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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1918-8-22, Page 5Notice to Creditors eln tbe matter of the Estate o . =homes 'Yellow of the Township o lestierne, 'County of Huron, geutle- waan, deeea.eed., ',Notice is nereby given pureeant tQ flitatutes in that behalf that al cred- itors and others having claims ag- latest the estate 0 eephomes who died on or about July :seventh, 1918, are required OR or before tieeptembee and, jele, to send by post eisepaid or deliver to Messrs Glad. began Stanbery, of the Allege of Exeter solicitore for the Executor - or the said deceatiee theie °brie- itilenandsureaneee, addreeses and des - exceptions, the full, partieulars of then, *shams, the 'statement of their eel eoeunto end the nature Of the secure rieties, if ;my, held by them. And towther take notice that after said last mentioned date the Executor proceed t� distribute the tis of the dettereeed among the par - entitled thereto, eaving regard le•to.tbe claims of wench they shalt *en have notice and that tee said Executors shall not be liable for Executor shall not be liable for *aid assets or any part thereof, to any Seerson or Persons of whose claims itestice sball not have been received Apy them at the .einte of euele tlietribui GLADMAN& STANBUltr Solicitors for Executors Allated at Exeter this -14t,h day of Aueust 1918. EXECUTOR'S Auction Sal LITABLE EA <AND CilATTE liOPERT The:Executors o the Estate of the ate James Moitith, ofleslacirr.e sTh ip, etav,• hestreeted. the Under' 4equed .to eeitby puhlio aeetioa on Vie <premises on TEE -SPAY,' SEP - ere. '-,"Ikt 2 oeilock in tire af- tirn°1a,turidibi-e I°l°vlr4';'Px°PertY a34llST%T-lh;'‘esttlItllf ot t:c:Ne,orthlanas T wrship of eeborZc,, er ef laed more or oar tr is a =good two with, ititoliere and geed etab- • Mailit lend i td, weti fenee tuated belf three quarters of 5 miles from d 013 Neter. 1ossee- 411 'TOL bed ims and fel "poseeSSieli On 1919,, Te PROPERTY - Ladder, barrels, washing ma- uu wrinr,step ladder, lawn , 240 wt. ecalee, buck saw, band , box of tools, erind tone, seoop (wet. 2 spades, 'hoes ittel rake, three room melee; 2 conches, 3 rocking 6 peeler ohairs, 6 dining-roote *lead, 1 folding leaf heater, Mtge coal * ea v oven ,ittiaelted; kitchen eibairs, kitchen lable, cupboard, kit - ben 'stove, stove drum, flour built:, leo. of glass ,getne, some diabes and tectures, e chests, 1 aurae milk can, 4tock, element; wheel and reel; 1 banging lamp, other entailer Jalapa. bails, Intel:Ion linoleum, fire wood; ten illte.ns and a rooster, kitchen <cook kitove TER)15 OF SAL,E REAL ESTA1.%-'xeu per cent nish ein clay of Nate. Balance an thirty tease without interest. Part of the Spaeth:me money may be left on the etroperty by application to the un - reigned eolicitore. znATTEL PEOPERTY.--,CASli. Eurlbe.r tpaeticulars of terms and tonditions will be made known on day • tale or may he had on epplication THOMAS 'CAMERON. Auctioneer tGLADM e N es, STAN BUB I' Solieitors for Executor* !END STOMACH TFIOUBLE, GASES OR DYSPEPSIA it4Papes Diapipsin" makes "sick, our, glassy stomachs surely feel fine • in live minutes. if what you just ate is souring on your. stomach or lies like a lump of fend, or you belch gas and eructate #our, undegesta-food, or have a feeling ief,dizziness, heartburn, fullness, nausea, lead taste in mouth and stomach -head - Ache, you can get repel in five minutes neutralizing acidity.- Put an end to such stomach distress now by getting a large fifty-eent case of Pape's Diarepsin from any drug store. You realize in ;Ivetrainutes how needless it is to suffer from indigestion, dyspepsia or any store - *eh diaorder caused by food fermentation eke to extessive'acid in stomach. e ,...4110.4•11•••••••• Desertion and Divorce. yeas should, ist future, be a ground Desertion for a period of three for divorce is one of the reeomanen- dations of the Parlianientary Com- mittee, (se the .British Marriage Law Reform, Committee, This, it may be recalled, was re- conimendeceby the Royal Ccanmission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, which reported in 1912. In the last report issued the com- mittee further reconimend that juris- diction to a limited extent in divorce and matrimonial eases should be conferred on county courts for the aceommodatioe of the working classes. , - "It is thought by many," tbe res port goes ore that the proposed bill might also contain provieions, with all proper safeguards, as to other married persons --erbo have been in. fact separated for a prescribed per- iod, either; (1) By :voluntary but informal an'angenient. (2) By reason of inurable insan- ity. The committee contend that per- manent separatitm orders should no longer be made. The report concludes as follows:— It need hardly be added that at the present time, when the manhood of the nation has been depleted by he most terrible of wars, it is exeep- tionally urgent, in the interest of the community and of the Empire, that no obstaelee to marriage, such as those` which arise from legal chnicalities anti pecuniary cineum- s ances, should be allowed to re- in Back t arheiti Old Work, The British Minister of Labor, Mr. George H. Roberts, M.P., addressed the local advisory committee at SMethwick, 13irmingliam, recentle, on the question of demobilinetion. Already, he observed, they had dealt with 400,000 discharged soldiers. The generel principle which would guide the Labor elleistry, Mr. Rob- erts went on, was to release men pro- portionately to the industries cap- able of absorbing, them. They want- ed to have assurance doubly sure that every man on his return should feel that there was a bureau being taking an active, positive Interest in hie future welfare. They liad partis eters of every ispe of the <several illions of men -who cereilituted our my, and they knew that something like six per cent, were in the army ewith the promise of reinstatement in heir original employment when re- leased. Approximately 60 per cent. of the men who had already been released had returned to their old employers, and he was glad to know at the employers everywhere were honorably fulfilling the undertaltinge they made to the men. He wanted he aseuranee not only that men were reinstated, but that they were per- manently resettled. Worth Over tiel00 an 1ere. Nowhere are allotment prospect so bright as in London is the opinion ot Mr. Gerald W. Butcher, superin- tendent of the Vacant Land Cultiva- tion Society„ whose prat holders lazt Year raised £t0,000 worth of crops on 500 acres of land. Neatness, method and systematic Cultivation are the chief characteris- tics of the new allotments in. London, he says, and they compare very fav- orably with the older allotments outside London and he the provinces. In the London district, said Mr. Butcher, the society gives preferenee to people With large families and to discharged soldiers who want to cul- tivate a bit of kitchen garden. Mr. Butcher catenates that allot- nient holders throughout Britain will this year produce £15.000,000 worth of food. Walking Is Safer. Kiddies' express waggons, roller skates, roller coasters, puslitnobile.s and all other such vehicles of Joyous childhood are now banned front the sidewalks of Hamilton. Among the great men of the rorld, the following are said to have had blue eyes: Socrates, Shakespeare, Locke, Bacon, Milton, Goethe, Napo- leon, Franklin and Humboldt. A Bad Loser. "The Germans are bad leeenae, and when the Kaiser's entourage of mili- tarists begin at last to get item the neck a most terrific howl will go up from the German people. After that the war will soon be over," saidire well-known author. "Yes, the Ger- mans are very bad losers. I once stnew a young German weo proposed Lo a rich old maid some twenty years Its senior. 'Noe the old maid said tently. 'No, Heinrich, I can't accept :nut- chivalrous otter, but I will be sister to you.' Heinrich ground his .eth, 1 got blenty of sisters,' he iid. 'It vos a mother 1 vos Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S (7,b•ASTORr.eth. AIMIAIG A BIG GUN. A Task in Which Figaro Chemist Mathematio* and Merkel. Today there is about ait` tiMeh (Hirer- enee between aiming a big gun and aiming a rifle as there is between sail- ing a superdreadnaught and eailing a steana yacht. It was not very long ago, however, that a gun was aimed simi- lerly to S. elite in that the direction in Which it was peMted was obtained reY sighting along les barrel. But new thinks are not done that way. The gu3anela are often far out of sight a what they are shooting at, and the remarkable hits that they make are only exPlainted by the use they Makes of careful scientific calculations. To direct the fire of one of the bigger guns, for example, requires that no less than fifteen complicated corm - lions be made, says Popular Science Monthly. Buie correction requires an average oe five adjuetmente, ell of which must firet be exiietly figured out by those in command Tbe most im- portant correctione which are made are for the influence of the resistance of the air, the influence of the earth's curvature and the attraction of grav- ity on the diStanee the bullet may be In place of the guesswork of previ- ous times is 'the use oe the most mi- vanced developments in the fields of mathematics, physics and chemistry. HAITI CLEANS HOUSE Cis ngee Thit Were !Brought Abou the Artioricari Occupation. Five years ago in Haiti there was on tbe wholeeisiend not more than one mile of macadamized roadway, and the emir streets. taking the piece or combi- nation trails and sewer, are the most note -cable cleteges brought about the .i.tuerietin (weep:elm But emeewrairleibic than tbeteree be a$(6Xialting sight of tiiads of Haitians actually eleatene- tee streete Under the old regime the Otter occutta tions of the leele citizens of leant weal? cockfighting and polities, The refuse and smells hove departed, and, better stile most of the ebilaven have disappeared from tbe streets, They are actually at echool. where by Haitian law they are supposed to be. but where by Iraitien lawles.eness one/ about 10 per eent of them ever used to be. About 4 o'clock every ween day you will see this newly mobilized infantry toming home in squads clean and, en - fortunately for the picturesque lalso of Haitian highways and byways, now, thoroughly provided with clothes, jsanat'ultivation. It is not generally known that the banana is an annual. The frult comes to maturity about a year after the shoot is planted, the trunk of the tree subsequently attaining a height of from eight to ton feet anti a girth of thirty-six inches, From this trunk, welch is of a fibrous nature, are thrown out long palm -like branches, at the junetion of which appears the fruit, each group of bunches, num- bering from four to twelve, being called a "band" and each hand hav- ing eight or ten, bananas upon it. A bunch of eight hands is the ordinary standard size of "shipping" fruit. Peroin the root of the tree several shoots or suckers sprout, each of, which in turn becomes a fresh tree. The life of the banana -tree, how- ever, is not usually long, for it Is felled atter the fruit is gether-ed, and sometimes indeed during the op- eration. Jaraalea contains many banana plantations, varying in num- ber of trees froin twenty-five thous- and to two hundred thousand, for the most part eultivated bythe' small settlers in the different' par- ishes. The cultivation is very prim- itive. The land, being cleared by a big iron hoe, a hole is dug and the 'sucker is planted in it, in meat cases nattire doing all that is necessary; but in larger plantations the trees are planted ‘with some degree of system in the form of squares, and trenches are dug for irrigation, the banana thriving best in damp stiff soil. Au Erroneous Death Notice. Erroneous death announcements are extremely dangerous in China. The Jih Pao, one of the leading daily papers printed in Chinese in Pekin, was completely wrecked because of an announcement it printed of the death of General Ciliates, leuel-ti of .Jehol. General Chiang was not dead, and thirty of his soldiers who happened to be in Pekin, visited the newspaper office and demolished it .completely, charging that the paper had endea- vored to ruin the political career of their leader. , The soldier e smashed the premises, pied all the type, broke the windows, and demolished the office furniture. vanneassosmaroamma. or. 'arvstind an. Western Ca a . _ "‘Goiog Trip Wat',,--$12 to WINNIPEG. thilllitill East": ----$18 (ton) WINNIPEG.. .. . _ , GOING DATES TERRITORlf • , From statituts in Ontario West of Smith's Falls to and including Toronto on Lake Ontario Shere Line August 20; . and Havelock-Pererboro' Line. . -- . ' From stations Kingston to< Renfrew Junction. inclusive. ..e and From stations -on Toronto -Sudbury 'direct. line. etugetse <29 . Front stations on Sault Ste. Marie branch, - From stations ott.:Nlain Line..<13eauta,ge<lo Franz,. inclusive. 'From stations Bethany Julictien to Pett,McNicoll Ozirt•J344,4-to' 4erorrt stations in Ontario,,WAIr and'Afititjt'of TorontojT Front stations on QW,ert'ScliiidStvelt -,Ale TeeswatO 'IP ,. Port Bur.Wel rta, tem- d.',,-kranches. , . Froitestationeire ettseeinchisite Ogittettt<2 , th2 reige—Ifrd,1 'tate:tenter tide et rt, ateetteetteeetteeeteeten.,. %d4illtillItete? q§q4VAPon- gifillieti °Pat t,on .,4ad.Witnt§ort Ora. Iv • ricl St: 6 g .• Periee 4ro. It A NG tee 4. e'rencle, But Shock he Prussian. Of all the humorless souls on earth none ean approach the Germans, and certainly none could use a bit of hu- mor to more advantage than they at this very leinute. What they can never underetand ie how the English soldier can be so cheerful, aed al- ways insist oe ereving his little joke: No one has so well set off the na- tionel characteristics of the Allies as Zan Hayes -in real life Major ileitb— author of "The First Hundred Thou- sa.nd". and ,"All In It," In his little book, "The Oppressed English," he speaks for the line good pature of Tonony. "To the Frenelt the English Tom- my, with Isis uncanny frivolity -in the fatee of death, his passion or tea anti jam, and his eternal football games behind the trenches, is a standing - enigma and jest. But Frenchmen wilt always remember haw the litile Britieh aeirey hurled itself to certain destruction in 'Augest, 1914, at the mere call of friendebip, and French women wil never forget the exeue piary behavior of the Britisb eoidier toward the civil population behind the line," But as for the Pruesiani In all us- ages of war he is a "great stickler for etegeette." War to him, whether Iie iS emitting Chlorine gas or stok- ing a hoepital ship, is a eeriotts--- nay, saered--besineee. But tbe im- becile English persiet in regarding wars a game! What is worse they wire the game, Not long ago a regi- ment of "Iiiitetelellee's Army" ealititr- ed a stronelYertiekleed village frees the Peussian Guard. Teat was bad enough, but the manner iin'etlieell it was done amounts to ,neetiefpg less that an crotrageteue breach.efelsrefes- sional etiquette. They went neetbe assault kieking a football; t ,T401. eomniander -kicked off, :led ttlefellev- er stopped until they bad kielted the ball, ritidied with' builete, ipto the< reach ami raptured tlie garrisoe, "And yet.'" Works the outrage, erman mind, "the English have tite temerity to coniplain of Germa breaches or inter -nut ional law Co ngregati offal is t, Of a h- e,' hat are worth cultivatiosi tor the tnbla tbe tench eivee the 1 Almost siny pond will e like the c teuz:et atti et, he u lie ''eager eye et iay," be" tihttiPeieel.apnldaehe isl < tool in eesed. Like his a. gad close ally, the switt rivers • re s taste; °:211:eotairr110inilitl'ions. A deep, I pond,qulet g water him s a with a bottom, of mud, in which isa can anti the larvae upon whieli he Principally subsists, is more to lie mind; or, better *till, one of those deep pits from wheel clay has been dug for bricka. When these pile are filled with water tench thrive greatly therein; the quiet which is conducive to meditation seente ale° conducive to -RdiPOSR tissue, and In such situations tench grow fat and eritaltiply in a manner meet edifying to their proprietor. Tench" are found in most slow -running rivers and ponds in Europe, and in inane Places are greatly esteemed for the table. In England they are found itt great sluantitiee in Norfolk and Suffolk, and also in the Southern and Midland counties, but farther north they gradually ditni'rtisle, la Scotland they are rare, in Ireland they are pretty -widely distributed. In the winter the trench generally buries itself in the mud, and, as Coueb remarks, "there lies concealed, perhaps for a longer time than is pleasing to itself, although, from the power it pos- sesses of extracting the minuteet por- tions of air front almost exhausted water, it continues to live while oth- er fish have perished," t o 'a Mankind Degenerating? Prof. Keith, the famous anthropo- logist, told the British Birth Rate Commission that a comparison of the skulls and skeletons of ancient veith modern British people shows that "very distinct ehanges have taken place, particularly in the teeth, jaws and faces of modern people. These changes are of a degenerative nature." Prof. Keith supported the commis- sion's resolution advocating the in- clusion in a ministry of health of a permanent anthropometric depart- ment. He pointed out that a com- mittee appointed in 1916 by a joint board of scientific sopieties reported that an anthropological survey was highly desirable in the national in- terest—a survey of adult males by the Ministry of National Service, of school ehildren by tee Board of Edu- cation, and of factory children by factory surgeons working under the Home 0Ice. "An anthropometric survey is be- ing made of soldiers of the new armies of the United States," said Prof. Keith. "It will be interesting to compare the original nation—Bri- tain •-e-with her descendants in Amer- ica."—'Westminster Gazette. reat seal of the United States ATILING IN PICARDY 1Stat.iemen light Advances Made by Allied 'troops. oies Lh Drat, iey of Whittling sults and at the tweeze th 11 It tacking Anui re air ?,t) it the Ger-mean Forces Have ye—New Pul- 11 Secure Re- e Time of the LoNDON. A iloops west o ▪ limit their I e: e, 19. The 13 sa trmentteres have a 1 es to a depth of 1,000 2,000 yards on a -mile front wean Vieux iterqui d Bailleue. itiso made, progress southwest ef Mervin°, aecordieg io the official statement issued last evening. The ✓ illage of Outtersteen end .100 pris- oners were :captured, An advance also has been made between Chilly ami Franzara Iying north of Roy, The famous Lys salient in the gion west of Armentieres is giving way under the pressure of the Brit- -sit, Field Marshal Haig's emcee have ompeiled the enemy to seek grOUP1 trA the eastward, weere he will be more secure ti•ont the shells of the big guns. The German line betwee Soinele and tile Oise rivers ie 1tgneitsteltheri,aeieldp.irthlgethlemst S met,e, A - eta t rtti:41 ierad itiieph Jiave o j°^!.5' toll xiiiacillg Eoye by attaek ' etealter uth ' of Roye, e etre feta* n:dh,..e:r:oatanl:rore:::ig'pb1:11:::irtItg:::11u'oet;A,Lnt,,,VBeuvruignett VeTlelePtiLlea. I 1 ' ''' iard-pree 'Queznre"lls1 'to make a ake t Alliesrite- e ascii in PUSitillg Greta eastward ard the Somme.. The ,fe- r oi. tile defensive fighting around 'peeilias tirade this very clear, nentertfteitile; .(iinettli,tt,lioti:e151etivuratr4:isn,ii lcd to drew - into daft 0 ween Clssily tnd Freueb er this wity, eteatiiii beGt ned iteite or expenditer, Itt coneett On ROY., at Least front the hea hss elaelteneil agent, siro gessirig -mother wholesale trt enee o( battOrit'S to the Th. main infantry resistance appears t be focussed at theee strong peeve-- Hatteneourt :out FreenoYee g a tweeve-mile front, of the southern tip. All ed et any relate; ens whi thesa poiirts eould bit thee, , ties itt ver desire. This tedious edvence ha e none ot tbe spectacular interest which altar- rized the fighting of the week bo- ot . There was an obvious invim- 'o to -day to the Canediane to to out and erase a German salient by taking Fresnoy. Its machine gun batteries undoubtedly are annoying, ns they command a wide angle of front and support was forthcoming trout the Bracquemont wood immedi- eely beyond the northern environs of P.oye, We adhered, however, to our policy of a more or lees peaceful penetration, and let the guns deal with Fresnoy. • 7 THE FOOD SITUATION. two Has More Bread id Germany Less. PARIS, Aug. 19. --- To -day is the day set for the reduction of the bread ration in Germany. Austria recently cut down her ration and it is not like- ly that another reduction will be or- dered in that country in the near future. France, in the meantinie. Plans to increase her bread allowance to 300 grammes per person. daily. This will be the largest allowance in any of the belligerent or neutral countries. The netv regulations will put France back on an almost normal pre-war basis. The Food Ministry is studying the project of systematically augmenting the ration, both, as to quality and quantity. September 1 will mark the inaugurating of the new scheme. The conditions which make the new re- gime possible are chiefly prosperous crops, the wheat yield being estimat- ed at 50,000,000 quintals, an increase of more than 25 per cent. over last year's crops. The harvests, which are now being gathered in the wheat - growing departments, are the best in years. One thing that stands out in the food situation in France is the recog- nition of gratitude toward Canada th and the United States, the people rea- lizing that they made their improved condition possible. g was adopted by Congress 136 years Designed Great Seal. The ago. The design was- suggested by Sir John Prestwichean eminent Eng- lish antiquary, to' John Adams, then United States Minister to Great Bri- tain, and was formally accepted by Congress on Tune 20, 1782. It is composed of a spread eagle, bearing on its breast an escutcheon with thir- teen stripes, awe in its talons holding an olive branch and thirteen arrows, symbolic of both peace and war. The eagle, the sugpiestion of an English- man, has ever singe been the national bird of the United States. Pitincess ?eery, a Nurse. Princess Mary, daughter of King Georee has commenced e course of regular training as a nurse at the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond street London.- She will work in, the Alexandra ward, The princess will 'attend the -hospital two days each '0 and will nfidertake ehetlueal e of a probaition<tr'-` e' qiti` hereVW eftt ea< i ea(' ' CarraliZa Backed Down. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. --A threatened crisis in thew -relations' of Mexico with the Ente4‘wi.p. and et the United States nei isty, has been averted by a moisteiteqeieioieSief the new elexican oil tax cleeitetieby'Preei- dent Careameet, It was that on, Aug. 12 Carran'eanisee eirevl- siene,ef, ereeettreitele 31,' unaer Which e tepee]. ,nds intot a hire latatiote rn iregae n GOVe- r owners tot' submit to eXcessive tax- ..—,Fie'ld Marsha Danorated. <eras <decorated by e u with the French t h.eaeelueeiers,,,,iii, traienerd,weee Are Considering Scheme 0 Impeflat Prefere IT a ree et speech delivered London, Coloniak eeeretary Wa ter Long made a statement e- specting trade after the war, which created lively interest, bene in fact a declaration of the adoption by the War Cabinet of a scheme 0 imperial prefeieece. He said the entmerial War Conference was maim mg real and active preparatiops for Usa campaign which muat snottieti the war to keep trade in Gte corienes or the Empire. Last year was de- cided title meet be a system ef lets periat pret He lied ailed over a c on draftIng eteremes by witice this could be put Into effect, and the com- mittee had produced and learly worked out a scheme for the adole- CZECHS tAsk for MorSUprt Mite . parsese Aro Arrivissg ex ' nnounces tt Th Itveogobted hy the Ent Aidat z New Natio lc Treated , 110515, ON'iatudgo^19. orur o Slviji forcein trel:°duri; lteeVI nil 49 be e on a iaege scale ng that an advarme be ordered, Tie hat Allied torpei ekellts'ettierk„.tatvaiiahbmienie roluasnt b't!ol'y'Oet,ttt...40e, thin$lpvanikso.uldGen. saysDiRledIgeah'sentrelYt ht te reportedhAM-c Weias„vhaionfgatteloliyedGermans,oespmatees:ae t ufrrdaanyt Consul Harris ate 10411lsk, saying that that pity wee.. gtgred oa 4glY 7theb'I'S'ibtehrei CzeCebeQ* hmy, Ip4 of thisit is pcss't.lbZ that Ge4.< iche may mean th eee,..Tani4-i;e-ati;oret)krts.01:zelsiktpoiicenable T.htt 11t •alts 0ViiittO e tel the upied the trst uting Parties. Tha preseece of the ereating an excelleut effe Citteehoetelovekti, The ere t effidient looklng rn hc'AY,F hit tow e between epeopiei Time val and military carters, where tander was -any con - Or ttC reperei Catithel eonarterde a itte Governa o • inittitn€t, the Time enetn, advance, iti nehtent itt reat ItritnIn aml the The preference deeisio ginning, if no more than or it new order In t eeonornle field. Domlaion Peonies' ebave always believed it to be thitt et and a little more, and lustre always advocated it, not in teelr own lame - Mate interests, but as the right pot- ' • • • e tot GteaB t ritat tindn t hE e t nil have always maintained that the decision for or aginst it. rested en- tirely with the British Government. Thus in the Dominions the new deci- sion will be taken as a most hopeful eign, and that is not the least ele- ment in its very real importance." Tbe Morning Post welcomes the announcement ot the acceptance of the great --principle long abandoned and now again adopted under pres- sure of war, anti trusts that the preference adopted ia broad, ade- quate ttud generous. Swsss Slsoo Trade Switzerland, since the war, has be- come an exporter of shoes. In 1916 $7,000,000 worth of shoes were ex- ported to France. England, Austria, Germany. an.d Italy, in, the order named. American shoee were imported he - tore the war by the large shoe shops and department stores and sold hy them directly. They were bought outright and retailed at a price slightly less than the price of the Swiss shoes. The dealer's profits ranged front 30 to 50 per cent. The Far has brougbt the import of Amer- ican and other foreign. shoes to a standstill, but, owing to the scarcity of leather and the consequent short- age of shoes, dealers wish to import manufactured shoes from abroad and for this reason turn to America. A large ntunber of the Swies peo- ple prefer American shoes to the heavy Swiss product. The most im- portant shoe factory in Switzerland. producing half of the entire Swiss output, is "Bally es' Co., Ltd., Schott- enwerd," with a daily output of 40,000 pairs of shoes. The Swiss shoe industry dates as Lar back as 1847, and employs to- day about 12.000 workmen. The im- ports annually amount to about $1,- 000,000 in normal times. The Swiss Economical Department is endeavor- ing toereduce the consumption of shoes and leather by having hobnails in all shoes and thus save the soles. A shoe for general use, called the people's shoe, selling for $6 a pair, will s:old shortly. -- Commerce R Comparisons.' Oompare our times with old times and reflect < upon herr much we have vaned. NpnlitisCaesar had no auto. When h_qe'ettnted a saltwater -bath lie was seet itto the Mediterranean in a set:Mile f0'.. chariot. Mary Queen of •Scot,eseli4en0 electricity, 110 gas, no steatiOV 4, < Henry VIII., had ,no # photO0iS'not his wives. Cicero had his tee* tepullecl without the use of chlorefeene. And mining before Ed - yard VII. had his apPendix :removed. I do much tin eante "Why ati4lut.us Stinaulating. see 'tow Piler can be so e, with euc :an extravas 10 Ssatetnents Ibat l4nterstedirdoree- c aml eosisuIar agears have not eceived aulboriration to leave Rus- sia are denied in a Russian wireleas message received here. The Russian Government It is lidded, is awaiting a reply from Germany to the requeet that safe eonduct be given agents wishing to leave Russia by way or Petrograd and Stockholm. Russia has proposed that British Agente be free to leave Russia if similarly members of the Frencli nsia- sion will be given such facilities if Russians in France are permitted to leave for Russia together with three members of the International Red Cross and three members of the Rus- sian Red Cross. British recognition of the Czeclio- Slovaks as a nation was denounced in an. ofncial statement issued from. Vienna by the Austrian Government. The .statement declaree that tine members of the Czecho-Slovak army will be regarded and treated as traitors by Austria-Hungary. The statement, which was forwarded by the way of Amsterdam, sae's: "The form and contente of this lat- est declaration of the British Govern- ruent must be emphatically repudiat- ed. The Czeclao-Slovaks' National Council is a committee of private per -'sons who have no mandate from the Czecho-Slovak people and still less from the Czecho-Slovak 'nation,' which exists only in the imagination of the Entente. "Equally absurd is it to represent this committee as a future Govern- ment which as yet does not exist. 'In reference to the Czechos. Slovak 'army' it may constitute a part of the Entente army, but it eel-. tainly cannot be an ally of the En- tente in the sense of international, law. It is well-known to us that only a slight fraction of the sell - styled Czecho-Slovak army are Aus- trian or even Hungarian citizens of Slovak tongue. "These disloyal elements, guilty of perjury, will, notwithstanding the Entente's recognition, be regarded and treated as traitors. It cannot be permitted that the peoples who have always fulfilled their duties as Aus- trian and Hungarian citizens, and whose sons as members of the Aus- tro-Hungarian army, fought bravely against the Entente, shall be sub- - jected to the suspicions cast upon them by such methods as employed by the British official declaration. The Austro-Hungarian Government reserves its steps in this regard." liartvestel-s For the West. WINNIPEG, Aug.t19. — The a vance guard of easterners goblet west to help in ..elietilieteritlebe arrived' ie iteinniPV. came in 'See' etenterl <liege, 80 tr-ei eame.