oe oe ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS. i af ats ieee 2 ‘D MATSQUI NEW: RED ROSE TEA 1s good tea’ and extra good is the \ Ta Produces Gold From Mercury German Scientist Makes Discovery That Has Puzzled Alchemists For Ages Claiming to have realized one of the wildest dreams in human history, Dr. Adolf Mithe, professor in the Charlottenburg University of Engin- eering, announces he has discovered a method for the artificial production of gold—and displays the proof-of his achievement. The first gold won by man through ORANGE PEKOE QUALITY The Canadian Se ‘ The much debated question of reform of the Senate of Canada “iast to be removed from the realm of academic discussion into the arena of practical polities. Lf it could only be removed at the same time from partizan disputation this country would be the gainer, \ Prior to ihe iecent prorogation of Parliament, Premier King announced that at the next sesSion the Government would introduce legislation haying for its object an appeal to the British Parliament to so amend the British North America Act as lo confer on the House of Commons of Canada the same measure of authorit; and control over legislation initiated by that body as is now enjoyed by the British Mouse of Commons. Like the Canadian Senate, the House of Lords had a habit of “killing” measures passed by the Commons jand sent to the Lords for their approval. Year after year the Lords had nullified the efforts of the Government of which Lloyd Gevrgé was a member, and finally the consent of the Crown was ob- tained to « measure which proyides that if a Bill passes the -Commons three times within a peiiod of not less than two years, it becomes law whether the Lords pass it or noi., Since the passage of this Act, the House of Lords has not wielded theaxe as formerly. Premier King proposes that the British Parliament shall confer om the Canadian House of Commbns the same authority as is now enjoyed by the British liouse of Commons. In other words, if a’ Bill "pisses the Canadian Commons al three consecutive sessions the Senate shall be powerless to pre- veot il becoming the law of the Dominion. ‘ s ‘ It will be seen, therefore, that the proposal is not So much one of ‘of the Senute as a curtailment of tle veto powers Of that body. The Gevernment has been forced to actfon by the tising tide of public opinion against the autocratic action of the Senate in “killing” legislation desired by a large majouity of the people. This year, for a second lime, the Senate destroyed the branch lines programme of the Canadian National Rail- “ways and deprived th ands of Western settlers of urgently needed means of transportation. In lik manner the Senate vetoed the legislation providing for the distribution of the canteen funds belonging, not to Canada, but to Canada’s ex-seryice men..- The Senate also over-rode the recommendations of the Ralston Commission, a Parliamentary Committee and the unanimous decision of the House of Commons to make the soldiers’ bonus permanent, and in other ways mutilated legislation designed to assist Canada’s returned soldiers. «! t Inasmuch as the Canadian Senate is wholly and absolutely beyond the control of the people, ard is probably the most undemocratic legislative body _in the world today, showing an almost complete disregard for the wishes of the peuple, it has become an imperative necessity that, if it-is to continue to exist, its arbitrary us> of the veto power shall be restricted. While it is a Liberal Government in Canada, as it was a Liberal Govern- ment in Great Britain, which is moving to curtail the veto power of the Upper Chamber, stich action should nol be made a party question nor a partizan issue. The Senate has mufilated and killed legislation passed by the Com- mons on the initfative of both Liberal and Conservative Governments, and the party in opposition lodey may be the victim of the irresponsibility of the Senate tomorrow. In‘u democratic country like Canada, the elected representatives of the people must govern, and, unless some reasonable guarantee is proyided that _ the people’s will shall prevai!, the people will eventually wipe the Second - Chamber gut of existence. The Senate was designed to provide a>check, a safeguard, against hasty Jegislation by the Commons ona wave of popular but passing enthugaism, and to protect minorities against any ageression or injustice by the majority. Bur it was never intended that the Senate should usurp the right of nullifying the whole policy of the Commons and the Government of the country. The proposal that legislation shal}! become effective if it passes the House "4 of Commons three times is safe and sane. It provides adequate opportun- - ity for the feeling of the country to be tested. If public opinion does not Support the Commons, that fact will be made manifest, and the legislation will be dropped or satisfactorily amended. But if in» three sessions the elected representatives of the people record their approval of any Bill, it is ‘airly safe to assume that it represents the will of the ‘people and should be- corie effective. to prevent it. nate ds at long yeform And no non-clecied, life-appointed body should be allowed \Work eae Indians Appropriatiohs Amounting to Three Million Dollars Passed at Ottawa Appropriations amounting to ap- proximately $3,000,000 for work among - Many New Elevators Fifty-Four Grain Elevators To Be Built In Saskatchewan Sixty applicaticns have been receiy- ed from elevator companies for sites|> _ on the new Canadian National Railway x § branch lines, 54 of which dre for Indians, confined mostly to tthe west- J & points in Saskatchewan. Requests for| ern provinces, were passed by the : ¢ sites have been made for six elevators} Hous® of Commons. Of this amount - a \ on the Ste. Rose-Rorketon line, the! $1,854,000 was for educational pur- a proposed location being Ste. Rose and poses, and $79,029 to assist young In- Methley. the decomposition of mercury glisten- ed in the middle of a small cup of pre- cious, polished agate. In the view of Mr. Meithe, it represented materializa- Uon of a dream for which innumerable alchemists have toiled and died in vain from the days of Babylon to recent times. Dr. Meithe, in co-operation with his assistant, Dr. H. Stommreich, has dis- covered that by the introduction of a certain amount of energy from the outside, mercury undergoes decom- Position, which results in the produc- tion of gold and helium. Hitherto, it has been\thought that mercury was an unalterable element. Experiments with a so-called elec- trie are furnace filled with mercury, according to Dr. Meithe, destroyed the intrinsic stability of the mercury and by a sfow process caused its partial decompasition into gold. m Although Prof Meithe is of un- questioned authority in selentific circles, the discovery seemed so in- ‘credible, even to him, that the experi- ment was repeated again and again, always With the same result. The most careful analysis by Meithe and other scientists, including Prof. Haber, famous inventor of the process for ex- tracting nitrogen from the air, is said to have established clearly the nature of the product gained from Ure mer- cury. \, ‘ ' While thé disec very means a reyo- lution in the world of science, its sig- nificance at pfesent is mainly scien- tific. For the time being at least, it possesses no economic value, because the cost of prodzction, compared with the infinitesimal amount of gold pro- duced, makes the process unprofitable. Only long, additional research can proye whether the discovery, aside from its enormous scientific import- ance, also has con:mercial possibilities. ~ Throughout Europe, Prof. Meithe is a renowned authority on astrophysics and photo-chemisiry. He is the in- yentor of the femous tele-objective for long distance photograph, a three color printing process and other wide- ly employed scientific and industrial processes. a » Natural Resources Bulletin Effects of Scientific Discoveries On Development of Industries . The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the In- terior at Ottawa says:— The British Association.for the Ad- vancement of Science is meeting in Canada this year, and this fact alone should direct attention.to the debt which the people of this country owe to the scientist. Canada ,has been most generously endowed with natural |resources, but’ how to make use of these has been largely a problem which the scientists have had to solve. We have large areas of pulpwood, but of what use would it be in the Manufactur> of paper had not the scientist provided the means? The making of pape: largely a chemical } Problem, but mechan also has an | important bearing. king woodpulp jin one end of a machine and ma&king jit into paper at the rate of up to 1,100 | feet per minute requires engineering Construction-of these levators, with a total storage capacity of 2,000,000 bushels, would involve an expenditure it is estimated. of approximately $1,000,000. : Work on the construction of ten new elevators is proceeding already at points in Saskatchewan, while ma- terial, such as rock, sand and cement, is on the ground for the erection of four or fiye other buildings.—Free se Press. Like British Rule Two Fijian Big Chiefs have been se- lected by all the Fijian chiefs to go to England to tell the King-Emperor how gratified the islanders are at the hu- mane and just rule which is accorded f oo them under the British flag. This is the Jubilee year of the islands. | Wo Watching Watch the by all means. Vay crossing gates. Sometimes it is not rail a very far cry from the crossing gates | to the pearly ditto. dias students to set up for themselves ability of the highest order. and also to make loans to Indians for| Deyelopment of our Wwaterpowers the construction cf homes. also represents a very high degree of Hon, Chas. Stewart, Minister of the} scientific ‘and engineering ability. Interior, explained that this latter sum| Harnessing our falls Aa rapids and was the amount of the profits so far| converting the power thus created into received by the Department of Indian| electric energy to provide our lighting Affairs from the Greater Production| and power requirements, is an en- campaign. gineering problem of the highest order, while. the use of this same energy for Addressing the Jury J elegive:chemutay processes, such as He was a London cab-driver of the} extracting nitrogen from the air for old sort, called as witness in an ac-| the manufacture of artificial,fertiliz- tion for damages in a street col! ion. | ers, tepresents the results of research and, ignoring the jury, le pe ed) over many by some of the Vin relating his version to the judge, | World's brightest minds +Ultimately the latter stopped him and} In our metallur, a aul observed: “Address yourself to the | many of our most useful ang valuable | ju So, turning awkwaidly to the | Minerals are the result of science de- sew in which twelve tradesmen sat | veloping processes for their extraction. 7 ne lines of in- effects of scien- yeries are not felt, and this ‘the case In connection | {with the development of the natural Many a man is a bachelor today be- 7 yoars industries, le ingly, and remarked: “ Jall well at ‘ome, I ‘ope resources of Ca cause the girl in the case had been ltaught to say “no.” Radio On German Trains CHILDREN GRY FOR “CASTORIA” | Especially Prepared for Infants and Children of All Ages Mother! Fletcher's Castorla has been in use for over 30 years as a pleasant, miess substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups. Contains no __parcotics. on r. Beginning in the autumn, German express trains will be equipped with combination radio anJ wireless) tele- phones, enabling the sending of wire- less messag elephoning and the giving of radio concerts while trains} phe speeding on their where recommend ft. The kind you; 5 a have always bought bears signature of When your wife gets so she can read you like a book it Is time to turn over FOI. 4 (chil, Yj i Fe new leaf. Distance Needed To Stop Motor Cars Table~ of Figures That Should Be Memorized By Drivers Every motor-driver should know ex- actly the minimum distance within which a car can be stopped when it is travelling at different rates of speed. And he should never forget that the ratio between the distance within Which it can be stopped and the rate of speed at which it is going increases with the rate of speed. Thus, when the car is going at the rate of 30 miles an hour, the distance it must go be- fore it can be stopped is mitch Breat- er than’ double the distance when it is going at the rate of 15 miles, If this fact were known and always remembered, there would be fewer cases of motor cars crashing through closed gates and into moying trains at level crossings. In a bulletin issued by the U.S, In- terstate Comme-2e Commission there is a table showing the distance re- quired to stop an ayerage\two-brake motor car travelling at various rates of speed on a good level road. ‘This table of distanc:s, which follows, should be memorized by every driver of a motor car or truck: Miles Miles per hour. per hour Feet. Feet Se bul ~ 145 . 184 + 227 275 . 327 Miller's Werm Powders seldom fail. They immediately attack the worms and expel them from the system. They are complete in themselves, not only as a worm destroyer, but as a highly beneficial mcdicine for children, cor- recting weak digestion and restoring the debilitated system to healthful- Bess, without which the growth of the child will be retarded and its constitu- tion weakened. Princess Selling Art Treasures The Princess Royal, mother of Prin- cess Arthur of Connayght, has joirfed those peopie who haye been turning their treasures ‘nto hard cash. The Princess has ordered about 40 pic- tures. Including some old masters, to be offered at auction next month. Clark’s Beans With Pork ° For the amount of food value which they contain Clark’s Beans and Pork are a most economical as well as 6 most excellent food. “Let the Clark Kitchens help you.” London Surgeon Has Extraordinary Case \ Hay Seed Lodged In Had Sprouted An amazing case was recently treat- ed at Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary, A farm laborer got something into his eye which he was unable to remove, and because of the pain he visited the hospital. “ 7 The opthalmiec surgeon, on making an incision above the eye, discovered |; a green blade of grass over an inch and a half long lying between the tis- sues, which had sprung from a hay seed, which was also remoyed from Man's Eye the eye. Apparently the hayseed had be- come_lodged in the corner of the eye socket, and the discharge from the tear duct had watered it, and the blade of grass growing from it had re- ceived sufficient light through the eye- ball to make it green } The operation was quite successful, and the man’s eye is now as good as ever, Relieves Asthma at Once. If you could read the thousands of unsolicit- ed letters received by the makers from grateful users you, too, would realize the remarkable rowers of Dr. J. D. Kelloge’s Asthmi Remedy. All cases, incipient and chronic, are benefited by this great family remedy. W sul- fer or experiment with worthless prep- avations when the genuine logg’s ywhere, can be purchased eve Minnesota Egg Co-operative Exchange The first co-operative shipment or eggs and poultry to be sent out by the Minnesota Co-operative Ngg and Poultry Eychange was shipped a few) days ago to Boston, Ne York and Chicago. There were seven cars in the shipment, and during the first month the exchange expects to liandle more than 50 carloads. The manage- ment claims it received 3 to 5 cen dozen more for eggs) than farme would have been able to get individ- ually, There are 8,000 farmers in the exchange. eet Alberta Phone Connections Further extension of phone connec- {ion between Albeita and distant parts of the continent has been established. Last year the opening of the few long distance line from Alberta to Mani- toba took piace. This year it has been possible to effect telephone con- nection as far east as Chicago. Some men never do-a charitable act unless there is someone around to ap- plaud. Minard’s Liniment Relieves Pain =. sSightedness, a ustard fat foods and bles Mustard ena hi Mustard neutralizes makes meals the richness of | Eyes Are Getting Weaker Modern Demand On Eye Has Increas- ed Defective Vision Many of us know that eyesight is not what it used to be. It is certain our own is not. Now the American eyesight conservation council bears us out in a statement that it is the modern demand on the eye that has overstrained it. Too much glare in some places and too much dimness in other places, electric lights here and darkness there, cause excessive contrasts which eyes cannot stand without injurious effects. _ As a result nine out of ten adults have defective vision, and four out of every ten school children add to the trouble by contracting serious defects. The United States national commit- tee for the prevention of blindness has issued a statement wherein eight causes are given for the increase of defective vision, as follows: Sore eyes in babies—too often regarded as caus- ed by colds; inflammation of the eyes’ membranes. called conjunctivi- tis; granulated lids, a contagious dis-| ease; injuries caused by “something in the eye”; the so-called “sty,” caus- ed by the breaking of tiny veins as a result of measles and scarlet fever; cross-eyes, which can be corrected if treated in time, and progressive near- which glasses correct. The best preventive is to avoid eye- strain—St. Thomas Times-Journal. Wins French Diploma Saskatchewan University Student Takes High Honors at Sorbonne Muriel Paul, a 1923 graduate.of Sas- katchewan University, who was awarded one of the Saskatchewan Government’s French scholarships last year, has won the diploma 6f the School of Preparation for the profes- sorship in foreign countries, at the Sorbonne, in Paris according to re- ports received. Miss Paul led all the foreign stu- dents in her course, and stood eighth in the entire Sorbonne. Her home is in Napanee. Ontario, and she was formerly a school teacher in Saskat- chewan. A pleasant medicine for children is Mother Graves’ Worm Exterminator, and it is excellent for driving worms from the system. jay nae " Growth Of Population Population Of U.S. On July 1 Was 112,078,611 The population of the United States of America, as at July 1, 1923, was 112,078,611, according to a Goyern- ment cens"1s. Seventy-nine cities now have a pop- ulation of more than 100,000. ~ New York has reached the six million mark. Chicago now boasts~ of 3,000,000; Philadelphia the 2,000,000 mark; while Detroit and Cleveland are around the 1,000,000 mark. Praising a viva: may be good Chris- tianity, but its poor polities. New Citizens Received Eight Hundred Persons ‘Given Naturalization Papers During i May Canadian naturalization paper: hay been granted to 893 aliens during the month of May, accgrding to ures in” the fatest Issue of The Canada Gaz- ette, and of this number 106 are re: Aa: dents in Alberta. Thirty-eight minor - children also gain Canadian citizen- — ship. $2 America leads the nations granted naturalization papers, in Alberta with a total of twenty-five, Austria iS next with sixteen, while Russia “is th with thirteen. Germany ran Rus: close with a total of twelve, w Poland and Italy each have nine, Rou- manja six, Greece four and Denmayk and Norway three each. Two Hun- garians have been granted papers, a: Holland, Belgium, Sweden and Czech Slovakia, one each. - : Fifty-two ‘of the naturalizatio papers have been granted to farmers, twenty-four to miners, restaurateurs ie granted papers number six, and labor- MN ers are next in order with five. Other occupations represented in the ist are shoemakers, glass workers, bank clerks, salesmen, boilermakers, stu- dents, etc. \ Reduced Production Is Reduction 6f 286,000,000 Bushels Indicated For Northern” Hemisphere H | ee A reduction of 286,000,000 bushels i the wheat production of eleyen of the leading producing countries of ; the northern | isphere, as — with last year’s crop is indicated reports to the United States Depart-— ment of Agriculture. These eleven countries, producing 64 per cent. of the world crop will have 1,913,000,000 bushels of wheat this year,as compar ed with 2,199,000,000 last year. A large part of the reduction is due te the smaller crop'in (Canada. _ ? Argentina is producing the largest ye corn crop since 1914-15, with a tot of 276,756,035 bushels as compared with 176,102,739 bushels last year. It is calculated Argentina will have an Rg exportable surplus of about 190,000,- 000 bushels of corn this year. Forec Sas * In the old days the word “simple'’ meant “foolish”; now it is used only to make frock’ cost more. i 3 This ts a cold, cold world—and the coal dealer is glad of it. Le [Feet Sore? Rub well with Mtnard’s. t relieves —inflammation, ~soothes and heals. ¢ ut Why Busy Women Want — SMP Gund WARE Busy women want SMP Enameled Ware because it will bring food to the boil almost twice as fast as all-metal utensils, and com- pletes the cooking sooner. A woman can wash SMP Enameled Ware utensils faster than utensils that have to be scrubbed and scoured. -Three finishes: Pearl Ware, two coats of 4 pearly-grey enamel inside and out. 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