HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1924-02-28, Page 3E,NGAL SWAA,IISTS
EFEATED BY: ONE VOTE
se, by Bad Tactics in, Eft ort
o' Fasts, "No Co nd"rioe"
Malign;
A:despatch front Calcua any6 ---
Tho'I3ongai Si'varajistr arottvery'sore
over their first defeat in, the now
Council,by one vote." They 'failed tb
secure the passage of their motion
of no confldeni;e in theMiniateip. The
defeat was partly due to the bird tae-'
ties employed;by the Stivarajists, who
declined to put•up their best efforts
to'.force an early division, and ,partly
to the spirited speech' of Fatal ,Hug,
the new Minister of -Education, who,
with impassioned 'eloquence, claimed,
for the Ministers the,. right to vote
according to their convicitions, and'
denounced the Swarajiste' autocracy
because it has,songht to substitute for
the old bureaucracy.' 'No doubt the •
.Home Rulers' will . try again on the+
budget with considerable hopes of suc-
cess but .the 'setback is of - eat I
,. gr
portanco to',a country lflce 'India;;
where the triumphs of 'C, R. Das led
the, people to -believe him invincible.
The -Englishman voices the unev. l-
nese of the European co'mnunity oc-
casioned by the coincidence • of the
postponement, of •Lord Oliver's state-
ment with the Independent Labor
,party's manifesto calling for a .con-
ference, to accelerate' Indian self-
government and wonders ,whether Sir
Malcolm Hailey, whose:; speeches were
warmly welcomed by Europeans in'
Bengal,. has been thrown over by th8
Home Government.
Restored by Belgians.
The hells of ,Dinent will ring again.
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After a long'and`arduous campaign
fund's have been collected with which
to reconstruct the .400 -year-old clock
tower, whi h the r Germans fired In'
1914. The dedication will take place
at Easter, 1925,
The bulbous -shaped tower was' con-
structed In the sixteenth century. Vice.
tor' Hugo oomliared It to a gigantic
watering pot and spoke of how much
character It poaeessed and how -,well
it seppeared In Its: frame of gigantic
rocks surrounding it,
•When.tho plane for its reoonstruc
tion were"announced many sought to
have it replaced by a tower of another
design. The opinion of the great
'writer was eucceasiiiliy used as an, as-
gunient against this scheme.
However,. Dineut will . not ,walt for
the completion of the tower to cele-
brate itei rebirth, • .Tuts; will take place
August 29, the tenth' anniversary of
the massacres, pillage .and. ineendiar
ism indulged'li by the German troops
following the battle of Dinant.' 'Most
eif the 1200 houses destroyed have
been reconetructed and the bridge and
City Hail' are in process of restoration.
It la proposed to hold an exposition
In ,August with exhibits se' arranged
to demonstrate the prodi,Xioiie effort
that has been made in the last five
yeairs "to raise the picturesque old Bel -
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e;B `,12 y sits e��thsy �;Xmd+sa,
oachm jilt I1linLl?eople *nstitute, "'Tho instruction xrt
QTgiij with 1 A1._ try i nstrua crafts makes,possible the pre tion
vias''foundtblia'tiiignY blind of;'saleabin articles which can? •,dis
Find net be"cRn6`efitrated 'for posed of either locally or .forty da,
hegee th'e Ieeipion to to the salesroom department ^ Q,a,the
o all comers and render de- Institute in return for cash. IneZtided
-s with the least incon-
"e blind people receiving
•The ; Institute lies been build
phis home teaching {tepartinent
fY' ln, various sections of the
r -during the' past 'six years.
'are 'now eighteen of ° these
rs Scattered aerosis Cane a'giv-
netritction to approximately two
red and twenty-five blind people
giving .ori the average tenthou-
indlvidtial .lessons; per year.
Ilomm fikActiiirc
theaters •
rIirniTCTs. existing prior to 1918 and at the prea-
Bione achers are tisurclly station- ent time, .' Before the Institute was
.ed ut civ large town and give organized;and•hoine teaching Started,
-'or a Y g
in this series of articles will be •a "do-
seription of the'salesroom department
which was' originally established in
Toronto, ' There will also he a de=
sci;iptiog of the salesroom branches
Which have more recently been estab-
lished in Halifax, Winnipeg, and Van-
couver,
WHAT OOE0 T1i1 INSTITurE ,AND 1 8
SERVICES' meaty TO -BLIND PHOBIA?:
This may be best; answered by a
critical examination of the conditions
e as children and adults were losing their
of that centre, lessons topupils:,...
' ::cases need -
diose in the surrounding sight every Year, in many y
'we1lasta:
•,are
teaching
oa hin centres 'lessly. The provinceswereprepared
are/Pclsated as follows: Halifax, \.5., to furnish education for juveniles in
Va icouver, RC! Edmonton, Alta; organized schools, but in many cases
Cal r Alta; Saskatoon,' Seek; Re- children'were not `reported and so did
6s, i adult,
tens,, Saslt..;., Winnipeg, Man.. (two not:,recesve-educatton. For the
achers) ;' and in Ontario at the fol- however, there was practically no-
lowing points'+'OttawaKingston, Pet- thing. He blunderedhisway about
erb'ereug h Berrie Stratford London his own Mime steeped in` Idleness and
IiatniIto n, �.enid Toronto (three teach- :in most cases knew little Or <nething,o"f
Aro. , the `itccoxnpiishmonts of other blind
.people Or the possibilities in'his own
wHO AND WHAT ARE TH£SF TnACHE1I9
ease and certainly was given, little or.
Tis selectin res"ective teachers it
g P P no opportunity to learn or become pre -
wits found' that there"was a :definite cluctive in any definite way. Possib-
advantages to be gained through using .l the greatest handicaphe felt was
blind ols as 'instructors of the
pP p the lack of ability to read and to
blind When a blind person' is con-
viiteed through ignorance that blind we all depend so much for entertain -
enjoy the contents of books on which
Hon J. P:, A. Cardin new Minister of Marine at Ottawa, ;shown at hie
desk -shortly g atter takiii !.:oder hie now duties. He succeeded kion. Finest
Lapointe, who' became :Minister of Justice!'
Higher Male Birth Rate
Will Replace War's Losses
A':. desp etcfrom Berli • says:—
Dims
p h n y
Does nature:make up for war's, toll
upon the male -population of a belli-
gerent nation.by • increasing the.'pro-
portion of boys to girls born during
and after, a great war? : The-Prns-
sian Bureau of Vital Statistics .ane-
wers this old query with an emphatic
"Yes,": citing the offcial census :'fig=
tikes to prove that nature is working
o re ace the German men
CLAIMS TO 'BE DEBATED
BY BRITAIN AND RUSSIA
Caen station Appointed to` De-
cide War Debts Due
British' Government.
sa st•-
A•despatch from London y ,
The British • Government' has taken
the fret steps in preparation for the,
conference with the Soviet Govern-
ment. - The. British Commission will
be under the direct guidance' of Ram -
people are mama le of worlgng with t lace 1,824,000 "
Mont, In` some instances blind people ,. pay onbv. TJnde -assisted by Arthur
theirhands it is extremely . difficult p killed. during the war and restore the Ponsonby, 'Under-Secretary of For-
d k th t
sighted person to prove other-
tor.; a h
g P
wise. The invariable answer to a
would-be sighted instructor is, "You
can do that with sight, hilt it is im-
were found who di not < now a
there was another blind person in the
world and felt thatethey had been ilii=
'duly afflicted. Cases have also been
old proportion between men and wo- eign 'Affairs, but its working heads
men. The number of boy babies to will be two civil servants of great
every hundred girl ,babies, which dur- experience. It will be divided into
' ing the six years before: the war had political and economic sections; and
i Ie for without sight." discovered where a"blind person was, averaged 106.2, jumped in 1918 to the former' will be under J. D.°Greg-
poss b wf g Withowing to ignorance: of relatives and 107.21, in 1.917 to 107.40, in 1918 to or. a counsellor iin. the_ 'oxer Office
% blind instructor, however, th it friends, looked on as being mentally i07.G3 and 'u 1919 to 0 . Y,
verypresence gives confidence to thei 1 8 02 the:and the latter under creta Sydney Phan
people. this reason, the impaired as .well, with the result that maximum figure. Since then the stir men, Permanent Secretary of the
blind Fortreatment'was, ,! plus' oe boy, over girls has continued Board' ra e " 'ritelatterwill be
most capable blind• people have been
intolerable, Scarcelyof T d ,
ing community- in Canada can now, fairlY ste d .
chosen in nearly every instance to truthfully sag that it.doosnt know oft: ;Prussia, the most militaryof the engaged chiefly in considering
ov rn-
carry on this hbme'teaching work. the Canadian National<Institute fors question of debtss owed by si G e
-The ,Institute first of-- all ,carefully 1 ment of states, leads utithisproportion
po tion Britt and, Government
of n and Brit sh :ub-
the Blind and ilia widespread interests mens war's losses the ro ortian British Gavernnient British sub-
selected blind' people who possessed and work. It is.very simple then to' of boys to girls during and Since the ' is
•
more than ordinary ab sty, en ar refer the caea_, w
to the Institute, lee
norma'! classes: from war being in Bavaria. 107,05; -in Sax It is expected that' the Soviet ansa -
time to time to improve their,knowl or no delay, home teaching to adults
ranged specialin most cases can furnish with little ons 107.06 and in Baden 106.08. As (lathes will plead,,a, an: offset to' the
heavy public -debts that 'Russia, owes
to Great Britain, the damage incurred
by :Russia through the civil -war 'car-
ried•on ;in the early days by the So-
vieteby such 'White leaders as Deni -
kine and KoIchak:
With regard to the' Russian war
debts, it the Soviet- acknowledges
them,,it is not unlikely that the quos
tion of settlement will be allowed to
stand over until the problem of the
settlement of all other war debts comes
up, but the British Government- may
take a nlore stringent line concerning
Russia's pre-war debts and other;'glt�'
edged. securities, like railroad bonds.
Nature on Her Mettle..
When Nature ie doing her ba tt110
can accomplish.• '.big things• In briefthee,.
edge. These blind' teachers were in or rei"er children to' provincial author -
greeted .to some', extent in the psy- !ties for school education, Thi$ enabled
ohoiogyof.teaching the services 414 the newly blinded -adult to learn. to
the lnetitute was'prepared to; render; read' embossed print. which takes: the
to
.the reporting of new- •cases found place of. the' ordinary, printed page,
in their. districts and' n short, render- And to seeure,one oi' other of the sev-
ad capable of dealing; with the varied eral thousand books 'ready for loan by
situations to be met_ with -in thetr the Tnatitute. ;Usually it eriabloa :the
rimnd of callsindividual to regain confidence tit,get-
The blind teacher.. using'a guide ting about, to .make saleitble; articles
• provided by< the Institute wherever ,in: basketry or re -babe chairs for the
neseaaary,'reales her round of ealIs, cemmunity and as a result of this
'instructing • here, encouraging there; production, . be enabled to contribute
• and -everywhere bringing a cheery at part}y or wholIsr to his owls support
ittpapller° and optimistic viewpoint to and Is in many cases able to, provide
bear. No one can estimate the value for his family es well. What does this
I ed b th blind i I this
9
ac y e n lie
on all mean to:the person who, losing
vendee. his sight, has felt that further plea -
MUT eit*slssnrg utFi Teyeerin sure 65 interest in this life is lost and
Blind peopia , are naturally Iimited i f ti "d
tit the variety of occupations in which
they may engage. For the most of us,
"Seeing is believing," however, and it
1i satounding even to those "engaged
in work for the blind to tee the var-
iety of excellent articles produced and
their finds that a new field is open
fo r h M'where ho !nay be use ` an
self respecting, not dependent?' • At'
the same time he heats of other blind
people enjoying all sorts of recrea-
tions and pleasures, Have you ever
been lot in a prairie blizzard and
felt that hopeless despair that comes
to many cases tiiso almost incredible to, one whose' strength Is spent, then
Ingenuity shown by Individual. work- l h ttli
ore. The actual subjects on the home
teacher's list are as follows: For men,
Instruction in Braille, reading and
writing, and Moon's Typo (embossed),
typewriting or pencil writing, and
auch handicrafts as basketry, chair
Caning, string work, etc, For girls
*And women: Braille reading and writ-
ing, ing, on Type reading, typewrit-
ing or pencil writing, and such lines.
itis Light 'basketry, 'Band sewing, do -
reale machine sewing, knitting, Gro-
ebeting, rug weaving. '
The instruction ,wbieh as given �in
the
various emboased.systems of read-
ing_inentioned above, is designed to
enable blind people : scattered through
out • the country to receive 'free loan
tate joy f seei
ong a. it
g twig ng
through tho darkness? What hope
springs up! It is for this very rea-
son that we use the symbol "HOPE"
on, products of the blind..
In thinking of 'this work, just re-
member our home teachers and their
UMW; ' rounds and the blind people
that are being faithfully served. You
can assist in your own community by
taking a helpful interest in your blind
neighbor, buying his products if he
can make what you want, and refer-
ring bis case to the Institute if he
needs help' and Stas' net, nitokdy: re-.
ceived it, or by assisting our' home
teachers in 'their 'rounds: "HOPE"
Is our watchword and our motto is
"Help Them to Help Themselves."
IRISH LINEN` AND HOMESPUN OUTPUT
INCREASING TO PREWAR LEVEL
A : despatch from, London :says:--
tow that Ireland is running through
it period of:peace,'many familiar pro-
ducts of the old sod wili once snore be
aeon in the shop windows of the world.
That Irish handicraft is again finding,
a market is shovm by the fact that
the export value of manufactured'
goods- la 1923 was double that of the
previous year and is steadily inereas-
ing. --
Peace has meant prdsperity> to the
factory districts, the foremost of:
which is Shillelagh, where, for the
first time since the war started, huge'
stocks of shillelaghs are being mann-
factored for export. The industry
• lies given employment to hundreds of
workmen in-thedistrict, and it is
expected that this year a ;million or
more of ; these" oak saplings' will be
distributed throughout' the world.
Stocks of this knotty ammunition
of Dublin and London in anticipation
that the shillelagh will be aa popular
with the tourists as it was in the old
days, when every American thought
his trip abroad ruined if he was forc-
ed to return hone Without one.
Exports:;of the famous Irish home -
spew also are rapidly .•inereasing,.the
:
rooms being busy filling orders, while
the linen industry of Dublin and
Northern -Ireland :is slowly getting
beck to the pre-war , level. Reports
from the industry and commerce de-
partments of both the Northern and
Southern Governments anticipate that
1924 will equal' 1913, when Ireland
reached its maximum exportation.
Favorable weather for the small
Trish farmers this year will place' the
Emerald" Isle -on the certain road to
national prosperity,,' and the outlook
was never better, according to Joseph
McGrath, the Free State Minister of
are reappearing in the Shop' windows Commerce.
an indication that nature's selective
birth system is governed by war laws,
statistics may, be cited from neutral
Denriiark and Switzerland, where the
proportion of Voss to girls sank in-
'stead. df .rising: during the war years,
The Future Empress of Japan
Princess Nagako Ktini, . who was
married recently to the Crown I'rinee.
and Regent, Hirohito, le'shown in her
regal headdress previous to the 'wed-
ding,
rs--
Only Sixth of Opium Out.
Put Used for Legitimate Needs
A despatch from Geneva ` says: --
Twenty-five hundred tons of opium in
excess of the amount justified by
medical and scientific use is produced
yearly, according to the health organ-
ization of the League of Nations:
The total world's annual output is
3,000 tons and the Physicians and ex-
perts of the health commission esti-
mate that 500 tons is ample for legiti-
mate needs of the world for opium
and its derivatives, including mor-
phine. -
This month tho gardeners, at .Kew,
London, will be putting•in the seed of
the Victoria Bogie, the giant Amazon
Water Lily, which grows. 1 na great
teak f none of the big houses in the
gardens. By the middle of August this
mlranle of rapid, growth will .be at per-
fection, having produoetl a dozen or
more huge leaves and many flowers of
splendid size, w+hieh bogie by being
white- and then turn pink.
The largest leaves, are six feet in
diameter, and float on the surface of
the water like rafts.. They are so
strong that a child can be seated nn
tbe.rniddle with impunity. The upper
surface of these:leaf-rafts• is smooth,
but underneath they are provided with
stout ribs and spikes, giving protection
and rigidity.
Visitors generally conclude that the
plant takes year to grow -to such di-
mensions, and It fills them 'with
amazement to learn that it is an an-
nual •
-What a Brick Will Stand:
It takes a weight of 4,500 pounds to
crush a cubic inch of best brick.
About time people the worst thing
you; can say is the truth.
Famous Bells of. Dinant to be
;tan town from the amass• of ruins to
which it was reduced by the invading
Teutons,' '
Game WardenBringsFull'
Report, of Patricia Conditions
A despatch fromb'Sault Ste. Marie
says :—Flour costa $80 to $50 a bag in:
Ontario's newest district, said Ernest
Price, Warden of the Game and Fish-
eries Dept., who has just returned
from Patricia, where he took the law
of Ontario for the first time to .the
half-breed traders, fur companies and
trapper,. Ho was stationed. at -Island.
Lake, just inside the, Manitoba boun-
dary, where he- collected the royalties
and •license fees from the trappers
and -•traders on the fur being taken
out of Patricia into Manitoba. For
-three months"?he lived in the . wilds,
and he tells a most absorbing story of
the life and inhabitants in Patricia,)
and relates his journeying from the
time he left the Sault till he returned
to it, four months later.
Havingmade a roundteePof 500
miles by dog team, walking and trot-
ting behind his team of huskies for
that distance, Pelee brings back with
him possibly mere data of the interior
than has yet been furnished.
A:woman may be known by the
company she isn't at home to, --Health
Culture.
Photograph shows'the Canadian representatives at the OIympic winter sport contest at Chanios
on their way to join the parade of us, tions for the opening ceremonies.
t,. France,.
We ldy Ma rtket Repot
TOI+�ONT O
3Vianitoba"wheat--Not 1. hlvrthezii:
y�1,12lt,
'Manitoba ants--No,"3 CWr46e NO-.
1
feed, ,4 ic.
Manitoba barley Nominal.
All the above, o.i.f., bay ports
Ontario barley -65; to 70c.
American corn—No. 2'yellow, 98%e,
Buelcwbeat--No. 2, 78 to 92e,
Ontario rye. -No. 3, 75 to 79c,
Peas—No. 2, $1,45 to $1,50.
Millfeed-Del,, Montreal freights,
bags included: Bran, per ton, $28;
shorts, per ton, $30; middlings, 336;
good feed flour, 32.10.
Ontario wheat—No. 2 white,' 96c to
31.02,- outside,
'Ontario No. 2 white oats -41 to 43c.
Ontario corn—Nominal.
Ontario hour—Ninety per cent. pat.,
in 'jute bags, Montreal, prompt .ship
,
Talent, 34.70; Toronto basis, 34,70;
Milk -Seaboard, $4,85;
' -Manitoba flour- slat' pate., in jute
:sacks, 36.30 ' per barrel; , 2nd pate,,
35,80. ,--
Hay—Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton,
track Toronto, -50 5;
1 4. to 1 No. 2,
314.50; No, 37' $12.50 to $19; mixed,"
$12.50.
Straw Carlota • per ton 39.50.
Standard: recleaned screenings, f.o.
b;;' bay porta, per ton, 320.
Cheese—New, large, 20 to 21e;
twins,:. 21 to 22e; ' triplets, 211/2 to
221,4c; Stiltons, 23c. Old, large, 27
to 29c; twins, 28 to 30c; triplets, 30e,
'Butter—Finest, Creamery; prints, 46
to. -47e; No. '1 creamery, 42 to 4oc
No. •2, 42 to `43c.
Egggs--Extras, fresh, in cartons, 54
,o 56c; fresh extras, ,leose,-48 to 50c;
fresh firsts; 46 to 48e; extras; storage,
41 to. -42c; 'firsts, 30 -to 40c; seconds,
82: to 34c.
Live poultry -=Spring chi.elcene, 4
lbs. and over, 28c; ;chickene,''3. to 4
lbs., 23ca hens, over 5 lbs., 22e; do,
4 to, 5 lbs., 15e; de 3 to 4 lbs„ 15c;
roosters, 15e; ducklings, . over b lbs.,
19C a 'do, 4 ` to 5 lbs., ' 18e; turkeys,
young, 10.lbs. and up, 22c.
Dressed•• poultry -Spring chickens,
4.1be, and aver, 30c; chickens, 8 to 4
lbs„ 25c;..henc, over 5 lbs.; 28c; do,
4 to 5 lbs., 24e • do, 3 •to 4.1bs., 18f;
roosters, 18c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,1
24c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c; turkeys,
young, 10 lbs, and up, 28 to-' 32c;
geese, 22c.
Beans—Can. kei. c
hand iIb. 7c;-
primes, 6%e. p ' r
Maple. products -Syrup, er`imp.,
gal.,2.50; per 5 -gal. tin,2.40'per
gal.; maple sugar lb., 25e. • ,I
• Honey -60-11e. tine, 11 to 111/2c per,
1b 10ib:'tins, .11 wa 12.e; 5lfs.
11% to 12c 2%.•11", ting12% to,11
tonsls honey, per dos No, 1,.33.18'
$A No 2,'38;21 ta.,$a1.30, .
implied azauts.--Marne, med.,
24
25c, 36 'to ;97c i ein.c-
itglls, soeete,21c; cottage rolls, 22
24r br ` ji1,'asit bacon • 25 to 27c; e
Bac
e1a1kbre, abonefi1 3irlesq, ealn'30aetto eybdee,on, 30, to 8>
Cured meais='Long clear bacon,'.
to 70 las,, `.$18.50; 70 to 90 lbs., $1
00 lbs, and up, 317• lig'htwaignt rel
in barrels, 337; heavyweig it rel
$32.
Lard—Pure tierces, 15 to ilii`
tubs, 15% to 18e pails, 10 to 16%
prints, 1835 t ?9r;sbortcningttierc
1414 to 14 ac; tube; -14 to iso; psi
15 to 15%c; prints, 17 to 17%e,
Heavy steers, choice 37.50 to $8:
butcher steers, choice, 36.25 to
do, good, 35.50 to $6.00; do, m
$4.50 to 35; do, coin., 38.50 to 34,
butcher heifers, choice, 36 to 36,75;
med. 34:50 to 35; ; do, coin., . 33.50
$4.25; butcher cows, choice,, 34,78
$5; do, need., 33.50 to 34; cann.
and d cutters 31.25 to. "2.00'•; b
cher bulls, Choice, "34.25 to 35.
do, coin., 32.00 to 33.00; feedi
steers, good, $5.50 to $6.50; do, fair,
to 35; stockers, good, 34 to .34.75;
fair, 338.50 to 34; milkers and spri
ers, 370 to 3100; calves, choice, 3
to 312; do, met]., 38 to 310; do, cos
7, o 81
lambs35to $, ch;ofcoda, owesgra,ssers$14,50$3 tot$i6;4.
bucks, 310.50 to 312; do, fat, hea
$4, to,$4.50; do; :culls, $7 to 38; sh
light ewes, 37.50 to 38; do, culls,.
to $3; hogs, fed and watered, 38; i
f.o.b., $7.50; do, country points, 37.
do, selects, $8.80.
.MONTREAL..
Oats -Can, West,, No, 2, .85
553'ae; do, No. 8, 581 to 54e; ext
No. 1 feed, 5235 to 58c; No. 2lar
white, 50?{a to 51s. Flour—Ma
, spring wheat pate:, fists, $6.30; i
' 2nds, $5.80; strong bakers, $5.60; wi
ter pats.,. choice, 35.65 to 35.76. Roll
loats—Bag, of 90 lbs., 32.99. Bran
328.26. Shorts --$30.25. Middlings
36,25, Hay --No. 2, per ton, :car .lo
16.
Butter; No. 1, pasteurized, .41/
42c; do, No. 1 creamery, -40ax' to 4
do, seconds, 89Y to 40o. Eggs, fr
extras, 58c• do, fresh firsts, 48e.'
tatoes,Com; per dairy agtype', car Iotacow,s; $1$3.40to 4`531..
$1.,
do, better onts, 34; canners, $1.
calves, med. quality, $9 to $9.50;
poor ones, $8; help, thick, smog,
and shop, $8.25. •
Bir William Wheeler
President of the Royal College of
Surgeons, :of Ireland, proved in an
address reoeatiy that a chilli born to-
day had 12 Mono years to nye than a
ebild born 25 years ago, due to strides
in medicine:
Antwerp Diamond Cutters
Discover New Process
A despatch from Paris says:—Dia
Inonds will gleam with fourfold bril-
liance, yet cost considerably less, if
the invention of two Antwerp gem
cutters is perfected. Working in a
gloomy, poorly equipped shop, theta
two men, whose names have not been
revealed, suddenly decided that pro-.
gress hi their art had not kept pace
with other industrial science.
After six months' research, often
working' till nearly daybreak, they
found a -method of cuttingand polish-
ing diamonds which gave 585 'refiec-
tions, instead of the usual 175, besides
yielding a fire that had not been oh.
tained since the days of ;ancient
Egypt. Moreover, under ibis process,
the rough stone loses almost nothing
in its cutting and the smallest chips
may be made to glow as brightly. as
any princely gift of several carats.
Some American diamond- buyers
have been negotiating for American
rights -to the invention, but the Bel-
gians refuse to sell until they have
revolutionized the industry.
9
Lady Strathcona'Givea
$120,000 to 'McGill
A despatch from Montreal says:—
a'he' Governors of, McGilI University
havebeen notified of a donation of
$120,000 by Lady Strathcona and
Mount Royal to providea permanent
endowment ' for the Department of
Zoology.
The time, to be, careful is when you
have a handful of: trumps. -Josh Bil-
lings.
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SETTLEMENT OF DOCK
WOR11ERS' STR
Employers Agree to -Adva
Men One Shilling Now an
Another First of June.
A, despatch from London says
The dockworkers strike is.consid
virtually ;ended, although iinal is
tiationa tray be protracted. The
players have agreed to advance
men one shilling now and another
ling an the first` of June, and t
will be what is "termed a "aatis
tory inquiry" into the question of
easualization of an agreement fo
reprisals.
These are unofficially stated
the terms of the settlement, but
will not be officially made known
the delegate conference of the
representatives 'has decided wise
to accept the terms. It had been h
that the- decision would have
given Thursday night, but the co
ence merely adjourned until F
without reaching a final conclusio
cause the different port areas
sharply divided; London, Hull
Southailipton favor the terms of
tlemont, but Glasgow, Mancboste
Liverpool oppose them, and c
ports are doubtful.
f.
London to Erect War e
t� Birds, Animals. and
A despatch from London says
monument in memory of the
beasts, and fish that died in the
vice of the British Empire will b
gun this year and placed . at
Park Corner, close to - the
troughs on the north side of Kni
bridge,_ with which it will fo
group:
The plan, which Is to Cost a
$10;000, has aroused a good de
criticism, many people arguing
it is ridiculous to erect such a
mortal whenthe money would
ter spout in providing homes fo
dogs, or in some other work for
vial welfare.• The fact that 8
included in the design has led.' to
witticism.: " Sentimentalisin run
is a popular description of the
idea, On the other hand, the.
was subscribed definitely for the
pose of such a memorial, :and
hit that the faithful service o
animals is worthy of commemor
and at least 'deserves one out of
thousand war memorials in Eng
It is also argued that if the Mem
is really well done it will touel
imagination of passersby for ge
tions to come and thus make
think' more of animals.
There were almost four hur
thousand casualties among hers
the British *armies during ;the
While dogs listed for various put
died -in'thousands. Camels, r
elephants and oxen died on than
work, cats were killed .in res
work, many carries.` :pigeons di
duty' or struggled: home : mo
wounded with their messages,
mice, canaries and; small'birda o
OHO kinds were sacrificed in the
tion of poison gas. Goldfish
used to test water in which' gs
mots were washed, to indica.
nature of chemicals used in the.
Wife of English Novelist
and "Poet Made a Magi's
A despatdi £rota London
Mrs, Thomas Hardy, wife of tl
elist and poet, has been made a
trate of Dorchester, Where the
have ,lived for many years,
Hardy, who is his second we
the author's secretary for ten
and was married to him in 101
is also a writer of children's
magazine articles and reviews,
By .becoming a'tnagistia
Hardy also follows her husbati
has been a -justice of the pe
tiewt lam than ai deitada,
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