WORLD HAPPENINGS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Prince Alexandre Murat, who Was
Joachin

descendant of General

a
Murat and Caroline, sister to Napo-|

|
leon I., died recently in Parls. |
A total of 480 Swiss have settled in|
Western Canada this year, and next |
year an even greater influx of Swiss
agriculturists may be expected,
immigration official stated.

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M. Clemenceau, France's war pre-|
mier, will likely write another pen let-|
ter on the subject of debts following |
up that addressed to President on)
August 8 last. This was announced |
remt-officially. |

Drilling in Ericksen Coulee, nee!
Coutts, Alberta, on ihe mate Rona
border between Montana and Alberta,
the Imperial Of] Company has struck}
a flow of gas to the extent of 10,000,
000 cuble feet dally.

Without Germany, the League of
Nations must die, according to the!

opinion of Dr. M. J. Bonn, professor |

of political economy in the College of |

Sir Gilbert Parker
And the French-Canadians

Noted Writer and Parliamentarian
Talks of Friendshiph With Sir
Wilfrid Laurier

The Right Honorable Sir Gilbert |
Parker, who at present is-making one
of his frequent visits to his native |
land, made his only public appearance |
on this trip at Muskoka / sembly, the}
Canadian Chautauqua, recently. A}
large audience gathered from yarious
points on the lakes and listened to a
delightful series of personal remin-
iscences which he gathered tinder the)
title, “Forty-one’Years After.” |

His address dealt largely with pub-|
lic men with whom he had been!
brought into contact. Speaking or Sir j
Wilfrid Laurier and the French-Cana-|
dian, he said:

“It is a good thing to have Jong
enough to proye that apart from
literature, one loves one’s country, is
a patriot, and has no fear. I remem-
ber a speech, I delivered in Toronto |
well over twenty years ago at my own!
university. I had just come back |
from Quebee and I said then, what I}
repeat now, that, while the French-|

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| Canadian Pacific Express Company

Dominion Express Company Now No
Longer Known By That Name
After forty-four years of operation

during which it has grown up with

the country and contributed in no
| small way to Canadian development,
|the Dominion Express Company, will
no longer be knoWn by that name

After September first that great trans-

| portation agency will be known as the

Canadian Pacific Express Company.

|In all parts of Canada and the United

| States and throughout the civilized
world signs on the windows of the
many hundreds of branch offices will

be changed, and thus will be forged a

still closer link with the great par-

ent company whose railroad, steam-
ships and hotels are known around the
around.

To mark the change of name the
company has issued an attractive
little booklet giving a short history
of its career and a synopsis of its pres-
ent widespread aetiyities. The Do-
minion Expres§ Company was incor-
Porated in 1873, but it was in 1882
that Mr. Van Horne, then president
of the C.P.R., took it over as an oper-

Commerce, Berlin, and an internatfon- |Canadian did not share sympathetical-
ally known economist. lly in our imperial commitments and

The decision of the air disarmament | responsibilities, he was loyal to the
committee that the commercial air-| soil ag any U. E. Loyalist in this U. B.
craft would be deemed a factor of/ Loyalist district. It must not be for
comparison of the military air forces! gotten that twice since 1759 the
of nations, was reygrsed by a vote of | French-Canadian has saved Canada
7 to 5 by the members of the prelim-| fo; the Brilish flag. It must not be
inary disarmament conference. forgotten that the second most popu-

Unknown in the annals of Cana-| lar prime minister Canada ever had, |

dian mountain climbing is the feat of| Sir Wilfrid Laurler, was a French-
two children of Victoria, B.C., who,| Canadian. Had I lived in Canada 1
taking advantage of the favorable’ should have been opposed to Sir Wil-
conditions that prevail this year,|frid Laurier politically, but we were
elimbed Mount Edith Cavell, one of) close and intimate friends, stayed witli
the highest peaks in the Canadian | hith in his house six times, I crossed
Rockies, the continent with him once. And

M. Paul Painleve, minister of war,| What was the basis of our friendship?!

has authorized the communes of| He believed that I put the Frencli-
of Bourlon and Dury (Pas de Calais), Canadian in his true light before the
Courcelet, Quesnel, Santerre (Somme) | World. I attacked him in 1911 in the
to erect in their territory monuments | British House of Commons, over the
in memory of Canadian soldiers who) reciprocity proposal with the United
fought in France during the Great| States. I said I believed he would
War. jBe driven from power, and that he
Senator Willlam Marconi, of Italy,| WOuld never receive the prime minis-
inventor of wireless, has announced|tership again. I said to myself:
the perfection of a wireless loud] That ends me g@rith Laurier.” It
speaker which can be heard for ten idn’t. When he heard I was coming
miles. It is the invention of a mem- | t® Canada again, he cabled me and
ber of the staff of the Marconi Com-|@8ked me to stay with him, which I
* pany, and Marconi s it has already did.”
been tried out at C with suc-
cess.

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Honor Portuguese Explorer

Tariff Board Applications Compatriots in India Erect Memorial
eee to Vasco da Gama
Requests For Increases and Decreases| Portuguese cftizens of India haye
In the Tariff jeapaores the memory .of their great
To date a score of applications have | C°™patriot, Vasco da Gama by, the
Been placed before the advisory board| erection of an {mposing
on tariff and taxation asking for In-| {1 Nova Goa, or Panjim, as ft is often
creases or decreases in the customs| Called.
tariff on yarlous commodities. | Vasco da Gama was born in 1460
The applications include requests; 40d died in 1525, after a stirring
for an investigation into customs duty | 40d adventurous career. His admir-
on iron and steel, submitted by the AL | ers in India have honored him chiefly
goma Steel Corporation and the: Brit-| 01 account of the fact that it was he
ish Empire Steel Corporatfon and into} who opened up the way to India, thus
customs duties on foreign magazines, | achieving one of the most important
the request being made by the Maga-| Works in the history of civilization,
zine Publishers’ review hence all the world can claim a share
of preferential tarlffs in general by|in his wonderful career.
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association.| But the Portuguesé of India natur-
Price, Patterson, Vancouver, ask for| ally feel he is their great hero, and
an investigation into customs duties! they have expressed their hero wor-
on wool “tops,” and the British Cot-/ Ship by erecting a memorial to him.
umbla Sugar Refining Company, Van-} er nn arn a
couver, submits a request for inquiry) Witchcraft Is Still
into duties on corn and cane syrup/ | Practiced In Europe
A woman invalid in Western Can-}
ada asks for a review of custoris) But Only Form That Has Survived Is
duty on wheel chairs. | Harmless
} A witchcraft case in Staffordshire,
| Bngland recalls the facet that witch-
| craft still lingers in all parts of Eur-
ope. The British pen&l laws were
repealed in 1736, but there have been
ca within the last 30 or 40 yea
especially in the Highlands, in which

Association,

On Visit Of Inspection

Hon. Lady Cecil visiting Western |

Canada in Connection With Im- |
migration of British Women

Hon, Lady Cecil, vice-chairman of

the Overseas tulement for British there have been reports of witch-
Women, is visiting the homes of Brit-|craft. It was estimated that between |
ish women who have recently estab-| 1484 and 1782 no fewer than 300,000

supposed witches were put to dea
Europe, but there have been cases in
“witches” have been lynched
much more recently. The usual form
of witcheraft to survive” is that
connection with the making of a wax

lished themselves in Western Canada.
She is much pleased with what she has
seen and entertains high
increased immigration of a good class
of women. After completing her !n-)
vestigations in Canada, Lady Cecil
will visit New Zealand on a similar! {imagine of the person to be bewltch-

hopes for | which

monument |

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ating .part of the Canadian Pacific
| Railway. H. G. A. Kirkpatrick, later,
Sir George Kirkpatrick, Lt.-Gov. of

Ontario, was its president, and

experienced express man became its
superintendent. Mr. Stout is today
president and has for many yenrs
| guided its fortunes in that capacity.
F | For some years he and his as
| ants had a hard and uphill fight. They

{not only moved traffic, but helped
v | create it by finding Canadian and for-

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Hl and by scientific rate making encour-
} | aging the farmer, fruit grower and
| others whose markets were far away.
The growth
Simply these many y: is an interesting
; Story and it is an important chapter
the commercial history of this

Smart Sports Frocks
| Fashioned

Are

A stunning sports frock is pictured in

| here expressed in polka-dotted crepe country and its present positlon where Ne

with all the fashion Interest centred
in the front, leaving the back rather}
plain, in the new manner. There is!
a smart convertible collar as well as a/ Ure by the public, _business {nstItu-
Jong front opening, and an inverted tions and the governnfent is a matter
plait each side of the skirt front top-/for justifiable pride. The booklet 1s
I d with odd-shaped’ pockets. n-! handsomely illustrated and is being
othér inverted plait was added to the}
side seams’ for extra’ fullness, while, Widely distributed wherever the com-
the long sleeves gathered into narrow. pany operates.

cuffs, and string belt tying in the
back, are particularly good features,

it is daily entrusted with hundreds of
millions of dollars in goods and treas-

conservative as well as smart. No.| Boy Climbs Highest Mountain
1375 is in sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and
; 44 Inches bust. Size 36 requires 3% | six-Year-Old Lancashire Boy Accom-

| yards 39-inch figured material and 5%
yards plain contrasting. 20 cents.

Our new Fall Fashion Book, illus-
trating the newest and most practical
styles, will be of interest to every
home dressmaker. Price of the book
10 cents the copy.

plishes Feat

The youngest to climb Mount Scaw-
fell, tlie highest mountain in England,
is a Lancashire boy of six. ‘This
feat he accomplished with his grand-
father, who is 60 years old, his father
and his uncle. \ On the way up the
boy met the Keswick official guide,
who was taking a party up to the top
of Scawfell Pike. Learning that the
youngster was not going to be car-
ried any part of the way,ha said that
he would give him a shilling if he was
at the top by half-past two. The boy
Was the first of his party to reach the
top, arriving there at 1.55.

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175 McDermot ‘Ave., Winnipeg

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Edmonton Fur Market

Edmonton took a long step forward
in the establishment of a fur market
for the Northwest Territories and the
|Mackenzie River Basin, when pelts
| valued at $125,000 were disposed of
by auction recently. Furs were sold

i Nain): Ss. csteeneseuy opaiset ees

B.C. Seed Fer Ontario
An order for 2,000 sacks of yellow

pine cones for seed has been receiy-

ed at Kamloops, B.C., from an On-|to a number of well-known firms in
tario d house which also wants|New York, Montreal, Winnipeg and
500 sacks of Douglas fir cones. Much} other cities.

tree seed has in the past been gather-
, where the Dominton An aerial torpedo carrying 1,500
Government ha seed extracting | pounds of TNT and travelling at a
plant at New Wesir ster, but this is| speed of 200 miles an hour has been
said to be the first order of any size for | developed by the United State
interior |

ed at the

army
Fired from an aeroplane it can bit a
target 20 miles away.

such seed received in the
British Columbia,

Mr. |
W. S. Stout, a young but thoroughly |

}elgn markets for Canadian products, |

of, the company over}

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13—Cooking utensil, 48—To. | =2—A large crow, ‘
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21—Cunning. 2—Combining form of} 36—Roofed with slate.
22—Search through, air. | 37—Male voice.
24— Collision. 3—To walk lamely, | 38—DBurden.
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31—Gracious. Short, fast race, | 40—Conceded facts.
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| w Acreage Signed to Wheat Pool!
Over Five Hundred ‘Saskatchewan |
| Farmers Join Pool In One Week

A remarkable commentary on the}
|Tecent anti-pool propaganda is pre-|
|8ented in the: following new acreage |
| signed to the pool, for the week ending!
| August 24th: }
| Aug. 19th, 10,922 acres; 20th, 9,400}
jAcres; 2ist, 10,097 acres; 22nd, 7,945
lacres; 23rd, 7,000 acres; 24th, 10,23:
| acres,

During the period shown, over 500
Saskatchewan farmers decided in fav-
for “The Pool Way,” covering 55,597
acres of wheat.
| Approximately 6,000 additional acres
}of coarse grains also came over. to
|orderly marketing column.

Foods Held In Storage

Huge Amount Is Kept On Hand In
Canada

It may surprise the aye rage person
to learn of the huge amounts of foods
it is necessary to hold in storage to
meet the normal demands of trade, }
says the Natural Resources , Intell!-
|Bence Service of the Department of
| the Interior. Fresh meats in storage
in Canada amount

to about three!

Pounds to every man, woman and
child in the country; butter ang!
cheese total about two pounds pé

capita, while the amount of fish in|
Storage is nearly one and one-third |
pounds per head.

Rich relatives are of little use to-a
poor man except to pose as something |
to which he can point with pride.

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The salmon pack of British Colum- |
bia for the season of 1925
to nearly 2,000,000 casés,

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mission. fed, clay being used instead of wax in|
— jthe Highlands.

If all of London's refuse were 5 Ranta Soe Lae
burned in modern destructors, it is} Not Worth It |

estimated that electricity worth more}

than $10,000,000 could be produced |
annually.

The chances against the mother
quail hatching her egsg are three to
one, officials of the United States

Blological Survey declare

A remarkable slot machine
has 30 kinds of articles in it An
indicator may be pointed to the name
of the article desired.

new

Mount Etna, the famous iad
is densely populated, each of its 800)
square miles of iInhabitable slope}
containing 800 persons.

W. N. U. 1645

|says she is 18, so that she can drive

Doctor: Your husband's not so well
today, Mrs. Malon Has he
sticking to the diet I prescribed for}
him?

Mrs, Maloney: And that he has}
not, doctor. ‘Tis he that says he'll
not be staryin’ himself to death to live
a few years longer. |

been

Phe kind of mother who used to say |
that her 12-year-old datghter was 6,
so that she could travel half-fare, now

the car,

women and spinsters will}
soon be indistinguishable by name | dustrial Exhibition.
in Denmark, as‘ both will be
dressed by the single prefix “Frue”
(Mrs.).

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Rosser, Manitoba, Girls’) Demonstration Team, selected to represent their
They are giving demonstrations of practical nursing; lectures
nd are illustrating the splendid work of the Women’s Institute.
dian Pacific lines, and in addition, enjoyed a splendid sail down ths Great 1
(Beachell, instrucitress; Miss Marle Winther, Miss Pearl Mulligan and Miss

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province at the Toronto In-
on Manitoba's natural re-
They travelled to Toronto by Cana-}

Prom left 10 right: Mrs. W. H.}
ances Steves,

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| Scientist Makes New Discovery

Helium Stars Travel In Pairs and
Move Leisurely

Helium stars travel the heavenly
byways in ‘pairs and, though they are
youths as the life of a star goes, they
apparently are not members of the
celestial “faster set,” according ig one
of the conclusions reached as a re-
sult of twenty-five years’ study Just
completed at the Yerkes Obseryalory
of the University of Chicago at Wil
HNams Bay, Wis., by_Dr, Bdwin B.
Frost and his associates.

The helium stars, which number
368, move leisurely along at the rate
of only four miles a second in many
only one-third of the average
speed of the yellow stars. The helium
sta aside from being youthful and
slow, are among the hottest of the
stellar family and are giants in slae.

Ktelium was first discovered in the
sun's spectra in 1868, and on the
arth in 1895, Dr, Frost explains,

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pand in 1901, when it was being frst
| observed in the light of the stam, it

appeared to him important that the
speed of these stars shonld be meas
ured, and the task was begun. Hs
completion {s marked with the pable
cation of the results compiled by
Dr. Frost, Storrs B. Barrett and-Otto
Struve in ihe July munyber ef the As-
trophysical Journal. ‘

“This research has bronght out he
interesting fact that elmest every
other one of these stars has a #ose
companion—not a planet, bot a eom-
panlon* star—sometimes only stlghtly

fainter than the “star we see,” Dr
Frost states,
A similar investigation at the

Yerkes Observatory of the speqd ot
about 500 white stars,~which ‘as 0c *
cupjed more than twenty-five years;
is now being brought-to 4 close, and
publication of the results is expected
within about two y

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Germany's Population Grows

Germany's population ty again I>
creasing, Experts belleyve that the
lime Is not far when Germany lke
Italy must again haye colonies 107
house surplus Inhabitants. The
death rate of 12 per 1,000 populatien
Is about 2 per cent. lower than 18 1913
and less than half of the high peak
in 1918 when 26 out of every 1000
died.

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