The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921, NEGOTIATIONS WITH SINN FEIN LEADERS MAY RESULT IN PEACE Premier Smuts of South Africa Doing His Utmost to Promote Settlement Backed by British Press -- De Valera May Abandon Demand for Republic. A despatch from London says:--The i those, enjoyed by Canadia Congress of Empire Prime Ministers legislatures. He will also a is, for the time being, eclipsed by the f peace negotiations being conducted , with the Sinn Fein leaders. Premier , Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa ] has thrown the full weight < great eloquence and his prestige < A VISIT TO THE NIAGARA PENINSULA The Garden of Ontario--A District Sacred to Canadian Hearts and Replete With Interest Alike to the Historian and the Industralist--Nature's Masterpiece and Man's Engineering Feats. scape 1: i provincial ask that the ' central or Dublin Parliament be vest-| ed with a wide measure of fiscal 1 autonomy. The Sinn Fein leader, it is ■ said, desires also that the Irish Par-i liament shall have the right of con-i trolling its own army and navy, if i these should be found necessary, the side of an honorable settlement, j It is believed, however, that he will The British press of all shades of j advance this demand merely for the politics are standing behind him, and, sake of bargaining and can be induced j' this, aided by the favorable atmos- to abandon it. He will demand that, \ye'are visiting friends phere created by the presence of the the Irish control the police and post-1 and ^ q r 1>qat Dominion Prime Ministers in London office departments and will ask for mo. por(. rjalhousie has unquestionably brought the Irish j full recognition of the unity of the eigct^c car st00Q' problem nearer to solution fnan has | Irish nation. Prof, de Valera will' been the case in the last quarter of j maintain that the Irish Parliament a century. j should be given the right to decide its It would be idle and wrong to pre-! own taxation policy and the manner tend, however, that vast difficulties J in which its revenue shall be expended, By Frances Lee y of land- Ontario. We notice tkrJarly th; other :Ky when the Niagara district for the u 0':r native 3 >'!, Eastings Co Mi'y and rocc/. villi chains c 1 ttle lakes sr.d streams; roads show beautiful vistas w love. But th_ beauty of Nia{ harm and fascination enti; the do not still stand in the way of an j holding that the power of controlling agreement. So far Premier Smuts (the taxation of its constituents is in-has been successful, but those who' herent in Parliament, know what is transpiring behind the j This, of ccurse, involves giving > that real obstacles will Dublin a free voice in regard to in- be encountered when the three parties to the dispute--the British Government, North Ulster and the Sinn Fein --meet face to face in conference. From an Irish Nationalist source closely in touch with Premier Smuts and the British Government in the negotiations proceeding, the correspondent has been able to learn what Eamorm de Valera is likely to propose in the event of his coming to London. Briefly and roughly, it is this: He will abandon the claim for an Irish republic, but will insist upon a measure of dominion home rule, with separate Parliament for North Ulster, vested with powers similar to come tax, customs, excise, and also the right of withholding any contribution towards the defence of the Empire, and it is likely to prove the shoa pire, and jjf, is likely to prove the shoal split. It is almost certain that Premier David Lloyd George will insist upon an Imperial contribution seeing that the Imperial Parliament would remain responsible for defence and foreign affairs, although, in a last resort he may agree that the Irish Parliament should have some voice in the amount to be contributed as well .as in the method by which the actual contribution would be raised from its constituents. ting to convey us to Niagara Falls. It was a marvel and a joy, that ride. The roadbed is so smooth--and the countryside! Level pastures broken by acres and acres of peach University Extension. The Workers' Educational Association of Ottawa has asked the Provincial University for assistance in conducting classes in that city next winter in economics, history, and English, and the request has been cheerfully granted. The University of Toronto is most anxious to develop outside classes of this kind so far as its finances and the size of itg staff will permit. During the past winter W. E. " mrished in Toronto i Ha, ilton. towns and cities. When the Government laid the Report over and instructed the Provincial University that it must spend no more money this year than it did last year these plans had to foe cancelled and the education for which various communities in the Province are asking, had to be, for the most part, postponed. It is hoped, however, that the Government will yet adopt the Commission's Report and so enable the University to give the Province the service many people in town and country i requesting. orchards and vineyards. Low and branchy are the peach trees with long, graceful, light-green leaves. The grapevines are trained over wire fences, in rows about ten feet apart, the ground carefully cultivated, not a Canadian News in Brief Victoria, B.C.-gcld production in British Columbia this year will aggregate $3,500,000, or nearly one million better than last year. The Rossland Mines, which yielded gold to the value of around $600,000 last year, will have an output this year of $1,500,000. The next largest producer will be the Surf Inlet Mine, of Princess Royal Island, production of about $1,000,000. the shovel stand's. It is the Chippewa-Queenston Power Canal. This amazing engineering enterprise is 12% miles long with the intake at Hog Island, Chippewa, about two miles above Niagara Falls and the tailrace | al society of the province, has of late on the Niagara River about a mile j years increased in its membership by above Queenston. The power house to'leaps and bounds, now numbering, ■be located at the -Bottom of the gorge, with women and children, more than --ill foe the greatest in the world. ■ 32,000. estimated that now in use and sales for 1921 will piobably reach the 7,500 mark. Ottawa, Ont.--A total of 268,000,000 young whitefish were liberated in the Great Lake3 and the Lake of the Wood's by the Dominion fisheries branch during the past year. This is an increase of 50,000,000 on the number liberated by the hatcheries in 1920. A large proportion of the eggs are se-red from the commercial catch of Calgary, Alta.--The United Farm-1 fish> which, but for the activities of s of Alberta, the premier agricultur- the Department, would be wasted. Montreal, Que.--An optimist forecast of the possibilities of Canadian trade with Italy is contained in a report from the Canadian government agent in Milan, Italy. Writing to the •Seven thousand men are at present . . I establishment of the new service to engaged on this gigantic work, the! ^ SlnaT Sask-~fi*ft Better Bull, Nap,les and, Genoa ,by the Canadial] number at times has reached nine! toam to he operated in Canada will be; Pacific he pomts out th,at .conditiona thousand. The canal is expected to ™" b,y,lile Llv«'stoc!k branch of the, are particularly favorable for Can- develop 300,000 horse-pow costing between forty and fifty million dollars. It will be in full operation next year. Presently the car reaches the railroad bridge at the head of the Whirlpool Rapids and turns north towards Falls. A few minutes of eager expectation and the boom of the mighty cataract sounds Then we see white clouds of spray ascending in a giant mist, the bow arched above; the Falls : by the Livestock branch of the Saskatchewan Department of culture in connection with the paign for the improvement of sire3 used in herds and flocks of this province, according to an announcement made by J. G. Robertson, livestock commissioner. This experiment j adian traders and urges personal visits as well as exports of goods. Fredericton, N.B.--Interest has been aroused here over the report that the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, of which the British Government is the con* , trolling shareholder, will develop the f^JV^'L^T^Z It „t0 the. oil-shale deposits in this province. It fairly jjs understood that large sums have been spent on these deposits, and that capital is available to undertake large- farmer is being tried out small scale this year in Saskatchi and if it proves successful, it i3 expected that Better Bull specials will operate in all parts of the province next year. Winnipeg, Man.--Last year 10,279 tractors were sold in Western Canada, distributed as follows: Manitoba, 3,-671; Saskatchewan, 4,229; Alberta, 2,379. The number of tractors sold in the West during the past four years is as follows: 1917, 5,000; 1918, 7,000; 1919, 9,000; 1920, 10,279. It is estimated that there are 33,000 tractors scale production should markets i pear favorable. Yarmouth, N. S.--Approximatelj twenty thousand crates of live lobsters have been shipped from this point to Boston during the past season, where they have been disposed oi at an average price of $25 per crate The fishermen netted on this operation after deducting transportation, charges and commission about $400,-000. Shipping on the Welland Canal. Insurgents Leave Upper Silesia eed to be seen. Some of these orch-j their grandeur and majesty before j that rds and vineyards extend as far as our wondering eyes. reach. Leaning back ini As Fanny Kemble say What Napoleon Forgot. In the Napoleon Supplement of th London Times there appears an esti mate of the greatest soldier of the nineteenth century by the greatest of the twentieth, Marsha! Fo.h The principles of st'ttegy and tactics that Focii applied in the direction f the Allies in the World War he derived in the main from his unwearying study of the campaigns cf Napoleon. He calls Napoleon "'beyond compare, the military genius of mod-times." Yet 1 ' " the c fcrtafole seat beside the wid« "I saw Niagara. O God! Who can vindow, the rush of scented air? describe that sight against our faces, we revelled in th« beauty of the sc< The first town we reached was Ct. Catharines, famed fo? lovely garden Roses everywhere, larkspur and V^p* hocks; they bloom earlie here T i east. Roses also at the farm after c fences were c ci-rt.l The W. E. A. is a voluntary organization of men and women engaged in industrial pursuits and is largely composed of trades unionists. These men and women are eager to secure Upper Silesia Freed of Rebels uw and chlSy5 dfvoK, ev nmf " Afspatch from London says: ; week to the study and discussion of -.ThJe evacuation of Upper Sll- , with them. present-day economic problems, cf cs;a.by tn- insurgent forces was | A lazy stream meanders through F.:.,':..;! Htcnture, history, ps'ych-' officially Completed at midnight ! the rich meadows; it is the oldest of olegy, and allied subjects.' In Eng-' Wednesday, according to a Lon- \ the Welland canals. We crossed the land the W.E.A. has grown to immense! don Times despatch from Katto- j Present ship canal also and the third proportions, having a membership of,witz. i one, now in course of construction, over 25,000. British forces, it is added, now : [hat, famous waterway which will af- To extend its activities into the1 occupy the Polish frontier as far for* pasfafre '° ,oce5n'™rs afndT T" rural districts and among industrial as Beuthen, while the French are ' "ect Up the wh°'e °f the GrCat Lakes workers is one of the most important in controj of Konigshutte, Kat-towitz and the southern region. One recalls also what Tom Moore -wrote in 1804: "I have seen the Falls, and am all rapture and amazement. I felt as if approaching the residence the Deity; the tears started to my and I remained, for : of the University of Toronto. In anticipation of the Government's adoption of the Report of the Royal Commission on University Finances, The Dominion forest plans had been made to inaugurate Western Canada comprise evening tutorial classes in various! approximately 27,500,000 rural communities throughout the, consist cf tracts of land unsuitable for Province and to organize Workers' j agriculture, which have been set apart Educational Ascciations in several! permanently for forest production. THEIR MAJESTIES GIVE COURT BALL IN HONOR OF BELGIAN ROYALTIES A despatch from London says:--The first court ball since 1914 was given at Buckingham Palace on Thursday Bight in honor of the King and Queen trf the Belgians. It was the. only function of the present London season which recalled the splendor and gaiety of the days before the war. There were 2,000 guests, and the old aristocracy of England, many ■whom now belong to a class known ibe "new poor," came out of their enforced retirement for the occasion. Their women folk came decked in those jewels which are family heirlooms and which have been treasured despite present hard times in hopes of happier days to come, and as full uniform or court dress was de rigeur for men, the scene was one of dazzling brilliancy. By Queen Mary's orders long trains and feathers in the hair, which used to be distinguishing characteristics of court dress for women, had been done away with, and the general feminine view was that the innovation was "all to the good." Most of those whom Queen Victoria called common Duchesses, to distinguish them from members of the Royal family who have Ducal title, were present, and among them the American-born Duchess of Roxburgh attracted special attention by her dress and ornaments. Of the young girls present no one looked' more charming that Miss Megan Lloyd George, daughter of the Premier, ir, frock of white satin and silver lace. system with the Atlantic Ocean. There is a drop of 326 feet from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario and the i canal will have only seven locks in I stead of twenty-five as in the present of j system. The Canadian National Electric Line runs to both terminals, Port Colborne on Lake Erie and Port Wel-ler on Lake Ontario. The new canal will be twenty-five miles long, shortening the distance between the lakes by five miles. We stop at some good-sized towns on our way, Merritton and Thorold are two names noticed, bustling centres of activity in the midst of the lovely fields and orchards. Near Thorold was fought the Battle of Beaver Dams, where the British withstood the attack of American troops, and won a victory on June 24th, 1813. Every foot of ground down to Niag-ara-on-the-Lake echoed to the tramp of marching men in the troublous days of 1812-1814, when our heroes fought and died that Canada might remain a part of Britain. As we near the Niagara River we see another and more wonderful industrial project. It has the appearance of an enormous ditch in which men, who look like small black beetles, are at work, op-crating a mighty electric shovel lifting eight cubic yards of earth with one scoop and loading it on a car seventy feet above the level Yet with hie perspective mark of Foch'; own consummate capacity for leadership, the marshal sees the limitation that brought Napoleon at last to grief. This is his way of putting what he deep reason for the dis- aster": He forgot that a man cannot foe God;; that above the individual there is the nation; that above men there is the moral law, and that war is not the highest goal, since above war there is peace. It is because of this clarity of vision that Marshal Foch was fit not merely for a gigantic military responsibility but for the leadership of an embattled civilization against defiant powers ol darkness. It was Foch and; not the Kaiser who understood the lesson ci the career of Napoleon, Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan has left France for a short visit to Italy and will then sail for Japan. Weekly Market Report = had lost sight of the Toronto. Manitoba wheat--No. 1 Northern, $1.82%; No. 2 Northern, $1.80'/.; No. 3 Northern, $1.77%. Manitoba oats--No. 2 CW, 47c; No. pencil to give 3 CW, 44 %c; extra No. 1 feed, 44%c; f their magnifi-|No. 1 feed, 42c; No. 2 feed, 41%, the dslicious absorption which thusiasm a'one can produc( impossible by pen faint idea . Painting is lifeless, and the! Manitoba barley--No. 3 CW, 76c; most burning words of poetry have|N£- 4 cw> 71 ^c> rejected, 66c; feed, all been lavished upon inferior and I °ah the above in store Fort William, ordinary subjects We must have new American corn-No. 2 yellow, 75c; fomahen-, of language to describe nominal, c.i.f., Bay ports, the Falls of Niagara." j Ontario cats--No. 2 white, 40 to We spent the day viewing the Falls j 42c. from different aspects 'clock took the C.N.R. radial again | to $1.55, nominal, per car lot; for the hour's return ride to Port: Spring, $1.41 to $1.43, nomin. gal., $2.50; per 5 imp. gals., $2.35, Maple sugar, lbs., 19 to 22c. Honey--60-30-lfo. tins, 19 to 20c per lb.; 5-2%-lb. tins, 20 to 21c per lb.; Ontario ccmb honey, at $7 per 15-section case. Smoked meats'--Hams, med., 36 to 38c; heavy, 30 to 31c; cooked, 54 to 58c; rolls, 27 to 28c; cottage rolls, 28 to 29c; breakfast bacon, 33 to 38c; special brand breakfast bacon, 45 to 47c; backs, boneless, 42 to 47c. Cured meats,--Long clear bacon, 17 to 10%c; clear bellies, 19%c. Lard, pure tierces, 14% to 15c; tubs, Dalhousie and the Toronto boat. Maj.-General Sir Wm. Heneker Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Upper Silesia. He said he went there to fight, but finding no war he gave a garden party which was the biggest social event ever held in Up-which Per Silesia. 12 Goose wheat, nominal, shipping 13c; prints, 14% to 15c.* points, according to freight. ! Good heavy steers, $7.25 to $7.75: Peas--No. 2, nominal. I butcher steers, choice, $7 to $7.50; I Barley--Malting, 65 to 70c, accord- do, good, $6.50 to $7; do, med., $5 to ing to freights outside. |$6.50; do, com., $3 to $4.50; butcher Buckwheat--No. 3, nominal. ; heifers, choice, $7 to $7.50; do, med'., Rye--No. 2, $1.25, according to ; $6.50 to $7; butcher cows, choice, $4.50 freights outside. I to $5.50; do, med., $3 to $4.50; canners Manitoba flour--First pats., $10.50; and cutters, $1 to $2.50; butcher bulls, second pats., $10, Toronto. ; good, $4.25 to $5.25; do, com., $3 to Ontario flour--$7.40, bulk, seaboard. $4; feeders, good, 900 lbs., $5.50 to Millfeed -- Delivered, Montreal $6; do, fair, $5 to $5.50; milkers and freight, bags included: Bran, per ton,! springers, choice, $40 to $60; calves, $23 to $25; shorts, per ton, $23 to $27; choice, $7.50 to $8; do, med., $6 to good feed flour, $1.60 to $1.75 per bag. $7.50; do. com., $3 to $5: lambs, year-Hay--No. 1, per ton, $17 to $19;'lings, $7 to $8; do, spring, $11.50 to mixed, $8 to $10; straw, car lots, per $12.50; sheep, choice, $4.50 to $5.50; ton, $10. jdo, good, $4 to $4.50; do, heavy and Cheese--New, large, 21 to 21 %c; bucks, $2 to $3.50; hogs, fed and twins, 21% to 22c; triplets, 22 to1 watered, $11.50; do, country points, 22%c; old, large, 33 to 34c; do, twins,' $10.50; do, f.o.b., $10.75. 38% to 34%c; triplets, 34% to 35c; \ Montreal, new, Stilton, 23c. | Oats, Can. West., No. 2, 59% to Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 25 to 60%c; Can. West. No. 3, 54% to 55%c. 26c; creamery, prints, fresh, No. 1, j Flour, Man. Spring wheat pats., firsts, 33 to 35c cooking, 22 to 24c. | $10.50. • Rolled oats, bag, 90 libs., $3.05. Dressed poultry--Spring chickens, j Bran, $25.25. Shorts, $27.26. Hay, No. 40c; roosters, 20c; fowl, 30c; duck-j 2, per ton, $22, in car lots, lings, 35c; turkeys, 60c. | Cheese, finest Fa terns, 20 to 20%c/ Live poultry--Spring chickens, 30c; ■ Butter, choicest creamery, 34% to 85c.' roosters, 16c; fowl, 22c; ducklings, i Eggs, selectui, 40 to 42c. 30c; turkeys, 50c. i Common thin cows, small bulls, $2 Eggs--No. 1, 39c; selects, 41 to 42c; to $3; calves, $2 to $6; choice milk.J'ed cartons, 43 to 44c. |calves, $7; good lambs, $8 to $8.60; Beans--Canadian, hand-pick, bus., I common iight stock, $5; sheep, $2 to $2.85 to $3; primes, $2.40 to $2.50. i $4.50. Young hogs, med., $12.60 to Maple products'--Syrup, per imp.1 $18.50; sows and heavies, $6 to $7. REGLAR FELLERS--By Gene Byrnes