Only choice leaves grown at high altitudes
go into the blending of Blue Ribbon Tea.
That is why its flavour is so uniformly ex-
cellent. Insist upon getting it from your gro-
Cer—refuse substitutes of inferior quality,

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WORLD HAPPENINGS
BRIEFLY TOLD

The Prince of WaWles won nearly
all the principal prizes at the fourth
_ Snnual show and sale of Shorthorn

bulls at Birmingham.

Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz, who
led the Imperial German navy dur-
ing the Great War, was 80 years 01a
March 19.

Lord Lovat has resigned from the
chairmanship of the Overseas Settle-
ment Committee owing to ill health.
He has now almost completely giv-
en up public life.

The Turkish government has paid
foreign bondholders the first install-
ment on the Ottoman debt, the total
of which is $452,000,000 and is to be
paid within 27 years.

a

A Remarkable Invention

Air Driven Railplane Gars Are To Be
Tested In England

Experiments are to be carried out
in England, in a few weeks’ time,
with a remarkable new invention
which may be the fore-runner of
revolutionary developments in rail
transport. It is a “railplane’—a
cigar-shaped car driven by air pro-
pellors and suspended from an over-
head monorail track. Speeds of over
129 miles an hour are considered a
practical possibility. The inventor
is George Bennie, a well-known Edin-
burgh man, who has secured a siding
from the London and North Eastern
Railway Company, in order to carry
out tests.

Mr. Bennie explains that his sys-
tem is not intended to be a substi-
tute for the railways, as heavy or
bulky goods cannot conveniently be

_ -French volunteer firemen who carri
* led. It is claimed, however, that
make up the bulk of the fire fighting} i¢ win afford safe and ultra rapid
: forces ,are at ing to t for mails,
_ the first firemen’s world’s fair, to be newspapers, etc.
held in Paris in 1929. The tracks for the railplane cars
The British treasury. has ved) are i ded to be from a

$20,000,000 as the sixth instalment
on the French war debt, and $725,000
as the seventh instalment on the
‘Italian debt.

In order to enable him to become

;
E
+

the King’s third son, has taken up
temporary duties in the foreign
_ office.
Graham Jardine, 55, former branch
manager of the Royal Bank in west-
_ ern Canada, and for the last five
_ years connected with a Toronto brok-
_ erage firm, died suddenly. in that
city
The government of Cuba has form-
ally notified the Canadian govern-
ment that it accepts the
concluded at Ottawa, in January, in
-<. regard to the division of the short
_ radio waves in the North American
ered.

_Conguest by the air by feminine
p ots was advanced by Mrs. Louise
M tridge Thaden, 23, of Oakland,

ry

rigid overhead structure at a suit-
able height above the ground level.
The supports will be constructed so
that the tracks can be built over ex-
isting railways, roads, and houses.

‘The tracts are kept rigid by tres-
tles or columns placed at intervals,
@ rigid guide rail being provided be-
neath the cars as well as the over-
head monorail from which they will
be suspended.

The design is such that at high
speeds the cars will tend to rise
slightly in the air on the principle of
4@n aeroplane and thus relieve the
friction due to the weight of the cars
on the suspending rail.

N Passengers will be able to join the
cars by means of flights of stairs or
elevators to overhead platforms.

A Queer Superstition
Indian Tribe Belleves Soul Enters

Into Animal While Person Sleeps
The Naga tribe of India are firm

(Cal when she aloft’
in the lonely cockpit of her bipiane
Pa ‘for 22 hours, 3 minutes and 12 sec-
_onds to establish a new endurance
“flight for women.

Steel Nearing Fort Churchill

_ ‘Track Now Laid Within Eighteen
aR Miles Of Tidewater.

steady march of Hudson Bay
on the railway route through
the barren lands, now within 18 miles
of Fort Churchill, has continued
through the winter despite the sev-
_ erely cold weather. With a mercury
at 50 below zero at es, the steel!
gangs have continued their toil and
have made astonishing progress.

At times the wind rakes the bar-
rens like the lash or a whip, and
when they blow the men cannot
work, even though the thermometer)
is at a respectable level. About 250
men are employed on construction
work on the line.

in werleop and wer-
tigers. That is, animals animated by
a human spirit. According to belief,
the man stays in his own home in a
state of lethargy or sleep while the
animal into whom his soul has enter-
ed for the time remains in the jungle
and hunts or is hunted. Injuries done
to the leopard or tiger appear on the
body of the man and if the animal is
killed, the man dies.

He jumps about in excitement
when his alter ego is being pursued
and causes such disturbances in the
home that his relatives commonly
give him ginger. This increases his
strength and enables the hunted ani-
mal to outdistance his pursuers.

When the man becomes his nor-
mal self he remembers his experi-
ences, and an investigator youches
for a case where a man described the
whereabouts of the remains of a kill,
he had made, as a leopard which
was duly found there.

Werleopards and wertigers are not
proud of their attributes but regard

A Dog's Life

Toy dogs, whose prices ranged)
from $100 to $5,000, were taken to}
a recent show, in London, in baskets
wihch suggested a beauty parlor. |
Some had maids to attend them, and
others were kept in baskets of vita!
giass so that they may enjoy the

themselves, and are regarded by oth-
ers, as victims of a procession which
is not their fault.

Greatest Telephone Users

Official Bulletin Shows Canadians
Lead World With U.S. Second
are the world’s greatest

w i ee Sd ba sun’s rays. s 3
“a Could Not Sleep jess
sy Heart Would Start

' Pumping and Pounding

Mrs. Fred. P. Averill, 136-12tb
Aye., Calgary, Alta., writes:—‘I was
bothered so much with my heart I
could not sleep. I would waken up in
the night screaming, and my heart
would start pumping and pounding.

A neighbor lady told me to try

go 1 started taking them and I can
truthfully say 1 am a different wo-
man. Altogether I only took two

Price 50c a box -at ali druggists
and dealers,-or majJed direct on re-
ceipt of price by The T. Milburn Co.,
Lid. Toronto, Ont

telephone conyersationalists. A re-
cently issued official bulletin dealing
telephone statistics discloses
that on a per capita~ basis an aver-
age of 221 conversations per year

were held by the people of Canada, |

compared With 2054 in the United

States, the next highest, and 137 in

Denmark, which is given third place.
The bulletin shows there were at the
end of 1927, a total of 1 987 tele-
phones in Canada, an of
about one phone for every eight per-
sons in the Dominion.

average

The Royal Canadian Golf Associa-
tion has decided to hold the Canadian
Amateur Championships on the Jas-

year

course

Eg this
19 to 24.

per Park Lx
from August

Cloyes came from the
take’ their
claiyis—meaning a

they have a resemblance

Indie
the
nail, to

and
Latin
which

name from

Tt is said that small trout
planted to Zealand waters
as large as the salmon

trans-

grow

Surveying Alberta From Air

Old Time Methods Too Slow Says
Minister Of Interior

The inauguration of a five-year
program of air mapping to cover the
greater portion of northern Alberta
Was announced recently by Hon.
Charles Stewart, minister of interior.
The northward urge of settlement
into the Peace River country ana
adjoining areas {s now so great, the
minister stated, that he realized the
old-time methods of ground survey
were not rapid enough to place the
government in a position to deal with
the situation in an adequate manner,
He had, therefore, concluded ar-
rangements to map this portion of
the Dominion by means of the np-to-|
date method of aerial photography. |

For the carrying on of this work}
special ‘planes will be required and
the minister intimated that he had}
applied to the department of nation-|
al defence for these. As these can-
not be furnished this season, it is
planned to begin the work in the

spring of next year, The aerial
work will also require the laying
down of ground control. This latter
is an essential for the carrying out
of the aerial survey in that it pro-
vides a scale for the photographers.
High In World List
Canadian Banks Among Leaders In
Amount Of Deposits

In a table made by the California
Bank, Los Angeles, is found the in-
teresting fact the Bank of Montreal
ranks tenth in amount of deposits
in a list of 150 of the largest banks
of the United States, Great Britain
and British Dominions, The rank
of the banks in this list is based on
the deposit in dollars to the end of
the past year.

The five leading banks on the list
are located in London, and the next
five in New York. The next two are
located in Canada. They are the
Bank of Montreal, and the Royal
Bank of Canada. Down the list to
the sixteenth name is found the
Canadian Bank of Commerce.

The paid up deposits, according to
this tabulation, for the largest bank
is $1,920,278,206. The Bank of Mon-
treal has a deposit of $733,489,278,
and the Royal Bank $703,202,003.

Se See

Foretells Weather Conditions

In a North Country factory~ in
England, the time for starting and
stopping is sounded by the gateman
striking with a small hammer a
steel dome suspended from a steel
Tod. That dome is regarded as a
correct foreteller of the weather. If
it will be fine and warm the sound of
the dome ceases as the timekeeper
finishes striking it. If it will be wet
the dome resounds long after it is
struck. I

By means of a secret chemical
compound, German vessels made a
town completely invisible in six sec-
onds with a smoke cloud 300 feet
high and 500 yards square. *

leroism Valuable

R. HENDERSON,

who has just been appointed Cana-
dian National Railway's Industrial
Agent for the Alberta district, with
headquarters in the station at Ed-
monton. Expanding industries in
the west, and eastern concerns
which are looking to the opening of
western branches, will be assisted by
Mr. Henderson, who will do for
Alberta what Mr. Roblin and Mr,
Chambers, both recently appointed,
are doing for the Saskatchewan and
Manitoba districts. Mr. Henderson
entered the seryices"of the National
system in 1912.

To Improve Maple Industry

Producers In Canada Will Ask Legis-
lation, From Government

An organization has been formed
of Canadian producers and manufac-
turers of maple products which will
submit to the Dominion Government
& request for legislation to improve
the condition of the industry. The
chief demands will be for more
stringent laws against adulteration;
inspection to prevent adulteration
and a campaign of publicity to se-
cure greater consumption of maple
products in Canada:

Scientists studying the common
cold at Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, have decided that no one
can claim to be immune from it.
They have not found out what caus-
es it.

B.C. To Have Steel Plant

Bstablishment or a steel plant and
rolling mills near Vancouver has
been announced in the British Col-
umbia Legislature. The site is at
Queensboro, near New Westminster.
The plant will cost about $300,000 and
will produce 20,000 tong of steel an-
nually, using electric furnaces. Wil-
liam Cooke and Company (Canada)
Limited, is the name of the firm.

Henry Ford says machinery will
soon do all the housework. See what
the can-opener has already done.

FASHION

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, 20
es bust
measure. Siz yards of
40-inch mater

6
ial with 134

yards of

binding. Emb. No. 11139 (blue) 15
cents tra.

—Purisian Simplicity, This

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J-inch material with yard of

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style is di

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This style is designed in sizes 10, 12,|
14 and 16 year Size 12 requires |
214 yards of 40-inch material with 1 |
yard of 36-inch contrasting. |

No, 637—Playtime. * This style is
designed in sizes 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and
6 years, Size 4 requires 2% yards of
40-inch material with %™ yard of 32-
inch contrasting.

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is designed in sizes 16 18, 20 years,
, 40 and 42 inches bust meas-
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jal with % yard of 36-)
inch contrasting, and 61, yards of
binding.

All patterns 25 cents. In stamps or
coin (coin

preferred), Wrap coin!
carefully, i

Victoria Crosses to the number of
1,157 and two “bars” have been Is-
sued since Queen Victoria instituted
the decoration in 1856 at the end of
the war in the Crimea. One hundred
and twelve were awarded for the
Crimea, 184 of the Mutiny, forty for
the Zulu war, and sixty-six for the
South African war. The award of
the Cross for valor in Ashanti and
other small wars brings the total
distribution before the German war
to 522, Since 1914, the total awards
number 687, This figure includes
two “bars,”

Lieutenant - Colonel R. Stewart
late Duke of Cornwall's Light In-
fantry, has compiled the Empire's
“Roll of Valor.” Arranged in order
of regiments or corps the official
records of heroism on land, in the
air and on the sea form a valuable
addition to the now large library of
regimental histories and other mill-
tary works,

Two officers of the Royal Army
Medical Corps have the alstinction
of wearing a “bar” with the V.Cc.
This is tantamount to winning the
Cross a second time, Their names
are Lieutenant A. Martin-Leake and
Captain N. G. Chavasse. There are
two cases of father and son haying
each won the Victoria Cross, Field
Marshal Lord Roberts and his son,
who belonged to the King’s Royal
Rifle Corps, were each awarded the
decoration, The two Congreves of the
Rifle Brigade similarly distinguished
themselves. The Lancashire Fusiliers
won no fewer than seventeen V.C.'s
in the late war.

Making Unique Search

Plan To Dredge Milo Harbor To
Recover Lost Arms Of the Venus
A project~is reported afoot in

Athens to dredge the harbor of Milo
with the optimistic hope of recover-
ing from its depths the missing arms
of the Venus. The plan, if plan
there be, writes the Christian
Science Monitor, assumes that the
arms were there lost overboard, and
that they may still be found and put
back where they really belong. Thus
would be settled a controversy which
is again brought to public attention,
and a mystery solved which has long
puzzled ingenious thinkers.

There have been many guesses
about the question of those arms. In
@ recently printed story of the
statue's history Since its discovery,
Something over a century ago, by a
shrewd peasant cultivating his is-
land farm, one may read conflicting
statements credited to persons who
saw the Venus while still resident in
the discoverer’s hut. One such ob-
server reported two arms, one hand
holding an apple; another observer
reported only one arm; another re-
ported that the statue had no arms.
It seems substantiated that the de-
parture of the Venus from Milo was
not peaceful, that the statue be-
came a bone of contention between
French and Greek claimants, that
there was then and there an earnest
struggle for its possession, afterward
hushed up for diplomatic reasons, in
which the arms of the Venus may
have fallen or been thrown over-
board.

New Industry For Canada

Raw Materials Are Available For

Making Satisfactory Pigments

“A process has been developed by
Canadian and British investigators
which will enable satisfactory pig-
ments to be prepared from Canadian
raw materials,” said I. E. Weber,
B.Se., F.C.S., director of B. Laporte,
Ltd., of Luton, England; on a visit
te Montreal. He had special refer-
ence to Canadian ilemite ore to be
used in titanium pigments, or paints
—a white, non-poisonous materia)
which is used in many ways, includ-
ing that by the textile, leather, steel,
porcelain and pottery industries. Mr.
Weber added that a mine had been
purchased by the firm at Ste.
Agathe, which will be developed at
once, and that the erection of a fac-

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Vast Difference Between Past and
Present Of Steamship Travel
Amazing facts are given by E. D.
Breton, of London, England, who
writes of the past and present of

“steamship travel, and refers to the

famous old “Britannia,” which was
the first steamer to cross the Atlan-
tic on schedule, and which was the
product of the imagination of Sir
Samuel Cunard, of Halifax, Nova
Scotia, founder of the Cunard Line,

For instance: the Britannia was
the worder ship of her day, yet de-
scribed by the inimitable Charles
Dickens as having a saloon “not un-
like a gigantic hearse,” with sleeping
berths comparable only to coffins.
Her staff comprised two stewards, a
cook, a kind of cabin boy and the
navigation crew. She carried a cow
abroad to supply fresh milk, Her
bathroom would have disgusted any
traveller of today, and may have dis-
heartened many prospects of those
middle eighties.

Gone is the Britannia. Sir Samuel
is gone too. Today the monuments
to the man and his crude little
steamers are the famous Cunarders
which ply across the Atlantic to and
from Great Britain, and Europe, and
Canada, and the United States, and
cruise into the seven seas of the
world with their red funnels topped
by a black band.

For instance: the world’s fastest
liner, the Cunarder “Mauretania,”
voyages along at about 30 miles per
hour. The Cunarder “Berengaria”
houses 4,000 souls, and carries hun-~
dreds of bathrooms for passengers
who can either pay the same old
Britannia ticket price for accommo-
dation undreamed of in those days,
or pay as high as $6,000 for luxury
that kings could not get in days gone
by. Passengers can now hold swim-
ming parties in the ship's pool, stage
balls, or send facetious messages by
wireless to friends ashore. They tread
on the Cunarder “Aquitania’s” three
miles of carpet, benefit by her 10,000
electric lights, and 1500 push bells,
and are cheered by her 2,000 yards
of silk damask wall coverings. Hec-
tic travellers cross the Atlantic in
about four days from New York on
the Mauretania and marvel at her
fame, which has lasted 22 years, and
at her record of total mileage which
runs into the million.

Building Smallest ’Plane

German Experts Erect Machine
Weighing Only 550 Pounds
What is believed to be world’s
smallest airplane is now under con-
struction at the Phoenix airplane
works in Duesseldorf, Germany. It
weighs only 550 pounds. It is fitted

tory in Montreal region may follow
before long. |

Honors Go To Scotty

An Irishman and a Scot found
themselves seated side by side at-a
certain club-dinner and each tried to
impress the other with the distance
be had travelled.

After much discussion the Irish-
man admitted that he had sailed the
seven seas amongst other trifles, ana}
that he had been to the end of the!
world,

“An’ what did ye see there?” ask-J/ultural Association, with

ed the Scot.

“Sure, and there was a great big
wall reaching to the sky, me bhoy,’
replied the other. |

“Ah, weel,” said the Scot, “‘it's)
a peety ye didna look owre yon wall, |
for I was behind it fishin’, ye ken.”

Contention Is Right |

Issuance or iaundry receipts in|
Chinese will be illegal in New York
State, if a bill recently introduced by}
Assemblyman Mark C. Kelly, of
Utica, is passed. It provides that
every laundry establishment, upon
receiving clothing, shall issue a re-
ceipt in English, itemizing each ar-
ticle received. Said Assemblyman}
Kelly: “A Chinese Jaundry ticket |
does not mean a thing to the recip-
ient if he is a one-language Ameri-
can. . |

|

n
Nec retary-treasurer,
\

with a 34-horsepower Skion motor
which gives it an average speed of
80 miles an hour, and it {s able to
carry two passengers and fuel forsa
five-hour flight. Its total radius 1s
400 miles. The plane is 25 feet in
width, can speedily be assemblea ox
demeunted, and needs only the
smallest barn for a hangar,

Yorm Horticultural Association

presentatives of eight horticul-
tural societies in the province met
rgcently in the Palliser Hotel, Cal-
piry, and formed the Alberta Horti-
Charles
Calgary, as President,
d E. P. Williams, of Edmonton.

Hayden, of

, as

. ee
} Bullion For Royal Mint
The first shipment of gold bullion

from &n exclusive gold-producing
mine !} Quebec Province came to the |

Royal’ lint the other day from the|
Siscoe {old Mines, the consignment |
being va iced at $25,000,
——See
Shows Remarkable Tncrease

In seven years, 19:
ber of deep-sea ships entering Van.
couver has grown 260 per cent

from 496 to Pan 4

It is estimated that Britisn Work-
ers spend $150,000,(00 yeacly in tray-
elling between hohe and place of
employment.

» the num-

or

4 Will Maintain High

Quality Of Beef

Grade Must Be Satisfactory To
Receive Government Brand
As soon as the necessary inspect-
ors can-be appointed at local points,
the Federal Livestock Department
will inaugurate a policy of branded
beef, with the Federal Government
P for the m of
high quality of the brands which it
approves. In order to qualify under
this ‘scheme of Government certifica-
tion, the beef must have been
ed in a Gov t-in=
spected abattoir and bear the Gov-
ernment inspector stamp. It shall
then be submitted to the Government
inspector and, if satisfactory grade,
the brand of quality will be affixed
to it. The beef must then be retail-
ed through an establishment approv-
ed by the Government.

Wool By Aeroplane

Cc Cc
This Means Of Transport

Transport of wool by aeroplane is
being considered by Australian Air
Services, Ltd, in districts where
camel carayans are now employed.
The company in Melbourne has al-
ready received a request from a sta-
tion owner in Northern Victoria for
specifications and an estimate of
cost of freight plans to carry his
wool over a difficult 500 miles of the
journey to the nearest seaport. The
transport of freight in the district in
which the station is situated costs
about £30 per ton, and a plane will
be able to transport freight over the
distance in a day whereas several
weeks are often required.

Forced Strawberries Costly

Five dollars each was the produc-
tion cost of strawberries eaten at a
gathering of members of the Aca-
demy of Science, in Paris. The ber-
ries were produced from roots plant-
ed in pots in a cellar under the yel-
low rays of two Tungsten lamps,
each of 1,200-watt power, which were
kept revolving continuously at a
height of three feet. The roots bore
leaf and fruit in exactly forty days.

Speeding Up Business

A new carrier and telephone sys-
em from Montreal to Vancouver, and
intermediate points, is to be installed
for Canadian Pacific business, accord-
ing to John McMillan, general man-
ager of Canadian Pacific Telegraphs.
The object of the new system is to
Speed up communications, the car-
rier system giving an equivalent of
ten channels of communication,

Reindeer For Canada
A cable from Stockholm states
that a consignment of 300 live
Swedish reindeer has been shipped
to Canada thtough a Norwegian
port. This is the largest shipment of
the sort ever to 0 forward.
ne

The peach originally came from
Persia.

‘COULD NOT
WORK FOR
MONTHS

Restored to Healt
Lydia E. Pinkha:
Vegetable Comp:

h_ by
m’s
ound

Port Elgin, N. B Fr
Months, I was nervous anit