The Seaforth News, 1924-02-28, Page 7CAIr4ADIAN GOVERNMENT; PLACES
EARGO ONTER'N U.S
Ottawa; Fele. 24 A cattle embargo
which prohibits the -importation into
Canada of practically all livestock; as
well as hay, _ straw and fodder from
the; States of California, Oregon and
Nevada, was irnpoeed by the. Dominion
Department of Agriculture last night.
Having received confirmation from
Washington • of a report that foot and'
mouth disease had brolcen out in Ala-
meda County, Cal., the Federal auth-
orities decided to for'bid the importa-
tion of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, dogs
and poultry, ae well as their flesh;
hides, horns, hoofs, or any other parts,
or of .hay, straw, fodder or manure
from these three states. The order
applies •'to Oregon and Nevada, be-
cause they -border on California.' It
remains in force until assurance is .re-
ceived from :the United States Govern-
ment that the foot and mouth disease
is wiped out. '
Curiously the embargo ehiefly af-
ATTLE
feetq industries other than cattle,
breeders. `'Canada imports very little
livestock from these three states, ex-
cept an occasional.: pure-bred animal
for breeding. But the embargo
against straw will prevent its' use as
packing material by shippers of com
modities such as canned and bottled'
goods, which have a steady market in
Canada, The Department of Agricul-
ture to -night said that the embargo
would be applied against straw pack-
: ing. This order does not apply to
shipments . of cured aneats,lard or
tallow.
Washington, Feb. 24,—The' Depart-
ment of Agriculture declared a quar-
antine Saturday on 'account of foot
and mouth disease in Alameda., Contra
Costa and Solano :Counties, Califor-
nia. There is no present expectation
of ' extending the quarantine beyond
those counties. Six herds, involving
663 cattle and 200 hogs, are infected,
for the most part in Alameda County,
ALBERTA TOWN
SUFFERS FIRE LOSS
Stavely, Near Calgary, Visited
by Disastrous Blaze Wiping
Out Business Section.
Calgary, Feb. 24.—One of the most
disastrous fires' in the history of
Southern Alberta razed the entire
business. district of Stavely, Alberta,
73 miles south of here, to the ground
at 2.30 o'clock Sunday morning, caus-
ing property loss estimated at between
$175,000 and. $29o,000.
The blaze .was first fought by the
town volunteer fire brigade, but when
it became uncontrollable a can was
sent in for the Calgary fire brigade,
and, after two hours' hard work, they
succeeded in keeping the fire from
spreading to the residential district.
Seventeen buildings -practically the
whole business district—were razed to
the ground before the fire was placed
under control. Less thanlialf a dozen
buildings escaped the fury of the
The Future Empress of Japan
Princess Nagako Huni, 'who was
married recently to the Crown Prince
and Regent, Ilirohito, is shown in her
flames. regal headdress previous to the wed -
The structures destroyed included ding'
the branch of the Bank of Commerce, •
live restaurants, a garage and several Hand -feeding. Necessary
office buildings. This is the third big
to Save Bird Life
Niagara Falls, Ont., Feb. 24.-
Never has there been a harder wins
on birds, and the recent blizzard re
duced the numbers which had survive
up to that time. All' over the town
ship the farmers are feeding gran
and" scraps to birds. English phew
sante, especially, are suffering, an
fire that has stricken Alberta towns
within 100 miles radius of Calgary in
the' past, six weeks.
BRITAIN.TO PENSION
DEPENDENT WIDOWS
Labor Government Consider-
ing' Scheme—Cost 15,000, -groups of these birds are so tame the
• -000 Annually,
London, Feb. 24.—Widows and chil-
dren will form one of the new Labor
Government's first considerations in
its pension legislation. •
All three of the British parties are
more or less committeed to the prin-
ciple, while many welfare organiza-
tions are urging the adoption of some
sort of relief for dependent widows,
whose number has increased greatly
since the war.
Parliament is considering a scheme
under which every widow with de-
pendent children under fourteen years Seven
of Age would receive sixteen shillings Deaths From
weekly, with six shillings six pence Smallpox in Windsor
Additional for each child under four-
teen. Each orphan would also get
six shillings six pence weekly, with
safeguards regarding its•exp.enditure.
The estimated cost of the scheme to
the Govermnent is £15,000,000 annu-
ally. •
ee
Hon. J. P 'A: oakum new Minister of Marine at Ottawa, shown at his
desk shortly alter taking over his new duties. He succeeeeed,;H eeeeFrpest
Lapointe, who became Minister of Justice.
'Market Report
TORONTO.
Manitoba wheat—No.' 1 Northern,
$1.12%.
Manitoba oats—No. 3 CW, 46c; No,
1 feed, 45c,.
Manitoba barley -Nominal..
All the above, c,i.f., bay ports,
Ontario barley -65 to 70c.
American corn—No. 2 yellow, 983 o.
Buckwheat—No. 2, 78' to 82c.
Ontario rye --No. 3, 75 to 79e.
Peas—No. 2, 51.45 to 51,50.
Millfeed—Del., Montreal freights,
bags included: Bran, per ton, $28;
shorts, per ton, 530; middlings, $36;
good feed flour, $2.10.
Ontario wheat—No. 2 white, 96c to
51.02, outside.
Ontario No. 2 white oats -41 to 43c.
Ontario corn -Nominal.
Ontario flour—Ninety per cent. pat,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, 54.70; Toronto basis, 54.70;
bulk seaboard, 54.35.
Manitoba flour -1st pats., in jute
sacks, 56.30: per barrel; 2nd pats.,
$5.80,
Hay --Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton,
track, Toronto, 514.50; to 515;No. 2,
514.50; No. 8, $12.50 to 513; mixed,
$12.50.'
Straw—Carlots, per ton, 59.50.
Standard recleaned screenings, f.o.
b. bay ports, per ton, 520.
Cheese—New, large, 20 to 21c;
white twins, 21 to �22c; triplets, 211,8 to.
- 224c; Stiltons,- 28c. Old, large, 27
d to 29c; twins, 28 to.30c;. triplets, 30c.
_ Butter—Finest creamery prints, 46
r to 47c; No. 1, creamery, 43 to 45e
No, 2, 42 to 43e. '
54
d to 55c;
frgs—esh hextras,loose, in
48 to cartons,0 ;
t flesh firsts, 46 to 48c; extras, storage,
41 to 42c; flrsts, 39 to 40c;seconds,
82 to 840.
I Live poultry—Spring chickens, 4
lbs. and over, 28c; chickens, 3 to 4
lbs„ 23c; hens, over 5 lbs., '22c; do,'
(4 to 5.lbs. 15c • do, 3 to 4 lbs. 15e;
roosters, 15ic; .ducklings, over lbs,,
19c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 18c; turkeys,
r young, 10 lbs. and up, 22c,
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens,
4 lbs. and over, 80c; chickens, 3 to 4
lbs., 25c; hone, over 5 lbs., 28e; • do,
4 to 5. lbs„ 24c• do, 3 to 4 lbs„ 180;
roosters, 18c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,
24c; do, 4 to 5 lbs„ 25c; turkeys,
young, 10 14 and up, 28 to 32c;
geese, 22e.
Beans—Can, handpitket,, .Ib„ 7c;
primes 64.e.
Maple products—Syrup, per imp.
gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, 52.40 per
gal.; maple sugar lb., 25c.
Honey -60 -lb. tins, 11 to 11,4o per
they aro roosting beside houses and
come forward like chickens when
grain is put out for them. A typica
group of several hundred birds into
be seen roosting in a pine tree close
to the home of A. J. Holman, Portage
Road, They remain motionless with
head under wings until there is a
at the door, when all come to life
and fly down, begging for food. It is
said that unless there is considerable
handfeedingthere will be very few
birds left by the springtime.
Windsor, Feb. 24. -Five persons
have died 'frons smallpox in Windsor
and its environs within the past 48
hours, bringing the total death list
up to seven. Fifty new cases were
reported to -day.
The latest victims are: James
Wife of Novelist Hardy Irvin, 23 years old, 103 Elm Avenue,
Becomes a Magistrate Windsor, and Henry Dubey, aged 44,
g Detroit. Irvin died at Grace I•Iospl-
tat Saturday afternoon, and that m-
A despatch from London says:. . stitution has been placed under quer-
Mrs. Thomas Hardy, wifeof the nov- antine. The Grand Central Hotel, 219
elist and poet, has been made a magis- Sandwich St. Fist, which has con-
trate of Dorchester, where the Hardys tained severaf smallpox patients for
have lived for many years, . Mrs. several,-dd's past, was to -day con -
Hardy,' who is his second wife, was vert eefinto an isolation hospital, and
the author's secretary for ten years thsse'strieken with the disease are be -
and was married to him in 1914. Sho ;nig, taken theme as fast as the cases
is also a writer of children's books are reported to the Health Board.
magazine articles and reviews. With the exception of Irvin, all
By , becoming a magistrate. Mrs. fatalities thus far have been in the
Hardy also follows her husbetrd, who family of Gordon Delman . of Moy
has been a justice of the 'peace for avenue, whose death occurred nearly
Dorset more than a decade, three weeks ago.
IRISH LINEN AND HOMESPUN OrPUT
,
INCREASING 'IO PRE-WAR LEVEi
8.c
A despatch from London says:--.
Now that Ireland is running through
a period of peace, many familiar pro-
ducte of the old sod will once more be
seen in the shop windows of the world,
That Irish handicraft is again finding
a market is shown by the fact that
the export value of manufactured
goods in 1923 was double that of the
previous year and is•steadily increas-
ing.
Peace has meant prosperity to the
factory districts, the foremost of
which is Shillelagh, where, forthe
first bene Since the war started, huge
etocks of shillelaghs are being menu -
teetered .roe export. The industry
raa given employment to hundreds of!
Workmen in the district, and it is
expected that this year a million or
more of these oak saplings will be
elatribleted throughout the world.
Stocks of this knotty ammunition
are reappearing in the shop windows
•
of Dublin and London in anticipation
that the shillelagh will be as popular
with the tourists as it was in the old
days, when every American thought
his trip abroad ruined if he was forc-
ed to return home without one,
Exports of the famous Irish home-
spuns also are rapidly increasing, the
looms being busy filling orders, while
the linen industry of Dublin and
Northern Ireland is slowly getting
back to the pre-war level. Reports
from the industry and eomnlerte de-
partments of both .the Northern and
Southern Governments anticipate that
1924 will equal 1913, when Ireland-
reached
relandreached its maximum exportation,
Favorable iveather• for the small
Irish farmers tins year will place the
Emerald Isle on the certain road to
national proepeeity, and the ottloolc
was never better, according to Joseph
McGrath, the Free State Minister of
Conniierce.
Ib. • 10 -Ib Ins, 11' to 120;5 -Ib. tins,
1ii/a to 12c; 2>,_••lb. tins, 121/s to 13e;
comb honey, per doz., No. 1, $3.75 to
54; No. 2, 58.25 to $3,50.
Smoked meats—Hams, fined., 24 to
25c; cooked hams, 36 to 37c; smoked
rolls, 19 to 21s; cottage rolls, 22 to
24c; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27c., sne-
eial brand breakfast bacon, 30 to 33c;
backs, boneless, 30 to 35c.
Cured meets -Long clear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs., 518.60; 70 to 90 lbs,, 518;
90 lbs. and up, 517; lightweight rolls,
in barrels, 587; heavyweight 'rolls,
$32.
Lard—Pure tierces, 15 to 154c;
tubs 15%'to 16c; pails, 16 to 164e;
prints, 18;i to 19e; shortening tierces,
141/4 to 14%c; tubs, 14 to 150; pails,
15 to 154e; prints, 17 to 174c.
Heavy steers, choice, 57.50 to $8.15;
butcher steers, choice, 56.25 to $7;
do, good, $5.50 to $6.00;- do, med.,
$4.50 to 55; do ` com., $3.50 to $4.25
butcher heifers, choice, $6 to' $6.75; do,
med., 54.50 to 55; do, com., 58,50 to
$4.25; butcher cows, choice,. $4.75 to.
55; do, med., $3.50 to 54; canners
and cutters, $1,25 to $2.00; but-
cher bulls, choice, $4.25 to 55.25.
do, cone„ 52.00 to $3.00; feeding
steers, good, 55.50 to 56.50; do, fair, 54
to $5; stockers, good $4 to $4.75; do,
fair, $3.50 to $4; milkers and spring-
ers, 570 to 5100; calves, choice, $11
to 512; do, med., $8 to $10; do, com.,
$5 to $7; do,'grassers, $3 to 54.50;
Iambs, choice ewes, 514.50 to 516; do,'
bucks, $10.50 to $12; do, fat, heavy,
54 to 54.50; do culls, $7 to 58; sheep,
light ewes, $7.510 to 58; do, culls, $2
to $3; hogs, fed and watered, 58; do,
f.o.b., $7.50; do, country points, 57.25;
do, selects, 58.80.
MONTREAL.,
Oats—Can. West., No. 2, 65 to
5514; do, No. 3, 58% to 54c; extra
No. 1 feed 52% to 53c; No. 2 local
white, 504 to 51c. Flour—Man.
spring wheat pats., lsts, $6.30; do,
2nds, 55.80 • strong bakers, 55.60; win-
ter pats., choice, 55.65 to 55.75, Rolled'
oats—Bagof 90 lbs., $2.90. Bran -
528.25. orts—$30.25,' Middlings -
36.25. Hay—No. 2, per ton, car lots,
$16.
Butter, No. 1, pasteurized, 41% to
42c; do, No. 1 creamery, 40% to 41c,
do, seconds, 39% to 40c. Eggs, fresh
extras, 53c • do, fresh firsts, 48c. Po-
tatoes, per Crag, car lets, 51.40 to 51.45.
Com. dairy type cows, 53 to $3.50;
do better ones, 54; canners, 51.50;
calves, med. quality, .$9 to $9.50; do,
poor ones, $8; hogs, thick, smooths,
and shop, 58.25.
1,500 CARS OF GRAIN
VIA VANCOUVER PORT
Pacific Gateway Used for Ex-
port Until Lake Navigation.
Opens.
Winnipeg, Man., Feb. 24.—Fifteen
hundred cars of grain are reported
loaded on the prairies to -day for the
Vancouver route. All grain moved
from the prairies until lake naviga-
tion opens must go out of the country
through the Pacific gateway. The ele-
vators and mill space at country
points and in Winnipeg can
accommodate no more at the Lake
terminals, the storage has reached the
point of saturation.. The terminal ele-
vators, the boats and some cars are
full. There will be, it is estimated, a
thousand ears in the terminal yards
before the ,opening of the Lake ports,
in spite of the considerable quantity
of grain that will go east by rail in
the next two months. All except ord-
ers in the meantime must be filled via
the Vancouver port. Complaint is be
lug made that interior Government
terminal elevators have not been stor-
ed to capacity and the trade cannot
understand why this additional space
is not made available, since some
seventy-five million. bushels of grain
are still in farmers' hands on the
prairies.
Only Sixth of Opium Out-
put Used for Legitimate Needs
A despatch from Geneva says:—
Twenty-five hundred tons of opium in
excess of the amount justified by
medical and scientific use is produced
yearly, according to the health organ-
ization of the League of Nations.
The total world's annual output is
3,000 tons and the physicians and ex-
perts of the health commission esti-
mate that 600 tons is ample for legiti- I
mate needs of the world for opium
and its derivatives, including mor-
phine.
• What a Brick WiII Stand.
it takes a weight of 4,600 pounds to •
crush a cnhic inch of best brick. y
CLAIMS TO BE DEBATED
BY BRITAIN AND RUSSIA
Commission Appointed to De-
cide t War Debts Due
;'BrItish Government.
A despatch' from London says:—
The British Government has taken
the first steps in preparation for the
conference with the Soviet Govern-
ment. The British Commission will
be under the direct guidance of Ram-
say MacDonald, assisted by Arthur
Ponsonby, Under-Secretary of For- .
eign Affairs, but its working heads
will be two civil servants • of great
experience. It will be divided into
political and economic sections, and
the former will be under J. D. Greg-
ory, a counsellor in the Foreign Office,'
and the latter under Sir Sydney Chap-
man, Permanent Secretary of the
Board of Trade. The latter will be
engaged chiefly, in considering the
question of debts owed by the Govern-
ment and citizens of Russia to the
British Government and British sub-
jects. i
It is expected that the Soviet auth-
orities will plead, as an offset to the
heavy public debts that Russia owes
to Great Britain, the damage incurred
by Russia through the civil war car-
ried on in the early days by the So-
viets by such White leaders as Deni.'
kine and Kolchak,
With regard to the Russian war
debts, if the -Soviet acknowledges
them, it is not unlikely that the ques-'
tion of settlement will be allowed to
stand over until the problem of the
settlement of all other war debts comes'
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from Patricia, where he tools the law
of Ontario for the first time to the
half-breed traders, fur companies and
trappers. He was stationed at Island
Lake„just inside the Manitoba boun-
dary where he coil t d th •o lti
and -license fees from the trappers
and traders on the fur being taken
out of Patricia'inN Manitoba. For
three months he lived in the wilds
and he tells a most absorbing story oil
the. life and inhabitants in Patricia,
and relates hie journeying from the
time he left the Sault till he returned
to it, tour months later.
Having made a round trip of 500
milesby. dog tenni, walking and trot-
ting 'behind his team of huskies for
that distance, Paiea brings back with
him possibly more data of the interior
than. has yet been furnished,
Lady Strathcona Gives
$120,000 to McGill
A despatch from Montreal says:—
The Governors of McGill University
rave been notified of a donation of
5120,000 by Lady Strathcona and
Mount Royal to provide a permanent
endowment for the Department of
Zoology.
About some people the worst thing
ou can say is the truth.
Photograph shows the Ctin,adiitn •retiree nthtives tbt'o • i 1'
b at lYn p
on their, way to join the+,pariide'of uaetons ter the opening ceremoules. '.
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Port ;ion't'ersit f'Chere onle, ';Finn ce,
Natural Resources
Bulletin.
The Natural 'Resources Intel-
ligence Service of the Depart,
meat of the Interior' at Ottawa
says:
The history of the fur trade
is closely associated with the
early history of Canada. It was,
the .quest for fur that led the
early explorers over t} large por-
tion of Ontario, and particular-
ly that portion which is how
known as ' Northern 'Ontario.
While the wild life is gradually
being driven further back with
the advance of settlement, there
is still considerable trapping
done in the forests andon the
rivers, lakes and streams of
older Ontario.
Beaver and muskrat repre-
sent the highest total value of
the pelts now taken, a . report
by the Bureau of Statistics for
1921-22 giving the former as $1,-
861,479 for the 111,165 beaver
pelts and '$1,083,539 for, the
616,890 muskrat skins market-
ed.
There was a total of 1,101,556
pelts of wild animals taken in
Ontario in the season 1921-22,
valued at -54,959,492. The total
for. Canada in the same year.
was 4,366,790, valued at '517,-
438,867. A great danger .exists
that the intensive trapping of
wild life may seriously deplete
many species, as apart,fipm the
inroads rnado i,y,man, each ani-
el class has its own enemies,
hick naturally keep its infer -
re within a safe range of mule
'plication. The takings of fur -
eaters; therefore, must be kept
ithin reasonable limits, by the
bservance of game laws based
pon accurate information of
e rate of increase. The Hud-
n's Bay Co. has kept records
their fur trade since 1821,
d these show very wide floc-
ations in the number of (life
rent species taken, the in-
ease and decrease occurring in
gular cycles.
LEMENT OF DOCK
WORKERS' STRIKE
loyers Agree to Advance.
n One Shilling Naw and
Another First of June,
despatch from London says:—
dock workers' strike is considered
tally ended, although final nego-
ons may be protracted. The ew-
ers have agreed to advance the
one shilling now. and another shil-
on the first' of June, and there
be what is termed a "satisfac-
inquiry” into the question of de-
alization of an agreement for no
sale. -
ere are unofficially stated to be
erms of the settlement, but they
not be officially made known until
delegate conference of the men's
esentatives has decided whether
cept the terms. It had been hoped
the decision would have been
t Thursday night, but the confer-'
merely adjourned until Friday
outreaching a final conclusion be-'
cause -thee-different port areas are'
sharply divided. London, Hull and
Southampton favor the terms of set.;
Cement, but Glasgow, Manchester and
Liverpool oppose them, and other'
ports are doubtful,
BENGAL SWARAJISTS
DEFEATED BY ONE VOTE
Lose by Bad Tactics in Effort
to Paas "No Confidence"
Motion.
A despatch from Calcutta says:—
The Bengal Swarajists are very sore
over their first defeat .in the new
Council by : one vote. They failed to
secure the passage of their motion
of no confidence in the Ministers. The
defeat was partly due m the bad tac-
tics employed by the Swarajists, who
declined to put up their best efforts
to force an early division, and partly
M the spirited speech of Fazal Hug,.
the nett/ Minister of Education, who,
with impassioned eloquence, elaiined
for the Ministers the right to vote
according to their convicitions, and
denounced the Swarajists' autocracy
because it has sought to substitute for
the old bureaucracy. No doubt the
Hoare Ruirs will try again on the
budget with •considerable hopes of suc-
cess, but the setback is of great im-
portance to a country like India,
where the triumphs of C. R. Das led
the people to believe him invincible.
The Englishman; voices the uneasi-
ness of the European community oc-
casioned by the coincidence of the
postponement of Lord Oliver's state -
silent with the Independent Labor
party's- manifesto calling for a eon-
ference to accelerate Indian self-
government and wonders whether Sir
Malcolm Hailey, whose speeches were
warmly welcomed by Europeans in
Bengal, liar been thrown over by the
Home Government,
The, time to be careful is when you
have a handful of trumps. --Josh 511-
lings.
We cairns, arrest sensate, nor carve
niountaine, but we may turn every
home, if we choose. into a picture
which Will . be no coiintorfeit,•but :the
true and pethot 1111530 of life, indeed,
Higher Male Birth Rate
Will Replace War's Losses
A"despatch from Berlin eays
Does nature make up for war's tell
upon the male population of a belii-
gerent nation by increasing the pro.
portion of, boys to girls born during
`and _after a' great war? The Prus.
elan. Bureau of Vital Statistics ans.
'were this old ,geery'with an emphatie
"Yes," citing the official ceneus fige
ures to prove that natureis working
to replace the 1,824,000 German meet
killed during the war and restore the
old proportion between men and VO -
men.' The number of boy babies to
every hundred. girl babies, which dur-
ing the six years before the war hats
averaged, 106.2, jumped ir1 r 9196 to
107.21, in 1917 to 107.40, 111 1918 to
107.63, and in 1919 to 108,03—the
maximum figure. Since then the sue-
plus of boys over girls has continued
fairly steady.
Prussia, the most military of the
German states; leads .in this replace-
ment of 'war's' losses, the proportion
of boys to girls during and since the
war being in Bavaria 107.05, in Sax-
ony 107.06 and in Baden 106.03. As
an indication that nature's selective
birth system is governed by war laws,
statistics may be cited from neutral
Denmark and Switzerland, where the
proportion of boys to girls sank in-
stead of rising during the war years,
Antwer Diamond Cutters
ut tern
Discover' New Process
A despatch from Paris says;—Dia-
monde will gleam with fourfold bril-
liance, yet . cost considerably less, if
the invention of two Antwerp gem
cutters is perfected. Working in a
gloomy, poorly equipped shop, these
two men, whose names have not been
revealed, suddenly decided that pro-
gress in their art had not kept pace
i with other industrial science.
After six months' research, often
working t111 nearly daybreak, they.
found a method of cutting and polish-
ing diamonds which gave 585 reflec-
tions,
eflextions, instead of the usual 175, besides
yielding a fire that had not been ob-
tained since the days of ancient
Egypt. Moreover, under this process,
the rough stone loses almost nothing
in its cutting and the smallest chips
may be made to glow as brightly as
any princely gift of several carats,
Some American diamond buyers
have been negotiating for American
rights to the invention, but the Bel-
gians refuse to sell until they have
revolutionized the industry.
Fish to Share War Memorial '
With Birds and Animals
A. despatch from London says
monument in memory of the birds,
beasts and ash that died in the Ore
vice of the British Empire will be be,
gun this year and placed at Hyde
Park Corner, ,close to the horse
troughs on the north side of Knights
bridge, .with which it will form
gr•cvip.
The plan, which is to cost almost
$10,000, has aroused a good deal d
criticism, many 'people arguing that
it is ridiculous to erect such a me-
morial when the money would be bet,
tar spent in providing homes for lost
dogs, or in some other work for ani-
mal welfare. - The fact that fish are
included in the design has led to much.
witticism. "Sentimentalism run mad!
is a popular description' ofthe whole:
idea. On the other hand, the money
was subscribed definitely for the pur-
pose of such a memorial, and It is
felt that the faithful service of the
animals is worthy of commemoration
and at least deserves one out of the
thousand war memorials in England,
It is also argued that if the memorial
is really well done it will touch' the
imagination of passersby for genera..
tions to come and thus make them
think more of animals.
There werealmost four hundred
thousand casualties among horses in,.>
the British armies during the was
while dogs listed for various purposes
died in thousands. Camels, reindeer,
elephants and oxen died on transport
work, cats were .killed in researc
work, many carrier pigeons died ori
duty ox struggled home mortally
wounded with their messages, and
mice, canaries and email birds of vnril.
on kinds were sacrificed in the deter,
tion of poison gas, Goldfish were
used to test water in which gas bele
mets were washed, to indicate the:
nature of chemicals used in the gases.
Nature on Her Mettle.
5lThen Nature 18 doing her hest she
can accomplish big things in brief
time.
This month the gardeners at Kew,
endon, will be putting in the seed of
the Victoria Regia, the giant Amazon
Water Lily, which grows i ua great
tank 1 none of the big houses in the
gardens, By the middle of A.uguet: tine
miracle of rapid, growth wilt be at per-
fection, having produced e. dozen 01
more huge leaves and many femme of.
splendid size, which iieg}n by being,
white and then turn pink,`.
lenaro .ino
diameter, and Boat on the ssirface of
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nd rigidity
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plant ,takes years' ±0 &row tc+ each: di
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