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comm. ksl4llior, Western C rnad
Il sok ntansrvo' elToTts'on 'OA 1)
oL B rsiskr manufacturers ;•as
incleesb g Sass in the West
ing to at least S8,000,000 a;m
Regina, Sask Acarload
mattes ec
madey a�apial nroces .
Hebron,•-Nortl}l iticot0 from carbon;
izeci char manufactured at the lignite
utilisation plant at Bienfait from
Souris lignite, has been received here.
A thorough test,' of the fuel fordo-
mestic purposes will be made. An-
other carload has been shipped to the
Bureau. of Mines, Ottawa, where ex-
haustive tests will be carried out.
,Edmonton, Alta.—As a' direct. re-
sult of the world's records won recent-
ly at Chicago by, Alberta -grown 'seed
grain, the Provincial Department oft
Agriculture has been flooded , with!
orders from many countries for seed
grain from its cleaning and marketing
plants. Enquiries for .more than 150
carloads have --been received from
points, in the United States, Great.
Britain acid Europe,
Prince Rupert, B.G.—Twerit,•-nine
million pounds of halibut: were landed
at this port during the past year, with
the figures for the month of December
incomplete. This total is considerably
in excess of the previous.. year'. Several
largo shipments were made to Chi -
sago and -other middle western states
e
New Earl of. Warwick
Lord Brooke, who has succeeded to,
the ancient estates of the Earl of War-
wick. Isis mother is the fatuous
soeialtst Countess of Warwick, who
has thrown in her lot with the Britieii
Labor party. The new Earl was in
Canada in 1918 as commander of the
Second Moutited Brigade at •Petewawa
Camp, and during the war commended
the fourth and twelfth. Canadian' In-
fantry. Brigades at different period's.
J�yy TV8pOO Year Old Garden of
Pompeii Now Restored
A despatch from Rome says:—In
the last days of Pompeii a pietur-
esque garden with marble 'fduntains
and frescoed niches was one of the
adornments of the city. One entered
through a carriage pavillion, the high
entrance surmounted by a bell. Across
the threshold a court in white and
gold between two rows of pillars led
to the spacious; sloping terraces, wat-
ered by a drowsy brook. The •twitter
of it thousand birds completed the
pastoral landscape.
Excavators have resurrected this
garden: The lawns are green again,
as they were when Vesuvius erupted
All. 79. A silvery bell again peals
for visitors; the 'murmuring brook
wanders in through new conduits, and
songsters, descendants of the - birds
who were singing about Pompeiimore
than: 1,800 years ago, carol els their
forbears did in the days made famous
by 8u1wer-Lytton.
Two Merchant Ships Believed
Sunk by Old Mines
A despatch from Hamburg says:—
Instruments of the war, harmless for
years, are believed to have found vic-
tims at last 's two merchant ships in
the North Sea: These vessels, with
all hands,' are thought to have been
• sunk' by the .floating English mines
which once constituted part of the
blockade of the North Sea against the
German fleet.
Mines have been brought to the
surface during recent violent storms
Mille North and 13tw1tic.seas'. A num-
ber` have been picked • up and exploded
'to assist in_ the`'breaking up of:. huge
ice fields in landlocked -coastal waters.
Ocean Floor Subsided
ae Result of Earthquake
A despatch from Tokio says --The
repairing of deep sea cables, severed
by the earthmealce' of September 1, has
disclosed 'that at one point off Oshima
Island the bed of the ocean has sub-
sided 200 feet for a distance of eight
miles. To the east of Oshima the
damaged cable, had to be fished up
from a newly created abyss more than
4,000 feet deep. .
'1-10W o
; iXMUDE. MET ITS`FAtE •' .:
The gree, dirigible airship, the Dixmude, 'Which ehth a hrench crew of
hal a hundred, has dleappeared'niysteriously, is now believed, to have been
struck byllghtning, far above the, clouds, during a terrific storm aver Africa.
Rol lance aud'tragedy- mingle hi the story of the airship, which gas surren-
der&d by Germany, and applied by France for her own use. Defying thee:
elements of the air, it started oft on a long cruise, and except for the finding
'of the body of its commander` there is no trace of the missing .ship. .The
sketch •showswhat apparently happened to the Dixmude far up in the air,
t 's' duringthe recess which: followed
The Light That Sometimes
rural It
Service o
rf the Inter,',�pru�t N:
says:
In a general w, Orita>i0 pec
pie have ver' little information._
of the primary production of .
coal in Canada,. Their initial'
introduction to the coal supply
us usually in carload lots, aver-
aging, for the larger hopper
cars 60tons. This coal, too, is
largely of United States origin.
A !pillion tons sounds 'like •a
large figure, yet the coal output.
of Canada for the twelvemonths
ending- September. last showed
an increase of-, 1,770,488- tons
over the average for the three;
previous, years. - "Canada had
available for use for the year
ending September last 28,846,440
tons, of which 12,608,584 tons'
had been produced from: Can-
aclian mines, giving work to 29,-
203 employees. Nova Scotia was
the largest producer, the output
of that .province being 5,067,434
tons, Alberta being next, with a
total Of 4,938,653 tons. New
Brunswick ,produced 216,844
tons, British Columbia 2,1'71,371
tons and Saskatchewan '2 5,764
tons. Ontario, which .is; -well
supplied with both metallic and
non-metallic minerals, is depen-
dent :upon outside sources for
coal supplies, and a knowledge'
of :what other provinces have
available is interesting.
A Short Winter Course for
Farmers.
ar' Asquitii.`leader' of iii r`die of g.,,,,,
n a sncoch in the Houseand 'more diffinii. blit
s advised Liberals t0i in} the form of the �nii
aver of Labor ands .. A.dockets' strike is ailit
u pritttvtuatr
votedx; 4irservativc and, a few ab�ligit inevitable by Labor experts and'
stained: from voting. ,¢ sky, has sudd illy become ¢bath d
While 'this dshate Is ¢Ding on, rho i4h ninny impor tent wage :hepates,
real storm centre -of the political situs- iparently produced by the approach..
t:on lies in the ;threatened railway Ink:- advent of a Labor Goverrrnent
strike, ,—a the belief:'of the workers that
The stall mora serious menace of. a their own Cabinet must support their
coal strike grew. mono oirr nous ori domande,
Thursday. .Tac miners' cote in favor Lair's "no "confidence" motion in
of denouncing the wage agreement•the form of an amendment to the ad,I that :ended the 1921. strike ,las an- dies¢ in reply to the King's : speech,
pounced; The ?nen by a vote of 010,- was presented,by John It. Clynes, who
000 to..805,000 demand higher wages. scored''" the Baldwin Government both
The agreement, does not 'expire until for valet, it had done and what' it did
April 17, so,the crisis is not immodl- not do during the last twelve months,
_T
learned still -more about the purpose Three • years in succession the men
Faits h' Sight S d f l O t• i h e
time provided, a good insight into the
subjects offered- and that they were
enabled to pursue the subject further
through their own reeding. It ti point-
ed out that the, course serves, above
all, as a mental' stimulus
ATLANTIC STORIMM TAKES
TOLL OF SIX LIVES
Damage to Liners and Delay
in Reaching Port as:Result
A despatch from New`Yo'rlc says:—
Stories of the havoc wrought by. the.
storm and the 70 -mile; gale that tore
the Shenandoah from her moorings
as it swept over;the North Atlantic
coast ":were told ' by' arriving vessels
and by coast guardsmen. Five per-
sons pre known to have lost their lives
when the barge `Plymouth went down
two miles off Long Branch. More for -
and achievements of the S g rt aving an women o rural . n ar o av
Class. flocked to tho provincial university- tunate, the crew of the Danish freigh-
ter Normania were .rescued by the
BY ELIZABET- H M- acCALLUM. "Children ' having less .than one- the University of ;Toronto to attend steamship Henry R. 1VIa11ory, just'bo-
"It is a case of fairly high myopia tenth vision," we are told, "are edu-' short cultural courses organized for
t d l l i f the them by the Department of Unrver
fore their vessel foundered ori' •Nor -
with ehanges'in the back of the'eye cated in our pravincia scree s or p
Will require for some ears the $iare.ulind, But many child/Ten }vino have sits Extension. So enthusiastically,
Friday.
11o�r* to Treat Your Town
Praise it.
Improve it.
` `Talk about it.
Be public-spirited.
Tell about its business men,
Remember` it is your home.
Take a real home pride in it.
Tell of its natural advantages...
Help the public officers do the
most good.
When strangers come to town,
use them well.
Support local institutions that
benefit your town.
Don't call your best citizens
frauds and, impostors.
Look ahead of self when all
the town. is to be considered.
Vancouved to Ship 26 000,00
Bus. Wheat Next 3 Months
A despatch"from Winnipegsays5
11c on Cable announcement that ocean chare
q y considerablymore than; one-tenth were these courses received that ;thNew e
The YorCuk
fromd liner Ansonia; reached ool by way tens had been secured for twenty-si>i
provided byS'ght Saving Claes•Tl These vision cannot, on account of eye-"- first Short Winter' Course for: Farm- Boston with two starboard lifeboatsbetween
f wheat from Van.
of
p lb pY• couwas a strong
January provement not looked fox. defect or disease,- cope with the work ens in February, 1921, was attended stove in and with her bulkhead be-
es
e million bushel s J nuary 20 and April
words stared up at the reader from;80 w a s b sellingfactor ori.'the
one of the school doctor's case history'. S�met 2i linen also r children ocan f fread small followingmal vision. by no : year er �there n 279 wereie225 t . In e
cards. :And down in the second row, Q.
was the;eight-year-old girl who was "print, see the blackboard and carry dents in the'course and est year
myopic and`would not grow better. i on with regular class work; but only I there were 84.
What are we going to do with her? at the expense of their vision, "nervous � This year the course' is being offer -
Why, we shall send her to the Sight system, acrd general -health. Children: ed for the fourth time during the two
Saving< Class, of course, and if she , from these ,two groups need -special i weeks from• •February 4. to' I;ebruary
consideration' and it is their difficul- 16. Its reception has, however, been
can't improve, at least we can prevent
her case from growing worse. 11n!ties which Sight Saving Classes try far from gratifying' to its organizers
ordinary classroom is no 'place for to meet, The curriculum ,is adaptedand the Dept. of University Extension
her." And the teacher made. as if to I to individual needs. Classes are small , is being forced to the conclusion'. that
both for this reportand. because the the farmers of Ontario either .do not
dismiss the subject. • pupils are', of all grades and varying C520600 06 are not in a poet -
"But wirer is a Siglrt Saving Cl;wss? : ,eye conditions. The teacher ,of the •non to spend 'two• profitable', weeks in
the visitor persisted. '.'I never heard ' Sight Saving Class has two responsi- Toronto. Consequently W. J. Hun -
of one before!" 1 bilities—to care for the eyes: of the
"Better see for yourself,"; came the l pupils. and to train the pupils to take
reply: "It's . up on the next floor,; proper care of their" own eyes. An eye,
Room 10. They'll be glad to have specialist visits the class every fort-
night night and advises the teachers and
And so we went. nurses concerning each case." "
The teacher, a charming slip of a We learned also that there are only
girlwho knew her business thorough- four Sight Saving Classes in existence
ly, put had not professionalized a flub -1 in Canada to -day,' three in Toronto'
bling,spirit,out of existence, explained and one in Halifax.' The service ren -
her work to,us. The purpese :of the deed by these classes is so valuable,
special' class was to dive . academie However, that an extension of their
training 'to children of impaired vision work is inevitable. Parents• of ehil-
at:the, minimum cost of eye -strain. dren whose vision is ,impaired will
"That is why the 'colgrs in the room second 'eagerly the efforts of eduea-
are soft, and the lighting carefully tionists to add to the number of Sight
planned," he added. "And,;that is Savings+Classes in our public schools.
why we use movable desks which may 'What one such class has accomplish -
be set elose to any part of the black- ed in the short space of one-year, has
board `as desired. Our desk -tops are been reported in these words by the
ddjustable, „too, you see, so that by teacher in charge: •
regulating the slope we may ease the "Seven pupils have returned to
strain • on the pupils' eyes. regular grades with improved vision;
the defects were only temporary but
ltad severe strain continued during
the time these defects were present,
they would, in all probability, have,
'become permanent. ' We cannot hope
to see the same results each year, for
many of, the cases will never improve
-but we' can save whet sight remains
by minimizing strain and yet give
such pupils the aeademicgwork while
is possible only with special equip-
ment."
•--4i
"You have noticed," she went on,
"how tremendously large my letters
on the blackboard are? And we use
large letters on our buff writing pads,
and we use no books unless they have
the special deer -text ' type, But we
don't use books very much, Tau see,"
she '.laughed,'"I do a great deal of
talking' myself, and often my pupils
go for purely oral lessons to the class-
rooms where children of their own
grades are taking regular work:"
We stayed for over an - hour to
watch the children and their teacher
Illuminating gas was first' used in
at work and`'at play together, and 1792. -
1 ''THOUGHT
CCWtA
,MAKE Pr S0
'PAP -PA
neath the rail of the promenade dock
crumpled.
At least six ocean liners will be
late in their arrival here as a result
of the storm.
exchange. It; had been figured that
there would be difficulty in getting de-
liveries of so large a quantity before'
spring, though there are known to be'
twenty million at Buffalo and fifty at
bay ports, which might reach sea- .
NeWYork Graduall 1Vtoving board all rail. If the ¢tinge charters
Y at present from Vancouver show such,
Away from Europe a high record it is anielpated here
- there movement through the . Pacific'
A despatch from London says:— route may export some forty-five mil
-
"N'eet York is moving away Prom Eur- lion before lake navigation; opens.:
opa at tho rate of seven inches a year,
according to the calculations of Dr.
l'. W. Evans- who in a lecture on French Arany Strength Less
' Than Pre -War Standard
A despatch from .Paris says:—Ae
a crowning piece, of news in corm¢
tion with the economies being made
to restore the value of the franc, the
Eredch Government announced • that
thestanding army or France has been,
reduced to 350,000, which is $00,000
less .than the pre-war standards.
, The French officials, claim thatthe
reduced army gives France the die•
tinction of being the c:nlyworld power,
except Germany, which, has a`smailei',.
army to -day than lefere the war, de -
Oaring that the f pores disprove the
charge that l+ ranee is militaristically
increasing its armed' forces.
lop,
her of �versity ops ngx -of-s the i�Shifting Continents" at .King's Col-
course'to-city.people, lege, said this'had.been going on for
In the first three years nearly 600
people from the rural'contmunities of
'the 'province, availed. themselves of
this opportunity for ,breadening their
minds, and enriching their thoughts
through a.brief introduction .into the'
realms of such. -cultural subjects as'
history, economics, .hnglish;literature
and; psychology. The lack of enthu-
sia nn: this year would seem to indi-
cate that this noble 600 comprised 'the
sum total of the people iti-rural com-
munities who are ,desirous of getting
an intxbduction.into the higher realms
of thdught by means of a short course,
Mr. Dunlop recently expressed con-
siderable -reluctance
ont-siderable-reluctance to discontinuing
the course in future years 'because he
feels that; there are people' in Ontario
who Would appreciate such an annual
event. He added that he was some-
what at a loss to explain the fewness
of the applications received at his of-
fice as a special request had been
made that those intending to take the
course should 'make notifications- by
January 25th, in order tofacilitate
areangements:
The 'course recommends itself by
its vary cheapness. The registration
fee is but $2, tuition is: free, board
and lodging may be obtained at from
$8 to go per week and the, only other
cost is railway fare: Three lectures
,awe given each morning during the
course and_ the' afternoons are devote
'ed to visits to the, Royal Ontario Mu-
,seum, the Parliament Buildings, the
University Buildings,,and other points
of interest. -No academic qualifica-
tions are necessary and there are no
examinations to bring back' memories,
pleasant or otherwise, of school days.
The :subjects which it is proposed
shall be dealt with this year in: the
.Farmers' Cburso have been especially
adapted to meet their interests, In
addition to the usual lectures in Eng-
lish literature, history, and rural
economics, there are to be six lectures
by a practical farmer on "Agriculture
in the National Life," There will also
be a course of four lectures in public.
speaking, which should prove attrac-
tive to those who wish to enter local
or provincial politics, or even to pre-
side, at local social functions. There
will be a continuation of the lectures
given last year an public health, par-
ticularly viewed from the standpoint
of problems of hygiene on the farm.
While it is realiited by those in
charge of the course that it; would be
impossible to deal intensively with
even one subject in so short a length
of time, it has been found that the
-From John Bill. , ,students' were able, to obtain in the
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millions` of years.`
Observations -shad•e at Greenwich
show that the townis moving thirteen
inches southward every "year.
Lee Imprisoned Vessels
Supplied by Aeroplane
_ from '. Chr'
.A, despatch 'istiania
says,:—Aeroplanes are carrying,, sup-
plies to 50 sltips that are now wedged
in the ice :in, the Cattegat and of? the
Danish coast " The aircraft drop
sacks 'of food and., -other stores near
the imprisoned vessels. •
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Weekly Ma rket Report
TORONTO. lbs., 25e; hens, over 6'lbs., '28c;' de,
Manitoba wheat—No.' 1 Northern, '4 to 6 lbs., 24e; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 18e;
$1.11%. roosters, 18e; ducklings, over 5 lbs.
,
Manitobs, oats—No. 3 CW, 46e; No. 24c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 26c turkeys,
1 extra feed, -46c. young, 10 lbs. and up, 28 to 82e;
Manitoba tarle barley,—Nominal. geese, 22c.
All the above track bayports. Beans -Canadian, handpicked,. lb,
h
Ontario barley -63 to 66c. 7c; primes, 6%c.
American corn—No 2 yellow, 98c. Maple preducts--Syrup, per imp.
Buckwheat—No. 2, 69 to 72c. • gal., '2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, ,92.40 per
Ontario rye -No. 2, 70 to 72e. gal:; apple sugar, lb., 25%
Pease-Sample,$1.45 to
9 . —60-1b. tins, 11 - to 12e per
Mi:..1.60 Honey—60-1b.
llfeed—Del. Montreal freihts, -1b.; 10 -Ib. tins, 11 to 12c; 6-15. tine,
bags' included: ll3ran, per ton, $28; 12 to 13e; 21/2-1b. tins, 8 to •14c,f. comb
shorts, per .ton, $81; middlings, 937; honey, per dozen, No. 1, $3.75 to 94;.'
good feed flour, 2.10.' No. 2, $3.25 to $3.50.
Ontario wheat—No.' 2 white, 93 to " Smoked meats—Hants; ,ped., 25 to ' l
95e, outside. -'27c; cooked hams, 37 to 39e; smoked
Ontario No. 2 white oats -38 to 40c. rolls, 19 to 21c; cottage rolls, 22 to
Ontario corn --Nominal. 24c; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27e;: spa -
Ontario flour—Ninety per cent pat., cial brand breakfast bacon, 30 to 33c;
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship- backs, boneless, 80 to 85c. ,
meat, 94.60; Toronto ,basis, 94.60; Cured meats—Long'clear• bacon, 50
bulk seaboard, $4.25. - to 70 lbs, 97,8.50; 70' to 50 lbs., $18; '..
Man.: flour—let pats, in jute sacks, 90 lbs, and up, $17; lightweight rolls,
96,20 per berrlel; , 2nd pats„ ,95.70. in baneele, 987; heavyweight rolls,"'
Hay—Extra No. 2.timothy, pet ton, $32. '
track,. Toronto, $14.50 to $15; No. 2, Lard—Pure tierces17 L•to 174,e;
$14.50; No. 3, 912,50; ,mixed, $12, tubs, 17% to 18e; pails, 18. to 181e;
Straw—Car lots, per tom '$9. prints, 19 to ''20c; shortening tierces,
Cheese—New„ large, 2135 to 22c; 1485 to 15%c; tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails,
Wins, 22 to .2935d; triplets, 2285 to 15%2 to 16e; prints, 17% to 1gc.
23c; Stiltons, 24 to 250. 01d, large, Heavy steers, choice, $7' to 97,75;
25 to 30c; ,twins, 29 tee' 31c; triplets, butcher sters,: choice, $6.50 to 97; do,.
30 to 32c. - good, 96 to 96.25; do, med.; 95 to
Butter—Finest exeamery prints, 46 $5^45'• do core., $4.60 to $5; butcher
to 47c; No. 1 -creamery, 43' to 45e; NO, heifers, choice, $6.25 to $7; do, med.,
2, 42 to 49e. w 95 to $6; do, com., $4.50 to 95; but-,
Eggs—Extras, fresh; in cartons, cher cows, choice, 94.75 to 95.25; do,
52 to :58c;- fresh, extras, loose, 50sto med.;, 93.60 to $4; canners and cutters,,
51c;. extras, storage, in cartons, -43c; $1.25 to $2; butcher bulls, choice,
extras, 40 to 41c; firsts, 35 to 35c; $4,25 to $5.25; do, corn., $2 to 93,• feed
seconds, 29 to Inc. ing steers, good, $5.50 to $6.50; do,
Liver poultry -Spring chickens, 4 fair, $4 to: 95; stockers, good, 94 to
lbs, and over, 28c; •chickens, 3 to 4 $4.7b, do, fair, $3.50,.to $4; milkers
lbs., 22c; hens, Over 5 lbs., 220; do, and ,:springers, $70 to .9100; calves,
4 to "5'lbs., 15c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 15c; choice, $11 to' '912.50!! do, med., $8 to
roosters, 15c; ducklings, over fi lbs.,9.50; do coin., $5 to $7; do, grassers,,
19c; do, 4 to: 5 lbs., ]8c; turkeys, $3 :to 54 56 lambs,- choice ewes, 912..
young, 10 lbs. and'up, 22c,. kto $12.50;,(
bucks, $10.50 to, .$11;.
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens; i do, culls, 47 to $8; sheep, light styes,
4 lbs. ;and over ' 30c; chickens, 8 to 4 , $5.50 to $6.50; do, fat, heavy, -$4 to
5H1+I5 AN
OLD MAID 1
4�.
7
$460 do culls, 1e2 to 43; hogs, fed
and watered, $7.75; do, f.o.b., $7.266
do, country;points, $7 do, 'selects,
MONTREAL.
Oats -Can. west., No. 2, 65 • to,
55%c; No. 3, ,5231 to 53e; extra Nov
1 feed, 51c• No;,2 local white, '48
to 49e. Four—plan. spring wheat!
Pats., lets 96.20; 2ncls, 95.70; etron;
palters' 95.50; winter patst ehoId
95,65 $5,75 rolledt,.,
cl,t
jos.; nG: - bran, , 92S 2.5; ehorl'4
$81.25Middimggs, '"37.25. Hay, pert
ton, car lots, $15 to :h10,
Cheese—Finest' westerns, 1115c,
Butter—No. 1 creamery, 42 to 42.1/20
i
No, 1 pasl.ourized, 48 to 4315c, 'Eir3
—Storage extras, 40e; No. 1 stocic�
85c; No.
—Storage,
stock, 28 to 30c, I'otetoea
—Per bag, car lots $1.40
Med. to cone ¢roars, $5.25 to5.50$
corn, dairy t�vpa cows, :92 75 to $8,i 0
canners, $1.00; coin. ;bologna bullae •'
$2.60 to $ ; med. to corm veal caivele
$9; better ones, $10; Jambe, 910;nos , t"
t115cJs smooth rind bute:tie trot ;9i 1