> é 4 3 j = ’ f 4 ; ce ] " \ ; ‘ 2 E L 7 I z: ~~ ; | ie a ie et ‘ H ‘ , i d : ft . n oa 3 $ i. i ae 1 ; ie. Oa “4 ae Ee ‘a2 a | e j pi ie : n> Gee TT ee ie ae fea and ri jie »~number of small fighting machines on ‘ ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS Britain Is Now Building Huge Rigid Airships Which Will Hover Above Clouds Keels are now being laid in G at | Britain for huge rigid airships which will hover above the clouds With a Good Stock in Demand in May With a Cogsiderable Increase in Exports Livestock Market Situation board ready to launch at a foe, says | : Although extreme top prices for cat- an aeronautical expert in the London pee were rather lower at the principal Daily Chronicle. The task of these! arkets in-Canada during the month new machines in war, he sa’ will bel or May than in the corresponding to carry aloft to immense heights and |month last year, as shown by the Do- to transport if necessary, thousands of | minion Livestock Branch reports, miles, squadrons of «swift, deadly.) there was an encouraging improve- steel-built _ “attack-planes. These ment over ihe condition of affairs in will be launched from high above the clouds, and will rush at 200 miles an hour and more earthward to carry other aircraft and raid the commerce of the seas. ; “The airships will,have the power Jacking in a small machine,” the writer says, “of long-distance flights at a great altitude, while, on the other hand, the small planes they carry will be able to outfly and outfight any ma- chine Jaden for a long journey. “In the case of specially-orgqnized attacks by these formidable air- borne fighters on ‘planes -earried at fea by motor-ships, the tactics 6f the eraft sent darting down from airships ‘will be to dive pell-mell on their sur- face-launched opponents, and strike them deadly blows before they can gain the vantege-point of altitude. the preceding month. An_ extract trom the report reads: “Despite the comparatively heavy weight of re- ceipts, the quality of the butcher and export stock was of such a good chai acter, and the demand for good stock so keen, that the rdnge of prices was increased by 50c to $1.25 per hundred: Weight. In the west there was weaker tone at the close, whilst heavy cattle were inclined to drag, but jn the last, good quality stock held 1 sonably steady. There was a contin- ucds sirong demand for good quality stockesuitable for finishing for the British market and the domestic beel trade, in yiew of the steady increase in the movement to seaboard. Short= keep feedeps appeared to be yery pop ular with eastern farmers, who paid as a “Height in air-warfare is the k to victory, and these airship-ca fighters will have the - advantage of being in a position to choose their own moment for a swoop upon enemy aircraft climbing frm the earth.” The Chronicle’s contributor says that France, Italy and the United States all show a growing recognition of the importance of mobile “aerial harbors” for swarms of fighting- planes. The United States already has laid the keel of an airship which will Jaunch single-seater fighters and pele them up again while the mother- craft is travelling at full speed. The first American “flying aerédrome,” he adds, will be ready to take the air this summer. It will carry as a normal load 12 fighters of the Jatest type. Great Britain has completed we first seagoing vessel in the world de- signed specially for tlre transport of aircraft. She has a displacement of 10,950 tons and carries seven Ginch €uns, four 4-inch, and a number of sinaller guns. Besides torpedo arma- ment, the vessel is fitted with two hangars, enabling her to carry 20 air- planes, which will be raised to the tak- ing-off decks by means of eleciric ele- Vators. ¢ Another advance in aerial effici- ency is the construction, for the British Air Ministry, of huge sen-| planes with a speed of 125 miles an hour. One of the latest types has a wing span of 112 feet and carries aaa two tons of gasoline. It is fitted with twin Condor engines of 1,300 hors power each, driving twin propellers. 1 [— | Fame Of Manitoba Artist | Robert F. Logan Acknowledged By| French Critics As Talented Etcher Robert Fulton Logan, a etcher of Paris, France, has returned to Canada on a visit. Mr. Logan has been described by a critic as “one who! is fast becoming the foremost etcher | of Paris.” He is a Canadian by b th, | haying been born in Manitoba 32 years | ago. This is his first visit here in many years and he is filled with enth | as to Canada’s future. t! completed a tour of the west, where, | he Says, there is a feeling of tremend- ous optimism, because of the prospect of very abundant harvests. A complete of eight ateumes| known as the Burgundry set by Mr. | Logan has just been purchased for! the lib: painter- | set ary of congress at Washing-! ton, while the “Pont Marie,” one of! his masterpieces, now re in the} Chicago Art Institute. His : ing, “Les Molineux Vaillancourt,” has! been purch, d by the French Goy- | ernment for the Luxembourg Gallery | in Paris. | If kept continuously Tunning, a ! watch will tick 160,144,000 times in « year. —————EE or Japan is to have seven National ; parks similar to those in America. 1482 ‘ high as $7.75 and generally $7 per hun fined)” aes = U Relative to hogs, the report that receipts and thr6ugh billing show an incréase to date this year of 150,- 000 over the same period in 1922. The supply was considered hea with the export bacon market show- ing considerable price reduction on ac- count of heavy Danish killings, and consequent difficulty in clearing. Prices on spring lambs, opened strong in May When few were offered, but as supplies increased, quotations became lower. _ The top at Toronto was $20, compared with $19 in May, says 1922, and $17 in the immediate April. Montr high was $18 against $20 in 1922, d $12.25 in Apri) this year, and Wipnipeg top, $13.50 against $16.50 last year and $13.25 in April. Exports of cattle, calves and sheep have been Jarger this year than Jast. From Febru 1 to May, 31, 19,956 caitle were exported to Great Britain and 21,874 to the United States, com- pared with 3,563 and 9,355 respective- ly during the corresponding period last year. © Export year up to the end of May were 9,888,900 Ibs. against 7,750,400 during the same period last ) Bacon and pork ex- ports were also larger. Determined To Stop Bootlegging In Furs Plans Made to Enforce Game Laws of Each Province Bootlegging in furs from one proy- ince to another is to be stopped, M. B. Jackson, M.L.A., Chairman of the Brit- ish Cciumbia Gaine Conservation Board, announced on his return to Victor: from Winnipeg, where west- «rn provinces were in conference on fame and fur shipments. Pians were made at the conference to have enforced, in shipment of furs fo another, all game laws of the proyince of origin, Mr. Jackson ssid. The Dominion Government will be ed to back the provinces up with legislation. Uni- form royalties on furs are also plan- ned. from one proyince “This arrangement, we believe, will pul an end io bootlegging in fur and will place an official stamp on Tur transactions fron: one coast of Canada to the othe he Chances For Longevity Dr. Bugene Lyman Fi Ucian and author, “The average person does not stand the best chance of living long. The man or woman who weighs twenty or thirty per cent. below the average has the best chance for long life. It is safe to s average individual reaches the ideal build at thirty. If he can keep near that build for the rest of his life, he increases his chances of longevily.” diagnos s Student (in biology has four legs and one anecdote.” Professor.—“What 1s an anecdote?” Student—"A short, funny tail.” —“Every rabbit Electric machines for postmarking letters can deal with them at the rate of 800 a minute. | WESTERN EDITORS | A. Finch, Editor ard Proprietor of The Press, Battleford, Sask. Settlers Are Lonely Need For Women In North Of British Columbia Young women who would become the wives of settlers in a new country and be willing to do their share of pioneering would find a paradise in the Toba River country, north of Powell River, according to word brought back tg Victoria by Provin- cial Government investigators. “We were asked by the settlers to make an examination of the agricul- tural prospects of their region,” the report. “The greatest need is women setflers. They Ne needed to give the men inspiration and keep things in order. . There can be no real settlement without them.” ys Italian Buys Famous Bible Was Owned By Late Emperor Karl of és ‘ Austria The famous Bible -of the Borso d'Este, yalued at $250,000 and belong- ing at one time to the late Emperor Karl of Austria, has been purchased by a rich Milan manufacturer, who outbid an American banker for it. The Bible is illuminated by artists of the 15th century and is regarded by antiquarians as the finest specimen of its kind in existence. During his stay in witzerland, Karl, being short ot money, sold the rare book to a London antiquary, who in turn disposed of it to its present owner in Italy. The ayerage speed of ihe earth in . ni ; ho : its motion around the sun is 18.5 miles a second. Interesting Discoveries Made ~ In The Red Deer Valley Of Remains Of Gigantic Reptiles * Canada, too, has its “Valley of the Kings.” It is not the gold-lapped remains of human kings which re- Doge in this western valley, but the kings lands which stretched across this con- bones of ancient of the wild tinent many nturies before man made his earliest appearance. kings, who smaller creatures in that carly age, now rest their en- ormous bones beneath the earth in the “Bad Lands’ each of the city of Calgary. Here, the prairie soil is in- terrupted and the deep canyon of a river marks the border of the Red Deer Valley, where the dinosaurs rest- ed until man’s curious hand, aided by machinery necessary for the ta took out of their ancient grayes’ the bones of the megatherions which form objec¥s of great interest in ihe national siuseums today. . Once, according to geologista, the bottom of the Bad Lands was the bed of an inland sea, along the shores of which lived the huge Jizard-like crea- tures whose skeletons have only re- cently been discovered there. The western “Valley of the King was practically .unexplored until few years ago, when the first amazing bones were found by diggers. Each Season now, more and more interest- ing discoveries are being made. Me- mains of gigantic reptiles—for they are reptiles, and not mammals, which lave left their bones in the Red Deer Valley—filiy, eighty and even one hun- dred feet in length, are being found at the present time. The skeletons of the huge creatures brown and broken with age, and the weight of the earth and stone on top of them, are being dug out of the heavy ground in which they are bur- ied, by prospectors who are unweary- ing in their efforts to force iis secrets from the rocky rayine. These dinosaur tyran- nized over the a Geologists say that the dinosaurs date back more than three million Yea When these great beasts flourished on this continent, they walked about by a great inland sea which stretched from the Gulf of Mexico ao the Arctic Ocean. The Ginosaurs’ remains are buried in the Edmonton and Belly River forma- tions, formed by the waters of this in- land sea. The ground where they liyed- was low and covered with hugh rushes jungle grass swampy, and Thornton and Beatty- Plead for Forest Protection SIR HENRY THORNTON President of the Canadian Na- tional Railways, says: “If any man wants to add to the burdens of the Canadian Na- tional Railways, let him start a forest fire. “The forest {s E. W. BEATTY President of the C.P.R., * says: “A living forest means live Jobs. Dead forests mean dead jobs. No man of us has any right to kill a forest by his carele: acts. A minute a main pillar of our freight busi- ness and tourist trave]. I appeal to every Cana- dian: * Protect the Forests,’ ” care may save a century of wait- Jana ferns, of sp s unknown at the present day. Some of the monsters which are now being exhumed were carnivorous. Others were merely herbiyerous. Some walked on four legs, others on two. The earlier beasts had huge bodies and small, weak legs, and were built somewhat on the daschund principle. They wallowed about like present-day crocodiles, never going far from the water. Later, they developed strong- er limbs, and began to balance theni- selves on hind legs and tail, assuming a kangaroo-like appearance. Their immense size has never been exceed- ed. Some of the animals were eneased in a kind of armor. Others were al- together sam reptiles, .proyided with flippers in place of feet. Still others were like huge bats, smaller than the land anima’. Remains of the latter are 2 eC. ‘ In a single valley of the Red Deer River have been’ found bones repre — senting several hundred of these pre- historic beasts. The favorite sec tion for tourists is in Dead Lodge Canon. Here have been found duck- ‘| billed, horned and crested remains, many of them representing speci- mens hitherto unknown. ‘The niost perfect carnivorous dinosaur skeleton ever found anywhere came froni this valley, and is now to be seen at the Royal Victoria Museum, in Oftawa. Investigations of the wonders of the Bad Lands yalleys has been going on since.1884, when the first dinosaur re- mains were reported by J. B. Tyrell, Dominion Government surveyor, but follow-up work began only recently, So great has interest in this sec tion of the country become, that the Canadian Pacific Railway lias ar ranged for.parties of tourists to visit the place this summer, the valley can be reached by motoring from the town of Brooks, on the C.P.R. main line, 110 miles east of Calgary and 65 miles west of Medicine Hat. The approach to the Bad Lands’ recom- mended by railway officials here is that from Dead Lodge Canyon or along the One Tree Trail, where one comes Suddenly upon the great valley from a height above it. All-British Inventions Many Produced By Research Depart- ment Cannot Be Imitated The Morning Post published soine information which we imagine Wes quite new to the public about the work of the Engineering Research Depart- ment of the post office. One of the inventions of the department is an in- strument. which indicates: the exaet point at which any underground tele graph cable is in danger of breaking, By this means the collapse of any cable can be foreseen and prevented, and yet the instrument can perform its Work of detection while the ordinary telegraph senyice is going on. An-= other example of the economy result- ing from research that the original trunk lines between London and the north which weighed -660 hs per mile have been replaced by w work is weighing only 40.lbs. per mile. More- over, much beiter results are obtained by the lighter wire. The Morning Post says that the Post Office Re- Search Department helped the Allies to an extraordinary exteht in winning the war. ‘Lhe various devices pro- duced by the department wer “all- British” and our enemies could not imitate them. “So there's something in the English after all.” Researen is one of the few things which truly prosper in a business department ot State because men follow research lik a mistress or an art—From the Lon don Spectator. Silver Rush In Yukon At midnight, in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, as the celebration o pire Day Ein was at its height, tic were brought to the dance halls and gambling places of the discovery o silver ledge at Happy Creek, forty miles south of Yukon. Immedia y the rush began and socn the s leading to Happy Cree} ere with rowboats, canoes nd launches carrying It pleases a man to be told t ho 1s in his prime, but say the same to & woman, and her feathers begin to ruffie.