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REVOLUTION EXPECTED
Proletariat Forces Gather Power
in Berlin.
It the Gerwirui Governseat Now In
Power Falls as Remit of Action
of Soviet, 1t May Mean the Tri-
umph of Bolshevism Over the
Forces of Democracy Throughout
Germany.
BERLIN( March 4.—The proletar-
iat revolutton Is fast closing its grip
over Germany. Machine guns are not .
going yet, because the Government
knows that once they are started,
they will not cease watt' the country
1. washed with blood. -
Here is Berlin, the elty L In a
burst of gaiety, everybody making
the most of the last few days before
the Inevitable crash. The Soviet of
Greater Berlin Is tiled with bitter-
ness against the Government, whit*
the reports is the newspapers do not
indicate. The independent Socialists
and Communist leaders are whipping
their followers into a frenzy againat�
the Go meat and over 100,000
workmen In the city are already pre-
pared to strike, and that they are
all conscious that they are striking
for political rumour, and with the
purpose to establish the dielature of
the proletariat.
The Berlin .trite, which Is expect-
ed to be the culminating strike. is
teatativety announced for Wednes-
day, but may be called sooner or
later, depending upon the strategical
development of the strike elsewhere.
So tar the middle German indus-
trial strike Is bolding Arm, and, If
anything. aggravate' 14 the so-called
bourgeois strike in protest. In Halle
and In Leipsic especially, (be feeling
between the bourgeoise and prole-
tariat bag reached the point which is
acknowledged as civil war.
The lndependeut Socialists are
gloating uvea the situation They have
brought about, sad Die Friebelt
proclaims it as the "closed treat of
the pruletarlu against the Bout -
geese." • situation which it expects
"all Socialists would greet with the
liveliest tuterest."
In the meanwhile the Weimar as-
sembly stolidly discusses the colon-.
!al question. If democracy has not
already fallen In the loud In Ger-
many, it is very near to doing so.
and Weimar has become a debating
society. The proletariat revolutfou
has no great force behind It; it Is
mere general dissatisfaction, but it
has the ale of ty years of So -
Mallet propaganda. Democracy had
a chane only If it had a big conrnlruc-
ttve program, the s*lef point in which
was the socialising of such Industries
as the coal mines and steel works
where socialisation is not too dim -
cult, but It failed to take the chance,
and now it is almost too late. For
whatever active force there is behind
the proletariat revolution comes from
dissatisfaction over the unfulfilled
demand for socialisation.
One reason why ruvialisatiuo
oade ■o little progress was the de-
sire of the Government not to put
German Industries in such a position
that they would be unable to compete
with other rations. where more econ-
omical prtvate ownership was bound
to give a trade advantage. The
workers do not are whether Ger-
many 1s a world commercial power.
OUT WENT SINNER?
A Negro Superstition That ASW
Survives.
The well-known practice of negro
folk of "conjuring the shadow" and
thereby fixing the guilt of some one
under suspicion, is described by L.
Frank Tooker in a story in the Cen-
tury nlagasine.
Thr room was full of people when
later in the eve/ping Sis' Marne ap-
peared at the door. She ducked her
her and laughed.
She sidled into the room with a
tunny little hitrbing step, humming
a Ray tune as she advanced; but Ls
she neared the middle of the room.
her tall, gaunt form suddenly stif-
fened Into immobility, and her keen
eyes glanced about her. "Sin 's done
come in de do'." the said harshly—
"sin 'i■ done come In. Ah feel it In
oa cel' bongs, col' an' ehibbery, lak
ere grebe."
She walked to the table, and, tak-
Ing up two lighted candles that stood
there, carried them to the front of the
room and set them on a shelf by the
open door. Then she walked back
to the middle of the room.
In the deathlike stillness yhe stood
rigid. like one in a trance. To the
strained eyes of the Watchers her
face seemed gradually to take on all
the aspects of death itself. Her eyes
were open, but in their unblinking
a:rdnean of gage there was neither
sight nor intelllgeoce; her Jaw had
dropped; an ashen grayness over-
spread her face; Ito wrinkled ridges
looked hard. like stone. Fur • long
time she stood thus, and then slowly
almost Imperceptibly. life mewed
to flow back 1n a tiny trickle. Her
arras twitched; now and then she
moaned like one in pain; and pres-
ently her whole body was to motion
--Motion that seemed apart from
volition, and which gradually in-
creased until her frail forou seemed
the vehicle of unconscious frenzy.
Her eyes were biasing now as she
whirled rythmitarily In a wild dance
that kept time to a low -bummed ac-
companiment. The accompaniment
grew louder, a clearly enunciated se-
ries of sounds that were yet unin-
telligible. Then suddenly she broke
into a chanted song:
One Iran passed trough da needle'
eye
(0 sinner, dean' you' see da do'')
Os da So' see his abader lie
(Sinner. sinner, come no mo'!)
Shadier o' blood an' heart o' stn
(0 sinner, down' you' see da do')
Go trough da do' dat yo' come In
(Sinner, sinner, come no mo'!)
Still dancing. she pointed a Anger
at Peter Bobun, Imperiously waving
him out.
Scowling, he hesitated; but some-
thleg about that grimly pointed An-
ger and punt form, with all the
traditional dread of Sts' Maines
mysterical power. bore down his re-
sistance. and rising slowly at last,
he slunk away. His fate showed
both resentment and apprebeaaloa,
but no one heeded; W eyes were
turned toward his shadow as It dark-
ened across the dirt loon. A sigh of
relief ran through the company, sad
all eyes again turned toward 9is'
Mame, for the abadow was not red.
Bo3Mevlkl Kill Hostages.
EKATBRINODAR, Russia, Feb.
22 — (Dipd-) —The volunteer
army of Embalm Cossacks, which wade
a clean sweep of the Bolshevik) In
the northern Caueadue, continues the
pursuit of the remnants of the Bol-
shevik force. The Bolshevik! scatter-
ed la all directions after the capture
by the COssaeks of Vladikaakan.
Purther details have been learned
of the manner in which the Bolehe-
vitl last December killed more than
nae hundred prominent hostages, in-
cluding Generals Ruastl and Redac
Dlmttri.g of the Russian army, and
several women. The hostages were
taken in motor trucks to Piatigorak,
soutkwest of Georglevsk, and placed
against a cliff, elhere they were shot
down with maehtne guns by Bolshe-
vik sailors. Those who showed signs
at life when the machine guns ceased
bring were hacked to death with cut-
leries.
4"
Troops Enter Kalb.
COPENHAGEN, March 4. —Gov-
aroment troops have entered Halle,
Prussian Saxony, which is now quiet,
according to a report from Berlin.
Serious food disturbances are re-
ported from Thorn, West Prussia.
Soldiers intervened and a slob tried
to storm the military jail, end a
number of persons were wounded
before the troops restored order.
Reports from Munich say the So-
viet Congress there has chosen a
Ministry beaded by Herr Segita, who
also will be Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs and Minister of the Interior.
Father Accused of Murder.
KINGSTON. March 4.—James A.
Hartwick of Parham was before Mag-
istrate Farrell on Saturday, charged
with the murder of his tau. At the
request of Crows Attorney Whiting
the rase was remanded 1111 Thursday
mnd 1t1,• pa Longi 5,1e 11,11 1'idlell Upon
to plead.
On Feb. 11 the Ludy of Frederick
Hartwlek, tan of the prisoner. was
found is a bush, and i1 was thought
he had been accidentally root while
hoer lag. Isvestigationa, however.
followed, with the remit t►al the
father le sew facing a murder Marge.
panki unbinds. Resigns.
LONDON, Match 4 --The Daolsh
Cabinet has resigned as the result of
In
oltare•1 situation
t*e oe�pllsled D
Denmark, eeeerding Io a wirelele
eeseme received her. from °epee-
hagM• The inmost, add. that It Is
believed that the Social Dem.rrate
1 ell
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abolish tit
I.and,thi■ or
try
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abo
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Semite.
Martial Lew In Sawmill.
PARIS, Mareh 4. -- "l he soldiers
and Workmen's Cos/gram at Mualeb
has dardered martial law for all of
Bavaria, awarding to a Emrich de -
Ueda to dm Marla.
1 -Ray's Value Proved.
The X-ray, as might readily be Im-
agined, has proved to be ode of the
most valuable aids in the sorriest
system of our army. Like phials
surgery and many other specialties
of medical whence, the war has net
It ahead at a rate equal to ► decade's
progress in time of peace.
For instance, one of the most Im-
portant uses of the ray is to asoertafn
the exact position of foreign sub-
stances ---shrapnel fragments and the
like—In the body.
One of the most Ingenlous of these
Is the Hlrta compass. Invented by
Col. Hirt/ of the French army. De-
tails of its construction are not avail-
able for publication, but it furnishes
the surgeon a direct guide to the
foreign body during the operation
for Its removal. The dement of
guesswork Is said to be eliminated.
The ordinary X-ray machine serves
only to tell the sergeon how tar the
splinter or ballet is perpendie»larfy
beneath a point marked on the akin.
The operation follows.
There Is another X-ray notal
which ear be taken anywhere, for it
furniebes Its own eteetre current. A
standard ambulance is altered atight-
1y so that it carries a gas engine, a
htgin teast on transformer, a special
portable X-ray table, a portable dark
(room and the other necessary acces-
sories. The gas engine and ',aerator
remain In the ambulance. The port-
able dark room is net up near It. Thus
the outfit can be taken anywhere a
motor car can Irave1
Another outfit ran be taken to the
bedside of the patient. Tbls la par-
ticularly valuable In the case of cer-
tain chest wounds.
Das as a Fuel.
Experiments in i':ngland with or-
dinary prodneer gas as a fuel for
Internal combustion engines has
shown that as the auto and power
of the engine Increases the hen oa
producer gas diminishes. The fret
that coal gas. ellhongh of lower ret-
ort(' %elite than gasoline, gives better
results, Is accounted for by the pres-
sure of the gas is the Ya& which
delivers this fuel to the engtae with
little or no "back pall."
Bier,
Zine Is being used Instead of brass
for the manufacture of numerous
small articles. such tut shoe and cor-
set eyelet'', lace tlpe. show clips and
metal buttons, and In In every way
an .atlefactory as braes and mater-
ially tall le
pe
leas expensive.
Klevalloe of Mountains.
The elevation of mountain,' is us-
ually determined by the barometer,
by noting the boiling point of water
as It ia carried upward. or by the use
of surveying instruments and eom-
putstloss in trigonometry. The last
111 the sdeatla a method.
r
swat we dm Wu*
tits
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A Spring Message
To The Canadian Public
HE Signing of the Armistice relieved some of the
most pressing demands for shoes. But it did not, and
it could not, increase the supply of leather. It released
thousands of men from military duty, but only gradually
will they find their way back into their old occupations. So, until an actual
shortage of leather is turned into a surplus and the supply of labor becomes
somewhere near normal, we cannot expect any marked change in con-
ditions, and the price level must continue high.
Leather is not a product of manufacture, but of natural growth. It takes time to produce a skin,
and no process of "speeding up" will hasten it. The demands of the war, and the destruction
of war, so depleted the world's stock of leather that, as we told you last fall, it was a big problem
to produce enough good quality shoes to go around. Now we must simply wait for a new
supply of leather to grow.
Labor is another problem which will take time to solve. Many men, fresh from life spent
largely out-of-doors, will not go back to factory work again. Many others bear honorable
wounds which unfit them for it. 1 fere again, we expect no immediate return to normal conditions.
So in this, our Spring message to the Canadian public, we say
"Prudence in buying is ';till necessary. You can help to bring about more normal conditions if
you will continue to exercise it. Buy for service and see that you get real value for your money.
"And now especially you should see that the manufacturer's trade -mark is stamped upon the
shoes you buy. Unbranded shoes may be reduced in quality to make the price seem low --with
the end of the war as a plausible excuse. But no manufacturer will jeopardize his reputation by
stamping his trade-rnar'c upon a product which he is ashamed to acknowledge. Remember this,
and look for the trade mark. It is the best assurance you can have of real value."
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ST. JOHN
AMES HOLDEN McCREADY
"Shoemakers to the Nation"
MONTREAL TORONTO WINNIPEG EDMONTON
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FiRST BATTALION
TO BE HOME SOON.
Soldier% Are Being Asked Their Plazas
after Return to Canada.
The following letter from iergt• W.
E. Elliott (eon of Mr. and Mrs. G. M.
Elliott of town) appears in The Lon-
don Free Preen of Saturday last:
Houtain 1, E'e.ue, Belgium, Febru-
ary 9.—The battalion {s in the throes
of queetlonnalrell. 'I'rd. I. not a dlg-
esee, but a card form lite troops have
to Ali In for information of the I)epert-
inent of Soldiers' Civil lte-Eetahllsh-
ment, Canada. It concern. Itaelf prin-
cipally with one's past and future
occupation In life. It particularly de -
mires to know 1f we belong to a labor
ort;nolrntlm'. nn11 If so. what'' I sport
luost of the Sabbath typing question-
nalres, end only thr.e men claim mem-
tel'mhiyl I11 a labor anion. one of them
lived In and w•111 return to the United
State's. 3411 organizer) labor in not go-
ing to he overburdened looking after
Its II*'n.
Another hit of Informntfon to he sup-
plied is the dcntubllhuatlun area
claims' In Canada. It in interesting
to note that shalt 440 men now with
the bit ('ensdlsn infantry Battalion
Ikwln• to go to London. Natnrn3ty
u
many of them aro fr m Stratford.
1
Sarnia, t1'oodelaa•k, Ingersoll and
many other prints In the dlrtrtct.
There ere several hundred lit ilei•
talion men al'stter.t over France, Bel-
gium nlNl lieruanc who will return to
proportion i
us, ref Ithese, n nlmllar s 11
any I ctwlon." Nearly thirty w'lil
hate 1u transfer to other units of 1111'
1111111104 to get to their hane,,rntros,
lout these will he replaced by London
seen to those etas nnite. On the
whole there should be r gnuwl. string
battalion to march duwu Richmond
street next month.
The Bands.
There is a strong probability that
the battalion will have almoat a full
bugle band, ulster Brest. Fred Dem`nn,
441 'Wilals"r. The fate of the brass
bend is more in doubt, no its frame-
work, so to speak, 1s composed of the
original baud of the 35th Battalion, of
Toronto.
Cul. Sperling. 0.14.0., though a West-
ern officer. ham elected to accompany
bin battalion to London, but at the
prelwnt time he In brigade commander.
Major T. it. Colman, D.N.O., M.C., 111
In charge of the battalion. There are
now only thirty-s1x officer, on the
effective strength of the unit, and one
of thea—Lietlt. A. Ewart, a Rhoden
scholar leave. to -morrow to rewnIn'
Isla Oodles at an I;ilgl1sh college.
The Initiation postollkr, after to-
morrow, w111 receive no more parcel,
for dl,'pteh. it In reporter) that the
pmdofllce suthorltlell to Canada have
sidled a halt to dlgatoh of any further
taro -els from title aide. R's, 11x\1' 110
I'asltl t0 doubt It. The nc'en-It,r of
mail Is the chief complaint at the
present period of dull routine.
an agnostic. 51i11, one does get a, hit
mut of touch with church affairs oqqt
here, and perhaps the Chaplain Set -
vices' will will make allowane&
The questlonuwlree—the variety fir*
rcfcrrl.1 to shuN- a considerable num-
Iser of 1111'U ..111111e1'1111YI" 1311 to Ibe 0e-
e-np$tinu they will follow on return tb
Canada. They were factory worket4
or railway men or'Merke at the time or
eullstment, but are not ansa that the/
will take up the old employment.
do not twofer& to know why, except
that there Is a tendency to plan for
• good reed first of all. But the cards
do indicate thin Interesting fact, that
farmers and farm laborers are retnrn-
lug to the land, almoit without ex-
ception. it is elm a fact that some
met) formerly cntpin)•cvl In titles are
nwinterested h1 land nettlement. Ho
that's that.
Return te Lead.
The organization known as the
Chaplain Seri -lees. ha. got Into the
sof Bo
quest' Ir
NW N' 1{P 11 t
With little hit I a
n
owh. Men ora salted to give their
home address, eta, the name and rad
;Imes of their holm` pastor. Truth
r&impel,. the staten5nt that some Hien
Il re 1111abI1• 1111f/111^ t11/' nm mus and a11
dress of their pastor. Boone of thele
are e.1n111y ~ilk In K1rr Any tortie
-
nhtr address of their own in Canada.
1.1 some cases they exhibit aerial's
doubt as to what reltglnna denomina-
tion they belong to. Revert] eatd
1'* ne felt den, anti 1 regret to say
the padre's batman confessed to being
WATER AND LIGHT STATEMENTS
Operation, for 1118 chew 'a Nominal
WLrplua—MunkipaIlty Pays
Large Sums.
The wmter nal light enmml'ston at
Its regular meeting last. Thor.day
pa.eed n nnmter of appllcatbns for
electric light• esrvk'e.• It was decided
not to meld any APleg•ter to the meet -
Ing of the Ontario Mnhldpal Electric
An.la•latioll, to he held at Toronto
1lsrrh 1111h. A leiter from the 11'ork•
wen's compensation hoard intimated
that the employee* of the eommieel0n
had liven 1111111.11 on the list for 1netr-
N'n. 1 .•I/
, .• • Board. It h lett
the
sure IIIMI 1 1
to pay the 1'rot'Itw'lal 1'o,mlwlon a
farther slam of $572.110 oo the old
1'apltal account, the cram of $1.000
having Leen petd lent mnn(h.
A statement r..wlved 'firm the
t'rorin tel hydro Commission, show-
ing the results of last year"s opera-
tioml of the local electric tight depart-
ment. gave the total earning,' 4s
$30,517.1A and ezpente' $24,020.82t
This left a gross pnrplua of $0.401.06,
and, deduct Ins a deprcctation charge
of y71.'t77.'rt, it net snrphte of $,3,111.06.
111e ,'annillga erre nmdc ftp as
follows:
lhtuestic light $ 7,990.21
Commercial light 4,4)1k3!12
('ommere110 power 8.208.29
Municipal power 4,219.05
Street lights 5,129.78
Mlecellaneous 208.75
$10,517.138
The main Item In the expenses was
$14,380.97 for power purchased.
Analyzing thin report, It is seen
flint there Inn no mention of capital
e‘ls•ndltnre for e,tenalunm, new ser-
%irr., etc., which are constantly being
made- so that the 'surplus. In Illusory.
Farther, while there la a nominal net
surplus of 13,114.0(3, tate muga of
$9.a4k.k1 coulee from the town
tr'nsary for street lighting and water
pumping.
The wnterwlRk■ report for 191'4.
likewise made up In the °Akee of the
Provincial ('owmi,'alon, *bows receipts
ae follow'': From consumers, $11,-
042.41; for hydrant, $3.1149.9* --total,
115,2112.117. Thr expenses totalled
6 :ill t 's for 1- 79. leering • a Ina cr the
1 R rD
year's o►eratlone of $2.913.0'2.
CANNOT EARN A MILLION.
0.'. I. (ltd Bey Saps t ►ew
y MlYie,rasi
Hate Outer Peoples M511sy.
1ntldnn. March 3. No the man can
earn a million dollere 1Mtteetlyy. Any-
one that lige a mlll1a dollars hoe
.omeone elee's money. There are per.
haps 1111 roti, here tonight. Celler-
tively, you could not save a million
dolls re In twenty years of toil. it can-
not be dope In Loudon. It cannot be
done anywhere."
Icer. W. It. Meintouh's enhject lest
evening at the King street Preshy-
terien church was "Crucifixion on a
I'rrlsn of 1:0111." Al the servke, there
was a large number of the members of
Bt. John's Ambulance Brigade present
at the invitation of the congregation of
the church. To them, the pastor ad -
drowsed a few brief wont,' of welcome,
eulogizing their aplendld splrlt of see•
rides in their work. The speaker
dwelt on all the croons humanity
down throngh the ages bad borne;
heredity, national pride, bigotry, ■rid
behind them all loomed the sinister
shadow of the cross of gold.
Iter. W. it. McIntosh la ■n Aslt6eld
old boy, end • 0. C. 1. graduate.
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