HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-09-27, Page 2Leeson XIV. September eo, 1917.
'Pee Cloothiees and Se leriey el god,
-- Rev iew.-Dani el le.
eummary.---Leeien L Pre-
PeratiOn for cervice. Flue' Jerasee
tem. Isaiah had a vilion of God in
the toeple and was impressed with
the _divine glory and his own unclean-
ness. la answer to his deepairing
try ee angel touched his lips with a
live coal from the altar and he was
made clean.
11. Topic: An idolatrous career.
Place! Jeruealern. Ahaz was the eon
ot tee pious Jotham, but he departed
grieviously from his father's example.
lee was one of the most idolatrous
kings the nation of Judah ever had,
Ill. Topic: Reunion and woreelle
Place: Jerusalem, liezeltiah, the eon
of Ahaz, was an excellent ruler a
Judah. He undertook extensive re-
forms, patting, away idolatry, and un-
doing, as far as he could., the evil work
of his tether.
1V. Topic: A crisis in Judah. Plaee:
Lane et Judah. leering the reign (11
llezekiali over Judah, Sennacherie,
king of Assyria, invaded his kingdom
und threatened to capture jeriteal
Ile spoke most blasphernotiely agaluet
J ehovall.
V. Topic: eplriteal transformation.
Place: Jeruealene During the dark
periods ot Judah's history the Lord
till dealt mercifully with his peeple
Jlo sent the prophet Isaiah to them
with a menage of salvation and com-
fort.
VI. Topic: Retrogroeelon. Plaee;
.lerusalem: Babylon, Manasseh, was
the son of the godly Hezekiale but he
dui not folloW the Lord as did his fte
In the early part et his reign
Ile went tate idolatry and the Lord
punished him by permitting him to be
led to Babylon as a captive.
' VIi. Topic: Reformation in Judah.
Places: Judah; parts ot Israel. Jo-
siah, the grandson of Manasseh, com-
menced to reign when he was eight
years old. He earnestly sought the
Lord and gave evidence of his sincer-
ity in the removal of idolatry from bis
land.
VIIT. Topic: The law of God. Place:
Jerusalem. During the repairs of tbe
temple whicb. King Josiah instituted,
the book of the law was found. When
the king heari it read, he was deeply
moved. Ila sent to IIuldah, the pro-
trietess, or a message from the Lord.
IX. Topic: Disciplinary judgment
Places: Jerusalem; Riblah; Babylon.
The good reign of Josiah was follow-
ed be a succession of disastrous ones.
While Jehoiakim was king, many no-
ble persons of Jerusalem were taken
captive by Nebuchadnezzar and car-
ried to Babylon.
X. Topie: A lost nation restored.
Place: Tel abib, in Babylonia. Ezekiel
was carried from Jerusalem as a cap -
tie e of Babylon in B. C. 597. He wee
prephet of the captivity. He ap-
proved Israel's false ehepherds and da•
Oared that God was the nation's trua
ehepherd, wbo faitbfully cared far
his flock,
XI. Topic: Freedom in captivity.
Place: Babylon. Daniel, Shadrach, Me-
eliach and Abednego were Jewish cap-
tives in Babylon who were chosen to
be trained for royal service. They re-
fused to eat food froin the king's
table and to drink wine. They pros-
pered on the simple food which they
asked might be given them.
XII, Topic: Heroic piety. Place:
Dura near Belvieu. King Nebuchad-
nezzar caused a great image to be set
up in the plain of Dura, and requir-
ed all his subjecte to fall down and
worship it at a. gIven signal. ,Shadrach,
Meehach and Abednego refused to
Worship.
XIII. Topic: Daniels loyalty to
God. Plate: Babylon. Daniel's la.yolty
to God. Place: Babylon. Daniel had
been highly honored in Babylon and
incurred the envy and hatred of oth-
er officials. They laid a plot against
him and tried to have him slain. The
Lord preeerved him.
PRACTICAL SurtvEy.
Topic. -A decadent nation.
1. Rs Weakness through idolatry.
II. Its warninge through prophecy.
III. Its piety through individuals.
Ite weakness through idoiatroy.
A survey of the history of Judah, as
It has been studied during the quarter;
Preeents a most abject record of a
People's sin. As Cod's chosen people
to keep ,nie worship sacred as a tee-
timony to the world, they proved how
deplorable a state they had reached
by unfaithfulnece to divine instruc-
tion. That sacred institution of the
Passover, which marked the begin-
ning of their history as a nation, had
never been kept as a national celebra-
tion since the division of the twelve
tribee. With every departure from
their God -ordained forms of woraiiip,
some form of idolatry was eet up un-
til the land was never free from
traces of idolatry. For a nation whose
history had been so filled with the
marvelous dealings of God in behalf
of his people, their persistent bent to-
ward Oh:dates, waa beyond excuse.
That God wee merciful and eonstant
in His pleadinge for their return to
righteoueness and that some spiri-
tual life remained, were seen in the
effOrts of a few godly kings whose
reigns were notable for their earnest
zeal in the putting away of idol-
worehip and the reestablishment of
divine worship and the regular set. -
vice of the temple. That the reforms
were in agreat degree external, leav-
ing the People unchanged at heart,
was evideot in their ready return to
idolatry When there was a chain() of
kings andthe restraint waa Efted.
The mad desire to multiply idolatroue
practises reached beyond all limita-
tions so that Judah gathered from oth-
er nations every possible addition to
idol -worship and heathen praefises.
The remilt was that the temple was
neglected end desecrated and robbed.
The law of the Lord was loet until Its
...sacred contents were forgotten and
ite wornings and directione had no
place In their lives. Captivity ,was the
only theetteentent that would effect
any real tepentance. God in mercy
Id Oat stroke fall upon thent,
II. Its warnings thy:nigh prophecy,
Jo the midst of moat deplorable 0011•
dittoes, God Was reveeled to the youth
ful Isaiah, wilds° whole life wee
changed into one long service as a
propliet through whom Clod spoke
nietseages of warning to the ever
declining nation. TO Isaiah war
Oven aViSiOn Of the days of the Mee
sialt when the plan of redemption
would be unfolded alike to all nations.
The awfdl sine Of the "shepherds ot
Israel" and the consequent judgments
which folloWed Were faithfully de-
clared by the prophet Ezekiel. Ire
also looked beyond Judah's restoration
from captivity to the days of the Mee.
shah and the Mud triutilph , Of GOil'e
faithful people. To the Most rebeillotle
anti idoIatrOus kings; God sent wanting
Wore ehafitiSentent, 'rho door of
mercy was over open to Any Who were
quickeued sled repentent. Th0 ttee011itt
of elattasselid3 repentance and reetertt-
tioo proves that none need ematinne
In Gin though much time has been
epent in wrong -doing and in causing
()there to do wrong.
111. Ite piety through individual%
Not until the cup of Judah's iniquity
was full did the Lord perneit a beathen
conqueror to loved° the sacred city to
destroy it, As though mercy struggled
with justice to spare the last branch
of boatel from captivity, there were
three dished efforts made before
Nebuchadnezzar completed the de•
struction of Jerusalem and the dePor.
tation Qf the people tato I3abylon. The
absolute humility came in the treat -
moot of Zetlektah, the last ot Judah's
kings, who went childlese and blind
into captivity. That God will not leave
himself without true witIleMe ii the
earth is plain. from the marvellous
way in which his truth shone forth
through tile young men first selected
by the Babylonian conqueror to eerve
his ends in e heathen court. The
vitality of faith and obedience in Dan-
iel and his cempanlons proved suffi-
eleut throughout the seventy years of
captivity to secure to the Jewish cap-
tives distinct recognition and favor, sa
that their hope was not cut off. The
God of Israel was admitted to be
supreme in his power to deliver his
servants from the snares which their
enemies set for their destruction. Four
faithful souls were God's "remnant"
through whom he kept the light of
revelation burning while his chasteu-
ing hand prepared his people for better
dee.% T. R, A.
PLAN FOR RUSS
ARMY REFORMS
War Minister Relies On
Moral Influence.
Forecasts Many Changes in
High Commands.
Petrograd cable says: "War Minister
Verkovsky hae explained to the cen-
tral committee of the Council of
Woikmen's and Soldiers' Delegates
his plans for army reform. He de-
clared that when he was commanding
the Moscow regiment, he restored dis-
cipiine by means of moral influence
with the soldiers, and by keeping har-
mony among the officers. Co-operation
witu the officers enabled him to carry
out teforma without sacrificing the
technical efficiency of the troops,
"Following," said the Minister, "is
our plan for army retorms: All com-
manders not enjoying confidence will
be dismissed and replaced by officers
of independent sincerity, who are
politically sound and technically effi-
cient. I know personally of many
colonels and lieutenant -colonels who
are fitter to command armiee. It is
absolutely necessary to get rid of off!.
cers who are not trusted. Gen. Alex -
Jeff will disappear because he does not
understand psychology of a modern
army. From general headquarters also
will be dismissed all high officera, be-
cause, even if they aro followers of
Gen. Korniloff, they knew of his plot.
The units which supported Gen. Hon
niloff will be sent way from head-
quarters."
• • •
MURDER IN ASYLUM.
Girl Inmate Killed Woman
With Fire Nozzle.
London, Ont., despatch: Believing
that she was being talked about and
that her brother was being persecuted,
a young woman who came o London
Hospital for the Insane four months
ago from a remote Ontario city, un-
screwed the brass nozzle from a fire
hose and killed Mrs. Mead, wife of a
lakeside farmer. The victim was 46
years of age and came to the hospital
three months since. She was regard-
ed as quite inoffensive, but the young
woman, who is 21 years of age, suffer-
ed from delusions, on which she sud-
denly acted. Three nurses were at
hand, but the blow was delivered be-
fore they could interfere, and Mrs.
Mead died at an early hour this morn-
ing without regaining unconsciousness.
Because the young woman who struck
ARGENTINA TO
SEND TROOPS
Buenos Aires cable says: The Cham-
ber of Deputies late to -day postaiened
niscussion until to -morrow ot the
crisis with Germany Caused by tha
enfriendly action of Count von Lux-
uurg, the dismissed German Minister.
This postponement was taken after
receipt of a statement from Foreign
Minister Pueyrredon that the Govern-
ment has received new information
Which he will present to the Congress
to -morrow. After a meeting of the,
Ministry this afternoon it was an -
pounced that the Government was pre-
pared to take grave and rapid mea-
sures in view of certain new develop-
Ments. A high Government official
declared that these measures probably
aould include an immediate declara-
tion of war against Germany, to be
followed by the despatch of troops to
Europe.
KAISER'S REGRETS
Becaise His Na,vy is Too
Weak for Duty.
Amsterdam, (!able.-Ittax Better, the
flerman painter, describing in the Dos-
seldorf General Anzleger his "Mimes -
Mons of Emperor William's visit to head-
quarters," mentions an incident when the
Cierinan rules expressed regret that his
navy was no larger, The Emperor quot-
ed Stanley's exclamation on the occas-
ion of the exchange of Heligoland for
Zanzibar: '"fhis is the exchange of a.
button for a whole suit!"
"This button," the Xalser said, "holds
the whole suit together," he continued:
"If my people had only not so embitter-
ed the first twelve years of my reign In
my navel plans! How Boma Richter
harrassed poor Soliman, whose plans he
scornfully rejected as a mere naval hob -
Lye If those gentlemen bad only known
t. hat one more squadronmeans on sea,
they would act to -day and for all fa-
turo times quite differently.
"With an army, ono enn manage with
now formations, but timo and far-see-
ing eatience ere necessary for the crea-
tion of a Squadron, with efficient cap -
Mires and crown and machinery."
FOUR GERMANS TO EACH YARD
OF FRONT IN GREAT BATTLE
Briti sh Army Never Hiti Harder Task Than
One They Finished Thursday.
Anzacs, Africans, English and Scottish, All
Shared in Honors.
London gable: Perry Robinson,
telegraphing to the Times, says:
"Already the enemy has been coun-
tee-attacking. He le counteresttacking
c. w, and will go on, The more he
couPter-attacke the better we shall
he pleased, It is rah to prophesy, but
I have been among the wounded pris-
oners aod have talked to scone of
our men, and victory is In the air. We
have seized what we aimed to seize,
and what we have w on we shall hold."
'London cable says: Telegraphing
from British headquarters in Flandera
Reuter's correspondent says:
"The more one hears about yes-
terday's great fight the more one ad-
mires the masterly tactics and indone
!table gallantry displayed. Never has
a British army had to tackle a tough-
er proposition than that set by the at•
tack on a defensive area of great
Ora th, held so densely that it may be
ei•limated that there was .att average
of over four Germans to eery yard
of front,
"To the Anzacs and some of the
British troops which served General
Plumer so well at elessines, fell what
had been expected to prove the stif-
fest part of the great day's task.
They acquitted themselyes nobly. For
the Australians it was the most com-
pletely successful achievement of
their glorious carders. The English
and Scotch battalions co-operating on
their flanks added new lustre to their
imperishable laurels. If I haye heard
ony complaint against the Anzacs it
Is one that they can bear with equan-
limity, equally, that they went rather
too rapidly. They dodged a barrage
fire so close that they were upon the
Huns before the latter could spring
from their crouching positions.
"A particularly tine and pictures-
que incident occurred when they car-
ried a strong point named 'Anzac.' A
man, whose name should become im-
mortal in the history of the Common-
wealth, suddenly sprang up the para.
.pet, and, amid a hurricane of cheers,
planted the blue -and -white starred en-
sign of Australia where it could be
seen far and wide. It was an act of
proud defiance of the Huns.
"Further north the South Africans
were doing splendid work. They
swept forward toward their mark
with irresistible elan, and although it
is yet too early to gather the tull story
of the deeds of those springboks, who
are still amidst the smokepall over-
hanging the front, I know they have
taken a noble part in the great ad-
venture.
"Regarding the Homeland troops,
they fought throughout at very con-
cert pitch, and with their traditional
clash and valor. The Germans simply
could not withstand those wages of
khaki. The Kitties vied with the fa-
mous English line regiments, and who
shall say that either got the best of
it in that glorious cimpetition. They
got there, one and .all, and they
made up their minds to stays
"Throughout the day the enemy's
guns pounded away, and there were
many counter-a.etacks, either launch-
ed and beaten back or broken up be.
.for the assembled masses could de-
ploy. I watched, late Into the night,
the lurid, palpitating sky, and won-
dered what the undulating thunder
might be recording. But. then some-
how we are holding on to our gains
as at Vimy and Messines, and by
beneficient weather are consolidatiog,
so that every hour lessens the chances
of success of the most desperate ef-
forts the enemy can make.
"The strategic significance of yea-
terday's victory must eventually mani-
fest itself unmistakably. The value
of this gain cannot be measured by
the mere acreage of recovered terri-
tory, though that is substantial. It
was a battle for the commanding posi-
tion, and we have won a victory
which leaves the enemy in this wide
tract of Flanders .at a serious disad-
vantage."
HEAPED WITH DEAD.
London cable says: Perry Robinson,
in a despateh to the Times, referring
to Thursday's fighting, saYs: "The
advance included as part of the attack
all that blood-soaked region along
the Menin road, with the dominating
spur on the northern and southern
,slopes, which are Glencorse Wood, In-
verness Copse and other high ground
beyond. You lcnow how the Germans
have doubtless rightly held this high
,ground to be supreme strategic point
of all this section of the front. They
have; been willing to make any sacrifice
to hold that one commanding point.
Here they have flung 15 divisions and
utterly failed to drive us back. We
have the last seven weeks made little
•progress. Since the Middle of August
along the harrow front there has been,
besides constant ntinor skirmishes,
continuous shelling, The Germans
made seven formal attacks, in which
24 battalions were used up. The
ground we won Thursday was in
places literally heaped with their
dead.
"By far the majority of Our wound-
ed were walking oases. They were the
moet hilarious and jubilatt lot of
wounded I ever saw; not one of them
but knew the attack had gone, as one
sa;e1, like a 'blinking' charm. AII
sb.outed with laughter as they told of
Germans surrenderilig as they stream-
ed out of their conerete shelters.
'Thursday's Operations were on a
wide front. Along the Menin road
itoelf we pushed through InVerneen
Copse and the high ground bait way
to Glieluvelt.
"North ot here we were on the west-
ern side of Polygon wood. Above here
our Men swept all over the hideous
country, covered with fortified farms
and eontrete redoubts, to nearly a raile
east of Vretlenberg. This region is
crowded with fortresses which wept
all the ground before our line with
machine guns. The garritions of all
those fortreeses noW are either dead
or prisoners, Farther south WE rushed
all the dreadfel country train Dumbar-
ton Lake tO Shrewsbury Forest.
"Our prisonere arte surely nearer
4,000 than 2.000. On sergeant with a
tattered hand told aa a jelce agaletst
himself how when a, 'pillbox' would
not surrender, he slipPed up, crawling
on his stomach, ana slipped a bomb
through, au orifice. 'But they sent
my haud out quicker than I wanted,'
he said, for a macnine gun bullet had
torn a finger away, Another told how
right at the etart he was buried by a
shell., According to his tale he had
lain there three hours, being alter-
nately buried and unburied following
the shells, He thought 300 ehells had
fallen within twenty yards (You eau.
not help these exaggerations). 'Lord,
sir,' be3 said, 'the beggars just could
not bit me. I have been wounded five
times already in thls war, which It
true, and they can't kill me.'
Men of one battalion are joyfully
proud to tell how they were led clear
through by their colonel.
"Many concrete pillboxes were
found shattered by our big shells, but
only a direct hit by the largest guns,
12 -inch or upwards, is effective. The
greet majority of the shelters survive
the bombardment. The German now
has three shelters grouped in geo-
metric patterns, making strong forti-
fied positions, as, for instance, seven
pillboxes in two parallel lines, three
each running straight away from our
advance, with one midway in the mid.
die. Thig was intended to prevent
our men going round and reducing
them from the rear, but it is only a
question of going a little further
round and these clusters are reduce('
en bloc, with ten to twenty prisoners
front each,
"I heard many stories of very
Young presoners of not more than 16
years. Those I saw were all mature,
especially the Prussians, though they
were not of first-class material,"
PRIVATION
DESTITUTION
IN GERMANY
Neutrals Just Returned Tell
of the Woes of the
Fatherland.
INFANT DEATHS
50 Per Cent. of the Newly
Born Do Not Survive
Now.
A London cable says: The
Times' Amsterdam correspondent
sends neutrals' accounts of the present
condition of Germany, especially of Al-
sace-Lorraine. He tells of the extreme
scarcity of materials, of paper mixed
with rags being used for clothing, of
women's hair being used for bel.ts for
driving machinery, of infant mortality,
including fifty per cent. of the newly -
born, ot widespread sickness due lo
bad bread, of food privation, even of
bread being made of wood shavings.
The article follows:
"Two neutrals just returned from
Germany have given me their impres
BMus of conditions there to -day. One
had paid a long visit to Alsace-Lor-
raine, where he was also staying at
the outbreak of the war. He ealdthere
was a remarkable difference between
the state of things then and now.
Then the Germans were in the full
fietsh of enthusiasm. Nothing was too
!great for them to accomplish. No re-
gard was had to the cost of the cam-
paign. Extravagance was the out -
'standing characteristic of the German
arn.y and huge quantities of provisions
were. wasted.
HEADS OF HERRINGS COLLECTED.
"To -day the pendulum has reached
the opposite extikone. Everything
speaks of privation and destitution.
'When I tell you that even the heads
of herrings are carefully collected in
order that the oil .contained in them
may be extracted, you will realize,'
said a gentleman, 'the extremities to
which the Germans are reduced.'
"Nothing is allowed to be thrown
away which can serve in any degree
to help out supplies, the shortage of
which is now so serious a factor, eco-
. notnic as wen as military, in the
capaclty of the Germans for continu-
ing the war. No particle of cotton
linen or woollen rag is allowed to be
wasted. The reason is ihere are no
Inger any supplies of cotton or any
other raw material for textile Menu -
facture. The cotton mills are stand-
tng idle. What this means in a busy
Induatrial region, alack, may wen be
imagened. Any totton still in the
country is requisitioned by the Govern.
'ment for military purposes. It is
largely required in munitions and is
Ilse an essential constituent part of
the iha,nufacture of aeroplane wines,
which are constructed of this material.
"I am firmly convinced that the cot.
ton now being Utilized by the Germata
tor these purposes is derived from nen
tral countries, such as Holland, Swit-
zerland and Sweden. The Berens of
Linen, cotton arid woollen materials
so carefully colleted are employed in
the manufacture of new paper ma-
terial, now largely Used as a substi-
tute for cloth, This material is cone
Posed principally of wood pUlp, main-
ly obtaened from Sweden, with the
fibre from linen or cotton seraas. By
the uzeinitiated it is almost indistito
'gaishable from linen or other cloth. It
Is impregnated so as to render it Im-
pervious to moisture and sometimes
dyed, thereby being rendered attrac-
tive itt appeareriee. When woeen it
Is used for a eariety of purposes suet
is tent covers, sacke, sandbags,
blouees, etc. Children' clothing is
made of title 'paper cloth, which is
ale° capable Of being utilized to soles
extent in ladies' dreeses. At present
tile Leipzig fair coriteins many thinga
made of this material.
WOES OF THE MERCHANT.
"The paper before being* wctven iftid
cloth is tilt ill strips 3-16 Of an inch
to bait an inch. The wire procees Of
80411111g threade from thee stripe
differs from that ot ordinary mule
spinning, being done Oa rings Of the
epittning maellanee or twietiug trainee.
At tot earlier Period thie paper maters
ial was aot requisitioned by the Gov-
ernment. 11: 18 iiew, luswever, entirely
required for military purpoeee. Even
the rentnants are colleeted and utilized
la the earae Way aa the remnants of
cotton, linen and woollen materials. It
Is believed that the seePilee of wood
Pulp from Sweden have largely faliea
off owiug to the decline in the value of
the mark. This is one reason why the
(Soost,hin
erntnmenatd.
bus had te regoisltion them
Supplies of paper frowhioh paper
el
"Manufacturers and businese men
of all kinds complain bitterly of the
Inquisitorial methods pf the German
Government in regard to stocks of
goods. The new laws, some of which
contain 1,200 to 1,500 clauses, are too
complicated to be understood by any-
body, while the piles of forma to be
.filled in with debate as to quantities
of etocks on hand are appalling. Some
returns have to be made, not dupla
eated, but eix to eight fold copies.
Nothing is allowed to be sold without
Government permission, Contraven-
tion of this law is visited by severe
Penalties of floeand imprisonment -
even a fine of £500 and inapelsonment
tor one year.
WOMEN'S HAIR FOR BELTS.
"In addition to requisitioning weav-
ing materials, the Government takes
leather straps for driving machinery.
Lack of leather for this purpose has
given rise to the novel expedient of
collecting the hair of women and girls
for the construction of driving straps.
Notices often appear in the local press
that on such and such a day there will
be a collection of hair for the purpose
indicated. One sees girls with shavegi
heads, wearing red caps inscribed, 'I
hi aanvdea given my hair for the father.
"Hitherto this surrender has been
voluntary, but it is stated that before
long it will become compulsory on the
part of all women and girls.
"Another indication of the scarcity
of leather is the impossibility of get-
ting boots and shoes. A pair of
workmen's boots cost £3 and a pair
of ladies' boots £5, but even at these
priees they .are not obtainable. It
costs 15 shillings to . have a pair of
booth properly soled and heeled. For
10s. to 12s. soles are covered with
minute fragments of leather nailed on.
The soles only iast two or three
weeks
"In Alsace-Lorraine, as, indeed,
throughout Germany. the food is bad.
War bread is uneatable. It is not
known of what it is composed, A loaf
of this; bread when examined was
found to have a thick outer crust. Be-
tween this crust and the crumb there
was a gap of an inch wide. The inner
part of the loaf had almost the eon-
sistency of clay or putty and adhered
to the Itself° when the loaf was cut
through. This bread has a purgative
effect, and for this reason cannot be
consumed continuously. It is thought
poseible that the prevalence et con.
tagious dysentery is in part due to the
use of war bread. This dysentery is
extremely wide spread. Persbns sut
tering from serious attacks are some-
times allowed on medical orders a few
pounds of white flour instead of the
war bread. The consumption of cab,
nage and kohlrabi, which was univer.
sal last winter, likewise had a disas.
trous effect on 'ale health of the popu-
lation. The cause of this is not known,
but the fact is undoubted.
"Infant mortality amounts to about
50 per cent. of the newly -born. Old
people also, with but slight powers
of resistance, are dying off rapidly,
The supplies of food available for
the mass of the population are wholly
inadequate and the result is declining
vitality, There is plenty of food to
be got, however, by people who are
able to pay.
SCHEMES TO GET FOOD.
"I stayed at a friend's in the coun-
try district where many small farm-
ers obtain good results from the pro.
ductige soil. My friends sometimes
got a whole calf in the night time
unobserved. They sent the servant
girl home to her family which livee
on a small farm. She would return
with butter and eggs. No questions
were asked as to the price. Warmers
wauld sometimes charge 5s to 12s a
pound for butter and sixpence apiece
for eggs and so forth, but the price
was paid without demur, this being
the only met gel of obtaining sup-
plies. Officers or the German army
had recourse to the ingenious device
f employing feenunz' sons as order-
lies. These are allowed to go home
an leave and in a eouple of days re-
turn with supplies for their officers.
As an example of the bread famine I
have seen advertisements of fine
flour made front wood shavings priced
20 ofg. per pound.
"The Germans in Alsace-Lorraine
are establishing tYrannical monopo-
lies by the amalgamation of small
businesses, thereby causing great dis-
content. They also are endeavoring to
expropriate French lands. All French
properties are placed in the hands of
official trustees and attempts are now
being made to find purchasers for
these properties. In one case where
a firm. had a capital of £420,000, the
concern was valued at 2e'0,000 by the
German assessors, the leeutsche Bank
offered 24,000 as the purchase
price; Up to a recent date the pule
chase had not been concluded.
PEAR DAY OF RECKONING.
"The Germans are shy at investing
money In French property in Alsace-
Lorraine, for while eeery German
maintains gehemently -that Germany
will never surrender Alsace-Lorraine,
no Gentian is prepared to back his
faith itt Germany's future in those
protincee with anything more stolid
than words. It is felt that if by any
chance the Germans do not succeed
in retaining Alsace-Lorraine, the Ger-
man who invested money in French
propertY would be lucky if he escaped
to the Fatherland with his life.
"Notwithstanding ' this waning be,
lief in the invincibility of German
arms, the Gertnans have recently
been enormouely encesuraged by the
taking of Riga. The German tem-
nerameat quickly reeponds to an ale
parent suctess in the military field.
Although the Germane admit that a
serious defeat on the western front
woeld Mean the sudden and total col -
tepee Of Germany, the Ittissian cam
-
Deign has again revieed hopes. Re-
cently their last hopes were centred
in the subinarine Wax against England
but now, withOtit reasoning the Mat-.
ter out, they are optimistie again.
This mood will undonbtedly be ex.
plotted tet the uttnoet in obtaihing
tubecriptiotth to the seventh Gannett
War loan.
"The feblieg III Alsace-Lorraine,
which is very Pro -French, retnalris
Unchanged. People aro all eentident
that the war will have only one is-
stiuoen,ofaovf eiria.rahnlecotf, the itational Repine -
FOE POWERS
MAKE REPLY
Ti THE POPE
Kaiser "Cherishes, Lively
Desire" That Peace Ap-
peal May Succeed,
AUSTRIA SATISFIED
•••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••..0.1...
Sees Suitable Basis for Ne-
gotiations -More "Free
Seas" Bluff.
Amsterdam cable: Peace would
come from tlie recent proposals of
Pope Benedict if the belligerent na-
tions would enter into negotiations 11
the sense of the Pontiffs sugeostione,
Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary
says in his reply to the Vatican ote.
The Emperor sees in the Pope's peace
plan a suitable baste for initiating ne-
gotiations toward just and lasting
peace, and expresses the hope that the
nations opposing his oWn may be ani-
mated by the same Ideas.
The Austrian Emperor admits tl at
the future arrangement of the world
must be based on the elimination af
armed force, and on the rule of ta-
ternational justice and. legality.
Austria is prepared, the rdply states,
to enter into negotiations for the'stib-
mission of international disputes to
compulsory negotiation.
The reply received here in a de-
spatch from Vienna was handed to
Monsignor T. Valfre di Bonzo, the
Papal Nuncio at Vienna, on Thursday.
The text of the reply reads:
"Holy Father, -With due venera-
tion and deep emotion we take cog-
nizance of the new representation Your
qoliness, in fulfilment of the holy of-
fice entrusted to you by God, made to
us and the address of the other being.
erent States, with the noble intention
of leading the heavily tried nations to
a unity that will restore pence to
'Wthein.rith a thankful heart we received
this fresh gift of fatherly care which
you, Holy Father, always bestow on
all peoples without distinction, aod
from the depth of our heart we greet
the moving exhortation which Your
Holiness has addressed to the gov-
ernments of the belligerent peoples.
During this cruel war we have al-
ways looked up to Your Holiness as
to the highest personage, who in vir-
tue of his mission, which reachee be-
yond earthly things and tnauks o
the high conception of his duties laid
upon him, stands high above the bel-
ligerent peoples and wno, inaccessible
to all influence, was able to find a way
which may lead to the realization of
honorablesinceascending
neat npga rtthi ees
our own desire for peace, tastier; and
throne of our
ancestors and fully conscicets of the
responsibility which We bear betel.°
God and man for the fate ef She Aus-
tro-Hungarian monarchy, 'we have
never lost sight of the high aim of
restoring to our peoples as speedily as
possible the blessings of peace. Soon
after our accession to the throne it
was vouchsafed to us in common -with
our allies to undertake a step which
had been considered and prepared by
our exalted predecessor, Francis
Joseph, to pave the way for a lasting
and honorable peace,
"We give expresion to this desire
in a speech from time throne deligered
at the opening of the Austrian
Reichsrath, thereby showing that we
are striving after a peace that shall
free the future life of the nation
from rancor and a thirst for revenge
and that shall secure them for gen-
erations to come of tlie employment
a armed forces. Our Gogernment in
the meantime has not failed in the
repeated and emphatic declarations
which should be heard by all the
world, to give expression to our own
will, and that of the Austro-Hungarian
peoples, to prepare an end to bloodshed
by a peace such as Your Holiness has
ba mind.
"DEEP-ROOTED CONVICTION."
"Happy in the thought that our de-
sires from the first were directed to-
wards the same object which Your
Holiness to -day characterizes as one
we should strive for, we have taken
into close consideration the concrete
and practical suggestions of Your
Holiness and have come to the follow-
ing conclusions:
"With deep-rooted conviction, we
agree to the leading idea of your
Holiness that the future arrange-
ment of the world muet be based on
the elimination of armed forcers and
an the moral force of right and on
the rule of justice and legality.
"We, too, are imbued with the hope
that a strengthening et the sense of
right would morally regenerate hu-
manity. We eupport, therefore, your
Holinese' view that the negotiations
between the belligerents should and
could lead to an understanding, hy
which with the Creation or appropri-
ate guarantees, armaments on laud
and sea and in the air might be re-
duced simultaneously, reciprocally
and gradually to a fixed limit, and
whereby the high seas, which rightly
belong to all the nations of the
earth may be freed from domination
or parantountcy and be opened equal-
ly tor the utie of all,
"Fully conscious of the importance
of the promotion of peace on the
method propesed he your Hot:Dees,
namely, to submit international dia.
putee to compulsory- arbitratton
are also prepared to enter into nego-
tiations regarding this proposel,"
"If, as we most heartily desire,
agreemente should be arrived at be.
tWeen the 'belligerents which would
reanee this eublinte idea and thereby
give stecuritY to the Austro-Hungarian
monarohy for its anhatnpered future
development, it can then not be dif-
ficult to find a catisfaetory solution
of the other questions 'Which (dill re -
Main to be settled between the bel-
ligerents ha a spirit of etistiee and of a
reasonable consideration of the ron.
ditiona for existenee Of both parties.
"If the natieete of the earth Were
to enter, with a desire for peace, into
negotiations with one a*mother in the
sense et your Holiness' propostila
then pew 4Oulti bleseom forth frail
them. The nations could attain coM.
plete freedorn of MOventent on the
high sea, heavy material burdens
Mild be taken front thenl and new
nOnrete of Preisperity opened to them,
"Guided by a epirtt of moderation
and toneillation, we stee in the prowess
als Of your Ifolinese a Aultable haela
for inatiating negotietiona with a view
to preparitig peaee. JUL to all and
laetIng, ead w earneetly hope ettr
present enenhee MaY be animated by
the eatne Ideas. 14 this spirit We beg
that the AlutiglitY May him the work
of pesters begun by your Holiness,"
THE GERMAN REPLY,
Amsterdam Cable says: The Glerntan
Government, in its reply to the 'peace
note ot Pope Benedict, a copy taf
which has boon reeeived here, "claer-
Whets a lively deeire" that tile appeal
may meet with success.
Emperor Williaan, the GerMan note
says, has been foliewing the efforte
of the Pope towards peace for a con-
siderable time wtth high reepect.
The text of tIte reply reads:
"Neer Cardinal. -Your eminenee
hats been good enough, together with
your letter of August 2, to transmit
to the Kaiser and King, my most
gracious maeter, the note of his Holt -
nese, the Pope, in which his Holiness.
filled witis grief at the devestatione Of
the world war, makes an emphatic
peace appeal to the heads of the bel-
ligerent people% The Kaiser King
has deigned to acquaint nee with
Your eminenee'e letter and to entrust
the reply to me.
"His majesty has been following
for a coneiderable time with high re
spect and sincere gratitude hie Holt-
nees' efforta in a spirit of true im-
partiality to alleviate as far as pos-
sible the etufferings of the war and to
haeten the end of hostilities. The
Kaiser sees in the latest step of his
Holiness frail proof of his noble and
human feelinga, and cherishes a live-
ly dcaire that for the benefit of the
entire world the Papal appeal may
meet with success."
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TORONTO MAltaKETS.
FARMERS' MARKET.
Dairy Produce -
Butter, choice dairy .$ 0 42.
Eggs, new -laid, dos. 0 45
elaeese, „
Do., fancy, lb. .. .
Dressed Poultry-
iurkeys, lb. .. 0 28
Fowl, lb. „ 0 25
Spring chickens . . 0 30
Ducks, Spring, lb. ..
lerui ts-
Apples, bkt. 0 50
Blueberries, 11 -qt. bkt, 1 75
Thimbleberries, box 0 17
lthubarb, doz. .. 0 25
Peaches, Can., bkt. . 0 75
Pears, bkt. 0 60
Plums, bkt. 1 00
Cantaloupes, bkt. 0 50
Vegetables -
Beans, small measure
Beets, doz, bchs. . 0 20
Cucumbers, doz. .. . 0 20
Cauliflower, eaeh 0 10
Corn, dozen ..
Carrots, doz. bunch .
Celery, per head ...
Cabbages, each 0 05
Gherkins, bkt, 1 50
Egg Plant, bkt. 0 65
Lettuce, doz. belts. . 0 20
Do., head, dos .. 0 50
Vegetable marrow, ea. 0 05
Onions, bundle ..
Do.. small bkt.
Do., pickling, bkt.
Do., silver skins, bid, 1 50
Potatoes, bag . . 1 50
Do., peck ,
Do., small measure
Pumpkins, each ... 0 10
Radishes, 3 buncbes
Sage, bunch 0 05
Squash, each .. 0 10
Savory, bunch .. 0 05
Turnips, peck .
Tomatooe, 11 -qt. bid. 0 60
MEAT -WHOLESALE.
Beef, forequarters, cwt.$12 00
Do., hindquarters . . 18 00
Carcases, choice .... 15 50
Do., comnton .. 13 00
Veal, common, cwt. . 9 50
Do., medium .. 12 50
Do., prime .. 19 00
Heavy Hogs .. 19 00
Shop hogs.. .. .... 23 00
0 45
0 50
0 30
0 a5
0 30
0 28
0 35
0 25
0 60
2 Oil
0 20
0
3 25
0 75
1 25
0 75
0 10
0 30
0 30
0 20
0 25
0 25
0 05
0 10
2 C0
(1 75
0 SO
0 90
0 10
0 10
4 0 50
0 90
2 00
1 75
0 35
0 10
0 35
0 10
0 10
0 P5
0 10
0 20
0 70
ele 00
20 (ei
17 60
14 50
11 50
14 50
21 00
20 00
25 00
Abattoir hogs . 24 00 26 00
Mutton, heavy .. 10 00 12 00
Do., light .. 17 00 19 00
Lambs, ,Spring, 10. 0 25 0 27
OTHER MARKETS.
WINN1P9eG GRAIN EXCHANGE.
Fluctations on the Winnipeg Grain
Exchange yesterday were as follows:-
Oats- Open. High. Low. Close
Oct. . 0 66eS. 0 66% 0 66% 0 6655
Nov, . 0 64% 0 65% 0 64% 0 64%
Dec. . 0 6D15 0 63 0 62% 0 62.,e
May . 0 66%, 0 661/, 0 65%0 U5
Flax -
Oct. . 3 27 3 30 2 27 2 30
Nov. . 8 25 3 281,e 3 25 3 28'le
Dec. . 3 20 3 21% 3 19 3 2%1
MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN MARKET.
'Viennese -polls -Corn -Not ,3 yellow,
$2.03 to $2.10. Oats -No. 3 white, 57
7-8 to 59 3-8c. Flax -$3.52 1-2 to
1-2. Flour -Unchanged, Bran - $30.-
50 to $32 -
DULUTH GRAIN MARKET.
Duluth-Linsood-$3.49 1-2 to e3.50
1-2; to arrive $3.48 1-2; September,
$3.49 1-2 bid; October, $3.43 1-2 bid;
November, $3.43; December, 3.42 1-2
bid.
CHEESE MARKETS.
Napanee, Ont. --At to -lay's cheese
board 535 vshife and 685 colored were
(-Herod; all sold at 21 1-4c.
Iroquois, Ont. -At tha regular meet-
ing of the Iroquois Cheese Board to-
day 760 cheese were boarded, 700 col-
ored and 60 white. Buyers present;
Johason and Ault; 21 1-8c bid; no
sales on board, but all sold on curb
at that price.
Perth -There were fifteen hunched
boxes of cheese on the market here
to-day;a1 1 sold at 21 1-4c.
Cornwall -On the Cornwall Cheese
Board to -day 2,263 white and 80 col-
ored, a total of 2,343 sold at 21 3-30.
At the corresponding date last year
2,019 sold at 20 3-4e,
CHICAGO LIVE STOCIC.
Beavers 7 60 7 90
Western steers .. .. 6 70 16 76
Stockers end Feeders .. 6 46 11 25
Cows -Heifers ,.6 15 12 00
Calves .... 11 50 16 00
Hog receipts, 40,000; market slow.
Light .. - .. 17 45 18 80
Milted 17 45 18 85
Heavy „ .. 17 35 18 85
Rough .. 17 35 17 66
Piga .. .. 13 75 17 76
Bulk of sales .. 18 00 18 75
Sheep receipts, 5,000; Market weak.
Wethees .... 0 00 12 60
Lambs, native 13 00 1815
Vast Buffald. Deapatch-Cattle Ye.
BurrALo tavn STOOK.
erSipts, 800 slew.
Veals, receipts, 350; slow; $1 te
$16.66.
Hoge, reeeipts 800; firm. Heavy and
milted, $10.25 to $19.35; yorkers, $19 to
$19.16; lights Yorkers, $18.25 to $18.50;
roughs, $17.75 to $18; Stags, $15 to
$10,60. Sheep and lambs, receipts, 2,000,
steady and unchanged.
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Fire Ins. Co.
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Arthur J. Irwin
D.D.S., L.CI,S.
Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Penn,
sylvaniu College and Licentiate of Den-
tal Surgery nf Ontario,
Closed eve* Wednesday Afternoon.
Office In Macdonald Block.
F. M. DEANS
D.D.S., ,L.D.S.
fronor Clracluate of the Royal College of
Dental Surgeons of Ontario, Honor
Oraduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Denistry.
Closed every "ftdnesday Afternoon.
Office Over H. E. Isard & Co,'s Store
In the Dentat Politic's, formerly occu-
pied by Lr. G. If. Ross.
W. R. liambity
Lee, M.D., C.M.
Mattention paid to diseases
en and Children, hiving
take* postgraduate work in Sur.
MI, Bacteriology and ficientifle
Medicine.
=Los ia the Kerr residozate, be-
ts*** the Queen's Hotel and the
Baptist Church,
business given careful attention.
Phone 14. P. 0, Box 111
Dr. Robt. C. Redmond
LR.. (Eng.)
• L.R.o.r. (Lond.)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
(Dr, dhisholit's old ataud).
DR. R. 1 STEWART
Graduate of University of Toro-nto,
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of tbe
Ontarla College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
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Itongs-Tneedays and Fridays,
to .P.m.; Wedsesdays, to 11 a.m.
Oohed. Open to all regularly licensed
physicians. Rates for patients (which
include board and nursing) -$4.90
$16.00 per weak, according to location
Of room. For further information-.
kddress MISS L. MATHEWS,
Superintendent,
Il
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Box 223, WInghem, Ont.
tes"Genets' Hospital t taya by appollOcenk
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some exoellent values.
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FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT
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REGRETTABLE.
German Paper's View On U.
S. Revelations.
London, 0:_‘pti-Itt commenting *upon
the latest 'Washington diselosure eon.
cer»Ing the activities of Count von
Berhstorft, former Ambassador to the
United States, the Xoelnisolio Volks Zel-
tung, according to Amsterdam despatch.
es to Reuter's, Limited, says:
"This affair, if true, has a very die -
agreeable character, and it Is highly re-
grettable. The American Government.
God knows how, NMI 51)10 to got a hold
apparently of the whole collection of
(1 erolan di,plomatio documents, which It
Is now exploiting against us and !Ftweden.
Whet the State Department remarks
/Acta the relation between von 13e1:1)-
ntorft's policy Aral the rehout war can
be recognized as a nilaToadIng invention
by everyone who knows tho blotory
itt occding tho cempaign."