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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-03-04, Page 3-IUGE'.IMPROVEMENT IN C.N.R. EARNINGS The Net Operating Surplus is $15,020,163 Greater Than in 1924. RETURNS TO MD CAUSE OF WOMEN VOTERS Mrs. Pankhurst Back in Eng- land toUrge Change in Franchise Age Limit.' A despatch from Montreal says:- - A despatch from London says: Final figures showing the complete Mrs, Emmeline •Pankhurst, the milt - statement of operating results during tart leader of the "votes for women" 1925 are announced by the Canadian cause before the World War, has re- National Railways. These figures turned to the suffrage battleground show that the net earnings of the sys- after passing the last eight years tett during the last` year were $32,- abroad, , 264,414.79, as compared with $17,244,- She has come back to England to 251.48 in 1924, or a net increase of take part in the campaign -more $15,020,163.31. _ peaceful than those which elle led During the twelve months ending years ago -to extend the franchise so Dec. 31, 1925, the operating ratio was that British women may vote at 86.8.3 per cent,, as compared with 92.68 twenty-one, instead of waiting until per cent. in 1924, and 91.92 .per cent. in 1923. The fatal figures for 1925 as com- pared with 1924 are: Operating rev- enues -1925, $244,971,202.61; 1924, $235,583482.55. Increase, $9,888,- 020.06. Operating expenses -1925, 1212,706,787.82; 1924, 8218,843,931;07. Decrease, .$5,637,143.25. Net earnings -1925, $32,264,414,79; 1925, $17,244,251.48. Increase, $15; 020,163.31. • The' progress made by the National SSystetn under its present adminiatra- tion. is shown by the following com- •parative figures: Operating revenues -1922,' $234,- 059,025.05; 1023, . 1253,135;487.81; 1924, $235,388,182.55; 1925, $244,971,- 202.61. Net earnings -1922, $2,886,711.55; 1923, $20,430,649,06; 1924, $17,244,- :251:48; 1925, $32,264,414.79. Operating ratio -1922, 98.77; 1928, 91.92; 1924, 92.08; 1925, 86,83, That the improvement in Canadian National Railways' results is continu- ing is shown: by the detailed figures also issued, covering the months of December, 1925, and January, 1926. In December, 1925, - the gross earnings were $23,851,670.61, an increase of .$4,534,9.34.06, as -compared with Dec., 1924. Net earnings for the month of Dec., 1925, amounted to $5,348,209.95; an increase of $2,587,926.50, as com- pared with Dec., 1924. The operating; ratio during Dec., 1925, was 77.58 per cent., as compared with 85.71 per cent. during the corresponding period of For January, 1926, the operating results were: Operating revenues -1926, $18,095,- 921; 1925, $16,716,458. 'Increase, $1,- 879,463. ' Operating expenses -1926, $16,428,- 297.35;. 1925, $16,443,665.25. De- crease, $15,367.90. Net earnings -1926, $1,637,841.65; 1925, $272,802.76. Increase, $1,364,- 888.89, Maharajah to Feed Holy Fire With Butter at Coronation A despatch from Jammu, Kashmir, says: -At the religious observances at the coronation of Sir Hari Singh, the new Maharajah of Jammu and Kash - ink, he will stand, dressed in a plain mauve garment, beside the family priest, who will recite the Hindu scrip- tures while the Maharajah feeds the holy fire with butter and sprinkles upon it water from several of the rivers of India. A large number of saffron -robed priests, especially invited from Ben- ares, will chant continually before the fire, under . a canopy on which is dis- played a picture of the goddess of wealth. Experimental Farms for - Hudson Bay Route A despatch from Ottawa says: --An important move in connection with the completion of the Hudson Bay Rail- way is announced by the Dept. of Agriculture: that 'three farms have been purchased along the route of that road, and that these farms will be peed as experimental stations to test the possibility froth a farming stand- point of the land along that railway. Operations on these forms are likely to be begun this summer, and the ulti- mate result will either prove or dis- prove the oontention that the railway eau be made valuable from a coloniza- tion viewpoint. Serious BlazeatTimmins. Causes Damage of $20,000 A despatch from Timmins says: - One of the worst fires which have visited Timmins for several years oc- curred Thursday night, when the top floor of the Ostrosser Block, one of the oldest buildings in the'"'buerinese sec- tion of the town, was completely gut- ted and the -contents destroyed.. The lower part of tate building, occupied by the owner' Dayton Ostrosser, as a men's clots'ung store, was also partly damaged u,,ltd considerable loss is en- tailed to stock from water. The total loss has been conservatively estimated at upward of $20,000. Death of Nova. Scm&ia Upper Chamber 'Fixed for May 1 A despatch from Halifax says: - The Legislative 'Council, the upper Chamber of the Nova Scotia Legis- Tature, will cease to function on May 1, 1926, if a bill• introduced in the Legislative Assembly recently becomes lane. Hon. Es N.,•Rhodes, Premier. of Nova Scotia, introduced the bill, which is'titled "An act abolishing the • Legislative Council and amending the Constitution of, the Province," • they are thirty years old. "Women's Week," to be marked by oratory and i processions.,thrdeghout the country, will, early in June, push the demand for this extension of the suffrage, Mrs. Pankhurst, who has been in France, Bermuda, Canada and other parts of the world since she left Eng- land in 1917, believes that women have not done badly in politics and other-! wise, considering their difficulties. "Now that wehave gained the vote," she said soon after her return, "we still have M . prove ourselves worthy of it, Our campaign now must be to redeem our promises and to teach the world that women are quite as cap- able of government as men." Although in her seventy-first year Mrs. Pankhurst is as enthusiastic in the cause of women as eVer. Sha in- tends now to give speoial attention to industrial peace, housing and electrifl- cation, while promoting the interests of women in general. Vice -Admiral E. S. A. Sinclair connmand•er-in-chief of the British forces in China, who finds it,necessary to Iteep a close watch all the time, for British interests are large and merry in that part of the world, Indian Princes. Entertained - at Gold Plate Banquet A despatch from Jammu, Kashmir, says: -Rarely has India, with all the riches of its princes, witnessed such splendor as was displayed when the new Maharajah of Jammu and Kash- mir, Sir Hari Singh, entertained 150 guests at a state banquet in honor of the rulingprinces and chiefs 'of the native Indian States who are here from all parts of the country for his coronation. The Princes were served on gold' plate, and the members of their staffs on solid silver•. The native rulers were attired in their priceless state robes, and the great ornate banquet hall of the royal residence blazed with the lights from jewels whose: value was estimated at a totalofseveral million pounds. The following day the new Maher rajah proceeded to his coronation at the head of a state procession of ele- phants. The new ruler of Kashmir is prob- ably better known to the world at large as "Mr. A,' victim of the famous Robinson blackmail case which was tried in the London courts a year ago, World's End Expected in Few Billion Years A despatch from Chicago says: - Prof. F. R. Moulton, of the University of Chicago, has fixed the date of the end of the world. But there is no im- mediate cause for alarm, You may figure it out yourself, he said, 'like this: The earth is two - thousand million years old, The average life of such a planet is a thousand times a million times a million years or 1,000,000,000,- 000,000 (ono quadrillion) years. Sri it will go on whirling on its orbit for another 500,000 times as long as it has already whirled. - And when that time comes: the sun will get too close• to this planet and pouf -that will be all. Just like the 'snuffing out ,of ,a candle it will melt end be destroyed. Another Atter/Tito Conquer EverestTbis Summer A deoopatch from London says :-A Calcutta despatch to the Daily Ex- press says that Brigadier -General Charles G Bruce, who led the Mount Everest Expedition of 1922, proposed to make another attempt to conquer the mountain this summer: He is now in Delhi discussing the project with the Government, : but, the despatch adds, he reports that the attitude of tate Tibet Government is not at all encouraging FIUGE SILVER NUGGET •PUT ON DISPLAY Above is shown the huge silver nugget which has been mounted in the • front corridor of the parliament buildings, for visite,* to see. It is a produdt of the Keeley Mine and hes just been returned from Wembley, where it was 011 display as the largest end meet valuable single piece of silver ore ever produced in the British Empire, It weighs 4,402 pounds. When the govern- ment .bought it, the purchase prioe, at 6435 eines per ounce for silver, was 515,616. THEIR MAJESTIES MOVE INTO OWN HOME King and Queen Occupy Sand- ringham, Willed by Queen. Alexandra. A despatch from London says: - King George and Queen Mary have just moved into Sandringham House, the Norfolk estate, of the Windsor family, which has become the personal property of the sovereign by the will of Queen Alexandra. Sandringham is now the only ono of the many properties visited each year by their majesties which is• owned by the King and not by the state. King Edward bought the country mansion when he was Prince of Wales and will- ed it to his Queen. Sandringham was the favorite resi- dence of King Edward and • Queen Alexandra, as it is with the present sovereigns. At Buckingham Palace, Holyrood Palace, Balmoral and Wind- sor castles, the royal family must hoist their standard above the roof and live in the luxury which the state provides, but at Sandringham they live like the family of a country gentleman, with only the pares and freedom'of country folk. ' York cottage, also on the Sandring- ham estate, now has been left vacant by the King, but probably will not be allotted to the Duke and Duchess of York, as at first supposed, because of the possible marriage of the Prince of Wales, who by precedent becomes the householder at the cottage, Sandringham House was entirely re- decorated under the supervision of Queen Mary before the royal couple moved in. The heavy Victorian drap- eries and 'red plush carpets were taken out ,and modern improvements built in. This makes the royal home the envy of the richer subjects who live in the neighborhood. Billion in Gold Francs r Hidden in French Socks A despatch from Paris says: - At least one billion francs in gold coin are still hidden away in the proverbial woolen stocking of the thrifty French- man, according to authoritative' Cal culatfons made in connection with numerous recent arrests for buying gold coins and melting them down for sale. Groups of men are traveling through the country and paying as high as seventy or eighty paper francs for twenty -franc gold pieces. Ie. per- suading the holders to sell they fre- quently use the argument that the.gold coins are sure to be demonetized be- fore the country gets back to a normal gold basis. The agents say that even at the prig of eighty paper francs the twenty -franc -gold pieces can be melted -and sold at a profit, NOTED INDUSTRIALIST PASSES AT HAMILTON Robert Hobson, President of Steel Company of Canada, Built Big Organization. A despatch from Hamilton says:- . THE WEEK'S ' i `•KETS TORONTO, Man, wheat -No. 1 North,, $1.663/x; $1,58?yx ,1 o. 2 N.orth•, $1.601/5; No. 3 North., oats -No, 2 CW, nominal; No, not,. quoted; No, 1 feed; 471, c;: N. feed, 463/ae; Western grain quo- talio28:s on c.Lf., bay ports, Am, corn, track, , Toronto -No. 2, ye: bow, 87%c; No. 8 yellow, 85c. Mitlfeed-Dei. Montreal freigh's, bags included: Bran, per ton, $80.25 to $31.25; shorts, per ton,' $32.25 to $33.25; middlings, $89,25 to $40.25; good feed flour, , sr bag, 82,80. Ont. oats -40 to 42c,, f.o.b. shipping points Ont. good milling wheat -$1.81 to $1 f .9 , o.b...ahipping points, according to freights.. Barley -Malting, 68 to 65c. - Buckwheat -No. 3, 68c, Rye -No: 2, 85c. . Man, flour -First pet., $3.90, To- ronto, do, second pat., $8.40. Ont. flour -Toronto,' 90 per cent.; pat„ per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, $5.90;' seaboard, in bulk, $5,90. Straw -Carlota, per ton, 59 to $9,50. Screenings -.Standard, recleaned, 1.1 o.b, bay ports, per ton, .$22.50. Cheese -New, large 22c; twins, 22%e; triplets, 23c; Stiltons, 24c. Old, . large, 2,8 to 80c; *wins, '29 to 31o; triplets, 80 to 82a. Butter-Fine:t creamery prints, 48c; No. 1 creamery, 46 to 47e; No. 2, 45 to 46c. Dairy prints, 41 to 42c. Eggs -Fresh extras, in ' cartons, 41 ao 42e; fresh extras, loose, 40 to 41c; fresh firsts, 36 to 37e; storage extras, 28c; storage firsts, 25e; stor- age seconds, 21 to 22c. Dressed poultry -Chickens, spring, lb., •82 to 35o; hens, over 4 to 5 lbs., 30c• do, 3 to 4 lbs., 25c; roosters, 220; ducklings, .5 lbs. and up 80 to 320; turkeys, 350. Beans -Can. hand-picked, lb., 6e; primes 5 to 53yc. Maple produce--Syrup,per imp, gal, $2.40; per 5 -gal. t, $2.80 per gat; maple sugar, Ib., 26 to 26c.., Honey -550 -lb, tins, 113,6 to 12c per Robert Hobson, President of the Steel Ib.; 10-1b, tins, 111,5 to 12c; 5 -Ib. tins, Company of Canada and a national 11 to 12%ec;; 2% -lb. tins, 14 to 143%. figure in Canadian industry, died on Smoked meats -Hams, med., 29 to Thursday at his home, 56 West Cliarl- 31c; cooked hats, 43 to, 45e; smoked ton Avenue. He was 65 years of age.17 -- Mr. Hobson played an active parts in the development of the Canadian steel industry, He was a former great - dent of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, and hall many other acti- vities. He had a commanding pres- ence and a most genial personality. Thousands' of workmen held him in warm affection. He was widely; . known throughout Canada and the; United States and in Great Britain. His father constructed the St. Clair; Tunnel under the river bottom from Sarnia to Port Huron. ' ' Robert Hobson was born in Iiitclten- er (then Berlin) on Aug. 13, 1861. Ile was the son of John and Ellzabeth ..Hobson. His father was a noted en- ' gineer, and iniiong other of the let- ter's engineering achievements was the construction of the Jubilee bridge at Montreal. Robert FaTion also be- came an engineer after he completed his education, and worked with his'Captain Dudley North Lather, chiefly at pioneer railway con- equerry to the Prince of Wales, who struction, For 20 years father and Me- son constructed miles of lines for the�ie always close to the heir to the Bri- Great Western Railway and the Grand tlsh throne and who accompanied him Trunk Railway. on hie recent trip to South Africa and the war Robert Hobson South America. Ca.ptaln North corn- Duringstrove ceaselessly on behalf of the men 1 mended the battle cruiser New Zea- who went overseas to fight. He was land In the battle of Heligoland. one of those who was instrumental in Bad Teeth Prove Greatest having the then Federal Government Foes of Toilers in Britain establish ..munition factories in Can- ada. In this connection he gave his country valuable service as a member Chronic rheumatism is the worst of the Munitions Resources Commis- enemy of the working nten and women sion. He took an active part in the formation of the Canadian Patriotic Fund, and was Chairman of the Fin - ince Committee of the loca lorganiza- tion .all during the war. Surgeon Gives Sight to Boy ,.After 19 Years A despatch from Huntingdon; W. says:-B?and from birth, Howard Cook 19 opened his eyes fo •lowing an opera y es. Pre- viously the surgeon bad given sight to two other members of the family, Fay and NIaynte Cook, sisters, and anathor blind sister, Cordie, now is undergoing treatment in the hope that she also may see. A11.fou.r .were afflicted with catar, acts at birth. Young Cook's first nn- prt:ssion of vision was that it seemed .is though he had been behind a sheet which was Suddenly swept away, tiob Dr, C, M. -Han of the United Kingdom, It is responsible for ane -sixth of all industrial invalidity, and causes the! loss of three million weeks' work an -1 nually among the insured working i population alone. Seventy per cent of these cases are caused by bad teeth and gums. Wells Writing Novel 250,000 Words Long A despatch from London says: -H. G. Wells is working on a novel, which, it is reported-, will contain a quarter of a million words. This work, which will probably be completed in the late spring, is said to be somewhat in the style of his novel, "The New Machine- " • ' Although Mr. Weis denied it, the' general opinion was that many of the characters in that novel were thinly - veiled sketches of celebrities, iva:uding Lord Balfour, . r'A TO' TACKLE RED•LAKE T5A'IL eV YIOTO?. SLED. A o e • sl en . ohn: - .lane; the vrell•known exilot'ea' n• 5 color and northern tlavc:tr, or Tcrnnto, and bt'.EUC.10 J J L 19i hie aeroplane engine driven motor 01s1911 which he napes•to-ptit. en the;`R.ed bait() trail in the nsan ':'aro, `Y ,Zgii1it .f 1 - Mines and Paper Mills Lead to Agriculture' Develoment. 2.040, 22c; cottage, 25 to 270; break_Mineral and forest wealth and fast bacon, 32, to 360;• special brand - water power have done' much lede- breakfast bacon, 38 to 30ci backs, ve'.op and settle Canada from en agrt- boneless, 87 to 450. !cultural standpoint. Water powers Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50 have permitted'' the development of to 70 lbs,, $22; 70 to 90 lbs., 520.50; industry in areas which otherwise 2Q lbs. and up: $19.50; lightweight l rolls, in barrels, 543,50; heavyweight would have remained unexploited, .The rolls, 539.50 per barrel. I forests .and mines have supplied the Lard -Pure tierces, 181/s to 19c; raw material to feed these industries. tubs, 19 to 19%c; pails, 20 to 203%; I The industrial communities thus ere - prints, 21 to 21%c; shortening tierces, , eked furnish profitable looah tn'arkete 14 to 14%e; tubs, 14% to 15c; pails, for farm and garden produce. They 15' to 15' c; blocks, 1631 to 17c. also form an outlet for surplus abor Heavy steers, choice, .57.50. to $8,25; p do, good, $7.25 to 57.50; butcher in' slack seasons or when crops are steers, choice, $7 to $7.50; do, good, , poor. They furnish an opportunity 56 to 56.75; butcher heifers, choice,' for the settler's children to learn a 56.50 to ' $7.25; do, good, 86.00 trade, and the community organize•. to $6.50; do, med., $5.50 to $6; do, 'tion resulting from the industry poZ tom., $5 to 56.60" butcher cows, i mita educational, hospital, trading,,choice, 85.50 to $5.75;. do, fair to good $4 to 4.60; butcher bulls, saes, .55 i religious and social advantages other - to $5,75; bolagnas, $3.25 to 53.75; wise impossible in a pioneer district. canners and cutters, 52.25, to $3; I Both mining and pulp companies are springers, choice, $85 to 5100; good always in the market for wood pro- Milch cows, $70 to 580; medium cows, ducts which are used as underground $45' to 560; feeders, good, 56.25 to timbering, structural work, firewood 56:35 ; do,- fair, $b' to $8; stockers, I and far pulp manufacture. hi per- $5 to 85.501 ds fair, $4.50 so mita the settler to sell for Dash the d 512 to 2 woof he cuts in clearing his land. He may also get a good price for the use of his teams in the lumber camps and for hauling supplies in seasons when the farm work is at a minimum, Mining, power and paper manufac- $13.50,• do, ,f.o.b,, $12,80 to $12.90; do, turfing companies pay direct royalties country points, $12.55 to 512.65; do, to the Crown,. thus helping to radixes of cars, $13.80 to $13.90'; select pre taxes. They place huge•orders with mium, 52.63 to 52.65, manufacturers and tradesmen for MONTREAL. equipment and supplies. Lastly they Oats, Can. West., No. 2, 61c; CW, provide heavy: and profitable tonnage No. 3, 570; extra No.. 1 feed, 54e. Flour, Man. spring wheat pats„ firsts, 58.90; seconds, 58.40; strong bakers, $8 to 58,20. Bran, $80.25, Shorts, $32.25. Middlings, $39.26. Hay, No. 2, per ton, 518 to $13.50, Cheese, current receipts, 19 te19'4e. and successful' agricultural develop - Butter, No..1 pasteurized, 48 to 43%c. tent to these factors. The. great Eggs, storage extras, 82e; storage mining camps of Porcupine, Cat, exists, 27c; storage seconds, 28o; fresh Gowganda and South Lorrain, and the extras 48c; fresh firsts, 38 to 39c. r mills at Is u Potatoes, Quebec, per bag, car lots, paps oq cis Falls, Smooth 52.75. Rock Falls and Kapuskasing, Ontario, Veal calves $11 to 511.50 per bun- have to a great extent made the dredweight; hogs, good lots, 514.50; Northern Ontario clay belt the suc- do, selects, $15; sows, 512 to $13, cessful farming country that it is to- day. The adjacent bolts of Quebec Ti IRIL L 1NO RESCUE are rapidly being. settled as the Rouyn FROM BUSH FIRES timinniie sztgage. area approaches the produc- The news that a huge newsprint de - Hemmed in Six Hours, 150 velopment is about to be commenced People Saved at King Lake, on the Kapuskasing river promises to Australia. vastly strengthen the position of Northern Ontario as a !arming as A despatch from Melbourne, Aus- well as an industrial centre. Its sig- tralia, says: -One hundred and fifty nificance to the federal and provincial men, women and children, who took government railways cannot be over - refuge in the post -office building at estimated either, since forest products King Lake while the remainder of the constitute a major source of earnings town was swept by a great bush fire, even with the present limited develop - have been rescued after being sur- meet of the pulpwood resources of this rounded by the flames for six hours. country. In this conecti.on it is interesting to The story of the rescue is among pate the analysis made by the Temis- the most thrilling in the annals of knifing and Northern .Ontario Rail - bush, the outlying buildings in the lilt` (about 1/ million yearly) moved by tie town caught like tinder and the that road: • inhabitants fled to the post -office, the most substantial structure in the place. Forest products .. 41' per cent. News of their plight reached Manufactured and Queenstown, and a rescue party made miscellaneous .... 32 per cent. a wild dash in automobiles over burn- Mines products . 22 per cent. ing bridges and along fireswept roads . Agricultural products 4 per cent. Animal products .... 1 percent. One reason that the agricultural 4.75; calves, chice. 513 to $14;' o, goo $12.25; do, grassers, $5• to $5.25; good light sheep, 57 to. 58; heavies and bucks, $5.50 to 56.50; good Iambs, 518.50 to $13.75; do, med., $12 to $12.50; do,, bucks, 59 to $10.50; do, culls, $10 to 511; hogs, thick smooths; fed and watered, 513.40 to to the railways that have already been built and only need traffic to make them pay. The great clay belts of Northern Ontario and Quebec owe their rapid partially blocked by fallen trees. Through this inferno the rescuers reached the imprisoned company and Products do not constitute a- larger brought them all out to safety, with- Proportion of the total tonnage is that out the lose of a single life. most of these products are consumed Despite the gallantry of the rescue, locally while the industrial and mining there was no more heroic figure in the products are shipped to outside points, while machinery and other heavy equipment eupp-ies are shipped in from outside points. The Abitibi Paper Mills supply a episode than the postmistress of King Lake, whose name is missing from the press despatches thus far received. Throughout the long hours while the town was burning about her, she total movement over the T. & N.O. stuck to her post, telephoning to the lines of seventy cats per day including outside world, telling of the progress 22 cars of finished paper shipped of the flannes and giving directions for south daily. It is expected that the the fire fighters and rescuers. proposed mills at Kapuskasing tvill Finally the wires were burned away, supply en equally profitablemovement, after which she turned her energies to ::in the benefits of which the Canadian the task of cheering up and sustaining the courage of those who had taken refuge in the building. British Columbia and Chile Converse Via Ether Waves A despatch from Vancouver says: - Earle Chang, owner and operator of amateur radio station cSGO, of this city, has added new laurels to the crown of amateur radio in this part of Canada through' confirmation of are- cent two-way contact between 5G•0 find cit-2LD, the amateur radio station of Luis M. Desmaras, of Santiago, Chile, Mr. Chang has also recorded authentic reception of bz2AB,,,the sta- tion of Justine, Sao Pau:o,')3iazil, Another British Columbia amateur, a fellow member of Mr. Chang in the American Radio Relay League, is the first amateur on the Canadian Pacific coast to record reception of signals by English amateurs. ' 165 Head of Canadian Cattle National Railway and the .fertile farming district west of Cochrane will Share. Flyers Test Night Service London -Paris Air Route A despatch from Paris says: - Trial flights to test the practicability of a night air passenger service lie- tween Paris and London now are under way and are expected to extend over a month. The tests are made on ' the initiative of the French aviation authorities and, in flying circles here, there is much satisfaction over the fact that the French have begun giv ing effect to an idea which the British have had under consideration for some time, The first trial was made by a plane tvhich left Le Bourget field at 7 o'clock in the eventing and landed at Croydon, near London, at 10.40. A return trial trip began at Croydon at 6.20 in the' evening and ended at Le Bourget at 10.15. MLauren5.Eynac; under sec- ' 'Die on Board Ship retary of state for aeronautics, has •• given special financial help for the A despatch from,London says:-- inauguration of this service, The British steameThe Manchester The first trip,showed t}tat the lights Prodncer has arrived at France zn. tow on the French part of. the course -at of a Dutchtug after, havingbeen buf- Berck,• Aiobeyille,.Poix,. ileauvais and feted. •in-''inid-Atlantic ,foo' a fortnight Le Bourget --were not strong enough. with a damaged rudder. Of the 418 Croydon's lights were found to be bet - head of. Canadian'•cattle with which ter. .No .passengers are carried, sur- she left Halifax only, 258 head are ing the trials. still alive. On 1 eb.'11 a ntescago from the captain of the Producer said that 70 head of cattle had been lost and "Phwat are thltn )iusltets for on the that, the i-sfood e tihad' been . placed I chief in the hs thl ashes one Irishmanoe on limited food rations, Ninety-five seem to have died since. t- __- Toothbrushes have increased greatly in.pepularity :deco 1919, according to. official statistics. Why Water? •. of another. "Casa 'ye read? It says 0n thorn: 'For Fire Only.' " "Thinwhy do' they put wather to tltim?"