HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-11-11, Page 7Was Very Nervous 'romp le Coated
Had Dizzy Spells
Could Rot Sleep
Mrs. M. A. Capon, DonatviIle,
Altos, writes: -"1 am eencling you -
this letter to let elm know the pod
low() limed in yoer medicine.
Some time ago 1 wee very nervoue,
eould not sleeea night, often had
dizzy s spelle and palpitatien of the
heart, and was so run down I could
net do nty housework, but just leave
every then , and at down.
spent a lot of money using medi-
cine from the (looter, but it aid not
do me ply good.
At last a friencl told zae to use
and after usieg a couple of boxes I
was not the saine woman. I began to
• feel iso much bettor,and after a few
i
More boxes I was n ported health.
I always TOCOMMOild theta to a11 thOSO
I know who are suffering from heart
• trouble." .
Milburn 's Heart and Ne fte Pills
have been on the market for the pest
• 32 years.
• Price 50e. a box at all druggists or
dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of
• price by The T. Milburn. Co., Limited,
•Toronto, Ont: •
•••••••••••••••••,..11
Sentiment vs. Economics.
BY CRAMBS W. neeensoer,
To those who see in the phenominel
prosperity of the United States and
the magnetic attraction it has for the
• people ,of Canada, a tendency which
miglet some day easileelead eti a weak- • TORONTO.
ening of the ties that bind Canada to
the British Empire, our present ecoli- No. 2 North,, $1.45%; No. 3 North.,
omic position is not entirely reassur- $1.41.
ing. Because history ehows that in Man. oats --„No. 2 CW, nominal; No.
the course of time economic considera-e!, not quoted; .No. 1 feed, 62c; No. 2
tions will invariably prevail over pa-rfeed# nominal; Western grain quota-
triotic sentiment. • While we cannot doilsmin c•isf•
hope to outstrip our powerful neigh.= yellow, ports. , _
corn, Ntorack, Toronto5-No. 2
3 yellow, 8 c..
bor, we can come much nearer creat- Millfeed-Del. Mentreal freights,
big opportunities for our own people bags included: 'Bran, per ton, $28.25;
at home than we are doing at present shorts, per ton, $30.25; middlings;
and thus arresting the , debilitating $41.25; good feed flour, per bag, $2.30.
leak of our precious vital aslet and Ontarip oats, 48 to 50e, f.o.b. ship:
stifling the inferiority complex • we ping points.
Ont. good lei:rang wheat -$1.30 to"
•
have unconsciously created in our
SPECTACULAR FIRE DESTROYS
FAMOUS SHRINE AT oTE. ANNE
Ste. Anne de Beaute, Que„ Nsla burning church with difileillt'S" and
8. -Half a million dollars ie the lose eoused the other xnernisere of the
•euetwined by the Order a the Redenap- Order,. In a few minutes the svisole
'Wrist Vetherte guraelians a the church wars ablaze. 'Thousands of
Shrine of Ste. Anne, from. the con,- pee/AO from the town and surrounding
flagration which; for the second time villagee blerenged to the scene of the
within four years, destroyed •their oonflagration, but they wereable to
church with practically •all ite treae- render little aid beyond saving thlese
ures and moat of its rence. ertieles that had not yet fallen prey
The fire broke out around 1 o'clock to the flames. Aid was seammened
this morning, and before adequate frorn Quebec 22 miles away, and sieve
effort could be direeted towards fight- oral units Of the city'S fire -fighting
Ingle the sacred strueeure was a mass force Were despatehed post-haste to
of smoking ruins. But, as if to inspire Ste. Anne. They were unable to save
faith that the destruction of material the 'Basilica, however, and coeld enlY
things did not mean destructioe of restrict their efforts to preventing the
spread ot the, flames.
The church was a temporary struc-
ture, used pending the completion of
the new Basilica that is being erected
to replace the one which vesze destroyed
by fire in Meech, 1922, Beyond a
scorching oe the wells of 'the new
church, which stands ,adje.cent to the
burned balding, the neffterial loss to
it was little. ' •
When the outbreak was first noticed
smoke was belching from the windows
in huge volumes aid the creckling of
the flames, the eare of whichet times
flashed through the hew' black clouds
of smoke, to thii- accompaniment of
crashieg timbets as the interior of the
building crumbled to ruin, Were suffi-
cient, indicatiOes that to atteinpt -to
penetrate into the edifice „would be
une.vailing and mean certain death.
All the priests and the crewel which
-soon gathered could do was to stand by
in consternation and -look on with
broken hearts white the •fire ravaged
the church and destroyed its teeas-
ures. Indeed, it looked as though the
things spiritual, the femme relic of
Ste. Anne, upon • which. the entire
raison &etre of the Shrine is centred,
• Was saved from the flames. This was
found in a vault in the sacristy, some-
what scorchedebut otherwise intact, •
• Several valuable paintings and sta-
tues were saved, but the ancient bell
and the stattie to which the faithful
Attributed all the miraculolis cures,
were totally destroyed. The loss of -
this venerated statue is considered to
be irreparable.
There were no -casualties although
a panic in theameprby hospital in
which were a number of patients was
narrowly averted by the nurses and
the attach -es. Some -of the feebler ,are
said to -night to be in •a serious con-
dition, clue to shock.
• The origin of the blaze has not yet
been determined., and the suddenness
with which. it broke out and spread
cannot be explained. The first notifl-
catiot of it was given. by one) of the
brothers of the Redemptorist Order,
who was awakened by the sell of
smoke. He made his escape from the entire village would be destroyed.
MARKETS
Man. wheat --No. 1 North., $1.50;
"V.12,.1.1olib. shipping points according
public mind, which cannot be without
• its important influence upon the indi-
vidual decision leading to southbound
migration. • •
• THE NATION'S BACKBONE.
It is useful to arrive at a clear ap-
13arley-:Malting., 60 to 64c.
Buckwheat -85a nominal.
:Rye -No. 2, 91c.
Man. flour -First pat., 18.10, To -
?onto; do, 2nd pate .$7.60:
Ont. flottr-Toronto, 99 per cent.
preciation of the general economic patent, per barrel, in carlots, Toronto -
effect of an enlarged agriculture. The $5.80; seaboard, in bulk, $5.85.
average person readily gives intellect- I Cheese -New, .large, • 20 to 20%e•
ual assent to the time -worn phrase
tins, 20% to 21c; triplets, 22c. • Set.'
that agriculture is the "backbone of: .
tons, 23e. , Old, large, 26e; twins, 27c;
. •
• • the nation," but usually without pos'triplets, 28c. Old Stiltons, 30c.
prints,
Live
Butter -Finest creamery
Live convictionor 'any adequate con -
37 to 38e; No. 1 'creamery, 36 to 37c;
.
' ception of the fundamental facts of , No. 2, 35 to 36c. • Dairy prints, 29%
the case. It is generally a mere figure to 30c. •
of speech. It is, therefore wen to I Eggs -Fresh extras, in cartons, 62
consider briefly to what extent agenl to 65c; fresh extras, loose, 60 to 63e;
•I fresh firsts, 50 to 52e; fresh seconds,
85 'culture has been responsible for Gan -
material progress. Forty-one los 36c. Storege extras, 44c; do,
per cent. of our not production in the l 141114; •dSz:essrednidsdh3ilete?i "scp•
last census year was agricultural; squabs, .1 to 1% lbs-, 32 to"33c-ridgo,
thirty-three per cent. manufacturing.I spring, over 4 lbs.,' 30 to 32c; do,
Our forests, Mines, fisheries, construc-e spring, 3 to 4 lbs., 32 to 35c; do, 2%
%
tion, etc., account for the remaining i to 3lbs., 30 to 33e; do, 2 to 2%,
lbs., 30e; hens, over .5 lbs., 28c; do, 4
twenty-six per cent. Our 8 billions of,
to 5 lbs., .26c; do,43 to 4 lbs., 24c;
• agricultural capital represents 36,
P.!r. roosters, 22c; turkeys, 40e; ducklings,
cent. of Canada's total avai.ab_e 5 lbs. and up, 35c.
wealth. Urban real estate accounts1 - 'Beans --C 0
an. hand-picked, $3.3. to
•
% ,
for twenty-six per cept.; our railway, Meple produce--Syrupper Imp. $3.40 bushel; primes; $3.15 .to $3.25.
plants, 10 per cent.; forests, 5pet
mmete, gal., $2.25 to $2.30; per 5 -gal., $2.15
cent.; mines, 2% per cent.; and
• ' t,o $2 25 per 'gate -ma -see suger, lb., 25
.
facturing equipment, 2% per cent.
Honey -60 -lb. tin, 12% to 13e; 10 -
Ib. tins, 12% to 13e; 5 -lb. tins, 13 to
18%e; 2ee4b. tins, 131/2, to 14e.'
GCmb honey -$3.40 to $4 per dozen.
Smoked meats -Hams, med., 30 to
• A NEW COLONIZATION POLICY.
This gives a line on the, paramount
'position of our agricultural industly
and suggests that a policy having in
view the co.onization of Canada's 32e; cooked hams, 46 to 47c; smoked
vacant • lands along vigOi:OnS lines, rolls, 28 to 20c; breakfast bacon, 34
would speedily lead to increased pros- to 39c; backs, boneless, 35 to 42a
polity in our urban centres and should -Pitted meats ---Long clear bacon, 50
interest es.".1 classes of Canadians '..r.- to 70 lbs., $23; 70, to 90 lbs., $2L50;
-20% lbs. and up, $22.34; lightweight
respective of occupatian. Th3 Hon.
olls, in ba. heavyweight
Immigration,
Forke, Canada's new Minister of rolls, $39.50 perrrels'h$4250'
•bl.
Immigration, bas recently announced i r Lard -Pure tierces, 16 to 17%c;
his intention of speeding up the work tees, 17% to 18ce pails, 18 to 18efic;
.. of his department overseas. It is to prints, 18 to 191/2c; shortening tierces,
be hoped that his efforts will meet 12 to 123c; tubs, 12% to 18c; pails,
with every succese. His department 13 te 13%ce.blocks, 14% to 15c
lK.
squarely faces Canada's keY Proein:-1 Ilee.vy steers, choice, $6.75 to $7.25;
• do, good $6,25 to $6.50; butcher steers,
choice, $6.25 to r; do, ' good, $6 to
• DYSPEPSIA ,•
cows, chola. $4.75 to $5; do, fair to
t $6.25; do, corn., $4.o0 to $5.50; butcher
good, $3.75 to $4.50; buteher bulls,
lilade Her Filgserable good, $4.50 to $5.50; bolognas, $3.50
, to.$4; canners and cutters,;2.25 to $3;
After Every Meal good mach cows, $70 to $100; spring-
ers, choice, $30 be 4115; • med. cows,
Mrs. H. A. MOTITOO, Vernon Ont. $45 to $60; feeders, good, $6 to $6.5; •
eeteeese_hpee quite *me .airce a au& eo,e fair, $o to 46,, do, med., $7 to
•Heireeee free, ey.,001,,,ea, eme alter $9; calves, choice, $12 te • $13; do,
'cub meal Was BIOA miserable. Acting "todd# $9 to $10; do # mod., $6.50 to $9;
,
en see suggestion of 'a freieT d do eeressere, $4.50 to • $5; good
•id • iambs,
aed to ere e ' ' •- $11.75 to $12e do, bucks $9 to $9.15;
•.. , good -light sheep, $6.50 to $7.50; heavy
'
sheep and bucks, $4; hogs, thick
Itel:21...;2,,,70i.twaiti:it,18,,, a$ andlo.75w; a L:eeed t, $1p1;e61011;i adz::
f.o.h., $11; do, off cars, $12; do, coun-
try
epee noticed 1 was improving, Und
feel so Inueh relieved I can now eajoy
• the feed that is put before me."
Thai druggist es deader beadles it;
put Up Only by The, T. unborn Co.
Limited, Toreato, Ont.'
MONTRSAL.
Oats, N. 2 CW, `741/2c; do, No. 3,
‘391/2c. Flour, Man. spring wheat pats.,
firsts, e,8; do'seconds; $7.50; do,
f.roeg bakers', $7.30; do, winter pats,,
hoide, $6.60 to $6.70. Rolled oats, bag
"n lbs„ $3.75. l3ran, $28,25.- Shot•tse
80,25. Middlings, $41e25: Haer, No;
efer ton, ear Iota, $14 to
Cheeee, (meet; westse 17%c; finest
111/ec. Butter -No. 1, paeteur-
#,cel, 84 to 341/ec. Eggs-Stoeago ex-
tras, 42 to 42c; store.g.e firsiz, 38 to
89c; storage seconds, 34 to 35c; fresh
extras, 60c; fresh firsts, 48c:
Cone. bulls, e3.25 eto $3.75; cutter
cows, $2.75; poor quality calves, .$10
to $11; do, better, $11.50; grasars,
$4; hogs; thick smooths, $1175; se-
lects, $2; premium above thick smooths.
and lights, $11.25 to $1L50; sows, $10.
DESPERATE CONVICTS
FELL THREE GUARDS
Thirteen Break From, Peniten-
tiary After Savage Revolver
Battle.
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 8. -Thirteen
Ohio Penitentiary prisoners, including
five serving life terms for murder, all
members of the "Red Shirt Squad,"
classed as too desperate to work, felled
three guards- at the mairi entrance of
the institution to -day and. tramped
through to the street outside. '
-.Twelve were back ie. the peniten-
tiary, whoe posses searched the coun-
tryside for the other one.
The break for liberty was made as
visitors were being...let in.' Women
screamed as aepandernenium of shote
and shouts broke out and the rushing
prisoners pushed them % aside. The
then were armed with. crude knives,
revolvers snatched from guards,
heavy iron hooks and_ a stoat table
leg. All cells were quickly locked;
and the visitors scrambled to safety.
Warden P.reetiin E. Thomas shot
ohe oe the fleeing prisoners as he ran
past • the prison office, and 'another
was hauled down by a fleet -footed
guard near the penitentiarsr wa.Ns.
Nine of the convicts seized an auto:.
mobile and drove for about 30 miles
before they were overhauled and
forced to take" refuge in a cornfield.
A hail of bullets frorr-rifles and shot-
guns of the possemen drove thern out
of the field to capture.
Measles More ,Feared
Than Scarlet Fever
London. -Authorities here have dis-
covered that measles, once regarded
with humorous scorn, are far more td
be feared than the ,hitherto dreaded
scarlet fever. Fifteen years ago, when
the Metropolitan Asylum board de-
cided to receive measles patients in
their hospitals, it :was agreed that the
claims of those suffering from scarlet
fever should have priority.
This week it was decided that the
preference should be revised in view of
the much higher mortality of metes
and its greater destructive effects on
child life. For some unaccountabre
reason messes has become a deadlier
disease, while scarlet fever has lost Is
virility. Out of every million people
living during the last fiftee,n years in
london, 251 died aneteally pf measles ,
arid 42 'from scarlet fever.
,
60 -Year -Old Crack in
Big lien is Revealed
-------
London-Big Bee, the largest clock
bell in the woeld, and which strikes
the quarters from the tower of the
Houses of Parliament at WestminSter,
is cracked. This revelation was mede
by William HOughton, a member of ,
the Ancient Soceety of College Youths,
England's oldest bellringing fratern-
ity, who has been making an inventory
of London's bens , for phonograph
records
The bell, Which weighs' thirteen and
e half torts, has kept this seeret for
sixty yearti, for it is rtow disc:deed that,
the crank developed when it as cast
in 1858. A lio:e was then bored in the
bronze to prevent the crack from ex-
tending, and 13ig Ben has been do.
olared as healthy tooley es he ever
WAS.
Bad Taste In Mouth
Dizzy Spells
When your liver becomee sluggish'
and meetive pen-, whole Isealtit Refers.
Your hewels beeeme constipated, the
tongue coated, the breath foul and you
get bilious and dizzy spelle,
Keep your liver active end working
properly by usiog
Milburn's
Mise Emma McMahon, Verona, Ont.,
Writes -"1 Ives treubled for about
two years willt my erver, and when 1
• would got up in the Mose:dug my
tongue would be coated and I had a
bad taste in 'My mouth; would take
dizzy spells, become faint and get
sick to my stomach.
, A frieed advised, me to use Milburn's,
Laxa-Liver Pills so 1 got four vials
of them and when I lied finished the
last I eait trutlifully seer they did me
good."
• Prieo 25c. a vial at all dealers, or
mailed direct ore receipt of price by
The T. Melburn Co., Lbnited, Termite,
Ont. •
•DUCK HUNTER DROWNS
IN SCUGOG MARSHES
Young Scot, W. G. Dean, Was
Prominent in Financial and
Social Circles in Toronto.
Port Perry. -His body firmly held
in the cockpit of bis duck boat, Wils
liam George Dean, aged 26 years, Of
116 South Drive,_ Toronto, was found
drowned in the marshes of Lake Scu-
gog about a mile and a quarter south
of her. Alone at the time, Mr. Dean,
it was surmised, had in some manner
• upset the frail craft and had beenem-
able teextrica.te himself.
Mr. Dean waa well known to To-
ronto society as the son-in-Iaw of F.
G. Osler, -of Osler & Hammond, To-
ronto brokers.
The upturned boat was discovered
by E. F. Osier of Bionte, uncle of the
drowned 'man's wife; and Samuel
Wakeford and Jack Murray of Port
sPerry,"the latter being an employee of
the duck -shooting club to which the
others belonged.
The four men had been out shooting
together, nd Mr. Dean had been left
by himself in his duck boat in one
"hide," while the other three went
further through the marsh. The last
time that they heard him shoot was
at 1.30 p.m. When he was taken from
the water it was found that his watch
had stopped at 2.15 p.m., so that it is
likely that he was precipitated into
the water either at or slightly before
that time.
Mr. Dean was born in Aberdeen,
Scotland, and was a graduate ef Ox-
ford. He came to Canada late in the
spring of 1925, a,nd on June 3 of that
year was married ia §t. Thomas's An-
glican Church, Toronto, to Miss Phyl-
lis Amy Osier, daughter of F. G. Osier.
He and the format. Miss Osier had met
some months before while she was
visiting' the Old Country.
He wee' Assistant Manager of the
Canadian ,Mortgage Investment Co.;
Toronto. During the war he held a
commission in an Imperial rpgiment,
and was wounded On active service.
Ferdinand's Death Car
Takes Four in Final Crash
London. -The World's, unluckiest
automobile has come to a bad end.
The car in -which the Archduke For-.
dinand and his wife were assassinated
at Serajevo on June 28, 1914, with the
• first shots of the great war, lies' been
completely destroyed after four Per-
sons lost their livesein its filial ad-
venture,. according to dispatckes from
Vienna.
During the war the automobile was
kept in the Vienna museum, from
•Which it passed into the hands of the
Jugoslav Governor of Bosnia. • This
official had so many accidents that he
sold it and theenesse owner was found
dettl in a ditch with the car on top
of hien. The family then sold the car
to Tibor Hirschfield a motor dealer
in• the Transylvania town of .Tordo.
Unable to find anybody ready to take
a chance on owning I, the dealer used
it himself. Driving to a wedding he
colaided head on with another auto.
Four passengers were killed and the
_car was wrecked.
Hon, P. J. Veniot and Mrs. Veniot.
Hon. P. J. Venice, Canada's neW
• postmastengeueral, a. former' prime
Minister of New Brunswick, and •a
deecenclaat of the 18th century
Acatlians.
TRAPPING TRIP IN
NORTH HAS TRAGIC END
Two Brothers Started, One
Returns Bearing Body of
the Other.
Fort William, Ont. -Bringing with
him the body of his brother, Mike
Turecki, a young trapper, arrived here
after a long journey, partly by canoe
and partly"by rail, from Irish Lake
portage, beyond English River. •
The dead man is Lewis Turecki, 24,
and the two arrived at Irish Lake
portage last Thursday, when the fatal
accident occurred. They hailed from
Armstrong's Creek, Wis., and had in-
tended to put in the winter trapping.
Thursday evening they started to
get supper and Lewis. went down to
the canoe for provisions. In some
uneplained manner a .22 calibre rifle
in the aanoe was discharged and Lewis
was shot in the heed. He lost con-
sciousness and died in his young brier
ther's arms two hours later. ,
Mike, who is 21 'years old, would
not leave his brother until the end
came. Then he naddled 25 miles for
help. The tragedy means the end of
the -dream of the two brothers to live
a life of adventure and amass a coin-
Petence as trappers.
Forty-six Shorthorns
. Bring Average' of $125
London. -Forty-six Shorthorn cat-
tle Were sold here at the auction held -
by the Western Ontario Coneignment
Sale Co. Twenty-five animals brought
over $100. The average price 'was
aheut $125.- Elm Guard, a redenutle,
champion bull of the show, held pre-
ceding the sale, entered by R. arid S.
Nicholson of Parkhill, was sold to
John E. Hardy of Northwood for $155.
Ridgebank Duchess of Gloster, eecond
Grand Championship Cup winner, en-
tered by A. W. Barrett of Parkhill,
went to J. E. Ellis of Blyth at $125.
Tp prices for males was $175 for
Marshal Royal, entered by A. W. Bar-
rett of Hyde Park, and sold to George
Wettlauffer, New Hamburg. Two fe-
males brought $150 each, as top price
-Gains Pride, entered by George Fer-
guson of Elora and bought by We':
Gibaon of.Koniolca, and Lady May,
entered by Percy Sutherland; and
bought by Noel Gibson,
Farrner is Killed
When Struck by Car
• London, Ont. -Hubert Grover, a
middle-aged Ekfrid Township farmer,
was instantly killed near Melbourne
Sh! when struck by an auto driven by John
e Coughed Vincent Huddard of Toronto.
Day and Night of wood when the auto struck him.
'Grover was walking behind a load
His body wascrushed, his neck broken,
Until She Used • and one seg was severed. The body
.
was thrown into Iludderd's car, which
Dr. Wood's
• Norway
Pine
Syrup
• errs. Bowden le. •'Murphy, North
In gon ish, N.S., ev ri tes:-..`€Some time '
ago ,I took a severe "cold and it
,setteed on rey lungs.
I coughed day and nigete and had
such severe pains io chest epuld
hardly beat it.
One day a efierel told me to get a
bottleof ler, Woodet Norway pito
Syrup, so T. got a bottle end after I
had taken tt eouplo of docs my cough
seemed to bo gettiog better, so got the
secoiel bottle and eater 1 had lewd
flint t was cempletely rid of" my
troubie"
I'tice Ur, a bottle, large family size
60e.; put up °illy by The T. Millman.
Co., Limited, Teronto, Out.
went into the ditch, throwhig Hud -,3
dard and the corpse egainst a fence.
The body was between Huddard and
the fence and this, undoubtedlyd
the • save
• •-t f • seriousinjuries,
of the horses was so badly hurt that
ithad to be killed, „
Huddard is under arrest on a charge
of matslaughter.
Six Motorists Are Injured
As Car Plunges 50 Feet
,r,•.* •
Halitax'S, 'Theresa 0'.
Hearn of eidetey was seriously injur-
ed and five others were badly shaker,
up when a car in which they were
driving to IIitlifax from New Glasgow
left • the road near Waverley and
plunged dowe .50 -foot embankment
to the vratera of DockY Lake.
•
•
FAMOUS SURGEON
CALLED BY DEATH
Dr. John Wishart, Long As-
sociated With Western
versity, Dies in London.
London, Ont, -Dr, John Wisbart ef
Defferin Avenue, for mealy years 0110
of the most distinguished of Loeclee's
surgeors, and a leader of the older
sehool in his profession, died early
Thursday morning in St. JosePli's
Hospital, Dr. Wishart' had been ill
for some months, and recently ell hope
for his recovery had beer). abandoned,
Dr. Wishart, who was the eon of
a farmer, was born near Guelph, and
commenced life as 4 school teacher in
his own home district. Subsequently
he studied medicine under Dr. Grooves
at Trinity CoNege Medical School in
Toronto. He proceeded later to Eng-
land, and secured the degree of M.R.
C.S. He travelled the world for years
as a ship's surgeon, notably on a line
to India and the Orient. He made,
ninny voyages also to Australia, South
Africa and 'South America. He en-
dured a hurricane off Gape Hatteras,
witnessed many battles between
Europeans and native tribes in Africa
and had many interesting stories a
the loading of ships by slaves under
vicious slave-drivers.
He came to London in the seventies
to establish what later became a not-
able practice, and he was associated
foema.ny years with the late Dr. F. R.
Eccles. He was one of the founders
of the Medical College of the 'Univer-
sity of Western Ontario, and served
as a member of the faculty until 1910.
Settlers From U.S.
Ottawa, Ont-Inanigration to Can-
ada of farm settlers from the United
States for the month of September
was particularly active, according to
regorts received from the agencies of
the Dept. of - Immigration and Colon-
ization. Last month the agency at
Fargo, North Dakota, headed the list
of the 18 agencies of the Department
in the United States with a total of
675 persons sent to Canada, an in-
crease of No •over ,September, 1925.
These 675 settlers brought with theca
cash and effects valued at $726,095.
Only 10 wereniot of the farming class.
• The agent at Syracuse, N.Y., re-
ports that -more settlers have been
sent to Canada through his office since
April ist, this year, than in any year
since 1915. Reports for last month
from the other agencies show increas-
ed migration of the best class of farm
settler, when compared 'with Sep-
tember in recent years. , •
Parliament Soon ,to Meet.
Ottawa, Ont. -It is expected that
the next session of the Canadian Fed-
eral Parliament will be opened on or
about December 7th next. Before leav-
ing for thenImperial Gonference, now
in session in London, England,
Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime
Minister of Canada, stated that he
hoped to call Parliament to Meet early
in December. Considerablebusiness
that was not completed when Parlia-
Meet dissolved last, StIMIYISI7 will be
taken up and disposed,of at the foeth-
coming session; whichhvin be opened
by His Excellency Lord Willirrgdon,
Governee-General of Canada.
Prince of Wales to be Invited
to Ottawa Ceremony
.Ottawa. -The Prince of Wales will
be. invited to officiate at the fennel,
opening of the c`arillore of 53 bells in
the Victory Tower on Parliament Hill
some time in May, itt the event of his
acceptance of the invitation to come
to Canada to open the Peace Bridge
between Fort Erie and Buffalo. His
Royal. Highness laid the corner -stone
of the tower upon the occasion of his
first visit to Canada, seven years ago.
• Pianist Still Plays, at 100.
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Berlin.-Heinrich Xrause, a former
teacher at Brc,skau, is showing the
world that one can stieI play the piano
at the age of 100. Though he gave up
regular teactileg twenty-seven years
ago, he continues to play for an hour
or more every day.
V
Distinguished Canadians
To Receive Queen's Degrees
Kingston.
Governor-General of Canada, has con-
sented to accept the degree of Doctor
of Laws from Queen's University at
the fall Ckmveration ,on Nov. 12, and
it -was eanotinced at the university
that Queen's will at the same time con-
fer the same degree on Sir X. A. X.
Ailsins of Winnipeg and Sir Clifford
Stfton of Toronto.
eritain Once Aided Lottertee
The aritieh goyerameat it ono time
promoted lottertea, the famous British
eduseum having been rounded by one
whine raised $500,000 to purcbase the
colectlon or Sir Hate Sloaue,
Edmonton, Alta,. -Tho stew variety
of wheat christened "Ieniveteity A2"
has done Afty bushels to the sere on a
farm near here. This preduce of the
experimental /dote at the University
of Alberta has already much more to
its credit then ill generally realised
1 VVILLIAIVI CA
For more thaft4 ceetury and 4 exit
• after the «eatI et Chaueer, there 'wars?
•no• authors who eould hear any cool-
Parisort with him, either in genine OP
lu creative power.
And while there coatioucti to be
some degree of literary ;activity, the
'movement and the growth seemee
very slow and fiteul, until during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, When there
was a billet of intellectual activity and
a galaxy of Inteelectuel chiefs, that
have eaused that period to be rememe
bored as the mast brilliant eaeen in,
literary history.
• But, befoee we passon, to the Illizte
bethen age, w inuat pause to consider
the work of a man whose claim te
honor ate reniembrance mate on a
surer foundation than his own literary •
productions. His name was William-
Caxtn. He was ixster la Kent, about
1412.
In youth, he was seAt to London,
and apprenticed to a mereer-a, dealer
in silks and woolens. Atter a few
.yea,rs, his master died, and Caxton
went abroad, probably, it is tb.creght,
as the agent of the London Mercer
Coraehny.
It was about this time that Laurence
Coster, "in the woods of Haarlem, had
shaped his letters out of beech -bark,
and had. looked with, delight upon the
Impression left by the sap upon the
parchment in which he had wrapped
them."
invented Type and Press.
Gutenberg, of 1VIentz, caught sight of
these letters and their imprint, and he
conceived: the idea that he could in-
vent a process by which the impres-
sion of letters ecu -id be taken, and used
in suoh a way that the. manuscript
co:ples of works could be changed to
printed copies.
He shut himself up in a. ruined mon-
astery, near Strasbourg, and went to
work. He invented the type and press,
the in.k and inking bans, with winch
the feet printing wan done.
Caxton, who had continued to live
upon the Continent, became much in-
terested, -and decided to study the art
of printing at a time whe.n, he must
have been about fifty-nine years old.
It is thought that he learned at Co,
logne, at considerable expense, as he
himself says.
He bought type, and it was at Co-
logne, in 1471, that he printed the
"History of Troy," a. French work,
which he had translated -"the first
English book that 'ever came from any
press.'
Perhaps, although he had lived so
many yeatm away from Engand, 12,0
atill lo-ved her as "his own, bisliertife.''
land," and desired that she should be
the partaker, at least, of the betefits
which the new art he had 'mastered
would unquestionably bestow.
Iidevever that may be, not long af-
terWard he was in London, and had
his press esteblished in working order
id -the ahnonry of Westneinster.
First Publication.
The first book publiehed. in 'England
was also a translation from the Frenely
by.Caxton, entitled, "The Game and
Playe ef Chess, eransaated out of the
French, fyuysshid the la.st day of
Marche, 1474." A second edition of
this work was the first tenglish book
.illtistated with wood-egts.
'The, first press was, of course, a very -
imperfect and rude affair, yet it was
the kernel from which has grown the
mighty tree whose roots and branches
extend over all the civilised world,
The printing of a book, then, was a
long, laborious task, while now books
and papers are printed itt such 111111'i.
bers that if you were to devote your
whole time to reading „you would be
unable to read more than a very email
proportioxi of the whole.
The binding of Caxton's books was
very substantial. After the proof was
correeted and the sheets were printed, '
they were sewed together in a rude
frame, hammered thoroughly to make
them fiat, the backs well covered with
paste and glue, "the pages were in-
closed in beards -veritable boards --
thick pieces of wood like the panel of
a door, covered outside with ernboseed
and gilded leather and thicki,v studded
with brass nails, whose ornamental
heads shone in manifold rows.
Thick brass corners aud zolici deeps
completed the fortifications of the
book, which has borne ,such rich Bad
bounteous blessings.
• bne can but think tenderly, too, 'rf.
the gray-haired man who 'devoted the.
lest twenty years Of We to a work
which he must have loved so dearly!
But there came a day, when he wee
near eighty years of ate, "when the
door of the painting office was slrut,
and the •elank of the prees unheard
adtbin." •
William Caxton was dead. dna ef
his aseiStants, "Wynkyn De Worde,
kept an with the buSiness.
Another man. Richard Pyrisoie
had also been Otte of Caxton's assist,
ants, sleeted in tfusinese for himself
a‘ad succeeded So welt that he
wee a.ppointed King's Printer, "beieg
the first on the long list hearing thet
title."
Isaac Wee laneeent.
laaac's shop was on lire, end the flee.
mere were on Gielr way.
AS
soon ei they errived, one 0C them
gale• "I think we'd better tre aud get
out Rome of tlie paraphernalia."
Iseec got, alarmed.
"Oh, rue gentlemen:" he eliented. "1
cnn VSSAIre you there is no paraffin, oil
there!"
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