leixor, found after 3,000
years, broken by Howard Carter.
• Venieelos returns froni exileto
Athens. Floods ou River Seine ren -
dr 25,000 people homelees, •
•8—Hon, Narciese Perodeau appointed
:Lieut. -Governor, a Quebec Province,
succeeding late Loeis P. Brodeur.
10 --British soletnarine L-24 sent to
bottom of sea itt collision with
dreadnaught, and 43 persons DF"i11.,
16—One hundred people eictime of se-
vere earthquakes in Japan in the
eane area preciously desolated.
20—For 1028 Canada's trade returns
showed total iraporta valued at
$903,530,515 anl exports of $1,01.4,-
734,274. Nikolai Lenin„ father of
bolshevism and Soviet dietator, dies
atter long illness.
80—Hon. Ernest Lapointe, Minister of
• Marine and Fisheries, is sworn in
s Minister of Justice, succeeding
Sir Lomer Gatlin. P j. A. Cardin.
becomes Minister of Marine and
Fisheries. Suicide of two English
boys placed on Ontario farms has
caused Overseas Sett.lemeut Com-
mittee of British Government to ask
for full inquiry into condition of
immigrant boys in Canada.
•2-In—Church Union Bill passes its first
reading at Ottawa.
FEBRUARY.
1 --The Government of Soviet Russia
is accorded recognition by Great
Britain,
2—Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of
the United States, died to -day.
12—Labor Govelennerit of Great Bri-
tain made its debut in the House of
Commons to -day
13—Egyptian Government precipi-
tates a crisis by laying claim to
tomb of King Tut.
19—W. H. Price, Prov. Treas. of On-
• tali(); charges that predecessor in
oftice ran the province into $24,-
000,000 debt.
28—A balaneed Budget with a reduc-
tion of taxation, the first since 1912-
13, was announced in a Speech from
the Throne. J. H. Thomas, Sec. for
the Colonies, ennomiced at a meet•
-
ang in London that the British Gov-
eiganent had accepted the Irish
fta,aterein epirit and letter.
\ MARCH.
1—Explosion of T.N.T. at Nixon, N.J.,
Mlle 18 persons, Seven deaths in
• Ontario from smallpox over week-
end.
4--Calipli. of Turkey goes into exile;
sails for Switzerland.
5—Mi1itary control by Allies ends in
Germany,
14—National Railways authorized to
proceed with construction of Hud-
son Bay line. Pres. Ccolidg,e ap-
points commission to act with Can-
adian body on St. Lawrence project.
20 --Sir Richard Squires former Pre-
mier of Newfoundland, found guilty
ef aocepting bribes. British Govern-
ment announce that the huge sum
of 392,000.000 has been spent on
the relief of unemployment since the
Armistice.
21—British soldiers fired on at Queens-
town by men in Free State uni-
forms; one killed.
24—British aviators begin world trip.
81—Ontario Public Accounts Commit-
tee discovers that $15,000 cheque
made out to former Trea,s, Peter
Smith, is missing.
APRIL,
5 -,-Labor wins eleetion in South Aus-
tralia. Transvaal votes Nationalist.
8—Mussolini sweeps elections in Italy.
9--DaWes Committee presents report
on reparations scheme. Irish Free
State to have Ambassador at Wash-
ington.
•12—Japaneee exclusion bill cause of
excitement at Washington. Greece
declares for Republicplebiscite.
14 --Peter Smith, former Prov. Treas.,
arrested on conspiracy' charge; bail
fixed at $50,000, provided by Strat-
ford citizens.
17—Church Union Bill passes in New.
• Brunswick,
80—Battle on Church Union Bill be-
gins before Private Bills Committee
of Parliament.
• MAY.
2—John Scott Gold Medal awarded
Dr, Frederik G. Banting of To-
ronto by Ainerican Philosophical So.
6—A thonsand die in Bengal from
• cholera epidemic,
18-1/lei...Genera1 Sir Charles V. F.
Townshend dies in Paris. James
Brown, M.P., -will represent the
• King at the General Aneerribly of
the Church of Seotland. '
23—Italy gets slice of Inhaland,
28—Rev, R, A, Jeffrey and other tele-
• eionaries eeizod by beedits in China,
•jUNE,
1—Chinese pirates release two out of
tear captured miseionariee,
e—I-Iickman ministry loses in New-
foundland elections,
reeigne offiee of Pres-
idency of French Reperielie. Royal
Commission finds that action by'
Government in 1916 or 1918 would
depoeiterS from heavy
lesses fl connectioe with 1-iome
Bank failuee.
13--Bollevine, Oat., celebrates 140th
anniversary of coming of Loyalists,
Gaston Doureergue is elected Presi-
dent of lsreeeli Repoblic.
18—Strike of 'metal employees
throughoet Dominitio begies at 5
• p.m, Nationalist -Labor party tri -
• over Smuts in South Africa
elections,
20—Na1lory and Ervine of Mount EV-
erest Expedition succumb to in-
jories
30—Rev. George 13yers, Canadian mise
sionary, is murdered tn China.
JULY.
1—Ocean to ocean aerial mail service
• was established to -day between New
York and San Francisco,
8—Canadian National Branch Line
Bills are killed hi the Senate.
4—The Church Union Bill passed the
'reuse of Commons,
'---Lloyd George at diener to Can-
adian weekly 'newspaper men in
,London appeals for unity through -
mat the Empire,
16--Interhalled Conference opens he
London; Premier MacDonald urges
• acceptance of Dawes reparations
- plan,
17—October 23 is officially confirmed
as the ,date of the liquoe plebiscite
in Ontario, Advance in grain values,
• adds one billion ensnare to the evealth
of Canadian and Ainerican farmers.
27—Treraendous floods in China ren-
• der one muliton people homeless.
AUGUST.
3—Joseph Conrad dies at • Bourne,
• England..
4—Sir Edmund Osier President of
the Dominion Bank, dies.
6—British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science hold inaugur-
• al session in Toronto.
17—Canadian dollar reaches 99.94c
on New York Exchange, the highest
mark since 1922.
27—Two big armies in China prepar-
ing for mastery of country.
28—Nova Scotia shores strewn with
wreckage of ships, the result of the
• worst etorin in years.
80—Allies and • Germany formally
sign London agreement.
31—U.S. army navigators reach La-
brador and virtually conrplete
• round -the -world flight.
SEPTEMBER.
1—The League of Nations Assembly
opens its 5th Conference at Geneva.
3—Civil war commences in China,
with battle line of .thirty miles.
6—Canadian National • Exhibition
closes with record attendance this
• year amounting to 1,519,000.
23—Germany's Cabinet decides to ap-
ply for .rnembership in League of
Nations. •
25—Canada's loss by the postal strike
last sun -liner stated to have been
8399,000.
• OCTOBER.
1—Standard arid Sterling Banks' am-
algamation announced.
12—Anatole France dies.
17—Burning .of Canton, China, re-
sults in losses of $15,000,000.
23—Ontario electors declare for reten-
tion of Ontario Temperance Act
24—Peter Smith and Aemilius Jarvis,
Sr., • convicted, of defrauding the
province. Smith sentenced to three
• yeaxs and Jarvis to six months,
with a joint fine of 8600,000.
29—Labor party suffers severe re-
verse in British elections, and Stan-
ley Baldwin's group is asstired vic-
tory. Bank of Montreal effects
agreement to acquire Malsoe's Bank.
Peter Veregrins head of the Douk-
hobor colony in British Columbia,
and three others,killeci in explosion
81—Rev. J. Adelaide Delorme is ac-
• quitted after third trial of charge of
slaying half-brother, Raoul Delorme
in January, 1922 Prince of Wales
welcomed home at Southampton,
England.
NOVEMBER.
3—Premier Baldwin announces fiscal
policy involving large preference to
British Dominions. •
6 --Alberta turns "wet" with sweeping
vote on Government sale,
10—Ludendorff made prisoner by
German Republicans, and Hitler
takes to flight Canada's trade bal-
ance leaps to $107,000,000.
24—With 500,000, Ontario satisfies old
• claims of Cbippew'a and Mississ-
auga Indians.
29—Military forces take aver rule hi
Rhine Republic.
DECEMBER
1—First radio photographs transmit-
ted from London England, to New
Yotk.
4—E. Clarence SettelL former private
secretary to Sir Adam 13eck, is sen-
tenced to three years' imprisonment
for attempted theft of $29,925.
5—The contract for the cOnst;r1letiedl
of Section No. 7 of the Welland
Canal is awarded at an appropriate
price of ten million dollars.
9—With historic state and accompae-
ied by the Queen, King George opens
ed Parliament in London, Eng., thie
morning. A minion -dollar blaze de,
strays grain ecevatott opposite Sat -
28 -11.M. Kitig George has approved
the elevatiori of Chief Justiee Aaglin
to membership ill the Privy Ceuneit
25—Dominion` Cabinet restore ti Crows.
nest freight agreement. '
Ambaseadors meet in
Paris to decide Cologne evacuatiOn.
One hund•-<=t1 end siety-eix thou-
sand mei thirty war badges aWatit,
Claimants at OttaWa..
Prince 1-lenri, tnire:Son'Of King George, -who was•nanied the Duke of
Edinburgh in the New Year's, honor list. The last'Dulte, or Edinburgh wee
the father of the present Queen Maxie of Rumania,
28—Lord Robert Cecil receives $25,-
000 Woodrow Wilson Founda.tioe
peace award. •
29—British astronomers predict 1925
to be driest year of century,. British
pound sterling reaches $4.73 3-16 in
New York.
His Life for a Friend's.
M.' Boitard and M. Denis, two com-
petitors in a balloon race organized by
the Aero Club of France, drifted' out to
sea in the darkness of night. Dawn
found them near the Isle of Wight and
falling rapidly. They threw out bal-
last, bat contieued to fall, and, as the
lyalloon was drifting nearer and nearer
the lana, it seemed that they must
e
surely crash Into the cliff.
Meanwhite they had been discovered
from the shore, where a crowd of on-
lookers had 'gathered. • As the people
watched they saw M. Boitard climb to
the tap of the basket •and before his
Youth.
Youth -has no need .ef pirate ships,
. Of darlt and tossing spars;
No need has Youth of silvered paths
Beneath the guiding stari:
Or chanteys sung upon the wateh
By men who bear salt scars.
Youth has no need•of secret trails
That to the Rahihow lead,
Of roads to Romance, white and wide,
Youthas no urgent need,
Nor of theenagie lore that lurks
In sOIlle ced*wizarcl's screed.
For Youth Itself is all these things,
A sailing -ship, a song, -
The Rainbow at the journey's end,
Bright Roma.nce, Youth -time long,
And' all the wizard's wisdoms to
Enchanted Youth belong!
—Faith Baldwin in Everybody's Maga-
• zine.
-ee•-•
friend could stop -hiin or anticipate his •Set -vice
purpose wave his hand and leap into
the» sea. M. Denis, looking out, Saw
his friend strike the water.
Relieved of his weight, the balloon
began .to soar again. Clearing the
cliffs, it traveled aWay over the land,
and some time later its_ trailing rope
'was seized and the bag securely fas-
tened. •
As quickly as possible M. Denis
landed and rushed off to rescue his gal-
lant friend. But the 'spectators had
not been- 'idle; • a doetor had driven
his automobile at great 'speed to the,
nearest coastegua.rd station, hoisted a
boat on the car and rushed it to the
beach. There a volunteer crew had,
manned it and picked up the balloonist
when he was Just at the point of ex,-
haustion. Fortunately he soon, re-
covered in the hospital, and there was
afterwards a most affeeting meeting
between the two friends.
Reading of ethe incident, we realize
the ineaning of the folloWing lines: -
"Whene'er is uttered a noble thought,
Whene'er a kindly deed is wrought,
Our hearts in glad surprise
To higher levels rise."
• A Fireside Talk.
There is a good deal of talk these
d-ays of hew' little the average man
possesses. It is enereentleeerY to felk
about 'how much We pOssess.'
The "ability to look on the 'bright
side of things is a valuable possession,
to start with, , It's the way we look at
thlngs which counts Peer at the
-cycled through smoke -colored spec,
tacles, and even a•utunin's rainbow
tints are all mud color! • 1
Wordsworth, who was a poor man,
said: "My heart leaps up when I be-
hold a rambow inethe sky. That rain-
bow was his! Ile oWned it because
he appreciated it.
•"But I can't eat a rainbow!" That's
tine, But "Life is more than meat."
You have a life to live as well as a.
living to get.
Another Vont excIairned—and he had
played a flute in .the •steeets for pen-
niez--"The "World, the World is
He meant it, too. He went
through life with his eyes wide open.
He missed nothing worth seeing, and
it made his days interesting and
tplea-
cUd. .
• Stop rgrumbling at, what you haven't
got; opprociate what you, have got.
You'll be stirpriSed what e big trete
„
vre it is!
hi Jus
been mac
•
Whee I was young it gave me joy
To take apart whate'er 1 found—
A watch or clock, a wind-up toy—
To see What made the wheels go
• round.
I'd hunt to find what caused the cre
In dolls a.nd woolly lambs and such;
Bet now I h.ave a car, do I
Speed any time that way? Not
• much!
I do not wreck the car each week
To see what makes the ;wheels go
round,
Nor do r try to lind a ,squeak,
Or any eugh..ahreeemel, eo1,111C1-
Intead, I pa. -y to have a man
• Go ,over ,things; and 1 contend,
By fallowing this siiiple Dien, nee
I save mucia-Money in •the end. .
• ' —Harold S, Osborne,
•
She—"Have you all the .accessories
with your new car?"
He—"Yep — mortgago. and every-
thing,"
ries Aboul We11-1(liown
Prather Poets.'
• So many entree stories are told
about iler. Rudyard 'Kipling that it is
t geed to get held oe„ one that lean be
i voeched for as true. Here 'is tir gelfaine
I Kipling incideet, refleeting hie genial
dieposition ana,ability to make friends
with tho humbleet 'people. Thee lee it
,1 may call a eertai railway porter of
IBath named Hearr Chappell hunihe.
It is, perhaps, not a correct deeerip-
- tion for Mr. Chappell le' e. local poet
as well as a eecal mover of trunks.
A Stranger went up to him the othet
day as he was engaged in the latter
tdeetination, ancl. remarked, in a friend-
ly voice:
"Your nanse'e Chappell, isn't it?"
The porter coefessed to it, and the
stranger held out his hand.
"Glad to meet you," he said. "My
n.anie's Kiplinge
Mr. Chappell 'thought at first that
it was a folte, but Kipling soon uncle-
eeiveci him. ,
"It' e a bad thing when you get; eels
into your blood, len't it?" 'remarked
the great poet,
"Yee," answered -the lesser poet.
"There's only one thing to do, and that
16 to get itout'—on paper." ,
A Probable Explanation.
Mrs.. George Frederick Watts, wife
of the famous English a.rtiet, relates
in her recent biography of her lm -
band how he happened to miss meet-
ing Ro"ssetti's wife, who had been the
beautiful Miss
He once told Rossetti that he was
sorry he had never met her, and Ros-
setti responded cordially, '"011, come
and eine. I will write to you."
But no inVitation arrived, and Mr.
Neural Re§ourowiiulletin.'
The -Neetirel Ageotirceen lilgence
Servic of the DeVt 'elor at
, .
WI'CAP IiILte1It,
°ttleW:'411,443YS;-jaVPt."1101` CoL'kskattx at
IYes20,
't'1,1 1.
-k);:talcvdoa
of Tradaof Ontnrio on N'
a description of the proeince and it
area that will bear repeating in this
Corning fienn a business Man
ef Mr, Cockshute's standing, it is free.
frees any taint of propagancla,, and is
the result of billet .close study that ail
interested in the welfere of Canada
and its individual provinces should
make, Governor Ceckshutt, among
raany other interesting statements,
5111"d`W'l h -
ile Ontario is only one of the
nine Canadian provinces, it will be
generally conceded that it is one of
the main supports of the Federal edis
flee. It is a vast, domain, practically
self-contained; 'We are proud of it anti
should be loyal to its interests. Let
me, nrse of all, remind you that the
area of our province is so great as
to dernand our consideration. As a
matter of size alone, its vastness
touches the _imagination; for acreage,
resources end the maintenance of po-
pulation are vitally inteedepenclent.
The area is 407,262 squere miles, This
large tereitory is so steueted that the
ataletitis ldaitdelli,etiiodwheieve7r,itiritotsh:e 11114' Bettie.
to him eaYing:
'‘Iasttiyoudlrdid u askyot to dinner,butg
letter had miscarriecie and I have been
partly eonfirm.ed in 'that impression by
fledieg It in xny pocket."
A Royal Barbee
To leave beer the Royal barber for
forty yearn is the peeled record of Mr.
Charles Jeschke. He has attended
King Edward, Seeing George, the Prince
01 Walee, besides several foreign
croweed head, and nearly every fa-
mous man in London, Mr. Jeschke
is now retiring,
King Edward onee said to him:
"Charle.s, what I like about you is that
you.don't talir a lot. You're seen, but
yoa-re not heard. It's a pleasure to
meet you."
Me. jaschke has beeu to India and
Australia with the Royal Family, and
be has stayed at Sandringhern for
Christmas. He has a cartoon qf King
George, signed by His Majesty. Yet
when he first, came to London he had
only- two pounds, and a determination
to sacceede
HisaNew Battle.
A certain chemist in Paris reeeives
a regular visit once a week from a
somewhat portly . military man, who
tries hie weight on the weighing ma-
chine, paying the regular charge of ,
twopence, If an increase es registered
he frowns; if there is a decrease he
smiles. Quite a commonplace incident,
but the man in Marshal- ,roffre,
1-1.e is, I am, told, as much in earnest
about this eglit as he was about the
one against the Germans!
University College Increases
Tuition Fees.
In the University 'Of Toronto there
are foun Arts Colleges, viz.,
sity College, Victoria College, Trinity
College, and St. Michael's College. Of
these the first is the provincial college,
which is supported by the Government
of Ontario and the other three are
nomination colleges have found that
pendent for their ..evenues on the re-
ligious denominations concerned. As
is well known, the lees paid by stu-
dents for many years have covered
• only about one-third of the actual cost
ol tuition and in recent years the de-
nominational collegest have -found that
they cannot continue to exist on the
funds available". Last year Victoria
College increased her fees from $40
to $75. .Trinity and St. Michael's
were anxious td -do the same but it
was clear to all concerned that four
colleges, all dieing the same work, and
all being part of the same organiza-
tion could -not have in. force 'different
ecales. of fees. Students 'would- na-
turally teed to- enrol -with the college
having the smallest fee. The problem
struck at the very foundation of Uni-
versity Federatton. To solye this, sit-
tiaticin, University College raised its
fee to $75, effective next year. , Even
so, the fees in Arts are now little
mare than half those in Medicirai and
Applied Science.
The Wonderful Worm.
The earthworm is a much -despised
creature, against which war is waged
• by both mat and birds. But the earth-
worm makes agriculture and its many
kindredow a. c ti Vi ties possible. Without
• it our trees, plants, and grass could
not g
,
Observations tken in Yorubalancl,
West Africa, show that parthwOreng
are capable of bringing to the surface
annually, in the form of :castes" 62,-.
200 tOnS Of SOil per square mile. In
less than thirty years every inch .of
soil to a alepth of two feet is treated,
in this ay, thus ensuring natural ven-
tilation and drainage: ,
In an acre of average soil there are
roughly 200,000 worms,' each of which
atts as a miniature mill, grinding the
soil fa.r more finely than any man-
,
made contrivance could do. ,Whea the
fernier p1ow ale lane he merely does
on a larger scale what worms have
been doing for centuries.
- • To Players.
Glop the harp of lif e -r we ofttimes
•. la
tlriilk•a
netilsh hand, making a diceed.
.a.nt tlin."
Forgetting thatsome pereon miles
•
May aay, been listening itt
•
'Tie our 16 make sweet music if we
.•
'Tombs Of Distant
• The world's oldest stone buildings
are reported to have been •discovered
near the famous pyramids ,of Sakkara,
about fifteen miles south of` Cairo.
They are two royal tomb chapels of
the third Egyptian dynasty, about
Built in a style differing in ahnost
every respect fromewhat is known as
Egyptian architect -tree, the chapels are
believed to have been the burial place
of prinesses or queenst Fragments of
grave -stones of royal princesses are
said to have bean ° fotmd by archaeolo-
•
gists who have been digging on tile
site.
Gone for' Geod.
A. men eetered tbe vestibule of an
hotel aid placed his umbrella in the
stand, but before going upstairs he
tied A° the umbrella a card on which
lie had written; "N.B.:----This linthrella
belongs to a chaihpfon hoxer Battk
in ten •Inlientesn•
In twenty cu inn es Ite returned, but ,
the umbrella was gone, The Gard,
however, was still there., and- on it
someone b ad Wriiteri P.S
brelle, taken by a champion lone-ais-
lance rimner. Won't be back at all."
• Desk "Outloott'for Old Mars ;
. , .
"Mr. Green's youngest boy!' said old
. ..
,Wirs.".131tinderhy, "hasn't &One a stroke
OS work for six months: jest living 1
,
on bis father, TITI, a Jaid lie's some. to i
be Pothing hut a patricide" .
A Bet Secret,
The inspector was asking the Class ;
a few questions„ "Now, how dobees
d i ep o se o f tit e Ir hen ey ?" Ile asked. I
• will,
Weigh enny. to other ears he good
• to hear.
Remember, that whatever note3 we
strike,
Re -eche far and neer. .
• --Mary Carolyn Davies
New, Crater Appears.
A new crater, eontiarnously- active, •
lias appeared. tit 'White Island, making i
three craters in addition to many
steam vents. White Island is in -the
Bay of Plenty, Northern New Zealand.
Ir has long had an active volcano, 2 ;
miles itt cirGlii1and with an altitucle.r,
of 870 feet Sulphite, green and yel-
low, is Extracted in large quantities.
•••
Pleasant Surptuse.
"Hullo, old man." exclaimed
at the Literary Weld reception. "It's
a pleasant surprise to meet you neve
• 'Good of you to say eogni chap,21
areelPyitl:113 tr:jul"b' re iny and" cletotted
"Yes, was afraid uldn't find
pqe here,"
ts A nrill ' "Please, sir, Ilea cell it," annOunced
enuaellion the Lop boy 01'111- 62,8go-
Fortitude.
Thc coerage that leads a cavalry
charge.is spectacular, but the endur-
ance of day after day in a sickbed,
though quiet and removed from hu-
man surveillance, is as glorious. There
is overt and there is covert bravery.
The first kind prompts a man to
spring through fire or leap into water
to save a child; the second, without
bitterness against fate's dispensation,
goes on from day to day upheld by
will when the stars are gone and a
great hope is extinguished.
All ordinary counsel to optimism
fails in the face of real distress. The
one in quest of light goes into' a
church ind lo! that day the minister
• has chosen to, preach a sermon of
querulous fault-finding with those pre-
sent and those absent; or 'else lie
wrestles with a dogma and a mere
theology, putting up men of straw
and knocking them down agaie in the
presence of living, striving beings wile
hunger for bread to feed their souls.
Or the forlore one goes -to a friend
on -whom he depended, perhaps a mem-
berof•the family that shOuld be trust-
ed to advise and nothing comes of it
that can medicate a mind sick almost
to death with its own discouragement.
Or he opens a'book and finds it deals
with such persons as never existed
save in :the Morbid pathology of the
novelist, doing things that cegicature
all we know of' the true story of can -
duct and character as reel- rnortals
enact it every day.
After the outer resources have been
tried and found wanting, what, then is
there sto- do? To rely upon oneself,
The -way' to restore good cheer and
confidence for the, forward 'march is
not to s ek it for oneself but to give
it to others—even when one believes
rtes no longer his to give. The rank,
unforgi-vabla selfishness is to spread.
glooni am!d Byes that ugly all they
can -already. By eery example of a
buoyant spirit maintained in spite of.
things, a light shines to other lives,
and they are clest and quickened to
goWoen:.cannot -depend on happiness as
. •n i
arapoetation, something brought to
us and donferred byotherpeople. But
we can discover, as by. the inner light,
what our lives are for, when, no mat-
ter how we feel, we give to the daily
round and to the people that we meet
an, invarm e and indomitable faith
ths:e it still_is_g_e,ocot to to alive and to
serve and to befriend the race.
Not Necessary.- .
Oneoe the newlyerich was showing
a friend round nern`estate." Present-
ly they came to the poultry. run
"De your hens lay?" asked the visit -
"Oh, •yes," : was the reply; ."they ,can
lay. But far People in Our position it
itt. quite unnecessary."
1
distance between the furthest south-
ern point and the farthest riorthern
point is 1,070 miles, and between the
eastern and western boundary, 1,000
miles. The province is only 8,000
square miles less in area than Franee
and Germany together -and is almost
equal in extent to the total area of
the six New England States, plus the
States of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin. Wnen these
distances and this area are visualized,
we obtain a more real conception, than
would have been possible otherwise,
•of what the development of onr na-
tural resources, ievolving transporta-
tion facilities and the dieeribution of
mails and merchandise, meanS to our
people. The post office, is vital to the
merchant. A letter travels 1484 miles -
by rail from Toronto, to the most
north-westerly post office in- the pro-
vince. From that office , ot Zeoee the
Hudson, Bay Company's pe-,'; the
whole district of Patricie-haia nriles
wide and 700- miles lone ----hes to be
postally served..
• "What is known now as Southern or
Old Ontario—the Ontario of the early
settlement, south of the Ottawa aryl
French Rivers, occupies an •area of
less than fifty thoueand squere miles,
less than one-eighth of the whole.' It
has been on this comparatively small
portion of our soil that our histofg in
war, itt trade' and commerce, Indus- -
trial enterprise, agricultural develop-
, . i
ment, ecineational enstitutions and n
moral and religious character has been
made.; The remaining seven -eighths
of our area lies at the theesliold of de-
velopment and makes` a call on our
• patriotism and manhood to.. which we
cannot turn a deaf ear. need scarce-
ly say here, that, while Ontario con-
tains one-third af the population of
Canada, the number of its People is
far below a third of its apparent cse
• pacityn This is obvious from its fay-
orable situation on this, continent. Its
possibilities largely rest in the fact
that ifs southernmost point ---on Lake
Erie—touches north latitude 40 deg.
minute, the Same as -that of Rome;
the city of Toronto being in the same
latitude as Florence; Cochrane, the
northern railway centre, is on a line,
many miles south of Winnipeg; and
Mpose Factory, at the foot of James
• Bay, where excellent crops have been
raised -for probably -two hundred and
fifty years, Is latitudinally a long dis-
tance south of Edmonton. So much
for the extent of the great estate
.which has been—entrusted th us --a
.present population of only, 2,99,8,662."
French Think COlumhus
Did Not Discover America
• French savants are.. investigating
the thorny question of who discovered
America, saye a Paris. despatch. In
a 'Paper read before the College'cle
France,' a paper which the French
press terms "Sensationai," Professor
Meillet states that it was ;not, Chris-
topher Coltimbus. The famous voy-
ager merely rediscovered oe continent
whieh *as known beeg before his day
to other navigators. '
Up to the present E511."S Profetsor
Meillot, no sei^loas study of the indi-
genous languages of -America, and of
other regions has evee been made, but
the ground now is 'being broken by
French students and a Comparison of
the vocabularies of .ft •group of Cali-
fornia languages and certain Polyne-
sian languages has brought to light
"satisfying, and .numerons cOinci-,
deneee,V '
. "The , vocabtilary of the .indigeno•ne
races of Patagonia," the lectuie_r told
• his colleagues a the College de France
"ehows• striking resemblencee to that
of Australiae raca.1..` And it is inter -
esting tosnote that these linguietie re-
semblances parallel alynoet identically
siMilar reseteblancee in the arms, do-
mestic utensils and other objects used
in the same epoch in America. end
ether regions. But these sindlaritiel
donot date from the ,theie when these
continente were conneeted by land in-
etead of Vast eceans, There.tere, it ie
to be concluded that, navigators sailed
over these inItnenSe Space.''
Freezing Point of Milk, •
ise.rean Marie Singe lias been elect- The freezing point Of milk Varies
El 'as preSitlout ot Switzerland for'
1910. lp 1919 he succeeded Citatave
Adot on tbc fedeial councib the out,,,'
going president is Dr Ernest Cleaarel,
aecOrtling tit its COmposition., usually
It letile' between 29 and 81 degeees
Fahrenheit, or a little lower than the
freezing point o Water.