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NEGOTIATIONS WITH SINN FEIN LEADERS MAY RESET IN PEACE Premier Smuts cf South Africa Doing His Utmost to Pro- mote Settlement Backed by British Press De Valera May Abandon Demand for Republic. A VISIT TO THE NIAGARA PENINSULA Canadian News in Brief A despatch from London says: The those enjoyed by Canadian provincial! Confess erf Empire Prime Ministers ' legislatures. He will aiso ask that the! , * r T ^K^T , for the time being, edited by the Tire 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. By Frances Lee or Dublin Parliament be vest- * here is a great diversity of bud- the shovel gtandx It is the Chippewa Lipe in Ontario. We notice 1 i>, par- i Queens ton Power Canal. This amaz _- 'iJar!y thi other .'. y when we sa-.v peace negotiations being conducted j auU>noray . The Sinn Fein leader, it is' the Niajrara dist ., it , ,- or the uf , . tinic !l_n f Vl t Vl . Sinn t-\. ' f ' ,; !. JrtT-tt PflMYXtAl" _ ^ \A A&a rwAJi ft' ' , . -Vi .i * r' ( > ti T r jVi P*- j !_ O-:r native J > Miij and roc< with the Sinn Fein leaders. Premier , said, desires also that the Irish Par- Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa ; liament shall have the right of con- has thrown the full weight of his trolling its own army and navy, if great eloquence and his prestige on these should be found necessary. the side of an honorable settlement.' It is be'.ieved, however, that he will enterprise is miles long with the intake at Hog' Island, ChijgFewa, about two miles' F."n?tings County, is | above Niagara Falls and the taitrace ';tii chains oi pretty , on the Niagara River aio-^t a mile 1 Ule lakes ?p.<: streams; winding i ^bove Queerstcn. The power house to' mads ihow bc.u:tif-ui vistas wa.ch we ; be located at the bcttom of the gorge The British press of all shades of advance thii demand merely for the JS"*^!*?*^ 21?I'S ** f" **,****' ' M & * M ~ politics arc standing behind him, and | sake of bargaining and can be induced ' f ^nt ' < Seven thousand m e * at present this, aided by the favorable atmos- ; to aibandon it. He will demand that w phere created by the presence of the ; the Irish control the police and Dominion Prime Ministers in London ' office departments and will ask for has unquestionably brought the Irish full recognition of the unity of the problem nearer to solution than has i Irish nation. Prof, de Valera will been the case in the last quarter of. maintain that the Irish Parliament thousand men PganUc work, the Victoria, B.C. It is estimated that goW production in British Columbia this year will aggregate $3,600,000,' or nearly one million better than last year. The Ros&land Mines, which yielded gold to the value of around' $600,000 last year, will have an out- put this year of J 1,500 ,000. TSie next largest, producer will be th Surf In- let Mine, of Princess Royal Island, with a production of about $1,000,000.' Calgary, Alta. The United Farm- ers of Alberta, the premier agricultur-. al society of the province, has of late years increased in its membership by leaps and bounds, now numbering, with women and children, more than 32,000. reached tn Falls Sh0uW b . . ,, "* " ** cne morn- There the t;> convey ; lion dollars. I: ,. ..t-w luu,**.* and a joy, that tion rext year. to decide its r j ( j e< j- ae roadbed, is so smooth and i Presentlv the car reaches the It would be idle and wrong r to pre- ] own taxation policy and the manner the ^^.M,, Level ^ ; + at th? held of tend, however that vast difficulties in which iu revenue shall be expended >ibroken b acres and acreg of h l R * r do not stdl stand in the way of an holding that the power of controlling orchardg ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ gj ^g" Tfew^nuteTof lager a rvt-cui-m ctrf V.n f T>*ATV\ o- Cv t-e *Uw *.:. .* I *-~ . n .^^-.-.n-n + to in i Ai*VCO Vi <TU.gC-I | branchy are the peach trees with long, expectation and the boom of the graceful, light-green leaves. The mighty cataract sounds in our ears.: know what is tranrpiring behind the! in f This, of course, involves giving scenes realize that real obstacles will f Dublin a free voice in regard to in- be encountered when the three parties . come tax, cus-toms, excise, and also to the dispute the British Govern- 'the right of withholding any eontri- ment. North Ulster and the Sinn Fein ; button towards the defence of the Em- meet face to face in conference. I pire, and it is likely to prove the shoa From an Irish Nationalist source' pire, and it is likely to prove the shoal clo&ely In touch with Premier Smuts eptit. It is almost certain that Pre- and tha British Government in the mier David Lloyd George will insist negotiation.! proceeding, the corres- ; upon an Imperial contribution seeing ponder^ has been able to learn what that the Imperial Parliament would Eamonm de Valera is likely to pro- ; remain responsible for defence and pose in the event of his coming to foreign affairs, although, in a last re- London. Briefly and roughly, it is sort he m-ay agree that the Irish Par- this: He will abandon the claim f or ; liament should have some voice ini an Irish republic, but will insist upon ! the amount to be contributed as well i a measure of dominion home rule, ! as in the method by which the actual! with separate Parliament for N'orth . contribution would be raised from its; Ulster, vested with powers similar to ' constituents. grapevines are trained over wire Then we see white clouds of spray fences, in rows about ten feet apart.; ascending -In a giant mist, the rain- carefully cultivated, not a I bow arched above; the Falls in all University Extension. towns and cities. When the Govern- ment laid the Report over and in- structed the Provincial University that it must spend no more money this year than it did last year these plans had to be cancelled and the The Workers' Educational Associa- tion of Ottawa has asked the Provin- cial University for assistance in con- ducting classes in that city next W-R.;^^.^ for whkh variou , commun _ term economics, history, and Lmrhsh, ities in the p^,,... are MkinK ^ and the request has been cheerfuuy to ^ for the most rt FOStponeti . granted. The Ln:veity of Toronto It is hoped however that the Govern- Regina, Sask. The first Better train to be operated in Canada will be run by the Livestock branch of the Saskatchewan Department of Agri- culture :n connection with the cam- paign for the improvement of sires . used in herds and flocks of thia province, according to an announce- ment made by J. G. Robertson, live-' stock ccmmissioner. This experiment of carrying purebred bulls to the farmer is being tried out on a fairly small scale this year in Saskatchewan,' an,! if it proves successful, it is ex- pected that Better Bull specials wil^ operate in all parts of the province next year. Winnipeg. Man. Last year 10,279 tractors were sold in W Astern Canada, distributed as follows: Manitoba, 3,- 671; Saskatchewan, 4.229; Alberta. 2,379. The number of tractors sold in the West curing the past four years is as follows: 1917 5,000; 1918, 7,000; 1919, 9,000; 1920, 10^79. It is esti- mated tffat there are 33,000 tractors now in us* and sales for 1921 wiH l>tobably reach che 7,500 mark. Ottawa, Orrt. A total of 268,000 OXW young whitetish were liberated in the Great Lakes and- the Lake of tha Wootte by the Dominion fisheries branch during 1 the paat year. This is an increase of 60,000,000 on the num- ber liberated, by the hatcheries in 1920. A large proportion of che eggs are se- cured from the commercial catch of fijh, which, out for the activities of the Department, would be wasted. Montreal, Que. An optimist fore- cast of the possibilities of Canadian trade with Italy is contained in a re- port from the Canidian government agent in Milan. Italy. Writing to the establishment of the new service aj Naples and Genca by the Canadian Pacific he points out thet condition* are particularly favorable for Can- adian traders ar.<i urges personal visits as well as exports of goods. Fredericton, N.B. Interest has beer aroused here over the report that tha Anglo-Persian Oil Company, of which tha British Government is the coiv trolling shareholder, will devetep th oJ-shale deposits in this province. It is understood that large sums have been spent on these dpcsits, and that capital ia available to uniartake large- scale production shouUi' markets ap- pear favorable. Yarmouth, X. S. Approximate!} twenty thousand crates of live lob- sters have ber. shipped from thii point to Boston during the past *ea- son, where they have been disposed oi at an average price cf $26 per crate The fishe?ir.'sr. r.e::e<i on this operativt after .ieiu-.ting transportatjoi charges and commission about $400,- 000. Shipping on the Welland Canal. o . ar . and the of to staff w"' Rop . rt "I* ' ' ' ami Hamilton. weed to be seen. Some of these orch- ' their grandeur and majesty before '*y the eye can reach. Leaning back in As Fanny Kembie says: ,_ ._ f ' ~~ ~ s* 1 ^ 106 *o' t n comforuuble seat beside the wide "I saw Niagara. God! Who can Toronto "^Lnt?' 6 '" town and countr >" are j window, the rush of scented air describe that sight?" i against our faces, we reveiled in the < One recalls also what Tom Moore , beauty of the scene. wrote in 1804: "I have seen the Falls, What Napoleon Forgot. In the Napoleon Supplement of the London Times there appears an esti- mate of the greatest soldier of the nineteenth century by the greatest of the r*enti a> .h, Marsha! l-''i.-h Tho principles of s'.-ttepy and tac-| tics that Koi-j applied in :}e Jirect.oii of armies of the Allies in the World War he deriv-i in the main from i-.is unwearying study of the campaigns '^f Napoleon. He cajio S'npoleon "beyon-1 compare, the military genius of mod- ern times." Yet with tae perspective that is one mark of Foch'; own con-, summate capacity for leadership, thej marshal sees the limitation that; brought Napoleon a: last to grief. This is his way of putting what he ^Hs "the d"sep reason for too dis- aster" : He forgot that a man canrxit be Gcd; tbat above the individual there is the nation; that above men there is the moral law. and that war is not the highest goa!, since ab>ve war tnere Is peace. It is bause of this -'arity of vision that Marshal Foch -.v- ni no; merely for a gigar.tic military responsibility but for the leadership cf an. einbatiled civ ; iizat:or. against defiant powers ol darkr.ts*. It was Foch and net the K.-.:^er who understood the lesson of the career of Napoleon. Crown Prince Hiroiiito of Japan has left F._ice for a short visit to Italy and will then sail for Japan. The W. E. A. is a voluntary organ- , izatin of men and women engaged in Insurgents Leave _ _ The first town we reached was :. : and am all rapture and amazemer.t. inditstrial pursuits mid 1 is largely i corn-posed of trades unionists. These men and women are eager to secure the r.rtvanta^es of higher education and cheerfully devote an evening a _ The evacuation of Upper Sil- ^ "hem: week to the study and discussion of . , , - - present-dny economy problems, of esia by the insurgent /orces was Upper Silesia Catharines, famed for lovely gardens. ; I felt as if approaching the residence Roses everywhere, larkspur and ho.ly- j of the Deity; the ttirs started to my j F *A f R I ' : ' loc ' cs > they bloom earlier here than ' eyes; and I rtEiair.e-i. for moments . -3 Ot KebelS ,t nm , east- Rosea also at the farnv after we r-d lost sight uf the scene, wire fences \vcre covered , in the d:-l:jiou3 absorplion whkh en- i thusiasm a'^ne can produce. It !3 stream meanders thr:-ugli impcjiib'.c by psn or pe-ru-H tj ^jve Weekly Market Report A - British forces, it is added, now ' ha * famous Tf tanw *** k * *? af " : or(i '? ary . subjew ; ts ; Wc To extend its activities irrto the 1 occupy the Polish frontier as far ford P assa * e to ocean hncrs and con - coir ^naticns of language to Ottanbt over 25,000. rural districts and among industrial .^ Beuthen. while the French are wooers is one of the nwst important i n contro i O f Konigshutte. Kat- rinSip^on TSfGoverSv ^ ^ *^ doption of the Report of the Royal : THEIR MAJESTIES GIVE COURT BALL IN HONOR OF BELGIAN ROYALTIES Commission on University Finances,! The Dominion forest reserves in plans had been made to inaugurate Western Canada comprise an area of evening tutorial classes in varioul ; approximately -27,500,000 acres *ad I rural communities throughout the' consist of tracts of land unsuitable for | ( Province and to organize '"Workers', agriculture, which have been set apart : ler on Lake Ontario. The new cana Educational Ascciations in several ! permanently for forest production. will be twenty-five miles long, short- . ening the distance between the lakes by five mile- . We stop at some good-sized towns | on our way, Merritton and Thorold I are two names noticed, bustling cen- | tres- of activity in the midst of the !ovelv fields and ore 1 -;':-.!;. Near Thor- the wholo cf the Great Lakes the Fails of Niagara." We spent the day v:ov.-;rg the Falls' from different aspects arxl at six! o'clock took the C.N.R. radial again for the hour's return ride to Port Dalhousie and the Torcr.to boat. nect system with .the Atlantic Ocean. is a drop of 326 feet from Laka to Lake Ontario and the new- canal will have only f-sven locks in- stead of twenty-five as in the present The Canadian National Elec- runs to both terminals. Port A despatch from London says: The ; for men, the scene was one of Brat court ball since 1914 was given; J * , "rains' and^'feathers in the hair, ^e attack of American troops. mt Buckingham Patace on Thursday j whi( . h used to ' be a . ist ,; nffu i s hing chr-,and' won a victory on June 24th, 1313. j in honor of the King and Queen ac . eristics of court dress for women, Every foot of ground down to Niag- , There were '0 t AX. Wi <J V4V* Vi *.** <f * rf the Belgians. It was the only had been done away with, and the gen- ara-on-the-Lake echoed to the tramp ; tection^f the present London sea- \ era! feminine, view was that the in- of march.ng K! en ,n the trcublou, days JoT which recalled the splendor and novation was "all to the good." ; of 18 12-1814 when our heroes fought the da,-, before the war. Most of those whom Queen Victoria and died that Canada might remain ts. and the old ; calied common Duchesses, to dUtin-j a Prt cf itam. f w many of j guish them from members of the; As ** 'a class known as Royal family who have Ducal title, * ** w wor nne out of their! were present, and among them the wonderful industrial project. reUrement for the occasion. \ American^born Duchess of Roxburgh \ Jas the appearance^ of^; Their women folk came decked in j attracted special attention by her,< n those jewels which are family heir- ; dress and ornaments. Of the young small looms and which have been treasured j girls present no one looked more ^ Se pr^ent hard times in hopes charming ^ ~ -- fJ^.iMf u*t cubic yard, of oi happier days to come, and as full uniform or court dress was de rigeur that Miss George, daughUrr of th Premier, in a near the N.agara another and wh.Kh men, who R.ver more enormous look like scoop and loading it on with a car Maj.-General Sir Wm. Heneker Comniander-in-Chlef of the British Force In Upper Silesia, He said h | went there to fight, but findin-g no war t social eveut ever held in t'p- VTOV(1(C-, MU'glfc^l V/A MOT A .^nw*, * - OJlrt frock of white satin and silver lace. seventy feet above the level on which re. S . Toronto. Manitoba wheat Xo. 1 Northern. $1.82-.; No. 2 Northern. 51.804; No. 3 NorJiem, Sl.TT 1 ^. Manitoba oats No. 2 CW. 4Tc; No. 3 CW. 44^c; extra No. 1 feed. 44Hic; No. ! }Vc>d, 4^c; No. 2 feed. 41 '*c. | Manitoba barley No. 3 CW, Ttk; No. 4 C\V. 714c; rejected. G6c; feeJ, 65c. All the abo\-e in store Fort William. American corn No. 2 yellow, Toe; nominal, o.i.f.. Bay ports. Ontario cats No. 2 white, 40 to 42c. Ontario wheat No. 2 Winter, $1.48 to $1.55. nominal, per car lot: No. 2 Spring, $1.41 to S1.43. nominal; No. 2 Goose wheat, nominal, sliippisg points, according to freight. Pes.5 No. 2. nominal. Barley Malting. l>5 to TOc, accord- ing to freights outside. Buckwheat No. 3. nominal. Rye No. 2, 51.25, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour First pats.. ?10.50; second pat*, $10, Toronto. Ontario flour $7.40, bulk, seaboard. Mi'.lfeid Delivered, Montreal freight, bags included: Bran, per ton, $23 to ?25: shorts, per ton. 523 to ?2T; good feed flour. $1.60 to $1.75 per bag. Hay No. 1, per ton. $17 to Sii>; mixed. $S to $10; straw, car lots, per ton. $10. Cheese New. large. 21 to 21 He; twins. 21 1 3 to 22c; triplets, 22 to 22 He; old, large. 33 to 34c: do. twins, 33H to 34 He; triplets, 34H to 35c; new, Stilton. 23c. Butter Fresh dairy, choice. 25 to 26c; creamery, prints, fresh, No. 1, ' 33 to 3Sc cooking. 22 to 24c. Dressed poultry Spring chickens, 40c; n^osrers, 20c; fowl, 30c; duck- linjrs. Soc; turknys, 60c. JSpring chickens, 30c; i ^ters. iiic; fowl, 22c; ducklings, 30c; turkeys. oOc. Eggs No. 1, 39c; selects, 41 to 42c; cartons, 43 to 44c. Bearti Canadian, hand-pick, bus..' $2.86 to $3; primes, 52.40 to $2.50. ( Mar!<? P .:cts Syrup, per imp. gal.. $2.30; -por 5 imp. gals., $2.35. Maple sugar. Its.. 19 to 22c. Hcney pO-30-lb. tins, 19 to 20c pet lb.; 5-2H-lb. tins, 20 to 2K- per ')>.; Ontario ccmb honey, at $7 per 15- se-'tior. case. Smoked meats Hams, meti., 3(3 to heavy, 30 to 3U-; cooked, 54 to 58c; rolls, 27 to 2Sc; cottage rolls. 28 to 29c; breakfast bacon. 33 to 3Sc; special brand breakfast bacon, 45 to 47c; backs. bi-r.eli?ss, 42 :o 47c. Cured meats Long clear bacon. 17 to 19Hc; clear bellies, 19Hc. Lard, pure tierces. 14H to 15c; tubs, 15 to lo'-ic; pails, 15 H to 16c; prints, lo to 17c. Shortening, tierces, II 1 - to 12c; tubs, 12 to 12Hc; pails, 12 H to 13c; prints, 14 H to 15c. Good heavy sieers, $7.25 to $7.75; buu-her steers, choice, $7 to $7. c<j; <io. good, $ii.50 t $7; do, iv.ed., $5 to W.-50; do, Ci>m.. S3 .o $4.50: ivr.-her heifers, choice. J7 to $7.60; do, med.. $6.50 to $7; butcher cows, choice. Sl^O to $5.50; do, m-ed., $3 to $4.50; canners and cutters, 51 to $2.50; butcl- -r good, $4.25 to $5.25; do, cum.. J; 7 'o $4; feeders, gootl, 900 !bs., $5.50 to $6; do, fair. *o to $5.5*); mi!kers and fprirpCTS, choice, $40 to $(50: calves, cnoice, $7.50 to $8; uo, me-j., $t> to $7.50; dv. com., W to $5j lambs, year- lir.gs. $7 to $; do, sprjrg, J11.50 to $12.50; sheep, choice, $4.50 to $5.50: cx>, good, $4 to $4.50; do. heavy ajid bucks, $2 to $3^0; hogs, frxi and watered, $11.50; do, couatry points, $10.50; do, f.o.b.. $10.75. MontreaL Oats. Can. West., No. 2, 59 H to 60Hc; Can. West. No. 3, 54H to ooHc. Flour, Man. Spring wheat pats., firsts, $10.50. PvoIW oats. ba, 90 K*>., $3.06. Bran. $25.26. ShcrtSv ?27.2S. Hay, No, 2, per ton, $22, in car Jots. Cheese-, finest Easterns, 20 to 20 Vic. Butter, choicest creamery, 34H to 35c. Eggs, selected, 40 to 42c. Common thin cows, small bulls, $2 to $3; calves, $2 to $6; choice milksfed calves, $7; good lamt>, $S to 88.60; common light stock, $5; sheep, $2 to $4.50. Young hogs, med.. $12.50 to J13.6O; sows and heavies. $6 to $7. REGLAR FELLERS By Gene Byrnes v - JJ 3 i