The Clinton News Record, 1920-4-8, Page 3NILE DESERT TO FLOWER THROUGH
BRITISH IRRIGATION PROJECT
Veleeterred by throat() of revolt, (tory .of Joseph and his brethren, to
Great Britain is hheheihh vast ;mega, ovidenoo of the conservation of great
in Egypt and the dependepce of sur•
titin Work for her Pretectot'ate• of rounding countries upon the land of
rheYpt which will double the present the Nile for their supplies 1n time() of
urea of oultivetien aid enormously in- dearth,
urease the preepevity of the people. Even in those:oerly days,therewas
More than tin'ee•fourt a of the Coin- an attempt to catch, the alluvium of
try Is still desert, surd it is proposed the Nile In Lake Meals, south of
to regulate the waters of the Nile In Memphis, and above the head of the
-upper Egypt se that a large area en delta formed by the Rosetta and
both sides of the river shall be re- Damietta branches of the river, The
claimed, lt'riga'ton le vital to Egypt, anneal rise of the river overflowed in-
for withodt it there could be no orope to the lake, and when the stream fell
and a general famine would result. in the dry 'season the water poured
This work will bo the firer great back through ;the channel and was
construction project to be launched diverted by sluices to the ground to
since the war, Am Irrigation commis. be, irrigated. The •lake has now shrunk
akin :tae been named 1 to study the• in ' grea and eublll0ed mare than' 200
question on the White and Blue' Nile feet and its outflow ceased about 230
and ..has already arrived on the Bee, but the system of retaining the
ground, It consists of four engineer- waters of the river in a basin by welch
)ng experts. Their Work wfll carry the surrounding ooilntry can receive
them far eolith of thelimits of an annual flooding bas been continued
i the Egyptian Governnnent's exclusive to this day,
sphere into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, The greatest, problem for the engi
to Khartum, where the waters of the sneer le to catch as much as possible
White and the Blue Nile meet, The of the 'rich alluvium by preventing ire
river has utany.tteiases during its. escape to the sea and depositing it On
course, the longest of any waterway dry fields. The slope of the land on
on the globe, next to the Mlstsissippi• each side of the Nile is away from
breve its source .ii Lake Victoria to the river, so that at flood it was easy
Lake Albert, about 200 miles, it is to' top it and let the mud charged
known as the Albert Nile; Malice to water flow over the farms to a depth
Lake No, 600 miles, as the Bahr -el of about a yard. The mud was grad -
Jebel, Then it becomes the White
Nile to-
Khattum where theNi Nile pro -
Per begins, Above that point
the
principal affluent is the Sobat,,, south-
west of leasheda, while below Rime-
, tam the Atbara is the only tributary,
The Nile -drains a basin of 1,1b7,227
square miles, a little less then.- the
IYliseisaippi and the Obi, or the Congo,
with 1,426,000 square miles,.. or the
mighty Amason, with 2,722,000 square
miles, draining two-fifths of South
America. Northwest of Lake Victoria
the Nile and Congo have a continent
watershed divided only by small ele-
vations. From the low hills of Dar-
fur the Nile valley sharply contracts
till it approaches within a few Miles
o£ the river at the great bend between
the fourth and third cataracts, retain-
ing its restricted width to the Mediter-
ranean. Beyond the narrow strip is
the waterless desert with only a few
oases.
5,000 Years of Endeavor.
This is the enemy that the •irriga-
tian commission has set out to con-
quer. Water alone will not do it, for
ae soon as tate supply is withdrevm-the•
.
land would again become -dry and in-
fertile. It is the rich loam brought
down by the Nile from he luxuriant
lake region and deposited, .vet the
sandy bottom that makes lower Egypt
one of the most productive •-egions of,
the world in the restricted area of the
delta, once the granary of the Roman
empire. For 5,000 years the Egyp-
tians have been teeing to catch this
alluvial deposit and as yet have only
partially succeeded.
Herodotus mentions their efforts at
a very early period of history and he
himself, about the year 460 B.C., made
a journey up the river as far as the
first cataract ee Assuan, where the
great dam, finished in 1902, has" con-
siderably obliterated the rapids. The
•
'tally deeosited.and after a ei'onth'or
six weeks the water, then almost'
clear, was run off into the falling
river. The ground usually was rough-
ly plowed in November and planted
with grain that sprouted in April
without otherrwatering.
Doubled Gptton Crops.
To pmvent the loss of alluvial'de-
posits a French engineer under Me-
hemet Ali designed two bridges across
the Rosetta and Damietta branches at
the head of the delta so constructed
that the arches could be closed by
drop gates diverting the water to side
canals. British engineers completed
these structures in 1890 and the re-
sult was that the five-year average
cotton crop, ending in 1884, amount-
ing to 128,000 'tons, was raised by
1,95 to 251,200 tons. In 1900 there
were about 2,100 miles of basin canals.
A similar barrage was built across
the river at Assiut, finished in 1902 in
time to avert disaster from the low.
Nile of that year, Extension of the
area of cultivation made more and
more denmeds upon the river, and it
was realized that if the perennial
ystem were to be- continued the
waters of the river would have to be
stored up during flood tine. This re-
sulted in the great Asauan dam, finish-
ed. December 10,_ 1902, which stores
up the water, becoming full fn March.
As the deuiand for water increases,
the sluices, by which it is pierced, are
gradualy.:veiled until July, when the
current is allowed to flow freely.
Thus the great river is harneesed'to
Alm uses of man from Assuan to the
sea. It is now proposed to extend
this work far to the south to make the
deserts of the Sudan fertile for' the
years to come, This great work of
construction foreshadows the - de-
velopment of the African continent to
the benefit of the world, at large.
d
h
,4N _ r• g ndtt
Ion INCREASE
PRICE 'OF ]FLOUR
Refult of .t.GtIOn of Wheat
, n oard and Lack of Export
Markets.
it deapateh froln Ottawa says:• --A
material advance in the price of flour
in.Canada,ss indicated in an announce -
vont mado Isere on behalf of Can-
ai3ian tlti►Iors by Georg A, eTacdon-
repreeenting the Quaker pate
Company, and• head of a delegation
'of ;representatjve millers which wait-
ed onrthe .Government tq discuss the
Ierieus situation which Canadian
mills are facing as a remit of the -
action of the Canadian Wheat Board.
M contsvuing the restriction in the
price of'fleee on the Canadian market,
and1. the lack of 'export markets for
'Caadian flout The increase will be
nec scary to nieet'the .increasing cost
of manufacture, it' is understood:
t.; k• aZn/atG to The scarcity of millfeeds in Can-
See
an-3 1I AUCKLAND GEDDES - ada is directly traceable, to the lack
Of a market for flour and the, cense-
Newly appointed British .A.mbassa- quent decrease in the volume of dotm.
ur to the Un`et States. estie milling, th'c rei1lera Atate. They
have asked the Government to mode -
Upper Canada College En- fy the regulations of the Wheat
dowrent Fund. „_ Board and to co-operate with the
• millers,in inducing foreign buyers to
Upper Canada College, the oldest take a reasonable proportion of Can,.
and most historic school in Coterie, adian wheat as flour rather than'' as
las Mime/lied au Endowment and Ex; wheat.
Mullen Campaign for 51,600,000. It Vast quantities of flour are said to
is proposed that 5600,000 shall be an be available in the United States for
Endowment, the interest of which export, and this complicates 1)118 Can-
adian problem. _ It is said that more
than 4,000 men have already been
forced
of employmentb f
ovt
Ir ny
t t ow
closing down of. the mills, of which
there are' about 500 in' Canada. •`
U.S. Navy Estimates
shall be used to raise the salaries of
the masters and to found a pension
5
fund; 5400,000 as an eitdowme nt for
the provision -of forty entrance scholar-
ships, each of the, value of 5560., ten-
able for three years; and 5500,000 for
impvovetttetita and additions to the
present buildings.
All the residential schools have
been forced to raise their fees to
meet the II. C. L., but the winner of
one of these entrance scholarships
should be able to live at Upper Cana.
da College at an expense no, greater
than it would cost his parents to keep
him at Monte. Upper Canada College
has at present about 450 boys, drawn
from every province in the Dominion,
with the exception of P.E.I. It has
about 4,600 "Old Boys" living, and
though usually spoken of as a Toron-
to School,eounts among its "010 Boys"
the Minister of Agriculture in the
Hearst and in the Drury Government,
DEPARTMENT STORE
FOR OLD LONDON
Navigation on Great Lakes
Will Open About April 10
A despatch from Chicago says:--
Na'vigation on the Great Lakes will
open about April 10th, the Weather
Purectu predicts.
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RUINOUS FOOb
PRICES IN k">r,USSI,
Long Lines of Citizens Wait-
ing For Dady 1'daUons.
despatch filen London snyee—Ann
indication. of oofditiclle obtaining in
I3glshovik'liussia ae the leeague of
Nations. leYestgating cormtiiteee will.
find them wet contained in • n revieW.
of the economfe situation in theater^
ritory controlled by the Sd\ilet lust
printed le the Loa cion Times.
The ertiole, which wee written by `a
staff oorreepondeut, deviate long lines
aWaiting their food rations, witlt bread'
selling at 450 rubles a pound and but'
ter at 8,200 rubies a pound; of cueing
with the det4 of the various cities,
for even the cemeteries are "national.
Med" and the dead lie for days a\dait-
ing interment.
"Prices are very high, but the pro-
fits are low," the writer of the article
says, These, for example, are some
ief the prices prevailipg last week:
Rubles.
Bread, per pound 440
'Flour, per pound 500 to 700'
Beef
Pork
Salt
Butter
Groats and meal
650 to 600
720
300
2,600 to 3,200
600 to 700
Normally the ruble is worth 51%
cents, gold, now it worth about 4%
cents.
"Inc spite of these charges• salaries
are comparatively low, a typist get-
ing 3,209 ruffles a molltit for an eight
hour day without rations. A hospital
nurse gats 2,600 rubles a
month and
army rations for a twelve hour day.
Army rations in Petrograd`consist of:
ee lb. horseiieslt. '
1 lb. bread (fair quality).
Velb. (about) groats and small quan-
tities of sugar and fats daily.
"Bread on civilian rations contains
about 50 per cent. of beans and 10-16
per cent. bird seed (millet, denary and
hemp), the rest being rye flour.
"Under the system of the division
of the population into categries, a
person receiving rations on card A
(the highest rate for heavy manual
labor) gets 1% pounds of such bread
daily; sugar, horse meat and groats
are doled out in small quantities at
intervals.
"The working population—that is,
every one except school children and
persons over 60—work under truly
terrible condition"( and. the workshops
are cold. There is also very little
light, and no soap or washing facili-
ties.
"Lt is proposed to reopen the schools
in the spring. They have been closed
since October, owing to'the fuel short.
age. Free dining ramie for the pupils
have been continued throughout the
winter, but the food offered there is
of such bad quality that even the dogs
refuse to touch it except when starv-
ing. This state of things in the school
dining rooms is on a par with other
Soviet "reforms," where word and
deed are so diametrically opposed.
"The closing of the markets• in these
conditions means a terrible hardship
for the population. It is -not surplis-
ing,that the very rumor raised such a
storm of protest that the authorities
have not yet risked enforcing the or-
der. Only one market, indeed, has
been closed, other markets being sub.
Joted only to periodical raids, At the
closing of the Alexandrovsky market,
which maybe described as the Cale-
donian market of Petrograd, a free
fight took place between troops and
-traders, when about twenty were
killed and wounded." Y
' Exceed Britain's
A despatch from London says:•
His attention being called in the
House of Commons to the American
naval estimates, Walter Hume Long,
First Lord of the Admiralty, entered
into a detailed comparison.
Ile showed that, at 'the current rate
of exkhange, wherry 223,000,000 for
end -of -the -war expenditure was sub-
tracted from the British estimates,
the American estimates were 544,-
000,000 in excess of the British.
Moreover, While the personnel of the
British navy was being reduced, the
Americen estimates provided for an
increase in personnel. Thee First Lord
refrained from comment,
New maple floors in kitchens will
not absorb grease or show grease
spots if saturated with hot linseed
oil for several hours before they are
used. Then wipe off all surplus oil.
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Weekly Market Report
Breadstuffs. Honey—Extracted clover, 5-11e. tins,
Toronto, April 6.—Man. wheat— 27 to 28c; 10-1b. tins, 26 to 26e; 60-1b
No. 1 Northern, 52,80; No. 2 North- tins, 25c; buckwheat 60 -Ib. tins, 18 to
ern, $2.77; No. 8 Northern, $2R3, in 20c; .comb, 16 -oz., $6 to $6.50 doz.
store Fort William. 10 -oz., $4,25 to $4.50 doz.
Manitoba oats—No. 2 C.W., 98c; Maple products—Syrup, per imp
No 3 C.W., 94c• extra No. 1 feed, gal., $4.25; per '6 ,imp. gals., 54.00.
Provisions—Wholesale.
Smoked meats—Hams, med., 38 to
40c; do, heavy, 29 to 30c; cooked, 54
to 56c; rolls, 30 to 310; breakfast
baron, 43 to 48c;' backs, plain, 60 to
52c• boneless, 52 to 56c.
Cured merits—Long clear bacon, 81
to 82e; clear bellies, 30 to 810.
Ontario oats—No. 8 white, $1.03 to Lars{—Pure, tierces, 80 to 30%c;
51.05, according to freights outside. tubs, 30% to 31c; pails, 30% to 8134c;
Ontario wheat—No. 1 Winter, per prints, aro to 82c. Compound 'tierces,
car lot, $2 to 52.01; No. 2, do, $1,98 28% to •g9c; tubs, 29 to 29%e; pails,
to 52.01; No, 9 do, 51.92 to $1.98, f.o.b. 29% to 29,�ac; prints, 80 to 80xe.
shipping points, according to freights. -
Ontario wheat— No. 1 Spring, per Montreal Markets.
ear lot, $2.02 to 52.03; No. 2 do, $1.98 Montreal, April 6.—Oats, Canadian
to 52.07; No. 3 do, $1,95 to 52.01, f.o.b. Western, No. 2, 51,16; Can. Western
shipping points, according to freights. No, g, $1.10%; Flour, new standard
Peas—No. 2, $3.00. grade, 513.26 to 513.55; Rolled oats,
Barley—Malting, $1.78 to 51.80, ac- bag, 90 lbs., 55.50 to $5.60. Bran,
545.25. Shorts, 552.26. Hay, No. 2,
per ton, car lots, 530 to 531. Cheese,
finest eastetns, 26 to 2b%- • Butter,
choicest creamery, 64 to 65c. Eggs,
fresh, 56c. Potatoes, per bag, car
lots, 54.80 to 54.40. Lard, pure, wood
pails, 20 lbs. net, 80 o 30%c,
Live Stock Markets.
94c; No. 1 feed, 93c; leo. 2 feed, 92c,
in store Fort William.
Manitoba barley—No. 3 C.W.,
$1.647,¢; No. 4 C.W. $1.44%; rejected,
• $1,827/x; feed., $1.37/x, in store Fort
"LONDON TYPISTS • William.
. - RECEIVE O. B. E. nominal, track, Toronto; prompt ship-
ment
Telephone Operator Among
Recipients of Imperial
Honors. •
American corn—No. 8 yellow, $1.98,
Headquarters For Whole Co-
operative Movement Under
One Roof.
A despatch from London says: A
:huge department store is to be built
in the heart of this city by the 'British
co-operative societies. Grocery, pro-
visions, drapery, furniture, hardware,
hairdressing, etc., are to be included
in the scope of the scheme, which is
intended, to make the store equal to
any in London..
Shopping facilities, however, form
only a portion of the co-operative in-
tentions, which aim at providing un-
der the same roof palatial headquar-
ters for the whole of the movement in
Great Britain. There Will bo included
a residential hotel, club, public hall to
seat 3,000, a smaller hall, restaurant,
• Co-operative Wholesale Society's bank,
wholesale salesroom and suites of of
floes for kindred organizations.
The British Labor party is to mil -
bine with the co-operators and merge
its war memorial project in theirs.
Thebuilding also will be the head-
quarters of the Labor 'party, with.
offices for the Trades Ueiion Congress
'Parliamentary Committee and similar
bodies, and there will be a'residertial
elub for members of the party, with
several other social eonveulences.
a 4
Hoover in Ring for President.
h despatch :from San Francisco
•• bays:—Herbert Hoover telegraphed
the Heaver Republican Club of Cali-
fornia that he would accept the Re-
publican nomination for President.
A despatch from London says:—
Great Britain has begun to confer
Imperial honors upon stenographers
and telephone operators performing
distinguished services during the war.
The latest list of honors• contains the
names of eight women typists created cording to freights outside.
"members of the Order o8' the British Buckwheat—$1..66 to $L70, accord -
Empire." Among them is Mrs. Alice Mg to freights outside.
Alison, Premier Lloyd George's confi- Rye—No. 3,51.83 to $1.85, accord-
utside.
dential secretary, who was the only ruga fre,ghtsobaflour—Government
1o—Gov ;
woman witness to the delivery of the: Manitoba flo r nGovern Hent stand-
ard, $13.26, Toronto.
peace terms to Germany at Versailles, J Ontario flour—Government stand -
The other girls honored are em- ard, $10.26 to $10.45, Montreal or To-
ployes of the Foreign, War, and Air ionto, in jute bags. Prompt shipment. Toronto, April 6.—Choice heavy
Ministries, including a Was Office Millfeed—Car lots, delivered- Mont- seers, $13.25 to $14; do, good, $12.50
telephone operator, Daisy Finch, ani real freight, bags included—Bran, per to $13; butchers' cattle, choice, 512.50
Lily Nash superintendent of the girl. tont $45; shorts, per ton, $52; good to 513; do, good $10.75 o 511• do,
messengers of the Air Aliatistr g food flour, $3.00 to„ $3,76.. 1 red., $10 to $10.60; do, come, $B.io to
g y I3aY—No. i, per ton, $2S o .$30; $g 2S; bulls, choioo, $10.25 to $11; do,
--....44----. mixers, per ton, 520 to 528, track. ' med' $9 to 59.50; do,rough, 57.50 to
Straw—Car lots, per ton, 516 to $8, med.,
cows, chSiee, $1.B.16 to
Unknown Soldier 517, track, Toronto.. 4 -$li; do, good, $9 to $9 50; do, com.,
Arrives in Canada e7 to $7.50; stockeree ei) to $11; feed-
. Geuntr Produce --Wholesale. ors $11 to 512.50; canners and
cut -
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,is estimated that 66,000,000 tons of
. 1 Cheese—New, large, 29 to 30c• tens, 55.25 to 56; milkers, good to 'opal per annum atmight be caved, a02
A despateln from St, John, says:— twins, 29x438 to 37e triplets, 301 cho;ee, 5100 to $160; do, cum. and dition• to other important advantages.
A pathetic case came to ligft when to 31e; Stilton, 33 to '84c; old, large, med.,:565 to 576; springers, 590 to
military headquarters staff here re- 81 to 32e; do, twins, 32 to 82i%. , $160; ambs, per ewe., $18 to $19; 's•— • .
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A Letter Fr om Loridea
' The outbreak of influenza, which the Icing at Manchester and Binning -
caused the postponement of the de- ham, hut owing to illness he was un-
parture of the Prince of Wales for able to attend either of these, and hie
Australia has, had the effect of pro- place was taken by Prince Henry, the
during an interesting coincidence, third son of the King and Queen, who
The date of his departure from Porte- thus made hie first appearance at a
mouth, was the nineteenth anniver- ceremony of this kind, He had the
eery of the sailing of his parents on distinction of having represented tbo
the Opbir for their memorable tour Ring at one of these local Investitures
of the Dominions. Their majesties before hie elder brothers, as neither
were then the Duke and Duchess of the Prince of Wales nee Prince Albeit
Cornwall, for the visit took place has as yet appeared at such a lune -
shortie' after the death of• Queen Vic- tion in place of his Majesty. Prince
Coria, and Ring Edward had not than. Henry was twenty on March 81. He
given the title of Prince of Wales to first of all went to school at St.
his son. The Duke opened the first Peter's Court, Broadstairs, then to
Parliament of the Commonwealth of Eon, and afterwards to the Royal Mlle,
Australia while he was away, and up- ary College, Sandhurst. In July last
on bis return the Prince, as he had he was gazetted a second lieutenant in
then become, delivered his famous the King's Royal Rifles, of which ttie
"Wake Up England" speech at the King is Coloaei-in-Chief•
Guildhall. * * 4 •
4 " * ° The Prime Minister has now been.
Suet' before the Prince sailed he in once continuously for fourteen
was formally summoned to the, Privy years. He was appointed Preident
Council by the King, thohgh in the of the Board of Trade in December,
case of a member of the Royal Family 1906, and has since been Cha.nrellor
no formal swearing-in ceremony takes of the Exchequer, Minister of Muni -
place. This step would have been tione•, Secretary for War, and Prime
taken some time ago, had it not been Minister.
for the war, and the Prince became a It is a record r•ithout parallel in
member of this Council at a rather modern times, Sir Robert Walpole, in
more advancedage than has been cus-� the first half of the eighteenth cen-
tomary in the case of the Sovereign's tory, was Prime Minister and Chan-
sons in the past, cellor of the Exchequer for to entY
* * o s one years, and Lard Hardwicen sat on
So far no woman has ever been ad- the Woolsack for nineteen seems.
minted to the Privy council, though
how long it will remain a masculine For some years Sir William �tutlrar•
,preserve is very problematical, since
in the event of a woman M.P. would pre.! land, the new Junior illiahoei of tine
tag a Cabinet Minister she pre- For
and Scottish Cueiltier \Vhip,
sumably he sworn of the Privy Coup has been Mr. Lloyd George's Parlia-
cll,
Irish Home Rule 1
passed Second Reading
A. despatch into London' says:—
The Lloyd George Coalition Govern-
ment scored its expected victory in
the House of Commons when the new
Irish Home Rule Bill passed its sec-
cond reading, which is tantamount to
it3 ,becoming law, by a vote of 348 to
94.
The opposition votes were confined
to the Nationalists, Laborites and ex -
Premier Asquith's few followers. The
division followed a speech by Premier
Lloyd George.
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'Central Power Stations.
The present coal consumption, for
Power purposes., in the 'United King-
dom ie a least 80,000,000 tons ,yearly.
By proper coordinated andcentral-
ized systems of power preelection and
distribution for the whole country, it
springlambs each $14 to $19; calves,
good to choice, $18 to $22,50; sheep,
$7 to $14• hogs fed and watered,
• do,weighed. off ears ,19• do,
Lob., $17.751 do, do, country points,
oeived a telegram from Ottawa noti- u r y, 5 And ,lie Got the One.
fying them"to meet on the arrival of
B tte —1resb lair choice 5 to
56at creamery prints, 67 to OSc.
Eggs—New at o c:'
resse • poultry—Spring chickens,
turkeys, 5to 60e; ducklings, 38 to Montreal, April 6.—Butcher steers,
the steamship Grampian an unknown Daarganuie 93 to 98c w A traveller, chose train hard sop-
Cenadian soldier and to provide escort re 1 'd, 65 t 6G $1875, g $ ' beckoned to aPell at a nsntalloboy Pen ov ithe plat -
•for hint to the military sanatorium at D d
40 t 42c; Dost rs 2Gc fowl 35e• 517.50.
form, and, giving trim ton, cents, told
Cobourg, Ont. This soldier has been the little fellow to bring him a bun,
detained and wandering about Eng- med., $ $ $ and buy one for. himself with the other
land for a year and a half. He was $6 00. but' 1 $7 to 9 butcher $ d nickel.
shell shocked and does not know his It y Sp ' g h' 1 90 Don ., $ , The boy soon returned, Calmly eat -
name or where he belongs. All marks 57.50 9 60 5 26 $6 6D
g � ' Mg a bun, he banded live cents to the
of identification are 'gone. He is be- 4Dc goose 26 to 23e
ing sent to Canada in the hopes that Beans—Canadian hand-picked, bus,, t y0 1 $15 t astonished ee. onlor,elef,bo remarking:
"There wasp only one loft, boss,"
The choicest corks conte from Al- something may hears to his identifiee-
gerie, 'which hate 2,600,000 acres of , tion. The GranlpiAn docked on April
sort forests. . 12. ,
40c; geese, 32 to 35c; squabs, doz.,
Live ou r - ring thickens,
to' 82c;owls 35 to ;40c; ducks, 35 to
;'
56,60 to 56.75• primes, $4 to 4.50;
Japans, $5.25 .to $5.60; California
Limes, 1614 to 171030; Madagascar
Limas, 111., 15e; , apan 'Limas, ib., 11c, weights, 51/3.
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"REG'LAR FELLERS"—By Genie Byrnes
11 to .1115; con, 0 to 510.50;
ter heifers rued. 9 to 10:50;
cows,med.,
to ; canners . to ;
cutters, $6.50 to $6.50; butcher bulls,
corn.,57.50o Goodveal, , o
516,25; med., 510 to 515. Ewes, 511
to 512.50. Lames, good, 516 to 517;
cont., 515 to $10. Sows, oil'-ctir
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Up to the present Ring George has
been able to say that he hasitrevelled
more miles throughout Ura world than lover forty, t,
lose within the next eighteen
any other living Royal personage, But I His constituency le Aegysleh o. endthie record His Majesty 00 certain to; becaustuse be is ti•neterried he was once
taken to task at'a meetiug there.
"Why," asked a w'Oman, "are yen. not
married?"
"I am 'waiting ter Bennie ,Vary oil
Argyll," promptly replied Sir 'anthem,
a rejoinder which effectually ruptured
the women's vain.,
mentary Secretary and rb;hi.•bend
man. t a fair compntatinn inn has
been'Worth 210.000 a year to the•
Prime Minister, althmteh he is only
since, extensive as the Ring's tours
have been, they will by that time
have been eclipsed'by the Prince of
Wales,T -
* * b *
The Prince, by the way, will be the
first member of our Royal family to
set foot on the West Indian Islands as
a formal visitor, and his wel0ome is,
in consequence, likely to be more than
ordinarily enthusiastic. As it may
now be, takes for granted that the
King's globe-trotting is at an end, and
since at least two other visits, fer the
Prince of Wales are projected, he Is
likely to set up a mileage record that
will remain hnbeaten formany a day.
* * 4h *
Prince Arthur of Connaught was to
have held an Investiture on behalf of
4 a e '4
Our Colonial soldiers ',TAM to ;10.W
played a cOneiclerable part in the
growth of superstitions beliefs in tele
country. One of the most persistent,
which apparently was believed in im•
pucitly by many Australian:% as well
as Canadians, is that the loss of a
silver coin should be followed by ilea
news of a legacy. To meet a white
donkey to the morning', the soldiers...
say, should be interpreted as 0350
sign that a handsome present In on
the way, ---131g Ben.
Slim Diet. e
He was a country -bred lad, and it
was hie iirst experience of city lodge
Ings. Naturally, he had a healthy a9 -
petite, and the meagre breakfast
served up to him by the lendlad3'
vexed hie rustic soul., As he gazed at
his miseroscopic ration one morning
the landlady entered, and rebuked
]rim for getting home late the night
Washing 'I trial Clay
-In the.olden.dive clay was regularly
mod for cleansing parporee
A pure white clay found at Pompeii
is said to have been nsee es soap by
the Romans:
in later yea.re a fOt'kxiil'emen, while
working es a -sheep farmer. in New
Zealand, noticed ,jltat the Maoris
before, necessitating her rising out of washed their blankets with a pnttiiu•
bed to let him in. tsar kind'00 clai'• Ile tried it, found it
a very effective cleanser, and pet a
prepared form on the market fns the
scouring of. wool. It preyed so sue.
messed that he tante to Europe and
took out patents fit it. He brought
ten tons of the clay, wheal le 1..t,nv n ,
"If I'm tae get nnony ntair break-
fasts like this," he retorted, "ye'11 na'
need tae thither visite' I'll manage to
crawl through the keyhole!"
ALL RttatiT-
MOM GIMME
"Tli8 RocK.
l'!
as kaolin clay, with Kinn tint tee ;r.:•
paraton was widely taken tin 1.! It •, t
Riding Metes: firms, 'elle n -.e
Vented tbo import of there clay.
Now that the clay eau be imemecd
Rea'ln, the msaufa0ttn•ers are prcptaa
ing it for ordinary household anal.
toilet trees, Seeloty ladies are rising
it perecually as well as. for their pet
dogs, because it does not irritate tho
skin 08 soap tnade from oauste a11cae
lis is apt to do, end because of rho
soft, silky condition it imparts to heir
send wool,
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An eagle gave a British ofrrhr ext
exciting exi1ee icons high nito've the
Pyrenees. 1t f oared. to meet hJs tom,
plane. 1't r .: moment a cellisd.ott that
might wre?: the irerepiaito 5eeti5ed to
ha Jmntiinon;., and bird and rtlaahl0.5
circled and manoeuvred Ulm two
filihters above rho •tvest0itt rebut; hilts
Cha eagle amid. not m(51150ain tls8
rifle pact and soli) divad, eifitemstad,
o to th0 1 &xbill'4,