of Women, In 1922 the daily average of births was 61 and for every 1,000 born 105 died under one year of age. | In 272g te Saskatchewan Government paid $6, maternity grants, the r American Tentative plans for development deposit include either a central ing at Point Edward or asly Sovesiuen of the tea con- It 7 ent assis mothers in thi ; oct it is claimed. Bg eter ie way iy : Bs To 0 Ontario corn--Nominal, Oni Montreal, prompt 5.0! £3 Toronto, $14; mixed, ronto, $9. Cheese--New, large, 22¢; 28¢; 'triplets, 24c; Stiltons, 25¢. large, 8 tons, 86¢. to 82¢; twins, 88 to 84c; S "| Edmonton, Alta. --Although figures | = are not yet available for coal produc- tion in Nova Scotia, the greatly in- INDIAN TRIBESMEN " [were Stacking it, whereupon Shaha- wie re lickers, Ibs., 22¢; |basis, creased tonnage from Alberta last KIDNAP BRITISH GIRL a'seined Mrs, Starr and hustled her: do, 2 to 4 Ibs, 20c; hens, over b lbs., | year puts this province in the lead as from the room, threatening both her 28¢c; do, 4 to b Ibs, 26¢; do, 8 to 4 ot Tr ts th Ee in he ad ma s of Suffering and Miss Ellis. The Mullah became Ibs, 22¢c; roosters, 17¢; ducklings, in the Domini ¥ 8 P fii od tory ering Endured by enraged at this insult to the sacred, over b Ibs., 80c; do, 4 to 5 Ibs., 28c: | 10. the Dom iy on. Wore Saal was tie a Youthful Daughter of Com- rights of hospitality under his roof turkeys, oung, 10 Ibs. and up, 80c.|61%c to 62¢; No. 2 local white, 60% total of 33,075 head was Ehipped. preceding by 88,549 tons. The fi mander at Kohat. and publicly cursed Shahazada and his' Dress: ultry--Chickens, milk-|to 61c. Quebec, Que.--Greater interest is being taken by pulp and paper com- Jonies in Canada's reforestation prob- ems, as evinced by the fact that the! pared with 5,987,105 tons in 1091. Laurentide Company have about 20,-| Victoria, B.C,--Plans to establish a 000,000 white spring 8 -and{ new-game reserve in British Colum. transplants in their nursery. The Can- bia, to be known as the Bowron Game for the year, which have been com- piled by the provincial-department of | mines, were 5,975,744 tons, as com! quite active in this work, and a recent tatement issued by the Provincial Government of Guebee is to the effect that the Berthier nursery is being in- creased in order to take care of the "demand for seedlings, ete. : Fort William, Ont.--Lake shipping Game Conservation Board of the Do-| minion Government, - ill form a refuge and breeding place for a greater variety of wild game than any in either Canada or the Un. ited States, according to the announce- men . part in her rescue, | BIG INCREASE IN CANADA'S TRADE {Agricultural Products Tak First Rank Among Domestic. -- Exports. tive up the steep, could see the searchers passing in automobiles. below her. Her only pro- tection from the severe cold of the hills was a coat belonging to a brutal Afridi named Shahazada, the man Who Silled fier mother. YR J next four days were a night- A: despatch from Ottawa says: --I| mare of alternate traveling and hid- During the fiscal year ended March ing, with the girl in an ever growing 81, "Canada's total trade increased State of exhaustion from her physica nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, efforts and apparently hopeless out- Total' trade during the year was $1, 100k. Her feet were lacerated from 748,530,880, an increase over the pre- tramping over the stoney tracks, and vious year of $246,840,887, Export Once, in the course of the terrible jour- .| trade developed to the greater extent, Ne¥, she fell, fainting, at the top of For the 12 months exports of Can- & Snow-covered mountain pass, upon adian merchandise were $932,229,443, which Shahazada lost patience and or $191988,763 over the previous drew his dagger to kill her, being re- | year; imports were $802,457,043, an Strained only by his companions. | inc of $54,694,059. Foreign mer-' After six days of traveling they chandise was exported to the value of T¢ached her captors' home in the Tirah |$138440894. country. Meanwhile, a search by. Among Canada's domestic exports, {riendly tribesmen was in progress ohn Nelson, &" Vancouver news. cultural products, with a value of under the direction of Kuli Khan, a aper owner, who decl.res that unless i ERAT, ranked first. Next came Native official, who on the twentic*h Canada » takes swift action ag st | Woo od products and paper, val- reached Kanki Bazaar, the home « Oriental immigration" to British "Col: | ued at $228,756,205.. L a famous and influential Mullah, or bia, the Boutidary between Canada| = Canadian exports during March in-' Mohammedan religious leader, named Asia will not be the Pacific Ocean, creased to $78,566,675 from $58,646, Mahmud Akhundzeds, where, after bit the Rocky' Mountains, - Loss than 312 in February. Exports in March much pressure, he ascertained that the 300 years ago the first white man saw Of 1922 totalled $60,847,484, Dutible CAPYve Was held in a mountain fort- .C., he Jdn'less than another | imports into Canada during March TeSS eight miles away. Kuli Khan e man will look, totalled $61,619,994, and free imports "Managed to have conveyed to the girl is done. - | were $80,250,433, a total of $91,870, & parcel of comforts and a 'letter of A "with $65,307,606 in °ncouragement, and in return learned $72,378,726 in March that she was being reasonably treated by the women of the tribesmen. | Mrs. Starr at time was near : «| Kanki Bazaar, under a native escort, colonization having arrived after 'adventures which ¢ i k "region has seemed to threaten her mission with been announced by the Quebec Gov- failure, and the Mullah apparently ernment. This office will be located at fearing trouble, sent a letter to her " Senneterre, which is in the eastern party - ordering 'them to turh back. ux ; r g section of the Abitibi, and the object This letter was ignored, and the party is to allow sett] tablish them- reached Kanki, : selve i the Bell = Shortly afterward Kuli Khan in. i duced the Mullah to bring about the | transfer of the captive girl to the where she was eventu- eing carried over the one of the tribesmen, The and g of a new "the r they ta i abductors stood around ie ly, insisting that Molly was still ng: | | helr} the captors learned Afridi-friendly fo. the A despatch from Simla, British India, says:--The story of the suffer- ings of Molly Ellis, youthful daughter of the British commander of Kohat, while in the hands of Afridi Tribes- men, after she had seen them kill her : Ae mother in the early morning of April ~Association "is also! Refuge, have been approved by-the 14 is told in a an li Pathe | wwar, wnere she is resting under the The Preserve care of her father and Mrs. Starr, the | woman physician who played a large After their murderous raid the iid- nappers fled to the hills above Kohat, half driving, half carrying their cap- rocky paths. Throughout the "following day she the flooded areas rapidly. Eggs--New laids, loose, 38c; laids, in cartons, 87¢. sp $ --- fellows. the surrender of the captive speedily arranged. The tribesmen's turkeys, young, 10 Ibs. and up, 40c. demands for a ransom and pardon | were abandoned, and on Tuesday of primes, 6%ec. rescuers started with the girl on the £al, $2.50; per 5-gal. tin, Journey to Peshawar, where there wag £al. Maple sugar, Ib., 23 to 26c. a joyful reunion between Molly and' Honey--=60-1b. tins, 10% to 11¢ ton, 3 wheat--No. 2 white, nom- tario No. 2 white oats--50 to 52c.] tario flour--Ninety per cent. pat, shi fs, $5.10 "to $5.20; Toronto bas to $5.16; bulk seaboard, $4.95! cutters, $1.50 to $2; Manitoba flour--1st pats., in cotton Foodin Jaci $7.10 per barrel; 2nd pats., Hay--Extra No. 2, per ton, track, | $11; clover, $8.!do, com., Straw--Car lots, per ton, track, To-! choice, $70 to $90; springers, choice Butter--Finest creamery prints, 89 to 40c; dairy, 26 to 27¢; cooking, 24c. | fed, over 5 lbs., 85¢; do, 4 to 6 Ibs, In this dramatic fashion the balance 50¢; 40, 8 to 4 lbs,, 26¢; hens, over 5|bakers', $6.60. tilted to the side of the rescuers and ti 5 The, 28) dud to $5.80 to $5.90, Was over 5 lbs., 80c; do, 4 to b lbs., 29c; Beans--Can., hand-picked, lb., 7c; fher father: Ontario comb honey, per doz., No. 1,' and $5.35; aT $4.50 to $5; Jo. 2 $2.15 sass " Potatoes, Ontarios--No. 1, $1. WATERS RECEDING IN $1.10; No. 2, $1 to $1.05. CENTRAL MANITOBA tul rints, 18%c. prints, 17% to 18%ec. Heavy beef steers, $7.50 to $8; butcher steers, choice, $6.75 to $7.25; do, good, $6 to $6.50; do, med., $5.50 to $6; do, com, $5 to $5.25; butcher heifers, choice, $6.50 to $7; do, med. $6 to $6.50; do, com. $4.50 to $5; butcher cows, choice, $4.50 to $5.50; do, med., $3.50 to $4.50; canners an butcher bulls, 4 to $6; do, com., $3 to $4; steers, good, $6 to $6.50; oe fair, $5.60 to $6; stockers, good, $ to $6.60; do, fair, $4 to $5; calves, choice, $9 to $10; do, med., $7 to $8.50; $4 to $6.50; milch cows, | $80 to $100; lambs, choice, $14 to $15; twins, !do, spring, $9 to $18; sheep, choice 01d, $8 to $9; do, culls, $4 to $5; hogs, fed til-! and watered, $11.16 to $11.25; do, {f.0b., $10.40 to $10.50; do, country points, $10.50 to $10.25. '" Hog quotations are based on the new | price of thick, smooth hogs, sold on a graded basis, or selects, sold on a flat milk-fed, | rate. Bacon selects, sold on the graded bring 'a premium of 10 per cent. MONTREAL. Corn, Am. No. 2 yellow, $1.02 te $1.03. Oats, Can. West, No. 2, 68 to 69¢; No. 3, 63 to 64¢; extra No. 1 feed, Flour, Man. spring wheat ats., 1sts, $7.80; 2nds, $6.80; strong Winter pats., choice, Rolled oats, bag 90 1bs., $3.10 to $3.20. Bran, $28. Shorts, $30. Middlings, $36. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $13 to $14. Cheese, finest easterns, 16 to 16%e. Butter, choicest. creamery, 81% to 82c. this week Kuli Khan and the other] Maple products--Syrup, So Eges, selectad Me Fotutoes, per bag, \ r|car lots, $1. 25. Bulls, com. and med. quality, $3.25 er'to $4; cows, com., $3 to $3.75; veal Ib.; 3-2%-Ib. tins, 11 to 12%c per Ib.; calves, fairly good, $8: do, med., $5 do, com., $4 up: spring [lambs, $6 to $10 each, depending upon. weight and fleshing; hogs, good, $12; (do, mixed, including a few heavies, Flood Conditions on Wane as Result of Removal of Ice "Jam by Government. | A despatch from Winnipeg says: -- : i Flood conditions in central and south-| Jolieves and the lives it saves. ern Manitoba, which caused great! havoc during the past week, inundat- ing thousands of acres of farm lands, «disrupting transpoftation, forced fam- ilies from their homes, isolated others Insulin and Diabetes. of diabetes. ! Smoked meats--Hams, med., 25 to $11.50 to $11.75; sows, $8.50 to $9. The value of a new medical discov- ery is best rated in the sufferings it Its value, at its utmost development, may be largely potential--as in insulin, the pancreatic extract used for the relief The disease, though widely preva- from towns and turned low lands in| 17% 1s obscure in its orign and in many sections of the province into' volves a series of chemical maladjust- huge lakes, are now on the wane and ments in the body too complicated to i taser | the situation generally is much im. Pe described, Its effects are familiar roved. Al oa : enough and painful enough. Who has es re siniboitie River, not known some sufferer tortured with the floods at Brandon Portage 1a thirst that cannot be slaked and hun- Prairie and territory to the east, the E°T that cannot be satisfied save at | removal of ice jams. by Government Peril to his very life, wasting away engineeri s almost as you watch and dying at last, totion: Sansa ang re 1 aftr Spasian moh of ears of HE river comparatively free of ice, the °rous dieting, from sheer starvation, water is recding. Many thousands of °F iD the dreaded diabetic coma? acres o i District, ad in he Popular Poin and literally is poisoned by sweetness. (hia cl, wre tl under war, bus 170i, mud from the pancrns of e a i » water is ewe Fr o ar he within his own body the sugar pro- m. duced from the food he eats. The suc- | cess of the treatment is a strong argu- eel eee. creas that causes the disease, ment as the biological product is brought to perfection. With the pro-| per caution of a conscientious investi- i charged as cured. The theory of finalcure through the use of insulin is that it relieves the | Struggling pancreas of its work and i gives it a chance to regain.its proper functions through rest. The organs of . | the body, unless terribly damaged by accident or disease, have a remarkable power of recovery. that cures or ameliorates most grave internal disgrders.. The argument 'should hold for the pancreas. ce, who continues demands of the al- covery for which the race As Kemal's Foreign may be; "thankful. ss" | The diabetic cannot assimilate sugar least offers a reasonable hope for the complete cure of a baffling and fatal disease. X -------- et Hon. Dr. Beland He has introduced a bill into the ment in favor of the medical theory Commons with the object of wiping that it is a disorder of the human pan- out. tbe drug traffic in Canada. Dr. F. C. Banting, of the University Senate; but is now re-introduced. One of Totonto: the laboratory 'worker who clause provides that persons convicted evolved insulin, predicts a steady in- o Sealing Iu drugs will not have the crease in the effectiveness of the treat. right of-appeal. The was rejected last year by the ~ The Piece Wanted. gator, he does not say that it will cure' A confectioner, who catered to the the disease. It has been demonstrated, little folks of the neighborhood, once however, that it will prolong life, per- arranged his shop window with great haps indefinitely, and some cases care in preparation for a logal fes- treated at Toronto 'have been dis- tivity. The crowning attraction of the | whole was a large chocolate tiger with most realistic glass marbles, which had cost the de- signer twenty' cents apiece. tiger's mcuth was a card inscription: "Nothing in this window over five cents a quarter pound." green eyes, made of In the bearing the A crowd of youngsters quickly as- It is this power sembled on the sidewalk, and present ly, after much spelling over of the placard, two of them invaded the shop and deposited a nickel upon the . Unquestionably insulin is a dis- connter. ' "Say, mister,' 'began one of the boys, It makes the future bright- earnestly, "gimme a quarter o' a pound er for thousands of sufferers and at © tiger--the piece with the eyes in." TL SR rere NOT A WORD OF GOSSIP ~ OR. ANY THING A BODY could UNDERSTAND !! ; tierces, 4% to 16%c; pails, 16% to 16%ec;