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ldsoltss went
w !RoeYezrin se Gas iiicOlsed f i •tl
nteriiation,al etimpionship; F. B. Gas:
pell, Hampton, Ont., took MT the big
it aaira,pd far a pen of Cotswold lambs,
2e 1 iSzitrea1 Que—Witl'x the close of
m 'Montreal', 1124 season -of ocean traf-
it' fie en December 3rd, the Harbor Mas -
r ter .announced that 1,222 ocean and
']t co9clting 1111111)5 had arrived in Mon
'1'i treal in 1924, as against 1,114' in 1923
ad and 1,194 in 1222, the%best previous
tet season. It is believed that a new
el 'record has also been established in the „na
;s is
he number'oi1 .lakicye vessels visiting the Sault S4eFilYlario only'a to
port: by Dr. F. Deadman of tha
a Perth, N.$.—Potatoes are being
,er shipped at the rate of 5,000 barrels became quite tame•
go weekly to England from the sheds of
lite wolf, wilioh was roaming with a pack: around
-e eke ago. The aminal w.ae' caught in a trap
district, and after being in custody for a time
iw,1a local agency. The prospects are that
es. 1,000,000 barrels will be shippeiL be -
•on fore': the season closes. Messages from
er, ;England are most complimentary ,as
'he regards the quality of the shipments..
r I Jazauary One.
.Yi.
January 1st, besides being the first
e day of the year, is the anniversary of
an astonishing number of important
events. The Union of Great Britain
and Ireland occurred on January lst,
ia, Queen, Victoria was proclaimed 'Em -
d press of India on January 1st, and
n- the Commonwealth of : Australia was
he inaugurated on January 1st.'
Bavaria, also, was made a kingdom.
P" On this date Dr. Jameson' and his
troops were defeated at ICrugersdorp,
ng and the I{affir War ended.
an It is the anniversary of the treaty
tsso by which Austria lost Venice and the
of Tyrol; of President Lincoln's' pi -ode-
s -ill oration by which all the slaves in the
Confederate' States were set free; of
Britain's annexation` Of Upper Bur -
eh malt, and the administration of the
st',Niger Protectorate; and the start of
i4 Colonel Plumer's famous march to re-
lieve •Mahcking.
E.R(SHID I
ST FOR XMAS TREE
r rt VElilliaan Turixed but tri vtan
Search for Lad'Overcome Ado
by Storrs in Buaoh. 91,P/
Plan '
patch from Fort 1'yilaani 3 OW (1
days ?eslonanig' to Mayor Eames- ' feed,
ton's appeal to thc citizens of Fort; A i til'
William to help ia finding'Ernie E:-' Am•
wish, oder 300 Inep and boy massed 3 e c y,
under the leadership of City 7i nr i hser Mrllf
bags in
Symes at`9 o'clock;.Thursday morning shorts,
for the .most thorough searell of file 4225; "
area where the 71/2 -year-old boy Per.
Oait.
'shed; in a vrild.'snowslo,rrn Monday Ont !I;'
night, S7 43;
Penetrating the area near the Net 1 e
sh]ppin
Po] line Bark7'
Bucit''
of searchers round the boy's body, hall Man..''
sacks,
1' y19.j0,
Ont•
bags,,, _'>.
455, co
Hay--
Torgnt
Strad;
Serer,
f.O.b. ba'.
Cheer;
19131 Is
22c, •, 0
to 25c;(,;
Butte.
to 40c;
2, 35
Eggs
to 70c;
tris, 1
to 48c;
age se
Live
do, 4 t.
spring..
xoostor
180; g'
Dres
26c; d'
lbs.,1s,
ever, 2
lbs. an'•
37c.
Bean
primes,•
`Map'
gal., S.
gal.; m
Hon
10-1b,_t
lb. tins
Smo•
26e•,' co
power about a mile from the
Davidson & Smith's elevator at 4.10
o'clock Thursday afternoon, a party
hidden by a mantle of snow.
Thy- report of the c iscovery was
flashed to city headquarters a few
Minutes later, and was followed,by
the tolling of the bell in the dome of
St. Paul's church. The flag at the
masthead of the City Hall was lower-
ed to half-mast.
The distance from the spot where
the child's body was found to the
place where he and Jackie, Saunders
separated last Monday evening` is
nearly 'a me,` indicating that the
child had wandered with the wind at
his back, unable to face the storm."
Hunters in the search were called to-
gether by signals -and returned to
the city: More than 250 men and boys
BY :JEAN HATHAWAY. were engaged in the successful hunt.
The :finding of the body brings to
As Father Time turns the last page prophecy for the New Year. The boy a close the hunt for a child that had
of his 1924 diary, shall we give him who represents Father Time' is the been lost since Monday evening, a
a.farewell 'party and greet the bright humorist` of theneighborhood and his quest in which all Fort William par -
New Year with a; gay birthday feast? prophecy will be a delightful combine- tieipated.
New Year's' hv�ers such a delight tion of fun and fasts for the amuse -
Apart from the mother and father
ful excuse for entertaining a few ment of everyone. ' of Ernie Elvish, there ,.is no other
friends and adding, to the gayety of -The -next feature is pinning the who feels the loss more.'keenly than
the Holiday Season. hands en the clock. The face of a Ernie's'young pal and companion: on
,The invitations are written oil cor- clock is drawn on an old sheet and the hi'knt fora Christmas tree on that
hung on the wall. Each guest is blind- fatal Monday evening.
Last Black Maria is Retired,
YOUNG TIME'S BI RTHDAY . PARTY`
A Jolly Way to Ushe Out the 'Old' Year.
At Greenwich, on this data, it was,
decided to reckon the day as begin-
ning at midnight instead of at noon.
At Gretna` Green the popular elope-
ment marriage was made illegal.
Truly January 1st has much to ac-
count fort
respondence cards decorated with a
silhouette of Father Time cut from folded in turn and given a -cardboard
black kindergartenpaper and pasted hand and told to pin it on the face
on the cards.
Every Month's invited
To Young Time's first party!
Dress to suit from top to boot
And make his welcome hearty.
Each girl invited to our party will
be asked, to wear a costume to -repre-
sent a Month in the. New Year. She
is also -requested to keep the name of
the month a secret. ;February will
choose a crisp white frock decorated
with red paper' hearts and will carry
a Cupid's bow and arrow. March may
impersonate an Irish Maiden with
emerald green and shamrock pro-
claiming the feast of Saint . Patrick
which falls on the 17th of March.
April Will find it .hard to choose be-
tween- the April shower idea, and the
Easter bunny costume. Many of the
months can die ' `represented delight-
fully by crepe paper costumes.
Mystery shrouds the motives of the
hostess as she receives and ushers the
boys into one room and the girls into
another. Each boy is given a"card
bearing the names of the Months Who
are attending the party and is asked
to choose his -partner for, the evening,
Much ne'rriment is sure to accompany
the selection if the girls have guarded
well the secret of their costumes. AS
each month is chosen she is called
from the .adjoining room and joins her
'partner.
Next, Father Time, dressed in a,
of the clock with the hand pointing
to midnight. The Winner of this con-
test -is given a favor. A feature of London streets since
Cards 'are now passed and each 1833 Passed ,recently when the last of
guest is requested to write a New the old horse-drawn prison vans was
Year's resolution for the person seat- scrapped. Idenceforth all prison vans
ed at.his.right.. Many resolutions will will balmier ones, says a London dee
suggest themselves whefi the boy's and patch.
girls know each other's little peculiar- . The Black l'ilarlas, as they were
'ties. Then- the cards" are collected
and the resolutions read aloud.'`'
^ 'Whatis a party without a feast!'
Since' weare honoring the birth of
the New Year, let's have real birth-
day -refreshments. Ice cream, birth-
day Cake, popcorn balls, fruit, candy
and puts would be good, don't you
think? And sh'al'l we have red and
green balloons floating .over each
place?, These may'have the names of
the guests painted on with water col-
ore
olor;; and serve as place cards. Part-
ners change at the supper hour. Red
and green crepe paper ribbons forma
canopy over the table, and evergreens
are attractively arranged for addi-
from', Service. -
aped with the now radio compass, flies '
of land. The' new instrument enables a
Ile in the fog without the use of land -
Cossacks Desire' to Establish
Homes in the Dominion
called, were closely covered black
painted vans, very. hard and very un-
comfortable, and they -were used to
convey, prisoners, from the court to
prison; ,and vice versa..' The sight of
a Black' Maria (they were never called
anythingelse) aiways''.was . -cause for
a crowd to -collect, and very often
groups of small boys would follow' it.
from one place to another. Being
horse-tdiawn,they never attained any
great apeed. The vane were big, They
contained twelve 11411e -cells, six on
each side of a passage way, and WIth
cells full, as frequently happened dur-
ing the suffragette days and also dur-
ing'the war, the Maria held fifteen—
txonal- decoration. • . twelve prisoners, a matron, who sat
When. places ,have been „found and at one end of the passage dividing the
all are, waiting expectantly tfbe seat- cells,' a sergeant, who eat with his
ed, the New Year, a little boy dressed back , to - the floor, • and the driver,
-in; white, enters carrying a wonder- Perched on ills box seat outside.
fully big birthday cake with the year What will happen to this old relic
1925 written in red icing across the
(officially Brack; Maria No. 20) no one
seeing to irnlaw at present, The proper
topand having one candle,: lace for her, it is thought is the
When tho last piece of cake- has p
dwindled away, the .midnight chimes ']Hack Museum' at Scotland. Yard,
flowing robe of black, wearing long are heard and the New Year is `!danc-
whiskers and carrying a seythe or an
hour glass—an old-fashioned !`egg
boiler" will do -enters and is intro-
duced by the hostess. "He carries .a
large document and reads from it the
Colonel Vladimir Mishinsky, of
Manchuria, is a visitor in Winnipeg,
Ids mission in Canada being; to obtain
sanction for the entry of 2,000 Cogsagli
families that wish to settle on lands
n in the West, Colonel Kishinsky is
proceeding to Ottawa, where he will
e `present a petition from the Cossack
t colony residing at Harbin, Manchuria,
or since. the revolution' in Russia. '
t The colonel said his compatriots^in
China all had been land owners under
✓ the Crar's regime; that they were ac -
✓ customed to this life and sought to
o prosper in ' Canada. The colony at
Harbin has organized a governmental
group of'its own, with a president and
legislative body, and from them Col -
one' Iiishinsky. carried a'power of at-
torney to the Canadian Government.
`We were driven out to look for
peaceful homes; we fear God; ,we will.
;never disobey your government, and
all the Cossacks have a high opinion
of your national history," the colonel
said.
ed in to the gay -strains of an old-
feshioned Sir Roger, de Coverley in
the midst of merry laughter, flying
confetti and., an entanglement of ser-
pentine.`
Glass` Substitute a New
Sensation.
Ward has been received from Alla-
tea. to the effect that a new glass su-
maI
Of I
Na
Th
where all sorts ofcriminalrelics are Sex
collected, but there Is no room for her at 0
there.. It is rumored that a prospee- S a
'tive purchaser has been after her for seas'
weeks. This man wants, it is saki, exter
to take away the cell partitionsand care
make a cosy caravan..: men
Although 'Black Maria No. 20 has othe
been on the toads almost forty Years, ante
No' German War of Revenge, the was so soundly oonetructed that M
Says :Frencin''Prophet she shows practically, no signs *1 wear. ting
A despatch from Paris says:—
Raymond,
b Flour Shipped to Russia and
Raymond, predicts a Japanese9Amen- stitnte has been discovered which poi• pus
can war some time between 1942 and nth'
seises, it is claimed, all the good A despatch from New Yorlt"says:— do
f Canadian ft
the
'120,000 Barrels of Canadian not
France's most active prophet, Prof.
1960, With f none of Two full cargoes o ane can our
His annual prognostication for thedqualities
The new product_ is
known
by the name o 1 tin
most interesting properties ` of the 6ia.. 'One cargo, it Was aai.d, Would go eve
to explore the future for a generation
qualities of glass wr few
or Grin
aggregating 120,000 barrels, were sold
ensuing year has dust been published, th f wllopas The here for immediate shipment to Rus- of
but it is so thin,'he finds it necessary
ahead to make up for the new product are its entire lack of Ito the port of Batem, on the Black
uneventful-
ness' of 1925, which he sees as more color and its transparency, as well as 1 Sea, and the other to Leningrad. bur
peaceful than any year since Uefore the higiu' lustre that it surface at -1 Shippers believe that this demand is str
terra ion Palfslaing and its strength,•l.a definite evidence of shortage in da
the war." I investigations of it have been made, bread grains'in Russia.
There will be no war of revenge,
a
between Germany and France, he pre -let the University 61" Vienna. It was Keen the Plano Tuned. diets, but rather a rapproachement be- found that polUopas absorbs' more al
tween'1934 and 1938. President Cool- I the ultraviolet rays than glass and I It 1s probably a fact that the bulk of
id will soon call an international hence it is recommended an a valu-,pians—and' the number of them in
be able substitute' for glass where the the home' of the people runs into mil-
finaricial conference. with the• partici- ultra -violet rays must be excluded. Its liens -suffer grievously from lack of
patina of big American banks to pati ''gilt properties are stick that it eau regular tuning: It is easy to forget
finances cfr ,a • sound •basis. Ina few be' used. with very goad results os' to have the piano "tuned, and just as
years'reiallallied debts will be settled snaking all 'finds Of optical apparatus.' easy to put off the twang so a luxury
commercially in a way praaticallY.re Its Hardness is abbut'tiie same as that that can wait. But it a sheer, neees-
lioving the debtors of •all ' payments. 6t mother of'pearl. It may be a useful sity, if the piano is to remain a mast -
Prof. Raymond sees Bavaria a moa] product whish will have many applies, cal instrument in proper condition'
arch, again under the Wittelsbachs tions.. It does net break easily and is Regular tuning is an indispensable
and protecting- Austria. Earthquakessaid not to splinter like glass. It bas part of the upkeep.
in Italy, Russian entrance into the
been suggested for making billiard'
League of Notions in 1920; tightening balls, for covering the keys on theIt doesn't do to be too finicky. Be
of American relations with Europe, keyboard of the piano, for :snaking 'willing to try new Goods. 'There are
and a railway catastrophe on a Pa- automobile windshields and the win- 'many good foods used and enjoyed in
citric railway in the Unitech
Commander Goolden
Succeeds Brabant at l-lalifax
A , dcapateh from London says:
Conima}sdcr Massy Gooiden,`D S.C.; is
being lent, the Royal Canadian Navy
-for duty in succession to Commander
F. H. Brabant, who commands the, de-
pot hsip Stadacona at Halifax; at
which port ho is ,senior naval officer.
Commander Goolden was formerly
second in command of the cruiser
Constance p1 the North America Sta-
tion, .and was also first lieutenant,
commander 'of. the Radeigh'.when -she
Was lost byystrandin • off 'the Labra-
dor Coast. Ho' served, afloat all
through tho war in the, battleship
Prince at Wales and the battle cruiser
Courageous in' 1910-18. S ,,Th6 Distin-
guished Sorvice ,Cross was conferred
on him. for Service in action during
States are doors of closed cars. As It can be col -1 one section' of this country that are
possible to us.o it( in makingartificial the new things and have a variety on
among the predictions. orecl and darkened in'any shade, it is almost unknown in other sections. Try
France Placing Emphasis narcelain and opalescent glass. 1 your table.
on Christmas Festival
New Year's Day is yielding prece-
dence to Christmas for . exchanging
gifts in France,: the children appar-
ently having prevailed over their eld-
ers' preference for the, atrennes of the
first ::of'the year; says a Paris des-
patch. Thus Noel this year is being
observcd in the traditional manner,
more' than ever, and the shops have
been crowded with ,fond parents' in
quest of jumpingjaclts, toy trains and
dolls, and shop managers claim their .
holiday sales have been record break-
ing.
Tho French child; however, docs not
know what it is to hang up his stock-
ing, for the custom hero is to put out
the wooden shoes for St. Nicholas to
fill. New Year's 'gifts will consist of
jewels, ns Cork in In Life Preserver.
It requires six pounds of good cork
to ]Hake a trustworthy life preserver.
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tinter and noire old nladhinQty, are, at hand, S. C 1,:alaritrick, of 11rctenonfy, of
sIc., fonsill a satisfactory living in selling ice. TIn handles ab ut 7,,00 Int
oris, ,serf winter. �1