‘ABBOTSFURD, SUMAS AND MATSOUI NEWS WORLD HAPPENINGS | || BRIEFLY TOLD |) H.R. the visit Prince and of Wales Victoria will Vancouver after August 10. The population of Edmonton, as shown by the official city census fg Mires made public today, is ,083, ar the Government totals of last year. focrease of 1,920 over Dominion An increase in wages and adjust ment of working rules is sought by Janadian National telegraph employ with the management through the interna- tional union represe The New York Herald-Tribune says that Colonel R. Rex Rennee, officer of the Lafayette and World War ace, announced that he would attempt a fight to Paris and return in 24 hours. The hop will be made in September, he sald. who started negotfations ives. former adrille exhibition be of a pire charact that the K it, but, the may . There is a suggestion g may be invited to open us His Majesty is unlikely to Prince of Wales will be in- vited to perform the ceremony. KO. Homestead entries for the first five months of the present year in four western provinces total 2,261, as against 2,881 for the corresponding five months of last Saskatch ewan heads the list with 1,038 en- tries, followed by Alberta with 913, Manitoba with 273, British Col- umbia with 37 year. and Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald, lead- er or-vits Labor party in the United the | Comets Baffle Astronomers Laws That Govern These Bodies Are Still a Mystery Weird Trip On Mountains Hazards of Mountain Climbing in District Near Jasper Chree first ascents of peaks in the Comets are strange bodies that 11,000 foot elass and the opening up baffle even the minds of those be- of a new route to one of the 12,000} hind the huge telescopes {n the ob- lass pe Ln 4 t i foot class peaks of the great Colum- servatories. Travelling at a bin range, all accomplished in 36 speed they rush. toward the sun, hours of arduous climbing, much of | trayel around it, and then return to | 00m. it done at night. under dangerous ice the distant spaces from which and show conditions, and bitter cold emerged hiight to guide | t up by Alfred | using lantern and Edmund Halley, an English as them, ts the | record tronomer, began studying the orbits | J. Ostheimer Jr, and guide Fuhrer, | of comets, and In 1682 he calcul members of the American scientific that the comet then visible would re- jt | party which will explore the Colum turn in 1759. When in December of bt bia ice-fleld, “Roof of the Continent,” this summer Word of the selentisis realized that s of this ardu made an extremely Important suc Queer Service In. Traveller dizzy | some month els for washing, no soap, no for washing and no jug or basin in| press.” One poster says that in 1867 which to hold water. I protested that |; ated | the room was } that year the comet did re-appear, | towe ! Halley had | mon washup room! So a Continental Hotels Tells of Experiences in Different Countries Arrived at a big hotel in Athens back I booked my| There were no clothes on the \t water not furnished. I was} old that it was. The visitors always), brought their own bedclohtes, & soap, 1 | [Rapid Progress Tremendous posters Of Post Office Increase In Canada During Past Sixty Years Probably the growth of the Domin- ion in the past sixty years cannot be rooms and was shown into my bed: | told In any more graphic form than hat which the Post Offlee Depart- they | bed, no keys to the drawers, no tOW-| ment has employed in a serles of headed “Post Office Pro he departnient handled 17 million etters, and in 1927 the total had welled to 575 million, Another says hat in the same period the number and they washed In @ com) o¢ parcels handled has jumped from traveller | 15.00 to 45,000.000. Letters to Great contri-| tells f ris oexperlences to the Lon-|pyitain in 1867 totalled 500,000, This ous adventure was sent-to Jasper by bution to the study of comets, and | don Daily Mail year they will total in round figures courier from the edge of the Colum- this particular one was named after) A couple of months ago, this trav-|o9 990,000. It doesn’t take much bia ice fleld, as the party rested be- | M. B. MURPHY | him. eller continues, I spent a fortnight 10 | jmapination to see the growth back fore plunging once more into the} perminal Superintendent Canadian | With Halley computations thea small hotel on the west coast Of | o¢ these simple figures and to realize vastness of this practically unknown cua et study of come was renderéd infin- | Wales. There were enough bed the tremendous increase in national ; National Railways, Winnipeg, who is area. transferred to Hornpayne, Ont Later, Ostheimer and Hans Fubrer, one of the guides. undertook one of | previous to his time. There still re- mains the question as to how these Relief For Ex-Service Men the weirdest trips in tho annals of | swift travellers begin their Journeys Canadian mountain climbing, reach- |and what their significance may be ing the edge of the Columbia ice-|Important Changes In Regulations |i a universe governed by inexorable fleld in a blizzard, and climbing the | Are Announced From Ottawa | Ja Scientists have yet to discov- | North Twin, 12,085 feet. the third| Important changes in regulations | er the unknown laws that govern peak in the range. ‘of the soldiers’ civil re-establishment! these bodies, for they seem some- | Marching all night, they made a/jdepartment are announced by Dr. J.| times to flout those laws already successful ascent of Mount Stutfield;/H, King. Covering a wide variety of 111,870 feet, aud in danger of freezing | subjects these changes — will if they stopped, plugged on and went |tageously affect a considerable num- \by lantern and flashlight the | ber of ex-seryice men, remove certain breaking ice-field. | Brie ces and part at At 2.10 a.m. they reached the sum-/|least, for the future of those who mit of Mount Kitchener. 11,500 feet, | through no fault of their own, find crossing the Dome, 11,340 feet at 4.10 {themselves In need during their de am., and so back to camp, after 86 | clining years, the department states. hours steady climbing. |The Last Post Fund will be assured known Wheat Pool Agency advan- over proyide, in | Western Canadian Wheat Pools Will Establish Selling Agency in the Argentine W. J. Jackman has been appointed For South America | good-class hotels in Spain Pole. There was a key for} There were safety-pins, brushes, |, In seldom, if eye! on hair-pins, | regeration it took five needles, cotton, candles and matches. | jotter to travel In England the hotels supply 808D, | victoria, on the Continent England two towels for each pers 5 lare placed as a matter of course; 10 | Great Lakes and the | trip In five da {tely more simple than it had been} clothes on the bed for a trip to the | hysiness ip that time. North every drawer, plenty of soap, towelS| inher poster tells a different alde of and water. combs, pins, Another simple legend on still an- he story. Back in the days of con- weeks for a from Montreal to Today a letter makes the In those days there _ re only six post oflices between the Rocky Moun- Ireland one; in Germany three. A) ¢gins, Today™there are 3,490 in the bedroom is not furnished until tooth | same territory. An outstanding fea cls 7 . e | picks and a bowl of*sand are SUD-| tyre, too, of modern mail service is plied. The sand, too, appears in very the C.0.D. parcel post system. This was inaugurated in 1923, and last he water bottle {s also a contro-|ye4+ a total of 1,379,974 parcels was yersial matter. It completes the fur- | nishing of the bedroom in England; handled by the department; indleat ing that Canadian people are quick ft 1s seldom found in Scotland. Two |to take advantage of any new publie are often found on the Continent. | suMictent federal assistance to give Kingdom, will not accompany Hon. resident representative in the Argen The bedroom is not considered service and appreciative of the ef forts of this most necessary govern: Charles Dunning and party to the Hudson Bay this summer. Mr. Dun- ning is as.yet unable to fix a time for his trip. He has not yet heard when Frederick Palmer, the port en- gineer, will reach the capital. Twenty-five thousand peonies, sent by the Canadian Government for free distribution in England. Liverpool on the liner, Albertic. A staff of girls sent by a London forist | ftmmediately began the task of trans: ferring bunches of flowers to 2,500 cardboard boxes for despatch to members and officials of bodies all over the country. To Colonize Palestine Canadian Zionists Subscribe to Large Funds for This Purpose Plans for the colonization of Palestine and for the restoration of the native land to the Jews met with unanimous approval of the delegates who attended the 21st convention of Canadian Zionists in Winnipeg. The situation in Palestine, condi- tions as they are today and as they were half a century ago we told to the delegates by Ussish kin. chairman of the world national fund for restoring Palestine to Jews, and other noted scientist lead ers at the concluding session of the convention. A million dollar fund is being collected for the purchase of land in Palestine and at the conven- tion more than $300,000, the quota set for the Canadian Zionists was subscribed. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Frei- man, of Ot the Canadian council, and president of the Hadd h, the tion, y with a subscrip Is Still To Come Day Of Farmer Has Not Passed in Canada Eventually Canadians ~ and cfally those born and ralsed dutside the big manufacturing centres, will realize that modern industry has its ups and downs, and the high wages chairman of women’s organiza- fund respectiv the ation of $50,000 espe- of one year may be followed by-near- starvation the next. It is then that the wanderer turns to the farmsead and probably does some deep think- ing regarding the future. The day of the farmer has not passed in this land; it is still to come. At the pres- ent time the tiller of the soll may not be striding a rapid road to fortune, but at least he has independence and, with few exceptions, has little worry about his means of livelihood in the future. Shelley the poet, so enjoyed watch- | ing the progress of a paper boat on a stream that he is said to fashioned one from a fifty pound note have on one occasion other material Almost any one will take your ad yice, but one out of a hundred will generate faith enough to use it The important event fu many a man’s life is an accident — the acel- dent of birth. About the only way to convince a contrary man that he is wrong is to agree with bim. Ope mae = arrived in| re vividly | the | when he had ng Vi5 tine for the selling agency of the |honorable burial to any Canadian ex- three Western Canadian wheat pools soldier dying in indigent circum- | Winnipeg Newspaper Union stances and otherwise coming under | He will leave for his new field of the regulations of the fund. work early In September and will Last session resolutions were pre-| have his ‘headquarters in Buenos | Aires. | sented to the government by yarious veteran organizations asking for ex tension of terms of the pensions act. Many of these resolutions haye been The appointment Is the outcome of | a scouting trip that Mr. Jackson made to South America last year for the purpose of inguiring into the general | | under consideration. conditions of the wheat trade in that | | A special committee has been ap- country. It since been decided | pointed by the department of justice by the wheat ,pools to be permanently represented there and while the of-| |for the revision of all statutes. This fice will be of a somewhat experl- | committee will report as to the pos- sibility of handling the reviston of mental character {t Js intended to | give it a thorough trial, in expecta- the pensions act, and if it does not j | |consider it possible then the Govern- tion of the two countries coming into | fairly close relations as both produc- compiled with and a number are now has | ment will consider the appointment |of a speclal committee for that par- ers and exporters of wheat | ticular purpose. jie ey | 2s Bie Baer Canada Rich in Minerals Canada now possesses some of the | London Is Air Port j fs | greatest mineral deposits in ithe London, Ontario, has now an alr a TI i ntraet 1 t world. -These include the wonderful harbor. irough efforts on the par' nt. p Creighton mine, the richest nickel | of the chamber of comnierce an ideal deposit known, and the Frood, in On- | alr-field site has bee taken over < gael slonnes, Bean Ain) VF | jaro, the Fuln-Flon in Manitoba, with | and, within a month's time, will be | | ore reserves approaching $300,000,- completely equipped and marked so the 000; Sullivan, zine deposjt yet uncovered; the greatest lead | ‘as to provide an afr depot available to all planes that seek London as | stopping place. | and the | |new galena discovery on the Ingenika River. Northeastern British Colum- bia, to say nothing of the Rouya area | | Canadian Is Appointed }in Quehee, which carries copper val- | ) Dr. B. T. Dickson, professor of} yes higher than any others so far | |botany at McGill university, Mon-| round | | treal, has been appointed by the} an | Commonwealth Goyernment as chief Canada’se trade with the Orient fs | mycologist of the council of scientific | steadily nearly doubling increasing, lf, four years | and industrial research, Australia, Layette for the New Baby Clothes for the new baby may be inade at saving of time | and for ar when vette every garment quired in the new baby’s wardrobe ineluded. The first long dress of nainsook is made dainty with tu and a yoke with touches of embroid- ery. 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Price of the} book 10 cents the coy How To Order Patterns using the pattern | re- | -Winnipeg Newspaper Union, McDermot Ave., Winnipeg Adare Pattern No...-..----- . HEY bok Premier’s Daughter Visits Canada Jed—“I heard that the lawyers got Mrs. Maurice Huntingdon Whitely, daughter of the Rt. Hon. Stanley of the Did Marie get \Baldwin, Premier of Great Britain, photographed at Winnipeg during her recent irlp across Canada on Canadian Pacific lines to Victoria where she r husband, on relief from bis ship H.M.S. Danae, now in Chinese |N@M€ -n-- essere ener semen = | TOWD wesnccscnense soesnesse 08 most estate. anything?” She got one of the |Joined he waters | | | hour |mer, named Robillard, aged 59, then completely furnished in Switzerland during the winter unless the heating ment department. The following summary tells in system is working well. A friend of | succinct form the history of the pos- mine got 50 per cent. off his bill for rooms last winter because his bed- room was not completely furnished | on this score. Vitaglass To Be Tested Experiments Will Determine Its | Benefits to Plant Life Vitaglass, which admits the violet | rays of the sun. is to be tested as to } {ts benefits. td plant Hfe, at Univer- | sity College, Scuthampton, England,|This group of dates and events, while 1868, Post Office Savings Banks inaugurated; I871, postcards introduced; 1874, free let ter carrier delivery system inaugurat- ed; 1898, special delivery system in- troduced; 1899, augurated; 1908, rural mail delivery; 1914, parcel post; 1921, insurance of parcel post; 1922, C.O.D. service in- troduced; 1925,-Canadian letter rate extended to all parts of America; 1926, war tax removed from letters: tal department; two-cent postage in- _ and at Kew. At Kew one-half of an} perhaps a little dry, tells a story ofa ‘experimental greenhouse will be fit- | ted with vitaglass, and the other half with ordinary glass.