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Mar e `eO# • OF FINANC[
Breadstuffe.
Termite, Aped 27.—Man, Wheat -1
'No, 1 Northern 12,30; No, 2 Northern,
:$3.77; No 3 Noi'.there, $2,78, ip store
Pert WS
Itltrnitob8 oats =No. 2 CW $1,05'/sl
Ng 8 CW 21.02/a;.extre N'o 1 feed,
$1,02'±is' No, 1 reed, $1,0114; No, 2J
feed 997/ 4, in store Vert, Wiiliaait,
Manitoba barley --No. 3 OW„ 31,76;
No, 2 CW,, 0,02%; extra No, 1. feed,
$1.0274, to store Part William.
Amer can cern---No, 8 yellew, 32.05,
nominal, track, Toreuto, prompt• ship
inert
Ont•ario oats—Ne 3 white, 31.05 to
$1.07, according to freights outside,
:Ontario wheat ---No, 1 Winter, Por
ear lot, 32 to 32.01; No. 2; do, 31.98 to
N. 3, do, 31.92 to 31,93, f,o,b;
shipping points, according to freights.
O.ttauio wheat—Ne, 1 Spring, per
car lot, 32.02 to $2'.03; No, 2,do, 31,93
to 32';01;,No,;3, do, 31.95 to $2 01; :f,o.b
slopping points, a erdieg• to freights,
'seas---Nq. 2, 33,00.
Barley—Maltlbg, 31.85' to 31.87. ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat—Noe-2, 31.75 to 31.80,
according •to freights outside.
" Rye -No, 3, 32.10 to '32.15; accord-
ing to freights outside. •
Ontario flour --Government stand-
ard, 310.50, Montreal or Toronto, in
jute begs,' prompt shipment.
Millfeed—.Car lots, delivered, Mont-
real freights, 'bags included: Bran, per
ton, $G1; shorts; per ton, 358; good
feed hour, -38.75 to $4.00.
IIay—No, 1, per ton,..$30 co 881;
mixed, per ton, 225, track, •
Straw—Car 'Tots, per ton, 316 to 317,
track, Toronto. ,
Country Frodttea—Wholesale.
Cheese—Nciv, large, ,281 to 80c;
twins, 28 to '29%c; triplets,; 30. to
20%c; `Stilton, 33 to 84c;' old;; large,
33 to -32e; do .tab's 32 to 327e.
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 57 to
59c; creamery prints, 66 to 68c.
Margarine -33 to 38e.
Eggs --New laid, 61 to 52c.
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens,
38 to 40e; roosters, 25c; fowl, 35c;
turkeys, 58 to OOc• ducklings, 38, to
40'; squabs doz.; $61.00.
Live poultry—Spring chickens, 80
to
32e; fowls', 35 to doe; docks, 35 to'
40,.,
Begins --Canadian hand-picked, bus.,
S4.50; ;shies, $3.50• Japans,_ 34.50;
lauagasear Limas, ib., 15e; --Japan
Liinas, lb., 11c,
Honey—Extracted clover, 5-1b. tins„
27 to, 28c; 10-1b. tins, 25 to 26e G0 -Ib.
tins, 25c; buckwheat :60-1b. tins, 18 to
20e; eotnb, 10 -oz , $6 to 30,00 dos.;
10 -oz, 34,25 to $4,00 sleeeli,
Mat�xle protects -82009, Per Imp,
t,al , ;R3 25 to •$3 50; per 0 hip, gals,,
$3,50 tq 33,73,
Provisions \ elesale.
Smoked meats bilin;, med., 40 to
42e; heavy, 32 to 34e; cooked, 50 to
50e; rolls, 31 to 32e; breaicfes; bacon,
45 to 50c; backs, plain, 50 testi"e; bono-
`less,.54 to 87c.
Cured meats—Long cleev bacon, 28
to 29e; clear bellies, .:7 to 28c,
Lard -i --Pure tierces, 98 to 28%0;
tubs, 281/2 to 29c; palls, 287':to i'91ke;
Prints, 291/2 to 30o,•C.onpound tierces,
27'/a to 28c tebs ?3 to 28/,0, pails,
28% to 28e; pxinte, 29 to 29%0,
Montreal Markets. •
• Montreal, April 27, --Oats, CW., No.
2, 3.1.191/,,; cats, extra No, 1 feed,
31,16%; flour, Ilan., new standard
grade, 3.18,40 to $18,74 rolled oats,.
bag .90 lbs, 35.50 to $5,00;, bran,-
351.25; shorts, 338.25; hay, No, 2, per,
ton, car Iota, 383 to 484, Cheese,'
finest castel'ns, 27 to 28e• butter,I
choicest creamery, 60 to lite; eggs,
fresh, 52 to 53e; potatoes, per bag,
ear Iota, 35.75.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto A.pr.1 27.—Choice Heavy
steers, 3111 to 315; good, do, $13.25 ,to
$13.75; butchers' cattle, choice, 313.25
to 313,75. do, good, 312 to 312,50; do,
med., $11.50 to $11.75; do, cons., $10
to $10:75; bulls, choice, $10.10 to
311.50; do, good, 39.75 to $10.25; do,
rough, tib to $8.50; butchers Cows,
British Gov't, to Grant ..Cus-
toms and Eaccise Control.
. 40041oh1 from London 'soya;
Coltsiderellle concessions to Irish feel-
ing are likely to be: made in the home
Rule Bill when it mimes up ageiir m
a few weeps' time for consideration,
clause by clause, in committee,
The Government hers found that a
great deal. • of • opposition to the
measure is based upon its financial
clauses, and is prepared to niedify
thelia to meet the mows of critic's,
One of the chief points on which
the abortive convention of 1917 broke
down was the impossibility at that
time to get the British • Government
to consent to giving Tlome I:tule Ire-
-land control of its .:customs. 1 The
Government is now prepared to
change ,its attitude on this point.
As the hill reads' to -day the two
new Irish Legislatures will' not, he
permitted to levy any excise duties
on manufactured articles or. customs
duties on account of the risk ,of Ulster
and South Ireland embarking en a
tariff war, and the billy promise held
out to the Irish is that after the two
Legislatures are united, control of,.the l
customs and excise may he transfer-;
red to the new Irish Parliament.
Provided the British Parliament
agrees,it is now likely that the Gov-
ernment will consent to an arrange-
ment by which power to levy excise
duties will .pass automatically to the
.Irish Parliament as soon as it is set
up. Definite pledges may also be in-
serted in the bill as to the speedy
transfer of control of the customs.
ARMENIA TO BE
A FREE STATE
Boundaries Defined -Norway
and Sweden to Assist in
Establishment.
A despatch from London says:—
Armenia, as defined by the Supreme
Council at San Remo, consists of the
Republic of Erivan and the vilayets
92 Eraerum, Bitles and Van, says a
San Remo despatch to the Daily News.
The Supreme Council has abandoned
the idea of giving the mandate, for
Armenia to the League of Nations as
a result of objections raised by the
Coun'il of the League of Nations, and
will ask neutral Norway and Sweden
to help the Armenian people establish
a free state, an international loan be-
ing floated to finance it, says a Haves
despatch from 'San Remo.
Dedeagatch, the important Aegean
port which for so long ,has been a
bone, of contention in,the Balkans, is
to he controlled by an international
commission.
Greece is to evticuato the valley of
the Meander, but she retains Smyrna
together with the Hinterland.
Question of Canada's
Next Governor-General
A despatch from London says:—
Although itis practieallycertain that
the Duke of Devonshire will return to
Canada to finish all or part of his
term as Governor-General, some quiet
lobbying has been going on recently
in connection with the appointment of
a successor. .4. large section of the
London press will have it that the.
Earl of Athlone, who, as Duke of
Teak, was practically assured of the
post had.it not been for the war, is
to have ,it now. 'Another name recent-
ly mentioned is that of the Duke of
Sutherland. It is said that the Duke
and Duchess would not be averse to a
terra as vice-regents. .The Duke, has
large land interests in Canada, prin-
cipally in Northern British Columbia.
He is young, however, only 32, 'and
doubt is expressed whether he would
be a sufficiently solid nominee for
such a- position. An appointment
which would meet with more favor
Would be that of Lord Byng of Vimy.
Cattle Industry in Canada
is Growing.
During the year ended December 31,
1919, Canada's export trade in live
cattle exceeded 500,000 head and was
valued at $50,000,000, or at a sum al-
most equal to the combined values of
live:cattle exports during the fwvespi'e-
vioua fiscal years. Over ninety per
cent, of the exported cattle went into
'thee United States eitbee, as butcher
cattle or as stockers and feeders.
During the same period the domin-
ion exported 112,709,517 pounds of
fresh and pickled'beef, valued at 320,-
937;848. The total export value, there.
rote, of the cattle industry during the
calendar year 1919, exclusive of can-
ned meats, exceeded 370,000,000,
-New Canadian Dry Dock.
An enormous dry dock, 1,150 ft.
long, 133 ft. wide, and 42 ft. deepat
high tide, is being built at St, John,
N.B., by the Canadian government.
The dock, which will easily hold the
largest ships, is so arranged that a
650 -ft. or 500 -ft. section of It may be
used alone.
choice, 810,50 to 311,50; do, good,
310 to $10.25; do, coni., $7.50 to $8;
stockers, 39.25 to 311; feeders, 311 to
312.50; canners,and cutter$, $4.50'to
36.26; milkers, good to choice, $100 to
3165;. do- corn. and fined. $65 to $75;
spr:in6ers, 390 to 165; iambs, yearl-
ings, 216 to $20; caves, good to choice,
318 to 321; sheep, 39 -to 318; bogs, fed
and' cantered, 320.60; do, weighed off
cars, 320.75; do, f.o.b., 319.50; do, do,
country points;
Montreal, April 27.—Beef steets,
good, 313 to 914,50; med., $12 to $18;
coin„ $10 to .e'.11.5Q; butcher heifers,
choice, $12 to $14.2'5; nfed., $11.25 to
$12.25; coin., $9 to $11; butcher dews,
choice, $11 to $12.50; med., $8 to
$10.50; canners and cutters, 35 to
37.50; butcher, bulls, good, 311 to
$11;,50; 00mm0n, $9 to 310,50. Calves,
choice, 314 to '316; rued., 310 to' 314.
Ewes, ,311 to 313; lambs, 316 to 317.
Sows, $4; fed and watered basis,'317;
hogs, do, selects, 321.
The Wol•id Aloft.
With the -establishment of commu-
tation - rates,- air travel has become.•
mush cheaper on the London -Paris
line. 1t has been arranged that a
i business man in London who goes
often to Paris can buy a season ticket
for 5(500. This is good for twelve
trips, saving 312 a trip over the old,
rate.
American planes will be used in
aerial transportation lines which are
to be established hi Japan,"&hira and
11oree. 4 cording to advices re'••.,
cei ed by the acro Club of America,
c n Inhc, er.. the msali'nes which will
he first pt r'into service 'are to be -
shipped to Chin -6r 1 '.R' York
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d:.sh to the South- Pole -by air-'
910111 ."111 be the big feature of the
13r.•i.i;h Imperial Antarctic Expedition
u'h:' h will set out next summer under Capt, E. C. IJoy, D,P.C., of Van-
the„rl:reetion of Dr. John L , Cope, -The cotrvei', the first and only man to fly
airplane to be used will be so designed across . the Canadian Rocky Moun-
that :t can land on the ice by means tains, is to be the first man on the
of skids. Three men will make the Pacific coast of Canada to undertake
dash for the Pole from the top of the commercial !lying.• His plans, now
great ice harrier at the Bay of being completed, call for flights to
Whale.. This ice barrier has peaks mountain, lake and forest' and beauty'.
11,000 feet high. The machine will be spots to enable' tourists to see won -
fitted with a patented sledge attach- clerlands of nature inaccessible except
mnent which -Will be used to carry pro- by air- route, and never yet' trodden
visions and equipment if anything by the foot of man. -
happens to prevent the journey being
completed in.thet air. With a full load
and crew the plane will weigh 12,600
pounds, and will average a speed of
ninety-three miles an hour.
• One of the latest creations in the
flying world is America's smallest
flying craft, the "Buttertiy,'t which
recently made a successful flight at
College Point, Long Island. The
"Butterfly" weighs 595 pounds, and rival are not given,
two strong men can lift it,:from the The tnessage from Anadir suggests
ground. It is only twenty-nine feet that the 'explorer may have reached
and nine inches wide and ,nineteen that point with a vessel.
Peet long. The motor is smaller and , Last August Roald Amundsen was
weighs less 'thee the motors in even' reported to be drifting, in his ice -
the lowost powered automobiles, yet it locked schooner Maud, somewhere
develops 68 to 70 horsepower. The north of "western Siberia. Nothing
maximum carrying . capacity ,is 383 has been heard from Amundsen di -
pounds.
.
Explorer Amundsen
Has -Reached Siberia
A despatch from None, Alaska,
says:—A 'wireless flash from Anadir,
Siberia, announces the presence there
of 'Judson Amundsen, -the explorer.
The details and manner of his ar-
Britain to Get
ThreeGerman Ships
A despateh from London says:—
Britain is preparing to make•a strong
bid for the three largest German•pas-
senger ships now building and due to
the allies under the Versailles treaty
—the Bismarck, Columbus and Hin-
denburg, aggregating 126,000 tons..
Men and animals die much sooner
if deprived of water than if deprived
of food.
The fiat taste of -filtered water can
be remedied by pouring it at a height
from one jug to another, which re -
aerates it, •
rectly since September 1, 1918, when
his schooner was reported to be tak-
ing oil for her motors at Dixsob Is-
land, a White Sea point,
Firms the White Sea.Amundsen ex-
pected to, drift east with the ice to
the new Siberian Islands, which lie in
the Arctic off Siberia. At the new
Siberian Islands it was 'believed the
drift would carry him toward, if not
across, the Pole. The explorer is re-
ported to have carried two airplanes
as part of his equipment.
He expected to use these if he found
the drift would not carry him across
the "top, of the earth."
There is nothing too severe to be
said about the dirt roads in the spring,
but it is well to remember that ta3k
never mended a chuck hole. `' `
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AFTER YEARS OF CLIMBING,
CAILLAUX ACQUITTED
•,, OF HIGH TREASON
Fortner Premier of France is
Guilty on Lesser Count.
A despatch,-- from Paris says:—
Joseph Oaillaux; : former Premier of
France, and twice Minister of Fin-
ance, stands convicted of having
placed his personal ambition during
the war higher than the interests ef.
the country that jionored him and
gave him birth. Caillaux, while escap-
ing conviction for high treason, was
found to have been recklessly im-
prudent and very close to treasonable
ambitions, for such id the interpreta-
tion of the verdict of "Guilty of com-
merce and correspondence with the
enemy," which. was rendered on
Thursday against him by the French
Senate.
This is the first verdict of the sort
rendered in any of the allied coun-
tries since the war began. "Com-
merce," as interpreted by the Sena-
tors who were judges, not meaning
financial trading, but commerce by
means of common ideas, while "cor-
respondence" in this particular case
is employed in the sense of associa-
tion,
Death -Defying Professor.
Can a man exist on as little oxygen
as a dog? That is the question an
eminent Cambridge scientist has been
trying to answer. And he has done
so at the risk of his health and even
life.
Normally the air contains about 20.6
Der cent. of oxygen. A dog has been
known to live for forty hours in five
per cent. No one could say in what a
man could live, and this Professor Bar-
croft determined to find out.
An airtight glass page was construct-
ed with two compartments, one for
sleeping in, and the other fitted up
with facilities for writing down his
sensations, and g bicycle an a.pedes-
tal for exercise.
This the professor entered, .ntend-
ing to remain a week, reducing the
oxygen by the simple process of using,
it up. Electric "scrubbers" were used
every few hours to remove the car-
bonic gas, and food was " passed in
through double hatchways.
Two people were always on the
watch to Make observations, and ready
if 'necessary to rush in and render arti-
ficial respiration and oxygen. Within
twenty-four hours _the oxygen was
down to 16% per cent„ and matches
woeld not burn, but the inmate did
not experience very much inconveni-
ence.
He' hung 'on till it reached 5 per
cent„ when he was forced to come out
through weakness, a sample of his
blood being taken for further analysis.
It is related of the same professor
that he once told a friend that a cer-
tain gas would kill a dog but not a
man. On the friend maintaining, that
it would kill both, he went into a
chamber of ,it with a dog, and waited
till the dog was dead:
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Trial of War Criminals
at Leipzig Being Delayed
A despatch from Leipzig says: ---
The preliminary proceedings for the
trial by Supreme Court of German
war, criminals has begun, but, accord-
ing to Tho Neuste Nachrichten, they
are being rendered difficult' by the
partly incomplete and partly erron-
eous data 'supplied by the allied lists
of accused.
The date of the main trial has 'not
been fixed.
The preliminaries also have begun
in the case against Wolfgang Kapp
and Major-General Baton von Luett-
vita and their associates in the recent
uprising, who are charged, with high
treason. The mass of evidence in the
case is still increasing,
The rule of the road is to turn to
the right—and the ewe holds true
morally.
A Letter Fr ori Loudon
It is not generally known that
Princess Mary is quite a good typist,
although she usually prefers to write
her own letters by hand. She keeps;
up an animated correspondence with
her brothers. Just now the Princess's
greatest desire is to get a trip abroad.
Hitherto she has had rather a stay-
at-home life, and she feels that she
wants to see more of the world.
1' * a y
, 'General Sir Arthur Sloggett, our
first Director of Medical Services in
France, can boast of having been •shot
through the heart. At the massacre
of Adowa the Abyssinians took large
stores of Italian rifles and ammuni-
tion. Later on, in a scrap between
Menelik's men and dervishes, a good
deal of this booty again changed
hands. At Omdurman, Sir Arthur,
riding beside the Sirdar, was struck
by one of these Italian bullets, nickel -
cased and of extremely small oalibre,
which went clean through the muscle
of his heart and out again. Sir Arthur
was • out and about again within a
few weeks.
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Mr. T. P. Offionnor, more than any-
one else, helps to keep alive an old
custom of the House of Commons—
that is, -the custom of taking snuff.
Since the time of the Stuarts the chief
messenger at the entrance of the
chamber has kept a large box of
snuff for the use of members. Mr.
Winston Churchill from time to time
helps to maintain the tradition. And
on rare occasions I am told that Mr,
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TO CAPTAIN
Balfoui( has delighted its custodian
by patronizing this ancient box and
partaking of a pinch.
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AIready preparations are being
mado for the fifth Aerial Derby which
will °i're held at Hendon in the sum-
mer. It will be chiefly interesting
as an index to the`advance in speed.
When the first race round London
took place in 1912 T. Sopvvith won
with an average speed of sixty miles
'an hour. In the two succeeding years
the average rose to between seventy
and eighty miles. Then the great de-
velopment of the aeroplane engine
came. Last year, when the race was
resumed, Captain Gathergood, the
winner, attained an average speed of
129 miles on the course of ,190 miles.
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A medical expert discussing the
future the other bay suggested that
by 1950 we might well have sanatoria
for consumptive cases established in
the air. In his view it is not at all
a fantastic dream to foresee a number
of giant balloons being moored from
the Weald of Kent, to which wards
for tubercular patients would be at-
tached. In the pure air 5,000 feet
above the earth, patients --could enjoy
the advantages of Switzerland. The
only difficulty would be the danger of
a strong wind forcing them to make
an unwilling voyage to the Continent,
This danger, of course, could be
avoided by the balloons being hauled
down at the approach of bad weather.
—Big Ben.
Facts About Author's
Earnings.
Robert Louis Stevenson was poorly
paid in eonparison with popular
authors of tb-day. But the earnings
of some of the earlier Victorian
novelists seem to show that—allowing
for the difference in the value of
money—novel-writing is not a much
more •profitable trade to -day than it
was hi their time.
The increase in the number of read-
ers has been counterbalanced by the
increase in the number of writers.
"Pickwick" brought Dickens, who was
only twenty-four when he wrote it,
$12,500 and a share in the copyright
after five years. In four years George
Eliot received only $9,000 from "Adam
Bede," but "Romola" brought her
335,000, and "Middlemarch" was, on
the whole, even more profitable. An-
thony Trollope made from his books
a gross sum tof 3850,000, or about 310,-
000 a year, •
In 1868 Bnlwer Lytton received
3100,000 for a tem years' copyright of
a cheap edition of his novels. At the
end of that period he was paid 326,000
for another period of five years, and
made a contract on the same terms at
the end of the second period.
Thaokeray, when he first started
novel writing, did not make such a
large income from it as Dickens. He
received 3262.50 a part for the periodi-
cal issue of "Vanity Fair," It appear-
ed in nineteen numbers, one of them
being a double one, so that altogether
this issue brought him in, 35,250. For
"Esmond" he `had 36,300, and "The
Newcomes" yielded him about $20,000.
Jane Austen seems to have been the
most poorly paid of all great novelist's'^
During her lifetime she earned' less
than $3,500 in all for the work of her.
pen. _ . d.
Skins taken too late in the season
are given different names by the buy-
ers. Bach name means practically
the same thing. The most common
are: "springy," "Overpidme," "shed-
dets," "rubbers," It is a waste to
catch such pelts. Trappers ought to
pull up their sets se soon es any signs
of deterioretiotT are noticed. By doing
this, and obeying the laws, our Valu-
able fur -beating animals will be con-
served.
'Buy Thrift Stamps.
South Sea Columbuses.
When we are asked to state who
discovered America, we reply "Colum-
bus," without any regard for the fact
that civilization had risen and fallen
on the American continent before Co-
lumbus was born. In New Zealand
recently, a boy was asked in a .school,
examination who discovered his coun-
try. The answer expected of hien by
scholastic tradition was "Tasman,"
but the lad perplexed bis teacher by
replying, "Kupe."
lie may not have got his marks, but
he was right, Polynesian tradition,
which is "unwritten history or proved
accuracy, records that about 1,000
years ago two dark-skinned captains
sailed from the Society Islands Into
the southern seas, discovered Now
'Zealand, sailed around it and return;
ed to their own land, visiting the Is-
land of Itaratonga on their way, ,The
tale that; has lived after them shows
that they entered Wellington harbor,
the present site of the' capital city 0f
the Dom.lnion, where they saw (he moa,
the giant wingless bird that had be,
come extinct before the first white
man set foot on New Zealand shores.
The world has never produced great-
en' navigators than the early Polyne-
sians, who in their big outrigger
canoes traversed the Pacific north
and south, east and west. Without
map or compass; they pushed north to
the equator and south to the ice pack.
The white explorer came in the tracks
of their canoes.
English Humor.
Doctor Grenfell gives these samples
of the English Tommy's humor in war-
time:
A lad, a well-known athlete, - was
caught by a shell and -blown over a
hedge into a field. When they reached
him his leg was gone and one arm
badly smashed. He was sitting up
slinking a cigarette, and all he said
was, "Well, I fancy that's the end of
my football days,"
One very undeveloped man, who
had somehow leaked into Kitclhener's
army, told me: "Well, you see,
major, I was a bit too weak for a
laboring man, so I jolted the army, I
thought it might de my 'ealth good!"
One of the English papers reported
that when a small Gospel was sent by
post to a prisoner in Germany the
Teuton official stamped every page,
"Passed by the Censor,"
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- AND ADVENTURE.
Captain Turner Commanded
ommanded
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the Lusitania and Survived
a Later`tahipwreck. •
A daidt night, a heavy sea -fog, and
a big sailing; ship twenty-four home
out of Glaegow.
Suddenly a grinding crash, the ship
stagger's forward, stops'siror't, and re-
mains hard and, fast on a reef,
The fog lifts a little, and to the re-
lief of those 0n hoard ]and is seen only
a sply, s the. tide
drops'hiand'sength daylighawat corneaAthe chip is'
left praetieally high and dry, and the.
crew carry the passengers aelrore on
their backs.
Stauding for'aid, a small hey of
eight watches it all with eager eyes,,
until at last he too is lifted over the
side and taken across to firm ground.
That wee in 1864, and the small boy
whose first experience of the sea was
shipwreck was destined to become tile
most famous of all the great captains
of the 13i"itish mercantile marine.
Captain Turner, known to all the
world as the commander of tire'
fated.Lusitania, was born at Everton,
sixty-four years ago. It was with his
father that he took bis first voyage.
This ugly experience did nothing to,
daunt the boy, and five years later, at
the age of thirteen, young Turner was
discovered aboard the sailing ship
White Star, in which his father was.
mate. He had stowed away. Ile was
taken onus deck -boy, and on this voy-
ago went almost round the world.
A Meteoric Rise.
I-Iis father was then given command
of the Queen of Nations, end tbey
went to the desolate Guanope rslands,
and loaded fertilizer for English'
fields. Coming back around Cape
Horn, they ran into fearful weather.
The cargo shifted, the ship to01c a
fearful list, and all hands were sat
to work to jettison the filthy,ill•:1nc91-
ing fertilizer. The ship crawled to
the lonely Pallclanil,Islands, end ibete
lay three months. getting repalrel
It would need a book to describe all
young Turner's voyages and adven-
tures durlug the ne:ct few years. In,
1176 he had the good luck to joie the
Royal .Alfred, and before the voyage
10.13 over he ryas third mate.
After that the Fou :g offlcer's rise
was meteoric, and in 1878, at the :me
of twenty-two, be 1000 third on.c,er :n,
the Cunarder Cheabcurg,
Oddly. enough, he did not relna.n
With the company whose best -kr ern
officer he was declined to hearse, 111
1870. he joine:1 a Glasgen' ship 'ie
seccltd officer. Later he was in the
City of Chester when she broke i_er
tail shalt in the Atlantic, but t ••s
luckily picked np ..,,d ,uaee i-,te 1
fax.
In 11103 he haul hie first t :card -•Ini-
mon(1, the Aleppo o, 1 s ,Iii tt•ci! ha
has commended einicet eye.,' 'sees
steamer in the fleet, i1:cl,ding
splendid but ill-fated reisitan;e. -
t"1'fle captain was on the brhige
when struck," Lord Mersey has re-
corded, "and remained there, givens-
orders
ive -orders till the ship foundered. He v; ro
in the water three bolus, and was only'
rescued by chance. He exercised fret
judgment for the hest, and it was the
judgment of a shine.' and osperienc:'l
man•
Such an experie -so would have
9nisher' most mea of sixty. St dill not
b1'Ce1r Captain Turners nerve. iOb,h-
teen months later we find elm in
command or the big' Ivernia, carrying
2,800 trcn;'c from 'Marseilles to :Vox.
andria,
Seventy miles off Crete a. Cermet
torpedo struck her ami?,3•hirs, and the
explosion killed a number or the crew,
But the boats were swiftly luwercl,
and the troops quickly but quietly got
aboard. As usual, Captain '1"urncr
stayed with his ship, but just before
the poor Ivernia rolled over and soak,
he and his officers were taken off by
a treeless
Watery Wisdom.
Water a000nets for just sliest of
three-fourths of the body's weight.
Sea water 11 continually getting
salter,
IL' the bubbles on poured out water
linger before breaking, the water 15
impure,
The quickest, way to get waren Is to
sip 1104 7vater.
Alum will at once clean cistern)
water by preelpltating impurities to
the
Slxbottom. pfuts a -day is the body's regn°re.
nieater.
hiltnts pofeoplew, and those opt of condi"
tion, have as muds as llv4 pc-:-tds of
useless water hi their themes,
Soft water is •w tee (311nue nee (1r•'
garlic matter.
The salt in sea water k ;: 'r:I'•id
by rivers from tate earth, cad die.
charged in the sea. •
-
The first mirrors were peel, 03.
water,
Staglsut water, a breeding elude for
mosquitos% can be rendered 10-^,otni-
ous by coating it with 931 tflln,
Were it not for the water- in the
body the "linings" world cher: and
intense irritation be set up.
Perfectly Safe,
'A well-dressed and charming ycung--
lady hailed a four -wheeler, sir3c rf'ttiora
wait no taxi in eight. ,Titer- os she was
getting in she noticed that the horse
seemed inclined to be frisky. Ile woo
jumping about and swisliing his tali
in a way that alarmed her—sire waft
a timid little thing. 5o she addressed
a few words to the aged john. ' •
"I 'rope," she said, smiling bravely)
"that you ado not ran away with me."
The cabman sighed mournfully.
"No, mum," he replied, "I have a,
Wife and seven kids at Home already.'
The women's institute of Ribstono,
Alberta, cotrdueted the fall fair In that
locality last year. 84 was a deoirlod
success, This appears to bo neer
line of activity /or wontores inditutes4