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Colllillll? was sellfng on s-basla of less thna B times indicated cash equi- ties behind the shares and st less "Hill 10 time! the Prevailing dividend rate of $3 nor anauun as is being paid for the final half of this year. 0n this basis current yield\ on the stock is somewhat in excess of l0 p.c. In the push few months position of the com- pany has improved materially. As it enters its new fiscal year on Haven» hcr 1st it will have on its books s quite good volume of new business. Moreover, while earnings in this year now ending have declined, company's treasury position has "been hem strongly liquid, in line with the show- in. the last annual statement. llccent new bookings In- clude the new Quebec Government hridize at Horel. Saint John Harbor rehabilitation work, from which source morn business appears likely. new additions to the Montreal General iiospltrll and iioyni Victoria Hospital. the new church of St. Andrew sud tit. Paul. the new 'i‘oilet Laundry fluild- iug and the new span for the Shroud l\"l‘l‘"l\'ll Bflillte tit Vancouver. Other miscellaneous bookings serve to round outthls nhoiving. Additional bridge

p business m|'|'_v ho forthcoming shortly,

including the Cnughnnwiigu bridge. literally at the front: door of the Mont- rcnl plnnt. 'l‘he Vancouver plant. in understood. he enlarged. Business on the Prairies is nut iveiiev- 11d very good just now hut the east and liriiish (‘tiiiunhla nre acting al offsets.

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(Special to Johnston l: Ward)

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h. . lrlmnmhditlfll a substantial revival Bruits ohtninoil by the company to ‘In rcriiiin other factors, in- n?! that thin year it will he able ‘ ‘i! lllkiier taxation which it has

a Itlfhlilif. including the incrcas» "l" tux The company at this months of its current

I, iu comfortably situ- ll in warnings uud, if tho final 11 of tlii- year holds up in rela- p all" lenr as well as the first

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The _Montreoim Stock Exchange

(Special to Johnston I Ward) trick; Open|l-ligh|l4o\\';l1nst Abilibl . "

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-1l-1~I1Fv1c<1;14i1<>¢§s4v11s LIVES OF ‘MILLIONS-IOF-CHINEZSE

Early Rose First YVariéty_TPl_autediIn l" Kansu Tro- vince Succeeded "By/Green .Mountains— 1 l

~ Resultingrflropsl

Biblical miracle of the-loaves l" and the fishes‘ was somewhatparsllcisd in real lite ‘during thereoent fain- tne 1n Kansu Province, Chins." ac- cording to.s. communication in’ the National f‘ ‘ ,Scciety from William W. Si v , Tennessee missionary, whose son acted as guide and interpreter for Dr. Jo- seph P. Rock, National ‘G _ ,hic Society explorer. ' .

A handful of potatoes sent from

America 25 years ago,- pla-nted and

‘veiy propagated by ‘Chris- tian missiqnsrles in this remote flirt- of Chlnaalong the Tibet bor- der, saved the lives cfnioie then s. million Chinese when the dis- trict. was ravaged by drouth. and famine, Mr. Simpson says.

When the first Americans and Europeans penetrated the Kansu Province and established mission stations iii TwOilhdw (Old City), some 40 years ago, they found a native Chinese potato which was Small. Door, epd held a very low food value. '

Back to radi-"oid w."

The natives of the district, with

little regard for the future, had been in the habit each year of est- ing the best of the crop and sev- ing the poorest potatcesfor seed. . A letter of appeal to the-United States brought four Early Rose po- tatoes from Tennessee, and these were planted in 1897. two in Tao- chow and two in Minohcw. frhey grew very well and produced many tubers of fine quality in Chinese coil. ,

The missionaries kept qli tlmt were ptoduced the first year for

Englishmen Ban Tipping By Guests In Their Homes

WENTWORTH, Yorkshire, Eng. Sept. 1s. tUPJ-Tipplng iri Went. worth Woodhouse, owned by Lord Fitzwilliam, is not allowed. ,

The local home of’ Lord Fltzwil- liem is said to be the iargmt- priv- ate house in Eirglend. When a guest is asked to stay at-s greet house like Woodhouse hels confronted by the problem of Lipplng. The array of servants whose‘ attention have to be r her-ed is {Ormldsblg-g- pecially if shooting is included in the program. '

.To meet this difficulty many wealthy hosts forbid tipping. Not- ices expleinlng this rule are tq be found in each guest's bedroom.

No tipping is allowed at Mount Stewart, the country seat of Lord and Lady Londonden-y.

auro SMASHES surnrs

BUTTE, Monk, Sept. i6. (U.P.)- One of the lest remaining relics of the days when horse; solved the world's transportation problem pas- sed into oblivion here recently.

For 25 years s. large water foun- tsin st the intersection of two of the principal streets here quenched the thirst of man and beast, but an automobile, not content with re- placing old Dobbin. smashed into the miiritiiiii and destroyedlit.

It will not be missed s great deal, for its patronage during recent years has been limited to, a, few horses that hauled. laundry and junk wagons around the- town; FINGERTIPS CALIPEBS

' FOB IIAIR SORTEII

—-Ca._r1 you feel of a lock of hair with your fingertips and tell whether the individual hairs are .0030 or .0000?! of sn inch in diameter?

Thirty-five men in the sorting rooms of the Sanford Mills, mohair . textile weavers, do this as ‘their 1m work. They also distinguish by' touch ‘as many as 13 other-diamet- effl, . 1 . - ‘ , ' John Wright. hesdporter, 1nd been matching halrsfor nearlyghialf a. century. ' -

nnsmosoaa; Swedenfiept. 17.—(U.P.}—The director general at the Siamese national railroads lips made a study of the Syedish pint; Railways. After a viaii. to this city,

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smrono. lVfe., Sept. 11,411.11.) ~

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Recent PeriodsiOf Famine." wasnmaron, Sept. 1ol-"i11i'e‘"iissd.rue-i'im yearn-however. the

cropJvas-dwidod with the Chinese, who-were taugbthow to out up the hrgefpotatioes for/seed in order to keep up the-quality of the crop.

' In. alfew years the new variety spread to several counties of the province-which had a. total popu- lotion of 10,000,000 people. But the Boxer Rebellion resultcd in a. recall ‘Of all the Christians from the dis- trict, and while they were away the Chine“ fell back lnbo their old habit of eating all the best, and alsoof allowing the new variety to become mixed with the disease older- type of potato. 1

' Bey State to the Rescue

The flavor and food value of the potato plantings‘ had so ‘deterior- ated when missionaries were again

" i-iiitingiri xdi-isu that Mr. Simp- soddecided to send for fresh tub- ers from ‘America. Friends in Mass- schusettsuorwmded‘ a handful of Green Mountain potatoes. which

. were-planted 1n i903.

The experience of Chinese plant- ers with the other American var- iety helped to speed the distribu- tion of the zGreen Mountain tubers, which quickly supplsntedboth the nstiveand the Early Rose types.

In the three years‘ famine since i928, one of the worst femlnes the worldha-s ever known, almost half the population of Ksnsu, and also _of the Province of Shcnsi, to the east, have" died. But where the Green Mountain potato was culti- vated the large: part of the pop..- lstionhss been able to subsist. It has" been estimated that fully a million people have been living by eating these potdtogg, '

WASIIOUT BLOCKS C. P. B. MAIN LINE

VANCOUVER. Sept. YL-Meiin i line passenger trains o.’ the C. P. it! ere being detoured via the Kettle Valley division following s rail washout in the wake of s. cloud- burst near the west portal of Con- naughi: tunnel early Saturday morn- ing. A mountain stream left its-bed and swept over the tracks.

This eflects the Imperial Limit- ed which left here for Montreal Fri- day night,_-the "Dominion" due here at i! s. m. Sunday from Toronto, snd the "Dominlon” which left here st 9 a. m. today for Toronto.

The washout section is in the Glacier_ yards. Officials sire making survey of the damage and hope to have the line-in service shortly. p. A. Cotterell, general superintendent of the B._C., district, left for the scene Ssturdsy. » » i

qoamrrutsx coon-soars EEPEATED AFTER 10 YEARS IiONDON, ‘Sept. ‘l'l—(U.P.l—A quaint "oath- was used recently in s Manx court ‘when Deemster Stevenson More was recalled to the bench sfter- an absence of ten years. He swore: - "By the ~wonderfui works that God- rnirsculously wrought in be- tween heaven above and the earth beneath ln~ six days and seven nights, to execute the laws of the Isis justly between our sovereign lord the King and his subjects as iiidinereritiy ss nit herring! back- bone-doth. lie in the midst of-the run." 'p' '_" The oath is remihiscentof the time when the, herring constituted

. thechief _food_ of‘ the Msnxpeople-

- .ua oususrsarls uni-r nAuooa, ml, Sept. irl-torni- When Iouisrziiar cast l. fishing line intoiPushsw Lake a sea gull swoop- ed down tothe water and swanoweii tmlnmd hook.

ono srous cannon 11am. i ropuo - '

JSTOCKHOLM, Sept. i7.+(U.P.)- An ancient cannon _ball of stone, dating‘ from the early 14th cen- tuqphls‘ beerrfound hen during exclvsticn of the Skeppsbron lim- 1111111111191“

nous carrier: cauosr

mosjionn. v... Sept. 10-4119.) seen in year:

110mm; and George Caldwell n

he continued to oqtnerisurg and smnwidi. - '

admired-antique. m niigni and rennet 35 pounds.

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Tyne" Valley, Rev. E. C. Robertson will preach Sunday, Sept- fitlth at

p. m. and Victoria West at ‘I p. m.

UNITED CHURCH — Services. Sept. 20th, 1931. l1 a. m. T906 Yul- ley. 3 p. m. Freeland, '7 p. m. Bide- ford. bfinister, Rev. John A. Nich- 018011.‘

TIIE UNITED CHURCH of Can- ada, Montagu. Rev- P’. Arnold

Wightman, D. D., will conduct ser- vices of worship in this church on Buddy, Sept. 20th at 11 a. m. and ‘I p. m. and at Lower Montague at 3 p. m.

BELLE RIVER -- BELFAST CHARGE-Public worship on Sun- day, Sept. 20th, in Eldon at 1i a.m., and in Belle River at a p.rn. The Sunday Schools will have a re- hearsal of the Rally Day Service-

duct the services.

“HONEY FROM THE COMB",- The Guardian has to acknowledge with thanks the- gift >01 a jar of honey ‘of flficSli quality from .Mr- Ludlow Jenkins, Marshfield, whose apiary enjoys s first class reput- ation among noiseurs.

canoe rnou onans WELSH ANTHRACITE COAL-The Steam- er "Heir-e" will sail from .Wsles early next week with a cargo of gen ulne Welsh Anthracite Coal for ~A. Pickard and Co. 8868-9-18-31

ISLANDERS wuo - Married quietly at the Church of the Ob- late Mission, 1n Sackvilie, New Brtmswick, Miss Angelina. Lennon: R. N, of Arlington. Mass, to Mr. Jerome Power, of New Perth, P. E. 1.. Miss Lennon's former home

w... in Montague, P. E. I. Mr. and Mrs. Power will reside in New Perth-

ISLANDER. PIIOTOGRAPIIED- The Regina Star, of recent date contains a photo of Corporal An- gus E. Smith of the R. C- M. Police. Regine. winner of the grand aggre- gateend Ottawa aggregate, receiv- ing the Highland Sandy Trophy at the provincial rifle meeting. In the photo Corporal Smith is seen re- ceiving the trophy. Corporal Smith above referred to is o. native of Prince Eidwerd Island, s son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Angus Smith, of Little Sands. After his return from the Greet War in 1919, he joined the R. C. M. Police Force and the trophy recently won ls only one of many won by Corporal Smith. His many friends on P. E- f. congratu- late him on his keen eye and steady aim.

A SERIOUS SITUATION-At 6 o'clock yesterday morning the fire- men responded to a still alarm at a barn on Dorchester Street which was deliberately set: slight by means of kerosene oil. This section of the city has been the scene of a number of incendiary fires dur- ing the last few months,.luckily none has proved serious. but should such a fire, started by a. person or persons result in the 10m of life or property, those responsible will, when apprehended, find themselves in a. very serious ‘situation. The duthorities are leaving no stone un- turned to find those responsible snd bring them to justice.

PERSONALS

Mrs. Richard Grant and daugh-

ter Richardina left yesterday morn-

ing on a six months trip to Port-

land, Oregon, and other American

cities.

Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Fullerton of

Sour-is, P. E. 1., who have been vis-

iting 1n North Sydney, for the pest week left on Friday for New Gins-

gow, where they will visit friends for a few days before returning home-Sydney Post.

Miss Eleanor J. Smith, R. N“ Brookline, Mass, spent the past week visiting at her aunts, Mrs- l-lugh Mscliure, Bresdslbane. She left yesterday to spend the remain- der of her vacation at Brooklyn, making her home at Mr. snd Mrs. J. J. Casstdy.

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Captain James McLeod a Klon-

dyks veteran and a native of whim Bold in this province, who has been on the Island for Shout a year, staying st. Montague and Lower Montague, and vlcinit,“ is in Charlottetown. l-le leaves today for Vancouver, B. 0-, where he has been residing for a number of

years.

rnnserrsman sssvlcss“ -

lkeeland 10.30 a. m. Int, la at 3 ~

Rev. J. M. McLeod, M. A-, will con- _

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Seedling ' ' Of - Sports

‘BY GIOBGI KIRKSEY (Unlfed Press Sta-I Coriespandenti

Hack Wilson Bits Skids‘ horn Baseball's Peak

Baseball Illfle was short lived I01‘ Hack Wilson, exiled Chicago Cubs outfielder.‘ ' _ A year ago Wilson ranked as one

he had lead the major lehgues with 56 home runs,‘ batted .356 and driv- .en in 190 runs, more than any oth- er player in history.

This season he was s colossal ‘flop Ind wound up by being sus- pended for frequent infractions of the trsinig rules. When ‘Rogers i-lornsby suspended Wilson early in September, Hack was. batting .261 and had hit only 13 home runs. Wilson's great batting in 1930 en- abled hlm to command a salary of between $98,900 and $35,000 for 10:11 which made him one of the two highest paid players in the Nation- sl League. oii ‘trig strength d1 his play Wilson was hardly worth more than $5,000. ' Wilson may come back with en- other club, but his days are ended with the Cubs. Throughout his car. eer Wilson has either been a. greet player or a. disappointment. John J. McGraw had Wilson for tw0| seasons with the New York Giants in 1924 snd 19258, but eventually farmed him out to Tcledol ‘ The Cubs gcbwllson from Tol- edo after the Giants had failed to claim him at: the end of the season. In his five years under Manager Joe McCarthy the} pudgy outfielder became s. star of the first magnit- ude. -