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388 paris is thrilled by corsican trial tale of wholesale murder and banditry is revealed family was wiped out in fulfilment of oath of vendetta principal murdered paris paris is a feminine city the customary crime with which its courts deal is crime passionel murders i have had to be postponed from three belgium scourged i by flu epidemic undertakers are unable to keep pace with num ber of burials brussels influenza deaths are steadil increasing in belgium and in places the disease lia3 become a real scourge at mons undertakers and clergy men have been unable to keep pace with the epidemic and many funerals committed for jealousy unfaithful ness or one of the other annoyances attendant upon lamour when the inhabitants of the capital want real drama tfcjy must go to the provinces or preferably the colonies political riots lynchiugs of french guiana last summer havent been to five days because of their great number a special gang of men fcas worked night and day digging graves in ground which is frozen a yard deep throughout the mining district physicians are overworked while priests have had to ask for reinforce- equalled in paris since the days of i incut from the couvents to insure re the debating teams the men who are stirring ontarios interest h corbett dundalk president is in centre at his right are tbe affirmative debaters j e anderson and i h ebbs on his left the negative exponents w r auingham and chris a thornburn the terror at present corsica is sup plying the vicarious thrills for the apertiff hour of urban newspaper readers in the court of ilastia came seven members of a corsican family two of them women the trial has revealed the killing of romaucttl was entirely a family affair romaix- etti was not only the most noted ban dit of corsica of the last century some rabid republican newspapers have said since napoleon he was also a business man of parts and in his way an asset to the corsican chamber of commerce the murder of tile famous corsican bandit romanetti was the cause of a vendetta nobody ever was tried for the murder of romanetti the gendarmes took credit for the shot which ended his career as he rode through the maquis one morning four years ago apparently it was a false assumption lie seems to have been president and chief beneficiary of the milkmans union long before chi cago thought of its analagous beer kings also he used to parade so many francs the parade before gaping k tourist parties through the trial it las been possible to trace some of the characteristics which one seems to have heard often attributed to another famous corsican romanetti was a man of energy a keen strategist knew how to get the most out of those lie had conquered also he had a pas sion for marrying off members of his family he didnt make them kings but certainly minor princes of the do main of maquis his downfall came as a result of the indulgence of this passion ho married a son of jean marie manicini and napoleonlike at once took possession of the entire mancini family madeline mancinl a daughter of the house became his sec retary romanetti couldnt write madeline became his representative in themilkmans association and got rich froralt however romanetti ap pears to have discovered that another branch of the family the antoine macinis were more wealthy he be- au systematically to prey on them he passed christmas in their house fcnd demanded 20000 francs on another occasion it was 2041 francs for damages a mancini cow had in flicted on a romanetti field then one morning romanetti didnt come home from his ride across the maquis and on another morning not long af ter the neighbors found tho home of antoine mancini and the burned bodies of the entire family in ashes two men who were actually charged with tho crime are minor characters the prosecution has centered tho at tack upon madeline she has haugh tily admitted watching tho ultimate act of vendetta and of embracing tho instruments of her revenge as the homo of her cousins burned at the conclusion of recounting the history of the bloody feud madeline mancl was condemned to hard labor for lite tho bandit who led tho raid upon the homo of madelines cousins and to whom sho had promised her self as a reward was killed by the gendarmes but his chief lieutenant dominique santoni was also sent to prison for lifo another aid jean guiseppi was sentenced to seven yoar3 madelines father aurele man- cinl and her brother jean were ac- quitted ny heraldtribune hgious funerals for the many dead there have been some cases of entire families dying witmu the space of three days the meuse has frozen over again after its ice had been blown up by french and belgian troops the temperature remains around ten de grees fahrenheit little welshman scores triiim speech striking campaign keynote called greatest of his career london david lloyd george who has just returned from abroad hurl ed the epigrams of oldfashioned ora tory against the conservative gov ernment in bis recent opening speech which many observers believe may foreshadow the return to power of the fiery little liberal party leader thunderous applause greeted the former premier as he sounded a stir ring keynote for his party in the com ing general election stressing the dise of unemployment and the decline of agriculture during the conservative party regime the whitehaired little welshman held his audience of 800 including 448 prospective candidates spell bound in connaught rooms as he worked up to a climax in his assault reaching probably the greatest oratorical heights of his career vigorous stamping of feet shouts and cheers greeted the lloyd george epigrams as he promised to reduce unemployment to normal a vital is sue in the comint election if tho liberal party is victorious the township school board is it in danger of abolition the first of a series of articles from the pen of thesecretary of school trustees and ratepayers association debaters arouse interest the rural people of ontario are con siderably agitated over tho proposal of the department of education to eliniinato tho threetrustee school board 1 it is proposed to establish a township or community school board for each area of rural on tario to consist of not more than ten school sections where ever there are fewer than ten school sections in the township the board will have less than ten members each school sec tion will have a representative on the board elected by the ratepayers of that section 2 every trustee shall continue in office for two years and until his suc cessor has been appointed and a new board organized 3 a union school section or a con solidated school section including an incorporated village shall remain nil der its present administration jwlth office at 1104 bay st toronto a union school or a consolidated who writes this series of articles for school not in an incorporated village your paper shall be regarded as belonging to the w m morris secretary of the ontario school trustees and ratepayers association expedition starts for borneo to find largest reptile field museum party will visit south pacific to collect rare specimens chicago a zoological expedition to new zealand borneo the east indies and other lauds of the south pacific has left san francisco on e- 1 tton above 1 if ll clrli 1 t i nf viiim1 market reports produce quotations toronto wholesale dealers are pay ing the following prices delivered toronto eggs ungraded cases returned fresh extras 43 to 44c fresh firsts 41c seconds 33c pullet extras zse butter crc- inery solids pasteur ized no 1 4214c no 2 114c churning cream special 4cc no 1 45c no 2 42c cheese no 1 large colored paraf fined and government graded 2114c provision 1kioes toronto wholesale dealers are quot ing the following prices to the trade smoked meats- hams mod 29 to 31c cooktd hams 35 to 43c smoked rolls 25c breakfast bacon 30 to 34c do fancy 27 to 40c backs peamealcd 28 u 30c do smoked 30 to 40c cured meats long clear bacon 50 to 70 lbs 21 70 to 90 lbs 19 90 to 100 lbs and up 18 lightweight rolls in barrels 1150 heavyweight rolls 3850 per bbl lard pure tierces ltic tus 1014c pails 17c prints is to 19c shortening t s 1414c tubs 145ic pails 1514c tins 1714c prints 1614c pork loins 2glc new york i-houl- ders 19c pc butts 23c rork hams 25c grain quotations grain dealers on the toronto board of trade are making the following quotations for car lots man wheat no north 131 u no 3 north 13051 no 4 wheat 12 no 5 wheat 116 no c wheat 10014 cif godcrich and bay ports price on track lc higher half of the field museum of natural history the expedition is the chancellor- stuart field museum expedition to the south pacific sponsored by and led importance of environment it has been my experience that men nnd women are largely tho product of their environment lot a child grow up in tho slums among vicious people nnd the result nine times out of ton will be a warped if not a ruined life raise a child in a christian family with tho elevating influences of a real home to affect tho character during trie formative years and nine times out of ten the result will be a dislr- tblo citizen a good man or woman j j kelso king george shows great improvement uognor the king is so much im proved his thoughts have turned to music and he has had his prized cnaractcl phonograph brought from bucking- from commamiii ham palace nnd ho spends long hours must 10 forty orin exceptional cases now listening to it the machine is year3 of abc pcns0cl can nako nn apparatus speed king arrives major h o d soagravo recently arrived in now york en routo to florida where ho will attompt to break more records with the golden arrow and miss england former navy men coming to canada british fleet orders an nouncement arrangements for immigration london it is announced in fleet orders that arrangements have been mado in conjunction with the navy league of canada and the overseas settlement department of the royal naval benevolent trust for the emi gration to canada of exnaval ratings and exroyal marines with their fam ilies subsequent to employment in canada the requirements include recommendation from commanding officers and men township in which it is located 4 the township board shall deter mine the schools which the pupils respectively attend within the town ship 5 when a township board has been established all the assets and liabili ties of the boards of the several sec tions of the township shall be vested in and assumed by the township board and an equitable adjustmetn of these assets and liabilities amongs the various sections shall be deter mined by a board of arbitration con sisting of the county or district judge the reeve of tho township and the school inspector 0 tho trustee who represents each school area shall have such authority as may bo determined by resolution of the township board over tho schools of the area he represents in regard to repairs supplies caretak- ing the provision of substitute teach ers and such other matters as the township board may deem expedient this proposition has been before the rural people of ontario for con sideration during tho last few years it has been debated at many county and district educational conventions tho rural section of the provincial school trusteeso and ratepayers as sociation has mado provision for the subject to be debated at the provlnc- vinclal convention in convocation personally by phillip m chancellor formerly a reporter on a chicago news paper who recently inherited a large fortune from his grandfather f n matthiesou a manufacturer of lasalle 111 young chancellor long has been interested in reptiles and his expedi tion will concentrate its efforts chiefly on collecting rare snakes and related animals his home is in santa bar bara calif associated with chan cellor in the leadership of the expedi tion is norton stuart also of santa barbara stuart is a naturalist i chancellor and stuart will first sail for the society islands and then to java in java they plan to charter or purchase a schooner and sign a crew 1 for thca remainder of the voyage hall wednesday april 3rd messrs which will be largely off the track of ebbs and anderson of the county of lanark successfully championed the township school board bill in a de bate under the auspices of the east ern education association held in i kemptville agricultural school last commercial vessels outstanding among the objectives of the expedition will be an attempt to secure speci mens of the reticulated python the largest reptile known to science which is an inhabitant of borneo and october messrs aliingham and thorn- 1 nearby islands burn of the counties of waterloo and i other queer creatures to be osught bruce were the champions in opposare the dugong an aquatic mammal ing the bill when it ivas debated at the king penquin a tropical relative the district convention in massey of the queer waddling northern varl- hall guelph november 16th these ety of this bird possibly the giant debating teams from the east and lizardslizards of komodo and a more west of the province are studying the or less general collection of the fauna measure from every angle with a view to staging a firstclass debate upon the question on april 3rd every rural school board of ontario would be welladvised to have a representative in attendance sec 91 of the pubilc schools act gives the board authority to defray the expenses of a delegate to this convention as this question of the larger unit of administration for rural schools is becoming an im portant issue in a number of the provnces of canada it is important that the scliool boards of ontario should endeavor to keep themselves informed upon the issue next week we will consider some of the questions that lead up to the pro posal of the larger unit to be follow ed later by consideration of soma of the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed measure of the various places visited whenever extensive collecting is practicable it is expected that the work of the ex pedition will require about a year the world onehalf the world doesnt know how the other half keeps its legs from freezing elaborate eleetricallvcontrolled arrangements for the payment of pen- sions in caiada the scheme is re stricted to married couples with ono or more children the navy league ot canada selects the men nrranges the passages medical examinations reception in canada guarantees work and arranges housing the overseas ders recorded in early christian writ- once civuitlon got men out of scncmcnt assists in the financing ings if it was concealed pipes that caves ow j drive thorn into sub- partly by loan and partly by gifts to- brought the miraculous wine to the tt i wards the passage money fountain of jcrash traces of ttcm excavations may prove story miracle of flowing wine from fountain may be solved london whether one of the fam ous wonders recorded in tho literature of the early christian church was or was not a clever it of scientific magic arranged to mystify the congregation as conjurers try to mystify their mod ern audiences may bo proved by ex cavations now under way at the ancient city of jerash in palestine by the british school of archaeology in jerusalem assisted by yale uni versity in tho course of these excavations there has been discovered a h m jones of oxford university disclosed in a recent lecture before the hellenic society in london an ancient foun tain believed to belong to the church of saint theodore known to have been constructed in the fifth century after christ this fountain may be the same mr jone3 suggests as that recorded in tho writings of epiphanius which fountain is reported to have flowed wine instead of water each year on tho anniversary of the marriage at cana for which the bible records a similar miracle it is well known that ancient priests in greece nnd egypt used nppnralus to mystify their worshippers and it has been suggested that similar de vices perhaps employed without the knowledge of more devout churchmen wero responsible for some of the won- will probably be found during the in vestigations now under way that new cascade tunnel nay be as dispatches say the longest bore in america but there aro other long distance bores arkansas gazette much ado about quarter of a cent paris a collector of taxes sent a note headed repayment to a har assed taxpayer at gentilly near paris calling upon him to attend at the office joyfully the taxpayer hailed a taxi- cab to dash to the office to get his money back after waiting in a queue for fifteen minutes his case was reached he was gravely informed that he had been overcharged fourteen centimes about h of a cent the next endurance marathon will be riding in a rumble seat from new york to los angeles atlanta con stitution nature is full ot littlerecognized blessings suppose the snow had been dark brown instead of white to ronto globe sun and air for his majesty man oats no 1 feed g0ic no 2 feed 58 c cif goderch and bay ports am corn no 2 yellow kilndried 1091i no 3 yellow kilndried 107 no 4 yellow kiln dr 105 delivered toronto miiifeed del montreal freights bags included bran per ton 3425 shorts per ton 3025 middlings 4125 ont oats good sound heavy oats in car lots 52 to 55c fob hipping points ont good rriiuin wheat fob ship ping points according to freights 130 to 132 barley malting 76 to 79c buckwheat 88 to ijc rye no 2 105 ont hour track montreal car lots do per cent pats per lib 570 seed price juotations the following rangt of pricts fob shipping joints in ununc is being off t red alsike no 1 97 per nest purity per ous 10 no i 90 per cent pur ity per bus 9 no 3 95 per cent purity per bus 750 no 4 90 per cent purity p bus 0 red clover no 1 grade per bus 11 no 2 grade per bus y50 no 3 grade jer bus 8 alfalfa no 1 grade per bus 14 no 2 grade per bus 12 no 3 grade per bus 9 sweet clover no 1 bright quality from machine per bus 180 no 2 off color from machine per bus 125 hay and straw local wholesale hay and straw dealers are making the following quo tations to farmers delivered at to ronto no 1 timothy loose per ton 18 to 19 no 1 timothy baled nominal no 2 do do 14 no 3 do do 13 lower grades 8 to 12 wheat straw 10 oat straw 9 livestock heavy beef eors choice 950 tc 975 butcher steers choice 950 to 10 do fair to good 850 to 875 do com 750 to 8 butcher heifers choice 9 to 925 do fair to good 80 to 9 do com 750 to 8 butcher cows good to choice 725 to 8 do com to med 0 to 075 do canners and cutters 4 to 5 butcher bulls good to choice v750 to 775 do com to med 5 to 025 do bolognas 5 to 6 baby beef 960 to 1250 feeders choice 850 to 875 do fair to good 8 tc 850 stockers choice 8 to 850 do fair to good 760 to 855 calves choice 16 to 1650 do med 10 to 14 do grassers 750 to 8 springers 100 to 120 milkers 75 to 100 lambs per cwt 1475 to 15 do culls per cwt 9 to 13 buck lambs 11 to 1150 to 12 sheep choice 750 to 850 do med 525 to 6 do culls 3 to 4 hogs selects woc 1175 do do fed 1145 do do fob 1075 do thick smooths woc 1125 vv2i king george will rebuild his strength i house inr which has been placed at the disposal of the w among t first to stand dogger bank hero created admiral sir reginald tyrwhitt pro- moted has fine war record london viceadmiral sir regin ald tyrwhitt who is 58 years of age lias been promoted to the rank of ad miral his war exploits include the driving off of five enemy cruisers and the sinking of the german mainz off heligoland in 1914 and tho sinking of the blucher nt the dogger bank in jr- 1915 for which he received tho dso and thanks of the admiralty from 1927 until n few months ago he was commanderinchief of tho china station and rendered notable service during the trouble in china a year ago sir reginald was created a baronet in 1919 at the same time being voted a grant of 50000 for hij war services are you willing to rdmlt that you arc dependent on your wife in your public career perfectly willing answered senator sorghum i have no car for music and i am compelled to depend on marlah to nudge me so kin- by aihur du cros ills majesty will spend a convalescent period up when the band pijys here from lib long illness which caused such worldwide anxiety spangled banner the slat