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Markets of the World
Breodstuffs
Toronto, Oct 16.---$4lanitoba wheat
No, 1 Northern 32,23; No, 2 do„ 32.20;"
No, 3 do., $21,7, No. 4 wheat, $2.11, in
store Port William, including 2c. tai,
Manitoba.... oats ---No, 2 C„YY 66c; No, 3
C,Vir 63c; extra No: 1 ,feed, 634c; No. 1
feed, G2c, in "`store Fort ' William. e
American corn --,-No. 3 yellow, nominal.,,
Ontario oats --No. 2 white, 62 to 63e,
nominal; No. 3, do., 61 to 62c, nominal,
according to freights outside.
Ontario wheat --New, N'o, .2 'Winter,
$2,22 basis, in tort in Store, Montreal
Teas -No. 2, nominal
Barley -Malting, $1,16 to $143, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Manitoba flour ---First patents, in jute
bags, $11,50; 2nd, do., $.11; strong batt-
ers', dc„ '310.60, Toronto,
less. 43 to 44e,
Rye -No. 2, 31.75, according to
freights outside,:
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample, 39,30, In bas, Montreal;. 39.60,
Toronto, pr(mpt shipment,
Mi111 eel- Car Lots .Deliver e Mont-
real freights, eights bags included, bran per
ton, 335;shorts, do., 342; middlings, do„
$4 5 to$40; good feed flour, pea•"•,bag,
33.26.
Flay No, 1., new, per ton 312 to 313;
mixed do, 39 to $11, track Toronto,
Strtilr Car lots,, per ton, 37 to $7.50,
track -Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale
Flutter -Creamery, solids, per lb. 42$
to 43e; prints, per ib, 433 to 44c; dairy,
per lb. 35 to 30c.
Eggs -Per dozen, 39c.
Wholesalers are selling to theretail
trade at the following prices:-
fEC STOP
h ENEMY ATTACKS
German Efforts Repulsed on
Verdun Front and in
Champagne.
A despatch from Paris says: -Tho
official communication issued by the
War Office on Thursday says:--
"During
ays:-"During the day the two artilleries
were active at various points along the
front, particularly in the region of
E'Epine de Clievregny, south of the
Butte du Mesnil, where our fire ar-
rested enemy groups who attempted
to reach our small posts, and on the
right bank of the Meuse. There were
no infantry actions,
Belgium during the night we
broke up a German attack delivered
east of Draeibank against our posi-
tions between Vietoire farm and Pa-
tegoet farm,
"`On the Aisne front; an enemy pa-
trol which was seeking to approach
our lines in the,, region of Cerny 'was
dispersed by our fire.
"On the 'right bank of the 1Yleuse
e (Verdun front) in the region of Hill
King of Italy, The Cheese -New, large, 3 to 233c;` twins,
y, accom1�anied'by'the Duke of Connaught, at a decoration 233 to 233c; triplets, 233 to 24c; old 344, the Germans made an attack -
on the Italian front. Italian Official Photo. l`�'13utter°e' iesrnisdaicli4eet4 3t
00
34ic which enabled them to gain a footing
MAY' STOP MAKING
CANDIES AND JAM
Shortage of Sugar is Serious,
Says Food Controller.
, A despatch from Montreal says:
The possibility of the banning of .the
manufacture of candies, confectionery
and jam because, of the sugar short-
age was hinted by Food Controller
Hanna in the course of his address to
the Ilousewives' League here on
Thursday.
Mr.. Hanna said that the amount
of raw sugar available for the re-
finers in Canada and the United
States was so small as to be the sub-
ject of alarm in both countries. Dur-
ing the past ten days .a crisis had de-
veloped, but drastic measures were
being taken• by the Departments of
Food Control at Ottawa and Wash-
ington to insure a steady supply.
Cuba, since the war began, was the
world's main: source of sugar, and the
United States was in close contact
with the. Island, and Canada was not.
Mr. Hanna said that a member of
his staff had been in New York try -
mg to secure even a moderate sup-
ply, but had not succeeded. The last
consignment of raw sugar for Can-
ada was now on its way here.
7
NICHOLAS ROMANOFF
OBTAINS TRANSFER
A despatch from Petrograd says: -
Nicholas =Romanofr, the former Em-
peror of Russia, and his family have
been transferred from Tobolsk,• Si-
beria, to the Abolak Monastery, four-
teen miles from Tobolsk. The trans-
fer was made at the request of the
former Emperor. He complained that
his ToboIsk-prison had no garden in
which he could exercise and also that
he_ and his family were annoyed by the
curious, crowds which surrounded the.
house all day long.
GERMAN RAILWAYS
ARE SHORT OF FUEL'
A despatch from London says: -
The German state railways are faced
with a great shortage of fuel and
drastic: limitation of traffic has begun,
according to reports ,reaching here.
The railroads propose to levy heavy
excess fares on express trains so as -to
discourage all except unavoidable busi-
ness journeys. A Large number of
fait trains have been eliminated from
the Winter time tables. The Wurt-
temberg railways will charge heavy
excess fares for traffic on Saturday
afternoons and Sundays.
SULTANATE OFEGYPT
OFFERED PRINCE FU AD
GER. ' ANS _ PLOTTED
TO DESTROY C.P.R.
Further Information Concern-
ing Von Eernstorff's Plans.
A despatch front Washington says:
-Secretary Lansing drew upon his
collection of secret Germap diplomatic
correspondence again to shed further
light upon what the German Foreign
Office and General !Staff were doing in
this country while at peace with the
United States.
He gave to the public, without com-
ment as usual, three brief cablegrams,'
disclosing that more than a year be-
fore submarine piracy drove America
to war the Berlin Government was
instructing Ambassador von Bernstorf
to arrange for destruction of Canadian
railroads and to use Irish -Americans
in carrying on sabotage in their own
country. They showed, too, that von
Bernstorfff on his part was even at
I that early date seeking authority to
support- a campaign to influence Con-
gress.
! PLENTY OF FUEL OIL,
FOR BRITISH NAVY
A despatch from Washington says:
-An ample supply of fuel oil for.. the
British navy was assured at a confer-
ence between their Government rep-
resentatives, Standard Oil officials and
members of the Shipping Board. Oil
reserves in Great Britain have run so
low, the conference disclosed, ` that
many British warships have been
forced to remain inactive.
Te remedy this situation the Ship-
ping Board will rush construction of
58 oil tankers recently commandeered
in ship -building yards, and is consid-
ering building at least 40 more. The
problem, is entirely one of tonnage, as
there is an abundance of oil on this
side of the Atlantic.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN RUMANIA
WITH ALLIES TIIE AGGRESSORS
cre'imery' prints, 16 to 46e; solids;". 44 to rhomentarily in portions of one of our
450.
Oggs-New laid, in cartons, 51 to 53c;
advanced trenches. After a spirited
out of cartons, 46c, engagement we repulsed the'adversary
�R�T�S AIRMAN
Dressed poultry -Spring chickkens, 25 and remained masters of our, poli-.
to 30c fowl, 20 to 22e; squabs,
$4. to $4.50; turkeys, 28 to 32c; ducks, tions.
Spring 22c; geese, 16c.
Live :Poultry -Turkeys, 22c; Spring
wnw as Mq'
n,.ap„pe,i
-t<W 6RADhf
0.41%,lt Wt*
Something they will never do for the Fatherland. -Vancouver Province.
chickens, lb. 20c; hens, 16 to 20c;rducks, $7,00,000,000 IN SHELLS
Spring, 16; geese, 12c. SENT FROM CANADA
Honey -Comb -Extra fine, 16 oz.,
33.25; 12 o'z., 32.75; No. 2, 32,40 to $2.50.
Strained, tins 23's and 5's, 18c per lb; A despatch .from Montreal says: -
10's, 17 to 173e; 60's, 163 to 17o, Canada has shipped sufficient tonnage
Canadian beans on market
until last of October; imported hand- of. shells to the Old Country to build
1531ed, {t 163c.5 per bush; Lintas, per lb„ nineteen bridges across the St.
Potatoes, on track -Ontario, bag, $1.40 Lawrence, each equal to, the Quebec
to 31.50. Bridge, or sufficient to build sixty-six
Provisionerwhoiesale battleships of 18,000 tons each, so
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 36 to Brigadier -General Sir Alexander Ber_
31e; do., heavy; 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to tram told the Canadian Society of Civil
42c; .rolls, .27 to 26c; breakfast bacon, :Engineers in an address on Thursda
36 to 40c; backs, plain, 39 to 40c; bone- y
less 43 to 44c. night. Sir Alexander said the total
Cured' meats -Long clear bacon, 273 value of all the munitions and sup lie
to 28o lb; clear bellies, 263 to 278. supplie
sent overseas since Sept.,- 1914, ha
reached the enormous total of $700
000,000. `
The work was carried on in,, 40
factories in Canada, three-fifths in th
manufacture of shells and two -fifth
on ,components, basic supplies an
shipbuilding.,
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 263 to 27c;
tube, 263 to 273e; - palls, 27 to 273c;
compound tierces, 22 to 223c; tubs,
223 to 2233e; pails, 223 to -23c.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Oct. 16, -Oats -Canadian
Western, No. 2, 763c; No. 3, 75c; extra
No. 1 feed, 75c; No, 2 local white„ 720;
No. 3 local white, 71c. Barley --
Manitoba feed, $1.29; malting, $1.30 to
3L31. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat
patents, firsts, 311.60; seconds, 311.10;
strong bakers', $10.90; Winter patents,
choice, $11.25; straight rollers, 310.70
to 311.00; do, bags 35.20 to 35.35.
Rolled oats-Bbls. $8.30; do, bags, 90
lbs, 34,00, Bran, $35,00. Shorts, 340
to 342. Middlings, 348 to 350. Mouillie,
355 to $60. Hay -No, 2, per ton, car
lots, 311.50 to 312.00. Cheese -Finest
westerns, 213c; 'finest easterns, 21.3c.
Butter -Choicest creamery, 453 to 46c;
seconds, 45c. Eggs -Fresh, 53 to 54e;
selected, 47 to 48c; No. 1 stock, 43 to.
44c; No. 2 stock, 40- to 41c. Potatoes-
Per bag, car lots, 31,70,
Winnipeg' Grain
Winnipeg, Oct. 16. -Cash prices: -
Wheat -No. 1 Northern, 32.21; No. 2,
do., $2.18; No. 3, do., $2.15; No., 4, $2,09;
No. 5, $1.94; No. 6, 31.86; feed, 31.76.
Oats -No, 2 C.W., 66c; No. 3, do., 63c;
extra No, 1 feed, 633c; No. 1 feed, 62c;
No, 2, do., 613c, Barley -No. 3, $1:20;
MEN PREFER TO SURRENDER
TO HOLDING SHELL CRATER
A despatch from London says:-
"Two interesting points emerged from
the latest battle of Flanders. First
the enemy system of echelonmen
proved a failure. Second, the substi
tution -of prepared lines of shell crater
for.' battered trench lines is almos
valueless, because after a heavy shell
ing thecraters are little good as shel
ters. Prisoners admit that the highe
command realize that during heavy fir
the men cannot be trusted to hold
them. At the moment of attack the
No. 4, $1.1o; rejected and feed, 31.10. men
Flax -No. 1 N,-W.C., 32.933; No. ,2 C. are in a, frame of mind which makes
W., 32.87 ; No. 3, doh, X2.763, surreeder;the wiser course than fight-
ing.are either not at their posts or
"
ATTACKS GUNNERS
Descends and Silences Enemy
Machine Gun Fire.
A despatch from London says: A
official statement on British aeria
operations issued on Thursday says:
"On Tuesday and Wednesday nava
air patrols attacked enemy trenche
by machine gun fire. One pilot, being
heavily, shelled by anti-aircraft guns
descended and attacked the , gun
crews, scattering them and silencing
s the guns.
d "Early on Wednesday naval raids
were made on the Thorout ` and Lich-
tervelde railway junctions and trains
0 1 Large quantities ` of explosives were
e dropped. All our machines returned.'
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HAIG'S TROOPS
IRRESISTIBLE
"Steam -Roller" Is. Right Word,
Major-General Maurice Says.
n A despatch from London says
1 Major-General Frederick B. Maurice,
I Chief Director of. Military Operations
1, at the War Office, in his weekly talk
s on Thursday with the Associated
Press, after an optimistic review of
,:the past week's work on the British
front in Flanders, said:
"We have every right to be eonfi-'
I dent when we see what our men have
t done. But the fighting is hard, and
we do not think that the present 'se
• hies of battles in Flanders is going to
end the war. There is a great deal -
more hard fighting before us. I
would say that the importance of
I getting the American troops here as
. quickly as possible and in the 'great-
' est possible numbers has not been
diminished.
I"The word.`steam-roller,' which
was so often used in the early days
of the . war in connection with the
Russian army, is exactly the right
word to characterize the British ad-
vance in Flanders. It is an advance
I not rapid, but insistent, • irresistible.
It goes up hill very slowly, but now it
is going down hill, and battles are
following each other more and 'more
rapidly.,,
ITHE LIGHT-HEARTED :ESKIMO
I
Characteristics of - the - Inhabitants of.
The Frozen North
"People who believe that ice and
snow and months of darkness make
for morbid psychological traits 'should
see the Eskimo at any season of the
year, says D. MacMillan, the Arctic
explorer. He is a wonderful' lesson
in courage and cheerfulness. Except-
ing possibly the inhabitants of Terra
del Fuega, I know of no people so
scantily endowed with advantages of
environment. Yet the Eskimo is
perennially' light,hearted and optim-
istic.
"The primary accomplishment for
matrimony is the bride's ability to
'chew the boot,' which signifies the
operation -of -preparing boots and ap-
parel generally for the prospective
husband. The girls are considered
mature and marriageable at 12 or 13.
Wives are always at a premium in an
Eskimo tribe, because there is a pre-
ponderance of men.
"Perhaps it is this circumstance
that has led to the swapping of wives.
The changes in the domestic line-up
seem to be considered verysatisfac-
tory. In : fact, there is quite a com-
munistic tendency among the Eskimos,
anyway. One on good terms with an
Eskimo is considered entitled to the
use of anything the latter possesses."
ONE PHASE OF Y.M.C.A. WORK
S Caring For the Relatives Who Visit
the Wounded in France.
There is no more appealing side of
the Y.M.C.A• work• in France than
, their care of the relatives of the
t wounded, says a woman worker in
_ France.
s Both on this side of the channel and
t on the other side the first people to
_ pass the military arid' civil authorities
_ at the embarkation and landing stage
✓ are those visiting badly -wounded men
e in France. "Relatives of the wound-
ed!" is the first cry on both sides, and
they take precedence before all other
'United States Markets
Minneapolis, Oct. 16. -Corn -No. 3
yellow, 31.81 to $1.83. Oats -No. 3
white, 563 to 573. Flour unchanged,
Bran. $30 to $3
Duluth, Oct. 16. -Linseed, 33.029 to ' Much Property Destroyed North of
33.04; arrive, 33.033; October, 33.029;
November, $3.02; December, 32.97 ask- North Battleford.
eft; May, 33.02 asked, A despatch from Prince Albert,
Sask., says: -A disastrous prairie and
bush fire is sweeping over a fifteen -
mile front in the country 30 miles
north of North Battleford. A number
of settlers have suffered losses, in-
cluding George Power, district magis-
trate, who has had all ` of his farm
buildings and crops destroyed.`
do, good, 37,50 Constable Dunn of the Provincial
oc$7.75;
e s,' do.
7 50 to 138 i 5;$ feeds s, $$8..50 Police at North BattIeford, has or
$9.25; canners' and cutters, $5.00 to ganized a companyp which has' left for
.00; milkers, good to choice, 390,00 the scene of the conflagration.
O 3125.00; do., 'com. and med. 376,00 to A
86.00; springers, 390,00 to 3125,00;• gale is'blowing and heavy damage is
ight ewes, $11.00 co' $12.00: sheep, feared.
PRAIRIE FIRE RAGING
A despatch from London says: The it
prospects of_ a return to heavy fight- ti
ing in Rumania with the allies the $
aggressors seen good. On the . Ru-
manian
ba
plain and near Braila the Rus- d
sians have - heavily bombarded` the bu
to
st
to
$6
Live Stook Markets
Toronto, Oct. 16, -Extra choice
eavy steers, 311.00 to $12.50; do., good
eavy, 311.00 to $11.50; butchers' cat -
0, choice, $10.10 "to 310.60; do., good,
9,50 to $9,85; do. medium, 39,00 to
.85; do., common, 37.76 'to $8.25;
tchers' bulls, choice, '$8.30 to 38.75;.
o„ good bulls, $7.40 too $7.86;, do.,
ediuin bulls, 36.86 to 67.1; do., rough
Ile„ $6.00 to $6.00; •butchers' :cows,
oice, $8.25 to $8.75,
Teutonic allied position, while the
Germaizs in reprisal shelled the im-
portant Danubian town of . Galatz,
their shells causing several fires. On I
the northern sector of the eastern.s
front near Riga the Germans, follow•• l 1
ng a heavy bombardment, pushed
back the Russians in the vicinity of t
the Pskoff high road.
A despatch from Cairo, Egypt says;
:-._-Although the order of succession to
e Sultanate remains to be settled,
e British Agent has called upon
Prince Fuad, brother of the late Sul-
-tan Hussein Kemal, to assume the dig-
nity.
The right of succession of the heirs
41 Fuad will be established by agree -
stent between the Government and the
w Sultan,
reavy, 35,75 to 37.50; yearlings, 312.00
o 313.00; calves, good to choice, 315.00
o 315.50, Spring lambs, $16,00 to
316.75; hogs, fed and watered, $18.75;
o., weighed off cars, 319.00; do., f:o.b.,
317.75,
Montreal, Oct. 16. -Bulls; 36.50 to
36.75; cows, $5.25' to 35.50; steers, $9.50
to $10; fair, 38,75 to 39.25; common,
38.00 to 38.50; butchers' cows, 36.50 to
$8.25; bulls, 37.00 to 38.50;. Ontario
lambs, 314.75 to 315.25; Quebec,. 313.50
to $14.25; sheep, 38.00 to 39.50; choice
milk -fed calves, 313,50 to 314.50; lower
grades, $7:00 to $14,60; selected -hogs,
18.75 to 319.25.
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Mutiny on German Warships
A despatch from London says t -A
revolutionary outbreak o1ii German
warships' at Wilhelmshaven about six
weeks ago is reported in a Central
News despatch from Copenhagen. This
uprising is said to have had all the
-elements of a widespread and organiz-
ed revolt, and to have been suppress-
ed only with the greatest difficulty.
Several mutinous outbreaks also
are reported to have occurred among
lioldlers at the front. These were not
of such a grave character, the de-
spatch says. ,
OH T'oM, NeRE COMES, THE, MINisTER 1
wHAZ' Will. I-M.11110W OF yo0R-
LAGK`Kyai<I" o µiDE.QWclrf
The Usual Amount.
"I can tell you how much water runs
over Niagara Falls to a 'quart," said
the undergraduate. "Well, how much?"
asked his companion. "Two pints,"
announced the well-educated young
man.
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A New Town.
The geography lesson was about to
begin, and the subject of it was
France.
Accordingly, the teacher started off
with the question: "Now in this pres-
ent terrible war who is our principal
ally ?>,
"France," came the answer from a
chorus of voices.
"Quite right," said the teacher,
beaming. "Now can,any of you give
me the name of a town in France ?"
A small boy at the back of the class
almost fell over in his eagerness tq
tell; "Somewhere," he said, breath-
.lessly.
passengers of whatever kind.
-,Anxious and worried, these relatives
come to, a country where, as a rule,
they neither understand the language
nor the customs, and to have their
difficulties dissolved by the Y.M.C.A.
officials is the greatest of boons. En
route they are met and convoyed from
point to point, and when they reach
their final destination one of the Y.
M.C.A. lady workers awaits them on
the platform.
Straight away they are reassured,
where happily possible, as to the im-
mediate condition of their men, driven
up to the hostel for a meal, and, per-
haps, rest -according to the hour-
and then to the hospital:
Sometimes they arrive too late.
Sometimes not even the tidings that
his nearest and dearest are speeding
towards him as fast as boat and train
can bring them can stay the weary
soul of the stricken warrior. It is
not an easy task to meet a relative
under such circumstances, although all
that sympathetic hearts and hands can
do is done by the Y.M.C.A. workers.
But there are happier times.
There are numerous instances where
a loved hand or the sound of a familiar
voice has had 'power to call back a
life slipping beyond, to instil fresh
energy for the fight. One dangerous-
ly wounded man opened his tired 'eyes
and looked on the face of a baby son h
he had never seen, and into a woman's f
eyes that last smiled on him in .a a
Welsh village.
And the baby fingers and a woman's
love drew him back from the gather- s
ing shadows. He is now at home a
with his wife and boy.
The young:man who goes in debt
eavily for a farm has to stick to his
arm work like a leach; and he needs
good wife to help him. However,
he is more apt to succeed in the end
than the fellow who waits till he has
aved the purchase price in small
mounts, -the price of land may in-
crease faster than his bank account.
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