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Pill 7ass.ed - save •• a child; the second, 't1
erecif).Jes-1, con, , , , bitter,,,,,,s against late s dispensetten,
titetri,tt-8-.7;1410-Yd Crorge 'at -.dinner to (tune-, goes on from day to day upheld by
waeltlY .newsPaPer men- in' v,dien the eta -es are VOILL" and e
,dionclon .appeals for un throegh- erset h 1 eictri b ,1 •
- Out the Elninro, • All ordinary counsel to optimism10?- i-iotor-eiflled ]
COILCOL'ence OPeus in fails in the a• • r • 1 d' t e
Londe/1.i, Premier :MacDonald •urge, • one In. quest of light goes into a
te'r' 3,0001 neceptance of Dawes reParaitimin eleirch, aed 101 that day the minister
Yeara, =lzir ard plan. • as chosen so praath sermon o
VellizeloS• rettlr48,1-efroin exile • il-7-ort"cher 23.'1 n'ffluta querulous faultfinding wi t lose Pre -
Athens. Floodi dnItiaer Seine rent as •the date e' -c the 'liquor Plebiscite' s,e-at and those absent, ee. else Ile
der 25,000 people horrieless. , in Ontario; 'Advance hi grain values wrestles with e dogma and a mere
'N;IrCiSSe Parodean 'e'aineinted, adds one billion dollars to the wealth :theology, putting, up. 111110 of stravv.
ient,-Goveriloi• of ()a -taboo Piewinee, of Canadian and American farmers. and lcnocking them down again in'the,
,•sUcceeding bite Louis P. Brodeur. 127-Tremmicleue floods in China Yen' Presence of living, striving beiegs whal
10-Deitish submarine Jen 'se're eel der one million peepie hereekes, h. ungei..1,mr bread te.tee,d their sowe,
I 4-Lrilbe Church linen
bottom of sea in collision- with I AUGLSI. Or the forlorn one goes to a feiand I
dreadnaught, and 43 persons Deus- a- osepi epee me at on whom he c pended, perhaps a 11)5111 -
Ont hundred people victims' of se -I, England. ber of the family that should be trust-
,Yere earthquakes in japan in. the 1 Edmund Oster, President of ed to advise, and nothing comes of it
Sean r, preciously desolated. the Dominien Banlc, dies. that can medicate a mind sielc almost
2a --For 1023 Canada'e trade returns 6-Beitish, Association far the Ad- to death with its own discouragement.
showed total importS valuc-d vancernent of Science hold inaugur- Or lie miens a book and finds it deals
ifteeri Periinns Driv;
Beds IP /400
$150,000 PrapertY
. • a a
A despatch foul alontFid.*
Four stores, our dwelle);gs an
a club aie in ruins, ,' five ftrs-
SIMI a civilian were liuxt by
failine; debris or affected by meke,
more than fifteen pereene wee drives
in eight attire, froni their hoines in a
temperature 0 degrees below zero, as
a result of a fire Avhich started
in the men's furnishings store 00 10.
Bernier, St. Hyacinthe, Que.
Damage estimated at between $150,-
000 and $2,00,000 is partly covered by
insurance. Only the, work of the fire-
men, aided by hundreds of citizens,
preventedthe destruction of the en-
, tire bushiess section of: the town. The
outbreak was not brought undee ecin-
trol for six hours. The blaze is be-
lievad to have been caused by an over-
heated furnace in tha Bernier prem-
.
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Tbe Natur to,urces
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-Agea caVO
,Vutenac
' •
Prince /Taney. there -0-0e of King George, witien ace:or-eine to a report, will, celai of col b d
-be 'named the 'Duke of Edinbargla the New Year's 111oner list,. 'The last
Duke of Edieburgh• was the father of the present e la byumFreunschegclitheoi:ars
par eocieshutt
nquet • " „ain by the Bo
-0 Trade f 'ses NC,V. 20,
a description Of 'the peevince an
area that will bear repeeteig
bulletin. Coming troin a busiliess man
of Mr, Coelcslititt s standing) it it lea
fron any taint oi• propaeanaa, and is
the result of that close atiely that a
interested in the welfare of Canada
and its individeal .previeeee =ilmelde
make Governer Cookshutt, among
many, other interesting sta e ien
said:
"While Oetario is only one of the
nine Canadian provinces, it will be
generally conceded that it is one of
the Main supports of the Federal edi-'
lice. ft is a vast domain, peactically
self-contained; we are proud of it and
should be loyal to its interests. Let
me, fest of all, reinincl you that the'
t,rea„ of our province is ao great as
to demand our consideration, As ar
mattee of Si7,0 alone, its vaistnese,
touches the for acreage,
resources. arid the maintenanee of poe
pulation are ,eitally interdependent.
The area is 407,262 square miles. This
sava in the morbid pathology of thci. „ ,- • . -.
novelist, doing things that caricature -
• 1 Ninon Fees. First Relief Ship in Year' .
---- - Aimee,
d
the thorny question of who discovered ,
America, says 4 .Paris despatch. In. -•
--- ' large territory is eo situated that the
.
distance between the farthest southe
point is 1,070 miles, and between the
all we know of the true story of con- ---' - ` a papa, read before the College de
French eastern and western boundary, -1,000
duct and; character as real ince-tale In the University of Toronto there A de'spate,11 from Nome,.
a France, a paper which the miles. The- province is only 8,000
enact it every clay. - I are lour Arts Coneges, viz., Univer- says:: -Here s a grinning Piot far
press teems "eansationai," Pro.fesser square rams less in area than France
After the outer resources bave,been sity College, Victoria Collage, Trinity thrilling sea story.
Meillet states that it was not Chris- and Germany together and is almost
tried and, found wanting, what then is College, and St, Michael'e College. Of For more than a yea not a vessel
topher Columbus. The famous 0501)- equal iii. extent to the total area a
there to do? To rely upon oneself. these the Rest is the provincial college, had called at Herseliel•Island, isolated agar merely
The way to restore good cheer and which is stipported lay the Government in the •!trctie Ocean
northeast a which ;was known long before Inc day
and several to other navigetors.
rediscovered a contMent
,States of New York, New Jersey,
the six Now England States, plus the
confidence' for the forward march is of Ontario and the other three are Alaska. The few white traders and
with such persons as never existed ,
ri -S Isiah Trench savants are investigating
lee Floe E ng
'University' Col/Lege' heCreaseg
8903,530,515 and exports of 01,101,,- al session in Toronto. e
734,274. Nikolai Lenin, /either 17---Canadia.n dollar reaches 99.94c
bolshevism and Soviet dictator, dies , on New York Exchange, the highest
after long illness. mark. eince 1922, -
30,1Ion, Ernest Lapointe, Minister of 27 -Two big.' beanies in China Prepar-
aIarine and FiSheeies, is sworn in ing ler mastery of ceuntry.
as Minister of Justice succeeding 28 -Nova Scotia shoes Strewn" with
' Sir Leiner Qouin, P. 0. A, Cardin; wreckage' of, ships, the result of the
becomes Minister of Mazine and I worst storm in years. „
Fisheries. Suicide of two English 80 -Allies and Germany formally
beY8 Placed on Ontario farms has; sign London. agreement
caused Overseas Settlement Com -131 -MS. army navigators reach La-
mittee of British Government to ask, brador and virtually complete
for full inquiry into condition of rouOthe-world flight. -
immigrant boYs Oanada. sEpTE-mBER.
81---ehllreli Union 13ill passeee its first
The League of Nations Assembly
reading at Ottawa..., • - aone, its 5th aenfererice at Geneva
FEBRUARY, war commences in China
_ . .
with battle line of thirty moles.
1 -The Government of Soviet Russ'
6 -Canadian National Exhibition,
is7 aecorded recognition by Greleat
closes with record attendance this
Britain. - yebai amounting to 1,519,000. .
2---WooclretV Wilson, 28th President of
2.3 -Germany's Cabinet decides to ap-
the United States, died to -day.
12 ---Labor Government of Great 133.7i -
lain made, its debut in the House of
Commons to -day.
13--Eg•yptian Government precipi-,
tates a crisis by laying claim to
tomb of King Tut. -
19---W. II. Price, Prov. Treas. of On-
tario, charges that predecessor- in
.ply for membership in League o
Nations.
25 -Canada's loss by the postal strike
last' snmmer stated to have been
8399,000.
0 OTOBER.
1-eStandard and Sterling Banks' am-
algamation announced.
office ren the -province inio. $2-,- 12 -Anatole France dies.
000,000 debt. - 17 -Burning of Canton, China, re -
28 -A balanced Budget with a reduc- eletts to losses of $15,000,000.
tion of taxation, the first since 1912- .54 -Peter Smith and Amines larvis,
18,•was anneueced in a Speech from Sr., cotevicted of defrauding the
the Throne, J. U. Thomas, Sec. for province. Smith sen.teneed to three
the Colludes, announced at a meet- years and Jarvis to six Months,
leg in Loedon that the British Gov- with a joint fine of 3600,000. '' •
ernment had accepted the Irish 29 --Labor party suffers 'severe- re -
treaty spirit and lette,.
verse in 13ritisli elections, and Stan -
MARCH. " ley Baldwin's group is assured vice
. - tory. Bank of Montreal effectS
1 -Explosion of T.N.T. at Nixon:1a'; agrement to acquire Nelson's Bank.
kills 10 persons. Seven deaths in Peter Veregrin, head of ,the Deuk-
Outarie from smallpox over week- hobor celenY in British Columbia,
end. ' and three 'ethers killed in explosion
4 -Caliph of Trkey goes into exile; on C.P,R. train, '
sails for Switzerland. 81 --Rev. J. Adelarcle Delerme 18 ac-
quitted 'after thiad trial 'of charge of
8 -Military control by Allies ends in
Germany. sla3ring hale -brother, Raoul Delo-rose
14 -National Railways autherized to in January, 1022. Prince of Wales
proceed with constructioh of, Hud-
. welcomed. home .at -Southampton,
son Bay line, Pros.. Coolidge ap- ageina.
. .
not to seek it for oneself but to give nomination colleges. have foiend that traPPers • living there
points commisseen to aa with Can NovElviBER.
20_,..zei. Riceeed eei-aree forme,. pee. 3 -Premier Baldwin announces `fiscal
mier of Nevvloundland, folind guilty policy involviti large preference to
of accepting bribes. British Govern: British Dominions.
ment announce that the huge sum 0 ---Alberta turns "wet" with seveelfing
of 392,000,000 has been spent on vote on G°vernment sal°.
10 -Ludendorff made prisoner by
the relief of unemployment since the
Armistice. - German Republicans, „.ancl. Hitler
21==•13eitiali soldiees filed on at Queens- takes to flight. Canada's trade bal-
'town by men in Free State unl- anee leaps t° 3-1•07,000,000.• "
forms; one killed. 24 -...With 500,000, Ontario satisfies old
adieu, body on. St. Limence project • •
. ern po nt and the farthest northern
save Preeessa Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
it to others -even when one believes pendent for their aevenues on the re- Eskimo colonies were just about readY
we obtain a more real conception, than'
Up to the present,
d
iedir_ Michigan and WiSconsin. When these
it iS no longer his to give. The rank; ligions denominations concerned. -As to resign. theinseives to. a diet of. _seel Meillet, no serious study of the
other reeions•has ever been made but
gloom amid lives that carry all they --------------------1,,, acovere _
' d when a strange thing appene .
The ower schooner alaid af • ' ' would have been pos'Sible othervriee,
the . ground now is being broken by of what the development of our -ma
buoyant spirit maintained in spite a of tuition and in recent years the de- ea tttrl !
0 le *sgaosutPfrom Seattle since June
the vocabularies of a group of Cali- tion facilities and the distribution of
can already. By every example of a only abont one-thied of „the actual cost
French students and a comparison of tural resources, involving transportif-
things, a light shines to other lives, nominational collegest have found that zb vain' to reach Victoria
Y. y Lorifornia languages and certain Polyne-
d they are clest and quickened to they cannot continue to exist op the il an
La! drylndgunspoken b an sl-ap later
lost, si n nguages has brought to light mails and merchanalse mess t
it chirnney, The vocabulary of the indigenou north-westerly post office in the pro-,
7 40 all
go on. - !funds available. . ey
Last ear Victoria than August 80, Was given up 0 la
as were four other Araie boats:Then, e • . • , ' . . people. The post office is vital to the
nn es
We cannot depend on happiness as College increased her fees from $40 , , satisfying and numerous coinci-
dences." ' by rail from Toronto, to the most
merchant. A letter taa.vels 1,184 '1
an importation, something brought to to $75. Trinity and St. Michael's like Santa, Claus dropping down a
us and conferred by other people.' But were anxious to do the same -but came the Mhid of Orleans I e
races of Patagonia," the lecturer told vince. FX0111 that office or from th0
we can discover) as by the inner lightewds clear to all concerned that four to Herschel Island, frozen in a big ice
Ms colleagues of the College de France Hudson Bay Company's post, the
what our lives are for, when, no mat- i eolleges, all doing the 'same work, and floe. The boat, Test in the ice, is, in a
shows striking resemblancee to that whole district of Patricia -400 miles
round and to the people that we meet .tion,, could not have in force different
all being part of the same orgarize- safe harbor for the winter. On the a
schooner are sufficient suplies to keep
ter how we feel, we give to the daily, of Australian raCes. Arid it iS inte - wide and 700 miles long-a...has to.
esting 0.'6 nOte that these linguistic tie- postally served. "
an invariable and indomitable faith scales of fees, Students would na- the islanders from want until next
sonlplancei parallel alrimst identically "What is knoavri now as Southern or
that it Still is good to he alive and to turally tend.W enrol with the college summer. In return Captain Klengen-
similar resemblances in the a's do- -
serve and to befriend the race. having the smallest fee. The problem berg Will get a cargo of the white furs •
, es ic utensils an other o jects used
in t•ab' *
,.America , settlement, south of the Ottawa and
' Old Onterio-the Ontario of the early
-----" '0 struck zit the very foundation of
.. for which Herschel is famous. I
. . • ame epoon in Imo. ea - - . .
a the siench Rivers, occupies an area of
- • T i th•s eitr,1- So Herschel Island is saved and the t a.
- [ ess than fifty thousand square miles,
so, the fees in Arts are now little ' thrill
fee to 375, effective next year. Even Y . , ., _. .no a - . .,
011 have it -the framework of a
er. . continents were connected by land in-lless than one-eighth of the whole. It
•
. --t d. te, ' th 't'
from e nine when these • -
distances and,this area are visualized
genous languages of Araerica, and of
unforgivable selfishness is to spread is well known, the fees paid by stu- blubber and bear meat for the winter
claims of ChippeWa arid Mississ-
24--13ritisla aviators begin world trip. „,
81 -Ontario Publin- Accounts Gemmit- au,ga 'means -
Me discovers that 315,000 cheque 29 -Military forces take over rule in
made out to former Treas. Peter -Rhine liePnblie•
Smith, is missing. DECEMBER,.
APRIL, 1--Fiast radio phetographs transmit-
ted frern London England, to New
ti --Labor wins election in South Aue- yore.
tralia. Transvaal votes Nationalist. 4-E, Clarence Settell,,former private
8 -Mussolini sweeps_elections in Italy. secretary to Sir Adam Beck, is sena
9 --Dawes oommittee presents rePort tenced to three years' imprisonment
on. reparations scheme. Irish Free for attempted theft of $29,925. •
" State to have Ambassador at Wash- 5 -The contract for the construction
ingteM , of Section No. 7 of the Welland
12 -Japanese exclusion bill cause of canal is awarded at, an approptiale
,ecitetnent_ at Washington. Greece peeve of ten menet) aelates,
declares for. Republic in plebiscite.
14 --Peter Smith, former Prey. Treas.,
arrested on conspiracy charge; bail
fixed at 350,000, provided, by Strat-
ford citizens.
17 -Church Union Bill passes in New
Brunswicic
80 --Battle on Church Union Dia be-
gins before Privath Bilis Committee
• of Parliament. 2
versi y ,
nation University College raised its
Maid crf Orleans in a harbor -there, other .i.egiqns. But these similarities
stead of vast oeeans, ,rherefore, it is hoe been im this compara.tively small
portion of our soil that our histery in
more than half those in Medicine and
Applied Science. CZeehO-SlOVahia Establishes
' --• --.---- • Statutary Eight -Hour Day
Saving WastePaper. ir . .-.-____.
Czecho-Slovakia was the 'first irides -
During the war many organizations trial state among the European cbun-
were engaged in collecting waste pa- tries to ratify the eight -bout convene
per and numerous undertakings were lion and introauce a statutory eight-
[
finance& bY this means. There is an hour clay. .
enormous waste going on continually A report oii hours of labor in
in the deattuction of this used paper, Caecho-Slovalcia has just been issued
It -is used chiefly 113 the manufacture by the,International Labor Office:
of building paper and paperboard, in The first part of the monograph is
which it represents 89 per cent ef the devoted to an ii:econnt of the scope and
material. Canada's forests are called peovisions of the Czecho-Slovakia re-
,
555 k,waste paper is not available, Eveey hour day'orlforty•zeight-hour week was
55 upoa to .provide near weedpulp if auhlic act of 1913; by whichathe eight*r si'l-
',.. . Six tons a waste paper collected saves introduced M the rcpubdc.
Dr. Jean Marie Musy bite beemeleet- ' an acre of ptilPWood tiraber from the `I'lle monograph devotes apeeiel at -
ed 55 President of Switzerland for axe. The intensive cutting of the for- tention to the methods of applyIng the
1925, In 1919, he succeeded Gustave est can only mean ate resalt. If we aet in. railway undertekings and the
Adm.' on the federal council. The .out. can delay the final destruction by col- reovisions for permanent or temper -
going president is Dr. Ernest Chimed. * . ' 11 d b
lecting and making sivailebk for M.- a y exenspnons.
, --o--,- ther use the large amount of waste data concerning the administration a
Cross -Word Puzzle Craze paper now destroyed, it will be to the act. The third part of the study
Makes Dictionaries Popular . . .. „,_
Canada's advantage. - deals in some detail with collective
a-- . agreements regarding hours of work.
Among the countries already cover-
' :**---- Canadian Potatoes Find
ed by this series of. publications of the
Many Persons this Christmas have v Market in Britain
been astonished .and delighted at get- - Iuternational Labor Office are .Bela
Read gift book, and the book- ,rhe bar .
A despateh from London says:-- Gil'erni France, Germane, Great Ilri-
Italy, the Netherlands and
ting a dictionaryo of, all things in the
sellers have 'expressed equal astonish, g of Araericat pota- tam,
infection Switzerland.
world, for a
Went at the demand fdtesuch boolce, t*es Ileca uso of their
says a Landon daspatab. 'with a peat, arid. the shortage -------4----
, of Fnglish supplies, has provided Can- Wideningnof Strand in
It is not any particular thirst for'.an -
di potato shippers with an oPPor- Heart of London is Costly
knowledge or Mae of learning fOr it$
tnnitY Of
own sake, this tide of buying, iwhich they have net been . ______ -
but ;slaw to take advantage. Large slip- A. despatch from London says:a.:
simply to meet the deniond for refer-, „lies of 'tubers have atrivecl here from The widening of the Strand, in the
ee!,nce work in centection with ,th
Canada during the last feW Weeks. heart of Londoa, is an expenaive pro-
r
solving of cross-ivotd puzzles.alone Perth, X.B.,1 ceding,IL H
eaceording to . GOrdon,
Following America's example, the5
l Fe rem' one port '
,000 barrels a week have been re- a former Londen county councillor. He
newspapers started this amusemeat
ceived and -it is expected that before' places the oost at 325,000,000 a mile.
Mr the beaefit of their readers, inatly
the season closes at least 1,000,000, Traffic eongestion makes the work
arid....1.1...,.) v. et=lh.q.d.L..,,y,s d=t.:::......m.........a..........ara....*..................._barrels I accessary,
offering, prizes for correct solutions, o • will reath these shores.
to be concluded that navigators sailed
over these immense spacea3'
9 -With historic, state and accompan-
ied by the Queen, King Geerge open- •
ed Parliament in London, Eag., this
moaning. A million -dollars blaze de-
stroys grain elevator opposite Sar -
23 -11.M. Klieg George has approved
the elevation of Chief 3ustice Anglin
-MAY. _
2 -john Scett Gold Medal awarded
Dr. Frederick G. Ba,nting of..To-
ronto by American Philosophical So.
13--A thousand die in Bengal from
cholera epidemic.
18 -Maj. -General Sir Charles V. F. .
Townshend dksi n Paris. James
13rown.- 01.1'., - vill represent the
Kine at the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland.
0 --Italy gets slice of Jubaland.
28---Rev.-R. A. Jaffrey and other inis-
sicalatice seized by bandits in China,-
to membership in the Privy Council.
5 -Cabinet: restoees Crewnest Do-
,
minion freight agreement.
6 -Allied. AmbaSsadars meet in
'Paris to decide 'Cologne evacuation.
One hundred and sixty-six thou-
sand and thirty war badges await
claimants at Ottawa.
28 -Lord Robert Cecil receives 525,-
000 Woodrow Wilsoe Foundation,
peace a•waa-d.•,
29--Britieh astronomers predict 1925
to lie driest year of eenturta British
poend Sterling reaches 84.73 3-16 in
New York,
• ..i
.1--Chineso pirates release, two -0111, of
, four captured missionaries.
8-Mickman ,rifinistrfleses ,in "'New-
- "foundland •
-11-Illillerand resign- offlce of Pres-
- ideney of Repablic. Royal
eof"aellisiinit:'ijnclS diet action .by
avOtlun oefiotM1,...4,Q,46 or 1918 Would
froin 'heavy
• eSeeS.' in with Horne
'13,aul,c failure;
3--13elle7i0le, Ont., celebrates 14fith
elvereary of ,ceming ot Loy'ahsts.
eioe IDountergue is elected..preeie
ent of French Republic. ;
18 -Strike of poetal , employe.es
throughout ',To -minion begins at 11
tp.ma Nationalist-Labee patty tot-
' uniphs over Minas in South -Africa
20 ---Mallory and Ervin -4, of Mount EV -
vest Expedition succumb to ire
lurks.
20---Wevt. George Byers', Cfnadift.:1 Tnk
tionaryi in murdered in Chine:
Rhinoceros in African Jungle
A despatelt•from Nairobi says
: -
Reports from the shooting camp
of' the, ;Duke and Duobess
York at Isiolo -show • a d b
ghining has been Made. On the way
!acne Naiiebi,•hOWev4, the party were •
ovartalmn by a elbudberSt. daorty-one '
and one-half inches Of "rani...fell 15 a
aalf-hour,
The Duke of York's biggest success
was the sho.otieg'of a ebinece-ros., sev-
eral. Miles aroinethe camp, 450010 9105-
ic,t1 only by a white Minter. He iraiiked
and wounded the rinnocerOS, which
chaited. The 'Duke waited imtil the
:ttlirnal was within -30 yards,70heeIie
dropped it With 'a second 'shot. The
Duke also, ,hot a lump:era> a' zebra aee
The camp is surroanded .1:1V lams,
and the party conatementiv exnect to
e.aittn a good bag.
The Duchess et York has bcon sue-
-,L.C41 With „small game. ,
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CAUSE A D PATH OF SUN'S acupse,.
About 8 oeileek on the morning of January 24,•Toronto ande a sixty mile',
'stele of_ territory in Western Ontario will be in the patheof a. total solar
•eetipse, 11 will be visible only 'for about two mieutes. The above map shows
Ole Path of the shadow that will rimli BO swiftly aciass the continent from
Duluth to Long Island. The single colutnn lraving ehow,s how the sun and
eon caper around .to cense an eclipse. Although the relative sizes "of the_
sem cneon .and earth are disregarded in the illustration, pie general truth
of the eclipse may bo observed, Because the sun ls larger than the moon,
the shadow of the moon, when cast toward the earth, comes nearly to a point,
when it touehes, the, earth's surface,- Yet aie seen, from the point 'T on the
earth, the mooa, becaese,it'is nearer, leeks as large ac the sun and appears
C01111iletelY LO cover ii -just‘ as with 'a lead pencil a quarter, of an 11101 in
diemeter held six Mabee from the eae you can cover a01 object a foot in
detine'ter situated 24 feet. froin Ole eye. In adeition to hiding the' sun at T
there will 1.0 part eelipses betiveen tho points xl and 102, Between P1 and
P2 the degree of 'tile eclipse iticreasee e the, `observer llappsos
be uearer the belt T. '
MOON.
10
b'peC,
cic01ahzel
11
ehici Justice Anglin '
who has been made a privy councillor.
^
Duke of York Undergoes
Crossing Equator Ceremony
war, in trade and commerce, Hndu
tidal enterprise, agricultaral develop-
ment, educational institutions and in
rnoral,and religions character has been
muck. The remaining'. seven -eighths
of (Mr area lies at the threshold of de-
velopment and makes a all on our
patrietism' and manhood to which Wo
cannot turn a deaf ear. 7 need scarce-
ly say here, that, while Ontario con-
tains one-third of the population of
Canada, the munber of its peopl5e
far below a third of 'its apparent ca.
paeity: This is ObViOUS frora its fav-
orable 'situation -on this contintrit. Its
possibilities largelY rest in the feet
that its southernmost point -on Lake
Erie -touches ndrtlt latitade 40 deg.
41 minutes, the same as that of Rome;
the city of Toronto being In the same
latitude as Florence; Coehrane, the
northern railway centre, 13'ona lihe
'many miles south of Winnipeg; and
Moose Factory, at the foot of James
Bay, where- excellent crops have.been
raised for probably two hundred and
fifty years, is latitudinally a long dis-
tance south of Edmonton. So much
for the extent of the great estate
which has been entrusted to us -a
present population of only 2,998,662."
A despatch from London says: -
Passengers on the steamship which
took the Duke and Duchess of York to
Kenya had the experience of shaving
and ducking the King's son and then
helping him shave and duck the ship's
captain. These ainenities ate part of
a ceremonial to which all persons
crossing the Equator for the first time
usually are subjected.
The Duke was ready and wore run-
ning pants and a vest for his hazing.
He, then led the' assaant on the cap-
tain, who was dragged -.from the bridge
and•boisterously baptized.
Prince Offers to Drive While
Tired Chauffeur- Sleeps
A despatch, from London staysi“-
The numeroue,rounds of engagements
the Prince of Wales is "called on to
fulfill often demand long hours of
duty on the pert -of his attendants,
but he 1.6 uniformly eenSiderate of
The prince arrived home early ono
morning and told, his' chauffeur be
would require his ciseat 7 o'clock. De-
tecting a shade* on the chauffeur'e
face, the pririce inquired the reason.
The man replied that he would not
have time to clean the car, whereupon
Ole prince 'replied:
"Well, bring the car round at 7.30.
Don't trouble td ,clean it. I'll drive
and you hop inside and have a sleeli•
Halifax Chr.:_nicle -Celebrates
100 Years of Publication
Halifax, N.S,, Jan. 1.---Cclebratieg
100 years of continnous publication,
`Phe Morning Chronicle, in association
with The Nova Scotian, to -day pub-
lished an edition of 84 pages replete
with matter of great historical inter-
est to Canada, ,
The magazine seetion inclindes
articles by Dr. Archibald MacMcchan
and Dr. T' D Logan on :Memel Idowe
perhaps its most milli*, edam', mid
The Chronicle's piece in the history of
Nova Scotia is graphically, told by Dr.
W. Ill. Maclellan, a former editor.
Tee sap -4y of Re Hon. W. Se Fiona
ine's careerWith the newspaper is told
hi detail. The edition also includes the
fitcsimila of the first issue oi The
Halifax Gazette, the first newspaper
Canadian Re-umon at Los
. .
Angeles.
A despatch from Los Angeles, Cal.,
sayst-This city will be the scene eV
a huge Canadian re -union on Feb. 7,
1925, according to. an, antunincentain.'
made:here bA),Tolin Hooper, president
of the Canadran Tourists' Society and
director of the American Tourists' As-
sociation, who estimates that hilly 50,-
000 visitors will attend the gathering.
The municipal coliseum, seatipg
000, will be thrown open for thefield
day and an open-air pienic -will ho
held in the , exposition grounds ad-.
joining.
Announcing the re -union, a Can-
adian- ball was held in the Bon Ton
ballroom on the Lick Pier, Santa Mon-
ica, recently, and which was attended
by 2,000 meinbers of the -varions
IVIaple Leaf Societies.
According to , the announcement
made here by Mr. Hooper, the plane
for the reenion were formulated at
Ole recent conventions of the Tourists'
Association at Torouto„ and at Put -in -
Bay, Olrio. The Charabet of Cona•
merce here will assist in working oat
plans for the big gathering, I
Published la Canade,
May Ude Ships' Sirens
to Save the Orchards
A despatch from Sydney, N.S.W.,
eayse-The Irrigation Commission
of New South Wales hie
made available a sum 'oi
money to undertake a ueique expeei•
merit. It is proposed bo make tesa•
with Marino signalling apparatus IA
see if it will be effective in scarini
starlings and other birds from vine
yards and orchards in the arrigatiot
masa The apparates consists of
siren used by ships in distress, ant
would lae operated electrically Iron
Oho,farra, the siren iself being place(
among the levee oe vines.
1,200 London Children
Guests of 1-lamilion, Oistars
^
London Jan, 1 -Mors than 1,20
Small gnests-wer0 entertained at tit
Guildhall to -day through the custom
are' unagal • benevolence of the chii
(leen of naralitaa, Ont. The Ler.
'Meyer presided,. and he was auntie -1,1;5
by Sheriffs. and Aldermen of 'the Cit
and representetived of the Dominic)
of Callao-