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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-8-2, Page 6rTuE.THE CABLEMAN AN EXC TINA PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE' BY WEATHERBYCHESNEY CHAPTER XXII,(C nt'd .. {{ "Cunning man, Davis!" said Varney I with satisfaction. He , and I will I make a success of our partnership, if 't will, comes off., ThinkI tool Now tell me about Mrs. Carrington." Scarborough gave him an account of the scene at the Chinelas the even- ing before, and of the modification in their plans which it had rendered ne- cessary. At the endasked: "Which is the inn where you saw Gillies the other day?' "That rambling block at the end of the village nearest to us," said Var- ney. "I've had my eye on it more or less since daybreak, but there's been no sign of either him or his donkey. I don't think he can be there, or he would have been stirring before now." "I'll go and see before the girls come," said Scarborough. "After they arrive, if we haven't seen him be- fore then, we'll quarter the country, and get a thorough notion of the lie of the land. If Davis makes any- thing out from the seratchee stone it will be an advantage to us to know as much as possible beforehand of the main features of the district. It's what Gillies has been working at, I imagine. I wish we knew where he is now, and what he is doing." "Oh, yes, there's a chance. But he only got the plan yesterday, you know. What I'm more afraid of is that he may have found that he was on a wrong secent here, and is work- ing somewhere else, Still, we'll take the oppcetunity here ourselves." "In couples, of course!" said Var- ney. "Miss Carrington and you. Muriel and me! Capital! But where does Mona come in?" "Oh," said Scarborough laughing, "she's not the girl to spoil an arrange- ment of that sorb. She'll probably say that she prefers to work alone, and shall have to be ungallant enough to let her have her own way. I say, old chap, I don't care much for these frog things. The taste isn't bad, but the idea's nasty. I'm going down to the inn for breakfast. Will you come?" "No thanks, I11 wait for you here. The girls might turn up you see. What shall you do if you meet Gillies there?" "Don't know. Wait and see what he does, I suppose." But Gillies was not at the inn. Scarborough went in, and asked the landlady in Portuguese what she could give him for breakfast. To his surprise he was answered in his 'own tongue, spoken with a strong northern accenb. Weer, there's fist salt cod and beans, and if ye dinna like that, there's the bitter mixture. It's what the folks hereabouts breakfast on as a general thing, and if ye're the Ameri- can tourist I take ye for, yell be wanting to taste it. They, all do, but there's not many of them can take a second helping.' "What's the bitter mixture?" ask- ed Scarborough. "Oh, just half a loaf o' maize bread, b'iled up wi' lard, garlic, onions, vinegar, whole peppers and saffron. Will I get you a plateful?" "No, thank you," said Scarborough with decision. "Im not an Ameri- can tourist, you see, so I haven't the curiosity or the courage to try it. I'm a plain Britisher, hungry, and looking to a fellow Britisher to give him a better meal than that. By the way, you have had a countryman of yours staying in your inn lately, haven't you?" "The Scotchman who's exploring the countryside on a donkey, and thinks that folks will take him for a native? Yes, he's been here; bub who told you that he was a fellow countryman o' mine?" "Well, you are Scotch too, aren't you?" "I was born in Fraser's Wynd in the High Street of Edinburgh," said the woman proudly. "But I'rn think- ing I hadn't told you that, and it's no likely you would. be able to guess it from my tongue. What's it to be? Salt cod and beans, or will it be yams and red sausage?" "You gave the Scotchman something betber than any of these, didn't you ?" asked Scarborough. "Oh, hint!, He was a pernicketty body, and gave inc a lot o' trouble getting things for him. I couldn't please him with anybhing, until I put an eel from the Hot River before hien. Be liked that.' "I like eels too," said Scarborough, "and I have been told that the worm mud of the Riberia Quente breeds the best in the world,"! "Ay, but I havena one in the hoe se, Nob but what there might be one,or even two, in the eel baskets; but my guidman, hasn't been dawn to the river yet to see." In the end Scarborough breakfasted off bread and wine, but when the land lady learned that three ladies were coming, she promised to have a proper meal, including fried eels from the not River, ready for they whole party in an hour. Scarborough drew her out on the subject of the likes and dis. likes of the Scotchman, for he saw that Gillies had been giving tremble over his meals here;' as he did ab the venta in. Ponta Delgada, and that the not He did o ed i this. I woman. haat resent find it necessary .to ask her qLx astions about Gillies' movements during the ; time that ho stayed in her house; she had a grievance, and was voluble about it, and Scarborough let her rattle on while he niiinched,his break - feet, However, beyond the fact that Gil- lies had not been seen in the district a since yesterday morning, he learned d littl. The woman knew nothing of how he spent his time when he was there, except he was often seen near the edge of the lake, fishing in the water with a net at the end of a pale. He never caught anything, she ex- plained scornfully, and wasn't likely to, by that senseless way of fishing. When she showed signs of becom- ing autobiographical, and had started to explain how it came about that she a respectable Edinburgh wo.'nan with a Free Kirk upbringing, was now the wife of a Porbug.tese innkeeper, Scar- borough discovered hureloPy that be had finished his- meal, arid must go. Her history might possible he inter- esting, but he did not wait to hear ite other things of greater importance filled his thoughts just now. He returned to where he had left Varney under the maize -cobs. "Gilles goes fishing at the edge of the lake with a net at the end of a long pole," said he. "What does that mean, Phil?" "That the diamonds are hidden in the water," said Varney promptly. "But he has given up the occupa- tion since yesterday morning. Got an interpretation of that?" "Yes. Either he has found them and is off—or he hasn't and is fishing somewhere else." "In either case we are wasting time by staying here ?" "Shouldn't wonder," said Varney calmly. "But we must wait for the girls anyway. What have you dis- covered?" Scarborough told him what the Scotchwoman had said. "Then I tell you what," said Var- ney. "When the girls come, we'll have that meal you've ordered for us. and then we'll ride back to the Casa Davis to hear how the photographic experiment has turned out. We can't go chasing Gillies aimlessly about the island of San Miguel, because we don't know which way he's gone; but if Davis has managed to interpret the message on the scratched stone, we shall have something to guide us. If the stone tells us where to go, we'll go there, and I hope we won't find that Gillies is before us." "Why should he be? He doesn't know about the stone." "No bub maybe the stolen pian wasn't quite so indefinite as Mrs. Car- rington says it was. It is since he has had it in his possession that he has ceased to work here. We shall have to give up the happy day of hunting in couples that we had ar- ranged. That's the pity," he ..added ruefully. "You can ride with Muriel." said Scarborough laughing. "You've earn- ed it. I'lI look after the obher two." "Thanks, old man," saikl Varney, brightening at once. "I'll take you at that!" Half an hour later the girls arrived, and when they heard what Scarbor- ough had learned at the inn, they agreed that Varney's proposal was the right one. However, when, they were on the point of remounting their ma- chines to ride back to Casa Davis, Mona pointed with an exclamation to a figure that was limping down the hill towards them. "It's Val B.!" she cried . "Then what has become of Mrs. Carring- ton?" "I think he's hurt/ said Scarbor- ough, anxiously. " PIl ride on • and meet him?" He brought the circus man back to the group by the door of the inn, and after a long draught of wine, Val B. Montague opened his mout?, to ex- plain. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "you see before you a cock -sure fool who has been taken down a peg. I dictated a letter of introduction last night, did I ?—in which I got our friend here to say that Our Mr. Mon- tague was a man in whose ability he had entire faith! Mr. Scarborough, sir, I was a fool. I also stated, I be- lieve, that it was going to be my' pie, 'Tisn't my pie at all, as it turns out; it's the widow's." He paused' and took anotherlong drink. "She has given you the slip?" Ask- ed Mona, "Where is she?" asked Scarbor- ough. Montague baked from one bo the other. "No," he said. She did not giev me the slip. She merely rode away from me on my own donkey, and. told me I wasn't to follow, and I didn't Aare to disobey her. Where is she? I. don't know, The only, thing I ane absolutely sure of is that .Our Mr. 11iontag'ae, of Val B. Montague's Am- eriean Circus Combination, has been made a complete fool of, and that by a woman whom he *alight all the time that he was himself fooling. Anybody like to kick me?" "Tell us what has happened." said Elsa. "This!" he answered. "Your mo- ther and the scoundrel Gillies have joined forces; and, the man in whose ability Mr. Scarborough, expressed entire confidence, allowed them to do ib." CHAPTER XXIIL "Mrs. Carrington ttnci Gillies have joined forces!"Scarborau ghre repeat- ed t- ed with .dismay, and cl the' others echoed his exclamation of astonishment. "That was what I said, sir," re- sponded Montague. "And ib struck me, from what I saw of the pair of them, that itwill be a strong coali- tion. More fool I for letting ib come about! Guess you're sorry you en- listed me as.. a recruit, aren't you?" " you ou hurt?„ asked Mona anx- iously, 'Twisted my ankle on a stone, and got a large blister on my heel, that's all. I'm a poor walker, and walking wasn't part of my plan for the day. The widow arranged that too. and didn't consult me about my prefer- ences.” "Give us the bale, Montague, anti we'll condole with you afterwards," said Varney. (To be continued). RECORD DOCTOR'S BILLS. Huge Sums That Have Been Paid By Grateful Patients. It is said that Dr. Israel, the emin- ent surgeou who operated recently on the Sultan of Turkey, received a fee of $30,000, and an additional $7,500 for expenses. Large though this sum as- suredly is, it by no means creates a record. A $30,000 fee was paid in 1903 to Professor Lorenz, the eminent "blood- less" surgeon, for an operation in Chicago on Mr. Armour's little daugh- ter. But in the whole history of the medical profession there is no paral- lel to the $300,000 fee paid to Dr. Gale, of Bristol—the blind physician —for having cured the injured knee of a wealthy pationt. Sir Morell Mackenzie received fees of $78,000 for attendance on the Em- peror Frederick. Millionaires, as one might expect, The, Volae of Underdrainage. What has struck me most of late is the valee and importance of tile drainage ,and d how little farmers avail themselves lye e s o f the opportunity of im- proving proving their lane in this manner. I Willquote a few particular instances of the effect of tile draiimge that I have come across. Our farm has a certain amount of tile -drains where they are most need- ed, but has by no means a thorough system. They were put in before my time ' me at the robe of about one'dxain a year. A field we had in corn last year was always wet on the so}ith side when the rest of the field was fib to work, and consequently was sel- dom worked, up well, and, on account of this and its low-lying condition, never raised more than half a crop. A few years ago a five -inch Twain was putt through it, and although this did not drain it thoroughly, this part of the field always raises one-third bet- ter crops. Last year was wet and we had the field in corn. At one time, on such a year, there would have been practically nothing' on this strip but the tile diel the business, and ib went 100 bushels to the sere and the rest of the field about fifty. Another field was in oats last year anti seeded down to alfalfa. There are several drains running across the field, but at quite a distance apart. When I mowed the field I received an object lesson. A few rods on each side of the tile drains there was a fine, thick crop, but farther away, the alfalfa was badly winter killed and hardly worth cutting. If the fielid had been thoroughly under -drained it would easily have yielded two loads per acre. As it was it barely went a load to the acre and almost all of that came from over the tile drains. We intended to put two fields in oats this year. There were both good fields and of similar soil. One is well underdrained, the other •has no drains in it. The chained field was months will show their appreciation in an increased milk fl ow.—"Dairy m n„in Fenn andD1iTY. To Prevent Overheating. Horsemen will soon need to be on their. � ascagainst overheating. Most cases of overheating can be pre- vented by keeping. a few simple things in mine,, ,, Give at least a pailful of water to each horse about 10 o'clock, and again at $ or 4 o'clock on a hot day. Be very careful with a ar horse that is a little out of health, if you are work- ing him on a hot day. Look out for a horse that after sweating freely suddenly sbops sweat- ing. Put such a horse in the shade as soon as possible and give a moder- ate drink. Do not put a horse not in good con- dition for hard work in the centerof a four -horse team in hot weather. Work carefully on a hot day when the atmosphere is moist and heavy. A horse can hardly get too hot to water, but one must regulate the amount by the temperature of the wa- ter. In case of an attack of overheating the horse should be taken to the shade as soon as possible. A treat- ment reatment of the surface of the body, parti- cularly of the head, with cold water should be given until the temperature is within a degree or two of normal. +Stimulants, such as whiskey or brandy, well diluted, should be given as early as possible. In most cases it is better to plan bo avoid over -heating than to plan to treat the horse for it.—M. H. Rey- nolds, University Farm, St. Paul. GUNS ON SNOWCLAD PEAKS Difficulties of War Preparations in Mountain Regions. A description of the difficulties which have been overcome by the Ital- fit early worked x 1 fans on that part of the frust where are by no means ungenerous to their up nicely, andwas the fighting takes place on mountain pet medical advisers. The late Jay one of the • first sown in the vicinity. peaks with eternal snow is Gould Haid his doctor a regular salary The other field was wet and stayed icoated a correspondent of tno is wet until it got too late for oats, so doniv yMail. we decided to plow it and plant it inThe Dailyages in the lower ground be - tort The, weather suddenly changed hind the front have been aroused from to the other extreme and became hot their accustomed appearance of sleepy comfort. In their streets are swarms of $15,000 a year, and a fee of $90,- 000 90;000 during the two months' illness of his daughter. It was an ancestor of an ex -Lord Mayor of London—Dr. Dimsdale—who and dry. We were finishing anoth- inoculated Catherine II. of Russia er corn field and by the time we were against smallpox, receiving a fee of ready to plow this field it was too $50,000, travelling expenses to the hard and remained so until it was too extent of $10,000, a life pension of late for corn. So in this instance $2,500, and the office of Physician -in- lack of tile drainage meant the loss Ordinary to her Majesty. In addi- of a crop. These are just a few of tion the lucky medico received the many similar` personal experiences in title of Baron and the rank of Coun- this line. Now, I may be wrong in making such a general assertion, but from my personal experiences tile -drain - particularly generous towards their age means at least one-third better medical advisers. The head of the crops, or an increase in production of Paris house, in the days of the emin- 33 per cent. Now by a recent law in ent physician, Dupuytren, had occa- Ontario a farmer without sufficient sion to consult the famous medico; funks can, I believe, borrow up to but no fee was tendered during or at $1 000 from the township f the cillor-in-State. That was as far back as 1792. The Rothschilds have always been or pur- the close of the doctor's several visits. pose of tile drainage, and be charged Later, when Dupuytren had almost interest on it in his assessment, to - forgotten about the matter, a con- gether with his other drainage taxes, at the rate of 6 per cent. If he can invest this money at a profit of 33 per cent., and only pay 6 per cent. for ib what better investment could he desire? Why is he so slow to avail himself of this golden opportunity?— Reginald Jukes, in Farmer's Advocate. Cow Comfort in Summer. How stables have been generally de - Sir F. Baring has given me, of oppro- signed with the object of keeping priating for your chance.” The facts cows comfortable, in winter only. This are recorded in an old issue of the n►ay"have been all right in the past, "British Medical Journal." but conditions are rapidly changing Quaint was the attitude of another in the dairy industry, an.i it is becom- patient of Sir Astley. Successfully ing quite as necessary to proide for operated upon for a painful complaint, stable comfort in summer as in winter. the patient tossed his nightcap to The practice of milking in the barn is Cooper, intimating that he might ac- now common, and will become more so cept it as his fee. The cap contained as the use of the milking machine in- a cheque for 1,000 guineas. creases. Instead of throwing green But the greatest fee of all awaits feed over the pasture fence to the some enterprising specialist—the mil- cows we now have the summer silo lion dollars offered by John D. Rocke- and feed them in the stable. As. feller for a new digestive apparatus. dairy methods improve the fly nuis- That fee has been long a -begging.— ance claims more attention, and every London Answers. one knows that flies bother the cows i�---- less in a cool, dark place than in the Oriental Courtesy. open sunlight. On most good dairy A. year or two ago, says Pearson's farms the cows are kept in for at least Weekly, a distinguished European diplomat paid an official visit to the Sultan of Morocco. During the audience bhe diplomat noticed with some surprise that not ane of the three clocks in the audi- ence chamber was going. Very debs- cately he mentioned bo the Sultan that his clocks had all stopped, and; hinted that he would like to present him with one that would be more reliable. The Sulban thanked him. "But my clocks are excellent time- keepers," he added with a smile. "They were all going until just be- fore you came; but I had them all stopped, as I did not desire, during Your Excellency's all too brief visit; to be reminde•1'of the flight of time!" . Comparison. Buddy had just gazed at the moon in its first quarter: night when the cows are out every - "It looks like what you eut of your thing should be kept open so as to finger nail," he said: provide for a complete chaege of air f . before they are put in again the fol 1Vlaz.'r ,ago is mcleed a fdxiure when lowing day. Cows kept in a cool, love grows colt,' before the bride gets well ventilated stable for a few hours all the rico out of, her hair. siderable sum was placed in his hands —"the proceeds," it is said, "of a Bourse transaction in which the finan- cier had interested him without his knowledge. A patient of Sir Astley Cooper adopted a similar means of repaying the services of the eminent physician, sending him the profit on $10,000 of a forthcoming loan, "which I had an opportunity, out of a very small sum of soldiers on their way to the front or back from it for a holiday. Thous- ands are camping out in the neigh- borhood of the villages or billeted on the inhabitants. Constant streams of motor vehicles ramble through the villages on their way up the steep road, bearing ammunition, food and supplies of all sorts to the batteries, trenches and dugouts on the peaks. The road over which these vehicles travel was before the war a mere hill path—now the military engineers have transformed it into a modern road "graded, metalled and carried by cunningly devised spirals and turns three-quarters of the way up the mountains." The correspondent says: "It is a notable piece of military engineering, but it is not merely that. It will serve as an artery of com- merce when it is no longer needed for the passage of guns and army service wagons. There is nothing tempor- ary or makeshift about it. Rocks have been blasted to leave a passage for it .and solid bridges of stone and steel thrown across rivers. "Because the Austrians started with the weather gauge in their fav- or, being on the 'upper side of the great ridges, it was necessary for the Italians to gee their guns as high as they could. The means by which they accomplished these tasks were described to me. They would seem incredible if ono had not ocular de- monstration of the actual presence of the cannon among these inaccessible crags. "There are some of them on the ice ledges of the Ortler nearly 10,000 feet above the sea level, in places which ib is by way of an achievement for the amateur climber to reach with guides and ropes and porters and nothing to take care of but his own skin. But here the Alpini and Frontier Guides a part of the day in the warm months, had bo.bring up the heavy pieces, andthis should not be lost sight of hauling them over the snvwv etopes when stables are built or remodelled. and swinging them in -midair across The chief consideration in provid- chasms and up knife edged precipices, ing for summer comfort is to have a by lopes passed over timbers wedged continuous stream of fresh air. pass- somehow into the rocks. I was shown ing through bhe stables. The pre- a photograph of a party of these veiling wind in this country is from pioneers working in these snowy soli - west to east. In order to catch the tudes last winter. They might nave most of this bhe stable should lie been a group of Scott's or Shackle- north and south. with the windows in ton's men tailing in the Antartic wild- the east and west side. This ar- erness." rangement agrees with bhe winter de- By means of a suspension railway minds for lots of sunshine. The made of wine rope with sliding bas - windows should be entirely removable. kets strebehed across chasms of Ventilating shafts anal feed ,shutes great depth, oil, meat, bread shrould be made so that .they will P , and wine ca are sent up, for the soldier must not Fry off a maximum amounb of warm only be fed, but must be fed with air. The stable fixtures should be particular food to keep the blood cir- such as to offer the minimum , ob- culatin in his body struction to the free cirrlulation of air ., , inthe cola air and This is one of the chief advantages chilling breezes of the real ad peaks. I see in metal stable fixtures, At Kerosene stoves in great numbers have beensent aloft to make the life of the mountaineer soldiers more comfortable. The cost of living can never go so high that it won't seem worth it each day ,luring the hot summer try most of us. max The Secret of Flaky Pie Crust It's othert'ecipes for tnaktn good h Pies. Hut—we're going to tell you right horn how always to have the top t have —and how0 flak cruskflno and Y the Under crust just richt, even when using fresh fruit. a Just use part --MC Instead of all wheat flour. Try it, and prove it. Got a package of BENSON'S at your grocer's, and write to our Montreal Office for copy of our new recipe book, arts and Candies" s that tells h"Dossow.. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED MONTREAL, CARDINAL, iORANTFORD, 218 -FORT WILLIAM. ngErkgraiElratalta= 11, A NOTED ECCENTRIC. Earl of Sandwich Believed He Pos. sessed Psychic Healing Power. The death of the Earl of Sandwich, has removed an interesting figure in English life. The Earl, who was nearing histseventy-seventh birthday, was known for his eccentricities. He believed he possessed psychic healing powers and had been able to cure many mental and physical illnesses. After the South African war he had some sixty wounded officers brought to his home, where he serv- ed in the capacity of both nurse and physician, and announced that he was gratified at the success he obtained. His patients ranged from dwellers in palaces to those in the lowliest walks of life and included a Hindu monk, who was treated in his monasbery; a Mohammedan, who was treated in the mosque he served, and a 'Hindu princess, who was brought 600 miles by her husband to Lord Sandwich. He announced the possession of healing powers before the University College of London two years ago. At the time he said he had never failed in his treatment of sufferers. He said he could not explain his power, but knew the results and expressed the belief that many persons possess the same gift without being aware of it. The Earl was fourth in descent from the peer, who, by ordering a writer to place a piece of meat be- tween two slices of bread and bring it to him as he sat at cards, gave the sandwich to the world. He was for long an ardent admir- er of Mme. Melba, and it has been said that the singer could have been the Countess of Sandwich if she had so desired. The Earl never married. Some years ago in probest against the custom among women of wearing their hats at luncheon he ordered his servants to wear their hats while serving the meal. With the death of the Earl are „it- erican woman, formerly Miss Alberta Sturges, daughter of the late William Sturges, becomes Countess of Sand- wich. Her husband, the new Earl, is George Charles Montagu, a nephew of the late holder of the title. The cynic is a man who thinks everything he doesn't approve can't possibly be worth while. For many years past the populo- tion of Germany has been increasing at the rate of about 900,000 a year. In 1871 the population was 111. mil- lions, and by 1910 it had risen to al- most 65 millions. Preserved Raspberries 1" 'w '1 keep their natural color if you use the pure cane sugar which dissolves at once. Order by name in original packages. 2 and 5-1b Cartons 10 and 20 -ib bags PRESERVING LABELS FREE Send red ball trade-nterk e cu.t from abag or carton to Atlantic Sugar Refineries Ltd. rower Bldg., Montreal 43 comm. the Middle West BETWEEN ONTARIO' AND L'ItU. TISH COLUMBIA. Items From Provinces Where. Mane Ontario Boys and Girls Are Living. Twodeaths from xrixleparaly- sis are reported in Winnipeg. cot 0. the A contract t for 5 QO sells for e 7 h Allies has been placed with Winni- peg e firm s. r FwoG ti 1. dManitoba,iris stone, g went .for a swiin_in White Mud River and were drowned. Lucy Volczhuk, wife of a ,,Stone- wall settler, is accused of stealzu a stack: of hay worth $80.. The town of Avonlea Sask.' was badly damaged by fire last week,over $125,000 damage. being done. John Kingscott, a pioneer of Win- nipeg, is dead. He was buried in Ile casket he made for himself. Over 300 students eerolled the first day of the summer school classes at the. University of Alberta in Mimes - ton. Silas H. Carpenter, magistrate of Banff, and formerly a detective at Montreal, died in Calgary, at the age of 62. The $600,000 contract for the now C.N.R. depot at Vancouver has been let to Cartes-Hallo-Aldinger Co., of Winnipeg. One of the largest funerals ever seen in Saskatoon took place last week, when the late Jesse D. Ketcham was buried. e+'"+v+.; A cloud burst at Rush Lake, Sask., last week tore out a piece of the C.P.R. main line and held up traffic for some time. It has been decided by the United States court judge that P. Eisenhardt, former clerk of court at Weyburn, Sask., be extradited. Two masked men entered the cash- ier's office at the Edmonton street car barns and covering the cashier with guns made off with $700. Joseph Coutre, St. Boniface, was severely burned and his automobile de- stroyed when the gasoline tank of the car exploded. He is recovering. Mrs. Lilian George, wife of Arnold F. George, Dominion immigration in- spector, drowned herself in the Red River near Winnipeg while temporar- ily insane.. The West Canadian Collieries, Belle- vue, Alta., has sent a contribution of $193.35 to tie Canadian Patriotic Fund, donation for the two weeks end- ing May 31. W. H. Dutton & Co., of Winn'ipetr, have been awarded a contract by.'a C.P.R. for the completion of the As- siniboia, Sask., branch from Vantage, to Assiniboia. Five people were badly hurt, an auto was twisted into a shapeless - mass, a wagon was smashed and a horse damaged, when all came into, collision recently at Winnipeg. Capt. E. J. Clevin is dead and Lieut. -Col. Fonesca and --Serge J. Kennedy are in the hospital at Port- age La Prairie, suffering from injuries received in an automobile accident. The Clydesdale stallion, Gartiy Bonus, owned by Wm. Barnsley, Aber- nethy, Saskatchewan, died recently, the cause of death being acute indi- gestion. This horse was considered one of the best in Canada. DIVIDE ENEMY'S FORCES. ' Russian General Says Constant Pres- sure is Necessary. The London Daily Mail correspond• ent ae Petrograd sends the 1 •Il1owing despatch: Gen: Russki, who retired from the Russian northern. command through serious ill -health, has just passed through Petrograd on his way to spend the rest of the summer in Fin- land. In the course of conversation the famous soldier spoke of the pres- ent state of affairs with the greatest satisfaction. "Continued pressure is necessary now," he said, "pressure at a number of points, so that the enemy's forces may be divided. If this is kept up steadily, and if all the allied armies avoid the mistake of pushing on snore quickly than is prudent, then the end may come in sight a good deal sooner than seemed likely a few months ago. "The Germans are making their last effort. They have been forced to change their plans, and no longer possess the initiative. Their strengths-' in munitions is still very great, and the task before the allies is not an easy one anywhere. "The allies superiority in slumbers has now deprived the enemygge the advantage of operating upon interior lines. Even now Germany will make a desperate effort to snatch victory by bold tactics and the employment of all her resources, but let the allies stand firm and successes cannot be long de- -leered." One-sixth of the land surface of the globe is occepira 1 by the Russian Ern- pirre. Europe boasts of 500 varieties 3i( birds, but in .A,istralia there are no fewer than'"650 different species. Although seven weeks on the voy- age, "chilled" eggs have arrived in London from' New Zealand in excel.. lent condition: Every year between forty' and fifty foreign eggs are consumed by each man, woman, and child in the 'British Isles, and before the war eggs to the value of eight and a quarter millions were imported annually into Great Biita:n from the continent of Europe.