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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-06-28, Page 2+1-.4+*••4*.e+ teo4+4-****4 4++ 4 014 0+4+4t414*" THE PASSING OF I THE SUPERMAN (Sidney leew in the Fortnightly Review.), 44-4-444+4+-itee+4-4-4-4-44 letete+4-4+4- 44 +4 +4+4+ 444e+ -e4 +sea -a -etre eeseee., The grate et of all wars bra eo far grafi about till thie work with all amazing modesty, calmness and self - ()Recommit, us thotIgh to Safer appal• Un g torture, to be mangled, 41)1)00 open, ;imbued, blinded, killed, were just an incident in tlio tJay's tloingS. TheY do it all so quietly, with so eemplete ae. ebsence a pose!' In all the armies I think Viet is so, but most our own. I cannot !Magill( anY but a British regintent rushing into the hell pt the machine gun fire with the cry ot "Early doors sixpence extra," or with the men kieltiug a football before thern through the zone of sputtering ballete, The establish- ed hero givets one the impreseion et being conscious that the ee-es of the.. ssorld are Upon him. "leer God and: the King," he cries, or "For the liltes et France," or something of that kind, as he charges gloriouslY, with white plume waving, rad a magnificent flut- ter et leced loak or flying hussar: jacket, One suspects that even in dying he faces his audience, feeling that he owes it to Wiesen and to his order to make his exit with a sense ei • style. In the earlier days ot the war 1 came upon a paragraph in a newspa iser correspondent's letter about tin fighting near Festubert, A. British sol dier was lying wounded- on tie ground, fevered with thirst, close m a German ever more desperately hurt. Stretcher bearers arrived and offerei the Briton a tin of water. The ram as reaching for it eagerly, when hit glance, fell on his totmented enemy, "After he said, and handee back •the vessel for the Gorman tt drain. So now, when I seek to recal my old vision of Sidney at Zutphen, it Is blotted out by another: a vision oi a man in drabblea khaki, lying Jr the horrible crimsoned filth of No Man's Land; of another man iu a tors gray tunic, drenched with blood, star- ing with wolfish eyes. at the water; of the former shutting his own parch- ed lips tight 'over his teeth and put• ting the precious draught by with r short, 11l -said word of refusal. Surels a greater hero, that nameless cockney than .the sti•orded and scented cour ier! "After 'MI" It is better Oar the nobly monitions phrase that read° Philip Sidney imuortal. But all the blazoned deeds of the Past are outshone daily, There was Sir Richard Grenville, of the Revenge,' and here is Capt. Loftus Jones, of H M. DestrOyer Shark. In the battle of Jutland ten German ships were pour- ing their battle are Into the Shark at short range. Steeringgear, funnels, superstructure were blown away. Hall the erew were dead, the commander himself was severely wounded. An- other destroyer, the A.easta, pushed in front of the helpless ship to shield her and brave destruction herself. Loftue And the .effigy statesman is appar- TOMS, who was the commander of the ently as obsolete .as the effigy war- division, refused , any aid, and signal- rior. We look in vain for the Ceom- led the Acasto to keep out of the way. well, the Lincoln, the Cavour,le t-- Then a spliuter ,of shell came which took off the eaptain's leg about the knee; still he sat on the shattered deck and gave his orders and fought on. He noticed that the flag had been shot down, and ordered that an- other should be run up; and this was done, so that the Shark went under with colors flying, When they were all in the water the few survivors pulled their dying chief on board a raft, "Let's have a song, boys," he said, and they sang "Nearer, my God We have no hero, but a suPerabund- to Theo" till that indomitable sonl gene of heroes. We live, as Mr -Wells passed away. says, amid a torrent of heroism. • But In ware as in industrial transac- t!: is the heroism ot the common unre- tions, what is wanted is the harmoni- garded Immo being, the man who ous co-operation of a number 01 was just food for powder er food for managing persons,. none of them ne- pikes in the olden wars. It may be cossatily gifted with genius, but an 'that'll), the multitudes that dimly trail well trained, well ineormed, and cleat through the battles and the marches, thinking. The excessively forceful, and the mud and blood, of the earn- self-assertive, intelligence may be a Paigns of the past there are Soldiers hindrance rather than •a, help on a as brave, as loyal, as generous as those committee. You do not want the su- who have been' sent forth these three perman there; he would be likely to Years past from the cottages and make _trouble. • mean streets of Europe. It may be • The personality mey be dispensed so, for they no not figure in the with when the cause conies clearly annals. The historic muse gathering home to everybody and is intelligent- ber skirts aboutler as she trips dabat- ly apprehended by all. Perhaps our Ily over their plebeian bodies, treats -committees and jOint commission them only as an entry in her cata- and advisory councils will appeal to logue. So many thousands of theft that kind of corporate consciousness • corpses, she notes coldly , left to in the future. There is more sense of fester on the field; so many dragged it in this war than in almost any off to prison or -to slavery; so many, it great war of the past. The armies May be, butchered in. the market know what they are fighting for; equare or built up alive into the walls they have ate ethical and political of the fortress. Non-raggionam di lor, creed, indefinite but substantial, and We pass on to objects of more in- require no "magnetic" leadership to threat. Clio sharpens her pencil to stimulate their imagination. • set down itt seitable detail the acts But here we are dealing with armeil and words of kings, sultans,command- hosts of men who read, and even., in bag generals, valiant knights and some sort, :are, beginning to think. other persons of dignity. Their her- I idol worshipping is growing obsoles- oism is on the record, and we know all tent. Carlyle's hero as prophet and about it, but save in a few -rare Irt- itattnes the others are a gray mass, prlest Mut king is a little out of date. twanging away steadily at their bow- "I said the great man was always as strings, hacking . and prodding victor- lightning out ot heat/eel; -the rest of and bayonet, or per- meu waited for him like fuel, and leusly.with sabre haps drieen into rout (lied confused then they, too, wottld fierce." But slaughter, but • in any case as individs the rest of men„count for more in uals indistinguiehable. these days, and can Miele with their So most of the greets stories a valor own internal heat; they stand less in and sacrifice in war, that used to went of Preniethous, the bringer of thrill us like the sorad of a trumpet, fir t frem heaven -or elsewhere. relate to the seleeted, the socially su- perior, Wartime. The hero has usu. inan,” with one of the qualifications, DRIEO FRUITS, ally been "an officer and a gentle- if not both. to the Homeric poems pause to tell us about anybody but the chiefs, the princes, end the kings, like VEGETABLES Agamemnon and Menelaus and Odyse ses ated Heater, and the ill humored but most nobly born Achilles? Are the mediaeval chroniclers and singers --Froissart, Williatu of Tye, Mallory, Preserved, Sav6 Tin Cans And the rest-coneerned with the mule Mode in leather jerkins? It is the and Glass Jars, knights and barras that interest thent as they pueh encased In steel among the half armed half naked serfs of the And Are Easily Kept Insect - feudal levy; and if these poor fellows Were often brave, as I have no doubt 'proof. they Were, the valor is not worth res eording. We have all been brought thrown up no eupreately great person. We have got rid of what Mr. \Vette, with One of his irradiating ;flashes of inelaht end description, calls the effigy: the great, -caracoling, threateeing, overbearing figure that looms so large in the foregrouna of all the wars and' congneste of the past. Always when you tura back to then things the interest centres dramati- cally round an individual, The man has fie, overshadowed the event that meet ofteu we have forgotten the latter and reznember onlY the former. It is of Ilanieses or Sesostris, Cyrus, Alex- ander, Caesar, Attila, Charlemagne, Genghis, Khan, Charles XII., Peter tile Great we think, rather than pt the kingdoms they devoured, the empires! they founded or destroyed, the hosts they led to the slaugliter. History tlatteus out before many Muds a rather dull, level expanse, like the plain of Thebes with the Colossi tow- eritig above it to catch the sunbeams. It is the big man Who often gives his name to the epoch: the age Of Augustus, the age of Mohammed, the Napoleonic peried, the Bismarckian era, and so forth. But this marvellous stretch of time through which we are passing will not, it seems, be kuown as the age of any- body, We have no eftigy really wortb a show case in the historic museum, though several of the -nations engaged have made some evell-tetentioned ef- forts to create one. The Germans did their best 'with Hindenburg; but it is surmised that the strategy and battle schemes are really workee out by Ludeudorf and other useful subordin- ates, and that Hindenburg bimself may be only a clumsy wooden image. "made in Germany" to order and scale. In France there was at first some disposition to cast a'offre for the part; but that modest, methodical, painetaking, and unimaginative com- mander is not of the stuff whereof effigies are made, and he showed an absolute disinclination to appearju this role. Among ourserves a con- scientious endeavor was made for a time to find what we wanted in Kitchener, the StrOUg, i1ent mane the organizer of victory. But, alas; the Dardanelles report is out, and, .what- ever may be said of that inconvenient, and inconveniently timed, document, it must be acknowledged that it makes sad havoe evith. the Kitchener legend. Our superman fades before our eyes, and leaves us instead with the likeness of a most patriotic, self-confident, hard:work, high-minded gentleman, overburdened by a task of unparalleled difficulty. * * Chatham, even the Choiseul or the Alberoni, of the great war. Instead we nave had to be content with Mr. Asquith, Viscount Grey, M. Briand, Herr von Bethinann-lefollweg, Baron genuine, Sasonoff, and .1 scarcely think that the admirers of these emin- ent public men would claim that any or them was east in the hereto mould. Perhaps that is one reason why we • hailed the advent of Mr. Lloyd George With so much effusion, up to regard heroism in battle as a Drying wa a well-recognized and special attribute or patrielan birth or 'successful way a preserving. eertain Of hionegh rank, civil or milit ary. That feeds before canning came lute getter- is of the reasons why we have faxed war oroamental, spectaeulars al itee. So OAS the opeeialleti of the reiterate. United States Department' of Agricul- But this war has changed bur olden- ture, and traderte metratis Wake it tette% Hereism has become r:(1. core- still Were practicable than fermerlY. moil that it has long ceased to be pie. ,either in the home or by eommunity tureseue and theatrical, though it tugs grooPe, The Department adviees home,. At our heartstrings none tits less oe Wine to dry frulta and vegetables for *that WOOL We have discovered the whiter if tin cans and gletem jars that the quite, average, ordinary man are mama or exp ' eesive and trivet; the ean de &tile Which would have seem- following Methinks, which have betel ed notable enough to fill half et canto preved to be Very eatiefitetory. There of soundliate verse, or half a chapter are threejnethods in use, Theft otre of reverberant prose, in the days of sun tilling, drying by artifieial heat the effigy hero. Isor him -it may be and drYleg *with air blasts, as 'before he will get a line in a bald telegrata or an electrie fan. - • it bit of ribbon and a metal ,eress. It Trase for drylug by any one of these is, mach more likely be wilt eel noth- methods, as well as tray frames for ing, eatd 'nobody but a eolnrad or two use Over etoveo or before fahs. can e ill know hoe he Used and (r4t1, lit be made eaelofftetorile at home Terailleti and trays fOr teee with gain - ?tat heat esas be pureltaeea eompleto aceired Home -Made Grays Wait be made of ide and end hoards three-feUrtlia of tia Welt thick and two. inehee nide, snit bottom boards of tattling spaced ane -fourth of fUl in0h, It deeired. MeD otirtlisincli galvanized wire Meeh may tacItea to the tilde and end' boards to YQ1311 Uto bottottle of the traye. Preface for use before faus may be made of wooti t cenerenient size. regime for use with artificial heat (Should be made Of nou-inflannuable Material to eti great an exteat aa pee. elhle, As many as six trays may be placed one above the other when arti- ficial boat is used. In drsing, before a fan the number Of trays, that iney be placed one above tho other will de - Pend, to it largo extent, upon the ;Kee meter or the fan, In drying in the eun, trays 418 described May be twee or the products to be dried. Inas, be tweed on sheets of paper or muslin held in Pirate by weighto. PRODUOlaTO PRODUCTS FOR DRY. ING. Vegetables and fruits will dry better ir sliced, Thetshould be mit lute elicee one-eighth to one-fourth of an inch thick, If thicker, they may not dry thoroughlY. While drying, the pro- ducts ehould be packed temporarily for three or four days and poured each day from one box to another to bring about thorough mixieg, ane eo that the whole maw will have it uniform aegree of moisture. If during this `conditioning" any pieces of the pro - irate are found to be too moist, they ihould be returned to the traye and Iried further. When in condition, the sroducts may be peeked permanteetly n tight paper bage, Ineect-proof paper eoxele or carton, or glass or tin. =- miners. The following recipes are re - SPINACH AND PARSLEY. Spinach that is in prime condition for greens should be prepared by care- ful washing and removing the leaves ,ront the roots. Spread the leaves on Grays to dry thoroughly. They will lry much more promptly if sliced or ;hopped, aARDEN BETS, ONIONS, CARROTS Beets -Select young, quickly -grown, ;ender beets, which should be washed, peeled, sliced about an eighth of an etch thick and dried. Turnips snould be treated in the same way ,as beets. Carrots should be well grown, but varieties having a largo woody core should be avoided. Wash, peel and slice crosswise into pieces about. an righth of an inch thick, Parsnips should be treated in the tame way as carrots. Onions --Remove the outelde papery levering. Cut off tops and roots, Slice into, one-eighth inch pieces and ery, Cabbage - Select well-developed leads of cabbage and remove all loose atttside leaves. Split the cabbage, re- move the hard, woody core and slice the remainder of the head with a kraut cutter or other hand -slicing ma- chine. All the products under this heading should be "conditioned," as described above. BEET TOPS, SWISS CHARD, CELERY. Beet Tops -Tops of young beets in suitable condition for greens should oe selected and washed carefully. Both the leaf, stock end blade should be cut into sections about one-fourth limb long and spread on screens and dried, Swiss chard and celery shod& be prepared in the sante way as beet tops. Rhubarb -Choose young and suc- culent growth, Prepare as for stewing by skinning the stalks and cutting into pieces about one-fourth inch to one- half inch in lengtla and dry on trays. Ali the • products under this heading should be "conditioned" as described. RASPBERRIES. Sort out imperfect berries, spread select berries on trays a,nd dry. Do not dry so long that they become bard enough to rattle. The drying should be stopped as soon as the.berries fail to stain the hand when. pressed, Pack and "cradition." RUSS WOMEN'S BATTLE CORPS "Command of Death" Soon to Go to the Front. Leader Says They Will Ex. eel the Men, Petrograd cable: The "Command of Death," which is the official title of the women's regiment raised by the twIce, 'wounded girl offieer, Vera Buitchltareff was reviewed to -day by Minister of War Kerensity. The regi- ment will leave in a fortnight for the front, probably for the Minsk sector. The Associated Press corretpondent Who visited the barracks found posted at the gate a little' blue-eyed sentry in soldier's khaki blouse, short breeches, green forage Cap, erdinary women's black stockings and neat shoes. The sentry was a daughter of Admiral Skrydloff, former commander of the Baltic fleet and, Minister of Marine. In the court Yard 300 girls were at drill, mostly between 18 and 25 years old, of goocl physique end many of them pretty. They wore their hair short or had their heads entirely shav- ed. They were ,drilling uhder the in- istruction of a male sergeant. Most of tbe recruits aro from the higher educa- tional academic, or secondary schools with it few peasants, factory girls and servatits, Some married wemen were accepted, but none wilt) had ehildren. The girl connnande,r said: "We ap- ply the rigid system of discipline of the pre-rovoltitionary arniy rejectieg the new prinelple of soldier self-gov- ernment, Having no time to inure the girls gradually to handships we impose a Spartan regimen from the first. They sleep on beards without bedclothes, thos immediately elitain- ating 'the weak, The etrallest breach of discipline is punished by expuls slots in disgrace, The ordinary sol. diers' food is furnished. We rise at four and drill rally front 7 to 11 and again front 1 to 6. The girls terry the main, carbine, which is five pounds lighter than the regalar army rifle, "We are fully official and are als ready entered on the list of regiments. I' am convinced that we will excel the male fightere." A.skea as to the attitude of the male army, Commander Buitchltareff said that only the VolYnsIty regintetit, whit!t had led the Petrograd revolu- tion aa r all f t FRENCH REGAIN ALMOST ENTIRE LOST POSITIONS Only a Salient Near IVIoisy Farm Still Held by the Germans, WIN IN CHAMPAGNE Repulse Crown Prince's As- sault, Then Go On and Take Ground. Paris cable saye:The big Commit of- fensive against the French line east of Vauxaillon Mouday, in which trenches were stornied and captured, hu S gone far naught, for the French forces in a violent counter -offensive had rega.ined nearly all their lost ground Tuesday night, Although the German Crown Prince had larached his attack, with huge etfectives, composed of picked, troops, and covered it by a heavy artillery.fire and by bomb -dropping aircraft, bis tenure of the captured positions was alterative& and only a salient, 400 metres northeast of the Moisy farm, now remains in his hands. In addi- tion, heavy casualties were inflicted on the Germans, who left many dead on the field of battle. Likewise, in Champagne, the Crown Prince has been badly battered be- tween Mout Carnillet and Mont Blond, In an attempt to recapture positions previously taken from them, the Germans first were repulsed by the French, who then assumed the offen- sive and advanced their line on a front of more than 600 yards and to a depth in excess of 300 yards, Here also, the Germaes lost heavily in men killed or wounded, QUIET ON BRITISH FRONT. The British official commuttication issued Thursday evening says: "Hostile raiding parties were re - Pulsed by our fire last night smith of the elapaume-Cambrat rbad, east of Laventie, and in the neighborhood of Lornbaertzyde. Another party of the enemy succeeded in entering one of our front line posts near Lombaert- zyde, but was at once driven out. A few of our men are missing. "The enemy's artillery was active during to -day, south and north of tbe Searpe River." FRENCH REPORT. Paris cable says: The communica- tion, issued by the War Office Thurs- day night reads: "In the course of the day fighting was continued to our advantage east of Vauxaillon. A. counter-attack by our troops in a trench section occu- pied by the enemy in the sector of Moisy farm, gave impoftant results. At this hour we have retaken all of our positions with the exception of a salient situation 400 metres north. eat of this farm, where enemy groups are still maintaining themselves. "The artillery action remains very lively in this region. Between Hurt°. bise and Craonne, our first lines wore quiet violently bombarded. In Champagne the advance made this morning by our troops northeast of Mont Carnillet was accomplished under particularly brilliant conditions. A German attempt about 3 o'clock in the morning to recapture position which we had taken from them on the 18th, between Mont Carnillet and Mont Blond was repulsed by our Grenadiers, who, taking the offensive in their turn, pursued the enemy detachments into their own trench, which they captured. We made also an advance of 200 metres in depth of ai extent of 600 metres. About 100 German dead remained on the ground." *pm. MERE BLUFF Germany's Claims to Great Shipbuilding. Paris, Cable. -The resolution adopt- ed by the Chamber of Deputies calling for the 'Work of increasing the French merchant marine to be placed under the control of one department, -was accepted, by the GoVerninent and voted by a show of hands. The resolution was signed by forty-four members of the Mer- chant marine committee and invited the Government lo a:entrails° tire work of building, bilking and chartering 'merchant ships, a task 'which has been up to the present divided among several Ministers. Louis Nall, under secretary for the mercaptIle marine, answering criticisms, says that the French merchant fleet was 2,500,000 tons at the beginning of the war, and since that time baud lost 560,- 000 tons, 460,000 by acts of war, Dur- ing the same period 680,000 tons had been built or bought, and another 140,000 was on the stocks, no that the fleet „ was actually greater now then before the war. Secretary Nail then pointed out that Germany had lost 2,500,000 tons, 50 per cent., of Its entire fleet, and declared that reports that Germany was building hundreds of ships \Ore mere bluff, SANK MAT IN LONG FIGHT Steamer Norlina's Battle Off Irish. Coast. Three -Hour Struggle Ended in Victory. 'Baltimore, eld., iReport.--•Repora ing it running battle with a U-boat, which is believed to have been sent to the bottom, Captain Jesee Poster, of the steamship Norlina, arrived in Dal theore this morning for repairs, hay - frig lest it blade of Ins propeller by it torPede front the -submarine, The eampunter occurred ISO mike front the Irish coast, and within the barred zone, Wireless Operator Oscar - Foy, who formerly worked lit news- papee ()Mem in Toronto as a tele- grapher, toile a graphic account ot the "The submarine," said Fey, "was first eighted on the morning of .Tune 4. The Marin was given by the lookout Meat he siglited a periscope it Wool distance ewer., Aliuost hannediatelS a torpedo elan oat from the II -boat and cento epinniug toward O. Our Cap- taia veered our ship amnia awl the missile struck lie a glancing blow elhidobilh leosette4 it few plates and, skidding along our nide, took off a blade of our erepeller. "Our gunners terneil the three- poundere direct on the Waimea boat. The first shot missed, but the imolai took away the periscope. Then the running battle began. For three hours the Isboat kept bobbing up and down, and fleetly the captala orderea his ship turned about. Then our gunners got it good might of the submersible and banged itWay. A shot from the after gun hit the periscope and the forward gun struck the conning tower. The subuntrine inset/peered, and as she went leown, the water was elturned into bubbles as if a battle between eon monsters was being fought under water. We then centinued Our iourneY unmolested." AUSTRIA'S 'Timms 'StilI Seem Like Those of a Conqueror, Copeuragen Cable—A.Bsumption that the survey of Austrian pubite opinion on war aims, circulated by the Austrian correspondence, bureau, rep reseuted the Austro-Hungarian Gov• ernment's programme of peace terms cOnfirmecl by an. article in the Lem berg Gazette, reproducing these con ditions of the official Government men gramme. The article, for wince Mgt authority is claimed, says that Serbia and Montenegro must find their future economic development in close econe- nate association with Austria-Hungary, In other words, it proposes a customs union. It declares that Love= Moun- tain, in Montenegro, must be retained as the etey of the government of Oat - taro, that Albania must be given autonomy under military and economic suzerainty of Austria-Hungary. Discusstng Roumania, the statement says that this question is for Austria- Hungary identical with the Danube problem, and arrangements must be made for a free, open Danube route, not subject to the control of any for- oign power. Finally, that Austria- Hungary must have a better military frontier against Italy, more fully pro- tecting Trieste and the Tyrol. NEW DRIVE BY THE BRITISH German Report Points to Offensive in Flanders. Champagne Likely to Have One Also. London C,a.ble.—Iadications point to an early resumption of operations on it grand scale in Belgium and France, if, indeed, they have not already begun in Flanders and Cham- pagne. A. significant statement in the latest Berlin official communication says that in Flanders and Champagne "the fighting activity has been revived at several points." Aside from this there ie no informa- tion as to the exact status of affairs. En Champagne, the Germans have made an attempt to recapture posi- tions between Mont Blond and Mont Caruillet, taken by the French Mon- day, but met with repulse, suffering heavy casualties. To the northwest around Craonne, heavy artillery duels are being fought, The situation in Flanders is even more obscure, as neither the British nor French statements tend to clarify the German report of the recom- mencement of hostilities. Artillery duels of great intensity are known. to have been in progress between Boe- single and Frelinghein and in the regions of Steenstraete and Heisas. while to the south, in France, in the neighborhood of the ‘Bapaume-Cane- bral road, the British troops have re- eumed their trencheraiding operations. destroying German dugouts and takiug prisoners. • • • WILSON ASKS FOR RECRUITS Sets Week of June 23 to Get 70,000 Men To. rill Regular Army by July I. A Washington despatch; President Wilson has put his shoulder behind the wheel of army recruiting in an effort to have the regular army brought to full war strength of 293,000 men by July 1 next. Secretary Baker to -day annouuced that the President had by proelamation designated the week of June 28, -covering the period from June13 to jute° 30, as recruiting week for the regular ems!, and that Brigadier -General William P. MoCain, the Adjutant -General of the artnY, Will use the President's recruiting procla- mation in instructing his recruiting officers to emphasize especially their work in the week designated' to fill up the regular army with its added in- crements and the National alined to reclamation fol- ltovawirrsh:sotrt poireg8tilicienes "Proclamationby the President. "I hereby • designate the period jun() 23 to .Tune SO, next, as recruiting week for the regular army, and call upon Unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 40 years, who have no dependents and who are not engaged in pursuits vitally necessary to the prosecutiou or the war, to present themselves for enlistment during the week herela designated to the number of 70,000. "(Signed) WoodroW Wilson' "lune 19, 1.017P On April 1 the army needed 188,888 men to ratseat to war strength. Since April 1 a total of 121,303 men bavo bees recroit ed. leaving 02,735 to ma.ko up lee total or 183.898 peeiled on April 1. Allowing for 10514014 III 0110 sort or atwitter eince that data, it is Imeeb• bring the army about 70,000 men to bring thea rtrev to war'strtenegtrlie.guTer net gain hi eeertallog for h navy on June 10 acts 422 men, bring- ing the total enlisted streitgih of the navy to 121,350 men. This Is being raised to 150 e90 men an fact as the Uat 1 eble li est» for mea taken into it. MAKING POULTRY PAY' POUI.,.rny DISEASE INVESTIOATOR, (Naperimental Fame Note.) It will be of ititereet to poultrY keen. ers throughout Canada to know that there ie now au expert who devotes all hie tittle to investigating tht etteee of poultry, Dr. A, D. Wickware, Aseletant Pathologlet to the Health of A.nimale Branch, has been assignee to that work by Dr. Torrance, Veter- inary Director-Gen.eral, Dr, Wickware is by no means a uovice in poultry diseases. For see. eral years, under Dr, Higgins, Domin- ion Pathologist, he has devoted scene of eis thne to the eiseeses affecting poultry and bas' given elteeial atm' tion to Black Head. Realizing the lin- porbairco of investigations in poultry diseases, Mr. J. H. Grisdale, Directer- of Experimental Farms, and. Dr. Tor. railed arranged. for Dr. Wickware to take up thi5 question exclusively. Ho is therefore now co-operating with the Poultry Division, Central Experiments al Pants, where, since last fall he has been conducting experinitnts along this much needed and very important line of week, •Coutinued attention is being given to Black Head in turkeys and many new investigations are being started These relate to chick diseases as well as to thegeneral disease of poultry, including parasites, or all. kinds. The annual lossee that occur from poultry diseases and parasites are tre- mendous. No person knows wbat the amount is, but it is well into the mil- lions each year, Dr. Wickware's work will no doubt, do something to elimin- ate part of this, but the cceoperation of all poultrymen who have any 41s - ease lo their flock will he appreciated, As usual, communications to the Ex- perimental farm re diseases of poultry will be weleomed and with Dr. Wick. ware now giving all leis time to this matter, even more information will be avail -able. Specimens of sick birds should be sent where practicable, and may be expressed •rallect if addressed to Biological Laboratory, Experiment- al Farm, Ottawa, GREEN FEED FOR POULTRY. If there is a portiou of the garden not suited to other garden crops, it may be possible to grow some green reed for the chickens on it. Oats and Geld peas, if sown thickly, probably will yield cuttings of feed that will be much relished in the small hen- nery. If the chicken pen is large enough a small sowing made inside and pro- tected by woven wire with one inch meshes stretched about two inches above the ground may be made. This allows the clackens to pi•ek off the green blades an they grow through the netting without injuring the roots. Another way to furnielt green food to bone not on range is by eprouting oats in trays or Imam This Method is used br many poultrymen, for largo and small Melte. The oats are eoaked for twelve hours in warm water and then spread out in it layer 1-2 to 1 1-2 incites deep on, a floor, or in a tray or tier of Hate, which have openings or holes or it 1 -4 -inch meelt wire bot- toiii covered with 'burlap, so that the water drains freely. The oats. may be stirred daily and sprinkled or al- lowed to sprout 'without stirring until ready for feeding, Thee are usually fed when tile sprouts are from 1 to 1 1.e. inclies. long, although some Poul- trymen prefer to allow the sprouts to grow 2 or 3 laches long before feed. Ing, Oats need a moist and warm at- mosphere in 'whieh to sprout quickly, so that it Is necessary to furnish heat or to ketp them in a warm room dm - lug the winter, wbile they may be sprouted out or floors during the rest of the year. It takes from 6 to 10 days to sprout oats, depending on the temperature, Tite oats are fed, roots, sprouts ane all, at the rate of about one square inch, as they grow in the tWraBy,TTtol NeG3chSPI°OwIlL. S 5,016,000 DOZEN EGGS EACH YEAR. Wenninvestigation of large quail - titles tif stored eggs show that from 17 to 22 per cent. at washed eggs be- come worthless in storage, whereas only 4 to 8 per cent. of dirty eggs stored unwashed spoil 'rhe explana- tiou is simple. Wax' removes from the shell or the egg a gelatinous cov- ering which helps to keep air and germs out of the inside of the egg. Once this covering is removed by washing or rain which gets to eggs in the nest, germs aud mould find ready aeess to the contents and spoil the eggs. This enormous loss in storage eggs largely tan be prevented if producers tied egg handlers will refrain from washing eggs destined for the stora age marketsand take pains to reduce tloith te. uuernithielern. esf dirty eggs by provid- lee plenty or -Sh clean, eltera n eests f Millions of eggs spoil in storage be- cause they have been exposed to dew, rain, dirt and sun in stolen nests in the grass or fence comers, Shirty eggs, (especially in the early spring, probably have been washed. All waelied egs purehased should be sold locally for immediate cousuption. It is estimated that in the United States- aproximately 5,016,000 dozens of eggs a-renslepollatnbaycliawnCountryman. tryman. GERMAN RESERVES NOT EQUAL TO THEIR RECENT WASTAGE French General's Estimate t of Po 's Strength. and Cause of Changed Tactics. Paris CIable says-Goneral De La Croix publishes iu The Temps, the re- sults ot his study, supposedly from authoritative sources, of the present nunaber of German reserves. He esti- mates that the grand total of German troops of all kinds and classes up to Jan 1, reached 13,130,000, and that this total was depleted by losses 02 3,630,- 000; 2,200,000 rendered unfit through wounds, and 1,130,000 resident in for-: eign countries. General De La Croix estimates that of the balance nearly 5,500;000 are em- ployed as first line, rear line and in.- terior troops, leaving a movable bal- ance of reserves of about 755,000, of which 220,000 are attached to front depots, 355,000 in interior depots,. and 380,000 in process of formation. This number will bo increased in November by 450.000 of the class of 1919. These troops will not, however, be available before that for any ser- vice, any snore than those in forma- tion. On this basis De La Croix figures that Germany has 575,000 reserves with which to cover her losses until November, or 115,000 a month, plus 85,000 monthly of those who recover from their Wounds, a grand total of 200,000 a month. The general points out that •German losses in April and May have been at least 300,000 month- ly, making a debit balance which he says has been met by a shortening of the German front and fewer attacks. The absrace of reserves has caused, he dailies, an obvious sbift from the old tactics of the German general staff. HU -NS' BROKEN WORD. Promise to Repatriate Bel- gians Brazenly Ignored. Havre, Cable.—The :Belgian Gov - moment, in en (Andel statement is- sued here to -day, declared that all the German eremites to repatriate the Belgian men who were deported to Germany have beee brazenly broken. Autheeleation for these workmen to leave Gott:fuse era issued only for it period of two weeks, the statement seid, and it Was made conditional upon the agieement or the deported persons to continue to work for five months. Nearly 0.11 the Belgian Work- men refused to sign the agreement. Those who were allowed to re-enter Belgium were warned by the German Military authorities that their visit to their native country would last only two or three neelts. Thereafter, if the Belgians mate resistanee to the re - deportation, tbey weuld be sithjeeted to torcibla removal and punishment. Under the foregoing circumstantee, the Belgian offieial statement said irx conelesien, the Germans sent about twenty repatriates back to Belgium, or pat there to work at -other tasks. The worlimmi so transferre& however were not allowed to take with them evan tbo things strictly necessary to thele eiemort and health, COCCHI TO FIGHT. Bologna„ Italy ,Cable.-- --MU ado Cocchi, Who is under arrest here in conneetioxi with the murder of Ruth Crum in New York, will resist ex. tradition. He declared himeelf innos cent of any crime and his !mem ie preparing a case to show oo available demand for hir. 1 rtoro, lo thv united States tan be made. - .• % . . TORONTO biARKETS. FAI131ERS' MARKE:T. Dairy •Prodace- Butter, choice. Cialey- $ Eggs, nom -laid, doz. .. 40 Cheese, lb. . ..... 00 Do.,•' fancy, lb. .. 00 Fowl, lb. Turkeys, lb. .. 30 Dressed Poultry - 25 Spring chickens 40 Fruits - Rhubarb, 3 bunches ;. 00 Strawberries, box..,. .. 18 egetables- Asparagus, Can., bunch .. 07 Beans, new, small measure 00 Beets, new, bunch le 0 Cucumbers, each .. (05 Carrots, new, buneh.. . 08 Celery, per bunch .• .. 03 Cabbages, each.. .. 10 20 Horseraeish, lb. .• ... 00 15 Leeks, bunch .. 10 2,5 Lettuce, doz. bchs. Do., head, doz. 50 Onions, bundle .. .-. 03 Do., 11 -qt. bkt. .• .. 00 De., Bermuda, box. ., 2 50 Potatoes, per bag...........4 23 Do., new, peck.. 0 00 Do., small measure .. .. 0 30 Radishes, 2 bunches .. .. 0 00 Spinach, new, ,pecic0 13 Sage, bunch, . 0 65 Savory, bunch* .• '0 05 Turnips, new, bunch .. 0 05 Tomatoes, lb. ., •, 0 00 MEATS-WHOLESA.LE. 00 t3 042 0 32 0 35 0 30 0 tts 0 40 10 20 08 13 21/2 11 11 10 Beef, forequarters, cwt. $15 00 Do., hindquarters .. ,. 18 00 Carcases, choice .... 17 00 Do., common, . • ..• .• .. 13 00 'Veal, common, eivt, .. 50 Do., medium ,. 32 50 Do., prime .. .,. 19 00 Ileavy hoge .. 3.6 GO Shop hogs . 21 51) Mutton, „heavy 10 00 Do., light . . . . 37 00 .Abattoir hogs ,21 50 Lambs, lb. 0 21 Do., Spring,. „. 0 2.8 CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. Cattle, receipts 10,000. Market steady. Beev es. .. ... 8 30 Stotiters and, feeders .. 6 00 Cows and heifers., .. 5 75 Calves .. .. 11 00 Bogs, receipts 9,000. Market weak, Mixed ..... Heavy .. • • •• ..... "' • Rougn . ..... ..• • . • Pigs Bulk s'ales . Sheep receipts 10,300. Market weak. 1Vethers . , . 9 5 1 Lambs, ..... . 11 00 Springs . • .. 14 30 14 GO 14 70' 14 75 14 73 11 00 15 10 80 00 10 00 60 45 40 35 03 20 10 10 10 15 $17 00 20 00 18 00 13 50 1160 14 5(1 21 00 12 50 02 50 12 00 10 00 22 50' 0 28 _() 32 ' 13 M; 10 00 11-77 15 76 15 CO 25 90 16 05 13 00 11 40 10 73 12 el 16 75 19 00 OTHER IYIARKETS. EX-MIA:NOE, Wheat- Open. High. Low, Close, Oct. ,.. .. 1 03 2 03 2-193 2 02 july ,„ • • • • 0 CO 0 70'a 69rri 070i Oct. . 0 58% 0 5916 0 39'N Dec. ... 0 5615 0 073 0 56744 0 Flax - Slay . 2 -283 280½ 0S01 0 -et. . • 2 7214. 2 724 2 62 2 68 MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN 'MARKET. Minneapolia.-Wheat-July. $2,33; Sen - Umber, $1.82,4 cash No, 1 Aare, $2.73 to $2.78; NO. 1 Northern, $2.08 to $2.73; No. 3 Northern, 52.53 to $2.03, corn -No. 2 yel- low, $1.64 1.-4 to 51.66 1-4. Oats --No. 3 white, OG to CO. Plour-fancy Patents, $13.25; first -clears, .511.50; other grades at $8. Bran -52,7 to $28., DtLIITie GRAIN efARKEIT, Duluth.Mina-Wheat-No, 1 hard, $2,44; NO. 1 Nerihern, $2.45; NO, 2 NOrtli. ern, $2,40; July, 440. C11100316 11Likl4KETS, Cornwall, Orit., June 22. The offerings ell the Cornwall Cheeee Board to -day Nacre 2,331 boXes of white and 712 boXes of talore41; all soli at ill 24 eenta. Irequols.-Tha cheese boand behle, 1483, colored 1,119, white 15. Ault hid Ole. The other buyers feiloWed at the sante Priee, but no sales *Were Made at this price. McMaster then raised his bid to 21 8-16e. JOhnstori raised to 21 3-40 and teeured 615 boxes, Me".1taster bet/gilt 240 at that price and the balance sold oil the (Mb tit 21 1-4 cents. Nal.tinee -J.:her:Le bearded, 2,04.i, all told St 21 011114:031 biAltUd 1410i ts*fti 08 4.1 do** 0 , 04• provuir sA 040 eaab, oat OM not.)141: Ot VilgArg " 4:74.,111140 CO:0 Zatotblialti4 MO. nolowi mops.. sLimastont . minsorkroixi i Mon% 447%*1111 a 09414Noisss41, iowiii ....,........,-----,---,----....,....."1 Dudley Holmes IMARMITIK **1-101100, 014011 Otara 11044 W*060. R. Vtanston.e wow= .e.No 0014011`080 110/07 t *az at lowOlit WOMBAJA0 Arthur J. Irwin D.D,S., Doctor or Dental Sumer), of the Penn. sylvania College and Licentiate ef Den.. to' Surgery Pe Ontario. Closed every Wednesday Afternoon. ()Moo in Macdonald Block. r. M. DEANS , D.D.S., LeD.S. Honor Graduate et the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, Honor Graduate of University of Toronto. Faulty of Denistry. Closed every Wednesday .Afternoon, Office Over el, E. isard & Co.'s -Store In tbe Dental Parlors, formerly °cou- pled by 14. G. If. atom W. R. liarabity M.D„ 0.M, Special atteatien paid to di:easel a Women and Cbildren, baying taken postgraduate work in Our. gory, Bacteriology and Stientifia Medicine. Office In the Kerr residettee, be - Wean the Queen's Hotel and- the Baptist Church, Ali business given careful e,ttentIon.. Phone 24, P. O. Box U$ Dr. Robt. C. Redmond M.RCI (Lond,) PHYSICIAN AND StURGEM Chisholm's old stand), DR. R. STEWART ,Gredea le of University of rTeronto Fa'eurty of Medicinel, T.Tcentlate orthe Ontarly College of PhySlelane "and Surgeons. OFFICE ENTRANCE: SECOND DOOR NORTH OF IZURBRIGG,S PHOTO STUDIO, JOSEPHINE ST, PHONE 29 OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Dr... F. A. PARKER. Ostoopathy builds vitality sa4 strength. Adjuatment of the 1111110 end Otter tissues is gently secured, them by removing the prodispooing eauseil of diees.se. Blood pressure and other ersomines Wail made, Trusses scientifically fit. ted. OPPICE OVER CerPESTIES'S 31'ORIL Houro-srueatillYie and Pridaye, Am to $ p.m.; Wednesday*, 2 to 11 'am. Othss. days by appotatmenk O., Genetal Hospital ' (Under Government Inspection). Pleasantly situated, beautifully fur- nished. Open to CI regularly licensed 10hYs1otalie. Rates for patients (which include board end nursing) -$4.00 to 116,00 per week, according to location of room. Per further information-. Address MISS L. MATHEWS, Superintendent, Sox 223,.Wingham, Ont, 1 SELL Town and Farm properties, Coil and ass my Hot and get my phIcea. 1 have roma axosilant valuss. J G. STEWART W1NGH.AM. Phone 164. OM. in Town Haiti 1 J. W. DODD (Successor to J. G. gTEWART) FtetE, LIFE, ACCIDENT' and HEALTH INSURANCE. P, 0. Box 3.66, . Phone 198 WING ITA.1.11, ONT, ••••••••whetWegorwasiorserovempasearsas*......r.,......6*. John F. Grow laittor of MARMAGE 'MENSES TOWN HALL WINGHAPA Phonsi-Offla, 24; Residence led. WE WANT CREAM 19. want cream. and wilt PaYth. ItIghest prices for goodcoralutt, Why snip sour oream s.wy & long. distance trben you can recelve ao good photo altar horn°, arid In sending_ your orkarit ittritt„rart,htogirkstaXPRAT 4% oresa charge* ithu wren you e.ri hnueet Cheerio fr40.4 tory patraria having Croath durfrig the *tutor would do welt to ship to 1111. Write for further particulars to IRE SEAFORTH CREAMERY SialrOirrN OrrAltie CANADIAN DOCTOR HONORED. London iCable..------Ca,ptain Andrew TJniversity, now with Number Six Field Ambulance in France, delivered a 'Cavendish lec- ture before the West London 'Medico Chlrurgical SocietY to -night, being heard by a brilliant vientific auudi- x10e, The meeting es the great at- nual event in inc.tlif.al circles, and capmiti mat:pilau uati recalled from France by tile War Office for tho oc. mien, 131r William 0er i, the only Canadian to be E0 houortql provioubly, His theme Wes "A. nav's Werk," namely, the taking of 'Pithy Ridge. Teachers-Rathel, use Indigo lo eentenee. 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