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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1919-11-27, Page 318. DID NOT INVEST LARGELY IN BONDS Other Flotations More .A.ttrac-, Live Than " Canadian Victory Loam A despatch from Ottaway steps:— Sir Henry Drayton, Minister of Sr1n+ once, e fetedithet citizens of the United States did nob buy en numy of Can- acia's Victory beetle ter cemnionlY're" parted, A great' deal of interest was taken b the flotation, but Just as they Were beginning to purchase VietoT N a,rs*y= bonds Great Britain floated a lean irti,. t0$ 4 . r :tw ' 6 . a, x61 �, :::ter a u :.•, c :. .w.r 1 er cent, diad this hil,her rate NEW 'ABiNL'•' UI' UN-1'AHRU L8',AV;ow, GuolefiNiYic;NT I.1OtiS•,'Tf}FtOIVTO, AI^TEr3 BEING rWURN IN, 6 /a p I L investor for 'et Canacla'e offer- r to rightthe men are; -skier, 13. Bowman, Min, of Lando & Forests; Hon, W. E. Raney, Attorney General; Hon, W, E. ROM, Alin, mgde t s & From loft t g g y, Min. of Agriculture; Hen, H. 0. Nixon, Pro. Ingo, of Ilealtln and Labor; kion, Lt; Cal. D. Carmichael, Min, Without Portfali0 ; Hon, Mannan W. Doherty, ' . Hon, Peter e , nt Grant, M n, Of I9ducation; Hoe, F, O. Biggs, Min. of 1?ublio 'Werke, t Asked what hopes the Government vinciak ,Seoretary; 1 -ion. E. C. llruty. primo Minister, leen, l2, TT, G a , i had fef Canada's overtaking the un -1 Smith, Proyinoial Treasurer; ]:tar;, a Mille, "Minister of Mines, favorable exchange situation, Sir. M ',klenry said fleet the Government could do nothing to "So long.., as the .people. al Canada -persist in insPortiilg expensive arti- ,sloe so long ellen we have an adverse -trade balance;' be said, "If that could be wiped oat the exchange situa• - . _. Weekly. Market Report 'Breadstuff:. —No. 1 Northern, '5'2.30; No. :•; North- 18a/zc, t1cney-- klxtraeted clover, 6-1b. tins, 25 to 26c; 10-'b. tins 24% to 25c; G0- 1 , lb. tins, 240; buckwheat,'G0-1b. tine, 18 to 20c; coinb'16-oz., $4.50 to $5 dos•; elO•oz., $3.50 to $4 dozen. . ' Maple products --Syrup, per imper- ial gallon,emfwyp m£wyp mfWYPwYP Provisions Wholesale. Smoked meats --Hams, med., 36 to 88c; do, heavy, 31 to 32e; cooked, 49 sec• rolls 80' to 81c, breakfast Japans, 34,75 to 35; imported,';hand- Toronto, Nov'. 25,•--Manitoba-wheat picked, Burma, 34; Limas, 171/4 to tion would take erre of itself:' ern, 32.27; No., 3 Northern, $2,23, in "Wild A,nexieati investors get any store Feet William. 1 y. advantage from the 5 per cent. e?t 1 Manitoba oats—No, 0,,J„ setae; change charged against ,Canadian No, 8 CW, 84c; No. 1 feed, 813;cc' No. money?" he was asked. I 2 feed, 79%,c, en store Fort William, "The, interest on Victory Loan bonds Man. barley—No, 8 CW, 31.131s/s; payable in Ottawa, so that we shall Noe4 CW, 31.44 '/s; rejected, 1.84ffs; if in store Fort William , have the exchange," he answered. American erican eorn—No, 2 yellow, 31.75; During the six months of Canecla's Ne. 8 yelloe,, 31.74, track, Toren o, 'fiscal year ending September 4 Can- prompt shipments. ado's adverse trade -balance with the Ontario oats --No, 8 White, 87 to 89c, United States was :$135,852,9014. It is according to freights outside. stated 'here that it is inlposeible to Ontario wheat—No.o12 Winter, nt r, per float a loan in the United States to car lot,s32 to 32.0 ; N , `a Thomas .32.03; Na. 3 do, $1,93 to $1.99, f.6.b. stabilize the situation. Sir Tho, shipping points, according to.freights. White said before elle Parliamentary Ontario wheat—No. 1 Spring, $2.02 Coin'nsittee,on Soldiers' Civil Re-ostab- to 32,08• No. 2 Spring, $1.99 to 32.08; lishment at the last session of Parlia- No. 3 Spring, 31,95 to 32.01, f.o.b. 'Ment that the seventy-five million shipping points, according to freights. dollars lean negotiated in New... York Peas—No. 2, 32.50. last summer represented about as Barley—Malting, 11.47 to 31.50, ac - heavy a loan^as. Canada could raise there, If the amount had been one hundred millions he doubted if it could have been negotiated. 2,400 CANADIANS STILL IN BRITAIN Military Authorities Troubled by Missing of Sailings. A dispatch from London says: More than a year after the signing of con'ding to freights outside, Buckwheat -31.82 to 31.84. Rye—Nominal Manitoba lour—Government stand- ard, $11, Toronto. Ontario flour—Government stand- ard, $9.50 to 39.60, Montreal and To- ronto, in jute bags, prompt shipment. Millfeed—Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, 345; shorts, penton, $52; good feed flour, $3.15 to" 33,50. Hay—No. 1, per ton, $25 to $26; nixed, per ton, 320 to $22, track, To- ronto, the armistice there are still . 2,400 Country. Produce—Wholesale: Canadian soldiers in Britain awaiting Butter—Dairy, tubs and rolls, 43 to, repatriation apart from the twenty . prints, 48 to 50c. Creamery,, p fresh made solids, 60 to 61c; prints, Odd thousand discharged ,nen. While G1 to .62c. the number is small, it is supplement- Eggs—Held, 52 to 54c; new laid, 65 ed by an equal number of dependents, to 68c. and they have been giving the military Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, authorities much trouble of late 26 to 300; aoosters, 25c; fowl, 20 to through their failure to turn up at a' 25c; ducklings, 85 to 80e; turkeys, 85 steamer after their passage had been to 40c; squabs,-doz., 34.50, booked. A recentd decision that marrieLive poultry—Spring chickens, 20 tarried 23c; roosters, 20e• fowl, 18 to 25c; soldiers' be allowed free repalthducklings, 20c; turkeys,'35c. NEW CONSTr!TTUTTION FOR EGYPTIANS Britain Will Also Confer. Self - Government on Malta. SCOTLAND. War Losses $3ry3y1,612442,$60 Dead 1.3,990,6[1,' A. deepnotele from `Washington %aye; -.-Tho Tet'st comprehensive report on the "Direct and Indirect :Coate of tho Wail' has just been made by the Carnegie Endowment for Tnternatien- e1 Peace and ,pun,lislled in a volume under that title, 'The 4iroet,mutts for email -Wes Pe- ttedly involved in the war aro put at 2180}000,400,000 and the 44direat emits at $151,012,542,560; Tho latter total includes leases to noU'trate, which are put at. $1,750,000;000, It oleo includes loss of production, put at $45,000,000,•• 000, :sect war relief estimated at $1, 000,000,000, The capitalized value of soldier he- rniae' life, else given among the in- direct costs, i:8 placed at $38,521,276,' 280, The property louses ere 'divided elas follows: On land, $20,900,000,000; to shipping and earge, 30,800,000,000, The report, which was gathered by Ernest L, Bogart, professor of econ- omics in the University of Illinois, in estimating the "capitalized vallke of *` es � human life," fixes the worth of the individual at figures- rouging from 32,020 in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Japan, Roumania, Serbia and several other countries, up' to $4,720 for the United States, where the economic `earth of the individual to the. nation is placed at the highest. An additional 383,351,000,000 is 'allowed for civilian losses. Although many of the latter were of children and old persons, the estimate given for the civilian loss is bolievedvto'be conserva- tive. The nuln'berof known dead is placed at 9,998,771, and the missing presumed to be dead at 2,991,800. To the losses from death and wounds there ie added "those resuitiilg from disease, pesti- lence, privation, hardship, physical ex- haustion and similar causes." A despatch from London says:—A Toin Skene, a native of. Tain, was constitution for Egypt and local self- married recently ie. Winnipeg; to Mess 'overnment for Malta, both of which Margaret Mackeneie, of polity, ;gwere announced on Thursday, -'aro tee- The death bas occurred at Ainoss signed to meet the unrest in those of ;Alexander Ross, brother of Town eountries, which Have been demanding councillor J, ee, Rose, the application to themselves for the Beating and trendy .digging have theories of self-determination and the been unsuccessfully resorted to to rights of smaller nationalities. quench the moor and forest fires in The extreme Egyptian nationalists Tain district, . , I e re bacon,- 42 to 46e; backs, plain, 17- to have raised the banner of complete The inhabitants of Stornoway we 48e; boneless, 49 to 52c. independence, like the Sinn Fein, and entertained• to a garden fete by Lord e me k -Lon clear bacon, 31 =sages say that the Cabinet Leverhulme at 111s oasts grounds. Curd n ~? g Cairo m g Y to 32c; clear bellies, 80 to 31c. 29 to !, has resigned- as an answer to Field The death is .aut,ouncod on, the 4t -- i-., , 29% to 30c; pails, 29% to 301/03, 1 Marshal Alleivby's statement of the ghan front of Capt. Alex. Thomson, ' British plans. brother of NGrs. Mackenzie, of Castle prints, 30 to 801/zc; Compound tierces, 27% to 28e; tubs, 28 to 281.<ac; rails, 2816. to 338%c; print, 29} to 30c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Nov 25. -.Oats, extra No. 1 feed, 37e. Flour, new standard grade, 311 to 311.10. Rolled oats, bags, 90 lbs., 34.50 to $4.55. Bran, $43 to $45. Shorts,. 350 to 352. Hay, No. 2, per ton car lots, 324 to 325. Cheese, finest easterns. 28c. - Batter, choicest cream- ery, 65% to 660. Eggs, fresh, 800;, do, selected, 65c; do, No. 1 stock, 58c; do, No. 2 .stook, 55c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 32 to 32.30. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, 325. Lard, pure, woad pails, 20 lbs. net, 31c. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Nov. 25.—Choice heavy steers, 313.25 to 313.50; good heavy, steers, 312.50 to 313; butchers' cattle, choice, 311.75 to 312.25; do, good, $10.75 to, $11.35; do, med., 39.25 to $9.76; do, com., 36 to 36.75; bulls, several weeks during the summer, choice, $10- to $10,60; do, med., 39 to but there were no casualties, and little $925; do, rough, 37.25 -to $7,50; hut- penes of the movement there has cher cows, choice, $10 to 310.50; do, Small good, 39 to $9,25; do, med., 38.25 to reached iangllato it•on accountnot other 38.50; do, come $6.50 to $7; stockers, been pai $7.50 to 310; feeders, 310 to 311.25; overshadowing events. canners and cutters, $5.25 to 36.50; Acether sign of the times is that milkers, good to choice, $1t0 to $176 a group of Burmese, with the support do, com. and med., 365 to 375; spring- of former British Burman officials, err, $90 to $176; light ewes, $8 to $9; .have begun an agitation for including spring lambs, Per cwt., $13.60 to $14: Burma in the new measures of self- government which the Montague scheme wine give India. One of the Egyptian complaints has Debbie. -" ' been that Great Britain has published) Dr, Owen Reid, of Inverness, has its intention to maintain a protector I been appointed Medical Ofilcer of ate, but has icept tho Egyptians in the Health f r Lochcarron parish. dark regarding what es meant by a The elate of Inyerernate, situated ectorate and haw •it is to 'be ears, on the banks of Loch Dulch and con - prof ried on. Gzeat Britain's action in pre- silting of 22,000 acres, is being sold venting an Egyptian nationalist dele- by Sir Keith Fraser, gation from going to the Paris Con- Andrew Lindsay, J.P,., of Gol5910, ference to present grievances has -been has been appointed a deputy -lieutenant another causefor for Sutherlandshire. Tire Government'scomplaint. justification be - The Duchess el Sutherland has been fore the charges of neglecting I0gypt appointed a lady of Grace of the Or - has been the enormous load of other dor of St. John of Jerusalem: matters on its hands. The death 1s announced of A. M. The Milner Commission, which la M•'. 1V1eAdIe, for twenty -live years to investigate the causes of unrest in secretary of the Glasgow Caithness Egypt, has not yet started, and the Benevolent Association. natives threaten to boycott it and re- The Hon. Mrs. Douglas Vickers has fuse to give any information. arrived at Tulloch Castle, Dingwall, Malta was in a state of tut,iult for for the season. When Water Talks. ENGLAND, Lord Jokey has given Mar'itetlt P010) hall las a gift to the borough eott,rofi. Lord Redesdale bee been driving a motor lorry loaded With churns Groin London to 0xfer'd, ' , Sir F, Beauchamp, of Canert0n, Somerset, has pitoelraee4 the Camel, ton Oourt estate, An explosion. in en 1±4,10, motor. lannolt at Poole '.paused the dead, .of Sorge, Thomas Bunting, The new mayor of Windsor i5 W. lr ah'banlr, .. M,V,O., surgeon to the Royal household, Windsor Castle, One of the voluntary helpers at Pad+ dington Station during the strike wits Sir Charles Suet, .equerry to the ltallwaynien wito aro members of the Bradford. Co-operative $oeiety 1vi11 be supplied good's 011 a week's credit, '$he I3ialtop of 'London presided at a meeting of the 'Waite -and Strays Society, held in Leicester on, October 14111, The death is announced in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, at Rodding, of William Henry Mooney, secretary; 02 Bradfield College, The death tools place at Carlisle Station, while travelling in a train from Glasgow to London, of Mrs. Ag - nee Young Drummond, of Barron', A license for slaughterhouse for the purpose of killing .horses for con- sumption abroad, has been refused by the ]last Ram health Committee. Bishop Gore has dedicated a win- dow in the parish church, High Wye - combo, in memory of throe sons of the Bishop of Buckingham, killed in the war. Ah open ,pnarket has been set up in Brook Steeet, Holborn, by the Hol• born branch of the National Federa- tion of Demobilized Soldiers and Sailors, British Losses of Mer- chantmen. M,'. Alex. Johnston, Deputy Minister of Marine at Ottawa, snakes the fol- lowing statement of British losses of merchantmen and shipping craft dur- ing the war period: 'lbtal number of British merchant- men lost by enemy action during war period, 2,479; gross tonnage, 7,709,- 090 tons,. Total British merchant ships sunk by submarines, 2,099; gross tonnage, 8,635,069, Total, sunk by mines, 269; gross tonnage` 637,417, , The remainder were sunit by tor- pedo boats, aircraft and from other causes, Total number of lives lost on the foregoing ships, 14,287. Number of fishing vessels ipst,. 676; gross tonnage, 74,765; number of lives lost, 434. In addition to the above losses there were 1,585 ships damaged seri- ously during the war period, and toe loss of life on these was 592. Their gross tonnage was 8,007,967. Against these losses the net mer• chant tonnage launched in the United Kingdom for British owners was: 1915, 374,009 tons: 11110,..3.06,000. tons; 1917, 762,000 tons. For this period the launchings in Great Britain for foreign owners were: 1915, 36,000: 1916, 38,000; and 1917, 20,000 net tons. Losses of Canadian merchantmen, while they are included in tho total of British losses, have not yet been se, gregated. after • six months' delay for family Cheese—New, large, 31% to 32e; reasons promises to lengthen greatly twins, 32 to 321/ac; triplets, 33 to Calves, good to choice, 317 to $18, the work of repatriation now almost 83%c; Stilton, 34 to 85e. hogs, fed -and watered, $16.75; do, • +resnlanchoice d • ' , h 53 to weighed off cars, $17; do, f.o.b., 315,75; concluded. United States to Hand Over German Liners to Britain A despatch • from, Washington to roc• squu says:—Settlement of the controversy. .Live poultry—Spring chickens, 22 to $7; ewes, $7 to $8, lambs, goo , over the dlspoaltion of the German to 26 c; fowl, 28 to 25c' ducks, 22 to 313,75 to 314; common, 312 to $18; ping' Board officials, who intimated OSc hogs, :cleats; 317.25; lights, 315.25 to liner Imperatox was indicated by Ship - the ship would be tendered immedi- 3525 to 35.75; primes, 34:25 to $4.75; $18.25. ately to Great Britain. • Action with regard to the seven First Party of Womenother German steamers in the same Settlers For Canada status had not been determined, it was said.. It will depend, it was indicated, 'on final dispos'it'ion of the tankers, under the German flag, but American owned, now held in the Firth of Forth Tiy, the direction of the Supreme Coml- cr1, Australia Being Swept Devastating Drought A despatch from London says:— Australia,' especially New South Wales, is suffering the most devastat- ing drought since white men have re- sided in that country, even the drought of 1902' being surpassed, according to a Sydney despatcls to The Daily Mail. Stocks and crops have been destroy- ed, and sit. .is dbubtful whether there will be enough seed wheat for next season's sowing. Hundoeds, and per- -, haps thousands, of settlers have been ruined. Northwestern New 'South Wales. is described as a desert, being otripped of everything green. Paddocks are littered -with the skeletons. of; catt:e, and even rab'leits are dying in vast numbers. al Butte1y 55c; crenery prints, 64 to 6Gc. do, do, to, farmers, 815.50. Margarine -33 to 38c. Montreal, Nov. 25.—Butcher steers, Eggs—No. 1, 60 to 61c; selects, 63 coin., 36.75 to 38,50; butcher 1lelfer5, to 64c; new laid, 80 to 85c. com., 35.50 to $7.25; butcher cows, Dressed potfitry—Spring chickens, med.; "35.75 to $7.50; canners, 30 to 33c; roosters, 23 to 25c; fowl, cutters, $5 to 35.75; butcher brills, 30 to 32c; turkey's, 45c; ducklings, 34 com,, $5.50 to $6; good veal, $14 to bs, dos: 36.00, $16; medium, 38 to $18; grass, 36.50 CANADIANS ADOPT RUSSIAN MASCOTS Two Little Peasants Whose Parents Are in the Hands of Boisheviki. A. despatch from London says: A new type of mascot was adopted by the Canadian forces in Siberia in the form of two Russian peasant boys whose parent's are in the hands of the Bols}feviki, but who are theniselves to be given an opportunity of becoming Canadian citizens. These boys, who have made their hone in the'Y.M.C.A. Beaver Itut in London for seine months past, are ,natives of. a village north of Archangel, and like the maj- ority of Russian peasant children, have had no education, They were found homeless near Archangel by Canadian officers serving with the North Russiaexpeditionary force. The task of malting the refugees Canadian citizens has been accepted by Major S. B. Pepler, M.C., Toronto, who sailed for Canada on the Megantic en'Wed- nesday with one. of the boys, while Mayo± W. 0. White, R,C,1t., will look after the other one. Britain Has Borne Burden Of theEaonine in Austria A. despatch from London says:— Premier Lloyd George,- replying to questions in the Mouse of Commons, said he szvw no hope o'' amelioration hi the economic situation of Vienna with- out they help of the United States. The British' had, already given aid to the Viennese Government amounting to three and ono half ,i>,illiois ponds sterling, but the Premier announced that Great Britain did not intend to bear the greater part of the burden of the famine in' that country. Prince's Visit to Spain. Said to Be Arranged A despatch from London says: -In a dismal rain, but in, splendid spirits, the first official'party of British eve - men settlers under the, Dominion Gov- ernment scheme' left Euston on Thurs- day land of Canadian r the morning 0 day m g for promise and bard work. Others from all parts of the British Isles joined them 'at Liverpool, bring- ing the number to seventy-five. A hardier, healthier seventy-five lot of girlssntever left this land' before. A11 have worn uniform, and are under no illusions that life cons'iets entirely of. chiffon and sugarcake. The Canadian housewives who se- cure the help of these eager pioueers must be prepared to welcome vigorous young women who have contracted the awful habit of work. Every one in this pilgrim band wears a hopeful spray of maple"leavee on her hedge. Breeding Insects. It is no trouble at all to breed in. sects of any kind. All.that is required is suitable temperature and a supply of the kind of -food preferred by the bug. Most insects 'feed on plants. It is a question then of providing a closed re- ceptacle containing the proper food Plant—as for example, tomato leaves for the tomato worm. A growing plant may be used. Grain weevils will breed in a jar with the sort of cereal pro - ender vthey like. Economic entomologists make a business of breeding the bugs in which they may happen to be specially in. terested, In this way they study their life history and, what is very imper- taut, they identify) their parasites--• and will send up a distress signal the insects that customarily prey upon every hour for twelve hours. A sound them. For the parasites breed along signal is also given, and it will burn a • h1e m0nths,e tor light at night t lr. "hosts," g g h tl •with A despatteh from London says:— King George is said' to have given a promise that the Prince of 1t?ajei ±:hall pay a formal visit 'to' Madrid .next year. It, is understood that a round of festivities will be organized yn his honor in Spain,' "Katie," one of the most wonderful inventions exhibited at the recent ship- ping engineering exbibition'in London, is likely to prove the most valuable aid to sea 'captains and navigators yet discovered. "Katie" is the name given to the invention of an engineer, by which he makes water talk. It Is an automatic float, with a sen- sitive depth -Pending mechhanism con- nected telephonically, and is placed on the surface of the water. Another delicate instrument rests on the bot- tom, with a wire connection, When anengineer wants to know the depth of water at a particular spot he rings up "Katie" on the 'phone and she tells hint the exact depth. She speaks in soft, jerky buzzes in the manner of the Morse code, and when she gets out of her depth she stutters. If the current is too strong she becomes speechless. "Katie" will also warn a captain how mobil water has got into the hold or the engine - room after a collision. The floating ship's sato is another Wonderful invention, It automatically. casts itself adrift from 0 sinking ship, se Combined their and Cradle, For the convenience of parents 05 Infants a combined reeking chair and cradle has been patented; A Motor -Cycle Charge. . That the infantry did not monopo- lize all the thrills in the war is proven by Capt, A. P. Corcoran in his book, The Daredevil of the Army, from which the following incident in the life of a dispatch rider with the Bri• tish is taken. He had reached a cross- roads on his way from Landrecies. To the right was the turn for home. His motor cycle took the curve at a dan- gerous angle, and as he once more swept .into the level, heraised his head to scan the new road, He was looking for his follow rider, but at a distance of not more than a hundred yards he saw six mounted uhlans. There was no time to turn; the speed of the motor cycle decided that. There was little time to think. Would he surrender? That might insure his life, but the idea of a German prison dd nottentice_him. He was going about sixty ,rules an hour. Throwing open the throttle of his machine, he sent his speed up another five miles. He could see the uhlans lingering their carbines; one of them, probably a sergeant, was shouting an order to the others—they were stretching in a line across the road. Taking one hand from the handlebars, he drew his re- volver. Twenty-flve yards away the two centre uhlans were taking aim at his head. With a sudden jerk .he drew himself erect in his saddle and then. suddenly let his body fall along the top of .his tank, at the same time fir- ing his revolver. He heard their bul- lets .whiz by him, but he had spoiled their aim. He •sa4v one man topple over. Another's heves roared and cane down with a crash an the two uhlans on tine left. As the dispatch rider shot through the broken line, he sent two more bullets pointblank at the men on his right and tore past, a dark streak on the dusty highway. Crouching over his handlebars, quivering, he nerves g q , muscles taut, strained his ears for sounds' that might indicate pursuit, They came. He could hear the pounding of horses' hoofs on the hard road, but no cen• tour could have caught up' with his motor cycle. Whiz1 Another bullet shot past his ear, He crouched still lower on his saddle, and was soon well out of range. Concrete Coffins Are Being Used in Britain. To Irrigate Holy- Land. IE the proposals of a Norwegian engineer are -carried out, there will soon be a subterranean canal directly under, the city of Jerusalem, carrying water from the Mediterrehean'to the Dead Sea; irrigating the wilderness` of Judea, and providing copious electric power at the month of. the Jordan. For the Dead Sea; that strange body of heavy saline water, is 1,298 ft, be- low the level of the Mediterranean,' and: not More than 50 miles away. An ample electrical 0111ply, available for the modernizing of the Holy City and other communities that have made no progress since their names were re- corded in the manusci'ipte of the Bible, is an interesting prospect. which sleep ';hose £ish w p do so with their eyes open, as they have no eye- lids, JUST LOOt< oAUGHTEIa HM ioiGoer OUT 1.115 MOST S'`fLiSH f 416L HlLRS TQ Ta Ulf . �?i :i•P:"' k ,;i .:at -..h` .. a5....:.,>r -. — -- Oho rive lady members of toe Canadian Cuuneli 00 rtgr0e1.1,Li11'e, ton or- ganization which is doing Much to shape the future policy of Farmers' or- ganizations in Canada. The photograph was taken at the Winnipeg conven• tion: Back row: ]Miss Mabel Flitch, Mrs.. J. S. Wood, 1-liss Mary McCal• inn; sitting's- Mrs. Jolul MoNanshton 1.1es. Geo. Brodie BRINGING UP FATHER St18 C tiaTes NL`f groove Woes( TO 40T WITH SdalETY FGLY. +,4' • o ��l sem Ib 1 T `f1v Csaa'T PICse °til C1_,Vab-f NEN TO 40 h'W11.1 MN) GU-T- ama''Hr1I'GIRL'S 0'0THE.R 131 AN' (OLIIVAT�•a3, x1)5 ACG1UAIh1TA14Ci• :I.__-•_, "� KN0'31 ter `•iCR F/n cl-ICA A despatch from London says:— Owing to a prohibitive price of wooden coffins, substitutes of concrete have been delivered for the burial of 900re1` people. Up to a few weeks ago many 0eree- teay authorities declined to sanction the use of concrete ceff+ns, but in many industrial quarters conditions have become so acute that the em- bargo has been withdrawn, and they are now constantly used. Concrete coffins.answer the purpose admirably, and are much lighter than wooden ones. The King to the Rescue. Driving recently from Balmoral to London the Royal car, containing the two- seater, humble w n drew beside i p King, u seater, apparently in difficulties, and occupied by a Lancashire artisan and his wife. Stepping out, the Ring asked what the tfuuole was, and stop- ping a passing motor lorry, Prevailed on the mechanic to rectify the trouble. Tile King did not leave until the re- • pair was made. ,J • Life Would -Be Impossible. Little Harold was gr1ering because he had no..birthday gilt for his mother. "Do not quarrel with your little sis- ter all day," suggested grandmother. "That would be the bestgift'she could have." and Harold agreed with the old lady, kept to his compact thoroughly. "Can't you see howmuch your - mother enjoyed your gift, Harold?" asked grandmother at night. "Why don't 7011 d0 this every flay?" The small boy drew a breath that came from his very boots,. I'd rather die, grannie, than leve like this every day'." he said fervent, ly. t ocal Time, --•------ 4 Niagara -on -the -Lake Has Won Forty -Seven Crests Niagara -on -the -Lake passed its mil- lion iniirk and has 47 crests on its flag, malting a record of 1,293.3 of its ob- jective. Its total buyings were 31,099,- 300. 51 aG ii 'P. 122 lw Mr, Hall was motoring through a country village, and, meeting a small boy who was driving a couple of cows home,from the fields, stopped his car and asked: "What time is it, my lad?" "Almost 12 o'clock, sir," answered the boy. "Twelve o'clock!" exclaimed Baii, "1 thought it was more," "It's never any more hero," return• ed the boy hi surprise. "It just be- gins at 1 again.` Mountaineering in a Tank. No thought oe coltributing to the gtee (homed lie designer yety of at the military tank. LInt pleasure is resourceful and daring, and nosy', in the French Alpine co0n- try, Whole bits -loads of excited Passen- gers are toleoon scaling mountain trails hitherto inaccessible to any voiito1e, mon the extemporized seats of a r army Milk. "A small ship launched open au 1111 lnlolvn sea, A small seed planted by an unkuot08 ee - Such 13 trthis strange new year to yo'h and use: Wh'ithe'r the vessel gooth, Aird hove tate tree upgrowotil, GM only kstowotil:. But sail the ship, end plant the send; What is done In faitlt la dobe indeed!