The Clinton News Record, 1920-9-16, Page 3DISASTROUSA T UA S
• .NO.RTIERN ITALY..KILLS:IIIMPREDS
Mere Than 20,000 Persons R entered Homeless and Enor-
mous Damage Done to lVlany Towns and Villages,
A despatch from Rome eays:—Italy
is again suffering from an earthquake
disaster, the extent of which hie not
yet been measured. It ie known, how-
ever, that hundreds on people have
been killed and thousands Metered.
Many ''mall towns and villages have
been wrecked, and alt'heugh assistance
is being 'hurried from al) parts of the
,country to the afflicted area, there is
much ,suffering for want of food, medi-
cines and shelter for the people.
"Every earthquake disaster is for
Italy like a lost battle," sand ex -
Premier Luzzatti, after the Avezzano
catastrophe, and this is now repeated
in Tuscany. Though not so great, the
present diensttr recalls the distant
tragedy et Messina,
Barco, a town of '9,000 inhabitants;
was virtually destroyed by the earth-
quake of Tuesday; as was also For-
naci, nearby. 'Sixty-five dead have
already been identified. and laid out
' in the small picturesque cemetery,
which was thrown open by the
earthquake. Barco was the birthplace
of the poet, Giovanni Pascoli,
One of the gravest difficulties en-
countered lathe feet that the earth-
-quake ea used an enormous dteplace-
ment . of earth and rocks which ob-
structed the roads, destroyed the wires
and all other means of communication.
I First aid leas been improvised with
r the local means of establishing medi-
cal posts wherever possible.
Fivizzeno, where the , datnage to
buildings ws' especially heavy, was
a flourishing little town porched ell
the slopes of the Apennines, It pas -
Sassed an old town well and also the
ruaes of a castle.' The whole scene
is now one of ruin, with numbers of
the inhabitants buried under the de-
bets, Groans and er e's were heard en
all ,sides as rescuers worked foyerishly
to extricate the injured and the bodies
of the dead.
A latter despatch from Rome says:--
The Epoca estimates that the'dead in
the earthquake exceed 500, and the IN THE LIVE STOCK ARENA AT THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION.
homeless snore than :.'0 ((0. e "11 bin. Hood," first prize winner in the .two -year -did Ayrshire dies;
A despatch from Florence says:—owned by J, 13. Sltansel1, 'Straffordshire, Ontario.
Already some of those working braves — • —• ___
lyto rescue 'and help the sufferers
from the earthquake have been killed.
At TSiVizzano three men, including a
carabineer, were trying to move
masonry, from behindwhich they
heard the groans of •someone ' imprioon-
ed, when a new •earth shock occurred,
the wall falling on• all three and
crushing them in sight of the on-
lookers.
King Victor Emmanuel; acaompan-
ied .by Queen Helena. and Princess
Yolanda, passed through the . smaller
villages which .suffered disaster, from
the: earthquake. In these places, if
the.tragedy was en a smaller scale,
the -.inhabitants were afflicted perhaps
to a greater.degree because of the im-
possibility of pnovidieg for the outly-
ing districts promptly.
NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF
AUSTRALIA.
King George has appointed the Rt.
Hon. Lord Forster, P.C., G.C.M.G., to
be the " Governor-General and Com-
mander -in -Chief for the Common-
gen-
onimon-
- '- wealth of Australia.
1920 Harvest Just
Eves the World's Needs
A despatch from London says:—The
world's harvest prospects Show a total
yield just equal to requirements. The
wheat crops of Canada, the United
States, Spain, Italy and •Switzerland
are estimated at 95 per cent. of the
yield of 1919. Rye, barley and oats in
most countries greatly exceed -the av-
•erage. Potatoes in Canada, the Un-
ited States and Switzerland are esti-
mated at 184 per cent.
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Prince Will Spend
3 Weeks in Berrtauda
A despatch from London says:—The
Prince of Wales is due to reach Ber-
muda on September 14. He will leave
Bermuda on October 3, and arrives
at Portsmouth on Ocbober 11.
SPEED MARVELS AT -THE 'CAN-
ADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION.
The great gatherings at the Nation-
al Fair were treated to numerous
thrills ,by the dare -devil racing. of 1
motorists in high speed oars.,This
picture shows Louis Disbrow t the
Wheel in his specially built Essex with
which he won the Five Miles Inter-
national Sweepstakes, race ,value
$2,500.
40 GERMAN LINERS -
SOLD IN LONDON
Proceeds Will, Form Part of
German Indeninity.
A despatch from London says:—
Forty former German liners, totallin
nearly 400,000 tone, including the Im
perator, the ICaiserin end the Prin
Eriedrioh Wilhelm, were offered fo
by Lord Inchape, in behalf of th
Government.
Most of tho vessels have been man
aged by British companies in behal
of the Reparations Commission. They
have now been definitely alloted to
British ownership. The proceeds of
the sale will form a part of the Ger-
man indemnity.
Experts, who expect low prices, hi
view of the present failing rates, say
the Germane are bound to complain
that the British Ministry of Shipping
threw the liners on the market in, .a
slump period instead of during a boom
It is considered most likely that the
biggest liners will be bought by the
present operating companies, the Im-
perator and the Iiaaserin :becoming
Cunardera. Lord Inchape declined to
auction the vessels, declaring that the
invitation of bids would •brag better
,prices, .
g
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oe lands.
In England the most regular of
these butterfly immigrants is the
f
Butterflies Flee Drought.
Certain butterflies maintain them-
selves precariously in our rainy ell
mate,. writes a correspondent of The
London Times, and are periodically
reinforced by immigration from over
seas. 'Unlike the regular immigration
of birds in spring, these movements
of butterflies occur at no fixed tutor
.vale _ soma almost annually and
others after varying lapses of years
Though butterflies are emphatically
creatures of the sun, Pow specie will
endure great drought, and there seems
little doubt that the excursions of
their countless ..swarms, which oc-
casionally astonish the seafarer, aro
due to the oncoming of heat and
aridity in their country of origin,
which deprive them of moisture and
their prospective young of green food.
Even the drought of an English July
will sometimes drive the common blue
and small copper butterflies from the
toasted pastures and send them wan-
dering through shady gardens, with
their watered lawns, and the vast'
clouds of butterflies which are some-
times seen crossing the Mediterranean
from North Africa, or the English
Channel from the coast of Prance, are
exiles driven by thirst, seeking cooler
large and beautiful species known as
the painted lady. This has never been
discovered asleep in hiding in this
country during the winter, like the
peacock butterfly and other members
of its tribe; nor doeo it pass the win-
ter here in any other of the stages
of a butterfly's' transformation. There
is good reason to believe that it never
winters with us, and that the painted
ladies which usuaily appear in May
or June are inmigrents:from the Con-
' tinent. We see then basking on dry
footpaths, often returning to the same
spot again and again, or else feasting
on clover blossoms ripe for mowing.
In clue ootuse they lay their eggs on
thistles, and after a few weeks'
growth as caterpillars and a short
period of quiescence as chrysalides,
the butterflies of the new generation
are on the wing in August and Sep-
tember. The pink -flushed brown of
their marbled and brocaded wings is
often much richer than that of their
parents in June, for in them it was of-
ten bleached by travel and fleece
foreign sunshine to a light reddish tan.
Beautiful indeed are these native
painted' ladies, as they circle at the
autumnal scabious heads, or the dah-'
Lias ranked in the garden, and their
end is a mystery. If they seek some
dark hiding place, like the rest of
their tribe, it has never yet been' dis-
covered; all we know is that they do
not reappear in early spring, as their
kindred do.
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Eastern Cities and
Housing Accomarlodation
A despatch from Halifax says:—
The housing situation throughout the
Marithne Provinces is even more ser-
ious than elsewhere in Canada. Large
numbers of immigrants enter Canada
by the east every month; and if hous-
ing accomo Iation was sufficient,
large numbers of these would be re-
tained in the cities and towns• of east-
ern Canada. The industries are M need
of much more labor than is usually.
available; and it is felt that the
strongest steps.must be taken to se-
cure shelter for the newcomers. In
Halifax itself even many of the ex-
plosion victinte are without adequate
dwellings. Only some building per-
mits for clwellings were issued here
last month; and the present month's
building outlook is not bright.
In Sydney the situation is also
tense, and many families are hard put
to obtain any shelter at all. It is
feared that many people will be forced
to reside in hotels this winter as no
other accomodation Is available and
hotel accomodation itself is decidedly
scanty.
Death Calls
Baroness Macdonald
A despatch' from Landon says:—
Baroness Macdonald, of Earnscliffe,
widow of the great Canadian Premier,
Sir John Alexander Macdonald., died
on Sunday.
Susan. Agnea Macdonald wa.s cre-
ated a Bazoness in her own. right on
the death of her. distinguished hus-
band, in recognition of his public
services.. She was born in 1886, the
daughter •of the Haan. T. J. Bernard,
P.C., of Jamaica, B,W,I., and marnied
the Honorable Sir John Alexander
Macdonald, ex -Premier of Canada, in
867. The family home is at E•arns-
elilfe, near Ottawa.
No member of the Termitorial A
is liable to be sent •out of the count y
without the sanction of an Act of Par
amen;.
What Makes Fog.
London is famous for its fogs.
Why?
Because, for one reason, London is.
a city. Cities, make smoke, and smoke
makes fogs.
Doubtless. London fogs are much
thicker and more prevalent nowadays
than a century ego. The city is much
bigger, and there is more smoke.
A fog is formed by the condensation
of moisture upon smoke particles and
dust particles suspended in the atmos-
phere. The, more smoke and dust, the
greater the liability to the formation
of fog, each particle furnishing a nuc-
leus for moisture when conditions are
night.
Thus, as a city gains in population,
fogs become mere frequent.
Harvest in Prussia
Showers Big Decrease
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A despatch from London says:—
The Prussian harvest officially is es-
timated at considerably less Cann that
of last year, aocording to a 'wireless
despatch from Berlin.
Be sure the water is at boiling point
before putting in vegetables to be
cooked. Place the•eaucepan over the
hottest part of the stove so that it
may boil as quickly as possible, and
be careful that the belling does not
cease until the contents are thorough-
ly cooked and ready to be dished.
µms•
Utilization of Canadian Coal,
It is a considerable strain upon path -
11o' patience to ba subjected to severe
shortages of fuel from tura to time,
and, on the other hand, to read fre
quoit Abatements to the effect that
about one-sixth of the total 'coal' re-
sources of the world le possessed by
Canada. •
To promote a more general under-
standing of 'the nature of the numer-
ous • problems involved in making
greater use of our own fuel resources,
the Commission of Conservation car-
ried out a thorough survey of the
whole situation, and, in 1913, publish-
ed the results in a volume entitled
Conservation of Coal In Canada, com-
piled by W. T. Dick. Mr. Dick made
a very exhaustive study, covering the
following problems:—
(1) Improvement of Canadian min-
ing methods;
(2) Cheap power problem in the
Prairie Provinces;
(3) Domestic fuel problem of the
Prairie Provinces;
-(4) Utilization of low grade fuels;
(5) The coking 'of coal.
Perhaps the most illuminating fea-
ture of the report is the examination
of the extent to which the use of
Canadian coal is controlled by freight
rates.
Conservation of Coal in Canada is
one of a series of publications issued
by the Commission of Conservation
to afford the beat possible understand-
ing of Canada'' fuel and power re-
sources and problems. Copies are
freely available on application to the
Commission.
Aerial Flight
Across Canada
A despatch from Ottawa says:—The
first cross -Canada airplane and sea-
plane flight is expected to be mane
in the last week of 'September. A sea-
plane will fly from Halifax to Winni-
peg and from that city to Vancouver.
The journey will be completed by air-
planes, flying in relays. The seaplane
will be piloted by Colonel Leckie, and
the names of three of the airplane
pilots who will take part in the flight
have been announced. They are Cap-
tain G. A. Thompson, of Winnipeg;
Captain J. B. Home -Hay; Captain D.
C. Carruthers, of Kingston, Ontario.
All three are flyers with excellent re-
cords overseas. They have been pro-
vlsr,onally selected for the',trip and it
is likely that three or four other
names will be announced in the course
of a few days. There will also be
another .seaplane pilot named to act
as reserve pilot on the first leg of the
journey.
Australian Wheat Crop
Markets of the : World'
Wholesale Grain..
Toronto, Sept, 141lfpnitoba wheat
No,. 1 Northern, $282%; No, 2
Northern, $2.79%; No, 3 Northern,
$275%; No, 4 wheat, $2.581/4, in store
Fort Willison.
Man. oats—No, 2 CW, 35%e; No,
3 CW, 843`so; extra No, 1 feed, 848% a;
No. 1 feed, 82%e' No, 2 feed, 85%c
in store Fort William.
Nan. barley—No. 8 CW, $1,28%
No. 4 CW, $1.20,4; rejected, $1.121/'
teed, $1;12, in 'store Fort William,
American corn.. -No, 8 yellow, $2;
nominal, track, Toronto, prompt ship
meat.
Ontario oats—No. 3 white, 75 to 80c.
Ontario wheat—No, 2 Winter, per
ear lot, $2,30 to $2,40, shipping paints,
aeeording to freights.
Peas—No, 2, nominal:
Bhrley—$1.30 to $1.35, according to
freights outside.
Buckwheat—No, 2, tdominOl.
Rye—No, 3, $1.75, nominal, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Manitoba flour—$13,25, new crop.
Ontario fio'ir—$10 40 to $10.50, bulk
sea -board.
Millfeed—Oar lots, delivered Mont-
real frei•ghte, bags included: Bran,per
ton, $52; shorts, per ton, $61; good
feed flour, $8.75,
Country Produce—Wholesale
Cheese—New, large, 28% to 29c;
twins, 29 to 29%c; triplets, 29% to
30c; old, large, 83 to 34e' do, twins,
381 to 34%c; Stiltons, old, 85 to 36e;
new, 33 to 34e,.
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to
50c• eroamery°prints, 60 to 530.
Margarine -35 to 39c.
Eggs—No. 1, 59 to 60e; selects, 65
to 66c..
Beans—Canadian, hand pinked, bus.,
$4.75; prince, $3.25 to $3.60; Japans,
10 to 110; Lianas, Madagascar, 15c.
Maple products—Syrup, per imp.
ga3:, $3.40 to $3.50; .per 5 ,imp. gals.,
$8.25 to $3.40. Maple sugar, lb., 27
to 30c.
Honey—Wholesalers are now offer-
ing the following prices to farmers:
23 to 25c per lb. for 30 and 60 Ib. pails;
2831 to 25%c for 10-1b. pails, and 24
to 25c per lb. for 5 and 23% lb. pails;
$7.50 case, 16 sections case.
Provisions—Wholesale.
Smoked meats—Hams, med„ 47 to
60e; heavy, 40 to 42e; cooked, 64 to
68c; rolls, 34 to 3Gc; cottage rolls, 39
to 41c; breakfast bacon, 50 to 62e;
backs, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless, 58
to 64e.
Curedmeats—Long clear bacon, 27
to 28c; cleat•. bellies, 26 to 27c.
Lard—Pure tierces, 27 to 28c; tubs,
283:' to 29c; pails, 29 to 291/40; prints,
29% to 30c. Compound tierces, 2135
to 223cae; tubs, 22 to 230; pails, 281,
to 24e; prints, 2635 to 27c.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, Sept. 14.—Oats, No. 2 C
W, $1.06; No. 3 CW, $1.04. Flour, new
standard grade, $14.25. Rolled oat's,
bag 90 lbs., $5.25 no $5.40. Bran,
$62.25. Shorts, $57.25. Hay, No. 2,
per ton, car lots, $30. Cheese, finest
easterns, 26c. Butter, choicest areaan-
ery, 61 to He. Eggs, fresh, 66c,
DEADLOCK IN NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN
PARLIAMENT AND COAL MINERS
A despatch from London says; -.---The
coal nsinemp' Executive conferred on
Thursday with Sir Robert Holme at
the Board of Trade and declined to ac-
cept any of the .proposal•' put forward
by the Government,
1 They refused to submit' their claim
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Sept. 14.—Choice heavy
steers, $14.25 to $14.50; .good heavy
steers, $13.50 to $13.75; butchers' cat-
tle, choice, $18.25 to $13.50; do, good,
$12 to $12.50; do, med., $10 to $11;
do, com., $7.50 to $9; bulls, choice, $10
to 10.75; do, good, $9 to $9.25; do,
rough, $6 to $8; butchers' cows, choice,
$10,25 to $11.25; do, go5i, $9 to $9.75;
de, nem., $6.25 to $7.25; stockers, $7.50
to $9.50;; feeders, $$10.25 to $11; can-
ners and cutters, $4.50 to $6.50; milk-
ers, good to choice, $100 to $165; do,
eons. and med., $65 to $75; lambs,
yearling, $8,75 to $9.50; do, spring,
$13 to $13.50; calves,good• to choice,
17 to $19; sheep, $3 to $7,60• hogs,
fed and watered, $21; do, weighed off
cars, $21.25; do, f.o.b., $20; do, do,
country points, $19.75.
Montreal, Sept. 14.—Butcher steers,
good, $11 to $12; med, $9,50 to $11;
con., $7.50 to $9.50; butcher heifers,
choice, $10.50 to $12; med,, $5.50 to
$10; common, $5.60 to $8; butcher
COWS, choice, e9 to $10; med., $5.50 to
$8.50; canners, $3 to $4; cutters, $4
o $5; butcher bulls, good, coin„ $4.50
to $6. Good veal, $13 to $15, med.,
10 to $13; grass, $6,50 to $8. Ewes,
G to $7.50; 1•embs,, good, $12.50; coin.,
$10 to $12. Hogs, off car weights,
erects, $20.75 to $21; sows, $15.76 to
16,75.
England to Erect
Statues to Heroes
Is 167,000,000 Bushels
A despatch from London says:—The
Australian Wheat Board estimates the
crop at 167,000,000 bushels. The record s
price of ten shillings a bushel is ex- $
pectad by the farmers.
BARONESSMMACDONALD DEAD IN
ENGLAND.
Widow of tite mat Canadian Pre-
mier, Sir John Alexander Macdonald,
whose death in England has ,been an-
nounced, Sloe was created a Baroness
by Queen Victoria, but the title dies
with her, as she leaves no male heir.
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More modern kings and queens in
statuary lines are now in demand for
decorations of London squares and
streets, especially people known to the
Present generation, says a London
Dispatch. Therefore the Office of
Works has decided that various
statues of Icings of bygone days must
be removed to give place to new.
King George III. will leave his ped-
estal at the entrance to Pall Mall and
King William IV, will be deposed from
his wonted throne in the City. Lord
Napier leaves Wateelocr piece and pro-
bably will be succeeded by Ring Ed-
ward VII. Lord Napier goes ' to
Trefalgar Square. Sir Rowland Hill
will be removed from, behind the Royal
Exchange. -
New,statues of heroes of this war to
be erected are those of Lords Roberts
and Kitchener eomeevliere near the
War Office and rho Horse Guards
Parade, and Lord rasher; near the Ad-
miralty.
The waxed, paper in which butter
MI lard are wrapped is flee for lin-
ing cake pane, being all greased, thus
saving both time and expense,
♦NS•i.fi$� eY
,for dnoraased wages to the Statutory
Industrial Court; they resfte ed to meet September 27.
the -easel mine .owners to dieeoas wagd
wnomoaliea, and, more important then
all, they insieted.ou their right to d40..
tate to the Ministry and Parliament
as to the disposition of the profit made
from the export 'of •coal,'
The.result was a eontplete deadlock,
and •rho country now has nothing in
eight to prevent the strike beginning
Fire Prevention Day Saturday,
October 9.
Tho Governor-General has, by pro-
clamation, set aside Saturday, October
9, as a day on rich to specially em-
phasize the great loss which Cana-
dians, individually and collectively,
are sustaining through destruction by
hire of both natural and created re-
sources.
At as time of high building costs
and acute scarcity of material, we are
burning buildings at a criminal rate,
Our flee loss, of last year, viz„ $23,-
500,000,
23;500,000, or approximately $2,90 per
capita, was the highest per capita in
the world,
Not only is this a complete lose of
national wealth, but its replacement
creates increased competition for
available building supplies, thus en-
hancing prices for new building, How
can we hope to overcome the housing
shortage when, in Ontario alone, last
year 5,804 dwellings were damaged
or destroyed, causing a lose of $1,753,-
883?
1,753;883? There were aloe 744 frame barns
destroyed, at a loss of $1,189,906, of
which $557,786 was•uninsured.
Lightning damaged or destroyed
1,102 buildings in Ontario, involving a
lose of $506,885, of which $212,778 was
not covered by insurance. None of
these farm buildings were equipped
with lightning rods, whereas but two
buildings protected by lightning rods
were damaged, and these to the
amount of $22 only.
Matches were again responsible for
the' largest number of known fires,
1,148 in Ontario originating there-
from, Practically every fire due to
matches is the result of carelessness.
Public education and a recognition
of personal responsibility are essen-
tial to a reduction of the fire waste.
It Is particularly essential to interest
the younger generation, through the
Canadian teachers, in the efforts being
made towards a reduction of the fire
lose.
Fire Prevention Day will give a
splendid opportunity for brnging this
subject to the attention of pupils and
should produce good results.
HEADS CANADIAN BATTLE-
FIELDS COMMISSION.
General Mewburn, former Minister
of Militia, who is named chairman of
the new body appointed by the Gov-
ernment to establish nemor:als on the
fields of France and Flanders.
Courageous Nurses
Took Serum Tests
Another untold story of war hero-
ism hes just come to light through
publication of a report on the preven-
tion of lockjaw during the war issued
by the Research Defence Society, says
a London despatch. The report tells
how women Prean the Royal Free Hoe-
pital .submitted to experiments with
anti -tetanus serum that soldiers might
benefit.
About a dozen of these young wo-
men were inoculated with the serum.
Weekly blood tests were made for the
presence of the anti -tonin. When the
efficiency 'of the serum was proved,
the death rate from lockjaw became
one in 20,000, whereas previously
had been nine in 1,000 wounded men.
Major Gene. 'Sir David Brute said that
but for the injections the number of
cases' would have been ten or twelve
times as great.
Anti -tetanus serum was used not
only by the British but by the Am-
erican and all other allied armies.
Suttee, the practice of a widow
sncrifncing herself on her husband's
funeral pyre, was made illegal in Bri-
tish India in 1829.
By Jack Rabbit
MUST OUR TIBER
INDUSTRIES CLOSE ?
A VITAL QUESTION FOR
EVERY CANADIAN.
Unless Forestry is Practised,
They Cannot Possibly be
Permanently Established.
The effect of progressive forest ex
planation, without provision for sue,.
ceeding crops, is being felt in parte
of the United States. At a hearing
before the House Committee an For-
eign Affairs in Washington, W. D. Has-
kell, of the International Paper, Com-
pany, made the statement that "the
Underwood Resolution, which pro-
vides for a commie•sion to negotiate
for the removal of existing export re-
strIctions an pulpwood cut on the
Crowe lands of Ontario, Quebec ,and
New Brunswick, is the only measure
yet presented to Congress which con-
tains any assurance of a sufficient
quantity of pulpwood to perpetuate the
present production of our paper mills,
to justify the installation of new mas
chines, and to save the great pulp and
paper industry of the United States."
Result of Wrong Method.
This is not an accurate statement of
the situation. The facts are: (1)
The labor and manufacturing cost of
converting pulpwood into pulp is Very
much less than the cost of converting
pulp into paper. (2) The amount of
water -power required to manufacture
pulp is relatively high and, from an
economic point of view, the benefit to
the community would be increased if
such power were used for other pur-
poses. Further, it is notorious that, in
the Northeastern States, this power
is required for more important Indus-
tries anti its release would antellarate
the present coal shortage. (d) Tho
paper mills of the Northeastern states
can purchase pulp from Eastern Ca-
nada, the Pacific states, British Colum-
bia or Alaska and with anything like
present prices, can conduct their
operations at a profit, Col. Haskell's
statement, however, . affords further
evidence of the serious• extent to
which the forests of the Eastern states.
have been depleted.
A recent report of the Louisiana De-
partment of Conservation shows that
similar conditions' exist in that state
in regard to lumber, and points out
that Louisiana should and must prate
Use forestry, in order that she may not
be obliged to nay $15 or $20 per thou-
sand feet for freight on lumber brought
from the Pacific coast twenty years
from now, and because her vast uu-
productive areas of cut -over lands• are
a hoary drag upon her prosperity,
A Warning to Canada.
With these examples of the disas-
trous effects of such methods in the
United States, Canadians should not
wait until an actual shortage over-
takes us before we learn the lesson
so plainly demonstrated,
Re-creating a forest is slow and ax -
pensive, but its productivity can be
malntafnad by comparatively inexpen-
sive means. These consist of, first,
protection from fine and, second, pro-
per methods, of cutting,
No single system of cutting is an,
plicabla to all condltlons, any more
than the growing of all kinds of farm
crops, and technical knowledge of the
requirements of the different species•
is necessary. Under some clecum-
stances, more complete utilization of
the mature timber will result In satis-
factory reproduction. In others, seed
trees must., be left in order to secure
the kind of forest desired.
The increasing quantities of Bri-
tish Columbia lumber being sold in
Eastern Canada is evidence of the al-
ready growing soaroity of available
timber in the East, and, if the im-
mense pulp and paper industry which
hes grown up in the last decade is to
be perntauont, steps must be taken
at once to make provision for future
crops instead of leaving cut -over lands
as barren wastes.
Capt, Fryatt's Ship
Sold at Auction
The steamship Brussels, Capt, Fr'y-
ett's ship, has been so`l•d at auction at
the Baltic Shipping Exchange in Lon-
don for £3,100, says a London des-
patch. The purchaser was T. 13. Stott
of the firm of T. 13, Stott & Co., ship
owners of Liverpool. The vessel was
sold as she lay, The purchaser said
he had not decided what he would do
with leer,
ltlany chip owners attended the sale,
but bidding for the historic ship was
not spirited. R. G. Ke11oc, head of the
Arm of Kellog & Co„ conducted the
sale, and in his oall for -bide appealed
to the sentiments rather than to the
commercial feeling of the bidders. The
first bid was £$,004 and was on :behalf
of David Petrie of, X,osdon and Ant•
Weill After seeking by the euet40_210.
48r the bid mute tatted £1,06 t.
,tott and with no other bid feat "
lr I'ht2l i er,
nor sang
ristr 'tib t. {ngi altl,i e
rity a mill Aitizt
hived i�rott� g Ileig gti r ayy iritfti_,
that a porton of tb4 Bbtiidselli gisott.
ba given to them for incorporations h'i
a memorial to Capt. b"r*att which Bel.
glum was erecting in Zeebrugge,
Tito ^Covermi neht, it was annauneplb
will apply the rand' derived from 04
Salo of the Brussels to sowolturitiati
purpose connected with Orta, I'ryat'i'g` •
nano.