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The Huron Expositor, 1930-03-28, Page 6eetesettleteetat May • el e'-!.neeese...erareassr-,..„,ter•eeeepeattelikaateett".7...eatataltriteetehe.it 41 ;•( 000VERINIGUr MstieDoils on cock. Doctor sad 1199. eriodieootheaasa eat bails ,1f4121.600 overnights!, C. T. Scott. aeocatieSalva"stosspithinisseets; bogssoinfewthars. Ataidruariste 100MAS itleiVIILLAN, M.P., SOUTH HURON (Continuel from page 1) ' In order to get a proper perspective of the ounditien of the dairying indus- it is necessary for us to consider ta4.1 milk production and not that .of any single comanodity. Within cer- tain limitations, milk flows into what- ever channel is for the time beine most profitable to the producer. Cities incr-ease in population and must have more milk and cream for direct con- sumption and for the manufacture of ice cream. The source of supply is extended, and a price is paid which attracts milk from other outlets, such as from cheese factories and cream- eries. Changes in prices of cheese and butter, in relation to each other, cause diversion from one product to the other, and so it is necessary., in order to study the development of the dairying industry, to get back to total milk production or to the fat equival- ent of the total milk production. The total milk production, fat equiv- alent and total value for the years 1920 and 1927 are shown in schedule No. 3, hereunder, The i figures for 1920 are from the returns of the 1921 census, which returns, of course, cov- er operations of the previous year, while the figures for 1927 are based on the known actual production of all dairy products, excepting dairy but- ter and milk used for direct consump- tion, which it has been necessary to ,estimate. In this particular let me pause, to say that there are thousands of dairy farmers all over -this country who do not make one pound of butter, but se -11 their dairy products and buy their own home requirements. They are able to make money by so doing. They are just as anxious to get a good quality article at a reasonable price as any of our citizens in our urban centres. Here is schedule No. 3: Total Canadian Mily Production With Fat Equivalent and Value. Fat Milk equivalent Value Year pounds pounds S. 1921 14,112,064,250 493,922,274 279.063.920 1920 10,976,215,351 384,168,225 203.436.310 pee pound Gat ----That -is; by eaportiag as we did, and by imparting to eupply part of our home requirements, the country is richer to the extent of about $2,738,000. • The analysis of our-ex:port trade as shown in schedule No. 4 indicates a reduction in our net surplus as be- tween the years ending March, 1921, and November, 1929, of 43,150,392 pounds of fat. On the other hand, production has been shown toGhave in- creased between 1920.and 1927 by 109,754,039 pounds of fat. Adding these' two quantities together and as- suming 1929 total production as equivalent to that of 1927, we have a total of 152,904,431 pounds of fat to account for. Distribution of Total Production,. Schedule No. 5 shows the distribu- tion of the total milk production for the years 1921 and 1927. The year '.inding 1921 is used for this purpose, rather than 1920, as this information is not available far the year 1920. To- tal production for 1927 is, as stated previously, the latest figure available. Schedule No. 5. Showing distribution of mil.k pro- duction of 1921 and 1927 as percent• ages of total production. 1921 For: % of total production Cheese 18.7 Creamery butter 31.01 155.4 24.4 Dairy butter ... Milk for direct consumption . Other purposes . Increase 31.35,828,899 109,753.949 72,629.570 Increase 28.5 29.5 20.0 The striking feature of the above schedule is of course the indicated in- crease of 28.5 per cent. in total pro- duction equivalent to almost 110,000,- 000 pounds of milk fat. The Trend of the Export and Import. Trade. At first thought, we would suppose that 'with such an increase in produc- tion the export of dairy products -would show a decided increase, but suet' is not the case. The trend has 1927 a"c of total production 10.9 291.3 15.7 20.8 35.1 5.1 9.0 45. 100.00 100.0 It will be noted that the percentage of milk used for the manufacture of cheese decreased by 7.8 per cent. be- tween 1921 and 1927. The percentage used for butter decreased by 10.4 per cent.; the percentage required for di- rect consumption increased by 14.3 per cent, while that required for other purposes increased by 3.9 per cent. The increase in the last item was due to increased exports of milk and cream. Increasing Home Consumption. An exansination of home require- ments shows a great increase, fcr not only has Canada's population, as esti- mated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics increased from 8,788,483 in 1921 to 9,796 800 in 1929, but per capita consumption has increased greatly. Increasing per capita con- sumption has in part, been due to a more general knowledge of the value of dairy products as foods, but as aids to health and as preventives of de- ficiency diseases. Improved quality and greater uniformity of cheese be- ing offered to the consuming public, the improved quality of milk supplied for direct consumption, more adver- • • + • • • ;Ikk;' seeseseSat • . .,• • . . , . ,• THE .4J0N. ExPsrtio14 221 ckevi ANGIER'S EMULSION 'He MEOICAL, PROFESSION et tor the heavy imports of New "••slend butter, cream producers essuld be getting higher prices for mes"n ftom hlovember to March. "7,11 re is sorsethin.g to think about , • '1 this connection From November aa4, to Mireh. 1'125, total imports ot te-ter we're 20]"4) pounde, and the earsge mice of cream during this eh -led was 3).8 cents. Prom Nevem- he'. 1928, to March, 1929, total im- "rts of butter were 21,797,000 Ms., :nel the average price of cream was .t.e cents. When the house rose at six o'cl'ck T was comparing the relative price of butter with the volume of importa- tion; and as a matter of 'record, I de - ':re to place the following table on Hansard: Average Monthly Toronto Price for No. 1 Cream Cents per Pound Butterfat „ . . • 4.? , '„essee, 1923 1924 1926 1926 1927 1928 1929 January .. 41 44 37 43 43 40 44 February . 41 45 33 43 44 42 44 March ... 48 44 33 45 45 43 46 April .... 43 35 33 45 47 48 46 May! 31 31 35 35 43 40 40 June 32 32 34 35 36 37 37 July 31 34 SS 34 35 36 38 August 32 34 36 45 36 37 40 September 36 36 37 34 38 40 11 October . • 37 37 40 November 38 . 87 42 December 34 40 41 q2 35 40 41 42 42 39 43 39 40 44 43 I deprecate, sir, the efforts which have been made by certain members of this House throughout the length and breadth of Canada to decry Can- ada as a dairying country. I believe Ontario in particular would compare favorably with any other country in the world with regard to dairying. We have heard a great deal about New Zealand' and its advantages as a pastoral and dairying country. I have friends in New Zealand; I have met many people who have visited that comitry, and fronl my informa- tion I believe Doctor Ruddick has giv- en some of the best testimony in that regard it is possible to get. I should like to quote his statement made be- fore the agriculture comanitte-e on March 21, 1929. He said: We hear a great deal about the al- leged advantage of the year-round pasture in New Zealand. That is, I suppose, an advantage, and it sounds very 'well at a distance. But that is only one factor in the cost of produc- ing butter and cheese in New Zealand. tising on the part of manufacturers I wasvery much interested in a re - and distributors, and increased tour -1 cent journal which I got from New est traffic in Canada have all tended Zealand, which pointed out that in one to increase per capita consumption. ;district they were beginning to house Schedule No. 6 shows the Canadian their cattle during the winter months, per capita consumption of butter M - nee continuously putting them in the creased from 95.79 pounds in 1921 to fields during the wet periods. • They 29.31 pounds in 1928; the per capita found that it had this advantage, that consumption of cheese increased from when the cattle are allowed to run 2,51 pounds in 1921 to 3.54 pounds in on the pastures during the winter 1928; the per capita consumption of season, which is continuously wet, milk increased from 240.1 pounds in trey destroyed the pastures eery much 1921 to 470.8 in 1928; the per capita by trampling them all to pieces. The tonsump ion ofice cream increased been in the opposite direction, and that . soil is very loose there, and the yards rrom!aints in 1991 t 7 04 • to a very marked degree. Statistics in and lanes where the cows are handled 1928. The increase in total consump- of exports and imports are available down to a much more recent date than are statistics of production, and in view of changing conditions, we shall compare exports and imports of dairy products for the fiscal year ending March, 1921, with those of the yea: ending November, 1929 -the latest period for which statistics are avail- able. The next exportable surplus of the 1920 production will be more close- ly represented by the statistics of the fiscal year ending March, 1921, than by those of the calendar year 1920. Schedule No. 4 shows the quantities, the fat equivalents and values. Schedule No. 4 gives figures for the year ending March 31, 1921, of our imports as follows: Fat equivalent pounds i tion of these four commodities in 1999' t- • o an a mos mp ssae con over that of 1991 together, with fat ton, I have seen the mud so deep equivalents, is shown in schedule No. around these places that a man could not go in and drive the cattle on foot; he had to go on horseback. It is a Increase in Home Requirements 1929 as compared with 1921. very deep, loose soil, and with con- Ccmmodity Increase Pounds Butter 60.362,541 Cheese 7.4.S3,3SS Milk 2.541.361.024 Gallons Ice Cream 2,J731.482 Total a Equivalent Pounds 49..1J:8,066 9.!)36.6 j have not in eethe past, however, pro- .6e lvided much in the way of equipment ifor housing cattle, and that has been eettge considered an advantage. But against that you have to place the high cost 11".26,,88 of land. A good dairy farm in New Zealand -and when I say a good dairy Inerease in Home Requirements farm it means cleared land with grass Compared with Increased all over, and no buildings except the Production, etc. cottage or house -will sell up to five The calculated increase in home re- hundred dollars in the best districts. Value quirements of butter, cheese, milk and It does not all sell for that, but some 3,385,430 82,126,544 ice cream as between 1929 and 1921 dairy farms hare been sold for sev- Our exports for that year of cream, is 143,096,288 pounds of fat . , . en hundred and fifty dollars an acre milk, butter, cheese and condensed The increase in home conscription -nothing but the bare land, in grass, milk amounted to more than 69,000.- of these four commodities '' seem". of course. These dairy farms are not 000 pounds of fat equivalent repres- het to 174 492,071 pounds of butter, cultivated at all, although they do elating a value of over $52,000,000. The net surplus of our exports over imports was 66,590,000 pounds of fat equivalent valued at 350,737,000. Now we will take our imports for the year ending November, 1929, orf milk and cream, butter, cheese, and condensed milk. These imports amounted to more than $12,000.000. Our exports far the same period of cream, milk, butter, cheese, condensed milk and evaporated milk totalled 50.823,000 pounds of fat equivalent valued at $27,993,000. Our total exports a- - 'Mounted as I say, to over 50,000,000 pounds of fat equivalent, repreeenting a value of $27.973,000 or a value per pound fat of 5e.07 cents. Our total imports were in excess of 27,000,000 pounds, representing a value of over $12,00e,000, or a value per pound fat of only 44.13 cents. A comparison of the net surpluses and values shows a decrease of 43,150,000 pounds of fat equivalent, valued at $34,849,000. I am giving the round figures. The statement continues: A fact that should not be overlook- ed and which should -he given em- phasis is brought out in the above schedule. Dining the year ending 'November, , 1929, the fat in various pradacts exported had an average val- ue of 55.07 cents per pound as com- pared 'with an average of 44.13 cents per pound in the inarions products im- ported -la difference of 10.94 cents tinuous rains it works into a regular deep puddle. They found that stabl- ing instead of increasing has actually reduced the cost, to some extent. They Horse Ailments To reduceltsvined, puffy ankles, lymphan- titt von eine mama, bons and swellings, use rhine. .Thia famous antiseptic liniment �0p3 &aye pain, heals sores, cuts, dna and boot_cindes. Does not blister or Itqqttibilt hat, atel the horst dart be worked treatirtemt.$156-at druggists or general t.g. R.. et hi tachorsesentfree 78 s ° I klotereat Reduces heileternetion • ' ' ' or to 364,717,034 pounds of cheese. 'That 174,000,000 odd of butter, at the average price in 1929, means an increased return to our people of $69,- 000,000. The fact is that our total returns for the dairy industry show an increase greater in 1929 than in any previous period of our history. Then there is another matter. Why the reduction in butter fat prices since January of this present year? That is a question which every dairy- man has a right to ask and cream producers have a right to know -why butter fat prices must be reduced at this season of the year. I quote from the Canadian Countryman of Febru- ary 22, 1930. This is the explanation given by the secretary of the Ontario Milk Producers' Association at the annual meeting of this association held in Toronto: The situation coufronting the con- densery and milk powder branch of the industry at the present time is de- serving of special mention. The pric- es the majority of the plants in this branch of dairying are able to pay producers for milk are controlled largely by the price of cream in the United States market. As you know, there has been a decided slump in cream prices there the past few months, owing to an over -supply of surplus milk. For the month of De-, cemher the average price of 92 score butter in New York City was the low- est of any year for this month since 1916. January prices have not im- proved. On January 1st, butter hold- ings in the United States totalled 81,- 837,000 pounds as compared with 43,580,000 pounds. This situation has had its effect on fluid! milk prices al- so in that country. These conditions in the United States market, coupled with the tariff increase on cream go- ing into the United States, which tame into effect last June, has had marked effect on prices for milk for condensery and milk powder purpos- es in Ontario dueina recent months, and is one a the primary eauses of the rather unexpected inereased cup- pii Milk far city and town trade in this avroviece. Then We are told that if it were -•••, 1;4' wilit14'1% 1eaa semetimes raise a few roots. • They raise turnips, and turn the cows into the turnip fields, and allow them to eat the turnips in the field. . Here is a point which will interest you. We have made a careful calcu- lation on this point, taking the actual payoff in the factory in New Zealand and Canada, cheese factories and creameries both. Taking the actual money paid for cheese and butter, the Canadian cheese and milk producers get 14.5 cents more out of every dol- lar's worth of cheese sold in London than the New Zealand farmers do. In the case of butter it was not so large; it was only about three and a frac- tion. The reason is the high cost of manufacturing and marketing. Our manufacturing costs are low and our marketing costs are extremely low. The price of butter in Canada dur- ing the last two or three years, be- cause we have no surplus for export, has been anywhere frotn one cent a pound to fourteen cents a pound above the export value. In one period in 1927 it went up to fourteen cents a pound above the ex- port value. At the present time New Zealand butter is being imported into Canada, from London, on which the full duty of three cents a pound is be- ing paid. The reason for that is that there is no time to bring butter from New Zealand before our new season's butter is in supply, but it shows that the market here is high enough to permit of that being done. So that cur producers, -while they have not teen manufacturing it, have been get- ting more, and all the butter produc- ed in Canada had brought a higher price because .of that condition. Reference has been made to the condition of dairying in the United States, and their tariff has been com- pared to ours. I am no prophet; I do not know what will be the outcome of the present tariff diseuseion, but during the budget debate of a year ago I said I was strongly of the opin- ion that the tariff hill would not pass congress within last year. President Hoover asked for only limited chang- es, but the tariff has been raised on over two thousand items, With the re. 4. 44 91 taet 'Mese .en te-N;ligl •• e ,-t E M1E28 93D. • elfseeeetsetlapte 414,1041-419,a00 » a » matches Six» ylind r Performance it trikiug Econ.° et • ' ;;. .4,74 ROM the standpoint of dollar -for - dollar value, no other car can match the new Chevrolet Six. 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I have watched Unit- ed Staten press reports as carefully as I could, and it is my candid opin- ion that since the power has been tak- en away from the president to in- crease or reduce duties, President Hoover has settled in his own mind the fate of that bill if it ever comes before him. I am convinced that if he sees. fit to veto the bill he will have the support of at least 90 per cent. of the American press. I believe that the result of the agi- tation for higher tariffs which has been carried on in the United States for the past twelve or eighteen months has been to inform the great mass of American pepple with regard to the evils of high tariff to a degree which never was anticipated, and I should not be surprised if, when that bill comes before the President of the United States, it does not secure assent. his hABY'S OWN TABLETS A HELP TO MOTHERS. There is no other medicine of as great a help to young mothers as Baby's Own Tablets. These Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which regulate the bawels; sweeten the stomach; correct constipation and indigestion; breaks up colds and simple fevers and make the cutting of teeth painless. Mothers who keep a box of the Tablets in the house always feel safe from the sudden attacks of illness that seize their little ones. If baby's Own Tablets are given on, the first sign of illness the baby will soon be right again. Concerning the Tablets Mrs. G. B. Carver, Lyndale, P.E.I,. writes: -"I always keep Baby's Own Tablets in the house and find them a wonderful help in keeping my baby well." Baby's Own Tablets are sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. VICE ANI) IGNORANCE IN RURAL ONTARIO Sherlock Holmes, on his way to a problem which required his presence in the country, said that he feared what he might find. In the crowded city sum, he said, populated though it might he by the most degraded peo- ple, the cry of an infant would be heard and a champion raised up. But in the remote country districts of which city people are prone to think as peaceful and innocent the most horrible cruelties andabominations might take place and nobody knowing and nehonly wishing to interfere. Mr. J. .T. Kelso, head of the Provincial Children's Aid, in the course of a conversation the other day, express- ed the wish that Senator Couzens, of Mriehigan, might spend part of his 'vast fortune in making life saner and sweeter for some of the neglected chil- dren of his native province!. Senator Couzens, who was born in Kenit Coun- ty, has created a • fund which with principal and interest, will amount to $17,500,000 to be spent in the next 25 years on the children of his adopted state. A very small part of such a fund, if spent in social reform in the rural and northern sections of Outer- io, would pay great dividends in Use- ful lives which otherwise may be wasted or beeorne a positive menace .to the rest of the community in years to come. The general theory seems to be that in rural Ontario nearly every adult owns a farm which supplies his onOn needs and the swede ef his family and enables him to bank a substantial amount each year after the crops are sold. This irrational nation persiets despite the feet that hardly a Week goes by that the attention of the news- „ eceettaireihq. paper readers in, the cities is not call- ed to some tale of crime or hardship that comes from the remote country districts. When, a murder mystery is presented in some sparsely settled part of the country and the news- paper reportees descend upon it they usually come back with horrifying tales of subsidiary crimes which their investigations have brought to light but which for lack of formal charges rarely find. ventilation in court. Pub- lic. opinion, !which is strongest of all perhaps in a village or small town and weaker in the larger centres, may be said hardly to exist in remote neigh- brahoods. Ig-norance, mice and cruel- ty may continue for a generation on a farm and never once be brought in- to the open unless some accident or tragedy turns the spotlight upon the lonely scene. There a family or aclopted children may be held in virt- ual slavery, too terrified to complain, ignorant that there is anybody whose business it might be to receive and investigate a complaint. The great percentage of philan- thropic work is done in the cities. It is there that the bulk of the money is collected. It is there that the plight of the friendless or destitute is forced on one's attention and re- dress made easy. Rural municipali- ties do not as a rule contribute to benevolent causes, and farmers who are generously disposed usually send their contribution to city charities. Very often these charities refuse to spend their funds outside the limits of the municipality in which they have been collected. In consequence, there are throughout the province thousands of children who may be said hardly to have a chance of grow- ing up and becornting useful citizens. The school attendance law is likely to be poorly enforced. Children who are without suitable clothes, and perhaps through their own or their parents' neglect are dirty or verm- inous, receive no welcome from the teacher. They are generally told to go home untilthey have become pre- sentable, and'they stay home. The parents in many cases are only too glad to evade the law for they can find work for even the feeblest of little hands in the multitudinous chores of farm life. These children are made drudges. They grow up in • ignorance and if they have enough enterprise or ambi- tion seek to escape at the first oppor- tunity. Often enough they turn in- to tramps, for the notion that vag- rants are almost invariably products of the city has rvo foundation in ex- perience. Mr. Kelso says that in many rural districts there is great ignorance of the law, and especially of that body of law which has been brought into existence for the pro- tection of children. The taking over of the duties of eruforcerrient by the Ontario police is a step in the right direction. Rural clergymen and church 'workers who have had no op- portunity to study social reform work are often quite innocent of the real evils that exist in the world. For instance, a clergyman writing of a woman of notorious evil character in his -neighborhood, said: "1 am afraid Miss- is not very respectable, for she has had four children though she has never been married." BURNS- • $CRATCHES- scALos - SPEEDY RELIEF FROM THE MADDENING PAIN OF BURNS AND SCALDS OBTAINER BY USING Dr.lhpocks‘ ECLECTRIC OIL • sfiESTIFY tallaS001111N6 QUALITIES " lt INNOERfuLREreeseErALLYtffl WfatiPPLIEDIOCUTS:MOVESAID ABRASIONSereitSKIN A.Pt amoral, actsease MEM OIL .44, Any doctor who has practises in the remote settlements of this prov- ince can testify' to the number' of chil- dren in poor families who are permit- ted to grow up with physical defects which early attention might well have remedied. When one father was strongly urged by a doctor to per- mit a slight operation which would at that time have prevented his daughterl grffing up with a club foot he refused, saying that in a few years she would be wearing long skirts and her deformity. would be concealed. Feebleminded children are frequently found hidden away by the parents who are ashamed of them and are unaware that proper care might aid their normal development. It is in the country rather than in the larger cities that the practise is common of the degenerates marry- ing • each other -since nobody else would accept them --and propagating their mental, moral and • physical handicaps. Better organization, greater vigilance and more practical aid in eliminating from our rural dis- tricts ignorance and degeneracy are demanded. It is a work that well might Attract private philanthropists besides engaging the earnest atten- tion of governing authorities. HISTORIC ,JEWELS THAT HAVE CHEQUERED HISTORY So far as we are aware to direful tradition has hitherto been associat- ed with the historic diamond necklace which Napoleon presented to Marie Louise when she was about bo pres- ent him with L'Aiglon. It is true that not one of the three had much luck subsequently, but this has never been ascribed to the baleful influence of the necklace. Since then it has been legally inherited' or disposed of, and finally came into the possession of the Archduchess Miarie Theresa of Austria. 'She, like other members of the former Austrian -nobility, found herself more in need of money than diamond 'ornaments, and knowing that the United States is now the greatest of all markets for historic and valu- able jewels .she sent it to New York. She had supposed it to be worth per- haps $400,000, but to her horror and dismay the agent who disposed of it received only $60,000. To her still greater anger and indignation she was presented with a cheque for about $7,000. The rest of the sum had, ap- parently, been paid in commissions and incidental expenses. Since she had already paid about this amount for insurance on the jewels when they were on the way to the United States the Archduchess is in precisely -noth- ing and out her famous necklace. She is now demanding an aceounting, and in the course of of we are likely to learn something of the devious way in which historic gewgaws are disposed of and also of the sad fluctuations! in their price. One reason why the superstitious are usually able to point to tragedies associated with famous gems is to be found in the fact that gems are no- toriously long lived. They are rare- ly destroyed, and then only as the result of an accidentelhat everybody deplores. It follows that in the course of two or three hundred years, in which the jewel has changed hands perhaps a dozen times or more, there is very likely to be a murdee, a sui- cide or a bankruptcy quite independ- ent of the tem#ation the particular stone may offer to the criminal Trawl- ed. We 'also mention in passing the fact that a stone that has a gory history is probably worth more Money than one whose career has been plac- id. Oddly enough the famous Hope jewel, whose past has been chequered with murder and sudden death, was mentioned in the despatches once more just about the tines that the dad adteettbiste of the Archduchess 'was israngilst Ito the 'attention of the general public. This was incidentally through the Marriage of Lady titoria danghtter of the Duke et New - castle. The Hope diamond, the most famous blue gem in the world, is now in the possession If Ameri- can, and it mthat may be s' has found means to exercise the spell that the gem cast over earlier possessors. It filet began to work its fatal en- chantments in 1688 when it was stol- en from a Hindu idol by an adven- turer who was murdered. It later passed into the possession of Louis XIV and Louis XV, who wore it as a fob. Then it was combined with an equally famous ruby, and became part of a glittering royal ornament known as the Golden Fleece. In 1792, when the celebrated robbery of the crown jewels took place. it was stolen. Sev- eral men believed to have been iin- plicated in the crime were guillotined, but the stone was net recovered, and ic vanished from sight until a dia- mond broker named Eliason offered it to Thomas Hope, an Englishman. He bought it, and it has been known as the Hope diainond ever since. In 1861 the sixth Duke of Newcastle, by marriage with Henrietta Hope be- came an owner of the diamond, and six years later found it necessary to sell it at auction. It went to the United States, but was again sold, this time the owner being Habib Bey, who gave £80,000 for it, .Bad luck dogged the Bey, and he disposed of the bauble again. This was in 1909, and two years later it was sold for $300,000 to Mrs. Edward' B. McLean, of Washington. The present Duke of Newcastle who visited Canada last year, was suppos- ed to have been under the evil influ- ence of the diamond when he married May Yohe, the American actress. Their union dissolved in a sensation- al divorce eight years later. -Her sub- sequent escapades with Putnan Bra- dlee Strong caused some wiseacres to say that the blight of the stone continued to pursue her. Another famous diamond, once in the posses- sion of the Duke of Wellington, was the Nassak diamond. It, too, was Or- i gi nail y the eye of an idol, and be- came the property of Warren Hast- ings after a mimed prince had stolen it. This stone is also in the United States. The late Czarina's black pearls now grace, the throat of a young American matron, as do the Thiers pearls, which are composed of three strands, and are said bo be the most valuable string in the world. While the United States is the home of some famous stones, the fact re- mains that the great treasures remain in Europe and India. Apart from his- toric 'association it is probable that the value of precious stone* itt India is greater than the value of all the others put tagehrtre. The native princes have priceless collections, and are 'adding to them as keenly as Am- erican collector's. The most valuable collection of pearls is said to be that of Margherita, Queen Mother of It- aly. The most famous of all diam- onds is the Koohinar, or Mountain of Light, which is a part of the British Crown jewels, and may be seen in the Tower of Londba. The largest diam- end ever mined is the Cullinan, which was cut into several smaller stones and presented to King Edward. One of the greatest of rubies is in King Georges chewer. It has a bloodstain- ed history -which goes back to the time when Don Pedro of Spain killed the Moorish king of Granada and took his jewels. It was worn by the Blaek Prince, and from the helmet of Henry V flashed triumphantly at Agincourt. 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