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f' tUE BIG SEAPORTS OF THE DOMINION EACH HAS ITS PECULIAR PLACE IN OUR ECONOMICS. wa; for a va«tlr greater traffic pres- ' aged, ealcnlated to further eahaace , the preatlce o( Canada's great ports in the East aad West. I â€"AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME Montreal Ranks Second on American Continent; Van- couver Leads as Grain Exporter. The post-war era In Canada has â- been featured by a v«ry gratifying ex- pansion in the trade carried on by the Dominion with foreign countries, the â-¼Blue of the total volume of trade transacted having increased in the de- cade between 1914 and 1924 by $822,- 176.439. or more than seventy per cent. "With this development, and the great- er bulk of trade coming to and leav- ing from Canadian seaports, has come a corresponding rise in the prestige of those oceanic outlets of the Do- minion, and most of the ports of Can- ada have tmdergone somewhat of a revolution and occupy to-day a much more important place in world con- sideration. Canada has five principal seaports. Montreal, Quebec, St. John. Halifax, and Vancouver. Each of these has its peculiar place In Canadian econo- mic;}. Montreal and Quebec. b€ing situated on the Gulf of the SL Law- rence, and reducing the rail haul from the great producing interior, are the great summer -Atlantic ports whence the greater part of Canadian export * trade leaves between May and No- vember and most of the important trade is received. St. John and Hali- fax are the winter ports whose great- est activity commeccas when frost has gripped the St. Lawrence river. Van- couver is the great Pacific outlet and Inlet for the increasiag trade which is being carried on with the countries of the .\ntipodes and Orient. Great Increase in Traffic. The total volume of Canadian trade transacted by these five ports in the past fiscal year amounted to $690,648,- 16S, or approximately 35 per cent, of Canada's total trade for that ysar. Montreal is easily Canada's first port with a total trade in the past year amounting to $3S0.9S4,136. of which Imports accounted for $191.S67,0S6 and «xports $189,116,050. Vancouver is the second port in importance, hav- ing had a total trade of $152,407,334, of which $33.S0S.S30 was import value and $9$.598.9«4 that of export. SL John ranks third with a total trade value of $77,562,505. $20,622,639 being import and $56,9407116 export trade. Total value of trade at Halifax was ^7,521.132, being made up of $17,051.- €17 representing imports and $30,469,- 515 exports. The total trade handled at Quebec had a value of $32,172,561. of which $16,240,993 was Import and $15,931,568 export. The grecU increase In the traffic car- ried on by Canadian ports may be realized in a comparison with the figures of the year 1914. In this ten- year period the total trade of these five ports has increased by some 86 per cent. It Is gratifying to note that this increment has been to the great- est extent built up by increasing ex- port trade, the increment in this case In the period amounting to 118 p«r cent. This U very clearly illustrated In the case of Quebec and Vancouver. Quebec, whiclr formerly was doing a Yastly greater Import than export trade, has now drastically reversed the situation. In 1914 the exports from the Port of Vancoaver wore less than half the value of import; in the past year Vancouver's export trade had nearly double the value of the im- port , Take Places as Worid Ports. That the trade of these ports Is In- creuing at the present time at a r»- markabla rate, whilst naturally aog- Cested in trade figures, is borne out by Ute value of business handled at these ports in the past few yeais. Taking i the years 1922. 1923 and 1924, Mont- \ real's Imports have been $167,818,273. $173,938,311. and $191.SS7.086. and ex- i ports $15S,51S.544. $17.S98,S37. and j $189,116,050 respectively. Substan- tial increases in import and export < trade are recorded in the cases of Quebec. Halifax, and St. John. The annual increments in the case of Van- couvor are outstanding, imports in the three years being $48,235,845. $46,965.- tl4, and $33.$08,630. and exports $42.- 867.051, $61.71S.505( and $9S.59S,904. ' In the strides they have taken since the conclusion of the war^wlth the di»- T«lopm«ut of Canadian trade, the •tatus of :he ports of the Dominion has been !u the continuons ascendant, and from having almost purely local staitdings some of them bav» come to take their t>laces with the oldest and loagest etsUbU»hed seaports of the world. Added to this prestige are vartous dovelopmeats under way at the present time or presaged which augur for them yet greater tntema- Uonal importance. Montmal. t(Mlay, for inataBC«k has b«come the fifth amooK the great 9«a- ports of the world, racking after N«w York, London. Liverpool, and Ham- , burg, or taking a plac» after only ocm port on the .American continent Van- couver has rapidly overtaken oth«r' ports on the Pacific coast, until In tosh ' nage handled it is exceeded by two only of them, aad leads the «ntlr« co.<!st .-»» aa expcr!;'r of grain. ,\t both t:^.->? i;ort» (!cYe>jfraent» are astlar A Little Green Lane. i A little green lane goes through my ' mind, I k lane that my heart nins back to \ find; j A lane here the air ia cool as dew. i And the ferns are high and the rocki are few, .^nd every branch of the tallest tree Would whisper a fairy tale to me, .\nd every bird had a golden note In the song that came from his crim- son throat. And life had a hundred gifts to give. And I had a hundred years to live. A little green lane goes through my mind. A lane that my heart goes back to findâ€" My heart â€" for never my feet will go To walk that lane that I used to know. For maybe my eyes would fail to see The vision that memory holds for me, .A.ad I'd mUs the fairy tales 1 heard And the song of the crimsoa-tbroated bird. So I'll keep the dear unbroken spell Of the little green lane 1 love so welL â€" N'an Terrell Reed. About Three Cheers. Cheers are demonstrations of en- thusiasm. Often they are safety valves of abounding spirits. College men and women use them to give vent to their pleasure when one of their football heroes makes a good gain. They use them eLso to give enthusiasm and eaouragement to their team when it is working against odds. The population uses cheers to en- courage the going soldier and to show appreciation to the returned war hero. Cheers are also used in politics. Cheers are crowd demonstrations. Sometimes they come apoataneously from the crowd, but sometimes they are the intense personal enthusiasm of a few who have the ability to get a crowd to cheer. If the cheers come from the crowd it is well; if they come from the few to the crowd it is not so well. It Is cheerful to cheer, but it is sane to sometimes look behind the cheera. for we have known some things which were chiefly made up of three cheers. Stories About Wefl-Known People The X-Ray Ouehesa. X-ray worit u not a h-..bby maay wottld ehooee. but the Duchess of Bad- ford ha« practiced it with suee««s. at a coat of many thousands of pounds, for the past ten years. The Duchesti is In eiiarge uf aa .Xray department In a hospital at Wobum built by herseit twenty years ago. She . frequently helps at operations. Incidentally, the duchess is one of the most notable sportjiwcmen. She can handle a h'lrse, a rod, a gun. as well as most men. Another of her ac- complis-hments is that she has an ex- traordinary influence over wild ani- mals. Quick Results. .\ delightfully trueâ€" aad truly de- lightful â€" Incident wa« told by Mrs. Belioc Lowndes, the well-known writer, in a recent lecture in whic'a she was trying to lUustrate the fact that truth is stringer than fiction. "N'o novelist." she said, "would dare use this true incident, for inst;tnce. A gentieman in India suddenly decided to offer marriage to a giri In Kngland, so he cabled; â- * 'Will you?* "The answer came promptly; •• -WoB't IT - I doubt whether any novelist ka* hatched a more amusing proposal aad acceptance cut of his brain. Made Manual Lavu^ .A. Goixl story com** from Paris eoa- 'jcrnmg two ex-monarchs. King Maaael of Portugal aad the Shah cf Persia. They were seated together at an ultra-fashionab^e public resort, placid- ly sippiog their champagne and watch- ing the dancers, when a Parisian sat d':>wn on the ooly extra ctLair at their table. The newcomer Btade himself agree- able, and the conversation scon be- came general. When the time came for departar* the Parisian asked with whom he had the honor of .^peaking. "I," said the former King of Port»- gaU "am the King of PortuiaL" â- *I," said the former Shah, "am the Sfciih of Persia." The Frenchman betrayed no siu» prise wi:at..-;ever. ""Good-night, gentle- men." he jaid politely, and then as he turned to go he aiided. "The Great Mogul bids ycu adieu." llanuel is reported ta have laughed, but the Shah was not so pleased. IV .: Which Run Longer Without Oil. "If you want machines to run you've got to oil "em." "That's true of all except national political machines." Monsters of the Wild. In the unknown Arctic region be- tween the Colville and Porcupine Rivers, where Dr. Philip B. Smith has led a party of the United Etates Geo- logical Survey on a perilous mission of exploration, it is rumored that there are weird animals of immense size. The6« strange tales have been spread amongst the fur traders and gold hunters by the native Eskimos and Indians regarding the territory which appears on the maps largely as a blank space. The Smith party has gone to Investi- gate and chart this region. Reports have come from the Polar basin that great lakes of oil were to be found in this wilderness, but the tales of the Eskimos and Indians are ever stranger than these. They say that the land is haunted by weird beasts, some of such great sixe that they leave tracks as large as din- ner plates. It is stated that no In- dian can be persuaded to penetrate this region even though tempted by the promise of abundant fur. Some of the more credulous of the white men. linking theee tales with their scientific reading, contend that there may still lurk in the far north remnants of the mastodon herds that have left their bones and Ivory In al- most every stream bordering the low- er Yukon River. A Wonderfxil Iiuect Col- lection. The British Muiseam possesses by far the most comprehensive insect col- lection In the world. It has not until quite recently been possible to make an exact catalogue of all items, but af- ter throe years' work oae has now been ccmpletetl and published. According to this, the collection ciMitaliss l.HS.OOO insects. Thero are 325.767 buiterflles of 40,210 different kinds, 398.000 beetles of 67.300 diflet^ ent kinds. Of bees, wasps, and winged ants there are 19,6«>8 kinds. Ot bugs, flies, gnats, sud mosquitoes thero are 7.267 apecies represented; cf grass- hopper types 3.900. and of plant tic* II species i]^ 140 Items. Private donors have done most to swell the collection. One alone gave 230,004 Insects, another 30 000. while one eotire collection of butterflie* which was presented consisted of SL- IM specimens. Trade With Germany. One of the most outstanding fea- tures of Canadian trade in the paist fiscal year as undoubtedly the remark- able growth in the export trade Can- ada conducted with Germany, this hav- ing increased in the twelve months by over sixty per cent, over the fiscal year 1923. and by over 200 per cent, as compared with the figures of the year previous to that. Not only has the volume of total trade traasacted with Germany now reached a point where it su.ijasses anything reached in the pre-war years, but the division of trade has drastically altered. Whereas prior to 1914 Canada was a heavy Importer from Germny and ex- ported in relatively small quantity, Canada is now importing on a com- paraarely small ecale. while the vol- ume of her exports are annually in- creasing at a very substantial rate. In the three fiscal years 1922. 1923 and 1924. Canada's imports have been from Germany $2,041,016, $2,568,409 and $5,379,935 respectively. The prin- cipal Items ot import in the past year come under the headings of chemicals and allied products, non-metallic min- erals and non-ferrous ms^als, the former amounting to a million dollans and the two latter to approximately half a million each. The remargable manner in which import trade with Germany has been cut Is seen in a comparison with the import figures of 1914. which were $14.6;>6.069. or 1910. when they were $7,958,264. Canadian export trade to Germany in the past three tiscal years has been $4,509,547. $9,950,877 and $16,153,650 respectively. The export trade of the past year was made up of agricultural and vegetable products $12,722,430: animals and products $1,561,087; fibres textiles and products $16,042; wood, wood products and paper $7,693: iron and products $325,913; non-ferrcus metals $947,297; non-metallic mineraLs $633,699! chemicals and products $3,.948 ; and miscellanecus prxsducts $35,541. The great bulk of trsde with Ger- many at the preeetit time consists of agricultural products, more especially wheat and flour, the latter commodity being in rapidly increasing demand. In the flrcal past year Germany took 1.351.512 bushels of Canadian wheat valued at $1,637,095. The demand for Canadian fiour has inc.-eased remark- ably, and is not abating. In 1923 Ger- mny took 31.343 barrels of Canadian fiour worth $318,232; in 1923. 675.599 barrels valued at $3,985,409: and in 1924. 986.826 barrels valued at $10,313.- 2S0. The recent readjustment of finan- cial difficulties wtiich were hampering 1 the flour tride wita Germany is coa- ; fidently expected to further Increase , the volume of exports_ from Canada, j « i How Stonehenge Was Built How the builders of Stonehenge, on Salisbury* Plain, with the appliances of. say. 3.300 years ago. managed to get the vast stones upright and place others on their tops has always been one of the marvels of primitive en- gineering, says a writer in the London Daily Mail. In his book "Stonehen5e." jus: pub- lished, Mr. E. Herbert Stone has a most interesting series of photo- graphs taken from large worStiag models "by mear.s of which the vari- ous operations connected with the raising of the stones of Stcaehenge as here described have been rehearsed step by step in full detail." : A figure representing a Neolithic man. who has aa elk-like smailcess be- side the huge monoliths, is introduced In the different views to give an idea of scale. For the purpcs* of this experiment in this 'reconstruction." Mr. Stone has taken the average w^eighc of the stones ot the outer circle at Stonehenge as. for* uprights. 26 toiii each, and to- the lintels placed across their tops. 5% tens. The applhinees used, he points out. would be mainly ropes, rollers. and shear legs, plus man-power work- ing in carefully rehearsed uniison. Mr. Stone suggests that the man ^ who designed Stonehenge "was proh- ' ably a foreigner." I Afier the upright stones had been firmly bedded in the ground, "an earth back le thrown up around the pair of upright stones on which a lintel is to i be placed." The outer part of this . bank is "brought to a smooth surface I and rammed hard, to mage a track up â-  which the lintel is to be hauled." ' Then when everything li? in place ! the well-drUIed manpower takes the i strain and drags the great mass up the slope tilt finally it rests on the tops of the two embodded stcnes. The hank can then be removed, leaving the huge trillthon towering clear above the ground. A City Garden. God of the flowors! Painter of crimson I roses I Spinner of mist, and Weaver of wind and rain! Send Thine angel of peace, when the ; long day closes. j Down to Thy garden again. | i This was Thy garden e'er the high i walls ws-re lifted; ; Here the wild apple grew, and the thom-set pear; | O, in the iprtn'jtime how the scent of | them drifted i Out on the evening air! I Still an apple-tree lingers- token ; -Just aa a Clubs Are Handy Things. He I, speaking ot won»3n/ â€" "Now in New York it's ciib women on all sides." She â€" "Yes â€" such a bmtai placo! Scmebody's always beating a wotnaH StiU there's a sumach wearing one up there." feathery plume; Yonder a dog-wcod Uves â€" grej the years, and broken â€" Dreaming of silver bloom. with' The Impulse and the VetOB, Not many months ago a lady isketf to see a famous London preacher after Migncuette lines the walk, and many a °°* °^ '^^ services in his ciarch. He â- Q^^j^y i at once received h'jr and was astonish- Though never a bee comes near to ' ^ ^'"^^^ ^^* *^'^' "Doctor. I have taste their sweetâ€" , "'^'^^ ^" "^^ '^^ '""-"^ ^^"^ '-° ^^ve Down- by the 8:ate grows ungled and '^'^ interview! My h-.isba:id has been bitter tansv l ''"^ '^^ employment for more than two Lcngi'ng to r^ch the street. i ''^'"*' '^though he is an exceptionally I well-qualified teacher. At "asc think- ing we might find a position in Francs, we wen: to Fa.'-is. Our search was Here at the heart of tumult, and toil and malice. ; The lover finds Ms love â€" the dream- er his dream. And here. like a cup of Heaven, a lily's chalice j Lifts to the white moonbeam! i â€" Virna Sheard. | still unavailing. Bu: the other day 1 was seized wi:h a strange impulse to return :o England and to come to yonr church. It was as 'if a voice had kept saying to me by day and by night, 'Go to Dr. and teli him.' I may say. doctor, that all my life I have been trained to pray, and through ail oar misfcrtu:;e I have consistently put oar troubles before the Lord. Consequent- ly I felt I lid not dare to disobey the impulse and the voice. So here I am " â€" 'C ,'^%-if''r''^â€" -^^^^^^'A- / '"VVe::. madam," .said the doctor, -Tn^-.y'|M r 'â-  iBfa^^ deepl;.- interested. "1 do not quite see I ^^ "^^ ^ ,^!5^^?il^~ ' ''**- t^ltss i can do is to give your } .i^^^< *'^ ^T^"^- â„¢X husband a letter ot introduction to the high commissioner cf one of the colonies." He did so. and then the incident passed from "nis mind. Seme weeks later he received a let- Fresh Air Eathusia.stâ€" "Of course : ter from the high commissioner on aa- they areâ€" just another example ot the other matter, but there was a pcet- results cf the outdoor Ufe! ^ script that read. "By di^ way. the -^ ; man you sent to me the ether day ar-. The Magic Vitamine. j '^^^ -'^st as I was showing out of my At a recent meeting of the Amerl- f"'^^ °'-t' ^^«t" ^<^^ edacaticn. who .aa Chemical Society. Professor Wal- ,â- * ^''^^.^^f ^^\^'^ i ''^ °^ ''^''*^" ter Eddv took from his pocket a smaU I-^ «'i'»''fl*<l teachers. Your man proved periect.y s-alted for :he work required and is leaving England immediately." Results of the Outdoor Life. Farmerâ€" "Yes, my trees are a iiun- dred years old and stilt bearing the best cf fruit." \ A.;ythlng to Oblige a Fool. An affected young man who was din- ing out felt called on to correct his hostess when by a slip of the tongue she ordered the servant to, remove the "fool." meaning the fowl. "I pre- •ume." said the young man. "you mean the fowl, madam." "Very well." responded the hostess. who was rather annoyed, "take away the fowl and let the fool remain." vial and passed it round among the assembled chemists. .V.l they could see was a smalt quan- tity of w^hite powder at the bottom of a bottle. Yet it crented a sensation, since it was the Srst vitamine that anyone had ever seen or handled. .\.n amount no more than three-httn- dre-itho cf a mllUgram. which is about ss much of the powder as could be caught on the point cf a pia. given eve-ry day to a young r.it stunted by living on deficient diet. wotUl cause it to grow again at a normal rate. Scarcely had the minister finished reading when the lady and her hus- band wer^ shown into his veetry. They had ccm? to pay their farewell re- spects and to thank him. "1 was right, you see!" cried the lady gayly. "I was right to obey the impulse and the voice!" How true it iB that there are mor« things wrought by prayer than this world dreams of! Hatching Teeth. "How U your baby sister, BillyT" asked a neighbor, who was makinc a call "Oh, «h«'s only fairly well, thanks." recited BUIr: "sb*** last hatchins h«r tMth." 1 Mr. Ostrich Helps. I "Not the least intervsccg of the at- i tractions in the South .African Section i ot the British Empire Exhibition is a : flock of ostriches. For tht» benefit of • visitors. demct:st.-a:ioni are given la j plucktng the teatiers in the manner I adopted in this great Industry in South ' .\frica. j The nest of the ostrich is always ! built by the male, though this certala- i ly is no arducos task, aad it consists of little more than a rottad hole dog in the sand or .-arth. The hen th^n lays aa esit every \ other day. about fifteen makias a full â-  nest. The hen sits on the egss during ; the day and the male bird takes her , place through the night, an arrange- ment which would appear to have been admirably provided for by na- ture, fcr while the male bird is alo^^ I ed with jet biack feathers and to therefor* ladistinuishabie at night, la I the daytime the drab cotor of the hea i bird's feathers cover? nest and egas and is eqiuklty ua&otic«ab>. Boy Scouts from alm.Aist every part cf the universe took part in this gr^sat thiaksgi^'ag service at Wemb- \Hf. Ib the tcregrouod is the Quebec CetacbmaM. The Height ef Cruelty. "Tou are not d-oing much busiBess." s«««»t«d the de&tiat across the halL "Not mnch. ' admitted the other dett- tlst. touched by this mark of apih^reat sympathy. "Then would y«« mted if Mice ot uy paticBts ii»ed yv.-ur Taltlac<>rtfgar*