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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." - 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. Wellington Mutual Fire Ins. Co. *tow* WO, Moll Office, GITIMPIII, ow. 1 4446 OA Ali 4144010 ot lasogr. .31th.44411• PM:WU* 4161OhitiallarAif.xls 101701:sittaryVVB640* Dm*** 4 oo4u46, Avow. 4v444064, Rata Dudley Holmes BARRIOTOR, 1101.101T00. WIWI Mem OW% 4V460644, AranitOne 111AR0444M ooLtorrequ 74•41 40 190.4. 64 46‘061 ot4.1. WONOSIAM. 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. OFFICE ENTRANCE: SECOND DOOR NORTH OF ZURBRIGG'S PHOTO STUDIO, JOSEPHINE ST. PEIONE 29 OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN D. F. A. PARKER. Vstoopatty Mende vitality and 11.4121111. Activate:mit it the spine and Ober tissues is geeltly els-cured, there- fr SOnloving tke predisposing caned ttiftealle. Pend pressure and other eramins. !tope made. ?Oboes scientifically fit. to& CORGI OVER. CIPRIGTIE'S STORE. 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 $16.00 per weak, according to location Of room. For further information-. kddress MISS L. MATHEWS, Superintendent, Il 7Plessaniir ituatad, beautifully fur. Box 223, WInghem, Ont. tes"Genets' Hospital t taya by appollOcenk - (kinder Government Inspection). 1 SELL Town and Farm properties. Call and see my list and get my prices. 1 have some exoellent values. J G. STEWART W1NGHAM. Phone 114. Once In Town Hall, J. W. DODD (Suctessor to J. G. STEWART) FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT and HEALTH INSURANCE. P. 0. Box 366. Phone 198 WINGHAM ONT. widloomms John F. Grovt Issuer o$ MARRIAGE LICENSES TOWN HALL WINGHAM Phones -Office 241 Residence 163. WE WANT CREAM tservr Cr for /rood q.ottn„PaY,W11; p Tout create sway. a Iona distance at you oast receive es goOd prices kopek sod to *ending your (meant uq will kelo • horns 1it6ustrq, Ws 1TpnIc two cells ki eftek ohlpper and pip P31 ekpregl claftrpos and aitooro an hontot bieenr. 0-1k0000 fon* patron* liovin.O earn duties tho WAkr Would do Wo I to ship to Ua kits ter further partlftUtrs to THE SEARTIR CREAMERY SIAFORTH .- ONTARIO •1•••••*.*•••••••••••vis...••••••••mmommorma 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."