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The Exeter Advocate, 1922-2-2, Page 3PRINCE OF WALES WITNESSES ROUND -UP OF IYILD ELEPHANTS A deepateb. teem Myaere, Indian The Pr:n:1e f Wales witnessed the ea:y;--The Prime of Wetes wale en: drive from a steeo'sal platform thirty eye witarees at the unusual epeobacletfeee flea ale., csf aroundan of -wild elephants. 'Met Every d''.ffesult mareenver in getting rountletaa was held on the bask of the, the captives in the roping ring was Kubbard River, forty-six miles south I applauded 1>y the Prime, It Was lee of the easoitel (Mocere) taf the pro-Ixciting whet:, fires were burn - 1 ed behind the elepheats. The fire, The re:As:twee el the eaptivee wasl however, titsd not hold the will beasts 'eo vigorous and determined tbat °ay, from furious cittompts to eseape. The four out of twentytelght were finally big tusker leading the defence charged driven, lute the roping ring and tied the tarne elephants beirg used to help r.ps -during the time that the Prince; herd the wild ones. Foliewed by the watched the eperatierse. other ealiti:vee the tuslrer fereed his The hereof wild elephauts had becnjway back to the jungle, all except four gathered and ternentx-ated during the of the younger one, cseaping. One hast two months by forest efficiale,1 young tasker lay on the ground weep - who cut *6 a track a jungle. I in g in sheer rage. HEROIC ACTION OF Wirth Announces INDIAN 14 YEARS OLD New German Taxes Boy Defies Bitter Cold and Saves Orphaned Brothers. A despatch from Port William sayS1-Fiv children,. ranging in age' from leee then a year to 12, have reaelted Weteomb, en the 0u/4db-a Govertenent Railesey, saved by their 14syter-old brother after enduring terrible bartiehips in the wilderness. With his wife and hinatelf dyiag. front tufts:ems, A:tante Nan Tualteest an Indian treanier, 'called his eldest ace, Atehimo„ 14, to his bedside and ave him $1,200, the fru & of hie' trannhate, And bude him tare for the !children. • The .eante day, january 13, both peteuts died. Unable to bury the belies, the boy 'sat these frozen solid in the eleetic, with the Ave ye:mg chit deen, and. eet out on snowshoes to fetch rreares.t neighbor, 80 miles Away. When he returned with :rein Bin georsh. two days later, the five •01:11 - then, ineluding the hnby, were gnaw- ing raw armee flesh, the Only foes Ole, shack, and had burned .evereerap of furniture to keep from freezing; Iiingeosh, and yourn Atelihno paokad them on the dog el'jd and muehed 4371. to Wateeub, •telse-re all Obtained food and 1110fikad, Utitentico. lite infant, it feettd, tray site. Compact, Facts, Canada, A -coal fire whiett lees been hurling for over one hundred and thirty years is eorrevolxit a a luxury in these days Or high .privefoe. Suet: a fire, 11Z-WE'Ve.T, f01111;314.1101IX the MkellZit. River, where a seam a ecAl is stilt burning ws in 17/19 nben sent by Sir Alex:teller Maekenzie. Caneda hes Targe reaerves a coal, but it is eituated in the cuatern and v. -eaten:, portione of the -country. The, only -coal fi.e'ds. on the sea. coasts. of Nv'rth Ante:lea are in Canada. Me deposits of bituminete. an along the Athabaska River are from 150 to 200 feet -thiek, from when, &awn by the heat a the sem, tar runt into deep pools. This !deposit pre,sents the larget known ezeure ruses of solid tlf,*.n14ic material. Surh facts .as the above are a revels-. tion to many of our people. but are only it few of the many contained in 1112W edition of a borolclet "Compact FAIsts., •Conada" jut issued by the Natutol Re'30LIT4168 Intelligence Branch of the Depaotment ef the Interior at, Ottawa, from ahem copies may be ebtained. Saar Valley Trouble Caused by Berlin A despatch from London says: - Ward has ;been revolved by London friende of R. D. Waugh, ex -Mayor of \Vint:Meg, who is the Canadian mem- ber -of the Saar Valley Camonissions that the League of Nations has ex- tended his apaeintment for another year. Mr. Waugh says that all the recent trauble in the Saar Valley has been caused by propaganda engineered from Berlin. Warships Supply Germans With Raw Material A deepateh from Berlin says : -A big Gartman fuen, awarding to the At Ulinallsendblatt, has purchased about; thirty British warships for de- molition. Its objeet is to provide raw material: for German industries. The peke is repoeted to have been .about £500,000 sterling. emelaar•J A despalx11. front Berlin says: :..The German Chancellor, Dr. Wirth, announced in the Reich- stag on Thursday the Govern- raent's new taxation proposals. They are; First, a compulsory loan of a billion marks gold, bearing in- A 131RO'S-EY,-, ViEW OF THE CHIPPAWA POWER CANAL This satotogranh gives an idea or the immensity of the canal, and the beautiful country it paeees through. In the distance can be seen the Niagara River, tato which the called discharges, -are LONDON AND WASHINGTON IVE terest only after three years, In- tended to govern the budget ex- penditure for 1922, not relating to posts and railways; second, abandonment of the tax on post- war profits; thira, a two per cent. business tax; fourth, the duty on coal raised to 40 par cent, duty on sugar to be fifty marks per 100 kilogrammes. The taxation proposals of Dr. Wirth will increase the property tax by 200 pe cent, United States' Bill for Lusitarna is $16,000,000 A deepateli from Washington says: -America's bill against Ger- many for the sinking of the Lusitania is 316,000,000. Following announcement that all elanne will be taken un by a special eenntal...on, a, -ace: ee the enabling treaty tan lee retitled, State Dealt' ment Otte:ale est:meted that the grand total is in the neigh/so:hood of $750,- 000,000. Many of these are "unorov- ed," however, end the final -amount will be considerably smaller, it was stated. FRENCH GOVERNMENT RUDE AWAKENING Plain Speaking by Britain and the. United States Reveals the Hard Truth to French Politicians. emamanwmpolali,Vagia me. A despatch tram Paris eayse-ifor.-es which are ane of the principal This may be recorded, in Drench cares Of blonotaa'Y infiatiom politicas a day of sznanening. A real:Thi, ou1edt7iiththillte erlegtrar dispeeition to heed whatia oeing eaid: Hagler, ebjeetsg to gaifram ts; toeTenrkelYa by other nations, whieh bats been evinst uniete France Induces her army and pletely absent is now being displayed.; balances her budget, and earodid :Ina- ne double eold deurhe, whieh earn I sages front the London c arreepondenta, French readers that English simultaneously from Washington mull tlAytion b hostile to premien pain,. London, b responsible for this Change' slave mcounnationn of the Anglo of attitude by diplomats, politioians French pnet, impels the frank. ad'mis- and publicists. While there is still; Flom "Or ease is as bad in WAshing- eonsolerable blustering in retort to the; ton as it is in LG111311• rhe seine plMn speaking by the United States, t oftleial Teinps 1,s so perplexed ever there is an obvious undercurrent of t the attitude of the United States an dismay, together with the dawning of, the Genoa confer: enoe that it an a realization of the hard truth by nounres that it will not llisetps it, publimen, avoiding the issue by saying that as e To them the severest thoelt has beenthe news cows by Ivey of London, given by the Hoover Commission's re-: it may be inexest, but aiding, It is port calling for the reduction of the diffieult for ue to believe that the _nee_ He Spoke in Time. amount of German reparations to' United States Government has really within the capacity of that nation to made an injurious comparbon between d tb redoetion of the armedi the Bolshevist army and the army of fl F forces ef certain European nationeit rare.' A certain clergyman in the United States who -counselled a young woman of his flock against marrying a. young man whose farnily history revealed his' Playing the Game. unfit:lees for marrioge, is to be tom - cd. The aggrieved suitor pro- ceeded to bring another suit against the mintster; but the jury, after very brief deliberation, has brought in a verdict far the -clergyman. If etanybody showed the same cour- ageous frankness in giving ,warning to Ooze eontemplating matrimony, there would be a corerider!able reduction in the number of non-eugenie marriages. There would not be so many innocent children paying for the marital mis- takes 'of their progenitors. "Marrying parapets" and complaisant justices of the peace, with an eye to the fees and, not to the unborn, often sin avinett the future of the race. At present those who insist on mental and physi- cal well-being as a prerequisite to a matrimonial alliance are to some ex- tent pathfindere; before long they will. find theme -elves on a broad and beaten! highway travelled by the thoughtful portion of mankind. pay, an e 50,000,000 Words in New English Dictionary A despatch from London nays: -An Oeferd dietiones..y begun in 1879- by the late Sir Juntas Murray is now nearing completion. When finished the dietioavasy will fill 'more than 15a 000 pages, and will contain -about 50,- 000,000 printed words. Sir James Murray; who diad in 1915, rose every enonting at 8 a'eleek to evork on the dictionary and 'continued on his task foe the gneatee part of the day. It took hint two menthe to deal with the history of "to" as used with an in- finitive. The best way to understand any game is not to look on, but to play it; not to reed the rules, but to apply them. Those who Are engaged in earning a living have a sympathetic toMpre- h•ension of the lot of the toilers, that is not to be gamed from being coddled and box:died in., the lap of idle luxury. They who hear music played 'enjoy it the more and understand it the bet- ter from knowing even a little about musical performance from .their own practice. One fuels the pessimists in ebb World !chiefly in the ranks a those on whose hande time is hanging heavily. The optimists areearring so bully that they haven't tittle to note every- thing that might or does go wrong. The gloomy ones would like to halt those who are playing the game by demonstrating to them that the eut- look is hopeless and victory. is im- possible. But they ;who. Are in the 'thick of things havebeard all these old, wort -n- ewt objections many times. They are stele ,of the words "imprudent" or "im- possible.'.' _They have lest patience with the heldbatks, the staudpettees Who would prevent them from launch - Mg out and: pushing on. "Letts gel" That soldier slogan was a good one for us all. Before You set clown life in !general as a de±usion, and your own pantieularr life as a failure, try the experitnent of living with all your might. Those who cavil et the universe are uetielly these 'Who are afraid of the open; who shrink away from blow JuSr suriPos- 11;410)50..T.5 iaq oNE..t, CrseJO! • ea! Horses Displaced in the Royal Artille A despatch from London :aye: -The London Daily News un-; derstands that tile War Office is substituting aflOtor tractors for t horses in every branch of the Royal .Artillery. The orange will i enable the Government to make A ten per cent. r duthon in the personnel. Alt Helium in World Used by U.S. Navy A clef:Taub' from Nen-port Neon,. Va.ea:-The werld'e supply of helhnu,.erreaced in the herr of the; direer., C-7 at the IIteup.oa Rea naysd Lase, is to be compressed: and • sent else;sliere., The C-7 is to be fluted ,before February 1. The gas, it is andereteed„ will be; taken to another etatien for eaperi-a! mental purposes. The C-7 reeently and bruises into some warm and flecee- lined, upholstered retreat. From their environment of torpor and languor they !derlaim against risk. They decry the notion of a ruling power in mortal aftairs that eould per -1 mit suffering. But .suffering is part ef the neees. sary discipline for us all. If we had , no bad times, we never !should know, what the good onee are like. It is be- eause mueli of life cleats so routsbly• ! ith iss that we find such exquisite: her:pines-a when the rare golden hours come. Those hours are more than worth the rest. 1 One Member More for Coast Province A despatch from Ottawa, °Met says:-Censta returns for British' Columbia show a population of 523,- 869. This wil1 give an inerease of only one in the parliamentary representa- tion cif the penvinee. As the three Vane-anew eonstithenties have an ag- gregate population of 176,447, the ad- ditional member will probably be al- lotted to that !city. Fire Breaks Out in Historic Fredericton Building A !despatch from Fredericton, N.B., nays: -The wooden building et the corner at Queen, Street encl Ohancery Lane, which bore a. tablet !showing it was he structure in which the legis- lature of New Brunswick first met in F.:mete:Acton in 1788, was 'gutted by fire Thursday afteeneon. Exrpiosion of an oil stove is said to have started the blaze. REC. LA11YEILERS:rby sGene Byrn is N -it) 1 ?or N"rWo 012,?1\146.5 •TtilS 15'iseSianat- Ptt4re 11-kMt. OPdat-14ess \la -1-BiNat 13 rteKe..1- eneD roe/R. coleesi-4 45 Olatn.IP- N. t!tse-1" 1-loW MF\E-A•I oRiNt,les WOUL.1) 1 J IsAvtiE. DU(N4 HOW MAN(? INSANE POILUS MAY DIE UNKNOWN' Six French SokUers. Found' Wandering Between Linea Are Still Unidentified. A despatch from Pads- Fleets:tee Among the moat pathetie eseemels the war is the erudition of six French' prisonerwho were returned to Fratiect from Germany after the Armistice and who are still unidentified. They are insane end were found wanderieg be tweets. the lines, The Germans did not identify them, but kept them in a bolted unt,it after tee armistice wee signed, when they sent them biome. The men never reeeeered their reasoe, however, ard all aorta to ident them Lave failed, altheugh the Minis. try a Pensions has dela: everything possible in this eourection. The next step will be to publish their pleitograche in every newspaper in France and to have their pictures shown in every einem: theatre in this 'country. en thie, however, is corn sidered deubtfal of results, as it is quite pensible they are foreigners who volunteered to light fer Freeze. There - fare they most pa:I-ably win remein "urknawn eolcliere until death re ra lete a them. University Finances. The authorities ef. . the provinalal university went befere, the Ontario Government last week with the builds ing program fer the next three yeare. Four buildings, it was stated, are long overdue and -should: he eanunenced et era*. Ileac are a forestry and botany building. a womer.'s building for fe- male student' reside:tees and gyrate asium, either an adminetention ing to relieve University College of the executive daces or an exteneion to provile the neeessary cisanroore ae- vornmodation for University Colleges and, a supplementary heating plant. One 'ani A half million 'airs, areared now but epread aver three yeare, would enable the Ur.itternity a To- roato te commenee these Teter urgently needed buildiegs at once., Pearson E5tate Left Entirely to Family A dope:tell from Lenten tesyse-The wth of the late Sir Arthur Pe -4/-60a, founder of St. Dranstanfe Institution for the Blind, has beer. prehated. The estate is valuezi1•4t 494 000, and is left entirely to the family. There are 1-14 Vell$ given a elklOCSSfIll, test. - able bequests. Weekly Market Report Toronto. si.l:310:141.toba wheat -No. 1 Northern, -tanitoba oats -No, 2 CW, 557o; extra No. 1 feed, 6214e; No. 1 'ec.1. Manitoba barley -Nominal. All the :above, track, Bay ports. Ames -lean eorn-No. 2 yelicer, 30I-ae; No. a yelloes. tinier; No. 4 yellow, 67e; track, Toronto. Ontario- ,este-No. 2 tyllite, nominal, Ontario -wheeb-Neminal. Barley -No. 8 extra, test 47 lbs or better, 57 to '60c, aecording tofreights *out side. Buckwheat-No. 2, 78 to 80c. Rye -Ne. 2. 86 to 88e. Manitoba fieue-First pats., 37.40; second. pats., 36.90, Toronto. Mar:Unita flour -90 per eeat. pat., hulk, seaboard per barrel, $5. Millfeed-Del. Montreal freights-, bags ineludedi Bran, per ton, 328; shorts, per ton, 330; good feed flour, 31.70 to $1.80. Baled haye-Track, Toronto, per ton, No. 2, $21.50 to $22; mixed, $18. Straw -Car lots. per ton, 312. Cheese -New, large, 20 to 201,ee; twine, 20t to 212; triplets, 21 to 21aasc. Old, large, 25 to -26c; twine, 25ee to 2634,e; triplets, 26 to 27c; Stiltons, new, 25 to 26c. Butter -Fresh dairy, 'thoioe, 28 to 35e; ereamery. pent% fresh, 88 to 48e; No. 2, 34 to He; cooking-, 25 to 26e. Dressed, poultry -Spring elliekens, 30 to 38e; roosters'20 to 25e; fowl, 28 to 32e; !duckling -a 32 to 34c; turkey, 50e; geese, 30c. Live poultry -Spring obi:skew, 22 to 28e; roosters, 18c; fowl, 20 to 28e; ducklings, 32e; turkeys, 40 to 45e; geese, 20e, Margarine -20 to 23e. Eggs -No. 1 atoeage, 35 to 38c; new laid !straighta 52 tot 54e; stew laid, in oartons, 54 to 56e. Beans -Can. Itsaideptekeds bushel, $3.30 to $3.50; primes, 32.80 to 33.10. Maple produrts-Syrup, per imp. gale 32.50; per 5 imp. gala, $2.35; Maple ugar. Ib., 19 to 22e. Honey -60-3041e tins, 1414 to 15: per lb.; 5-21a.-14. tins, 17 to 18e per lb.; Ontario comb honey, per doz., 33.75 to $4,50. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 25 to. 27e; rooked ham, 36 to 40c; en:eked rolls, 23 to 24e; !cottage relle, 25 to 27e; breakfast bacon, 25 to 30e; speritd brand breakfast bazon, 30 to 35e; backs, boneless, 32 to 36e. Cured meats -Long clear 'bacon, 13 to 20e; Thar bellies, 18AO to 201t -s. Lard -Pure tiereea, 1/11:a to 14e;, tube, 14 to 1.4; ;ails: 143t 1-5e; prints, 1637a to 17c. Shortening tiereee, 13c; tubs; 131eic; pails, 14c; prints, 15le. Choice heavy steers, 37.50 to $8; do, good, $7 te $7.50; butcher steers:- theice, 36.50 to 37.25; do, good, 35.75 to 36.25; do, med., 85 to 35.50; do, cam., 34 to 35; buteher heifers.- choice, 36.50 to 37; do, med., $5.4 to 36.50; do. corn., 34 to 34.25; butcher tows, choice, 35 to 36.50; do, inert, $8.50 to 34.50; canners, and eutters. 32.50 to 38; but- cher bulls, good, 34.50 to 36; do, come $3 to 34; feeders, good, 35 to 36; do, fair, $4 to $5; stockera, goad, $4 to 35; do, .fair, 33 to 34; milkers, 360 to- $80s sprmeees 370 to 390; ealvea :choke 312 to 312.50; do. med.. 39.50 te $10.50; do, com., 36.50 to 37.50; lambs, choice, 311 to 312.50; da come 36 to $7; eheep, choice, $45.50 to 86.50; do, good34 to, 35; do, con., 31.50 to 33; hogs, fed ,and watered, $12.25 to 312.50; do, Lode, 311.50 to 311.75; do, country points, 311.20 to 311.50. Montreal. Oats, Case West. Ne. 2, 59 to 60es de, No. 3, 57 to 58e. Flow, Man, Spring wheat pats., firste! $7.50. Rolled oats, bag of 90 lbs., 32.85 to 32.95, Bran, 328.25. -Shorts!, 33025. nay( No. 2, per ton, ear luta $27 to 328. Butter, eholcest creamery, 86cs Eggs, seleobecil, 34 to 35e. Potatoes per bag, oar lots, 31.21 to $1.25. ILL (10 , • I ne.) yitocs