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The Signal, 1917-8-23, Page 6$ T6etaaasav,►AUcurr 23, 1917 The Saults Coal Co. iiscoasiort. to WI tonal& a Uhdhia FXCLUSWE AGENTS FOR LLti.Iali VALLEY THE COAL THAT SATISFIES We deal in Hard and Soft Cpal, Lime, Cement, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, also Hard and Soft Wood, Maple and Hemlocit Slabs. Fresh cars of Lime and Cement just received. ()ewe Norm B. ). SauIts' Residence 97.% W. W Saults' Resideate `(202 THE PAGNAL • CODMRICH ONTARIO New Perfection Oil Stove V by not econoanize by using less coal or wood? The New Perfection Oil Stove is just what you need. We have them for Sale—three-burner and four -burner Stoves. -• Call, and Ste Thant— W. ham— W. R. PINDER I'hotie 1:6 Htimilton Street BIG ITALIAN OFFENSIVE. 1iaay Cannon and 7,500 FMaowrs Already captured. ROME, Aug. 21.—The Italians 1n their offeualve en the Isonzo begun Sunday. have crossed the Isonzo River and already have taken 7,600 prisoners, It was officially announced by the War Department Monday. The Italian filers are giving their Infantry valuable support. more ' 44.1 200 of them being engaged i• aft Ing with bombs and mac' gun ate Auetrlan troop formr� bellied the )fore. Atto last e.00111►ats the Italian guns were erotically proceeding with the wry bt destruction of the DOM pO„ atone taken up by the Outs- trip- ...elk us- trie * lndm.veriog to blast a road aratigh kite defences in order to I wake, trinre, easy the march of the Italian 'troops toward Trieste, Aus- tria'a 'principal seaport. lying at the heed of the Adriatic Sea. The statement from Italian Gen- eral Headquarters reads: "A battle is proceeding on the Julian Alps front. Yesterday morn- ing, after a bombardment of 24 hours. during which our artillery shelled the enemy positions with ever-increasing intensity, masses of our infantry comtuenced the advance toward their objectives. To the north of Anbovo (7 SS miles north of Gorizia), after . having brilliantly overcome technical dififcultles and the resistance of the enemy, numer- ous pontoons were thrown across the Isonzo, and our troops passed over to the left bank of the river. "From Playa to the sea. after having crossed the first line of the enemy. which had been destroyed com;rletely; our troops brought pres- sure to bear upon him. Resisting strongly and being supported by con- siderable artillery and a large num- ber of machine guns, tbe enemy of- fered •desperate resistance. "Altogether 285 aeroplanes inde- fatigably participated In the battle. attacking repeatedly with bombs and machine guns the troops assembled to the rear of the enemy's positions. The Infantry action vigorously con- tinues while lot' artillery also 1s pro- ceeding energetically with its work of destruction. • "The enemy's losses are very seri- ous. The booty reported up to the present is very considerable. 'Some guns and a large number of machine guns are fp our hands. 1'p to last evening more than 7,500 men and about 100 officers passed into our collecting stations." "Italy's great offensive had spread violent fighting. over 'nearly a hun- dread miles of front in the Julian. Carso and Isonzo_ fronts late Mon- day. The Italian drive, beginning Sunday night, was reported as ex- tending everywthere with splendid progress and great captures of Aus- trians. British' and French gunners -are co-operating w'th General Ca - dome's troops. ,.:very inch of Aus- trian defences, from the' Sultan Alps to the sea, In under the pounding are of the Allied artillery." Fall Term from Sept. 4th CENTRAL ath STRATFORD. O N T.. COMMIAC1AL, SHORTHAND au,! TELEGRAPHY DEPARTMENTS We have thorough courses, ex- perienced instructors and we place graduates in positions. Demand upon us for trained help is many times the number graduating. Get our free catalogue. D. A. McLACHLAN, Principal. MacEvan Estate Exclusive agents for SCRANTON for Goderich and District. Any quantity all Maple Slabs, Mixed. .Wood, Hemlock and Kindling IOedar or Rise, ) TELEPHONES, office 98 residence 252 9r 611, QUIT MF.AT If YOUR KIDNEYS ACT BADLY Take tablespoonful of Salta if Back hurts or Bladder bothers—Drink lots of water. GERMAN LINE PIERCED. smashing Victory for 'French on Verdun Front. PARIS, Aug. 21.—A smashing French victory on the Verdun front is recorded In the omcial report Issued by the War Office Monday night. The Fren,h have captured the enemy defences on both sides of the Meuse over a front of more than eleven miles, penetrating theGer- min-7lee at divers pouts to a a.pth of a mile and a quarter. More than 4,000 unwounded German prisoners have been taken. The new tprrit ,ry taken by the French embraces I osltions that hare literally weltered in French and Ger- man blood In battica that have waged to and fro since Vie German Crown Prince started his most costly en- terprise. the kakis!. of Verdun, which resulted in utter failure as a mili- tary manoeuvre aril cost the lives of tens of thousands of his men. • Notable among thea captured 'mai-- Bons are. the Arnc0 rt Wood, the two summits of Le Mort Homme, the Corbeaux Wood 'and 'Champneuville, all of which ware held despite •icioue counter-attscke by the Ger- mans, which were broken up by the French fire with heavyasaalties. French airmen aider: mate fatly the infantry in the 'preen forward, 'mooping low over the 'German fortes and emptying their machine guns into the ranks, and in fights in the air with Germ in protecting ma- chines, eleven of Which were sent hurtling to the ground. The text of Monday night's state- ment reads: "On the front north of Verdun our troops captured 'on both sides of the Meuse enemy defences on a front of 18 kilometres and to a depth which exceeded two kilometres at certain points. On the left bank of the river we hold In particular the Avocourt Wood, the two autumns' of Le Mort Horeme, Corbeaux Wood, and Cu- mieree. On the right hank we have occupied Tatou Ridge, Champ, Champneuvflle, Hill 344, Mormont Farts, and Hill 240, north of Lours- mont. "On the right our troops have advanced considerably in the Bois des Fosse and the !lois de Chaume. "The number of unwounded pris- onets taken is mote than 4,000. "The Germans carried out violent counter-attacks In the Aeocourt Wood and against Le Mort Homme and 11111 344, but our fire everywhere broke down their efforts and inflicted heavy !cease. Our aviators took a brilliant part in the battle, turning their Machine guns at • low height against enemy concentrations and contributing also to the repulse of counter-attacks." rye►,. 0,4" Eve,. . N r� pif • 1 LSON'S LY PADS A ,LL KILL MORE FLIES THAN S&OtvORTH (1F ANY STICKY FLY CATCHEQ Clean to handle. Sold by all Drug- gists, Grocers and General Stores. Dettlocracy of the World Was Saved by the English, Declares Jas. W. Gerard EVERY day which passes 1s be- ginning to show more clearly how near democracy was to a cataclysm In the summer of 1914. First one unimpeach- able witness and then another comes upon the scene to expose the almost incredible chain of buttresses by which the German Government had shored up the campaign of con- quest which it launched just three years ago. It hardly matters where the human mind ranges, there 11 nude evidence of carefully thought - .•>•e+000 out plana for extending German kul- tur and German domination. Aa Ludendorff, the (ierman, time goes on. more and more wit- nesses come forward to prove that it Is a Man of Mystery, was the entrance of Great Britain Who Puzzles the World •94:4o-ta Alt correspondents in Ger- we many have lately supe d,ano v - Bred a new superman In the person of Ludendorff, chief of staff to von Hindenburg and rated by the awestricken ones about him as that general's guiding force and intellectual superior. Silent, solitary, morose, be Is a figure little known but greatly fearee.. Those "in the know" credit him with Hinden- burg's victories. But he is more than soldier. He is, so report has It, a great diplomat and a civil adetlals- trator. He brought order to Poland and Galicia with German occupation of those territories. He axed rail- road rates, established customs, re- gulated the American relief opera- tions, and so employed Kite iron heel upgn American corespondents that tuey now speak of him with awe. In brief, he is the strong and silent man of mystery which every war 1s certain to produce. We note In a somewhat superla- tively adulatory article on Luden- dorff in The Atlantic Mgnthly. by H. L. Meocken, certain statements which may perhaps throw a needed side light upon history. The battle of Tannenberg, or of the Masurian Lakes, as it is some- times cqalled, was fought early in the war and was the drat German victory. In it`two ltuasiaa armies under Gen- erale Samosonoff and Rennenkampp, aggregating 600,000 men, were rout- ed by von Hindenburg with about 200,000 men, of whom at least 60 per cent. were men 61 the reserve class. The Russians were cut to pieces, drowned by the tens of thou- sands In the lakes, and quagmires of which Hindenburg was supposed to have an uncanny knowledge, 140,000 were captured, the rest driven back into Russia. Germany went mad with adulation of her victorious general, erected a colossal wooden statue of hilts, and the populace paid liberally for the privilege of driving nails into it to show their regard and affection for the hero. Of late, since confronted by the French and British in the west, von Hindenburg bas done little but re- treat. Perhaps for that reason it came to be whispered that Luden- dorff really won the sanguinary bat- tle of Tannenberg. Mr. Mencken de- scribes the efforts made by corres- pondents to run this rumor down: "How? By what process? By what strategy? Ask these questions in Germany and you will ask In vain. The whole business already belongs to fable. Everybody has a different exblanation, a different theory. The hi swift and so colossal !Ws are a nation of meat eaters and Inn Mood is filled with uric acid, says • well-known authority, who warns us to he constantly on guard against kidney: trouble. The kidneys do their utmost to free the blood of this irritating acid, but become weak from the overwork; they get sluggish; the eliminative tissues cloy. and thus the waste is retained in the blood to poison the entire system. When your kidneys ache and feel lilae. lumps of lead, and you hare atinn• pains in the back or the urine ie eiowi\, Still of sediment, or the bla.l.ler is irri• Sable, obliging you to seek relief during the night; en you hare severe head- aches, nervous and dizzy spells, sleepless- ness, acid stomach or rheumatism in bad weather, get from your pharmacist about lour cones of Jad Salts: take • 'tablespoonful in • glass of water before breakfast each morning and in a few Slept your kidneys will act fine. This 4a.nv"ss salts is made from the acid of grapes juke, and lemon jue, orsnbined with lithe", and has been used for generations to find, and stimulate Homo! kidneys, to neutralize the acids in urine so H is sweep longer • sree of irritation, than tending urinary and bladder disorders. ' 3a4 Salts is inexpensive and cannot liajere: makes • delightful effervescent 'Whit water drink, and nobody ran maks mistakeoctennially by taking a little cteakmally Ile keep the kidneys clean and act i, e, A round Town. The smart turnout of the fire bri- gade at the reeeot fire at • garage stopped what at one time looked like a serious contagratiuo. Witb an efficient fire-tigbting force, it is • pity that wore earnest attention is nut given to reniedying the deficiencies polluted out by the fire Inspector a short time ago. Much valuable time is lost by having to run to the court house to ring the hell, and tome quicker means should be found to alarm the firemen. Fire alarm boxes could,be erected in dtff.rent parte of the wn connected directly with the fire s ation and then with the reei- dence of each fireman. At slight this would ensure the presence of the mei, who might not hear the bell. The other recowwendatioos of the ire in- spector also should be carefully con- sidered by the council. Swat That Fly. JAMES W. GERARD Into the struggle that saved the day for democracy. The latest man to testify to the part played by England Is James W. Gerard, who was Am- erican Ambassador win Berlin wheat the war broke out He calmly tells the people of the United Staten that England saved, not only Europe but also America. Gerard tells of an in- terview witb the kaiser during the fateful August days of 1914. It was on the occasion when the German Emperor wrote his letter to Presi- dent Wilson admitting that the inva- sion of Belgium was due to military necessity. The kaiser was visibly depressed, and Mr. Gerard makes the following significant comment on the situation. "It was not without reason that at this interview, when the kaiser wrette this message to the President, he said that the coming in of England changed the whole situation and would make the war a long one. The kaiser talked rather despopdently about the war.' I tried to ch -."r him up by saying tbe German troops would soon enter Paris, but he an- swered: "The English change the situation: an obstinate nation; they will keep up the war. It cannot end thing was so soon." It was the entry of England that no one seems to have kept any In the war, in defence of the rights coherent record of it. I searched in of small nations. in defense of the vain in Berlin for a clear account; I guaranteed neutrality of Belgium, got very litue more light from oro- which saved the world from the 'airs who were present. Four months harsh dominion of the conquest - after the battle James O'Donnel Ben- hungry Prussians and, therefore, nett, tbe correspondent of the Chi- saved as well the two Americas and tags Tribune went to East Prussia Rrftleh Sailors Drowned. LONDON. Aug. 21. --Sinop the out- break of war 5,627 oAlrcrs and men of the British mercantile marine, exclusive of those in the pay of the Admiralty, have lest their lives, ac- cording to a statement made In the Home of Oommona Monday after - :loon by Sir Albert Stanley, president of the Board of Trade. their protecting doctrine of President to go over the fleM and unearth the Monroe." facts. He told me later that to give up the enterprise as impos- sible. The staff officers of Hinden- I burg actually differed as to the days oo which the action bad been fought!ro More, I and an err of the same sort official the ocial biography of Luden- dorff, read and approved by him, The author, Dr. Otto Krack, says that the victory was reported on .August 28. But a copy of the Berliner Tageblatt that Iles before me shows that it was really reported on the following day." Much mystery Indeed. But is it not possible that the news gatherers went to the wrong place? Should I they not rather have gone to Petro- grad, to the heads of the revolution- ary committee. who discovered that German bribes and German corrup- tion Induced generals in the Rusalan army, tainted like the Czar and all his entourage with 3erman sympa- thies, to betray their teen, to aban- don them to defeat and wholesale slaughter? The defeat of Tannen- berg, upon which the Germans are erecting Idols, was one of the rea- sons why the Russians pulled down the Czar and the Grand Dukes. It 1s notable that von Hindenburg has won no victory since he cqn- fronted the french and British. be had PILES. Yea wllI ilnd relief In Zama* t 1 It aasss ttte burning, 'Snobs halm, slops blMdigg and 11 ems. Perseverance, Olt Zaf1a" Suk, newts rum�uyeWhy not prove this 7 All ''a�llt t3uK Venice Lights Are Dim. ` In the old, happy-go-lucky days before the war the Venetians used to turn night into day in order to enter- tain the travelers who flocked to see their "glorious city In the sea." It was when night bad fallen that the music -boats, brilliantly lighted with colored lanterns, appeared on the Grand Canal and in the Basin of St. Mark. Soon they were surrounded by hundreds of gondolas, filled with happy travelers, enjoying the song and music and the gay and pictures- que scene. Now, alas, all Is changed! There are no travelers and no music boats. Early in the evening all lights in pub- lic places and fa private hones must be shaded or extinguished. Gondolas I and boats are all tied up at their re- spective traghettbs. Venice become' strangely silent and still. I Then when St. Mark's clock strikes ' midnight a call clear and distant is beard. It brings a speedy sneerer. Again call and answer are repeated. They are heard by every one as they go circling around the city. Tbey are the words: "Per l'aria! burins guardia!" "All'erto! sic!" (On the air! Keep a good watch." "Alert! I (am.") They are uttered by the night-watchmen from their coigns of vantage throughout the city. Venice, secure from attack by sea or land, le now liable to be assailed from the air. Therefore these wabnh- men aro set to keep a sharp lookout skyward, to look well to the air, so that they may give timely warning to the citizens. They call to each other hourly so as to make sore that fro one Is asleep, and that all era alert and watching. Those hourly rails aro therefore to the Venetians welcome tree, even Ihough they should disturb theft slnmhen. for they thus fret tlmety 1r.trdnoes of the approach of danger on that they may take measures to save 1l..a. Attention is again called to the ne- cessity of a "Swat that Fly" tam- paign." This household pest, as has been pointed out .o many mons, is the breeder of all kind. of diereses, and therefore every weans should be taken to end its career. I have po- liced in mauy homes the fly is allowed full license, no attempt being made to destroy it, in spite of the many warn- ings issued by medical men and °then in a position to know its evil conse- queoees. Some Difference. While a tar was being loaded at the O. T. It. tracks a lease, taken sick, fell down. Those in charge of the animal immediately gave it every at- tention, calling a set. and showing it ever y kindness, This case is in marked coot: ant with the one just recently in which a horse in mantr • oitcute- stauces wss cruelly beaten, 1.11101 it bad to be killed to put it uut of its misery. One Way of Raising -Money. A city eldt man recently made the suggestion that the domestic cat should to taxed as a wartime weans tit raising money. As the town coun- cil of Goderich i, in need of fut ds here is a way to help fill the coffers. Liveis of the cat would cheerfully pay a small tsx to keep their pets.. We mightgo still further and tax old tumid* and bachelors ; in fait, there's tae end to the things we could tax. But what of the pour tax -gatherer Nothing Doing Yet, Its spite of the efforts of the food controller and' the many economies we are called upon 10 practise. there are no signs yet of a decrease an food prices. As • matter"of fact they are gradually ssoaring higher, and a per. sn.woeeiwthrr there really i a food shortage or wbitbee"we are the victims of tbe profiteer. May the time sown come when we shall get a real ''Husiners Government." WALKER ROUND. u., - ---..,.t*__...,w..•. September in Algonquin Park. September in Algonquin Park, Go- liath., is one of the most delightful months in the year. A beneficial holiday can be en)o)ed with .11 the comforts of home at "The Highland Inn," situated in the midst of • cbarrn- ing wilderness on Cache Lake. It 15 *1.o a good mouth for the camper and canoeist. Splendid fishing is found in the iuuumerable lakes (ovtr 1,500) that beetle in the forest* of pane and balsam. Dunt leave it until the last minute to make your reservatnou at the Inn and wtite to Miss Jeau Lind- say, manager, Algonquin Peak Sta- tion, Outate, for rates, etc., u• to any ()rand Tsunk Railway agent for baud - owe illustrated brooklet telling you 511 a Lout the district. His Affliction. Kind Lady—"It mutt be a terrible thing to have to go through life with- out your limb. However, you must hope that it will Le returned to you in the next world." Hobo—"I know it will, mum, but that don't encourage Inc none. Me foot was cut di when I was a baby and it won't come within • foot of the ground when it's restored." There are more good women in this world than great ones. What Is Uric Acid ? THE CAUSE OF BACKACHE. RHEUMATISM, GRAVEL AND SUDDEN DEATH. Ever ',ince the discovery of uric acid In the blood by Scheele, in 1775, and the bad effect it had upon the body, scientists and physicians have striven to rid the tissues and the blood of this poison. Because . of 1a over- abundance in the system it causes backache, pains here and there, rheu- matism, gont, gravel, nenralgia and sciatica. It was Dr. Pierce who dis- covered a new agent, called 'Amino," which will throw out and Completey eradicate this uric acid from the sys- tem. "Anorie" has proved to be 37 times more potent than Whin, and consequently you need no longer fear mnscnlar or articnlar rheumatism or gont, or many other diseases which ars dependent on an accnmalation of oris acid within the body. Send to Dr. Pierce of the Invalids' Hotel and Sur- gical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. for a pamphlet on Annnc," or .end f0 Dents for • trial package of "Annrio Tablets." If yon feel that tired, worn • out feeling, backache, neuralgia, or if your sleep is disturbed by too frequent urination, gob onr best dmg stop and ask for Dr. Iroe's Annrio Tablets. They are put up in 50 -cent packages. Doctor Pierce's reputation Is back of this medicine and you know that hat 'Golden Medical Discovery' for Sha blond and his "Favorite Prescription • for the ills of women have had a splen- did reputation for the past fifty years. Doctor Pierce's Pellets are onegnsisd tis a Liver Pill. One hist' Sugar-coated Pellet a Dose. 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Good horses First-class rigs West Street, Next Postoffice A Unique Bandsman. During the last winter Percy Grainger, pianist and composer, bril- liant, unusual, and of interesting personality, was giving concerts for 111.000 an afternoon. He was consid- ered the finest pianist yet produced In a British Overseas Dominion. Now he is playing in a band in the United States army for $30 • month. But he is perfectly delighted to play the oboe. He likes khaki and he hasn't a regret In the -vorld for the leonine mane which he wore as a concert pianist. but which had to be sacri- ficed for military band purposes. Mr. Grainger, who U a Australia by, birth, came to this ct Itinent in 1916. In between regular band work he gives concerts for the benefit of the Red Cross, and his playing 1s so much admired that every concert brings the organisation several thou- sand dollars for relief work among the soldiers. Mr. Grainger began to tour in concert at the age of seven- teen. 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