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;Markets of the World ANitAlINT RESJ
23 BILLION MARKS
lereadr WaS
lb1'onto May 20, --,..ea nieo'ba
Wlieet---1170 1. North tit, $2.24%• No,
'2 Northern,, 42.8114; No, 3 Northern,
$2.17%; No. '4 wheat, $2.11%, in store
.fort Wilburn,
Manitoba oats—No 2 CW, 74adic;
Na 8 OW, 71%c; °ett'a No, 1 feed,
71%e; No. 1 feed, 68%e; No, 2 feed,
�r,
lelunitoba burley. --•No, 8 CW,
$110%t; No. 4 CW, $1,08%; lejeet'ed,
$$tdte; feed, 9844c,
Amerfenn corn—Nominal,
Oeterio oats- No 3 white, 74
'76c accosting to freights outside
Ontario wbeitt—No, 1 winter,
cat lot, $2.14 to $2.20; No. 2 do,,
to f2.19; N. 3 do, $2,07 to $2,
feel), shipping points, according
freights.
Ontario wheat -•-No. 1 spring;, $2
4o $2.17; No. 2 do, $2.06 to $214;
•3 do, $2.02 to $2.10, f.o.b. shippr
points, according to freights.
Peas•• --No. 2, $205, nominal,.
•'cordiio to freights outside.
Barley—Malting, 11,10 to $1.
to heavy war, burdens bad been quieted
per by a•setlraoee too eontidently made in
2.11 ome quarteos, perhaps, that Germany
10, might end can pay, have teen pain-
to fully: awakened to realities 'by the
financial conditions of the peace
09 treaty, and by the statement of the
No. new German Finance 1Veinister, Herr
ttg Durnburg, ;Just published in the
Ae I(olnisob0 Ze}ting.
"The Ceermanpublic debt, aecorcl
16, ing to Here Durnburg, totalled 161,-
000,000,000 marks on January 31,
1918, and had increased to 185,000,-
000,000 !narks on April 30 last, co-
ne Sequent upon ferthe)! issues of Treas-
ury. bills in the beginning of the
ndyears. ewe no -citing debt and (issue
of bank notes continues to grow with-
out
n- interruption.
.tiers.
re 1 "Herr Durnburg alleges that the
od' annual \burden laid on the shoulders
of German taxpayers from this•debt
Ira will amount to 17,500,000,000 marks.
°- ;Blit this does not represent the total
er charges that the public debt will re-
quire from the taxpayers of the Em-
pire. There must be added interest
on the special debts of the several
lee eral states and town hips which
of 6,000,-
Fr:enoll Confidence io Efleal F1
Ability to' F,Ay Appears
l tfOiladed,
.4 despatch from London saysi
The correspondent of the Daily 'Tele-
graph do Paris wires his paper under.
date of Wednesday; "Those here
whose apprehetlsion of grave finan-
cial difficulties In Prance from the
Buckwheat—No. 2, nominal,
Rye—No. 2 nominal,' ,
Manitoba flour—Government sta
eland, $11, Toronto.
Ontario flour—Government .ata
dare,..$1.1, in jute .hags, Toronto n
•el osteal, prompt •shipment.
Millfeed— Car lots delivered, Mo
steal freights, baps included.' Bra
$42 per ton; shorts $44 per ton; go
'fed flour, $2.05 to 12.85 per bag.
Hay--nio. 1, 130 to $33 per to
mixed, .$20 to' 424 pee ton, track T
ronto.
Straw—Oar lots,' $10 to $1'1 p
ton.
Country Produce—Wholesale.
Butter—Dairy, tubs and rolls,
to 40c•; prints, 40 to 42e, ' Creams
fresh made solids, 60 to 61.e; prim
.51 to 52r.
Eggs—New laid, 45 to 46e.
Dressed poultry --Chickens, 80 to
'34c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 30 to' 33c;
.ducklings, 82e; turkeys, 40 to 45c;
.squabs, doz.,' $6.
Live poultry—Roosters, 25c; fowl,
'28 to 33c; ducklings, lb., 86c; took-
-•eys, 35e; chickens, 27 to 30c.
VTholesaeers are selling to the e -
•tail trade at the following prices:
Cheese—New, large, 30 to 30%c;
•twins, 30% to 31c; triplets 81 to
:314o; Stilton, 31 to 3leec.
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice., 48 to
-500; creamery, edicts, 64 to 55c;
prints, 55 to 56e.
Margarine -84 to 87c.
Eggs—New laid, 49 to 50c; new
'laid, in cartons, 51 to 52c.
$7 needs annually another su -
eye, .000,000 marks to cover itTherefore,
the grand total that the Empire will
have to pay in interest each year
stands at over 23,000,000,000 marks."
GENERAL STRIKE
IN WINNIPEG
City Without Bread—All Efforts
at Settlement Have Failed.
. A despatch from Winnipeg, Man,,
says:—Winnipeg is in the throes of
a general ,industrial upheaval. In
spite of the energetic efforts made by
Dressed Poultry --Chickens, 40 to Premier T. C. Norris and Mayor
.45c; spring chickens, '75 to 80a; roes- Charles F. Gray, in spite of numer-
tens, 28 to 30c; fowl, 37 to 38c; tuck- ous meetings at which workers and
-oy, 45 to 50c; du.ckiings;ab., 85 to employers attempted to come to a
'38c; squabs, doz., $7; geese. 28 to 30e. basis of understanding, the threat of
Live poultry—Spring chickens, 60 labor has been carried into effect.
t0 0'''c' As a last resort' Ottawa was appealed
Potatoes•—Ontario,- f.o.b. track To- to by the Mayor. Senator Robertson,
ronto, car lots, $1.70; on track out-
side, $1.55 to $1.00.
Beans—Cane hand-picked, bushel,
84.25 to $4.60: primes, 13 to $S.26;
Imported band -picked, Burma or In-
dian, $3.25; Lintas, 12c.
Honey—Extracted clover, 5 Ib. tins, ers refused to respect the governing
'25 to 26c Ib.; 10 lb, tins, 24% to 25c; powers of their organizations," the
60 Ib, tine, 24 to 26c; buckwheat, 60 Government. could do nothing.
lb. tins, 19 to 20e. Comb: 16 oz., E. He
34.50 to $5 doz.; 10 oz., $3.50 to $4 added that it was regrettable that
doz, the metal trade employers ;would not
Maple products—Svrnu, per imper- meet their employes' chosen repre-
• ial f"allbn; 82,45 to $2.50; per 5 un- sentatives for the purpose of discus -
pert l gallons, $2.35 to $2.40; sugar, sion.
]b., 27e. Winnipeg is now 'breadless. Bakers
Provision—Wholesale. promptly at 11 o'clock a.m. on Thurs-
Smoked meats—Hams, medal/xi, 89 day. Drivers also quit work.
to 41c; do, heavy, 83 to 84c; cooked, The Webb pressmen have decided
54 to 5&c; rolls. 33 to 84c; breakfast to remain at work, and this will
bacon, 44 to 48c; backs, piabi , 47 to mean that all the local newspapers
48c; boneless, 52 to 55c.
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 29
to 10e; clear bellies, 28 to 29c.
Lara --Pure, tierces, 33t%s to. 84c;
tubs, 34 to 34%c; pail's 34,A. to 343tc;
prints, 35 to 35%c; Compound,
tierces, 273± to 280; tubs, 28ee to 29c;
pails, 28ee to 290; prints, 29 to 29•%c.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, May 20—Oats, extra No.
1 feed, 84c. Flour—New -standard
Minister of Labor, can do nothing.
He wired in reply to the message
sent last night by Mayor Gray stat-
ing that when conciliation and arbi-
tration were declined, "and the work-
in most of the bake shops left work
will continue publication.
Free automobile rides for pedes-
trians is again the order in the city
streets. The question of the city's
granting the jitneys' permits to op-
erate is being considered.
Germany Must Mateo Good
10,000,000 Tons in Ships
grade spring wheat, $11 to $11.1.0. A despatch from London says:—
Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., $3.90 to $4. The Ministry of Shipping announces
Bran—$43 to $44. Shorts—$45 to the number"and tonnage of allied
346. Hay—No. 2, - per ton, car lots, merchantmen lost through enemy ac -
$37 to $38. Clieese, finest Easterns, tion, as folio -wee
:2804:o, Butter, choicest creamery, 55 Britain, 2,197; tonnage, 7,638,000.
to .56e. Eregs fresh, 52e; do, selected, Prance, 238tonnage—'742
tonnage, 697,000.
ll 54c; do, No. 2 ,stock, 50u.. Potatoes Italy, 230; tonnae742,000,
per bag, car lots, e2 to $2.10. Dressed
}logs abattoir killed, $30.50 to $81. Japan, 29; tonnage, 120,000.
Lard, pure, wood pals, 20 lbs. net, United States, 80; tonnage, 341,-
94c, 000,,
In addition to the foregoing, twen-
Live Stock Markets. ty British vessels, tonnage 95,000,
were lost on Admiralty service.
Toronto. ala''y 20,—Good heavy One of the provisions of the Peace
steers, $14.50 to $15; butchers' steers, Treaty calls for a "ton for ton" re -
814 to ,$14.25; butchers' cattle, choice,
818.50 to $14; do, good, $13 to $13.50; Placement of Entente merchantmen
do, medium, $12 to 112,50; do, com, sunk by submarines, This means
$10,25 to $10.76; bulls, choice, $11.75 that ,by
will have to supply the
to $12.50; do, medium, $10,50 to $11; allies with IJ,538,000 tons.
do, rough, $8 to $8,50; butchers' cows, --
$12 to $13; do, good, $10,50 to $1:1.50; FINALLY DROPPED INTO SEA
do, medium, $9.25 to $10; do, com,, 85 MILES OFF THE SHORE
88 to ,$8.50 stackers, $8:75 to $12;
feeders, $12 to $i.3.50 canners and A despatch from St. John's, Nfld.,
nutters, $5 to $6.75; milkers, good to says: -The United States navy diaf-
choice, $90 to • $150; do, com, and gable C,-5, which escaped from its
feed., $65 to $76•; springers,•. $00 to p
Floorin s here on Thursday, dropped
$160; light.ewes, $13 to $15; yearl-
Floorings
. Ings. $12 to $14,; choice.lambs, $18.50 tato the sea about 85 miles off trio; a,
to $20; spring'lambs, $12 to $15; according to it radio message receive
calves, good to choice, $14 to $16; ed by the cruiser Chicago from an
unidentified Beitish steamship. The
steamship said it was standing by the
dirigible. The destroyer Edwards,
which went out, in pursuit of the
Blimp after it was"hiewn to sea, was
notified by wireless of its position
and started at once to salvage the
airship. •
hogs, fed and watered, $21,26; do,
weighed off cars, $2.1.50; do, .o.b.,
$20,25.
Montreal, May 20—Choice select
hogs off cars $21 to $21.30 per cwt.
Melee steers, $14 to $16,50; inferior
ti glrality, $9. Choice butcher cattle,
810 to_. $12; poorer grades, $8.50 to
810, 111i11c-fed calves, $G to $10.
MR. PERRY SCOPE IS ( r.1p- C,
T'o SI°El THE EVENIINC, •SEE 1
THAT (Ole TREAT HIM NICEL`!• �3ulit
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SOME SHARP -SHOOTING REQUIRED.
Is there any way to stop this flight? How many communities are making an effort to check this stampede
of money THAT PLIES OUT of their home town. What is OUR community doing? What would all this money
mean to YOU' and ME, if it wore spent with our own business men? The picture Is no DREAM OF FANCY, Tho
artist has simply 'brought HOME to us the hard facts. Let us face them as they are, Tho group of men with
rifles provides the right ACTION for US. Let us organize to stop this flight. Let each one of us REMEMBER:
That HOMI7 values increase in proportion as we spend our money at HOME, That HOME values disappear
with every dollar sent away.
CENENARY OF
QUEEN VICTORIA
•
BORfN AT KENSINGTON PALACE,
LONDON, MAV 24, 1819.
Some of the, Characteristics Which
Made Iter One of Britain's Most
Successfai' Monarchs.
In celebrating "the Queen's' Birth-
day" on Saturday, "the 24th of May,"
Canadians will also be celebrating the
centenary of the birth of the late
Queen Victoria.
Boras on the 24th of May, 1310—in
England instead of Germany—be-
cause her parents purposely returned
from their Gorman sojourn in time to
make her a native of the country
which they foresaw she might one day
play a leading part in, she lost her
father, the Duke of Rent, before she
was a year old, and was thenceforth
under the care of her careful German
mother, and' her, shrewd uncle, Prince
Leopold, who, even after becoming
Ring of the Belgians, continued to
write her helpful letters; the answers
to which are not the least interest-
ing part of her voluminous published
correspondence.
-
A Queen atEighteen.,
Her mother and the eccentric old
monarch, William IV., quareled con-
tinually, but tbe•old man seems rather
to have liked his youthful heiress ap-
parent. At his death, only a short
time after she had attained her ma-
jority, the 18 -year-old girl became
queen of the mightiest nation on the
globe. The student o0 her life is
struck by the quiet composure with
which the child shouldered the bur-
den, but he is more impressed still, as
he reads on, by the tact and wisdom
with which the carried it; from start
to finish. Endowed with no apparent-
ly remarkable intellectual gifts, she
nevertheless proved one of the most
successful monarchs of history. Her
record shows pretty conclusively that
qualities of heart are as useful in high
planes as qualities of head,
Lord Melborne, the Prime Minister
of those early days, violent in temper
and rough in speech, but discreet and
tactful withal, deserves a great deal
ef_the credit for her first sueeesses,
Site was very much in lova with her
young 'husband, Prince Albert, of
Saxe•Cobnrg, and insister] again and
again that his title of Prince Consort
be change$ to Ring Consort, and that,
as was the case with William and
lelAry, he be empowered to ruio jointly
with her. Her careful old counsellor
evaded the question again and again,
but driven at last to a frank expres-
sion of conviction, he is saki to have
burst out; "Doos your Majesty real-
ize what you are running the o
risk f
AMERICAN CASUALTIES
TOTALLED OVER 286,000
• A despatch - from `Washington
saysc—Revised figures made public
on Thursday by the War Department
showed that the total casualties of
the American Expeditionary Forces
during the war was 286,044, Battle
doing? If you once got the English deaths numbered 48,94e, and the to -
people info the way of making _icings tal of wounded was placed ut 237,135,
you would get them into the WaY of with the explanation that this Tepee -
unmaking them." " • •
rented a duplication of about 7,000
Her Prime Ministers. by reason o£ the fact that many men
After Lord Melbourne the Queen bad were wounded more than once.
Disraeli and Gladstone in turn as
Prime Minister and tutor•colleague, so AUSTRALIA LED DOMINIONS
to speak. She and Gladstone never IN EXPENDITURE ON WAR
agreed, and it was perhaps partly the
fact that he was so rigidly High A despatch from London says:—
Church which set her against the In the House of Commons, rep]ying
Anglican ritualists: She suffered a to Sir 3, Norton Griffiths, Col. Arn-
greet deal in conference with him. ery, Under-Secretary for the Colonial
"He talks to me," she complained, "as Office, stated that approximate war
If I were a public meeting," Yet she' expend,itur.es in the Colonies were:
and Gladstone were responsible for a{ Canada $1,126,000,000
great deal of fine and wholesome ; Australia ' 1,455,000,000
activity, Disraeli won her heart corn- New Zealand 377,850,000
pleteiy from the first. The reason 1 South Africa 115,000,000
may or may not be contained he a con- `Newfoundland ,10,000,000
fldential hint which the Jewish status-
nian once dropped to Matthew Arnold: Denikino Frustrates Plan
"Everyone likes flattery, and when it To Bisect_His Inssian Army
001008 to royalty you should lay. It on I
t
with a " A despatch from London says:—
A contemporary explained her General Denikine, commander of the
nearly constant popularity, which anti -Bolshevik forces, has frustrated
made her useful labors easier, by her '
institnctivtiby a counter -offensive the Bolshevik
e appreciaon of tl •i ht
0e n g plan to bisect hes army by capturing
Shething t0 do and say when in public. Rostov -on -fie -Don, .at the head of the
front was `never Ourd self-control a apace in Sea of Azov. The Bolshevik have
of her," Her mlrbl. in die- been compelled to move 'their posi-
flmet htn male was War theeaQle• ition to the northward.
In, the Crinreau Queen was
as devoted aa any nurse or hospitalwThe Reward of Politeness.
they in the the Her fplayed'! They were entertaining the minister
at the tints of' the Trent affair played! at dinner, and after dessert little
'its part in preventing war with the Johnny said:
United States, Inclined perhaps "Won't you take another pion of
rather toward Presbyterianism than 1p1"
towards the' Church of England, of i laughed. "Wall, John -
showed
she was the nominal head, site ' n The ministernis, "since you are el polite,
no intolerance toward Catho- I will have ,a"since"
tic, Protestant or Jew. She had no :
groat interest in sects, but a deeply! "Good!" said Johnny, "Now, .ma,
religious nature—so deeply religious remember your promise. You said if
that one matter -of -Pact French his -it was necessary to mut into the second
torten complains a little of her trend , pie i could have another piece!
toward mysticism. She swayed her
people hr- ''use she loved them, "How
]rind they are to mei" she was fond
of saying.
The greater longevity of the typi- "I say, Pat, what a lot of hills yon
eat Briton as compared with almost have in Ireland,"
any other race is due to the fact that "Shure we havo, sir," said Pat, "We
he loves sports.—Prot. 7J. H. Stall had so much land h°re in Ireland that
ing.
A Pat Reply.
An Englishman, for the first time
visiting Ireland, was out delving one
day with Pat, when he remarked to
him:
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NOTH.5 OF INT1REST rROMI flap,
I1:ANKS AND BIIAT3,
What is Going On in the Iligideride
/.1111 Lowlands 01 Auld
Scotia..
=Rare Medals have been awarded'
to two Hawick soldiers, Corporal Jelin
Montgomery and Signaller W, G.
Smith,
Tho Military Cross bas been, award-
ed to Rev, Duncan Blair, minister of
the Prestonkirk U,]3', Church, for gal-
lantry acid devotion to fluty,
A shrine of teakwood taken from
H.M.S. ]3i'itannia has been placed be-
side tee North :Barwick Church in
memory of eoidiers and sailors who
have fallen in the war.
The three German field guns, given
to Linlithgow as war tropties, havo
been placed in position In front of the
Sheriff Court Building.
The death took place recently at
Dundrennan, 'of Davlid Maitland, De.
putt' Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright.
shire since 1878.
The Victoria
Cross has been award•
ed to Lieut. -Col. Clark•leennedy,
Knockgray, Carsphalrn,
Tho Military Cross has been award-
ed to Alex, W. Davidson, son of Rev.
A, le, Davidson, late of Stirling TLlr,
Church,
Miss Homely Smith, daughter of
J. Ramsay Smith, KingsmuIr Hall,
Peebles, has been awarded the Croix
de Guerre.
Borderers who, are residents of
Lawrence, Mass„ have sent a £20
"VIctory" gift and ninety pairs of
socks . to the Galushields Soldiers'
Comfort Fund.
The Galashiels Town Council have
decided to extend the Municipal Build -
Inge, as a memorial to Galashiels men
who have fallen in the war.
The Meritorious Service Medal has
been awarded to Lance -Corporal 3.
H. Henderson, Coldstream Guards,
Berwick,
The D.S.O. has been awarded to
Lieut. -Col. Stuart 7VIOAllunl and Lieut.
Col. W. E. Forsyth, both of Berwick.
Mr. and Mrs, john Veitch, Sumerset
House, Chirnside, recently ' eel ohrated
their golden wedding,
The death is announced at Kinross,
of ex -Provost George Stirling, in his
seventy-sixth year,
The Military Medal leas been award-
ed to Sergeant W. Macrae, eon of Mr.
Macrae, Oldplace, Kilsyth.'
Adapt Scott, of Selkirk, has received
the O.B,P1, in recognition of work done
for the Y.M.C.A, in France.
A condert organized by Sits. Had-
ley, of Kelso, on behalf of repatriated
prisoners, realized 1270.
The trustees of. the Carnegie IIero
Fund havo awarded a silver watch and
ten pounds to Margaret G. Williamson
tor saving a man from drowning' at
Dumbarton.
Major James Ponder has been elect-
ed chairman of Dunoon and Coeval
Combination Hospital Board,
The death is announced at Conan -
more, Oban, of John Vass, marine en-
gineer, a native of the Ross of Mull.
A rare speciinent of a whale, thirty-
nine feet long, and with a creamy
white akin, has come ashore at Mach-
rihanish, Argyllshire.
J. C. Sharpe, who has been chair.
man of the Cumbrae Parish Council
for tee past twenty-eight .years, has
•been unanimously re-elected.
The Rothesay Town Council have
agreed to divide the Marquis of Bute's
wedding dowry between two old wo.
men of the town,
The Victoria Cross has been award-
ed to the late elergeant Louis McGuf-
fle, son of Mrs. E. McGutfie, Wigtown,
The IIon. Hew Dalrymple has been
appointed donvener and $ir Ilerbert
Maxwell vice -convener for the County
of n.
MaWigtowjor James McLennan, son of Mrs.
McLennan,' Orohardknowes, Colvend,
has been awarded the D.S.O.
Three Of the font• captured German
guns allocated to Alton 'for exhibition
purposes have arrived and boon placed
in Meadow Place,
The Distinguished Service Medal
%as been awarded to Sergeant Flig-
gins, Damside, Hawick,
The Higher Hope.
The son of the family was home on
bis first vacation since he bad attain-
ed to the dignity of college perfect.
He and his father Were discussing af-
fairs of the day, and nuttily the boy
remarked;
"Say, Gov., I hope when :I am as
old as you are I']1 know more than you
do." •
"I'll go you one better, my boy,f' the
father replied. "I hope that when you
are that old you will know as much as
yon think you do now.".
A Reason For It.
Motorist (blocked by load of Lay)—
say, there, pull out and let me by.
You .soemed in a hurry to let that
'other fellow's carriage get past.
Farmer—That's 'cause his horse
wuz eathh' nay hay, There hatn't no
anger o' yew eatin' it, I reckon,
we had to put it hi heaps." a
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MEAT AND WOOL,
Stefansson Would Convert Canadian
Arctic Region Into Great Food ".
and Mineral Area,
A. plan for converting the Arctic and
sub -.Arctic regions of Canada into o
great wool, mills and meat producing
area hes been presented to the Cana-
dian Parliament by Vilhjalntlll' Ste-
fansson, explorer of the Canadian Arc-
tic.
Stefansson's.project involves intro-
ducing large hel'de of reindeer and do.
mos -Mating and developng great ]tends
of music ox, Both animals would fur -
lash mills and meat supplies and the
musk ox would afford also a wool sup- '
ply.
The Canadian north, Mr. Stefansson
said, could be utilized to help solve
present and future food shortages and
development of his project would ex-
pedite opening of mineral and other
resources of the north. IIe estimated
there were from 1 million to 2 million
square utiles of land available for
grazing in a climate too severe for
cattle, but where reindeer and musk
ox could exist the year round,
"About twenty years ago," ]lir. Ste-
fansson continued, "the 'United States
Government introduced 1280 domestic
reindeer into Arctic Alaska. From the
point of view of the government this
was a sort of charity, for the sole ainj
was to give a possibility of economic
independence to the Eskimo. The
prevailing opinion was that even tits
object would not be attained and few
of those who expected the enterprise
to succeed, even dreamed of its pre-
sent magnitude or the meaning it
would have for Alaska to -day or for
the world, to -morrow. Under Eskimo
care these herds have increased at
the rate of doubling in three years.
But the few animals that are, in the
hands of white met are found to
double in numbers every two years.
The white men look further into the
future and therefore butcher only male
animals. The Eskimo butchers fe-
males each year for reasons of fashion
in clothing,
Would Supply 7,000,000 Reindeer.
"It was found necessary to secure
Laplanders to instruct the Eskimo in
the care of deer, and these Laplanders
were by the government allowed to
own reindeer herds on the same terms
as the natives. These Laplanders
have recently sold virtually all their
reindeer to a firm of American capital-
ists, who own at present about 16,000
deer, This compauy sold about 1500
carcasses of 150 pounds each the
American markets last year at a price
ranging from five to fifteen cents a
pound in excess of the corresponding
cuts of domestic beef."
It due time. Mr, Stefansson said, the
Arctic will supply more than 7,000,000
reindeer, producing as much meat
Yearly as 14,000,000 sheep or seven
times the present mutton production
of all the settled portion of Canada.
Ballad For Peace Day.
To -day Peace came on radiant feet
And blew her trumpet in the square—
"The War is over"—news is fleet,
And soon through every thoroughfare
Passed Youth and Toy, a radiant pair,
Arms linked and bright heads crowned
with bays.
Yet while there's laughter everywhere
Some -must go softly all their days.
:There are no strangers; kind hearts
beat
In unison; the joy -they sharp
Makes all akin—we smile and greet
Like happy neighbors at a Fair.
Plags float above us. Here and there
The church bells chime their solemn
Praise
There seems no room for grief or care.
Must some go softly all their days? -
The young once more may find life
sweet,
They need not dread dull -eyed Despair.
With fearless hearts shall lovers meet,
Together drab the rainbow stair
To some dream castle In the air,
The fire of hope may leap and blaze,
But for the sorrows past repair
Soma must go softly all their days.
Envoy.
0 broken hearts who needs must bear
The cost of this new world we raise,
May God console you, is our prayer,
While you go softly all your days,
Battlefield Mystery.
Flowers not lSnown within living
memory to the natives of the districts
are breaking out on the sacred sur-
face and in the shell hetes and dug-
outs of the battlefields of France• ft
is believed that the strange flowers
havo sprung from seeds burled in the
depths of the earth for decades. A
leading London botanist says it, is
known that seeds have boon burled
for upwards of 00 years without losing
their power of germination, and he
thinks it Is quite possible that strange
plants are now flowering as reported,
as the tearing u0 of tine earth by
heavy shell Ore may have created con-
ditions for their growth atter having
long lain dormant.
To Make Sure.
, Mrs. Casey-••lMlo sister writes me
that 9yery bottle in tilt„It eV* we sent
hit zas,..11roken,, Ari yo Aire Yes J
1rin1ed, this side up with dare, on it?
Casey—Ol am, An' for bear they..4
shouldn't see it on the top 01 prinier4
it on the bottom as well,
Tlie net national debt is about $1,-
500,000,000, The Can. Trade Com.
seeks to awaken is realization of this
fact in every man and wonrmt in the
Donninion.
As women make 00 per cont, of the
purchases for the homes, their ac-
tion in this is iho most important
single factor ,in righting our adverse
balance with the United States, "Buy
Canadian goods and products" is the
recommendation of rho Canadian
Trade Commission, •