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The Clinton News Record, 1920-2-5, Page 3BIG INFLUX OF IMMIGRATION TO. CANADA EXPECTED DURING 1920 'S5''ith c0ud9ttons feet returning to normal, Ganada is promised this year a 1naterial, inereaie in immigration. Plaits are now being laid by. the de. ge Pertinent in charof suell,°'work to' twice .care of the anttolpated influx, Last year 40,000 Mem came from the United Suttee and settled in this country, and ibis year it is estimated .the number will not be leas than 00,. 000. It IS reported by inunim:titfou`inane°. tors that a large number of persons from the Western and Middle States, • who he'll field out their lands at the Prevailing high rates, are looking for new locations ` where property is (beeper and are intending to move acl'o55 to the prairie provinces of Canada. already the American Colon- ies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are very extensive and grow- ing in influence, and long since have proved to be of the nto'st industtrious and desirable class of citizens, Movement From England. There also will be a considerable movement this year front the British Isles, from which in 1919 about 50,000 came to Canada. The Brlish govern - anent is providing free transportation for all war workers who wish to locate • In the Overseas D'&minions, but their coming is made conditional upon the ability of the country to absorb them. The position of the government in re- spect to -immigration generalry is that only two classes are "encouraged" to come. One is t17.3 agricultural class needed in the des lopmeut elf the immense 4.- agriculture, resources of the country, while- the' other are what is known, - latterly, as "household workers." The term' "domestic," which used to'bet ap. plied, is now in the discard and what was called "wages" is now "salary." Within the last few weeks eight • .parties of "women; varying in size from twenty to eighty, have arrived in the country and readily have been absorbed into service, The agricultural movement will not begin before the spring. So far as artisans are concerned there is a gradual arrival of skilled experts, but ordinary labor is not encouraged to immigrate because the supply already is more than adequate, The general provisions which have been made by the Canadian govern- , meat for the land settlement of sol- diers are available not only to Cana- dians, but to any who served in any branch of the Imperial armies, Care, however, is being taken to see that those who come with the intention -of entering upon farming are qualified for the work, and with that end in view- a committee of selection has been sent to Great Britain to pass up- on all 'applications for soldier land settlement in this country. Ban on Former Foes, . There is an absolute Ilan on all na- tionals of Germany, Augtria-Hungary, 'Bulgaria and Turkey. The formal pro- mulgation of peace has not operated to remove the restriction which has existed against such immigration dur- i Ing and ,since the wan', and it will be ooattinaed for fill indefinite period, This reatrtet1 h, however, does fiat in elude ranee or nationalities technical- ly subject to these countries or which have declared their iedopeudenee of them, Those whose,, independent' States ilas boon, recognized, by the peace Conference will bo. allowed to come In 'wibout duesElon, so far as their nationality is conoernod, A now immigration act' was passed last year Bud it prescribes very high standards, calculated to make 'immi- gration of the lathe particularly Se- lect. Those who conte must have the ,capacity to' le -detain themselves for' a coneiderable period and particular, methods will be invoked to ,keep dat any who are inclined -to share in the radical or revohitionary views Si social agitation. Restrictions Not Rigid. in the former -Ws little discriminae tion was exercised, ,apart from Seeing that the immigrants were in good phy- sical condition. While the great pro- portion of these who came, including the immigrants front enemy countries, have proved to be good citizens and gave little or no trouble during the war, considerable difficulty has been experienced, particularly in the West- ern cities, This was especially the case last spring, when, following the Western sympatheio strikes, the gov- ernment took upon itself the authority even to depbrt persons of British na- tionality., According to the Canadian'• Department of Immigration there is every reason to expect a'large influx to Canada. this year, but the immigra- tion will be carefully inspected and guarded by restrictions which in the old clays would not have been tl},ought of. problems Financial p 1 ems of considerable magnitude face Canada at the pre- sent time, and, while the resourd s of the country are enormous, the more immediate situation calls for some careful. calculations. The form of the budget for the coming flscal year will be considered shortly. War Leaves Heavy Burden./ The war has left in its train a heavy burden of fixed obligations which are a first charge upon' the revenues of the country. Something like $160,- 000,000 has to be provided by the way of annual interest en 'tear obligations. Apart from this are the expenditures necessary for carrying on the public works and public services of the coun- try, to provide pensions for soldiers and to meet the anticipated deficits from the operations of the state owned railways. The total will be consider- ably'over $300,000,000. In addition there is some $60,000,000, to be expended on capital account, while the revenue of the country will be something in excess of $300,000,000, the amount depending upon the char- acter of tariff and tax proposals to be submitted to Parliament. Last year certain reductions were made in the tariff and it was estimated that the result of this would be a decline of $17,000,000 in the revenue. $325,000,000 Loan Interest Owed to U.S. Government ,A despatch from Washington says: -Accrued interest on loans to Euro- pean countries totals approximately $325,000,000, according to a table sub- mitted to the House Ways and Means Committee by the Treasury Depart- ment, which plans to defer collection for a few years pending reconstruc- tion. Great Britain owes the most inter- est, the total on loans to that country being $144,440,837. Interest owed by other countries is: France, $94,021,749; Italy, $54,256,- 589; Russia, $16,832,662; Belgium, $11,465,278; Czecho-Slovakia, $1,667,- 083• Serbia $917,299 ; Roumania be handled by the Civil. Service Com - TAKE CANADA'S CENSUS IN 1621 Civil Service Commission to Appoint All Enumerators. A. despatch from Ottawa says:- The next decennial census enumera- tion takes place in June, 1921, and already the department is making preparations for it, In the lastcensns 9,703 enumerators were employed, and next year the number will prob- ably be •greater. Appointments to this work in the days of political patronage proved an easy way for members of Parlia- ment to discharge political obliga- tions, but hereafter it will probably , $609,878, and Liberia, $548. rniion. i Those who- object to the. complete Kaiser's Picture Out of abolition of political patronage point Books in German Schools to this as an example of' -how the new system often works cumbrously. A despatch from Berlin says: -Ger- While the member for the- constitu- men textbooks hereafter will be minus envy would appear to be the most the formerly' inevitable- pietnres of suitable person to whom to apply for the Kaiser and his predecessors on information as to suitable men, that the Prussian throne. This is the result of an order by the Minister of Education, who also rules out all anecdotes of the Hohen- zollerns which "might serve only to glorify' the dynasty and foster the monarchistic idea in the minds o' the pupils." British Release German Admiral A despatch from London says: - Admiral von Reuter, the thief officer of the German fleet at Scapa' Flow, who gave the order for the scuttling of the German warships there last June, has been set free by the British authorities. • The Admiral has return• ed to Germany. is now expressly forbidden by the Civil Service Qom/mission Act, 'even though his recommendations should be non-partisan. The Commission must hunt out its own men without reference to the representative in Parliament. - The old rate of irayn)ent for the work varied according to local con- dition"a, the general rule being that the enumerator got 5 cent per name with 25 cents for each farm, although Where the country -was sparsely popu- lated he was usually paid by the day. 362 War Food Substitutes Now Banned by Germany A despatch from Berlin says: -Tho _ r day of "ersatz" in Germany is pass- ging. Marine mines to the number of 300,- The Government has just prohibit - 000 wero made in British factories, ed the manufacture of 362 food sub - of these only 130,000 were actually stitutes that hacl become indispens- laid. able during the war. HELPING WINNIPEG GET %HE NEWS '' While Winnipeg 9'apers wore unable to publish through lack of paper the students of Manitoba 7,TniversitY issued daily a emsll paper called "Trite Manitobans' containing the'big news et the day in brief, Here is the staff: Back row, left to right: Horner Robinson, Edward Pitblaclo, H. Ferrier, Norman Young; Sitting, left to right: Graham Spry; Miss D. Willis. A Treaty Signed in Bed i Much has been said about the dra- matic contrast between the Germans at Versailles in 1871 and the Germans at Versailles in 1919, and in all his- tory there has scarcely been a more impressive. ,exempliIloation iof the old saying that pride goeth before a fall, Karl Wagner's we11.1arown painting of Bismarck dictating terms to Tillers and Fevre shows the man of blood and iron, who felt so sure, forty-nine years , ago, that France was irretriev- ably crushed beneath the heel of its hereditary foe. But,, as a matter of fact, the Fiasco -Prussian War was concluded at Frankfort, not at•Ver- sailles, and it is interesting to note that the Bismarck of the Wagner pic- ture is a different man from the more' human character who, at Frankfort, on May 10, 1871, signed the treaty that brought the conhiet to an end, A curious diplomatic_ incident of 1871 throws a surprising -light on H,is- marek's character. M. Pouyer-Quer- tier; who represented the newly es- tablished French republic, told the story, and Bismarck himself after- wards confirmed 1t in a col:orst:Mon with Sir Charles Dike. Negotiations had ahuoet been bro- ken off because Germany ins!°sted that its armies should continue to occupy France. The French. envoys were in despair, and Pouyer-Quertter, fearing the worst, had gone to bed in hia.botel room, Baud dawn. thele was a knock at his door, and the Frenehman. got up in his nightgown to find that Bismarck had come in full uniform to renew the discussion. Insisting• that Pouyer-Quertler would catch cold in his nightgown, • the - Chadcellor forced him back to bed and relighted the fireThen, dt'awing up a chair, Ile spread the treaty out on a small table and took -up the tangle of claims and demands. • After a prolonged talk, saying that It was dry work, he stood up and rang for beer. • After the beer had been brought, he rang again, asked for kirsch and poured a quantity of it in- to the. beer. Taking the poker, he made it red-hot in the fire, stirred the mixture of beer and kirsch, and in- vited the Frenehmau to drink, The Frenchman did so, saying: "I think of my poor country as' I drink." Bismarck, clapping him on the shoulder, iinnounced that he was "a good fellow," and that the evacuation of France should take place at once, There and then the final article of the treaty of Frankfort, putting an end to the Franco-Prussian War, was signed on that small table at the bed- side of Pouyer-Q oertier in a little hotel in Frankfort. Old French Tiger Out of Politics A despatch from Paris says: -For- mer Premier Clemenceau left Mar- seilles on February 3 on the steamer Lotus, bound for Alexandria, Egypt. He is reported to be absolutely sin- cere in his decision to remain in re- tirement; and under no consideration to bo drawn again into the turmoil of politics. To an Editor of L'Homme Libre he remarked ,the 'other day anent his de- feat in the test vote of Parliament on the Presidency: "Some persons need a hint, others a kick. I 'am' through. My enemies ,may think I reoelved a kick; my friends only a hint, At any rate; I am through. I am off to Egypt first, then -well, we shall see, perhaps -India." , "I know not truly which is worse - he that maligns all,.or he that praises all." -Bon Jonson. In Athens goats are marched to the house doors and milked before the eyes of patrons. But this system does not prevent adulteration. The milkman wears a loose coat with. wide sieves. Around 'his waist is a rubber bag fill- ed with water,- and a tube rune down his arm. As he milks he presses the tube, and milk and water flow silent- ly together into the milk -pail. Sixty -hour Voyage Across Atlantic A despatch from London says: - Four of the largest aviation firms in England are negotiating with regard to a combine with the eventual pur- pose of development of a transatlan- tic airship service. tic airship service. It is said to be the purpose of the combine to pure pse all airships which the Government does not rd - Quire for the army•and navy. Experi- ments have been anranged for the early, Sp'r'ing, when short trips to Scaninavia and Rolland will be at- tempted, after which an endeavor will be made to put into effect a lid -weekly service to New York, .the voyage tak- ing 60 hours. Forbidden by Law. "You aro suffering from brain fag and ennui," announced the specialist; "You should` take mor'e!" interest in your business." "I would like to," replied the pa- tient. "Then why don't -Bens?" demanded the specialist. :'Tho law won't let me," replied the patient. "I'm a pawnbroker." • Australia has nearly 300,000 acres of untouched forests. • eleteePol r; Weekly Market Report' • • Ilroadstuffs. 27 to ri -1E0 lb. ed 25 er. 8-'1, tdnd, ro Feb,3 -.•. ` a ' , ; 60<lb. • ToTonto__, n'to M n;toba wheat --•No 1 Northern, 82,80i No, 2 North_ tins, 230 buelcwheat, Oa. tins, 18 to ern, $0,77; No 3 Northern, $2,78, In 20e comb,' 1 to $0,00 Pto $6.50 deal store Fort William, , $4 lklanitoba oats -No. 2 O,9V., 9d% Maple r'o$ltets Syrup, per ihpo- Nu, 8 C.W. 0194e;. extra No,: 1 oe. ', nal gal,, '4.261 per 5 impel -nal gals., 01.9%; No, 1 feed, 8914; No. 2 fee , $4,00; sugar, lb., 29 to 80e. 80°,ic, in store Fort William, Provislena- Wholesale. Manitoba barley -No. :3 .U, W„ <• ,1.88; No. 4 C. W„ $1,471 i rejected, Smoked meats -Harris, medium, 84 1,85'4; food, $1.85%, in store Fort to 86c; do., heavy, 29 to 30e; coerced, G illiam; 47 to 59e; Voile, 30 to 81o; breakfast A1neuioan corn -No, 2 yellow, bacon, 40 0 4433; backs, plain, 49 to $1,83; No. 4 yellowy $1,80, treelc, To- Ole; boneless, 58 to 55e. route;'prompt shipment. Oared meats -Long clear bacon, 31 Ontarl'o oat's -No. 8 white, 98c to to 82e; clear bellies, 30 to 31c. $1,QQ, according to freights outside. Lard -Pure, Liman, 81 to 3114e; Qatar o wheat -No, 1,'Winter, per tubs, 81% to 32e; palls, 3114 to 32%,c1car lot, $2.00 to $2,01; No, 2 do., $1.94 prints, 82 to 8214,, Compound to $2.03;No, 3 do, $1.93 to 1.94 tierces,. 28% Se • 29c; tubs, 29 to 29140; fr f,o beights. shi .pping 'points, according to palls, 2911 to 4iO%e; Finis, 3014 to 8'lc. Ontario wlloat-No, 1 Spring, $2.02 Montreal Markets. $208• No, 2 Spring, $1,99 to $205; No 1' S1prip,g, $1.95 to .$2,01; f.o.b. Montreal, Feb. 3. -oat -Extra N'o s'hipp'ing' paints according to freights. 1 feed, $1.08, lour -New standard Pea -No. 2, $3,00. $13.26 to g13.66. polled oats -Bag o� Barley Malting, $1.80 to $1.82, ac- 90 lbs., $5.15 to $5,25. • Bran- $45.335, cording to freights outside: Shorts^ -$62.25. Hay -No. 2, per ton', B•uekwheat-$1,45 to $1,18, accord- car lots -$26. Clem --Finest east - 'Ing to freights outside. erns. 80 to 3014e, Butter•-Cha'cest Rye -No. 3, $1.77 to $1,80, accord- creannery, 67 to 6633• do., second, 00 ink to freights outside. to 61c. Eggs -Fresh, 80 to 85e; sel- Manitoba flour -Government sten- acted, 62c; No. 1 stock, 54e; I o.- 2, lard, $13.25, Toronto, do„ 51 to 52c. Potatoes -Pas bag Ontario flour -Government "Stan, par lots' $3.75 to $4.50. Dressers dard, $9.65 to '$9.85, Montreal and .hogs-Atbattoir•+killed, $25.50 to $26. Toronto, to jute bags. Prompt ship- Lard=Pure, wood paile, 20 lbs. net, 29 to sec. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Feb. 8. -Choice heavy steers, $13.75 to $14.00; good heavy steers, $12.60: to $18.00; butchers' cat- tle choice, $11,50 to $12.26; do., good, Straw -Car Sots, per,,.ton, $16 to 311 to $11.25; do., medium, $9.60 to $17 track, Toronto. L 810; do., .common, $7,25 to $7.75; Country Produce --Wholesale. bulls, choice, $10.50 to $i1; do., Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 43 to medium, $9,50 to $10; do., rough, $6.75 44c prints, 48 to 50c. Creamery, butcher• cows, choice, $10.60 fresh made solids, 60 to 610; prints, to 87.00 to $11.00; do., good, $9.50 to $10.00; 62 to 630. ' do., medium, $8.00 to• $8.50; do., com- Eggs-Held, 54 to 55c; new laid, mon, $7 to $7.25 stockers,' $7.60 to 72 to 78c. $10; feeders $10 to $11; canners and Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, cutters, *5.25 to $6,50; milkers, good 32 to 35c; roosters, 26c; fowl, 25 to to choice, $110 to $165; do., coin. and 34c, geese, 28 to 80c; Aucklings, 32 med., $65 to $75;, springers, $90 t6 to 35c; turkeys, 46 to 50e; squab', $165; sheep, $6.50 to $12; lambs, per doz., $4.50. cwt., $14,50 to $19.50; calves, good to Live poultry -Spring chickens, 20 choice 19 to $23; hogs, fed and water - geese, 22 to 30c; ducklings, 22c; tur- do„ f.o.b., $18; do., do., to farmers, $ed17.75. Cheese -New, large, 81% to 82e; Montreal, Feb. 8. -Butcher steers, twins, 32 to 32%c; triplets, 83 to medium, $10.75 to $12; common, $8.50 3314c; Stilton, 34rto 350; old, large, to $10.50; butcher heifers, medium, 3314 to 34c; do., twins, 34 to 3414c. $9.50 to $10.75; common $7.50 to Margarine -33 -to 39c, $9.25; butcher cows, medium, $7 to Beans -Canadian, hand-picked bu- to $9.50; canners, $5,50; cutter's, $5.76 steel, $5.25 to $5.75; primes, $4.25 to to $4,50; 'butcher bulls, common, $8 $4.76'• Japans, $5.50 to $5.75; Cali- to $9. Veal calves, good, $16 to $18; medium, $12 to $15• grass calves, 7.50 to $8. Hogs, selects, $20; sows, 816. e ,sent. • MiQlfeed-Car lots -Delivered Mont- real freight, bags included -Bran, per ton, $45; thorts,. per ton, $52; good feed flour, $3.60 to $3.75- ;, Hay=No. 1, per ton, $27 to $28; mixed, per ton, $25, track, Toronto. forma Limas, 171% to 1814c; Mada- gascar Limas, lb., 15c; Japan Limas, lb., 110. • Flag of Zion Floats From Palestine's Marine A despatch from New York says: - The first vessel of Palbstiue's con- templated merchant marine hoisted the blue and white flag of Zion and was renamed "Hee-holutz" (The Pion- eer), at Jaffa recently, the Zionist or- ganization of America has announced. The vessel is owned and manned by Jews, and is the first of a fleet for which Zionists plan an ultimate ape propriation of $10,000,000. The vessel,was formerly a German craft and was purchased to ply along the Palestine coast, making the ports of Bierut, Tyre, Haifa, Jaffa, Gaza, and several others in Egypt. The Zionist engineers ,plan to convert Haifa into one of the leading important commer- cial centres of the near east. One should learn to talk well -also when ,it is well not to talk. The Chinese are gradually adopting the European style of footwear. At the present time almost 40 per cent, of the footwear in China is reported to be of European style. Domestic factories, of which Canton has twenty; Hong Kong five, and 'nearly every port of China has at least one, are chiefly for the manufac'tilre of the red leather used for the soles of the native shoes. The uppers of native shoes are generally made• from cloth or an imitation box calf. 0 FUN BEHIND THE LINES WITH THE French and British soldiers laughing at the antics of -ridge cat, vetch to the amazement and discomfiture of the but seems unable 'to decide just what his antagonist is. BRINGING UP, FATIIEIi ARMY OF OCCUPATION one of their comrades who has dressed', up like a regimental mascot, The terrier is willing to fight, U. S. GIFT OF 125 MILLION For the Starving Peo.le of Ar- menia, Poland and Austria. A despatch from Washington says: -Following the appearance of Seo- retary Glass and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury David before the Ways and Means Committee relative to an appropriation for the famished of Europe, which was the subject of discussion on Thursday by President Wilson, it was announced that the committee would report a bill wheel; will afford the necessary aid to the starving In Poland, Austria and Ar- menia. Secretary Glass said that he had a conference with Herbert Hoover lass night and that the latter had de- clared that relief to the amount of $50,000,000 would do Varm rather than good to the starving. It was estimated by Secretary glass that Congress need not authorize more than $125,000,000, .as Canada and Ar- gentine had offered more than $12,- 000,000. 12;000,000. Immediate financial aid for the re- lief of these countries cannot be ex- pected of England. Secretary GIass said that the officials of that country had promised, however, to transport the grain free of charge and that this would be a great saving and would afford not only prompt transportation but greater relief, as there would be no expense deducted from the appro- priation for steamer transportation. Secretary Glass said that common humanity and the dictates of good. government favored the United States making an appropriation for the relief of the starving in the three countries. One wedding superstition IS that a bride on leaving her home for the wedding trip meat step into the car- riage with her right foot first. She' should do the sante when she first enters elle hone prepared for her after the bridal trip. BOYS 1'i1IS WONDERFUL LIQUID PISTOL GIVEN 1 I Looks like a real auto- matic. Great fun! This dandy. repeating, liquid pistol absolutely 0'1';3.1£ by Selling only 13$8,00 worth of our snap fast- eners. Blvery woman buys them. You'll sell them in jig time. Just Send us a postal and we'll send you the geode. Bell them return us the money and the pistol is yours. write mMA3O 0AL,E8 A5B'M. W L. t, 0, BOX 1955 10.,' TO51011TO TMR. LLOYD GEORGE RAS: BRITISH PREMIER'S P SION FOR ADVENTURE, Very Fond of Newspapers and Likes ''Historical Novels and Shakespeare. Without books, Mr, Lloyd George would be a miserable man. He is an inveterate rgader. No matt ter .what the crisis -and his life 16 lull of them -he always spends effete al hours every day, in reading 0130181 papers, newspapers, or books, Unlike Mr. 'Balfour, who ouoe coxir` teased that be did not read new* Depot's, the Premier has a passion foe them, He is always anxious to b4 papers. If he sees a contents' bill 18 the street, he must buy a paper, IIL' deed, he is as avaricious for news alt Some mon ere forracing results. At 7 a,m. he Is. looking through the morning papers, while the avenin$ papers- he reads aieand when they ati, rive, He delights in a lawsuit lust as much as the ordinary individual taking the keenest interest in tlt�l manner in which cases are conducted, Ho likes to point out what the costs sel might have said and what he di not say,or how well the counsel p tt h' wanes his case, or how skillfully t e evaded the searching question, H13 has an added interest le such mat- ters, po doubt, from the fact that the law was his own profession. The Premier. also reads all. impolf• tant political speeches, Ile likes CO criticize the speaker's methods and discriminate between the good an bad passages. Papers of all sorts -religious, see lar, and literary -interest him, exce the technical r ss. He has never prose. dne0r"i II 0 been sees studying the " 10 e .the "Electrical Review," With regard to books, Mr. Lloyd G eorge always has one or two off' hand-nowadaYS usually novels, Hie- torical novels are his favorites, anti he has almost the passion of a school- boy for Wee of adventure and daring, his favorite character in fiction being Alan Breck, the hero of "Kidnapped," which he has read many times, His Favorite Authors. As to novels, "The Cloister and the Hearth" he admits to having read BIZ or eight times in the course of his life. He thinks it one of the most wonderful novels ever written. His favorate novelists are Walter Scott, Dickens, Dumas, Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, tiulwer Lytton, Mayne Reid, Charles Reeds, Fenimore Cooper, Mary Johnston, W. J. Locke, .Jack London, Kipling, Stanley West- man, eyman, and other similarly vivid writers. Apart from novels he has no favor• ire books, except perhaps Macaulay's "Essays" -•one of the fleet books he read as a boy. Stories of great bat- tles, history, travel, and biography in- terest him largely, while although, generally speaking, he takes no de- light in English verse, he stili loves to read Shakespeare, e - His knowledge of the Bible is far more detailed, than that of any other book, which is no doubt due to his early training and environment. A real lover of sermons, be likes to read them as well as hear them, and is said to have remarked that he would rather have been a great preacher than Prime Minister. If this is true, the remark was probably due to th4 belief, shared by moat great men, that they would heye done better and been happier had"they boon prominent in some other walk of life, 1' . 'Eyes and Illness: Just as we find the state of the ' weather by reference to a barometer, so can we tell whether a person 1s tee good health by examining the eyes. This method of diagnosing disease from the eyes is known as the "Iris science," and according to Dr. Ander. shon, of Denmark, is 'the only really reliable method by which the seat of a disease can be discovered. The science was discovered by a Hungarian. During boyhood he had t aught an owl which had broken its log, and noticed that a black spot ap- peared In a certain part of the iris, Some year:: later he noticed the same black spot in the iris of a man who had sustained a broken leg. The ex- perience xperience caused him to investigate, and he found that every disease could be read from a certain portion of the iris, When a disease is cured white lines enclose the Clark spot that pro- olaiulod the disease, From this the stege of the disease can be ascertain- ed. If the white lines da not entirely surround the dark spot the disease is not completely cured, - Drugs are always clearly shown on the iris -arsenic by white speeds on the outer edge, Moronic iron by brown marks round the pupiL Red Cross Dogs. In its task of relieving suffering throughout the world, the Red Cross has had frequent occasion to rely on the sagacity and loyalty of dogs. In the mountainous regions of Bohemia, dogs are used to transport goods, be- ing harnessed to shall carts like the chime] de trait of Belgium. In carry- ing• the food and clothing and medi- eines into those almost inaccessible mountain villages where the suftering was so intense, the Red Cross workers made frequent use of these oarta. In America, too, doge; are need. Last winter, When the epidemic of influen- za was at its height, word came to tate Red Cross chapter at Anchorage, Al- asks, that an entire village of Indians was down with the 'flu. But the vil- lage Was Ofl.y utiles from a railroad. lb reach it, the party of seven Iced Cross workers who went to the rescue were obliged, l aftoi leaving the rail• road, to cover these fifty mules by dog team. When they arrived, the situa- tion ' was very serious. Of a hundred Indians fifty were sick and nineteen. were dean The relief party set to woik, estabi h' hospital, fed and tq od a 1r sl cal'od for the sufferers. Only five more (here were loot• thanks to the :legs. r S. `1'I-IETRUNKS 1 DIOT-• WHAT .ARE YOU DOIN(WITt•I THAT OUTFIT C.;iT IN' READY FOR PALM QEACH I SEG YOU VvUz PACK IN YOUR INSECT --MINE ARE SUM MER FURS INSECT -MINE CANT WEAR.-T1•IATAYPALM +� BEACH-1`i'S WAf:MTH f2G , 3 A l i ( W INbFR WHERE 11 :Se HERE'S YOUR. IURS'MUM: • "_>----y PACK TI -115M IN Nic.ELY-wGAR,EGoiN'CiTO BEACH- PALM ": - tl \,, e -�:�.-• s' 4- s +2 l , y �t ` �;( 1 > >"=' , ' •l 5y '"' -.�IY'M�, a ire r'uyi �{ R.d r "jj x I i . cs WCL(_ r R, 1= GOODNESS SAKE Wfi PALM ? - 'I '� ,..�, p , w, tc,, r- } • yk /✓?'4 n �1 Z(i i; •�l i �- I .f � ' p ;. ; ( �tlp firs ql �, - M••? � ii ,,4�'��'f• ; i r ti 1twH t • { ° �. , . ...-: 'rr' ii- r i f . 5... •.' - . . t ��r w; ,✓^'"•" 1 �- f lilt l'� '''.�•1tFEto;,•.'�l',` .z^+5� 1• �r ..;s' �" j �j � s:. yl u tel U_ ?� Flll'z5 1/" ""., _ : ! .. 'm!;,l +i 4 'G' 1 . '3: ;.7t;: ,i,•}rr+� r cam?!`% � : ,' in.. S .: .�. - r .-,�. _ %t' /_ ,.r„e.,. r ...,.. lr,, Z" '�S1p, ......, i li'. i r, �t..... ... ....' y- -rte ;� a.. , fill'"'... TMR. LLOYD GEORGE RAS: BRITISH PREMIER'S P SION FOR ADVENTURE, Very Fond of Newspapers and Likes ''Historical Novels and Shakespeare. Without books, Mr, Lloyd George would be a miserable man. He is an inveterate rgader. No matt ter .what the crisis -and his life 16 lull of them -he always spends effete al hours every day, in reading 0130181 papers, newspapers, or books, Unlike Mr. 'Balfour, who ouoe coxir` teased that be did not read new* Depot's, the Premier has a passion foe them, He is always anxious to b4 papers. If he sees a contents' bill 18 the street, he must buy a paper, IIL' deed, he is as avaricious for news alt Some mon ere forracing results. At 7 a,m. he Is. looking through the morning papers, while the avenin$ papers- he reads aieand when they ati, rive, He delights in a lawsuit lust as much as the ordinary individual taking the keenest interest in tlt�l manner in which cases are conducted, Ho likes to point out what the costs sel might have said and what he di not say,or how well the counsel p tt h' wanes his case, or how skillfully t e evaded the searching question, H13 has an added interest le such mat- ters, po doubt, from the fact that the law was his own profession. The Premier. also reads all. impolf• tant political speeches, Ile likes CO criticize the speaker's methods and discriminate between the good an bad passages. Papers of all sorts -religious, see lar, and literary -interest him, exce the technical r ss. He has never prose. dne0r"i II 0 been sees studying the " 10 e .the "Electrical Review," With regard to books, Mr. Lloyd G eorge always has one or two off' hand-nowadaYS usually novels, Hie- torical novels are his favorites, anti he has almost the passion of a school- boy for Wee of adventure and daring, his favorite character in fiction being Alan Breck, the hero of "Kidnapped," which he has read many times, His Favorite Authors. As to novels, "The Cloister and the Hearth" he admits to having read BIZ or eight times in the course of his life. He thinks it one of the most wonderful novels ever written. His favorate novelists are Walter Scott, Dickens, Dumas, Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, tiulwer Lytton, Mayne Reid, Charles Reeds, Fenimore Cooper, Mary Johnston, W. J. Locke, .Jack London, Kipling, Stanley West- man, eyman, and other similarly vivid writers. Apart from novels he has no favor• ire books, except perhaps Macaulay's "Essays" -•one of the fleet books he read as a boy. Stories of great bat- tles, history, travel, and biography in- terest him largely, while although, generally speaking, he takes no de- light in English verse, he stili loves to read Shakespeare, e - His knowledge of the Bible is far more detailed, than that of any other book, which is no doubt due to his early training and environment. A real lover of sermons, be likes to read them as well as hear them, and is said to have remarked that he would rather have been a great preacher than Prime Minister. If this is true, the remark was probably due to th4 belief, shared by moat great men, that they would heye done better and been happier had"they boon prominent in some other walk of life, 1' . 'Eyes and Illness: Just as we find the state of the ' weather by reference to a barometer, so can we tell whether a person 1s tee good health by examining the eyes. This method of diagnosing disease from the eyes is known as the "Iris science," and according to Dr. Ander. shon, of Denmark, is 'the only really reliable method by which the seat of a disease can be discovered. The science was discovered by a Hungarian. During boyhood he had t aught an owl which had broken its log, and noticed that a black spot ap- peared In a certain part of the iris, Some year:: later he noticed the same black spot in the iris of a man who had sustained a broken leg. The ex- perience xperience caused him to investigate, and he found that every disease could be read from a certain portion of the iris, When a disease is cured white lines enclose the Clark spot that pro- olaiulod the disease, From this the stege of the disease can be ascertain- ed. If the white lines da not entirely surround the dark spot the disease is not completely cured, - Drugs are always clearly shown on the iris -arsenic by white speeds on the outer edge, Moronic iron by brown marks round the pupiL Red Cross Dogs. In its task of relieving suffering throughout the world, the Red Cross has had frequent occasion to rely on the sagacity and loyalty of dogs. In the mountainous regions of Bohemia, dogs are used to transport goods, be- ing harnessed to shall carts like the chime] de trait of Belgium. In carry- ing• the food and clothing and medi- eines into those almost inaccessible mountain villages where the suftering was so intense, the Red Cross workers made frequent use of these oarta. In America, too, doge; are need. Last winter, When the epidemic of influen- za was at its height, word came to tate Red Cross chapter at Anchorage, Al- asks, that an entire village of Indians was down with the 'flu. But the vil- lage Was Ofl.y utiles from a railroad. lb reach it, the party of seven Iced Cross workers who went to the rescue were obliged, l aftoi leaving the rail• road, to cover these fifty mules by dog team. When they arrived, the situa- tion ' was very serious. Of a hundred Indians fifty were sick and nineteen. were dean The relief party set to woik, estabi h' hospital, fed and tq od a 1r sl cal'od for the sufferers. Only five more (here were loot• thanks to the :legs. r S.